Sorry for the wait, lifes been crazy you know? Between school track friends and a whole lot of personal problems. But at least im writing. So ya heres chapter 18 this story should end soon just a forewarning. Yea but Im thinking about maybe making it longer so leave a comment on how many more chapters you think there should be in this story. This chapter is kinda a filler since I felt bad for not updating in like an eternity I guess.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto never have never will
Renewed Chances chapter 18.
Renewed Chances Chapter 18: Slowly ticking like a clock.
It had almost been a week since the girls had woken up from their coma's after almost dieing and life was slowly returning to normal.
The villagers poured into the hallways once again when they had heard the story about the girls near-death experience. How they brought themselves back from deaths door, how they broke loss from a coma on their own, and many many other exaggerations to the story.
But after the girls had woken up something in them had changed. They were quieter than usual, even though Hinata was usually quiet the loud girls like Ino and Sakura had become more subdued and just stared out the window looking towards the sky.
After their experience of being trapped in their own minds, in a jutsu that seemed more realistic than any genjutsu they've experienced they had become quieter and seemed to shy away from everyone as though something in their minds had shocked and scared then. Most of the time the girls thought it was just a dream the whole thing they experienced until they looked down and say the new cuts, stab wounds and bruises that were left over from the coma/dreamscape.
Though the girls wont admit it their near death coma had shocked seem to the core and made them wary, the whole thing was so realistic they sometimes didn't believe it happened. Other times when they knew it was real they were a bit wary around their male friends since every time they saw them the only thing that came to mind was the attacks on them and how ruthlessly they had decided to attack and kill the girls. To be perfectly honest it scared the shit out of the girls but they wont go and admit that anytime soon.
But what the girls hadn't realized was, the jutsu that had been put on them was meant to kill them in their own heads, but even if that failed there was a back up plan. The dreamscape was meant to be so shocking that it would ruin the foundation of the girls and their friendship between each other and the boys. So far it had created a small rift between the boys and girls but not to big for anyone to notice or worry about anyway.
Sakura, Ino, TenTen, and Hinata lay in their hospital beds still unable to leave since they had to wait a certain amount of time before being let out and the doctors wanted to run some tests, and they still had some wounds to worry about.
" Ugh this is so boring!" Ino yelled out exasperated.
The other 3 girls didn't bother to look over at the blonde since they were used to this behavior already.
"We know piggy we know." Sakura laughed.
" Ino's just a little crazy she doesn't understand yet that people know what you mean after you say it the first 5 times and that it doesn't take 60 for some of us to understand." TenTen laughed.
This caused a few giggles to be heard from all 4 girls. Though the light mood was dampened when the doctors came in for the routine check ups.
" G-girls can I t-tell you something?" Hinata asked quietly once the doctors had left the room.
" Yea Hina, just go ahead." TenTen smiled.
"Its not problem." Sakura said turning her head towards them.
" Are you crazy? Now tell me why wouldn't we?" Ino laughed.
"I-im k-kinda nervous around the guys ever since we woke up from the coma." She said quietly her eyes downcast at her bed.
"I know what you mean." TenTen said. "When I look at them that's all I can think about and it was so realistic I sometimes wonder if maybe it was a coma and that's just a memory."
"Its kinda scary, we almost died while in our heads, we almost killed Sakura, we were so completely helpless and to tell you the truth that scares me the most, the feeling of complete helplessness were you can do anything it infuriating and annoying" Ino said her blues eyes lighting up with each new emotion.
"Sometimes, I think its so realistic that I have to wonder if it was real, and I start to think it must of just been a dream that couldn't of happened things like that don't happen you don't get trapped in your mind while not in a fight, you don't lose control like that things like this don't happen, not even the best genjutsu is known to do that! And they weren't even there when it happened so how the hell did this happen?" Sakura fumed to the girls
"I know." Ino and Tenten agreed quietly.
"It is q-quite strange." Hinata sighed.
"So then I think that it was all a dream and then I look down and I see the cuts which happened while in our heads and the rasengan and chidori marks on each of out sides, and then I know that it was real." Sakura said
"Yea. that's the scariest part is how we got there in the first place." Ino said.
Hinata rolled her head back to try and calm the reoccurring memories of the coma dream that have been burned into their minds. While she was looking at the ceiling of their new room she noticed a familiar setting of the intercom, beds, and furniture. She let out a small harsh laugh at their luck.
"What?" The other 3 asked the midnight haired girls who they thought might just be losing her mind.
"T-this room" She said simply.
As each girls noticed it they each gave their own harsh laugh.
"What luck we have." Sakura mumbled.
"That's just great." TenTen spoke
"Now that's a weird coincidence." Ino thought.
The room they were in now was none other than the same exact room the girls had been in when they faked their deaths and ran away. It truly was a cruel way for their luck to turn, all the memories came flooding back the ones each girl had tried to store and stash away for so long all came back and the floodgates opened as each remembered what happened. Some cried and some got angry but after awhile they all calmed down and fell asleep.
The boys however have noticed their change in character. Well some of them have, Naruto however still remains blissfully ignorant of what the girls are acting like, hes still overjoyed that his beloved Sakura-chan and Hinata-chan are back.
Naruto, Neji and Shikamaru come and visit the girls, every so often but still have training and missions to do so the come when ever they can. Sasuke however was a different story they had seen him all of twice, when he woke up and when he came to get the boys for a mission they still hadn't returned from.
"how do you think the guys are?" Ino asked her friends.
"Hm probably fine." tenten shrugged.
"I-I hope s-s-so" Hinata said while staring out the window.
"they're fine, they're big boys they can handle themselves." Sakura said in a bored tone of voice.
"true true" TenTen said
"Mhm and they can sure handle a woman too." Ino smirked. Which cause her friends to throw various objects at her head.
"I-I guess so." Hinata smiled to herself.
(With Tsunade)
Tsunade rested her head on her hands and sighed for what seemed like the 80th time that day. Since the girls had awoken, their male counterparts wouldn't stop trying and requesting a mission that told them were the girls had been taken and who had taken them and if they were still alive.
Finally after getting a lead from some poison in the girls systems they had found that base to be near the Land of Earth.
But what had really sent her, and most likely Naruto and maybe Sasuke over the edge, were the mysterious scars on Sakura's back that none of the girls would tell her how she got them. From what she could tell they were fresh not even a month old. A week or so at most.
After she had found the lead, the boys immediately requested it to be a mission, she agreed though something told her that there was going to be something that would happen. Or maybe it was just the nerves of finally finding out what happened to her favorite student.
For the next few days, Konoha was quite boring, no new gossip since the girls had woken up and the boys had left to find who the culprit was. The Land of Earth was about a 3 or 5 day journey from Konoha so today should be the day the boys arrived. The Hokage awaited anxiously in her office for the conformation letter that they had arrived.
Around noon a hawk perched itself on her window and delivered her a letter the only thing on the letter was, the conformation that the boys had made it safe and sound into the Land of the Earth and had spotted a nearby cave which seemed to be a possible location.
"Shizune!" Tsunade called from her office
" Yes m'lady?" She answered
" Im going to send a team after the boys for backup and just in case they need help to find the cave after we get the information from the girls" Tsunade ordered
"Hai." Shizune answered and bolted out of the room
" And get me more sake while your at it!" Tsunade called after her.
Unbeknownst to the older women, Sakura and the others had heard the entire conversation over what seemed to be the same intercom which they had had their hearts broken and spirits crushed over year ago. (Wrong Words and Wasted Chances)
Without even so much as looking at each other or speaking a word, each girl knew what they had to do.
"Lets go" Tenten said
She and the other 3 girls filed out of the hospital room. They were still kept there even though the weren't injured anymore and that clue right there seemed to link the boys mission and their stay together.
Tsunade walked down the halls the only noise was the click-click-click of her heels, she was quickly approaching the girls hospital room fully intent of finding out what exactly happened to the girls when they were taken and she was NOT going to fail. She opened the door with determination quite pleased with herself and the girls most likely had their mouths hanging wide open and what pleased her immensely was the way the door slammed open just showing the girls her authority and how aweso-
"Oh hell no!" Tsunade yelled "They are not gone again!"
She stormed out of the room a scowl on her face. Passerby's in the hallway peeked curiously into the room, small smirks and giggles appeared on some faces while others had shown complete shock. Somehow in the middle of the day the freakin sunny day with the sun shining and birds singing and all that jazz they had escaped out of the hospital again, and had gone who knows where.
The girls dashed through the forest, Konoha quickly receding in the distance. Sure they were going to have hell to pay when they got back but this was for the better good of the people and it could save the guys…potentially. But still. With newfound determination the girls increased their speed and sped off.
Naruto, Sasuke, Neji, and Shikamaru slowly walked into a dark dank cave. The sense of foreboding seemed to tell them that this was the place they were looking for. As the crept quietly through the dark, dank cave as they passed by a room in the cave and saw a pole in the middle of the room and a discarded thick leather whip. Each boy gave an involuntary shudder that with the dried blood caking the floor they could on guess what happened in this room. Here it seemed like there were no medical ninja so, healing after that without medical ninja would be hell. No one would ever be able to get over that.
The quickly turned their heads and continued sprinting down the hallway. Until at the very last room past all the genjutsus and traps sat 4 men half frozen half moving their eyes full of malice and sheer bloodlust at the newcomers.
The girls poured on every bit of speed they had. Something wasn't sitting right with them. The ominous signs they have been seeing the darkening sky, the cracking cups, and the feelings of dread each girl seemed to be getting could only tell them that the boys were about to get into some deep shit, and the only could think of one reason why.
"Tsunade-sama! Tsunade-sama!" Shisume yelled running in the hokages office TonTon rushing behind her heels.
"What Shizune?" The Hokage asked tiredly, the day clearly taking its toll on her.
"a messenger ninja passing through a region in the land of rock, saw the girls nearby, heading in the same direction as the boys." Shizune said breathlessly.
"What?!" Tsunade yelled standing up fast and knocking over mountains of paper on her desk.
"Yes I just heard straight from the messenger." shizune nodded "Should we send someone to bring them back or to at least give them the directions?"
Tsunade thought quietly for a second. Trying to understand where exactly the girls were headed.
"No, shizune. Let them be, they want this." Tsunade spoke quietly.
'Wh-what?!" Shizume sputtered.
"The girls obviously know what they are doing and where they're going, and,, I think its finally time that they were they ones doing the protecting." Tsunade sighed as she sat back down.
"O-okay Tsunade-sama." Shizune said unsurely as she walked out of the office.
Tsunade let out her breath, she could only hope that she had done the right thing.
"Ah…The…" The guy in the front who was obviously the leader wheezed out "puppets have arrived" he smirked.
"What they hell? Whats going on?!" Naruto yelled trying to rush up to the enemy
"Ah, seems the have forgotten." one in the back spoke.
"So it seems so it seems." the leader smirked.
"What have we forgotten?" Neji asked quietly
"Hm troublesome." Shikamaru grumbled
Sasuke just proceeded to glare at the enemy while all the other boys finally took note of their odd…predicament.
"Um guys? Whats wrong with you?" Naruto asked dumbfounded.
"Ah." The leader said curtly "Since is your little kunoichi fault."
"What?!" Naruto screamed
"What do you mean?" Neji asked.
"Hn"
"They were here?"
"Yes, they were are prisoners for awhile. The story is far too long to tell, it dates back generations and many millennia ago, in which we were they same but your little kunoichi are the reincarnations of our former enemies." The leader said tiredly "But yes in their last jutsu they gave up their elemental jutsu and half froze us."
"But now we continue their fight with you." the man in the back said as his eyes narrowed and each member broke out of their encasement.
Each person began to spar with one of the opposing team, as time seemed to drag on no one knew how long they had been fighting it had seemed like years, and Naruto sasuke neji and shikamaru felt like they were about to pass out and sleep forever but the enemy seemed fine barely a scratch on them. Then one misstep sent one of the enemies punches into a wall in where it broke in to the next room which is where the boys took their fight.
The leader smirked, which caused the boys to pause a step.
"Ah your dear friend Sakura-chan spent a lot of time in this room, pity it used to be clean until she came in here." The leader said maliciously and Sasuke, Naruto, Neji and Shikamaru felt their blood run cold.
This room the one with the pole and whip, had happened to Sakura? All of the blood here was hers, each boy felt a newfound hatred for the enemy none more so than Naruto whos kyuubi chakra began to leak out, his eyes running red.
"You bastard! I'll kill you!" Naruto growled, the kyuubi chakra overtaking him, almost fully until a crash had brought the attention of all the fighters to the nearby entrance.
"-cough- -cough- Pig, I told you that was too much smoke!" a feminine coughed
"God, chill out on the smoke Id rather not have lung cancer. Kay thanks." Another voice sounded off.
"I-it was a little much" A 3rd quieter voice said
"heh eh um whoops?" the last voice said sheepishly.
Each of the 4 figures concentrated their gazes on the 4 people whom were barely tired at all. The 1st girl who spoke suppressed a shudder at what room they were all in.
" Alright, this is our fight now, and your going down." each 4 girl said though some quieter than others.
There in the midst of the smoke was Sakura, Ino Tenten and Hinata all coming back to finish their fight. And they had come with a vengeance.
-ok so that's the end of this chapter, tell me how you guys thought it was, thoughts, comments, criticisms, flames I take any and all reviews.
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