Welcome back one and all, in that episode of Naruto Z, Hinata was gravely injuried, Naruto was panicking and things were not looking well for our hero. Let's check in and see how things unfold! Uh... Shikamaru you have no presence in this chapter so go ahead and do the disclaimer
Shikamaru: thank Kami, I thought you were going to make me outsmart Naruto and his team. Author-sama doesn't own any person, place, event, or thing in the Naruto world, he reserves all right to Kishimoto-sama.
Chapter Eight: Failed expectations
Three hours into the exercise
Iruka could be found sitting in the shade of a nearby tree, in the middle of a game of shogi against Mizuki apparently. He was winning of course, but his mind kept him inside his head, with his thoughts. Something kept telling him to check on Naruto. That something was wrong.
He shook his head. The training ground was massive, and Iruka made sure that everyone who had any particular hate towards Naruto started on the other end. With the exception of Sasuke, who started out at the north western end, Naruto was as safe as could be.
And even then Sasuke would have to book it to Naruto's position to start anything. Though he was worried what damage might be done should they come go blows
"Hey earth to Iruka, it's your turn" Mizuki lightly flicked Iruka on the forehead getting his attention. "What's got you so distracted Iruka-san?"
Iruka looked back towards the board "Sorry Mizuki, just worried about the students."
Mizuki let out a big laugh "come on Iruka, they're big kids. They can look out for themselves for three days."
"I know that, it's just I have this feeling that something bad is going to happen. You're turn."
Mizuki gave Iruka a sideways glance as he stared at the board, trying to find his next move. "Are you talking about anyone specific Iruka-san?"
"Well I guess I'm worried another incident might happen with Sasuke and Naruto."
"Ahhhh, well unlike that one unfortunate incident, Naruto has Hinata and Shino with him, and without sounding mean or rude I think they make a more combat capable team then Sasuke's team."
"What do you mean?"
"Well Sakura doesn't come from a clan, she comes from a civilian family so the most she knows is what we've taught her. I pray in a real battle it will be enough, but she is more of a backline fighter, support if you will. Sasuke and Kiba are exceptional fighters and Ninja in their own way and right, but neither one are willing to work as a team with the other."
"I see, Naruto's team is the same makeup, with Shino being a backline fighter and Hinata and Naruto being the two frontline fighters, but they are willing to work together. They're all willing to be leader and a follower."
"Exactly, besides Naruto is gunning for top Male student this year and he may just make it if he can increase his chakra control. The only threat he or Sasuke really face is eachother. Besides before this some Inuzuka and Aburame went through the entirety of the forest and made sure there were no dangerous animals or insects here. You're go."
"You're right mizuki, you're right." Iruka bit his thumb "it's just I can't shake this feeling something bad is going to happen."
Mizuki smiled and said "calm down Iruka, everything is going to be fine." As he said that they heard the sound of a flare being sent into the sky, and watched as an indigo blue flame popped into existence.
Iruka's heart sank slightly as he said in a stark tone "I hope you're right Mizuki-san, that was Naruto's flare." He turned over to two other ninjas, they where wearing white vests marking them as medical ninja, they had yet to see the flare. "Hey you two get up we may have injuries students." And as they got up Iruka saw a paper yellow flare pop into the sky, almost right besides Naruto's. 'That was Sasuke's flare. What the hell is happening.' He followed behind Mizuki, the four traveling silently into the woodwork.
They were about half-way when a wave of evil, almost chaotic feeling chakra washed over and past them, causing the group to stop and stare around in confusion. Mizuki turned back to look at his friend "Iruka isn't that...?"
Iruka's face now sported a worried expression "yeah, it's the Ninetail's chakra. I would remember it anywhere, no matter what."
One of the medics spoke up "wouldnt that mean..?"
Iruka cut him a hard look "it just means Naruto's seal has weakened slightly, what we're feeling right now isn't even a fragment of the Ninetail's power. We're all trained chunin we can handle him. Now let's go." And so they contiuned onward the evil chakra eventually dissipating as they came upon the clearing.
And iruka's expression was one of horror as the first thing he saw was a battlefield, scorch Mark's here, and a trench there, a few cracked trees and many small, maybe 5 feet wide craters. And then he saw Shino's singed and burnt body leaning against a tree still breathing, and then he saw Naruto sobbing over Hinata's body.
The rest were taking in the damage when Mizuki started snapping orders "What the hell! You check on Aburame, you check on those two and Iruka snap out of it! Naruto what in Kami's name happened?"
Naruto turned around as he saw Mizuki, Iruka and two unnamed chunin, his eyes blood shot, Alistair had left not even a five minutes ago. "We-we were attacked by two enemy ninja. I tried telling Hinata and Shino to run to get help. But they didn't and Shino took a lightning jutsu meant for me because of it. And Hinata she...she..." Naruto choked up as they got closer, Iruka could see the full extent of the damage done to her and her body.
Most importantly he could see she wasn't breathing at all. She was dead. His fist tightend and he held back some tears, "Mizuki start looking around see if they left any clues that will help the Inuzuka track them." He knelt down to Naruto who had started crying again "Naruto I am so sorry for what you want through. And I'm sorry that we, that I, wasn't here to help you."
"Iruka over here" Mizuki called out on the east side of the clearing which was blocked off by some brush, before leading into the woods. He pushed some clearing to the side to revel a passed out Ino and Kiba, and a shaking Sasuke, who was staring wide eyed at the body of Hinata and Naruto, a kunai at his feet. Iruka ran over to the shell shocked student. He could still feel it even now lingering in the clearing just behind the also lingering presence of demonic chakra.
It was the chakra and Killing Intent(from this point onward known as KI) of two powerful individuals. The fact that Naruto and his team could fight against these two at all was surprise. Sasuke was in shock from it, but not unconscious like his two teammates who had never fealt KI before. But he was glad that there was at least two, maybe four witnesses who could back up Naruto's story. He was nervous the council would use this and try to do something to Naruto.
He shook his head, that was the least of his worries at the moment. He gingerly reached out a hand and touched Sasuke's shoulder "Sauske-san." He upon contact violently jerked back and fell backwards his eyes now coming into focus.
"Wha-... Iruka-sensei?"
"It's ok your safe now" he looked up towards Mizuki "Mizuki-san go get the rest of the advisors and teachers and roundup the other students make sure no one else got hurt, I'm going to get these students to the hospital." Mizuki nodded and grabbed one of the medic nin and left. Iruka gently brought Sasuke into the main clear. "Alright can you tell me what happened Sasuke."
"Well when we found Naruto he was in some sort of fight with Hinata and-"
"You." A voice full of hatred spat out, Iruka turned to find Naruto was staring Sasuke, no semblance of emotion in his eyes. No hop, no joy. Just dead, furious, rage. Iruka stepped up, but his hands out.
"Naruto you need to stop, take a breath and calm down." Naruto just pushed past Iruka, who was surprised by Naruto's own physical strength. And then in a flash he was ontop of Sasuke. He grabbed Sasuke by the collar of his shirt and lifted him.
"You watched the whole thing? YOU SAT BACK AND WATCHED SHINO GET INJURIED AND THEN WATCHED AS HINATA DIED?" He slammed a silent Sasuke into the ground before tearing his hand back and clocking Sasuke square in the jaw.
"WHY" another hit, his head bounced off the ground.
"DIDN'T" Another hit, Sasuke's nose was bent and a profuse amount of blood started to seep out, by now Iruka was trying, and failing to get Naruto off of Sasuke and he could also see Naruto's eyes flashing between blue and red.
"YOU" a few teeth went flying, Naruto's knuckles were busted open and his eyes had fully turned red.
"HELP!" He clasped his hands together and one hit to Sasuke's chest easily broke a few ribs, he was definitely unconscious by now. Iruka actually had to fuel a fair amount of chakra into his arms to throw Naruto off of Sasuke, as the other med ninja rushed over pulling Sasuke away as Iruka stared down Naruto.
"That is enough Naruto!"
Naruto grabbed his blade and flourished it in Iruka's direction. "No Iruka-sensie it's not. We fought for our fucking life and he just sits there and watches! He could have helped, he could have stopped that woman from...from.." his body started to tremble and he shook his head glaring forward. "I'm not going to kill him. I'm just going to hurt him, severely."
Iruka pulled out a kunai in response "I can't let you do that Naruto. You've already done your damage to him. Now drop your sword and let me take you and your classmates to the hospital." Iruka could feel Naruto's demonic chakra start building up. This was bad, and getting worse. If he kept up Iruka would have to seriously hurt Naruto and he didn't want it to come to that.
"Well looks like I've got to do this the hard way." Naruto rushed forward, using one arm to bring the sword down in a vertical stroke. But he was fighting angry and far to predictable. Iruka blocked with his kunai, and channeling some chakra into his finger tips pushed Naruro away, skidding into the dirt.
"Naruto stop this before you do something you're going to regret." He took one leap and doing a sweeping kick, knocked Naruto off of his feet and with another kick sent him tumbling back. "Seriously Naruto calm down."
His only response was a growl as Naruto got on all fours and took a chakra enhanced leap of his own, roaring now as his sword was covered in visible blue chakra. Iruka stared at Naruto and dropped his guard standing with both of them out leaving his chest completely exposed. "Fine if this is the course of action you choose then I'm not going to stop you." He sounded sad, defeated and most importantly disappointed.
Naruto stopped himself just in time, the tip of his sword leaving a very thin, small cut on Iruka's flak jacket. "Iruka-sensie why?"
"Oy kit, you and I need to have a chat"
'Wha- Kurama is that you?'
"Yeah it's me and we're going to talk"
Iruka saw a look of confusion on Naruto before his eyes rolled backwards and he fell face first into the ground. Iruka looked over to a confused media nin. "Well what are you waiting for, you've done what you can for Sasuke, now check on him!"
Hiruzen stared at the hospital room in front him, it had two occupants, a raven haired boy on one side, and on the opposite side separated by a curtain a blonde haired boy. One was several beaten, the other traumatized. He sighed and stared at their teacher. "Explain to me what happened Iruka-san."
"As far as I know Hokage-sama two foreign Ninja snuck into the training ground after knocking out the two chunin watching over the south eastern entrance. They proceeded to make they're way to were Naruto and his team were. Eventually they clashed, and during their battle Shino was injuried and Hinata was..." he choked up for a second "killed. That caused Naruto to go into a rage and I believe trigger his seal and he used a tiny portion of the fox's chakra at which point he warded off his attackers. At some point during this, but before Naruto tapped into the Kyuubi's power, Naruto used the flare I gave him. By the time Mizuki and I got there they were gone. My best guess is one of them felt us coming and decided to retreat."
"Do we have any idea who they were Iruka?"
"Well Inuzuka are tracking them through the training ground, and as per your orders Hokage-sama Anbu are currently scowering the nearby land and villages around Konoha to see if anything comes up. All we really know is that one is a Male using some sort of sword and one is a female who uses lightning ninjutsu at the moment."
"Ok, good can you tell me the extent of the injuries they suffered?"
"Well Shino is only mildly hurt, according to his father, most if not all of Shino's bugs took a very powerful lightning attack as he took a hit for Naruto, so he has some mild first degree burns and bruising but hell be fine. Naruto has his healing factor so any physical damage was fixed before he got to the hospital, some minor chakra depletion, but he watched one of his closest friends die so Kami only knows what's going on in his head. Sasuke's team is fine, just couldn't handle the pressure given off from the KI given off by the ninja."
"As far as Sasuke himself is concerned he took some damage from Naruro, his left rib cage was either broken or fractured, his nose is going to need to some surgery, and he suffered a concussion but his skull and head are relatively fine."
Hiruzen looked away "what about Hinata?"
Iruka was caught off guard "oh uh...a lot of cuts across her body, a slash to her throat being the worse, some second to third degree burns across her body and the entirety of her internal organs were fried by some form of lightning jutsu, which made her have a heart attack. That was the offical cause of death found by our coroner sir."
Hiruzen sat down on a near by bench "there's going to be hell to pay for this Iruka. I'm worried by just how much of this is going to be directed towards Naruto. The council will undeniably try to put the blame on him for this. The death of a clan heir especially, how is Hiashi taking things?"
"He is putting up a believable front and trying to stay strong, but he is in pain." At that point a concerned medical nin approached Hiruzen, followed by a pale Hiashi.
"Hokage-sama." A curt nod was his response "I need you to come with me to autopsy please, there is something strange their I believe you need to check out." Hiruzen raised an eye brow.
"Strange? What do you mean by that?"
The doctor stopped for a second trying to phrase his words before sighing and saying "well to be frank, I don't know how to explain it. It will he better if you just and see for yourself. I can tell you I've never seen anything like it though." Hiruzen gave a look to Iruka who just shrugged his shoulders.
"Alright then, lead the way Doctor." He also gave a slight look towards Hiashi, but his face was this tight look of concern, sadness and surprisingly hope.
*Smash* "DAMMNIT" *boom* Naruto was in his mind wreaking havoc in his mind, long since changed into a dojo like house. He had two giant fireballs that he immediately threw into two cardboard cutouts of Alistair and Jezebel. And Kurama watched with one lazy eye, off in the corner, meditating. Naruto then took one leap, using a his blade to slice and dice two more cut outs.
"Are you done yet kit." This was starting to annoy her, she had brought Naruto here to talk to him and this was all he'd done since then and in their little mindscape that was a few hours. She figured he would have gotten it out of his system by now. But she was wrong.
"No I'm not done Kurama. I've failed already." He let his blade fade into nothingness. "Shino's hurt and kami only knows the lengths that lightning chakra messed up his body, Sasuke saw me use your powers and it's only a matter of time before he puts two and two together. Last but fucking not the least Hinata. She...she's dead. I failed to protect her Kurama." He sank to his knees, tears staining his cheeks anew.
It was at this point Kurama's form glowed slightly, shrinking down to a 5'8" woman, with a tan skin, an angled face scarlett hair and equally red eyes, nine swaying tails behind her and a fair bust, the seal of the shikifujin was manifested in a light orange kimono she wore with the kanji on the back. She walked towards Naruto and crouched so she could hug him.
"It's ok kit. It's ok." She gently patted his back. She hated seeing Naruto like this. But she could understand it, when he first fought Neji in the chunin exams it was Hinata that had given him the last bit of courage to walk out in front of all of those people, and when Neji had died it was Hinata who pulled Naruto out of the abyss.
He looked back at her, in pain. "How can you say that she's dead, Kurama, dead."
"And she would never have wanted this for you, to be crying for her. To be in pain. You have a mission to complete, and you knew at that start of this that things weren't going to be easy and you weren't going to be able to save everyone."
"I thought that meant the people who I knew were going to die. Other than Neji and Pain, Hinata's never even come close to dying. And now she is actually dead. What the hell Kurama."
"Shinigami did warn us that time would fight back. Just neither of us realized how badly it was going too."
"How can you just accept this Kurama, I loved her. She had feelings for me too...I failed to tell them to her a second time." His head dropped again, only for Kurama to use her finger to tilt his chin back up.
"I liked her kit, she would have made a good mate for you, but that can't happen anymore. It does sadden me yes, but I've lived long enough to know to move on. You should too, you lost her but if you let this affect you so tragically more people will die. Remember, though Neji has also came back from the past this whole plan of saving as many people as possible hinges on you."
Naruto stood up wiping his eyes "no, I won't let that happen it's just with the Akatsuki, and then Madara, and Sasuke, and a whole fucking war, I just haven't had time to sit down and adjust to this new situation. I haven't realized that though I know the answers to so many riddles and problems, new ones will just pop up and it is still as dangerous."
"Yes kit, your memories will only get you sa far before time has changed beyond predictability."
"But what do I do now, how am I suppose to go to Neji and tell him I failed to protect her. How to I tell Hanabi?"
"It may have already come to pass, whenever you come to consciousness, that they are aware."
"That's not the point Kurama,i meant...just nevermind ok, hey I just realized you spoke to me through a mental channel. How?"
Kurama grinned as an old whicker rocking chair appeared beinx her, and she took a seat and started rocking. "well kit, you accessed my chakra once you saw Hinata go down. That degraded the seal enough for me to set one up. And good thing it did, Kami only knows what you would have done to Iruka or Sasuke."
"Why do you care what I do to Sasuke, because right now he's just some little prick who thinks the world revolves around his ass. He could honestly use a good beat down, maybe knock his ego down a few million pegs."
"Maybe in a fair match between the two of you. He was already shaking because of the Alistair and you. I believe if it wasn't for that incident with Itachi when he was younger, he would've passed out along with his teammates. But you snapped you would've done irreparable damage to him, and then you would be in an entirely different problem all together. So I had to pull you in here."
"You I wanted to ask you that how did you do that anyways? You've never been able to do that before?"
Kurama grinned proudly as the she started to leak out just a little bit of chakra, the seal starting to glow. "Your father put numerous amounts of fail safes in this seal, that I slowly chipped away at through the years before you and I became such good comrades. On of which is if you accessed more than three tails of chakra, it would, without confusing you, knock you out by sending a blast of chakra into your head. So I just sent as much chakra as I could in one second. A quick burts."
Naruto just looked at her "while I can see the reasoning behind that, it's also a limiter and it will inhibit my ability to fight with you in the future. How long until it's gone?"
"I've been chipping away at it for a while so maybe a week or week and a half? It's a slow process ok? If I go toonfast I trigger many of those failsafes I mentioned earlier, which is unpleasant for me to say the least."
Naruto sighed "well great once I finally get the shadow clone in my arsenal I need to add working on controlling your chakra to my list of training requirements. Until then let's hope I don't run into any more scraps that require it." He stood up and stretched sore and tired joints, which was an indicator he was starting to wake up. "Well looks like I'll be leaving soon Kurama."
"You good kit?"
Naruto gave Kurama a sad look "nah, but I will be. Just have to march on and try to find a way to move on I guess." He started fading away, and soon Kurama was left by herself.
Danzo sat alone in an office maybe eight foot by ten foot, bare and almost made entirely out of iron and steel. He was going through about the training exercise disaster. If he played his cards right then the jinchuriki would at last be his, and Konoha would reign supreme as it rightly fully should have.
But he'd need to be careful, manipulating the council against Hiruzen would be easy. Not getting caught as the one pulling the strings would be the difficult part. The death of the Hyuga was tragic she was starting to look like prime ROOT potential, and having a Byakugan in his arsenal would have been a major boon. But now he could use her death to turn Hiashi against Naruto, maybe even the Aburame if he could spin the story as Naruto pushing the young lad in front of the jutsu.
He frowned as he then went over the sketches of the two enemy shinobi drawn from Ino, always tryst a Yamanaka to remember everything. They had successfully infiltrated Konoha, snuck past an entire city, and almost killed Konoha's Jinchuuriki. And from what Sasuke and a slightly wounded Shino could muster they were powerful.
The one thing about that, that actually bothered Danzo was the raft he had never heard of them, and that they weren't in the bingo book. They were complete unknowns, and he had know way of figuring out who they were, or finding points to manipulate them. He would need to have the Jinchuriki protected.
He made a small hand signal and a ninja appeared before him kneeling. "Yes Danzo-sama?"
"For the remainder of Naruto Uzumaki's duration in the academy I want team Epsilon to follow him and protect him at all costs. If any danger should present itself to Naruto, and no one is going to interfere, then Epsilon is to handle the problem with lethal precision. That will be all."
He got up and stretched, he'd need to inform Hiruzen of the new guards so his Anbu didn't do anything towards his ROOT shinobi. Looks like he was headed towards the hospital.
It didn't take him long to reach though as he had all of his hidden hideouts in Konoha within ten minutes of some form of medical care. He walked in and just caught Hiruzen, Hiashi, Iruka and what looked to be the corner coming down from one of the upper levels. "Hiruzen, if I may have a word with you please?"
Hiruzen looked back towards his compatriots and nodded "go ahead you three, I'll meet you at autopsy." He walked over to Danzo, "I'm not surprised, you already know most of the events that transpired today correct?"
Danzo nodded, "yes, because of that I have a team of a ROOT shinobi watching over Naruto now. I would advise you to warn your shinobi not to take any drastic measures against the boy Hiruzen, my men won't hesitate to kill."
Hiruzen stared at the ground for a second "how very thoughtful of you Danzo. But I suspect it won't be the shinobi I have to worry about. The civilian council is bound to try and pin this on Naruto. May I count on your support to quell any attempt to have Naruto executed, imprisoned or sealed away?"
"Of course Hiruzen, it would be a waste to keep our Jinchuriki away from the front lines were he can get stronger." He looked towards the entrance to the hospital and visibly frowned "here comes that hopeful fool of yours, Jiraiya. I will take my leave Hiruzen-san." He gave a small bow and walked away.
And right on cue Jiraiya walked through the doors as Danzo exited, neither saying a word to each other. He had a hard look on his face as he approached his teacher. "Hokage-sama. I heard Naruto got hurt. What happened?"
"He is hurt, yes he tapped into a small part of the Ninetail's power. He is in room 405, go check on him and the shikifujin, I am needed in autopsy. When you have finished meet me there and I will explain everything ok?"
Jiraiya gave Hiruzen a hard look before standing up. "Fine old man but you better be down there when I'm done." And he made his way up to see his godson. He was mildly surprised to find Naruto sharing a room with the Uchiha from his class. From what Jiraiya understood those 5o had a somewhat violent rivalry with each other.
Curiously Jiraiya went over and scanned the clipboard attached to the end of Sasuke's bed. He whistled, Naruto had done a number too Sasuke. He was going to make a full recovery but his ego might have just been destroyed all together. Ah well, he wasn't hear for Sasuke. He turned around and looked over Naruto, not seeing the boy behind him starting to come to.
The fox had healed most all of Naruto's physical damage save a burn mark here or a bruise there. He lifted Naruto's shirt to reveal the seal underneath. He went to work examining the many intricacies that made up Minato's shikifujin. His was unique, it had many layers and failsafes so the beast could not escape or control Naruto.
Jiraiya frowned as he found a small fraction of the seal was degraded. Be wasn't surprised by this, the fox's demonic chakra was so potent that a regular seal just wasn't enough to hold it. But what did surprise him was which portion was degraded, limiters. The seals that controlled how much of the Nile tails chakra Naruto could access before tripping the rest of the seal and cutting him off.
The corruption of the Nintail's chakra should have been over the entirety of the seal, not in one portion. Which told Kiraiya the the fox was purposefully redirecting the harmful chakra there. But why? He could destroy any number of other parts of the shikifujin and make his life a lot easier, make it easier to corrupt Naruto. Instead it seemed to be helping him? He couldn't do anything to fix it at the moment, he might mess up the seal if he tried to fox damage that small.
A groan from behind caught his attention, Sasuke was waking up. He dropped Naruto shirt and quickly turned around. Sasuke was just starting to sit up. He grabbed his head and looked around. He was at the hospital and he was in the same room as Naruro. They seemed to be alone at the moment.
He quietly struggled to his feet, before falling to one knees, finally feeling the extent of all of his injuries. He sucked in air as he gasped in pain. 'God he did this much with just a few hits?' He staggered to stand up, using the bed post as support. And he quietly walked over to stand over Naruto's form, not seeing the dark form of Jiraiya in a corner, quietly reaching for a kunai.
Sasuke looked out of the window, the moon had just found its place in the middle of the sky. He had been out for a while. He looked back to the sleeping blond. "Why is it whenever I think I have you figured out you end up doing something, and it makes me question everything I think I know?" Jiraiya stopped his silent advance, staying ready to restrain the boy incase he tried anything.
"Why does everyone hate you? What was that strange chakra, and how were you able to fight those maniacs?" Sasuke looked down to a clenched fist. "I couldn't move at all, but all you cared about was making sure your friends got out of danger." He narrowed his eyes and turned around, heading back towards his bed "what are you? Hokage-sama said I was smart enough to figure it out, but every path I find leads to a dead end" Before laying down, and trying to go back to sleep.
"DAMMNIT" Jezebel screams as her fist hit the wall of a cave. "What the hell happened Alistair, he's just a kid, we had him!"
Alistair held out on hand trying to calm the mad beast of a woman in front of him "calm down, Jezebel, we underestimated the power of the Fox, and how much it would boost the kids abilities. We won't make the same mistake next time."
"Next time? NEXT TIME?! We have an entire fucking village looking for us! I know you didn't live long enough to go through that, so let me inform you, it's near impossible to do anything while there's manhunt for you!" Jezebel was furious, she had killed the girl and nex t thing she knew, she was waking up in a cave, by a slowly fading fire.
"I figured that which is why we're going to have to lay low for an little bit, probably wait until he becomes a genin, we will get him on a mission that takes him out of the village." Alistair didn't like it, his guess was the kid would be paired with a strong Jonin for a sensei, and his teammates wouldnt be push overs either.
"Oh yeah, that's a great idea genius let's just wait in the middle of a forest outside of of Konoha, while the entire ninja Corp will be on the look out for us!"
"Then let's go somewhere else for the time being, he's still got at least six months left until he graduates."
Jezebel growled "oh great got to live like rats for only six months that's good."
Alistair rolled his eyes "let's go to Kiri, we should be able to hide in the middle of a civil war."
"And get caught between to fighting armies, we'd have to pick a side to have any peace, then we'd be expected to fight for that side."
Alistair grinned showing sharp teeth "so what? If we side with the Mizukage, we could slaughter as many useless wimps as we like."
Jezebel started chewing on a little bit of har that was framing her face. "I don't like the thought of us making a name for ourselves, not this early. Part of our ability to get from place to place is are animity."
"Well by now the Leaf has sketched of us, we're already making a name for ourselves." He was surprised, he wasn't expecting a deep thinker to be behind all of Jezebel's bloodlust.
"You are correct, alright I guess to Kiri it is." Jezebel had a weird feeling about Kiri, like she'd be leaving a different person from the one who entered.
"On the plus side Jezebel, I managed to sneak something onto the boy, it won't kill him, but it'll make his life hell." Another fanged grin preludes a seal and a burst of chakra.
"What did you do Alistair?"
Jiraya stood up from his crouching position, and took one look over at his godson and walked out. Hiruzen had some explaining to do. Or at least that's what he wanted to do, but as soon as he stepped out of the room, the machinery hooked up to Naruto starting going crazy.
Naruto himself seemed to be having a seizure, his body spazing all over the place. "DOCTOR GET OVER HERE! WE HAVE AN EMERGENCY." By now Naruto, or more precisely his body started to throw up large amounts of blood. Jiraiya ran over to him, and saw a faint blue glow on the right side of Naruto's abdomen.
'A seal? It must have been placed during his fight!' He lifted the blanket away, shielding his face from more unchecked blood. If he didn't stop this, Naruto would die from blood loss. He placed one hand on the seal and said "KAI!" Despelling a large amount of chakra over the seal, it stopped flowing and Naruto threw up one more time before settling down, his skin looking very pale.
Then the doctor rushed in with two nurses (At this point I would like to point out I have zero medical training, so I'll be making shit up point onward.) "Shit, nurse Nakamura I need to know how vitals, Suda I need a crash cart immediately!" He picked up his stethoscope and placed it on Naruto's chest.
After a few minutes Jiraiya found his voice, though it was quiet how is he doctor?"
The doctor looked to his nurse, who nodded "his vitals are weak, but holding. My main concern is he's lost a lot of blood. I'm going to need to do a blood transfusion. You wouldn't happen to be the same blood type as him would you?"
Jiraiya shook his head "no, why?"
"Damn, we need type B blood from the blood bank, but I don't know if Naruto will last that long."
Then from behind them a voice said "I'm type O, you can take some from me." Jiraiya turned and saw sasuke sitting up staring at Naruto, worry on his face as well."
The doctor looked over to Sasuke, "I usually don't use injuried patients but I guess I'll have to make an exception. Nurse prep both patients for this, we won't have time to get to surgery." He starting pushing Jiraiya out of the room. "I'm sorry Jiraya-sama, but I need you to stay out of the room while I operate. Thank you, and until I come through this door, do not let anyone else enter." Saying that he closed the door behind him. And left Jiraiya in an empty hallway.
And Hinata's dead, "WHAT, BUT AUTHOR-SAMA THEN WHAT'S THE PAIRING? YOU SAID IT WAS HINATA AND NARUTO"
I know what I said, I'm leaving that as a surprise. Please tell me whatcha thunk aboot this chapter. Anyways see ya next time.
Ja ne