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Chapter 13: Aftermath
Konoha:
"Hurry up!" yelled the Third Hokage as he ordered nearby Medic Ninjas to take Naruto and Hiko to the hospital. "Take those two to the hospital, have ANBU guard those two around the clock. Kakashi, Gai, escort the medical ninjas just in case something unexpected occurs."
"Yes, Hokage-sama!" yelled both Kakashi and Gai as they jump up after the medic ninjas.
"All others! Help out where you can and make sure that no one is stuck beneath any of these buildings!" ordered the Third as he begins walking towards the Hokage Tower. "Have the elders convene for an emergency session at the Hokage Tower." ordered the Third to ANBU members that were present. "Make sure you do it as fast as you can possible."
"Yes, Hokage-sama" stated the ANBU members as they disappeared in to the night.
'This is going to take some time to explain.' thought the Third as he walked away still trying to figure out what to say about the night's event.
While at the Hospital:
"It was a miracle that you made it here, any much longer we might have lost both patients." said a senior medical Nin as he looked at both Kakashi and Gai. "The two young girls you brought in have suffered extensive injuries. Especially the younger one, it seems that her chest has suffered extensive blunt trauma. Most of her ribs are either broken or fractured, we were able to mend what we can but it will take some time for her to recover. The teenage girl seems to be doing fine; it seems she just needs some rest and should not overexert herself in the next couple of days. Her body shows signs of extensive chakra burn. The conditions itself is not serious but if she were to have stayed in a state like that for a much longer time period then she would of have arrived in a fatal state."
"Thank you doctor." replied Gai as he patted himself on the back of the head in relief. "I would of shuddered at the thought of having either of those two die, Hokage-sama would have been very angry if something like that were to have occur here." said Gai as he ended it with a slight chuckle and smile.
"Well, I am glad also." replied the doctor. "Oh yes, and the ANBU that you wanted stationed around have taken their positions. No one should be able to get in unnoticed. Is that all or do you need anything else?"
"That is all, I guess," said Gai as he looked at Kakashi and back at the doctor, "unless you have anything else to add Kakashi."
"I do," said Kakashi as tilted his head up and looked at the doctor. "You said that there were two girls, correct?"
"Yes, I do remember stating that." replied the doctor.
"Well, I remember it should of been a young boy and a teenage girl not two girls." said Kakashi as he again looked at the doctor.
"Hmm, I am pretty sure that the two persons that you brought in were two girls, not a boy and a girl. Unless I might have been mistaken, which I am fairly sure I am not." replied the doctor. "Maybe I should go check again." said the doctor as he prepared to go back and check once more.
"That seems to be a good idea," replied Kakashi as he followed the doctor back towards the rooms.
Back at the Hokage Tower, the Elders and the Third had just started their joint emergency session to make sense of what happened during the night. Among the council stood various members of the heads of various clans in Konoha and during the time that the council had spent most of the time listening to what had occurred.
"This is absurd! How can the seal that the Fourth place be so easily broken! The main purpose of the seal was to seal the demon inside of the child! Can you please explain to us how the seal can be broken Hokage-sama!" yelled an unnamed Elder.
"Well, the seal that my predecessor had set up had been a seal that dealt with the realm of Death. Although the seal is inherently strong when a person is alive it loses its powers once a person is near death or dead already. It is very similar to the seals that can be found on branch members of the Hyuuga clan." replied the Third as he answered out to the council.
"But why would the Fourth place such a seal like that in the first place if he knew that at any moment when the child was near death or its life was threatened that the Kyuubi could manifest itself up out of the child? Could you please explain that then Hokage-sama, he was you predecessor. He should have known that doing something like that would have been a threat to Konoha and its people. So could you explain to us why he would do such a thing?" asked another Elder.
"Easy," replied the Third. "He had hoped that the people of Konoha would come to respect and treat Naruto as a hero for being the container of the Kyuubi. That someday Naruto could learn to use the chakra of the Kyuubi to help everyone else. That was his greatest hope and last wish."
"Yes, we know about that already Hokage-sama but what I was asking was why he put on a seal that would weaken itself if the boy were near death. Surely he would of thought that doing such a thing like that would be a danger to us all." said another Elder.
"That I would not know," replied the Third but in his mind he knew why the Fourth would ever do such a thing and it was for revenge if the villagers would have killed his one and only son. 'No man would stand by and let their own child be killed,' thought the Third. 'He knew that if someone were to have murdered Naruto they would of also weakened the seal enough that the Kyuubi that was inside of Naruto would have unleashed itself and possess Naruto causing a catastrophe that would have been the end of the Leaf. Fourth, I guess that was your only way of protecting Naruto knowing that you were going to die shortly after the sealing.' finished the Third in his own thoughts.
"Then what of the boy?" asked another Elder.
"What of the boy." replied the Third, dreading in his mind knowing what the council would think of doing to him.
"What should we do of the boy then?" asked the member again.
"KILL HIM!" yelled another Council Member. "We should kill him and get it over with. We have lived long enough with this demon, who knows what would happen next time if another incident like occurs! I say we execute the boy for the good of the Leaf! He and the demon inside must be destroyed if the Leaf is to finally be at peace!"
"Now don't go and make such a quick judgment, he is still a boy after all. What would that make of us if we were to resort to killing children? That would make us no better than common thugs and criminals!" replied the Third guardedly and angrily as he saw the council go into chaos. Many members of the council had jumped up the moment that the idea of killing Naruto was yelled out. There were many who were arguing now at the fate of Naruto. The Third only stood and watched as he looked on unknowingly at what he should personally do, but he was just tired at the moment and wanted to know if Naruto and his friend were alright. 'This is going to be along night.' thought the Third as he looked upon the elders in disdain.
"Exile," proclaimed a hooded elder, "Naruto should be exiled from the Leaf. That way no one complains and everyone wins. We won't have to kill him and we won't ever have to worry about such an incident like this from ever occurring. Let him take care of himself."
"Exile? You know how dangerous the outside world is for one so young. If we exile him he surely will die." countered the Third. "The world outside of the Leaf is an especially dangerous place for someone like Naruto. Many others will want him for what is inside of him and he could eventually be turned into a weapon against all of us."
"Then would you rather us kill the boy!" came out the same voice that called for Naruto's exile.
"No, I wish neither upon the boy!" responded the Third strongly as he thought who the person was that was talking to him. It irritated him to no ends that when ever the Elders convened for a meeting they would always hide their identities, shrouding themselves in the shadows or disguised. It was a way of protecting themselves from the outside and inside world of the Leaf.
"You can not be selfish Sarutobi-sama! We know that the Fourth was a well respected person but this charade can not go on any longer. You know as well as we do that Naruto is as hated in the Leaf as any person could be . . . at least the world outside of the Leaf people would be more ignorant towards his plight than those here. Wouldn't you agree?" came the same voice.
"I do, but what you are suggesting here is that we throw him unto the wolves! That is ludicrous! We can not allow such a thing to happen, we must not." argued the Third as he saw the figure slowly approach him and revealed his identity. ". . . Uzumi-san, so it was you after all. I should have guessed . . .........." trailed off the Third as he looked upon Uzumi.
"I, Saiionji Uzumi, call on this council of Elders to come to a decision to banish Naruto and hence forth make him into an Exile. He has learned a little in the academy but not enough for him to be wanted as a missing ninja, since he is not even considered as one yet. We can no longer afford to have Naruto as a liability anymore."
Meanwhile at the hospital.
"Well, I told you so Kakashi. I knew my assessment wasn't wrong." said the senior medical ninja doctor triumphantly. "As I stated before it was two female patient not a boy and a- What the, what's happening to her!" screamed the medical nin frantically as he saw red and blue chakra permeating off of Naruto's body.
Kakashi stared on as the two chakras permeated throughout the hospital room. Both swirled unto each other causing a maelstrom of excess chakra to leak out and alerting every single ANBU guard that was there to defend Naruto as they rushed to into the room only to be awed by the sight in front of them. It was as if a storm was occurring as raw chakra sparked about like lightning. But then just as suddenly as it began it receded just as quickly as it had begun shrinking quickly and re-entering Naruto's body seemingly as if it was a natural thing. Guardedly Kakashi approached Naruto's body to examine what had happened and what he saw surprised him. Naruto had turned back into a boy and he seemed to be have no injuries on his body at all. "The power of the Kyuubi is absolutely amazing." spoke Kakashi slowly as he gazed at Naruto seeing him start to stir.
"Hey, one-eyed, how's Hiko-chan doing? Is she alright, I hope I didn't cause her too much trouble." spoke Naruto as he looked at Kakashi tiredly.
"Fine. She's doing fine Naruto." replied Kakashi.
"That's great." said Naruto as he slowly dozed off again.
'Some kid,' thought Kakashi as he looked upon Naruto. 'Even though he should be the one worrying about himself he worries about that girl more. I wonder if you'd be proud of him if you were still alive sensei.' concluded Kakashi in his thoughts as he stood up to address the ANBU that were present. "None of what you have seen leaves this room. You two," pointed Kakashi towards two ANBU members, "go tell the Hokage of what has happened and that is all. If I find out that any of you have leaked out information regarding Naruto and his hospital stay then you will to deal with me" finished off Kakashi in a serious tone.
"Yes sir!" replied all present ANBU members as they returned towards their posts again not knowing what had just occurred but knowing it wasn't their business to know.
"Hmm, as for me I'll try to find out what has happened here to this boy." said the senior medical ninja that was present. "There might something about this in the old archives about demonology and possession. I never thought that those old ancient texts would be of any use in this day and age."
"Thank you," replied Kakashi. "Oh, I forgot to ask you what your name was."
"Yuri, Yuri Tenkawa, this is my first year as senior medical ninja."
"Thank you Yuri, I appreciate what you're doing for Naruto here."
"No problem, what I'm doing here is nothing to what Naruto has been doing for Leaf for ten years and am glad that I could have been of service to you." finished Yuri as she left the hospital.
'What a troublesome little kid you have become Naruto.' thought Kakashi as he pulled up a chair against Naruto's bed and sat down. 'What have you left us here sensei?' thought Kakashi fondly as he started to drift to sleep thinking of better days.
While all this was occurring in the Leaf not far away stood several figures that had been waiting in a clearing for over several hours.
"So, mission failed." mumbled one of the figures.
"Should of known not to trust Orochimaru, he has been acting antsy as of late. Hao is probably dead by now." replied another one.
"Well, those two were pretty much annoying. They were both the weakest of us anyways, I guess we'll have to send in another team. Hmm, I wonder who should go this time."
"I will." came a reply as one of the figures moved foreword.
"Miss your home that badly already, Itachi?" questioned one of his companions jokingly.
"Hmmph," snorted Itachi as he simply walked away slowly.
"Hey, wait up for me Itachi." said his partner Kisame as he quickly caught up with Itachi and disappeared.
"Well, what do we do now?" asked one of them.
"Well, we return back to tell the others of Orochimaru's betrayal and of the two large chakras we felt tonight." replied the other one.
"Yeah, I wonder whose the other chakra belonged to. We know the other one was the Kyuubi's but what of the other? . . . Scary."
"Hmph, I don't know, I guess those two are going to find out for us."
"Well, we better be going now. The others probably wants to know how things are going." finished the figure as the figures disappeared into darkness.
"So the plot thickens." said a man as he slowly came out of hiding. "I guess things are only going to get wilder in the next couple of days . . . maybe I should return." smiled the man seriously as he began his walking to nowhere in general.
Sorry, for the wait. Things have been really getting hairy around me lately and my comp broke again. Thanks to those who still are reading my fic and those who are just starting. I'm trying my best to update and keep pace with life and this fic . . . thanks.