Kohona's Yellow Storm
Chapter 4: They're going to regret this…
It began to rain in Kohona that particular evening. Everyone on the streets began to run for shelter to avoid getting wet. Neji watched from the window as one by one lights went either on our off. He sighed quietly wondering how long this mission would take. The mission itself wasn't so bad; it was the fact that he had no idea what information was being relayed to Naruto through this dream state the boy was in. He looked over to the bed to find his cousin taking off the boy's shirt carefully, a flash of anger streaked through his white eyes and he called out to her.
"What in the hell do you think your doing?" He commanded of her.
The girl jumped and looked at her cousin with a slight bit of fear in her eyes.
"He's….h..he's bu..burning up, Ne…Neji-san…I..I thought it m..might help i…if I took off…his urm…s..shirt."
The boy stepped away from the window and walked up to the boy. He peered down at him and saw that the boy's body was covered in sweat. He quickly put his hand to the boy's forehead and discovered that it was way to hot.
"Get a towel and a bucket of cold water. Rub the cold water on his chest and do not leave his side. I am going to go fetch the Hokage, do not leave him until I get back do you understand me?" Neji said as he peered down at the boy one last time. Neji turned and ran through the door and down the hallway wondering what could possibly be going on inside of Naruto…
The lair of Kyubi
"I DON'T BELIVE YOU! IT'S A LIE! IT CAN'T BE TRUE!" Naruto shouted as he held his head in confusion.
"SHUT YOUR INSOLENT MOUTH YOU LITTLE RUNT, YOUR FATHER DID SEAL ME INSIDE OF YOU BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT TO BURDEN ANOTHER FAMILY. I UNDERSTAND THAT IT IS HARD TO BELIVE BUT YOU FATHER DID WHAT WAS BEST FOR HIS COUNTRY AND I RESPECT THAT. BUT SEE HERE YOU FOOL, IF YOU DON'T SHUT UP AND LISTEN TO ME I AM GOING TO KNOCK THIS INFORMATION INTO THAT THICK SKULL OF YOURS DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?" The Kyubi roared out becoming more and more impatient with the boy, at this rate it would take forever before the boy was ready to awaken.
Naruto fell to his knees and wept, he felt so lost, so alone; his father surely must have hated him to force him to bear such a large burden. Naruto wanted to die, every part of his body screamed to have the blood drained from it. The next emotion that flooded over him was hate.
"My father….damn him…I hope he is burning in hell for forcing me to live with you, everyone hates me because of him and because of you!"
The Kyubi snapped and hit the boy hard with one of his mighty tails, the impact sent the young boy back a good distance until he slid to a stop.
"YOU ARE VERY ANNOYING CHILD…THIS WILL TAKE SOME TIME INDEED…." The Kyubi muttered angrily at the shaking figure before him.
Little did the Kyubi know that trouble was brewing not too far away…
In the Hyuuga Manor
"You will receive half of the payment now, and the other half when you finish the job, don't forget that I won't all three of them dead. If you do this for me I will see to it that you always have help from the Hyuuga clan when you are in a tight spot do you understand me?" Hiashi said calmly looking at the shadowed figure before him."
The person hidden in the shadows only nodded slowly and held out his hand to receive the first half of the pay. The money was exchanged but Hiashi grabbed the stranger's hand roughly.
"Don't forget that this doesn't come back on me or my clan, if you are discovered, run and don't come back, you may keep the money, but the rest of the deal will be off. Do I make myself absolutely clear?"
The stranger pulled away his hand and grunted a response to the man before he disappeared into the night.
"No one opposes me and gets away with it…No one." Hiashi said as he began to laugh cruelly, it seemed that he would be taking care of three birds with one stone.
Back at the Hokage Manor
Tsunade burst threw the door with Neji at her side to find Hinata patting down Naruto's chest with cold water.
"His temperature's gone done slightly but he groaned a minute ago and started breathing heavily…I..I…I..d..d..don't know wh..what's going o..on Ho..Hokage-s..sama…" Hinata said nervously afraid that Tsunade would punish her for letting the boy suffer under her care.
"Stop your stuttering girl its annoying, I'm not mad at you so there's no reason to be afraid ok?" Tsunade said bluntly.
Hinata nodded her head slowly and blushed from embarrassment, she felt like such a fool. All three people in the room looked at the boy on the bed and could tell he was in some kind of pain. Then, suddenly, as if nothing had ever happened, the boy's temperature dropped to normal and the boy looked peaceful, it was a ray of hope, it appeared that Naruto was beginning to understand what was going on. Tsunade hoped against hope that he would wake up soon. There was so much he had to learn and he had such little time to do it in. She just hoped that it wasn't to late…
"Everything seems to be ok so I will be leaving you all alone now, just to give you warning I have assigned four other people to stand guard with you. Ten-Ten, Lee, Sakura, and Sasuke will be joining you in about 10 minuets so you two can get some rest. That's all for now." Tsunade said and with that, she left them alone again.
The ten minuets passed like seconds and the four people walked into the room. Sakura wailed out and ran to Naruto's side, Ten-Ten and Lee went over to Neji and Sasuke just snorted and sat in a dark corner. Hinata went over and kneeled by Sakura at Naruto's side. Sakura looked over at Hinata and began to drill her with questions.
"What's wrong with Naruto? Why won't he wake up? Why weren't we informed right away? Why are you and Neji assigned to guard him? Is Naruto in a coma?" Were among just some of the few questions that rocketed out of Sakura's mouth before Sasuke put in his two cents.
"Why don't you just shut up for a second and let the girl talk for God's sake?"
With that Sakura's mouth was snapped shut and all eyes fell on Hinata. She began to get nervous and then she imagined that Naruto was standing right beside her encouraging her to be strong. She began to speak softly.
"Naruto, as some of you know or don't know, is the vessel of the demon Kyubi. Pending some new information that was disclosed to Naruto, the Kyubi decided that he was a loose cannon due to the fact that his brain was overloaded too quickly with too much information. In order to keep him safe, the Kyubi has but Naruto-kun under a spell that will cause him to sleep until he is at peace with the information that has been presented to him. When that time comes he will be awakened and will be sent out on an "S" ranked mission that will put him away from Kohona for a time span of about three to four years. As you well know "S" ranked missions are top-secret information and I have no idea what it will involve so don't ask Sakura. Other than that you all know what I know so there are no secrets now."
Sakura got out some points that she found to be of high importance.
1. Hinata had a huge crush on Naruto.
2. Naruto's special abilities that she had noticed over time were due to the Kyubi inside of him.
3. Naruto was going to be going away for a long time very soon.
4. Hinata was a very smart young girl to be able to speak so eloquently.
5. Naruto now had information that would probably change him…forever…
These points weren't in any order of importance; she just found them all to be very important to her. Everyone else remained silent as the digested the information for themselves.
It was at this time of thinking that Sakura gazed out the window and saw a figure staring at them. Her eyes went wide as saucer pans and she screamed out bloody murder. The figure jolted at being discovered and began to ascend to the rooftop. Neji, Lee, and Sasuke reacted with lighting speed and were at the window in a heartbeat. They instructed the girls to stay by Naruto's side while they ran the spy down. All the boys went out the window and began to ascend to the rooftops.
The girls all huddled around Naruto's body and pulled out Kunai knifes, little did they know just how outnumbered they were….
On the rooftops
All three boys thought the same thing at the exact same time. "Damn it this guy's fast!" They hopped from rooftop to rooftop trying to catch up with the man who was spying on them. Finally the boys saw some relief, ANBU squads and seen the chase on the rooftops and caught up. They had the man surrounded. The man fell to his knees and didn't even try to put up a struggle. The boys walked up to him and pulled off his mask. He was a boy no more than their age. He had on a headband from the sand with a scratch through the symbol. Akatsuki, this wasn't good…
"You may have caught me, but it doesn't matter…that boy…the target, and all those pours girls you left alone in that room are all dead do you hear me? Lord Itachi never lets his prey go…Ku…Ku…Ku…" The boy said with such pitiful hate in his voice that it made them all sick to their stomachs.
Sasuke grabbed the boy by his collar and shook him violently demanding to know why his brother was here and what he wanted with Naruto.
"Ku…Ku…Ku, the Hyuuga clan paid us plenty they did. The mission was to get rid of Hyuuga Neji, Hyuuga Hinata, and Uzumaki Naruto. And the best part of it all was, Lord Itachi would have his hands on the demon brat and the Akatsuki would be plenty happy with us…Ku…Ku…Ku…" The boy muttered before Sasuke snapped his neck with a quick flick of his wrists.
"My family…they're going to regret this…." Neji said with clenched fists. The three boys rushed back for the room hoping that they weren't too late….
A/N: Another cliffhanger I know, but I thought this was a very good chapter! I think it's the longest chapter I have every written. I hope you enjoy it and don't forget to review:D