Crimson Rain Chapter 4: Standing Up Again, a naruto fanfic

Disclaimer: I do not own the characters

Crimson Rain.

Main Characters:

Team 7 Uzumaki Naruto Haruno Sakura Uchiha Sasuke - Hatake Kakashi

Team 8 Hyuuga Hinata Inuzuka Kiba Aburame Shino - Yuuhi Kurenai

Team 10 Yamanaka Ino Nara Shikamaru Akimichi Chouji - Sarutobi Asuma

Guest Characters:

Tsunade

Shizune

Mrs Nara

Nara Shikato

Suddenly, a group of unknown ninjas appeared.

"Look out, Shikamaru!" Shizune pointed at his back.

Shikamaru saw the look in her eyes – worried. He was reminded on his father's eyes before he was stabbed to death.

They had the same eyes.

Chapter 4

"Hai!" Shikarmaru replied Shizune and got ready to fight the unknown ninjas. He took out two kunais from his pouch and held one in each hand. He charged at one of the ninjas and skillfully escaped his grasp and pierced him in the stomach. Then he proceeded to fight the rest of the ninjas. When he finally defeated them all, he told Shizune that he will be going off to protect his mother. Because that was what his father told him to do before he died.

"Will you be fine alone?" Shikamaru asked.

"Yes, I'll be fine. Just remember, no matter what happens, you have to carry on. You cannot live with the guilt or the pain and shut yourself from the whole world, because many people still cares for you."

Shikamaru gave a small nod and ran towards his household.

Scene: Nara Household

"Okaa-san! I'm back!" Shikamaru called out to his mother. There was no reply. He looked around the house and saw much debris and he's father's dead body. He closed his eyes and fought away the thoughts in his mind. He walked to the kitchen. As he was walking, he saw a trail of dried blood.

He immediately ran into the kitchen. He fell to his knees when he saw the sight of his mother's body lying on the floor.

"OKAA-SAN!" Shikamaru screamed as tears flowed from his eyes.

This can't be true! No! Both my parents died!

Then he realized –

He told me to protect okaa-san. But I did not. I was dragged away by sensei instead of staying to finish the shinobis off. It was my fault! They must have killed okaa-san when I was away!

He bowed his head even lower and more tears flowed freely from his eyes.

Scene: Sasuke Ino Shino

Sasuke tried to fling his grip away, but his grip tightened.

"Let go Shino!" Sasuke yelled.

"No. I insist that you apologise. We came all the way here to see if you were okay and this is how you treat us?"

"What could happen to me? After all, I'm strong enough to protect myself."

"Enough!" Ino suddenly shouted above both Sasuke's and Shino's argument. She grabbed Shino's hand and broke the grip between Shino and Sasuke. Then she went to hold Sasuke's hands.

"Sasuke-kun! Please, calm -"

"Let go." He said as he brushed Ino's hands away.

Before he knew it he felt a punch land on his face – it was Shino's punch.

"Baka! What are you doing!" Sasuke shouted at him.

He readied himself in a fighting stance and took out a kunai from his pouch. Shino did the same thing. However, Sasuke held his kunai with his left hand (Right wrist injured)

Sasuke managed to block Shino's attacks, although his blocks. After a while, he got used to using his left hand, and began to attack Shino.

Ino did not know what to do and tried to stop the fight. But she ended up getting a scratch from Sasuke's attacks. "Ouch!"

"Ino!" Shino looked in her direction, concerned.

"You don't have time to look away dobe!" Sasuke yelled at him and slash him in the arm. Blood oozed from Shino's injured arm.

"Why, you -" Shino started.

But Sasuke did not give him the time and liberty to talk. He immediately charged at Shino with his kunai. Shino barely had time to defend himself and was thrown back as he landed on the floor.

"Look! You can't even defend yourself, so don't come thinking that you can defeat me!" Sasuke retorted.

Shino picked himself up and spoke calmly, "Why aren't you using your right hand since it's stronger?"

Damn! If he knows that I have a broken right wrist, I'll have a big disadvantage! "You don't have to know!" Sasuke spat.

"I see." Shino replied calmly. Something must be wrong with his right side of the body. And I must find out what.

Shino charged towards Sasuke's right side. Before Sasuke could react, Shino grabbed his shoulder and flung him hard away.

Nope, not the shoulder.

"What the hell do you think you are doing!" Sasuke growled and took a few shurikens out.

He tried in vain to hit Shino with the shurikens as his aiming with his left hand is not good.

He's not forming seals, nor is he attacking me with his famous ShiShi Rendan (Lion Combo). I see. It must be his wrist which is hurting.

Shino charged towards Sasuke's right side again. However this time Sasuke blocked it easily. "I don't know exactly what you're doing, but the same trick won't work on me twice!"

Damn, I must try a different approach.

Scene: Nara household

"OTOU-SAN! OKAA-SAN! I WILL AVENGE YOU!" Shikamaru screamed to the empty house as tears flowed even more freely down his face.

He picked himself up from the floor.

"People who cares for me huh?"

"Are you sure?" Naruto asked worriedly.
Otou-san, Okaa-san.

"Yes, that's right. So many people cares about me... I cannot just break down here."

Just remember, no matter what happens, you have to carry on.
Just remember, no matter what happens, you have to carry on.
Just remember, no matter what happens, you have to carry on.
Just remember, no matter what happens, you have to carry on.
Just remember, no matter what happens, you have to carry on.
Just remember, no matter what happens, you have to carry on.

Those words of Shizune kept ringing in Shikamaru's head. He clenched his fist and said confidently, "Yes, I'll will carry on. Yosh!"

With that, he ran out of his house.

Scene: Chouji at the academy

"Hn? All the children and Iruka-sensei seems to have escaped already. Ah! Iruka-sensei. He's smart enough to have brought the kids to a safe place. Right, now I shall help Kiba excavate the villagers.

Chouji walked along the path and took out a packet of BBQ potato chips. As he walked, he ate and thought.

I wonder how the rest are doing – Ino, Shikamaru. And the other teams.

Soon he reached the residential area. He saw that the place was quite in a mess. "Kiba!" He shouted as he ran around the area, scanning for Kiba.

Then he spotted Kiba lying on the floor with an unconscious Akamaru on Kiba's chest.

"Kiba! Wake up! Are you okay?"

"Aaahhh." Kiba slowly stirred. "Huh? Chouji? What are you doing here? Ouch!"

"Your wounds aren't small; we better go to the hospital and see if we can bandage you up." With that, Chouji put Kiba's arm over his shoulder, carried Akamaru with his other hand and headed towards the hospital.

When they reached, they saw Sakura in the storage room. "Ah! There you all are, I figured that some of us might be injured due to this war, so I was packing things up. I'm just about to finish."

"Kiba is heavily injured!" Chouji pointed Sakura out.

"Oh, gosh! He's in a bad shape! Okay, put him on the bed. I'll try some skills that I have learnt from Go-daime."

She moulded chakra on both of her hands and placed them above Kiba.

Argh, he's injuries are too serious.

Concentrate
Concentrate
I can do it
Concentrate
Concentrate

Scene: Sasuke Ino Shino

"What are you thinking, you bug-freak!" Sasuke shouted over to Shino. "Surrender? If you want, I won't retaliate." Sasuke slowly put his left hand down. He was very tired due to Itachi's fight and he wasn't use to using his left hand.

"You let your guard down, Uchiha." Shino muttered as he suddenly flashed on the right of Sasuke and grabbed his wrist.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Sasuke screamed in pain. He immediately used his kunai that he held on his left hand to stab Shino. Shino immediately knocked the kunai out of Sasuke's hand by first blocking the attack and using the back of his own kunai to hit Sasuke's left wrist, causing the kunai to fly out of grip.

"Use your trump card at the end." Shino whispered into Sasuke's ear and twisted his broken wrist again and flung him towards the wall.

Scene: Hospital

Concentrate

Ahh! He is recovering. It's working!
Hang on, I feel that somebody else is in need of healing.

Concentrate more!
I need to find out who!

"Yes! Kiba-san is finally healed!" Sakura exclaimed when she saw his wounds closing.

Who is it?

It feels so familiar.

Naruto? No

No… don't tell me.

SASUKE –KUN!

"Chouji-san, Sasuke-kun is need of healing now, would you please find them and bring them to the hospital?"

"Hai."

"Oh, Sasuke-kun, I hope you're alright." Sakura told herself after Chouji left. As she was worrying, she took some of the hospital's bandage to wrap up some of Kiba's deeper wounds.

Chapter 4 is up!
Thanks to myself (LOLS) and my beta reader, Hamsae!
Chapter 5 will be up soon too!
Please read, and review!
Thank you very much.