THE DARK GATE

A NARUTO BASED FAN FIC

WRITTEN BY:

KYUBI-X

Chapter 5: Moving in…

Peace, it was one of those things that were hard for Tsunade to find, especially now that she was in charge of a village. However, she had finally found tranquility in taking ton-ton for walks threw the village's market place. Even though it was busy, people made room and gave her friendly smiles which helped ease the burden she carried. She looked down at ton-ton and smiled as she watched the little big sniff around on the ground and snort happily when it found small pieces of food on the ground. She then remembered that even though she was taking it easy for a while, that she still had one thing she needed to do before she headed back to her office. Tsunade gently pulled on ton-ton's leash and they began to walk towards the section of the village where all the large homes were located…

Meanwhile, back at the Hokage manor….

"What do you mean Tsunade-sama isn't here?" A frazzled Sakura asked looking at the two ANBU set up as the front door guards. The two guards gave each other a sideways glance before turning back to the girl and speaking.

"We are sorry Miss Sakura, but Tsunade-sama has taken ton-ton for a walk and won't be back for some time, would you like to leave a message for us to deliver to her?"

Sakura bit on her bottom lip from annoyance and then spoke out, "I'm going to go look for her, if she comes back before I have found her then tell her that her brother is awake, that's all she needs to know." With that Sakura leaped onto the roof tops and began to sprint across them in search of Tsunade leaving behind two bewildered ANBU guards.

Back with Tsunade

The realtor glared at Tsunade untrustingly while mulling over the offer she just proposed. "Why do you want this home again Hokage-sama?"

A vein bulged on Tsunade's forehead as she tried to remain clam. "I told you, we are trying something new and putting 9 chunnin under the same roof to try and build teamwork…" She held out the bag of money to the man once again.

The realtor mulled it over for a few moments before snatching the bag and reminding her that it was now her responsibility to take care of the home she just bought. Tsunade smiled as he took the key and began to head back to her manor with ton-ton when a blur of pink racing across the rooftops coming towards her caught her attention. She took a slight step back as Sakura appeared before her. Sakura didn't even have to say a word because Tsunade knew that Naruto was awake by the look in her eye and she immediately picked up ton-ton and began to race towards the hospital. Sakura scowled at her sensei and rushed to keep up with the mad flying woman.

Tsunade burst threw the hospital like the whirlwind of power that she was and made it to Naruto's room without even being stopped once. She opened the door and found everyone inside asking a helpless looking Naruto a million questions at once. "EVERYONE GET OUT OF THIS HOSPITAL ROOM NOW!" Tsunade roared making all the teens flinch.

All the teens quickly shut their mouths and walked out of the room not daring to argue with the very angry lady before them. When they had all walked out, Tsunade shut the door and looked to her brother with suddenly soft eyes. For the first time since he had awoken, Naruto tried to lift himself up and cried out in surprise and pain as he fell back onto the bed with a heavy thud. He clenched his fists and began to grit his teeth from the horrible pain that was coursing threw his body. Tsunade gasped and was at his side kneeling in an instant stroking his wild sun kissed hair. Naruto looked at her with panicked blue eyes and Tsunade took a deep breath trying to find all the carefully placed words to her brother.

"Naruto, first of all I want to say that I am sorry for everything you had to go threw, I never thought anyone would ever make it to the seventh level since that one man did so many years ago… I have a few things to explain to you Naruto, although I don't know very much about the entire situation, I can tell you that the torture somehow affected the Kyubi and now he has stopped healing you. To get down to the root of the problem I suggest that you talk to the Kyubi himself to get down to the bottom of the situation. Second, until you have become healed, you and the rest of the rookie nine will be moving into the same mansion with you to help you heal, the reason for this is because we wish to start up a new special Kohona ninja team. We wish to start a rogue ops team and we want you to be the leader after you get better and get some proper training. Do you accept this offer Naruto-kun?"

Naruto stared at her slightly shocked and thought about it for a few seconds before saying, "Let me have a little chat with the Kyubi and then I will give you your answer." Tsunade looked slightly surprised but then simply nodded.

"Hit me…" Naruto said with a very serious look in his eyes.

"Excuse me?" Tsunade asked, clearly confused.

"I need you to hit me so I can go see the Kyubi; it's the only way I know how." Naruto said like it was the simplest thing in the world.

Tsunade was too tired to argue the point so she took her hand and chopped Naruto on his neck knocking him out instantly. She watched sadly as the teen's eyes closed and he drifted off into a deep slumber.

Naruto looked around the images of his mind and soon came upon the cage of the retched beast that damned Kyubi. He looked curiously to see the fox curled up in the center sleeping. Naruto scowled and came up with a not so smart but affective idea.

"HEY YOU STUPID FOX ITS TIME TO WAKE UP!" Naruto yelled at the top of his lungs casing the great demon to jump to its feet, tails flicking to and fro and hair on end.

"HOW DARE YOU INTERUPT MY SLEEP INSOLENT HUMAN FILTH!" A very angry Kyubi asked looking down at the boy.

"Stupid fox, how come you aren't healing me like you usually do?" Naruto said without fear looking up at the giant fox.

Kyubi swung his tails too and fro thinking about an easy way to explain it, "Kit I have decided that your body needs to learn how to heal itself, it seems that since I have been healing all of your wounds you body doesn't know how to properly heal itself so I am forcing it to learn by not helping you this time around."

Naruto thought about the words the giant fox had said and grinned giving a reply of, "thank you," before he disappeared back into the real world.

Tsunade was about to leave the room when Naruto's voice startled her, "My answer is yes Tsunade-sama…."

Tsunade whirled around and smiled at her brother who was giving her a weak grin. Tsunade then called all of the other 8 chunnin's into the room and gave them each a key.

"Everyone listen up, the general public has been told that you and all the other rookie teams are trying out a new routine to try and build team spirits under the same roof. The only three people that know the real reason that you are staying in the mansion I have set up is I, Jiraiya, and Morino. Your sensei's will be informed as well but do not worry for it is an "S" ranked secret. You will all be living in the house until Naruto has fully recovered and then you will all start training for your new ranks. While you are all living together I suggest that you train and discover your area of expertise that would impact your new team the best. I am counting on all of you to become the best you can be in order to better serve Kohona better."

All nine of the teens nodded and agreed just as a nurse came into a room with a wheelchair. "I want you all to listen up good! Naruto is in a very bad condition to the point where his whole body is going to have to relearn its basic movements including walking and such things. Until his body is completely healed you all are going to have to help him by giving him gradual exercises to build his strength back up. Until that time, you will escort Naruto by wheelchair over to the mansion, I suggest that one or two of the boys gets Naruto into a bath and cleans him and that the girls prepare a bed for him to rest on for the rest of the day. Bring him food and such and I and a few other nurses will be over later with more instructions." With that all said, the nurse bowed and left the room.

"We are going to have to bathe him!" all the boys cried out. Naruto thought about that for a second and his eyes went as wide as dinner plates.

Before Naruto could make an outburst, Tsunade clamped her hand of his mouth and declared that they would have to help him do almost everything but eat. Everyone thought about this for a few moments before watching two doctors come into the room and lift Naruto into the wheelchair. Naruto let out a small cry of pain when they picked him up because of the cuts all over his body.

All pride was swallowed when the saw the look of brokenness on Naruto's face, all they could see in his eyes was the look of a will on the brink of being destroyed. Sakura walked over and grabbed the handles of the wheelchair whispering into his ear, "Come on leader, let's go home…" Naruto didn't say a thing, instead he closed his eyes and Sakura nodded at their other seven teammates.

Slowly they walked out of the hospital and followed Tsunade to their new home. When they saw the size of the Mansion, everyone raised their eyebrows and gasped, for they were standing in front of the home of the Fourth Hokage.

"This is indeed the house of the Fourth and I must lay down some ground rules, first of all, no one is allowed to go into the basement or attic and than means nobody, second of all this house hasn't been used for a long time so it needs to be cleaned up, and third, Naruto is to use the master bedroom for reasons I am sure you will find out if you look threw the library. Now your mission officially begins, I will stop by once a week on different days at different times to see how you are all doing and will expect a report for the week thus far. Naruto is to be bathed, massaged, and worked with aerobically every day. If when we get to the next stage for Naruto then I will give you new instructions. Remember the stubbornness of Naruto; he is to stay in that wheelchair while moving around until I say otherwise and I understood?" Tsunade asked in yet another tone that dared them to argue.

Of course none of them did and so they entered into the house, little did they know just what exactly they were getting themselves into!