I
His heartbeat got weaker by the passing of time, and Naruto tried as hard as he could to stem the escape of life from Daisuke's body. Yet, he keep slipping deeper and deeper away, and Naruto then looked around for any possible items that could used. But there was nothing in the rubble, dust or the bodies, that could aid him.
Ari kept trying, forcing her own drained body more to save Daisuke's. "Dammit.. Why won't you..." She passed out, her body no longer able to sustain her will.
Naruto grabbed her, and laid her down to rest, while he tried to stop him from dying.
Yet, all the effort was wasted, as he was still unconscious, and still slowly approaching death.
"RAWRRR...." The howl of the wolves worsened the already bad situation.
Naruto stared at the two wolves, anger and frustration deep in his eyes. A flicker of a moment, and he was behind the two of them, his hands covered in blood flowing out of the two crushed objects in both arms, and the two wolfmen no longer had a head.
He then went back to check both Ari's and Daisuke's pulse, and although Ari's was fine, but Daisuke's pulse continued to waver.
"Shit. I'm not going back with a corpse." He said while his hands continued it's work.
"Who's in danger?" A voice came, those of a man, and indeed it was when Naruto turned to face the voice. "I'm a medic."
II
"Finally... Rest." Naruto said, and laid his back on the bed. Afterwards, he scanned the room and then stared out the window. Alone... as both Ari and Daisuke are undergoing treatment in the makeshift hospital, after the original one was destroyed a few months ago during an attack, so he was told.
Laying on the bed, while the sun was rising, this war that he had found himself caught in incited some questions, but he decided to keep them as questions. "Fighting through the night sucks."
"No rest, huh?" A voice, somehow familiar, yet isn't shattered his illusion of being alone in the room.
The blonde turned and looked at the person, "Ah... you are?"
"Me? Chuunin from the 1934th Town Defense Squad. Haito Nakashima."
'Chuunin?' "And what might you be here for?" Naruto asked, his blue eyes stared deep into the chuunin's murky brown eyes. He noticed, and he moved towards a chair for a seat.
"You'll be reassigned and placed in another squad, until your two teammates have fully recovered." He said. "But when Daisuke might recover... I don't know." Then he stood up, and walked towards the door again. "Be prepared for bad news, and the new squadron will meet you in front of the town hall." He left, and Naruto digested the information slowly.
He closed his eyes, and he slept for a while.
III
The sun's high in the blue sky, with few clouds and few birds to fill the air with joy.
Naruto had chosen this place for practice, for training, all for the purpose of making himself stronger, and familiarizing himself with the physics of this world, be it real or not. He stared a moment at his hands, and he concentrated chakra to form Rasengan again. He knew the difficulties of rasengan, and it's very difficulty makes it an obvious choice for honing his chakra control.
With one hand, the ball formed, but it was slow, and somewhat underpowered.
'It's more difficult to control chakra here.' He concentrated his mind and will to the chakra. The ball spinned slightly faster, but that was all.
The next few hours, he forced his mind more on the control of the chakra, and still, no substantial progress was made.
Tired and worn out, he crawled to a spot, under the shade of a tree. It was a very quiet area, and perhaps it could be attributed to the war status of this backwater town. Momentarily, he stared at the thick bushes of the forest boundary, and then to the rocky path which he had taken to arrive here.
'See chakra as something with it's own life, a force that doesn't like to be caged. Do not stop it, but move it aside where it could do more good than bad.' He recalled Kagizume once said.
'Damn.'
IV
The next day came, and yet more bad news. The squad he was supposed to be inserted into was annihilated in an ambush, and even so, they managed to take a few enemies with them. Yet even so, it allowed Naruto to remain in this backwater town, to train alone, and still be close to the two people who had slowly became somewhat friends.
Three months passed, and Naruto had plenty of oppurtunities to hone his Rasengan and other skills, as the constant tide of wolves, bulls and panthers came.
Ari had since then recovered, and Daisuke was conscious, although there was still some problems with his movements and breathing. All of those will recover in time.
He stood in the middle of the battlefield, as the thundering stampede of bulls came towards him.
"Let's see this rasengan." Ari said, while she readied her own items.
It formed in his hands, a basic rasengan, but then, it expanded into a larger yellow ball of chakra, with a very dense orange chakra core in the middle.
"Well, it worked, but damn... it takes so much chakra." Naruto said.
Ari, "Make sure you just don't fall unconscious for no reason."
"I won't." Naruto blurred into a streak of yellow, cutting a path through the stampede of fourty bulls, and blood rained on the floor. The bulls fell, and their bodies trampled over by their own comrades. One after another fell, but the rasengan still remained on his palm.
Then, Naruto sensed the movement of an axe towards him from the back, and he jumped upwards to avoid it. 'Huh? How'd they see me?'
It came again, another slash, and soon, a flurry of slashes came towards Naruto.
'What the....' Another slash, and another slash was dodged barely. Then, he noticed two bulls had glowing red eyes, and the two had been launching the attacks consecutively. Another slash and he ducked, and spinned sidewards to avoid the next attack.
"RASENGAN." It hit right behind one of the bulls, and it expanded furiously, ripping the bodies of the bulls into shreds, and destroying whatever that was in it's path.
Yet, one of the red-eyed bulls remained, and it came charging. It launched a slash, but it his the ground instead, yet even so, it caused a part of the ground to crumble.
'That's one strong bull.'
Ari came from behind, and inserted a needle to it's spine, the bull then fell dead. Then, she inserted two more needles through it's head.
"Thanks." Naruto answered.
IIIIIIIII
End chapter.
Next year is an important exam year for me, and I won't be updating any more.
Yet, leaving the story hanging..... sucks.
So, this here explains how I intend to develop the story.
URGENT: READ!
Daisuke dies, leaving Naruto and Ari. Then, Naruto gets quite strong, and for about five to six years, he becomes rather famous in the towns.... Ari falls in love with him, and vice versa. But at that time, he wakes up from this dream, and found nothing to have changed.
Therefore, he is extremely upset and disappointed, because he felt he would never meet her again.
Catch phrase - You've fallen in love with someone that doesn't exist. Someone that is only a memory.
Then, Kyubi tells him it is possible to bring her to this world, but it'll require an empty body, an empty spirit, and lots of power. So, another reason to make Naruto stronger, because he would want to ... resurrect her. (somehow, I found this a highly original idea, in the Naruto section, as I have yet to find a story where a person gets stronger just to resurrect someone, instead of the usual killing.)
I know I've said there won't be romance, so I decided to make it short, with no kissing or admitting or whatsoever intimacy... But still, bcause she still exists only in the dream, and perhaps at the end of the chapter, I felt this short moment of romance doesn't really effect it dramaticly.
Naruto finds himself struggling to readapt to this world, but he found his chakra control is absurdly good and even though his chakra pool is low, and his physical strength is lacking, he trains his physique.
Then, he finds that only spirits can create spirits. So he searches for a spirit powerful enough to create a spirit where the memories will be inserted.
Naruto gets to a point where Chitsuki remembers who she really is, and the conflicting memories causes her to go mad.
Also, Sasuke attempts to kill Itachi, but in the fight where both Uchiha's get wounded, Orochimaru takes the oppurtunity to seize control of Sasuke's body, while Kabuto delay Itachi. So, Orochimaru gets Sasuke in the end.
....I haven't thought beyond this point. So.......... Wish me luck for my exams. I will continue this story should I find the chance.