Ch.3- Blood
As the group arrives at Naruto's apartment, they knock on the door waiting for Naruto to answer.
"Naruto?" asked Kakashi after the third knock.
"Naruto! Answer the door already! It's bad enough that we had to get you, you idiot!" yelled Sakura.
The door finally creaked open a sliver until Naruto's baby-blue eye appeared to stare at them. The team was startled to see blood on the child's face.
"What happened to you Naruto! Why is there blood on your face!" screamed Sakura.
"What? What blood? I think your seeing things Sakura… I'll be right back…I'm going to go get something,' said Naruto. He closed the door and clicked the lock back into place before going over to the bathroom and staring at his bloody reflection. "Blood? All I see is tears…" Naruto turned on the water and splashed it all over his face.
Meanwhile, the rest of team seven is outside the apartment discussing their bloody teammate.
"Seeing things! I know what I saw! You guys saw it too right?" asked Sakura. "Yes." said a grim faced Kakashi. "Sasuke?" asked Sakura. "Yeah." answered Sasuke.
The door suddenly opened with a cleaned up Naruto at the doorway grinning like always.
"Let's go!" yelled Naruto.
The rest of team seven stared at Naruto trying to figure out what was wrong with him. The style of clothing he usually wore was gone and in it's place was something they have never seen him wear before. He was wearing a black ninja outfit with bandages wrapped around his arms where the sleeves were supposed to be. He wore navy blue shorts instead of pants and his legs were wrapped with black bandages with writing on it. Team seven tried to read the words and read out, "Fear the damned. And the damned will reek havoc on you.". The outfit kept the same sandals but on the end of the straps there was a raggedly drawn swirl. Naruto's shirt had silted demon eyes on the middle of his collar. As team seven looked back at Naruto's face they noticed that his eyes had lost the brightness and were now dull and blank, though if hard enough they could see sadness hidden beneath. The blood had been cleaned off his face but traces could be seeen surrounding his eyelashes. The dark whiskers on both his cheeks seemed darker but the team thought it was probably due to the lighting of the hallway.
"What?" asked the annoyed Naruto after having enough of his team stare at him.
"What's wrong with you Dobe." asked Sasuke who only showed a bit of interest.
"Eh? Nothings wrong with me! Geese! Lets go!" yelled Naruto.
The team looked one more time at Naruto, then turned and headed out for their mission. Naruto stared at their backs with blank eyes until they turned a corner, and then started walking after them digging his right hand nails into the left forearm, relishing in the pain.