Onegai! Tsunade-Hime
Chapter 12: Chiyu (Healing)
This should be far enough a masked figure thought as he slowed to a stop. The masked figure carried none other than Momochi Zabuza, who still had three needles embedded in the side of his neck.
"Time to cut off the…" the masked figure said as he pulled a pair of scissors and lowered to Zabuza's face.
"That won't be necessary" said the surprisingly alive Zabuza said after grabbing the hand which was inches away from his face.
"Glad to see you're awake, Zabuza-san" the masked figure said after retracting his arm.
"Zabuza sat up and then proceeded to pull out the needles from the side of his head "Damn that woman" he grumbled.
"From what I saw, that woman seemed to possess monstrous strength" the masked figure stated as he reached out and retrieved the needles from Zabuza's outstretched hand.
"You don't need to tell me, I could just barely block her attacks" he said and pulled out the last needle from the side of his neck he struggled to stand up, using his sword as support but relized that it was futile when his legs gave and he fell to the ground once again.
Zabuza muttered a curse then directed his gaze at the masked figure "How is it?" he asked
"Well….from what I see, you sustained heavy injuries from that one jutsu the Jounin did" the figure replied.
"I can see that" Zabuza deadpanned "What I want to know is how long it will take to heal"
"A week" the masked figure stated simply.
"I bet it's the same for that woman isn't it?" Zabuza asked from his position on the ground.
Next time will be different Zabuza thought as he and the masked figure jumped through the trees and back to their hideout.
"No! No! No! No! No!" chanted mentally as she saw the wounded form of her brother lie on the ground. "Don't die on me!" she shouted while trying to pump more charka to heal the deep cut that went across Nawaki's young body.
Nawaki slowly opened his eyes and directed his eyes to Tsunade, igniting a spark of hope that he had been saved but it was not to be so.
"Sayonara, Onee-chan" Nawaki said with a smile before closing his eyes and growing still.
"No! NAWAKI!" she shouted and continued her attempt in reviving Nawaki even though the part of her which was a medic-nin already knew it was hopeless.
Depleted of charka, her body slumped forward and draped itself over Nawaki's body the previously warm body of her brother, now cold and lifeless. She righted herself and then reached out to caress Nawaki's cheek.
Nawaki's suddenly shot open and the supposed corpse turned to face Tsunade "Why did you let me die Onee-chan?" it asked with a creepy yet innocent tone to it.
Tsunade stood up and backed away from him quickly, her eyes full of fear
"Why did you let me die Onee-chan?" it asked again. Tsunade could do nothing but wrap her arms around her self as the question was repeated again and again, growing louder until she could not take it anymore and shouted "LEAVE ME ALONE!" and all went silent. She looked up and saw a person obscured by the darkness that was prevalent in the area.
The darkness lifted from the form and revealed it to be Naruto, who stared at Tsunade with blank eyes "Am I next?" and then the world went white.
Tsunade woke up, the terror she had experienced from the nightmare clearly etched on her face. "That dream again" she said to no one in particular as she covered her face with her free hand as the other one felt really numb right now. She lay down again and took note of her surroundings, she seemd to be in a modest one-bed room which had no particular or special objects that would distinguish it from any other part of the house.
The door opened and a young girl who looked to be in her early twenties entered, carrying a tray that had some soup and water on it. "Ara, your awake?" the woman said before placing the tray on the small table that was next to her bed.
"You have been unconscious for over a day now, those three children that were with you were so worried, especially the orange-clad one" she said with a smile on her face "Oh where are my manners?" she said before standing up "I am Tsunami, daughter of Tazuna" she said with a bow.
Tsunade sat up and replied "Tsunade" and tried to bow from her seated position.
Tsunami took the glass of water from the tray and handed it to Tsunade who received it and said thank you.
Down the water went through Tsunade's throat completely refreshing her.
"Where is my team?" Tsunade asked.
"Oh, they are probably sleeping in their own rooms, but the one wearing orange insisted to stay with you but was forced to leave after a few choice words from yours truly" she said after placing her hands on her hips and smiling.
Tsunade could only smile at Tsunami's gesture "Thank you" she said
Tsunami smiled "If there is anything you need, call me" and started towards the door. "By the way, you took a heavy hit back there, I would suggest not moving around to much, it will help you recover faster." And then she shut the door.
Sighing in relief, Tsunade lay back on her bed and stared at the ceiling. "That took a lot out of me" Tsunade said as she recalled the two jutsus she had used to defeat Zabuza.
The silence was broken as an orange blur burst in and positioned itself at Tsunade's side. "Sensei!" the orange blur cried and then proceeded to shake Tsunade, who was too weak to resist at the moment.
"Naruto! What are you doing to Tsunade-sensei?" was heard followed by a strong hit to the head.
One unconscious Naruto later and silence was restored. "How are you feeling sensei?" Sakura asked
"A bit better" Tsunade replied "I'm sure that Zabuza will be back though"
"Eh?" Sakura replied while Sasuke simply listened with interest from the doorway. "Didn't that hunter-nin person finish Zabuza off?"
"No" Tsunade said "When placed in certain points, those needles that you saw the hunter-nin throw can make the target look unconscious" Tsunade adjusted her position on the bed then continued. "Being a medic nin, such a skill may come in useful during operations and the field as well"
"So we can expect them to attack again ?" Sasuke asked
"Yeah" Tsunade replied.
"So what should we do sensei?" Sakura asked with worry.
Tsunade sighed and then said "For now, we should rest and recover, we have about a week, we'll use that time to train."
"Hai" Sasuke and Sakura replied
"Good" Tsunade replied and lay back down on the bed. "Wake up early, I am going to teach all of you a new technique"
Sakura and Sasuke left, dragging an unconscious Naruto with them.
Tsunade closed her eyes once again and embraced the darkness that came.
Tsuzuku
My apologies for this late and small chapter I promise that the next chapter will be longer
Thank you for all those who have reviewed so far.
Since this chapter is too short, I decided to include another idea of mine for a fic here.
BTW do you think Haku should live or die?
OMAKE
(No Title yet)
Tsunade felt her heart race as the train slowed down and then stopped.
"This is my stop" she said to no one in particular.
Tsunade felt as if she was walking to her doom when she saw the gates to the school grow larger with her approach.
She stopped at the front gate and stomped her foot "Yosh! It's time for a new beginning!" she said with vigor.
Said vigor was drained from her as she saw a huge ball of fire sail past her.
"How'd you like that Dobe!" was said by a black haired boy.
Tsunade turned to where the fireball appeared to have exploded and found an orange clad boy in the middle of the crater
"That didn't hurt one bit" was said by the orange figure.
HOW DID HE SURVIVE THAT? Was the question running through her head, clearly shocked by the inhuman feat.
"That little spark of yours nothing compared to THIS!" and the orange clothed boy reared back then threw forward. A huge wave of red energy pushed forward and headed for the black haired boy.
"Hyouhei!" and all of a sudden, a wall of ice sprang up in front of the energy, seeming to buckle in holding it back and then the red energy dissipated.
"I won't let you harm Sasuke-kun!" shouted a figure who was standing in one the trees that decorated the courtyard. The spectators and combatants looked towards the figure and saw a blond girl wearing a sky blue robe.
"As Sasuke-kun's HIME and as the defender of love and beauty, I, Yamanaka Ino shall stop you!" she said while pointing at Naruto.
Naruto and the onlookers sweatdropped at the sight while Sasuke simply ignored her.
"Your sure you didn't get the beauty part wrong, Ino-chan? I mean, a defender of love and beauty has to be beautiful first right?" Naruto shouted
Ino seethed at the comment "Why you little…" she said, trembling and a vein visible on the side of her head. She jumped towards Naruto a blade of ice already forming on her hand and shouted "DIE!" she then proceeded to attack Naruto, who easily dodged most her thrusts and swipes, however, he did not notice Ino make a small sheet of ice on the floor, which caused him to slip.
Ino slashed downwards, intent on dealing the killing blow.
Clang!
Naruto looked up at his savior and saw two heads with pink and violet hair "Sakura-chan! Hinata-chan!"
Tsunade saw it all from her spot near the gate the space around the violet haired girl's arm seemed to be distorted, as if wind was some kind of energy enveloping it. The pink one on the other hand had what seemed to be (vines?) sprouting out of her arm, the vines were wrapped around the blonde girl's wrist, effectively stopping her from putting more force into her attack.
Hinata made a sideward chop towards Ino, who seemingly melted out of her skin, leaving a statue of ice, to the onlookers, the was a bit short from Ino's neck but it was to their surprise when the head of the ice statue fell off, cleanly severed at the neck.
Sakura pulled out a green whip and lashed out at Ino.
Ino barely had time to duck as the end of the whip sailed past her head. She grabbed the whip before Sakura got the chance to pull it back the whip suddenly started to be covered in ice the ice quickly started to gather down the length of the whip and Sakura, who let go of the whip lest she have her arm frozen too.
Ino was only recovering when she saw Hinata running towards her direction, she let go of the frozen whip which shattered on the ground. She backflipped, avoiding a palm strike the nicked her robe but caused a very long cut. Hinata was hot on her heels and threw a punch at the recovering Ino. Ino doubled over from the force of the blow that Hinata threw.
That girl was able to hit the other from five feet away! Tsunade thought, feeling an extremely big headache coming on.
Ino was kneeling "You (pant) BITCH!" she shouted, then the ground near her exploded with blue energy and a shape started to form behind her.
The shape turned out to be a wolf about as big as Ino herself. "Fenrir" Ino started "These two ugly girls have annoyed me for the last time, we are going to finish them here alright?"
The ice dog nodded in confirmation.
"If you're going to go all out, then we will too" was shouted by Sakura and Hinata in unison.
Hinata glowed with energy and the wind started to gather around her, the green energy condensed into something on her shoulder the something turned out to be an eagle "Fuujin" Hinata said.
The ground near Sakura rumbled and slowly, a shape started to break the surface. It rose up until it was nearly a story tall. It shook of some loose soil and earth, revealing itself to be a dragon. "Kiryuu" Sakura said.
The three individuals and creatures started to gather energy when all of a sudden a voice shouted "STOP!" the three stopped charging their attacks which lead Tsunade to question who was the individual who could command respect among such monsters.
She faced forward again and saw an old man wearing a white and red robe, while smoking a pipe. "You must be Tsunade-sensei" he stated simply.
Tsunade could only dumbly respond "Hai"
The old man placed a hand on her shoulder "Just on time" he said then made a sweeping motion towards the school building "Welcome to Konoha Gakuen!" he shouted heartily.
The headache Tsunade was feeling grew worse.
End.
So please give me your thought or suggestions regarding this and I apologize for the really short Onegai! Tsunade-Hime chapter I've been experiencing writer's block.