Chapter 2
Beep…Beep….Beep.
The sound of the respirator echoed all around Naruto, as he slept in a painful yet somewhat peaceful slumber at the Konoah Hospital.
In the waiting room was Konohamaru in tears wondering, what could have happened, to his fallen friend.
-Gates of Komoah-
yawns "Geez that was a tough one." said Sakura, as she stretched, and tried to fix up her hair.
"Such a womanly thing to say, Sakura." Said Sasuke with an arrogant smirk on his face as he walked a few feet behind her.
"Now, now you two don't start a fight, although it is nice to be back, but I wonder how our little blond is feeling today?" Kakashi mused, with his eyes set staring at the 'book' he was reading, a smirk only Jiraiya or Kakashi himself would know how to interpret on his face.
"Probably eating, ranmen." Sakura said with a giggle.
"I bet he's doing nothing, like always." Sasuke said with a grunt.
A few minutes later the trio walked past the gates of Konoha, Kakashi ran off to hand in their mission report, thus leaving Sakura and Sasuke to their own devices
"So Sasuke, what are you going to doing now?" Sakura ask curiously as they continued to walk through Konoha.
"I don't know, meditate, relax, or something else." With a blank face Sasuke walked onward with Sakura.
As they walked passed the center of Konoha, Sakura stopped suddenly "Oh my God!" she exclaimed as her face paled "Look at all that blood."
Looking to where Sakura was pointing Sasuke gasped as he indeed notice a large amount of blood pooled in the middle of the street ahead. The blood was spilled all over the grass, soaked deep in the ground staining every thing the red liquid touched.
"I wonder what happened here?" Sasuke said in confusion.
Sakura spotting an elderly man, cleaning up some of the red substance Sakura ran over to him "Excuse me sir, but do you know what happened here? Was their an attack or something?" Sakura asked with concern as Sasuke walked up behind her.
The old man, gave the young female ninja a look and then answered her question "No, my dear, it was an just a small incident, a young Genin just started coughing up blood all of a sudden, he was taken to the Hospital, not to long ago, if I am not mistaken, the late Hokage grandson was with him." The late Hokage's grandson? That was Konohamaru wasn't it? Who would he have been… at that thought Sakura's blood freeze as she heard Sasuke ask the next question. "What did the boy look like, did you get a name?"
The old man was thinking for a moment." Let me think, he was a bit shorter then you, had blond hair…." As soon as the old man said "blond hair" Sakura almost collapsed. "Sasuke, let's go!" the young ninja grabbed the boy's arm and ran to the direction of the Konoha Hospital.
"Sakura? What's the matter?" Sasuke asked puzzled.
A worried look and a frown on Sakura's pale face were his only reply.
-Konoha Hospital-
Beep…Beep….Beep.
/Where am… I// Naruto thought// Why do I hurt so much//
/Your time has come, Uzumaki Naruto.../ said a familiar voice.
"…..Kyubbi." is all that Naruto could say.
