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I would like to thank all my reviewers.Your input on this certain fic will greatly influence it.
In regards to certain questions about pairings...to put it bluntly, I havn't decided them yet. Answering another question, this fic is rated M because the battle scenes later on will usually be in GREAT detail (one good/serious battle will most likely take an entire chapter), to involve the gory parts. And in regards to the last question concerning the detail involved my my story; I like to write with a lot of detail. Its my style. Hence, chapters will usually end with (in retrospect) not a lot happening, but gives the reader an advanced understanding of the story's plot, characters, and the latter's surroundings.
Lastly, in regards to how long this particular fic will last and how frequently I will update, I have twot hings to say. One; I HATE oneshots, so this fic will last as long as my creativity will carry me...which should be a very good amount of chapters. Second; I can't promise to update once a day or anything drastic like that. I have work and school, so I can update AT LEAST once every 4 days. Probubly more than that, but four days is the limit. Once again, thank you.
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The medical team had been brief with Naruto's unconscious form for two reasons. One was that they were kind of intimidated because Naruto simply fell straight downwards from a standing position, so his clothes have to have concealed a LOT of weights in order to make the 24 foot diameter crater he was lying face down in. The second reason was connected to the first—they couldn't flip him over because all six members of the medical team could not lift him.
About ten Jounins and ten minutes later, he was mobile. They had managed to locate the source of the weights. They wasted no time and ditched his cloak, single shoulder guard, and the rest of his weights. His sword was also left in its place on the ground. Later that night, a certain Green Beast of Konoha could only manage to move a few to the hospital room of their owner. The rest still laid there on the street in a giant crater.
Once Naruto weighed enough to be flipped, the medical team went about diagnosing their patient. It was then that Tsunade got a better look at the unconscious Naruto. His once bright blonde hair seems to have faded. It was now a ghostly pale blonde hue. Other tell tale signs of his ageing would be apparent as the medical team put him on a stretcher and his face began to be lighted by the street lamps. There were three things that Tsunade noticed about Naruto. The first, was that with his new height and hair color, he seemed to have lost his youthful innocence. The second thing she noticed was his teeth. Even though he was asleep with his mouth closed, she could see the tip of his canines. It wasn't enough that you could see them from more than a few feet, but they were still noticeable up close. She tried to imagine the old Naruto smiling at her and pictured the current Naruto with the same smile. She shuddered. It would appear more like a predator about to consume its prey.
The third thing she noticed, and then berated herself from not noticing it sooner, was his left eye. Now that his shoulder guard was tossed, which oddly enough covered his left eye, she noticed two scars. They were light gray, meaning that the scar had to be fairly old. One scar went horizontally across his face, starting at the beginning of his upper left cheek and ending at the ridge of his nose. The other scar ran vertically from the middle of his forehead to end in a criss cross over the horizontal scar. The vertical scar went straight through the middle of his eye. His right eye was closed, but his left eye was open, revealing no pupil or iris. It wasn't like the famous Hyuuga Byakugan. There eyes looked similar, but had a lavender hue to make it seem more pleasant…more alive. Naruto's left eye looked completely dead. There was no doubt in here mind that he was blind in his left eye. She shuddered again, remembering the Kybuubi's healing power on Naruto, and for such an ability to not be able to repair the damage on his eye, the wound must have initially been horrendous.
"What is the condition of the patient?" Said Tsunade, her voice teetering on remorse and concern.
"Hokage-sama," replied the lead medic-nin, "we have diagnosed this patient as having fourteen different fractures. His right ribcage is almost shattered, both femurs have been broken, his left arm from the elbow joint down is almost irreparable, his right ankle has been broken in 3 different places, and his left shoulder joint is torn in five different place. Along with the several brakes, we have detected lacerations and scar tissue found in various places on his body, but we need to get him to the hospital to properly diagnose him." The medic-nin concluded. "It's a miracle he was even able to stand at all."
Tsunade, having fought the bile rising in her throat down, noticed a large number of people behind her. She instantly recognized them and started to shift into her role of Hokage.
"Neji, Hinata, Ino, Kakashi-san, you are dismissed." She was sorry that she had to dismiss them, but too many people in one room is obviously going to get in the way of delicate medical procedures. "I will update you on Naruto's condition once he is stabilized."
"Sakura," she said to her apprentice, "you stay and help with the procedures… and Sasuke," above one of the rooftops, a certain Anbu member froze in his stride. "You are also dismissed." The Anbu stopped and looked at Sakura. Sakura nodded, and the Anbu left. It was a non-verbal agreement between the two that Sasuke would leave without an argument if Sakura would update him sooner than the Hokage.
With the stragglers gone, Tsunade, Sakura, and the medic-nin continued to rush Naruto to the hospital.
They all finally arrived at the hospital, to which Tsunade secured a private large room for Naruto and escorted the party there. Two medic-nin left the room, their spots replaced by the Hokage and her apprentice.
After setting Naruto down on the examination table, they stripped his shirt and pants, taking careful measures to avoid aggravating an injured area. It took them about two minutes just to carefully unbandage his arms. His clothes were dropped in the corner of the room, and everyone went wide eyed at Naruto's condition. There were more scars than a single one of them could count. Scars criss crossed Naruto's body like a dance of blades. They were not as gentle looking as the scars on his face. His body's scars had been brutal. Even more shocking was that none of them looked recent. It was like looking at a battle history record. You could tell the time of the battle by how the scar looked. Tsunade realized that even with Kyuubi's power that some wounds were so life threatening, that they could never be repaired fully. And to have so many of those kinds of injuries…it sent a shiver down Tsunades spine. Sakura experienced no shivers. She simply vomited in the corner opposite of Naruto's pile of blood saturated cloths.
"This…is unreal." Said one of the medic-nins. "He must have had more battles than most of our shinobi put together."
Sakura had finished vomiting and began another diagnostic. Her eyes went a little wide. She noticed something that no human could posses. "Tsunade-sama," said Sakura in a professional voice, with a hint of surprise, "his bones are already mending, and he appears to be molding charka…while unconscious."
"WHAT?" Yelled a surprised Hokage. What surprised her wasn't that he was already healing, but that he was molding charka, and that his seal was not showing over his naval. That could only mean one thing…that there was no longer a seal.
Naruto's eye twitched slightly. Suddenly, everyone except Tsunade was tossed to the adjacent walls of the private room as an unseen force suddenly awoke.
"Shit!" said Sakura. She was the first to notice. There were charka strings everywhere. The room looked like a messy but tight spindle of string.
"DON'T MOVE!" Said Tsunade.
An inhuman growl was heard from Naruto, whose eyes were still closed and he himself looked as immobile as when the party had set him down in the first place. The only visible signs that he was responsible for the charka strings were that every cord seemed to end wrapped around his fingers.
One of the medic-nin gave into fear and decided to struggle. All of a sudden, said medic-nin was thrashed to the center of the room via the strings, and all the occupants were watching as the strings began to tighten and draw a little blood around the nin's neck.
"Stop moving you fool!" said Tsunade, in a harsh low voice.
At this point, Tsunade's words meant nothing to the nin as he continued to struggle. If a few more units of pressure would be applied, said nin's head would be neatly severed from his body. Naruto was about to complete the nin's death wish, when Tsunade noticed his plans.
"NARUTO STOP!" Yelled the Hokage.
All of a sudden, the charka strings dissipated.
Everyone was still frozen to the place where the strings unceremoniously dropped them.
Tsunade was a little uneasy. To be able to perform that kind of charka control in their sleep was unheard of. It took a little more convincing words other than on order from the Hokage to persuade the nins from continuing their work, but they had finished bandaging his injuries at about the time the sun started to rise.
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To answer a few questions about this particular chapter, no, Sakura still doesn't know about the Kyuubi. Niether does anyone else. Furthermore, if you can't already tell by Naruto's lack of seals, said greater deamon is unnaccounted for as of yet. Next chapter will be drugging up quite a few flashbakcs, but will hopefully fill in the reasons for Naruto's departure from the leaf. Also, chakra strings are commonly used in shinobi puppeteers (I.E. Kankuro). Lastly, if you dont have a good mind's eye of Naruto's scars, think Vash from Trigun on his body, and Mangi from Blad of the Immortal for his facial scars.
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Till next chapter