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I DO NOT OWN DBZ NOT NARUTO.
Ino had been looking in several rooms for Gohan now, but she wasn't able to. She decided to go for Naruto's room as he could be there, but she still decided to check on one more room.
After opening the door, she saw a white-haired boy, maybe a little older than herself. He was tied up to his bed, which made the blonde girl suspect a bit of the boy's innocence.
"Who are you?" The boy menacingly asked.
"Doesn't matter. But why are you here?" The girl replied back.
"Well, I was injured in a battle." The boy answered as he remembered how easily he was beating by that other kid.
"Oh then take this, I guess you could do some help." The girl said as she took out the last bean she had. She had been reserving it for Naruto, but she assumed that Gohan could've already given it to him. She was about to give the bean to the boy, who hesitated to trust the girl but still opened his mouth, when she realised who he was. "You're one of them!"
"So you hadn't recognised me. I see..." Kimimaro said as he thought of the ways he could've tried to escape had the girl helped him.
"I'll kill you, you're too dangerous." Ino said as she grabbed one of the kunai she had left on her pocket.
"Do it." He said calm and seriously. The blonde girl was confused at the boy's phrase and proceeded to show it through her expression. "You'll do me a favor. It's not like I have somewhere to go after I get better and you'll help me get through whole weeks of torture."
"Why would someone torture you?" Ino asked as her expression twisted into a more serious one. "What have you done?"
"I was with Orochimaru, they want all the information i could give them. Then they'll probably kill me. That's the way things work." Kimimaro answered as the girl was horrified at the boy's supposition. "I've killed people, like you and the rest of ninja around the world. And that probably makes me bad, but they're not better than me, they're even probably worse."
Kimimaro attempted to continue talking, but he was interrupted by Gohan, who suddenly appeared in the room. He noticed his friend's serious expression and turned to look behind him, finding the leader of the Sound Four.
"Hello, came to beat me up again?" Kimimaro cynically said, making Gohan shake his head in denial.
"You're wrong. I'm here to help you." Gohan said, surprising Ino and Kimimaro. The half-saiyan grabbed a Senzu Bean and throwed into the white-haired boy's mouth. The boy ate it and suddenly felt better, better than he had felt in years.
"What are you doing?" Ino softly asked from behind Gohan's ears.
"I'm helping him." Gohan answered as the two of them saw the boy move everything he could while still being tied up. "Everyone deserves a second opportunity."
Obviously Gohan wanted to help Kimimaro and try to replicate what his father had done with Vegeta years ago. Now that he was a little bit calmer, he thought about Sasuke's situation, he wished he had been calm enough to give him the second opportunity he was about to give to this other guy.
"Anyway, what's your name? I don't think you've told me or anyone of us." Gohan kindly asked, to which Kimimaro answered by pointing to the chains with his eyes. "After you answer some basic questions."
"Alright, but I won't do anything to colaborarte with this gross village." Kimimaro menacingly replied. "I'm Kimimaro. Now I'm free, right?"
"Yeah whatever." Gohan replied as he got closer to his bed and broke the chains with his hands, letting the guy out.
As soon as he was free, Kimimaro tried to escape and attacked Gohan using his Kekkei Genkai, but the half-saiyan easily brought him down with a hit on his neck.
"So he could do that." Gohan said as he saw the ability his opponent had revealed. Ino looked at him with a look that said 'I told you' to which the half-saiyan answered by laughing nervously. "Anyway, let's go."
Gohan took Kimimaro and put him on his shoulder as he went with Ino to the waiting room, where their friends were supposed to be waiting for them by now.
"Feels good to be back." Hishiro said as he walked through the village's gates next to the legendary Jiraiya.
He was captivated by how much the village had changed since he left and filled with nostalgia as the memories of when he was younger came back to his head.
"We have a lot to talk about, but for now we should go and talk to Tsunade." Jiraiya said as he pointed to the way they had to follow. Unfortunately for him, Hishiro ignores him and continued to watch the buildings, but then his gaze stopped at the Hokage Rock, where he saw his friend's face, Minato's face.
"So you were alive, eh?" Hishiro said to himself as he started to remember their rivalry, their experiences together and finally how he was beaten in every way by him. He didn't have anything against Minato, though, he always considered him someone that deserved respect. After all, it wasn't his fault that Minato was simply exceptional.
"Let's go." Jiraiya said as he was starting to get a bit mad. The man finally heard the Sannin and did as he had told, following him.
"So, are you and Tsunade finally married or something?" Hishiro asked, getting punched in the head immediately by the Sannin. "Alright, I get it, sorry."
"Naruto! You're okay!" Sakura felt totally relieved as he saw her friend being alright, without any injury at all. She felt the urge to hug him, and so she did. He deserved it, after all.
"Don't. I failed." Naruto said as she took the pink-haired girl away.
"What do you mean?" Sakura asked as she raised an eyebrow.
"I lost Sasuke, I failed to keep my promise." Naruto said as his gaze went down to the floor. The pink-haired girl looked at him with empathy in her eyes.
"It doesn't matter, you did what you could." Sakura answered as she hugged the blonde again, but this time Naruto hugged her back. He kept his head down as he tried to hide his disappointment in himself.
Kiba was confused Sakura's sudden change of heart. For him, Sasuke was still the person the pink-haired girl loved the most, and for that he wasn't able to understand the behaviour she was presenting.
"She has struggled a lot recently, she wants to go over Sasuke as she knows that he probably won't be the same again and that she may even not see him again." Tenten told Kiba as she had noticed his confusion. Hinata, who was next to the dog trainer, was hearing the conversation closely.
"Ah, I get it." Kiba said as he turned to look back at Naruto and Sakura, who were still hugging.
"When will we go, again?" Neji asked Tenten. The girl turned to look at him with an angry expression. "Alright, alright, we'll wait."
"But what about my battle with Neji?" Lee asked as he sighed in disappointment.
"It can wait, remember that we're supposed to wait for Gohan and Ino." Tenten explained.
"Yeah, talking about them. Where's Shikamaru?" A really bored Chouji asked.
"I think he went outside or something." Kiba answered as he sat down next to Chouji after Naruto and Sakura finally stopped hugging.
"That was a long hug." Chouji said, to which Kiba replied by nodding.
Finally, after several minutes of waiting, Ino and Gohan reached the waiting room. Chouji was the first to go an greet them, but he noticed how the half-saiyan had a guy on his shoulders. The Akimichi raised his eyebrow in confusion.
"Gohan made a new friend." Ino said with an annoyed tone.
"Don't get mad, Ino." Gohan said as he left Kimimaro sitting unconscious on a chair.
Some noticed who he was and got closer to him, ready to kill him, but Gohan told them to stop and also told them that he was willing to give the guy another opportunity.
Then, Gohan started greeting everyone and finally, he greeted Naruto.
"It's good to see you recovered." Gohan said.
"Thanks." Naruto replied as his stomach roared, making the Uzumaki scratch the back of his head. "Maybe we should go and eat something."
"Yeah, let's go." Gohan said as he laughed a bit, he was a bit hungry, too, but not as much as Naruto.
The two boys said goodbye to everyone. Gohan took some time with Ino as she was still mad at him, but he eventually got her to calm down and hugged her before leaving. On the other hand, Naruto didn't take as long as the half-saiyan did.
As the two boys left the hospital and started heading for Ichiraku, they met Konohamaru in the way.
"Oh, you guys are back." Konohamaru excitedly said as he had a big smile in his face.
"Yeah, how's it been around here?" Naruto asked.
"Nothing interesting has happened." Konohamaru answered as he took his hand to his chin, as he was still trying to remember anything that could interest his friends.
"Anyway. Want to go to Ichiraku with us?" Gohan asked as he smiled kindly.
"Yeah! Let's go!" Konohamaru excitedly replied, starting to run towards the restaurant as both of his friends started following him.
"I know it is important to visit the Hokage and all but I'm hungry." Hishiro said as he turned to look a his former master. Jiraiya rolled his eyes at him before replying.
"We could go and eat ramen, that could be fast." The Sannin said. He turned to another direction and pointed towards Ichiraku. He beckoned his old student to follow him as he started walking towards the place.
"He left the guy here." Ino said as she facepalmed.
Kiba and Hinata has already left the place, as well as Tenten, Neji and Lee. Leaving just Chouji, Shikamaru and Sakura along with Ino there.
"Where should we take him?" Chouji asked to himself and to his friends as they all started thinking of possible places.
"Maybe we should ask the Hokage." Sakura said, receiving the approval of Ino through a nod.
"Taking on count that he was with Orochimaru, maybe he'll either try to escape or will kill a lot of people." Shikamaru said as he turned to look at the pink-haired girl. "What I want to say is that maybe she won't let us take him anywhere and will probably tell us to leave him with her as he is really dangerous."
"Yeah, but I don't think that we'll lose anything if we ask." Ino replied as she threatened the Nara with her kunai. This automatically gave her Shikamaru's approval.
"Let's go then." Chouji said as he helped Shikamaru take the guy on their shoulders.
As the three boys finally reached Ichiraku, they stopped running and started taking the last steps before taking a seat at the local. Naruto noticed a familiar silhouette with a really familiar white, spiky, long hair.
"Ero-sennin!" Naruto happily said as he took a seat next to the man. He noticed the other man that was eating with his master, but he didn't give him that much importance.
"Oh, Hey Naruto." Jiraiya said as he pat his student's back. "Anyway, How did the mission go?"
Naruto looked down in disappointment as he remembered his fight against Sasuke and how he was unable to bring him back.
"It wasn't that good, sir." Gohan answered as he got a nod from Jiraiya.
"Anyway, we should start to eat!" Jiraiya said, cheering Naruto up as he quickly ordered his food.
So that was this week's chapter!
I hope you liked it!
Anyway, see you next week.