Look At Us Now
By ValkyrieWarrior
Disclaimer: Unfortunately, I have terrible news. Masashi Kishimoto had gotten in a terrible accident involving a banana peel and a pair of Dr. Scholl's most comfortable slippers (hey, that was punny). As he lies horribly bruised in bed in the hospital, he had given me absolutely no authority to claim Naruto, not even for a day. He did give me, however, his best wishes that someday I may be as rich as he is.
AN's:
For those who were wondering if Sakura knows about the poison, the answer is yes. It was a combination of Naruto's vague explanation and the looked her gave her after she asked him why. She put the two together, and figured out why.
As for Naruto, yes, he completely forgot about the poison. He was too lost in the moment to care anymore and he just couldn't hold his desires any longer, and so he took what he wanted. He forgot everything that he knows, forgot that the poison is still running through her, just so he could live in that moment with her. Also, he couldn't deny Sakura anymore.
Also, the poison is activated by his chakra, so whenever he uses it, it will cause the poison to activate. That's why he didn't really harm her when they broke up. In the hospital, he was healing himself, so Sakura became a bit woozy, but back at his house he couldn't do anything more to the wound so he just stopped all together. So, it only works when he uses his chakra.
Thanks to templar132, who is the greatest beta reader ever. He helps out so much with this story, and without him, this story would be so crappy.
Thanks to all that reviewed. I really appreciate it. More than you may think.
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Summary: Naruto and Sakura had always wanted to be together and they finally were after so many years. But, thing didn't stay that way. Just when they started dating, a man so sick that he pleasures torturing people, forced Naruto to break with her. He had no choice, he would rather be distant from her and see her everyday than live with the pain of her death; and so he broke up with her. They endured months without each other, but last night, they finally took what they wanted and gave in. Meanwhile, as Sasuke falls more into the dark, he eventually makes a deal with Orochimaru, hoping to get Sakura and finally getting rid of Naruto. But, what he didn't know was that he had been under surveillance since day one. And now, Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke find out the dire consequences of taking risks...
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Previously
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All those months of waiting, after all those anguish, they finally succumbed to their dreams. They no longer fought it, but rather welcomed it with much joy.
Time stood still for a brief second just for them, for this moment in their lives.
Sakura kisses him forcefully, bruising him as she did so. She wraps her hands around him, holding on tight because she might let him go.
He gave in to her, gave up everything that he could be risking just to be with her now.
Her hands were snaking through his hair, over his arms, and his body. She wanted to feel him again and he wanted the same. He held her tight around his waist, securing her in place so she doesn't leave.
She moved her hands under his shirt then pulled it back up.
They parted for a quick second so he could take it off. Once it was off, he immediately picked her up.
She wraps her legs around his waist for support as he carried her into his room.
Outside, the sky thundered and poured atop the village.
Soon it was going to be morning and the world would move on.
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Chapter 11: Awakening.
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There was a knock at the door.
"Shikamaru?"
Ino knocks on the door again.
"Hey, you in there?"
There was no reply, she was about to walk away when the door opened.
"Hey, sorry, come in." Shikamaru looked like he just woke up.
Ino walked into house as Shikamaru closed the door behind her.
"Can I get you something?" He offered her, trying to be polite.
It was really early in the morning, maybe too early for her to be visiting, but Ino had to see him now. She had been thinking about what Sakura had told her to do all night. And now she wanted nothing more than to resolve all of this.
"No, I'm fine."
But then again she was still scared of being too bold and of mankind's biggest fear, rejection!
"Listen, about what I said to you."
Shikamaru cut her off, "Don't worry about it. We were just annoyed and said things we didn't mean."
Ino looked down, ashamed to remember the things she had said to him. "I'm still sorry."
"It's okay." He assured her. "If anything, I should be sorry. I acted like a complete jerk."
"Me too."
"Okay, so we were both jerks that night." He said it as a joke, trying to light up the situation.
The two shared a nice laugh.
Realizing that they had been standing by the door the entire time, Shikamaru invited Ino into his living room.
"So, did you need something?"
Ino took a deep breath. Okay, she had practiced this last night, all she needed to do was just say it. "We need to talk."
"I thought that that's what we're already doing?"
Ino gave him a look, but she smiled.
"Well, I got a smile. Better than nothing."
Ino couldn't help but love that about him. He always knew what to say to make her feel better. And that's why she had come today at his house, to tell him that herself.
"Shikamaru…" Ino began but lost her words.
"Yes?"
"For all the years I've known you…"
She looked at him, he was looking at her, never breaking eye contact.
"I never once-" She was silenced.
Shikamaru backed away.
Ino feels the warm spot where he had just kissed her.
"Wha…" Ino was speechless, she was taken by surprise.
"Ino, I can't hold it anymore…I love you." Shikamaru finally admitted to her, he couldn't hide it any longer.
"Shikamaru."
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THUD!!!
The door flies open, its sides shattering into many small pieces. Four men wearing arrays of animal masks marches in.
Having been startled by the door, Sasuke jumped off his bed and entered his living room.
When he arrived there, he saw three ANBU standing by the threshold and another one heading his way.
"What the fuck are you doing?!" He asked, very much irked by their rude trespassing.
"Uchiha Sasuke," the ANBU that walked towards him un-scrolled a scroll and started reading from it, "by the authority of the Village Council and the Hokage, you are hereby under arrest for treason."
"What?!"
The man rolled up his scroll. The ANBU then turned around and gave the orders to his subordinates.
Sasuke didn't have enough time to think about what was happening or do anything about it.
The two other ANBU bound his hands behind his back, making sure it was tight enough so he couldn't do anything. They soon dragged him out of the Uchiha compound and back to the Hokage tower.
Sasuke struggled and protested as he was tugged along, but the ANBU Black Ops paid no attention to him.
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Small droplets of water slowly tumbled from the roof tops, landing gently on the wet ground. Some of it attached themselves to the grass and others turned into mist hovering over the earth.
The air was cool and soothing.
Quietly, the birds hummed tranquility to the calm village.
The people were still inside, hushed by the delicate, peaceful hands of nature.
Naruto could make out soft avian murmurs as he lazily lied in bed, numbed under sweet serenity.
He slowly picks up someone's low whispers. Her alluring voice slowly woke him up.
"Naruto, wake up."
He blinks once…twice…so his vision would clear up. He opens his eyes to see his lovely flower hovering above him.
"Hey there." The young girl said ever so softly.
"Hey." He said in the same manner. Sakura shifted her position so that she was now lying next to him, placing her head on the crook of his neck and her hand on his bare chest.
Briskly, the wind breezed in, feeling cold and sharp against their naked form. Naruto pulls on the bed covering so that they were once again under its protecting shield.
For a minute, they just stayed there, too lazy to get up.
Naruto listened to her soft breathing, feeling her chest expand and contract against his. He held her tighter by wrapping his arms around her more, almost engulfing her entire body.
She made no signs of protest, but instead did the same.
They were drifting into sleep again.
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Sasuke was thrown into a room and forced to sit down on the only chair.
"You can't just do this to me!" Sasuke yelled at the guard.
"Shut up!" The guard tightened the rope around his wrist, just to hear him wince in pain.
Sasuke groaned in pain.
"Now, just sit your ass down until the Hokage comes in."
Sasuke wanted so much to just punch the guy, but he was literally tied up at the moment. He tried easing his hands through the rope, but it didn't work. He couldn't do any jutsus because he couldn't even move his hands. He was bound to the chair. (AN: ehh, it's a special rope, so he can't do jutsus...)
'Is it possible that they know?' He asked himself. Why did they arrest him, brusquely knocking down the door, and taking him in? Was it possible that they have found him out?
He felt the fear crawling up his stomach to his throat and on his back.
What is Orochimaru going to think of this?
If he doesn't find a way out of this, he just might find himself in a dilemma that he would rather not be a part of.
He wondered if they had found him out, finally saw through his deceit. He knew if he was found out that it would be the end of him.
He had to get out of there…he had to get out of there now!
He looks around, but the room was blocked from everything, No windows, no vents, just a door and a very pissed off guard. He was tied to the chair so he couldn't just run for it.
But then again he saw all those guards they had outside, just waiting for him to make one wrong move. All those guards waiting for him to make a run for it.
No, he couldn't run now.
He would wait…wait for the perfect moment to make his move and disappear forever.
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"Hungry?" Sakura asked as she sat on the comfortable mattress.
They had just gotten off bed, after about an hour or two...or three...of just helplessly lying there and doing a lot of 'catching-up.'
"Ramen?" Naruto asked her like a child asking for ice cream.
She chuckles. "Ramen it is." It was almost three after noon and so they really needed eat after all that.
They took a moment to just look at each other. It was nice to finally be able to do this again. Just the two of them, talking and laughing. He couldn't stop looking at her, after all those months without her, he just couldn't get enough of her.
Naruto walked over to the bed where she was currently sitting.
Sakura could only watch him.
He sat down beside her and just looked at her beautiful emerald eyes that he loved so much and he touched her body that had lusted for.
Sakura smiled at him.
"I love you." He said before he kissed her.
He felt a jolt of electricity run through him the moment he touched her soft, pink lips. It made his hair rise and excited him.
Her lips were so soft and the sensation he got was thrilling.
He wanted more.
He slowly leaned in, making her moan in pleasure and surprise. He planted small, quick kisses on her lips before finally asking for entrance. She soon replied and he wasted no time and dives right in.
He held her head as he leans her down on the bed. His one hand was playing with her hair as the other traveled down and up her side, back, and front. He moves his kisses to her cheek, jaw, and finally to her neck. There he stayed nibbling her softly and kissing her passionately.
"Naruto…" she moaned his name.
"Yes?" He asks, taking a quick break from kissing her to say that.
"We need to…" she said in between moans, "get up."
"Let's not, I like doing this." Naruto snakes one hand under her shirt, trying to rid her of the material.
"I'm serious!" She couldn't have sounded more fake as she said that. This entire time she had been enjoying it as well, she was just trying to be reasonable. "We need to get away from this room."
Naruto stopped kissing her and pulled his hand out of her shirt. "Fine."
"And take a shower!" Sakura joked…well not really.
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"Hokage-sama." Shizune walked into her office. "They are waiting for you."
Tsunade was standing in front of the window, deep in thought about something. She was currently in her hospital office instead of the Hokage Tower, mainly because she had duties in the hospital today.
"Hokage-sama?"
The elderly lady did not respond.
"They're waiting for-"
"Okay." She finally said.
Shizune couldn't help but wonder if there was something wrong with her, she knew that face Tsunade made sometimes, usually when something is wrong.
"Is everything, okay?" She asked to her.
She thought about that question long and hard.
Is everything okay…?
"Remember when times used to be simpler?" The Hokage asked her assistant.
"Hokage-sama?"
"I remember then," Tsunade completely ignored her, but continued with her point instead, "I never had to worry about everything. Then, it was me, the world, and all its treasures. I could be somewhere out there right now, somewhere away from it all. Talking up with old friends about the days long gone, reminiscing or forgetting about the past I've left behind, hell and even playing a little bit of cards."
Tsunade could still clearly remember her old days. She saw it as vividly as if it was happening now. She could feel the touch of the cards against her hands, see the faces of people she can't remember the names of. She could even taste her precious sake just by thinking about it.
"Those were the days," she continued, "no worries, just getting by. I remember one time my biggest problem was how to get money so I could get more sake," she chuckled a little upon remembering, "but now…that's all gone. Now, everyone and everything depends on me, on what I do. If I make one wrong move, someone is thrown into prison, banished for all eternity, and sometimes someone even dies."
"Well, we can't always control what we do." She offers as a consolation.
"Do we ever have control of it?" Tsunade asked her.
"…" The younger woman was a bit surprised by her words. Since when did Tsunade think like this…cracking under the pressure that she had long since been carrying? If the villagers were to find out the Hokage herself is beginning to doubt their own self existence all hell was sure to break loose. Chaos descending from unknown dimensions, demons crawling out from earth itself, and the…Shizune stopped her thoughts before they got out of hand.
"Ha, we all just think we have control of it when indeed some higher power controls us all," Shizune was again surprised to hear her talk like this, like everything was lost and there was no hope, but only doom and destruction, "…nothing is okay anymore, Shizune."
Tsunade looked outside to the gloomy, ominous village. "I just can't shake this feeling that something terrible is about to happen."
Tsunade took in a deep breath…
"So, do they have him?" Tsunade changed the conversation.
"Y-yes, they have taken him and placed him under security." Shizune told her, "and now they are just waiting for your order."
Order.
She hated that word. Every time she made one, something bad seemed to happen, and the way she was feeling now didn't help ease that.
"Tell them to go ahead and start, I'll just be there."
Shizune bowed her head in respect before leaving.
Soon, the ANBU would start interrogating, maybe even torturing Sasuke. She had given that order and now they would follow it.
What if he is innocent after all?
She would ask herself. Then again, everything up to this point suggested he was anything but that. Though she wished that her greatest fears were not to be confirmed.
If Sasuke was in fact tainted with that snake bastard's influence, she feared that she would be too late to foil whatever their plan was…
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Sasuke sat alone in the middle of an empty room.
'I need to get out of here.' He said to himself.
The more he stayed there the more he knew he was going to get caught. And that was the last thing he wanted to happen. If he was caught now…he knew Orochimaru would do everything to finish up this mess of theirs. Meaning that he would eliminate all that had come into contact with him, all the plans they had conspired would abruptly end.
Orochimaru would kill him, if the ANBU agents didn't do it first.
Then he would go after Sakura, maybe just for the thrill of it, and he would kill her too. Killing Sakura would be easiest for him to do considering he had the poison and could easily activate it…or so he was led to believe.
And then finally, he would go after Naruto. He would get his body, that he was sure of, and use it for the worst…the destruction of Konoha with the fox's help.
He needed to get out of there…
But how was he going to do that?
No windows to just jump out of, no ventilation to crawl in, nothing.
Nothing…except the door.
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Tsunade was currently sitting down in her office.
This day was going by too slowly.
She didn't like that she couldn't do anything else for the rest of the day.
She would have gone to see what they were doing to the Uchiha, but the council strictly gave her orders to let ANBU handle it.
Those senile old jerks! She hated them so much sometimes, always telling her to do this and that, and that she can't do this or that. She didn't even know why they wanted to piss her off so much.
Deciding that standing there and being bitter about it wouldn' help her at all, Tsunade decided that it was better if she just went for a quick walk around the hospital.
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Naruto stepped out of the shower, grabbing the towel as he did. He wrapped it around himself and walked over to the mirror to check himself.
His eyes looked tired and his hair was still wet from the shower he had just taken. He looked at his face examining himself.
'Why does this feel so familiar?' He asked himself.
Naruto noticed that the wound had finally healed, but it left him one nasty scar.
'Hey fox, did you do this?' Naruto returned to the dark realm of his mind.
"Yeah."
'I thought you said you couldn't do it anymore.' Naruto said as he put on his pajama pants.
"I did," the Kyuubi began, "but after the jolt of energy you got last night while you were rekindling your romance, your chakra level shot up and so I decided to help you out, otherwise, you would have been wailing in pain the entire night."
Naruto ran a finger along it. He was amazed as to how fast the Kyuubi could…
WAIT!
Naruto's heart started to speed up, the hair on his arm and neck stood erect as a wave of fear washed over him.
'CHAKRA!'
"Ahhhhhh!" A woman's scream rang out followed by sounds of metals clashing.
Naruto jumped at the sound of the blood-curling scream.
"SAKURA-CHAN!!!"
Naruto dashed out of the bathroom and surged through the hallway.
'Kami! What have I done?!'
How could he forget?! Of all the things he could have done wrong, why did he make this mistake?
How could he have forgotten that the very reason he broke-up with her in the first place was because of what was happening now!
Naruto ran quicker, hoping to all the gods and everyone that he would not be too late.
When he got there, he found Sakura lying flat on the floor.
He felt like his heart was about to jump out of his chest.
"SAKURA-CHAN!" He fell down by her side, trying to shake her awake.
Nothing.
His breathing was getting heavier and heavier.
"SAKURA-CHAN!!!!" He screamed it so loud it would have awakened the dead.
Nothing.
Without even thinking, he picked her up and rushed out the window.
He jumped from rooftop to rooftop as fast as he could.
'Please hold on.'
He didn't even care that he was only wearing pants and that the air pierced him like a knife, he had to get Sakura to the hospital.
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"I NEED A DOCTOR!" He screamed as soon as he got in. The receptionist was about to scold him for yelling, but she noticed that he was carrying someone with him. She immediately picked up the phone and started calling for help.
Sakura started to shake uncontrollably. Her body temperature was starting to drop.
Naruto couldn't stand just waiting there, so he started to head to the hospital rooms. He was scurrying through the halls, passing through many other patients as he searched for an empty room.
He held on tight to her, even though her shaking made it hard for him.
He finally found an empty one on the end of the hall.
His heart was trying to jump out of his chest. All he could think about getting Sakura in there.
He placed her onto the bed.
Naruto was shaking just as much as Sakura was, he didn't know what to do, he knew he had to go far away, but he couldn't just leave her there without anyone.
Just then, a doctor walked in, followed by a number of nurses. Soon, she was crowded with medical employees.
"We're going to need you to step outside, sir." One nurse said to him.
Naruto protested, saying that he needed to know if she was going to be alright.
"We need you to step outside, sir." She repeated.
Naruto fought no more, he wasn't going to win this.
Naruto walked out of the room, his heart was pounding through his chest.
He wanted to see what they were doing in there, but he remembered he was doing this to her. And so he ran far away, but close enough for him to still be able to see.
'Please be alright.'
Naruto couldn't help but blame himself for all this. It was entirely his fault that she was in this position now. If he hadn't done what he did, if he had just said 'no' to her, then she might still be walking right now. If he had just controlled his emotions at that one brief moment when she kissed him…
"Clear!"
Thump!
He could hear them trying to bring her back.
"Clear."
THUMP!
He could hear them yelling out;
Her heart is slowing down! She's not responding! Get Tsunade in here! 40 bpm! Give her some….we can't…forget it….we have no choice! Clear!
Doctor? We…Where is that…30 bpm…this is not good…give…defibrillator…15 bpm…
"Cl..r"
THUMP!
Thump,thump.
"C…!"
Thump, thump.
"..ar."
Everything around him became quiet as his heart drowned out everything else.
Thump, thump.
He was scared for the worst, he was scared that she would…die.
Thump, thump.
The last thing he saw was Tsunade running in the room before everything turned black.
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"…"
"…wake…sir…slee.."
Naruto could hear faint sounds of someone's voice.
"W..ke…you…ed…your…"
Where was he?
"You need to…sir…you…sleeping…"
His body felt heavy and cold. He was freezing in there.
"Sir, you need to wake up, you've been sleeping."
Naruto slowly opened his eyes. At first he couldn't make out anything, but after some time, his sight came back. He saw a nurse standing right in front of him, apparently waking him up for sleeping there.
"You really shouldn't be sleeping there. It's almost eight o'clock sir, we have a waiting room, you know, you could sleep in there."
It was then that he remembered where he was. He had gone to the hospital and had fallen asleep in the hallway.
He wiped the sleep off his eyes. His face felt cold, almost wet.
Had he been crying?
"How is she?" He asked the young women.
"You need to go to the waiting room, sir."
"How is she!?" He asked again, only this time with a little demand behind it.
"…" the nurse said nothing, she only looked away from him.
Naruto heart's stopped beating. "Is she…is ssshe…dead?"
"No, she's not." Naruto turns his head to the left to see Tsunade walking his way. His heart eased a little…but only a little. "Naruto, I need to speak to you in private."
She motioned him to follow her to another room where they could converse.
"Close the door behind you." She said as she walked in the room.
He does what he was told.
"Tsunade-" Naruto was about to ask her more question about Sakura, but then she cut him off.
"Naruto, I'm not going to lie to you…"
He became quiet and grave. He knew where this was going…
"Sakura is okay…for now." Tsunade stopped her sentence as she tried looking for the best words for her to say now, "Naruto…I don't know how to say this…"
"She's dying."
Her words struck him hard, struck him fast. He didn't know how to respond to that…he didn't know...he couldn't...he.
This couldn't be happening.
Tsunade felt the same way. It was hard for her to say those words, as if by doing do she admitted and accepted that it was true...that there was no way to cure it...to stop it from happening.
But it was.
Even if they couldn't handle it, the truth was there and it was going to happen.
"H-hhow..." Naruto couldn't even say the words. He was overwhelmed with emotions...grief, anger, frustration, regret, and guilt.
It was his fault, his choice that she was now clinging on to the very small amount of life left in her.
"Her organs are deteriorating...slowly, one by one each is shutting down."
Hearing her say those words were like bullets piercing through his skin, slowly and painfully.
"It would seem that she has something within her blood that's causing this," There was really no other way to say this and so Tsunade just said it, "at first it will attack her nervous system, killing off all her sensory neurons so that she couldn't react to anything. She could be cutting herself and not feel a thing. This thing inside her, it has manifested itself into something that could adapt to her environment and function as anything throughout her body. It could attack her brain, shut down her motor, olfactory, her sight...everything that is controlled by her brain. Then it will travel back down...weakening her bones so that she can no longer stand, then her muscles so she can't move, and then it will kill everything else. After that, it will come back up to her heart, through her veins and into her ventricles where it will disrupt the function of the heart. It will force open the valves and force backflow, and it will stop the pumping of oxygenated blood until she suffocates, and then...she dies."
Her words stabbed him like a knife, bombarding him with guilt and anger.
Each sound she made only makes it worse.
Not only will Sakura die...but she will die in pain and torture.
All because of him!
He wanted to punch himself, apologize to her and tell her that he was a fool.
The pain was too much for him to take, too real for him to bear.
It slowly ate him up inside, at first making him completely infuriated with himself, then more, it wanted him to vent out his anger on anything or anyone, and then finally it shriveled him up inside, provoking him to weep rivers of tears.
The guilt inside his hollow heart made him suffocate...he could have stopped all this...he could have prevented it all.
The warm tears flowed down his face, streaming fast and endlessly. It didn't stop, he couldn't do anything to make it stop anymore. He thought he had cried his last, but...
"Naruto, we can still save her..."
His head shot up.
Hope.
There was hope still.
They could still save her!
Tsunade saw the sudden color appear in his face and she finally saw his teary red eyes. She felt so much pity for him right now, but she also felt his pain.
This was Sakura after all.
They both shared a love for this girl, however different love.
She was her daughter and she couldn't imagine losing her just as much as Naruto could. And so she understood why he was this way and knew that he didn't have to say a word for her to go on.
"This thing in her, it can still be reversed."
Then Naruto decided to cut in...he had to tell her now before it was too late.
"Tsunade, I have something I need to tell you, something about Sakura."
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Thud!
Sasuke's head rose.
He heard someone's body crashing against the floor.
He tried listening harder, but it became deadly silent outside again.
Maybe the guard just passed out. He thought so at least.
Slam!
The door sprang open.
Suddenly, energy came back to his body as the person standing in front of him was the one person he really needed right now.
"Took you long enough."
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"And that's how it all happened." Naruto finished telling her everything.
Tsunade didn't know how to react to it.
Kabuto had been in his room and had forced him to break up with Sakura.
There is a poison running through her veins.
"Why didn't you tell me of this earlier?" Tsunade asked him, wondering why he had kept it all to himself this entire time.
"Because I was scared..." Naruto finally admitted it, "I didn't know the full extent of what he could and will do and I...got scared. I could only think of her at that moment and now I realized that I made mistake. All this time, I could have stopped it all...but."
Tsunade couldn't believe all that she had heard. If it was all true then Sasuke was indeed a traitor, it was all the proof they needed to bring him down. Then she remembered Naruto still didn't know about it.
"Naruto, there is something you must know about Sasuke."
"Sasuke...what?" Naruto couldn't understand how this could relate to what they were talking about. How did Sasuke fit in to all this?
"You see, he has been lying to you the entire time."
'What?'
"He never wanted to come back here...he came back for the purpose of trying to help Orochimaru, and after hearing what you just told me, it only makes it clearer. And I fear that Kabuto is really Orochimaru now."
'Sasuke...helping Orochimaru...for what? Wait, Kabuto is Orochimaru?'
It really didn't take that much to realize at this point what they wanted.
Naruto just couldn't believe that his friend, his brother, would go to such an extent as to helping a bastard like Orochimaru.
"How do you know all this?" Naruto asked the elderly woman in front of him.
"We've been watching him for months-"
"Sasuke couldn't have...he couldn't have." Naruto stopped her. He didn't want to believe that Sasuke was still that person after all this time. He thought he had gotten his friend back and now, his hearing all these things about him...and he just didn't want to hear it anymore.
"I'm sorry Naruto, but it's the truth."
"Please...just stop." Naruto hung his head. He couldn't handle hearing anymore bout his friend. He wanted to believe that Sasuke has finally come back and that he was Sasuke again...but now. "I've heard enough bad news for today...just please stop."
Tsunade felt sympathy for the young man. After hearing that the love of his life was on the verge of dying with only little hope to survive...and now Sasuke. It was amazing that Naruto could hold it all in inside.
"Our main focus now is helping Sakura." He said with more confidence now, wanting to just forget about Sasuke and just solve what was at hand first.
Tsunade nodded.
Naruto immediately stood up with his new found hope.
"You should start now!" Naruto told her, even though Tsunade knew well that she should. His voice wasn't exactly enthusiastic, but it didn't sound doomed either.
Tsunade felt the sane way...but
It was just that she had never done this procedure before. It was her first time trying to do something like this, although she had cured a lot of poisons in her lifetime, but never like this before. She had to go in and manually kill the poison herself. Her first priority was to go to the heart, where most of it will take place. She had to contaminate the newly pumped blood to make sure that it would flow throughout her body. Just by injecting a cure would be useless because the poison had adapted enough to sense a foreign fluid and attack it before it could do anything. But by injecting it to her heart veins first, it had a better chance of getting far considering that the poison hadn't reached that far. Then she would inject it into all the other major organs...and hopefully, it will kill the poison so that it could no longer spread.
But, there is always the chance that she could mess up, accidentally inject it the wrong way or too much that her body would detect it as something lethal and kill off the cure before it could work.
"Naruto, the poison has mutated enough to function on its own," Tsunade decided to tell him after just remembering that. And now that she knew what Naruto knew, this information might be important for him to know. "If you say that you have activated it...then by now, it wouldn't matter if you were two inches from her or two miles...it has started to act on its own and it will not stop until it has completed its job.
Naruto understood what she meant.
Now, because the poison had evolved so much, he could no longer activate it because it had already started. So, he could be near Sakura and he wouldn't be making it worse.
"Okay, Tsunade." That's all he said.
Tsunade gave him a nod...it was time.
All that was left now was for her to kill this thing and Sakura would be okay.
All they needed to do now was just for her to carry out this operation and she would be alright.
The two stepped out of the room and walked towards her room.
"Hey, Tsunade...could I just have a moment to just-"
Tsunade knew what he was trying to say. He just wanted a minute with her to just be with her. "Go ahead."
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Naruto walked slowly down the hall, his heart was still erratically beating out of his chest.
He was scared to go and see her, but he had to see her before…
He didn't know if it would work…but he trusted Tsunade. He trusted her with his life and so he knew that nothing could go wrong…but he still had to see her.
He had finally reached her room.
Slowly he opened the door and walked in.
It was cold in there and the silence was deafening.
"Sakura-" Naruto turned his head to where her bed would be…but she wasn't there.
His heart skipped a beat. It was terrifying. How could she not be there?! She was too heavily sedated to be able to get up…where was she?
"Sakura-chan?" Naruto frantically searched around the room, under the bed, anything.
"SAKURA-CHAN!" He yelled out her name in hopes that she may just answer.
Tsunade came running in the room. "What happened?" She then noticed that Sakura was missing. "What happened?" She repeated herself.
Naruto was starting to get completely terrified, but more than anything…he had a feeling he knew who took her.
The room, it reeked of his smell.
Naruto was trying to control the demon trying to get out of him.
Just then, an ANBU appears in the room.
"Hokage-sama, we have a problem. Uchiha Sasuke has escaped." The ANBU told her.
Naruto's eyes shot red in an instant and the room was engulfed in red chakra.
"SASUKE!!!"
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End of Chapter 11
Okay, I must apologize if I neglected to explain fully what has happened.
But, bear with me here!
Eh... there is only like two or three chapters left.
Oky, I'm done.
Again, thanksto templar132, who is a really great beta reader and person. This chapter was infested with errors and just weird sentences untill he fixed it up for me...so thankyou.
And please review.
Bye for now...