A/N: Sorry for the last chapter… it was… not… haha… nevermind! Anyway this is the sixth chapter!! I'm still wondering what chapter will I end this fanfiction!!! But I hope you'll still read it!! Hehe, please R&R!!
Disclaimer: I… I… I do not own Naruto!!!! (runs away with precious diamond-like tears flowing from my eyes)
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Recap:
"After Ko-chan gains back her strength, Daddy will buy her anything she wants."
"Really?"
"Daddy promises Ko-chan." He smiled gently.
"Okay." She said as she went back to sleep.
And Daddy promises, too, that he'll always protect Ko-chan… He said as he cried on Kokishin's hand.
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Chapter 6: Revenge
It was snowing outside the lonely apartment. A blond-haired ninja was lying on the couch, staring off into space as if he was possessed.
No childish whimpers…
No crying, 'Daddy, I want ice-cream.'…
No scattered dolls here and there….
No crayons and papers to clean up…
No asking of bathing at the middle of the night…
No asking of fixing the hair…
No messy milk kisses…
No bedtime stories…
No hugs…
No laughter…
In short, no everything and it's driving Naruto crazy.
-Flashback-
"Hey, Naruto, I think you should get rest. You've been awake for the past 48 hours. Don't worry; I'll take care of Ko-chan." Sakura said.
Naruto gazed at her with his tired, possessed-like eyes. Sakura flinched from the stare. Slowly, Naruto stood up and went out of the room. He whispered something to Sakura.
"Please take good care of Ko-chan."
-End of Flashback-
Suddenly, the doorbell rang. He stood up lazily and opened the door. It was a random jounin who was wearing a forest-green bandana, matching his vest.
"Uzumaki-san, the Hokage wants to see you." He informed.
"Thanks." And he disappeared in a flash.
-At the Hokage's office-
'Tok, tok!'
"Come in, Naruto."
The door squeaked open and there stood a corpse-like Naruto—his eyes dim, hair messy, eye-bags deep, and face pale. Tsunade's heart sank at the sight of his so-called younger brother.
"Have a seat."
"Why did you call for me?" He asked as he sat down on the couch.
"Well…" She stood up and stopped by the window, gazing unto Konoha.
"'Well' what?"
"… I know you're tired right now, but you ought to know it…"
"What is it?" He grew impatient.
"… I know now who put the bomb on the carousel."
"What?!" He burst as he stood up abruptly.
"Akatsuki."
Naruto planned to go out of the room, but as he grabbed the knob of the door, he was stopped by Tsunade.
"Naruto, Akatsuki members are stronger than you think they are. If you attack them, alone or even with an ANBU squad, you'll find yourself dead."
"I know."
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The loud, boisterous laugh boomed throughout the whole bar. The source of the laugh was surrounded by beautiful women. He was drunk.
The blond haired ninja approached the white-haired sannin.
"Oh, Naruto, what brings you here?" He smirked.
"You have tracked the Akatsuki's hideout, right?"
Jiraiya's face altered into a serious face. He leaned forward and rubbed his chin.
"Ladies, I'll be back in a minute. Naruto, why don't we talk outside?"
Naruto nodded and they left the bar.
"What are you up to asking about Akatsuki?"
"I won't be beating around the bush so I'll be straightforward to what I'll have to say."
"Hm?"
"I've been informed that Akatsuki's behind the bombing of the carousel my daughter's riding on three days ago."
"So?"
"I want their whereabouts so I thought you know about it."
"Naruto, you're not planning on avenging your daughter, right?"
"What if I'm planning to?"
"Are you crazy!? Akatsuki's a notorious, deadly group! All class-S criminals! If you fight them, you'll find yourself meeting your maker!"
"…" Naruto kept silent and held on a folder, showing it to Jiraiya.
"What's that?"
"This folder here is a documentary I've made a few months back about girls with matching 'pictures' and 'video tapes.' It's extremely top-secret."
"Oh, so you're planning on bribing me with that? Well, guess what, I won't fall for your trap."
"Oh, really?" He teased.
"Really."
There was a long silence until…
"Jiraiya, please…"
"Naruto…"
"I won't let anybody hurt my daughter and just get away with it!! Please tell me where they are!"
"..."
"…"
"Alright, Alright, I give up! Their hideout is a cave behind the nearest waterfall to Konoha."
"Huh? You mean the place where you spy girls all the time?"
"Baka! It's the cave I'm spying! Not the girls!! … well, sometimes I do spy them…"
"Haha, thanks for the information!" He said as he walked away.
"Hey, Naruto!"
"Huh?" He stopped.
"Um… may I please have the folder?"
"Oh, sure!" He handed over the item of hentai.
"Thanks! And, oh, remember that I warned you!"
"Alright!" He vanished into a smoke with a big grin plastered on his face.
Jiraiya slowly opened the folder with an evil smirk on his face. Then…
"NARUTO!!!!!!!!!!!!"
He dropped the folder on the ground… It's empty… Poor Jiraiya…
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-At the Hokage's office-
"Jiraiya, I haven't seen Naruto this afternoon… Have you, by any chance, seen him?" Tsunade said as she spied the ashen-haired man from the corner of her eyes.
"Um… no… no I haven't seen him." His lie was obvious.
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"Aw, c'mon stop lying! You told him where Akatsuki is, right?!"
"Um… yeah… I'm sorry; he's just too desperate…"
"BAKA!!! Why did you do that!! The chance of him being killed is 99 percent!!" Tsunade burst out as she stood abruptly from her chair.
"I'm sorry…"
"Saying sorry won't bring him back to life if he ever gets killed!!" She grabs hold of the microphone and speaks. "Calling Uchiha Sasuke! Please proceed to my office! Again, calling Uchiha Sasuke, it's an emergency; please proceed to my office ASAP!"
Then, there was a knock on the door.
"Please come in, Uchiha."
The door opened and Uchiha went in.
"What is it?"
"It's Naruto. He's gone off to the Akatsuki hideout to avenge his daughter. Go follow and save him! Get an ANBU squad to accompany you!"
"Hn." Then he vanished into a smoke.
"Jiraiya, if something bad happens to Naruto, I won't forgive you!"
"…"
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So, this must be the cave… He thought as he stood behind the waterfall and in front of a small cave. He entered it and found out that the cave was enormous on the inside.
"Akatsuki! I know that you're the one who put the bomb on the carousel! Show yourself!" His loud voice echoed throughout the cavernous cave.
"Naruto, it's nice to see you here." A low, monotone voice from behind Naruto sent shiver down his spine.
Naruto turned to see Itachi.
"You… you bastard! Why did you do that?!"
"To get the nine-tailed demon fox." He answered plainly.
"So, you planned it all along, huh?"
"Well, yeah. Judging by your reckless attitude, we knew that you would come here right away after acknowledging that we're the one who harmed your daughter." A "creature" appeared—Kisame.
"(censored) you!!" He formed the hand seals of the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu, and there appeared three other Naruto.
"2 class-S criminals against a stupid ninja… I guess that's just not fair." A raven-haired man appeared from the outside with some other ninjas with him.
"Sasuke!" Naruto was surprised.
"Hey, little brother." Itachi called.
"Stop calling me 'little brother'!" He formed the Chidori and attacked him. Itachi easily dodged the attack and grabbed Sasuke by his right wrist.
"Why, little brother?" Itachi teased and smirked.
"Shut up!" Sasuke drew his ANBU sword with his free left hand and swung it towards the older man. Itachi, being more experienced, just caught the sword with his two fingers, pushed Sasuke chest-first on the floor, and sat on his back with Sasuke's arm twisted on his back to keep him from moving.
"Stupid ANBU ninjas." Kisame hissed as he fended off the attacking ninjas. "Itachi, don't hurt your little brother too much."
"Huh?" Naruto turned from attacking Kisame and saw Sasuke being sat on by his brother.
"Yes, I know." Itachi replied.
"Sasuke!!" Naruto called, and then looked at Itachi.
"Naruto, don't look at his eyes!!" Sasuke warned, but too late now… Naruto was trapped into the illusion of Itachi's powerful Mangekyou Sharingan.
The illusion caused Naruto's heart to constrict and he had a hard time breathing. He pulled a kunai from his weapon pouch and slashed himself several times with it.
"Naruto!!!!" Sasuke called.
"Call for back up." ANBU officer-1 said.
"Okay." ANBU officer-2 replied and vanished into a smoke.
Naruto lifted up the kunai into the air into a thrust-myself-position.
"(censored) you, Itachi!!" Sasuke cursed as he struggled below Itachi.
-At the Hokage's office-
'Tok, tok!' Then the door opened.
"Hokage-sama we need back-up, we're in a bad shape. Uchiha-san is unable to move and Uzumaki-san is under Uchiha Itachi's Sharingan."
"What!!" Tsunade burst.
-Back at the cave-
"Naruto!!! Noooo!!!" Sasuke called.
Jiraiya with some other ANBU officers came, and they tried to stop Naruto… but it was already too late now…
"NARUTO!!!!!" Sasuke's Sharingan activated.
Naruto now lay there with lots of wounds and a kunai stabbed deeply onto his stomach.
"Itachi! Retreat! There's too many of them!" Kisame said and they vanished into a smoke.
"Naruto! Naruto!!" Sasuke stood up and rushed unto Naruto's side, the Sharingan disappearing.
"Let's go back to Konoha immediately!" Jiraiya said.
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-At the hospital-
'Tok, tok'
"Come in." Sakura answered.
The door creaked open and there appeared a raven-haired boy with a slight depressed and pissed off look.
"Did anything happen, Sasuke-kun?" Sakura smiled at him.
"Naruto." He replied as he avoided the gaze of the pink-haired medic-nin.
"Why?" Sakura felt her heart was squeezed for a second and then started beating faster.
"He… He went to the Akatsuki hideout to avenge his daughter… and then…" He paused.
"And then?" Sakura bit her lips and tears started welling up her eyes.
"He's in a bad shape right now… His heart rate dropped with every hour. Tsunade said that the percentage of him surviving is only about 20. He's in the next room."
Sakura grabbed Sasuke's arms and started shaking him angrily.
"Idiot!!! Why didn't you stop him!??!" Sakura yelled in tears.
Sasuke could only gape at her because it was his first time to be treated like that, especially by Sakura. And to make things more unbelievable, she called him an idiot.
Suddenly, the faint beeping of the blood pressure monitor that's connected to Kokishin turned into loud, wild beeps, alarming Sasuke and Sakura.
They rushed to her side and started wondering what's happening to her.
All of a sudden, her eyes snapped open which startled Sakura and Sasuke. Then, the once cerulean-blue, shocked eyes turned into bloody, fuming red ones with one comma-like figure rotating about the pupil on each eye fast and furiously, which surprised them even more.
"Isn't that… the Sharingan?" Sakura asked Sasuke.
"…"
Then, Kokishin removed her oxygen mask and the tubes connected to her as she stood up.
"Ko-chan! What are you doing?!" Sakura cried as they tried to stop her.
"Let me be with my daddy!" She glared at them with her Sharingan-like eyes.
Sasuke and Sakura flinched from the glare and followed her to the next room where her daddy lay.
-At the next room-
"Daddy…" She cried by her daddy's side on the chair as Sasuke and Sakura peeked from the small opening of the door.
"Daddy… don't leave Ko-chan alone… or else Ko-chan will be lonely…" She uttered in between sobs as she buried her head unto her father's side. "… Daddy promised Ko-chan that Daddy will buy everything Ko-chan wants when Ko-chan gets well, right?"
Sakura could only weep quietly as she heard Ko-chan's words.
"Daddy… Ko-chan promises to be a good girl…"
Suddenly, the faded beep of the blood pressure monitor turned into a loud continuous, non-stopping sound.
TBC
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A/N: Hm… to kill Naruto or not to kill Naruto… I'm still making a hard decision here, guys, hahaha!! Anyway, please R&R!! Arigato and ja ne!