Chapter 7: Healing Problems
Inumaru felt himself being poked and prodded, and life saving liquids rush in, but felt no pain. Nor could he open his eyes, What's happening to me? Inumaru suddenly felt warm, even with the cold examination table against his bare back. "Give him CPR! We're losing him!!" A man with a mask said, Inumaru felt himself growing colder as he returned to the real world. "Okay, we've got a pulse!" He groaned to show he was okay, but a tiny rumble was all he heard. He felt himself fall into a deep sleep on the cold aluminum table.
Might Gai's POV I ran behind the newly recovered Kakashi to help save Inumaru. Jiraya ran behind us with Tsunade, both half asleep. Suddenly Kakashi took a sharp turn right into a door and made it shatter, he ran into the small dining room and went right up to Itachi and picked him up by the collar of his cloak. I sent the two Sanin after Kakashi and I went into a room with locks on the door. Their stood a red (for a change)
faced Kisame and a mangled Inumaru lay at his feet. I hit the back of his neck and he went down, suprisingly. I ran out with Inumaru in my arms, called to the trio and ran off towards the hospital.End Might Gai's POV
Inumaru woke up in a warm bed. He tried groggily to sit up, but failed to do anything but hurt his healing system. He then remembered how he got caught by his older brother and his abusive fish friend. How did I escape?? I thought I was dead! "Hey, next time, don't try to be a hero. I could have saved myself." Inumaru said to a recognizeable figure. Gai's Figure... "Kid, you were so banged up, you couldn't breathe for yourself! How could I possibly think that you could save your own butt!" Gai squatted down to the cot's level so unexpectedly that Inumaru jumped back. He tried hard to jump up, but Gai knew it wasn't Inumaru's true character. Inumaru was having a panic attack...
"Tsunade! You were right! He is scarred emotionally!" Gai yelled at the Sanin that had ran into the room with a needle. Tsunade lifted up Inumaru's shirt sleeve and injected a yellow-brown plasma into the screaming boy's arm, and Inumaru gradually slowed down and stopped within ten minutes. He was soon asleep, sadly two minutes before Kakashi arrived to visit. Kakashi walked into the room to see Tsunade with a needle talking to a shaken up Gai.
"How is Inumaru?" Kakashi asked hopefully. All he wanted was his son to be okay. The two other ninja walked out so the two could be alone. Kakashi sat next to the drugged boy and started scratching his head lovingly. "Inumaru, if you can hear me, I just wanted to say that I am sorry that this happened to you. I should have seen that attack coming" Kakashi said with some hesitation. Kakashi was surprised when Inumaru, who never loved his head scratched, pushed his head up against the Jonin's hand. "Inumaru? Are you awake?" Kakashi said taking his hand off of Inumaru's head. Inumaru opened his eyes and gasped, Kakashi's hand instictively went to Inumaru's head and started scratching it again. Shockingly Inumaru made a purring sound and relaxed from his tensed state. "Sensei! Thank you for saving me, I wouldn't be alive without you..." Inumaru said gleefully, as if he wasn't scared at all. Gai was peeking into the room, he was shocked to see Inumaru acting okay. He then turned to Lady Tsunade and asked "When will that drug wear off?" "It wore off when he woke up. And it was only a tranquilizer." She said. Gai knew why Inumaru was acting like that. It was because Kakashi was the only person that tried to instill trust to Inumaru, who held a dangerous demon inside his soul. Some loathed him, wanted his power. Others feared him, wanting him to die so they wouldn't have to worry away while he could turn evil.
" You know that Inumaru is a one person kid. Nothing on Earth could change that..." Tsunade said, knowing what Gai was thinking. Gai had always wanted to be Inumaru's step-father. But Inumaru was handed to Kakashi instead, he had chose the closest house to the Uchiha clan the day before, back about fourteen years and three days ago. The next day, he got the child. "Tsunade, I wish to ask you something, may we please go to your office?" Gai said audibly. They walked to Tsunade's office.