Hello, this is Chris. I was glad to see good reviews, glad to see reviews at all. I know now that I have good ideas for fanfics, I just need the right words to tell them. Anyway, I finished chapter one like a minute before midnight on January 22, which my birthday was the 23 so I guess, in a way, you all gave me a gift in the form of those reviews which lifted my spirits, thanks. And this time, from now on if you have negative reviews then go ahead. I would like to know what wrong you see in my stories so I could prevent myself from doing them again.
Anyway, sit back, relax, and enjoy the reading.
Oh, and I don't own the rights to Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto does. Any other resemblance is just a coincidence and I don't own them. Any originality belongs to me.
A Promise to Death
Rivalry
She doesn't like it; she doesn't like it at all. Sakura glare daggers at Hinata, who's talking with Naruto across the campfire.
'Look at her, getting close to Naruto like that… argh, god damn it do I hate that girl!'
"Hey, Sakura-chan are you okay?" Naruto was worried due to the angry look Sakura is wielding.
"Oh, nothing's wrong Naruto, nothing at all," grins Sakura, obviously lying.
Not fooled at all, Naruto wants to know her problem when Hinata asks, "Naruto-kun, forget about her. It seems that Sakura-san is probably on PMS, must be that time of the month"
Boiling with anger, Sakura jumps up screaming, "Why you damn bitch, I'll…"
"Sakura-chan, Hinata-chan, stop it!!" yelled Naruto standing and glaring both girls.
"Naruto…/Naruto-kun…" whispers the girls but Naruto was not fooled.
"I know that you two have distanced yourself from each other, so far in fact that you would fight with one another. We are on a mission and we must get along in order for this mission to work so just stop fighting" seeing both girls looking down, Naruto walk towards his sleeping bag, saying, "I'm going to bed now, goodnight"
Silence filled the scene. Sakura and Hinata looks at each other for a few seconds until they look away.
"He's right… you know. We have a mission to do so we… we… we must get along" stated Sakura, not to fond of the idea of working with Hinata.
"I suppose you're right, we do not want to burden Naruto-kun" Hinata looks at the sleeping Naruto with a smile.
"For Naruto-kun, I will get along with you for this mission but only for this mission. After this, I will continue to have a distaste for you" and with that, Hinata went into her sleeping bag.
Chuckling slowly, Sakura evilly looks at Hinata, whispering, "Oh, don't worry. I will do the same thing"
"Goodnight hussy"
"Goodnight bitch"
A week has pass and team Naruto are getting close to find that hideout. To Naruto's surprise, the girls weren't fighting as much as they do whenever they get a few feet close back at Konoha.
But it still doesn't mean that they don't give each other the eyes of pure terror. Sakura and Hinata's rivalry, that surprised everyone at Konoha. People have dubbed Sakura the 'Rose of Destruction', due to her monstrous strength while people calls Hinata, 'Torturing Lavender' for her use of medical skills combine with her original fighting style. But put them together, all hell would break lose. Rumors were going around in Konoha that whoever survives the fight between these both girls would be dubbed, 'The Devil's Rose'
'Devil for Sakura-chan's strength and Hinata-chan's torturing fighting style and the rose is for their womanhood' shutter Naruto, thinking of the winner of their fight.
Jumping from tree to tree, Naruto can't help but sense they're being followed. He can tell that the girls can sense it too.
Side glancing back to the girls, Naruto nodded as he jumps back.
"Taijuu Kage Bunshin no jutsu!!!" fifty Naruto clones appeared into the scene, throwing kunai's everywhere.
"Naruto-kuns, nine to the left, fifteen to the right, six in the middle!!" shouted Hinata, who activated her byakugan when Naruto jumped back.
"Alright, lets party!!!" shouted Narutos as they split to take care of the enemies from the left, right, and in the middle.
The enemies jumped into the air, showing themselves to be the sound ninja. They threw kunai at the three leaf ninjas.
'A diversion' thought Sakura, feeling the ground quaking slightly.
Making a fist, Sakura screams as she punches the ground, causing a humungous crater. Hinata ran through the floating rocks after the impact of Sakura's punch to take care of the incoming intruder.
A huge giant ogre with a snake's head hiss at seeing Hinata as she slams her palm into the ogre snake's chest, causing blood to come out.
Screaming, she places her feet onto the ogre snake's chest and jumps, causing the ogre snake to crash back into the ground and Hinata safely landing on a three branch. Upon impact, Hinata jumps again and slams both her glowing palms into the ogre snake's neck.
The ogre snake hiss in agony, feeling his blood entering is organs. To end it, Hinata lifts herself up until she was standing on her hands over the ogre snake's chest. Her body glowed the color of her hair as she screams, with an explosion occurring after that.
The force of the explosion cause Hinata to jump into the air as she rolled herself down until she landed in front of the ogre snake, knowing that she destroyed the ogre snake's backbone.
Narutos manage to get all the sound ninja together, knowing that the final move would be made very soon.
"Sakura-chan get ready!!!" Narutos yelled, with Sakura making a good distance between herself and the clones.
All fifty clones went towards the ninjas as they perform the incomplete Uzumaki Naruto Rendan. It was incomplete because the combo didn't finish with a kick to the head, no the final kick was not performed. The reason, because…
Screaming, Sakura ran up a nearby tree and jumps as high as she could into the air. Once that was done, the Narutos did the same. Grabbing together, the Narutos yelled, "Henge!!!"
After a poof, a humungous kunai appeared that can be wielded by a boss summon. Sakura grabs hold of the humungous kunai and twirls it. Smirking at the scared look at the sound ninja's faces, Sakura swung the spinning kunai towards the falling sound ninja, ending the battle.
Landing on the ground, Sakura couldn't help but glare at Hinata who was giggling.
"And what's so funny?"
"Oh, just that you only have a small role in that little scene while I did most of the work" smiles Hinata, looking back at Sakura.
Gritting her teeth, Sakura cracks her fists, saying, "Wanna get fucked up again you little bitch?"
"Oh, please. You're not even worth my time, little girl," mocked Hinata, who laughed behind the back of her hand.
Red with anger, Sakura swung a punch to Hinata who ducked just in time. Byakugan on, Hinata glares at Sakura, saying, "You never learn don't you little hussy?"
"Shut up and die you bitch!!" screams Sakura, elbowing the ground to crack it towards Hinata. Jumping out of the way, Hinata sees Sakura jumping towards her direction with a harden right fist.
Grabbing her fist with her glowing purplish right palm, Hinata pulls Sakura closer to knee her in the stomach.
Sakura's eyes widen as she can feel her chakra decreasing. Grabbing her stomach, Sakura screams, "Genesis of Rebirth!!!"
"Damn you…" grits Hinata, never knowing that Sakura knows that technique. Restoring the damage Hinata caused to her chakra points, Sakura hands glowed pink, ready to deliver one of her special attacks. Running towards to Hinata, Sakura screams. Screaming, Hinata readied herself for the worst.
"Stop fighting!!! The both of you STOP!!!!!!!!!!!"
Stopping, both Sakura and Hinata sees Naruto arriving just in the nick of time. Standing in between both girls and having a hold of their fists, Naruto glares at them disappointed.
"I can't believe you girls would stoop this low, during a mission no less! You both told me that you wouldn't fight with one another anymore but look at yourselves now, about to kill each other!"
Looking down, the anger between the girls went away as Naruto slowly released their diminishing fists.
"Now, lets find a hideout to rest for the day to calm ourselves down. We need to be away from this bloody forest as soon as possible" and with that, Naruto jumps away to find a hideout.
Without a word, both girls went to Naruto's direction. Seeing the disappointing look in the eyes of the one they love, they feel so…
Naruto can't still figure out why Sakura and Hinata hate each other so much. They were such good friends back in their younger days but now; they just hate each other with a passion. The only ones who know the history of their hatred are none other than Sakura and Hinata.
The reason why they hate each other all had to do with Naruto. Two years after team 7's final moment together, Sakura sees Naruto hanging out with Hinata more. It seems that they got closer during a mission both of them had prior to her discovery of them together.
She can see that Naruto was not shy around her and in fact, went out on dates with her. Anger filled Sakura, anger at Hinata who succeeding where Sakura herself could not, anger at Naruto for noticing Hinata over her, and anger for herself for rejecting Naruto in the pass and causing him such great pain.
But over a month later, Naruto stopped spending time with Hinata as well. Sakura found out that the both of them never kissed so that brought some joy to her but still… why did he went out with Hinata in the first place? And why avoided Hinata like he does with her? In the end, Sakura never found out but was content anyway. Both girls gave each other evil glares after that and fought a few times, with Tsunade having to break the fights. Which was the reason why their other encounters were dealt outside of Konoha because Tsunade's methods of stopping fights were…painful…
The reasons for Naruto dating Hinata and avoided her like he does with Sakura were pretty obvious but Sakura never figured out. Just like how Naruto never figured out why Sakura and Hinata hates each other.
Discovery
It took almost a whole day but Naruto found a hideout, a little cave at the bottom of a mountain. Naruto hidden it very well with boulders and tree branches, and Sakura's genjutsu.
After making the campfire, Naruto suggested that they get some supplies eat. Hinata offer to hunt animals since her byakugan can see all; Sakura went to gather logs for the fire while Naruto was left to get water to refill their water bottles.
Naruto returned first and refilled the water bottles. Tired, Naruto laid on his sleeping bag, gasping slightly.
'The pain… it's too much…'
Clutching his chest, Naruto groans in pain. Turning over, Naruto vomits blood. He was in so much pain that he slams his head over his blood.
He was in so much pain that he didn't notice one of the girls arriving first.
"OH MY GOD!!! NARUTO-KUN!!!" to say Hinata was worry was the truth. She ran to Naruto's side.
"WHAT'S HAPPENING TO YOU?!?!" activating her byakugan, Hinata searches through Naruto's body and can see the damage inside.
"MY GOD!!! NARUTO-KUN!!! YOU'RE… YOU'RE…"
"Shhh… don't… I don't want her… to know…" mutters Naruto as he vomits blood again.
"Who don't you want to know!?" worried Hinata, smoothing his back with her glowing hands.
"Sa-sa… Sakura… Sakura-chan"
"Naruto-kun…" whispers Hinata as Naruto groans in agony. Forgetting the pained feeling, Hinata went to work with her healing abilities. She managed to smooth Naruto's pain but couldn't cure his illness due to her lack power.
"I'm sorry Naruto-kun, I can heal your agony but not cure whatever it is that's damaging you…" whispers Hinata, feeling the tears coming.
"Don't worry… Hinata-chan, you made the pain go away… something that I had to go through almost every night… thank you" smile Naruto, trying to lift Hinata's spirit.
Looking at the smiling Naruto, Hinata couldn't help but smile. But she just has to know this, and so she asked.
"Naruto-kun…" seeing that she got Naruto's attention, she continues.
"What's wrong with you?"
Seeing that he doesn't have a choice, Naruto began to explain his situation to Hinata. Hinata cried, knowing that her lack of power wasn't the reason why she couldn't find a cure… its because no one has the lack power to cure it… Naruto's illness… is incurable.
"Its not fair…" whispers Hinata, wiping away her tears. Naruto was her hero, a strong man with dreams he could reach because he's Naruto.
Couldn't take the feelings anymore, Hinata went over to Naruto's side and hugs him. Naruto looks down, too tired to push Hinata away so he let her cry over his shoulder.
"Hinata-chan, you shouldn't be this close"
"I don't care!" hugging tighter, Hinata slowly stopped her crying. After a few minutes, she faced Naruto with worried eyes.
"Naruto-kun…"
Inching closer to the man she loves, Hinata closed her eyes. Naruto did nothing but watch, as Hinata was just two centimeters close.
Gasping, Sakura dropped the logs she found in the forest as she sees Hinata just a meter away from touching Naruto's lips.
"You two… but I thought… Naruto… why… how… how long?" cried Sakura as she ran out of the cave.
"Sakura-chan!" pushing Hinata away, Naruto ran after Sakura but Hinata jumped onto him, screaming, "Naruto-kun!! Forget her!! She's hurt you for so long!! She rejected your love long ago!! Just… just forget about her!!"
"I'm sorry Hinata-chan but… but I can't… can't let things like this alone" closing his eyes, he whispers, "I'm sorry… Hinata-chan…" and with that, Hinata let go but not without asking.
"Do you still love her?"
Opening his eyes, Naruto looks at the ground thinking of the answer to that question.
"Naruto-kun, do you still love her?"
"I… I don't know…" and with that, Naruto left after Sakura, leaving Hinata alone.
Running through the forest in the night, Naruto still searches for Sakura. Luck was on his side because he found Sakura standing near a lake where Naruto got the water.
Landing behind her, Naruto sighs. He has no idea where to begin… he has no idea why Sakura thinking he was making out with Hinata bothered him so much… but he does now that he will not let Sakura think that and will tell her that there's nothing between him and Hinata.
"Naruto… why didn't you tell me?"
Looking at Sakura after her question, Naruto was about to answer when Sakura turns around to face him with teary eyes. Both members of team 7 stare at one another until Sakura grits her teeth and made fists.
"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME THAT YOU AND HINATA WERE AN ITEM?!"
"Because we're not Sakura-chan, we're not an item" seeing Sakura not believing a word, Naruto sighs. It seems that he doesn't have a choice.
"Sakura-chan… I'm not well… I'm not very well… I'm sick Sakura-chan. I'm sick with an illness that nobody knows… because I didn't want anyone to know," revealed Naruto starring at Sakura's widening eyes.
"Illness? What… what kind of illness?" asks Sakura with such worry.
"I… I'm not sure but… I do know that I don't want you to know. Hinata-chan… knows from her byakugan but… I don't want you or anyone else to know… at least… not yet"
"Naruto…" walking closer to him, Sakura hugs him. Smoothing his head, Sakura whispers, "Naruto… as much as I hate knowing that Hinata knows something about you that I don't… I will respect your wish and wait until you're ready to tell me… but as a medical-nin, I must do a checkup on you… because I'm worried about you… please, okay?"
Silence…
"Naruto? Naruto, you okay?" releasing the hug, Sakura gasps at seeing Naruto grimacing in pain.
"Naruto, speak to me! Naruto!" glowing her hands, Sakura went to check his inner body to see what was the cause of Naruto's current pain.
"Naruto!!" screams Sakura as Naruto coughs out blood. Falling to the ground, Naruto screams as he vomits blood.
"Oh my god!!! Naruto!!!" putting more chakra into her hands, Sakura began to heal him from whatever that's causing his vomiting.
It seems to have work since Naruto seems to be coughing less. Seeing that Naruto was healed, Sakura stopped the healing process and hugs him crying.
"Naruto…"
"I won't… I won't go down that easy… until I fulfill my promise… to you… Sakura-chan…" whispers Naruto.
"Naruto… you baka" said Sakura, slowly crying less now.
"Wha…"
"Naruto, the truth is… is that…" taking a deep breath, Sakura decided enough was enough. It was now or never, time to be brave and tell him the truth.
"I…"
"Sakura-chan… you love Sasuke, right?"
That stopped Sakura from confessing. Hearing Naruto saying that hurts her, it hurts her because Naruto still thinks she's in love with Sasuke. That angered her.
"Naruto… I don't have feelings for Sasuke-kun… not… not anymore… I think of him as a brother now Naruto"
"Sakura-chan… either way, I'm still going to fulfill my promise of a lifetime to you… even to my death. Sakura-chan I…"
"I've longed for you…" there, Sakura finally admitted it.
"Wha…" but Naruto couldn't finish the sentence because Sakura closed the gap between them. Naruto, for the first time in his entire life, was experiencing his first female kiss.
Minutes have passed but it felt eternity for the both of them. Naruto slowly kissed her back, making Sakura happy that he responded to her feelings. Sakura was happy that tears fell from her eyes again but she doesn't care. All that matters is the kiss she's experiencing with the one she loves.
Some time later, both moved away. Both could see a trail of saliva between their lips. Their eyes glazed with love and passion.
"Naruto… I'm sorry…" said Sakura with sadden eyes.
"Sorry? Sorry for what Sakura-chan?" asks the worried Naruto as he cups her cheek.
Crying with sadness, Sakura continues, "I'm sorry for all the hardships I've caused you, all the pain and suffering. All the rejection and the hitting, I'm sorry… (sniffs) I felt so stupid for falling for Sasuke when the one I've always wanted… was you"
"Sakura-chan…"
"Naruto… for the last ten years, I've done nothing but trying to win you over. I've done whatever I could to get you to notice me but you always run away from me, something that I can't blame you for. (Smoothing his cheek) Naruto, I've treasured those moments we had together… I can't live without you… I don't want to live without you… I want you… and only you… and I want you to want me just as much… do… do you?"
Smoothing the hand over his cheek, Naruto smiles.
"Sakura-chan… I do want you… I love you Sakura-chan…" and with that, Naruto closed the gap this time and kissed her. Sakura moans through the kiss as she wraps her arms around his neck. The passion between the two grew immensely.
Remembering the mission, Naruto suddenly pulled himself from the kiss, reluctant as he was.
"Sakura-chan, we can't… the mission… and Hinata-chan…" but Sakura didn't care.
"Who cares, ignore them, fuck them" such powerful words that Naruto never knew existed. Such powerful and moving words that Naruto did just that… he didn't care about the mission or Hinata… he ignored the two… fuck them… What was important was the lovely specimen in front of him… kissing him… showing him with love. The passion extremely grew immensely between the two.
Pulling away to capture air, both of them stare at one another. Their eyes glazed with love and passion… and lust.
Kissing her neck, Naruto puts his hand over Sakura's chest, softly squeezing her breast. Sakura moans at the touch and covers his hands. Sakura rubbed her thighs together over the passion growing between them over the fact of Naruto's licking over her neck.
"Naruto…" moaned Sakura with lust.
"Sakura… chan…" whispers Naruto with passion.
Laying Sakura down, Naruto began to shower her with his love. Forgetting about the world, both Naruto and Sakura began the first night… of the rest of their lives.
A ninja must never be caught. For Naruto and Sakura, that rule was lost to them. Lucky for them those sound ninja from earlier were the only sound ninja in the area. The hideout was still miles away.
In the forest, there was a distinct sound of love and passion. You don't need the byakugan to know what was going on, Hinata knows.
Crying was the only thing Hinata can do right now. For the next few days, she would need to be out of tears. She needs to be brave when the time came… when its…
'I see now… I can see why you decided to go out with me years ago… and finally know why you spend less time with me after that… Naruto-kun… I'm… I'm letting you go… you deserve to be happy' and with that, Hinata wipes the tears away and went to sleep… tried to.
Surprises: It Begins…
Three days later…
"There's the base…" mutters Hinata as she can see with her byakugan activated.
"You sure?" asks Naruto, not wanting to reveal themselves to any nearby enemies.
"Positive" confirms Hinata.
"Okay, Sakura-chan you know what to do" said Naruto looking at Sakura who nodded.
"Got it" and with that, Sakura's hands glowed. Making hand signs, Sakura began to chant.
"Kai"
Suddenly, the powerful genjutsu around the hidden base started to blur. Waving was more like it was it revealed the hidden sound ninja base.
"Okay, now its my turn" said Naruto, ready to do his part.
"I'm coming with you," stated Sakura after turning Naruto around to face her. She was serious about it too.
"I'm coming too" said Hinata, not wanting to leave Naruto with all the work.
"Very well then, don't do something I wouldn't do" smiled Naruto as both girls smiles back.
"Lets rumble" and with that, Naruto's team jump towards the hidden base to assassinate them all.
Screams and weapons clash. The sound ninja fought back against three leaf ninjas.
Hinata, with byakugan activated, blocked all their taijutsu's moves while capturing flying weapons.
Seeing some of the sound ninjas preparing to use their sound jutsus, Hinata grins. Closing the chakra points of the taijutsu users, Hinata caught a giant boulder blade with her hands.
That was the cue to release the sound jutsus. Unleashing sound waves from weapons, motored armor arm plates, and from instruments, Hinata's chakra bursts out of her.
Kaiten was activated without her doing anything. Her kaiten was much more powerful than an average kaiten and requires no spinning of the body. With byakugan activated, Hinata can see the shock looks on their faces.
Walking towards them, Hinata sees some ninjas doing some summoning. Giant ogres with marked paper tapes over their faces growl at Hinata.
'This would take a while'Sakura dodges a swing of a giant blade as she spun a kick around herself towards the sound ninjas.
Catching the blade with her right hand, she tips it over so she can grab the handle. Smirking, Sakura sees herself surrounded by more upcoming sound ninja.
Tapping at the point where the blade meets the hilt, Sakura prepared herself with the sword. As some ran towards her while others prepared for their sound jutsus, Sakura swung the blade.
"What a stupid move girl!!" laughed the running sound ninjas as they jumped away from the giant sword's path but they soon see the reason of her use of the giant blade.
There was a reason why she tapped at the point where the blade meets the hilt. When she swung the giant blade, the sword was thrown out of the hilt and sliced the sound ninja over to Sakura's right side in half.
Blood gushed all over Sakura's right side as the sound ninja can see blood dripping over her right side of her face. Evil glaring eyes and a smirk with blood dripping from her face, Sakura only said one thing.
"Die"
Throwing the hilt into the air, Sakura ran towards the sound ninja in front of her. Angered, the ninja unleashed their sound jutsus but Sakura had a counter for those.
Stopping, Sakura slams her foot towards the ground, causing a giant pillar of earth in front of her. The sound jutsus hit the earth pillar, cracking it apart but Sakura was nowhere in sight.
Screaming, earth pillars suddenly bursts from the ground through the sound ninjas. Sakura jumps out from the ground as she lands in front of two earth pillars.
Slamming her fists over the pillars behind her, she grab hold a couple of earth spikes after the pillars crumble from her impact.
Smirking sinisterly, Sakura threw the spikes over the sound ninja around herself. Such a foolish move since the sound ninja unleashed their sound jutsus. But wait a minute!!!
The earth spikes never crumble into pieces as the spikes went through their foreheads. Blood gushed out from their foreheads, as they lay on the ground, dead.
The sound ninja that was caught in Sakura's powerful genjutsu ran towards her in blind rage.
'Hmm, I guess my genjutsu missed a few' thought Sakura as she crack her knuckles.
Ducking from a jump kick, Sakura punches a sound ninja into the air as she jumps back from a sound wave jutsu.
Jumping backwards until she was near an earth pillar, she jumps up until she was standing over on. Looking around to count how many were left over at her end, Sakura bends down to grab the pillar.
Lifting the pillar up, Sakura was falling down as she slams the pillar over them. Some were squash while others jumped away. Sakura jumped over the broken parts from the pillar as stepping-stones while grabbing a few and throwing them at the sound ninjas.
After getting them all, Sakura landed on the ground as she fails to notice a sound ninja who used genjutsu to disguise himself invisible. Swinging his sword to unleash a sound wave jutsu, he gasps as he sees Sakura already did notice him and pretended not to so he could appear.
Blood gush over Sakura's face as she pulled her arm out of the sound ninja's chest. In her hands was his heart as she closed her hand, squishing the heart.
"Hmm, so there's still more of you, huh? Come on then, I haven't had a challenge for awhile now" smirks Sakura as more sound ninja appear with summon monsters with them.
"ARRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"
Screams Naruto as he used taijutsu to fight them. Jumping from one ninja to another, Naruto so far is winning.
Grabbing a hold of a sound ninja's head, he slams his head over his knee, causing his blood to stain his pants. A second later, he places the sound ninja in front of him to receive a sword strike. Catching the sword with the body, Naruto pushed the body over to the owner of the sword as he jumps over them both.
Kicking the sword owner towards another sound ninja, he sees the sword slicing through another ninja.
Ducking, Naruto threw multiple kunais around himself.
"Taijuu Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!!!" suddenly fifty Naruto clones appear. Jumping into the air, the Naruto clones placed exploding tags over their chests.
"Taijuu Kage Shuriken!!!!!!" screamed the clones as they threw endless supply of kunais to the sound ninja below.
With the kunais distracting them, the clones threw each other towards the sound ninja, causing an explosion over the battlefield.
Naruto, who was standing over a nearby rooftop, sees the fire blazing from the kamikaze clones.
Eyes widen, Naruto was stabbed with multiple kunais from behind. Blood gushed out from the wounds and coughs out blood as the hidden sound ninja unleashed their sound wave jutsus to them, catching him.
They laugh as they see blood gushing out of Naruto's eyes, mouth, nose, and every hole on his body. The sound wave jutsu was so powerful that Naruto's body started to break apart.
"You got to do better than that, believe it"
Eyes widen, they see the dying Naruto poof. Turning around, they can see Naruto with two rasengans in his hands.
"Taijuu Kage Rasengan!!!!!" screaming, Naruto threw the rasengans towards the sound ninja, over and over again.
Pain cursed through his veins as Naruto fell onto his knees. Sweating, Naruto held his head in pain as he slams his head towards the ground.
'The pain… its much more worse now… argh!!!!! Is it time already?!' thought Naruto in agony as he coughs blood.
The remaining few sound ninja that manage to avoid the rasengans ran towards the fallen Naruto and was prepared to unleash their sound wave jutsus.
Naruto could see through pained eyes the upcoming attacks but he was in too much pain to do anything about it.
Although the attacks came, it wasn't how Naruto imagined it. What strike him was gushes of blood over his body. Looking up, Naruto gasps at seeing the sound ninja sliced everywhere just a few meters in front of him. What the hell just happen?!
"Good to see you again, dobe"
Eyes widen, Naruto looks behind to see Sasuke standing there putting away his sword.
"Sasuke-teme…" whispers Naruto as he coughs more blood.
"Naruto…" mutters the worried Sasuke as he went to check up on Naruto. Feeling his heartbeat bumping like crazy, Sasuke has one option left.
"Sharingan"
With the sharingan on, Sasuke looks deep within the soul of Naruto to see the cause of his current pain. What he saw shocked him greatly…
Inside the seal, Sasuke can see the jail cell that the great kyuubi was once trapped in. The bars and notes are all broken and destroyed but…
"The seal is still there… why? The seal should have been broken… it shouldn't be here anymore… unless… my god… the seal is still active… but why?" discovered Sasuke, seeing the seal glowing deep within the cell.
Laughter was within the room as Sasuke looks for the source of the sinister laughter.
"Foolish mortal…"Eyes widen, Sasuke looks back to see a floating chakra source… glowing bright orange and red.
"What the… it can't be…" mutters the shocked Sasuke as the floating chakra source slams into Sasuke, causing great pain to him. The pain was too great that Sasuke had no choice but to escape Naruto's body.
Sensing another chakra source, Sakura looks at the direction of the source and notices that it's where Naruto is.
"Naruto…" stricken with worry, Sakura grab a hold of a sound ninja's head and ripped it out. Grabbing another ninja, she slams the head onto the ninja's face.
Sakura glares evilly at the scared sound ninja that remains as they began to run away screaming.
"No sound ninja leaves alive" grits Sakura as she made some hand signs. Chakra bursts out from her body as leaves and flowers grew around her.
"Sakura's Judgement!!" flowers bloomed everywhere in the battlefield as it surrounded the sound ninja.
Flowers of different kind, beauty and beast. The flowers opened their petals to reveal sharp teeth as the flowers enjoyed their food.
Finally taken care of her part, Sakura ran towards Naruto's side when she felt another presence.
Halting, Sakura jumps into the air and threw multiple kunais with exploding tags behind her to see the shadowy figure destroyed them with a swing of his arm.
Landing, Sakura grits her teeth as she can see that this new comer is no sound ninja.
"Who are you?! What business do you have here?!" Sakura wanted to hurry things up, Naruto could be in danger.
"I'm not here to fight Haruno Sakura of Konoha" smiled the bearded man as he bows to the shock Sakura. The bearded man looks to be in his thirties, spiky brown hair with two very short hair lines at the front, wearing a dark blue sweater jacket, dark red sleeves, a white t-shirt with a circular design at the top, a dark red binding over his stomach area, white belt with a metal strap, dark blue jeans that reaches the middle of his upper thighs and cut open from his groin area, black sweatpants, black pair of boots with red designs along with the circular designs and a straw hat.
"H-how you name my name?! You must be a spy!!" making quick hand signs, Sakura was prepared to unleash another one of her jutsus.
"I am not the enemy Miss Haruno, no I am not so please reframe from using one of your "chakra" filled jutsus" smiled the bearded man as Sakura's body froze. She was just one hand sign away before her body couldn't move. Her body wasn't really frozen; it felt more like an unknown pressure was bestowed upon her. Gravity was too much for her for some reason.
"T-h… e a… i-r… f-f… e… e-ls… h-he… e… a-vy" grits Sakura, finding talking was too much even for her.
"I apologize, I manipulated the gravitational pull around you to halt your attacks. I am here to help you"
"W-w… h… o a-r… r-e… y… o-u?" groans Sakura, even breathing was tough.
"My identity is of no importance. I am here because Naruto is in trouble. I am to reframe from interacting with the destiny and fate of all the people in the worlds but that does not limit me to aid those who are important. You see, I have been watching Naruto for the last ten years because of his illness. The term Jinchūriki, which Naruto once was, the purpose still lingers within him. Indeed there is no cure for his illness but that does not mean that it cannot be found. And the only one who can find this cure… the one who could save Naruto… is you. You alone posses the power that would save Naruto" stated the bearded.
Sakura can do only but listen. For some reason, she feels like this man is telling the truth… about wanting to help Naruto. He has this calm aura around him that automatically tells you he's telling the truth. It took Sakura a moment to listen to the guy to notice the calm aura around him.
Feeling her body moving, Sakura can tell that the pressure around her was released. Smoothing her wrists, Sakura asks, "What's your name?"
Smiling, the bearded man went to retrieve an item within his dark blue sweater jacket. Taking out a bottle with glowing green liquid inside, the bearded man places it on the ground.
"This is the substance that will cure him but it would only work if you can manage to stop the source of his troubles. With your knowledge of seals and medical, you can cure Naruto" and with that, the bearded man walks away.
"Oh, and if you must know, my name is Rei" smiled the bearded man as he tips his straw hat to her.
Seeing him disappearing into the shadows, Sakura walked towards the bottle and picks it up. Feeling great power within the bottle, Sakura looks determine. If this stuff was suppose to cure Naruto then she must hurry and find whatever the cause of his sickness and rid of it so she can use this bottle.
Running, Sakura notices Naruto on the ground vomiting blood and gasps at seeing Sasuke there with him.
"Sa-sasuke-kun? What? How? Why?" asks Sakura confusedly as she bends down to smooth Naruto's back.
"Its good to see you again Sakura"
"Are you behind all of this?" glared Sakura, clutching her hardening fists.
"Rest assure Sakura that I have no part in this, only thing I did was helped Naruto rid of these ninjas" explained Sasuke, who still has the sharingan on.
"ARRRGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!" Naruto screams as an unknown force was released everywhere.
Sasuke and Sakura had a hard time trying not to be blown away by this unknown force. Seems like pressure was bursting out of Naruto's screaming which destroyed the houses, tents, and trees around them.
"NARUTO!!!!!!!!!!!!" screams Sakura as even her inhumane strength was having a tough time keeping her there.
"NARUTO-KUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" screams Hinata who was struggling to walk towards the screaming Naruto with her kaiten activated around herself.
Sasuke, with the power of chidori radiating around him, can only do but stand there. The power of his chidori around him is the only thing keeping him there from the pressure of Naruto's screaming.
A bright light blinded the three as Naruto's chakra bursts from his body. They all can see that his chakra was burning the skin off.
"What's happening?!" screams Hinata, shock at seeing such a display.
"I have no idea!!! His chakra isn't suppose to burn his skin off!!!" screams Sakura her answer, knowing full well that kyuubi's chakra was the only chakra source that burned Naruto's skin off… when Naruto was still a Jinchūriki.
Then something happened that surprise them all. The meat showing off on Naruto's body… began to disappear… his skin was trying to connect with one another again, leaving behind small burning smoke… Naruto was healing!!!
"How can Naruto do this?! What's happening to him?! He's not a Jinchūriki anymore so how?!?!?!" screams Sasuke, still having no clue on what's occurring of the situation.
Clutching his head, Naruto slams his head towards the ground, gushing out humungous amount of blood.
Laughter filled the scene as Sasuke, Sakura, and Hinata sees Naruto lifting his head up and smirks menacingly at them.
"My time is arriving!!! I have now the body I need to return to this world!!! I have returned!!!!!!!!!!!" laughed Naruto with a demonic urge in his voice.
Eyes widening, Naruto's bursting chakra ceased as he fainted. The pressure of Naruto's chakra disappeared, releasing the three from the pressure hold.
Running towards Naruto, Sakura checks for an impulse… and she found none…
"WE HAVE TO TAKE HIM BACK TO KONOHA NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" yelled Sakura with droplets of tears, she will not lose Naruto.
"Kuchiyose no jutsu!!!!!!!!!" and with a poof, the snake boss appeared before Sasuke.
"Lets go!!!" shouted Sasuke and with that, all three of them placed Naruto's on the snake's head and off the snake went.
As the snake boss was slitting towards Konoha as fast as he could, Sasuke, Sakura, and Hinata looks at Naruto with concern. Sakura, who was healing him along with Hinata, whispers only one thing that can explain what occurred with Naruto earlier.
"Kyuubi…"
To be continue…
Author's Notes
Well, there you go chapter 2 is finally done. After I send chapter 1 to I started immediately on chapter 2 but only like a page or two. Every day after that, I wrote like a page or two. I finished the chapter last night and right now at noon, I'm writing the author's notes and preview portion of chapter 2. Hopefully, it's good and willing to hear both good and bad reviews. Anyway, later yosh.
Preview"Tsunade-sama, Naruto-kun… Naruto-kun is…"
"Pull together now... dobe…"
"What is a traitor doing back to the village he betrayed?"
"I can see something but… wait, something's glowing…"
"Kyuubi is dead, why do you think somehow the kyuubi is still within Naruto?"
"It shall begin…""Sakura-san, the truth is… Naruto-kun is ill… the sickness… the cause… and its awful effects… I think you should know…"
"I need every one of you to pull this off… with your additional chakra combine, Sakura can pull this off!"
"Naruto… please don't go… I love you…"
"Come Naruto, drink this… drink! DRINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"I can't believe twenty years has passed… since…"
"Doesn't matter what the people thought of him… he still struggle to be the best to fulfill a goal… and now he rests on this peaceful stone where other brave heores now lay… rest in peace…"
"Sakura-chan…"