Chapter 5: Boundary between Life and Death

'Where am I? What am I doing here? Where's everybody? Why am I wearing white? Wasn't I wearing my tuxedo for the prom night?' Naruto thought as he found himself standing at a field on a windy day with no one but him standing there. He began to walk but never got out of the endless field. He didn't know what was going on and started to become confused.

"HEEELOOO!! Anybody here?!" Naruto called out but got no answer. He tried to reach for his phone, which was in his pocket but realized that he had no pocket. He felt alone all of a sudden.

"Mom? Dad? Sakura-chan? Where are you?" Naruto called out again but got no answer. He began to walk again and came across a restaurant so he went in. He took note that people who worked there are all girls and almost all of them had a pink hair. He wondered why but was greeted by one of the workers, which cut him off his thinking.

"Hi! Welcome to Heaven Restaurant! The only restaurant you would want to go to! Come in! This way please!" She exclaimed and led Naruto the way. Naruto followed quietly.

When he was seated the server asked her, "What will you be having sir?" handing Naruto the menu.

"I-I don't have money right now." Naruto said sadly.

"Don't worry! It's all free food today!" The server said.

"Really? Wow! Then I'll be having a miso ramen and a bottle of Pepsi please." Naruto replied.

"Please wait sir. Your order will be here shortly." The server replied and went to the chef.

As he was observing the place, he noticed that there were no people besides him in the restaurant. Seeing as it was like that, he called the server who seated him.

"Yes sir, may I help you?" The girl asked.

"Uh, I hope you don't mind me asking but, why am I the only one eating here? Since you give out free food, I don't see any reason people not to come." Naruto said.

"Well sir, it's because—" before the girl can answer, she was interrupted by the server who came to his table to serve his order.

"Wow, that was fast." Naruto said. The server only smiled at her and went away after serving his order.

"Could you please sit down so we could communicate nicely?" Naruto politely asked the girl, who did what she was told.

"Hi! I'm Uzumaki Naruto!" Naruto said, extending his hand for a handshake.

"Hi! You can call me Sasame!" The girl said, who shook Naruto's hand in return.

"Nice to meet you, Sasame-neechan! So, you were saying awhile ago?" Naruto said.

"What was I talking about? Sorry, I forget things easily." Sasame said.

"I was asking why I am the only one eating here." Naruto replied.

"Oh, that." Sasame said.

"It's because this restaurant is a deciding place, a boundary." Sasame explained sadly.

"Boundary? Deciding place of what?" Naruto asked, totally confused.

"It is a boundary.. between life and death, a deciding place.. if you're gonna die or not." Sasame said.

Naruto suddenly spit out the ramen in front of him. Good thing Sasame wasn't seating in front of him. The ramen flew onto the next table.

"WHAT?! Are you saying that I'm dead? Dying?" Naruto asked, now surprised.

"You're not yet dead. Like I said, this is the place that decides whether you die or not. If you die, you'll taken to the direction of the backdoor, but if you live, you will disappear here and your soul would be back on earth, to your body. Maybe you're dying. Could you remember what happened to you before you came here?" Sasame asked again. This scared Naruto but he kept his composure and answered Sasame's question.

"I remember protecting a girl important to me. I took the gunshot for her and I passed out. Then I woke up in a field and I kept walking until I came here." Naruto said.

"Oh, I see." Sasame said.

"How do I know if I die or not?" Naruto asked.

"You're gonna have to wait. If one of your body systems fail, you die, but if the doctors save you, then you'll live." Sasame said.

"Waiting, huh? I felt like I've done that many times already. I think it wouldn't hurt to do it one more time. More ramen please!" Naruto said, then yelled out to the server. The sever obliged and told the chef.

Meanwhile at the Operating Room:

"Doctor, we removed the bullet but he is still bleeding freely. He's lost a great amount of blood. I think we need a blood transfusion." The first doctor asked while putting pressure on the area of the gunshot.

"Yes. Did you get what type of blood he has?" The second doctor replied.

"It's an O-negative type blood. We need it quickly." The first doctor replied.

"Do we have it on the blood bank?" The second doctor asked.

"No, we just ran out today." The first doctor said.

"Shit! You, go ask his companions outside if someone has an O-negative type blood quick!" The second doctor said to the third doctor in the room. The third doctor obliged and headed out of the room.

The door opened and Minato was the only one waiting. He walked up to the doctor and asked him, "How is my son? Is the bullet removed?" worry was evident in his voice.

"Yes, the bullet has been successfully removed, but he is currently suffering from a great blood loss, we suggest that we have a blood transfusion. He has an O-negative blood type so we need someone who has an O-negative blood type, too or else we cannot perform the transfusion and he might.." The third doctor said.

"I think I better call them. I am not compatible because I have O-positive." Minato said and dialled his phone to call Kushina.

The girls were eating at a nearby ramen stall when Kushina's phone suddenly rang. She answered it quickly, seeing that it was Minato.

"Minato. What happened? How's Naruto? Is he okay now?" Kushina quickly said.

"We need to get someone who has an O-negative type blood now! I will explain when you get here but we need it fast! Don't volunteer yourself 'cause you're anemic! I can't afford to worry about the two of you at the same time." Minato said while almost panicking.

"Who has an O-negative type blood here? We need it fast!" Kushina practically screamed in the stall.

"I have O-negative type blood." Sakura said while standing from her seat.

"Minato, Sakura has O-negative blood type. We're on our way there. Tell the doctors to prepare the necessary equipment so we could start as soon as we get there." Kushina said and ended her call.

"Let's go, quick! Naruto needs a blood transfusion!" Kushina said while running to the hospital. Ino and Sakura followed and ran like her pace.

Another update! It's short, I know. Don't worry, the next chapter will be longer than this.. at least I think it is:) Read and Review as usual!:)Thanks to all my readers and reviewers! I corrected this chapter because of some conflict with science. I'm really sorry about that! I guess I wasn't paying attention to Biology when we were discussing it.. Haha.. I'm so sorry!!:) Thanks to the anonymous reviewer for correcting me!:))