-1An Eye For An Eye
Chapter 4
Yeah ok well what's up again guys! Here's chapter 4 I'm sorry if this took longer then the others, but during the whole weekend and presidents day I didn't write for some unknown reason but whatever. Thank you guys for the reviews it makes me feel good when I get them lol, also sorry if you guys don't like the current Naruto, but that's how he is, a crazy, on the verge of a breakdown, psychopath also sorry in advance for all of the -with 'whoever'- things but I couldn't think of anything to do with that since I have peoples points of views happening at the same time. if you have a suggestion of what I could do other then that please pm me or tell me in a review I would greatly appreciate it. Well anyway just please keep reviewing cause as I said it makes me feel good on the inside lol and well I hope you guys enjoy this chapter.
I don't own Naruto and I don't have a stupid joke to go with it so….sorry
"Character talking"
'Character thinking'
"Kyuubi Talking"
Commentary
Jutsu
After team 7 had left the Hokage's office they were forced to wait for their Sensei, which was annoying Naruto greatly.
"Come on! I want to go find the damn cat already!" At this Sasuke just looked at him still wondering what was up with the Blond, while Sakura was actually very worried about Naruto.
'There has to be something wrong.' Sakura thought to herself, 'Maybe it's family issues or something…wait does Naruto even have a family?' Sakura was thinking hard over this, because as far as she could remember she had never seen Naruto with anyone who could be related to him. Unless they just didn't look anything alike, but that was highly doubtful. Sakura was thinking very deeply about this subject when she was snapped out of her thoughts by Kakashi, who was walking out of the Hokage's office. He had one hand in his pocket while his other was holding his prized book in front of his face so he could read it. When he made it over to his team he put the book away and started to instruct them.
"Ok team we're going to go look around Konaha in search of this cat, as you may have guessed. I also have something for you guys that will help you keep in touch with each other during this mission." After Kakashi finished, he pulled out four headsets. "These will keep us in contact with one another throughout the mission, just in case someone needs anything or has some information about the location of the cat." He then handed one to each of the team, and put one on himself. He then looked at his team again, "So you guys got any questions or are we good?"
Naruto and Sasuke didn't respond at all, but Sakura was a different story,
"So what does the cat look like Sensei? How should we know if we got the wrong cat?" Kakashi just chuckled at this,
"Don't worry you'll know if its the right cat when you see it or not." Sakura just looked confused while Naruto and Sasuke didn't seem to care at all. They all then walked out of the Hokage Tower, and Kakashi then started to walk off towards the center of Konaha,
"See you guys when you find the cat!" He yelled behind him as he disappeared into the hoards of people walking around the streets of Konaha.
Naruto then started walking his own way, which was to the left of where they were currently at. He didn't wave or anything he just kept walking until he suddenly disappeared in a swirl of leaves. Sasuke just got angry when he saw this,
'Since when can Naruto use The Shushin (Body Flicker)!?' Sasuke screamed in his head. He knew he was currently behind Naruto in terms of power, but now it seemed that they were in a completely different league strength wise. The more he thought about it the angrier he got. Sasuke started walking away really pissed off. Sasuke had started walking in the opposite direction of Naruto which was to the right. Sakura was confused as to why Sasuke got so angry all of a sudden and marched away, for she hadn't seen Naruto use The Shushin. Sakura thought about following Sasuke until she decided she would just follow Naruto, but when she turned around and faced where he had walked he was gone. Sakura was shocked.
'Where did Naruto go!?' Sakura thought completely shocked that her teammate has just vanished. Sakura then figured that it would be better if she just went in a different direction then everyone else. She came up with this conclusion, because she figured Sasuke was really pissed off and well she also figured more ground would get covered if she walked in a different direction.
-With Naruto-
Naruto was looking all over for the cat. He desperately wanted to find it. For some reason he was really excited about killing it. He knew there was no chance he could just catch it, he knew that if he found it, then it would die no question about it.
'Where is the damn thing! This is really annoying! I need to find it before-' Naruto was cut out of his thoughts by a sudden sound from a nearby tree. Naruto was instantly in the tree, in the exact spot, where the sound had come from. He was looking all over for it and started to climb higher up into the tree. Naruto was now at the top looking franticly for the cat when he heard something below him. Naruto's attention instantly was where he heard the sound. He was looking all around when he saw a cat run out into the open. Naruto was instantly on the ground where the cat had just been. Naruto took off full speed his claws now out and ready to kill.
-With Kakashi-
Kakashi had just been walking down the street when he saw a cat run across the clearing up ahead. He laughed then started following it. Kakashi was losing it fast, so he figured he would just take the roofs instead of the streets. Kakashi continued following the cat until he saw it go up into a tree that was nearby his current location. Kakashi figured he would just wait and see who was the first member on his team to get the cat. Kakashi pulled out his book and started to read, but was quickly interrupted by Naruto running down the street. Kakashi decided he should hide his chakra signature, and just watch what Naruto would do. Kakashi saw Naruto stop and look at where the cat was just at and then instantly he was there. Kakashi was shocked at Naruto's speed.
'When did Naruto get so fast?' Kakashi thought to himself amazed.
Kakashi gained his focus back and saw that Naruto was at the top of the tree looking around. Kakashi then saw the cat run into the clear and apparently so did Naruto as he was instantly where it had just been. Naruto was looking around, and then stood still, which Kakashi assumed was him listening to hear the cat out. Kakashi then noticed something shocking. Naruto once again had claws, but Kakashi didn't know if he, once again, had fangs or not. The claws however were enough of a sign for Kakashi to know something was up. Kakashi swiftly moved over to another roof that was closer to Naruto. Naruto was just standing there until his eyes shot open and he growled rather loudly, which in turn shocked Kakashi. Kakashi did however notice that Naruto did in fact have fangs once again, which worried him deeply. Naruto then took off in another direction ,and jumped up into the air. Kakashi followed right with Naruto and noticed that Naruto was going to pounce on the cat. Naruto had his mouth wide and his claws were ready to tear the cat to pieces.
"DIE!" Naruto screamed out as he was now only inches away from tearing into the cat's flesh, the same exact cat he supposed to bring with him, not kill. Kakashi then went into action as he quickly grabbed the cat and got out of Naruto's way.
'Dammit Naruto is going crazy! This isn't good!' Kakashi said to himself.
"Kakashi!" Naruto screamed. "You stole my meal!" Naruto was really pissed off now, he lunged at Kakashi just for Kakashi to dodge him. Naruto was on all fours now, and was showing his fangs while snarling rather deeply. Kakashi was just panicking. He didn't know what to do.
'I guess I have to knock him out' Kakashi thought as he waited for Naruto to attack.
Naruto was going crazy, he wanted that cat so badly it was killing him. He actually was imagining what the cat tasted like, before he even got it, which in turn was making his mouth water.
"I need that damn cat!" Naruto screamed at the top of his lungs. Kakashi was really panicking as he felt two familiar chakra signatures approaching where him and Naruto stood. Sasuke and Sakura were both approaching rather fast as they heard through the headsets what was going on between the two. Sakura was worried not only about their Sensei, but also about Naruto, Something was very wrong with him as of lately. Sasuke on the other hand was worried at what Naruto was going to do when he saw himself and Sakura show up at the scene. He didn't know how he would react to their appearance in the area.
Naruto charged at Kakashi with his claws out desperate to get the cat from his grasp. Naruto missed the cat, however he did get something out of his attack. Naruto licked the blood off of his claws and it was better then he expected it to be. Kakashi on the other hand wasn't so happy with what had happened. He now had a deep wound on his right side right under his rib cage. Kakashi could have avoided the attack if he would have known it was aimed at him, but he thought Naruto was only out for the cat.
-With Sasuke and Sakura-
Sasuke was running towards where he heard some commotion when he caught sight of Sakura running towards the area also. Sasuke decided he would join up with Sakura and see if she knew what was going on.
"Sakura!" Sasuke said loudly as he got close to her.
Sakura looked over at Sasuke, "Hey Sasuke-Kun do you know what's going on!?"
Sasuke just shook his head. "I have no idea, I was hoping you would know."
Sakura blushed a little, but they kept running for the rest of the time in silence until they saw Kakashi and what they saw shocked them.
"What…the…hell." Was all Sasuke could get out.
-With Kakashi and Naruto-
Kakashi was frantic, he needed to knock Naruto out before Sasuke and Sakura got there, and they were approaching at dangerous speeds.
'Dammit! Think Kakashi…Think!' Kakashi was screaming to himself.
Naruto was getting more pissed off by the second.
"I want my food Kakashi!" He screamed as he charged Kakashi at alarming speeds. Kakashi was caught off guard and got slashed by Naruto's claws again and was actually bit on his arm. Kakashi swung Naruto off, but Naruto took a chunk of Kakashi's flesh with him. Kakashi was now unsure of what to do. He was bleeding profusely from his right arm while both his right side wasn't far from that amount of damage either. He was running out of time and he knew it. Kakashi decided he would do something crazy in order to end this. Kakashi tied the cat to the ground with some chakra strings he had with him, and backed away slowly.
"That's better!" Naruto screamed as he lunged at the cat. Only for Kakashi to put himself in front of the cat at the last second. Naruto dug his claws into Kakashi's back and was sliding down it, which was ripping Kakashi's back open until it suddenly stopped. Kakashi slowly turned to see his clone with a knocked out Naruto over his shoulder. Kakashi smiled and he then noticed his clone poof away, and Naruto fall to the ground. Kakashi frowned at the fact that there was blood all over Naruto's hands and some around his mouth, but he would worry about that later. Kakashi was trying to think of how to explain this as everything around him slowly turned black, and then he left the realm of consciousness.
-With Sasuke and Sakura-
Sasuke and Sakura had arrived and the first thing they saw was a Kakashi laying on the ground covered in blood and right next to him was Naruto who was also drenched in blood. Then next to both of them was the cat who was scared out of its mind.
"W-What the hell h-happened?" Sakura stuttered out, scared out of her mind.
"I don't know, but we should take Naruto and Kakashi to the hospital." Sasuke said, but then noticed that cat. "Dammit we still have this stupid cat to take care of to." Sasuke said pissed off, and annoyed. Sasuke then turned to Sakura, "Ok Sakura take this stupid cat to the Hokage Tower and give it to Hokage-Sama…I'll…take Kakashi to the hospital since he seems to be the worst hurt out of the two. Then after that we can get Naruto." Sakura just nodded and when Sasuke went over to pick up the cat it scratched him in the face making him bleed a little. Sakura chuckled slightly at Sasuke's reaction as he was about ready to kill the cat, as she ran away with it.
-With Sasuke-
Sasuke was having one hell of a time taking Kakashi to the hospital. It was always fun carrying someone three times your weight over the distance of a mile. Sasuke was sweating like crazy trying to move Kakashi at a steady pace, but it was becoming to much for Sasuke. He was about to fall when he felt the weight vanish from his back, but he could still feel the blood stains Kakashi's body had left on his shirt and shorts. Sasuke turned around to find the weirdest looking guy he had ever seen. He was wearing a green spandex suit with weird orange things around his calves down to his ankles. What got Sasuke the most however was the man's eyebrows…they were by far the biggest, bushiest, and weirdest eyebrows he had ever seen. Sasuke just stared at the man. The weird man then turned to Sasuke and said,
"Thank you for using your flames of youth to carry Kakashi all this way, but now let my flames of youth take over and take him the rest of the way to the hospital!" The weird man yelled as he put Kakashi on his back. Sasuke was still just staring at the weird man, and it was actually starting to creep the weird guy out. Sasuke then turned and started walking back to where Naruto was as the weird man ran full sprint towards the Hospital.
-With Sakura-
Sakura couldn't understand why Sasuke had trouble with this cat. It didn't give her any trouble at all…it was actually the best behaving animal she had ever seen. Sakura however the whole time back had been thinking about Naruto. For some reason, she had, as of lately, been thinking about the blond nonstop and wasn't thinking about Sasuke at all. She was wondering what Naruto was like when he was with people he was really close to, and if by some chance he acted the same as he did around everyone else, she wondered why he acted that way. Sakura was so caught up in her thoughts that she didn't even notice that she was standing right in front of the Hokage Tower. She quickly got over it and walked in. Sakura figured that this was an urgent matter so she just walked up the stairs and into the Hokage's Office.
"Umm Hokage-Sama-" Sakura began, unsure of what to say. To this comment Sandaime turned around and smiled, "Hello Sakura what can I do for you?" The Sandaime asked kindly, and to this Sakura just held up the cat. Sandaime paused for a second before sighing, "Sakura you should have got your team together and then reported to me, but-" Sandaime was cut off mid sentence by Sakura, "Yes I know Hokage-Sama, but Kakashi-Sensei and Naruto got hurt so Sasuke had to take Kakashi to the hospital while I reported to you." Sakura explained and to this Sandaime just nodded, "Do you know what happened to Kakashi and Naruto?" Sakura just shook her head, "No, when me and Sasuke-Kun arrived there they were both on the ground covered in blood." Sandaime just nodded and then thought to himself,
'I hope they didn't get attacked by enemy ninja that would make things very complicated.'
Sandaime then looked at Sakura, "Ok Sakura you may leave, and thank you for the report." Sakura just nodded, put the cat down on the Hokage's desk, and ran out the door.
Sandaime just sat there thinking to himself, before the cat started attacking him for no reason, "What the hell!" Sandaime screamed as he threw the cat across the room.
-With Naruto-
Naruto slowly opened his eyes, and at first everything was blurry, but then after a couple of seconds his vision became clear as he slowly sat up. Naruto had no idea why he was on the ground or covered in blood. He just looked around to see a group of about ten people standing around him. Naruto silently swore under his breath, for he saw the smirks on some faces and the anger on others.
'This is just what I need! To wake up and have to fight ten people by myself…well at least they're just villagers. This shouldn't be a problem as long as some Shinobi don't join in.' Naruto thought to himself as he slowly stood up, and instantly got a bloodthirsty smirk on his face. Naruto looked at the group with his eyes wide, not with fear however, nope, this was from excitement. Naruto started walking towards one of the villagers, when he suddenly he felt some new chakra signatures appear. Naruto turned around and instantly felt bad about his current situation as five Shinobi appeared. They were all at least Chuunin level, which would also be a problem. Naruto just sighed as he felt someone approaching him and then everything went black. Then a moment later he was back to the fight, but he didn't have a chance to do anything as he was repeatedly kick in the face and thrown in different directions. Naruto quickly got up after being thrown about twenty feet, and looked at the surrounding area. He saw that all of the villagers were on the ground bleeding, but he knew they weren't dead, because every now and then he would see one move slightly. Naruto then turned his attention back to the ninjas in front of him.
-With Sasuke-
Sasuke had been running back to where Naruto and Kakashi had been found at, because the more Sasuke thought about it, he really didn't know how hurt Naruto had been. They had, just on instinct, taken the one that was visibly more injured, not the one that was for sure the most injured. Sasuke turned the corner onto the street that Naruto and Kakashi had been laying on when they found them, and Sasuke could hear commotion up ahead.
'Dammit! Naruto you better be ok, and not have started trouble with people!' Sasuke thought to himself as he continued to run towards all the commotion. Sasuke only had to run a little ways more until what he was looking for came into view and said thing was totally different then Sasuke was expecting. Naruto was fighting a mob of people, and shockingly enough was actually keeping up with them, if not winning. Sasuke would have jumped in to help Naruto if it wasn't for the fact that every once in awhile a villager would go flying, hit the ground, and not get back up, which meant that Naruto was slowly decreasing the numbers of his opponent, and winning at the same time. Sasuke was actually enjoying the fight. Naruto had just beat the last villager, and the few Shinobi, that were there, weren't looking to good themselves.
So Sasuke just figured he would keep watching until the fight was over. Sasuke was watching with a smirk on his face until he saw Naruto get hit in the stomach, and what Sasuke saw surprised him to an unbelievable extent. When Naruto had got hit he looked like he had only then realized he was fighting a group of people, and then right after that look Naruto got hit a few more times in the face, thrown, hit again, thrown again, then hit one last time before being thrown for the last time. Sasuke was getting ready to jump in when he saw Naruto get to his feet after the last throw. Naruto seemed to be back, and was prepared to fight again. Sasuke started to relax a little, but was ready incase he needed to jump in so he could help out his teammate.
-With Naruto-
Naruto was watching the ninjas with interest. He wanted to see just how strong they were even if it meant taking a beating. Naruto quickly ducked as a foot went over his head, said foot had came from a Shinobi that had just recently appeared behind Naruto. Naruto did a couple back flips and spins, and then once again was out of harms way. Naruto then saw all of the ninjas charging him at once, Naruto's eye's widened with shock at the speeds they were moving, and how good their teamwork was. After dodging a couple of assaults on himself Naruto jumped back only to slip slightly. It wasn't a very bad slip, but it was enough for the Shinobi to be all over Naruto.
"Dammit" Naruto said in almost a whisper as he got hit in the face by one of the Shinobi' s and sent flying a couple of feet only to get kneed in the face by another one of the group. Naruto slowly stood up, his mouth was bleeding heavily, and even though Naruto would have never admitted it, he loved the taste of blood, when the rabbit incident had happened he hated the taste of the rabbit's blood in his mouth, but having the taste in his mouth for the entire day got the better of him as he actually started liking the taste. Naruto spit some of the blood out of his mouth as he drank some of it as well. Naruto then smirked which revealed his blood covered teeth and his fangs, which in turn freaked the hell out of the ninjas standing across from him.
Naruto then pushed some chakra into his hands as his claws formed. At this the Shinobi's eyes widened.
"See! He really is a demon! He's growing claws!" One of the ninja shouted while pointing at Naruto. At this comment Naruto just chuckled lightly and launched himself at the Shinobi as he screamed, "HELL YEAH I'M A DEMON!" Naruto figured that there was no point in denying the fact that he was a demon, even if it wasn't true. Naruto knew that no matter what happened he would always be thought of as a demon, and nothing he did could change that. So he decided that it would make people fear him more if he admitted to it.
Naruto went straight into the middle of the ninjas and started parrying their blows and even grabbed their hands a couple of times, and when he did so, he dug his claws into their hands. Which caused their hands to bleed heavily. The Shinobi were now very afraid of Naruto. Not only did he have fangs and claws that could cut through your skin like butter, he also wore a blood thirsty grin the whole time he was fighting. Then when Naruto was about to charge again he heard some new footsteps, and to which he just smiled, and slowly turned around to face the new Shinobi. Naruto's smirk soon faulted however, when he saw that the new ninja's were Anbu.
-With Sasuke-
Sasuke simply couldn't believe what he was seeing. Naruto was taking on a group of five Shinobi without even using any jutsu. Sasuke watched in amazement until he saw Naruto slip slightly, and right there Sasuke knew it was going to cost him, and apparently so did Naruto as Sasuke heard what he thought was 'Dammit' come from Naruto. Sasuke then saw one of the ninjas hit Naruto in the face sending him flying a couple of feet only to get kneed in the face, causing him to slam into the pavement. Sasuke was about to jump in until he saw Naruto stand up slowly, and then he froze. Naruto was smirking, and it wasn't just a smile, nope, it was one of the sickly twisted smiles that you only used by insane cereal killers. Sasuke saw Naruto's teeth which were covered with blood from the inside of his mouth getting so beat up. Naruto then began looking at his hands for some reason, which caused Sasuke to look also. Then Sasuke swore he saw Naruto's fingernails get longer, and after they were to the point where they could be defined as claws he knew that he wasn't just seeing things.
The fact that one of the Shinobi started screaming about Naruto being a demon also helped his belief. Sasuke was actually starting to wonder himself if Naruto was a demon, but then thought of the Inuzuka clan who's Kekkei Genkai type ability was to make themselves more animal like, such as fangs, and claws. Sasuke just shrugged it off and kept on watching the fight progress until Sasuke noticed three more people show up, and they were wearing Anbu masks, and uniforms which definitely wasn't a good sign.
-With Naruto-
Naruto was trying to think of a way to beat them all at once, but nothing came to mind, and he definitely wasn't going to run from this situation. That's a cowards way out and that was one thing Naruto was not. Naruto was just looking for something that he could use to his advantage, but once again there was nothing. He was trapped between five Chuunin level ninjas which really weren't a problem, the problem was the three Anbu which Naruto knew for a fact he couldn't even touch. Naruto knew he was good, but he also knew when there was no way in hell he could win, and this situation was one of those times when there was no way in hell.
Naruto just smirked and took off towards the Anbu. Naruto hadn't moved more then three feet before he was kneed in the stomach, punched in the face, and stabbed by a kunai in the back of his right leg. The punch to the face, and the knee to the stomach weren't bad, but the kunai on the other hand was a huge problem. Seeing as Naruto had to use his legs whenever he wanted to go anywhere, this would be a major flaw in any chance of him standing a chance against this group of ninja. Naruto thought about using his Sharingan, but decided against it, because he wanted to save it for crucial situations, which was when his life was in danger. Yes Naruto was getting beat senseless, but he knew they wouldn't kill him. He'd had too many experiences with this to think they were going to kill him. Naruto went through the exact same thoughts about his weights, but once again that was for crucial moments only. Even Naruto knew however, that now there was no way that he could withstand an awful beating. If he had his leg he would have been able to keep it at just a regular beating, which Naruto was used to, but now that his leg was gone Naruto was in for the beating of his life, and he knew it all to well.
Naruto just got a huge grin on his face as the Shinobi just slowly moved towards him, surrounding him so he didn't have anywhere he could run to. Naruto just stood up, with much effort, and then felt the kunai get pulled out of his leg, which gave Naruto great relief, but in turn also caused him great deals of pain. He guessed that one of the Shinobi had pulled it out for two reasons. One was so they could get their kunai back, and the second was so that he could cause Naruto great deals of pain in his leg. Naruto looked up at one of the Anbu members, and even though he couldn't see his face he knew that he was smirking under his mask. Naruto in a last ditch effort, rammed his arm, and claws towards the Anbu in front of him, only to have a kunai implanted in it. Naruto instead of giving a cry of pain just smiled and gave up as he fell to the ground, and that's when the beating started.
-With Sasuke-
Sasuke was about to jump in and help Naruto, but then thought better as he knew he wouldn't be able to do anything useful for Naruto. He would just get beaten along with him. There was no doubt of that. Sasuke was hoping that Naruto would be able to do something, but when he saw Naruto miss a jab at the Anbu member in front of him, he knew that Naruto had no chance of getting away. Sasuke then decided on waiting until they were done with his teammate, so he could rush him to the hospital, instead of wasting his time to go get the Hokage, then have to come back. So Sasuke just sat there, he refused to look at what they were doing to Naruto, but by the light scream Naruto let out every once in awhile he knew it was bad.
-With Naruto-
The second Naruto gave up hope, his face connected with the pavement below him. Naruto knew that his nose was broken from his previous experiences with things of this nature. Naruto then felt many different things. He felt fists hitting his body, he felt feet kicking him, then he also felt kunai piercing his skin, but the most noticeable thing Naruto felt was the burning on his back. Yes Naruto had figured out just by the painful burning sensation that one of the ninjas was using a Katon jutsu on him. Naruto refused to scream out in pain, even though every once and awhile a small one would escape his lips, he did a good job at hiding his pain. Then after awhile of taking the beating Naruto felt the pain receding, but then noticed it wasn't that the beating was over it was just the fact that he was losing consciousness.
-With Sasuke-
Sasuke saw when Naruto slipped into the realm of unconsciousness, and thought that the beating would end soon after that, but he was wrong. The beating went on for about another twenty minutes after the blond boy had passed out from the pain of it all.
Sasuke was just wondering why anyone would do this to someone who hadn't done anything wrong, well that he had known about at least. Sasuke made sure no one was coming, and then went down and picked up Naruto. He was bleeding heavily, it was worse then Kakashi had been by far, and Sasuke could tell by the fact that as soon as Sasuke put Naruto on his back he felt the blood seep into his shirt and hit his back. Sasuke however was determined to get Naruto to the hospital. Sasuke took off at full speed towards the hospital not stopping for any reason whatsoever.
-With Sakura-
When Sakura had left the Hokage's Office she had went straight for the area where they had found Kakashi and Naruto. Sakura was determined to get Naruto to the hospital at all costs. She didn't know how bad he was injured and didn't want to find out, but she knew she would eventually, one way or another. Sakura was starting to tire from running the whole time, but soon enough got to the area only to find a large pile of blood with little blotches of it every so often. Sakura looked around for awhile and she saw that there was no sign of Naruto, she decided that Sasuke had came and gotten him. Sakura decided she would go to the hospital and visit Kakashi, and Naruto if he was there at the moment. Sakura began to jog towards the hospital wondering if Naruto was still going to be able to go on the 'date' with her the next day.
-With Sasuke and Naruto-
It hadn't taken Sasuke long to get to the hospital, but something very unexpected happened when he had got there. No one would treat Naruto! Not one nurse would even look at him! Sasuke had no idea why this was, and was beginning to panic, because from what he could tell Naruto was still bleeding very badly. Sasuke just decided to do the only thing he could think of to do at the moment, and that was to go to the Hokage for help. Sasuke then took off running down the stairs of the hospital seeing as he had been on the 5th floor. When Sasuke got to the bottom he burst out of the hospital and took off towards the Hokage Tower.
-With Kakashi-
Kakashi had just recently woke up from his little mishap with Naruto, and was thinking things over.
'I wonder what happened to Naruto? I hope he got taken to the hospital to, but if it wasn't by Sasuke, Sakura, Iruka, or Hokage-Sama then it probably didn't happen.' Kakashi sighed as he thought about what he was going to do with the blond. He couldn't think of any solution, except to let him do whatever he wanted. Any other way he could think of would end up with Naruto attacking his own team, or leaving to do his own thing anyway, if not leaving the village, because he wasn't allowed to do his own thing, and seeing as the village hated him anyway it would probably make sense to Naruto.
Kakashi sat up in his bed, and looked around to find that he had some wires attached to him, a few needles in his right arm, and one of those weird finger clip things, on his right hand's index finger. Kakashi quickly removed the wires, needles, and took off the finger clip, he then started to walk out of his room, when a nurse that looked to be in her mid twenty's, walked in. Kakashi stopped for he knew what was coming next.
"Wait a minute Mr. Hatake your not well enough to leave just yet we need to keep you for the night, and then tomorrow you should be ok to go. You cant be running around or else the stitches in your side, and in your back might loosen up, and fall out which wouldn't be good." The young nurse, said obviously worried about Kakashi's wellbeing. At this Kakashi just sighed, started to walk back to his bed. The nurse smiled, following close behind Kakashi so that he would make it safely back to bed. That was of course before Kakashi walked over to the window, opened it, and jumped out of it landing about six stories below.
When Kakashi landed he could feel the stitches loosen considerably, but he didn't care much seeing as he had fought with the pain of one of his eye's being taken out before. To that this pain was absolutely nothing. Kakashi started to walk again, while taking out his book, and reading it. Kakashi was walking towards where he had fought with Naruto, and when he finally got there he found something shocking. There was a huge pool of blood in the middle of the area. Kakashi however didn't get all that worried when he saw this, because he knew that he had been bleeding himself, and might have fallen in that spot. Kakashi kept looking around, and that's when he noticed it. There were blotches of blood all over the ground in pretty much every direction. Kakashi knew he had gotten hit, and was bleeding, but this much? He doubted it. Kakashi decided he would just go ask the Hokage if he had seen Naruto at all.
-With Sasuke-
Sasuke had just recently got to the Hokage Tower, and without saying anything barged in, and then did the same exact thing to the Hokage's Office. Sasuke just burst into the room with Naruto still on his back.
"Hokage-Sama!" Sasuke nearly screamed, causing the already startled Sandaime, who had yet to turn around, drop the stack of papers he was currently holding.
Sandaime quickly turned around forgetting about the papers, as this seemed to be a very urgent matter.
"Yes Sasu-" Sandaime seemed to forget what he was saying as he saw Naruto on Sasuke's back. Sandaime had seen Naruto beaten before, but this was by far the worst condition he had ever been in. Sandaime quickly stood up, and ran over to Sasuke and Naruto.
"Sasuke you should have went to the hospital before you came here!" Sandaime said urgently, which caused Sasuke to growl slightly.
"I did, but for some reason no one would treat him. I don't know why, but they just wouldn't." Sasuke stated in response, receiving an angry yet sad look from Sandaime.
"I see." Was all Sandaime said in return. He was going to go have a talk with the medics at the hospital after this was all over, and Naruto was safe from harms way. He knew that Naruto was disliked, but he never imagined that the medics would refuse to treat him just because of the Kyuubi. Sandaime thought hard on this subject, he couldn't think of a time when Naruto didn't get treated, but then he remembered one vital detail of it all. Back then, all those other times…Azami had been alive, and would actually treat Naruto. Sandaime just sighed, and then went back to looking at Naruto.
Naruto was totally messed up to say the least. He was bleeding all over, and had kunai punctures all over his body, not to mention the missing, and severely burnt skin on his back. That of course was the area that was bleeding the most. Sandaime however did sigh in relief when he saw the injuries were healing themselves. Sasuke laid Naruto down on the Hokage's desk getting blood on it, but that didn't matter at the moment. Sasuke saw Naruto's face scrunch a little by his exposed flesh touching the desk, but all that meant was that Naruto was still well enough to feel what was happening on the outside even if he was unconscious.
Sandaime then turned to Sasuke,
"Thank you Sasuke, but I can handle it from here." At this Sasuke just nodded and turned to leave, but stopped, and turned back,
"Umm Hokage-Sama…why wouldn't the medics treat Naruto at the hospital?" At this question Sandaime froze, as he franticly tried to think of a response. Sandaime in return just frowned, "They must have thought his injuries weren't all that bad, and didn't think he needed help." Sasuke however wasn't buying this excuse at all, but he just nodded, and left anyway. He would find out the real reason later, and he was going to make sure he did.
-With Sakura-
Sakura had just made it to the hospital, and was currently going up to find out Kakashi's room, and Naruto if he was here. Sakura approached the front desk, and when the women standing at the front she smiled at her,
"Hi there! What can I do for you?" She asked kindly.
"I was looking for someone…umm Hatake Kakashi?" Sakura asked returning the smile.
The women then looked down at a clipboard, and started flipping pages, until she stopped. She then looked up with a bit of concern in his features,
"Umm Mr. Hatake never checked out, but is apparently gone." At this Sakura just nodded supposing he had just left early, which was no big deal. The lady then asked,
"Is there anything else I can help you with?" Sakura just nodded with a smile, "Yes Uzumaki Naruto." She stated, and right after she said Naruto's name the lady's smile faulted. She almost instantly shook her head as her face got very serious, and she even seemed sort of angry.
"Nope, there is no one by that name in the hospital at the moment." The lady said with a very weak smile. Sakura was very confused however, because the lady hadn't even looked at her clipboard like she had for Kakashi.
"Umm are you sure? Can you check?" Sakura asked pleading, the women just shook her head again.
"I told you there is no one by that name here! Now good day!" With that the lady marched off. Sakura just stood there stunned, she didn't know what to do. Sakura then decided she would just go back to her house, and worry about it at a later time. Naruto wasn't the type to be in a hospital anyway.
-With Kakashi-
Kakashi had just got to the Hokage Tower, and was planning on asking him about Naruto's condition if he knew anything about it at all. Kakashi simply walked into the Hokage Tower, and started walking towards the Hokage's Office. When he walked up to the door there was a ninja standing in front of the door. Kakashi went to open the door only to have the ninja speak up,
"I'm sorry Kakashi, but Hokage-Sama is gone at the moment if you would like to come back later I could tell him you stopped by." At this Kakashi just nodded, and started to walk away. Kakashi once again pulled out his favorite book, and was reading it when he bumped into someone in front of him. Kakashi looked up and sighed as it ended up being the strange man that Sasuke had talked to earlier. Kakashi tried to get by unnoticed, but against his will he heard the strange man yell,
"Kakashi! My eternal rival! It's good to see you up, and waking around so soon! I thought you would be in the hospital for a couple of days at the least, but this is great!" Kakashi slowly turned around with an annoyed look on his face.
"Hey Gai, yeah I have some things I need to do so I left early." Gai just nodded,
"Yes Kakashi you know you have a very great team, full of youth, that cares about you greatly." Kakashi was shocked by this he had absolutely no idea where that comment had come from, but he quickly recovered from his shock, and regained his composure.
"Why do you say that Gai?" Gai just smiled at this,
"Because the young Uchiha, with all of his youth, was carrying you to the hospital before I showed up, and took you the rest of the way. With my great flames of youth!" Gai said nearly screaming the last part. Kakashi just smiled under his mask,
'I guess my team isn't so bad after all, even if they don't show it at all, I guess they do care about each other. Well Sasuke at least. I know Sakura cares about Sasuke, me, and I'm pretty sure Naruto is on that list now, but Naruto…I highly doubt he feels anything for our team.' Kakashi thought to himself sadly. Kakashi was forced back into reality when Gai began talking about the rival, and a competition or something, that he was supposedly winning. Kakashi just denied saying he needed to do some things. Gai then started shouting about flames of youth, and ran off.
Kakashi once again started walking around Konaha not exactly knowing where he was going. Until he saw someone he had been wanting to see very badly for awhile now. Kakashi smiled, and ran over to said person.
"Hokage-Sama! Do you know where Naruto is!?" Kakashi yelled out startling the old man, but he just smiled,
"Yes, don't worry Naruto is at his house resting so there is nothing to be worried about. I'm just glad he has The Kyuubi…if not he would probably be dead." Sandaime said in a sort of sad, but sort of relieved at the same time, voice.
Kakashi's eyes widened when he has heard this.
'Did something happen to Naruto after I lost consciousness?' Kakashi asked himself, now very worried about the blond.
"What happened to Naruto?" Kakashi asked, worry clear in his voice, like it had been so many times before.
Sandaime frowned, "I don't exactly know…Sasuke came into my office with a very bloody Naruto on his back, and I asked him why he didn't take him to the hospital-" Sandaime was cut off by Kakashi,
"They wouldn't treat him huh? Figures, I guessed that after Azami died Naruto wouldn't get any treatment, but we can worry about that later." Sandaime nodded in response, "Yeah I was actually on my way to the hospital to talk to them about refusing to treat a patient." Then as if reading Kakashi's mind Sandaime smiled, "Naruto will be fine don't worry Kakashi. He just needs time to rest. It seems like everyone on your team is very protective of Naruto, which is very surprising to me, actually." Kakashi nodded is head and smiles slightly, "Yeah well I've always been protective of him, because Sensei had asked me to protect him right before he gave his life, as far as Sasuke and Sakura…I think Sasuke sees Naruto as a brother, and is very protective of him because of that, and Sakura I'm pretty positive, has taken a liking to Naruto so that would explain her concern about him." Sandaime got a sad look on his face when he heard this, "Yeah, I just wish he could feel the same about you guys." Kakashi only nodded, "Yeah, but who knows, maybe as time progresses he'll change for the better." Sandaime only smiled at this, "Yeah I sure hope so."
Sandaime then left saying he needed to get the hospital. Kakashi just went his own way once again, now not as worried as he had previously been.
-A Few Days Later With Naruto-
Naruto slowly sat up, and looked around.
'Where am I?' He thought to himself just before his vision became clear, and then he knew exactly where he was.
'How am I in my apartment?' He asked himself, very confused by the current situation.
Naruto just shrugged it off, and slowly got out of bed. What surprised Naruto the most was that there was no pain whatsoever. It just felt as if he had only been asleep, and never been pummeled, to within an inch of his life, at all.
"Wow Kyuubi, you heal so damn fast it's crazy!" Naruto said out loud without really thinking about it. He then realized what he had done an ran over to the window, which was currently wide open, because it was broken, to see if anyone was nearby that could have possibly heard him. Naruto let out a sigh of relief when no one was there. Naruto decided he would go pay a visit to Sandaime. For two reasons, one was so that he could get some new scrolls to study, and two was to let him know he was alright, if Sandaime even knew that he had been hurt at all, that is. Naruto figured he would, because he was the only one Naruto could think of that would take him home. Everyone else would have either just beat him more, or simply 'not seen him.'
Naruto then walked out of his apartment, which he also realized was clean again, even though the windows were still broken. Naruto just shrugged it off for now, and began on his way to his destination. Naruto once again had on his emotionless face, which he was actually wondering if he should change to a huge grin. Naruto decided it would be better if he just wore that stupid grin, so he did exactly that. Naruto was just casually walking towards the Hokage Tower when he saw Shikamaru walking in his direction, along with Choji, and Ino. They were in a deep conversation until Shikamaru looked up, and saw Naruto. Shikamaru's eyes went wide, and then he smirked. Choji, and Ino looked up to see what Shikamaru was looking at, and instantly their eyes went wide. Shikamaru walked over to Naruto along with Choji, while Ino was deciding what to do. Sakura had asked her to tell her as soon as Naruto was better if she had happened to see him first. Ino then turned, started to run away, towards Sakura's house to be more precise.
Naruto's eyes widened at the realization at what she was going to do. Ino was running away until Naruto appeared in front of her using Shushin. Naruto had a giant grin on his face, which actually scared Ino.
"Umm Naruto can you move so I can go do something real fast?" Naruto just kept on grinning, "Nope sorry Ino, but I cant let you get Sakura. I don't feel like dealing with her right now." Ino just decided she would tell Sakura later, because there was definitely something off about Naruto. Ino just stood there staring at the grinning Naruto as Shikamaru, and Choji walked up to where they were currently standing.
Shikamaru had a questioning look on his face, while Choji was just visibly worried about Ino.
"What's going on guys!?" Naruto nearly screamed startling them all. Shikamaru just raised an eyebrow, why Ino was now visibly scared of Naruto, and Choji was still protecting her. Shikamaru just stepped forward, and got right up to Naruto to see that his face was shaking from holding his smile. Shikamaru could tell just from looking at him, that Naruto wasn't used to smiling at all. Shikamaru then got totally serious,
"Naruto drop the crap, you never smile, and we know it." At this Naruto just kept on smiling, but Shikamaru, Choji, and Ino could all tell he was uncomfortable with it. Shikamaru was about to speak up again, when suddenly Naruto's smile dropped, and he had that same emotionless face, the same face that scared all the guys, and was slowly turning all of Sasuke's fan girls into his own, not that he wanted that. Naruto actually liked being by himself more than being with other people. It made him feel safer, and like he could be himself.
"Ok…what the hell do you want Shikamaru?" Naruto asked having no emotion show at all. Shikamaru just smirked,
"Nothing I just hated seeing you with that stupid grin on your face, its not like you at all." Naruto just turned, and started walking away trying to control his anger. Naruto was once again taking a new approach to everyday life. He was already trying the whole 'smiles all the time' thing, and he was getting better at it, he knew that. He just wasn't used to it yet. His other thing that he was trying was, he was going to be friendly with the people around him, and never hate anyone, well noticeably anyway. He figured that this would help him gain people's trust so that if he ever needed to he could use that to his advantage, and also that way people wouldn't attack him every time they saw him, which is of course a plus. Naruto was still walking away when he felt a hand on his shoulder. Now Naruto had been getting better at controlling his reactions whenever he got touched by someone, so he wouldn't kill them by accident, but the one spot Naruto couldn't get under control was his shoulders. No matter how hard Naruto tried, whenever he would get touched there he would whip out a kunai, and instantly attack whatever touched him. This time…was no acceptation. Shikamaru, who had been the one to walk up and put his hand on Naruto's shoulder, received a kunai to the face, but it only left a deep cut across his right cheek. Shikamaru winced, and stepped back to look at Naruto. Shikamaru's eyes went wide as well did Ino's and Choji's. Naruto was absolutely freaking out. He was shaking terribly, and crying for who knows what reason, but he stayed in a defensive stance with, one leg in front, one in back, and his kunai held in front of him, while his free hand was on the holster that contained more.
Then it all ended. Naruto looked like he had just woke up from a dream. He was looking around, and was really confused when he found his face was wet. Then realization hit Naruto, and he turned towards the trio. They had shock written all over their face, and seemed to not be able to move. Naruto just slowly walked over to the three with no emotion showing at all, but his eyes did show some, and that emotion was sadness.
"Which one of you touched me on my shoulder?" Naruto asked still emotion not present in his voice.
Shikamaru shakily raised his hand slightly. Naruto just sighed, and looked at the group.
"Listen guys…never ever touch me on my shoulders. I wont tell you why, but I will have you know that if you do it might cost you your life." The trio's eyes widened once again, but Naruto continued on, "Don't worry I don't know what I'm doing when I happens so I'm not doing it on purpose. It…just brings up some memories, and I go berserk because of it. So please for your own safety…just don't touch my shoulders." Shikamaru was confused now, "Why? What memories does it bring to mind?" Naruto just shook his head, "I'm sorry but, I really don't want to talk about them." Shikamaru just nodded, and looked back at his two teammates. Both were still recovering from the sudden attack by Naruto. Ino however was in more shock, she had seen a side of Naruto that she had never seen before. He was compassionate, and showed feelings, which Ino took as a plus. So in her opinion he was cool, mysterious, and compassionate when need be. Ino didn't want to admit it, but she was liking the blond more every time she talked/had an encounter with him.
Ino then did something unexpected. She began walking over to Naruto. Shikamaru and Choji didn't know how to react.
"Naruto." Ino said calmly, and to this Naruto turned to face her.
"I was wondering if…maybe…you would want to get something to eat with me sometime…or something." Ino asked blushing furiously, Naruto just sighed, "Why cant you just go ask Sasuke? You are his fan girl aren't you? Anyway I'm sorry I already got some things I got to take care of so…no." And with that Naruto was gone.
Ino just sat there looking at nothing,
'At least he said sorry unlike Sasuke, but I guess I better stick with Sasuke. He seems less dangerous then Naruto.' Ino thought to herself blushing when she thought of Naruto, but also when she thought of Sasuke. 'Dammit! Why does Sakura get the best team ever!?' She screamed in her head.
Then Ino was snapped out of her thoughts by Shikamaru,
"Come on Ino! We're leaving." Ino then turned, nodded, and ran to catch up with her two teammates.
Naruto was once again walking back to his apartment, like he had so many times before, when he saw Kakashi walking down the same street he was on, his face buried in his book. Naruto decided he would greet Kakashi this time. So he walked up to him, and Kakashi was either ignoring him or was to deep in his book to know what's going on around him. Naruto decided it was that latter when Kakashi ran into him.
"Oh I'm sorry I didn't see you there." Kakashi said with a smile as he looked down. His eyes instantly widened when he saw Naruto.
"Yo Kakashi." Naruto said nonchalantly.
"Naruto! Your up and about! That's great! You know we've been waiting for you to get better so we could do some more missions?" Kakashi said, happy to see the blond Jinchuuriki.
"Yeah I cant wait to do more missions! It gives me something to do other then train, and on top of that I get money out of it!" Naruto said happy, but to Kakashi's relief it wasn't at the point where he was so happy you thought he had fallen off the deep end.
Kakashi eye smiled, and look at Naruto again, "Hey Naruto how about you go get Sasuke, and Sakura, then meet me at the Training Grounds, and we can get a new mission." Naruto just nodded, now with no emotion on his face, and then he was gone.
Naruto had got to the Uchiha Compound in a matter of minutes. Even with weights on Naruto was becoming amazingly fast, and the fact that Naruto could even move with the weights on was amazing all it's own. Naruto began walking around the Uchiha Estate, until he sensed a very familiar chakra signature. Naruto smirked as he walked around a corner to find Sasuke throwing some shuriken at a tree, and hitting perfectly each, and every time. Naruto pulled out a kunai, and launched it at the target that Sasuke was aiming at, hitting the bulls eye perfectly. Sasuke turned around in surprise, and then smirked when he saw who it was.
"Yo." Naruto said walking up to Sasuke.
"I'm glad your done with your vacation. We couldn't go on any missions, because you weren't with us…it was really annoying." Sasuke said, sounding annoyed as he thought about Sakura's never ending rant about whatever the hell she talked about.
Naruto lost all emotion in his face when the mention of the hospital came up.
"Yeah, well I still don't get how I tripped, and ended up messing myself up so badly, but whatever." Naruto said trying to play it off. Sasuke stopped what he was doing, and stared at Naruto.
"Yeah! Tripped my ass! That's total bullshit, and you know it! You don't know it, but I was the one who had to carry your sorry ass to safety when I found you.'" Sasuke responded, avoiding the part where he watched the fight, because Naruto obviously didn't want to bring it up.
"Well you don't have to believe it for it to have happened." Naruto said, starting to walk away. Sasuke quickly caught up with him continuing the conversation,
"Yeah I guess your right, it's just hard to believe something as dumb as that could do so much damage." At this Naruto just shrugged, "Hey, the worlds crazy like that."
Naruto, and Sasuke were walking for Sakura's house, and hadn't said a word to each other after they had left the Uchiha Estate. Naruto wasn't thinking about where he was going until he actually reached his and Sasuke's destination. Then Naruto remembered,
'Dammit! I don't want to see Sakura right now!' He sighed to himself as Sasuke rung the doorbell. He then heard footsteps coming from up above, which Naruto guessed was Sakura coming downstairs. Then the dreaded moment came, and the door opened revealing, who Naruto guessed was Sakura's mother. Naruto gave out a sigh of relief, and relaxed for a bit, and that's when Sakura's mother caught site of Naruto.
"No! Get Away from here demon, and don't come back!" She yelled, and to this Naruto actually smirked, "Sure! See you Sasuke!" Naruto said before leaving with a smirk still on his features.
Sasuke sighed as he turned back to Sakura's mother who now had a smile on her face.
'Bipolar much?' He thought to himself, and swore silently at Naruto for getting out of this.
Naruto had just arrived at the Training Grounds to find Kakashi sitting in a tree reading his stupid book. Naruto then got a great idea. He was going to find out what was in that book right now! Naruto climbed the tree Kakashi was sitting in, and got up close enough to read, and because Kakashi was so into his book he didn't even notice until of course the blond right next to his ear yelled,
"HOW CAN YOU READ THAT GARBAGE!?" Kakashi almost had a heart attack, but recovered quickly. He then looked at Naruto,
"You just don't understand yet." Naruto was just about to explode,
"Yeah I do! That is close enough to be considered hentai!" Kakashi's eyes widened, as he quickly covered Naruto's mouth.
"Naruto do you have any idea how many idea how many women would come if they heard that!?" Kakashi practically screamed. Naruto just sighed, and was about to speak until Sasuke and Sakura showed up at the Training Grounds. Sakura walked up to the tree and looked at Kakashi,
"Kakashi-Sensei Sasuke told me that you wanted us to meet here, but shouldn't we hold of on a mission until Na-" Sakura stopped dead in the middle of her sentence as she noticed Naruto being restrained by Kakashi.
"Naruto!" Sakura screamed, and ran over to the tree. Naruto just sighed,
"Sakura can we hold this off until after out meeting please?" Sakura just nodded, smiling brightly. Naruto then turned to Kakashi,
"Ok Kakashi what are we going to be doing today?"
Hey guys I hoped you liked the chapter, to be honest I really didn't like it all that much I felt like a rushed it even though I'm pretty sure it took me longer then the other chapters did, but whatever. Anyway yeah umm once again reviews I love them and they make me want to write more so please review, and so on so on you get the idea by now lol so I guess just until next time…Bye!