-1An Eye For An Eye
Chapter 8
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"Character talking"
'Character thinking'
"Kyuubi Talking"
Commentary
Jutsu
-With Someone/ Someplace-
It didn't take long for Team 7 to be standing in front of Konaha's gates once again. It hadn't been a very hard trip on the way home from the Wave Country. Along the way back they did get ambushed by a rather large group of bandits, but seeing as they were just bandits, and nothing more, it was no problem. Compared to Zabuza and Haku it would be a huge surprise if anyone they met along the way back would be of any difficulty to Team 7. Something that came as a surprise to everyone though, was that when the bandits attacked, Naruto let Sasuke and Kakashi take care of it while he just looked out for his team. Sakura actually knocked one of the ninja out with the bottom of her kunai. This resulted in Naruto getting a tight hug from Sakura as she talked about how she felt stronger now, and how she was catching up to the rest of the team.
Everyone casually walked in with Kakashi leading, Naruto slightly behind, and to the left, with Sasuke to the right, and Sakura was between both of them. Izumo, who had been sleeping just a few seconds before, quickly wiped away the sleep from his eyes as he stood straight up, and nodded,
"Welcome back Kakashi-Sama!" Izumo greeted, and quickly sat back down, but not before hitting Kotetsu, which caused his to gain back consciousness, and try to play off that he was awake the whole time. Kakashi just chuckled slightly,
"Don't worry about it guys! I understand that your job is the most boring one assigned. So I cant blame you guys for falling asleep."
Both of the Chuunin visibly sighed in relief. Izumo wiped away the bead of sweat that had formed on his brow, and smiled back at Kakashi,
"Thanks Kakashi-Sama!" Kakashi just nodded, and continued on through the gate, followed by the Kyuubi container, the last Uchiha, and the cherry blossom.
They walked right into the center of Konaha, through the hoards of people, and were casually making their way to the Hokage Tower, to report how the mission went.
Kakashi was actually quite interested in seeing the old man's reaction to the fact that Sasuke obtained the Sharingan, and also that Naruto had thought of countless plans to help win the fight.
Before Kakashi knew it, they were standing in front of the Hokage Tower…or more precisely he was standing in front of it. It seemed that the rest of his team had just went on in, without saying a word to him.
Kakashi just sighed inwardly, and continued on into the building, which was currently standing in front of him. Kakashi just pushed the door open slightly, and slipped into the huge building. He then made his way over to the set of stairs leading to Sandaime's office. When Kakashi finally reached the door leading to the Hokage's Office, he heard some familiar voices.
'Seems that they did just go on without me.' Kakashi thought to himself, sort of depressed that his students had ditched him. Kakashi figured that since his team were inside already, that it wasn't necessary to knock, so he just barged in.
Kakashi walked in to see Naruto, and Sasuke leaning against the back wall, while Sakura was conversing with Sandaime. The old man looked up at Kakashi, and smiled at the mask man, which Kakashi returned with an eye smile of his own.
"An A-Rank mission huh?" Kakashi's eyes widened as he looked at Sandaime again, to find him smiling.
"Yeah…it was unexpected, but we decided as a team that the best thing to do was to help Tazuna-San regardless of how difficult the mission may be." Sandaime grinned wide as he took the pipe out of his mouth for a second, blew some smoke out of the corner of his mouth, and put it back in.
"Well I'm proud of you guys! That's what any good ninja would do! So I'm guessing since you all are back that the mission was a success?" Kakashi just nodded,
"Yes we escorted Tazuna all the way back to his house, and he even finished the bridge." Sandaime nodded, a grin still occupying his lips.
"So Kakashi…mind telling me what changed the mission from a C-Rank to an A-Rank mission?" Kakashi sighed and nodded,
"Well on the mission we encountered some ninja." Sandaime sighed, and looked angrily at Kakashi,
"Kakashi! You know for a fact that if they were just rogue ninja then it would have been at most a B-Rank! Now stop feeding around the bush, and tell me why it was ranked so high!" Kakashi sighed, as he knew there was no way he could get around this,
"Ok…there were four ninja in total. Along the way to the Wave Country we got ambushed by two ninja…or they're better known as the Demon Brothers. I'm positive you've heard of them." Sandaime just nodded, and waved his hand as a signal for Kakashi to continue on,
"Ok well I wanted to see how my team would do against enemy's of such high skill so I made it appear as if I had been killed. To my surprise I didn't have to jump in at all, seeing as both ninja were knocked unconscious." Sandaime raised an eyebrow as his eyes widened a little at this comment, He then turned to look at Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura,
"You guys beat the Demon brothers?" Naruto didn't respond, Sasuke just smirked, and Sakura sighed as she was, once again, forced to be the one in the group to talk,
"Actually Hokage-Sama…it was Sasuke, and Naruto who took care of the ninja I didn't do anything except for protect Tazuna-San." Sandaime just smiled slightly,
"Well Sakura, your original job was the defend Tazuna at all costs, and you were the one to do that, even if you didn't beat the ninja you stuck to your job, while Sasuke and Naruto didn't." Sakura smiled at the compliment,
"Thank you Hokage-Sama" Sandaime just nodded, and then turned back to look at Kakashi who, even though it had only been a couple minutes since he was last talked, was reading his favorite book, and giggling to himself. Sandaime sighed to himself as he cleared his throat to get Kakashi's attention, and it worked seeing as Kakashi instantly put his book away, and was looking at Sandaime.
"Good to have your attention back Kakashi." Kakashi just rubbed the back of his head sheepishly,
"Ok now go on, and tell me who the other two ninja were." Kakashi nodded, ad continued on,
"Well after we beat the Demon Brothers we decided to keep going when we go off of the boat that we had used to enter the Wave Country without being noticed we were walking down a path when we were once again ambushed, but this time it was by a much more deadly opponent." Sandaime raised an eyebrow, very curious as to who the ninja was,
"It ended up that our new enemy was none other than…Momochi Zabuza." Sandaime's eyes grew the size of dinner plates,
"What!?" Kakashi just nodded,
"Well I told everyone to just leave it to me, but I ended up needing help, and Naruto and Sasuke came to my rescue, and end the end we were able to defeat Zabuza." Sandaime's eyes went back to normal as he looked over at Sasuke, who had a slight smile gracing his lips, and Naruto, who seemed like he couldn't care less if he tried. Sandaime then looked back at Kakashi,
"Ok I see, but you said there were four ninja not three." Kakashi nodded,
"Yes…well when I was about ready to kill Zabuza off he got attacked by another source, which turned out to be a Hunter-Nin named Haku. Well Haku came down, and tried to take Zabuza's body away saying that he had to dispose of the body, but Naruto stopped him, because he knew that no matter what circumstances Hunter-Nin dispose of the body where it lies." Sandaime nodded,
"So I'm guessing that Zabuza survived the attack, and so did this Haku person." Kakashi nodded,
"Well when Naruto, and I went to attack Haku I gave out from overuse of my Sharingan, and Naruto was more worried about out team, and mission, then he was about killing one ninja. Well it turned out that later Zabuza and Haku both came back, but this time they had someone else on their side, and this certain someone had disappeared the night before, and hadn't been seen since." Sandaime got a questioning look on his face,
"Who was it?" Kakashi just smirked,
"Naruto." Sandaime's eyes, once again, widened as he looked at the blond.
"Don't worry though Hokage-Sama it was all part of Naruto's plan that he had made without telling anyone." Sandaime sighed in relief, and smiled to himself,
"Ok well, I went off to fight Zabuza while Sasuke went to take care of Haku, and Naruto. As it turned out, however, Naruto betrayed Haku, and him and Sasuke were able to defeat him, while I killed Zabuza." Sandaime nodded in understanding,
"Is that all there is to report Kakashi?" Kakashi thought for a second before giving an eye smile,
"Oh yes, one more thing! It seems Sasuke here…has obtained the Sharingan." Sandaime smiled, and looked over to see Sasuke smirking,
"So is that all Kakashi?" Kakashi was about to answer, but was cut off by 'The Last Uchiha.'
"No! I'm not the only one who obtained the Sharingan! Naruto has it also!" Now this comment caused everyone's eyes to widen from shock, but Naruto's were the biggest. It didn't go unnoticed by Sandaime and Kakashi that Naruto was panicking, while deep in thought with himself.
"Umm Naruto? Care to explain what Sasuke is talking about?" As soon as Naruto heard his name his head jolted in the direction the voice had come from,
"N-No d-don't worry about it…I d-don't know w-what Sasuke saw, but I don't have t-the Sharingan. I-It's not even p-possible for me to h-have it!" Sandaime would have let this whole conversation go if it wasn't for the fact that Naruto was freaking out. Sandaime decided he would see for himself as he walked over to Naruto,
"Naruto just relax, I'm going to do something real fast, ok?" Naruto hesitantly nodded, and Sandaime placed both of his hands on the side of Naruto's head, and charged some chakra into his eyes. Naruto's reaction was to close his eyes, and try to get away, but it was no used Sandaime wasn't letting him go anywhere. Naruto even tried deactivating it, but Sandaime's chakra was to much for him. Sandaime's eyes widened as he noticed that veins were becoming visible around Naruto's eyes.
'It cant be possible…can it!?'
"Ok Naruto, open your eyes." Naruto once again tried to get away, but once again it was to no avail.
"Naruto! Open your eyes now!" Naruto sighed to himself as he slowly opened his eyes, even though only one was visible.
Everyone stared in awe at what they saw. Naruto now had the Byakugan occupying both his eyes.
"H….How…do…you have the Byakugan!?" Naruto sighed to himself,
'I swear Sasuke I'm going to get you back for this!'
"I really don't know…I just…one day I saw the Byakugan being used, and then I could use it…I don't understand how, but I can." Naruto applauded himself on the inside, for coming up with a reasonable answer so quickly.
Sandaime nodded, and thought to himself for a little bit before once again forcing chakra into Naruto's eyes, but the Byakugan just deactivated. Sandaime was stumped he couldn't figure something out, and he started to think to himself again. Then out of nowhere it hit him.
'Of course! But wait…does Naruto even know how to use the Kyuubi's chakra? Well Naruto was probably just angry, and some seeped out, and he went to activate the Byakugan, but the Sharingan was activated instead. Or…he could know how to use the Kyuubi's chakra already, but whatever that isn't important right now.'
Sandaime closed his eyes, and a second later red chakra was flowing around Naruto's eyes.
Naruto knew this was bad, and he was trying to get away, but with much more force this time. Kakashi and Sasuke were both holding his arms, and legs down just to keep the blond from breaking free, and then Sandaime stopped,
"Naruto…would you please open your eyes for me?" Naruto just shook his head in response, which in turn made Sandaime sigh,
"Why not?" Naruto growled slightly, and clenched his teeth together,
"Cause this whole thing is stupid!" Naruto tried to deactivate the Sharingan, but Sandaime hadn't forgot about it, and was forcing it to stay activated.
"Naruto it doesn't matter if its stupid or not! It can be over if you would just open your eyes!" Naruto cursed under his breath, and slowly opened his eye, and once again he was greeted with everyone, except for Sasuke, wide eyed.
"I d-don't b-believe it!" Kakashi stated in total shock. Naruto just pushed Sandaime off of him, and stormed out of the room. Sandaime instantly regretted what he had done,
'Dammit! I was so overwhelmed by the fact that Naruto somehow has both the Sharingan and the Byakugan, that I forgot to think about what he wanted.'
Sandaime was cut out of his thoughts by the door slamming shut. He looked over, and saw Kakashi and Sasuke standing there, but Sakura was gone.
-With Naruto-
Naruto was fuming. He just couldn't believe Sandaime had forced him to show his abilities to people who, could one day become his enemy's.
'Dammit Ojiisan! Why did you have to do that to me!? Out of all the people I would have expected something like this from, you were the last person I thought would do this!' Naruto thought to himself angrily, while walking through the streets of Konaha. Naruto was getting his usual glares, and comments, but he wasn't responding to any of it. Naruto had told himself that if he attacked them that he would either get in trouble with the counsel or beaten senseless by a group of ninja.
Naruto kept on walking lost in his own thoughts until he felt a hand on his shoulder. Naruto just casually looked back, and saw Sakura smiling at him.
Naruto had spent a huge portion of his time learning to overcome the reaction that he gave when he got touched on the shoulder, because he knew that one day he would end up killing one of his allies by accident, and then be kicked out of the village, and so on so forth. In order to train, Naruto would make clones come up when he wasn't prepared, and touch him on the shoulder until he became so used to it that he only flinched slightly, but it wasn't dramatic enough to be noticed by the people around him.
"Yeah Sakura?" Sakura just looked at the ground, and shuffled her feet some,
"Well…I was wondering, if you would want to go out on that date with me now?" Sakura stated more than asked.
Naruto just sighed, and look into Sakura's eyes,
"Sakura…why don't you just go on a date with Sasuke? I mean you didn't even like me until…" Naruto trailed off not wanting to mention what had happened,
"I know that Naruto-Kun, but-" Sakura was cut off by Naruto,
"Listen Sakura…if I had a different personality you would never have even looked in my direction, and I must say that I'm honored to have just a beautiful girl like me, but its Sasuke you want not me, and if you don't believe me then just imagine what it would have been like if I was happy-go-lucky all the time. You wouldn't even think about being with me, but since I pretty much act the same way Sasuke does, and I'm clearly a better ninja, you thought you could just switch over to me, the kid who loved you before you even looked in his direction. I'm sorry Sakura, but no…it isn't happening. As I said if you want to go have a chance at being with someone then go bug Sasuke."
Sakura sat there at a loss of words. She hadn't expected anything like this to happen. She was expecting a stern no, with the slight chance of it being a yes, just like it was when she did this to Sasuke, but Naruto talking about how he had loved her, but he wouldn't be with her no matter what, just stunned her. Sakura could feel her eyes starting to water, and her vision began to blur slightly, but she quickly wiped the tears away.
"Naruto…" Naruto interjected before she could say anything else,
"Sakura! Just get this through your head, ok!? If you want someone to love, then go get with Sasuke! You wanted him before you wanted me, and on top of that even if I said yes to being with you I don't know how to 'love' people! So just stop trying to be with me, and get with Sasuke already!" Naruto yelled as he stepped back some to get his breath back. Sakura just put her face downcast, and little puddles of water were coming out of her eyes, and falling to the ground below.
Naruto sighed to himself, turned, and started to walk away, leaving the crying pink haired girl behind him, that was until he was stopped by some extra weight. Naruto looked down, and saw two arms wrapped around his stomach. He then turned his head to the left slowly to find Sakura crying into his back,
"Naruto I'm sorry! I know that I never treated you fair, but you have to understand that I do love you now, and I'm not going to let you go! So please don't leave me, because I don't think I can take that!"
The one emotion that Naruto despised the most washed over him, and that emotion was love. Naruto thought back to Azami, and what it was like when she hugged him. Naruto had always figured that Azami loved Naruto in a motherly way, and it had made him feel so great when she had hugged him, and once again he was feeling that, but this time he didn't want to feel it.
Naruto quickly broke free of Sakura's grip, and turned around to face her,
"Listen Sakura! I appreciate what you're trying to do, but I don't need people to care about me! I've lived my entire life without it, and I can keep living that way!" Sakura's eyes widened in shock,
'Is this how Naruto actually feels? Everyone needs love!' Sakura said sadly to herself.
"Naruto-Kun…you do need love you just don't understand how important it is, because-" Sakura was cut off by Naruto for the second time in the conversation,
"No Sakura! Listen to me! Love…only brings pain, I know that from experience, because anything I love gets taken away from me! I'm a demon I don't deserve love, and I sure as hell don't deserve it!" Sakura's eyes, which were currently back in their normal state, widened to what seemed like impossible sizes, as she stumbled over herself trying to find the right words,
"Naruto-Kun you're not a demon, and don't ever think that! You're just like everyone else, and there is no reason for you to believe other wise!-" Sakura stopped screaming as Naruto vanished without a trace,
'Naruto-Kun…'
Naruto wasn't running to anywhere specific he just had to get away before he killed his teammate,
'She thinks she knows what I'm like!? I'm not like everyone else! I'm far from it!'
Naruto was ranting to himself, until he heard a very loud boom, and Naruto guessed it was an explosion seeing as smoke was quickly rising from the area that the deafening sound had come from.
'Enemy invasion maybe? Rouge ninja? Well either way I get to fight, so whatever.'
Naruto then took off towards the smoke.
-With Sandaime, Kakashi, and Sasuke-
No one had said one word since Naruto, and Sakura had left Sasuke just pushed off of the wall that he had been leaning against, and walked out the door,
'Dammit! I shouldn't have brought it up, but I didn't think it was that big of a deal.' Sasuke thought to himself angrily.
Kakashi and Sandaime just looked at each other for awhile before Kakashi nodded and walked out.
Sandaime let out a deep sigh,
'You stupid old man! You just messed Naruto up even more!' Sandaime then rested his head in his hands, and thought of how he could fix all of this.
-With Kakashi-
Kakashi was walking back to his apartment deep in thought,
'So now I got two genius's both with the Sharingan, and one with the Byakugan plus is the Jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi, then on top of that I have a ninja that is clearly cut out to be a medic-nin. I really doubt I could have asked for a better team. On top of that, the teamwork is there…its just Naruto doesn't trust anyone, and that might be a hindrance.'
Kakashi kept walking until a deafening boom made it's presence known by traveling into his ears and bouncing off his eardrums. Kakashi instantly took off in the direction the thunderous sound had come from.
-With Sasuke-
Sasuke was simply walking through the streets of Konaha when he noticed someone very familiar,
"Sakura?" Sasuke called out, not sure if it was his pink haired teammate or just someone else who had pink hair (Yeah ok then), but when the girl turned around Sasuke knew he had the right girl.
"Sasuke-Kun?" Sakura asked, as she looked at the figure standing down the street a ways away.
Sasuke jogged towards Sakura, and when he got close enough he noticed that Sakura had been crying. He just inwardly sighed to himself,
'Harsh Naruto…very harsh.' He was snapped out of his thoughts by Sakura's hand waving in front of his face,
"Sasuke-Kun?…Sasuke-Kun? You ok?" Sasuke shook his head, and then nodded,
"Yeah sorry, I just sort of spaced out for a second." Sakura nodded, and was about to speak when a loud explosion was heard. Sasuke and Sakura both looked at each other for a second, before nodding, and running off towards the explosion.
-With Naruto-
Naruto was currently about twenty feet away, from the smoke he had been racing to, at the most. He had been growing more excited the closer he got to his destination. Naruto jumped off of his last rooftop, and landed right in the middle of the rising smoke, and instantly jumped back up as a fist appeared inches from his face.
'What the hell? I would have figured that the ninja would have moved since they broke in here, but I guess not.'
Naruto jumped back up into the air, but this time he was going through a series of hand seals. Naruto was about ten feet from the ground when he finished his last seal,
"Kaze no Yaiba!" Naruto screamed as he continued to fall towards the earth. Instantly, the smoke was cleared, but what Naruto saw wasn't what he was expecting at all.
Naruto's eyes went wide as, instead of seeing ninja, he saw deformed people that had various formations for each one. Some had claws, and some had scissor looking hands, while almost all of them had spikes coming out of somewhere on their body. If it wasn't for the grey shirts and pants, then Naruto wouldn't have even been able to tell they were human.
Naruto had no idea of how powerful these…things were, but he noticed there were only five total, and Naruto then noticed two people retreating from the scene. One of them was only wearing grey pants, much like the monsters that were currently attacking, and he also had mild orange hair, that was bright, but not bright enough that it would be noticeable no matter where he went. He was a very tall muscular man, and he had what appeared to be weird marking running across his body, but Sasuke wasn't sure since the man was a decent length away. The second man has wearing what Naruto would guess was a hunter-nin mask, but he wasn't entirely sure, because once again this was over quite a long distance. The man also seemed to be wearing a purple jumpsuit type thing, which wasn't hard to make out at all, and lastly he was wearing glasses, accompanied by white hair that was put back into a ponytail that went down to just below his shoulders.
As Naruto kept watching, however, he say the tall man with the strange marks attack the person next to him. The man in purple just pulled something out, and injected it into the man's arm. He instantly calmed down as the man's marks receded, then they continued on their way. Naruto couldn't watch any longer as he had to dodge an oncoming barrage of punches, and kicks.
Naruto quickly jumped back as he then ran straight at them again. He jumped up in the air, and went to kick one of the monster like people in the face, only for his foot to be caught, and he to be thrown backwards, and hit a wall with a lot of force. Naruto growled as he stood up, and walked forward once again,
"Am I the only person that heard the damn explosi-"
'I guess not.' Naruto thought to himself letting a smirk appear on his face.
-With Sasuke and Sakura-
They were getting closer to the location they wanted desperately to get to, and they kept hearing noised, but they couldn't tell what they were. Then they heard a familiar sound, it was the common reaction to getting thrown into a wall, and it was a simple gasp as air left your lungs, but they could tell just from that, their teammate was fighting already.
'So Naruto's already there, huh? Well might as well go kick some ass too.' Sasuke thought growing excited as a small smirk graced his lips.
'We have to get to Naruto-Kun!' Sakura yelled out in her head.
They continued running full speed until they made it into a street that was filled smoke, and people were running in the other direction,
"Seems we found the place." Sasuke stated, Sakura just nodded as they ran forward a little ways more, until Naruto came into view.
"Am I the only person who heard the damn explosi-" The blond trailed off, as a smirk made its way to his face,
"It's about time you guys decided to show up! Well I guess I was expecting it from Kakashi, but Sasuke and Sakura…I'm disappointed in you guys." He joked with a small chuckle as he dodged another barrage of attacks thrown at him.
Sakura looked to the left, and then she noticed it, Kakashi was now standing there scratching the back of his head. Sasuke followed the same suit as Sakura, and got a shocked expression on his face,
'I didn't even sense him next to us!' Sasuke screamed in his head. He was quickly snapped out of his thoughts as Sakura started running towards the deformed figures before them. Sasuke took out a kunai of his own, and ran after her.
Kakashi was currently fighting one of the creatures, and was having a little trouble, even if he wasn't using the Sharingan, it was still more than he expected.
'Where the hell is everyone else!? There's no way they didn't hear the explosion…unless…dammit!' Kakashi yelled to himself in frustration.
-With Team 8 And 10-
Both teams had been assigned a mission with the other. They were supposed to transfer supplies to a nearby village, and they weren't having a very good time doing it.
"Shut up!" Roared Kiba, as he went to tackle Ino, but missed, and fell face first onto the ground.
"Is that all you have dog boy!? Come on! Shikamaru can put up a better fight than you!" Ino taunted back as Shikamaru glared at Ino,
"What the hell is that supposed to mean!?" Ino was taken off guard by her teammates comment as she looked confused then sighed,
"Shikamaru, you're to lazy to ever put up a good fight, because knowing you,…you would just forfeit right after it started…if you even could beat the person." Shikamaru sighed to himself, he couldn't say anything back, because what the blond girl had said was true, and he knew it.
Choji just chuckled slightly at his teams' antics, and continued munching on his bag of chips. Kurenai and Asuma just sighed, while Hinata looked dumbstruck and Shino didn't show any feeling at all, as he just sat there.
Kiba started laughing hysterically, until it was drowned out by a loud noise, that sounded like an explosion. Team 8, accompanied by, Team 10 looked back in the direction of the explosion, and saw smoke rising.
"That's coming from Konaha!" Kiba shouted as he took off running, followed by everyone else.
-With Team Gai-
Neji and Rock Lee were currently sparing, and in which Neji was dominating, but Rock Lee just kept coming as Gai and Tenten just observed.
"Neji-Kun your youthfulness is amazing!" Lee shouted as Neji once again struck at him only to miss. Rock Lee then jumped back, and looked over at Gai…his Sensei,
"Gai-Sensei! When are we going to get another youth filled mission! I want to show everyone how youthful my team is once again!" Gai looked up, and did his 'nice guy' pose,
"Don't worry Lee! We will get one very soon, and show off the great youth our team obtains! Before that, however, we need to run…two hundred laps around Konaha!" With that Gai took off running, and after a moment of shock Rock Lee followed close by. Neji and Tenten just sighed, and sat under a tree, while wondering why the hell they had to get this team out of all the possible ones.
Then out a of absolutely nowhere a huge 'Boom' came to ear, and instantly, Gai and Lee were back with Tenten and Neji.
Everyone just nodded at each other before they quickly took off towards the rising smoke.
-With Team 7-
Everyone on Team 7 was fighting a monster…human…thing, but there was one slight problem with that strategy, even if they didn't call it one. There were five monsters, and only four members on Team 7, so if you do the math, that left one of the beasts open to attack, and it did just that. It first went for Kakashi, but Kakashi simply jumped over the monster, and kicked it in the face sending it flying a good ten feet in front of him. Kakashi sighed, as he quickly finished off his opponent, and decided he wouldn't interfere with his student's fights unless they need it. He just stared at the monster he had just kicked as it ran in a different direction. Naruto and Sasuke weren't having trouble with their enemy's at all, and they both seemed to be enjoying the fight, Naruto in more of an insane way, however. Sakura…was a different story, she was getting back up little by little, and she was now about two or three feet away from being pinned up against a wall, and of course, no matter where you are, that particular situation doesn't help in a fight. The beast let out a roar, and brought it's spiked fist down to connect with Sakura's skull, which in turn would either crack it open, rather easily or, more likely, just cut right through the girls body. The blow never landed, however, as Sakura raised a kunai up, and blocked the attack, but she didn't get out of the attack unscathed. When Sakura had blocked the blow, it obtained so much force that it caused the kunai to come down, and leave a rather large cut along the side of Sakura's face, but the good thing was that it wouldn't interfere with her ability to fight, only hurt a lot, while she was doing the fighting. Sakura did, however, lose her footing, and was now on the ground in front of the beast, pinned up against the wall, that had screwed her over to begin with.
Sakura could feel the blood dripping off of her face, and onto her leg, that was currently beneath her body in an awkward position, but she knew that as long as there was only one enemy she would be alright. That's when the trouble started, however. Sakura was slowly standing back up, using her weight, with a bit of added force from her feet as well, to push her body slowly up the wall, so she wouldn't have to look away from the drooling monstrous thing standing in front of her, and she could also keep both hands clenched around her kunai handle. When the second mutated human appeared though, she knew she wasn't going to have a chance, and would most likely die in this little skirmish she was having.
The new mutant took its time walking over to the Pink haired Shinobi, as it had a bloodthirsty grin plastered on its deformed, spiky face. Sakura blocked another fierce blow from the mutant standing in front of her, but she kept, every so often, eyeing the new enemy that approached from behind the one attacking her, and that's when it happened.
The new enemy took off at a dead sprint towards Sakura, and in perfect unison, the one Sakura was currently fighting bashed down on her kunai, while the other jumped up above both of them, with a hand/claw out, and ready to sink into Sakura's soft skin. Sakura's eyes widened in horror as the flying mutant came closer, and closer, as time seemed to dramatically slow down, just so that Sakura could see her own death, and sustain the pain, she was about to endure, longer .
The creature was about to embed its claws into Sakura's skull, when out of absolutely nowhere Kakashi appeared above the, currently mid-flight, mutant. Kakashi had one of his famous eye smiles showing, and was about to finish the monster off when it got kicked out of the way, which in turn caused Kakashi's eyes to widen to amazing sizes.
'What the hell!?' Kakashi screamed to himself, until he noticed a familiar blond blur floating above the creature that was about to die a very painful death. Kakashi, however, didn't waste anytime, as he ran at inhuman speeds towards the female member of Team 7.
Sakura was in shock when Kakashi had suddenly appeared, but it quickly vanished as the creature in front of her raised its arm back to deliver another very powerful blow. Sakura sighed in defeat, as she knew she wouldn't be able to withstand this coming attack. Her arms were shaking, and were drained of all available power from the previous hits. Sakura still held her kunai up, however, just for the slight chance that it would hold, and she wouldn't be cleaved in two.
The claw came down at insanely fast speeds, towards the Cherry Blossom, as she closed her eyes, awaiting the blow. To much her surprise though, the blow never came, and Sakura whipped up the courage to open one of her eyes, and what she found was amazing, but terrifying at the same time. Kakashi was holding the creature by its shirt, but was holding a, now, bloody kunai, which was sticking out of the neck of Sakura's previous executioner. The blood was running down Kakashi's arm, and some of it had splattered across his face, but he was smiling at Sakura nonetheless, trying to reassure her that she was alive, and was going to be just fine.
When Sakura's brain finally received the news that she wasn't going to be getting mauled by anything anymore, she fell back onto the ground, breathing heavily.
Kakashi was glad that he had gotten to Sakura in time to stop her death, he didn't think he had it in him to see someone else close to him perish, but worst of all it would have been his fault if she would have died, because he was supposed to protect his team. He knew that death was an everyday thing for a Shinobi, but he had seen so many of his friends die, it was just very hard for him to handle, but maybe one day it wouldn't bother him as much, but he doubted it. The Cyclops let out a sigh of relief as he looked back over at the other two males of his squad. Only to have his eyes widen.
Sasuke was about ready to kill off his opponent, and Kakashi knew that Naruto was going to kill his, and nothing would change that. So that in turn meant that Sasuke's, was the only chance of taking one of the mutants back to Sandaime for him to have a look at it. Kakashi quickly made his way over to Sasuke as the Raven haired boy raised a kunai to finish off his enemy, but was abruptly stopped by his sensei's hand. Sasuke looked up at Kakashi,
"W-Why did you stop me Kakashi!?" Kakashi just smirked,
"Sorry Sasuke, but we need to take one of these 'things' back to the Hokage so he can have a look at it." Sasuke nodded, he didn't want to kill the thing anyway, he didn't have it in him at this point, he had nothing against the monster. Sasuke then looked over at Naruto, and his eyes grew bigger then they ever had before.
Sasuke quickly looked away. He couldn't stand to see what Naruto was doing to the mutant, even if he was the enemy. Kakashi almost had the exact same reaction as Sasuke. He looked away , but a look of sadness appeared on his features, as he had seen something that Sasuke hadn't. Kakashi slowly walked over to Naruto.
Naruto was going crazy. He was slamming his fists as hard as he could into the dead creatures chest. Naruto had blood all over his hands, but it wasn't just his victims, no, it was also his own also. The monster that he had attacked had spikes sticking out of its torso, and that was exactly where Naruto was punching with great force.
Kakashi walked up right behind Naruto, and he was so close that he could hear Naruto's silent sobs that the boy had no intention of anyone else, but himself hearing. Naruto drew his right fist back to land another full forced hit on the monster, but was stopped by Kakashi's hand. Naruto lost all desire to continue hitting the, now dead, creature, and instead dropped his arms by his side as he silently cried to himself. Kakashi put a comforting hand on Naruto's shoulder, which to Naruto shook his head,
"No one else close to me is going to die…" He said to himself more than to anyone else, as he punched the ground a couple of times. Kakashi's eyes went downcast as he felt the need to talk,
"Naruto…I know its been hard for you, but you have to pull yourself together, and try to forget about the past, and look into the future. You can take out your anger on that man when you see him, but for now do you really want Sasuke and Sakura to worry about you more then they already do?" Naruto once again shook his head, as he slowly stood up, and placed his blood covered hands into the pockets of his pair of pants. He turned around, and slowly walked back towards Sasuke and Sakura with Kakashi close by.
Luckily for Naruto, Sakura hadn't seen what he had been doing, somehow. Sakura went up, and hugged Naruto, who was now back to his old self.
"Thanks for saving me Naruto-Kun, and you too Kakashi-Sensei, without you guys I would have been as good as dead." Kakashi just nodded, as Naruto smiled at Sakura,
"Don't worry Sakura I wont let anyone close to me die. It's a promise!" Naruto said the last part louder than the rest as he stuck his hand out in front of him, in a fist, all while still sustaining a smile on his face. Everyone else on Team 7 smiled at Naruto's comment, and promise.
Kakashi walked over to the, now, tied up creature. Kakashi sighed as he put his fingers to his mouth, and whistled, but Sasuke, Sakura, and Naruto, all couldn't hear it. Just as Sasuke was about to ask what that was for an two Anbu appeared. Kakashi pointed to the tied up monster, and all the dead ones. In response they nodded, and they both disappeared, one with the tied up creature, and the other with a dead one. Then almost as soon as the first two left, three more came, and took the remainder of the bodies away.
Sasuke looked up at Kakashi in amazement,
"Wait…you were in Anbu!?" Sasuke almost screamed. Kakashi just rubbed the back of his head sheepishly,
"Well yeah, actually I was the Captain, until I quit." Everyone's eyes widened, as their respect for the Cyclops grew.
Just as Sakura was about to ask a question Team 8 and Team 10 appeared, almost at the exact same time.
"HELL YEA-…Wait…where are the enemy ninja?" Kiba asked, confused and rather disappointed. Everyone else, excluding Team 7, had the same response, before Asuma stepped up,
"There was obviously a battle here, but what happened to the enemy? Kakashi care to explain?" Kakashi looked up at Asuma as he sighed,
"Fine…we beat them, and well one of the ninja is being taken to Hokage-Sama" Asuma and Kurenai both nodded,
"What about the other ninja?" Kurenai asked, rather curious.
"Being disposed of." Kakashi said nonchalantly, but everyone's eyes widened,
"W-Wait…you k-killed t-them!?" Ino asked in disbelief and fear,
Kakashi just sighed, "No we didn't we just…" Kakashi trailed off as he noticed Naruto walked away,
"Naruto where are you going!?" He shouted so that Naruto could hear him. Naruto responded with a shrug,
"Home I guess." Everyone just stared at Naruto's fading figure as out of nowhere Team Gai appeared,
"Ahh! We missed the youthful action Gai-Sensei!" Lee shouted, with a disappointed look on his face. Gai just nodded,
"Yes we did Lee! I'm sure that we will get much more action later though, to show how truly youthful we are!" Lee nodded vigorously as Tenten and Neji just sighed.
Everyone was just staring at the two, until Kiba spoke up,
"…Who the hell are you!?" Gai looked over, and met Kiba's look,
"Oh of course! We forgot to introduce our youthful selves! How very un-youthful of us!" Everyone continued staring in disbelief as Kakashi, Kurenai, and Asuma just sighed.
"We are Team Gai! I am Maito Gai, this is my prized student Rock Lee!-" Gai stated as he pointed to Lee, who to everyone's disbelief looked almost identical to Gai, he even had the same bushy eyebrows. They were actually so bushy it didn't even seem possible.
"-and this is Hyuuga Neji, and Tenten!" He then pointed to the Neji, and then to Tenten. Sasuke took extra interest in Neji,
'Hyuuga huh? I cant wait to have a chance to fight him…he seems full of himself.' Neji was thinking along the same lines, but he added some fate comments in as well. They both then walked towards each other,
"Uchiha…"
"Hyuuga…" They both just stared at each other before Sasuke was tackled to the ground by none other than Ino Yamanaka.
"Sasuke-Kun!" Ino yelled as she clung to his right arm. Ino was surprised that Sakura didn't say something or even cling to Sasuke's other arm,
"Giving up, and accepting that Sasuke-Kun will never be with you, and we were destined to be together Forehead?" Ino asked, trying to provoke Sakura, by adding her nickname,
"No Ino Pig! I don't need Sasuke-Kun, and even if I did he's on my team so it doesn't matter if you love him to death! He's around me all the time!" Sakura smirked at her victory as Ino sighed, but then realization dawned on her,
"W-Wait…did you say you didn't need Sasuke-Kun!?" Ino practically screamed, and to which Sakura just nodded,
"You heard me Ino Pig! I got Naruto-Kun!" Ino's eyes widened as she stared at Sakura like she was insane before making her way over to Sakura,
"Sakura…why do you like him? He's unstable! It's easy to see! He could snap, and kill you at any second!" Ino said just above a whisper, and Sakura just shook her head,
"No Ino…Naruto-Kun just had a hard past, and needs love, and I expect to supply that love." Ino just raised an eyebrow,
"He means that much to you?" Sakura just sighed,
"You don't know Naruto-Kun the way I do." Ino just nodded,
"I guess you're right…I should get to know him better sometime." Sakura just nodded,
"Yeah I think that's a good idea! Oh I got it! Our teams could get together some time!" Ino nodded,
"Yeah I think that's a good idea!"
Everyone else was just watching both girls whisper to each other, before they began to walk back over.
"So you guys beat the enemy that invaded?" Shikamaru asked still wondering the answer. Sasuke just nodded, along with Sakura.
"Wow that's pretty impressive." Choji admitted, while munching on some chips, everyone just nodded in agreement. Kakashi then looked up at everyone, from his book that he pulled out after getting bored with the conversation,
"Well sorry guys, but I think we're going to go get some missions…so bye!" Kakashi started to walk away along, Sakura and Sasuke following close behind. Sakura, however, stopped and waved,
"Bye everyone!" Sakura received some waves back, before she turned around, and started jogging slightly to catch up with Sasuke. She started thinking to herself,
'Well…Rock Lee, Maito Gai are weird, but I probably wont have to be near them much…so it doesn't matter.' She continued walking in silence until Kakashi spoke up,
"Ok guys well we're going to go get some regular missions, and then after those I have a surprise for you!" Sasuke and Sakura both raised an eyebrow at this,
"But…that's for that so…meet me in the Hokage's office in about two hours, and also make sure that Naruto knows to. Well until then…bye!" Kakashi waved, and vanished in a swirl of leaves.
Sasuke then turned, and started walking away. Sakura just shrugged, and decided she would head over to Naruto's house, and tell him when to meet, and maybe chat some.
-At Naruto's House-
Naruto had just recently arrived at his home, but he was already sitting there with what was, probably, a broken hand, a whole bunch of blood, and the remains of what used to be a mirror,
"Kakashi's right…I just need to calm down, and try to forget about the past, and face it when the time comes…" Naruto sat back, and buried his face into his eyes, trying to think of what to do. Naruto then heard a knock at the door, but he didn't even move. Then another knock followed by a, 'Naruto?' Naruto knew it was Sakura, but he still refused to get up, he needed to sort himself out before anything else. Once he heard footsteps walking down the steps that led to his apartment, he sighed to himself.
-At The Hokage's Office-
Sandaime was currently staring at the creature that had attacked, and was hoping that it was, what he thought it was, but he wasn't to sure.
"Take him, and get a DNA sample…I want to look at it." The Anbu nodded, before vanishing along with the creature.
'Could that really be Orochimaru's curse seal? If so…this could be a huge break through.'
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Well it's done! Sorry for the wait guys I didn't feel like writing for awhile, and so…I didn't lol, but anyway I'm going to ask for some help! I need help with finding jutsu, because that's where I suck if you haven't noticed the lack of them…then yay! Lol Well hope you guys like the chapter, and until next time
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