Sakura was crying as she tried to heal Sasuke. They had been chasing after some rogue ninjas when she had been caught unexpected and Sasuke jumped in front of her. He got a deep wound and no matter how much she tried to heal him the wound just got worse. "I don't know what is going on," she said to Kakashi. "I just can't heal him."
Kakashi wasn't paying any attention to her as he looked towards the woods. He could sense someone coming, but he couldn't tell if they were harmful or not. He continued to watch as a young man with an ANBU mask covering his face entered the clearing that they were in with a child following after him. This surprised Kakashi because he could not feel the adult's chakra at all.
"What's going on?" the child asked while the adult remained silent.
"Who are you?" Kakashi asked. He was not willing to tell someone that he had no reason to trust about Sasuke's problem.
"We're ninjas from a nearby village," said the child. "My dad sensed that someone needed our help so here we are." The adult pushed the boy slightly to urge him towards Sasuke. "So what is the problem?" the child asked again as he crouched beside Sakura with the man standing behind him.
When Sakura looked at the boy she couldn't help but to think of how he reminded her of Sasuke when he had been young. The boy had black hair, which spiked in every direction, and very pale skin. His eyes, though, reminded her of Naruto's shining blue eyes. The adult, though he was wearing a mask over his entire face, made no other attempt to hide his appearance. He had tan skin and spiky golden hair. A small amount of his hair was allowed to grow long and was pulled back into a ponytail.
"I'm trying to heal him, but he's just getting worse," Sakura answered. She didn't know why, but she felt that she could trust them.
"Can I try?" asked the boy. Sakura nodded, if there was any chance that someone else would be able to heal Sasuke then she didn't care that they were just a small child, and he leaned forward to try to heal Sasuke, but before he could the man leaned forward and gently pulled his hands away. "What's wrong?" he turned to the man, but the only answer he got was for the man to look away. The boy looked in the same direction until something seemed to dawn on him. "You want us to take him to the house?" he asked. The man only nodded before walking off in another direction.
"We aren't taking him anywhere while he's in this condition," said Kakashi.
"He's well enough to be moved," said the boy, "and my dad knows what he is talking about."
"I don't care what your father wants," said Kakashi. "We aren't moving him."
"He isn't my father," growled the boy. "He is my dad and he knows that it would be best to move him to our house. He can't be left out here in case whoever attacked you comes back."
"I don't care who he is," said Kakashi. "I'm not taking Sasuke anywhere."
The boy was about to try to say something again, but he felt his dad's hand placed gently onto his shoulder. He looked back to see his dad shaking his head. The boy sighed and sat next to his father who placed a couple of herbs on the ground and pulled a small bowl out. The man looked at the three of them before beginning to make some sort of medicine making sure that everyone, but mainly Sakura, could see what he was doing. When he was done he stood and moved to Sasuke's side. He placed the small bowl in front of Sasuke's mouth, but Sasuke kept his lips closed as he looked at the man as though he was crazy.
"He wants you to drink it," the boy said. "It will help us heal you."
"I'm not drinking it," Sasuke said weakly.
The man moved on top of Sasuke before anyone could stop him and forced him to drink the medicine. When the whole bowl was empty, he stepped away and motioned for the boy to come to them. The boy began to use healing jutsu and Sasuke's wound began to heal. The boy smiled when he was done. "I did it," he said happily. The man rubbed his hair to congratulate him.
"Who are you?" Kakashi asked again.
The boy looked over to his dad to see him nodding before saying, "My name is Kyusuke, and this is my dad, Angel."
Angel tapped Kyusuke's shoulder and nodded towards the same direction he had looked to before and then started walking in that direction.
"Dad wants us to go back to the house," Kyusuke said. "Will you go with us this time?"
Kakashi shook his head. He had no reason to trust these people. They could just be trying to help Sasuke so that they would let their guard down and they would be easier to kill later.
Angel's shoulders slumped as though he was letting out a sigh, but no sound came out. He reached into his weapons pouch and Kakashi did the same to ready himself for an attack. Instead of taking out a weapon, however, Angel pulled out a headband and threw it towards Kakashi. He caught it and was shocked to find that it was a Konoha headband. He could have easily written it off as a headband stolen from a Konoha ninja, but the headband, though it was very worn, was cleaned to the point that it shined with the smallest of lights. This kind of detail was only something that a very devoted Konoha ninja would pay to his headband.
"Fine," he agreed. He trusted any Konoha ninja enough to allow himself to be coaxed into going to their house, but he would still be suspicious around him.
When they arrived at the two's home, they were shocked to see that it was the biggest one in the whole small town. "Wow!" Sakura gasped. "This place is even bigger than Sasuke's. You guys must be the richest people in the whole town."
"I've heard that we are the only reason that this town remains standing," Kyusuke said smugly. He kept that look until he looked forward to see Angel staring back at him. "Sorry," he mumbled and Angel turned to look forward again.
"What are you sorry about?" asked Sakura.
"My dad doesn't like it when I say things like that," said Kyusuke. "My tutor says that it's because I'm bragging and my dad doesn't like it when I brag."
"Angel-sama!" cried a loud stranger who was running through the gates just as Angel had gotten the door open.
"What is the matter?" asked Kyusuke.
"There's some intruders in the council room!" cried the man. No one was even able to react before Angel was dashing out of his property and back onto the streets.
"Take us to them," said Kakashi.
The man nodded and immediately followed after Angel.
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