WOOT! Chapter 3 is up!
This chapter is told from Kane's point of view, but its what Naruto told him. So Kane is passing the story down to the trio the way Naruto passed it down to him. Enjoy.
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Jin came into our lives at the end of the War.
Naruto had told me everything, so naturally, I told the kids the same way he had told me.
It was over. Konaha had won. The Sound Village was a battlefield, the dead nin lying dead. Orochimaru had been killed by Sasuke. Konaha had suffered losses, but it was nothing in odds compared to the Sound ninja who had died or been taken prisoner.
The entire Rookie Nine had been made Chunnin, Jonin, or ANBU since the time skip.
After this battle, Tsunade had hung up her coat and had passed the title of Hokage on to Naruto; he had definitely earned it.
"Naruto, let's go!"
Uzumaki Naruto turned back to the owner of the voice.
"I'll be right there, Sakura-chan!"
The Kyuubi container picked his way through the rubble of what once had been Otogakure. Jumping over broken cement and piping, he looked back at the wasteland.
"Thank Kami it's finally over."
Something caught Naruto's eye as he started his return to the medic kunoichi.
Iron bars sticking out of a crushed piece of cement. And something glistened on the floor. It smelled like . . .
Blood. Its blood, kit. Something's in there.
Can you tell what it is?
It's a human. Alive, but fading fast.
If it's a Sound ninja . . .
No, it's something else. It's not a Sound ninja, but-
Kyuubi was then cut off by Naruto yelling at the top of his lungs,
"Sakura! Hinata! Tsunade! We need medic nin NOW! There's someone in here!!!!"
The three women's heads whipped around, and they raced over to where Naruto stood.
The four stood before the wreckage.
Whoever, whatever, was stuck in there, it would be hell to get them out.
The wall had collapsed and was propped up against a metal cinderblock, several of them. Shattered glass littered the ground. Rusty bars and pipes making even walking treacherous. The wall had fallen so it was laying about two feet above the ground, creating a little cave.
It was in this cave that someone was trapped, and dieing fast.
Naruto crouched down and tried to lift the wall, but it wouldn't budge.
He turned to the three medic nins.
"Guys, c'mon, I need your help! We gotta get them outta here!"
With their combined efforts, plus several minutes of grunts and gasps, they had lifted the wall so they could get into the cave.
But it did nothing to prepare them for what they saw.
It was a girl.
No more than eleven years old,
lying in her own blood.
Sakura gasped, hands covering her mouth.
Hinata choked back a sob and pulled Naruto close, tears pricking her eyes.
Even Tsunade flinched.
They all started when they heard a raggedy, raspy gasp come out of her.
"She's still alive!!" Naruto yelled.
The three ladies immediately sprang into action, grabbing a stretcher and gently lifting pulling the girl from the cave.
Running without jostling the stretcher, they raced back to camp, leaving Naruto amidst the wreckage.
He shoved his hands in his pockets and sighed.
Terrible things happened here kit.
Yeah, but what?
We'll never know.
Oh, I think we might.
What?! How?!
That child. She was one of them.
One of what?!?! Tell me dammit!
She was one of that snake bastards experiments.
Didn't you see what she was wearing?
Ripped and burned, with a raggedy number pinned on the back?
That evil little . . . thank god he's dead.
You mean . . . that little kid-
Was probably tested and abused beyond belief.
It's a miracle she's alive.
I wonder if she even knows her own name.
Or if she calls herself what he probably called her.
What would that be?
The number that was tacked onto her back.
Experiment #4007412