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For Those I'll Live For
Sunset no Jutsu!
Drip. Drip. Drip.'Kami, can someone stop that annoying dripping? Where am I anyway? And why is it so… white…' Naruto struggles to sit up. Looking around the bleach white room, he notices various machines to the left of him, pressed against the wall with some wires stretching over to him, connected to several points on his body.
On his observation of the room, he also sees a young woman, dressed in a white outfit, walking to the door to leave his room. "Hey…" His voice is almost a whisper, much weaker than he intends it to be, but getting the lady's attention nonetheless.
"Oh. You're awake already? I'll notify the doctor." The woman scurries to the door and shuts it quietly on her way out.
'So… I'm in a hospital… How did I end up here?' All the memories of the ninja sent to be his watcher and his attack come flooding back to him much too quickly, giving him a slight headache. 'That man! Wait… How did I get away?' His thoughts are pushed to the back of his mind as the doctor strolls in.
"Looks like you really are awake. You gave us quite the scare, you know." The doctor walks over to him to make sure that he is alright. "Do you know what happened to you to get here?"
Naruto nods slowly. "Yes. I remember it…"
The doctor nods back. "Good, good. The Hokage wanted us to make sure if you did or not."
Sarutobi is sitting his office, awaiting any news on Naruto. It has been days since the boy was admitted. The paperwork that the Third has been too stressed out to do is starting to pile up on his desk. 'Wake up already, Naruto…'
He barely notices as an ANBU guard appears behind him. "Hokage-sama, Uzumaki-san has woken up," the member announces. Sarutobi nods towards his nin and leaves for the hospital yet again.
The nurse, who Naruto finds out to be named Noriko, is ready to strangle to small boy from his usual, never-ending questions. From the second he is up, the questions start flowing endlessly about things with no specific range, as nurse Noriko had found out.
A door slides open and the Hokage enters the room, smiling at the two people. "You may go, Noriko-san. I'll let one of the staff know that you left."
Noriko bows and shuffles towards the door, and is heard muttering to herself before she leaves. "Thank Kami…"
The Third looks over to Naruto with a smile on his face. "You haven't been torturing people, have you Naruto?"
Naruto is trying to hold back the smile that is threatening to break free. "Me? Neeeever." He starts giggling a little.
The Hokage takes a more serious turn in his facial expression as he prepares to move onto heavier subjects. "Naruto, do you know why you're here right now?"
Naruto's smile slides off of his face faster that he had flashed into the Third's office. "Yes," he answers without looking the man in the eye.
Sarutobi lets out a sigh and shakes his head. "Well, Naruto, I'm sorry about having to ask you this, but you're going to have to tell me what happened that night."
Naruto begins to shake slightly and the old man places a palm on the small of his back for emotional support. After he tells him exactly what happened, his eyes start taking on a vacant, emotionless look, as if he is reliving the whole ordeal. When the information is passed on, Naruto looks at the Third with a questioning look. "How long have I been asleep, anyway?"
"You've been unconscious for two days," Sarutobi replies.
"Oh," he says before moving on to ask yet another question. "Is my Otou-san back yet?"
Sarutobi shakes his head and Naruto looks down trodden, his hope slowly slithering away. "But he is coming home today, you know." Naruto's expression lightens a little as this news, but he wouldn't be completely relieved until he saw his father again.
Naruto hopes that his father comes home soon. He misses him deeply, and after what happened, he never wanted him to leave again. A thought pops into Naruto's head, causing him to shiver. "What's going to happen to the man?"
Sarutobi has a grim a look as before Naruto told his story. "We caught him, but he is awaiting trial." When he sees the small boy's expression of worry and fear, he says, "Don't worry. He can't get to you anymore."
Naruto sighs and sits back, he realizes, for the first time since he had woken up. He watches Sarutobi, ready to ask another question, but before he can do so, the Third speaks up. "Naruto, I'm truly sorry for what happened… I thought he was loyal enough and that I wouldn't have to worry about him attacking you…" The look in his eyes was that of despair and sadness, as if he was the one to experience the attack. "If I had been more careful… more cautious… you wouldn't be here…"
Naruto laughs slightly, startling the sad look right off of the Hokage's face. "It's okay, Hokage-jiji," Naruto tells him with a fox-like smile. "But how did I get away alive?"
Sarutobi looks at the boy with a quirked eyebrow. 'How could he use such a difficult jutsu and not know he did it?' "You really don't remember, Naruto?"
"Nope! Not at all." Naruto's expression switches from that of a smile to that of confusion. "Should I?"
Sarutobi laughs at the boy and lifts Naruto's three-pronged kunai from the bedside table. "You did something no one else can. You used the Fourth's technique, the Hiraishin."
Naruto's eyes nearly jump out of his head at this statement. "Really?" The boy looks as if he wants to get up and run around, which he was probably able to do.
The old man continues to laugh at the child. "Yes, you did! Though it's even more shocking knowing that you don't know how you did it."
Naruto grins back at the man who he thought of as a grandfather. "I'm just as awesome as Otou-san!"
On the other side of Konoha, things aren't as lighthearted. Kakashi is just arriving at the gate when the guard stops him.
"Kakashi Hatake. I have been ordered to inform you upon your entrance to the village that your son, Naruto Uzumaki, has been hospitalized," the guard announces. Without another word, Kakashi rushes to the hospital. The speed he is running at can only be compared with a bat out of hell.
As he passes them, stands in the street are being thrown to the side and flipped over. He even goes as far as to use an earth jutsu to blow a hole in a store that is in his way for a straight shot to the hospital. Much to his dismay, it is a female clothing store and he curses himself for not having the time to stay and partake in his actions. He continues on his straight path to his son, ignoring any inkling he had to stay behind and watch the women in the store scream.
In his approach to the hospital, Kakashi doesn't slow down in the least bit, not even to open the doors, opting to just shatter the glass doors. He ends up slamming into the front desk, proceeding to flip over it and cause the nurse that was stationed there to be tossed to the side. "Where is Naruto Uzumaki's room," Kakashi asks in a hurry.
The nurse is a bit scatter-brained from his sudden entry, and she has a slip of the tongue. "The demon's room?" Killer intent starts to roll off of Kakashi and onto the woman, making her feel nauseas. He grabs the clipboard out of the vile woman's grasp and looks for his son's room number. After finding it on page three with scribbles all over it, made by the nurse, he takes the stairs, clearing each flight with one bound.
Kakashi reaches his son's room and throws the door open with enough force that hinges threatened to fall off. Kakashi sees that the Hokage is in the room with a fully-well, smiling Naruto. "Hokage-sama… Sorry for the… entrance." His breathlessness is followed by hysterical laughter from the old man and the small blonde.
"It's okay, Kakashi. It's nice to know that you can get somewhere fast. Though, it's odd seeing you here before you're hours late," the Hokage teases the jonin.
Naruto looks at his father with a judging look. "Really, Otou-san? Hours late? You give me grief about being only minutes late from getting out of the shower!"
"Now, now. Is that any way to treat your Otou-san after he gets back from a mission and tears a new street to the hospital to see his son?"
The Hokage looks out of the window in the direction that Kakashi would have traveled. He shakes his head at the nin. "So I see… at least eight toppled stands… IS THAT A WHOLE IN THAT BUILDING?" Sarutobi shouts, knowing how much paperwork is going to be headed his way from this.
"Well, you see what had happened was… As I was making my way here, they built that in my way and I couldn't slow down. You know, they built that in such an astonishing speed, I didn't even have time to think about turning!" Kakashi smiled, hoping that he could get away with his destruction.
"Kakashi, that building's been there for years…" Sarutobi states, a look of disbelief on his face.
"Really? I've never seen it before." There is silence for a bit, a dramatic pause if you may. "Anyways… What happened while I was gone for Naruto to be in the hospital?" As solemn Sarutobi retells the story to him as Naruto had told it with an ashamed look on his face. With each and every detail, Kakashi's thirst for blood rises, and by the time the Hokage is done with the story, Kakashi is past the point of being violent angry, and on to the coldhearted, blood thirsty angry.
Sarutobi sighs, letting every ounce of his shame show with the next sentence. "He was a jonin named Kaori and he's been apprehended. I thought that I could trust him… but I guess I made a mistake in that assumption…"
Hokage-sama, I wish to be the one who determines his punishment for what happened to Naruto," Kakashi asks with emotionless eyes.
"If and when he is found guilty, you may decide the punishment that he is to undergo, but you are not to make any action against him yourself. Agreed?"
"Yes, Hokage-sama."
With that done, the Third leaves, heading back to his office and leaving Kakashi alone with his son. "So, how were you handling me being gone before the incident?" Kakashi asks this, hoping to get his son to talk.
"Pretty normal, only with the silent stalker behind me at all times." Kakashi laughs at his son's nickname for the attacker. "But Otou-san! Hokage-jiji said I used the Fourth's technique to escape from the bad man!"
Kakashi is flabbergasted at his son's news. "You used that technique?"
Naruto smiles widely. "Yup! Sure did! Though I don't know how I did it…" He scratches his head, trying to think yet again of how he did it.
Kakashi stares at his son with a stunned look. "Well, then if you can do that then I guess it's time to take things up a notch in your training, huh?" Naruto yells in joy at the thought of getting more training, knowledge, and experience.
After his clearance to leave, Kakashi takes his son home, answering as many questions as he could from the boy's never ending list. The questions range from what his mission was to when they would start his new training at home.
Arriving home is worse for the pair than it was for them at the hospital. The chair that held Naruto is still thrown to the side of the kitchen with wire marks from how tight he was bound to it. Blood was splattered on the ground from Naruto's various cuts. Kakashi continues through the house, assessing the damage done to both his furniture and Naruto. The target out back looks just like his kitchen, covered in blood.
Naruto, unsettled, starts to shake madly at the sight of the house. Flashbacks of the man's disturbing silence, the crazed look in his eye, the wire that cut into his skin, the numerous slashes and cuts, start to overwhelm him. He falls to his knees, holding himself and crying, trying to stop the heaving that accompanied the tears.
Kakashi runs to his side, trying to calm his son's deep cries. Eventually, he is able to get the small boy into his room, but only after the boy had cried himself to sleep. Kakashi starts to clean the house, blood beginning to boil with anger with every drop of his son's blood that he has to wipe up.
'When that bastard is sentenced, I'm going to make him WISH I had just killed him. Oh, how I'm going to make him PAY! He will cry like a small child, wishing he was never even born!'
The Third is exiting the counsel room, just out of a meeting to decide whether or not Kaori was guilty of his assault on Kakashi's adopted son. Sarutobi is seriously pissed off at a few members who partook in the trial. 'How dare they say that he was committing a public service for trying to kill the boy! They even tried to grant him a reward! Whatever Kakashi decides to do to the man will be too weak of a punishment!'
He reaches his office, just a couple floors above the counsel room, and starts filling out the paperwork on the damage that Kakashi had caused in his rampage. "Maybe Kakashi should do this as punishment for destroying everything in his path," Sarutobi thinks to himself aloud.
The next day, Kakashi can be seen in his front room with papers everywhere, some crumpled in balls and all of them missing a trash bin. An ANBU had delivered him the news earlier that morning of the court's findings on Kaori, which were guilty, and that he had free rein to decide his punishment. All the papers are the plans he makes, tossing them away as he thinks of worse and worse punishments.
Kakashi settles on his punishment plan and summons Pakkun to take it to the Hokage, wanting the plan to be set into motion immediately. He pulls out a copy of the plan he made and starts to smile evilly to himself before putting the plan on the table and beginning to cook. Naruto wakes up hungry, like he always does.
It was about nine in the morning when Naruto awakens. Sniffing the air and inhaling the scent that soaked the air, he knows that they are the smells of his father's cooking. He follows his nose to the kitchen and spots a massive amount of food on the table just begging to be eaten.
Kakashi motions towards the food and smiles. "Eat till you're full!"
When Naruto is done eating, Kakashi takes him outside to train. "Naruto, I told you we were going to train you harder now, so I want you to sprint from the house to the back of the yard and back as many times as you can." Naruto takes off running full force and continues to run for over an hour.
Kakashi can't help but marvel at how much energy the boy has. 'For a boy his age to still be going like that is insane!'
Naruto finally slows to a stop. "I can't go on running like that anymore!"
"Took you long enough, Naruto. Now come over here and try this chakra exercise." He hands the leaf to the boy, telling him to use chakra to hold it to his head. He leaves him to do the exercise for two hours. 'Where does he keep getting the chakra from? I would have been drained by now!'
Naruto finally gives up three hours later, unable to hold the leaf up. Kakashi leads the boy inside to eat again before telling him to shower and go to bed. Naruto, greatly exhausted, gladly complies and passes out the second his head hits the pillow. After checking to see if Naruto was sleeping, he takes off and heads to the Hokage's office.
Jumping through the window of the Third's office, Kakashi finds that his leader is waiting for him. "Hello, Kakashi," the old man greets.
Kakashi smiles. "I hope you got my plans, Hokage-sama."
Sarutobi pales at the mentioning of the cruel plan. "Yes, I got it…. But don't you think that it's a bit much? I mean, I wouldn't even condemn Orochimaru to this form of torture."
Kakashi laughs, making the other man worry about his sanity a little. "That's how I know I want this done to him."
The aged leader nods and stamps the piece of paper in front of him, condemning a man to a fate worse than death. Kakashi leaves the office giggling, knowing that the torture that would commence in the morning would be unbearable. On his way home, Kakashi whistles an upbeat tune.
The next morning, Kakashi sends Naruto to continue the training from the previous night. As soon as the boy is on his way, he himself leaves to go witness the beginning of Kaori's punishment. Upon his arrival at Konoha's prison cells, he hears screaming from the other side of the large metal doors.
Kakashi leads himself to Kaori's prison cell, or as he now called it, the "Cell of Torture." He peers through the bars on the door to see that his punishment is carried out first hand. From his spot at the door, Kakashi is able to see the entire room.
The man was struggling to get out of the room and save himself from the pain. Seeing Guy Might's Ultimate Sunset Jutsu, which was a genjutsu that showed you and him running towards each other in red Speedos, for a week straight was even worse to see. There are seals covering the room which allowed anyone that is right outside the door and inside the cell see the horrors.
Stepping back from the door, Kakashi notices a chalk outline on the ground in a square around the spot he was previously standing. He looks at the guards stationed outside of Kaori's cell with a questioning look. "What's that all about?"
The guard looks at him with a writhing, mortified look on his face. "Sir, that's the box of evil. You step in there and you will see one of the world's biggest atrocities."
Kakashi starts to feel sorry for the guards, who had to find out the exact range to correctly place the box. He wishes the guards good luck and says goodbye, hearing Kaori screaming for it all to end as he reaches the exit.
Naruto begins to wonder where his father went to. Realizing that he can now walk and keep the leaf on his head at the same time, he starts to search for his now lost father. After searching the entire house and finding that he is not there, Naruto continues about his normal business: eating, reading, and taking his shower.
When Kakashi gets home, he notices the leaf still on Naruto's head. "Hey, Naruto, have you had that leaf on your head all day?"
Naruto looks at him questioningly. "What leaf?" Putting his hand up to his forehead, he feels the leave from earlier. "Oh! I guess I just never took it off." Kakashi laughs at his boy's forgetfulness, but still remembers to be amazed that he kept the leaf on all day without even thinking about it.
"Looks like we will have to make the training difficulty even harder again, Naruto." He receives a joyous yell from his son and laughs at the small boy starts doing a little happy dance. Kakashi sends the small boy off to bed. 'By the time he goes off to the academy, he won't even need to be there! He really is just like his parents… Sensei, why couldn't you have just let someone else do the sealing? You're missing out on seeing your beautiful son grow up…' With that thought, Kakashi goes to his room to sleep as well.
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