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For Those I'll Live For
The Intent
Naruto is running full-speed through the forest with Kiba and his dog Akamaru, a little white dog with brown ears. Trees are whipping by the boys to the point that they are just brown and green blurs. "Man, she really won't give up! I think we should just give in man," Kiba says to Naruto.
"NEVER," Naruto shouts to his friend.
Kiba chuckles at Naruto's overzealousness. Hinata had told them that today, they are all going to go shopping for clothes, because she was sick of seeing the same outfits all the time. She told them that she was making Naruto get rid of the bright colors. Needless to say, he isn't too happy about that.
Hinata is right on their tails, not even a hundred feet behind. Nothing can get past her eyes with the Byakugan active, and hers was in full force. "Stop running and I won't make you wear pink!" The boys stop and think about the offer. They both know that, if she wants to, she can make them where the horrid, girly color.
Hinata drags the two crying boys to the stores. Both males already know that today is going to be a very, very long day. Hinata is happy and she already knows what kind of outfits that she is making each boy get. Her plans are to get Naruto some less violent colors and Kiba some more animalistic ones to match Akamaru.
After fighting with one another to get the boys to try on the clothes, everyone finally comes to an agreement. Naruto leaves the store with several outfits that look exactly like the ones he has on when he leaves. He's now wearing normal black shinobi sandals, shinobi pants that aren't taped up, a black t-shirt that has the words "First Class Soldier" in flame-styled lettering, and a pair of black gloves with shiny metal plates just below the knuckles.
Kiba walks out of the store with just as many clothes as Naruto. He is wearing a pair of black shinobi sandals, dark brown shinobi pants, a tight t-shirt with a wolf's snarling face on the front, and his old coat with added black markings to give him a more tribal look.
"Now you both look even better," Hinata says as she walks out of the store with one outfit that looks exactly like the one she had entered the store in.
"It's not fair, is it, Kiba?" Naruto whines.
"Heck no! Though I do look kinda cool…" Kiba states, causing Naruto to glare at him.
After getting home, Naruto puts his new clothes away in his closet, smiling at how Hinata had gone out of her way to get him to do this.
After putting away his clothes, he lays on his bed and stares at his white ceiling. 'Gah. I miss her already… Sometimes, I wonder if this is love…' With that thought, Naruto drifts off to sleep.
When Naruto wakes up, he follows his normal routine, but as he heads out of the door, his father stops him. "Look, Naruto, I know you're going to be a ninja soon, so I think it's a good idea for you to have this." Kakashi hands him Konoha's bingo book, filled with information on dangerous ninja. "Remember that the ninja in here can easily kill you. Heck, some of them could take me on without any trouble."
With that information, Naruto starts reading up on who he should flee from if he sees them once becoming a full-fledged ninja. Engulfed in his book, he leaves his walking partner, Hinata, to her own thoughts.
He notices the additional warnings around two people, Itachi Uchiha and Orochimaru. 'Must be the people Otou-san said even he couldn't beat.' He puts the book into his back pocket and chases after Hinata, who had walked ahead of him.
Every kid in Iruka's classroom is sitting and staring impatiently at the clock. Today is the day that everyone from his class goes out into the training grounds and watches the top students fight to see who is the best. Only one thing that is held back is kill shots.
Hinata won last time, using her family's fighting style to make her boyfriend unable to mold chakra and quickly ending it. Naruto is ready to take on Kiba and Sasuke today, confident that he can beat Kiba, but unsure about Sasuke, as the boy had beaten him more than a few times.
"You're going down Sasuke," Naruto whispers to the boy next to him, receiving a small chuckle in return.
"You think you can take me on? You didn't last time. As I recall, your girl beat the crap out of you. What makes you think that you can beat me this time?" Sasuke taunts the blonde.
"Hey! Getting hit with her Jyuken strikes isn't something to laugh at," Naruto says a little bit above a whisper. Hinata hears him and smiles at her boyfriend's remark.
As the bell rings, everybody runs out of the door and out to the training grounds. There are a couple of arena-like areas, a metal ring encircling trees, which surrounded flat, barren land, useful for fighting and letting others observe.
Iruka smiles knowingly at what today is, for it isn't a secret that the class did this every so often. The teachers normally went to watch, as well as some jonin who would be getting kids from this age group as a team.
Iruka also always went to go watch. Somebody has to make sure that they don't get too injured. 'Plus, it's always fun to see what they are really capable of. I mean, who knew that Naruto had started to learn sealing and Sasuke could use fire jutsu already!'
The class is out in the training grounds, jonin secretly hidden away in the surrounding trees.
All of the students who would be participating in the fight, Hinata, Kiba, Naruto, Sasuke, and Shino are all looking around for who would be their first opponents. Shikamaru, who had given up before the fight had even started, was tossed to Shino by Ino.
"Geez! You're never going to be a man! You're barely a boy," Ino shrieks, only to be ignored by a now sleeping Shikamaru.
The main fighters wait for a few minutes and receive no challengers. As if joyous about the silence, the group turns to each other. Naruto heads straight for Sasuke. "Let's go, you smug asshole," Naruto spits as he walks to Sasuke's fighting area.
Everyone wants to see this match, after the last match the boys had had. Sasuke had dominated Naruto with fire, the blonde barely making it out of the fight with minor burns, much to his disliking. But the battle had led Naruto to train to beat the raven-haired boy's fire the best way he could think of.
Hinata and Sakura walk inbetween the two soon-to-be combatants. The two girls hold up their hands, saying, "Remember! No kill shots!" Both Naruto and Sasuke nod to the girls and they nod back. "Begin," the girls yell, jumping out of the fighting zone.
Sasuke and Naruto both immediately start going through hand signs at speeds where only every other seal can be seen. They yell out their attacks simultaneously. Sasuke cries out, "Katon Housenka no Jutsu," summoning his fire, and Naruto shouts out "Yoreki no Jutsu!"
With Sasuke spouting out several red-hot fireballs at Naruto, the blonde is pointing his open palms at each flame that heads his way and each seems to be replaced with balls of water, which falls to the ground as soon as they are turned. "What did you do, blondie," Sasuke growls angrily.
"Simple! When fire burns, it creates water and I use my technique to focus my chakra to the water that each fireball creates. The water attracts more water to put out those little fireballs of yours," Naruto boasts proudly, smiling and crossing his arms.
With a "Hn" from Sasuke, his "whatever" grunt, the fight starts up again. Naruto nearly gets his head put into the ground by a kick and decides it would be best to use his Zanzou jutsu. Running forward and kicking Sasuke in the chest, he does a backhand spring to safety and flies through his hand signs for one of his favorite moves. "Zanzou no Jutsu!"
Naruto's body takes the form of his famous black and yellow blur as he speeds over to Sasuke. "Hard to fight when you're not sure exactly where I'm at," Naruto's voice echoes and travels as he moves. He punches Sasuke in the side of the head, making his body twist.
Sasuke forces his body to twist with Naruto's hit and brings his foot around, kicking the blonde in the side. He hears a few pops before the boy stumbles from the hit. "Ha. Sounds like you're going to be in some pain. Why don't you just give up now, loser?" Sasuke cocks his head to the side, raising his "superior" nose up, in confidence, believing that his opponent will give up.
"Looks like your little boyfriend lost again, Hinata." Sakura sighs and looks at the lavender-eyed girl. "I swear, I don't get why you are dating someone as weak as Naruto."
Hinata looks at the pinkette with a blank, emotionless look that her family is well known to have. "Looks to me that the fight is still continuing." Hinata's face takes on a more sinister, twisted look, one that doesn't suit the sweet personality she usually has. "And don't mock my boyfriend if you want to keep that pretty hair of yours." She looks back at the arena that the boys stand in.
Sakura starts to slowly inch away from the now terrifying girl. Ino had watched the conversation and shivers. She knows how scary Hinata can get if you insult Naruto. It makes you wonder who was scarier; her or Naruto?
Naruto receives another kick to his now fractured ribs. 'Holy SHIT this hurts! I need to beat him soon or I'm not going to make it!' Naruto pulls out a kunai with symbols carved into each side of the blade. 'If this doesn't at least give me enough time to win or if Kami doesn't smile upon me and make this trick win for me, I will have to back out or black out.'
Naruto jumps away from his attacker and launches the kunai, forming the "tora" seal, and then the "ram" seal, holding it until the kunai is halfway to Sasuke. With Naruto's loud declare of "KAI!" the four seals on the kunai glow a blue as bright as his eyes and chains with heavy iron tri-pointed claws fly out in the direction of the raven-haired boy. As the claws pass Sasuke's waist and head, Naruto forms the "snake" seal.
"Recede!" The seals begin glowing an even brighter blue than before, pulsating slightly, and the chains start to pull themselves back into the kunai at an alarming rate. The razor-sharp claws dig into Sasuke's shoulders and lower back. Because the claws are keeping the chain from going to the kunai, the kunai has to go to the chains, gaining extreme speed from the pull of the chains.
Naruto tosses a regular kunai to a small wooden stump on the edge of the fighting area, used for Kawarimi aiming, only a few feet away to show that if he wanted to kill the boy, he could have. 'Dodge that, you prick!'
With a poof, Sasuke appears on the border of the area, unharmed. "That's what you get for thinking you could beat an Uchiha." He turns and walks away. "You aren't going to be continuing this fight after that."
Everyone is watching looks to see what exactly Sasuke had switched with, only to see Naruto, now with metal claws sunk deep into his flesh with his own kunai, no longer glowing, wedged into his torso, which is now bleeding heavily. All of the viewers are shocked that Sasuke would do such a thing to a classmate. Hinata runs over to her bleeding, suffering boyfriend while Sakura runs off to follow Sasuke.
"Naruto! Please be ok!" Hinata cries and clings to Naruto's shirt, soaking the spot where her face lies. "You can't die here! You can't leave now!"
Naruto smiles at his beautiful girlfriend, so worried about his wellbeing. "No worries," Naruto manages to squeeze out before his is interrupted by a coughing fit, blood flying out of his mouth. "I won't die. Just for you, little lady." Naruto begins finding it harder to keep his eyes open and looking at anywhere but the back of his eyelids.
"HELP," Hinata starts to scream as all of the other students run off to find someone to help their dying friend. Iruka, who had witnessed the whole scene, is too shocked to even blink until he hears screaming for help. He jumps down from his hiding place in the trees to offer assistance.
"Iruka-sensei, help him," Hinata frantically yells at her teacher. It was more of a command than a request, which she would regret the rudeness of her actions later.
Iruka looks over the boy, amazed that he has lived as long as has with that kind of a wound. 'He needs medical attention NOW.' Picking up the boy, careful not to agitate the kunai or claws and make the wounds worse, he leaps out of the fighting area and jumps on rooftops as fast as he can, aiming for the hospital. 'Come on, Naruto! Stay with me!'
Approaching the hospital, Iruka jumps down to street level, disturbing the dust on the ground. He bursts through the doors and yells for a doctor, handing the blonde boy off to the medical staff and sitting down in the waiting room impatiently. 'I should report this to the Hokage.' Getting out of the seat he was in, Iruka heads out of the hospital and towards the Hokage's office.
Hinata is furious, eyes burning with a deep, hateful rage. Sasuke had tried to take Naruto from her and she isn't even sure if he failed or accomplished in his attempt, frustrating her further and making her hell-bent on making him pay. Activating her bloodline, her Byakugan, the young heiress begins her war path.
Running the direction she had last seen the soon-to-be doomed Uchiha heir, she eventually spots the pink-haired scardey-cat, Sakura. "Where. Is. He," Hinata demands, pronouncing each word through seething teeth.
"Why do you want to know? Shouldn't you be with your boyfriend while he is still around?" The pink banshee says, flipping her hair nonchalantly and crossing her arms defiantly.
Hinata loses control of her body as it begins to overflow with rage. Striking Sakura's tenketsu and closing off all of the nonlethal points, Hinata makes Sakura collapse. "Where. Is. He," Hinata demands once again, the intent to kill very clear in both her spiteful voice, as well as her stark eyes.
"Some masked ninja came and took him away, I swear," Sakura spouts as she cries from the excruciating pain.
'That means that the ANBU have him. Good. Hopefully they cause him some kind of physical pain.' With her conscious at rest that the boy will get what he deserves, Hinata heads off to the hospital.
"Okay, very funny. Now someone tell me. WHO THE FUCK THREW ME INTO A SEWER," Naruto shouts to the empty sewage pipe. Sighing, he starts to walk down the tunnel, searching for any way out of the oddly odorless place. Hearing breathing, Naruto speeds up his pace.
The blonde runs into what looks like a huge room in the sewer that is divided in two by a set of black metal bars that run from the floor to the ceiling. The only things holding them together were pieces of yellowed paper that said "Seal" on them.
"What is this place?" Naruto asks as he looks around the room, searching for an exit, only to find none. Hearing a loud and very deep chuckle, he flips around, staring at the bars that separate the room. "Who's there?" He shouts.
"ME!" Shouts a giant fox as it slams its face into the bars, snapping madly in vain attempts of eating the blonde boy on the opposite side of the bars.
Naruto takes a step back. "Who are you?" His voice is slightly hostile, not exactly sure how he should react.
"Me? I'm your worst nightmare," the fox chuckles evilly.
"Really, who are you?"
"You're not very smart, are you? I'm the great Kyubi!"
"But you're dead! The Fourth Hokage killed you!"
"HA! No mortal can kill a demon! Let alone, one of the bijuu!"
"So… If you weren't killed, why are you stuck behind bars?" Naruto asks, slightly curious.
"Your Fourth Hokage sealed me! In you, boy!"
Any joking personality that Naruto had before that, had left him that moment. "In me?"
"Yes. In you! I'm sealed inside your stomach!"
"Damn. That…" Naruto stops to try and think of a word for it, but lamely says, "That sucks…"
"You know, I thought that you would be a bit more freaked out by this."
"Well… You're trapped. What's there to be afraid of?" Naruto says matter-of-factly.
"Boy, get out of my sight," the fox says before turning his back, slightly disappointed at the lack of reaction and peeved at his cage.
"Sasuke Uchiha, you are charged with assault with the attempt to kill a fellow ninja." The Third speaks in front of the boy and all of the ninja who had witnessed what had happened with Kakashi's boy. "What do you say to this?" He looks straight at the boy, careful not to show too much anger in his eyes.
"I don't know what you're talking about, Hokage-sama," Sasuke says clearly.
"Then your judgement will be set by a court of mixed company, both shinobi and civilians. The date is to be set as soon as possible. Dismissed." With a wave from Sarutobi, everybody leaves, including Sasuke.
'What are we going to do with you, boy? If you're treating others like this now, how would you act if you were placed in a shinobi squad?' After sighing for a moment, the Third returns to his piles of paperwork.
Hinata arrives at the hospital quickly and walks up to the desk. "Naruto Uzumaki," she says sternly.
The nurse at the desk looks at the girl a moment before looking at her clipboard. "He was just brought in a little while ago, Miss Hyuga. He's going to be getting medical treatment in just a few minutes. I'm afraid you won't be able to see— Hey! You can't go in there!"
Hinata jogs up the stairs, using her Byakugan to locate her boyfriend's location. On the third floor, she finds him in a room with several doctors and medical ninja surrounding his bed. "Naruto," she exhales.
The boy is pale, an obvious sign of bloodloss. His eyes are closed and his face is without his usual bright smile. He seems lifeless, sitting in the hospital bed, and Hinata notices that the kunai and claws have yet to be removed.
"Excuse me, Miss, but you can't be in here while we perform the procedure. I'm sorry, but I have to ask that you sit out in the hall. There are benches there for you to wait on, though I suggest you go home and get some rest. This will take quite some time," the doctor says, slightly impatient, but polite in his asking.
"I'll wait," Hinata states. The doctor nods in understanding and watches her leave the room before turning back to his co-workers.
After about an hour, Kiba arrives and sits next to Hinata on the bench. "How is he?"
The purple-haired girl shakes her head. "I don't know. They haven't come out yet and they did say it would take a while." Hinata yawns and Kiba notices.
"You should go to sleep. It's been a long day."
"I can't sleep without a pillow and these benches are so uncomfortable to lay on…" Hinata pouts.
"Then use my shoulder as a pillow. You need sleep."
Hinata can't argue with that, worn out from trying to chase down Sasuke and worrying over her boyfriend's health, and eventually falls asleep with her head on his shoulder. Not too much longer after she falls asleep, Kiba leans his head on hers and falls asleep as well. The kids are, unbeknownst to themselves, being chuckled at by nurses as they pass.
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