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Chapter 8- Saving Nawaki
"I didn't get much sleep last night since I was called out for a mission but it doesn't bother me I have been without sleep before" Naruto thought sighing a bit. He looked around the forest where he and around six jonin had fought two battalions of Iwa ninja. The place looked like a mess blood dripping off the trees as well as body parts scattered throughout the area. The morning sunlight made the scene even worse signifying the blood in a hue like glow.
"I think that's the last of them" a random jonin to his left announced. Two of the jonin had gotten pretty injured during the fight, one had a broken arm and the other had his chest punctured by a kunai but all were alive. The Iwa ninja weren't so lucky though.
"Good let's head back, I need to do a couple things back in the village" Naruto said. Most of the jonin looked relieved because the fight was over for now and they were returning home. When they began to leave the forest the area they once stood lit up blowing a portion of the trees sky high. Naruto had gotten out of it with a couple burn marks because he had let his guard down for a second. He looked at the other jonin noticing the two injured ones from before were dead along with another one leaving only three other jonin besides him left.
He studied the burnt bodies of the ninja who had fought along side of them.
"Damn it if I didn't let my guard down maybe all of us could have made it back safely but I guess we won't be getting out of this easily" Naruto said. The other jonin had heard him but most were staring at the ruined forest where the explosion had taken place seeing around thirty rock ninja emerge from the foliage.
"Crap we are out numbered" a random jonin stated beside him. He knew that if the three jonin here fought they would die because of the sheer numbers of ninja before them so he opted to fight alone.
"Get out of here, I will take care of them. Meet me at the town nearby, this will be over soon enough" Naruto shouted. The jonin looked at him like he was crazy. They knew it was suicide by how many ninja their were.
"We can't just leave you so we will fight together" another jonin announced. They all readily agreed but Naruto did not because by the numbers he saw they would not make it out of this fight because he could not protect them as he fought. He could but it would leave himself wide open at times.
"Don't worry about me just go, I got this handled" Naruto shouted at them. After a couple seconds of seeing the look Naruto was giving them they ran the opposite direction away from the advancing squads of Iwa ninja.
"Finally, I didn't want to reveal many of my secrets yet" Naruto thought. The Iwa ninja looked smug, they believed they had this in the bag because only one ninja stayed.
"You should have went home crying while you had the chance but it looks like you are going to die here" a Iwa ninja said confidence oozing off him. Naruto smirked at the guy who acted cocky, most likely the guy was the leader by how he was dressed since no one else had the same clothes he had on.
"You must be the leader but I have to say your scare tactics suck, the burning forest behind you scares me more then your ugly face does" Naruto said grin stretching across his face. The Iwa ninja was infuriated by how this guy acted thinking that he could defeat them all on his own. The other Iwa ninja around the leader all looked angry now but they did not charge yet which confused Naruto greatly until he realized something.
"Their trying to attack me from underground, there are about ten ninja advancing on my position" Naruto thought. He was pulsating chakra through his feet to help him detect them. Sage mode really comes in handy in situations like this and since they were fighting on solid ground unlike during the Whirlpool invasion, they have a little more of an advantage here. He showed no signs of knowing that they were trying to attack him from under ground as he stared at the forces in front of him. He switched places with a clone he had made earlier so that after they fail in their sneak attack he would provide one of his own.
"Heh they are so clueless" Naruto thought looking out into the small field where his clone stood irritating the Iwa ninja further then he had. All the Iwa ninja began running through hand signs, the ground shifted all around them as the ground lifted up like a river of mud as it rushed his clone.
"Is this the best you got, it's pathetic" the Naruto clone shouted as he went though hand signs himself.
"Doton: Rock encampment" Naruto shouted. The ground in from of him lifted up blocking the incoming attack but the Iwa ninja's attack would not be stopped by such a defense because it was constantly moving. The wall in front started to crumbled but it gave Naruto just enough time to vanished out of sight appearing directly behind the group of ninja, none knowing he had escaped.
"Looks like he was all talk" the leader of the group announced chuckling. His chuckling ceased when a kunai was lodged in the back of his neck. He began gurgling before falling over lifeless in a pool of his own blood.
"What the hell" a random ninja shouted looking at their down leader. They all quickly turned when they heard chuckling coming from behind.
"You guys need more training out of all you here only he was a jonin, meaning that you guys must be low chunin level or lower. This will be easy" Naruto stated. He saw the Iwa ninja all began to smirk, he knew why too because the ninja underground were now beneath him ready to take him out. So he provided his own smirk back irritating the ninja even further.
"What the hell are you grinning about you Konoha scum" a Iwa ninja scowled. Naruto did not get the time to answer however as the ten ninja emerged around him all with a weapon piercing him from all angles.
"It's over" one of the ninja said.
"Yeah it sure is" Naruto said as he began to glow white making all the ninja in the area back pedal realizing what was about to happen. The next second the clearing was rocketed by the intense explosion from the clone, all the ten ninja that had stabbed him all were dead. By the look of it you would not be able to tell who they were anymore. As for the other ninja about ten had second and even third degree burns up their skins. Around ten were dead while the last ten looked perfectly fine managing to get far enough back to not get hit by the explosion at all.
The next moment though would be remembered for a long time as Naruto appeared from the tree line. In his outstretched hands was a black orb sized ball of chakra until he threw it into the center of the clearing. Not a second latter he vanished a good distance away to control it from a better position.
The Iwa ninja did not know what hit them as the injured were instantly lifted off the ground with the rising rocks around them. The ninja who were uninjured provided some resistance until the ground cracked under their feet crashing into their legs and arms breaking them as they were lifted up getting dragged towards the black sphere.
"I guess I better finish this now because my team probably thinks I am dead by now" Naruto thought. As he increased the gravity around the small rock sphere that now floated in the clearing crushing everything in side.
Seconds later a sound of bones cracking echoed across the clearing. After he was sure they were dead he released his hold on it letting it fall to the ground breaking into pieces. The grassy area was covered in blood, guts and dismembered body parts almost making him throw up by how gruesome the place looked.
"I guess I am finished here" Naruto thought. He sensed two Iwa ninja quite a distance away probably scouts of some sort he assumed. He vanished from their sight in the clearing.
"Did you see what just happened" one of the scouts asked from his position behind a bush. The other scout could only nod as he was left dumb founded by the scene in front of them. The scout went to say something again but he couldn't because a katana protruded through his chest stopping him. The scout next to him jumped back scared to death. His partner slid off the offending blade, the same blond haired guy stood their with blood dripping off his sword.
Naruto noticed how scared the guy was, he really did not want to kill a guy who did not want to fight. He had to though since the guy saw all of his abilities.
"I'm sorry you were in the wrong place at the wrong time" Naruto said. As he swung his blade down at the scout not giving anytime for the man to react as the sword cut through his shoulder hitting the necks major artery as well making a stream of blood flow out of the wound leaving the guy stunned in disbelief.
Naruto swiped his blade on a cloth to get the darkened blood off his blade. He sheathed his blade as he began to walk away from the two dead scouts. Their bodies unmoving but he never looked back because this is what war was, everyone is to blame only when you realize this peace can be attained.
"War is pointless, this unbound hatred that this world is saturated in much change" Naruto whispered.
It was about one o clock by the time Naruto saw the town he spoke of to the three jonin who retreated. They must have spotted his chakra signature that he set out in purpose of them coming to him since he did not want to search the town. They came up to him looking relieved although a bit weary not thinking it was him because they thought he should have died in the encounter with the Iwa ninja.
After twenty minutes though of talking with him they realized it was him meaning he must have took down the Iwa regimen.
"How did you defeat all those Iwa ninja" a jonin asked him. They were jumping from branch to branch as they traveled back to the leaf village.
"That's my secret so I'm not telling anyone" Naruto replied smirking. The jonin looked at him with a scowl because he really wanted to know what happened. The jonin began to talk between each other as Naruto was silent the rest of the way to the leaf village. His sight set straight ahead the whole way many thoughts passing his mind.
"I hope my team wasn't set out on a mission yet" Naruto thought. He was worried because he knew this was around the time Nawaki had died. He wanted to make sure to protect them when the time came but no he was sent out on a mission. He had caused quite the fuss when the mission was given to him but he never actually stated the reason why he did not want to undertake the mission to begin with.
"Naruto the village is coming up" the jonin announced from his right cutting him out of his thought. He nodded towards him showing that he had heard.
Once they reached the gates Naruto did not wait for the other jonin to follow him as he vanished out of sight appearing in the hokage's office right in from of the sandaime's desk. The reason for this is because he did not feel his students chakra signatures anywhere in the village when they had approached the village.
The sandaime looked up from his paper work when Naruto appeared in his office.
"How did the mission go Naruto" the sandaime asked. He slid his paperwork to the side as he asked the question looking serious.
"It went good, we took out around forty Iwa ninja near the border. I sensed more coming but they will probably be coming in further up North then where we were.
"How many ninja are in the group you sensed" the sandaime asked. He sent ninja out that way about three hours ago because he had gotten a report stating a town had been over ran by ninja.
"If I have to estimate probably around two hundred. They weren't all together, I sensed they were some distance apart" Naruto replied. He had used sage mode during the beginning of his fight catching the other ninja in range. The sandaime went from calm to a look of worry passing over his face.
"If that's the case then I need to send more ninja towards that direction because the ninja I just sent three hours ago will not be enough to with stand that many" the sandaime said.
"Did you send my team to that position" Naruto asked. He hoped he had not sent them their since they were fresh genin just out of the academy not long ago but he knew they probably were.
"I did they were the only one's in the village at the time along with a couple chunin and jonin along with Orochimaru as the leader of the mission" the sandaime announced. Naruto realized they were completely out numbered from the advancing Iwa ninja.
"Then I am going, since my team is in danger it is my duty to save them" Naruto said as he was about to leave.
"Wait you don't even know where you are going" the sandaime said.
"I can sense the Iwa ninja easily, so I will be able to find them easily so you don't have to worry but just in case send back up and tell them to hurry" Naruto replied. Naruto puffed in a plume of smoke a moment later indicating that he was a shadow clone meaning he had already left probably about half way through their talk. The sandaime began organizing a group to go help Naruto and the ninja already their.
"Tell Jiraiya to come here and hurry we got a problem" sandaime shouted to the anbu who lurked in the shadows of the room. A moment later an anbu appeared out of the shadows vanishing a moment later.
"I will not make it their until night fall, I just hope Nawaki can hold out for that long" Naruto thought. His eyes shifted to a shade of yellow and purple indicating he had activated sage mode. Once it was activated he jumped into the tree line away from Konoha at a break neck speed knowing he had no time to waste. With sage mode activated he knew exactly where the Iwa ninja were located so he did not need to stop and think. If he took a closer look at his eyes he would have noticed they were now a mix between purple and yellow making them stand out even more then they did before.
As Naruto continued his path Team five, Orochimaru and the rest of the chunin and jonin were at the town that had been attacked by Iwa but the weird thing was that no Iwa ninja were in sight any where near the village so they had no problem entering.
"I wonder why Iwa attacked this place if they weren't going to use it as a base of sorts" Shisui said. He was walking along side Kushina and Nawaki looking around the town for anything suspious but found nothing.
"There are no Iwa ninja left in this place so why do we have to keep searching" Kushina said. They had been at it for about an hour now while Orochimaru was busy organizing something with the higher up ninja they were with in a hotel room they rented out.
The shops around them were all open and the people walking the streets did not look scared everything looked perfectly fine. Their wasn't even one single ninja besides the ones they came here with anywhere in the town.
"Your probably right but we have to keep looking because we were ordered to unless you want to go give a report now" Nawaki asked. After another twenty minutes of looking around the normal looking town they decided to head back to the hotel room.
When they entered the room Orochimaru came up to them while the rest of the ninja in the room stayed put over a large map that was rolled out on the floor.
"Did you find anything within the town" Orochimaru asked.
"No nothing to report everything looks to be relatively peaceful around here like an attack never took place" Shisui said. Orochimaru looked at them for a couple seconds before nodding letting them rest up for a bit just incase if any fighting ensue. Team five walked over to one of the bedrooms entering the room, closing the door behind them.
"Finally I needed a little break especially since we ran from Konoha to here non stop for three hours, then we are made to search out a town for an hour" Kushina said grumbling as she laid back on the futon. The three of them shared a room with a couple others since they were probably not going to use it since they would not be here very long.
"We will probably have to move out soon though" Nawaki stated laying down as well. Shisui just sat up in a meditative poise to think on a couple things.
"I wonder what sensei is doing right now" Kushina thought as a blush appeared on her face. She did not know why she felt this way it was completely new to her. She turned over pushing her face into the pillow trying to get the blush to go away but couldn't. Nawaki spotted this making a wide grin appear on his face.
"You know if you like sensei you should just tell him how you feel or just give him a big kiss right on the lips" Nawaki said teasing Kushina. She lifted her head out of the pillow glaring at him with a cold pointed look saying do not mess with me.
"Shut up and go mess with someone else because I don't like Naruto sensei" Kushina said growling. Nawaki gulped in fear running out of the room not wanting to get hit in the nuts again like before. Kushina quickly turned over on the futon facing the wall staring at it until a voice called from behind.
"Kushina what do you truly feel, I can tell you feel something for sensei" Shisui asked from his position against the wall. Shisui still had his eyes closed as he sat their in his meditative poise.
"I don't know, it's so confusing" Kushina replied.
"Well then don't worry about what Nawaki says, if you like him oh well, if you don't it doesn't matter. Just take the time to figure out what you are feeling before you do anything" Shisui explained. Kushina had listened to every word he had spoken and she knew he was right.
"I guess" Kushina mumbled. What Shisui just told her did help but she still felt lost about the range of emotions she felt towards Naruto sensei not knowing what to do about them.
Her thoughts were cut off as Nawaki came back into the room with a serious expression plastered on his face.
"A couple of Iwa ninja were spotted entering the forest nearby, Orochimaru thinks they know we are here so we are going to attack soon" Nawaki said. Kushina and Shisui nodded getting up while starting to get their gear ready for battle. They came ready with two sets of weapons just incase of a long battle were to happen.
"Let's go kick some Iwa ninja ass" Kushina shouted pumping a fist in the air. They exited the room noticing no one was left in the hotel so they quickly ran out of the hotel and out of town. Once out of town they saw Orochimaru and the rest of the Konoha ninja near the forest on the outskirts of the town.
"We will enter the forest three ways, each team will be comprised of four genin, ten chunin, and eight jonin. One team will take this main path while another takes the tree tops, also the last team will come in at an angle from the left side" Orochimaru stated. He began organizing the teams, Nawaki being in a group with Orochimaru which would take the center path while the group Kushina was in would take to the trees.
"Good luck Nawaki" Kushina says. Nawaki nodded as did Shisui a moment later before the three of them split apart going into their separate groups headed by an elite jonin.
"Proceed with the plan" Orochimaru said over the intercom. His team shot into the forest taking the main path with Nawaki somewhere in the middle of the group as they ran. The other two groups ran into the forest seconds later. After five minutes of running their still were no signs of any Iwa ninja near by.
"Theirs no one here, were are all of the Iwa ninja" Nawaki asked. Orochimaru was about to grace him with an answer but before he could Nawaki walked forward cutting a see through trip wire a couple feet in front of the group.
"Shit a trap" Nawaki thought. Everyone but Nawaki jumped away as explosive tags lit up on all the trees in the surrounding area. He would not be able to escape in time. Just as the blast went off Naruto dove forward taking Nawaki to the ground as an earth dome covered them when the initial blast hit. The whole clearing lit up in a blaze of glory destroying the trees and a couple ninja caught in the blast radius.
Shisui had caught sight of Nawaki in the clearing right when the blast went off. He fell to his knees as tears began dripping out of his eyes. The thing was it wasn't tears but it was the Mangekyo sharingan taking root because he believe his good friend had just died.
"No, Nawaki" Shisui thought. Kushina wasn't fairing no better she was in a state of shock as were a couple others. Naruto did not know any of this though because all he felt was pain as the rock dome fell two seconds later sending him and Nawaki into a near by tree. Before they hit the tree Naruto maneuvered his body so he would take the hit and not his student.
"Damn that hurt" Naruto thought coughing up some blood after pulling himself from against the tree. Placing Nawaki on the ground next to him so he could get a breather.
"Their's not much time" Naruto thought. Right when that thought crossed his mind Iwa ninja began to swarm the forest. He caught sight of Orochimaru and the rest of the Konoha forces trying to fight them off. He wanted to continue to watch them fight to try and help if they needed it but he couldn't as around ten ninja landed in front of him.
"Looks like this one will be an easy kill" an Iwa ninja said smirking. The rest agree about to move forward for the kill.
"You would think so since I am injured but I am not incapable" Naruto said. He lifted his arms out palms facing the ninja before him, they wouldn't know what hit them.
"Shinra Tensai" Naruto said. The Iwa ninja did not know what happened as a force slammed into them killing eight of them with the force alone sending them through a couple trees before their lifeless bodies dropped to the ground.
"Summoning jutsu" Orochimaru shouted as the forest was swarmed with snakes latching on to any Iwa ninja found killing them instantly. Some were able to fight them off but they were killed moments later by Orochimaru himself.
"I think I might try to save Orochimaru from his self, I am still not sure how to go about it though" Naruto thought as he coughed up more blood. His vision started to fade.
"I can't pass out yet, there are still Iwa ninja in the forest so I have to protect my team" Naruto thought as he slowly tried to get up.
"Sensei" Kushina shouted as she ran towards him noticing that he saved Nawaki but got badly hurt himself.
"Hey Kushina, I'm glad your ok" Naruto whispered before he passed out from his injuries. Kushina jumped forward catching Naruto before he could hit the ground.
"Thank you for saving Nawaki Naruto sensei" Kushina whispered as she held him close for a moment before laying him next to Nawaki. The rest of the battle ended pretty quickly because Jiraiya appeared with the back up ninja to take down the rest of the ninja forces stationed in the forest. The forest was quickly taken back from Iwa before their forces were completely obliterated.
It was getting late so they headed back to Konoha to give their report of the battle that transpired.
(The next morning back in Konoha)
"Where am I" Naruto asked. He slowly opened his eyes seeing a white ceiling finally knowing where he was at and he did not like it at all.
"Damn it I am in the hospital, I hate the hospital" Naruto thought as he sat up. A groan came from his left side making him look in confusion but what he saw made him give a small smile because Kushina sat in a chair by his bed with her head down on the bed it self. Nawaki laid in a bed across from him with Shisui sitting next to his bed.
He began to twirl a piece of Kushina's bangs that hanged down in her face.
"Naruto sensei what are you doing" Kushina asked as she lifted her head slowly with a noticeable blush on her face. She slowly began to rub her eyes as she waited for an answer.
"No reason, just thought you looked really cute" Naruto said smirking as her face turned crimson just like her hair. He couldn't see her face for long as she turned her face away embarrassed by what he said.
"Now this is even cuter" Naruto said as he ruffled her hair. Kushina began to grumble pushing Naruto's hands away as she fixed her hair from his ministrations.
"You're an idiot sensei you could have died, you were so reckless" Kushina said looking down. She knew if he did not do what he had done Nawaki would have died, but she felt horrible since he got hurt.
"It will take a lot more then this to kill me so don't worry" Naruto replied confidently. After he said that Kushina punched him hard in the arm as she yelled at him for being so careless before she ran out of the room with tears in her eyes.
"What just happened" Naruto thought as he looked at the room door confused not knowing what made her so upset until one Tsunade Senju appeared in the door way.
"What did you do to Kushina" Tsunade growled.
"I don't know she was saying something about me being so reckless but I dismissed it, she then punched me in the arm running out of the room" Naruto replied. Tsunade nodded realizing Kushina had a little crush on her sensei. She walked forward wrapping her arms around Naruto.
"What are you doing" Naruto asked. That was all he got the chance to say as Tsunade's lips connected with his in a deep kiss leaving him bewildered but returned it none the less. After a couple seconds Tsunade pulled back away from him with a smile on her face.
"That's for risking your life to save Nawaki and when you get out of here I got something else for you as well" Tsunade said. Naruto eyes widened at the implication as she checked his charts. She saw that he was rapidly improving so he probably would be aloud out of the hospital tomorrow.
"You will be aloud out of the hospital tomorrow so rest until then" Tsunade said as she walked to the doors swaying her hips trying to get a reaction out of Naruto. He stared at Tsunade's butt until she walked out of the room closing the door behind her. He laid back down, trying to get more sleep since he felt completely drained of energy.
"I don't think I will be able to sleep now with what Tsunade just did to me" Naruto thought sighing. He wanted to know what Tsunade had in store for him so badly but he also wanted to get out of the hospital to talk to Kushina.
"At least Nawaki is alive, I'm glad I was able to make it in time" Naruto thought as he looked towards Nawaki's bed before he drifted off to sleep a moment later. The morning sun leaked in through the window slightly but not waking up Naruto from his soundless sleep that he needed really bad.
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