Out of Harm's Way: Chapter Two

They ran through the double doors of the emergency wing. Tsunade was walking around, doing rounds, and avoiding doing her paperwork, with Shizune following her around. She heard the doors slam open, and turned to see the distraught teenagers, and Kakashi holding a very injured Naruto.

"Shizune! Get a room for him!"

"Hai!"

"Sakura, Ino, Kakashi, come with me. Sai, you may come too if you wish."

They all walked quickly into the room Shizune opened for Naruto. Ino and Sakura stayed in there, while Kakashi and Sai were forced to sit outside the room. They were soon joined by the rest of the people on the mission, who just crashed on the seats outside Naruto's room. Even though they were all tired, none of them could sleep before knowing if Naruto was going to be okay.

(INSIDE THE ROOM)

"Sakura, Ino, what the hell happened out there?" Tsunade said as she looked over Naruto's arm with a puzzled and sad look on her face.

"We were fighting the attacker outside the forest, and none of us were landing any punches or jutsus or anything. The next thing I see is Kakashi telling Naruto to try something, and Naruto being Naruto, said yes. Then Kakashi-Sensei ran over to me saying we have to get everyone away. We all did, and the Naruto performed this really powerful jutsu, and it shredded our opponent and their jutsu. Then they were falling into the crater made by his jutsu, and we think that that is how his leg got broken."

"Yeah, all I remember is the last part, I was knocked out earlier in the fight." Said Ino.

"Right, Naruto was protecting you and Sai from any attacks before Kakashi-sensei got you two to wake up." Sakura said.

"Okay, Sakura, Ino, I'm afraid that since the kyuubi heals him quickly, his bones are set in the wrong place. We're going to have to re-break the bones in his leg, and I still have no idea how to fix his arm. I'm going to need you two to make chakra restraints around his arms, legs, and torso. This is going to hurt him… a lot… and I don't want him thrashing around. It'll only make things worse." Tsunade said.

"Hai." Said the two ninjas.

Once the restraints were made, the three of them located the spots where they had to re-set the bones, and got ready to break them.

"Are you ready you two?" Tsunade asked them.

"H-hai." They answered warily. They didn't want to cause Naruto any more pain than what he had already gone through today.

"One, Two, Three…"

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

They broke the bone, and Naruto screamed. He tried to hold it between his teeth, but he couldn't. Sakura and Ino stood frozen. They couldn't stand causing Naruto any pain, but it was to help him. They had to do this two more times to his leg, and it was worse with each one. They were out of chakra, and wrapped up his leg, set correctly.

(OUTSIDE THE ROOM)

"how is he?" asked Shikamaru.

"I don't really know, He didn't look too good when we brought him in. Ino and Sakura are in there right now, with Tsunade and Shizune." Said Kakashi.

"hm. Kakashi-sensei, Naruto… he… protected me?" asked Sai.

"Yes Sai. He made sure that you and Ino didn't get injured while you were knocked out. It's what friends and comrades do for each other." Said Kakashi.

"Huh. Friends…" Sai said.

Jiraiya walked into the waiting room.

"Hey guys, have you seen Tsunade?"

"Yeah, she's in there with Sakura and Ino, working on healing Naruto." Said Kakashi.

"What happened? Is it bad?" said Jiraiya.

Kakashi explained everything that had happened to Jiraiya. He explained his situation now too, or at least all that he knew.

"That doesn't sound good at all. That kid is always getting himself into-"

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

Everyone paled at the sound of their friend's scream. They kept quiet until there was no more noise from the room.

"Kami..." said Kakashi.

"Dammit..." said Shikamaru.

"Oh, Naruto." said Hinata.

Sakura and Ino then walked out, looking tired and depressed from having to cause their friend pain.

"What the hell was that?" said Kiba.

"Sorry, his leg had healed itself, thanks to the Kyuubi, but it was set the wrong way. We had to re-break his bones in three places…" Sakura said sadly.

"We tried to sedate him, and gave him morphine, but it didn't make much difference… in the end, we just had to knock him out, he's gonna go through hell when he wakes up again…" said Ino.

"Right now, I think Tsunade-sama is looking at his arm. I don't think it's looking too good. That jutsu basically did to his arm what it did to the enemy." Said Sakura.

Naruto…I'm so sorry…If I had known this would happen…do you blame me?...i wouldn't blame you if you did…kami…I really screwed up this time… Kakashi thought.

Tsunade came out of the room then.

"Tsunade-sama! How is he?" asked Kakashi.

"His leg is healing now, I sealed off the Kyuubi's chakra so that I can fix his arm, so he is going to take longer to heal. That also means that he's going to be in pain a bit longer, but I don't want his arm to heal anymore. It's pretty much shattered. It's broken in twenty-seven places, and I'm going to have to put a steel support into his arm. I was able to heal the skin, but the muscle is ripped too, and I can't do anything about that until I put in the support. It's lucky he got here when he did. If you had gotten here any later, I don't think I could have re-set his leg, and that would mean he couldn't walk on it." Tsunade said.

"Can we see him?" asked Sakura.

"Team Kakashi, Iruka, Ino, and Jiraiya may go in, but I will be back in half an hour to work on his arm. Once I am finished with that, you may all visit in small groups." She said.

"Thank you, Tsunade-sama." Said Kakashi.

She left out of the emergency wing with Shizune to go to the medical library. Kakashi, Sakura, and Sai walked into the room, with Ino and Jiraiya behind them.