Byakuya
Chapter 6
"It-it-it-it-it-itai-ai-aah…" Naruto muttered to himself as he wobbled down the street to his apartment. He was leaning on a dry branch, trying not to scream in pain as his muscles protested. He ignored the strange looks he got from some people, as he continued to make his way back to his apartment.
Couching harshly Naruto frowned at the blood in his palm. What was with his healing lately, anyway? He had been couching blood so long. Normally any internal wounds he would suffer would have healed already. Naruto shrugged before continuing with his wobbling.
Dear god, this is embarrassing. Naruto thought as some kids started to laugh at him, leaning on his branch.
Naruto groaned.
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"Where is Naruto? I told he'd have a mission today! I can't believe that little piece of shit can't even drag his ass here! I told it was serious business!" Tsunade yelled her face red. Waving with a scroll that had initials S-A at the end, she raged frustrated.
"Hokage-sama!" Gai yelled astonished that his superior would use such foul language in front of his chuunins. Lee looked up from the scroll he had been reading where it stood the initial B. Lee frowned before raising a finger on his lower lip. Neji noticed his team-mate thinking and frowned.
"Lee, is something wrong with your instructions?" Neji asked, drawing everyone's attention on Lee.
"Well… I might know what happened to Naruto… I mean surely it can't be that...I mean, he usually recovers so well…" Lee started to explain.
"Well, spit it out eye-brow boy, we haven't got all day for this!" Tsunade snapped. Jiriya threw a look at Tsunade, knowing why she was so impatient with everyone. It was the hokage's responsibility to use all resources possible. But Tsunade hated to give a mission like this to Naruto.
"Well, I saw him training yesterday. It was like totally amazing! It was a taijutsu from…I think… But it was amazing, how he kind of just flowed with some beat only he could hear. It was more like he was dancing really." Lee said, thinking about what had happened the day before.
"So of course I had to see his wonderful Tai jutsu form in action! So of course when he challenged me, I accepted. We had a spar of sorts. I mean he was holding amazingly against me, and that's saying something isn't it? But then again…" Lee continued, not noticing the astonished looks on everyone's faces.
"Then again…?" Tsunade encouraged the green glad boy. Lee got a thoughtful look on his face again.
"Well, he was leaning on a branch when he walked away… Well, limped away... But limped isn't exactly the right word…umm...he kind of waddled away…" Lee tried to explain. Everyone just sweat dropped at the boys' stupidity. He had beaten Naruto to the ground and wasn't even aware of it.
"Oj! I did not WADDLE!" Naruto's indicant yell came from the open window. An ANBU neared Naruto and was just about to lack his arms behind him, when Naruto, using one of his Fuketsu koodori moves slipped away and kicked the ANBU in the face, sending the expert ninja falling through the air.
"Don't mess with me! I'm in a bad mood!" Naruto yelled at the second ANBU who had appeared to restrain Naruto. The ANBU turned for Tsunade who just nodded that it was okay. The ANBU nodded before disappearing. Naruto jumped down from the window ledge with ease, wearing a black tank top and orange cargo pants, with some bandages wrapped along his fore arms and wrists. Naruto reached for a tissue before couching loudly in it, painting the tissue red.
Everyone looked a bit surprised at that, and Sasuke muttered aloud 'not again', but only Sakura heard him. Naruto reached for another tissue to wipe away the blood that was smeared around his nose. Then he sniffed, turned to Gai, Kakashi, Neji, Lee, Ten-Ten, Sakura, Sasuke, Jiriya and Tsunade before smiling in his usual foxy way and said:
"Ano sa… Don't worry about it. It's just a cold really." Naruto waved the fact off he had just couched up tons of blood. Tsunade neared him worried. She kneeled in front of him, gazing into his blue eyes, searching for answers.
"How long have you been couching up blood like that? This isn't normal." She demanded to know. Naruto sighted, quite dismayed she would bring it up in front of all the others. Naruto rolled his eyes.
"Do you know what date is nearing…?" Naruto trailed off. Tsunade looked thoughtful.
"Well, the day of—". Her sentence broke off in the middle as she realized what he meant and finished off the meaning in whisper. "--…is coming…" She straightened her outfit before moving to sit behind her desk.
"Oh." She said, the silence heavy in the room, wondering what they were talking about. "Does-… Does this happen every—"
"—every year? Yeah. It gets worse every year. I would've thought the old man left you some memo of this or something…" Naruto trailed off, wanting to say as little of possible. She nodded.
"Yeah, but it didn't cover this. Are there any precautions that need to be taken care of?"
"No." Naruto shook his head, couching again to another tissue. "Nothing special. It usually goes away…"
"Usually?" Tsunade asked.
"Well as this hasn't happened in three years before this, something has to be up…" Naruto shrugged, making Tsunade frown. She shook her head.
"Can you act as a ninja?" She asked worried, as the mission was important. Naruto nodded.
"If I get to take few days off hard fighting than it should draw-back a little. What's the mission?" Naruto asked, knowing that was what he was called here.
"Here. It's for a week… You think you can handle it? It's high-class stuff…" She trailed off. Naruto rolled his eyes, opening the S-A scroll, starting to say something before his eyes widened slightly. He read the scroll over in a few moments, used to only seeing scroll by glance, and then memorizing it. He nodded gravely.
"I can do it." Naruto stated his voice more serious than most of them had heard. The one's in his team anyway. Tsunade nodded.
"The Hokage thanks you of your sacrifice for the sake of the village, shinobi." She said officially. Naruto waved it away. Tsunade nodded one last time before addressing the chuunins and genin before her.
"All right, you all got your scrolls, you know your mission. Who ever will be leading you will meet you at the east gate by sundown. You're dismissed." Tsunade declared. The Nins nodded before leaving the room, so that only the two jounins and the two sennin remained, Naruto jumping off the window as to avoid questions from his friends.
"All right, which one of you feels he's up for the job?" The Gondaime asked, staring at the Gai and Kakashi intently.
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A/N: That's it for the sixth chapter. :) Hope I didn't make too many mistakes.
But let me hear what you thought…
200 people read the last chapter, but I only got one review. Now is it just me, or is there just something so wrong with that?
Review! T-T
--Dark
