Frost-Ninja Dragon: Well here we go again, time for the next chapter.
And once again, I do not own Naruto, oh and this takes place before the wave arc
The Fox Festival: Part 1
It was just another Wednesday in Konoha, the village was relaxing, the wind casting a relaxing breeze throughout the village, the villagers enjoying the peace by either spending with their family, watching the clouds, enjoying a home meal, or just training. Not a single worry to be found throughout the entire village.
"GET THAT CAT!"
But then again, I've been wrong before.
Naruto and the rest of team 7 were chasing down own, unnaturally evil, cunning, and true spawn of Yami, Tora, through the village streets, trying to return the tenacious feline to its owner, the daimyo's wife. They have been on the hunt since nine o'clock in the morning hunting down the damn cat, it was already 3:47, and they are still at it. Naruto in the lead was running with all his might to catch up to the little devil, clearly being pissed off at the situation clearly being shown all over his face. Right behind him was Sasuke, also clearly pissed off at the cat, a little farther behind was Kakashi and Sakura trying to keep up with the 2 boys.
After 5 minutes of constant chasing, Naruto was able to catch the cat by lunging himself through the air, falling on to ground, his body just short of falling on top of Tora, but his arms extended, and both hands holding the hind legs of said cat.
"HA! GOTCHA!" Naruto said, giving off one of his fox smiles in both happiness and relief. While Naruto was holding strongly onto to a flailing Tora, the rest of team 7 caught up to him. Kakashi went up to Naruto and the cat, and prayed that it was the right one, while Sasuke was holding himself up by pushing himself up from his knees, panting heavily, while Sakura gave out and fell onto her knees, panting even harder than anyone on the team. Kakashi went up to Tora and gave the cat a one over, sighing in complete relief, when he saw that this was indeed the little devil.
"Good job Naruto." Kakashi said as he relieved Naruto of Tora and placed the cat in a brown bag to make sure the cat didn't claw through anyone's arm to escape, like some of the other times they received the mission to recapture the demon. Once in the bag, Kakashi tied it shut and looked back at Naruto, gave him an eye smile, then turned to the whole team to address them.
"Alright everyone, target secured. Let's bring this 'cat', back to its owner"
(Hokage Tower)
Team 7 just delivered Tora back to the daimyos wife, not before being reminded however, why Tora wanted to run away so much. That woman was crushing and smothering that cat in such hug, it made everyone cringe, and whoever knew how bad of a cat Tora was, would defiantly have to pity the poor creature. When the daimyo's wife left, cat in tow, back home, Hiruzen addressed team 7 that was still in front of him.
"Well done you three. You did well in catching Tora, I am very pleased, and here is your payment." Hiruzen then pulled out four envelopes and handed each one to each team member.
"Is there anything else Hokage-sama?" Kakashi asked after stuffing his pay into his back pouch, right next to his copy of Icha Icha Paradise.
"No Kakashi, that will be all. However, I would like to tell you all that I am allowing you all to take the rest of the week off." When Hiruzen said this, he was given strong quizzical stares from the 3 genin, and a raised eyebrow from Kakashi.
"Hokage-sama? Why are you giving us the rest of the week off?" Sakura asked, still looking at the Hokage, wondering what his reasons are.
"Well Sakura, the reason why is so you all can prepare for the Fox Festival on Friday." The Hokage said with a smile, leaning forward to his desk and rest his chin on the back of his linked hands, while looking at the mixture of reactions from everyone, Sasuke just gave the usual 'Uchiha smirk', not even affected by the festival, Sakura became wide eyed and stared at Sasuke with hearts in her eyes, obviously thinking about asking and going with him to festival. Naruto however, looked completely stunned, his eyes filled with something that anyone who knew him, thought was impossible for him to either feel or even show. Naruto built a reputation as the number one most hyperactive and unpredictable ninja, a ninja so full of life and carried a strong smile where ever he went. However, right now, the very eyes that everyone saw so filled with life and playfulness, were now filled with fear and despair.
Kakashi saw Naruto's reaction, and understood why he would react like this, while for everyone else, the Fox Festival was a time to enjoy and celebrate a grand victory, a place for fun and enjoyment, a time to enjoy with your family. But for Naruto, it was a time fear, to hide away from the crowd, to run for dear life, especially since he learned of being the jinchūriki of the Kyūbi, what makes even sadder, was that the most fearful and loneliest day of Naruto's entire life, was also his birthday. Kakashi couldn't help but feel concern for the poor boy, and Naruto's reaction didn't go unnoticed by Hiruzen either. Hiruzen's smile shifted to sadness and regret, he leaned back into his chair and tilted his hat to cover his eyes. He felt so much pain looking into the boy's eyes as they were now, Hiruzen thought to himself, "Naruto… you always put on a smile no matter how much pain and suffering you have to endure, even if it was a mask, it gave me comfort you on how much of a fighter you are and how you refuse to quit. But now… I can't bring myself to look into your eyes and see the true measure of how much pain you have gone through. Your face should always be that bright smile, not this look of fear you have now."
"Team 7, you are dismissed" Hiruzen said, not even sparing a glance at them, refraining himself from having anyone see his saddened expression.
"Hai Hokage-sama!"Everyone but Naruto says before exiting his office. When everyone was gone, Hiruzen looked at the wall were all the pictures of the Hokages were, one in poticular was the one he was staring at.
"Minato… am I doing the right thing in letting Naruto live the way he does?"
(Outside the Hokage's Office)
After leaving the office, all the genins except for Naruto looked at Kakashi for further instructions.
"Well I think that will be all for us today, though I would like to see some of you volunteering to help set up the festival in 2 days." Kakashi said to his genins, but his eye settled on Naruto, who looked like he wanted to run, to just run and hide from the world.
"Sure!" Sakura exclaimed, she then turned to Sasuke and was about to ask him to go on a date, but was cut off when she heard heavy footsteps running away from their group, everyone looked, only to see a orange blur fade down a hallway.
Sakura and Sasuke: "Naruto?"
Kakashi: "NARUTO?!"
Kakashi calls out for him, but to no avail. Naruto just kept running and running. Kakashi couldn't help but feel a pang of hurt in his chest just imagining what Naruto was going through, the hurt and loneliness he was feeling. Not only that, but he was feeling concern for Naruto's well being as well. "Naruto, please, be safe. Please don't end up like you were 2 years ago, please."
(The Next Day, Yakiniku Q)
The Fox Festival setup was underway, many ninjas and civilians where helping out to help in the set of the stalls and the decorations. Everyone from the Rookie 9, except for Naruto, was helping in the set up as well. It was already midday, and the only thing left to finish the festival set up was the lantern decorations to go through all the streets. When that was done, everyone in Rookie 9 met up at Yakiniku Q to enjoy themselves and make plans for the coming day.
"So Sasuke-kun? Wanna go to the festival with me?" Sakura asked leaning towards Sasuke with hopeful eyes.
"As if Forehead! Sasuke-kun would never go with you!" Ino shouted at Sakura, then turned Sasuke. "Sasuke-kun, wanna go with me?" Ino cooed which got her a frustrated glare from Sakura, an annoyed exhale from Sasuke and Kiba, and a 'troublesome' from Shikamaru. The meal continued on and everyone was enjoying themselves. Shino however, noticed that Hinata was troubled and not eating her share of the food.
"Hinata, what is troubling you?" Shino said with his usual blank tone, catching everyone's attention, and an eep from Hinata.
"S-Shino-kun, i-it's just. I'm worried about N-N-Naruto-kun. I-I haven't seen him at all t-today." Hinata said with a large blush on her face, but her face was full of concern. When she said those words, everyone became wide eyed with realization, not a single one of them had seen Naruto that day.
"Hinata, I'm sure he's fine. I mean, come on, this is Naruto were talking about, right guys?" Kiba said trying to comfort his teammate, everyone nodded in agreement that Naruto was sure to be fine, but it didn't help her at all.
"Kiba-kun, you don't understand. Y-Yesterday, I saw Naruto-kun running home. H-He looked so scared! He looked as if he was being hunted! I-I'm scared… I-I-I-" Before she could finished, a hand was placed on her shoulder; Hinata looked up to see that the hand belonged to Ino.
"Hinata, I'm sure he's fine, he probably was just worried about something, or he forgot his ramen, or he left the fridge open, I don't know. But this is Naruto were talking about, the number 1 hyperactive knucklehead, he isn't afraid of anything. So cheer up. Besides, we need to get some new clothes for the festival tomorrow night, right Sakura." Sakura nodded in saying that Ino was correct, and that they shouldn't worry about Naruto so much, when they saw that Hinata was calmer, Ino helped her up and told her and Sakura that they should go looking for some festival yukatas, when the girls were gone, the boys were left in silence, that was until Choji broke the silence.
"Do you really think Naruto's okay?"
"Of course he is! I mean he's Naruto, course he's fine, right Akamaru?" Kiba says, looking up in his hood to stare his partner in the face.
"Bark"
"Troublesome. That guy sure knows how to cause us trouble"
"Sasuke?" Shino asks while facing Sasuke to see his input on the situation.
"… Yeah… Yeah he's defiantly fine." Sasuke says this but inside, there was a cold feeling running through him. 'What's this feeling I'm getting though? Naruto… are you really okay?'
(At Naruto's Apartment)
Naruto's apartment was dark, the lights where off, and the blinds to his window were closed, Naruto was on his bed, with his knees tucked into his chest, and his face buried in them, he was sobbing with fear, praying for all to be over. To let it be just another day, praying for tomorrow to never come.
"Please… please don't let me die… I don't want to die… Somebody… Somebody please?"
(The Next Day: Midday, 6 miles away from Konoha)
2 figures were walking on the road, heading towards Konoha. They both wore similar cloaks; black adorned with blue rain clouds, the one on the right was a woman with blue hair tied into a side bun with three red origami flowers decorating her hair. Her amber eyes were filled with anticipation and hope; hope to see the child of her lost friend. The one the left was a man with long shoulder length red hair, his cloak adorned with similar rain clouds, but over his cloak, was a sky blue/white robe, and a sky blue/white kage hat with the kanji for ame: '雨' on his head covering his eyes, grey eyes with 6 rings.
"Naruto… please be safe."
(3 Hours later: The Fox Festival)
Konoha's night sky is once again illuminated with the light of a full moon. The sky peppered with the stars, and the village streets illuminated by hundreds of lights. The lanterns in the streets hanging from building to building illuminated the streets in a bright reddish/orange hue, the villagers pacing themselves through festival with those that they cherish the most, enjoying the feeling of their company. Others were going to each stand to purchase merchandise, only sold once every year. Children were running through the streets playing games with each other, going to every game that they can, enjoying the fun the festival brings to the village. The faces of the Hokages were staring down protectively over their beloved village, keeping their home and the villagers safe under their gaze.
In the town square, Konoha's Rookie 9 were meeting up with each other, all the boys were standing around the village fountain, waiting for their female teammates to show up, so that they could all go and enjoy the festival together. All the boys were dressed in their normal everyday attires, excluding their weapons pouch, and each one was doing their own thing to pass the time, waiting for their teammates. Kiba was playing fetch with Akamaru with a red rubber ball. Choji was sitting at the fountain, eating a bag full of takiyaki, with another bag full to his right side. Shikamaru was sitting next Choji with his left elbow resting on his knee, his cheek in his palm, and muttering 'troublesome' to himself before looking back into the crowd. Shino was standing near Kiba, watching Akamaru chase after the ball. Sasuke was merely just standing around the group, hands in pocket, thinking of why he even bothered to even coming to the damn festival.
"MAN! WHAT IS TAKING THEM SO LONG?!" Kiba said after throwing Akamaru's ball slightly harder
"I don't know, women are just to troublesome to try and figure out."Shikamaru said before exhaling a heavy breath and settling back into his palm.
"C'mon Shikamaru, don't be like that 'munch', it's not always that bad. I mean I could be worse." Choji said while eating his takiyaki.
"When the hell are they going to show up? I swear, their almost as late as Kakashi."
"ACHOO! Uhh… someone must be talking about me." Kakashi rubs his nose before sticking it back into his book.
"Sorry if we took too long boys!" "Yeah sorry! We kinda lost track of time!" Sakura and Ino shouted towards the group of boys and running towards them, along with Hinata in tow. When the boys turned their attention towards the girls, they were impressed with what they saw, even the Uchiha. Sakura was wearing a red yukata with a light pink cherry blossom design, a yellow sash tied around her waist to the back. Ino was wearing a purple yukata, with a blue orchid design, a blue sash tied to her waist. Ino's and Sakura's hair design were put up in the same fashion, a loose bun in the back letting a little hair escape to add more flow, and their bangs draping their face. Hinata was wearing a lavender yukata with white flower designs, an orange sash ordained her waist, and in the back, a white origami flower was put into their sash fold. Hinata's hair was the same as usual. When the guys saw the girls, the girls got a mixture of reactions, a troublesome from Shikamaru, a smirk from Sasuke, a grin from Choji, an approving nod from Shino, and a dog whistle from Kiba.
The girls were happy with the guys approval, though Ino and Sakura did wish that their appearance impressed Sasuke more than it did. Hinata on the other hand, was scanning the crowd and the group for someone; she was looking for someone specific, a boy clad in orange, who always put a smile on his face. A smile that always that brought her warmth and comfort, a smile that helped her put on a smile of her own. She was looking for Naruto, but couldn't find him.
"Shino-kun, Kiba-kun, have either of you seen Naruto-kun?" Hinata asked her two teammates with hopeful eyes. When Hinata asked that question, once again the boys came to a realization, Naruto was still not here. When the girls heard Hinata's question, they began to scan the group and the crowd themselves, when they found no sign of the orange clad knucklehead, Sakura turned towards the boys.
"Do either of you know where he could be?" Shikamaru, Choji, Shino, and Kiba shook their heads; Sakura noticed that Sasuke was walking away from them.
"SASUKE-KUN?! WHERE ARE YOU GOING?!" Sakura asked while running to catch up to him, she didn't need to continue any further because he turned around to answer them.
"I'm going to go find Kakashi-sensei and ask him to show us where Naruto lives so we can check up on the dobe." He then looks towards the ground his normal look, shifting to one of a more concerned expression. "I don't know about you guys, but I've been getting some bad vibes since yesterday whenever Naruto came to mind, I don't know what's going on, but can't hurt to check." Sasuke's words hit them pretty hard, truth was, they all had an ominous feeling come through them whenever Naruto came to mind, Hinata especially. Sasuke was about to continue onward to look for Kakashi, but was stopped when he heard Hinata's voice.
"A-Ano… I know where N-Naruto-kun's apartment is, s-so I c-can just lead us there." Hinata said looking down at her feet, while poking her fingers together.
"Alright then Hinata, lead the way." Sasuke says while rejoining the group, they all look towards Hinata giving her a nod to start leading. Hinata took the lead and began running towards Naruto's apartment at a heavy pace, taking every second to advantage in reaching his apartment. One thought went through her head; one thought that was enough to want to go faster. "Naruto-kun, please be okay."
(Naruto's Apartment: 5 minutes earlier)
Naruto was still in his apartment and in the same position that he was on his bed the other day. He was waiting, waiting for the day to just be over with, for everything to just go back to being normal again.
"Mom… Dad… why… why is this happening to me? Why me?" Naruto said through sobs while hiding his face in his knees. And right at that moment, a rock crashes through the window, barely missing his head as it hits the wall and ricochets to the floor. What Naruto heard then was shouting, shouting and yelling for blood, the blood of their 'monster' and 'demon'. As soon as he heard them scream for his blood, Naruto panicked and went to grab his jacket. But before he could even get close to the kitchen chair that his jacket was on, his door was kicked down by a group of villagers.
"THERE HE IS! GET HIM!" One of the villagers roared to the others while pointing at Naruto. Naruto knew that he had to get out of area as fast as possible. He turned around and started running towards his window. He jumped through the window, covering his face with his forearms and tucked his legs closer to his body while jumping through. He braced himself for the fall to come, and right when he made contact, he somersaulted to a running start. Naruto was glad he still had on his clothes from yesterday, he had everything except for his jacket and hitai-ate, all he was wearing was his pants, shinobi sandals, and black top with a red swirl on the front chest area. Naruto decided to step it up a notch and take to the roof tops. Once he started racing along the rooftops, he thought that he lost them, that they gave up, that he was home fr…
"MOVE IT KIT!"
When Naruto heard the voice, multiple questions ran through his head, but he wasn't able to ask them when his instincts kicked in, dodged to the side, and avoiding from being impaled by 5 shurikens and 7 kunais. When Naruto looked to the location of where the weapons came from, he was in utter shock because, the one who through the weapons at him, the one who had just tried to kill him, was a Konoha jounin. If Naruto wasn't panicking before, he was definitely panicking now, especially when the jounin pulled out some more kunais and was getting ready to throw them.
"Get ready to die, Demon!" the jounin then threw the kunais at Naruto with incredible skill and speed.
"KIT YOU GOTTA MOVE NOW!"
Without even a second thought, Naruto once again dodged the bombardment by jumping to the side. However, Naruto was a little short with his evasion, because when he was in midair, one of the kunais meant for his heart, was impaled deep into his right thigh.
"AAAHHH" as Naruto screamed in pain, he fell onto the rooftop and rolled straight towards an alleyway, plummeting to the floor. Naruto wasn't able to do a correct landing, landing on his left side, dislocating his shoulder. Gritting his teeth from the pain, letting out growls of pain, Naruto picked himself up as best as he could and placed his back to the wall of the alleyway. He then proceeded to pull out the kunai with his right hand, and threw it to the floor. He looked at his surroundings and saw that no one was around, he started to waddle out of the alleyway to look for a safe place to rest, but he was cut short when the exit was blocked by a group of drunk, bloodthirsty villagers. He started to back away, hoping to find another exit, but when he turned around, he was immediately kicked right in the abdomen, causing him to lose his air, break a couple of ribs, and fall to the floor panting for air while clutching his sides with his one good arm. When he looked up to see who attacked him, he saw the jounin who impaled him with a kunai.
"Where do you think you're going monster? We're just getting started…"
(Back at Naruto's Apartment)
The group finally made it to the part of town that Naruto lived in. What really got them though, was that Naruto lived in the slums of Konoha. When they got closer to the building, they saw that on one of the signs, read Demon and Monster. The group was completely shocked to say the least that people would even think about writing something like that about someone.
When they finally reached the hallway that lead to Naruto's room, they were completely unprepared for what they saw. In the hallway, was graffiti of monster, demon, freak, and orders to just die, and they all had arrows pointed towards Naruto's door, a door that was kicked down. The group immediately ran towards the room, and what they saw made everyone even more shocked. What they saw was Naruto's room was a complete mess; his door was broken along the middle, his table and chairs where completely broken beyond repair, and his window was broken with both a human sized hole, and other smaller holes that peppered the side. It looked like a tornado came in and had its way with the place. But what really got their attention, was Naruto's jacket, the jacket that was once his main distinguishing factor, the thing that made him stand out the most, was torn completely to shreds.
Hinata carefully went over to the jacket and gently picked it up, as if one wrong move and the shredded garment would disintegrate to dust. When she picked it up, she couldn't help herself from crying into it, with utter fear for the wellbeing of the one she cared for the most in the world. Ino and Sakura went over to comfort the poor girl; the boys looked around the room to investigate where Naruto could've gone. Shikamaru went over to the bed and saw how the bed sheets where ruffled and pushed away from the window, how the glass was pushed more outside than inside, and a kunai that was imbeded into the wall almost completely perpendicularly.
"Hey guys." Everyone turned their attention towards Shikamaru, who just pulled the kunai out of the wall, and was holding it up to show them. "Naruto isn't here, and from the looks of it, he was attacked by someone, who? I don't know, but their definitely high chunin, if not jounin if they can through a kunai into a wall like this but he's in trouble. Troublesome day this turned out to be." He then turned his gaze towards the girls who were still on the floor holding onto Hinata. "Sakura, Ino. Take Hinata back to the festival and find the Hokage. He needs to know happened here."
"B-B-But I-"
"Hinata, you are in no condition to keep going. You'll be a bigger help by going to the Hokage to inform him of the attack. The guys and I will go ahead and find him." Shikamaru said warmly to try and calm her down. Hinata then looked at Kiba and Shino to see what they had to say. Kiba gave her a warm smile and pointed his head towards the door telling her to 'get going' and Shino nodded telling her it was alright. When she saw that everyone thought it best for her to go inform the Hokage, she conceded.
"O-O-OK… I'll go…"
"Sasuke-kun…" Sakura stared at her crush with concern.
"Sakura… go. We'll go find the dobe."
"Alright lets go-"
"GYAAAHHH!" Everyone looked outside the broken window towards the agonizing scream, what made it worse, was that they knew whose voice was the one that screamed, the scream belonged to Naruto.
"NARUTO!"
"N-N-Naruto-kun"
Kiba picks up Akamaru and places him in his jacket and grabs Naruto's weapon kit from the floor and tosses it to Sasuke.
"WE NEED TO MOVE, NOW!" Kiba immediately ran and jumped out the broken window, taking the lead of the group.
"COME ON!" Sasuke grabs Sakura by the wrist, who in tow picks up Ino, who picks up Hinata. They all jumped out of the window and landed with a running start. The group caught up quickly with Kiba, with Choji lagging only a little behind. Hinata was using her byakugan, while Kiba and Akamaru were using their noses. The group followed Naruto's trail to the rooftops and continued to follow it until something stronger caught Akamaru's nose, causing the poor pup to whimper in fear.
"Akamaru? What's wrong boy… wait… this smell… oh kami no!" Kiba turned towards the group. "GUYS HURRY! NARUTO'S HURT!" when she heard those words, Hinata's heart almost stopped. She couldn't think straight, all she could think about was to find Naruto. She reactivated her byakugan and scanned the area, what she saw broke every ounce of resolve she had. What she saw was that, in two alleyways away was her crush, Naruto, except he wasn't hurt, he was dying. Naruto had several kunai impaled into his limbs, his whole entire body was cut up, and bleeding heavily. Blood was excepting from his mouth, but that was minor compared to the wound he was being given right now. The reason why Naruto was screaming was because he was having a ninjato being shoved into his abdomen, and was still being pushed in.
"NARUTO-KUN!" Hinata quickly took off into his location, using ounce of power she had and pouring it into her legs. The group was chasing after her, seeing the tears she had fly off her cheeks and into the wind. When they reached the rooftop of the alleyway that Naruto was in, they heard a crowd, a mixture of both Konoha ninjas and civilians, cheer on the man who was stabbing Naruto, a Konoha jounin, telling him to 'KILL THE DEMON' and 'END HIM'. The group couldn't believe their ears, they were asking for Naruto's death, not telling him to stop, but to take the life of their friend.
"GET AWAY FROM NARUTO-KUN!" Hinata launched herself of the rooftop and aimed to attack the ninja attacking stabbing Naruto. The man reacted and let go of the ninjato, and blocked Hinata's strike, causing her to bounce off, and take up her jyūken stance, her mind completely blank except for the one thought of protecting Naruto. The others launched themselves off the rooftop and attacked the other ninjas in the crowd. When they all settled into their fighting stance and surrounded Naruto. There effort was futile because they were quickly knocked out of their stances and pinned to the floor, arms behind their backs, and heads to the ground. The group could know smell the alcohol reeking off of the ninjas, from both their clothes and their breathes, but what got them the most was the bloodlust in their eyes.
"STAY AWAY FROM NARUTO-KUN!" Hinata screamed as she tried to get up and help Naruto, but she was pushed back down to the ground by the chūnin that was pinning her to the ground.
"Oh, do you like that demon or something, well say your goodbyes because he's going to die! OI! Finish him off will ya." The chūnin said to the jounin, a man with shaggy brown hair, a rough beard, and multiple scars along the right side of his face. When he heard the chūnin's words he smirked in a sadistic way that ran chills down the spines of the Rookie 9, he turned towards Naruto, grabbed his ninjato, and yanked it out, causing Naruto to howl in pain. The jounin then turned the blade so it was pointed upside down and aimed it at Naruto's heart. He then raised the blade above his head and was ready to deliver the final strike.
"DIE DEMON!"
"NARUTO!"
"NARUTO-KUN!"
Time seemed to have slowed down as Naruto saw the blade come ever closer to his chest, the voice in his head kept yelling for him to move, to keep fighting. He looked to his friends and saw them all scared, screaming his name, even Sasuke was screaming for them to stop. He looked at Sakura and saw how scared she was for him.
"Sakura-chan… Sasuke… mina… gomenosai mina… I'm not going to make it… I'm not going to be able to become Hokage… I'm so sor… huh?" When Naruto's gaze settled on Hinata, he saw so many emotions in both her lavender eyes. He saw worry, pain, loss, and regret, and another emotion he never recognized before. But what really got him was that out of everyone, she was the only one crying. She was crying, and she seemed to be the one who was fighting the hardest to get free. Then something clicked, he didn't want to acknowledge it, but that one emotion he saw, could it have been… no, it couldn't be.
"Hinata… are you…? Oh kami… I'm so sorry Hinata… I'm so sorry you have to see me die like this…" Naruto felt so much regret in that moment, that with all his will he wanted to fight, to win, to survive, but his body was too broken. And to make matters worse, he felt darkness falling upon him. He began closing his eyes, waiting for death. "Gomenosai mina… Hinata… sayonara…" and the last thing that Naruto heard, was a shout, a shout… for a jutsu.
"SHINRA TENSEI!"
MUHAHAHAHA! CLIFFHANGER NO JUTSU! HAHAHA
Ok sorry about that, just had to. Please rate and review, if you wanna flame, take it somewhere to someone who cares. And sorry this took a while to post, schools been hectic. Until next time.