Yeah, I think chapter 10 was reeeeaaallly bad. So I'll try to make up for it with this chapter.
Also. For all you's who are wondering what Kaoshi looks him and his 3rd level blood limit release. Something you all have to look forward to…yeah…it's a pretty bad drawing on lined paper, but what do you expect for something done in health class?
Chapter 11: Friendship Conquers All
Naruto awoke after sleeping for about an hour. It was still late. Naruto could see the moon through the barred window. He groaned and looked to his right. Hinata was sleeping peacefully. Naruto smiled.
"Hey, stupid fox."
"What's up kid?" the fox said in a sleepy tone. "It's late."
"I know." Naruto said. "I'm just bored."
"Wow." Said the Kyubi. "That's a first."
"Desperate times…"
"Yeah, yeah." The fox growled. "So why are you still in this cell?"
"Cuz there's no way out?"
"My nine tailed ass there's not."
"What are you talking about?" Naruto asked. "There's a chakra binding seal on the door and lock. I can't do anything." Naruto looked at his hands. "Besides. My hands are shackled and I can't even do seals."
"Wow. You really ARE stupid."
"What was that baka?"
"Think kid." The demon grumbled. "What's the one move you can do that doesn't use seals?"
"The rasengan." Naruto said. "But the chakra binding seal…"
"Phht. Screw that pathetic thing." The fox said. "Even that has a weakness."
"What?"
"Think about it kid. Is there any possible way that those seals can sense ALL of the chakra in here?"
"I-I suppose not" Naruto said confused.
"If you only use the chakra that's flowing from you NOW to make a small rasengan…you can cut through the bars."
"And here I thought you were totally useless."
"Don't gimme nonna that boy."
Naruto laughed to himself. He slowly started to divert his chakra flow into his hand. He started to form a sphere and gradually increased its size. It had gotten to about an inch and a half in diameter before the binding seals started to react.
"Better than nothing…" Naruto said to himself. Naruto looked over to Hinata. He would free her first. He carefully started eroding a steel bar with the swirling ball of chakra. After about half an hour Naruto cut through one of the bars.
"Damn…" He said to himself. "This is gonna take a while…"
After two and a half more hours of work Naruto finally cut through enough of the bars for Hinata to fit through. He went to wake her.
Hinata's dreamHinata was sitting on a bench alone.
"Why doesn't Naruto-kun like me?" she asked herself. "Am I ugly?"
She sighed and rested her head on her hand. She looked up to see Naruto walk up to her.
"Hina-chan." He said. "I have something I want to tell you."
"N-Naruto-kun?" her face turned bright red. What could he want to tell her? Hinata waited with bated breath for his confession.
"Hina-chan…" he stopped.
"Yes Naruto-kun?"
"I love…"
"YES?"
"I love ramen."
Then some strange ramen fairies appeared and started singing the "I love ramen song" It was actually fairly catchy…
It went downhill after that. She snapped awake to find herself looking up at the object of her desire's face which looked right back.
REAL WORLD!
"Neh, wassup Hina-chan?" he said grinning.
"N-Naruto-kun?" she said astonished. "H-How am I…?" She looked at the bars behind her. "How did you?"
"They think they can keep the next Hokage cooped up in a pathetic cell like this?" Naruto laughed. "They'd better rethink that!" he said beaming. "I'm just too clever."
Hinata stared at Naruto with glossy eyes. At that moment, she thought he was the most amazing person on the face of the planet.
"Way to take all the credit…" the nine tailed fox said bitterly, then added, "Again…"
Naruto ignored him. He was too caught up in his gloating session to care.
"Hehe. No need to worry Hina-chan." He said confidently. "We'll get out of here before you know it!"
Hinata just ate it all up. She fed upon the incredible amount of confidence that oozed from the boy.
"Sorry Naruto-kun." A familiar voice said. Naruto, without looking up clenched his teeth and hands.
"Sasuke." He glared at his former teammate. "What is it now?" his voice full of hatred.
"It seems that you have decided to accept me as your enemy." Sasuke retorted with a laugh. "Good, because today we'll settle our differences once and for all."
"What do you--?" Sasuke interrupted him.
"You and the rest of your companions are to fight in the arena for the amusement of our citizens and soldiers." He said chuckling. "Orochimaru-sama and myself have hand-picked the opponents you will be taking on."
"You BASTARD!" yelled Naruto as he stood up and rushed Sasuke, without concern of the binding seal on the door. He threw a punch at Sasuke's face only to be stopped by an invisible wall. A great force was pushing him back, but he kept pushing forward. "We will NOT fight for you! We are more than just playthings! We're living, breathing PEOPLE!"
Sasuke shot his hand through the bars of the cage and picked up Naruto by the collar.
"Unless you can escape before noon…" Sasuke said scratching his face. "…You've no choice."
Naruto's eyes widened. "I think we can manage…" he said grinning.
"We'll see." Sasuke said throwing Naruto to the back wall. "We'll see…" Sasuke turned around and started to walk out. "Even if you DO make it out of that cell…you'll still have to find your companions and get out of here." Sasuke glared back at Naruto. "Think you can manage?"
"Hehe." Naruto said grinning. "I'm not the same brat I was three years ago Sasuke. Piece of cake."
Sasuke smirked. "Good luck with that." He said as he left.
"We WON'T need it." Naruto said with utmost confidence.
"We'll see Naruto…" Sasuke's footsteps could be heard through the otherwise silent dungeon for a few more moments.
Once they were no longer audible, Hinata got curious.
"Naruto-kun…" she asked curiously. "How are we going to get out? And why were you and Sasuke almost…decent…to each other?"
Naruto looked at her and smiled. "Because Hina-chan. Sasuke's still more or less on our side."
"What!" Hinata half yelled. "What do you mean!" Naruto smiled again. He reached into his collar and pulled out two small tags and a bobby pin. "What the…?"
"Sasuke put them in here when he grabbed me. It was just an act."
Hinata felt a wave of relief. "Thank god…"
"Nehe." Naruto laughed. "Now let's get the hell outta here!"
"Hai." Hinata said.
Naruto walked to the door cautiously. He carefully put the first tag in place over the chakra binding seal. It sparked and died. He did the same to the second, which had a similar reaction.
"Now to get the lock…" Naruto knelt down and started to pick at the lock. Several moments passed and he still hadn't made any progress. "Damn…" Naruto said. "Who knew this would be so hard…"
"May I Naruto-kun?"
"Hmm?" he turned to the girl behind him. "Go ahead Hina-chan. I'm bad at this kinda stuff anyways." Hinata flashed him a quick smile and knelt down by the lock.
"BYAKUGAN!" she said to herself. She examined the lock. There were four locking mechanisms inside of it. No wonder Naruto couldn't get it to unlock. The focused her chakra into her hands. She worked her hands around the lock. After several moments it clicked and the door swung open. Naruto stood with his mouth agape.
"H-How did you?" Hinata pointed to her eyes.
"The Byakugan." She said simply. "The inner workings of the lock are similar to the inner coils of a person." She smiled and invited Naruto to step out.
"Hehe." Naruto laughed, still amazed. "You are one awesome chick Hina-chan."
Hinata's face turned bright red.
"N-N-Nar-ruto-k-kun…" she said looking down.
Naruto smiled.
"It's the truth Hina-chan." Naruto said as he grabbed her arm and started down the hall. "C'mon! There's no time to lose!"
"He thinks I'm awesome!" Hinata said to herself. The thought resonated inside her. Despite everything, it would be one of her most cherished memories.
TO KAOSHI! YAY KAOSHI!
Kaoshi sat in his cell, accompanied only by the plethora of seals on his door. There were more than he cared to count. He had gotten bored at three hundred eight…and that was only on the first seven bars.
The effects that all of these seals had on him were nauseating. He had found one spot where he felt only moderately ill.
Not only were there a lot… there were also a lot of kinds. Chakra seals, chakra binds, chakra suppressors, muscle relaxing seals, and some that he swore were just there for decoration.
He looked out of his cell. He could see his sword on the wall across from his prison.
"So close…" he said. "…yet…so…not…close…" With a sigh he slouched back down.
"Quiet in there," the guard said. There was a guard stationed by him all the time. For the forty-four hours he'd been in the cell, someone was watching him.
"Sorry." Kaoshi said sarcastically.
"Don't worry. Soon you'll be dead and I can get a real mission."
"Gee thanks, that makes me feel so much better."
"I thought it would." Kaoshi looked down at the ground again. "And please be qui—…" Kaoshi looked up to see the man's head twisted 180 degrees around. "Ow…" he said as he fell to the floor.
Naruto dropped from the ceiling with Hinata not far behind.
"Hey guy." Naruto said with a huge smile. "Need a hand?" Kaoshi smiled.
"You sly bastard."
It took nearly two hours to undo all of the seals on the cell. Hinata did the same thing with the lock. It took longer because it was much more complex.
"Twelve locking mechanisms…" she said when she had finished.
"Damn…" Naruto said upset. "Can't help but feeling overlooked…two seals and a five mechanism lock…and you get frickin eight hundred and forty nine seals and a twelve mechanism lock…"
"They know what I can do." Kaoshi said grabbing his sword from the wall. "It's odd though. They left my sword here. So easy to get if I broke out."
"Guess they didn't expect you to be able to." Said Naruto. Kaoshi smiled wildly.
"Big mistake." He hitched his sword at his waist. They had also taken his coat. "Dammit. That was a gift."
"What was a gift?"
"My coat."
"You mean that ugly red leather trench coat?"
"…It's not ugly…"
"It's right there."
"Really?"
"Yeah."
Sure enough it was sitting on the floor under the table.
"Toss it here."
Naruto tried to pick up the trench coat but found himself unable to.
"Da' fuck?" Naruto said in confusion. "This thing must weigh at least a hundred kilos…"
"Three hundred. (660 pounds for all you idiots)"
Naruto and Hinata just stared at him slack jawed. Naruto tried to pick it up again and failed miserably.
"Let me…" Kaoshi walked over to it and picked up the coat as if it were nothing and put it on.
"How the--?" Naruto said astonished. "Who the--? What the--?"
Kaoshi smiled. "It's best not to ask."
"H-Hai…" Hinata said.
"THIS MAN IS A MONSTER!" Hinata said to herself.
"I wonder why they didn't take this either…" Kaoshi said to himself.
"Maybe cuz they couldn't move it?" Naruto said sarcastically.
"Good point…" Kaoshi said as he started down the hall. "Come on, we have to find Kakashi and the other two runts."
"Hai." Hinata and Naruto nodded in agreement.
To the backup shinobi! Yaaaaaay backup shinobi!
The group of six traveled at breakneck speed in order to save their friends. It got to the point that Sakura had to carry Pakkun because he couldn't keep up.
"Okay. We're within an hour of the sound country." Said Pakkun.
Muscles tightened with anticipation and fear as they drew nearer. However, not one of them questioned themselves. They knew why they were going in and they didn't care about the danger. Four of their friends were in trouble that's all the needed to know.
An hour past and the company stood on the line between Leaf and Sound.
"Are all of you sure you want to do this?" Pakkun asked. They all looked at the dog. Sakura stepped forward.
"If we weren't sure about this, do you think we'd have come this far?" Sakura asked. "Friendship is the most important thing in the world. If I have to risk my life to save my friends…then so be it."
"Nicely put Sakura." Said Shikamaru. "I agree."
"You don't have to ask me twice." Said Neji. "I've already made my decision."
"I guess I can't back out then." Kiba said jokingly. Akamaru barked in agreement.
"Well then…" Sakura said looking at Pakkun. "There's your answer."
"Hehe. Glad to hear it." The four got queasy at the sight of a laughing dog. "Then after this point there's no turning back. Let's get this job done."
"Hai." The four Shinobi and two dogs plunged into the Sound Country not knowing what to expect.