AN: Okkkayyyy… chappie 2! For those who are wondering… this takes place in Toronto…why? Because I want it to =]
It's been three days since he brought the kid to the hospital. He had been bleeding heavily, and cursing under his breath, Naruto decided to not leave him dying in the rain. A fast spin off from his usually don't-give-a-shit character. But he got a pang of guilt hitting him there and then, and he duly cursed it to hell and back. His conscience had a nasty habit of popping up in unwanted situations.
Like now, when he was supposed to be chasing that fucking blonde idiot bomb ass. He pressed to button on his ear piece, immediately connecting to Jiraiya. "Sorry old man, I'm out for the night." He clicked the device off in time to hear a grunt of protest and grinned. It's not like the old geezer cared anyways, he'd make sure Naruto took care of everything after, even if he had to work overtime…for a couple of days.
He crouched beside the boy, turning him over on his back, noting the rather deep side wound. He frowned and pulled out his cell, absentmindedly dialing the number "hey Sakura…yeah, can you do me a favor?" He took his ear from the phone as the voice on the other side crescendoed loudly, not listening at all, feeling the kid for any broken bones and deciding that if not broken, at least one rib was cracked.
He went back to the phone. "Yeah Im sorry hun, but could you get an ambulance to my location quickly…otherwise someone might die." He said it all with such a pleasant tone that the voice on the other side sounded questioning. "No Im not joking dear, now get your ass over here." In a millisecond his tone changed completely going from pleasant to cold. He hung up and proceeded to inspect the kid.
The smell of sweat and piss reached him immediately and he tensed, a pang of fear running through him. He wondered if that was the kid letting waters flow. And realized soon that it wasn't, that it was a stench coming off the raven nonetheless. He noted the rags he had for clothes, many layers of them, likely because it was easier to wear than to carry. He sighed, great, he found a hobo.
A glint of steel grabbed his attention. Through the heavy rain, he noticed the blade illuminated from the street lights. It was covered in blood. Notingly and most likely, it was the weapon the kid was hit with.
Taking out a plastic baggie, he picked up the weapon through a napkin and sealed it off, putting it into his pocket. He could already hear the sirens close by, and the glowing lights of red, white and blue surrounded the area, the van turning into the alley and somehow managing to stopn right beside them.
A pink haired girl jumped out and before he could fully comprehend anything, his head spun with the force of the blow she delivered to his head. "that's," she calmly explained "for hanging up on me."
"bitch" Naruto hissed, massaging his sore temples, but smiling lightly through the pain. "Just found him laying here, I need him to be taken in and looked over."
"he has no ID" Sakura noted, checking his pockets as well as his bag. "he won't be admitted beyond first aid."
Naruto crossed his arms and looked at her, crouching down opposite of the body that was now being hauled into the van by the team. "then sign him up under me, God knows he'll need more than first aid."
Sakura sighed, "you're doing Illegal shit again… Tsunade will be pissed."
He smiled then, a wide toothy grin, "Tsunade can go to hell."
And thus he sat, now for the third day staright beside the young man he knew nothing about. He had no name, no clarification of any kind and (he knew this because he'd checked) no criminal record. Clean as a fresh piece of paper…well, in the theoretical terms. In reality, the kid was brought in filthy, smelling strongly of a portable bathroom, and completely disgusting.
He looked even worse in the bright, clinical light of the hospital room. Naruto noted, as staff scrambled around him, that he was around twenty. He noted the stretchers that the kid had in his ears. Now removed by the staff, the ears looked like something he would see on a Buddha statue.
In fact, those weren't the only piercings the kid had. An eyebrow piercing, small studs in his ears, running along the entire length, and a nose piercing completed the ensemble.
Naruto sighed, this was going to be quite interesting indeed.
"so… what's up with you?"
The voice cause him to tense and turn slowly, he gulped heavily. Both Jiraiya and Tsunade were standing in the door, both looking quite pissed and amused at once.
"Well…" Naruto stammered. "Well see this…." He waved his hand at the kid.
Jiraiya and Tsuande alike moved further in and stopped at the foot of the bed, where the dark haired kid was laying, torso wrapped in bandages and connected to the IV.
"Im not paying for him to be here" Tsunade finally looked at Naruto. "I refuse to succumb to your every whim kid."
Naruto looked fondly at the blonde woman before him, she had been the closest he had to a mother figure his entire life. The honey eyes were directed at him. She was pissed, he knew, and she was waiting for his response.
He looked to Jiraiya next, his boss, and a dearest friend of Tsunades, he was also eyeing him with question marks flying around.
Naruto sighed, "I think it's obvious that since I brough him in, I'd be the one paying for everything… although you know Granny, being the God of this hospital, it wouldn't hurt you to let this slip…." hIs sentence was cut short by another vicius blow to the head. Massaging his bump he hissed out, "point taken."
Jiraiya spoke up then, slightly chuckling to himself. "Kid, you get a well deserved vacation, someone's gotta have to take care of this one over here" He nodded in the direction of the raven. "And it aint gonna be one of us"
With this said, they both left the room before Naruto had so much as a chance to protest.
He hissed, mad as hell at his own stupidity. Why the hell did he all of a sudden go out of his way to help this kid? He knew the answer to that too well, because the raven reminded him of himself…once.
So when he looked back up, he was surprised to see two pools of onyx glaring at him tiredly from behind long black eyelashes.
Naruto smiled, a fake smile, but one that was nevertheless effective on most people. "Glad to see you're awake." He got up and went over to the side of the bed, perching himself on the side gently. "How are you feeling?"
"Like shit…"
Naruto snorted "well, what do you expect out of a stab wound and a cracked rib kit?"
"Kit?" Sasuke raised his brown incredulously. "You just called me kit?"
"Out of all the things I said, what you're worried about is a nickname?" Naruto rolled his eyes, "seriously kid…"
"Who are you to call me kid?" Sasuke was irritated, not to mention the splitting headache he had now rivaled the shooting pains in his side. "You're practically my age…. And how did I get here? He added as an afterthought, looking around.
"How old are you kit?" Naruto cocked his head to the side, amused that the raven found him looking so young.
"Twenty," Sasuke answered. "And as to how I got here….?"
Naruto barked out a laugh. "Ohhhh true… I was your age… eight years ago…." He laughed even harder when he saw the widening of kits eyes.
"And I brought you here." He looked pointedly at kit, "What happened to you?"
"I was attacked." That was all Sasuke would say on the subject.
"Secretive aren't we?" Naruto mused "You at least must tell me your name."
"Sasuke"
"Last name?"
"I don't have one."
Naruto was taken aback, he was sure the kid was lying, but how else to pry? There must have been a strong reason for him not to want to say it. He would respect that for now.
"You're in Mt. Sinai Hospital, and you will stay here until you have completely healed."
"I can't." Sasuke glared, "I have no money, and no ID… they wouldn't allow…."
"All taken care of" Naruto waved his hand dismissively. "for now, you must focus on recuperation, the wound you received was heavy, and you lost much blood, you have a cracked rib and you're malnourished."
"I need to leave here." Sasuke said, trying to get himself up and out of the bed, hissing in pain as his side was split into a burning pain.
"Shit kit, could you be any stupider? Naruto growled. "Control yourself!"
Sasuke took his hand off his wound, noting that it started bleeding again.
"Shiiiiit…" Naruto was pissed, pressing the button to fetch the nurse, he also took the liberty of pressing the button that would eject a sleeping drug into the struggling raven. The latter glaring at him through heavy eyes as the drug began to take effect.
"Oh and by the way," Naruto grinned at him. "My name is Naruto Uzumaki."
AN: Yosh! What do you peeps think…. Many peple have noticed I don't use enough periods and too many commas…. I always thought it was opposite… but Im trying to control myself… lol