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Recap:
"How are you alive, sensei said that you died" Jiraiya said
"Don't worry I'll tell you the whole story" Naruto said
This is going to be a long day, Naruto thought
Naruto was starting to tell Jiraiya how this story began.
"Just so you know, I know I have the Kyubi sealed inside of me" Naruto told Jiraiya almost making the white haired pervert have a heart attack.
"H-how did you know" Jiraiya asked
"I'll explain it in the story" Naruto said and then started to tell the story.
He told Jiraiya about how he had met Hinata while he was on the swings and asked him to be friends with her, but was then taking away by her father telling her that she shouldn't play with him. He then started to tell about when he planned to leave Konoha and how Hinata decided to come along with him on his journey. Then he told Jiraiya on how the they went to Suna and met the Ichibi jinchuriki, and started to explain how Gaara joined them.
"Wait a minute" Jiraiya said halting Naruto from continuing the story
"The ichibi jinchuriki travelled with you, so is he alive?" Jiraiya asked, making Naruto grow a tick mark
"I'll tell you later on in the story" Naruto said and proceeded to tell the story.
The blonde told Jiraiya on how he met Haku and how he started traveling with them, and then he started to tell how they met the sand ninja that was trying to kill Gaara and the leaf ninja that was trying to take Hinata back to Konoha, and then he started to tell Jiraiya how the kids survived the rock fall.
"Wait. Wait" Jiraiya paused as he raised his hand "There was a sand ninja trying to kill Gaara?!"
"Well technically he was supposed to kill all of us because there wasn't supposed to be any witnesses" Naruto said before getting back to the story.
Then he told him on how they met Kimimaro, and then told the pervert on how they found the abandon village and how they took all the scrolls and books, and how they know about the Biju and jinchuriki, and told Jiraiya on how they met Ranmaru and took him with them. Jiraiya's eyes nearly fell out of their sockets when Naruto told him that they were trained by Iwa ninja for three weeks. He then told Jiraiya on how they met Fu, and shortly after that they met Guren and Yukimaru. Then he told Jiraiya on how they met Zabuza and was trained by him for a year, almost making Jiraiya lose his eyes from the news. Then he told Jiraiya on how the group split up and that he, Gaara, and Fu were taught by two Kumo ninja, almost giving Jiraiya a heart attack, and then he told him on how the jinchuriki got separated and told him about Itachi and Akatsuki.
"And then I met you" Naruto finished
"You know, kid. You nearly gave me a heart attack with that story of yours" Jiraiya commented causing Naruto to shrug.
Meanwhile with the others
The kids and Tsunade were just leaving town and Shizune was happy for once knowing that debt collectors won't be chasing after them since the children were kind enough to pay off Tsunade's debts with the money they got from gambling.
"So where are we going?" Yukimaru asked
"We're just going to stop at the next town, and I'll give each and everyone of you a medical checkup just to make sure you kids are healthy" Tsunade explained
"Is that all we're going to be doing" asked Haku
"Well, if we have time, I'm going to start teaching Haku and Hinata some medical ninjutsu" answered Tsunade
"REALLY!" yelled Hinata and Haku
"Yep" answered Tsunade
"That's great" Fu said
"I'm surprised, I thought you kids would be jealous" Tsunade said
"We know that we aren't suited for learning medical ninjutsu, Hinata and Haku are the ones that have the best chance out of all of us that could learn medical ninjutsu" Kimimaro explained
"That's pretty smart of you" said Shizune
"Anyway let's hurry up and get to the next town" Tsunade said
"You just want to drink sake" Guren mumbled
"Did you say something" asked Tsunade
"Nope, nothing" Guren replied
The group was now currently in their hotel room while Tsunade was finishing giving each of the kids a checkup
"That's not good" Tsunade mumbled while examining Kimimaro
"What's wrong" Hinata asked
"It seems that Kimimaro is showing signs of bloodline poisoning" Tsunade muttered
"Is he going to be okay" Ranmaru asked
"Don't worry I'll be able to heal him" Tsunade said while started to use her medical ninjutsu, a couple minutes later she stopped the jutsu
"There all done," Tsunade said
"Tsunade," Gaara asked
"Yeah" she responded
"You know a lot about wounds and how to heal them, right" Gaara asked
"Hey kid, I'm not a sanin for nothing" Tsunade replied
But you're the legendary sucker for winning nothing, Guren thought
"Do you know about wounds, that don't bleed" Gaara said
"You mean like a mental wound" Tsunade asked
"Well, not exactly, it's kind of hard to explain actually, before, when I lived in Suna, it always hurt here" Gaara clutched where his heart is "there wasn't any blood, but it hurt, that's what I thought pain was since the sand always protected me, I didn't know why it hurt, but it hurt all the time, but now it doesn't hurt anymore" Gaara explained, Tsunade smiled sadly at Gaara
"Gaara" she said as she walked up to him, she took out a small knife and cut one of her fingers, making it bleed
"When your body is wounded you know by seeing blood, or a bruise,or that it hurts greatly, but you can always treat those wounds by using ointment or medical ninjutsu. But there are wounds that even the greatest level of medical ninjutsu can't heal. Those are the wounds of the heart, and the cure is quite-how you would say troublesome to obtain" Tsunade said
"How do you get the cure" asked Ranmaru
"The cure can only be given to you by another, it's called love" explained Tsunade
"Love?" said Gaara still not familiar with the term "How do you know when you receive love"
"You have already received love, Hinata, Haku, Kimimaro, Guren, Fu, Ranmaru, Yukimaru, and I'm guessing the rabbit too, they all love you" explained Tsunade, then the redhead eyes started to water at the information, and it wasn't long before he started crying.
"Gaara, why are you crying" Yukimaru tugged on Gaara's shirt
"I don't know, I don't know why I'm crying, I don't feel any pain at all, nothing hurts, it just feels that weight has been lifted off my shoulders" cried Gaara, he was then handed a tissue by Tsunade
"You're just crying tears of joy Gaara, you're just really really happy" explained Tsunade as she comforted the boy
later
the entire group was outside in an open field, Tsunade was explaining about medical ninjutsu to Hinata and Haku, while the others were watching from the sidelines, and Yukimaru and Ranmaru were playing with Yuki and Tonton.
"You know I find it weird" Yukimaru said while petting Tonton
"Find what weird" Ranmaru asked while petting Yuki
"Yuki has white hair and yet it never gets dirty everytime we see him" explained Yukimaru (I am assuming the rabbit is male, because they never told the gender of the rabbit)
"Now that you mention it" Ranmaru observed Yuki causing Kimimaro to smile at the scene
white hair, Kimimaro thought
white hair
white hair
'you love playing with my white hair, don't you, Kimimaro'
What was that! Kimimaro thought
"Kimimaro, is something wrong" asked Ranmaru
"Don't worry it's nothing" replied Kimimaro
later
The group was back in their hotel room, after a long day of training, everyone was about ready to go to bed.
What did I remember, Kimimaro thought
'you love playing with my white hair, don't you, Kimimaro'
"What was that?" Kimimaro mumbled
"Something wrong" asked Tsunade
"It's nothing" Kimimaro replied
"Are you sure you don't want to talk about it" she asked
"I don't really know" answered Kimimaro
"How about you tell me what's bothering you" Tsunade said
"Earlier today, you explained to us about wounds of the heart," Tsunade nodded at the statement "Today I remembered something, it's nothing acutally, what I'm trying to figure out is how do you know when someone loves you"
"It's kind of hard to explain" stated Tsunade "I would say that your heart would know when it recieves love, it tells you, all you have to do is listen"
"So your heart tells you" repeated Kimimaro
"What was it that you remembered" asked Tsunade
"Don't worry it's nothing, really" replied the white haired boy
"Okay, go get some sleep" said Tsunade
"Okay" Kimimaro said before heading to bed
Kimimaro's dream
Kimimaro's POV
I found myself in a dark place
where am I, I looked around to see a cage
Is that, I then looked closer to see that a figure was occupying the cage
who is that, I walked closer to see a small boy, he couldn't have been older then 2 years old, the only thing was, that boy was me.
What's going on, is this a memory, I thought before darkness consumed me
I woke up in the cage I grew up in.
Where am I, I thought then brought myself into the sitting position, I looked at my hand which was significantly smaller then what my hand looked like now.
Am I in my two year old body, the cage being opened brought me out of my thoughts, a woman walked up to me and gently picked me up.
"Let's sneak outside today" she whispered to me and quietly closed the cage and snuck outside.
Is this the first time I went outside, I thought as the sunlight hit my pale skin, I looked up at the woman who was holding me but couldn't make out her face, but she had white hair just like me. She brought me to a place where there were a bunch of bright flowers and put me on the ground, I crawled to flowers and touched its petals.
"Do you like them Kimimaro, they're called flowers, aren't they beautiful" the woman said as she touched one of the flowers
Who is she, I thought as I looked at her, I still couldn't see her face, it was overshadowed by the sun. I crawled to her and touched her white hair, she laughed.
"you love playing with my white hair, don't you, Kimimaro" she laughed "I wouldn't be surprised you have white hair too" she said as she touched my hair
who is she, I asked myself, the woman then picked me up and walked to the flowers.
"Aren't the flowers beautiful when they bloom Kimimaro" she told me "Even thou people rarely come here, they will always bloom because they know that one day that there will be people that will come and see them" she then looked at me "Kimimaro, remember this, as long as flowers keep on blooming I will always love you. Kimimaro remember mother always loves you"
Mom! I thought and looked at the woman, she definately looked like him, or he looked like her, she had green eyes and white hair, her skin was pale and she had a sincere face
Mom, I thought as I looked at her.
cough cough cough
Mom, I looked at her, she was coughing into her hand.
"Don't worry about me Kimimaro" she smiled at me, I looked at the hand she coughed in to see that there was blood on it, she wiped it off on her purple kimono.
Mother, I thought before she picked me up.
"Come on let's go back before your father finds out" she said while carrying me.
end dream
end Kimimaro's POV
Kimimaro woke up, looking around, he found that everyone was still asleep and it was still nightime.
"Nightmare?" said Gaara getting Kimimaro's attention
"It wasn't a nightmare, it was actually the opposite of it, really" Kimimaro said
"What was the dream about, if I may ask" Gaara said
"It was more of a memory then a dream" Kimimaro explained
"a memory?" asked Gaara "what was the memory about"
"It was about my mother" said Kimimaro
"Your mother" asked Gaara
"I think I was about two years old in the memory, she took me outside for the first time and showed me a small meadow of flowers, she was very sick, she was coughing up blood and her skin was very pale" Kimimaro said
"It sounds like she had bloodline poisoning, the same thing you had" Gaara said
"Huh?" Kimimaro said
"One of the symptons of bloodline poisoning is coughing up blood resulting in pale skin and a hard time breathing." Gaara explained
"And how do you know all this" Kimimaro asked
"Don't ask" Gaara said dismissing the subject
"She said that she loved me" Kimimaro said
"That must be nice hearing that from your mother" Gaara said
"I'm sorry, I forgot, you never had a mother" Kimimaro apologized
"It's okay" Gaara said "You should go back to sleep"
'Yeah, I'll see you in the morning" Kimimaro answered and then went to bed and drifted into sleep.
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