"Come in." Tsunade said.
"Lady Tsunade, Naruto is missing. I woke up this morning and he was nowhere in the house."
"Shizune, bring me an ANBU team."
"Right away milady."
Five Minutes Later…
"You requested our presence, Lady Tsunade?"
"Yes. I want you to do a search and rescue within the village until you find Naruto Uzumaki. He disappeared last night and we are afraid of what might happen to him."
"And why would we help the demon that destroyed our village 13 years ago?"
"What did you say about him?"
"Lady Hinata, I almost didn't notice you. Have you been dragged into this mission to unwillingly help a demon as well?" The ANBU man suddenly found himself at the wrong end of a gentle fist strike.
"You will help me look for him and you will shut up during the trip." Hinata said with her voice dripping malice and viciousness and with a face that could make the devil beg for mercy.
"Shizune…Remind me to never piss her off. She has a worse temper than me." Tsunade whispered to her assistant. "Alright, Hinata you are team leader. Once you have located the target, I want you three to dismiss yourselves and Hinata will finish the mission. Now go!"
In a Dark Alley in the Leaf Village…
"Naruto!" Hinata ran into the alley where she spotted a boy with blond hair curled up and leaning his back against the wall.
"Oh my god. I was so worried about you!" Hinata said practically crying while hugging him.
"You shouldn't be around me." Naruto said in a whisper.
"And why is that?"
"Because he will come and kill you for trying to help me and I won't be able to do anything about it." Naruto said still whispering.
"Who?"
"Oro…Oro..."
"Orochimaru?" Suddenly Naruto screamed in agony while holding his head. Suddenly a purple seal appealed on his body.
"My-my. It seems you just don't listen boy. When Orochimaru and I put that seal on you and forbade you from talking to people with strict consequences, we thought you would listen. You should learn to respect those in positions of authority." Kabuto said while walking out of the shadows.
"You won't be able to touch me Kabuto. The village would be all over your ass."
"Who said you were being punished at this time?" Kabuto said.
"No. You can't!"
"But I can. Tayuya, Jirobo, Kidomaru, Sakon. You hold her to the wall while she watches me torture her little boyfriend."
"No! Please don't!"
"I've been waiting for this for a long time, when I get to beat the shit out this kid." Kabuto suddenly put his hands into the seal of confrontation and is hand began to turn purple and he made it go darker purple. As he did this, Naruto began screaming even worse than before and the seal on his forehead became darker. Then Kabuto began kicking him while he was screaming. He repeatedly kicked him in the ribs then picked him up and started slamming him in the face with his fist. He then began to use his chakra scalpels. He cut the calcaneal (Achilles) tendons and the tendons that make the rotator cuffs before finally putting his knee to naruto's face breaking his nose and mandible.
"This time it wasn't so bad. Next time you disobey, it won't be just you that gets hurt or even killed." Kabuto turned to walk away when suddenly he was looking into the face of someone and the sight before him scared him shitless. He was staring straight into the eyes of one Sasuke Uchiha. And not only was he pissed, but he also had activated his Mangekyō Sharingan. He looked behind Sasuke he saw the rest of the Leaf 12 minus three. He looked behind him to see the Ino-Shika-Cho in a seriously pissed off formation. He looked back at Sasuke and awaited what was coming.
"You come into our village, hunt down my little brother whose life you've already made worse than any imaginable hell. Then you wait til he is scared the most, activate some seal you and Orochimaru placed on him, beat the shit out of him, incapacitate him, and then threaten to come back again and possibly kill him? I'll tell you this Kabuto. You either are an idiot, or you have a death wish. You're lucky we can't kill you right now. And before your smart-ass tries to ask, we need you to deliver this message that we all wrote to Orochimaru to him for us. And if you don't, I will send you to hell made out of Amaterasu flames. Am I understood?" Sasuke said with so much killing intent that the others were shivering.
"Yes Sasuke. I'll take this scroll to him right away." Kabuto and the sound four disappeared in flames. The others looked o at the scene in front of them. Hinata was on her knees holding Naruto to her. Naruto was obviously in need of medical attention as he was bleeding a slow but steady flow from his mouth and he had blood dripping from his nose as well. He had pieces of his mandible protruding from his skin leading to the conclusion that he had a compound fracture and no one really knew what damage Kabuto did with his chakra scalpel.
"S-Sasuke, can you help me take him to the hospital? I-I don't think I can do it on my own."
"Anything for the first person to recognize my little brother as a human. Plus I don't think it would be pretty if Naruto died because of the hell the two of us would raise. Let's go." Sasuke said lifting Naruto up and running with Hinata to the hospital.
The Hospital…
"He will be fine but he will be here a while. He won't have to go through rehab since the Nine Tails chakra will repair his abilities but he still has to undergo extensive surgery to fix the tendons that were cut."
"I'm staying here until he is able to leave." Hinata said.
"I'm assigning guards to his room."
"Sasuke, you don't have that authority. Only the Hokage does."
"It's alright. I've got three people from Sand that would be more than happy to kill anyone that tries to hurt him."
"Who?"
"Us. Naruto saved me from myself, No one will be able to touch him other than you, Sasuke or anyone the two of you authorize on a list without going through us and Naruto is the only one who has done that before."
"Oh. You are Gaara of the sand. You two are his siblings, correct?"
"Yes we are. We owe Naruto an insurmountable debt for giving us our little brother back."
"I thank you."
"You know all you have to do is ask him, knowing the knucklehead, he will say yes."
"What do you mean Temari?"
"It's obvious you're in love with him. It won't hurt to ask."
"Thank you Temari. By the way Sasuke, what was in that note you sent him?"
"Who, that bastard Orochimaru? We told him to watch his back because he can't hide from the fourteen of us forever."
"What do you mean 14?"
"My team minus Naruto, your team, Neji's team, Shikamaru's team, and these three. Not counting the adults."
"Your damn right I'm helping. That bastard won't know what hit him."
"These three will be guarding the room from all entrance points to prevent entry. You and Naruto should get some rest. Well you, the knucklehead is on so much medicine he'll be out till afternoon tomorrow."
"Thank you guys." Sasuke left and the three guards took their posts. Hinata grabbed a chair and laid her head on the bed next to Naruto's hand. She promptly passed out from all the exhaustion of the day's events…