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Naruto woke up in the same lab from before. He said "How long have I been out?"
Kabuto said "A couple of hours. How do you feel?"
Naruto tested himself, flexing his muscles and gathering chakra. "Better with those damn seals off." He got up then fell over and righted himself weakly, bracing himself on the bed. "What the hell?" He looked at Kabuto.
Kabuto said "It will probably be tomorrow before your chakra system is back to normal. For a normal person, it would be longer, but most people take longer to wake up after passing out from extreme pain." He smiled.
Naruto thought 'sadist. He liked doing that earlier.' He said "Good. I want to start training."
Kabuto asked "Why so eager to train?"
Naruto said, with a smile "Hey, everything hasn't changed. I'm still a workaholic."
Kabuto said "Hn" He went back to his experiments. "You can go." He called a sound nin to show Naruto to his room.
Naruto looked around 'This is already better than the place I had in Konoha. With snake head being over the village, I doubt I'm as likely to be called a monster here too.' He smirked. 'And it will only get better from here.'
Meanwhile...
Itachi and Kisame were on their way to Konoha...
Once they made it there, they went directly to the cell under a henge, only to find it blown. He was gone! Itachi looked at Kisame. Kisame winced. Leader wasn't going to be happy about this.
Kisame said "What do we do now?"
Itachi said "We're not going back without Uzumaki, unless you want to explain to the Leader how we missed the target?"
Kisame shivered "Lead the way."
Itachi frowned. He was most likely with the snake. He said "We're going to Sound."
As the two Akatsuki members left, the Hokage was sitting at his desk, still thinking about what to do with Naruto. The council had found out about how he wanted to rescue Naruto. They had been expressly against it. They were sending out an assasination team.
He had to do something. He called team Asuma and team Gai. Team Kakashi was short a man and was too likely to be too emotionally envolved and he didn't want Hinata or Kiba on the mission for the same reason, especially Hinata.
He sighed as the 11 genin all came into his office, followed by their instructors. He said "I only called for teams Asuma and Gai."
Sasuke said "I'm not going to just stand by and let this happen to him! He's my team mate!"
Hinata said "I'm just as capable as Neji with the byakugon and jyuuken. I have to show Naruto that somebody cares. I'm gong too!" She looked at the Hokage defiantly.
Sarutobi said "The council would never approve sending all of you out to bring Naruto back" he paused "So I'm going to have to send you on other missions, that just happen to be in close proximity to where Naruto should be." He handed each jonin a scroll. "You'll have to complete the mission too, they are real, but they won't take much time.Each mission is around a B or C rank. Team Gai and Kurenai, leave tonight. Team Asuma and Kakashi, leave tomorrow morning. Space your departures out by at least an hour. Be warned that the council plans on sending an assasination team after Naruto, so be on the lookout for them."
Neji asked "Hokage-sama, if we retrieve Naruto, what then? Will he want to come back? He can't be a ninja here." Sandaime saw that most of the rest of them were wondering the same thing.
Sasuke said "I can think of a solution to that. It involves a few council members getting lost on their way to work." His sharingan activated briefly.
Sandaime had been afraid of this. He couldn't say that he didn't agree, but he couldn't allow the bloodshed. He said "The punishment for killing a member of this village is death."
Sasuke said "That's only if they get caught and if they know who did it."
Sarutobi frowned "I will not have such talk in my office. You have your missions. Go." They left. The sandaime frowned again, the council were all former Shinobi. They could take care of themselves, besides, he didn't want any of the genin to get in trouble. He sighed again, his thoughts back on Naruto. He wished he had been watching him when it had happened. Then he would have known what had happened. 'Naruto...'
Naruto sneezed in the complex in Sound...
The next day...
Naruto was up early. "Orochimaru-sama!" He called out.
He walked around the complex and made his way into the snake's office. He was grabbed and had a kunai held to his neck "Ohayo, Kabuto-san."
Kabuto said, in a deadly voice, "You're not allowed in here, unless called by Orochimaru."
Naruto said "Gomen, I just wanted to train. I always get up early. He said he was going to show me hiraiashin."
Kabuto said "He's busy."
Naruto thought 'Probably sleeping. I want to get on with this already.' He asked "Kabuto-san...will you train me then?" He grinned at him.
Kabuto felt uneasy. What was the boy up to? He said "I don't know hiraiashin."
"What jutsu do you know?" Kabuto looked at him strangely again. Naruto revised his strategy again. "You don't look like any ninja I've seen before, with those glasses."
Kabuto frowned. "I'm a medic nin. I have glasses because I read a lot of scrolls."
Naruto asked "Medical justu scrolls? There can't be that many techniques."
Kabuto said "There are a lot of medic techniques."
"Not that many."
Kabuto stressmarked. "Not all medicical jutsu are used to heal."
Naruto got a surprised look "Really? I thought that's what medic jutsu was for."
Kabuto smirked "That's only half of it. Medic jutsu can be used like the gentle fist style of the Hyuuga to disrupt tenketsu as well, among other things."
"Really?" Naruto asked. "I don't suppose there are any techniques that could beat their Byakugon too?"
Kabuto said "There is one I've been working on."
"Cool, show it to me."
Kabuto said "Your chakra control isn't good enough to do any medic techniques. Forget about it."
Naruto said "You could still show it to me."
Orochimaru stepped out, in his kage robes "Yes, show him the former one. He's seen the Hyuuga's taijutsu style before."
Kabuto smirked. Another chance to beat up the runt who Orochimaru seemed fixed on having as his next vessel. Fun.
Naruto thought 'I'm in for it now. I saw Neji fight Hinata.' If I hadn't done what I did, he might have killed her and she had the byakugon and could used jyuuken. His only hope was to avoid the hands. This was precisely what he tried to do, except for the fact that Kabuto was faster than he was.
Naruto dodged to the side only to have Kabuto twist around and strike him anyway. He tried to sweep Kabuto then. Kabuto jumped back, then charged at him again. Naruto made a handsign and then there was a poof. In his place stood four Narutos.
Kabuto said "That's not very impressive. Only four?"
Naruto said "Ikusei!" They all ran at Kabuto.
Kabuto dispelled two with one motion, then got the last and struck the real Naruto. Naruto then grinned and made about a hundred more clones and struck at Kabuto from all sides.
Kabuto said "Didn't you learn that that won't work yet?" He dispelled clones ten at at time this time with a technique that resembled Kaiten. Then the Naruto clones jumped back and attacked one or two at a time again.
Kabuto dispelled them with seeming ease. He was down to the real Naruto and around six bushin now.
The real Naruto's head was throbbing from the bushins being reassimilated. He stumbled to the side a little. He had only just recovered and his chakra control was worse than usual. His last bushins dispelled on their own and he was immediately struck by Kabuto in the chest. He fell to his knees, coughing up blood.
Kabuto said "Pathetic. Your already limited chakra control hasn't returned yet. You're out of chakra now."
Naruto coughed, on his knees, his head spinning. He heard Kabuto berating him fuzzily, until he collapsed.
Orochimaru frowned. 'If I hadn't seen him earlier, I would think he was really this weak.' He asked "Kabuto, how long before he's back to normal?"
Kabuto said "He wasn't drawing upon the Kyuubi's chakra and his chakra control was nonexistent. It will take a little while before he is back to normal."
"How long?"
Kabuto estimated. Based on the boy's regenerative ability due to the fox...He said "Around a week, at least."
Orochimaru said "Heal him and put him back on his room. I'll start training him once he gets his control back."
Kabuto asked "What are you going to do with him until then?"
Orochimaru said "You are going to work with him to get his chakra control back quicker."
Kabuto asked "How? Chakra control excercises?"
Orochimaru waved his hand at Kabuto. "That will do. Don't damage him...too much." He left.
Kabuto sighed as he healed the boy and carried his unconscious form back to the room. When he dropped the boy on the bed, he went out and shut the door.
Naruto waited until he could no longer hear Kabuto's footsteps and opened his eyes. He started analyzing the information he had gotten from the clones. he closed his eyes, replaying the memories they had given him. He focused on the movements and handsigns Kabuto had made and on the results of his attacks. Naruto frowned. There was something he was missing. He didn't know how Kabuto had manipulated his chakra to do the attack.
'Gaki, he used a style similar to the Hyuuga. You should know how their style works.'
Naruto couldn't decide whether he was relieved or annoyed at the fox. 'You pick now to speak up.'
'I just regained the ability to talk to you again. I've been reparing the damage done by those seals to our link.'
Naruto asked 'Why should I know how the Hyuuga's taijutsu works?'
Kyuubi yelled 'Why are you working with the snake bastard?!'
Naruto winced 'Calm down before you really knock me out. I'm working on something right now.'
'And what, may I ask is that?' The Kyuubi asked, angrily.
Naruto sighed and sent him his plan.
Kyuubi chuckled darkly 'I see. I wouldn't have expected that out of you.'
Naruto thought 'I'm just full of surprises, aren't I? Now, oh enlightened one,' He said, brimming with sarcasm 'Enlighten me on how four eyes manipulated his chakra for that technique.'
Elsewhere...
Team Gai, Asuma, Kakashi and Kurenai had moved out and all were working on their primary mission.
Team Gai was done first. They had an escort mission that had only taken a couple of days, but they were the farthest away. Team Kakashi was closest, with their mission just outside of Waterfall, but their mission would last at least another two days. Teams Kurenai and Asuma were on the other side of fire and would be occupied for another four or five days.
Sasuke said "We're the closest. Let's just get this over with."
Their task had been to help repair a village on the Waterfall/Fire barrier.
Kakashi said "With just the three of us and some of their shinobi helping, this will take until at least tomorrow."
Sasuke asked "What if you used that technique Naruto knows?"
"Kage bushin?" Kakashi asked, surprised. Why hadn't he thought of that. "Eh, yes, that would make it faster, but Sakura doesn't have enough chakra for the technique to be effective."
Sasuke said "The two of us then."
Kakashi said "Have you tried the technique before?"
Sasuke shook his head "But I've seen Naruto do it."
"Kage bushin no jutsu."
Sasuke looked at the two clones beside him, they both looked tired, one fell over and poofed. Sasuke, Sakura and Kakashi sweatdropped.
Sasuke said "Eh..."
Sakura said "That's what it used to look like when Naruto tried to make bushins."
Kakashi said "You didn't use enough chakra, Sasuke, kage bushins take a lot more chakra than regular bushins do." He turned to Sakura. "Naruto has the reverse problem. He can't make a decent bushin, no matter how hard he tries."
Sakura asked "Why? He has a lot of chakra, right? He should be able to make tons of them."
Kakashi said "But he can't because he has too much. His chakra control would have to be as good as yours, Sakura, or better to be able to make a regular bushin, and it's not."
Sakura asked "Because of the Kyuubi?" Kakashi nodded.
Sasuke said "Okay, I've got it this time." He made five kage bushin and Kakashi made ten and they all got to work.
While the Konoha teams were on their missions...
Two members of Akatsuki were on a mission of their own.
Kisame complained "Are we there yet?"
Itachi's eye twitched "If you ask that one more time, Kisame, I'm having sushi for dinner tonight!" Kisame paled. Itachi said "We're in Sound. We just have to find the base. It should be around here somewhere..."
Just then, two nin walked out of thin air. Itachi smirked and took them out. Then two nin walked into thin air. They had found the hidden village of Sound. The two walked around, before finding the complex then dissapeared.
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Well, that's chapter 14, let me know what you think of it. Ja ne.