My Heart's Lavender Eye
My Heart's Lavender Eye
"Normal speech"
'Thought'
Kyuubi
Other enormous beings
"Disclaimer"
I do not own Naruto or any affiliation there being, I am doing this fanfic because I enjoy making this story, not for profit (which I do not get by the way)
(I will warn you now, this chapter is all soap-opera-ish, but it has to be done to further the story, but don't worry, it will get better next chapter, after all of the DRAMA!! Bum Bum Bum...)(This chapter is huge!)
Chapter : 12
Onward and Rasengan!
Then Hinata leaned and and hugged Naruto.
Naruto was shocked from Hinata's sudden hug, and to be frank, so was Hinata.
'Wow! I'm hugging Naruto!'thought Hinata as she held him close.
'I did it! I'm ACTUALLY hugging Naruto!' thought Hinata happily.
She felt like nussling her cheek into his face, but decided that it would be too girlfriendish, and she didn't want to come off as some slutty chick.
Naruto was froze in place from Hinata's hug, and he wasn't sure what to think.
'Hi...Hinata...'thought Naruto as he bravely hugged her back.
"(Soft gasp)"
Hinata gasped quietly as she felt Naruto hug her back. She was sure that she was red all over from blushing, but this was the most relaxed, happy, and content she had ever been since they last hugged in Tsunade's office.
"(sigh)"
Naruto and Hinata sighed happily at the same time, and they both instantly broke apart to look at each other.
'Did he just...' thought Hinata.
'Did she just...' thought Naruto.
They had both heard each other sigh happily, and were both about to ask each other why they did, but they were rudely interupted.
"Ahem..." said Sakura abruptly, which broke them apart.
They both blushed as Naruto quickly retreated to the end of the cave.
"Well, we had better get started..." said Naruto as he faced the wall, still blushing.
But when Naruto went to look back to make sure that the two were far enough back, he saw the imprint in the wall that Hinata had made before when she tripped.
"Hmmm..." said Naruto as he walked towards the imprint.
He then reached out and drew a third line to match the other two Hinata had accidently clawed into the wall.
"Hey..." said Naruto as he looked at it again.
"It lookes just like the plan I drew out before" said Naruto remembering the stuff he drew on the map.
"It even has the spiral, because Hinata was spinningwhen she hit...the...wall..." said Naruto as he had a look of realization on his face.
"Wait a minute..." Naruto then started drawing equations on the wall next to the imprint.
"Naruto...What are you..." asked Sakura, but was cut off by Naruto putting his hand up to silence her.
"Shhh!" shushed Naruto as he continued to draw.
'Hinata's head hit the wall spinning, just like my Rasengan!' thought Naruto as he drew out an equation.
"When my Rasengan is in stage 3, it is about a foot wide, but if I go back to stage 2 where all of the energy isn't able to be contained, then it leaves a mark that is about 3 feet wide..." said Naruto as he looked at his hand.
Hinata looked like she was going to speak up, but Naruto held up his hand again to slience her.
A little put down by Naruto silencing her, Hinata turned to Sakura and whispered "What's a Rasengan?"
Sakura looked at Hinata in suprise that she had never seen Naruto do the Rasengan before.
'Boy is she in for a suprise!' thought Sakura as she smirked at her in response.
Hinata blinked at Sakura, the returned her attention back to Naruto, who was still babbling on about something while drawing it on the wall.
"If I make the height and width of the cave is 8 feet, and the Rasengan is 3 feet in stage 2, then I need to increase the power of my chakra to about 2 and 2 thirds times the normal capacity to make it the right height."
"But if I am going to make it big enough, then I need to take the amount of miles times the height of the Rasengan, and if the power I generate is 1/3 of the stage three Rasengan I create with that amount of Chakra, and I use the power of refraction to sharpen the power to a steady beam, then It will carve a tunnel to meet directly 8 hours from the other side, this way all three teams could get there in just about a day without using any chakra!" finished Naruto as he turned to gauge the girl's responses. When he turned to look, all he saw were two open-mouthed wide-eyed girls.
"Um...WOW..." said Sakura as she put her hand on her head in confusion.
Hinata was shocked at how clever Naruto was, but brought herself out of her stupor to look at his equation.
Naruto was smiling to himself for his cleverness, but suddenly Hinata broke him out of his ego-inflated state.
"But Naruto-kun, you didn't add in height to your equation, this...Rasengan...of yours would appear above the ground, and it would easily reveal our current position." said Hinata matter-of-factly as she smiled at him.
Naruto blinked once at Hinata because she added the -kun suffix to his name, and then looked at his diagram. (Adding the -kun suffix to a name can mean that the person you are reffering to is a good friend, or you are affectionate with them.)
Naruto blushed as he read through his equation.
"Your...your right Hinata!" said Naruto incredulously as he stared at the error in his equation.
"Why didn't you tell me you were so smart?" said Naruto as he gave her his trademark smile.
Hinata smiled while blushing and stared bashfully at the floor.
"Th-thank y-you N-Naruto-kun." stuttered Hinata who was now in a very good mood.
"Alrighty then! To account for this error, I need to burrow down at least 25 meters before I can safely start my stage 3 Rasengan, then an extra 20 meters for when I go stage 3 at an upward angle of 30 degrees. This way, the teams will only have to dig over about a mile before they get to my tunnel that my Rasengan will make." finished Naruto as he looked over to Hinata to see if she objected, but when he looked at her, she was smiling and nodding in approval while blushing up a storm.
'N-Naruto...actually values my opinion?!' thought Hinata as she smiled happily to herself.
"Okay then, if my calculations are correct, I will only have just enough chakra to perform such a powerful jutsu." said Naruto as he picked up his CBU.
He tuned into frequency 7.
"Team Kakashi full stop immediately!" commanded Naruto.
He waited a few seconds to let them stop burrowing, and then tapped his feet waiting for a response.
"Naruto, what is it?" asked Kakashi.
"How much chakra have you used so far?" asked Naruto
"Barely any, it has only been a few minutes since you got us up remember?" said Kakashi plainly.
"Heh...oh yeah, it seemed like longer" said Naruto while he thought of what happened with Hinata. He blushed and continued what he was going to say.
"Remember to call Team Gai and relay them this message." said Naruto as he closed his eyes.
Kakashi listened in closely, because whatever Naruto was going to say, it sounded important.
"Tell Team Gai to head right at a forty five degree angle for about a mile from the point they are at, and then they are to wait there for our team." said Naruto as he opened his eyes again.
"Okay, but why..." asked Kakashi as he was cut off by Naruto.
"I want your team to head for the exact same point that I told Team Gai to wait at as well." finished Naruto as he crossed his arms.
"But why..." started Kakashi but Naruto cut him off again.
"Once all three teams meet at this point, I expect that you and Kurenai will be able to lead the group from there." said Naruto in a kind of sad, yet serious voice.
Kakashi then suddenly realized what Naruto was getting at.
"Naruto...is there some reason you won't be able to make it?" asked Kakashi who now sounded worried.
"Good bye Kakashi, you were always a great teacher, and at some points you were almost like a father to me." said Naruto as he sounded sad.
"N-Naruto... What are you..." started Kakashi who now sounded more than worried.
As Kakashi talked, you could here voices from the background.
"What is he talking about?" asked Kiba.
"What's wrong with Naruto Kakashi? What is he talking about?" asked Kurenai who sounded worried as well.
"I have one more message for you to give to everybody on this mission...Tell everyone that they were the best friends a guy like me could ever hope for." choked Naruto as he started to have tears in his eyes.
"Naruto! Don't talk like that! What happened?!" asked Kakashi nervously.
"End transmission" said Naruto sadly as he opened up the back and took out the batteries, cutting off all communication.
"Here Hinata, I can trust you to keep these safe." said Naruto as he threw her the CBU and batteries and turned to face the wall, wiping the tears from his face.
"N-Naruto, w-why did you tell everybody those things?" asked an extremely worried Hinata.
"Yeah Naruto, what's wrong? There's something you're not telling us!" said Sakura angrily and yet in a worried voice.
"(sigh)"
"Orochimaru's body will exceed it's three year mark in two days..." said Naruto as he looked down at the ground.
"At the rate we have been going, we won't get there in time, and Sasuke will be Orochimaru's vessel before we even arrive."
Both of them gasped as they heard this new information, and Sakura now had an extremely sad look on her face.
"Sasuke..." whispered Sakura as tears welled up in her eyes.
She still loved the boy who stole her heart, and she would do anything to remove the Curse Mark Seal and set Sasuke free.
"Naruto-kun, I...I s-still d-don't know w-why you t-told everyone all of th-those things." said Hinata with an extremely sad and equally worried look on her face.
"It...it s-sounded like you were saying g-goodbye" said Hinata who felt heart-broken to even think that Naruto could ever be gone forever.
"To tell you the truth, the amount of chakra I'm going to use, will either kill me from Chakra depletion, or cause me to incinerate from the massive amount of pressure I'm going to be creating." finished Naruto as he turned to face the wall.
"(gasp)" said Sakura and Hinata.
"Na...Naruto you...you can't..." gasped Hinata.
"I can." said Naruto as he stared at the ground.
"Naruto, I want Sasuke back more than anything, but not if it means you dying!" pleaded Sakura.
"Sakura...You have been a great ally, and to tell the truth, I never really liked you as a girlfriend" said Naruto as he continued to passively stare at the ground.
"In fact, I always thought of you as a sister..." choked Naruto as he stared at the ground.
"Naruto..." whispered Sakura as she stared at her teammate sadly.
"I guess the only reason I kept asking you out was just because you were a girl that was wanted by other guys, so I just chose you as a kind of prize to be sought after...I'm sorry if I hurt you in any way by telling you that." said Naruto as he flew through some hand signs.
"Naruto...I...I understand...But you still can't do this!" pleaded Sakura again.
"Naruto-kun...please...don't..." said Hinata with tears in her eyes as she stepped forward.
Naruto turned and looked into her deep Lavender eyes. He felt his heart get torn at the sight of Hinata so sad, and couldn't stand to see her this way.
Naruto quickly turned away from her, and finished his hand signs.
"Hinata...You are the best friend I have ever had, and if I die, I will be watching you from the heavens...But I just want you to know...I will miss you most of all..." said Naruto as he choked on his tears.
Hinata was now in full-blown sobs, tears pouring down her face..
"NARUTO NO!!" screamed Hinata as she moved forward.
Sakura suddenly recognized the chakra signiture of the technique.
"(gasp!) Hinata no!" said Sakura as she grabbed Hinata's arm and jumped as far away as she could.
"Raikiri!!" shouted Naruto as lightning burst from his hand.
He slammed his hand into the ground and started to make a huge crater around himself.
"Chirping of One thousand birds!" screamed Naruto as he ripped straight down through the ground and out of sight.
Hinata looked to where Naruto was to see a huge crater with a blue glow coming up from below, she looked to Sakura to see that she had been knocked out when she pulled her out of the way.
"Now that I have dug deep enough, I can perform the Rasengan" said Naruto sadly to himself as he spun Chakra into his hand.
'Bigger.'thought Naruto.
He slowly increased the orb to about the size of his body.
'Bigger!'thought Naruto as he made it twice the size in one huge spike of power.
"Bigger!!" screamed Naruto as he held the huge chakra orb in front of him, the roar of the chakra was immense.
The chakra orb was now so large, that Hinata and Sakura could see the top of it.
'Wow, that's the Rasengan!?'thought Hinata, who was amazed at such a powerful technique, but was immediately snapped out of it when she remembered what Naruto said the technique could do to Naruto.
"Naruto-kun you can't!" screamed Hinata over the roar of Naruto's chakra breaking through rock.
Suddenly Naruto's chakra increased it's power output and the Rasengan increased it's density and destructive power, while at the same time, decreasing it's size.
"Naruto no!! You can't!!" screamed Hinata as she ran forward to stop him..
Naruto then increased his chakra to maximum output.
"Ahhhhhhhh!!" screamed Naruto as he forced all of his chakra into the orb.
The power was so immense that the pressure by itself pushed Hinata down onto her hands and knees.
'Hinata...'thought Naruto as he felt tears drain from his eyes.
Back up at the top of the crater Hinata could feel the orb reaching it's breaking point.
"(GASP!)"
"NARUTO PLEASE I..." screamed Hinata with all of her might.
Naruto heard her voice and felt his heart rip from knowing that he would be leaving her for good.
With Naruto's last bit of strength, he pressured the power so that it was all facing forward at the right angle.
'Hinata...'thought Naruto as he released his Rasengan.
"HINATA!!" screamed Naruto as he let it go.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!
There was a huge earth shattering sound and then there was a flash of chakra.
Suddenly, and as quickly as it all started...it was all over.
There were no sounds left, the Rasengan hed easily and quickly created a perfect hole for miles in the right direction. It was so long that you could not see the end.
In the aftermath, Hinata lay there sobbing on the ground.
She laid there for what seemed like forever in complete sadness, but in reality it was only about an hour.
"N-N-Naruto..." sobbed Hinata as she lay on the ground.
Suddenly she had a thought of hope.
'Maybe he survived!'thought Hinata as she quickly rushed over to the hole.
She knew that there was no way that anything could have survived that, but she would never know for sure until she looked.
She reached the edge of the pit and looked down to see an unconscious Naruto with his shirt completely disintagrated, and he had a huge spiral burn mark on his chest.
"Naruto!" exclaimed Hinata as she jumped down the hole to see if he was alright.
'Maybe he's okay...I hope he's okay...He has to be okay...'thought Hinata over and over as she fell down the pit.
She landed rather harshly, but she didn't care, all she cared about was him.
"Naruto!" she exclaimed as she saw his body up close, it was even worse than she thought.
"H-He's not breathing..." gasped Hinata as she quickly kneeled down next to him to feel for a pulse.
"..."
"No..." thought Hinata as she fell onto his body.
"NOOOOOOOOO!!" screamed Hinata, until she barely had a voice left.
"He can't be dead... He just can't be..." choked Hinata as she cried onto his burnt chest.
Suddenly she heard a noise behind her, but she didn't care, she didn't care about anything anymore.
It was Sakura, who had just woken up.
"Hinata! Is he alright!?" exclaimed Sakura as she ran over to the two.
She then saw the look on Hinata's face.
She had her eyes closed tight and tears were still pouring out as her body racked uncontrollably in sobs.
"No..." said Sakura as she too started to cry.
Sakura looked at the once hyper and powerful blond ninja, to see that he would never be himself again.
Sakura looked over past him to see the cavern that he created that went on for what seemed like forever, but she was too sad to be amazed.
She started to dread on how she would never talk to him again, but she was interupted by a voice.
'I...I can't live without him...'thought Hinata as she took out a Kunai.
"W-what are you..." choked Sakura as she watched her take out the weapon.
"I can't live without him!!" screamed Hinata as she grabbed the Kunai with both hands and aimed striaght for her heart.
"No!" yelled Sakura as she leapt forward to stop her.
She barely got there in time to catch the Kunai in mid-thrust.
"Hinata no!" shouted Sakura.
"Let go!" screamed Hinata as she tried to push against Sakura so that she would still stab herself.
"I can't live without him!" cried Hinata as she looked Sakura in the eyes.
"I can't...I can't...I can't..." sobbed Hinata as she let go of the Kunai and fell to the ground sobbing.
"Hinata..." said Sakura sadly as she picked up a still sobbing Hinata, and out her under her arm.
She still had a mission to do, no matter what happened. She was trained to keep going in the event of death, but it still didn't make his death any less worse.
While she continued to mourn over his death, she picked up Naruto's body under her other arm, and rushed into the massive tunnel that Naruto had made with his last breath.
Sakura sobbed as she ran down the tunnel. She was going as fast as she could go, and she was getting exhausted from carrying two people, especially after such a long time.
It had been about 10 hours of straight running, and she was getting ready to collapse right on the spot, but suddenly she heard voices from not far into the tunnel.
It was team Gai and Team Kakashi who all saw her running towards them.
Sakura was relieved to see someone she knew, but just as she reached them, Sakura ran out of strength and fell to her knees.
She could barely stay conscious as the two teams ran up to her.
"Sakura are you alright?!" asked Kakashi worriedly.
Sakura didn't say anything in return, but instead just started to cry.
"Sakura, what's wrong?" asked Kurenai who ran up to them with the rest of her team.
Sakura dropped to her hands and let Hinata and Naruto fall to the ground.
She began to ball her eyes out as she grabbed the ground harshly with her hands.
They saw the two bodies and saw that Hinata didn't seem to have any injuries, and saw that Naruto had burn marks on himself.
Kurenai began to assure Sakura and tried to calm her down.
"Sakura tell us what happened!"said Lee as everyone closed in on her to see what was going on.
Sakura calmed down, and then tried to explain, but was cut off.
"Whoa! how did Naruto get knocked out?" asked Kiba incredulously as he saw his body.
Sakura then began to ball again as she fel back onto her hands.
"Kiba! You idiot!" yelled Kurenai as she continued to try and calm her down.
Sakura needed to get everything off of her chest, she just had to tell someone so that she could relieve some of the hurt she felt.
But every time she tried to talk, she would cry.
Sakura then took out a piece of paper and quickly scribbled out a note for them to read.
She was continuosly srying as she wrote, and was trying not to get tears on the paper.
She shakily handed it to Kurenai, and then she fell over and began to breath more slowly. She fell unconscious from the mental and physical strain on her body.
Kurenai looked at the letter then turned to everyone.
"On the top it says to read it aloud" announced Kurenai as she held the paper up to read it.
"It's quite roughly scratched on the paper, but it will do." said Kurenai as she cleared her throat.
"Naruto told us that Orochimaru had a deadline for his body, and that in a matter of days we would be too late." said Kurenai gasping.
Everyone looked at each other, shocked at such information, but they had to continue to listen.
"Naruto concluded that the only way to get there in time, would be for him to use his Rasengan at full power to make a tunnel to the other side of the land of the rice patties so that all the teams could get to Sasuke in time." said Kurenai as she looked up from the paper stunned.
"Na...Naruto made this!?" exclaimed Gai as he looked around the monstrously long cavern.
"WOW." said Shino simply as everyone looked around to realize that everything around them was Naruto's doing.
"The paper continues to say that Naruto would be risking his life to perform this jutsu." said Kurenai as she stared at the paper.
"Risking his life?" asked Kakashi as he moved over to read the paper.
"The Rasengan was so huge, that it was at least 30 times Naruto's size, and that with his last breath...he created this tunnel for us to complete our mission..." finished Kurenai as she looked over to see Naruto laying on the ground.
"No...NO!" screamed Kakashi as he flew over to check his pulse.
Kakashi hung his head over Naruto, and began to softly cry.
"Is..he..."asked Neji as he moved closer to Kakashi.
Kakashi slowly nodded his head, and then slowly got up to stand next to Kurenai.
Everyone began to cry for him, even Shino had to look away from everyone so that no one would know that he was crying.
"I...I can't believe he's dead" said Kiba as he started to get tears in his eyes.
They all mourned over the death of such a good friend, and it lasted for what seemed like a long while, until Kurenai spoke up again.
"There's...There's more..." said Kurenai as everyone looked up to her sadly.
"When I awoke from the blast, I found Hinata at the bottom of the crater, sobbing over Naruto." said Kurenai as she suddenly got a look of realization.
"(gasp!) Hinata!" exclaimed Kurenai as she shoved the paper at Gai and ran over to Hinata.
While they were looking after Sakura, and mourning over Naruto, they completely forgot about Hinata.
Hinata was still laying on the floor, but was shaking quite violently while silently crying her eyes out.
'Hinata...'thought Kurenai.
Practically everyone knew of Hinata's crush on Naruto, and they realized that his death must have hit her the worst.
Kurenai tried to talk to her, but all she would get in retuen, were shaking sobs.
It was extremely sad sight, to see such a nice girl get hurt in such a way.
Everyone was gathered around Naruto and Hinata, and no one said anything over the silence, until Gai spoke up.
"I will finish the rest, I think it is important that you hear it" said Gai, who had a serious look on his face.
Everyone turned their attention to Gai as he held up the paper and began to read it aloud.
"When I came down to them to ask if they were alright, I found that Naruto had no pulse." said Gai passively as he stared gravely at the paper. They all looked down at thier feet at the mention of Naruto's death.
"I wanted to see if Hinata was okay, but when I wen t over to her, she screamed that she couldn't live without Naruto, and tried to kill herself with a kunai to the heart." finished Gai as he looked up to see everyone look at Hinata.
Hinata was still laying on the ground, and she looked like she had practically given up on life all-together.
She was shaking uncontrollably on the ground repeating "I can't...I can't..." over and over.
Everyone gasped at Hinata and then rushed over to her.
"Hinata...You tried to..." gasped Kurenai as she kneeled next to her.
"Hinata...It's okay...It's all going to be okay..." assured Kurenai as she put her hand on Hinata's shoulder.
"No...I...I can't...I c-can't..." choked Hinata as more tears leaked down her face.
"He...he...N-N-Narutooooooo..." choked Hinata as she collapsed and began to sob uncontrollably again.
'Poor Hinata, Naruto was everything to her, and now that he is gone, she is a complete wreck.' thought TenTen as she and Kurenai exchanged looks and noded to say that they were both thinking the same thing.
Mostly everyone was paying to attention to Hinata and trying to calm her down, while Kakashi, Lee, and Gai all sat down together facing away from it all.
"(sigh) I'm going to miss the knucklehead" said Gai as he held his head.
Lee was passively silent as he stared at the ground.
"Naruto..." said Lee sadly as he clenched his fists.
"He would have made an excellant Hokage." said Gai as the three all nodded thier heads sadly.
Kakashi was also staring at the ground, but had to keep brushing tears from his face.
It was a sad day, and it took a toll on everybody, but as they all mourned over the death of Naruto and tried to calm down Hinata to keep her from being so depressed, something was happening nearby that would change everything.
(Next chapter: A Short Funeral)