AN: If anyone is wondering about the Grim Reaper story, I see that people like it so I will take the chapter down until I get some of my other stories finished; I do not want to have too many in-progress stories as it will screw up my ideas for the ones that need finished. Anyways, here is the next chapter to Rise of Kitsune…enjoy
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Friday the 13th
ITALICS – thinking
BOLD – jutsu
Chapter 6: The Rescue Mission
Sarutobi is awoken by someone slapping his face and he groans in pain trying to remember what happened but first…who the hell is slapping him. He opens his eyes to see Tsunade and Jiraiya standing over him.
"Ugh…that was a terrible experience yesterday. Anyways, who the hell slapped me?!" Sarutobi spouts in slight anger
Tsunade raises her hand "That would be me Sensei; here, let's get you into your office which has a hole in it for some odd reason."
Jiraiya follows Tsuande and Sarutobi into the office where Sarutobi is put in his seat at the desk. "Care to explain what happened here and why everyone seems frightened. Also, I want to know the whereabouts of my godson Sensei."
Sarutobi pales "Oh great, how am I going to explain this one…shit what to do, what to do!"
"You OK sensei, you seem a bit…pale." Tsunade says cracking her knuckles not helping the situation any
Sarutobi laughs nervously: "This is not going to be easy to explain and I think it might just piss you off a tad bit."
Jiraiya face darkens and with a monotone voice replies "You better tell me where my godson is or so help me Kami-sama… the things Tsunade and I would do to you."
Sarutobi gulps and motions for them to take a seat, once they do; he painstakingly laid out what happened to Naruto. From Sasuke supposedly killing him to Kushina massacring the Uchiha as well as the new information recently acquired; in all, it took two hours to do.
"So let me get this straight. Naruto was betrayed by the Uchiha in which Kushina somehow knew about before Kakashi gave his report and massacred the clan minus Sasuke. Kushina's body disappears and shortly after this Kitsune appears which is in actuality Naruto and is taking revenge on Sasuke for what he did." Tsunade sadly states
Sarutobi nods and Jiraiya speaks up next: "Any idea of why the Uchiha wanted to get rid of Naruto?"
"Funny thing is, the attack was out of the blue and there was no reason behind it. The only thing Sasuke was told that he was a demon in disguise and needed to die but I think he is hiding something." Sarutobi says "So, you aren't that pissed at me…why?"
"You tried your best Sensei as well as Kushina; it seems that people cannot get over things they fear and lash out against it. Anyways, what about Hinata?" Tsunade replies
"Hmmm, I say we call the rest of the Konoha 11 in…" Sarutobi starts but is interrupted by Jiraiya
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE REST!"
Sarutobi sighs "Naruto or Kitsune as he is known, is killing them as they are Sasuke's new friends and in doing so is breaking his psyche. Naruto has managed to kill everyone except Shino, Shikamaru, Sasuke, Sakura, and Hinata. As for why Naruto kidnapped Hinata, I have no clue."
Both Sennin nod and go to fetch the rest of the Konoha 11; they show up 30 minutes later with the crew. All bow to the Hokage which he gives a nod back.
"Hokage-sama, what is it that you need?" Shino states
"Hinata was kidnapped last night by Kitsune. The hole in the wall over there and the broken window behind me is what damage he did. And yes, the hole in the wall was created when I was thrown through it."
The Konoha 11, or what's left, gasp in shock.
"Why would Kitsune kidnap Hinata? Hmmm, this requires research and inquiry" Shino smartly replies
"Troublesome" says a stoic Shikamaru
"Not another one." Sasuke muttered buy everyone heard it and looked toward him noticing that the bags under his eyes were getting bigger and his eyes looked tired and sad
"Dear Kami, what has Naruto done to Sasuke. It seems Sasuke cannot get over the guilt and his mind is suffering as a result." Tsuande thinks
"Well, what do you want us to do Hokage-sama?" Sakura speaks up
Sarutobi packs his pipe with tobacco, lights it and takes a deep drag puffing out smoke a little later "This is the tricky part; I want you to rescue Hinata and get her back here. The problem is that he can most likely take down a shinobi of my caliber as what he knows is not known other than the super strength, stealth skills, and expert user of his sword."
Eyes widen in the room hearing that Sarutobi could likely lose to such a person but what can you expect when that person has taken out an ANBU base as well as other shinobi's.
"Do you want us to help them Sensei?" Tsunade and Jiraiya say at the same time in which Sarutobi shakes his head no confusing them greatly
"I do not want you to interfere as I need both of you here in case any injured come back or that Na-Kitsune is somehow captured and brought back here." He curses himself at the slip up and thinks nobody caught it; how wrong he was
"Was that a slip up? Na…what does that have to do with…wait a minute. Hinata was always spouting that nobody would replace her Naruto-kun and Kitsune kidnapped her so is Naruto actually Kitsune?" Shikamaru thinks vowing to keep this information to himself
Sasuke speaks up "We will take the mission Hokage as it will get me away from Konoha for a little bit at least. Do you have an idea of where Kitsune is at?"
Sarutobi nods and draws a crude map on where to go: "This should lead you to where you need to go. Dismissed."
"Meet me in my home to discuss plans on how to go about this; I have fought Kitsune once and I need you all to be prepared." Sasuke demands which all agree on
Honeymoon Cottage - moments after the meeting
Hinata stirs in her slumber and awakens to find herself in a rudimentary bedroom in what looks like a dirt basement.
"My head…what happened, where am I? Wait, the last thing I remember is Naruto taking me from the Hokage and how he wanted to imprison me…that asshole. Kiba got what he deserved."
Hinata gets up out of the bed and finds that she is still in the clothes she wore yesterday, at least she thought a day had past; she decides to look around to see if Naruto could be found. As Hinata walks out of the room, she notices another one in front of her lit by various candles and decides to go inside; what she finds shocks her. There sitting in a meditative position is Naruto without his mask on, machete still adorned on his side. Surrounded by candles on an alter is the well preserved head of Kushina Uzumaki with eyes closed and a smile on her face the red hair still bright as ever.
Although Hinata did not know, Naruto sensed her presence in the room but did not seem to care as he was still puzzled at the feelings he had toward said person. A tap is felt on his shoulder breaking his concentration and ending his meditation.
"Naruto, I cannot thank you enough for saving me though you could have done without knocking me out." Hinata responds with slight anger
Naruto gets up and slides his mask on, he turns to Hinata and pokes her in the forehead and stays that way for a minute.
"Can you hear me Hinata? Do not speak aloud; I have set up a mental link between us."
"Yes I can…why is it that you wish not to speak Naruto-kun?" Hinata sends
"I am hideous as is my voice…nobody would want to love an abomination like me."
Hinata walks up to Naruto and pecks him on the cheek making him feel that warming sensation again.
"You will never be alone as I am here for you, I love you Naruto-kun and always will."
Naruto shoves Hinata aside and walks out of the room and takes one of his tunnels to get deep into the forest to vent his frustration on some poor trees and anything unwise to attack him. Hinata watches her love fade away and tears come to her eyes: "Why can't you see that I love you for what you are no matter how disfigured you have become." She decides to take her sulking back to where she woke up hoping Naruto would get over himself
Sasuke's home – Present time
"…and that is the plan, any objections?" Sasuke says with nobody disagreeing "Good, should we head out then once everyone collects gear? We can meet at the gate in an hour."
"Before we leave, I must know why you attacked Naruto all those years ago. Just killing him under orders seems difficult to believe." Shino smartly replies making Sasuke drop his head in shame
"Please, I do not want to bring up bad memories plus you all would hate me if you knew the truth behind the matter."
Sakura pats Sasuke's shoulder comforting him "It's alright; we all accept you as a friend even through the thick and thin and no matter the consequence."
Sasuke sighs deeply "Seriously, you all want to know why I was ordered to kill Naruto?" Everyone nods "OK, but don't say I did not warn you."
"Look Sasuke, we already forgave you for Naruto's death and we can deal with what you give us." Shino says
"I still think Naruto is Kitsune meaning he is alive and well…anyways let's see what Sasuke says." Shikamaru ponders
"Before the Wave mission, my dad told me that the elders in my clan planned a coup on the Hokage so that the Uchiha would rise to power and be claimed as the strongest clan in all the lands…arrogant I know. Anyways, he told me that in order to do that I had to kill Naruto whom was a demon in disguise as he put it but he was not my only target."
Sakura interrupts "Who was the second?"
"Kushina Uzumaki, Naruto's mother, was my second target but I knew there was no way I would be able to match her in strength. I planned on luring her into the alleyway near the compound where many Uchiha would gang up and kill her but you know how that went." Sasuke continued
"Let me guess, with those two out of the way, the Hokage would be left open for the taking. What gets me is why kill Naruto he was not a big threat like Kushina was?" Shino inquires
"Since Naruto is dead and gone I guess the S-class secret pertaining to what he holds no longer applies." All motion for him to continue "Naruto held one of the greatest demons to ever live in this world; to find out what demon, when was his birthday and who was Kushina's husband?"
"October 10th" Sakura says
"And Kushina's husband was reportedly the…oh Kami." Shino gasps "If her husband was the Yondaime Hokage then that means that Naruto held the Kyuubi no Kitsune."
Sakura's eyes widen and Shikamaru says what he always does "Troublesome"
"You see, this is why we had to oust both to get to the Hokage. *sigh* I am sorry everyone but…I must get packed up. Meet you at the gate in an hour." Sasuke turns and heads to the armory hoping nobody saw the tears in his eyes
Within the hour everyone met at the gate and they went over their plan again. Sasuke pulled out the crude map and led the way hoping that they would bring Hinata back alive.
Time-skip: One hour later
The rest of the Konoha 11 is perched on a tree branch overlooking the cottage that Kitsune and Hinata might be at. They look at each other and nod ready to set out the plan; all pull out two kunai, one for each hand, jump from the branch and advance toward the house looking for any traps that might have been set.
After 20 minutes of patrolling the area making sure no traps were present, they decide to all enter from one of the entrances closest to them; Sasuke opens the door and stands guard until everyone is in and closes the door behind him.
"Wow, nice place. There is a kitchen, a good sized living room and what looks like a bedroom." Sakura says impressed with the layout of the building
"Check the rooms to see if you can find Hinata anywhere." Sasuke orders making every one search the cottage withing five minutes people start shouting what areas were clear
"Bedroom clear." Shino says
"Kitchen clear strange that there is no food in there." Sakura says
"Family room and surrounding area clear." Shikamaru says
Sasuke starts walking around in anger "Well this is just fan-fucking-tastic…where the hell can she *CREAK*." He looks down to see a conspicuous rug and moves it out of the way and finds a trapdoor "Sneaky bastard, he made us think someone lived here but he built an underground system instead." He opens the trapdoor leading people down the ladder
With Naruto – moments earlier
After spending a good while hacking down trees and a couple bears that thought they could get a free meal Naruto was resting against the stump of a demolished tree when suddenly.
"Naruto, its Hinata. I hear people above us and…shit they found your trapdoor and are coming most likely to rescue me. Please Naruto, I do not want to be imprisoned.
"On my way…my Hinata-hime." He cuts the link
Back at the cottage
Sakura whistles in awe at the tunnel system in place "Damn, he sure knows how to travel. I bet these tunnels go all the way into the forest hence why he can move around quick."
"At least we have it easy, there are only two rooms. Which one first, the right or left?" Sasuke says while Hinata is huddled in the dark corner of the bedroom which is on the right hoping they chose left
"I say left." Shino replies while everyone nods going inside the room but within a couple minutes they all come rushing out trying to keep the bile in their stomach at the sight of Kushina's head
"That was troublesome. At least we now know where Kushina's body went…YECH!" Shikamaru chokes
"Time to go right, I will lead." Sakura says stepping foot in the room not realizing that Hinata was waiting patiently to strike "I think the room looks…" she never finishes as a Hinata decides now is the best time to attack Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm
Sakura is blasted back through the archway and flies into the other room hitting the back wall with a sickening thud and crunch signaling bones had been broken; she slumps to the floor knocked out cold. At this point Hinata makes herself known.
"I am not going back to Konoha as all that piece of shit Hokage wants is to imprison me for taking care of what I should of many years ago. Come, test yourselves." She says getting into a gentle fist stance
"Imprisonment, what imprisonment; the Hokage never told us that? What did you do…GURK" Shikamaru spews a copious amount of blood out of his mouth and looks down to see a machete impaled in his chest just missing the heart by inches but rupturing his stomach and puncturing a lung. He collapses to the ground and ceases to breath after a minute.
"DAMMIT! HOW MANY MORE HAVE TO DIE BY YOUR HAND….NO MORE, I HAD ENOUGH!" Saskue roars in fury and starts to go through hand signs which Hinata attempts to disrupt but has to dodge a swarm full of Shino's bugs "Shino, when I do this jutsu, take Sakura and run; I will be right behind you…NOW GO!" he nods and waits for Sasuke to finish
Lightning Release: Electromagnetic Murder
A massive torrent of electricity shoots from Sasuke's hands and speeds toward Kitsune in which Hinata has no choice but to dodge. Shino grabs Sakura and gets the hell outta dodge while Hinata can only watch in horror as the jutsu hits. Naruto trembles then grows still and fall backwards straight as a board onto the ground. Even though the target was Kitsune, Hinata still felt some aftereffects as she had a hard time moving her body. Sasuke takes the machete out of Shikamaru's body and advances on Kitsune.
"Now, Kitsune, I will finally have my justice." He raises the machete upwards, the point facing down and rams it home into Naruto's chest…it misses his heart by a mere half inch "And now you, dear Hinata, need to come with me." Hinata still can't move and is picked up by Sasuke and taken up to the main floor and put on the couch "Be a good girl and stay put while I retrieve my teammates body."
Sasuke goes back down the ladder to retrieve his fallen comrade and is shocked to see that Kitsune is nowhere to be found. Deciding not to ponder on the idea, he walks towards Shikamaru ready to take him home but that is when he had to dodge a bisecting slash coming for him.
"Ahh still want to play huh." Sasuke says charging up a ball of electricity in his right hand making the sound of chirping birds; Kitsune backs up in fear "Well, well, well. It seems the killer is afraid of something after all. I do hope you enjoy your stay in hell…CHIDORI!"
The ball of lightning hits Kitsune in the same spot as in Wave and the Chunin exams making him spit out a copious amount of blood; Sasuke takes his arm out and watches his nemesis crumple to the floor bleeding out. He picks up Shikamaru and heads back up to the main floor ready to go home after a mission well done, but there was a problem, Hinata was gone.
"GRAHH! Fine then, if you don't want rescued then you can just stay here and rot." Sasuke says taking his dead comrade out of the cottage to meet with Shino
As he leaves, Hinata steps out of the shadows near the kitchen and quickly heads downstairs hoping Naruto is alright. It was a good thing she did as the whole cottage suddenly burst into flames; a muffled cry of Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique could be heard.
"Hinata…hurry I need assistance."
She hears Naruto's plea and finds him face down and bleeding out with his machete sheathed on his side.
"Please Naruto, stay alive for me."
"All I need is rest Hinata, it is near impossible for me to die." Naruto coughs up more blood
"Sasuke burned down the cottage, where will we go?" Hinata asks
Naruto ponders and curses to himself as to the place they need to go "To Wave country…to Wave, where everything began."