"Hey Sakura remember our first B-rank mission?"
Sakura glanced briefly at her companion, "Yeah, about it?"
Naruto suddenly stopped to look at her.
"No you don't. I know you don't."
The pinkette sighed, "Ok fine i don't. It can't be THAT important though, can it?"
"Sit down Sakura and prepare for one hell of a story!" The blond was wearing a wide grin as he patted the ground next to him.
"Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
Damn! Nabitora quickly started to assess the situation he was in. One...two...three...four...60 total. "Just when I thought i had you."
Naruto was staring at his friend, a small grin starting to form. "I told you: Never, EVER underestimate the future Hokage!"
"Who said you ev..." Nabitora never got to finish his thought as every clone started to leap forward. Nabitora frantically fought using taijutsu but was quickly overpowered.
"Na...ru...to", 3 clones appeared above him. His only thoughts: "Oh...Shit..."
"Uzumaki Barrage!"
Several intense hours later...
"Did you really have to use the Uzumaki Barrage though?" Nabitora was sore and aching everywhere.
"Ok so maybe I got slightly carried away." Nabitora watched the grinning blonde rub the back of his neck nervously, "hehe sorry."
As Nabitora was about to respond he turned just in time to see Naruto disappear in a flash of grey. "Haha what's up Kiba?"
"The Hokage wants to see us."
"Is everyone here? Good." the Third Hokage examined the 4 youths in front of him.
"As you know your sensei, Kurenai, has been sent out on a mission to gather information on the disturbances happpening in the Land of Rice Patties so for now you will be accompanied by Team 7 to meet the 1 Jounin requirement for this mission."
"WHAT WHY THEM!" Naruto couldn't help himself, he just couldn't stand that smug Uchiha bastard. Sakura, on the other hand had no such qualms.
"You mean I get to team up with Sasuke?!" Suddenly everyone went temporarily deaf as they heard one enraged, and quite jealous, Yamanaka appproaching.
"Kakashi will fill you in on the rest. Now i would run if you wish to keep your lives." the Third chuckled to himself as they all scattered with a look of terror on their faces.
"Damn it! Of all people why YOU!" Kakashi was enraged as he took in the seen before him. Naruto was pinned to a tree with a spear made out of wood through both of his shoulders, unconscious from the pain, while Hinata, Sakura, and Sasuke were fighting several Shadow Clones of Rykuga and a possessed Shino. Kiba was bleeding profusely from a neck wound, Akamaru was next to him with 2 broken legs, and Nabitora was slowly moving toward Naruto, using his right arm to pull himself along. Kakashi noticed Nabitora's legs were dragging behind him while his left arm had been removed at the shoulder. Only when he activated his Sharingan was he able to notice that his wound resembled a piece of torn paper.
Kakashi knew, then and there, that Rykuga was a monster: he used his hands to rip Nabitora's arm right off.
His attention was forced back to the battle by the scream of pain from Hinata.
Rykuga couldn't believe his how fun this was! He glanced over at Kiba and remembered, with a feeling of joy, viciously slashing his windpipe open.
"That," he remembered saying "is because you are to loud and annoying.
He now grinned at the sight before him: his kunai with one of Hinata's eyes at the end of it.
"Well it's been a blast everyone but I'm not supposed to kill anymore than one of you," he seen Kakashi start to close in on him "so I'll be off with my eye now. See ya later!" With that, Rykuga flashed a series of hand signs that caused several thumps of people hitting the ground.
"Well it seems Sakura will have problems remembering this in the future. Oh well I can always do it again." He left the pinkette there, bleeding out of the deep cut in her head.
"Where am I?" Sakura thought. When she tried to recall the last few weeks, a heavy fog descended on her mind. When she finally opened her eyes, the first thing she noticed was the walls.
"I'm in a cave?" She hadn't realized that she said it out loud so it surprised her when a pair of hands softly gripped her shoulders and moved her back to her previous position. Startled, she quickly turned to face the unknown person when one of his hands clamped down firmly on her mouth while the other motioned for her to stay silent.
When he finally let go, she followed his gaze out of the small crevice in the ground. She gasped as she saw several dozen Sound shinobi marching inches in front of their hiding place.
When they had all passed, Sakura turned her emerald eyes towards the bottomless blue ones that returned her gaze.
"Naruto?"
"Thank god you're ok!" he exclaimed. She noticed his blue eyes started to water up a little bit.
"What do you mean Naruto? Where's Kakashi-sensei, Hinata, Shino, and Sasuke?" She asked.
"Kakashi was forced to take everyone back. Unfortunately, we've been cut off from escaping because of those damn Sound shinobi!" The pinkette could see that Naruto was getting frustrated at the situation they were in.
"I almost forgot, is Rykuga ok?"
Naruto snapped.
"Don't EVER mention that sick bastard's name again!" He was clearly enraged about that last one.
"What's wrong Naruto? What is it?" she questioned while softly placing her hand on his shoulder. She could almost see the damn break. He just started to cry and turned away, nodding his head in the other direction. She nearly vomited at the sight before her. There Nabitora lay unconscious on the floor, missing his left arm and both his legs had clearly been broken and hastily reset.
"Wh...What happened Naruto?!"
"Rykuga Azu did this. He also removed Hinata's left eye, Sasuke's right Sharingan, put Shino into a coma, and he..." Naruto started to cry harder.
"It's ok Naruto. Just calm down and -"
"How can I calm down?! I was terrified that I was going to lose you!"
All of her thoughts came to a screeching halt.
AN: Hello everybody! Last time I forgot to do these note things so i figured hey why not. It may be painfully obvious but for those of you that don't know im new at writing fanfic (actually just writing in general) so please leave a review with any tips, ideas, and how you feel I'm doing. Also i would like to thank you all for your support (I hope) and I hope you continue to follow this book (which will be the first of several). Yes this chapter was more emotionally based than the first one but you'll see why eventually (that is if i write it correctly). One more thing: sorry if the chapters are a little on the short side, I'm trying to work on that. Also for anyone who is currently freaking out saying this story is garbage because it's only very, very loosely cannon based then i suggest leaving now because your precious cannon is about to become so twisted (not in the Rykuga kind of way) that you will hardly recognize it :) Also before i leave, i should mention that I currently own 0% of the rights to Naruto.