Tsunade was walking down the street when the first explosion sounded to her right. It was followed shortly after by screaming. Her instincts kicked in and she began corralling citizens toward the underground bunkers. Immediately she saw Naruto, full nine tails, fighting off explosive projectiles.
She couldn't yet pinpoint the source and surrendered her position to a nearby Chunin to join Naruto. She was lifted into the air by a bird made of ink and charged her Chakra into her fists, helping Naruto fight off the projectiles. Before long, they were joined Shikamaru, Chouji, Ino, Rock Lee, and TenTen.
Sakura had dressed within minutes and rushed outside. Seeing that Tsunade was busy, she summoned Katsuyu and asked her to disperse and attach herself to the wounded. The slug agreed and quickly dispersed, leaving a small segment of herself on Sakura's shoulder.
"Sakura, this is bad. There are injured everywhere," Katsuyu said, watching Sakura heal the little boy in front of her.
"Just heal them, take as much of my Chakra as you need," she said, releasing her seal.
"Sakura-" she started.
"There's no time!" Sakura responded.
"It's Hinata, my lady. It appears she's gone into labor," she said.
Then Sakura heard Hinata's scream of pain. She left the boy to one of Katsuyu's other segments and rushed to where Katsuyu said Hinata was. Naruto must not know, she thought, looking up at the man still fighting off the projectiles.
"Sakura!" Hinata shouted, holding up a bloody hand.
"Oh no. You there!" Sakura shouted to a nearby medic, "Leave her to Katsuyu and get over here!"
Tsunade watched as Naruto was hit with a projectile and knocked out of beast mode. She was about to call out to him when he gave her a thumbs up and leapt into the air, now in sage mode. She watched as he released the biggest rasen-shuriken she'd ever seen. Everyone jumped to the ground and covered their ears as it expanded, engulfing half of the remaining projectiles at once.
He must have been using a clone to store his sage Chakra for a while to do that, she thought. She realized then that he must have been anticipating some kind of attack on Konoha. It made sense, all things considered. If she hadn't been so focused on Sakura she probably would have noticed it too. She mentally slapped herself on the forehead and vowed to pay more attention to what was going on around her. Suddenly there was a hand on her shoulder.
"Tsunade-sama!" Sakura shouted, turning the older woman to face her, "You're needed on the ground! Hinata is in labor and something is wrong! I'll cover your part up here, go!"
Tsunade quickly found Hinata and began to panic. There was so much blood. No, Naruto can't lose you too, she thought before getting to work. Upon examination she found that Hinata had internal bleeding unrelated to the pregnancy. The blast wave of one of the explosives must have hit her, she thought.
"Carry her underground now. If Naruto sees her like this he'll lose focus and that could kill him," she said to the two remaining medic nin above ground.
"Tsunade-sama, is he okay?!" Hinata asked, clearly and reasonably panicked for her son.
"From what I can tell, he's fine. You are another story but I'm going to get you fixed up," Tsunade said as they lifted Hinata onto a stretcher.
Tsunade followed behind them, planning out the procedure that lay ahead. She cast a glance at Sakura before entering the underground tunnel. Please stay safe until I get back, Sakura.
Sorry about the inconvenience everyone. I finally got it figured out lol. I know this chapter is short and I'm sorry about that but I'm still new to this.
P.S. To the person that anonymously reviews every chapter, you clearly take the time to read them. Also, you review within hours of it being posted so clearly you're following it. Anyway, hope you enjoy.
Everyone have a great day.
LycanTora out.
