Naruto: Ninja Burger Chronicles
Scroll Fifteen, Part Three: No Running in the Halls
By Kaori

With no other recourse, the Konoha crew immediately flattened themselves against the walls causing Orochimaru to shoot passed them and go barrelling into the barrier at the end. This only allowed Kimimaro to scrape everyone that didn't have the sense to duck or put their guard up as he ran down the corridor wielding a gigantic pair of ice picks. They had no time to relax as their attackers turned around for another pass. With very little space to manoeuvre in they had little success avoiding the strikes, and worse yet Kabuto joined in the fray so now the terrible trio were making coordinated attacks on our heroes.

"What do we do!" wailed Ino. "We can't keep taking attacks like this!"

"But if we move from our positions we leave ourselves open to more attacks. The corridor's too narrow for us to fight in!" TenTen pointed out, taking a pot shot at Kabuto's legs and only managing to graze his calf.

"So we just have to get out of the hallway." Sasuke stated. "Sakura do you still have that fan?"

"Yeah, but what good will that...Oh!"

"Exactly. Get ready to use it when they pass us again."

"Oh crap..." Naruto mumbled, flattening himself against the wall as best he could.

"Care to fill the rest of us in?" Neji asked.

"No time for that, just brace yourself and hold your breath."Sasuke said hurriedly. Orochimaru, Kabuto, and Kimimaro came in for another pass. "NOW SAKURA!"

Sakura waved the fan as hard as she could creating an almost instantaneous hurricane. The force of the vacuum sucked up most of the air out of the space, picked up everyone and threw them violently into the walls creating numerous body-sized holes. Coincidently, those holes had severely compromised the structural integrity of the load-bearing walls of the corridor they were standing in. With no real structural support, the ceiling (along with the six floors above it) began to collapse around them.

"UCHIHA SASUKE YOU LUNATIC!" screamed Neji as everything came crashing down around them.

"NO! MY PLAN! MY BEAUTIFUL FLAWLESS PLAN!" wailed Orochimaru before the building literally fell on them.

By all rights they should all be singing with the choir invisible right now. To their immense shock they all woke up in the intensive care ward of Konoha Ninja Burger Franchise's D.E.A.T.H.S unit.

"Well now, you are all very lucky to be alive." a female voice drawled from the doorway. Those who were able turned their heads in its direction to regard the blonde female doctor standing in the room's entrance. "Most of you had every major bone in your body broken and some of you needed organ replacements. Luckily there were plenty of salvageable organs to harvest from the people who weren't as fortunate as you."

"What about Orochimaru?" Kakashi asked.

"Unfortunately that bastard got away." the doctor frowned. "That guy is as sneaky as a snake. I don't know how he managed to get out of that mess alive. Well, thanks to me and my team you lot should be able to go back to work in three days. Well, all of you except Naruto over there. He's well enough to go back to work tomorrow."

"EEEEEEEHHHHH?" chorused everyone except Naruto and the doctor.

"Hey! Keep it down this is a hospital. There are sick people trying to rest here!" A nurse poked her head into the room.

"Tsunade-sensei, Uchiha Sasuke's family is in the waiting room. They wish to know whether he is on life support so they can take him off of it." The invalids shot Sasuke looks ranging from confusion to shock. Tsunade groaned.

"Seriously, what is wrong with that family? Not a single one of them is remotely right in the head...No, I take that back. Obita-kun was sane, too bad he was perpetually late to everything and had to commit seppuku." she gave another exasperated sigh. "I'll be right there." The nurse nodded and left as Tsunade turned her attention back to her patients. "All right you guys, get some rest. Naruto, remember you'll be discharged in the morning and are to report directly to work. Oh, and congratulations to all of you on stopping the hostile takeover by yourselves." And with that she left.

"Sasuke what the hell is up with your parents?" Kiba blurted out.

"Kiba!" gasped the girls, appalled that he would just up and blurt that out. Sasuke gave an annoyed grunt, and then moaned in pain as the action aggravated his broken ribs.

"None of your business fleabag." he wheezed.

"Do they try to murder you often?" Neji inquired. While his uncle Hiashi consistently threatened him with bodily harm should anything happen to Hinata while in his company, the man had never actually tried to murder him. Then again he'd never given him a reason to try. Until now. "Shit..."

"Neji?" TenTen asked worriedly. Neji rarely used expletives so whatever was bothering him must have been important.

"Hinata's dad is going to kill me."

"Why?"

"Are you kidding? His eldest daughter is in the hospital because I didn't notice her wandering off after Naruto!"

"In that case shouldn't he kill Naruto?" Lee asked. Neji actually had to stop and think about that.

"HEY! Don't try to put all the blame on me!" Naruto protested.

"Neji's uncle aside," Ino said slowly. "aren't we forgetting something important."

"Sasuke's parents are trying to kill him?" yawned Chouji, the morphine drip was making it difficult for him to stay awake.

"No! Shino still hasn't given us back our money!"

"My money now." Shino deadpanned. Beadpans were thrown by those who were able.

Well, it looks like Naruto will be on his own until everyone else gets out of the hospital. What crazy misadventures will he get into? Yeah, I know this chapter's short (and a cop-out) but this was the only way I could think of to write myself out of the corner I'd written myself into. If you want to re-write this chapter for me I'd be more than happy to let you.