Chapter 2: Rescued.
It had now been 3 and a half days since anyone had seen or heard from Naruto. Some people were starting to worry. Some were spreading rumors, saying things like-
"I heard he finally left the village! It's about time if you ask me, that kid is dangerous, I'm glad he left." A random villager said during conversation.
"Yeah, I guess it was for the best if he really did leave. But, I can't help but feel bad for the kid. I mean everyone is just so mean to him all the time. I know he is technically a demon, but he hasn't ever really hurt anyone before." Another villager said.
"That's true I guess. But just because he hasn't hurt anyone yet, doesn't mean he won't. Who knows what could happen with him walking around? I mean, he could just suddenly go on a killing spree when we least expect it!" The villager from before said.
"Yeah but, he just doesn't seem like the killing type to me." The villager said.
"True, but what about that guy Mizuki?" The villager asked.
"What about him?"
"Did he seem like the killing type to you?"
The villager looked down to the ground for a few moments before answering.
"No. Not really." He replied.
"And yet he turned out to be working for the bad guys. See? You can't just think someone isn't a killer just from the way they act or look." The villager inquired.
"I guess." The villager said putting an end to their conversation.
"Kiba, Shino, Hinata, I've summoned you all here, because I have a VERY important mission for you three." The 5th Hokage said to a group of Ninja standing in front of her desk.
"W-What is it Lady Tsunade?" Hinata asked.
"It's… about Naruto's disappearance. I'm sure that you are fully aware that Naruto has not been seen or heard from for the past 3 days, right?" Tsunade asked.
"Yes." The team said in unison.
"Well, I need you three to find him, I'm starting to worry about him."
"Oh man, why do we have to do it? Can't you get some other Jounins or something to look for him?" Kiba asked.
Tsunade quickly got an angry look on her face and stood up, slamming her hands down on her desk cracking and splintering the wood underneath her hands.
"THIS IS NO TIME TO BE PLAYING GAMES KIBA!" Tsunade yelled.
"YOUR FRIEND COULD BE HURT OR EVEN WORSE, DEAD! AND ALL YOU CARE ABOUT IS WHY 'YOU' HAVE TO BE THE ONE TO LOOK FOR HIM?!" She continued with her yelling.
Kiba was starting to get a little upset at Tsunade's words. Kiba didn't mean for his question to come of as 'self-centered' he was just curious as to why she didn't assign Jounin or Anbu to look for Naruto, instead of Genin.
With Tsunade's loud words kiba felt tears start to pool around his eyes.
Tsunade also noticed the pool of water forming in Kiba's eyes and she suddenly felt really bad for yelling at him.
*sigh* "I'm sorry Kiba, I didn't mean to get that upset with you. It's just… I feel like Naruto is in trouble. It's not like him to just disappear from the village like that." Tsunade said as she sat back down and laid her head on her slightly broken desk.
"I'm sure Naruto is just fine Lady Tsunade. Maybe he is just sick or something and decided to stay away from people for a while. I bet he's at home right now." Shizune said to try and cheer her up.
"No… He isn't… I checked." Tsunade said as she raised her head up from the desk.
"T-That's why I-I need you three to find him… Please…" Tsunade said as tears fell down the side of her face.
"D-Don't worry Hokage-sama. We are going to find Naruto and bring him back as soon as possible." Hinata said with determination in her voice. Even though she was still really scared. Like Tsunade, she too had a bad feeling about this whole situation.
Hinata's determination actually managed to make Tsunade feel better some how.
Tsunade smiled slightly.
"Good then hurry and bring him back. I want you all to start looking in the village. If you find him. Give it your everything to try and help him if he is injured." Tsunade said.
The team nodded their heads and quickly ran outside.
"Hey guys, I'll be right back. I'm going to go get Akamaru. You can start looking if you want, I'll catch up!" Kiba said as he ran off into the distance.
Hinata and Shino watched as their friend sprinted away.
"Hinata, do you think you can handle the west side of the village. I feel like we could cover more ground with your Byakugan that way until Kiba gets back with Akamaru. I'll cover the east side of the village with my tracking beatles." Shino said.
Hinata nodded and Shino quickly jumped onto the roof of a building and sprinted away as well.
Hinata then quickly threw her hands up into a special hand-sign and activated her Byakugan. She then started sprinting down the streets frantically searching for her crush.
Tsunade stood in front of one of her giant windows as she watched the 3 Genin separate in search for Naruto.
"I really, really hope you're okay Naruto… I need you… We all need you, to be okay." Tsunade said to herself as another tear fell down the side of her cheek.
Naruto was dripping blood. He was gasping for air. His entire body was hurting. He was crying… a lot.
"W-Why won't… Y-You let me… Go?" Naruto asked as he kept gasping for air.
"Because, you haven't learned it yet." The man said.
"L-Learned… what?" Naruto asked.
"That you don't deserve to live!" The man yelled as he thrusted a blade into Naruto's stomach. The man thrusted the blade as far into the boy as he could and twisted the knife as a means to destroy whatever organ he may have hit.
Naruto screamed out in agony as the blade pierced his body. He screamed so loud in fact that he coughed up blood shortly after.
"T-Then… W-Why don't you just kill me?" Naruto asked in an angry sounding voice.
"Oh, I intend too, trust me. I just want to make you suffer a little more before I do it." The man said in an evil voice.
By this time, the hole the knife made in Naruto's body was starting to heal.
"You know, that power of your's really is intriguing. It's a shame it had to be wasted on you though." The man said as he grabbed a baseball bat out of the corner of the room, but Naruto didn't see it as it was too dark in the room.
The man walked up to Naruto with the bat in hand and slung it into Naruto's kneecap as hard as he could.
"Home run!" The man yelled as Naruto screamed in pain.
"I love that sound, don't you? The sound of bone being shattered by wood just makes a chill go down my spine everytime I hear it." The man said.
"Y-You're going to pay for this you Bastard!" Naruto screamed as he pulled on the chains that held him in place.
"Oh really? And who is going to make me?" The man asked in a mocking tone.
"M-My friends… They're going to find this place… and when they do… you're in big trouble." Naruto explained.
The man instantly erupted with laughter. The kind of laughter that made your skin crawl from how creepy it sounded.
"You have friends?" The man laughed some more. "That, has got to the be the funniest thing I have ever heard!" The man said as he continued to laugh for a moment.
After the man stopped laughing he got a very serious tone in his voice.
"News flash kid. They're not your friends. They only act like they like you because they don't know what you are. If they found out though, they would hate you… just as much as I do!" The man said as he swung the bat into Naruto's ribs, breaking many of them.
Naruto didn't even scream that time. It hurt him, but it didn't hurt nearly as much as what the man said.
"Is that really true? Would they really hate me if they found out what I was?" Naruto was too busy asking himself these questions to scream out in pain from being hit.
The man was a little confused when he heard nothing escape Naruto's mouth after being hit. At first he thought Naruto might have been dead.
The man reached out and grabbed Naruto's hair and pulled his head up so he could see his face. The man was very pleased to see that Naruto's face was one of anguish. The man smiled brightly at the sight of it.
"I see… So I have finally broken your spirit." The man shrugged his shoulders as he walked away.
"Hey, the truth can be a powerful thing." The man said while walking away and laughing.
Naruto heard the man rustling some tools around. Probably looking for his next weapon to torture him with but he didn't really care. He just closed his eyes and waited for the man to torture him some more.
"Well kid. It was fun, but I think this is the end of the line for you." The man said as he pulled a big knife out of his tool box.
Naruto still just kept his eyes closed and waited for the man to finish him off.
That's when Naruto felt a warm small hand grab the chains that were holding him.
Naruto slowly looked up and saw a very familiar face, and one he couldn't have been happier to see at this moment.
"H-Hinata? I-Is that you?" Naruto asked in a shaky voice that nearly broke her heart.
"Shhhh, i-it's okay. I'm gonna g-get you down and e-everything is going to be a-alright." Hinata said as she tried her best to not cry at the sight of Naruto being like this.
Naruto smiled and put his head back down as he awaited his freedom, but almost the second his head dropped he remembered about the man and his head shot back up.
As Naruto's vision came to focus he could see a dark silhouette of a man standing behind Hinata.
Naruto's eyes grew large and he screamed out alerting Hinata of his presence.
"Hinata behind you!" Naruto screamed. He watched as Hinata quickly turned around and tried to attack the man but the man somehow managed to catch Hinata's blows and thrusted a knife into her stomach.
Naruto couldn't believe what he just saw. Hinata actually got stabbed right in front of him, and he can't do anything about it because he is chained up. Naruto's mind went completely blank for a second.
Naruto's whole body was shaking out of rage. Naruto could feel the anger seeping out of him with every passing second.
He watched and listened as Hinata fell to the ground holding her stomach in pain and gasping as blood poured out onto the floor. The feeling inside Naruto was getting stronger. He could tell he was about to snap.
Then he smelled her blood, her fear, her anguish, then all sudden Naruto's head dropped quickly.
"This is too easy. Now I get to kill two brats in one day!" The man said as he looked down at Hinata, who was still holding her stomach in pain.
Then Naruto's body started leaking a strange red substance that the man had never seen before.
The man saw this and got very confused. "I-Is that… Blood?" The man asked himself.
The man stood and watched as Naruto's head slowly rose up and the man's eyes finally met Naruto's.
The man couldn't believe what he was looking at. The boy's eyes were now a bright glowing red, and his teeth were now much bigger and sharper, much like an animals. The whiskers on the boy's face also grew thicker.
The man stared into the boy's eyes and felt a strange feeling welling up inside him.
"W-What is this feeling? A-Am I… Afraid?" The man said to himself as he tried to move but it didn't work.
"W-What? Why can't I move?" The man asked himself as he started to panic.
At this time Naruto quickly pushed his hands open breaking the chains that held him in place for so long into pieces. The chains quickly fell to the ground and Naruto fell forward just a little bit with his arms hanging in front of him.
In the way that Naruto was standing the only thing he could see was Hinata crying on the ground trying to keep her blood inside her body. This sight only further increased Naruto's anger. More of the red substance started leaking out of Naruto's body, wrapping itself around Naruto like a blanket.
The man was now terrified. He watched as the bright red substance grew thicker and more of it was seeping out of the boy. The man's skin started to sting like a thousand needles being pushed into him all at once.
"H-How the hell did he break those chains like that? I'm suppose to kill this demon! Not the other way around!" He screamed to himself as he panicked some more.
After Naruto stared at Hinata for a few moments he noticed that Hinata was now staring back at him. Hinata's eyes showed lots of emotion to Naruto, but one that stood out to him most was… Fear.
Naruto felt some of his anger get replaced with worry.
"I-Is she a-afraid of me?" Naruto asked himself as he regained a little composure.
Hinata completely forgot about her wounds for a moment as she looked up at Naruto. Her heart was beating quickly.
"W-What is happening to Naruto? W-What is all of that red stuff floating around him?" Hinata's head was flooding with questions about Naruto at this point. Then her stomach started burning like someone was pressing a hot pan to her abdomen. She gasped in pain and pushed her hands down on her wound harder as her muscles started to contract.
Naruto watched as Hinata was filled with pain and his anger seemed to rush back into his body. He watched as blood continued to spill out of Hinata and onto the floor. Then...
Naruto's arm shot upward so quickly it broke the sound barrier with a loud pop. Naruto's fingers were now wrapped around the man's throat. Naruto's elongated fingernails dug deep into his skin causing him to bleed a lot.
The man tried his best but he could not seem to break the boy's grip. The man was being choked with enough force to collapse a building. The man thought for sure the boy was going to crush his throat.
Naruto then slowly looked up at the man with eyes that simply seemed to scream death and anger.
Then Naruto quickly pulled the man closer to him and threw him backwards as hard as he could.
The man was sent flying into the darkness of the room and into the wall on the other side. The man hit the wall so hard it left an imprint of the man's body about 2 inches deep in the concrete wall, knocking him out cold and breaking many bones in the process.
Naruto pulled his feet forward breaking the last of the chains that held him in place.
Naruto then dashed into the darkness as fast as he could. Naruto stopped just in front of the unconscious man who was still stuck in the wall.
Naruto's rage was bursting out of him at this point, he balled his fists so hard his palms started to bleed.
Naruto quickly threw a punch into the man's stomach making the wall behind him crack even more.
The man woke up instantly and screamed as almost all of his organs had been destroyed by that punch. The man coughed and spit up lots of blood all over the floor.
Naruto punched him again causing the man to spit even more blood out of his body. The man knew at this point, that there was no chance of survival. He was going to die.
The man mysteriously started to chuckle as Naruto got ready to throw another punch.
Naruto stopped and tilted his head.
"What's so funny?" Naruto asked in a raspy voice.
"Y-You… a-are such a…. Failure… d-do you h-honestly think t-that killing me w-will m-make p-people treat you d-differently? Y-You h-have only succeeded in m-making them h-hate y-you more." The man said as blood continued to pour out of his mouth.
Naruto was conflicted. He wanted to punch the man again and kill him, but the man was right. If he did that, he would only succeed in making the villagers hate him more.
"Y-You saw it right? Y-You saw h-how scared you made h-her, didn't y-you? Y-You a-are the r-reason this happened t-to her. Y-You lied to her. Y-You made her think y-you where normal, w-when in reality y-you are far f-from it. I-If she knew w-what you where s-she wouldn't have helped you. S-She wouldn't have g-gotten hurt, b-but she did and it's all y-your fault." The man said talking about Hinata.
Naruto was crying again.
"He's right. It's all my fault that she is here. It's all my fault she got hurt. I'm sure she already hates me because of that. If she knew what I was she would probably try to kill me too." Naruto thought to himself as his red aura started to disappear.
The man then slightly smiled as he watched this and slowly started reaching for the baseball bat that he had in the corner of the room.
Naruto didn't notice as he too busy crying.
After the man grabbed the bat he quickly hit Naruto in the head with it as hard as he could. Nearly killing Naruto in the process. Naruto fell to the ground, blood pouring out of his head and his body twitching. Naruto quickly blacked out from all the pain.
The man then stumbled over to Hinata, dragging the bat behind him on the ground with blood staining it.
Hinata watched as the man emerged from the darkness and she noticed the blood stained bat. Her eyes quickly widened and her heart dropped.
"Oh no! Naruto!" Hinata screamed to herself as she started crying again thinking for sure Naruto was dead.
Once the man got close to Hinata he picked up the bat and held it over his head with both hands getting ready to bring it down on her head.
Hinata closed her eyes tightly as she knew she couldn't do anything to protect herself. She sat there awaiting her death.
Then she heard the sound of bug fly past her ear. Then another. Then another.
Hinata opened her eyes and was amazed to see that hundreds of bugs were flying and crawling up the man's body.
The man dropped the bat and started trying to brush the bugs off his body, but couldn't as it hurt to touch his body because of the injuries Naruto had given him.
The bugs then started to bite the man. Taking chunks out of the man's skin.
The man screamed and started fumbling around then eventually found his way into the darkness of the room where the bugs seemed to silence his screaming.
Then Hinata seemed to hear a familiar voice.
"Hinata! Hinata! Are you okay?" Kiba asked as he ran towards her with Shino and Akamaru tailing behind him.
Once Kiba reached her he dropped to his knees next to her and instantly found her sitting in a pool of blood.
"Oh man! Please tell me this isn't your blood Hinata?!" Kiba said as Hinata moved her hands revealing her knife wound.
"Oh that's bad! We need to get you to hospital quick!" Kiba said as he picked Hinata up.
Hinata felt like she was about to pass out from her blood loss but there was no way she was going to leave without Naruto.
Hinata used what was left of her strength and pointed into the darkness of the room.
"N-Naruto." She said quietly as Kiba held her.
"Shino, go get Naruto I'll wait for you!" Kiba said as Shino sprinted into the darkness.
Hinata was fighting hard to stay awake but she had to make sure they found Naruto. She had to make sure he was okay.
After a moment Shino appeared from the darkness with and unconscious Naruto in his arms and his head was bleeding like crazy.
Hinata saw this and her heart dropped. She tried her best to stay awake but she finally lost her fight and passed out.
"Naruto." She wispered as her vision faded and turned black.
"Oh crap! Hinata passed out! Come on Shino they need medical attention now!" Kiba screamed as they ran out of the dark room.
End: Chapter 2.
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