DISCLAIMER!: I DON'T OWN NARUTO! Honestly, it's been over 100 chapters, if you don't know that by now, I question your sanity...

(A/N): Welp, Suna got wrecked now didn't it? Well, what now?

TO THE STORY!

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Chapter 110: Road To Recovery

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"YOU DAMN WELL BETTER START EXPLAINING WHAT IN THE HELL HAPPENED RIGHT NOW!" Tsunade roared as she entered Cole's hospital room. She kicked the door in and caught a glimpse of the before thought to be near invincible Oracle. Her breath caught in her throat as she saw his condition. The doctor standing next to his bed smiled and rushed over to Tsunade along with his team of nurses. "Oh Tsunade-sama! Thank Kami-sama you're here! We can finally start his surgery!" the doctor called as he started to have Cole sedated and wheeled out of the room and to the surgical room.

Tsunade blanked at that. "SURGERY!?" she howled as she followed after the group. "Just how bad is he?" she asked in a serious tone. The nurse next to the doctor handed Tsunade a clipboard with his information on it and she paled. "How is he even alive right now..." she breathed as she looked over his injuries. "If he's this bad..." she started. "Where's the rest of his team!? What's their conditions!?" she asked the lead doctor as they entered the surgical room.

The doctor let his team move Cole onto the operation table before he and Tsunade went to clean their hands and prep for the surgery. "Well, Sandaime-sama and Jiraiya-sama had cases of chakra exhaustion and minor poison damage to his left lung. Nothing too serious due to Haruno-san being on location. Haruno-san only has a case of exhaustion while Hatake-san has some minor injuries and simiar chakra exhaustion to Sandaime-sama. Namikaze-sama hasn't returned from the battlefield yet, still looking for survivors. But his clone was complaining about a sore leg." the doctor listed off as he put on his gloves and masked and had Tsunade follow him out to the operation room.

Tsunade reached out and grabbed his shoulder. "Wait, what about Maito Gai?" she asked the doctor. He looked down and sighed before turning away from his Hokage. "Maito Gai was KIA on location. Uzumaki-sama reported that there was no body to recover..." he said before setting up next to Cole, who was laying on his stomach so that the doctors could begin operating on his back.

Tsunade paled as she froze in the middle of the room. There was a casualty... "Just what happened out there..."

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It was six hours before Cole woke up in a different part of the hospital. He hated having surgery. He remember back when he lived in his previous world having surgery on his shoulder from a Football injury. He also remembered waking up violently, trying to leave the hospital. He just hoped he didn't try that again since he highly doubted six nurses would be enough to hold him down like last time.

Luckily, he had woken up perfectly docile and with a slight headache. He blinked his ripple patterned eyes a few times, shaking off the grogginess from the anesthetic. And then he looked down at his condition.

Nearly his entire boy was covered in bandages. His broken leg was in a cast and elevated. He had a strange plastic type of cast around his ribs ad had thick bandages on his arms. He also noticed he couldn't move them at all. Yup, just like his shoulder surgery. Just this time it was both arms that were numb and unresponsive. He decided to have a quick look around the room and noticed Tsunade standing a few feet from his bed.

"Oh, good, you're awake." she said in a sickly sweet tone, a smile on her face. Cole began to sweat bullets as he already knew he was in for a thrashing. And how right he was. Her features took a complete 180 as she howled at him. "BLOWING UP A FUCKING METEOR!? WHAT IN THE FUCKING HELL WERE YOU THINKING!?" she roared at him, causing him to shrink back into his bed. He chuckled nervously at her. "So you heard about that...huh..." he said to her in quiet tone.

"Your damn right I did! Kami! Just what in the hell happened!? Now my best shinobi is out of commission, one of our allies have been destroyed, and I've lost a valuable shinobi that cannot be easily replaced!" she yelled, sitting in a chair next to him with a huff. She looked at him with a scowl. "Well, I'm waiting..." she hissed.

Cole sighed, not wincing since he was still on pain meds. "We failed. There is nothing else I can say. We arrived far too late. The entire village was one by the time we got there. When we did engage the enemy, their numbers were much larger than we though they'd be. I'd say nearly three thousand of them. The Akatsuki named Deidara used a self destruction jutsu and took Gai with him. And from there, everything went to hell. Nagato used the Chibaku Tensei to form a meteor above us. It would have killed us all and leveled miles of land if I didn't stop it. But that isn't even the worst part. Towards the end of the battle, Uchiha Sasuke showed up with Tobi. Showing off a new power the brat somehow acquired." Cole explained to the Hokage.

She nodded and sighed. "That matches the story Naruto gave us...but the Rinnegan...really?" she asked the injured man. Cole nodded before rounding on Tsunade. "WAIT! Did you say Naruto!? How many survivors dd he find? Was he able to get them all to safety? Are they here?" he asked in rapid fire. Tsunade shook her head and pinched the bridge of her nose.

"Well," she began. "SHE is alright and yes, SHE is here. With Naruto and Hinata back at their house in fact. I tried to talk him out of it, but he said that no child should have to go through something that bad and not have a family there to help them. So he took her home with him." she sighed before looking at Cole's confused expression. "He...he did what!?" Cole asked in shock.

Tsunade nodded along with him. "Yup, he basically adopted the soul survivor of Sunagakure."

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. . . .Five hours earlier. . . .

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Naruto was sitting with a unconscious Izumi sitting in his lap. The poor girl had finally passed out from emotional exhaustion after crying for half an hour and Naruto was mulling over what he could do for the girl. He couldn't just leave her here for the clean up crews to find. And he definitely could just take her back to Konoha and leave her all alone. He only saw one option left.

What his father had done for him. "I hope Hina-chan will be alright with this..." he grumbled before he Hiraishin'd back to Konoha.

Once he flashed into the village he made his way to the hospital and found that there was a horde of doctors and nurses running around like crazy.

"Uh, what's going on?" he asked one of the passing doctors. She stopped and looked at him and then to the injured child in his arms. "Namikaze-sama! Is this one of the survivors?" she asked him looking between him and the child. Naruto's expression hardened as he held the girl a little closer. "Yeah...the only one..." he said lowly as he adjusted her weight in his arms.

The doctor, and all of the people who had gathered after hearing the doctor call out to Naruto, gasped. People started shouting and wanting answers to questions Naruto wasn't mentally ready to answer yet.

All of the yelling was causing Izumi to stir in Naruto's arms. He gave the group a pointed look, making them all shut up. He then looked to the female doctor he was first talking to. "I need you to check on her. She had a pretty nasty cut on her head before I did some first aid." he said to her. She nodded and turned to one of the empty rooms of the hospital. "Come this way, I'll see what I can do."

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Hinata, followed by the rest of the Uzumaki family, burst into the hospital and instantly shot rapid fire questions. Anko was angry that she heard her husband was injured, and Hinata was worried about Naruto's condition.

A very scared doctor showed them the way to the waiting area for Cole and the group saw Naruto crouched in front of a little girl who was sitting in one of the chairs along the hallway. The girl had a fresh bandage on her head, and a few on her arms and legs. She was crying and listening to what Naruto was saying. The blond in question had a very tired, and concerned look on his face. The group was getting close now and Naruto had said something that made the girls eyes widen before she jumped at him in a hug. She started crying into the crook of his neck and Naruto jut held her gently and let her cope with what had just happened to her.

"Unca?" Akari asked as she walked up next to Naruto and tugged on his damaged cloak. He looked down to his sibling before looking to see Akira standing next to her and his mother and Wife waiting behind them.

Naruto smiled at them and rested his palm on top of Akari's head. "Hey squirt. Been a while huh?" he asked in a tired tone. Akari giggled under Naruto's hand but Akira walked up and tugged on his sleeve. "Papa? How is Papa?" he asked in a worried tone.

Naruto looked to him and his sister and back to his mother and Wife. He sighed before looking back to Akira and Akari. "Dad'll be just fine little one. But, he is hurt. He'll have to be here for a while. He fought off a lot of bad guys today." he said with a sad smile before it turned into a smirk. "Get this. Dad blew up a meteor! It was awesome! He shot a big laser at it and blew it up. It was just as big as the Hokage Monument too." he said with a sly smile.

The twins looked at their older brother in awe. "Really!?" they asked at the same time, eyes filled with stars. And then they looked to the now confused Izumi. "Hey Unca, who's she?" Akari pointed to the little girl, who was a year older than the twins. Izumi gave a quiet 'eep' and clung to Naruto, trying to hide somehow. Naruto smiled and stood up and shifted Izumi's weight in his arms.

"Everyone, I would like you to meet the newest member of the family. This little tyke is Izumi. And I hope we can all be one big happy family."

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(A/N): To be continued...

Uh...guys...we are...uh...we are actually coming close to the END OF PART ONE...I know right? Part one was long!

But yeah, Part One ends on chapter 120 and I will be taking a two week long break from writing The Oracle so I can prepare for Part Two, which will actually be a nine year time skip and will focus more on Akira, Akari, and Izumi. As well as the developing Namikaze Family. So, yeah. Be prepared for that.

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