Chapter 18 - Treatment, Second Round and New Secrets

Naruto walked to the house and knocked on the door. "Hello! Is this Tazuna-san's home?"

Tsunami opened the door. "Yes, it is. Who are you?"

"I am a ninja from Konohagakure. I received a message that one of our ninja is severely injured and is resting here. Would you let me treat her?" Naruto asked as politely as he could.

"Oh you are from the backup that they were talking about. Please come." Tsunami said as she guided Naruto to a room. As she opened the door, Naruto found Sakura sitting before a girl who, from her facial expressions, was in considerable pain.

"I was expecting Kakashi-nii san and Sasuke here, but who are they?" Naruto said to himself before taking a closer look at their faces. "Wait a minute, I think I know them. The girl that is lying is the one I met in my backyard. And the pink haired is the one I saved in the forest when I was in the academy. Man, she has changed quite a lot since then." Naruto murmured low enough that only he could hear.

"Are you Sakura Haruno?" Naruto said gaining Sakura's attention.

"Who are you and how do you know me?" Sakura asked as Naruto slid his mask to the side of his head.

"It's you, Naruto. What are you doing here?" Sakura asked.

"I am here to treat her of course." Naruto said as he came closer to Rui.

"You mean you can treat her?" Sakura asked.

"Of course I can. Why else would sensei send me here?" Naruto said.

"Does that mean you are a medic?" Sakura asked.

"Well, I think this can wait. We can catch up after I treat her." Naruto asked.

"Right. Here is the wound." Sakura said as she removed the bandage to reveal Rui's wound to Naruto.

"Well, would you look at that." Naruto said. "I think I will need your dinner table for a while." Naruto said looking at Tsunami.

"Sure, do as you please." Tsunami said. Naruto then took out a scroll and unsealed a larger scroll from it. He then unrolled the scroll on the table, that covered the whole area. The scroll had multiple seals inscribed on it. He then picked up Rui and laid her on the table.

"What is that scroll?" Sakura asked.

"You can think of it as a life support, so she doesn't die while I am operating on her." Naruto said. "Now then, I would need a few bowls of water." Naruto said.

He then put his head on her chest to examine her heartbeat. "My, a metal base toxin. In an hour or so, her heart will collapse and cease functioning." Naruto said as the words got over the heads of the others.

"But, let's close her wounds first. The blood loss is too much." Naruto said as he unsealed all the required tools from his hand put them on the table.

"Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu." Naruto said as he made 2 more clones to help him.

The first clone spread her muscles, the second clone joined the organs and the original one stitched them together with fine chakra threads. They continued this process for the next thirty minutes until they finally stitched her wound completely.

"Mystical Palm Jutsu." Naruto said as his hands got covered in a green glow. He then used the jutsu to completely heal the wound, leaving only the markings.

"Now then that's done, it is time to take out the poison. But shadow clones won't be enough for it. Would you two give me a hand." Naruto asked.

"What do we have to do?" Both Sakura and Tsunami asked in unison.

"Just hold her tightly. Even though she doesn't have to strength to stand still, the pain will make her dance like a fish out of water." Naruto said as he dipped his hand into the bowl and used his chakra to lift the water from the bowl.

"Remove the cloth from her chest, the poison is gathered inside the heart." Naruto said before realizing what he just said. "Well, I don't have any interest in her non-existent breast. But showing them is better than dying, wouldn't you agree?"

Sakura then slowly removed the cloth that was covering her chest. And true to Naruto's words, her breast was pretty much non-existent. Naruto then placed the water bubble on her chest.

"Be ready." Naruto said as he used his chakra to push the water bubble into her body. As the bubble entered her body, Rui stared screaming and threw punches and kick wildly around her. Noticing the situation getting out of control, Naruto used his Adamantine chains to pin her down.

After a minute, he slowly took out the water bubble, and inside the bubble were many dark patches of the poison that he had extracted from her body. He repeated the same process five more times, until all the toxin inside her body was extracted.

"She is out of danger now. And now for the traces of toxin that still remain in her body…" Naruto said as he inspected the poison that he had just extracted. "So, it the F17. This is a new one in the market, but I had made an antidote of it even before it became public."

Naruto said as he unsealed another scroll which had the letter F on it. After opening the scroll, he unsealed the 17th seal to take out a small test tube. He then carefully took out one drop from the tube and mixed it into the water. Then he poured the solution inside Rui's mouth, and in a matter of few minutes she started gaining consciousness.

"Am I alive?" Rui asked in a weak voice.

"I think so." Naruto said as he put his hand before Rui mouth. "Bite it."

"What?" Rui asked in a confused manner.

"Just do as I say, it will replenish your chakra and completely heal your every wound." Naruto said.

"But-" Rui said.

"If you want to lie on the bed for the whole month then you are free to do as you please." Naruto said. Rui then hesitantly bit Naruto's hand as she felt even better than before. The marking of the wound on her belly also faded away and became as good as before.

Suddenly someone knocked on the door as Naruto sensed the intention of person behind the door. Tsunami tried to approach the door but Naruto stopped her. "Let me see them." Naruto said as he opened the door.

Two men were standing before him carrying their sheathed Katana. "Who are you, Tazuna's grandson?" One of them asked grabbing Naruto's collar.

"I will give you five seconds, leave or die." Naruto said as he started counting. "Five… Four… Three-" Naruto said.

"Who do you think you are huh?" The man said as he lifted Naruto from his collar.

"Two… One." Naruto said as in an instant, he grabbed both their heads and dipped them into the water outside the house. As he dipped them, they started thrashing due to suffocation and after a minute, they let their final breath out.

"Such Weaklings, do they even knew how to use their Katana." Naruto said as he pushed their body into the sea. The three women who had just seen the other side of Naruto were too terrified to even utter a word. Though Sakura had seen this side of Naruto once before but seeing Naruto like this managed to terrorize her even now.

"Let's go Sakura… Rui, to meet Kakashi-nii san and Sasuke." Naruto said as he summoned Garuda again. Sakura and Rui followed him at once.

"Thank you for your help, kind lady." Naruto said as he flew off on Garuda with Sakura and Rui.

Meanwhile at the Bridge

Kakashi, Sasuke and Tazuna along with some other workers were on the bridge. Tazuna was working on his project to complete the bridge when suddenly a thick mist covered the whole bridge. Kakashi was expecting this sooner or later. He quickly signalled Tazuna to take cover behind him but his co-workers weren't quick enough to act as fell one by one forming a puddle of their own blood.

"So he has chosen death." Kakashi said as slid up his hie-ate to uncover his sharingan. He then made a set of hand seals and inhaled to his maximum capacity and then exhaled a powerful gust of wind that blew off the mist uncovering Zabuza and his partner who were standing at a distance from them.

"I see. So that little girl really died." Zabuza taunted.

"She isn't dead yet but you two are going to." Kakashi said as he unsealed his old Ninjato that he had used when he was in the ANBU from a scroll.

"So you are going to cross swords with me. You got some guts." Zabuza said. "Haku, you take on the brat. I'll deal with the copy ninjas." Both Zabuza and Haku charged at Kakashi and Sasuke.

"Just remember your training, Sasuke." Kakashi said as he kicked the ground and shot himself at Zabuza to block the incoming attack. After gauging each other's strength, they jumped back from each other.

"Water Release: Water Shurikens!" Zabuza said as he formed 3 water shurikens in each hand and shot them at Kakashi. With the help of his sharingan, Kakashi predicted the trajectory of each shuriken and used his Ninjato to deflect them.

As Kakashi was busy dealing with the shurikens, Zabuza took the opportunity and charged at Kakashi. The instant Kakashi deflected the last Shuriken, Zabuza appeared above him out of nowhere and was about to split him in two.

But Kakashi simply sidestepped to dodge the attack as Zabuza hit the ground. Then in an instant, Zabuza titled his sword and attacked Kakashi's legs, but Kakashi dodged this again buy flipping in the air. As he was in mid air, he took out a kunai to dig it into Zabuza's skull but Zabuza used his other hand to grab Kakashi's hand and threw him away.

With Sasuke

"Ice Release: Thousand Needles of Death!" Haku said as he formed countless ice needles and attacked Sasuke.

"Fire Release: Great Fireball Jutsu!" Sasuke said as he blew out a massive fireball to melt the ice needles. As the needles melted, Sasuke took out a pair of kunai and dashed at Haku who blocked the attack with his own kunai.

As the two pushed each other, Sasuke let one of his hands loose while tilting his body, making Haku slip before him. As he saw the opportunity, Sasuke moved his other kunai to stab Haku in the side, but Haku put both his hands on the ground and used one of his legs to kick the kunai out of Sasuke's hands and used the other leg to kick Sasuke in the face, sending him flying away. But even after kicking away the kunai, Sasuke managed to inflict a decent cut on the hip of Haku.

"Damm he is quick." Sasuke muttered as he wiped the blood that came out from him.

"He is good, I need the end this quickly. Zabuza-Sama needs me." Haku also muttered as he placed his hand on the wound he had just received.

"How about we get serious." Sasuke's eyes glowed crimson red as he activated his sharingan.

"I have the same thought." Haku said. "Ice Release: Ice Spears!" Suddenly multiple spikes of Ice shot from the ground around Sasuke and attacked him from multiple direction and pinned him by stabbing into multiple parts of his body. But as the spikes stabbed Sasuke, instead of bleeding Sasuke just locked eyes with Haku before smiling.

'A clone!?... No, it is a genjutsu!" Haku said as he disrupted his chakra flow. But as he woke up into the real world, he found himself tied to the railing of the bridge as Sasuke stood before him.

"Don't you know that you have to dispatch your enemy too." Haku said as maneuvered one of his hands to slip out of the wire.

"Your death can wait. And besides, it is sensei who will decide your fate not me." Sasuke said.

"You should have killed me when you had the chance." Haku said as he used his free hand to wave a set of hand seals. "Ice Release: Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals!" Haku said as he formed a dome of 21 mirrors all around Sasuke before slipping into one of the mirrors.

"What's this!?" Sasuke said as he took out a kunai.

"Your death." Haku said as he shot multiple shenbons at Sasuke form every direction. Sasuke managed to deflect a few of them but a good amount of them reached Sasuke. Being frustrated by the needles, Sasuke made a set of hand seals.

"Fire Release: Great Fireball Jutsu!" Sasuke said as he blew out a massive fireball at the mirrors. But to his surprise, the mirrors were unfazed by the fire attack.

"It is futile. You cannot melt these mirrors." Haku said as shot a dozen of shenbons at Sasuke, making him fall on the ground.

"I see… Guess I have no other choice but to use that." Sasuke said as purple lightning started cranking around his hand. "Shi-"

"Special Technique: Steam Dragon Jutsu!"

Everyone on the bridge heard the voice as a dragon made of steam came from the sky and engulfed Zabuza from head to toe. After the attack died down, the upper few layers of Zabuza's skin was vaporized. Zabuza had protected his head with his sword that resulted his sword breaking in two, but his shoulders weren't that lucky as the muscles of his shoulder was all vaporized and the bones were visible.

Suddenly they felt a strong gust of wind rushing against them as they saw a giant eagle flying in the sky and Naruto, Sakura and Rui were standing on it. Naruto then shot a chain at the Ice dome that shattered the topmost mirror, grabbed Sasuke and pulled him up.

"Hey there Sasuke, how've been doing?" Naruto said as he directed his bloodlust at Zabuza and Haku.

"What is this presence? I have lost the will the fight. I just want to run away from here." Zabuza muttered in a weak voice.

"I-I want to fight, but my instincts tell me not to. No, I have to protect Zabuza-Sama, I can't fail him." Haku said to himself as he gathered enough courage to shunshin to Zabuza.

"Were have you been. It's been years since we last met." Sasuke said.

"Well, I got into ANBU Black Ops and the rest is history." Naruto said.

"Hey Naruto! You knew that you are such a party pooper. Why did you spoil our fun?" Kakashi yelled from the ground.

"Sorry, Nii-San. I thought you needed some help." Naruto said sheepishly.

"I was just warming up." Kakashi said.

"Well, what's done is done. If you wanted fun, then let's spar when we reach back the village." Naruto said as he sensed over a hundred men coming towards his direction.

"Yeah, that's a good idea." Kakashi said as Naruto came down.

"Haku… let's go. We can't win against them." Zabuza whispered to Haku as he slowly walked backward. But suddenly a chain shot out from Naruto's nape and tied them together.

"Now… I have an offer." Naruto said to Zabuza.

"What offer?" Zabuza asked.

"You see, your employer has decided to stab you in back." Naruto said as a hundred men appeared at the bridge behind him. "So, would you like to join Konoha or die here along with the rest of them."

"I will join Konoha." Zabuza said without a thought.

"Very well then." Naruto said as he released Zabuza and Haku.

"I knew you would betray me." Gatou said. "That is why I have brought these men with me. They will finish all of you."

Naruto then unsheathed his katana and covered it with Shiden before swinging it. "Tch, being short is good in some conditions like these." Naruto said as all the men that were standing behind Gatou got cut in half by Naruto's Shiden Eiso.

"What are you blab-" Gatou said until he got showered by the blood of his men.

"You wanna finish him off?" Naruto asked Zabuza.

"No, you can do it." Zabuza said. Suddenly Lightning cranked up around Naruto as Zabuza blinked, and when he opened his eyes, Naruto was holding the torn off head of Gatou in his hand.

"Hmm… I think he had a bounty of 10 million Ryo on his head." Naruto said as he sealed Gatou's head in his hand.

"Now… about you lying to us and getting us into unnecessary trouble that threatened the life of one of our shinobi." Naruto said eyeing Tazuna.

"P-Please forgive me. I had no options." Tazuna practically begged Naruto.

"Well, considering that you also helped to keep Rui alive and none of our men died, you won't get any punishment." Naruto said as a smile appeared on Tazuna's face. "But, you will have to pay for an S-Rank mission. And just so you know, that costs around 1 million Ryo." Naruto said as the smile on Tazuna's face turned into a frown.

"Don't worry, you don't have to pay now. You have 1 year for that. And I am pretty sure that this bridge will help you collect that sum by then." Naruto said.

"…Alright." Tazuna said after a pause.

"Now then, since that maggot is dead, our mission is also complete. So, let's go." Naruto said as Garuda knelt to let others climb on him. Team 7 & Naruto quickly climbed Garuda but Haku and Zabuza just stood there dumbfounded.

"What are you waiting for?" Naruto asked.

"You mean we can fly on that bird too?" Zabuza asked.

"What, you don't want to?" Naruto asked.

"You have sided with Konoha, haven't you? Then why are you being hesitant?" Kakashi said.

"Well…" Zabuza said as he climbed too as Haku simply followed him. "If you say so."

As they started flying, Naruto suddenly started chuckling. "The similarity is really striking." Naruto said.

"What similarity?" Sasuke asked as Kakashi figured out what Naruto was talking about.

"We both got into same situation but ended up quite differently." Naruto said.

"How so?" Sasuke asked.

"Six Years ago, I also got my first C-Rank Mission. I had to escort Naori-Chan, the heir of the Land of Rivers, to her home. But that turned out to be an S- Rank mission and we had to fight the previous wielder of the Kubokiribochou, Juzo Biwa." Naruto said as a tear fell from Naruto's eyes.

"But my whole team got slaughtered by him and the only ones that left the place alive were me and Naori-Chan." Naruto said.

"What happened to that guy?" Sakura asked.

"He was decapacitated and sealed in a scroll. When the scroll reached Kirigakure, we found that he was cut into multiple pieced and the sword was broken into pieces too. We never knew who did that to him. Was that you?" Zabuza asked.

"Yeah, when he killed my friends before my eyes, I went berserk and chopped him up. Poor guy didn't even have the chance to defend himself." Naruto said. "I thought that you were going to end up the same as him but then I changed my mind as we are no longer allies with Kirigakure after the Kekkei Genkai extermination event." Naruto as Zabuza gulped.

"So, are you feeling alright, Rui-Chan?" Naruto asked.

"I think so." Rui said in a weak voice.

"You are still weak due to all that blood loss. Guess I will escort you to your home." Naruto said. "By the way, who are in your family?" Naruto asked.

"Just my mother. My father died 13 years ago during the Kyuubi Attack, right after I was born, and my older sister died 6 years ago during her first C-Rank mission." Rui said.

"Hmmm… Was her name Mei Yamanaka?" Naruto said.

"Yes, how do you know about her?" Rui asked.

"Well, she was my teammate that died on that mission I talked about earlier. She promised me give a treat of Ramen but guess I am getting that in the afterlife." Naruto said.

"But why don't you use the Yamanaka clan name?" Sakura asked.

"There is a funny reason. I look more like my mom who is a civilian and nee-chan looked more like my father who was from the Yamanaka clan. So, I use my mother's last name and nee-chan used my father's last name." Rui said.

"Hey, does that mean your birthday is also on October 10th?" Naruto asked.

"Yeah, yours' too?" Rui asked.

"Yup. We have a lot in common." Naruto said.

"We are nearing Konoha." Garuda said as Naruto used his sharingan to analyze the forest until something caught his eyes.

'Hmm… That's unusual." Naruto thought.


Author's Note

Don't say that it was out of the blue. I was hinting to this since the first few chapters, and I won't say now but Naruto has more to do with the brain than I show. So yes, he has finally learned Medical Ninjutsu and with his ability to learn things at such a fast pace, you can easily guess what will happen next. Also being an Uzumaki, he has the same ability as Karin's, the weird 'bite me' ability.

Coming to Sasuke, yes, can use Shiden too, though not on the same level as Naruto but he is the third best user of this jutsu after Naruto(1st) and Itachi(2nd), while Kakashi being at the 4th place. And yes you read it right, during his time in ANBU, Naruto taught Shiden to both Kakashi and Itachi. And he taught it to Sasuke when he was a chunnin. And about Shiden Eiso, it's range has no limits. I just depends on your chakra reserves and chakra control.

And finally, I decided to spare Zabuza and Haku. They won't affect the story overall but they will have more screentime than Tenten. Also, I have reduced Haku's age form 16 to 13. And another notable difference is that I have decided to make him a female and I have intentionally referred to her as him due to her 'changed' voice which she uses to hide her identity. Honestly, neither I nor anyone I know ever saw her a male, so yeah, she is going to be a girl from now on. Also Haku was weaking her mask this whole time so no one as seen her face.

And coming to Rui. Well, I finally gave her a sad backstory that was somehow related to the story and not came out of the blue. And in case any of you forgot, Mei is the girl from Chapter 10. And if you have seen Domestic no Kanojo, you know her mother's past as well, as it will have something to do with the next chapter.