Chapter 31: Decent into madness
The announcement that Naruto had made when he was still Daimyo of Wave country was the inspiration boast that Wave Country desperately needed, they also knew that it wasn't just a promise but a standard that Naruto had set for every single Daimyo to come after Tsunami. And by Kami they were going to keep that standard.
Tsunami had been given Gato's mansion which served as her temporary castle, where she and Naruto had discussed trade agreements which included the selling of Wave Countries natural resources exclusively to Konoha, and the renting of a plot of land so Konoha could build a forward outpost here to keep track over Mist and to provide a defense for the people of Wave Country.
Afterwards Naruto left to help with the construction of new buildings, basically raising the new academy by himself, prior to Gato taking over wave country there had been a tiny school house. Basic education was taught and more advanced learning wasn't really seen as useful in the lives of fishermen, but now under the reign of Tsunami education would take a more important role in the lives of the children. With Konoha financially backing them up now they were now given a choice in profession, no longer were they bound to the lives of being fishermen.
By sadly not everybody in wave country was celebrating the fall of Gato's regime; one blaring issue that Naruto was solving while the rest of the country was celebrating was all the misplaced people.
Gato didn't just kidnap people from Wave country but he went as far as the Land of Wind and the Land of Lightning.
Naruto wasn't sure what to do with these people, most of them didn't want to return to their respective countries. And those who did didn't know if there was anything left for them back at home. The best Naruto could do was offer them money for a trip back home or a job to start their lives again in Wave.
When it was finally time for Team 8 to leave almost the entire town had come to see them off, even Team 7 who were kind of forced by Kakashi was there… they weren't scheduled to leave for a another 2 weeks. They still had to watch over the completion of the bridge just in case some of Gato's henchmen were still around.
The children had come to idolize Naruto and all strove to be like him why they grew up… and the women well they formed their very own Wave Countries Uzumaki-Senju, Naruto Fan club.
So here they stood on Tazuna's incomplete bridge, all hoping to give their best wishes and thanks to their former Daimyo. Their final gift of appreciation to him was a golden plaque that they presented to him inscribed onto it was.
The Great Naruto Bridge
For the Hero and First Daimyo of Wave Country May this bridge inspire all the generations to come.
"The Great Naruto Bridge?" Naruto asked with a hint of amusement in his voice.
Tazuna responded, "I know I wanted to name it the Super Naruto Bridge but… Daimyo-sama didn't let me."
"Daimyo-sama was right, that name sounds completely absurd… but yet I still don't understand why you would name the bridge after me." Naruto said.
It was that young red hair girl he had rescued earlier that responded, "Because you are our hero, you save me and my friends from those evil men. You bought life back into this country; of course we would name the bridge after you Naruto-kun."
"Well while I don't believe such an honor should have been bestowed upon me, I rather not waste all of your efforts and commitment in engraving my name onto this plaque.
So with tremendous gratitude I accept thank you for this honor. And also thank you for all of the hospitality you have shown me and my team, we greatly appreciate it." Naruto said as he handed the plaque to the little girl and ruffled the girl's hair.
At this moment Naruto heard a disembodied voice whisper in his ear, "Master why did you kill me?" Naruto's immediately withdrew his hand from the red headed girls head and turned his head around a couple of times scanning the crowd, once or twice he swore he saw that little girl he had killed in the crowd.
Tazuna saw this and asked, "Is something wrong Naruto-sama?"
Naruto schooled his face and emotions and quickly answered, "No Tazuna, I just noticed how late it was getting and how we have to leave soon if we want to make it home before nightfall.
There were a few aw's from the crowd hearing this, the red hair girl than asked, "You're going to come back and visit right?"
Naruto gave her a hesitant smile than said, "Of course." Giving the people of Wave country one more bow he turned toward the incomplete portion of the bridge and said, "Team 8 let's move out."
While the bridge was still missing some 20 meters, it wasn't hard for trained Shinobi to jump across that gap.
The people of Wave country watched until Team 8 disappeared into the horizon, than they all disbanded and returned to their work.
Team 7 headed back toward the forest where they trained, when they got to their usual training area Sasuke punched a tree with all of his might, "These people worshipped Naruto like he was some sort of God, he's not I should be the one they are worshiping… they should have named the bridge after me for just being here. What makes him so special" Sasuke thought angrily… "I have to get stronger to put that peasant in his place…"
Some 5 hours later
Back in Konoha
Team 8 had made it back in record time, the stamina exercises Naruto had them do had paid off and they pretty much dashed the whole way back at a brisk pace.
At the Hokage's office Naruto gave a spoken report to the Hokage, who was immensely proud of Team 8 for completing both missions without a hitch, afterward the Hokage dismissed Team 8 and Kiba and Shino headed back to their respective homes. While Naruto and Hinata walked back to the Hyuga compound together. Upon leaving the Hokage's office Hinata immediately wrapped her arm around Naruto's and laid her head onto his shoulder as they walked back, "I missed this." Hinata said in a quiet voice."
"Yeah…" Naruto responded emotionlessly.
Hinata lifted her head up slightly and asked with concern, "Is something wrong Naruto-kun?"
Naruto without averting his gaze from the ground just replied in the same tone, "No my love… just tired."
Hinata let out a sigh and rested her head back onto his shoulder and said, "Yeah me too, we should get some sleep when we get back." Naruto just responded with a nod.
The rest of the walk back to the compound have been in silence and it wasn't until they got near the compound was that silence broken by the voice of Hanabi, both Naruto and Hinata watched from a distance as Hanabi was dragging her mother by the arm out of the compound and the energetic Neji-chan yipped around there feet, "Kaa-san we have to hurry before the ice cream cart closes… !"
"Alright, alright." Hitomi replied.
Seeing this Naruto's blood ran cold as his heart began to speed up, memories of that young girl's face began flashing before his eyes, he raised one shaky hand up to his forehead and gripped it, his breath was caught in his throat as he felt a sweat start coming over him.
Then it happened again… the voices.
"Master why…"
"All I wanted to do was please you…"
"Why did you kill me?"
"What did I do wrong?"
Naruto gritted his teeth, mentally chanting. "No, no, no!" He couldn't… not now… he couldn't face her again!
Just as Hinata was about to turn over toward him, Naruto used every ounce of his willpower to stabilize himself to shore up his mental defenses… it worked… for now.
Hastily Naruto said, "My clone in Hokage-sama's office just popped, something important has come up Hinata… I have to go."
Without even waiting for her response Naruto Shunshined away… Hinata stood in shock, she knew something was wrong. Naruto was never this distant around her especially not when they were alone… and the fact that he didn't use any of his normal loving suffixes when he addressed her greatly worried her. "Why do you insist on trying to hold onto all your burdens until it finally becomes too much for you to handle Naruto-kun?" Hinata asked herself.
But before she could get any further in thought a voice from behind her broke her out of it, "Nee-chan your back!" Hinata turned around and greeted Hanabi and her mother with a smile.
Naruto didn't even know where he was shunshining too; he just had to get away… anywhere. He didn't know what had led him here but he was just been hopping across random roof tops when he landed in front of a pair of large gates in the high classed section of Konoha.
Naruto looked up and realized it was the Senju Family Compound, the buildings were marvelous and grand but the compound grounds had fallen into a state of disrepair… most likely due to the lack of care since Tsunade had left Konoha almost certainly nobody has been past the gates. But Naruto didn't care at the moment of the state of the complex; he just needed someplace to hide.
He put his palm against the seal on the gate lock and pumped chakra into it, hearing a series of whirling gears and locks unclicking the gates swung open for entrance. Passing the gates he quickly slammed the shut so nobody but him could get past and then took off into the main building.
He ran and ran through the halls until finally he stumbled into a room, most likely the clan heads room by its lavish décor and the giant portrait of Hashirama and his wife…
Slamming the door shut behind him, he looked around the room and saw a door to the side… a closet he entered and shut the door behind him than huddled into the corner.
Hugging his knees into his chest he cried and cried and eventually he was able to fall asleep… but soon discovered it an unwise idea.
In his dreams Naruto was forced to watch himself kill that poor girl over and over again… each time seemingly more barbaric then the last… eventually it was no longer the young girl from Wave country chained to the table… It was Hanabi her eyes her clothes… it was definitely her.
Naruto watched as this image of him towered over the fallen girl that had been beaten by his own hands, Naruto so desperately wanted to help her. He tried with all his might to get to Hanabi to shield her from harm… but for the life of him he couldn't move… his body was just refusing to follow his commands.
No longer was it a mercy killing… as he watched the image stab Hanabi in the chest… but purposely missed the heart. She gasped out in pain as Naruto watched… unable to answer to her cries of pain.
The image brutally twisted the blade which caused a sharp cry of pain to burst from Hanabi's lips, this cry ripped at Naruto's heart he tried to shut his eyes to block this scene off. But as hard as he tried to close his eyes the more then widened.
Naruto couldn't stand the sight or sounds no more, he yelled out… "KURAMA! HELP ME!" there was no response to his cries. But he was able to call upon Kurama's chakra to implode the world around him…
The only freedom this gave him was awakening… inside that cramped musty closet… but even in his waking moments he wasn't free from the torment. Voices raged inside his head as Naruto clutched his head trying his best to silence them.
He crawled his way out of the closet then stood up and began flailing his arms around, "SHUT UP!" he yelled but the voices remained…
"MONSTER…. DEMON… MURDERER…" the voices said.
Naruto stumbled over to the dresser and stared into the mirror, while half of his face was normal the other half was screwed into a malicious grin while that eye was completely black with a blood red pupil. Naruto knew this wasn't Kurama's doing.
"Why do you fight it." The dark side said with a chuckle, "Just give in… unleash the caged monster inside of you… bring your fury down upon these fools make them suffer as you have…"
Naruto bought his hand up and in one swift motion slapped himself across that side of the face, it hurt…
The dark side of his face roared in laughter as he said, "Stupid boy… what did you think was going to happen…"
Naruto reached over and grabbed one of the trinket boxes on the dresser and threw it with all his might into the mirror shattering it into millions of pieces.
Silence… Silence that Naruto welcomed but it only lasted for a short moment, when it was broken by a girl's voice from behind him he instantly turned around and there she was sitting on the edge of the bed kicking her legs in a playful manner,
Naruto's eyes widened at the sight of her, "How… this is impossible you're dead…"
The girl bought her hand over the hole in her chest and tapped it a few times with her finger, "you're right… you killed me… I don't blame you though; you did it to free me? But I want to ask you why do you try so hard? What is stopping one tyrant going to do? You should just give up on this whole justice thing…"
Naruto clutched his head and responded, "You're dead… you can't be talking to me! And I don't take advice from dead people."
She let out a giggle, "And yet I'm not the first dead person you've talked too. Actually you talk and train with a dead person all the time…"
Naruto narrowed his eyes at the girl in front of him and was about to respond when he heard somebody say, "She's annoying cut her down… take off her head this time, make sure she stays dead…"
Naruto turned his head toward the voice and to his horror his shadow on the ground had a mouth and the same type of red eyes as before. "If you don't want to do it yourself, let me do it… give me your body and I'll shut her up."
Naruto clenched his fist together and replied lowly, "Never…"
His shadow let out a maniacal laugh as it started moving around him like he was pacing around him examining him. "You say never now… but sooner or later I will break free from you… but don't you worry when I do I'll make sure too kill that Hyuga girl you love so much first, spare her from the misery… That's after I have my way with her first though… and I might even think about letting you watch me do it… it would definitely be more painful that way for you."
"I would first take my own life before allowing you to do that…" Naruto gritted out.
"Ohh ho, ho, ho, so we do have some spunk now. And here I thought you were just a soft little pansy… you know because if I were in control I would have long maimed the banshee and the Uchiha already… then burned the city to the ground." The shadow said with amusement teeming in his voice. "But regardless you are still the weak idiot you have always been, much like your former Sensei Itachi… A fool of a man he believes….
"YOU SHUT UP ABOUT ITACHI!" Naruto yelled at his shadow…
"My, my look at you go… all this rage… all this anger… this is what has been bottled up why must you do such a thing. I believe Itachi probably feels the same way, both of you heroes to this city… and look how they scorn both of you… one the demon brat and the other the psychopathic slayer of the apparently loyal Uchiha clan. Isn't it just ironic? How does it feel to have no recognition for your sacrifices?" the shadow finished while letting out a maniacal laugh.
Naruto squeezed his eyes shut and just said, "Just leave… go back to where you can from I don't want to listen to this anymore!"
"Fine… you're just too weak to accept the truth, but one day you will realize I was right…. And it will be a marvelous day when it happens." With that the eyes and mouth on the shadow melded away leaving just Naruto and the little girl.
Naruto being both mentally and physically drained just ignored her and flopped down onto the giant bed.
"He's a huge jerk… but you know… he's right…" the little girl said.
Naruto tilted his head to the side to look at her and he asked, "What's your name?"
The girl just shrugged.
Naruto just sighed and rubbed his face against the mattress but forced himself to stay awake.
"Why don't you go to sleep? I know you're tired."
Naruto continued to ignore her, but she continued anyway, "What you're scared? Scared that you will have those nightmares again? Those aren't real you know…"
"You aren't real…" Naruto responded.
"Keep telling yourself that." The girl responded as she continued to stare at Naruto.
2 days later
Hinata was beyond worried, normally regardless of how important a mission was Naruto would at least come to say good bye. But this time nothing… no kiss or hugs goodbye not even a note, this was definitely unlike Naruto. And while her first thought was that Naruto no longer loved her and was now spending his time with another girl, Hinata knew that made no sense because she had basically given him permission to go see other girls… so why go through the trouble of hiding it and the fact of the matter was that she knew more than anything that she loved Naruto and he loved her.
Hinata had bumped into Ino the other day, but Hinata decided to give Ino as little information as possible. Which was that Naruto was sent away on another mission, and boy did Ino raise some hell about not being able to see Naruto for weeks due to the Wave mission and now after coming back he was immediately sent out on another mission, then she ranted something about how it seems like Konoha only has one ninja to send out to do missions.
Thank Kami above for Hinata that Anko was still away with Kurenai on a mission or she would have went on a rampage straight to the Hokage's office, which by the way was what Hinata was going to do right now…
Well not rampage into the office more like kindly request some information from the Hokage about her Naruto-kun.
After requesting an audience with the Hokage with his secretary Hinata only had to wait a short while to be let in, just as Hinata opened the door and was about to step in she heard the secretary say in a low voice almost too low to hear, "That dammed demon corrupt that girl… she's so delusional." Hinata froze on the spot… normally she wouldn't have done anything about this.
But it was getting so out of hand now, Naruto had done so much for this village yet they still curse him as if he was actually some demon.
The Hokage noticed that Hinata had stopped mid step and had a look of rage wash over her face, "Hinata-chan is there something wrong?" Hinata didn't reply to him as he saw her reach for something next to the door which turned out to be a large potted plant than in a flash Hinata launched it at the desk of the secretary. It smashed on top of it causing the secretary to fall out of her seat in fear as pieces of the plant and soil were now splattered all over her desk. "Next time I dare you to say that to my face… Because if you do then I'll show you what a real demon can do…"
Even the Anbu hiding within the walls were slightly scared but also slightly proud of Hinata at the moment, for they had heard what the secretary had said to her… and they felt that getting a plant flung at them was pretty tame for a punishment.
Hinata finished with a glare to the women as she walked into the Hokage's office, Sarutobi tried to give her his friendliest smile and asked. "How can I help you today Hinata-chan?"
Hinata's expression softened slightly and bowed to Sarutobi slightly, "My apologizes about your assistant Hokage-sama but I believe she might hand in her resignation very soon."
Sarutobi took a puff of his pipe and let out a soft chuckle, "Hmm, yes it would seem so, though I doubt that you would come visit little old me just to inform me of this."
Hinata nodded her head and replied, "You are correct Hokage-sama, I came to you today to see if I could possibly have any details on the mission Naruto-kun is currently doing, I greatly worry for him…"
Sarutobi gave her a confused expression, "What mission? I haven't given Naruto any missions since you and Team 8 have returned for Wave Country…"
Hinata frowned at this, "He told me, you requested him on a high priority mission."
Sarutobi looked really confused now, "Hmm this is confusing, because I did no such thing Hinata-chan." Sarutobi said as he snapped his fingers and from his book case emerged one of Naruto's shadow clones.
"You called Hokage-sama?" the clone of Naruto said.
"As you see Hinata-chan Naruto-kun's clone is still here I did no call him away on a mission," Sarutobi said as he noticed Hinata glaring at the clone. She stood up and walked over to it and asked in a low tone. "Where is Naruto-kun?"
The clone just replied slightly nervous, "I can't tell you…"
"Excuse me…" Hinata said narrowing her eyes in a way only Naruto knew that she was getting deadly serious.
The clone took a step back and put his hands up in front of his chest, "No… I don't mean it like that Hinata-chan, it's more along the lines of I don't know where boss is so I can't tell you. I was created after giving the mission report to Hokage-sama so that is the extent of my memories, anything after that I wouldn't know…"
Hinata just closed her eyes and let out a sigh of frustration, Sarutobi sensed this and said, "This is concerning, there are those who despise Naruto-kun and seek to hurt him. I wouldn't put it off that somebody could have kidnapped him. I will assemble a team to search all of Konoha for…."
"No…" Hinata said interrupting the Hokage, "Naruto-kun wasn't kidnapped… at least I don't believe so…"
"How do you know this?" Sarutobi asked still with some concern in his voice.
Hinata let out another deep sigh and replied, "I believe he is in self-imposed exile…"
"What do you mean by this? Sarutobi asked.
Turning back to the Hokage Hinata said, "When he was in Wave country Naruto-kun had to take some actions that really shook his sanity… including having to kill a young girl that he described as around 9 years of age…"
Sarutobi clenched his fist and shuts his eyes in anger at hearing that, regardless of how many wars he had been in and how many opposing Shinobi he had slain. The killing of children always bought a sick taste to Sarutobi's mouth, the killing of children was usually a forbidden an unspoken rule during war… well at least for Shinobi it was, bandits and highwaymen didn't follow any rules except their own. But for Naruto to have to kill a child this was concerning while yes he was a Shinobi and they often had to kill people but killing a child messed with you on a totally higher level.
Sarutobi then rubbed his forehead in thought and said, "Naruto-kun is strong but he is also extremely stubborn, too often he tries to shoulder the world's problems by himself and I fear that one day that will be his downfall… that is why I implore you Hinata-chan you have to find him and console him… he will only listen to you."
"How do I find him though Hokage-sama?" Hinata asked with hope in her voice.
Sarutobi leaned back on his comfy chair and then turned 90 degrees so he could still talk to Hinata and stare out the window behind him. "I don't know Hinata-chan… but its utmost importance that you do… the only advice I can give you is too follow your heart and hope it will guide you too him. And do make haste every moment that passes he runs the consequence of falling deeper into depression."
Hinata just nodded and thanked the Hokage and left the Hokage's tower deep in thought, "Follow your heart…" Hinata mumbled quietly to herself.
She continued to walk aimlessly around Konoha contemplating… trying to figure out a way to find Naruto letting her feet lead her around the city, Hinata was so lost in thought she didn't even notice somebody walking out of a grocer until it was too late. Colliding with the person they both fell back onto to the floor, Hinata quickly gave her apologies and looked up at the person and instantly getting a shock of a lifetime.
She was looking at herself! She looked exactly like her except for the basket full of food the copy of her was holding.
"What!… BYAKUGAN!" Hinata said as she took a look over at mirror image of her, it was almost perfect but she recognized one thing… the chakra signature… softly Hinata said, "Naruto-kun?"
Hearing this the clone disguised as her widened its eyes. And it immediately leapt up onto its feet grabbed the basket of food and started running toward the high classed section of Konoha. Hinata was on her feet in an instant, "Oh hell no, you're not getting away!" Hinata said as she reached into one of her sleeves and pumped chakra into one of the many seals layered inside.
With a poof Hinata unsealed her bow and quiver strapping her quiver across her back, she whipped one arrow out of the quiver and launched it at the fleeing clone, the arrow ripped through the air and pierced right through the bottom of the kimono and into the ground, causing the clone to stumble and nearly trip. While the clone was just able to maintain its balance the food had all fallen out of the basket.
"Oh shit." The clone said in a totally un-Hinata like manner. As it immediately kneeled over to pick up all the food as quickly as possible, but couldn't get all the pieces because at this moment the clone had to roll to the side to dodge Hinata's flying heel drop, the clone saw that while it only cratered the floor slightly it knew that if that actually landed on a living human it would have broken bones and crushed inner organs.
The clone stood up straight but then immediately had to bend backwards to dodge a swipe from Hinata's bow it was a close call but the clone was able to dodge it while keeping the food it had recovered inside the basket. But Hinata wasn't giving the clone a chance to gain any distance as she immediately attacked with leg sweeps, juken jabs and occasionally pulling out an arrow to slash at the clone at close range. And the only reason the clone was able to stay alive was because of the experience it had fighting Hinata.
Realizing it had to get away and get away fast, because luck had been on its side as it still hadn't been hit hard enough to dispel. Seeing that he had no other option the clone grabbed an onion from the basket and maneuvered it in front of Hinata's face. Knowing that the backlash the boss would get from Hinata later would be quite severe
But just as the clone was about to squeeze the Onion with enough force to make it pop, Hinata flipped backwards a couple of times to avoid the deadly enzymes from the blub. The Clone saw this and gave Hinata a grin, then dropped the onion back inside the basket and took off once again.
Hinata frowned at the clones trick and resumed chasing after it, at least the clone was smart enough to realize that hiding from Hinata's Byakugan was useless and just ran in a straight line knowing that it could flat out run Hinata.
But one thing the clone didn't count on was the barrage of arrows that seemed to cut him off every now and then, he was forced to give up precious speed and distance from Hinata in order to not get impaled to a wall or the floor by its clothing. But thankfully the clone wasn't far from the Senju compound and knew that if it could get inside and shut the gates then it would be safe.
Seeing the gates ahead the clone reached inside the Kimono and drew out a vial of blood, it pumped chakra into the vial so the blood glowed red slightly and flung it at the gates of the Senju compound. All that was required was one drip of the chakra infused blood to flow into the lock for the gates to open, the vial twirled through the air and landed and shattered onto the lock and to the clone's elation the doors unlocked and opened slightly.
But sadly for the clone Hinata saw this as well and knew very well how the gates of large compounds worked. She stopped chasing and said with a small smile, "That's what you think…" Angling her bow up at the sky she slowed and controlled her breathing for one second then within the next 3 seconds she launched four arrows into the sky in the direction of the compound the clone was trying to hide in.
The clone being so preoccupied with getting into the compound it didn't even notice Hinata had stopped chasing it. Believing that Hinata was still behind it, the clone made a dive at the gates. Mid dive he heard the whirling of Hinata's arrows… "Where are they coming from… from the right… from behind… ABOVE!" the clone thought as he looked up and realize it was too late as four arrows rained down from above and slammed into the sleeves of and fabric of the Kimono basically stapling the clone to the floor.
The clone struggled to get free, but the strength of the kimonos fabric plus the fact that the wooden shaft wasn't very sharp prevented the clone from making any progress. The clone was infuriated that because of the way it was stapled to the floor it couldn't even bring its hands together to form the release sign. To inform the boss of Hinata discovering his hideout.
The clone watched as Hinata resealed her bow and quiver away then making her own shadow clone which together with the original simultaneously ripped the arrows holding down the sleeves out of the ground, Naruto's clone tried to take advantage of this opportunity to disperse itself but was beaten by Hinata and her clone as they grabbed both the clones hands and tied them up with rope in a way Anko had taught her that didn't allow the use of hand signs.
After removing the arrows that bound the feet together, Hinata had her clone hide Naruto's clone that looked like her somewhere inside the compound. If anybody saw it would be difficult to explain why the Hyuga heiress was nailed to the ground outside a compound. Picking up the basket Hinata used her Byakugan to locate Naruto and followed the giant beacon of chakra inside the biggest building.
After a couple of minuites she now stood in front of one of the grander looking doors of the building, assuming it was the head of this compounds room she knocked daintily a few times and only entered when she heard a hoarse voice say "Come in…"
Hinata entered the room and the sight of her lover made her want to cry, he sat on the floor leaning against the footboard of a giant bed. His skin was pale and his eyes sunken with giant black rings under them.
Dropping the basketful of food to the floor Hinata ran and knelt in front of him and pulled him into a tight hug, "Why?" Hinata sobbed out.
Naruto just softly whispered out, "Hinata-hime…"
Hinata pulled away slightly from Naruto then shifted her hands so they held his face and said to him, "Yes Naruto-kun?"
Naruto wanted to say more to Hinata but the voices in his head chose to be loudest and most distracting at this very moment,
"She tricked you…"
"Show her the mercy you showed that little girl…"
Hinata saw the glazed look in Naruto's eyes turn feral with worry in her voice she asked, "Naruto-kun?"
No response came from him as she saw him slowly and shakily reach one of his hands up toward her,
"SHE WILL BE THE FIRST OF MANY!"
"KILL HER!"
"Naruto-kun what's wro.. gack!" Hinata tried to say but was cut off when Naruto wrapped his fingers around her neck and put slight force on her neck.
Hinata didn't struggle against Naruto as he slowly tightened his grip, she felt herself losing conscious and with all her effort she looked into Naruto's eyes with all of her love and care and then whispered out with all her might, "I love you…"
At this moment something inside Naruto clicked and his hand no longer tightened and instead loosened slightly around her neck but still had some pressure on it, a look of shock and realization slowly dawned on Naruto's face as he whispered out, "Hime…"
Then with his other hand he drew a kunai from his pouch and slammed it into his own thigh, Hinata gasped as she saw him flinch from the pain. Naruto getting a moment of freedom immediately moved his hand from her neck and shot over to her hand that was still caressing his cheek, he moved her hand so that her fingertips were now under his forehead protector and he said to her. "Please Hime…"
Hinata gave him a reassuring look then fired a shot of chakra directly through her fingers into his forehead. This caused Naruto's head to whip backwards the slump back forward onto Hinata's lap.
Hinata wiped a tear from her eye then tenderly stroked the unconscious Naruto's cheek; putting her fingers together in a cross she created 2 kage bunshin's, sending one to find the first clone she created and the second one to help carry Naruto with her back to the compound…
Now how to do it without drawing any unwanted attention.
Some 3 Hours later
Hyuga Compound outside of Hinata's room.
One of the Hyuga clan's personal doctors walked out of Hinata's room, immediately Hitomi asked, "Doctor is Naruto-kun going to be okay?"
The doctor gave Hitomi a concerned look and said, "While Uzumaki-san is stable at the moment, there are some concerning anomalies within Uzumaki-san's body."
"Such as?" Hitomi asked with unease.
Scratching the back of his head slightly the doctor answered, "Well for one… his entire blood stream is heavily saturated with hallucinogens, stimulants and other psychoactive drugs we are already doing massive blood transfusions but are all stumped on how Uzumaki-san is still alive."
"Hallucinogens… stimulants… you're telling me Naruto-kun was using… and in such high dosages? I find it hard to believe somebody like Naruto-kun would ever resort to drugs…" Hitomi said with slight irritation in her voice.
The doctor responded as impartial as possible not wanting to invoke Hitomi's wrath, "Lady Hitomi while I understand where you are coming from when you say Uzumaki-san wouldn't use drugs but… the boy is a Shinobi and you being one yourself should understand that sometimes the life of a Shinobi is difficult and too cope it with it sometimes people might need to defer to drugs like cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and others."
"HE DIDN'T!… HE WOULDN'T!" Hinata yelled out in disbelief.
The doctor turned to Hinata who had a look of anger on her face and said trying to calm the young Hyuga heiress, "Please understand Lady Hinata we cannot rule that possibility out, and how can you be so sure?"
"Because I was there… when I found him there was no evidence at all of any drugs in the room with him. And because I know the type of person he is… he would never do something like this." Hinata responded with conviction.
The doctor let out a sigh and just said, "I understand Lady Hinata but until Uzumaki-san wakes up we won't know for sure, I don't believe he will be awake for another few hours so I will retire to my office where you can find me if anything comes up." First he bowed to Hinata then to Hitomi then left to his office.
Hinata just stared at the door to her room; Hitomi saw this so she placed a comforting hand on her daughters shoulder. "Don't worry dear this will all be resolved once Naruto-kun wake up."
Naruto's mind scape
Naruto felt the wind blowing across his face as he slowly opened his eyelids to stare up into the face of Hashirama, "Shodaime-sama? What's going on?" Naruto said drowsily
"So you finally returned to us…" Hashirama said as he stood up and yelled at the giant sleeping fox in the distance. "HEY FOXY HE'S AWAKE!"
Kurama snorted slightly then stretched his entire body out and then let out a giant yawn, shaking the rest of the sleep from his system. Kurama walked over to the still slightly out of it Naruto.
"You sure he's normal again Shodai? Kurama asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Well he actually called me by my name this time instead of just yelling out random things about getting away from him…" Hashirama replied.
Naruto sat up and gripped his head in pain, "What the hell happened to me? And what in the world is with this headache!"
"Try inhaling 10 different drugs or chemicals at one time… it will do that to you." Hashirama said while shaking his head.
"I bet it was one hell of a high though kid? You must have been tripping your head off. Though with what you were randomly screaming didn't sound like you were having fun." Kurama added on with a grin.
The grin left Kurama's face when he saw Naruto look down at his lap deep in thought, "How did it happen though? I've never inhaled or taken any drugs…"
Kurama eyebrow quirked slightly, "You didn't realize did you?" Naruto shook his head. "Remember back in Wave country? Naruto nodded,
"WHEN YOU SET FIRE TO AN ENTIRE WAREHOUSE FULL OF DRUGS AND THEN PROMPTLY STOOD DIRECTLY NEXT TO IT WATCHING IT BURN."
Naruto's eye widened then he let out a soft, "Ohh…"
"Yeah, ohh is about right smart ass… every time your heart began racing the chemicals just spread around your body faster causing you to have all those Psychotic attacks then it was just a domino effect… do you realize how hard I had to work to keep you alive afterwards… yeah normally I can purge the effects of any poison or chemical in your body immediately. But there was so much of it and I think keeping you from overdosing took precedent over preventing those hallucinations." Kurama said with slight irritation in his voice.
"Now if you were hallucinating about killing that little girl again, I implore you to put it behind you… your mate was correct when she said it was a mercy killing okay… so stop beating yourself up"
"Kurama is correct Naruto-kun, what you did that night might have seemed morally wrong, but actually was the right choice… had I been in the situation I would have done the same… so stop doubting yourself. As you are causing your girlfriend to worry." Hashirama added on
"Yeah I'm sure your mate is dying to talk to you again so… get out I need to rest!" Kurama said as he raised a paw in front of Naruto then with a flick of one of his fingers Naruto got sent into the air and when he blinked again. He was now inside the Hyuga compound, inside Hinata's room specially and on their bed.
Naruto mustered his strength and pulled himself into a sitting position and then leaned back onto the headboard, tilting his head upwards he ran his hands across his face and through his hair then let out a soft sigh of liberation.
It was only at this moment did he noticed the sounds of running water in the bathroom then it suddenly cutting off, after a moment he heard the glass pane of the shower slide open and the pattering of wet feet against the marble floor.
Emerging from the bathroom was a wet Hinata only covered in one of the soft white bath towels, and at this moment Naruto was graced with one of the most beautiful moments of his life. Everything was so perfect at the moment as his cheeks and face flared up with heat and a red hue; Naruto couldn't help but admire Hinata's beautiful midnight blue hair dampened by the water and how it clung to every beautiful contour of her face, the droplets of water that blotted her perfect alabaster skin made her body seem to glow even more radiantly and that long soft arm that held the towel in place across her chest only accented Hinata's flawlessly developing breasts.
Naruto couldn't help himself but look slightly downwards as a drop of blood leaked from his nose and he was rewarded with a loud, "GOD DAMN!" roar from his mind that definitely belonged to a certain giant fox. And somewhere else in his mind Naruto heard the chanting of his ancient ancestor something along the lines of, "Mito's going to kill you don't look! Mito's going to kill you don't look!"
Back with Naruto while the towel covering Hinata went down to the middle of her thigh, it did little to hide Hinata's shapely silky smooth legs. Thus Naruto was just moments away from openly salivating, Hinata on the other hand was just so shocked to see Naruto awake and healthy she forgot about her lack of clothing and dive bombed Naruto… somehow the towel had luckily or some might say unluckily stayed intact and in place.
"Naruto-kun you awake!" Hinata said gleefully as she rubbed her face into his chest. By Kami how she missed the feeling. And while Hinata was enjoying herself Naruto was having mixed feelings… he knew they were far too young to be undertaking in such activities such as intercourse… and that Hiashi might tear him apart if he found out… but at the moment the temptation was overwhelming strong.
Fortunately for Naruto it was at this moment the door to Hinata's room slid open and here stood Hitomi Hyuga with a cup of tea in her hand smiling she said, "Hinata-chan the doctor said Naruto-kun should drink a cup of herbal… WHAT IN THE NAME OF HYUGA!" Only with her natural grace was Hitomi able to hold onto the cup of steaming hot tea, but surprise soon turned into a perverted grin when she said.
"While the doctor recommended some Herbal tea… I see that you wanted to give Naruto-kun a completely different sort of medicinal treatment… it really does work very well…" Hitomi finished with a giggle.
Hinata looked confused for a moment then noticed her mother scanning her up and down, Hinata looked down and only then did she remember to her horror her state of dress… or more of the lack of her state of dress. Letting out a loud "EEP" she flew off the bed and into her closet where loud sounds of rummaging and things hitting the floor was heard.
When she finally emerged again she was wearing her casual sleeping Kimono she tugged on her sleeves a bit then said with a red blush. "Oops…"
As for that young red haired girl, shes neither Karin or Tayuya. She's just a random OC I created to make reference to how there could be possible Uzumaki's spread throughout the world. Sadly Naruto will probably never make this connection with her.
As for my wording with the clones of Naruto and Hinata, I usually refer to them as "it's" as they often use Henge's and using He and she would start getting confusing. Sorry if it seemed weird.
