Transcending My Wings

{Dan} Hello again! I would like to take this time and thank the reviewers and fellow readers for taking their time and reading this story. Even though not everyone reviews, it is nice to see the counter go up! SO THANKS! and I also promise I wil not abandon this story since I still kinda am confused as to how wide the plot became since I originally planned this to be just a couple of chapters long.... hehehe....

{Naruto} Oi! Oi! You're getting off track! Story now!

{Dan} Gomen! Gomen! But also, to mimi-chan who mentioned that Itachi and Naruto's bond seems to be stronger is true, but there is a reason for it and I'm not planning to just get the two in a relationship so quickly so stay tuned because as it stands... the reason isn't far off from being unveiled.

{Naruto} Okay, Okay! Enough! On to the story!

{Dan} But I also want to thank spoon for a the review and- mmph! [Naruto slaps tape on Dan's face and straps him down to a chair so he could finally get on with the chapter...]

{Naruto} There! Now read on!

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To Transcend My Wings
: : Chapter 9: : Getting There
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“Where am I?” asked Naruto more to himself rather than to anyone in particular. A moment of silence met Naruto before the haziness melted away. He was met with nothing but darkness as the room still remained shrouded in the shadows. The blonde figure on the bed sat up a little as his head throbbed as if telling him that he might be getting a migraine. The blonde, obviously distracted, failed to notice that he was left bereft of his clothing and now currently lay still on the four post bed underneath a heavy blanket to provide warmth.

“Naruto-san,” uttered a previously silent figure in the darkest corner of the room where no light penetrated. Naruto was shell-shocked at not sensing another presence in the room, but then again these people he currently resides with happen to be ninjas.

“Yes?” asked Naruto in curious questioning.

“Lord Orochimaru requests your presence as soon as possible.” The statement was met in silence as previous situations suddenly flashed before him. He could remember how Orochimaru had touched him and it disgusted him. He felt like every part of himself that the snake man touches leaves an invisible mark burning him from within. However, after having felt Orochimaru’s length trying to breach him, he lost consciousness and everything became hazy.

“Naruto-san?” Tears started falling from the blonde’s before he, himself, even knew it. The blonde let himself find comfort in the warmth that the covers provided for him totally disregarding the other in the room as well.

“I’m tired,” muttered Naruto as darkness once again claimed him, but this time, before falling into the deep abyss, Naruto felt a tiny prick… strong enough to break skin but not enough to really hurt. Then Naruto was thrust into the deepest corner of his minds as his body suddenly stopped all movements only leaving his major organs working to keep him alive.


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“The scouts have come back stating that a group of five ninjas lead by Itachi-san are near the base, will we prepare to evacuate?” Kabuto had been wary of his lord’s temper ever since he’d left the blonde with the sannin. He figured that something must have gone wrong since he could also feel that Orochimaru’s chakra levels seemed to have decreased.

“Yes, I cannot go head to head with a member of Uchiha clan as of this moment, we move to our southern base for the moment.” Orochimaru is now currently livid, his current body is supposed to last for 2 more years, but ever since that incident with the blonde, his soul had been becoming unstable in the body and he couldn’t figure out how the blonde had managed to fend him off and undo a part of his immortality jutsu. As it stands, he would need a new body and fast.

“What of the blonde boy?”

“He is of no more consequence, but we better hurry, I fear my body will not hold for too long.” Secretly, Orochimaru still wanted the blonde to be his new vessel, but the risk was too great, since not even his genius mind could comprehend how the blonde's own chakra worked. Plus with fact that he almost came undone when he tried to claim the blonde's body, he just could not risk dying at the moment.

“Hai, Orochimaru-sama, understood.” In a matter of mere seconds, the whole base had been alerted of incoming ninjas.


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Upon arrival, the team couldn’t even plan the rest of their retrieval mission as Itachi quickly dashed off inside regardless of the danger and Sasuke could only follow in to look for the blonde as well. Sumaru had opted to looking for the blonde as well after the first two ran off so quickly. Kakashi and Haku had volunteered to guard the front and back entrance to the hideout to intercept any ninjas from getting in their way.

The lair itself was made in the covers of the underground. The only entrance and exits of the place were found on opposite sides hidden by something of a rock door. Inside, the place seemed to be more of a labyrinth stretching miles into the ground with more than a dozen of doors leading to different paths. And that is where the three nins find themselves.

The other three had gone inside the lair to scout out the premises while searching for the blonde. They had arrived merely a few moments ago following a grueling pace that Itachi set, but for some reason, their chakra reserves did not diminish yet they felt refreshed, just like the way they always feel whenever they were around the blonde – like they had limitless energy, but truth be told, their power comes from the blonde’s own chakra pattern as well.

“Can you feel him?” asked Haku towards the radio that is currently attached to the collar of his garments.

“Hai,” answered four other voices simultaneously. With that in mind, everyone set out what they had intended all along.

It didn’t take long for enemy nins to start appearing in small groups. The sound ninjas that have been alerted were instructed to delay the present nins for their Otokage to escape to another one of their hideouts and hopefully, buy enough time to slow them down enough to realize that most of the sound-nins were no longer there. Haku and Kakashi, on opposite parts of the place, were forced to battle the incoming sound-nins to give the other three time to find the one they were searching for not noticing that the sound-nins were not striking within close distances. Shurikens and Kunais were thrown from different angles and Haku and Kakashi easily deflected them. In no time at all, the fighting stopped and the sound-nins retreated leaving Haku and Kakashi questioning as to what had just transpired.


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Meanwhile, inside the labyrinth-like lair, Sasuke, Itachi and Sumaru split up in their search; the place was too big for them to search together.

It didn’t take long for Itachi to find the blonde. He merely had to tap into the surging emotions he was feeling to focus on the ‘tug’ that it produced, like a compass always pointing north. He had ended up in the farthest room in the hideout. This room was secluded and is only found by opening a seal in one of the doors that instantaneously reveals a hidden passage that goes deeper down into the darkness like a maze.

In that current room, he saw the blonde completely lacking of any clothes with his normally tanned skin now looking quite pale. Itachi felt a surge of unknown emotions… what is it that he was feeling? Sorrow? Fear? Sadness? Joy? Relief?

He couldn’t understand but the closer he got to the unmoving blonde, he suddenly knew that something was definitely off. It seemed like the body had fallen into sudden comatose or shock. He felt the blonde boy for a pulse and found a faint one. This gave him hope and quickly wrapped the blonde in the nearest set of blankets he could find before notifying the rest of the team to fall back to retreat back to Konoha. In the back of his head, he noticed that there were no one else in the place, like it was just previously evacuated.

He had gotten Naruto out a little too easily with no one to oppose him. Sasuke, along with Sumaru had also felt the lack of murderous intent in the place which would have meant that Orochimaru wasn’t present, but what unsettled them was the fact that they had not noticed any of it beforehand. They pushed the thoughts out of their heads for a while since they’ve gotten who they came for.

“Kakashi, meet us at the northern exit, I’ve got him.” The group noticed that Itachi’s voice became somewhat blank and empty, like this was just another mission, but they didn’t dwell on the thought as they hurried to their meeting point.

The group had met up at the northern entrance a short while later. They gathered round the blond and they decided to high-tail it back to the village in hopes of letting Tsunade figure out what exactly is wrong with the blond.


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The group had arrived at Konoha in record speed and had quickly divulged information on accounts to what happened to the Hokage who quickly acted and put Naruto through surgery. She had stabilized his vital signs and had used all she knew in medicinal arts to try and dispel whatever type of poison the snake sannin had been able to inject the blonde. She would have to guess that this poison is newly developed since the corrosive part of the poison had been remedied but it contained some lingering psychosomatic after effects that she had not foreseen.

After a couple of hours in intensive care, Tsunade had called for the guardians to relay her findings. All seven of them including both blondes gathered in the room.

“I cannot do anything more for him at this point,” said Tsunade in a calm yet knowing tone. She was met with strange looks and one of anger.

“What’s wrong with him?” asked Sasuke.

“His body is in no danger but I’m afraid that, for now, survival would be up to him.”

“What does that mean?” bit back Itachi.

“I mean, his body has fallen into some type of psychosomatic induced coma, I would think that his body would be able to function but his brainwaves are off.”

“Is there anything we can do?” asked Kakashi this time around. They all pretty much felt useless; it is true that they have gotten the blonde out of the sannin’s clutches but now they are presented with even more of an obstacle. Itachi looked on in passive silence before Tsunade spoke once more.

“At this point only sharingan users could penetrate the mind, but the greater danger would be if the sharingan user is to fail, then the mind would completely break down leaving the person as good as dead.” Tsunade looked towards Sauke and Itachi knowing their bloodline abilities, but not knowing as to which brother should be sent if they agree.

If Sasuke is sent, then he might be calm enough to help the blond through, but then she would be faced with a livid Itachi. Then again, if she sends Itachi then he might let his emotions take over him and he might cause more problems.

In the midst of her thoughts, Itachi moved right next to the unmoving blonde set in the hospital bed. For some reason, this reminded him of the first time he saw the blonde, this made him feel nostalgic but also helpless. It might become a repeating pattern for the blonde to end up this way if he doesn’t step up and properly protect the blonde. As his surging emotions went on and on in his head like a broken record, on the surface, his facial expression never changed from the normal stoic one he donned.

“Let me do this Hokage-sama… I wan- no, I need to save him,” uttered Itachi in a low voice almost unrecognizable. Tsunade looked at Itachi summing up the other’s convictions and found that he was entirely sincere and whole hearted in his wanting to help the blonde.

“Alright, all you’d need to do is use your sharingan and allow a part of your soul to delve into his, it will be just like using Tsukiyomi but instead, you will be the one to go into his world, then the rest will be up to you…” Tsunade paused in thought before continuing, "i can't tell you what you'll find in there, but just be careful."

“Understood.” Itachi propped Naruto’s body up for him to be in the sitting position and made a couple of hand motions and said, “Body mobilizing jutsu.” Naruto’s eyes fluttered open and Itachi let his sharingan activate and it began to spin wildly and he felt himself getting pulled from his body and into the blonde’s. After a couple more seconds, Itachi’s body fell lax and Sasuke caught him before crumpling to the floor.

Tsunade motioned for Kakashi to move the adjacent bed next to the one Naruto is on and told Sasuke to set the older Uchiha on the unoccupied bed. Now they can only wait and hope for the best.

TO BE CONTINUED!!!

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