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Author’s Note: So May 6
th was my last day was for the semester. I’m really sorry that I had you guys wait this long for the update but I have been working 6 days a week at my job to save up cash and so I liked relaxing in what little free time I had. I have also edited Chapters nine and ten from some things pointed out by reviews. I got home today and relaxed for a little when I started getting ideas and have typed for hours. So here you go.
Answers to Review: wdxiii20: I’m glad I was able to ease your mind. I hope you continue to enjoy my story.
That was it for now, and now onto the story! "
Flashback"
'Huh?'- thinking
"What?"- talking
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RASENGAN" -Jutsu "
What do you want brat?" -Demon speaking
Chapter 11: Cracked
With Naruto’s Group
Most of Naruto’s girls were relaxing while Lee and Shino went to get food and Naruto and Kiyomi were slowly training Tsunami to gather her new found chakra that she had received after being with Naruto.
“Can you feel anything Tsunami-chan?” He asked her while she was sitting down concentrating. He watched her as he suddenly felt a small but noticeable pulse from her as she jumped surprised at the new feeling.
“Was that chakra that I just felt Naruto-kun!?” She asked jumping up and smiling and then hugging him when he nodded happy for her.
Kiyomi smirked deciding to mess with her
“I wouldn’t be celebrating just yet Tsunami-chan you still need to harness it and learn to use it for battle” Tsunami looked over and smiled playfully before looking over to Naruto.
“Yes I know but I’m sure with such a smart and talented teacher I’ll get it down in no time” She replied not letting Kiyomi ruin her good mood. She then look at Naruto and whispered in his ear sensually “Right Na…ru...to…kun?” she finished smirking at him.
In Konoha
Hokage’s Office
The village was no longer in a state of panic as Tsunade has finally gotten the civilians to calm down. Unknown to the most of them though was that the village was just barely getting by. On another note every time one of the nurses asked about Jiraiya and what they should do, she told them to just make sure he was comfortable and if anything happened to call her. Looking out her window at the village she sighs “Is it our faults that the village has fallen so far?” She turns back to her desk in thought ‘If grandfather or sensei saw us now what would they say? Would they be mad at us and the village or Naruto for his actions?’ She looked down and smiled weakly “I know what the village did to Naruto growing up wasn’t ok but that doesn’t excuse his actions and him deserting the leaf. And I don’t know why the toads and slugs got so mad after being told everything, especially how me and Jiraiya weren’t there for Naruto growing up. Jiraiya was too busy with his spy network for Naruto and as for me….” she faltered for a second trying to think of a good reason. “I was still getting over all my sorrows and helping Shizune with her medical training” she told herself nodding, but whether she wanted to admit or not even she knew that was not a good reason but a very good excuse.
She looked up and called an Anbu recognizing Yamato she spoke quickly “Yamato I need you to get me Asuma, Kakashi, Kurenai, Anko, Hana, and Iruka. And when you do I would like you to come back as well as this meeting will require your presence as well” when she finished Yamato merely nodded before leaving to do the task given to him. Tsunade looked up again “SHIZUNE GET IN HERE!”
With Ino & Shikamaru
Ino and Shikamaru were walking though the village trying to clear their heads and go over the all that has happened lately and try to come to terms with everything. Well they would but Shikamaru was currently in deep thought not even noticing Ino trying to get his attention until… “PAY ATTENTION TO ME WHEN I’M TALKING TO YOU!” Shikamaru heard snapping out of his thoughts just in time for Ino to hit him over the head.
He looked up at her annoyed “What was that for you troublesome woman?”
Ino looked ready to hit him again before taking a deep breath ‘Well at least now I have his attention’ she thought to herself “I was trying to ask you a question but you were so deep in your own thoughts you weren’t paying attention again!” She said annoyed only to look at him calmly “What were you thinking about anyways?” She asked curious
Shikamaru only sighed and rubbed the now sore spot on his head “I was thinking about the meeting Tenten called everyone to. I have the feeling she was leaving some details out, more specifically the fight with Jiraiya and Naruto” he replied looking up at the clouds.
Ino looked at him puzzled with this “But why would she do that? I mean anything that has to do with Naruto would be good information for all of us to know right?” She said convinced of her own motives for the blonde rogue.
Shikamaru sighed “That’s what I was thinking about when you decided to hit me Ino” he said looking at her deadpanned only to see her roll her eyes at him.
Well then you should have told me that instead of outright ignoring me baka!” she yelled at him again hitting him but not nearly as hard this time. She thinks for a moment “But if she is hiding something what exactly do you think it was she hid Shikamaru?”
Said boy only looked at her finally serious “I can think of a few theories Ino but I’m not positive about any of them” he told her serious and looked over to see her surprised to see him thinking this hard about anything.
She thought for a moment to herself “Maybe we could just go and ask Tenten herself?” she said as if it was the simplest thing in the world looking over waiting for his reply.
He only nodded keeping his thoughts to himself “Sure since I can’t seem to think of anything myself Ino I guess if we’re lucky once she sees that we’re onto her she’ll just admit what she was hiding” he said getting up and heading to Tenten & Neji’s place Ino right next to him.
3 Minutes earlier with Tenten & Neji
Tenten was training hard with her boyfriend but was slowly starting to get annoyed as she noticed his mind seemed to be elsewhere, most of the time with him standing still for a minute or two while thought. Finally giving up and growling annoyed she spoke up “Ok Neji since you’re obviously too preoccupied to take training seriously right now why don’t you tell me what is on your mind?”
Neji sighs and looks over to his partner “Tenten why did I get the feeling you were withholding information from the rest of us at the meeting?” He asks her getting straight to the point.
Tenten mentally slaps herself forgetting that it is very hard to hide things from the Hyuuga. ‘And if he caught onto me then Shikamaru probably did too. Meaning I can be expecting a visit from him and Ino soon’ she walks over to him and motions for him to sit down next to her. Waiting till he does so she whispers into his ear “Before I tell you can you use your Byakugan and make sure no one else is around? I don’t think this information was supposed to be known by anyone besides Lady Tsunade and Jiraiya”.
Neji merely nods and checks the area quickly before looking back to Tenten and nodding once more letting her know the coast was clear. Tenten looks over to him and speaks quietly and seriously “Well you know how we were told that Naruto released the Kyuubi and that she was one of the women with Naruto who helped fight the group sent after Naruto?” Neji nods at this, letting Tenten continue “Well I guess that after Gamabunta left Jiraiya was so pissed off that he was still underestimating Naruto and even threatening to seal Kyuubi back into him after he knocked Naruto out and that then he would drag him back to Konoha even without the toads’ approval.”
Neji’s eyes grew wide at this before he scoffed “Has he really become that senile that after seeing what Naruto and his group did to the others he thought he could still treat Naruto like a child and not expect retaliation?”
Tenten nodded slowly “And that’s not even the worst part. According to Jiraiya it wasn’t even close to being a close fight. I don’t think he even scratched Naruto. From what I heard Naruto was merely playing with Jiraiya before he finally knocked him out. After that was when Naruto poisoned his Chakra coils and healed Jiraiya before sending his body back to Konoha with the toads’ message.”
With Tenten finished Neji just sat there for a moment letting it all sink in before speaking “I can’t believe Naruto was hiding all this power from us. I knew he was strong, that much was obvious after he defeated the Akatsuki, but this… this is something entirely different.”
Tenten only nodded in agreement before she saw Neji looking past her. She turned around to see Shikamaru and Ino walking towards them and sighed knowing what they wanted. ‘I should have just waited till they got here. Then I wouldn’t have needed to tell the story twice’ she thought mentally before turning to talk to them staring warily at Ino hoping that after Tenten was done Ino could be part of the group who now saw everything was cause because of them.
With Hinata & Kiba
Kiba sighed annoyed as he was still trying to get Hinata to cheer up. She was really depressed after coming back from the failed mission of trying to get Naruto to return to Konoha and after the meeting they all had with Tenten she was considerably worse.
He walked over to where she was sitting in their room and sat beside her “Hinata how long are you going to be like this? I mean I know it sucks that Naruto is being such a prick and how he deserted us but crying like this isn’t going make things better.” He said hoping to get a response…and he did but not the one he was expecting.
Kiba suddenly felt his cheek sting followed by having the wind knocked out of him and looked up as he was on his knees trying to get his breath back “WHAT THE HELL HINATA!?” However he got quickly relaxed after seeing the look of rage in her eyes.
She stood up and looked down at the man- no boy that she was stuck with “WHAT’S WRONG WITH ME!? WHAT’S WRONG IS THAT I STILL CAN’T BELIEVE HOW YOU AND THE OTHERS CONTINUE TO BLAME NARUTO WHEN YOU ARE THE ONES BEING SELFISH!?” She screamed in loudest tone she has even used in her life.
Slowly getting back on his feet Kiba looked at Hinata with a mixture of anger and confusion and spoke at her without yelling but still showing his anger “You’re still defending him!? He was the one who betrayed the village! He was the one who allowed those whores of his to brutally attack you and the others! He turned his back on us, the village and you! So why do you still continue to DEFEND HIM!?” Kiba finished yelling at the end before he looked down as his anger dissipated to see her looking down with what appeared to be tears running down her cheeks.
She slowly looked up anger and pain in her eyes while the tears continued to flow “Because. He. Deserves. It. The only reason he betrayed us is because we all betrayed his trust first. We all knew what his childhood was like and how much he wanted to be loved and cared about. He thought that we all cared for him and gave us his heart, hoping we would do the same. And how do we repay him? By breaking his heart into pieces one by one until there was NOTHING!”
She fell to the ground as she sat with her knees and continued to cry “And because it’s the least I can do for him. I loved him my whole childhood and because I was always too shy to tell him how I felt he dated Sakura. But as selfish as it sounds I was actually happy when Sakura dumped him for Sasuke. I even went as far as to finally confess my love to him, hoping that he would accept me…and he did” she laughs disgusted with the memory but not for what Kiba thought she did.
She looks down angry at herself “I was so happy Kiba. But when he had to go on that mission, I started having thoughts like “What if he finds someone else while he’s gone? Or “What if he actually didn’t want to be with me but couldn’t turn me down because he didn’t want to hurt my feelings?” She scoffs at herself “All of which I know now and SHOULD have known back then are things Naruto would never do!”
She then looks up at Kiba “And then you Kiba instead of reassuring me of the same, you saw Naruto being gone as the go ahead to start flirting with me again. Combined with all the negative thoughts I was having before along with your continuous flirting…I finally gave in” She said looking down as Kiba smiled at the memory of that night they had their first time when a thought hit him.
“Yea I remember that night Hinata. I thought it was so nice finally getting to be with you. I loved hearing you moan and yell my name as we took it slow like you wanted. Right before we took that final step. I still can’t believe that you didn’t even give Naruto your virginity and that I was the one to receive it instead. I thought that was so nice” He replies sighing happily at the memory not even realizing what he said before it was too late.
This time Kiba didn’t even get to scream as his groin was struck and he fell to the floor looking up with tears in his eyes as he tried to hide the pain he was in. He looked up to notice Hinata wasn’t there and was now at the door not even looking at him “Don’t remind me” she then turned around to look at him “You really don’t care about the pain I’m in do you?” she turned back around looking out the door and before leaving spoke again “I’m going for a walk. Hopefully by the time I get back you will have grown up even just a little…and don’t worry there isn’t going to be any permanent damage to your “little” friend Kiba. I’ll be back in a couple hours.” She finished before slamming the door leaving Kiba on the floor in pain.
And after all this Kiba had only one thought on his mind ‘Man, she is scary when she gets pissed. I’ll have to remember not to get on her bad side anymore.’
Back in the Hokage’s office
Tsunade was currently looking over all the people she had called “So I’m sure you’re all wondering why I called you to my office” with that said Tsunade didn’t even notice some of the Shinobi roll their eyes “I wanted to call you all here so we can all brainstorm on how to get Naruto back to the village and after seeing how strong he’s gotten I can’t rely on the younger ones anymore” She finished waiting to see if any of them had any ideas. Iruka, Anko, and Shizune merely looked down not saying a word while Hana was discreetly trying to hide her emotions.
The first person to step forward was unsurprisingly Kakashi, who cleared his throat before speaking “Personally Lady Tsunade I think we should go ahead and put Naruto in the Bingo book. It’s much too obvious now that if we just let him be he will become a huge problem. While our former allies would like to go ahead and just place the blame on us once they see just how much Naruto has changed I’m sure they will help us subdue him” Kakashi finished bowing his head and then sat back down.
Tsunade put her hands onto her desk thinking over what Kakashi said “I will admit that is a possibility Kakashi and I’m assuming Naruto would be a given S-rank. The only question I have now is do we put him down as a capture or kill on site?” Iruka, Anko, and Shizune looked up their eyes widening at this.
Hana however looked up angry and spoke her opinion “WHAT!? Why would you even consider marking him as a kill on site?! If you were going to go and do that what was the point of even sending Kakashi and the others to go and try to bring him back?!” She yelled with the ferocity in her voice making even Kakashi surprised.
Once he thought about what she said though, he eye smiled “Aw were you that worried about me when I had to leave Hana? I’ll admit Naruto did a number on us but you know I wouldn’t just leave you alone like that right?”
Hana promptly walked over to her boyfriend and bonked him on the head “IT’S NOT LIKE THAT YOU BAKA!” She huffed and once she was calm turned back to the Hokage “What I meant is that why even try to retrieve him if you’re just going to go around and put him in the bingo book? And furthermore why even bother with that when I highly doubt anyone else in the elemental countries could stand up to him? Especially with the women he has at his side now. Why don’t we just leave him alone and see what happens?” She said looking around to see everyone but Iruka, Anko, and Shizune looking at her like she was crazy.
Tsunade cleared her throat getting everyone’s attention “That is completely out of the question. If we leave him be there’s no telling how much damage he will cause and if there’s even a small chance that he will go to a new village or even turn the other villages against us more we can’t risk it.”
Shizune got up at this and walked over to her mentor “Actually Lady Tsunade I think what Hana said is a good idea. Why don’t we just leave him alone? Even for a little while” Tsunade looked at Shizune confused as did Yamato.
Yamato spoke up before Tsunade had a chance “Shizune how can you even agree with Hana after seeing what Naruto was capable and how he treated us at Suna?” Shizune turned around and glared at him.
She walked over to him and looked him in the eye “Because unlike you and the others I’m not afraid to admit that we screwed up and it’s our fault that Naruto left” Everyone went silent at this, right up until it registered what she said when all hell broke loose.
Meanwhile
Sasuke Uchiha was walking in the Anbu prison following a guard to a cell. When they finally arrived the guard let him in before leaving him with a warning before closing the door “Don’t try anything stupid” Sasuke merely scoffed at the remark before he turned around and saw who he was looking for.
“Hello Sakura.”
Back in the Hokage’s Office
The group of Shinobi was still in Tsunade’s office arguing over what they should do with Hana, Anko, Iruka, and Shizune voicing the idea of leaving Naruto alone when someone burst into her office “Lady Tsunade we have a problem!”
The arguing stopped as Tsunade sighed “What is it now?!” The Anbu guard flinched for a second before continuing in a calm tone.
“I’m sorry to interrupt your meeting Hokage-sama but Sasuke Uchiha has just been found dead.”
The room was deathly quiet at this before Tsunade snapped “WHAT!? WHEN AND HOW DID THIS HAPPEN!?”
The Anbu guard looked nervous “We don’t know how he was killed yet Hokage-sama only that he was found dead in the Anbu prison and that’s not the worst of it.”
Tsunade sighed at this and felt an even bigger headache coming “What could possibly be worse?”
The guard stood his ground “It’s Sakura Haruno Hokage-sama. She’s gone.”
Chapter End
Man that felt good. I haven’t written in so long. By the way I suck when it comes to fights techniques. If anyone is interested in helping me leave me a PM or something.
Ja ne,
Dansama92
