Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Equality Naruto ❯ A Quick Recovery ( Chapter 4 )

Disclaimer: Naruto is a manga by Masashi Kishimoto, and that I in no way own or take credit for.

 

A Quick Recovery

 

 

Several hours later Naruto awoke feeling slightly refreshed, but stiff all over. Yawning he slid out of the bed and stood on his shaky feet. “Guess I'm a little tired.” He mumbled.

 

Standing up straight, Naruto suddenly felt the need to relieve himself. Stumbling over to the door he managed to open it. “…Clothes?” Naruto groaned as he noticed three other doors. He was exhausted and this little adventure to the bathroom was taking its toll. The physical exhaustion struck him like lightning. His legs cramped and he slowly fell backwards.

 

Naruto grunted as someone caught him mid fall. He grunted in pain. `Damn that hurt but I guess it was better than the floor.'

 

“For the love of God! Do you have some sick fetish with floors or just like playing in the closets?” Naruto looked up at his savior and mentally groaned. It was Sky holding him upright.

 

“Where's the bathroom?” He grumbled out while still being held.

 

Sky giggled as she looked at him. “Well last time I checked it wasn't in the closet.” Naruto frowned at the woman making jokes when he had to pee.

 

“THE BATHROOM please!” Naruto half yelled and wined.

 

“Can you stand?”

 

“Yeah I'm ok now.”

 

“Good.” she supported him to the bathroom. “Ok I hope you can handle it from here because this is as far as I go.” Naruto glared at the girl before closing the door and doing his business.

 

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Naruto sighed as he exited bathroom. He felt a lot better now.

 

“Hey shrimp, time to eat, get over here.” Naruto opened his mouth to yell, only for his nose to be assaulted by the smell of … `Food! Real, tasty, hot food!' He used the wall to balance as he tried to make his way towards the wonderful smell as quickly as possible.

 

Sighing sky stood up and helped him over to the bed, and handed him the rice and fish.

 

“You know most people wouldn't even be able to stand after the position I found you in. Then again you should have some time of sickness but you seem fine. Well best not to question Gods good grace.”

 

Naruto scoffed. `Good grace, yeah right. Was it good grace when God let the Fourth seal this crazed fox inside of me?” His thoughts were interrupted by the unexpected taste of the simple dish. “Wow this is good, not as good as ramen, but still good.”

 

Sky eyes bulged as Naruto sighed and patted his stomach. If you blinked you would have missed it. He'd eaten it so fast as if someone was going to take it.

 

“That was great.”

 

“Glad you liked it.”… `If you even got a chance to taste it.'

 

“Thank you.”

 

“No problem. So, are you going to tell me where you're from yet?”

 

Naruto rolled his eyes. “You'd have to kill me first.”

 

“Oh then it looks like the poison I put in that little meal of yours didn't go to waist. At least that's one way to get rid of you.”

 

Naruto's eye where as wide as saucers. “P- p-poison?”

 

Sky face twitched and she watched the kids face, this was priceless. She leaned back and let out a round of laughter.

 

“You're laughing? Does everyone want me dead?”

 

Sky's laughter ended abruptly as she noticed that he was actually crying. “H-Hey kid I was only messing. Cheer up. I was only joking alright. I-I'll go get you some more to eat and with that she rushed out of the uncomfortable room. She'd never been one for comforting others.” Sky entered her kitchen deep in thought. Something he'd said unsettled her.

 

“Does every one want me dead?”

 

`How would - no better yet why would any child, especially his age, think people want him dead.' She quickly refilled his bowl and returned to his side. She frowned as she noticed that goofy grin on his face. It unsettled her how quick and easy he'd masked his hurt with that goofy smile.

 

“Stop that!” She snapped.

 

“S-Stop what?” He asked genuinely confused.

 

“The fake smile, it's creepy. Plus you don't need to hide your feeling from me. I'm not a shinobi nor was I ever one, and I don't want you dead. Alright?” She watched as he nodded slowly.

 

“Good now eat, slowly, it's not going anywhere. Then rest some more.” With that she stood and walked out the room.

 

Naruto was left looking after the women with a new found respect. Smiling a true smile he started on his meal at a slower pace.

 

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Iruka stood in front of the Hokage's office with bad news. `This wasn't how this was supposed to go.' He thought bitterly.

 

“Iruka, please enter. What seems to be the problem?”

 

“I'm sorry to disturb you Hokage-sama, but I can't seem to find Naruto anywhere in the village.”

 

“I'm sure he's fine just playing a harmless prank somewhere.”

 

“Well you see, that's the problem.” He shifted uncomfortably as the Sarutobi eyed him. “Naruto hasn't been to class in nearly five days.”

 

“Why is it the first I'm hearing about this?”

 

“Well I didn't really notice he was missing until about a day and a half ago, and when I couldn't find him yesterday I continued the search today, but he's nowhere to be found.”

 

“I'll have the ANBU locate him.” Sarutobi eyed Iruka sharply before continuing. “You would do well to never let this happen again Iruka.”

 

“Y-yes Hokage-sama.” He said, before bowing and returning to his teaching duties.

 

Sarutobi stood and took a puff of his pipe before looking out over the village. `Naruto what are you up to now?'

 

Sarutobi felt the small shift in the air and turned to the ANBU captain with his dog mask on.

 

“Kakashi Naruto's gone missing I want him found it's been nearly a week.”

 

“Is it possible he's out side the village?”

 

“The chances are slim, but then again he is Konoha number one surprising ninja.”

 

Kakashi nodded before disappearing in a whirlwind of leaves.

 

`Find him Kakashi before someone or something else does.'

 

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Naruto sat in his temporary bed reading over his chakra scrolls. Turns out manipulating chakra isn't the easiest thing in the world. According to this book most ninja waist a lot of chakra when summoning it for use. The best way to avoid this is by learning to contain your chakra in certain parts of the body. `It's similar to chakra enhanced running.' He thought.

 

Sky found Naruto sitting on the floor periodically releasing chakra from specific parts of his body. The only weird thing was she could see the dark purple Chakra from each release. She wasn't a Shinobi but she had to have some way of disguising her hair when she when out it attracted too much attention. So she'd learned some basic control along with some helpful jutsu's. “What exactly are you trying to do?” She asked curiously.

 

“I'm learning to better control my chakra. I started this morning and I'm finally getting the hang of it.” he said with a excitement.

 

“You must have a tone of chakra to have been doing this for so long, most chunin would have died from chakra depletion!”

 

“Hey. How do you know so much about chakra? You said you weren't a shinobi!”

 

“Just because I know a little about chakra doesn't make me a shinobi. Even I know a few useful Jutsu.”

 

Naruto selective hearing decided it was time to help the blue eyed boy out, “………….I know……Jutsu.” Were the only word that Naruto heard.

 

“You do, can you teach me?!” Sky nearly fell out of her chair. Something told her he'd only heard the Jutsu part of her explanation. `Idiot.' She though bitterly.

 

Stifling her annoyance she considered the idea. The kid could kill himself with all that chakra if he over powered a jutsu. Well that made the answer easy. “No.”

 

“What! Why not?!”

 

“You can't control your chakra. You were using way too much chakra for any jutsu I know.”

 

“I can use less! Lots less, I swear look, Kawarimi no Jutsu!”

 

Sky watched as Naruto disappeared and a chair was left in his place. “What the hell?”

 

“See! That doesn't take much chakra at all.”

 

She watched him for a few seconds before agreeing. “I'll teach you a jutsu that will work much better that that horrible dye job on your head.”

 

Naruto was shocked. `She saw through my disguise and is offering me a better one? Maybe she wasn't so bad.'

 

“Come on shrimp, I don't have all day.”

 

`No she's really that bad.' He thought sadly. `I've got to stop with all the wishful thinking.'

 

Naruto stood and stretched, for the most part he was back to normal and planed on leaving tomorrow after breakfast. For now though he was going to learn a new jutsu, even if it wasn't a super killer move like the ones from the forbidden scroll.

 

Throwing on a green long sleeve shirt with a pair of gray pant he followed her into the kitchen.

 

“Alright there's only one warning, using too much chakra will force all your hair to fall out.”

 

Naruto looked at her with his mouth open. “M-my hair fall out, you mean like bald?”

 

“Well not forever, just until you grow it back.” She was laughing on the inside. This kid was way too easy, the poison thing hadn't gone well but this was ok.

 

Naruto kept imagining himself bald and was starting to wonder if he really wanted to learn this jutsu. That was, until sky spoke up.

 

“What's wrong shrimp, Scared?” The amusement was thick in her voice.

 

Naruto knew she was taunting him, but he acted instead of using this knowledge. “No I'm not. You just haven't shown me the hand seals!” he stated.

 

She laughed at the brave face he had on. “Ok fair enough. There are three hand seals, first, Snake then Sheep and for the color you add the Rooster while thinking the desired color. Got that shrimp?”

 

“Stop calling me that!!!” He growled. “How much chakra, and where do I concentrate it?”

 

She laughed lightly. “I'd start with the smallest amount of chakra and work my way up. As for where, try concentrating it in your fingers and simple rub through your hair when finished.”

 

Naruto nodded and got to work. “Color, color, which color?” While Naruto decided on the color Sky slipped out of the room and retrieved a hand mirror.

 

Upon reentering the room she was met by an enthusiastic yell from Naruto.

 

“I Got It!” She watched as he ran through the hand signs; Snake, Sheep, Rooster. With that, he ran his fingers through his hair.

 

Sky didn't know when, but sometime between the time Naruto had finished the jutsu, and the split second that followed, he'd gotten her mirror.

 

“WHAT GIVES! Nothing happened!” He yelled in outrage.

 

Sky blinked a couple of times getting over the slight shock of her stolen mirror. Walking over she inspected his hair… `That's weird it should have altered the hair even if only in the slightest.' Truly confused she parted his hair and noticed the problem instantly.

 

“Your jutsu sucks I cant believe I fell for - ” Sky's fist connected solidly with his head.

 

“Stop jumping to conclusions, and go wash that dye out your hair… shrimp!”

 

“You're not the boss of me! Plus I don't have any more hair dye to redo it.”

 

“For starters, this is my home you're a guest, so yes, I am the boss of you. Two, anyone could see through that horrid dyed job, and three, the jutsu worked. You just need to wash away the dye before your hair re-dye's itself.” She blinked, and he was gone.

 

“What the…” The sound of running water alerted her to his whereabouts. Laughing lightly she turned around to make them lunch. She frowned as she noticed the black dye on her hands. “Looks like the hair was bleached and the new color was left underneath. Strange, I've never seen that happen, then again I don't do dark colors.” Washing her hands she registered the color he'd chosen, and shook her head. “Could he have picked a louder color?”

 

~*~

 

Naruto stood in front of the large mirror. “YAAATTAA!!! It worked!” Naruto gave his reflection a thumbs up… `Orange was defiantly his color.' He thought happily

 

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Ok you know what I used to write super long chapters for my older stories, and still do for one, but I found that these shorter chapters are easier to up-date quickly. Long chapters are hard to edit. SO theses will continue to remain short chapters. I've learned so much about hair dye it's creepy… Turns out you can't just wash dye out, you have to bleach it if it's super dark. So I just improvised a hair Jutsu!..LOL Well enjoy the story. Hope you like it. Oh, I fixed last chapter, instead of promising to be the Hokage, he claimed he'd be a Kage, which opens up a whole new world interesting possibilities. Um… I'm not editing chapters anymore. If you want to edit just say so. Remember no matter what happens this is a Hinata&Naruto fanfic.

 

Till next time…