Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Love and Death ❯ Trial - Battle ( Chapter 12 )
[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
By: Bookkbaby84 
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Romance / Angst | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 08.08.2005 | Pages: 1 | Words: 1.8K | Visits: 537 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Romance / Angst | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 08.08.2005 | Pages: 1 | Words: 1.8K | Visits: 537 | Status: Completed
Sorry for not updating! I've been busy, and I was just at camp, so I've been gone for three weeks. I only have three new chappies up, not five, but I should be getting more up soon...
Sasuke had been right next to Naruto when the nins had attacked. He had been drawn farther away from Naruto as the battle progressed, until he was actually in the crowd, by all the civilians and protecting them from the attacks. He had been succeeding as well as he could, under the cirumstances.
He snuck a glance at Naruto. The blond looked like he was spacing out, listening to something only he could hear.
He obviously didn't see the kunai and shurikien headed for him.
Before Sasuke was consciously aware of it, he felt his body move. Like a missle, he headed straight for Naruto, putting himself between Naruto and danger.
He gasped as he felt the first kunai hit the small of his back. Another went into his arm. A few missed, but the last few needles went straight through him, puncturing his lung. Blood instantly started to fill the organ as Sasuke crumpled before Naruto.
The last thing he saw was Naruto's shocked face before he blacked out, wounds still gushing crimson liquid.
Naruto watched with wide, frightened eyes as Sasuke fell, blood flying behind him from where he was hit.
"Sasuke?" he asked. The dark-haired boy didn't move. Naruto called his name again, frantically.
"Sasuke?!" The Uchiha coughed, blood flying from his lungs. Naruto went pale as he realized how shallow his friends breathing was. He saw the group of needles embedded deep in Sasuke's body. They must have punctured the lung.
'Even Haku didn't do this much damage...' Naruto realized.
Sasuke was dying.
'And it's your fault, brat. If you had been paying attention, he wouldn't have leapt in to save you. He wouldn't have died.' Kyuubi reminded him, a note of gleeful spite in the fox's voice.
Naruto felt tears rolling down his cheeks. Sasuke was dying and it was all his fault.
Suddenly, a booted foot appeared on top of Sasuke's lifeless body.
"Are you the fox-child?" a gruff voice asked.
"Get your foot off of him." Naruto growled, his tears drying as he burned with anger.
"Are you the brat or not?" the man asked, drawing a kunai and holding it up to Naruto's throat.
'I could get promoted for this- killing him will get me somewhere, at least.' the man thought, grinning.
"I said, get your foot off of him." Naruto said, not looking at the man's face.
"Are you the damn fox-brat or not?!" the man demanded, shoving the kunai a little ways into Naruto's throat. Blood trickled from the wound.
"Your foot. Off." Naruto said thickly. The man sighed, exasperated, and then kicked Sasuke's body. The dying boy gasped in pain, then hissed as that burned his lungs.
"Happy?" the man didn't notice that Naruto had frozen in shock, and then had started shaking with barely repressed rage.
"You're dead." Naruto hissed, glaring up at the man that had decided to kick Sasuke out of the way. Not thinking about the consequences, he let Kyuubi take over as he lunged at the man.
The last thing the Sound nin ever saw was blood-red eyes and fangs before his throat was torn out.
Sakura hid behind Lee as he bloocked the weapons aimed for her.
"Sakura-chan, please get behind something solid." Lee said, wincing and biting his lip as he spoke. He hissed as a kunai lodged itself firmly in his kidney.
"Lee-san?" Sakura asked, shocked. "What about you? Why are you protecting me?"
"Please, Sakura-chan! Get somewhere safe." Lee pleaded with her.
"You too then. The Sound nins are way too dangerous- we can't take them on now." Lee hissed again as a senbon needle grazed his neck. Before Sakura could react, he scooped her up in his arms and leapt to a safe place behind a stone statue. He sey her down, bleeding from a few wounds that had closed just a minute or two ago that he had foolishly reopened.
"Stay here, Sakura-chan." Lee said, smiling at her. Quickly- as though afraid she'd hit him- he bent forward and pressed their lips together. Sakura was shocked, but it was gone as quickly as it came.
"Gomen ni, Sakura-chan. I was too forward, but I didn't want to die without having kissed you." With that said, he got into his 'nice guy' pose, one thumb up. "I'll protect you." He turned and ran back into the fray, carefully making sure that nothing would hurt Sakura.
Sakura put one hand to her lips, sliding down to her knees.
'Lee-san... kissed me...' she thought, shocked. She felt numb, not even hearing the sounds of battle near her come to a sudden hush, as the nine-tailed fox joined the battle.
Naruto knew exactly what he was doing. He tore out the throat of the man that had been so callous as to kick the dying body of Sasuke. He spat the slightly bitter-tasting flesh of the poor Sound nin. Blood dripped from his chin to soak his shirt.
He growled as he turned, leaning back onto his legs and springing forward- over the heads of the combatants- to kill as many Sound ninja as he could before dying.
Kakashi swore in his mind. They were losing, and badly. He had taken out twenty-four of their number, but there seemed to be two for every one he killed.
He had his back to the wall now, making sure none could sneak up on him. He quickly performed seals for a fire-jutsu, using more of his quickly dissipating chakra to fry several nin close to him. A few got away with only slight burns, and Kakashi was nearly helpless to defend himself as half a dozen projectiles flew towards him. He tried to grab for one of his own kunai, but he had no more. Suddenly, an orange blur shot in front of him, taking a few blades in his body and slapping the rest down with the palm of his hand.
"Naruto!" Kakashi said, astonished. His eyes grew wide with realization of who this actually was when he saw the orange figure easily and mercilessly behead two of the opponents, cut another in half, and crack a few skulls.
"Kyuubi..." Kakashi breathed, watching all his foes that he had struggled so hard with fall dead before this deadly creature.
Kyuubi spared him a single glance before darting off, apparently deciding not to kill him.
Kakashi breathed an inaudible sigh of relief.
Naruto felt a burning sensation build up in his body. It felt like his flesh was melting and morphing.
'Kyuubi, what's going on?' he asked the fox in his mind.
'I don't know. Why do you have control of this body!? I should be controlling it!' Kyuubi thought, agitated.
'Sucks to be you, then.' Naruto thought. 'Why does my skin feel like it's melting? What did you do?!'
'...Melting?' Kyuubi thought. Naruto could hear the shock and...was that fear? Why would Kyuubi be afraid? 'Damnit!'
'What is going on?!' Naruto demanded, stopping for a moment.
'Foolish boy! Keep moving, brat!' Kyuubi said, as a few senbon went through Naruto's arm. Naruto hissed, then turned to his attacker. The man looked startled at his appearence, but Naruto just growled before ripping him apart, getting more blood on his orange clothes.
'You tell me what the hell is going on when this is over, got it?' Naruto thought before leaping to a few more Sound nin. He grabbed two by the necks and slammed their heads together with such force their necks broke and their skulls cracked. He quickly sliced another in half before they had time to react, but the next three were ready for him. He was sliced across his cheek, adding another stripe, before he managed to behead the offender. He quickly cut the legs out from under his opponent, and then he sliced one of teh arms off for good measure. He nearly got burned from a fire jutsu the last one aimed at him, but the only thing that got hit was his shirt. He quickly rolled, putting the fire out before leaping like a wild animal and cutting his final opponent into three pieces.
"Bastards." Naruto muttered, wiping his cheek clean of sweat and the bit of blood that had somehow managed to land up that high. He glanced around, and narrowed his eyes.
Rock Lee was fighting all by himself in a sea of enemies. He was slowing, and Naruto could see cuts appearing all over his body. His jumpsuit was just strips of cloth from the amount of shallow cuts he was recieving, and his right arm was obviously broken. He favored his whole right side, come to think. Broken ribs.
'They're bleeding him to death. They won't let him die in battle, like a proper warrior, and instead make sure he dies of blood loss. No honor.' Kyuubi thought.
'That's my friend they're doing that to.' Naruto thought, leaping to Rock Lee's side.
"Lee!" he called out. Lee quickly glanced up to see who had called his name, but that one second distraction was all that was needed. He was sent flying into a brick wall. He gasped, then fell, hitting the ground with a boneless thump.
From far away, Naruto heard a girl shriek Lee's name. A small aprt of his mind recognized Sakura's voice. Naruto ran to Lee, checking his vitals to make sure he wasn't dead.
Sakura suddenly appeared beside him, tears in her eyes as she looked at Lee.
"He'll be okay- he's not dead." Naruto said softly. Sakura looked at him, eyes wide.
"Naruto?" she asked in a small voice, as if not sure who it was. Naruto nodded.
"Yes, Sakura. It's me."
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Sasuke had been right next to Naruto when the nins had attacked. He had been drawn farther away from Naruto as the battle progressed, until he was actually in the crowd, by all the civilians and protecting them from the attacks. He had been succeeding as well as he could, under the cirumstances.
He snuck a glance at Naruto. The blond looked like he was spacing out, listening to something only he could hear.
He obviously didn't see the kunai and shurikien headed for him.
Before Sasuke was consciously aware of it, he felt his body move. Like a missle, he headed straight for Naruto, putting himself between Naruto and danger.
He gasped as he felt the first kunai hit the small of his back. Another went into his arm. A few missed, but the last few needles went straight through him, puncturing his lung. Blood instantly started to fill the organ as Sasuke crumpled before Naruto.
The last thing he saw was Naruto's shocked face before he blacked out, wounds still gushing crimson liquid.
Naruto watched with wide, frightened eyes as Sasuke fell, blood flying behind him from where he was hit.
"Sasuke?" he asked. The dark-haired boy didn't move. Naruto called his name again, frantically.
"Sasuke?!" The Uchiha coughed, blood flying from his lungs. Naruto went pale as he realized how shallow his friends breathing was. He saw the group of needles embedded deep in Sasuke's body. They must have punctured the lung.
'Even Haku didn't do this much damage...' Naruto realized.
Sasuke was dying.
'And it's your fault, brat. If you had been paying attention, he wouldn't have leapt in to save you. He wouldn't have died.' Kyuubi reminded him, a note of gleeful spite in the fox's voice.
Naruto felt tears rolling down his cheeks. Sasuke was dying and it was all his fault.
Suddenly, a booted foot appeared on top of Sasuke's lifeless body.
"Are you the fox-child?" a gruff voice asked.
"Get your foot off of him." Naruto growled, his tears drying as he burned with anger.
"Are you the brat or not?" the man asked, drawing a kunai and holding it up to Naruto's throat.
'I could get promoted for this- killing him will get me somewhere, at least.' the man thought, grinning.
"I said, get your foot off of him." Naruto said, not looking at the man's face.
"Are you the damn fox-brat or not?!" the man demanded, shoving the kunai a little ways into Naruto's throat. Blood trickled from the wound.
"Your foot. Off." Naruto said thickly. The man sighed, exasperated, and then kicked Sasuke's body. The dying boy gasped in pain, then hissed as that burned his lungs.
"Happy?" the man didn't notice that Naruto had frozen in shock, and then had started shaking with barely repressed rage.
"You're dead." Naruto hissed, glaring up at the man that had decided to kick Sasuke out of the way. Not thinking about the consequences, he let Kyuubi take over as he lunged at the man.
The last thing the Sound nin ever saw was blood-red eyes and fangs before his throat was torn out.
Sakura hid behind Lee as he bloocked the weapons aimed for her.
"Sakura-chan, please get behind something solid." Lee said, wincing and biting his lip as he spoke. He hissed as a kunai lodged itself firmly in his kidney.
"Lee-san?" Sakura asked, shocked. "What about you? Why are you protecting me?"
"Please, Sakura-chan! Get somewhere safe." Lee pleaded with her.
"You too then. The Sound nins are way too dangerous- we can't take them on now." Lee hissed again as a senbon needle grazed his neck. Before Sakura could react, he scooped her up in his arms and leapt to a safe place behind a stone statue. He sey her down, bleeding from a few wounds that had closed just a minute or two ago that he had foolishly reopened.
"Stay here, Sakura-chan." Lee said, smiling at her. Quickly- as though afraid she'd hit him- he bent forward and pressed their lips together. Sakura was shocked, but it was gone as quickly as it came.
"Gomen ni, Sakura-chan. I was too forward, but I didn't want to die without having kissed you." With that said, he got into his 'nice guy' pose, one thumb up. "I'll protect you." He turned and ran back into the fray, carefully making sure that nothing would hurt Sakura.
Sakura put one hand to her lips, sliding down to her knees.
'Lee-san... kissed me...' she thought, shocked. She felt numb, not even hearing the sounds of battle near her come to a sudden hush, as the nine-tailed fox joined the battle.
Naruto knew exactly what he was doing. He tore out the throat of the man that had been so callous as to kick the dying body of Sasuke. He spat the slightly bitter-tasting flesh of the poor Sound nin. Blood dripped from his chin to soak his shirt.
He growled as he turned, leaning back onto his legs and springing forward- over the heads of the combatants- to kill as many Sound ninja as he could before dying.
Kakashi swore in his mind. They were losing, and badly. He had taken out twenty-four of their number, but there seemed to be two for every one he killed.
He had his back to the wall now, making sure none could sneak up on him. He quickly performed seals for a fire-jutsu, using more of his quickly dissipating chakra to fry several nin close to him. A few got away with only slight burns, and Kakashi was nearly helpless to defend himself as half a dozen projectiles flew towards him. He tried to grab for one of his own kunai, but he had no more. Suddenly, an orange blur shot in front of him, taking a few blades in his body and slapping the rest down with the palm of his hand.
"Naruto!" Kakashi said, astonished. His eyes grew wide with realization of who this actually was when he saw the orange figure easily and mercilessly behead two of the opponents, cut another in half, and crack a few skulls.
"Kyuubi..." Kakashi breathed, watching all his foes that he had struggled so hard with fall dead before this deadly creature.
Kyuubi spared him a single glance before darting off, apparently deciding not to kill him.
Kakashi breathed an inaudible sigh of relief.
Naruto felt a burning sensation build up in his body. It felt like his flesh was melting and morphing.
'Kyuubi, what's going on?' he asked the fox in his mind.
'I don't know. Why do you have control of this body!? I should be controlling it!' Kyuubi thought, agitated.
'Sucks to be you, then.' Naruto thought. 'Why does my skin feel like it's melting? What did you do?!'
'...Melting?' Kyuubi thought. Naruto could hear the shock and...was that fear? Why would Kyuubi be afraid? 'Damnit!'
'What is going on?!' Naruto demanded, stopping for a moment.
'Foolish boy! Keep moving, brat!' Kyuubi said, as a few senbon went through Naruto's arm. Naruto hissed, then turned to his attacker. The man looked startled at his appearence, but Naruto just growled before ripping him apart, getting more blood on his orange clothes.
'You tell me what the hell is going on when this is over, got it?' Naruto thought before leaping to a few more Sound nin. He grabbed two by the necks and slammed their heads together with such force their necks broke and their skulls cracked. He quickly sliced another in half before they had time to react, but the next three were ready for him. He was sliced across his cheek, adding another stripe, before he managed to behead the offender. He quickly cut the legs out from under his opponent, and then he sliced one of teh arms off for good measure. He nearly got burned from a fire jutsu the last one aimed at him, but the only thing that got hit was his shirt. He quickly rolled, putting the fire out before leaping like a wild animal and cutting his final opponent into three pieces.
"Bastards." Naruto muttered, wiping his cheek clean of sweat and the bit of blood that had somehow managed to land up that high. He glanced around, and narrowed his eyes.
Rock Lee was fighting all by himself in a sea of enemies. He was slowing, and Naruto could see cuts appearing all over his body. His jumpsuit was just strips of cloth from the amount of shallow cuts he was recieving, and his right arm was obviously broken. He favored his whole right side, come to think. Broken ribs.
'They're bleeding him to death. They won't let him die in battle, like a proper warrior, and instead make sure he dies of blood loss. No honor.' Kyuubi thought.
'That's my friend they're doing that to.' Naruto thought, leaping to Rock Lee's side.
"Lee!" he called out. Lee quickly glanced up to see who had called his name, but that one second distraction was all that was needed. He was sent flying into a brick wall. He gasped, then fell, hitting the ground with a boneless thump.
From far away, Naruto heard a girl shriek Lee's name. A small aprt of his mind recognized Sakura's voice. Naruto ran to Lee, checking his vitals to make sure he wasn't dead.
Sakura suddenly appeared beside him, tears in her eyes as she looked at Lee.
"He'll be okay- he's not dead." Naruto said softly. Sakura looked at him, eyes wide.
"Naruto?" she asked in a small voice, as if not sure who it was. Naruto nodded.
"Yes, Sakura. It's me."
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