Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Mokushita Hyuuga ❯ Chapter 15
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By: Moghedian 
Disclaimer: Naruto and all related characters belong to Kishimoto, not me.
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 12.16.2006 | Updated On: 02.11.2007 | Pages: 4 | Words: 4.1K | Visits: 673 | Status: Work In Progress
Disclaimer: Naruto and all related characters belong to Kishimoto, not me.
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 12.16.2006 | Updated On: 02.11.2007 | Pages: 4 | Words: 4.1K | Visits: 673 | Status: Work In Progress
Chapter 15
Grabbing his untamable hair, Katoki pulled it in frustration. Ganjou threw him an irritated look.
"We've searched every bloody village along this god forsaken coast!" Katoki said loudly.
"Oh shut up. We've got another few villages to check, and if we don't find her, we can just go back to Yondaime-sama and tell him his granddaughter is dead." Katoki glared at Ganjou.
Pulling his long black cloak around himself so that it covered his torso completely, Katoki snatched the map of The Fire Country out of Ganjou's hands, being careful not to catch his slightly long fingernails on the paper. On the map, a dozen or so 'x's were marked in red along the coast of the large country, and only 4 were left. Katoki marked another 'x', reducing the number to three.
"How long will it take to get to the next village?" Katoki said, still glaring at the map. Ganjou shrugged and said,
"Like, a day. Maybe less." Katoki nodded absentmindedly. He was bored of running from village to village. He thought that the mission would take a week or two. Maybe three if they were lucky. But due to three or four false leads, they had been out searching for nearly a month and a half. The Raikage even sent a bird summon out to see if the two were even still alive.
"Listen, Katoki, if we don't find the girl by the next village, do you want to stay there a few days? I dunno about you, but I dont have as much stamina as you. I'm running low on chakra. The sleep we get isn't nearly enough to replenish it all."
"Yeayea. Me too. I've started to feel a little low." The corner of his mouth twitched before stuffing the now much-hated map into a pocket inside his cloak.
"Ow." Ganjou said. Katoki rolled his eyes. He was cleaning his short blade all ANBU were issued with, on the nin that he had just killed with it. Sliding the blade back into its black sheath, he glanced at Ganjou.
"Baka. I cant beleive you let a chuunin actually stab you." Katoki said, helping Ganjou slide his, now mostly red ANBU vest off. Dropping the blood soaked beige flak vest on the ground, Katoki proceeded to treat his partner's wound.
Ten minutes of complaining later, and Ganjou was standing shakily on his feet. Popping a blood restorative soldier pill in his mouth, the colour returned to his cheeks, but he still couldn't walk faster than a slow run.
"You are so lucky that we are an hour away from the village. I don't want to carry you. Maybe we'll run into a medic." Ganjou grunted. Using a silly suiton jutsu that he learned from a kunoichi friend, he managed to wash most of the blood out of his vest. Wringing it out, Ganjou stuffed it into his pack. Katoki unfastened his own vest and stored it in his own pack as well.
Katoki's estimate was off by a little. He encouraged Ganjou to run a tad faster, and the two managed to get to the next village within 20 minutes. They then spent the next hour looking for a medic.
When they finally found one, Katoki was a little skeptical. The girl appeared to be about 12.
"Excuse me...I was told that you were a medic nin?" Katoki said, leaning down to look her in the eyes. The girl scrunched her nose up and said,
"Ah...What? I'm an apprentice, I'm not very good...Why?" She said.
"My friend here, we were mugged on the way here, and he took a stab wound to his side. But you said apprentice right? Does that mean you're teacher is here? Would they be able to look at my friend?" The girl thought for a minute before nodding. She motioned for Katoki and Ganjou to follow her.
Ganjou painfully nudged Katoki in the side, and just as Katoki was about to yell at him, Ganjou pulled out a scroll. Katoki's eyes widened and he quickly jogged ahead a step to the girl.
"Excuse me, but does your name happen to be Migoto?" The girl looked at the taller man, her brown eyes wide.
"Uh, no..." She said. Katoki just grinned.
"Oh, sorry. It's just that you look like my Sister's kid. I haven't seen her since she was a small kid, but I got a picture of her last year." The girl just nodded and tried to shake off the fact that the man knew her nickname. Well, It does mean 'beautiful'...I guess anyone could have that name. She thought, still trying to shake off the feelings.
"Ah, this way. Is your friend still ok?" Katoki glanced back at Ganjou. His brown hair had become plastered to his face from sweating, and he was constantly groaning from the pain of moving.
"He'll be fine."
"Sasami-chan! What took you so long? I just asked from some gauze! The clinic isn't that far away" A voice said from the restaurant the girl turned into.
"Sorry, Shizune-sensei! It's just that a man...He needs your help!" The girl said, her light pink hair swaying as she turned to point at Ganjou, and almost dumping her armload of white bandages on the floor.
Shizune looked at Ganjou, up and down, before sipping her tea again.
"Alright, let me see." She finally said. Ganjou stepped up to Shizune and opened his cloak. Katoki's bandages had already bled through and were starting to fall off. Shizune hissed.
"What did you do? Get stabbed? Does it go all the way through?" Katoki snorted, but covered it up with a cough. Ganjou glared at him before saying,
"Grass nin. Got overwhelmed and let one of their blades through. It didn't go all the way through, but it really really hurts. We jogged half an hour to get here." Shizune lifted her hand from the wound and said,
"Do you think you can walk for 5 more? I can treat you better at the Inn we are staying at." Ganjou glanced at Katoki, who quickly, and unsuccessfully tried to wipe his amused grin away. Katoki nodded, and snorted again when Ganjou looked away.
"Yea...I can make it." Ganjou said, wiping the sweat off of his forehead. Shizune looked at Katoki, who stared her flat in the eyes.
"You his friend?" Katoki nodded. Shizune then stood up and exited the restaurant, followed by Ganjou and the nearly forgotten Sasami. Katoki took up the rear. Turning a few corners before Shizune stopped walking, Katoki bumped into Sasami, and made her drop the armload of gauze. Sasami made a distressed noise and Katoki apologized and helped her pick the bundle up.
Once they were in Shizune's room, Katoki and Sasami sat in a corner while Shizune treated Ganjou's wound.
"So, are you guys like, shinobi?" Sasami said to Katoki. Looking down at her, he said,
"Yea. We are. But so are you, right? Genin or chuunin?" Sasami looked at Katoki with surprise.
"Gennin, how did you know?" Katoki almost asked her is she was retarded. Almost.
"You...you are wearing a hiteate..." He said. Sasami blushed 8 shades of red.
"Ah! Kuso. I forgot to take it off again." She said, sliding the headband off her forehead and throwing it on top of her bag in the corner. Looking at Katoki again, she paused and said,
"You look like a friend of mine." Katoki raised his eye brow.
"How so?" The girl looked at Shizune before replying.
"Your hair. It looks like it's never seen a comb. It's almost the same colour as his too. Except yours is a tad darker." Katoki frowned. He'd met quite a few people with his hairstyle before, and quite a few people with his hair colour, but most of them were girls.
"Wh-" Katoki started, but was cut off when Shizune clapped her hands.
"Done! You had a slice in your liver, but it wasn't too major. You will scar, but you're a man, so I don't think you should care. I couldn’t get all of the internal blood out of your system, as you bled quite a bit, so take it easy for the next 2 or 3 days." Ganjou stood up and twisted his abdomen.
"Ah..I suppose that weird feeling is the blood working its way out?" Shizune nodded and Ganjou continued. "I suppose that I owe you my life. Thank you very much. My friend here can't patch his own clothes right, less me." Katoki threw him a glare, but Ganjou just laughed it off and left the room.
"Do I owe you anything? I can pay..." Katoki said, but Shizune just waved his words away.
"No no no. My pleasure. It's good experience for Sasami-chan. Maybe when we get back, you'll have something to show Sakura-chan and Tsunade-sama."
"Godaime Hokage?" Katoki said. Shizune nodded.
"Tsunade-sama, and Sakura-ne-chan are teaching me how to be a medic nin!" Sasami said. Katoki was going to reply, but Ganjou stuck his head in and said,
"Hey, blondie! We need to get going. We have a mission to do." Katoki stood up, and Sasami said,
"Mission? What do you have to do?" Shizune hit her on the head for being nosy, but Katoki said,
"Well, usually missions are a secret, but maybe you can help us. You see, I'm looking for someone important. She's around your age. Here, this is a picture of her when she was a child." Katoki showed Sasami and Shizune the picture on his scroll, without showing all the other details.
Shizune shook her head. Sasami stared at it again before shaking her head as well.
"Oh, sorry, and thank you again for healing my friend." Katoki said and bowed, leaving the room.
Sasami glanced at Shizune, she was trembling slightly. Shizune noticed this and said,
"...What's wrong? You can't be sick..." Sasami said, her voice quiet.
"Shizune-sensei...that picture...That was a picture of me." Shizune gaped.
"Ganjou, I'm gonna go roam the streets aimlessly, pondering my exsistance. Okay?" Ganjou just waved Katoki away. It was mid afternoon, and Ganjou really wanted to sleep. Katoki grinned and left the room that they were staying at.
True to his words, Katoki wandered the streets, taking random turns every now and then.
Opening his eyes, the boy had to blink away tears as the white room blinded him. Sitting up, he noticed that he was wearing a light blue pair of scrubs. Hearing a beeping sound to his right, he saw that he was connected to a machine by a wire that ran to a white circle attached to his chest. On his finger was a clip that had a red light. When the boy pressed his fingers together, the clip beeped loudly, and the boy jumped.
Click click click click. The door to his empty white room opened and a tall woman wearing a white dress with a large hood attached to it walked in.
"Oh! You're awake! I thought it was another prank!" The lady said. The boy just stared at her.
"Where am I?" He said. His voice was rough and sounded like it hadn't been used in a while.
"In the hospital. You have been out cold for almost 2 months. Can you tell me your name?" The boy stared at her. Two months?
"I...I am...I...don’t know..." The boy said finally. The nurse paused before saying,
"Oh! Ok, well, wait here please. I'm going to get a doctor. He might be able to help you and answer any questions you have." The boy nodded and swung his legs over the edge of his bed. Scratching his cheek, he discovered that they were bandaged. So was his forehead and neck. He looked at his hands and saw that they were bandaged as well.
What the hell happened? He thought. But his thoughts were interrupted by the door swinging open again. The nurse from earlier walked in followed by a tall man wearing a long jacket and hood similar to the nurses's, but he was wearing black pants underneath them.
Checking the machine that he was hooked up to, the doctor nodded and jotted down something on his clipboard. Turning to the boy, he said,
"Now, Ayame-san tells me that you cannot recall your name. Is that right?" The boy nodded.
"Can you tell me what you can recal?" The boy put a bandaged hand up to his chin, and said,
"...Pain. Darkness, pain, and a wordless voice." The nurse looked worried.
"Pain?" The doctor said. "Hmm. Well, I was told that when you woke up, I was to notify the Raikage. You look like you are in near perfect health, but I will have to keep you here till tomorrow. Alright?" The boy nodded and gasped as the nurse pulled the wire off his chest. Her fingers were cold.
Rubbing the spot where she had touched him, the boy laid back down. His eyes still hurt from the white, and he was strangely tired.
Thock! Katoki snapped out of his thoughts and found himself sitting on the ground. His face hurt, and he saw that a few people were looking at him strangely.
Must have walked into a tree...oww. He thought. Standing up and brushing himself off, Katoki shook his head and continued to wander.
Down one street, past a few restaurants, down another alley, past the hotsprings, down a park path, into the forest.
Thock! Katoki once again was snapped out his wanderings as he, once again, found himself sitting on the ground and rubbing his face. Sighing, Katoki stood up, and walked up the tree he had just run into. Reaching the top branch, he scouted his area.
Watching a bird fly away, Katoki's ear gave a small twitch. Had he just heard an explosion? Shifting on the branch so that he could look around better, sure enough, he heard another crash, and a tree quite far away, started to fall down.
Katoki pushed chakra into his legs and he started to run towards where the tree fell. Landing on a nearby tree, Katoki tried to look through the branches, but was interupted as the tree he was standing on, started to rumble. Then it started to fall. Swearing loudly, Katoki quickly jumped onto a branch on the tree next to him.
After his heart stopped beating so hard, Katoki looked down and saw that he could clearly see the tree feller. It was a little boy, with bright yellow hair. The boy was standing with his hand out in front of him. He looked like he had just thrown an open handed punch. Katoki stared at him. Why wasn't he moving?
The boy twitched, and before Katoki could respond, he started to shout at the top of his lungs.
"I DID IT! I DID IT! I MASTERED THE RASENGAN!" Rasengan? Is that an attack name? The voice at the back of Katoki's head started to mumble again.
"Ah, where is that ero-sennin?" The boy said. Katoki watched as he went through several seals and shouted, "Byakugan!" He also watched as the boy suddenly swiveled around to face Katoki's branch and said,
"Who are you?" Katoki's mouth dropped. Dropping off the tree branch, he stood by the trunk and stared at the kid before him. He looked to be about 12, maybe 13, and he had very pale, pupiless eyes, that at the moment looked very angry, no doubt due to the intimidating look of all the blood vessels that were now sticking out around his eyes. Katoki raised his hands and said,
"Woah, woah! Calm down, kid. I was just wondering who was cutting down all the trees." The boy took a step back and the veins around his eyes smoothed out, leaving the embarrassed face of a young boy behind.
"Ah...Sorry. You scared me. But I need to go and find Ero-sennin now...uh, what's your name?" Katoki grinned.
"I'm Katoki, might I ask who you are?" The boy looked at Katoki for a second, before answering.
"I'm Uzumaki Kouden!" He said, smiling proudly. Katoki turned his head and looked at Kouden out of the corner of his eyes.
"Oh, well really now. Did you say that you had something to do?" Kouden's white eyes widened and without even a good bye, he scampered away. Katoki gave a small laugh, before turning to the trees again.
"Can I help you?" He said, looking at the tree opposite the direction that Kouden had left in. Katoki heard a gasp before before the figure promptly fell face first, out of the tree, onto the ground.
"Ahh! Are you ok?" Katoki said, rushing to the figure. Rolling the said person over, the first thing that Katoki noticed was that the figure had breasts, and that his hand was currently placed on one. Blushing, Katoki pulled his hand back just as the woman groaned. Opening her eyes, she shut them again as the sun tried to blind her. Rolling over, and with a bit of help from Katoki, the woman stood up, and turned to look at Katoki.
"Ah!" She said before she fell over in a dead faint. Katoki's eye twitched as he caught her before she fell, nearly getting stabbed by the senbon that were keeping the buns under her ears up.
Owwwww...my face hurts... Hinata whined to herself. Looking around, Hinata pondered for a second why everything was black, before she remembered that she had just fallen on her face. She was probably unconcious. Struggling to open her eyes, Hinata groaned. Her mind awoke before her eyes, and all that she could feel was a rock that was digging into her back. A few shuffling noises caught her attention, and when she finally got her eyes to open, the first thing she saw were knees.
Looking up to her dismay as the person who owned the knees had their back to the sun. Blinking again, she sat up. The person helped again, and Hinata was back on her feet.
"Uh...Hello? You just fell out of a tree, are you ok?" The person said. Hinata paused.
"Is that why my face hurts? Yea...I'm fine...Who are you?" Hinata said, rubbing her cheek.
"Uh...I'm...Katoki." He said. Hinata suspected that it was a fake name, but she was too into rubbing her sore cheek to give it too much thought.
"Can I ask who you are? Since you know, you were spying on me and everything." Hinata couldn’t help the slight blush that dusted her face.
"Uh...I'm Hinata. I wasn't spying! I was just making sure you weren't going to hurt that boy." Hinata said.
"He looked mighty fierce to me, what are you? His mother?" Katoki said. Hinata's head shot in his direction and she stared him right in his eyes.
"Yes." Katoki's smiled dropped as he got a better look at the woman. Sure enough he saw that she had the same pale eyes. Although the veins around them were smooth, the killer intent that she was leaking, nearly rivaled the sight.
Nffzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!! The buzzing in Katoki's head desperatly tried to talk to him. Katoki tried to ignore it, and looked directly into Hinata's eyes.
Suddenly a wave of pain hit Katoki, bringing him to his knees. Crying out, as another wave hit him, Katoki started to panic as black started to seep into the edges of his vision. The last thing he saw as he slipped into a painless bliss, were Hinata's pale eyes. But instead of being filled with anger, they were filled with genuine concern.
Walking out of the forest, Kouden passed the hotsprings. Glancing around the corner, Kouden's distorted into one of disgust.
"Ero-sennin! Get away from the fence!" Kouden shouted, and grinned as he heard women scream and scramble out of hotspring. The white haired man shot Kouden a look that suggested he was in for some serious poundings. As soon as the first drop of killer intent rolled off the mighty Jiraiya, Kouden took to the roofs.
Not that it mattered. Jiraiya caught the young blonde about 30 seconds later. Just as the mighty Sannin raised his fist, Kouden squeaked,
"I mastered Rasengan!" Jiraiya's face held still and Kouden scrambled out of the tall man's grip.
"Show me." He said. Kouden shrugged and holding out his hand Kouden slowly formed a mass of swirling chakra. Jiraiya studied the ball for a few seconds before Kouden let it dissiapate.
"It took far too long form it, but other than that, excellant work. Just like your father." Kouden grinned an exact copy of his father's and Jiraiya almost sighed.
"So kid. Did you know you look like-"
"Naruto. Right?" Kouden said, cutting Jiraiya off, who just laughed.
"You are Jiraiya of the sannin right?" Jiraiya's eyebrow raised.
"O ho! It seems that I'm more famous than I thought!" Kouden's eyes narrowed.
"No. Tsunade-obaa-sama told me that If I ever saw a spiky white haired old man with red marks on his face, peeping into a women's hotsprings, it was probably Jiraiya." Jiraiya's eye's narrowed at the young naruto look a like. Putting his arm around Kouden's shoulders, Jiraiya said,
"Listen, kid. If you promise not to tell Tsunade about this, I'll take you in for an apprenticeship." Kouden's eyes instantly widened.
"Really? I was gonna look for you anyway, but this is so much cooler!" Jiraiya's eye twitched.
"Look? What makes you think I woulda taught you anything?" Kouden's eye brow raised.
"Becasue Tsunade-obaa-sama, and Sakura-nechan are teaching Sasami-chan, and Uchiha-san is teaching Shiro. And becasue we three are all related to Team 7 by blood." Kouden jolted. He wasn't supposed to say that last part. Kouden tried to think up a lie to cover his mistake.
"Blood? Elaborate." Kouden tried to think up a lie, but the silent pressure Jiraiya was putting on him didn't allow him to think. Finally Kouden sighed. He could trust his father's old sensei, right?
"Well...Sasami-chan is Sakura-ne-chan's Aunt's grandaughter. Shiro is Sasuke's like, 8th cousin or something. Very distant, but still there." He paused. Jiraiya sat back, taking his arm off of Kouden's shoulders.
"Naruto...Naruto is my father." Jiraiya was expecting anything but that. Along with his jaw, everything else in his hands dropped to the ground.
"Hey kid. Let me treat you to some ramen, and you can tell me more of your childhood." Kouden bounced up and down as Jiraiya led the way to the nearest stand.
End Chapter 15
soorrryyy you guys! I love the reveiws I get and watching the number of visits go up and up, but I probably wont post another chapter untill around christmas. Sorry again, but please enjoy.
Grabbing his untamable hair, Katoki pulled it in frustration. Ganjou threw him an irritated look.
"We've searched every bloody village along this god forsaken coast!" Katoki said loudly.
"Oh shut up. We've got another few villages to check, and if we don't find her, we can just go back to Yondaime-sama and tell him his granddaughter is dead." Katoki glared at Ganjou.
Pulling his long black cloak around himself so that it covered his torso completely, Katoki snatched the map of The Fire Country out of Ganjou's hands, being careful not to catch his slightly long fingernails on the paper. On the map, a dozen or so 'x's were marked in red along the coast of the large country, and only 4 were left. Katoki marked another 'x', reducing the number to three.
"How long will it take to get to the next village?" Katoki said, still glaring at the map. Ganjou shrugged and said,
"Like, a day. Maybe less." Katoki nodded absentmindedly. He was bored of running from village to village. He thought that the mission would take a week or two. Maybe three if they were lucky. But due to three or four false leads, they had been out searching for nearly a month and a half. The Raikage even sent a bird summon out to see if the two were even still alive.
"Listen, Katoki, if we don't find the girl by the next village, do you want to stay there a few days? I dunno about you, but I dont have as much stamina as you. I'm running low on chakra. The sleep we get isn't nearly enough to replenish it all."
"Yeayea. Me too. I've started to feel a little low." The corner of his mouth twitched before stuffing the now much-hated map into a pocket inside his cloak.
"Ow." Ganjou said. Katoki rolled his eyes. He was cleaning his short blade all ANBU were issued with, on the nin that he had just killed with it. Sliding the blade back into its black sheath, he glanced at Ganjou.
"Baka. I cant beleive you let a chuunin actually stab you." Katoki said, helping Ganjou slide his, now mostly red ANBU vest off. Dropping the blood soaked beige flak vest on the ground, Katoki proceeded to treat his partner's wound.
Ten minutes of complaining later, and Ganjou was standing shakily on his feet. Popping a blood restorative soldier pill in his mouth, the colour returned to his cheeks, but he still couldn't walk faster than a slow run.
"You are so lucky that we are an hour away from the village. I don't want to carry you. Maybe we'll run into a medic." Ganjou grunted. Using a silly suiton jutsu that he learned from a kunoichi friend, he managed to wash most of the blood out of his vest. Wringing it out, Ganjou stuffed it into his pack. Katoki unfastened his own vest and stored it in his own pack as well.
Katoki's estimate was off by a little. He encouraged Ganjou to run a tad faster, and the two managed to get to the next village within 20 minutes. They then spent the next hour looking for a medic.
When they finally found one, Katoki was a little skeptical. The girl appeared to be about 12.
"Excuse me...I was told that you were a medic nin?" Katoki said, leaning down to look her in the eyes. The girl scrunched her nose up and said,
"Ah...What? I'm an apprentice, I'm not very good...Why?" She said.
"My friend here, we were mugged on the way here, and he took a stab wound to his side. But you said apprentice right? Does that mean you're teacher is here? Would they be able to look at my friend?" The girl thought for a minute before nodding. She motioned for Katoki and Ganjou to follow her.
Ganjou painfully nudged Katoki in the side, and just as Katoki was about to yell at him, Ganjou pulled out a scroll. Katoki's eyes widened and he quickly jogged ahead a step to the girl.
"Excuse me, but does your name happen to be Migoto?" The girl looked at the taller man, her brown eyes wide.
"Uh, no..." She said. Katoki just grinned.
"Oh, sorry. It's just that you look like my Sister's kid. I haven't seen her since she was a small kid, but I got a picture of her last year." The girl just nodded and tried to shake off the fact that the man knew her nickname. Well, It does mean 'beautiful'...I guess anyone could have that name. She thought, still trying to shake off the feelings.
"Ah, this way. Is your friend still ok?" Katoki glanced back at Ganjou. His brown hair had become plastered to his face from sweating, and he was constantly groaning from the pain of moving.
"He'll be fine."
"Sasami-chan! What took you so long? I just asked from some gauze! The clinic isn't that far away" A voice said from the restaurant the girl turned into.
"Sorry, Shizune-sensei! It's just that a man...He needs your help!" The girl said, her light pink hair swaying as she turned to point at Ganjou, and almost dumping her armload of white bandages on the floor.
Shizune looked at Ganjou, up and down, before sipping her tea again.
"Alright, let me see." She finally said. Ganjou stepped up to Shizune and opened his cloak. Katoki's bandages had already bled through and were starting to fall off. Shizune hissed.
"What did you do? Get stabbed? Does it go all the way through?" Katoki snorted, but covered it up with a cough. Ganjou glared at him before saying,
"Grass nin. Got overwhelmed and let one of their blades through. It didn't go all the way through, but it really really hurts. We jogged half an hour to get here." Shizune lifted her hand from the wound and said,
"Do you think you can walk for 5 more? I can treat you better at the Inn we are staying at." Ganjou glanced at Katoki, who quickly, and unsuccessfully tried to wipe his amused grin away. Katoki nodded, and snorted again when Ganjou looked away.
"Yea...I can make it." Ganjou said, wiping the sweat off of his forehead. Shizune looked at Katoki, who stared her flat in the eyes.
"You his friend?" Katoki nodded. Shizune then stood up and exited the restaurant, followed by Ganjou and the nearly forgotten Sasami. Katoki took up the rear. Turning a few corners before Shizune stopped walking, Katoki bumped into Sasami, and made her drop the armload of gauze. Sasami made a distressed noise and Katoki apologized and helped her pick the bundle up.
Once they were in Shizune's room, Katoki and Sasami sat in a corner while Shizune treated Ganjou's wound.
"So, are you guys like, shinobi?" Sasami said to Katoki. Looking down at her, he said,
"Yea. We are. But so are you, right? Genin or chuunin?" Sasami looked at Katoki with surprise.
"Gennin, how did you know?" Katoki almost asked her is she was retarded. Almost.
"You...you are wearing a hiteate..." He said. Sasami blushed 8 shades of red.
"Ah! Kuso. I forgot to take it off again." She said, sliding the headband off her forehead and throwing it on top of her bag in the corner. Looking at Katoki again, she paused and said,
"You look like a friend of mine." Katoki raised his eye brow.
"How so?" The girl looked at Shizune before replying.
"Your hair. It looks like it's never seen a comb. It's almost the same colour as his too. Except yours is a tad darker." Katoki frowned. He'd met quite a few people with his hairstyle before, and quite a few people with his hair colour, but most of them were girls.
"Wh-" Katoki started, but was cut off when Shizune clapped her hands.
"Done! You had a slice in your liver, but it wasn't too major. You will scar, but you're a man, so I don't think you should care. I couldn’t get all of the internal blood out of your system, as you bled quite a bit, so take it easy for the next 2 or 3 days." Ganjou stood up and twisted his abdomen.
"Ah..I suppose that weird feeling is the blood working its way out?" Shizune nodded and Ganjou continued. "I suppose that I owe you my life. Thank you very much. My friend here can't patch his own clothes right, less me." Katoki threw him a glare, but Ganjou just laughed it off and left the room.
"Do I owe you anything? I can pay..." Katoki said, but Shizune just waved his words away.
"No no no. My pleasure. It's good experience for Sasami-chan. Maybe when we get back, you'll have something to show Sakura-chan and Tsunade-sama."
"Godaime Hokage?" Katoki said. Shizune nodded.
"Tsunade-sama, and Sakura-ne-chan are teaching me how to be a medic nin!" Sasami said. Katoki was going to reply, but Ganjou stuck his head in and said,
"Hey, blondie! We need to get going. We have a mission to do." Katoki stood up, and Sasami said,
"Mission? What do you have to do?" Shizune hit her on the head for being nosy, but Katoki said,
"Well, usually missions are a secret, but maybe you can help us. You see, I'm looking for someone important. She's around your age. Here, this is a picture of her when she was a child." Katoki showed Sasami and Shizune the picture on his scroll, without showing all the other details.
Shizune shook her head. Sasami stared at it again before shaking her head as well.
"Oh, sorry, and thank you again for healing my friend." Katoki said and bowed, leaving the room.
Sasami glanced at Shizune, she was trembling slightly. Shizune noticed this and said,
"...What's wrong? You can't be sick..." Sasami said, her voice quiet.
"Shizune-sensei...that picture...That was a picture of me." Shizune gaped.
"Ganjou, I'm gonna go roam the streets aimlessly, pondering my exsistance. Okay?" Ganjou just waved Katoki away. It was mid afternoon, and Ganjou really wanted to sleep. Katoki grinned and left the room that they were staying at.
True to his words, Katoki wandered the streets, taking random turns every now and then.
Opening his eyes, the boy had to blink away tears as the white room blinded him. Sitting up, he noticed that he was wearing a light blue pair of scrubs. Hearing a beeping sound to his right, he saw that he was connected to a machine by a wire that ran to a white circle attached to his chest. On his finger was a clip that had a red light. When the boy pressed his fingers together, the clip beeped loudly, and the boy jumped.
Click click click click. The door to his empty white room opened and a tall woman wearing a white dress with a large hood attached to it walked in.
"Oh! You're awake! I thought it was another prank!" The lady said. The boy just stared at her.
"Where am I?" He said. His voice was rough and sounded like it hadn't been used in a while.
"In the hospital. You have been out cold for almost 2 months. Can you tell me your name?" The boy stared at her. Two months?
"I...I am...I...don’t know..." The boy said finally. The nurse paused before saying,
"Oh! Ok, well, wait here please. I'm going to get a doctor. He might be able to help you and answer any questions you have." The boy nodded and swung his legs over the edge of his bed. Scratching his cheek, he discovered that they were bandaged. So was his forehead and neck. He looked at his hands and saw that they were bandaged as well.
What the hell happened? He thought. But his thoughts were interrupted by the door swinging open again. The nurse from earlier walked in followed by a tall man wearing a long jacket and hood similar to the nurses's, but he was wearing black pants underneath them.
Checking the machine that he was hooked up to, the doctor nodded and jotted down something on his clipboard. Turning to the boy, he said,
"Now, Ayame-san tells me that you cannot recall your name. Is that right?" The boy nodded.
"Can you tell me what you can recal?" The boy put a bandaged hand up to his chin, and said,
"...Pain. Darkness, pain, and a wordless voice." The nurse looked worried.
"Pain?" The doctor said. "Hmm. Well, I was told that when you woke up, I was to notify the Raikage. You look like you are in near perfect health, but I will have to keep you here till tomorrow. Alright?" The boy nodded and gasped as the nurse pulled the wire off his chest. Her fingers were cold.
Rubbing the spot where she had touched him, the boy laid back down. His eyes still hurt from the white, and he was strangely tired.
Thock! Katoki snapped out of his thoughts and found himself sitting on the ground. His face hurt, and he saw that a few people were looking at him strangely.
Must have walked into a tree...oww. He thought. Standing up and brushing himself off, Katoki shook his head and continued to wander.
Down one street, past a few restaurants, down another alley, past the hotsprings, down a park path, into the forest.
Thock! Katoki once again was snapped out his wanderings as he, once again, found himself sitting on the ground and rubbing his face. Sighing, Katoki stood up, and walked up the tree he had just run into. Reaching the top branch, he scouted his area.
Watching a bird fly away, Katoki's ear gave a small twitch. Had he just heard an explosion? Shifting on the branch so that he could look around better, sure enough, he heard another crash, and a tree quite far away, started to fall down.
Katoki pushed chakra into his legs and he started to run towards where the tree fell. Landing on a nearby tree, Katoki tried to look through the branches, but was interupted as the tree he was standing on, started to rumble. Then it started to fall. Swearing loudly, Katoki quickly jumped onto a branch on the tree next to him.
After his heart stopped beating so hard, Katoki looked down and saw that he could clearly see the tree feller. It was a little boy, with bright yellow hair. The boy was standing with his hand out in front of him. He looked like he had just thrown an open handed punch. Katoki stared at him. Why wasn't he moving?
The boy twitched, and before Katoki could respond, he started to shout at the top of his lungs.
"I DID IT! I DID IT! I MASTERED THE RASENGAN!" Rasengan? Is that an attack name? The voice at the back of Katoki's head started to mumble again.
"Ah, where is that ero-sennin?" The boy said. Katoki watched as he went through several seals and shouted, "Byakugan!" He also watched as the boy suddenly swiveled around to face Katoki's branch and said,
"Who are you?" Katoki's mouth dropped. Dropping off the tree branch, he stood by the trunk and stared at the kid before him. He looked to be about 12, maybe 13, and he had very pale, pupiless eyes, that at the moment looked very angry, no doubt due to the intimidating look of all the blood vessels that were now sticking out around his eyes. Katoki raised his hands and said,
"Woah, woah! Calm down, kid. I was just wondering who was cutting down all the trees." The boy took a step back and the veins around his eyes smoothed out, leaving the embarrassed face of a young boy behind.
"Ah...Sorry. You scared me. But I need to go and find Ero-sennin now...uh, what's your name?" Katoki grinned.
"I'm Katoki, might I ask who you are?" The boy looked at Katoki for a second, before answering.
"I'm Uzumaki Kouden!" He said, smiling proudly. Katoki turned his head and looked at Kouden out of the corner of his eyes.
"Oh, well really now. Did you say that you had something to do?" Kouden's white eyes widened and without even a good bye, he scampered away. Katoki gave a small laugh, before turning to the trees again.
"Can I help you?" He said, looking at the tree opposite the direction that Kouden had left in. Katoki heard a gasp before before the figure promptly fell face first, out of the tree, onto the ground.
"Ahh! Are you ok?" Katoki said, rushing to the figure. Rolling the said person over, the first thing that Katoki noticed was that the figure had breasts, and that his hand was currently placed on one. Blushing, Katoki pulled his hand back just as the woman groaned. Opening her eyes, she shut them again as the sun tried to blind her. Rolling over, and with a bit of help from Katoki, the woman stood up, and turned to look at Katoki.
"Ah!" She said before she fell over in a dead faint. Katoki's eye twitched as he caught her before she fell, nearly getting stabbed by the senbon that were keeping the buns under her ears up.
Owwwww...my face hurts... Hinata whined to herself. Looking around, Hinata pondered for a second why everything was black, before she remembered that she had just fallen on her face. She was probably unconcious. Struggling to open her eyes, Hinata groaned. Her mind awoke before her eyes, and all that she could feel was a rock that was digging into her back. A few shuffling noises caught her attention, and when she finally got her eyes to open, the first thing she saw were knees.
Looking up to her dismay as the person who owned the knees had their back to the sun. Blinking again, she sat up. The person helped again, and Hinata was back on her feet.
"Uh...Hello? You just fell out of a tree, are you ok?" The person said. Hinata paused.
"Is that why my face hurts? Yea...I'm fine...Who are you?" Hinata said, rubbing her cheek.
"Uh...I'm...Katoki." He said. Hinata suspected that it was a fake name, but she was too into rubbing her sore cheek to give it too much thought.
"Can I ask who you are? Since you know, you were spying on me and everything." Hinata couldn’t help the slight blush that dusted her face.
"Uh...I'm Hinata. I wasn't spying! I was just making sure you weren't going to hurt that boy." Hinata said.
"He looked mighty fierce to me, what are you? His mother?" Katoki said. Hinata's head shot in his direction and she stared him right in his eyes.
"Yes." Katoki's smiled dropped as he got a better look at the woman. Sure enough he saw that she had the same pale eyes. Although the veins around them were smooth, the killer intent that she was leaking, nearly rivaled the sight.
Nffzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!! The buzzing in Katoki's head desperatly tried to talk to him. Katoki tried to ignore it, and looked directly into Hinata's eyes.
Suddenly a wave of pain hit Katoki, bringing him to his knees. Crying out, as another wave hit him, Katoki started to panic as black started to seep into the edges of his vision. The last thing he saw as he slipped into a painless bliss, were Hinata's pale eyes. But instead of being filled with anger, they were filled with genuine concern.
Walking out of the forest, Kouden passed the hotsprings. Glancing around the corner, Kouden's distorted into one of disgust.
"Ero-sennin! Get away from the fence!" Kouden shouted, and grinned as he heard women scream and scramble out of hotspring. The white haired man shot Kouden a look that suggested he was in for some serious poundings. As soon as the first drop of killer intent rolled off the mighty Jiraiya, Kouden took to the roofs.
Not that it mattered. Jiraiya caught the young blonde about 30 seconds later. Just as the mighty Sannin raised his fist, Kouden squeaked,
"I mastered Rasengan!" Jiraiya's face held still and Kouden scrambled out of the tall man's grip.
"Show me." He said. Kouden shrugged and holding out his hand Kouden slowly formed a mass of swirling chakra. Jiraiya studied the ball for a few seconds before Kouden let it dissiapate.
"It took far too long form it, but other than that, excellant work. Just like your father." Kouden grinned an exact copy of his father's and Jiraiya almost sighed.
"So kid. Did you know you look like-"
"Naruto. Right?" Kouden said, cutting Jiraiya off, who just laughed.
"You are Jiraiya of the sannin right?" Jiraiya's eyebrow raised.
"O ho! It seems that I'm more famous than I thought!" Kouden's eyes narrowed.
"No. Tsunade-obaa-sama told me that If I ever saw a spiky white haired old man with red marks on his face, peeping into a women's hotsprings, it was probably Jiraiya." Jiraiya's eye's narrowed at the young naruto look a like. Putting his arm around Kouden's shoulders, Jiraiya said,
"Listen, kid. If you promise not to tell Tsunade about this, I'll take you in for an apprenticeship." Kouden's eyes instantly widened.
"Really? I was gonna look for you anyway, but this is so much cooler!" Jiraiya's eye twitched.
"Look? What makes you think I woulda taught you anything?" Kouden's eye brow raised.
"Becasue Tsunade-obaa-sama, and Sakura-nechan are teaching Sasami-chan, and Uchiha-san is teaching Shiro. And becasue we three are all related to Team 7 by blood." Kouden jolted. He wasn't supposed to say that last part. Kouden tried to think up a lie to cover his mistake.
"Blood? Elaborate." Kouden tried to think up a lie, but the silent pressure Jiraiya was putting on him didn't allow him to think. Finally Kouden sighed. He could trust his father's old sensei, right?
"Well...Sasami-chan is Sakura-ne-chan's Aunt's grandaughter. Shiro is Sasuke's like, 8th cousin or something. Very distant, but still there." He paused. Jiraiya sat back, taking his arm off of Kouden's shoulders.
"Naruto...Naruto is my father." Jiraiya was expecting anything but that. Along with his jaw, everything else in his hands dropped to the ground.
"Hey kid. Let me treat you to some ramen, and you can tell me more of your childhood." Kouden bounced up and down as Jiraiya led the way to the nearest stand.
End Chapter 15
soorrryyy you guys! I love the reveiws I get and watching the number of visits go up and up, but I probably wont post another chapter untill around christmas. Sorry again, but please enjoy.