Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ To pick up all the Broken Peices ❯ Chapter V ( Chapter 5 )

To pick up all the broken pieces Chapter IV





Well I'm sorry this took so F$#%#$ long I really have some good reasons but won't bore you with details. >.< Le sigh. In other news w00t! I've become a lover of Ann Rice's Vampire chronicles! Go Lestat! I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE you! ^_^ I'm on the fourth book and I only started end of October. Maybe I should have Lestat and Louis cameo in `Foxes smile…. Hmm…. By the way, since my beta's hasn't sent me revised version this is a ROUGH COPY! Which means there will be mistakes. Once she sends it me I will replace this chapter with the newer, better one okay? Okay! Anyway! On with the fic!



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Naruto sat uncomfortably on his bed. After Sasuke had gone after Sakura the room had gotten silent with tension. Iruka had placed the Ramen tray on his lap but some how Naruto couldn't bring himself actually eat.

Hokage cleared his throat before he turned and faced Naruto.

"I don't think you need to worry Naruto, Sakura is a very understanding girl. "



I just nodded hoping he was right. Maybe if I was REALLY lucky this whole thing, except for Sasuke kissing me would turn out to be just one really bad dream. No such luck though. Hokage turned and said something to Iruka before he left leaving me alone with my former teacher.

Iruka smiled and turned to face me what ever Hokage had said to him seemed to bee bothering him. That's when the nurse from yesterday came in and immediately noticed my uneaten ramen.



"You better eat that young man! You'll never get better if you starve yourself. And you!"



She turned to face Iruka pointing at him and looking at him as if he had just committed a heinous crime.



"You should know better than to feed him ramen when he obviously hasn't had a full meal in days! Look at the poor boy he's nothing but skin and bones!

You're no better yourself young man. You're to pale you need to sleep more and get out in the sun!"



Iruka blinked confused for a second completely befuddled while I finished of my ramen and tried to hide my smile. It wasn't every day that someone made Iruka-sensei speechless and besides something told me to do anything that woman told me to do. What was that saying? `Hell hath no fury greater than woman scorned.'

She faced me all smiles and patted my head.

"Your such a good boy. Finishing that up so fast, I'll fill you out yet! Are you still hungry?"

I nod suddenly I'm STARVING!

She smiled at me again and I saw her nametag. "Mrs. Chan"*

"Well then I'll be right back with some proper food."



She glares at Iruka.



"You just lay down and I'll be right back."



Iruka smiles wanly at me, still in shock it seems.

"Either way I must be going Naruto will you be okay on your own?"



I not yet again, I really should say more people might think I'm mute. Though I hope Sasuke comes back soon…



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Sakura looked at me shocked for a second before speaking.



"You do? Really?"



"Yes why would I say I do if I don't?"



She surprised me then by laughing. It was kind of sad but still held some mirth.



"It so figures! The two cutest boys in the village and they end up together!"



I blink, NOW I'm really confused. Wasn't she in tears a moment ago? Jeez girls are just too confusing.

That's when Iruka came out looking like he needed to get some sleep.



"Hello Sasuke, Sakura. Hokage wants to talk to us about something but see Naruto before you go okay?"



Sakura smiled at him.

"Don't worry Iruka-sensei we'll check up on him."



"Thank you Sakura-chan. don't tell him were you're going afterwards though, I don't think he should know just yet."



When we entered the room we saw Naruto playing with the corner of his blanket out of boredom

I walked up to him and placed my hand over his. He smiled at me; it was still forced but seemed to be a little more real.



"Hey Naruto."



He turned to look at Sakura when she spoke and for a second I was angry with her for drawing his attention away from me. Never thought I would be the jealous type.



"S-Sakura-chan…"



"It's okay Naruto, I understand. Will you tell me what happened?"



Naruto looked down at his lap and I moved so that he was sitting on my lap, back to my chest.



"I-I…"



I wrapped my arms around him tightly for support. He took a deep breath and leaned against me before he spoke.



"I was raped."



Sakura looked at Naruto in hock for a second before she rushed up to his bed and hugged him.



"Oh Naruto! I'll get who ever did this to you I swear!"



He choked on a sob before speaking I could feel his body shaking with suppressed tears



"You know you're the fourth person to say that."



The nurse came in carrying a tray of food, non-of which was ramen I noticed and proceeded to get us off the bed.



"Now then he needs to eat and rest so you two should get going."



Before I left though I kissed him.



"Don't worry I'll be back tomorrow."

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We all stood in front of the Hokage. Kakashi, Iruka, Sakura and myself



"Good to see you all here. Sakura has Naruto told you what happened to him?"



She nods obviously to outrage by the fact to speak right then.



"Good. I have managed to discover the identities of the three men responsible. Unfortunately they are jounins from another village and have already left our territory. Which is why we are having the first official interstate tournament here in Konoha. This will lure them back here were we can take care of them."



Kakashi stepped forward and Hokage nodded giving him permission to speak.



"Were do we come into this?"



Hokage smiled before speaking.

"Kakashi, you and Iruka will be tracking our suspects. Sakura-chan I want you to gather as much information on them as you can and Sasuke I want you to stay with Naruto and help him recover as much as possible. I will also be placing him in the protective custody of Mrs.Chan, don't start Iruka you'll be busy enough and she had already volunteered. Now that that's over you are all dismissed and Iruka get some sleep you look tired."





<Back at the Hospital>





I'm sitting on my bed trying desperately to ignore the argument going on outside my door.



"Calm down Chan"



"Calm down! Your want me to calm down?! I'll calm down when YOU come to your senses!"



After Sasuke and Sakura had left and Mrs.Chan and set the food up for me when the head warden** of the hospital came in. He wanted to talk to her privately and went just outside the door. I've always had particularly keen senses and though I couldn't make out the start I picked it up soon enough and now that Mrs.Chan was yelling I'm sure everyone in the hospital could hear them.



"I understand how you feel chan he looks a lot like him but his presence is disturbing the other patience some are even refusing treatment until he's gone."



"Well the can go to hell for all I care! The boy sure has! I cant believe you would willingly cast a child out when he hasn't even recovered from the physical wounds after what he's been through!"



"Bloody Hell Chan that `Child' is the god damn fox! He deserved it!"



I hold back a sob. Sasuke told me that it wasn't my fault, that I didn't deserve it but maybe he was wro-

*Smack *

The sound of a hand hitting a face resounded through the now silent halls.



"You…"



Mrs. Chan growled sounding more like a bear protecting her cub than a nurse.



"Are the lowest creature in existence. I will take Naruto tonight but the second I'm out the door with him I will no longer a member of this hospitals staff. Do you understand?"



"Chan you're being ridiculous, he's the fox! You're getting attached because-"



"That has nothing to do with it!"



"Please Chan you're the best we've got! You CAN'T quit!"

"To bad."



She walked back into the room, slamming the door in the wardens' face and saw me curled up in a ball, hands over my face trying to hide my tears.



"Oh you poor dear…"



She picked me up cradled me against her and rocked me back and forth. I could hear the faint tune she hummed and I cried in her arms. She held me like that humming softly until my sobs subsided and then she spoke.



"Naruto what he said, it wasn't true. You don't deserve what happened to you. He's just a stupid bigoted fool who can't see that you're only a boy who's been through more than any boy should have too."



I looked into her face. Wrinkled and lined with laughter and smiles, faded blond hair once bright now tinted with silver and white and bright glistening green eyes. She must have been a beauty when she was younger. Now she looked like the grandmothers I'd seen when I walked around the village. One I longed to have. Maybe…



"Mrs. Chan?"



"Yes dear?"



"C-can I call you…grandmother?"



"Naruto…"


She smiled at me tears glistening in her bright green eyes.

"Nothing would make me happier dear now go to sleep."

I closed my eyes and fell asleep with my new grandma rocking me back and forth and humming

a soft, vaguely familiar tune.



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And Thus ends! Took me long enough ne?



*= Mrs. Chan is one of my friends characters but she let me use her for this fic! YAY Si'ver!



**= I'm not sure WHAT you would call the person in charge of a Hospital in a ninja village so I just guessed