Crushing the Chains
(A/N Author's Note)
Italics Current person's thoughts
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or its characters.
This is my first time ever writing something and I have awful phrasing in my words or whatever that means. Please forgive me and give me criticism on my grammar. I also don't really understand how to put fan fictions on the net yet so forgive me if I make a mistake.
The silhouette of a woman flickered on the walls of the corridors as she continued to walk down the dimly lit path. The air was damp and cold but that didn't faze through her very determined expression. As she passed by each torch her appearance could be recognized. She had blonde hair, golden eyes, a jewel-like embedding on her forehead, and a green jacket with a younger-than-her-actual-age figure filling into it.
Heels clicking on stone floors and chains constantly rattling was the only sound heard. A figure could be distinguished in the mellow light. There it was. Her destination finally appeared. She stopped and inspected it. A very unique rectangular steel door without a handle had a dark ominous chakra leaking from its sides. The door was covered in seals, tightened with chains, plastered with chakra, and written on with blood. 'Unseal heaven's curse' was what she could make out from the dripping words.
She started to take off the paper seals carefully as to not rip them. Crushing the chains with her brute strength, releasing the chakra from its sustained state in the door, and smearing the forever-wet-blood with he finger tips she was finally able to push the door aside allowing a flood of black poof to subside beyond her.
Chains clattered and red eyes glared at her through the candles' light. There were a ton of candles packed in a medium sized room and the only things that were able to make a sound were the chains, the air vents, and the Uchiha himself. His knees were bent and his hands cuffed behind his back, he tried to stand but the things that prevented him to do so was the lack of strength and the heavy chains that surrounded him.
He seemed to be in a daze and wasn't speaking. She sighed and quickly went to him to inspect his body. The first place she checked was the left side of his neck. A sigh of relief came when she realized that the cursed seal was definitely gone. She swiftly undid the chains and cuffs and helped him to his feet.
He woke up from his daze and pushed aside the only support he had and fell to his knees. Cursing slightly he looked up and registered her features into his mind. After he found his results he let down his guard and allowed her to help him up. Finally as if formalities didn't matter she spoke.
"How are you feeling?" a sweat drop could be seen on the side of her head. After a long pause of silence and a constant stagger here or there he responded with a hushed "Speccccctacular".
"Is it gone?" he hissed as he stepped on a sharp rock with his bare feet. She was wondering what he was talking about and finally remembered why he had to get confined to a chamber room. She nodded her head while looking for a reaction in his face. Unchanged and emotionless was all she could find.
A peck of light came down through a door ahead and she almost dropped him in her excitement to leave the dark hell-hole. They were greeted by the songs of the birds and the whistling of the trees. He winced at the sight but she just smirked at his hate of sunlight. They were under the hokage monument in the very dungeon and now they were just right outside behind the hokage office building.
He tried to walk on his own but failed miserably and ended up landing face flat in a heap of grass, flowers and butterflies greeting him as poofs of dirt went up into the air. "You expect to walk after being stuck in that place for an entire month?" she smirked, then she smiled, then she just went out to laughing at him. "You won't be walking for a couple of days since your body was shut down for that long." (A/N: This happened to Zabuza and Gaara after there so called deaths (Zabuza did die in the end though). This story will have some spoilers if any, so please discontinue if you haven't read the manga yet.)
He glared at her for a minute or so but she just kept on laughing at how the butterflies just smothered him in his humiliating glory on the ground. Seeing as to how the glares don't affect her he just stopped and sighed wondering how his new life in Konoha was going to flow. The place was already too sweet feeling with all the bugs and animals walking around. He could have sworn he saw two orange and pink foxes sniggering behind some bushes.
Finally the hokage stopped her laughing and gave him a helping hand up. The trip to the hospital was quiet except for the occasional snicker here or there from the blonde woman. He couldn't help but notice new shops and construction sites that were being made and or have been already made. She noticed his curiosity and answered his silent question.
"There are groups of people coming from the west and settling down in Konoha. They are quite unique and they have a lot of culture there that we haven't even heard of before. It actually isn't all from the west some that are really close by too, so they come from all around the world. We let in a good number of people who want to become citizens of Konoha, since we expanded our territory as we were repairing the damage from the walls that YOU and NARUTO destroyed." she made it clear that she was quite angry. "But I guess it was okay since the Kazekage came to help repair it with that magical sand of his. Thank heavens for that sand." Big whoop the place was bigger so what? He was getting a bit irritated at her for trying to kick him mentally as he was trying to get over that whole case.
It was early morning and nobody was up yet only the sun and animals were up and about. They entered the hospital that was practically deserted except for a few bustling nurses rushing to their stations. One in particular caught the hokage's attention and she showed them the way to a calming white room. "The Kakashi team (Yamato and Sai included) went on a little C-D rank mission so they should be back in a couple of hours." She dropped him on the nice freshly washed crisp sheets of the bed without any mercy to his pain and gave him a very bitter medicine.
"You're going to have to take this every 10-12 hours if you want to get out of bed in a couple of days." She snickered and gave the bottle to the still waiting nurse that stood beside the door. "I'm not going to stay here forever so she'll give it to you. If you skip even one day of the seven days you're supposed to take it, then you're going to have to take it three more days and blah blah blah..." was all he could make out before going into a deep sleep.
Sasuke... Sasuke! Wake up man what you think you're doing here!? Come back to us, to the village... "Sasuke! For crying out loud! How long do you think you're going to be sleeping?" Sasuke slowly opened his eyes to an angry-smiling Naruto.
According to the calendar that was hanging by the door, he slept for a day. Hitting himself in the head mentally for showing such weakness in front of his friends he slowly slouched up. Team Kakashi was all there, Naruto, Sakura, Kakashi, Yamato, Sai, and himself. They stared at him waiting for an answer for their questions that he had not even heard yet. "It's gone" he huffed with a muffled 'dobe' under his breath.
"Yahoo! This calls for a celebration, of course!" Naruto gleamed under his wide-toothed smile, everyone nodded in agreement. Great... just great, he can drink sake now, forgot about that. He has always wanted to see how it felt when you get drunk. They were all 19 now and the legal drinking age is 18. (A/N: just makin it up)
A squeak was made and everyone glanced at the door. The nurse from earlier slid the door ajar just slightly. "Ano...good mor-ning every-on-one." "Hinata! Long time no see!" Sakura went light a bolt to her friend and gave her a big hug. "You've been working at the hospital this whole month?"
"Ha-Hai!" was all she was able to squeak out with a wild blush all over her face. "Uchiha-san um... I was t-told to-o give... thi-is to you." A glass bottle with a bluish-brownish-reddish well all out rainbowish color liquid swirled within it. He just glared at her. She was startled and tilted her head down to stare at the bottle.
Kakashi and Yamato had already left by the time Hinata came in Sai was just staring at the whole scene from the beginning. "Hinata? Would you like it if I gave it to him instead?" Sakura was already used to the whole 'leave me alone I'm tired' and the 'I'm going to glare you to death' act.
"You should go rest Sakura-san. Ah and S-Sai and Nar-ruto-kun too!" Sakura tried to persuade her that they were fine but she wouldn't stand for it and had to hush them out of the room so that they could get some rest. It was quiet for the first time in a while. She sighed; he caught it and tried to see if she noticed that he was waiting for her. She came back to reality and went to get a spoon in a haste that she almost tripped several times.
What have I gotten myself into? Well nothing left to do now except kill time.