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Chapter 7

Mei was waiting patiently in room 526 with Naruko; she was leaning against a wall looking at the blonde girl with red highlights with arms crossed.

She was lying down on the hospital bed as they waited for the doctor with an IV attached to her arm.

The girl was malnourished to the point where anyone could see the rib cage, Mei watched them carefully as they put I.V and nutrients in Naruko. She already saw her getting beat up by a group of adult men, who knows if they intended to if she left.

This sudden urge to protect was very nagging.

Mei stared at her for a few moments taking in the features that she has. She mentally noted that she had blonde hair with her flaming red on lower half of the locks tied into two pigtail style, her facial features on the other hand was a shock to her, the girl lying in front of her was almost a striking resemblance to her dead lover with her rounded face with the whiskers on the cheeks with a hints of her attributes.

'Take away the whiskers and she looks like me a little bit…' She thought

As for what he wore; a black t-shirt with a red spiral in the center wearing green cargo pants with blue sandals, the Mizukage walked to the side of the bed.

She touched the side of her face caressing her cheek, she sighed deeply lost in her thoughts 'What did this girl do to deserve so much pain from the village? This is not the Konoha I know…'

The bruises that Naruko had had been slowly fading away every passing minute, sure some of the cuts those accursed villagers did to her healed quickly but others seemed to take a bit longer. Of course when they got here doctors where not too happy when they saw her.

She did some persuasive ways to get them to take a look at Naruko. She smirked at their dismay.

Earlier

When they first came into hospital, no one said a word to her for they seemed busy and when the nurses looked at what she was carrying in her arms, they were disgusted, shocked or in disbelieve the whole place suddenly stopped.

The atmosphere was tense not a sound was heard; Mei sensed it and did not like it. It was slowly coming back to life as nurses began to ignore the woman and the girl that she clung onto

A young female doctor around the age of 30 walked by them.

"Excuse me, doctor?"

She turned with a smile to face the Mizukage she was a brown-haired woman wearing a white robe, "Yes can I help you miss?"

"Yes, I brought in this young girl I was wondering if you can-"

"Take that thing out of here! She is not welcomed here!"

Mei was taken aback from the comment. She was shocked to see that many people in this village were treating this girl as an outcast instead of one of their own.

"She is not a thing but a child, how can anyone disregard the boy? Do you not see that he is in need of medical assistance?"

"That 'child' you consider is anything but that it is nothing more than a monster underneath." She pointed an accusing finger at the unconscious Naruto, "IT destroyed our lives, family and our home it has no place here so I tell you this once leave this place and never return with that thing again. Better yet why don't you put it in a trash can where it belongs?"

The other nurses and medical-nin and doctors smirked, whispers such as 'Maybe that'll open her eyes, and 'Keep that demon out of here' were heard.

Mei blood boiled, her anger was at its peak, placing the unconscious girl on a bench she'll show this woman why she was known as The Red Savina.

"Great now I'll have to burn it once it wakes up." She muttered under her breath

A death glare was shot towards the woman doctor standing in front of her sending shivers down her spine, within seconds the doctor was pinned to the wall with one of the arms of the Mizukage holding her in place above her abdomen where sternum section was with the other fist slamming against the wall creating spiders webs.

"You listen here you pathetic worm you don't know who you are dealing with here!" The doctor squirmed under applied more pressure that Mei was doing. It got to the point where she gasped in pain from feeling her ribs starting to crack.

"P-please…don't…er…hurt…me…"

"Why shouldn't I? After all I could melt your body where you stand, you do realize that…" She leaned in very closely, "Tell me what about the girl that makes people like you treat her like trash? Is he not a human being like the rest of us? Hmmm…"

"You don't understand, there's r-reason however it is forbidden for us villagers to talk about it or the penalty is death and who wants that I ask?"

"Tell me then the reason…"

"I-I cannot…"

Mei applied more pressure squeezing the doctor a bit more painfully to the wall. A small whimper escaped her lips, "Please! Stop!"

"Why should I? After all I am the Mizukage." She said matter-of-factly with a deadly smile. The hospital froze not a single person moved from their place. The tension in the air suddenly caught their throats, silence ruled the lobby a pin could be heard if it had been dropped.

Eyes could only watch the interaction between the head doctor and the Mizukage.

"M-M-M-Mizukage…." The doctor eyes twitched, 'I am so fired…'

"Now let's make a barging shall we? You attend the girl and I promise you that your Sandaime will not hear of this nor will hear how badly you treated one of Konoha forming ally or we could do this the hard way."

"But…but…but…but…but I didn't know!" She shouted

"You should have asked before anything else." She countered smoothly, "Now I'm sure that the Sandaime would be delighted to know that one of his hospitals refused to help one of their fellow citizens and oh…I don't know…maybe fire a certain someone for not doing their JOB right!"

The doctor swallowed dryly, she looked to her right, her companions turned a blind eye to the situation at hand for they knew what would happen if they got involved.

"I…I….will see the girl…" She muttered in defeat

"I'm sorry I couldn't that part what did you say?"

"I…will…see…the de-er…girl…."

"You see you are not as dumb as you look for doing that." She said patting her cheek, "Was that so hard?"

They didn't like nor had no say in the matter, the Mizukage was here that meant that they better provide excellent service and try not to do any suspicious activity. Some of the doctors recognized her immediately as 'The Red Savina'.

The mention of the word got the doctors, nurses, medical assistance working to the maximum potential.

Now Mei waited for her to come around to ask him a few questions.

Hokage Tower

Directly in the heart of Konoha sitting behind a desk while looking through a crystal ball was none other than Hiruzen Sarutobi. He going to check up on Naruko, to his surprise and anger the villagers had once again attacked Naruko yet she was saved by none other than the Mizukage or to be more specific her mother.

Behind the Hokage was one of his most trusted ANBU Ninja Neko (Cat).

"Do you think I've made the right choice Neko in lying to Mei about her daughter after all these years?" asked the Hokage

"Hmmm…The Yondaime did have powerful enemies and knowing that I could only say that you did what you could in protecting both of them."

"Perhaps, yet guilt is a part of life that we all have to deal with in our everyday life. We are all but humans in end we make the choices that affect ours around us. Yet I feel that she should know the whole truth and let her be with Naruko…"

The doors suddenly busted opened revealing a very mummified looking man with a cane stood at the entrance.

"Absolutely not Hokage-sama, having the jinchuurki leave the village would cripple our military might, we cannot let that happen, other villages will try to destroy or take other. Isn't that what has happened to one of your students?"

"You're are treading in dangerous water Danzō, I hold your tongue when you are in front of me when you talk about my particular student and what had happened that night."

"If I may be dismissed lord Hokage."

"You are free to leave." He said, "Before you do I will want to speak to Mei in private."

Neko nodded disappeared in poof of smoke, Hiruzen now turned his attention to the man in front of him, "Now what are some of the reasons you are here Danzō? Surely it's not to see an old friend now is it?"

Back in the hospital

2 hours passed by, Naruko started to wake up, her body was aching not as much as the people that pounded in near to death but it still hurt.

"I see that you are awake."

The little girl looked to find the source of the voice, now fuzball had told him that this woman rescued her, yet her guard went up because people who tend to 'rescue' just beat the crap out of her later at some point.

"How are you feeling?" She asked

Naruko didn't reply, she didn't how to answer that, usually when people asked they were out to hurt her in many ways as possible.

'Just answer the question kit.' The fox voice said

'I…I want to but I don't…'

'Just answer it's a simple question with you answering with a simple ok.'

She mustered up the courage to speak, "O-ok…"

"You did take a while to answer my question young man, why?"

"What's it to you lady?" She asked suspiciously, "So you can stab me when I tell you and call me a spawn from hell?"

"No little one, I just want to know out of curiosity sake…."

"Yeah right! Just get over with it so I can go home!"

"Not the answer she was looking for…"

"Listen hear, you ungrateful little brat!" She pulled herself off the wall towering over the little girl. Naruko squirmed under her intense glare as she leveled herself to her height, "I saved your life you owe me an explanation to my questions, so I will ask this why people are treating you the way that they do!"

Looking away from her, tears started to fall from the blondes eyes, Mei glare soften as she looked at the weeping blonde.

"Tell me…" she said softly

"IT BECAUSE I HAVE THIS!" Lifting her shirt, it revealed a seal on her stomach Mei stared dumbfounded, upon her stomach was four symbols seal. Mei looked at it tracing the spiral in the center of his abdomen around it.

"What is it?"

He sniffed trying so hard not to cry anymore but failed miserably, he let tears run freely down his cheeks "I don't know…all I know is what's behind it."

"What would that be?"

"I…possess the Nine-tails Fox within me…"

Just then three ANBU ninja appeared from out of nowhere, Mei quickly got in between them and Naruto. She readied herself for an attack no way was she going to leave this girl to fend for herself knowing what this village was capable of doing however what they said made the difference.

"Mizukage-sama, the Sandaime wishes to speak to you in his office privately." Neo said

Outside of the village

"Finally after all these years I'm finally home and where I belong." A masked hooded figure approached the gates.

"Same old village, same old lifestyle. I cannot wait to see Naruko again, I wonder how she has be done after six years."

He was confronted by the two guards in front of the gates.

"Halt! Identify yourself!" One of them said

He smirked, he pulled out his papers showing them to the guard, and he read them over. The guard looked at the seal, he recognized it as the late Yondaime seal, he nodded then he looked at the hooded masked man.

"Yoshi Uzumaki, welcome home."

"Thank you" He said. Clearing him the man entered the village, 'That was easier than I thought now to see how much the village has kept its promise to the Yondaime to honor his request of making his daughter the hero of the village.'

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