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Title: Light III

Rating: T

Prompt: Fortitude

Summary: Minato and Tsunade discuss their new charge.

Warning: Shitty drabble, sorry

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Minato cursed as he felt the supernova of Natural Chakra on his back explode, he hadn't been expecting that and he hoped to all hell that the Iwa Nin had no Chakra sensors as he tightened his grip on the frail figure on his back and started running, forgoing all thought of saving his strength and sprinting out of the danger zone as fast as he could.

"Two from the left, seven o'clock," the figure on his back croaked roughly and Minato unquestioningly jumped as high as he could, clean out of the canopy and into the air. His body twisting as he glanced down and spotted the two approaching Ninja, Iwa Nin, judging by their standard uniform they were only Chuunin. He couldn't afford to be arrogant though, even a Chuunin could defeat a careless Jounin, even more so if they were hampered with a charge they needed to protect. Handseals were formed in a heartbeat as the Wind Bullet he shot behind him shot him forward roughly, faster even than the Iwa Nin had a hope of catching up to.

"Hold on," Minato told his passenger as they made a rude re-entrance into the forest through some rather uncomfortable tree branches.

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Return to Konohagakure had been long and arduous, Iwa were determined not to allow their secrets to be discovered, enough so that they had the balls to send Jounin over the front-lines in an effort to catch up and destroy the evidence. Unfortunately for them, they didn't realise they were trying to chase down the Yellow Flash until he had already managed to deal with his pursuers. His passenger had been invaluable, his eyes dead and useless, his receptivity to Natural Chakra was incredible, enough so that he often warned Minato of people or attacks long before they entered into his range of awareness.

Now that they were back, he had been whisked away by the Medic Nins for his minor injuries and his charge taken to a top secret section to await Interrogation. Minato had been uncertain about this aspect, the other man had clearly been treated horribly by Iwa and been in that Prison for a while, longer than they had been fighting that War in any case. If they wanted any chance of getting information out of him then treating him like an enemy wasn't going to help.

"Minato! There you are," a female voice called, the blond turning and smiling slightly at the familiar Medic Nin, Tsunade. "I've been looking for you, that waif you brought back's been asking after you. He doesn't mind interrogation but he would like you to be there to confirm his statements," she explained, an odd expression on her face as she told him the boy didn't mind facing Yamanaka Inoichi in interrogation.

"Alright, thanks Tsunade-sama. How's he doing?" the blond asked as the two of them began to head back towards the hospital.

"Aside from the fact that he should be dead six times over from malnutrition, infection, dehydration, starvation and sensory deprivation? The brat has gotta be the toughest little shit I've ever met," she said, torn between awe and pity. "He managed to avoid mutation in that place because his body was so far gone that it couldn't muster the energy for it, technically he should have died, his body treating it as a poison but instead it got filtered through his kidneys and pissed out like all body impurities. I've never seen anything like it."

"His eyes?" Minato asked, the boy still had his headband and while he had every intention of getting it back he wanted to replace it with something appropriate. Bandages would make him look too much like a Ninja and Minato was loath to make that association with the bird-like dark haired man.

Tsunade sighed, "Useless. It would take years before he could see in anything other than low-light. He's, for all intensive purposes, blind as a bat. His other senses, hearing, smell, touch and even his Chakra Sense have multiplied ten-fold to compensate though."

"Not surprising, he seemed to be able to tell when the Iwa Nin were there long before I was able to. Its the only reason we were even able to get back to Konoha," he admitted rubbing the back of his head.

Tsunade chuckled as she pushed open the doors to the hospital, "I thought so. He seemed to know which nurses and guards were coming down the corridor."

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A less than amazing drabble. I'm sorry, there's been a lot of drama at halls and I woke up today feeling like roadkill. On the brightside, I am considering making Light a proper Chaptered Story.