Chapitre 7: Deprived
In a bright room filled with the sent of disinfectant. Naruto open his eyes, he tried to get up but his body had no energy. Even though his body seem to have healed, he still had no energy to move around freely.
"wh, where am I"
"You're the hospital Naruto"
"Shikamaru? How long have I been here"
"About three days"
All of a sudden a surge of Chakra flowed through Naruto erasing his weakness in an instant "WHAT? THREE DAYS WHY DIDN'T YOU WAKE ME UP SOONER, I got to go where are my clothes"
"What a drag, where do you think you're going" shikamaru already tired from the short exchange of words decided to get this over with sooner rather than later. "I got to get back to training, hey shikamaru when are the final rounds for the training exam"finding his clothes Naruto starts clothing himself.
"It's tomorrow"
"TOMORROW ARE YOU KIDDING ME !!"
"Hey quiet down, freaking out right before the final exam isn't something you should be doing, right now resting is the best thing you can do to prepare for tomorrow". Seeing the sense behind shikamaru's words Naruto decided to listen. His eyes drawn to the basket next to shikamaru he couldn't help it and asked. "Who's that for shikamaru"
"Oh this, I got this with choji but the doctor said he couldn't have any"
"Choji's here? "
"Yeah but he's not in any danger, he's in for indigestion, he ate one too many ribs and now the doctor won't allow him to eat anything extra"
"Hahaha sounds just like him hahaha"
Naruto picked up an apple and as he was about to bite into it he stopped and looked at shikamaru."let's go eat it in front of choji". Shikamaru stared at Naruto with a blank stare "that's basically torture, I'm in". The two of left the room with the basket of fruits.
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In the hospital reception
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Sakura stood alone in the reception writing her name on a visitor log. It was quiet since it was just her in the room. Suddenly Sakura quickly turned to look behind her only to find nothing. She shrugs it off and went to visit her fellow hospitalised genin.
She opened a door and walked in this was Rock Lee's room. He lost in a fight against Gara his arm and leg crushed by gara's living sand, not to mention his own technique <THE EIGHT INNER GATES>took a heavy toll on his body causing muscle tears and micro bone fracture all over his body. He layed there in his hospital bed sleeping peacefully.
Sakura quietly walked in closing the door behind her. She placed a white flower in a white vace on the shelf next to him."I hope you like it" Sakura stood there watching over Lee with evident worry on her face.
After a few minutes Sakura left him to rest, she still had someone else to visit in the hospital.
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choji's room
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"Man I'm starving" choji hospitalised for indigestion was eating according to the close watch of the doctors. The meals provided to him were barely a midday snack compared to his usual diet. Choji's attention was brought to the door to his room. It was sliding open slowly, choji's tensed up he wasn't expecting any more guests today.
He soon calmed down and smiled when he saw the familiar basket of fruits peek into his room. His smile fell when he realised the intention behind the gesture "Why are you torturing me shikamaru"
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In Lee's room
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Gara walked in clutching his head."Uugh..." Gara remembered when he was fighting in the chunin exam he beat Lee and was about to kill him but Guy stepped in and stopped him "why, he failed..... Why save him". Guy looked into his eyes " because he's my student and also because he's precious to me"
Gara clutched his head groaning in pain and confusion. Anyone could see the madness in his eye's erratic movement. Memories of his unpleasant past flashed in his mind. Pain... Even though he wasn't bleeding he felt pain in his chest. He couldn't take it. His sand flowed out of his gourd, slowly covering Lee with tendrils of sand. He was going to kill Lee.
Suddenly his body froze in place and a punch landed on his face. Parts of his sand armor on his face broke off, sand flowed from the cracks." Go easy I have him caught in my shadow possesion jutsu, any attack you land on him hurts me too". Shikamaru felt that puch just as much as Gara did. " Oh, sorry shikamaru".
Naruto stepped back and stood next to shikamaru " what exactly were you trying to do" Naruto glared daggers onto Gara.
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In choji's room
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The person entering his room was revealed to be Ino Yamanaka, she was choji's comrade and part of his four man team.
" Hey Choji, you feeling better"
"Ino?"
' allright a pretty girl with food this is my lucky day'
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Lee's room
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"Well....are you gonna tell us what you were gonna do" Naruto got to the point " I was going to kill him". Naruto and shikamaru were petrified from the shock. This is the first time they've been in such a situation,their nerves weren't made of steel yet.
' why's he so calm when he's caught in my shadow possesion' " didn't you already beat him once wasn't that enough for you, do you have some sort of personal grudge with him"
" I have nothing against him"
"Huh?"
"It's nothing complicated like that I just want to kill him that's all" his tone wasn't dark nor was it filled with madness. He said so with a bland voice and a plain expression as if what he said was normal.
"YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE SICK IN THE HEAD".
"You think we'll just sit back and let you do what you want" 'this guy freaks me out there's always been something off about him, if he decides to make a move , I'm not sure we can stop him'
"If you get in my way I'll have to kill you too"
"Let's see you try" Naruto tensed up, prepared to move at any time."stand down Naruto" shikamaru wasn't about to let this situation become any more dangerous than it already is 'our best option is to bluff our way out of this'
"Yeah, yeah we watched your match with Lee, we know you're strong but you know, me and Naruto have something up our sleeves, we've been holding back in our matches, were stronger than you know on-top of that there's two of us, take my advice and leave...quietly".
"I'll say it again if you get in my way,...I'll kill you" gara's eyes turned sharp whether it was a bluff or not never crossed his mind, he didn't care in the slightest.'ok plan b' shikamaru's plan failed he had to keep this talk going long enough for him to figure something out.
"And I'll say it again, let's see you try" Naruto's legs tensed up ready to leap in any direction. " Back off we don't wanna go there did you see him fight, he's like a demon on the battlefield"
"Heh, He can pretend to be a demon but I got the real thing inside of me"Naruto wore a cocky grin on his face ready to charge at any time. Shikamaru elbowed him "idiot don't make him mad"
"A demon huh, my Demon's as real as yours is" Gara closed his eyes, his past playing in his mind."When I was born I took the life of my own mother, in order for me to become the ultimate weapon my father sealed within me the incarnation of sand, I was born a monster" Naruto couldn't believe what he was hearing. His mouth was wide open he no longer felt the urge to yell.
' incarnation of sand !?' shikamaru was interested he'd never Heard of such a thing before.
" The demon within me is a sand spirit named shukaku, it's the living spirit of an old hidden sand priest that used to be seald within a kettle".
" A possession justu that allows one to be possessed before birth, to go that far, how sickening" shikamaru was disturbed by the darkness that Gara was birthed into.
' he also has something in him' Naruto was invested so far both him and Gara seem to be born with the same burden weighing them down.
" Heh, some parent what a twisted sense of love"shikamaru with his own understanding of family and what It means didn't quite fully understand the true scale of his situation.
"Love, do not compare me to you, do you know what family means to me? They are pieces of flesh that bind me with hatred an murderous intent " Naruto shocked at the fact that Gara despite having a family would still be alone. " I was born as the villages greatest masterpiece, as the kazekage's son, my father taught me the ninja arts and I was spoiled, they let me do as I wished.... I once thought that was love, until that incident occured"
"That incident?"
" What was it?"
Shikamaru and Naruto had to know.
"...." Gara stood in silence looking at the floor
" What happened" Naruto grew impatient.
The smile of a mad man spread on Gara's face "....for the last six years ever since I became six years of age,.... My own father has tried countess times to assassinate me" shock and confusion spread like wild fire.
" Didn't your father spoil you, what do you mean". Shikamaru could no longer understand, there weren't enough pieces of information in his possession that he could use to solve this puzzle.
"A being too strong is feard, born through unconventional means my spirit is unstable, it seemed the foolish villagers finally noticed something was wrong, to my father I was the Trump card of the village but also a dangerous being, by the time I reached six years of age it was determined that I was too dangerous, to them I am simply an object from the past they wished would dissapear" the mood growing more intense the longer they listened to Gara's story.
"Then why do I exist?, why am I alive? When I thought about this I could find no answer. But as you live you need a reason or it's the same as being dead"
"What's he... Talking about" shikamaru couldn't relate he neven had such thoughts before but Naruto. '.....I.... I can understand,He's....the same as me..'
État de l’alimentation hebdomadaire
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