章 37: Chapter 36
Naruto whispered to Manda as the creature headed towards the now shielded Suna nin. "Restrain the Shukaku, I will deal with the medium."
Manda would have smirked, another difference to add between this new summoner and Orochimaru, this summoner like things up close and personal, Orochimaru never liked getting his hands dirty in a fight.
Naruto formed a bright, swirling sphere of chakra in his hand, the blue light shining radiantly, spinning so fast it made gusts of wind.
As soon as Manda dug his fangs into the Shukaku and wrapped itself around the beast Naruto leaped high into the air, right above the sphere that protected Gaara.
He reared his fist back and only the deafening roar of the attack itself drowned out his shout. "RASENGAN!"
The sand that formed Shukaku's head exploded in a massive cloud of sand.
Gaara, felt as if he had been hit by a freight train his head was pounding, and the flow of his blood was loud in his ears. He felt a sharp, coppery taste in his mouth. He realized with a start it was his blood. He opened his aqua eyes and looked straight into the black void that masked Naruto's face.
He…he had lost?
He tried to move his arm, but he found he couldn't, he then tried to move the other and felt a sharp, horrible pain race up and down its length.
He then noticed that…Naruto was getting further away…
Was he falling?'
He opened his mouth and tried to breath, pain shooting through his chest as he did so, causing him to cough. As he did, he noticed blood, red and coppery leave his mouth.
Naruto watched as the Suna shinobi fell, the red fluid that was his blood flew past his face as his gravitational pull down to the earth was greater than it. Gaara was completely out of it, his right arm was broken, and the muscles in his left arm had been torn to shreds by the Rasengan, even through the sand.
Gaara's form was limp as he fell back to earth. While Naruto landed on the forest trees gracefully Gaara crashed into the tree branches, bouncing like a pin ball down to the forest floor, numerous cracks from both the wood and the boys bones echoed through the area.
He finally hit, the ground with a thud. Naruto leapt down, landing on the grass. Not even a rustle of leaves indicating his presence. He unsheathed his blade again, making his way towards him.
Gaara, slowly opened one eye, his other, covered in blood from a nasty gash on his forehead he had received on his way down.
Naruto raised his blade ready to bring it down and end the red-heads life when a cry reached him.
"NO!"
The suna Kunoichi threw herself between them, blocking her brother from Naruto.
"Stand aside. My mission is to eliminate him."
Temari shook her head, tears rolling down her cheeks as she stood over her brothers broken body.
"Move or you perish with him." Naruto spoke coldly.
Again she shook her head, planting her feet, stubbornly refusing to move even as he could see the fear shaking her heart. Making her quiver.
It was a vaguely familiar sight, it brought a memory to him.
He turned to the hunter nin, who's mask had broken due to the chakra enforced attack, revealing a feminine face. "You took his place…" Naruto sounded genuinely puzzled. 'Why?"
Haku coughed up blood, staining the gray floor of the bridge red. "Because…" He rasped out. "He…is…someone I would protect…at any cost."
"Even your own life?"
Haku nodded, and smiled at the taller blond.
"Why?"
The feminine boy let out a small laugh. "You'll, have to learn for yourself."
Naruto didn't move or say anything for a moment before he raised his left hand. "Rest." With a swift chop, Haku's neck broke and he slumped, dead.
He shook his head Why did people continually put their own safety on the line for another. There was no mission here? No assignment as was his vow to the Hokage? He could understand sacrifice for the sake of duty but this was not that. He didn't know what motivated these people and it infuriated him.
Temari's eyes glistened with tears. She kept her eyes fixed on Naruto. "Please…don't."
Naruto's eyes snapped over to her, frustration and anger over the answers that eluded him made his eyes bleed into red, in a fury he raised his sword.
Temari, seeing that he would kill Gaara and her yelled out without even thinking. "KILL ME INSTEAD!"
That stopped Naruto. Again, just like that boy on the bridge, she was willing to give her life in exchange for his. "Why?" That confounded question plagued him more and more these days, like a constant buzzing in his head.
She sobbed. "Because…he's my brother." She said.
A blood bond? Was that the reason they placed ones life above the other?
No…Hinata and Neji are blood relatives, as was Uchiha Itachi. So there had to be something else…something deeper than that.
While he was contemplating this, a single clump of sand, wrapped around Temari's wrist and forcefully yanked her away, pinning her wrist to a nearby tree trunk. "GAARA!" Temari yelled.
Using the last of his strength, Gaara held her in place, breathing heavily. "Don't…hurt…her." He breathed out between gasps for air. "You came for me. So kill me. Leave her out of it.."
Naruto stepped forward and held his blade to Gaara's throat. A small trail of blood fell down his neck as the razors edge nicked him.
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