Choose your own Naruto Adventure- Go to P545
From Create Your Own Story
Then one day...
You don't know why, but one day...the members start to leave the hide-out...and you're forced to leave with them.
You wish you know what the reason for it is...but no one tells you anything...you try to ask...but are either ignored or reprimanded with a sharp blow to the face.
After a while you end up trailing after Kakuzu and Hidan...no particular reasons...you just do.
You walk...for hours and hours...your shoes are long worn out, your feet cut and bleeding but you continue to walk on...without complaint...you had suffered worse pain in the hide-out. It is evident that they don't care about your condition...and you could have well taken this chance to try and run away...but once again fear compels you to keep going...even if you have fallen back to the point that you can scarcely see them in the distance.
Finally...they stop and you virtually collapse where you stand...not bothering to try and catch up to them.
Thankfully, the two men don't pay you any heed and leave you to your own devices.
You must have dozed off at some point...but you awaken to a huge commotion.
You hear several voices and instinctively scramble away when something nearly hits you.
Once your sleep-addled mind sees it fit to grasp the situation so that your vision clears and slides into focus, you behold the scene before you with a mixture of emotion...though fear and uncertainty are without a doubt the most dominant.
Konoha ninja...amongst them Naruto...
The ensuing battle seems to last for ages...weapons and attacks go flying everywhere. You try to make yourself as small as possible so as not to get involved in the fray.
Then...the battle takes a turn for the worse...for the Akatsuki at least...
You manage to crawl to 'safety' behind a junction of two large rocks and are just able to see what's going on.
If Hidan and Kakuzu had had a successful run-in with the Konoha ninja before...they certainly aren't having one now...(having been cooped up in the Akatsuki lair for so long you have no idea what's been happening in the world outside).
You cringe at the sight of all the blood and duck behind the larger of the two rocks so that you're out of view. It is one thing to read it in the manga or see it in the anime...but being there to experience it firsthand...is an entirely different matter.
Hours...or maybe minutes...you've lost all sense of time...the sky is overcast and you cannot tell the exact position of the sun. Then just like that...silence...all sounds of battle have ceased...but who has won?
Konoha...or the Akatsuki...
A bad feeling rises within you. You hug your knees tightly and squeeze your eyes shut...whoever has won...may they be Konoha shinobi or Akatsuki members...either of them coming for you does not bode well...
You tremble slightly at the thought...even though death is a likely consequence...it is not death that you fear...it is the alternative...
A hand brushes against your shoulder and you instinctively flinch away from the touch crying out as you do so...you had come to associate being touched with pain.
You cower from whoever it is who has found you...you don't even dare look up to see who it could be...at least not at first...when a few moments go by without anything happening...you keep your head down but allow your gaze to wander...and settle on two feet...your gaze does not need to travel far to establish the shinobi's identity...the orange colour of his clothes are a dead give away...
You freeze up...what are you supposed to do...what can you possibly say after having betrayed his and the village's trust like that...Hey helping out the Akatsuki turned out to be a bad idea after all, mind if I come back?...Not likely.
"I'm sorry..." You find yourself saying...your voice low and breaking. "I'm so sorry..."
You do not expect anyone to forgive you...least of all him...
"Look at me."
You flinch at the sudden sound of his voice...fear consumes you...suffocates you...you do not believe that Naruto would physically hurt you...what you fear is something else entirely.
You draw in a shuddering breath before you hesitantly and slowly lift your head until your eyes lock with his...emptiness...uncertainty...anger...flickers of emotion...disappointment...pity.
If anything it makes you feel worse.
"I'm sorry..." You repeat. "I'm sorry...I'm sorry..." You start to sob repeating the words over and over again.
Perhaps Naruto took pity on you...you do make a pathetic sight...bruises, cuts and other various abrasions adorn your skin...from your face to your neck, your arms and legs...and those are only the visible parts...there are without a doubt many more marks hidden underneath your somewhat tattered clothes...but it is not so much the physical condition you are in that garners the Jinchuriki's s sympathy...it is the expression (or lack of) in your eyes that has done it for him.
You have suffered and paid much for your foolish decision...he will take you back to Konoha...and it will be up to Tsunade and the Anbu to determine your fate.
What'll happen next?
