Beyond Blue Eyes Ch: 2

It was dark, nothing in the forest but the trees that created dark shadows. It was hard to say what was going on though there was one thing that Naruto knew… it was that being out in the forest when it looks like this was a bad idea. Shaking his head, Naruto felt like his body was running through the forest, in fact it felt as if he couldn’t even control his movements. In fact, he felt like he was slowly starting to lose his mind to whatever was controlling his movements… whatever that was anyway…

Blinking slowly, Naruto looked around seeing nothing around him but the trees, the shadows… the darkness itself. Even the mood didn’t show itself in the sky. It made the young man wonder where he really was. In a way, this forest made him think of Konoha…

“Am I really home?” said Naruto with confusion, not really expecting anyone to really answer him back. Though for some reason, the young man felt like something was watching him. Whatever it was, the feeling that he was getting made him nervous. In fact, it almost felt like it was evil, sinister… He felt nothing good about this thing… nothing but pure evil and hatred.

“What’s out there?” called Naruto, trying to figure out what was out there. Was it the beast that had attacked him and Sasuke? Or was it something else? Something more evil than whatever that beast was?

The more he thought about it, the more he remembered that it resembled some kind of humanoid wolf or something. Though the image was still a little blurry in his mind so he didn’t think he would ever remember what had really happened. In fact, it almost seemed like his mind was keeping that image from him as if to keep him safe, safe from what though he wasn’t really sure but figured that it didn’t really matter to him.

Suddenly, Naruto felt something weird happening to him. His body had stopped running and he felt a large amount of pain starting to form through his body. In fact, it almost seemed like everything was burning through his body. It felt like someone was pressing down on his bones, wanting to break and shatter everything that was within his body. The bones that would shatter, felt like someone was melting them, boiling them in a pot before pouring them into a mold of some kind and placing them back through his flesh to adjust to something new…

“Stop it!” shouted the young man, wanting this pain to stop. He felt like his body had hit the ground, though he couldn’t be sure. The only thing his body could feel, was the unbearable pain that it was experiencing. Breathing heavily, Naruto tried to push himself back up, tried to force himself to get back up onto his feet so he could keep moving. Though sadly it seemed that no matter what, he couldn’t get himself back up, the pain made sure of that, and would keep pushing him back down like a great weight had placed itself upon his shoulders.

Falling over onto his side, Naruto gasped and wheezed, the pain had forced itself into his lungs, and it felt like no matter what, the air that he would breath in, wouldn’t reach his lungs for the burning that had forced itself through his body would just absorb the oxygen. In a way, that made him think about what Kakashi had told him once… when he was trying to teach him a new nature chakra, so he could have learned a new element that could defeat Sasuke since the Uchiha master fire element chakra while Naruto’s was wind. Wind did, after all only make fire stronger.

Looking up, Naruto could faintly make out the form of a beast… it loomed over him; out of its muzzle was enough for Naruto to notice its fangs. The beast just seemed to stand over him, as if it knew something… like it was going to tell the young man that something was going to happen. Whatever that would be though, Naruto wasn’t sure and he had a feeling that he was going to find out sooner or later.

“What…” he whispered, trying to force the words passed his lips though it almost seemed impossible. Yet, it didn’t stop him from trying to get those words out. “Do you want…?” asked Naruto, his skin looking a little pale.

“You’ll know soon enough blonde.” Said the wolf-man, causing Naruto’s eyes to widen in shock. No, there was no way that this thing could speak. Could even understand the human language, and yet it was speaking perfectly! There was no way that this could be real, that this was really happening though the more he wanted to deny any of this, the more Naruto knew that it had to be happening. “Soon, you will finish…”

“Finish what?” groaned out Naruto, trying to get himself up onto his feet so he could kick this things ass. The beast seemed to have read his mind before picking up Naruto by his orange and black jump suit top and held onto him, his feet just dangling off of the ground. His blue eyes stared at the beast, filled with pain and worry. Thinking that this was going to be the end that this beast would kill him in cold blood and he would never become the Hokage like he had always wanted to be, that he had always dreamed of being.

Smirking, the beast just held onto him, keeping the secret to himself, or itself since Naruto didn’t know if this thing was male or female. The beast just smirked at Naruto, revealing its sharp pointed fangs as if taunting him by keeping the secret. “You’ll see… and then… you’ll join me.” Said the beast before opening his jaws as if to devour Naruto.

The only thing that the young man could do was scream bloody murder…

Naruto’s eyes snapped open and he grabbed hold of the nearest thing. Whatever it was, it was warm, soft yet small. His vision was nothing but a deep crimson as his body felt the desire to protect itself from the nightmares that had haunted his sleep. Growling darkly, he said “I won’t let you do what you please monster!” His voice was filled with anger, and a small hint of fear… he didn’t know what he was holding onto though from the way his mind was working at right now, he didn’t really care.

“N… Nar… Naru… to… stop…” pleaded a soft voice, he didn’t know who the voice belonged to yet what the young man did know was that it was a woman’s voice. It was too soft and gentle to belong to a man, at least to belong to the beast that he had seen moments ago.

Slowly, the red started to bleed its way out of his vision and the pale blue skin of a woman started to come into his line of sight. The woman had long blue hair, pale lavender coloured eyes, well eye since the other one was closed. Her lips looked a little grey to him though he wasn’t sure what was going on. The anger that he had in his system slowly started to fade away as he started to realise one thing… who this woman was. Eyes widening, Naruto let go, not believing what he was so close to doing… he had almost…

“Hinata I’m so sorry.” Naruto whispered in horror, he never knew that… Looking around, the young man frowned as he patted Hinata’s back, hoping that would be enough to get her to calm down. That he had been so close to killing her, it made him sick to his stomach… “I didn’t mean to do that… I… I just had a nightmare and… I just reached out to stop the…” He looked down in shame, feeling like the monster that had been in his sleep. Rubbing his face, Naruto drew his knees to his chest, his arms lying against his raised knees as he took a deep breath, trying to get his bearings together.

“Naruto… you didn’t mean to…” Hinata whispered, her voice sounding a little hoarse from being strangled but at least she didn’t sound as bad as how she could have sounded. Still didn’t make him feel any better, knowing that he had done that to her…

The young man tried to get himself under control, well his emotions anyway. Inhaling softly, the young man blinked for a moment as he thought that he smelled something amazing. Sniffing the air, the young man knew that he smelled something. It smelt nice, no, it smelt amazing… not as amazing as ramen but it still smelt awesome either way.

Lifting his head, the young man blinked as he closed his eyes and started to sniff, wanting to figure out what the smell was and most of all where it was coming from. Turning his head, the young man knew that the scent was lavender with a hint of vanilla. He had to admit, he always had a soft spot for vanilla but he would never tell anyone that, knowing that it wasn’t really ‘manly’ for a guy to like that scent in the first place… To him, vanilla was a scent for women, not men… and yet he was a man that had a soft scent for it.

“Naruto?” asked Hinata, causing the young man’s eyes to flutter open as he blinked slowly and looked over at Hinata. Seeing just how close he had gotten to Hinata… how their noses just barely touched made Naruto’s face turn bright red before he pulled back. He couldn’t believe that he had been that close to her, in fact it almost seemed like he had been about to kiss her but… he couldn’t do that. He was still in love with Sakura… even if he did give up on her; he couldn’t do anything about that.

Gulping a bit, Naruto moved back to sitting up on his bed and looking away from Hinata. He just couldn’t bring himself to even look at her. Not after that anyway… He wanted to inhale deeply again but knew that if he did, he may be under that scents spell once again. Breathing through his mouth, Naruto calmly asked “are you wearing some kind of perfume or something Hinata?” Maybe if he changed the subject to something it would get their minds off of what had just transpired through here just moments ago. At least, that was what he was hoping for anyway.

“No, perfume would give shinobi’s away so I never wear it…”

“Not even at home?”

“No… not even at home.”

That was weird, if she wasn’t wearing perfume why was he able to smell that wonderful amazing scent that seemed to have coated itself around her? Maybe this was all just in his head and that he didn’t really smell vanilla at all but it was all just part of his head. Sniffing the air again, Naruto groaned… he still smelled it, and he didn’t know what he was going to do now. There was no way that he would be able to deal with this… what if he ended up doing something that Hinata wouldn’t like? The thought of that bothered him and it made him mad at himself.

“How long have I been asleep for?” asked Naruto, now that he had some wits about his surroundings, he was curious as to how long he had been asleep for. It was puzzling, that he ended up here at the hospital after passing out though maybe he had been close enough to the village for people to notice that he had gotten back safely, at least in a sense. Though he still didn’t know how he had been found for that matter…

“Two days,” came Hinata’s reply, causing the young man to blink and stare at her in shock. How was he… that can’t be. Even with the Kyuubi’s chakra, he had slept for two whole days? Just how was that even possible?! Shaking his head, the young man ran a hand through his hair and winced a bit. He still felt like he was in some pain though not as much as what it was before. Slowly placing his arms back down, the young man looked himself over and saw that he was shirtless, which surprised Naruto a little bit since Hinata was able to stare at him without passing out like that one time… though he figured it was because of the bandages that covered his torso and his stomach…

Lifting the blanket a bit, Naruto was relieved that he still at least had some boxers on so that made him feel a little better. Sniffing the air, he smelled something else… though it wasn’t in the room. The scent was… sake? It was faint but he could definitely smell sake. “Someone’s here.” Said Naruto, his voice sounding deadly serious, like he was ready for a fight. What bothered him though was why he suddenly felt like there was danger when he was home, no one wanted to hurt him… at least not anymore. Maybe he was nervous that the beast, that wolf-like creature would come back wanting to fight him.

Soon, the door slid opened and walked in was a tall blonde haired woman. Her long blonde hair was pulled back into two low ponytails; her brown eyes stared at Naruto with a hint of happiness and joy, like that of a mother. Her skin was fair and she had a blue diamond on her forehead. Her face was framed by her long blonde bangs.

Her clothes were a loose blouse styled kimono that showed off her large bust. The kind that Naruto had seen many of the girls he knew who would kill to have. Over that, was a long green jacket that reached just above her knees and the sleeves ending near her wrists. Next were the dark blue pants that she wore, only ending past her knees showing the well-toned yet slender legs that she has. She wears open-toed, strappy black sandals with high heels and red polish on both her fingernails and toenails. Finally, she also wears a soft pink lipstick. All in all, she was a beautiful woman but really, Naruto knew the truth, she was an old woman who uses a jutsu to maintain her youthful appearance.

“Granny, what brings you here?” asked Naruto with confusion clearly written all over his face. As soon as he had said ‘granny’ he could have sworn that he saw a vein sticking out of her forehead. Though she took a deep breath and made her way toward the two teens that were in the room before taking a seat. Was she trying to say something or was she just in deep thought about something? Better yet, was she just drunk?

The blonde haired woman breathed deeply before leaning forward in her seat, her elbows resting on the sides of the bed and her hands folded under her nose… the stance reminded him of when she was giving out mission assignments while she sat at her desk… “Naruto,” began the older woman as she stared at him with her serious brown eyes. “What happened to you after the attack?”

Naruto stared at Tsunade for a moment, trying to find the right words that he could use to describe what had happened though to be honest… he didn’t really remember everything that had happened. “The only thing I remember… was giving it one good hit and I ran off… I was covered in blood and in a lot of pain but…” Wincing, Naruto grabbed a hold of his left shoulder, thinking about the wolf brought a tremendous amount of pain to his body and it made him want to cry out but his voice died in his throat.

“Naruto, what’s wrong?” asked Hinata as she gently reached out and placed her hands on the sides of his shoulders, hoping to bring some kind of comfort. Though when she was trying to avoid the part of his shoulder that had been causing Naruto his pain, she in fact had touched part of it, causing him to let out a sharp gasp and a soft growl-like sound. Breathing heavily, Naruto shoved Hinata’s hand off of his shoulder as he tried to collect himself… the pain had been terrible.

“Hm… Naruto let me look at your shoulder.” Said Tsunade before she pushed herself up onto her feet and carefully moved Naruto’s hand from his shoulder. The blonde haired woman carefully, and gently moved the bandages from Naruto’s shoulder, wanting to make sure that she didn’t cause any harm to Naruto since he did, just wake up when she had thought that he would have woken up yesterday because of the Kyuubi’s chakra.

What she saw though made her frown in confusion. All she could see was a weird bite mark that looked like it was done by a wild animal, though that wasn’t what had confused her. Instead of it still looking like that of a fresh wound, it had healed and left a scar… that was odd since Naruto never gets scars, and his wounds would always heal. This had her a little concerned and worried though for not it was best not to cause a panic until she could figure out what was going on though maybe, it was just the Kyuubi’s way of teaching Naruto a lesson for being stupid and telling Sasuke to get to the village leaving him alone.

“You shouldn’t have anything to worry about Naruto, it’s nothing serious. Now… there are some important matters that we have to deal with. Since you still aren’t fully healed but are well enough to leave you’ll be assigned a nurse so to speak, someone to look after you while you heal.” Said Tsunade, which made Naruto frown a little. Who would she assign to watch him? It wasn’t like he really needed anyone to watch over him, he could easily take care of himself but maybe… it was Sakura!

“Hinata will be your nurse until further notice. Once you’ve healed Naruto, Hinata will be free of her duties as your nurse.”

As soon as she had said that, Naruto was sure that Hinata was going to be miserable…