NOVEL NEXT WORLD Chapter 32: chaotic night
"if you'll excuse me Lady Tsunade, I'll go and check on Garm's condition" Tsunade about to open the door to her room turned to face shizune "Lead the way, I'll come along" shizune pleasantly surprised turned and walked a few steps before stopping infront of the next room's door "we're here".
"What! You booked their room next to ours, did you forget Jiraiya's a perverted menace" in an attempt to avoid any further scolding shizune diverted the topic "I apologize I'll keep that in mind if there ever is a next time Lady Tsunade, we should really go in now" opening the door Shizune walked into the room to find Naruto wide awake watching over Garm. "Uh, what's going on, is there something you need" Naruto questioned their sudden visit out of curiosity.
Tsunade was the one to answer him "We'll be looking after Garm, I'll personally check over him and make preparations for his surgery" Naruto's eyes lit up "Really? Thank you!, uhh.. let me get out of your way" before he left Tsunade pulled him back "Before you go here, I want you to have this, this was passed down to me by my grandfather and now I want you to have it" Tsunade took off her necklace and placed it around Naruto's.
"Your grandpa? Who's that supposed to be" a bit confused at the sudden turn of events Naruto curiously looked at the turquoise crystal gem around his neck. "He's the first Hokage Hashiarama senju, It's a valuable necklace make sure you don't lose it" Tsunade turned around and marched forward to perform a check up on Garm while Naruto remained petrified. "Naruto, helooo Naruto?" Shizune woke Naruto from his stupor "Thank you.... I'll take care of it you have my word!" Tsunade chuckled "There's no need just do me a favor and become a good man". Naruto looked her in the eyes and smile grew on his face "you got it Lady Tsunade!".
A smile appeared on Tsunade's face "enough with that from now on just call me grandma tsunade". Naruto looked at her unsure why a young woman like her would desire such a title "You're a little too young ya'know, you look about twenty five to me". "I'm around the same age as Jiraiya young man" Tsunade replied with a playful grin.
'Thats right she was in the same class as pervy sage in the academy!!' Naruto left speachless, walked out of the room after saying his goodbyes "bye... Shizune... La-.... Grandma Tsunade...". Once he closed the door behind him the two medical nin focused their attention on their patient "Shizune what exactly are we dealing with here".
Shizune provided a rundown of the illness affecting Garms health "It's an uncommon Chakra solidification blockage within his Chakra system I'm not sure that I located all of them, we should perform another scan over his Chakra pathways, second thing is at the point linking his Chakra coils and his Chakra pathways there is a troublesome blockage one we must take special care of we cannot perform an insision there or the highly compressed Chakra built up within the Chakra coils might rip through and cause an internal explosion destroying his internal organs in the process.... I suggest that we operate on this section using Chakra alone, I'll leave it to you to slowly convert the solidified Chakra to its original state, slowly you'll create small gaps for the Chakra to flow through like cracks on a dam. But only after we remove the other obstructions in his pathways and heal them with our combined efforts".
Tsunade began searching through Garms body "It's just as you said, go and prepare a location for the operation and the tools we'll need while I do what I can to strengthen his body for what's to come.... and don't forget prepare wolf blood, it's seems his blood type is DEA8". Nodding her head shizune left to prepare everything Tsunade asked for.
Meanwhile Naruto decided to visit kabuto's grave. Traversing the canopy of the dense forest he leaped from tree to tree and arrived in the very same place that was a battle ground nothing but a few hours ago. His guilt ate him alive, he promised himself that never again would he lose control of himself like that. Running across the rocky terrain Naruto couldn't believe his eyes and slowed down to a halt.
From afar he saw a sight he never expected. On the hill that marked kabuto grave, large piles dirt were spred around and could be seen even in the darkness of night. Kabuto's grave was desecrated, In the ninja world not even in the grave are you allowed to rest in peace. In a panic Naruto ran over only to find kabuto's corpse gone. Unable to control his breathing Naruto tightly gripped his jacket above his chest "what the hell is happening, who did this!?".
A single clone stayed behind by Naruto's side "I'll leave it to you!". Nodding his head the clone ran back the way Naruto came, back to Tanzakuga.
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In the forests of tanzakuga a battle raged on in the dead of night. A fight to the death held between two factions one being sound ninja on direct orders from orochimaru to retrieve kabuto's corpse, and A second group of mysterious individuals covered in bandages from head to toe, their silhouettes concealed within red cloaks. Before the sound ninja could find kabuto's corpse another group of mysterious figures arrived before them and unearthed their objective before they could retrieve it.
Their goals shrouded in mystery the red cloaks in possession of kabuto's body eluded the sound ninja for miles before the sound tracked them down through the minute sounds vibrations produced by the Red cloaks movements. Once their groups encountered each other they clashed without a moment's hesitation. The silent mummies in red fought the sound ninja blocking their path, allowing the one carrying Kabuto to leave unhindered by the sound. "Don't let him leave Lord orochimaru will have our heads if we return empty handed!!" The leader of the sound Ninja's ordered the rest to intercept kabuto's corpse and retrieve it. This battle resulted in the utter defeat of the sound ninja, all but one died while the red cloaks lost none of their own.
The leader of the sound retrieval team regained his consciousness to find a mortifying scene infront of him. the dismembered limbs and organs of his subordinates gathered in a pile completely stripped of their blood, and a single scroll that did not belong to the sound on the ground infront of him "I'm only alive because they needed a messenger.....". Nearly loosing his mind the squad leader or now former squad leader fled the scene after disposing of all signs that the sound had any involvement in this.
Jiraiya flickered to Naruto's side on the hill. "Found anything yet kid" Naruto stared deep into kabuto's empty grave "no, I've been searching for nearly half an hour, whoever it was they covered their tracks... I can't even tell how many of them there were". Jiraiya pondered for a moment "Good chance it was orochimaru's doing, Kabuto's corpse should not only be a valuable asset to him but also a danger for him, but it wouldn't be a big enough of a threat in most people's hands even the leaf wouldn't gain much from a single corpse so I dicided to leave it be...".
"Orochimaru?... It's always him, one of these days I'll put him in his place!" Naruto's blood boiled although he was glad that at least kabuto was taken by the person he gave his life for. "Woah, hold on I can't say it was him for sure it could really be anyone that had an interest in his corpse and from what you said earlier they should be a ninja capable of hiding their trail from you but to me their trail might as well be unconcealed, follow me". Running forward Jiraiya lead Naruto to the now deserted battlefield.
"Ugh what's that smell, is there something weird in the air" Naruto pitched his nose to avoid smelling the pungent smell in the air. "That, is the smell of blood... This was a battlefield, if you look around you can find signs of a struggle" Jiraiya scanned the place looking for the source of the thick smell of iron "Blood? what are you talking about I don't see a single drop of it anywhere".
"You don't say, not even a single corpse was left behind and that includes kabuto's... We're turning back this is an unnecessary risk, neither of us are going to put our lives on the line to retrieve a traitor's corpse" Jiraiya grabbed naruto's jacket and dragged him back to Tanzakuga with the body flicker giving him no room to argue against it.
Naruto might have recovered from his fight with kabuto almost instantly but Jiraiya was still recovering from some of his wounds. It hasn't been a day since his fight with orochimaru and he needed some rest, even after shizune treated most of his wounds the exhaustion from the battle was still there.
Arriving at the hotel Jiraiya stopped at the front entrance dropping Naruto behind him "I'm getting tired of that *guh*, what is that jutsu anyway" Naruto would have puked but luckily had any food in him. Jiraiya took out a scroll and tossed it over to Naruto "It's a simple D rank jutsu called the . most Ninja are expected to learn this at some point in their lives might as well learn it now so I don't have to keep dragging you around" Naruto was tempted to open the scroll and start training right away when a grumbling sound resounded from his gut.
"Haha, come on let's get something in you training can wait, I know just the place they got the best average tasting food you'll ever find" Naruto looked at Jiraiya with unamused eyes. "And why would I want to eat some sloppy food" Jiraiya chuckled "It's not about the food, it's about all the hot ladies obsessed with eating that tasteless healthy stuff, and as a bonus the food is actually good for you and as a ninja you should take care of what you eat" Jiraiyah went on a rant about how eating healthy is healthy blah blah blah.
"Ok, ok I get it but I know what kind of man you are. I know exactly what your up to you pervy sage" Jiraiyah covered naruto's mouth while looking around "How many times do I have to tell you not to call me that in public". Naruto peeled his hand off "I'll stop it... for a price, hehehe"