"Now, Naruto... wipe your tears! The shinobi in front of you is going to leave with pride...
he protected you 'till the very end. We should be proud of him..."
Uchiha Shisui to Uzumaki Naruto
Naruto didn't care about the hole in his hand or the resulting sharp pain; both were the farthest thing from his mind. He had been careless, and his friends had paid the price. He should have realize how odd it was for Aizen to knock Hinamori out by holding the back of her neck, or paid attention to the scruff of her neck when she was laying down. He did neither, and now Hinamori had nailed his hand to the wooden surface with her katana. The price he paid for his carelessness.
Naruto ignored the pain as he pulled the katana out of his hand, spilling his blood all over the seal array. Hinamori paid him no mind as she strode to her master who looked dead, but... could he survive that? His breath hitched when he saw the seal array on the back of Hinamori's neck, a crudely made mind control seal.
What the hell was Aizen thinking? One of the most obscure type of seals were the ones that dealt with the mind, using that kind of seal recklessly would destroy someone's mind. His blood ran cold at the thought of the seal having been planted a long time ago. Hinamori had been with Aizen for years, her mind was probably...
The sound of metal hitting wood alerted him to Itachi and Shisui pulling Aizen's weapons out of themselves. Faint smoke was coming off of both weapons from the fire jutsus used to destroy the seal arrays carved into them. A wise move, he decided. Naruto winced when he felt the wound on his hand closing rapidly. He'd never had a wound this deep before, so the experience of his muscle tissue being pulled and mended by Kurama's demonic chakra was foreign and slightly painful.
"Naruto-kun," Itachi's calm voice alerted him to the ANBU's presence by his side, "are you alright?"
The jinchuuriki nodded, watching from the corner of his eyes as all the ANBU retreated to the giant tree stump. It was a wise choice; they didn't want Aizen to attack them again with his lightning element. "I'm fine... but Hinamori, she's under his control..."
Someone would have tried to approach her and knock her out, but what she held made them pause. In one hand, she was holding one of Aizen's kunai with a lightning element seal, and in the other was the dreaded treasure. Stepping anywhere near the water's surface was a suicidal move, and although they were physically superior compared to Hinamori, it would be too dangerous to confront her. They knew that a mind-controlled human, like her, could do the unthinkable with little regard to themselves and their surroundings.
"Taichou, could we use the wall to get to her?" Kuma asked Tori warily.
Tori turned to the Uchihas and said, "Itachi, Shisui... can you see if anything's in the wall? If there's another seal trap there it could be a dead end."
Itachi and Shisui nodded, pushing more chakra into their eyes to see better in the dimly lit room. "I can see some traces of chakra..." Shisui gulped at the sight and what it implied. "This is bad."
The Uchiha scion nodded, "how could we miss this?" He gritted his teeth, his sharingan spinning furiously. "The wall... is a landmine." If they had noticed earlier, they wouldn't have even dared to touch the wall. And to think, all of this was a defense mechanism made by Uzumaki Mito?
The warning of 'don't touch the seal' was never voiced, but it didn't need be. The Uzumaki clan was notorious for their use of seals as traps.
Naruto coughed, his voice hoarse with exhaustion. "Because this giant seal array activated," he breathed out, "the defense mechanism that's been dormant for so long has been revived by my chakra. But, Aizen and Hinamori have been here before, so they probably know how to deactivate it..." Though Hinamori had probably not been aware of Aizen's malicious intent towards the seal. Naruto gritted his teeth, "It's designed to annihilate intruders if they manage to reach the treasure, but it's backfired in our case, because they know how to control it while we don't."
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Unsealing Legacy
FanfictionA small twist of fate made him aware of his heritage; unsealing the legacies his parents left behind. Graduating from the academy at age seven, he's well on his way. He found a kindred spirit in Uchiha Itachi, and his cousin Shisui's along for the r...
