Unsealing Legacy

Chapter 8:The Tower and the Uchiha

"I think that... the one thing Naruto-kun fears the most after losing the people he cares about is...
to see everything he's sacrificed – his parents, childhood, friends... all be for nothing."
Uchiha Itachi

Hospital, a day after the funeral.

Believe it or not, Jinchuuriki were not infallible beings as far as the bijuu-enhanced healing properties and poison immunity went. Naruto was well aware of that truth since the bijuu had no intentions of deluding his jinchuuriki about their mortality. While it was true bijuu could heal almost any injuries from cuts, broken bones, and even organ ruptures, they couldn't save their jinchuuriki from grave wounds on the level of a destroyed heart or a missing head, and definitely not if someone had a way to disintegrate their body completely, as Kurama put it jokingly. Missing limbs or eyes or the likes had never happened to his previous jinchuurikis, so Kurama had no idea if he could regrow it. Though the fox was sure he could reattach it if Naruto was lucky enough to have not completely lost the limb. Naruto vehemently refused to test that theory.

Poison was tricky stuff, according to Kurama, since he had to be aware of it, otherwise it would go left untreated. While the bijuu was confident he could prevent Naruto from dying of poison, he couldn't prevent Naruto from feeling the headache, nausea, and other symptoms if the poison was strong enough. And some particularly strong poisons would require Kurama to 'burn' it out of his system. When Naruto had asked Kurama to test it using a mild poison, the cut had healed in record time, and the poison had evaporated from his wound, though he'd found the burning sensation to be very unpleasant.

So Naruto had made it clear he disliked being poisoned, because burning it out of his system was a bitch.

So when Naruto found out a unique tasting jelly was laced with poison, he was pretty pissed. He was sweaty from head to toe, and he looked like a cooked crab fresh from the pan. When Shisui and Itachi secretly visited him, they were pretty surprised to see an irate Naruto who looked like he had visited a sauna. "Some fools poisoned the jelly," he muttered as he slammed a privacy seal tag Hakurei had given him on the wall. By the time he had noticed the poison, a spoonful had already made it into his digestive system. It had been a mild poison, but because Kurama knew it would pissed Naruto off, he had burned it out of his body.

'Next time be more vigilant!' Kurama hissed in the back of his mind.

'I'm sorry...' Naruto rolled his eyes. If he wanted to be that cautious, he'd have to revert back to his diet of Ichiraku ramen and wild plants. Though no one had been foolish enough to poison him outright back then, there had always been a risk from the food he'd bought.

Shisui gritted his teeth, "Damn..."

Naruto shook his head, "let it be..." He deadpanned as Itachi handed him a towel to wipe his sweat. "I should've noticed when I saw the nurse who brought my meal looking a bit dazed." Villagers usually limited themselves to doing things that wouldn't get them arrested and/or killed most of the time, but some were brave enough to try their chances, though very rarely.

"Genjutsu," Itachi drawled with a sigh. "Is this the first assassination attempt on you?" he asked curiously. Normally, he wouldn't feel any curiosity for an attempted assassination on his friend's life, but from how deadpanned Naruto's response was, the Uzumaki cared even less than he did.

Naruto shrugged, "Nah... Poison is the easiest and safest way to assassinate me since it's hard to trace, and not even ANBU is paranoid enough to check sealed cartons of milk or instant ramen. Besides, mild poisons only give a jinchuuriki a slight headache or stomachache." He shook his head, imagining a store clerk using a syringe or the likes to inject poison into his groceries. His ANBU guards had never worried of him dying from poison with justified reason, of course.