Naruto Of The Shadow Clones

chapter 22 Chunnin Exams Prelims

Once Sakura and Sasuke were secure, the large group shot off at extremely high speeds towards the tower. The foxes had all secured themselves by going into the clones pockets. While most couldn't shrink their forms like Rigeoned, they made do since they knew that they had no chance keeping up with their summoner when he needed to use his full speed.

Sakura turned her head into the clones neck to cover her eyes from the wind the speed they were traveling at created. Naruto and the clones had added chakra to their eyes so that they could actually see where they were going. Normally this wouldn't have been necessary but they were pouring as much chakra into their legs as they dared to get there as fast as possible.

They reached the tower in under two minutes and came to a screeching halt at one of the doors that led inside. Glancing around for anyone who had a death wish at the moment, the group quickly entered the tower. Once the doors were closed, the clones let the foxes out before dispelling themselves. The extra scrolls they collected dropped to the ground around the foxes who simply batted them with their tails so that they were in a pile before they themselves dispelled with a quick word from Naruto.

The clone let Sakura down before walking over to a message at the end of the room. Naruto slowly set Sasuke down and Sakura came over to check up on him. Rigeoned in the mean time hopped out of the original's pocket and grew back to regular size and joined her at examining Sasuke.

Turning to the original he said "We need to get him help quick Naruto. He's getting one hell of a fever."

Naruto nodded before the last remaining clone said "Hey boss, looks like we need to open the scrolls to get through."

Naruto glanced over at the clone and saw where he was pointing. Reading the message he nodded and beckoned the clone and Sakura over to the pile of four scrolls before taking out the heaven and earth scrolls he had on him. Nodding to the two when they had their scrolls in their hands, the three then opened the three sets they had.

As the scrolls started smoking, Naruto recognized the summoning seal and they tossed the scrolls to the ground where they were drawn together in xs and with a poof of smoke Iruka, Mizuki, and another Chunnin appeared.

The three chunnin looked around and were surprised to see two other chunnin besides themselves before they turned to the team.

But before they could say anything, Naruto spoke up. "Iruka-Sensei! Mizuki-Sensei! Thank goodness! We need a medic now! Our team had a run in with Orochimaru and he did something to Sasuke! He's got some kind of mark on his neck."

The Chunnin were shocked and wondered if he was serious before they glanced at Sasuke's neck. Taking immediate action, Iruka grabbed Sasuke and shushined away while Mizuki told the other chunnin to get the Hokage and come to the tower. When he had left Mizuki led the other two members of team 7 and Rigeoned who had remained through all this to their room to drop off Sakura before he dragged Naruto and Rigeoned to the room that Sasuke was brought into where Iruka, the Hokage, Kakashi, and a medic were already talking with Sasuke hooked to an IV line.

Seeing Naruto, the group started asking questions and Naruto explained as well as he could what happened. When he was done, it was agreed that Naruto and Kakashi would do their best to seal the curse seal when Sasuke regained consciousness as a semi permanent solution. It was thought too dangerous to attempt to do while he was under like he was. In the meantime, they would leave a couple of Naruto's shadow clones that he would fill to the brim with chakra to act as guards. One would stay outside while the other would be in the room. With as much chakra as the two clones had, they could potentially take on a whole Anbu squad on their own. Rigeoned had at that time left seeing that he was no longer needed to report back to his leader.