Alone No More

The Chase

Warning: severe hypothermia, violence, blood, minor swearing
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"Tsunade take care of Kakashi! Minato and I are going to get the bastards who did this!" Jiraiya yelled, as Tsunade, Minato, Obito, and Rin made their way to the toad sage, who was sitting crisscross in the snow still cradling the son of the White fang.

Jiraiya warily stood up, keeping his hair wrapped around his upper body to shield Kakashi from the freezing rain and piercing winds. Before gently giving the frozen boy to Tsunade, who is staring at Kakashi in complete shock, at how much damage was inflicted on the nine-year-old boy. While Tsunade carried a barely conscious Kakashi in her arms, Jiraiya used the mud wall jutsu to make it a small cone-like shelter with a rock bottom, to keep the shelter as dry as possible.

"Go, we'll wait here," Tsunade ordered, as she ushered Obito and Rin into the small stone shelter, before following with Kakashi.

All the while, Minato stared blankly at Kakashi's face, who looks like he's on the brink of death. Aside from two barley open dark gray hazy eyes slowly blink staring off focusing on nothing. It made the blonde feel sick and wanted nothing more to see the people who did this suffer.

After Tsunade and the students were in the shelter, Jiraiya and Minato ran off towards the direction where Kakashi's abusers went. Tsunade looks back at the boy, who's wrapped tightly in a black blanket, and noticed Kakashi wasn't shivering anymore, but still had a weak pulse. Tsunade immediately went into full-on medic mode, as she bit the tip of her thumb performing the summoning jutsu.

"How may I help you, lady Tsunade?" Asked the slug that was the size of Tsunade's hand appeared when the smoke faded.

"Lady Katsuyu I need your help with stabilizing Kakashi. He has severe hypothermia, as well as broken bones, fractures, lacerations, and a severe head injury. It looks like he's also lost quite a bit of blood, so we need to get him stabilized as soon as possible." Tsunade spoke calmly, as she listed off what they're dealing with while using her medical ninjutsu to warm up Kakashi's frozen body.

'How is this boy still alive? Any normal person would be dead long before now. I'll have to ask Jiraiya when he gets back,' Tsunade thought as she continues using her medical ninjutsu to warm up the boy, who is laying across her lap, and had just slipped into unconsciousness.

"Understood my lady I'll help in any way I can," Katsuyu response with a nod, as Tsunade unwrapped the blanket a little allowing the slug to crawl onto unto Kakashi's chest as Tsunade place your hand on the Hatake's head continuing to slowly rise Kakashi's temperature trying to encourage the boy to start shivering again.

While treating the nine-year-old, Katsuyu glanced up at her summoner with disbelief. "Lady Tsunade, these injuries... I don't believe that this boy will-"

"I know, but you know the rules," Tsunade interrupted, see the terrified expressions on the other two students. She mentally went over the first rule of a medical ninja, 'medical treatment will not be stopped until the life of the patient has ceased.' The Senju heiress refused to give up on the last Hatake, who is still fighting for his life. Tsunade's green chakra glows brighter while adding, "so, let's get to work."

"Yes, lady Tsunade!" Lady Katsuyu responded as she poured more chakra into healing Kakashi. Both healers were shocked, but pleasantly surprised when Kakashi flinched.

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"Minato slow down!" Jiraiya called out as Minato quickens his pace while scanning the area around them.

"I'm not going to let them escape!" Minato practically growls at his sensei.

"Minato, calm down," Jiraiya warned. He hasn't seen this side of his kind-hearted student in a long time. Suddenly, Jiraiya's shadow clones' memories flooded into his mind, then informed his student, "They just dispelled my clones, we're closed just a little bit more west.