The Hunchback of Notre Dame (A Naruto Tale)

Chapter 13: Sanctuary (Part 1)

    The next  morning,  a huge crowd has gathered to watch the burning of Sakura, who is on a pyre. Danzo stands next to her as the gypsies and Sasuke watch from cages. As Kakashi comes out to see what is happening, the guards block him off. "The prisoner Sakura has been found guilty of the crime of witchcraft. The sentence: death!" Danzo announces as the crowd shouts "let her go!" "she's innocent!".  Danzo then leans close to Sakura.  "The time has come, gypsy. You stand upon the brink of the abyss. Yet even now, it is not too late. I can save you from the flames of this world, and the next. Choose me, or the fire." He says to her, but Sakura spits in his face. "The gypsy Sakura has refused to recant. This evil witch has put the soul of every citizen of Konoha in mortal danger..." Danzo explains to the crowd. 

   High up in the bell tower, A chained bell ringer watches from above as the gargoyles try to help by breaking the chains . "Come on, Naruto! Snap out of it!" Jiraiya panics "Your friends are down there!" Gai adds "It's all my fault" Naruto sulks "You gotta break these chains!" Tsunade tries to help him by pulling the chains "I can't. I tried. What difference would it make?" Naruto sighs "But you can't let Danzo win!" Gai shouts "He already has" Naruto sulks "So, you're giving up? That's it?" Jiraiya asks "These chains aren't what's holding you back, Naruto." Tsunade tries to reassure him "Leave me alone" Naruto shouts then looks away.  The 'goyles finally give up, and move away. "Okay. Okay, Naruto, we'll leave you alone." Jiraiya sighs "After all, we're only made of stone" Gai adds before he and Jiraiya turn to stone. "We just thought maybe you were made of something stronger..." Tsunade adds as she too turns to stone. 

     Naruto then sees Sakura below about to be burned at the stake. He then begins to pull at the chains "for justice, for Konoha, and for her own salvation! It is my sacred duty to send this demon  back where she belongs!" Danzo shouts as he touches the torch to the pyre, starting the fire. "NO!!!!!" Naruto roars as he begins to pull the chains harder and harder  The bells begin to quietly ring as he shakes the very building, ripping out pillars of stone. Sakura begins to cough from the smoke as Danzo evilly smiles. Naruto pulls the chains once more and is freed. He runs off and grabs a rope. Leaping off the edge of the cathedral, he lassos a gargoyle and rappels down the side of the building. As he gets close enough, He jumps off, flying out over the crowd and lands on the platform. He quickly breaks Sakura's ropes while Sakura is unconscious. A trio of guards come at him, but Naruto grabs a torch and swings it at them, scaring them off. He grabs the rope and climbs back to the top of the building. 

  "Naruto!" Danzo gasps as to what just happened. When Naruto reaches the top of the tower, carrying an unconscious Sakura in his arms. He then stands in front of the giant stained glass window, holding Sakura's body above his head "Sanctuary!! Sanctuary!! Sanctuary!!" He shouts over the crowd as they cheer for him. Danzo becomes angry then looks at the guard next to him, "Captain!" he shouts "Sir?" the guard asks "Seize the cathedral!" he orders. Meanwhile in the tower, Naruto has brought the still unconscious Sakura into the bedroom. He lies her down on the bed."Don't worry. You'll be safe here" he reassures her. He then leaps down, grabs a beam of wood and throws it at the soldiers on the ground making them scurry like ants. 

    "Come back, you cowards!" Danzo orders.  "You men! Pick up that beam! Break down the door!" a Danzo ordered the remaining guards but leaving Konan to stand guard at Sasuke's cage.  Sasuke grabs him by the neck from inside the cage. "Alone at last!" Sasuke smiles then bonks the guard on the head, and as Konan falls to the ground, he grabs the keys to the lock. While the guards have begun battering the door. Sasuke unlocks himself, then leaps on top of the cage. "Citizens of Konoha!" He shouts with a spear in his hand "Danzo has persecuted our people, ransacked our city! Now he has declared war on Notre Dame herself! Will we allow it?!?" "No!!!" the crowd roars.  As the crowd begins to break loose the gypsies, the guards continue their assault. Soon, the crowd swarms around the door fighting off the guards.

  "I think the cavalry's here!" Jiraiya rejoices as they see Sasuke. "Hey! Isn't that--" Jiraiya asks "Sumo!" Gai shouts "Duck butt!" Tsunade adds "Sasuke!" Naruto rejoices. The crowds continue to fight. Naruto continues to drop things on the advancing troops. Gai drops a brick, landing square on a guard's head. "Sorry! Sorry!" Gai apologizes. Jiraiya throws a rock in his mouth, then chomps it up, flies around like a bomber, ending up on the ledge. He begins spitting out pebbles like a machine gun. Meanwhile, Danzo is supervising the guards at the door "Harder!" he shouts. As the fighting continues, a guard breaks the lock off the stockade. The old prisoner is once again free. "I'm free! I'm free!" he cheers then steps into a sewer hole. "Dang It!" he shouts. A grappling hook reaches Naruto. He grabs it, then pulls the rope tight. Three guards smash into the building. Meanwhile, Gai and Jiraiya are building a catapult. They finally are finished and ready to fire. "Ready...aim...fire!" Gai shouts as they push it off the ledge, sending it crashing the ground, the soldiers scatter as it hits "Are you sure that's how it works?" Gai asks Jiraiya. all of a sudden the upside down catapult springs the cart bottom on top of a few soldiers. "Works for me!" Jiraiya cheers. 

      A fight breaks out between Hidan and Sasuke in which Sasuke wins by tying the top of his shirt into a knot, Akumaru head butts him in the butt causing him to end up behind Pakkun. "Pakkun! Sit!" Sasuke orders him, Pakkun obeys and sits on his head smiling. Back at the bell tower, Tsunade gathered all of the pigeons in the tower, sending them to attack (ala "The Wizard of Oz.") "Fly, my pretties! Fly! Fly!" Tsunade commands the birds laughing, The soldiers panic as they see a flock of birds flying towards them pecking at their helmets. The guards continue to work on the door. "Put your backs into it!" Danzo shouts. Meanwhile, Gai is using Jiraiya as a bellows to warm up the fire on the lead pot. Naruto attaches a rope to it, then dumps it over, sending fire pouring out of the tower and onto the scattering guards below.