Nothing Special

Chapter 87

They all went back to the village, leaving Gai-sensei to watch over the villa.

Naruto was up ahead with Yakumo on his back, while Aceso helped Kurenai.

"How are you doing Kurenai-Sensei?" Aceso asked. "Are you okay?"

"Yes," Kuerani answered. She looked at Sakura. "You did a good job patching me up, Sakura. I feel much better now." Team 8 slowly trailed behind them.

"What the hell?" Naruto demanded as he came to a stop. They all walked forward to see what freaked out Naruto. Aceso's eyes went wide at the sight.

"You guys seeing this?" Aceso as Team 8 ran up to take a look.

" The hidden leaf village," Kiba gasped. " It's..."

"But how?" Hinata gasped. The village was in ruins.

"It looks like the aftermath of some gigantic war or something!" Naruto noted.

"Hinata!" Kurenai called upon.

"Uh, right," Hinata nodded. "Byakugan!" She scanned the whole village. "There isn't anybody in the village. 

"This isn't good," Kurenai frowned.

"What the hell's going on around here?" Naruto demanded. They walked deeper into the village, not a soul in sight.

"Kiba, Hinata, you two picking anything up?" Kurenai asked.

"No signs of enemies in the vicinity," Hinata reported. Akamaru whimpered.

"Akamaru hasn't caught a whiff of anything either," Kiba added.

" I don't understand what happened here though," Naruto admitted. "How could this even be?"

"If there was any trouble we should have heard it," Aceso agreed.

"Let's just get Yakumo and Kurenai-Sensei bac to the hospital for now," Sakura suggested. "We can take a look around the village after that."

"Yeah, you're right," Aceso agreed. They took the two to the battered infirmary.  "This is bad." She has never seen this place so beat up, this was where she lived after all.

"Come on, let's get these two inside," Sakura urged. Once inside Sakura and Aceso were able to place Yakumo and Kurenai into hospital beds.

"Don't worry about me," Kurenai said to Sakura. "Help Aceso take care of Yakumo."  

"Right," Sakura nodded.

"You're totally safe now," Naruto smiled down at Yakumo. "Huh? Oh, no! She's unconscious!"

"Her vital signs are dropping," Aceso reported. "Hopefully, there's still medicine. Sakura, can you and Naruto go see what you two can find."

"Yeah, but-" Naruto began to protest.

"Naruto, come on!" Sakura demanded, putting a hand on his shoulder. Those two left as Aceso started to do some hand signs.

"Don't smell any blood," Kiba reported. "Must have evacuated somewhere."

"Let's go have a look around the village," Shino suggested.

"Right," Hinata nodded.

"Make sure you act as a team, okay?" Kurenai instructed. "And I don't care what you find out there, I want you back here in 30 minutes."

"Got it," Kiba smiled, the others walked out as he softly chuckled scratching his face.

"What?" Kurenai asked. "What? What is it?"

"Heh, heh!" Kiba laughed. " Aw, nothing. Just feels good to be getting orders from you again, ya know?" He happily ran over, and Kurenai smiled at him. She looked over to see Aceso frowning down, her Jutsu wasn't working at all.