Chapter 2

AN: I, a stupid bitch, am gonna write a few of these chapters now to make a nice buffer zone for myself, because I need to study for my exams.

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Light blue eyes slowly fluttered open to rays of sun falling atop them from a nearby window. A light breeze made the curtains flutter as Naruto slowly sat up, events of what transpired slowly coming back to him. His head slowly turned to look out upon the ocean, one thought going through his head.

"Haku" he whispered, knowing that simply saying the name wouldn't do anything to change the situation of where he went.

"Don't move so quickly, your body isn't going to be back in top shape for a little longer."

Frozen in place Naruto couldn't turn his head to look. This was somehow the most fear inducing moment of his whole life, and somehow every fiber of his being needed him to turn.

As if by whatever kind of force that was out there in the world, one that is apparently now on his side. Gently a rather cold and very soft and brushed against his forehead. Never before in his life had he felt his heart skip before. Regardless of how gentle it was, the presence of the hand was like the god of death to Naruto as his body remained unmoving.

"You're burning up, this might sting a little but it'll feel nice afterwards" the voice of the one person Naruto wanted it to be more than anyone else said.

As he was told there was a slight sting before relief as what could only be called an actual block of ice formed on his head. This was accompanied by a different hand slowly pushing his shoulders back down onto the bed. When his head hit the pillow he had no choice to but look and see who it was.

"Don't worry, you'll be alright I promise" Hakus eyes felt so warm in comparison to the almost icy touch of his hands. "I'll be back soon don't worry, I have to tell the others your awake. Do you think you can handle talking to them?"

He slowly nodded still stunned by the presence of Haku, how could he not even say a simple yes. It was unclear if this was from embarrassment, or if he was too afraid of somehow breaking this spell he was under that was making his dream true.

Haku smiled at him, it was strange how warm it made him feel, and then departed the room. He could hear a shout from a different room and then the rushing of what sounded like a small herd of animals. As quickly as Haku had left the room was suddenly filled with people. Sakura and Inari were loudly talking at him, while Kakashi and Sasuke were giving him looks of concern, Tazuna and Tsunami looking on from the doorway.

It was a blur of words and people for the next hour, it could have been an eternity for all he knew. Full of "I'm fine" 's and other such short responses. Luckily for him Kakashi pushed the others out of the room to talk with him alone.

"Naruto, I am incredibly glad you're still alive and seemingly very well healed after what happened" he sat down in a chair by the bed. "But if you ever do something as stupid as that again I will hit you with a second Chidori to literally kill you."

"Wow harsh much" the instinct of saying something sarcastic, was definitely not a good move here.

"You could have very easily died there, for someone who was trying to kill you. So yes, harsh much" Kakaski at the very least seemed to have defused a little with his remark so maybe it was a good move after all.

"I acted to save a friend and I cannot in a million years say I would hesitate to do so again" the seriousness of this conversation was certainly not lost to him. The sigh that came out from under his mask implied he knew that would be said at least once.

"For the love of god, do not make friends with every single person who we have to fight to the death with" overruled and ignored sounds like a terrible idea Kakashi. "And especially don't teleport in front of me while I have a bolt of lightning on my arm."

"But any other dangerous thing is totally fine?" back to humor to deflect the severity of the situation.

"Yes, if I have a fireball or giant sword attached to my arm feel. Perfectly free to teleport in front of me so I hit you with it" this joke was received way worse than the first one. "Now then, with our poor attempts at using humor to deflect problems out of the way," Those were high tier attempts and he goddamn knows it. "Explain how you teleported, 100 words or less."

Right, that probably would be a high priority for him to figure out since well, it definitely looked important and/or dangerous. Just tell him the truth and it'll all work out.

"I didn't actually teleport I stopped time and ran in front of you and then unstopped time" shit this sounds like a fucking garbage ass lie.

"Ok you just wasted 17 words on that garbage lie 83 left" Kakashi sounded a lot more serious now.

"Look I don't know how I did it, but that's what happen I swear I'm not lying" how to sound like a liar with Naruto Uzumaki 101.

"I don't care how you developed some kind of teleportation Jutsu but I need to know why you did so and why you never told anyone until right now" he is really adamant on this teleporting thing.

"Do I look like some kind of Justu creating genius to you Kakashi?" he has to believe this. "Because last time I checked, I was so bad at everything I almost didn't graduate from the academy."

"Oh I forgot, the kid who, you know, stole the scroll of seals a scroll full of dangerous and powerful Jutsu, that kid?" well, he's got me there.

"Just make your eyes glow red and say it's me" whatever kind of demon that this garbage idea came from, can promptly fuck off. "Suit yourself idiot."

"I think, it's a power from the you know what" Naruto said a little quieter.

"Now, I want you to imagine you're me for a second. Now imagine how I feel upon hearing that the you know what apparently makes my student have the ability to stop time and/or teleport," Kakashi is somehow sounding both incredibly stressed and incredibly afraid all at once. Truly an impressive talent.

"In my imagined version of this scene there's a roaring fire between us making a really cool shadowy fire effect on both of our faces, if that helps the situation," that's gotta convince him everything's alright.

"Ok, you are most definitely Naruto and not the you know what," wow the is bar is so low for me. "I will let you come up with a better explanation and get some rest, we are not done talking about this Naruto."

"I can do at least one of those things if not both, but I am already telling you everything," the truth is supposed to set you free and it has done nothing but fucked me over for the past ten minutes.

With a mix of a grunt and sigh Kakashi slowly gets up and walks towards the door.

"I'm glad you're alright Naruto, I mean it." That was both heartfelt and touching, no stern lesson tied to it at all.

"I can totally take three of those bitchass chidoirs before dying" can't let him end on a heartfelt note.

"I'll remember that," and with that Kakashi was gone, and Naruto was back to being alone.

A light knock on the door implied this new found alone time was going to be ended. Before he could say anything in response in walked probably the second most dangerous guy Naruto now knew.

"I think me and you have some things to discuss kid" Zabzuba, thankfully sword less, said closing the door behind him.