Naruto : Uchiha : Chapter 87

No one, and that meant absolutely no one, ever used such a technique on themselves. So, her curiosity as to what exactly had occurred on that mission was quite reasonable.

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"What technique was he using?" her sudden question made Duy blink out of his stupor. The boy, who had his palms on the small glass in Naruto's door and was trying and failing to glance a peek at his downed friend thought about what he had seen for a moment.

"Um, I don't really know…" the narrowing of Mito's eyes didn't help his nervous case any, that was for sure. But he wasn't lying, he hadn't ever seen an electrically charged human like that before. "…he was running at blinding speeds.

I've never seen him go that fast to be honest." now that did surprise her. She herself knew the boy she was talking to was no slouch in speed himself, even though Naruto was blindingly fast if he needed to be - more so than this ... green boy ... in front of her.

But that didn't answer her question.

And it annoyed her to no end…

So before her wrath fell on Duy, the boy tried to plead his case as much as he could lest he become her target and primary focus for venting out her frustrations.

"He was covered in lightning from head to toe, I mean really he was glowing…" emphasizing his point by showing his own body like a stripper of sorts, he felt quite stupid. But anything was better than facing an angry woman in his opinion.

"You mean literally?" the sheepish look her gave her cemented that she was right and did help the boy who was trying and failing to explain his sentence and thereby his case, a lot.

"I see." his long sigh upon hearing that did show her that he had nothing else to add. But Mito could devise the rest on her own - Naruto was quite possibly electrocuting himself from the inside out to achieve that extraordinary feat. It was quite a genius tactic in her opinion, but it didn't make her turn any less livid right now for the after effects of said technique.

The boy was not built like a tank. He was a quick and agile child, always relying on his instincts and speed much more than he did on brute strength and power. If she was completely honest, he looked like he would be happy each time he would win while doing as little as he could.

One could call that lazy but Tobirama his mentor called that efficient.

She however knew the truth a bit more than him.

Naruto always avoided conflict as much as he could. So to finish off a fight like that or run away when he had the chance to was exactly what she would expect from him.

But running away in this manner was a different matter altogether.

"Oi! oi! oi!" Duy's bouncing form broke her thoughts. Right before her fist could bonk the boy gently to chastise and remind him he was in a hospital of all places she saw his sparkling eyes and grew a little confused herself.

"HE MOVED!" her eyes widened hearing that, it just wasn't possible. The boy had been out cold from pure shock at the immense pain he had endured due to his technique. He shouldn't be able to wake up, much less move for at least two days straight right now.

That was on top of the point that she had just given him a really high dose of some mild tranquilizing sedatives - no more than a couple of hours ago.

But her mulling was cut short when another shout rang loud in the silent hallways they resided within.

"BAA-CHAN?!" she wanted to scold and bonk everyone here to remind them that this was a damn hospital. Only then did she realize that only two people in the whole world called her that, one was right now in the room she was just in an hour ago and quite possibly unconscious.

So that only left…

"Tsuna-" before she could finish, her granddaughter had cut her off.

"Where is he?" in but a moment Mito knew the girl was quite aware of her friend's condition. Glancing slightly behind the girl, she saw an apologetic looking Sakumo rubbing his head sheepishly.

Well, that answered that…

"He's in this room." Duy, answered the girl dumbly while pointing a finger at the door in front of him. And before Mito could even realize what had happened, Tsunade was already closing the door to said room behind her.

The redhead's heart almost popped right out of her chest while her eyes went wide in shock. Honestly, none of these people had any restraint whatsoever. Which was proved when she caught Duy's scarf while he too had found it prudent to follow Tsunade's incentive and go visit his friend who had just come out of surgery mind you!

"No visitors allowed." her stern tone left no room for argument. Like a little kitten, she picked him up by his scarf and placed him by Sakumo's side to go in and take Tsunade out of the room the same way. Then she would have to drill in some etiquette and common sense into these two hyperactive children of hers.

Mito had expected her granddaughter to be shouting out profanities at the boy, hugging him to death or anything close to those two. But what she hadn't expected was her little girl sitting down by the chair kept to his bedside. She looked as calm as a shadow while her palms rested on her thighs.

Seeing her so calm and silent was rather odd.

The girl was bursting forth with surplus energy even after enduring some sort of strenuous activity at the end of the day. It was all thanks to her own genes passed on to her granddaughter that gave her the legendary stamina, which nearly all Uzumaki's were generally renowned for.

"Tsunade?" no reaction came from the girl so she tried again. "Honey?" the girl's sudden quiet attitude was honestly worrying her. As was evident by the hesitance in her whispering soft voice. Walking right behind her granddaughter and clasping the girl's shoulder to make her presence known, only then did she see the small glittering drops rolling down her cheeks when she realized;

The girl was crying silently.

"He's so hurt." hearing her child's soft sniffle made her grandmother's heart ache. But it was to be expected seeing how bad Naruto looked right now.

"It isn't as bad as it looks sweetie." Mito cooed the girl to calm her down. She herself knew what anyone would think seeing him right now. Head to toe was he wrapped up in bandages, looking akin to a mummy more so than a breathing human.

But it was only due to the surgery she had gone through to repair his nervous system that he was looking this way.

It wasn't needed in the first place. His condition hadn't really been severe enough to warrant a surgery. But she knew that in order to have a peaceful sleep in her eyes at night, she needed to be absolutely sure of the boy's safety thus came the need for a complete surgery.

Mito rubbed Tsunade's head soothingly and wiped her wet cheeks from behind to calm her girl down. "…I leave him alone for a day, and he does that. That reckless idiot." her cracking voice was barely an inch away from turning into a cry and Mito could feel that she was holding herself back.

Feeling all her protectiveness wash over her, the Uzumaki heiress wrapped the girl up in her arms from behind and pressed her lips on top of Tsunade's head for a soft peck.

"So you don't care?" she was teasing her, of course the girl was worried. Why else would she be crying? But anything to take her worries and turn them into a laugh would be a welcome proposition right now.

"Of course I don't care…" it did surprise Mito on what she was hearing. The girl's words truly did contradict her actions it seemed. "…who the hell does he think he is? I don't care if he lives or if he-he…"

Mito placed her fingers on her lips and hushed the stubborn girl up when her voice finally cracked and she let out a soft cry. However much she tried to hide, these two were just way too connected to not worry about each other.

"Baa-chan…let go…" Mito was shocked when the girl started wriggling out of her grip as if she were the plague. But only then did she see Naruto's slightly moving hand and his flickering eyelids in this dark room.

"But how-?!" she though in shock and utter despair. "Duy wasn't imagining it, he really is moving!" she would have screamed had she not been mindful of her surroundings.

"Naru- hey Naru?!" Mito went to stop the boy when he tried to raise his shaky hand up. It was shaking like a dry leaf right now. His whole nervous system was punctured due to the internal surgery she had performed on him herself.

He might hurt himself even more, not counting the pain even a twitch of his fingers would cause him right now. But seeing what was taking place right before her eyes…

She almost felt like crying a moment later.

Seeing him clasp Tsunade's hand in his own bandaged one, even when he obviously was out cold. His eyes weren't even focused, clearly her sedatives had worked perfectly. He had merely woken up for a moment and from her guess, would fall unconscious any moment now as far as she could surmise.

But to see her two babies, the same ones she had seen grow up right before her very eyes in that moment - seeing his unfocused eyes staring into Tsunade's worried glittering ones in that darkly lit room -

Mito wanted to cherish that moment in her memory forever.

Their bond was indeed a special one.

She had known it for a long time now.

Hell, even Tobirama had known it - and he was the epitome of dumb when it came to matters of feelings and emotions. She wanted to laugh at the same time too though. The only ones who probably hadn't realize it were the two involved blondes themselves.

It really was rather ironic in itself if one delved deeply into the matter.

"Sleep, I'll watch over you tonight." Tsunade's soft whisper made Mito blink off a small tear from her tear ducts.

A feeling of pure sadness washed over Mito seeing her granddaughter like that. It was almost as if the girl was radiating an aura of pure sadness…

Not that couldn't be it…

Could it?!

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