Naruto carried Sakura out of the hospital. "I guess I'll have to leave her with someone... but who?" Naruto wandered konoha aimlessly looking for someone he can trust to take care of Sakura,until he felt it again a hypnotic pull that drew him in like a month to a flame.
He wound up wandering into the senju residence. Although he was unaware of his surroundings he effortlessly navigated around the empty homes. Naruto arrived at the heart of the senju clan, the patriarch's main residence.
Sliding open the traditional Japanese doors, he left them open behind him as he marched forward. He walked through the building seeking out that familiar pull.
Opening the final door Naruto found shizune struggling as she was tending to Garm, unaware of naruto's presence. Naruto placed Sakura down on the ground and walked over to Garm and placed his palm on Garm's head.
Only now did shizune notice Naruto's presence. Left alone to tend to Garm by Lady Tsunade, she's had been slowly chipping away at the final steel shard clogging Garm's Chakra from flowing freely by converting it back into pure Chakra. When she finally broke through, the highly pressurized Chakra gushed out unrestrained. It threatened to cause major damage to Garms recovering Chakra system.
Shizune was forced to slow the flow herself, it nearly took everything she had before Naruto got there. She watched him placing his palm on her unconscious patient's head. The chakra flow inside of Garm grew at an incredible speed after Naruto came in contact with him.They unconsciously exchanged strands of their own Chakra with the other's.
Garm emitted a lustrous silver glow that gradually brightened as he forged a bond stronger than the toughest of steel.
Garm woke up despite the high doses of sedatives that previously kept him at bay. Shizune had no idea as to what is happening, all she knew is that there was no stopping it, she was beyond exhausted. Shizune stepped back and from the scene and ran out the door to seek help from the only person she could at the moment.
Not a moment later a puff of smoke appeared next to Naruto. Ash walked out of the smoke in a daze placed his webbed hands on Garm and Naruto respectively. This time he did not glow himself rather Garm emitted another light, one as dark as night. The silver and dark energies seemed to conflict as if they were fighting for dominance.
In the end none became the victor as both slowly receded back into the once weak puppy that grew to be twice his previous size in mere moments. His hollow Chakra systems were now filled to the brim, power never felt before flowed through his being.
No longer a terminally ill patient, the chains that held him down now binded him to those dear to him. The dramatic scene came to a close, the three fell to the ground unconscious next to Sakura.
Minuites pass and shizune returned with Jiraiya. She seemed to be nervous and when she saw them on the ground Shizune let out a blood-curdling scream as she feared for the worst. Jiraiya on the other hand remained calm and checked of all their pulses.
"It's fine, they're fine" jiraiya looked at garm curiously 'His sudden change in size and appearance could only mean one thing. He isn't just any old wolf, he's a giant wolf's cub... If that's the case then he was even weaker that we originally thought, for a giant wolf cub to be comparable to a normal dog's puppy....." *Sigh*.
In the Third training field Sasuke stood alone waiting for Naruto. Day turned to night, Sasuke felt humiliated his anger knew no bounds. Veins bulged over his forehead as his sharingan spun forming a third tomoe.
"Narutooo...!" Sasuke winced as he suddenly felt pain radiating from his neck. "GAAAH!" Sasuke fell to his knees while clutching the curse mark. 'Orochimaru!,... If I stay here and train under Kakashi, I'll never be able to kill Itachi. I need power, I need to leave this damn village!'.
Little did Sasuke know that his wish would be granted sooner rather than later. For a while now he has been watched from the shadows by two separate parties, one being kakashi, while the other was the sound four. They layed in wait hiding their presence from kakashi in hopes of not allerting the village before they managed to take Sasuke with them.
Kakashi tired of the long wait decided to look for Naruto himself 'so this is how they feel when I show up late..... I don't like it, sucks to be them'.
After kakashi made his exit the sound four made their entrance. Looking up Sasuke saw four shilouetes against the full moon heading his way. One by one the sound four landed infront of Sasuke "who the hell are you"
Sasuke picked up on their forehead protectors, they belong to none other than Otogakure the sound village. "We are the sound four, I am the east gate's-".
"Nevermind I don't care, you're from the sound village, that means you work for orochimaru right" Sasuke decided to skip the pleasantries and get straight to the point.
Kidomaru the six armed man had an enraged look on his face "Hahaha, That's right pisqueak we serve Lord orochimaru as a matter of fa-".
"Whatever..... I've made up my mind, take me to him, he needs me for something, otherwise he would have simply killed me on the spot and he wouldn't have placed this mak on me for no reason either" Sasuke approached the stunned sound ninja asking them to take him away.
A smile appeared on Sakon's face "no problem but in order for you to follow us you must die first" a symphony of chuckles came from kidomaru and Jiroubou
Tatsuya grew tired of their pointless chatter and pulled out a glass bottle containing small pellets inside "Enough with this, here take one of these.... it's a seishingan, it'll progress your cursed seal to the second level, don't worry about everything else we'll handle it".
Tatsuya tossed the bottle over to Sasuke and he caught it effortlessly. He proceeded to take the pill without any signs of hesitation. He was already beyond any thoughts of remaining the way he was.
The night flew by Sasuke and the sound four nowhere to be seen.