The blond shinobi put a hand to the neck and checked for a pulse, noticing it was dangerously slow he began to double the pace of his work. "Come on Yugito you have to pull through this for me…" Naruto mumbled unaware that several tears had leaked out of the corner of his eyes as he worked, if she did not make it through this he would never be able to forgive himself. Once he finished patching the blond woman up Naruto grabbed some blood pills, he put them into his mouth and ignored the vile taste as he began to chew on them. When the pills were more liquid then anything, Naruto placed his mouth over Yugito's and began to use his tongue to push the mush into her mouth. He gently messaged her neck when Yugito made several gurgling noises, in order to help her swallow the medical supplement.
Naruto checked her pulse again and sighed in slight relief as he found that despite the young woman's injury, she seemed to be out of danger. He tried to stand, only to find he was too tired to actually get up back up. Wrapping an arm under Yugito's bosom Naruto dragged them both over to the wall with his other hand, leaning back Naruto sighed as he pulled Yugito the rest of the way onto his lap. "You know you worried me? " Naruto said to her despite knowing she could not hear him. He put a hand to her cheek and began to caress her face, smiling as Yugito seemed to subconsciously know it was him and snuggled into it while purring lightly. Leaning down Naruto kissed her fore head before putting his head to hers, "looks like I've got to wait a few hours before I can get us out of here."
He closed his eyes as he thought about the battle, had it not been a last resort he would have never used Kyuubi's chakra. Despite the great power he got from it, the chakra did not come without great cost as well. Often it would leave him exhausted, because Kyuubi's chakra was extremely corrosive Naruto had to apply a continuous stream of his own chakra in a protective layer under Kyuubi's. Even with his own ridiculously vast reserves Naruto could only hold this form for several hours max, after that he would usually pass out from chakra exhaustion and unfortunately had yet to work a way around that problem. He also had to add onto the fact that while Kyuubi was not actively hindering his use of its chakra anymore, the intense feelings of rage and hatred that came with it could sometimes be overwhelming, which was the reason he could not go above six tails yet; even after extensive training.
After an hour Naruto felt he had enough chakra to start moving, putting an arm under Yugito's legs and back Naruto lifted himself and her off the ground. Looking around Naruto found an opening in the ceiling where one of the misfired jutsu's had hit, moving up to it Naruto channeled some chakra to his legs and jumped from the debris as he made his way out of the sewer.
When Naruto left a large plant like man emerged from the ground, "this is not good leader-Sama will not be pleased when we inform him of another failure." Zetsu looked over at the chunky remains of Kakazu's body, moving over to Kakazu's hand Zetsu grabbed the ring off the man's finger before eating the chunky remains of the corpse. Looking around and noticing there was nothing else Zetsu left.
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Naruto sat in a chair right next to the bed that Yugito was laying in; he had managed to get to Kumo just under an hour after the battle and informed the Raikage of what happened. It had been about a day since then and the blond woman had yet to awaken, a testament to just how badly she had been injured. Both of his hands were holding one of hers, gently caressing the back with his thumbs.
Naruto frowned as he tried to think of a way he could have prevented this from happening, yet no matter how many angles he looked at it he did not know what he could have done differently. Even though he knew of his opponents abilities from Konan had it not been for Kyuubi's chakra he would have most likely been defeated, while most people would consider it amazing that he was able to come out of a fight against S class criminals alive Naruto was not most people. Not being able to defend one of the people he cherished more than anything in this life or the next and nearly passing out from chakra exhaustion afterwards was not a solid victory, especially when the two people he fought were not at the top of the food chain in Akatsuki.
It just means I need more training, Naruto said to himself as he banished any defeatist thinking from his mind. He better than anyone knew that asking pointless what ifs would not get him anywhere, his failure simply meant that he just had to try harder. Next time I won't let one of my precious people get hurt, Naruto vowed to himself as he looked at Yugito's unconscious form.
Naruto heard the door open but did not bother to look behind him; he already knew who it was. "What do you have for me?" the blond asked as the man came to stand behind him.
The person behind him sighed, "Unfortunately I don't have any useful information on who could have given out the information about Yugito's mission."
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