The meeting soon came to an end, Chiba gave Jiraiya's retreating back a second look but eventually shook his head.
He wanted to ask him about the whereabouts of Minato but thought differently, Jiraiya had never met Chiba and would probably turn his request down.
'Kushina surely knows where Minato is, but she must be resting at a hidden hospital incase of another attack. Koizumi is still asleep and recovering from 3rd degree burns across her entire body, theres no point in visiting when i could be helping others... Ah Naruto must also know!'
With a direction in mind, chiba began walking out of the half destroyed hokage building.
By now, only those who've been heavily injured had been treated, the people suffering from minor injures still moaned in pain.
The streets were covered in rubble and bloodstains, injured ninja helped the civilians clear out the major debri, and overwhelming sense of gloom and hatred permeated the village.
'I guess there's one upside to temporarily having chakra, i can't use my observation haki, which means I can't sense and feel the negative emotions from all of these suffering people...'
Chiba had Kakashi seal samehada into a scroll that Chiba carried, he was glad he wasnt dragging around the large door size blade as he walked.
Makjng his way through the war torn village, Chiba spotted his hands every now and then helping heal those injured. With every person they healed, the arms grew smaller and smaller until it used up all of its mass and just 5 detached fingers littered the ground.
The village people began staring at the strolling Chiba, rumors spread about how the hero who lifted the leaf out of Poison and stopped the tailed beast was now walking around severing his own arm, which gained mobility and went around healing people.
People were skeptical of him at first but with dozens of arms crawling through the rubble and healing people, they didn't have any reason to doubt these rumor.
After a great deal of walking he appeared before the house of Kushina and Minato, the house was surprisingly the only one in the vicinity that had not been destroyed.
As he got close to the house, the two ninjas jumped down from the building with kunai in hand.
"Leave now, you have not been summoned to this building." The masked ninja said with an edge in their voice.
The villages security had ramped up, they especially focused on any Jinchuriki related so her house was under 24 hour surveillance.
"I am Kushina's student and the one that just saved her, I want to catch up with her child." Chiba said in a very relaxed manner.
"Orochimaru just disguised himself as the kazekage and managed to decieve and kill the Hokage, he could easily disguise himself as somebody like you. Leave now or we'll use force!" Just as the tense was rising, the door opened and a blonde kid watched out.
"It's fine you two, I was going to request him to come to the house anyway, he just saved me a trip." Naruto said with a cup of tea in hand, his fox mask missing and allowing Chiba to see his full face.
The ninja was about the open their mouths to report about the dangers of letting Chiba in, but Naruto's annoyed eyes told them they'd be no point. Just nodding at the blonde ninja, they hopped back into the room and continued their guarding duty.
"Naruto right? Thanks for meeting, I wa-" Chiba had walked to the front door and was just a step away from entering when Naruto's hand shot out and stopped him.
"Before you enter the house, you'll need one of these" Taking out a wooden tile, Naruto tossed it too Chiba who caught and looked at it.
"This is some serious Fuinjutsu, I'm assuming this house is heavily protected by the fact it's the only building still standing in the area."
"Your correct, my father and mother spent 2 years of hard work on this house. Father said they spent most of their effort sealing off the dimensions in the house, he told me it was because of something you said." Naruto eyes were cold and calculated as he assessed Chiba
"I see...." Chiba said with a nervous smile.
'The fact that Minato was alive to teach and talk to Naruto means that he mustve survived the nine tail attack, just what happened to him afterwards?'
Walking into the house of his master, the loving and cozy household that he remembered wasn't there. The entire houses walls were painted white, from floor to ceiling the wall had Fuinjutsu written into them.
The house was a shell of its former self, most of the pictures had been removed with the TV and couch missing. Anything that would provide comfort or a sense of comfort were stripped away for practicality, this sight cause the already emotional Chiba to feel saddened.
"What happened to the vibrant decor of this place, Kushina use to hoarde all kinds of plushies and pink pillows." Chiba couldn't help but comment on the strangeness of the house.
"...She got rid of them" hearing the depressing words of the young boy, Chiba felt the need to speak when Naruto opened the door to the master bedroom.
Plastic curtains hanging above a bed as machines whirled, medicinal incents were lit and multiple doctors were monitoring him without a second of rest.
As the door open, two ninja pulled out their kunai but relaxed themselve at Narutos appearance.
"All of you leave the room." Narutos young but authoritative voice rang out.
"Naruto that isn-" "That wasnt a request!" Narutos voice sounded absolute, almost daring those to disagree with him.
Both the nurse and the guards looked at each, waiting for the others to object with naruto's request and face his anger. There was a long moment of silent as nobody spoke up, so with worry in their step they begrudgingly began to walk out of the room.
"Please notify us of any changes in your fathers status, we'll be right outside the room so just yell for us." The head nurse said, only leaving after getting a nod of understandkng from Naruto.
With the last person leaving, Naruto closed the door leaving him and Chiba alone in the room. Chiba could just barely make out the shape of a bed behind those blurry plastic curtain, his heart was full of worry.
"Firstly I'd like to apologize for trying to kill you earlier, my anger got the better of me and I lost my rational seeing you hold my mother. My name is Naruto Namikaze" Naruto bowed deeply at Chiba shocking him.
The naruto who stood before him acted completely different than the Naruto from the anime!
'I guess this is the differences between a child being raised alone in poverty and having to figure life by themselves versus being raised by loving parents who have taught him manners and respect.'
"No need to apologize, accidents happen and I was never in any real danger." Naruto frowned hearing the casual disrespect from Chiba, basically declaring Naruto a non threat.
The blonde boy shook off his pride as he stood back up, his blue piercing eyes staring at Chiba's black eyes.
"I heard you were blind but that matters not for now. The reason i brought you here, was for this." Grabbing ahold of the plastic curtain, Naruto pushed it to the aide and revealed a horribly injured body!
The skin was charcoal black from 4th degree burns, the facial was features were melted together as his hair had been burnt off. The body was missing both legs and their right arm, and that was just what Chiba could see peaking through the bandages that covered him.
"I called you here to see if you can heal my father, Minato Namikaze!"