A/N: this is a story that me and friend came up with because we are massive naruto fans :) and we hope you enjoy it. but im going to give you some fair warning this story isnt just about romance, its more of an action story because im going to be following the main story as much as possible, but with my own touch, so i am going to have some romance between my characters and the origonal naruto characters, well because i can, and thats how i want it to go :) so please enjoy and please review it helps with inspiration to actually carry on the story xD Disclaimer: I dont own anything to do with Naruto, just my characters and ideas.
Ch 1 what would your powers be?
We have all been to school at some point or another, we all know it's negative and positive points, but overall school is a great place to be. You meet friends there that may stay with you for the rest of your life, you get to learn exciting and interesting new things each day your there, and considering that you're in school for half of your life, that's a lot of knowledge. We all have are good days and bad days for school, unfortunately for Emma, today was a bad day.
It was Friday, last school day of the week, and Emma just wanted to go home. To make matters worse, it was last lesson and ten minutes away from the last bell. To her those ten minutes were the longest ten minutes of her life, and seemed to last an eternity. She sat there in a sulk, head leaning on the desk in front of her with her medium length brown hair in a mess everywhere, glaring at the clock above the smart board, with her Dark green eyes. She could only just hear the drabble coming from the teachers direction, something about white blood cells and vaccinations, but other than that it all went over her head.
"Hey, you alright Emma, you look a bit tired?" Emma, reluctantly pealed her head from the desk and looked to her right were the voice emanated from. It was none other than her best friend Lucy, who was looking at Emma with a humorous smile pasted on her face. With a sigh Emma replied "well of course I'm tired, its last lesson, and I'm so bored" she slumped back down with the last word, letting her head rest on the desk again. "Ha-ha stop complaining fang, there's only like, five minutes left, then we can leave, are you walking again?" Lucy asked still slightly amused. Emma started to put some of her stuff away discreetly, so the teacher wouldn't see and shout, replied "yeah I normally walk, I only got a lift the other day because..."
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"Finally!" Emma grumbled with a sigh of relief, whilst shoving the rest of her belongings into her bag, in one fell swoop. She then preceded to jump out of her seat and run out of the classroom shouting, "come one Lucy, let's go!" everyone in the class was used to this kind of behaviour from Emma, even the teacher, so they didn't even bat an eyelash. The people outside the class however... Well that was a different story. They were so surprised at the sudden outburst that most of them jumped in fright; some just shook their heads muttering under their breaths things like, "immature" or "idiot". Lucy just sighed to herself and followed her friend out of the classroom and tried to catch up.
"God your so slow today Lucy!" Emma shouted as she saw Lucy walking over to her at their usual waiting spot. "Well if you hadn't run of then you wouldn't have had to wait" Lucy replied. Lucy had long blonde hair and green eyes, and was around the same height as Emma was, five ft six. "Come on then let's go" Emma said and started walking with Lucy at her side. They were at the traffic lights when Emma asked one of the strangest questions. "Lucy, what powers would you have if you were in the naruto world?" Lucy was taken back and she had to think a long time before she answered. Emma just watched and waited.
"My powers would have to be something to do with shadows, because shadows are amazing" Lucy replied imagining herself summoning mini shadow people to her side, to fight alongside her. "What about you Emma?" Emma was ready for this, because she had taken great time thinking on the subject. "Well, I would of course have an animal sidekick, probably a wolf, and have animal instincts" Emma smiled, while Lucy laughed. She should have expected as much.
"What are you talking about?" both girls turned around to see who was addressing them. It was a boy, with short brown hair and blue eyes. He was younger than the two girls, he was thirteen and they were fifteen, but he was taller than them, at around five ft seven. Lucy answered "hi Matthew, just about what powers we would have if we were in naruto world" Matthew was Emma's brother. "Oh definitely animal powers, like Kiba" Matthew replied. "High five bro" Emma said, and Lucy just started laughing again. They hadn't realised because of the conversation, but they had arrived home. "See you tomorrow Lucy, text me later ok" Emma shouted to Lucy as she carried on down the path. "See you Emma and I will" Lucy then turned around and carried on down the path. Emma and Matthew went inside and went to their rooms minding their own business.
"Hey, you can't do that, that's cheating" Matthew shouted, while mashing buttons on his Xbox controller. "No it isn't, I'm just better than you" Emma replied while making her character (Kiba) attack Matthews's character (naruto) to a pulp, and to no surprise Emma won. "Yeah I love this game, do you want to play again?" Emma asked. "No I always lose" Matthew pouted. "That's because you use rubbish characters, like naruto" Emma replied. "He isn't rubbish, he's amazing" Matthew said while turning the Xbox of and putting the controllers away. "Yeah whatever Matthew, I'm tired I'm going to bed now" Emma said with a yawn.
After getting ready for bed, Emma grabbed her phone and texted Lucy, "hey just beat Matthew on naruto again XD wouldn't it be cool if it was all real" then Emma put her phone on charge and gave in to her drooping eyes and fell asleep.
BEEP BEEP. Lucy jumped in shock, not expecting a text at this time. Getting up from her desk she walked over to her bed and picked up her phone. She had a text from Emma, reading it she smiled and thought to herself "yeah it would be cool, too bad it isn't. I best not text her might wake her up" and so Lucy put her phone back and went back to her desk to turn her laptop of and go to bed.
"Yeah to bad it isn't real, not yet anyway"
Emma woke with a start; she had heard someone whisper in her ear. Emma opened her eyes and sat up, took one look around and was... Speechless. She was in a... FOREST! Emma was lost for words, how could she fall asleep in her bed and wake up in, a forest? It could be a dream, but then it wouldn't feel so real would it? Emma was so confused.
"Come to me child, and all will become clear"
There it was again, the whisper, but it sounded louder this time and was coming from in front of her. Emma stood up and decided that she would try and find the voice; she had nothing better to do. So she started running down the path in the trees, the only thing she could hear were her own breath and the sound of forest debris breaking under her feet. It seemed like she had been running forever and was about to give up and rest, when she heard the whisper again, "just a bit further child". Determined to find this voice, Emma sprinted to what seemed like a clearing in the distance. Emma could see nothing else, only her destination everything else was blank to her. Which would explain why, when she was nearing her destination she heard another sound but couldn't see it, and before she could discover what it was, she collided with not one but two other entities.
"Ow! Watch were you're going Emma, that hurt" a none too familiar voice said. "Is that you Lucy?" Emma asked, unable to see through the throbbing pain developing in her head. "No it's bloody lightning! Who do you think it is knob" Lucy shouted at Emma in anger, as she rubbed her aching arms. "Lucy, lightning, it's the same thing isn't it and hey knob is my word" Emma replied while trying to hold back a laugh, now looking at Lucy as the pain in her head had receded to a slight twinge. "Don't worry about me then, I'm fine just bruised all over but, yeah I'm fine" Matthew was saying with sarcasm, while Emma and Lucy went over to help him up.
"Sorry guys are you both ok?" Emma said with remorse, realising the whole ordeal was her fault after all. "Yeah were fine" they both said with a smile. Lucy then went completely serious and asked "did either of you hear that voice?" both Emma and Matthew looked at each other, and in that instance they all knew that they had all heard the same voice. "Well what does it mean?" Lucy asked.
"It means that you are the chosen three that will be sealed with my powers to protect it from evil"
And in that moment a bright blinding light appeared in front of the three at the back of the clearing, for a few seconds they couldn't see anything, but as the light passes, they opened their eyes and where shocked at what they saw. There in front of them, was a giant purple and yellow dragon staring down at them. "Hello children are you ok?" the dragon asked, but its mouth didn't move. They were all speechless and where just staring up at the dragon with their mouths wide open. "Yes I am talking to you through your minds, just in case you were wondering, now let's introduce are self's shall we, my name is Ryo, what are yours?"
They all looked at each other wondering who would go first, in the end it was Emma, as the other just looked to terrified to say anything. "My name is Emma, her name is Lucy and his name is Matthew" Emma said loud and clear trying to express confidence.
"It is very nice to meet you Emma, Lucy, Matthew, you seem like very suitable people for the task that is being set for you" Ryo said showing that he was impressed. Lucy found her voice quickly at that last sentence and said curiously, "What task, what you mean?"
"I'm glad you're ok Lucy you seemed a bit quiet, and I mean the task you are going to perform, protecting my power from those who would miss use it" Ryo said in completely seriousness.
Lucy just looked at Emma and Matthew, to see what they made of all this and they looked the same. Confused. " I see that you don't completely understand, let me start again, I am the ten tailed moon beast and I watch over the land of konohagakure, I try as best I can to maintain the balance, however a group called the 'akatsuki' have risen and try to upset that balance by taking the power of the tailed beasts for themselves. They do not yet know of my existence and so to keep it that way, I need your help to hide my powers in segments so they are less noticeable" Ryo finished with a snort, releasing some smoke.
"So let me get this straight, we are going to become ninjas with the power of a tailed beast?" Lucy asked with excitement.
"In simple terms, yes" Ryo said. Lucy looked over joyed and started jumping and dancing with excitement, while Emma and Matthew just smiled at each other.
"ok, ok I can see that your excited but please calm yourself, because it isn't that easy, we need to establish what your powers will be, what your names will be as you can't keep your real names, there to out of place, and also your background history and even your new clothes" Ryo final finished with a deep breath.
"Ok can we talk amongst are selves for a minute?" Emma asked. "Please do" Ryo replied.
Emma turned back to the others. "Ok so what first?" Emma asked. Matthew replied first looking as if he would burst if he didn't, "names, we need to think of are names first, can mine be Kuro please!" Matthew was literally on his tip toes by the end. "Alright Matthew or should I say 'Kuro' that can be your name, as for me I quite like the name Emiko, what about you Lucy?" Emma said amusement towards Matthew. "Oh I don't know, how about Akina" Lucy said testing the name.
"I think those are very suitable names, well done children" Ryo said with acceptance. "Thank you Ryo, know we have to think of background history" Emma said knowing this would be the hard part.
Everyone was silent for a while; not knowing what would be a convincing history, until Lucy had a sharp intake of breath and looked at the others with a gleam in her eyes. "how about you and Matthew be in the same clan and I'm in a different clan, my clan was wiped out and so your clan took me in and I'm now your foster sister, however your clan was also wiped out so we have been traveling to concha for shelter" Lucy said very proud of her self.
"Perfect Lucy, well done I'm glad I choose you" Ryo said with contentment and proudness. Emma and Matthew both gave Lucy a look that told her they were impressed as well.
"And now for the best part, are powers" Matthew said obviously excited. "I recommend, so that it goes well with the background history that you and Emma have similar powers and Lucy has different powers, that way it makes it more believable that you are from the same clan, when you are happy with your choice tell me and I will make it happen" Ryo informed them.
Taking his advice all three thought for a moment, discussed what they came up with and agreed that it was ok and they were happy with their choices. Emma went first. " I Emiko, of the tsuki-ju clan, wish to have the power of the wolf, enhanced hearing, sight, fangs and claws, also to have a wolf companion" Emma was silent once again, she was worried that she had asked for too much and would now be punished. Ryo didn't say or do anything for what seemed like an eternity, eventually he spoke, "I see, similar to the inuzuka clan, however not the same, it is indeed an acceptable request and I will fulfil it, first however Matthew please tell me your request, as I'm sure I can complete yours and your sisters at the same time" Ryo asked Matthew waiting for a response. Matthew stood up straight with his chest out and said, "I Kuro, of the tsuki-ju clan, wish to have the power of mind transfer with my animal companion, a majestic panther, also to have claws and fangs" everyone was silent again, however Ryo responded quicker than last time.
"I expected no less, you are both supposed to be in the same clan are you not, therefore these are very suitable requests and I will fulfil them" and with his last word Ryo started to breath out smoke, spreading it around the clearing until it was as if it was fog and blocked everyone's view. It seemed like nothing was happening until, after a few seconds two figures could be seen emerging from the edge of the clearing. It was an adult wolf and panther, both carrying cubs with their mouths. They both stopped about two arm's length away from Emma and Matthew, and looked into their eyes searching them and studying them. After a few minutes they seemed happy with their findings and placed the cubs on the floor. The cubs then carefully walked over to Emma and Matthew, while the adults turned around and disappeared in the fog. When the cubs were only a few centimetres away, Emma and Matthew crouched down and held out there hands out of instinct. When the cubs touched both of their hands, they burned White hot however didn't hurt, this feeling spread all over their bodies altering them accordingly. The transformation lasted only a few seconds and afterwards Emma and Matthew felt great. They had small claws at the end of each finger, short fangs and their eyes were now slits instead of pupils. They also felt stronger than before.
After going over there bodies for the slight changes, they now looked at the cubs properly, Emma's wolf cub was grey everywhere, except for its back, which was a dark black that made it look like a moving shadow. It looked up at her with it blue-grey eyes and in that moment they bonded. The wolf then climbed up to her face and started licking her, Emma started laughing and in that instant she knew the wolfs name. "From now on your name is kagemaru" and with that the wolf cub howled and climbed onto her shoulder settling and getting comfy.
Matthews panther cub was completely black with purple streaks, and even though you wouldn't think so it made the cub blend in with its surrounding more. The first thing the cub did was climb up to Matthews face and lick his eyes. The burning feeling was back for only a second, and when Matthew opened his eyes again he was looking at himself, the only difference was that his eyes were purple. He then realised that he and his cub has transferred and were looking through each other's eyes. Matthew closed his eyes and returned to his body, he then looked into his cubs eyes and knew its name. "From now on your name is Murasakimaru".
"Yes well done children, very impressive you are indeed the chosen" Ryo said yet again impressed by their actions. "Ahem, I'm still here you know!" Lucy said becoming impatient. "Yes I'm sorry, I haven't forgotten about you, and what is it you wish 'Akina'?" Ryo said a bit embarrassed. Lucy then adjusted her stance and cleared her throat and said, "I Akina, of the Gosuto clan, wish to have the power over shadows, I want to be able to control them and make them do my biddings". Ryo responded a lot quicker this time. "interesting, similar to the Nara clan but again not completely the same, not the way I'm going to do it anyway, prepare yourself Akina, this will be very different to Emma and Matthews transformation" and within seconds a pure black substance, for it wasn't smoke, came pouring out of Ryo's snout and went straight for Lucy. The black substance, sort of like living shadow encircled Lucy and eventually encased her, melding with her skin. The moment the shadows touched Lucy she let out an ear splitting scream, and both Emma and Matthew jumped, covering their ears discovering the hard way of their new hyper hearing. They both made to go help Lucy however Ryo shouted, "don't! Leave her, otherwise you will interrupt the process" and so Emma and Matthew did all they could, watched and waited.
It's seemed like the shadows would never finish their work, and that she would go through this pain forever. All Lucy could do was scream, the pain that excruciating. And then suddenly. It stopped. The shadows disappeared and Lucy fell to the floor, unable to hold herself up. This only lasted a few seconds however as Lucy suddenly felt strong, stronger than she ever had before. That strong that in fact her body was getting up of its own accord, until she realised it was her shadow helping her up. Once she was stood up she looked at her shadow more carefully, and saw that it was moving and the surface was rippling. She tried moving around and the shadow copied her perfectly, only she, Emma and Matthew would know any differently. Lucy was happy with its power and so turned back to the other and all three said together in unison, "thank you Ryo".
"You are very welcome children, now while that was happening I took the liberty to create your new clothes, please get changed quickly we are running out of time" Ryo said whilst looking over in the direction of three clumps of clothing. The three of them hurried over to the clothes and changed into them, placing their old clothes in a backpack that was next to the piles of new clothes. It had an assortment of useful items, maps, shuriken, food, water and other items. Emma was finished changing first. She had a black tank top with a purple outline, a mesh top with short sleeves underneath, a medium black skirt with purple outline and black tights with black boots. Emma hadn't noticed earlier, but her hair was longer and darker in colour, it was more of a dark, dark brown or black and was now down to around her waist in length. She tied it up so that it wouldn't get in the way, and so that kagemaru was more comfortable on her shoulder.
Matthews clothes were very similar. He had a black shirt with a purple outline, and a black jacket with short sleeves with a purple outline as well as purple stripes near the shoulder. He also had grey trousers with a black outline and short black trainers. He walked over to Emma with his pack on his back and saw a weird symbol on the back of her top. "Emma what's that on your back?" he asked. Emma craned her neck to have a look, and saw a circle with a crescent moon and three claw marks; she then walked to the back of Matthew and saw the same symbol. "It must be are clans symbol" Emma summarised.
Lucy was still too busy getting changed to pay any attention to anything the others were saying. Lucy had a White tank top and grey crop jacket with long sleeves and purple trim; she also had black trousers and black boots to match. Lucy's hair was also longer and a different colour, it was now a dirty blonde and was by her waist in length, she also tied it up to keep it from getting in her eyes. Finally ready she grabbed her pack and walked over to the others. "Now what happens?" Lucy said to everyone. They all look up at Ryo waiting for an answer. Ryo just blinks and says, "it's time to begin the task, I will always be there to guide you and help you, however you must do some things on your own, these you know about until the time comes" Ryo paused for a minute, and he himself transformed. In a flash of light the dragon was replaced by a man with long purple scruffy hair, and yellow eyes, dressed in a konoha uniform and was obviously a jonin. "Now children it is time for your adventure to begin". Everything then when black and silent.
"Hey kid, kid wake up" Emma could hear someone talking to her and a hand hitting her cheek. "Come on kid wake up" the hand really hit her this time causing her to jolt up; Emma also hit Matthew in this process and cause him to sit up as well. "Thank god, are you two alright?" a man was hovering over her clearly worried; there were several other people around as well. Emma looked over at Matthew and he looked to be in pretty bad shape and guessed that she was the same. Matthew was looking at her really weird and it was freaking her out. "What's wrong mat... I mean Kuro?" Matthew just opened his mouth and pointed at her. Emma looked down and soon realised what was wrong. She wasn't fifteen anymore. She was thirteen, and she could tell instantly as she was much undeveloped, definitely not what she was used to. "Great, just great what else didn't that knob tell us would happen" Emma started shouting and didn't realise that she was becoming weak, and that Matthew had fainted beside her. Just as Emma was about to faint she saw two people in the distance, one taller than the other and two little cubs walking alongside them. Then all went black... Again.
"Look she's waking up, let's hope it's for longer than last time" someone laughed at their own joke. Emma peeled her eyes open and felt weak, but not as weak as she did before. The first thing Emma saw was that she was in a hospital bed, and there was a man with White spiked up hair at the end of it. Emma looked around for her brother panicking a bit until she saw he was awake and in the bed next to hers, in their own room. "Are you ok Emiko?" Matthew asked with worry. "Yeah I'm fine Kuro, how do you feel" Emma asked. "Fine but I will be better when we find Akina". The White haired man stirred at this point and spoke, "well that's good because she is right here" and right on cue Lucy and Ryo walked into the room. Lucy walked over and hugged both Emma and Matthew as gently as she could, "I was so worried about you, we lost you on the way here and we couldn't do anything about it" Lucy said with a wink to let them know she would explain later.
"Were fine now Akina, we were as worried about you and you were of us, now I'm worried about kagemaru, where is he?" Emma looked around for him but could find him or murasakimaru either. Then Ryo spoke, "there fine, no need to worry, there just waiting outside as it's unsanitary for them to be in the hospital" Emma and Matthew breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed again. The White haired ninja, who now that she looked carefully had his headband over his left eye, spoke again, "now that everyone is ok and we are all reunited, can we get down to explaining why you here and how you got here? I mean we can't just let people go running around and we don't know anything about them, they could be spies, so please explain" and then he smiled. Emma knew exactly who it was, only kakashi would smile after saying that, and it caused everyone to get tenser because of it.
Lucy was about to start the explanation when another person burst into the room and pulled a thumbs up and posed. He had a bowl head cut and a green jump suit on. There was only one person this could be. Guy. "THE POWER OF YOUTH HAS ARRIVED" guy shouted to no one in particular. Kakashi was obviously annoyed at guys presence but hid it well. "So are they worthy contenders for the power of youth?" guy asked. Everyone in the room sweat dropped. Kakashi calmly replied, "I haven't gotten any explanation yet, I was about to get one before you interrupted". Guy just smiled and said, "then carry on and let's hear the explanation of youth" kakashi face palmed and just looked at Lucy pleadingly.
So Lucy went on to explain how her whole clan was wiped out by some organisation that was tracking great power, and how mine and Matthews clan took her in, but a few weeks later are clan was also wiped out by the same organisation. With nowhere else to go we came here looking for shelter and help. "And that's how we ended up here, we just want somewhere to start over again" Lucy finished the story hoping it sounded convincing. Kakashi just looked at us all, and eventually said, "huh well, looks like you're in quite a predicament, I guess you will have to stay here then" he smiled at us and we smiled back happy that we were welcome. Kakashi carried on to say, "I presume that you do want to become ninja, if so then come to the orientation tomorrow at the academy and you will be placed into a team" and with that kakashi and guy left the room.
"Looks like everything is going fine so far children, I will leave you for now, but you will always be able to find me, good bye" and with that Ryo left as well. Lucy looked at the others and said, "Well looks like this is really happening hey" Emma replied, "yeah it is and it's amazing". Matthew just looked as if he was thinking of something and then said, "Hey guys were we going to stay?" Emma looked at Lucy and they were both clueless. "We will think of something don't worry". Lucy then looked at the others, leaned in and whispered; "from now we need to think of each other as Akina, Emiko and Kuro ok" the others nodded in agreement. "Ok now that's settled, why the hell have me and Emiko gotten younger?" it was true Lucy was also thirteen instead of fifteen, and even though they weren't as developed as they normally were, for two thirteen year olds they were quite developed.
Emiko thought it over for a minute then realised why they were younger. "It's because naruto and the others are either twelve or thirteen" Lucy remembered now, "oh yeah that right isn't it". Kuro was getting bored of sitting in bed and wanted to go exploring so got up grabbed his pack and said to the others, "who cares why, were here aren't we, let's go and explore" and he ran out of the room. "That boy can never sit still, come on let's go" Emiko laughed and both her and Akina grabbed there packs and ran out after Kuro. This was the beginning of one big adventure.