Sixteen year-old Uzumaki Naruko stalked through Konoha in a rage, ignoring the taunts and shouts that followed her. Her thoughts seethed like a hurricane as she neared the hospital where her brother was.

*^*^*Flashback*^*^*

"Hey, Naruto, can you go get some more ramen today? We're almost out!" Naruko yelled as her younger twin brother was leaving their apartment. "Oh, fine!" Naruto called in annoyance. Naruko stuck her tongue out at him.

"Lazy git," she muttered.

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Naruko walked through Konoha, scanning the crowds for Naruto. 'Ask him to do something, it takes him two hours to do it,' she thought bitterly as she shoved past a couple of people that were glaring at her.

Nobody in the village liked Naruko or her brother; not just because they pranked everyone every day. Naruko had the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox sealed inside her, her being the older twin.

Suddenly, Naruko saw Naruto sitting in an alleyway, one of the ones they often used to escape angry mobs when they were in a mood. "There you are you lazy git!" she cried, running up to him.

But as she ran she noticed something wrong. His head was lolling to one side. Naruto's arms were beaten and bloody. One of his legs was ripped and shredded while the other had a compound fracture, the bone sticking out of his pants leg.

"NARUTO!" Naruko screamed in terror, running forward and checking on his injuries. 'One of the mobs must've caught him!' she thought in horror as blood from his leg slowly pooled around them.

With a heave, Naruko had her little brother on her back in seconds. Ignoring the cruel laughing from the crowds, she ran towards the hospital.

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Naruko burst into the hospital with Naruto on her back. "Help, help! Doctor, nurse, it doesn't matter, just someone help me!" she cried, hauling her brother forward to the desk.

The nurse at the desk, a pink-haired woman, looked up at Naruko's desperate face with a look of complete disinterest. "Sorry, the vets office is down the street," she said with a sweet smile.

"What? You need to call someone; my brother's dying!" Naruko snapped at her, noticing the Haruno clan insignia on her uniform. "Sweetheart, I'm sorry, but I don't think this hospital takes in demons or their accursed family either," she said with the same sickly sweet smile.

"Miss Haruno!" snapped a voice. Tsunade, the head medic of the hospital, came stalking in with a look of complete shock on her face. "We can't just turn away someone with such awful injuries! What the hell's the matter with you?" Tsunade snarled at her, motioning to several nurses behind her to bring in a stretcher for Naruto.

"Sorry, Tsunade-sama, I just thought I may as well speak the truth," Haruno said, her smile growing wider. "Well, you were wrong! No matter who it is, nobody is turned away from this hospital while I'm in charge!" Tsunade snapped at her before leading the stretcher bearers to the emergency room.

Naruko immediately followed, not missing the look of pure amusement on Haruno's face at her brother's predicament.

*^*^Flashback End*^*^

Naruko didn't even spare a glance at the font desk, stalking past it with the Killing Intent of a demon following her. 'I don't care what anyone says, I'm mad; I can be as scary as I want!' Naruko snarled in her head.

'Honestly, even I'm surprised nobody did anything for your brother,' said the Kyuubi inside her head, sharing her vessel's anger at the villagers. Naruko nodded as her Tailed Beast continued, 'I really thought this village was different from the others, but it's just the same; hateful glares, angry mobs, beating up an innocent kid. This place is no different than the Hidden Rain or the Hidden Grass. It's pathetic, really.'

'There really should be at least one village in the world that isn't like this to Jinchuriki,' Naruko thought with a sigh. 'Heh, too bad that'll never happen,' Kyuubi muttered as they continued toward Naruto's room.

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A/N: Hey hey people! Temari here! So, this is chapter one of my new Naruto fan-fiction series, 'Rise of the Jinchuriki'. I'll try to update as often as possible, but no promises. Anyway, remember to check out me and my sister's shared account, 'Ladies of Fate'. And PLEASE: I have not chosen the couple pairings for this series yet, so if you'd be so kind, there's a poll for it on my profile page. I NEED COUPLE PAIRINGS ASAP OR I CAN'T WORK ON THIS!
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-Temari