Orbs of Fate
By: Aya An
Alarms sounded. The Leaf Village was in chaos. A red, menacing figure slowly walked up towards the village gates.
Ninjas of all ranks rushed towards the enormous creature. Its eyes burned red inside its sockets, and its nine tails moved and spun like a mutated windmill. The Leaf Village had never seen anything like it before. Many were hit by the tail, or paws. Some were killed instantly, some lay on the ground waiting for death to come. Among all the chaos, no one saw a dark figure, cloaked in a cape, with white bordered red clouds contrasting against the fine black silk. The figure entered the village, a few minutes later, returning with a red- headed infant. But he did no go unnoticed. A young, red headed woman jumped over the city walls, and rushed at him, weapons raised, chakra ready. She didn't see or know who was under that cape. The only thing she saw was her young daughter in the arms of the stranger. She attacked. The stranger parried easily, and a reptilian head came out of seemingly no where, and grabbed her shoulder and threw her. She landed hard, and it took a few seconds longer to get up, with poison sinking in her shoulder. She looked around quickly, and saw the figure had vanished. Along with her daughter. Feeling sick, she realized who the stranger was.
--Fourteen Years Later…
BAM.
The tree now had a huge hole in it. The maker of the hole, was a tall, blue eyed, blonde haired boy. His muscular body was shaking from the effort, but he looked somewhat triumphant.
"Naruto! Are you planning to destroy the forest today?" Naruto turned, and saw one of his best friends, Sakura, walking towards him, an orange and black jacket slung over her arm.
"Hey Sakura!!" Naruto said, waving .
"Shizune finished sewing it up," She said, tossing it over. "She wanted me to return it to you."
"Thanks Sakura! And tell Shizune thanks too!" He said, as he tied the jacket around his waist. It was too hot today to wear it.
"Plus, Tsunde has a mission for you, me and Sai. Katashi's coming with us too this time," She said smiling.
"Yamato too, right?" Naruto asked.
"Yes,"
"Good." Naruto was relieved. Having the genes of the first hokage, Yamato was the only one who could control his transformations. His transformations were things that could put the whole team in danger. He had no control when he had four tails. Taking one last look at his hole, he followed Sakura to Tsunde's office.
She was wearing a black cloak, with white out-lined red clouds. It was a soft silk. And it was finally hers. All her life she had dreamed of pleasing the leaders of Ataksuki. Not only was she was the first girl, but the youngest as well, at only 14 years of age. Since they were having difficulty capturing the chakra of nine tails, and they had lost a few members, they thought to use her as a secret weapon. She smiled one last time, and then went through the big double doors to the leader's room.
Kneeling down, she removed her hood, revealing red hair tied back in a thick braid, piercing blue eyes, and emotionless expression. There was a man tied up in the middle of the room, she looked up at her master, the leader of Akasuki. The man who had raised her from infancy. The man who had set up her training, so that she was trained by every member of Akatsuki, which were most definitely the most skillful ninjas. It was because of this man, she was strong.
"Ari, this man has come trespassing around our hideout. Will you do the honors as the newest member of Akatsuki?" Her master asked her pleasantly. Without saying anything, Ari rose up, and walked towards the struggling man, slipping her weapon out of her belt on her way. When she walked into light where the man could see her best, she heard him say,
"Kushina?" She stared at him, her piercing eyes took him in, registering the green vest, with the leaf village sign on the back.
"Leaf Village." She said softly, her voice like a flute. "It will be a pleasure to take your life." And with that, she sliced his throat. She let him choke on his own blood. She turned towards her master, without one drop of the Leaf Village Ninja's blood on her cloak. He smiled at her.
"You may go Ari. You did splendidly." His words gave her a small shiver of satisfaction, but she gave no emotion away on her face. It had been much more satisfying to watch the man die. After she departed, the master said to the men sitting beside him,
"She's the perfect assassin isn't she." It wasn't a question.
"Yes sir." Were the answering murmurs.