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Legend:
"Normal Talk."
'Thoughts'
'Demon Speech'
'Naruto's Outwards Thinking'
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'This room.....'
'This room will be the death of me. The end of my life, the last few breathes of a loyal Kohona Shinobi..' a voice whispered. The sound of bonds tightening was heard before a exaggerated sigh filled the room. 'I didn't even make it to Chunnin. Becoming Hokage was just a false hope, a messiah. Childish dreams are best left at the door entering into Shinobi hood,' he thought before clenching his teeth in anger. His emotions were threatening to flood over the gate he made for them, the only gate keeping him from slaughtering anyone who got within reach of him.
It was these times when he thought back to his child hood, back to the best parts of it. Flash backs of Itachi, Sasuke, and the Saidaime flashed through his head. 'Heh, old man..Look at what you got me,' he thought while feeling time slow down and then return to normal for a few seconds. 'Tied up in Kumogakure with no chance or hope of escaping or rescue. What a good fucking situation, aye?' he was now talking to himself, knowing there would be no reply on the other end if he continued to talk to himself. He wished he could apologize to his surrogate brother, Sasuke, and thank Itachi for all he has done for them. His head started spinning from the flush of emotions going through him in such a short period of time.
They hurt because every emotion gave him a different pang, a pang that he particularly enjoyed. If there was one thing that was constant in his life, it was pain. Even now, bond in leather and ropes, tied to the ceiling, pain was there. The ropes dug into his skin and the leather was the only relief he got from being hung by the ceiling. Earlier in his life, he would beg for a day without pain. Just one normal day where nothing would go wrong, but his pleas were never answered. In fact, the more he plead, the more pain he would receive.
The constant abuse can only lead to a certain extent of physiological disorder, but one never came. Uzumaki Naruto can proudly say that he has never had a disorder, but he does love pain. He loves it, and hates it, much like everything else in the world. There were only very few things that he felt neutral about, and one of those would happen to be sleep. No matter what happened, sleep would come eventually, just like death. If you were patient enough, it would come, and it would engulf you. Both states gave the person rest, rest that can never be traded for anything.
Naruto heard foot steps outside the door, then they stopped and he heard them shuffling into a door beside the door he was currently behind. 'They are probably behind that fucking glass I can never see..' he thought, sniffing for anything in the air. The room smelt horrible, it smelt like blood, sweat, agony, and guilt. No matter what happened in this room, this always remained. 'I've spent fucking 4 months in this shithole..' Naruto thought as he let his body slump downwards more. He was captured by a Enemy Shinobi, his team all but decapitated. 'Hell, 5 months ago I was in a room not to similar to this one, all that is different is that it had a bed and a refrigerator,' his mind instantly snapped back to the time before this room. A time when he was some what free, a Gennin Shinobi in the Hidden Village of the Leaves. All they would allow him was a 1 room apartment with the bare minimum to survive. Here, he was hand-fed and never let down from his "restraints," which didn't even include chakra absorbing materials. All they did were shut down all the points where his chakra escapes.
Yes, this would cause complicated problems in a human's body, if the person doing it DIDN'T know what they were doing. In fact, Chakra points "accidentally" shut down all the time. It's quite common for a Shinobi to have to re-learn a Jutsu just because they over-used a Chakra point and now it was clogged up with no hope of restoring it without a true master of chakra to undo the damage.
It was just moments later when the door opened and blinded Naruto with light. It seemed like time slowed down as 3 figures walked into the room and stood in front of him, 1 smirking unashamed, 1 looking at him indifferently and another 1 grinning like a madman. "Are you ready to be broken boy?" the madman asked, walking around to Naruto's side and letting his hand graze the boy's thigh. Naruto was in fact tied to the ceiling, his legs were tied together and tied to a rope that was hanging from a ceiling. If that wasn't the worst of it, his arms at his wrists were also tied to this rope, so he was backwards hog-tied to the rope hanging from the ceiling.
This position was extremely painful to those who are submitted to it, and only those of strong will and body will survive it. Naruto had in fact been in this position for a better part of the last 4 months, and his body was screaming at him to rip his bonds off. But, no matter how hard he tries to get them off, he always fails in the end.
Naruto didn't say a word, resigned to being quiet in front of his new guests. "So?" the madman asked, wanting a reply out of the boy. When Naruto didn't answer again, his face scrunched up into a snarl and he dug his very sharp nails into Naruto's thigh. This only caused Naruto to look more emotionless, his mask slowly sliding into place. The other 2 men who walked in with this madman just walked to the end of the room and turned off the light, then a round light above Naruto turned on, only showing him to the men. This light design was a interrogation chamber, the interrogators can see their victims, but the victims cannot see their interrogators.
"If you give us the Information we desire, you might live. Raikage-sama is quite generous when things go his way," the madman said, moving to the front of Naruto. Naruto just looked at the guy as a tree would look at the ground, if trees could look. Naruto knew he wasn't going anywhere anytime soon, and he was not in a good condition to allow himself to be tortured. His emotions and pain do not mix well, he reacts to every little thing when his emotions are involved. "So I'll give you one last time to tell us the plans of the Hokage, and the secrets behind some of the rather troubesome techniques of Kohona, or else we will take the very hand off your arm and shove it down your throat to devour." The madman begun to move his hands towards under Naruto, and Naruto watched the two lackies rush a small table with 2 hand holes in it. This table was of unique design however.
The table had 3 layers, 2 wooden layers and 1 hallow layer. The hallow layer only lasted up till half the table, but it was enough to see it's purpose. They would hang him upside down, strap his hands into this...table, then take a saw and slowly saw his wrists off, which at any point could stop if he told them the info. Naruto felt his body beginning to panic, but his mind was as calm as ever. Naruto knew pain, and this was one pain he was use to.
"So?" the madman asked, before looking at Naruto straight in the eyes. Naruto froze for a good minute, and everything around them seemed to move slower than it actually was. Then just as if it had all started again, the madman's lackies unlatched Naruto's hands and strapped them into the holes in the table. Naruto struggled a little bit but then stopped as he saw that he was getting no where anytime soon. "Your quite lucky you know, because the Raikage has taken interest in you and he wishes your interrogation to be done quickly and as painless as possible. But, of course I'm sure you heard of Kumo's interrogation squad, barely anyone ever comes out alive. Since you will be one that will, Yugito-sama has opted to watch your interrogation and pass her judgement onto the Raikage. She is not here yet, so we will be delaying until she arrives." The madman's grin seemed to extend as he thought about other ways to torture Naruto. He walked back to the table where all the tools laid, and picked up some small tweasers and looked at Naruto like he was a pack of meat.
Just as the Madman started walking towards Naruto with the tweazers, the door opened and a Chunnin stood in the door. "Irako-san, Yugito-sama has arrived," he said, before bowing and looking at him for directions.
"Good, situate her into the glass room next door and knock on the glass when she is ready for us to proceed," he said, looking from the door to Naruto. The door shut instantly and there was Naruto, staring at the madman again like he was worse than him. He played with the teasers before sitting down in a chair beside the table that Naruto was strapped into. Yawning before they all heard a knock on the invisible window. He looked at Naruto and his evil smile returned, then he situated the tweazers and clamped them onto his middle fingernail on his right hand, and pulled a little, just a little, but enough to feel pain.
"Now, tell us the Secrets of Kohona you demon!" he yelled, pulling a little bit harder. Naruto didn't flinch at this pain, not at all. In fact, it looked like he was just staring at the madman as if he wasn't even a madman. "Oh, you wanna play tough?" he said, before pulling harder, his fingernail feeling like it was becoming un-latched. Naruto's body spasmed a bit from the feeling but then he growled, spitting on the madman's face. The madman froze, angery clearly written on his face. "You little cock sucking bitch," he said before ripping Naruto's Fingernail off his finger. Naruto bit down on his tongue to counteract the pain and resisted the tears coming to his eyes, but still kept a straight face to hide his discomfort.
Naruto had a flash back and everything slowed down again, to the point where no one was moving. He remembered before he was a Gennin, before..he graduated. 'Life was so much better then..' he thought, conquering the pain in this slow-down. When everything sped up again he looked at the madman and spat in his face again. "Kohona's secrets are not my secrets to give you bastard. If you want secrets, go find another -" he was silenced with a slap to his face, and the madman just growled dangerously.
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Nii Yugito, the Jinkuriki of the Two-Tailed Demon, was now watching her first Interrogation. She herself was only Chunnin, and from what she saw she would never be higher than Jounin due to the Village trying to keep her low on the chain of command. She was watching this display of gruesome with a passive mind, passive eyes as well. Every 5 seconds something would register, but other than that she was lost in her thoughts.
'Fucking Village,' she thought, watching the Blond spit on the madman's face. 'I know the Raikage is my father, but still, he can't do much at all. You can't lead a village if every follower disagrees with what you say..and in this case, they did. They respected her, didn't try to kill her, but they hated her with a great passion. This was why she has been Chunnin for 6 months, and before that she was Gennin for 12 months. There was just no way her progress could just hit a wall. Her huge Chakra Capacity and her will to learn made her progress relatively fast,' she was pulled out of her thoughts by a odd feeling coming over her. It was as if her entire body spasmed for a half second then quit.
She then took in the situation around her, or rather, in front of her. Through a glass, the "Interrogation" she was assigned to watch. The blond was getting a finger nail ripped out, what was bad was that she couldn't look away. The window was in perfect view to see everything about the boy. He was filthy, his hair greasy, his face covered in dirt, and his pants well soled. They only let their prisoners down once a day to use the restroom, and eat, and that's besides it. Even then, they would skip meals.
Calling her mind "Passive" now would be a insult, she was at full attention. Her eyes roamed the captive's body until they reached his eyes, it was there her eyes froze. Blueish red eyes met Blueish Purple, and everything froze again. It was right after they pulled his first fingernail, and now it seems like it was only him and her looking at each other. 'But, but wait! How can he see me through this glass?' she thought, before trying to move away but she couldn't. Everything was still frozen when she heard a reply, 'because I've been in this room for more than my fair share of torture, I know where the window is!'The voice sounded extremely angry, but just as fast as everything stopped, they went started going again.
The blond now looked calmer than he was a moment ago, and spat into the face of his madman interrogator. 'What was that?' she thought as she watched the madman slap the blond. The blond just smirked before going back to laying limp, his finger nail bleeding out against the floor.
Flash Back -
"Yugito," a man in a big robe with a huge hat on said. "You will attend this Interrogation, because the Interrogation subject is very..special. He is a Kohona Shinobi that was on a mission close to our borders, we snagged him and killed his comrades, well all except 2. They were 4 with him," the man said with ease and proudly. "I won't tell you what makes him special, maybe you will see it in him. But, you are to watch every interrogation of his, he has been held here for quiet awhile, and every interrogation we have went against him as failed for some reason. Its like he is playing chess with us," he said, sitting down and sighing.
"I've already informed Kohona that we have their ninja and that we attacked them out of border protection act," he said, looking at her before going on. "We are obliged to attack any Shinobi within our Boundaries due to trespassing, this law was put into act to keep our borders safe and to keep meddlers off of our land," he said, rubbing the top of his head while his hat was off. "Anyways, you are to go and watch the interrogation and HELP if it comes be. Whatever your judgement goes with this kid, then please, give your input."
"Your the only one probably possible to breaking him.." he said in a very low voice, before sighing and turning around. He looked out the window for a minute before continueing. "The Interrogation is at 10 PM, you are to be ready to go to the HQ. You are dismissed," he said, not bothering to turn around. Nii Yugito just turnt around and left, to many thoughts on her mind.
End of Flash back -
'So I'm obliged to stop this interrogation any time I want to..and what did he mean I was the only one able to break him?' she thought before looking back up at the blond. At this point, 2 more fingernails had been pulled from him and he was all but happy. He looked murderous. The madman spat at him before growling at him. He finally noticed that getting his fingernails pulled didn't seem to phase him at all. She felt her body freeze up then spasm again, it felt like her body was boiling from the inside! Then it quit and she stood up, staring at the interrogation.
"Yugito-sama, what's the matter?" one of the guards said, one guard out of five in the room.
"N-nothing," she said, and sat back down. Her body was still boiling on the inside, and there was a growing anger inside her. 'I don't understand where this is coming from..' she thought before a familiar voice appeared in her head. "You don't have to Kitten, this is just Natural for all of us," this voice was demonic. This was her prisoner, the demon inside of her. Before she could reply, the blond's hands were taken out of the torture device, his body unstrapped from the ceiling, and his arm slammed onto the table. The blond looked pitifully weak. Her body began to boil even more when she saw a hack saw being brought to the table. Her hand was crushing the seat's arm rest that she was sitting in, and all the guards in the room noticed it.
The hack saw was being held up by the madman, and then he rested it on Naruto's wrist and smiled evilly. "This is where the stub of your hand will be, demon bastard," he said, laughing evilly afterwards. Yugito jumped out of her seat and began running for the door but she was stopped by a guard, then she pushed him away and another guard blocked her.
'What the fuck!?' she thought, her body boiling even more. In a lapse of a second she threw him away and then the other 3 jumped on her, all at once and pinning her to the door.
"We can't let you interfere Yugito-sama," one said, pinning her even more roughly to the window. She flipped one off and ended up getting slammed onto the window, they all pushed her up against the window and she was forced to watch the gruesome act.
'I HAVE TO STOP THEM!' she thought, struggling more, but the more she struggled the more weight and resistance she got. Then the hack saw started going back and forth on Naruto's wrist. Naruto's face went up into flames, he clenched ins teeth, and done everything to stop showing any weakness. He was doing okay until they hit the bone, and then he screamed. He screamed louder than he had ever screamed before. His throat was compulsive over the noise that it was producing.
Yugito just began to struggle more, until someone grabbed her head and slammed it against the glass, then she was dazed for a few seconds before it happened again. She fell to her knees but her head was still high enough to look through the glass, at the screaming blond in the interrogation room. She felt her conscious slipping, she had a concussion. Just as they got through the bone, she slipped off into darkness. Her mind a whirlpool of pain, screaming, and anger.
Naruto stopped screaming after they got through the bone, but his eyes were totally different now. They were dark red with blue highlights where the lines of the iris should be. They opened and looked at the madman who was staring at his face, with a evil grin on his face as he finished sawing through his wrist. Blood was everywhere, over the walls, all over the table, all over him. Then everything froze, everything froze except him and his madman interrogator. The madman looked around for a few seconds and noticed that he couldn't move, all but his head could move. Everything else was frozen in place, all except his prisoner. The "prisoner" then spoke to him.
"Your are bastard, you dickless scum. You shall be punished for what you done, and your punishment shall be living as me for a day, back in my home village. You shall experience the pain you have inflicted!" the blond yelled before everything the madman fell into darkness.
"Where am I!?" he yelled before images started to appear around him, he couldn't control his body at all. He then saw his hand, they were small, very tiny compared to his. "Whats going on!?" he said in panic, as he felt his body begin running in terror. It wasn't just the terror, it was adrenaline. As a Shinobi, he was use to adrenaline, but this type..it was like he was running for his life. It was then when faster than he can see, a Kohona Shinobi appeared in front of him and shoved a Kunai into his stomach, the little blond boy cried and started begging the Shinobi to spare him. Not to kill him. The madman felt everything.
A voice appeared inside of his head sounding regretful, but pissed off. "This is only the beginning Teme," it said, before the scene in front of him continued in reality. "You shall see every single one of my worst memories and life experiences, then you shall never, ever cut into another person's flesh," he said, fading out afterwards.
Time came back to normal and Naruto's arm was hacked off completely, but the blond boy didn't look phased all that much. He looked upset, pissed, angry, and very uncomfortable. But besides that, he looked better than the Madman now looked like. The madman was now on the floor, curled up into a ball and begging to be let go and let out of his torment. He was curled up in Naruto's blood, and he wouldn't look up anywhere besides his own arms.
One of the other Interrogators stepped in and looked down at his leader, then looked at the boy before sighing. "Go get a Medic," he said before picking up the leader and dragging him out of the room. Then the other interrogator left to go do what he was assigned to do. Naruto just sat in the chair that they left, sitting in his own blood as his arm kept bleeding. A few minutes later a Medic ninja burst into the room and started healing his arm.
"I'm sorry young man, but your arm won't be able to be re-attached to your arm. The saw they used had chakra infused with it so that it'll coat the wound and disallow any of the same chakra from getting near it. So, in lay-man terms, everything the blade touches can't touch again and the chakra looks like it'll last for at least a week," naruto just nodded, before staring at his blood all over the ground. The medic wasn't allowed to say much other than that, so he healed Naruto's wrist the best he could then left. He made sure to lock the door as he left so that Naruto couldn't run a muck.
Yugito -
The guards who were guarding Yugito just left her in the watching room, laying on the ground very comfortably. She was knocked out for a good hour before she woke up. She woke up with a jolt, stood up immediately and looked around. 'I'm still in the watching room!' she thought before looking through the glass. 'Hes there! His..hand is gone..' she thought before sighing and leaning against the glass. She let herself drop to the floor before staring at it idly. 'Why do I even care?' she thought before getting up and walking out of the room. 'I have to talk to dad about this,' she thought before running off to the Raikage's Office.
The Raikage was just starting to pack up to quit for the day. He was tired enough as it is, but then just as he was walking out the door, the Purple Fuzz came bellowing through the door and right on top of him. She left no time for explanation and quickly began explaining, while sitting on top of his chest. "Raikage-sama! The Blond, Naruto, does not deserve what is being done to him! His..his! Hand was sawed off from his wrist, and now he only has one hand! He..he-" she was cut off by the Raikage putting his hand on her Mouth. She mumbled into his hand before stopping and sighing, she got up and sat down in front of his desk. "Hes not even a Chunnin.." she said, remembering his very limited file.
The Raikage just sighed before shutting the door, then put a seal on the door that blocks any noise for going out. He then just walked back around his desk and sat down in his chair, no paperwork on his desk. This was because the Raikage didn't go home until his paperwork was done, and this was why you often saw 3 Raikage's around his desk, doing paperwork. Yes, the Raikage was a Clone-Abuser!
"Our Captive, Uzumaki Naruto, is the Jinchuriki of the Kyuubi no Yoko," he said before rubbing his right temple. Dealing with Jinchurikis was always stressful. Yugito just froze, staring at the floor in place before looking at her father and then behind him.
"N..No way," she said before sighing. "His hand was chopped off! I'm the Jinchuriki of the Nibi no Bakeneko! If a finger was chopped off me it would regrow.." she looked at her hand, the hand that Naruto now didn't have.
The Raikage looked at her surprised, but quickly hid it. "Wait, his hand didn't grow back?" he said, before quickly pulling out Naruto's File. It said that he had quick regeneration. "What the?" he then got up and ran to the door, opened it and screamed out, "Isurchi! Go get our Blond Captive Naruto Uzumaki and bring him to me!" A yes-sir was heard and he walked back in, but not before shutting the door. He sat back down behind his desk and looked at his daughter.
"If your right about this...then we're in trouble," he said, sighing lightly. "He could be a imposter or worse, rumors have it that he turned into the Kyuubi, but a very weak version.." he said, rubbing his temples even more.
"But haven't the rumors of this blond been all bluffs?" Yugito said, moving her hand to stroke her hair behind her shoulders. Her hair was indeed purple, like her Prisoner's, it was only natural to inherit some of the traits of her prisoner. Her eyes were also slits, and she felt very kitty-ish before bed, whenever that time does come.
"Yes, but we can only hope that they are. It could be possible that some of them are true, and its to hard to decipher the ones that are true out of the ones that aren't," he said before relaxing into his chair.
"I..don't want him in Interrogation anymore," she said before her body burned a little bit more, like the Nibi was begging her. The Raikage just looked at her like she was nuts.
"Then what do you suppose we do?" he said, leaning back in his chair to listen. She looked at him before standing up and looking at him in the eyes.
"I'll take care of him, you did say I would be the only one to break him," she said, looking at him with determination.
"To live with you? You know how I feel about anyone being remotely close to your dwelling," he said before searching her eyes for any emotion. "Besides, what bond do you have with this boy anyways?"
"Hes like me, but I want to know his story.." she said, looking down at the desk to avoid her father's searching stare. "I, Nii Yugito, humbly ask permission for the owner rights over Naruto Uzumaki," she said before looking up into his eyes with mer determination. Her father's mouth dropped, to say he was shocked was a understatement!
"Y..Yugito," he mumbled before sighing and putting his head on his hand. 'Now I really need a drink..' he thought. "That law is intact in all Villages since the first Shinobi War. I'm surprised you know it..it hasn't been used lately, only once in the last Shinobi War, 20 years ago," he was now sighing.
"Your the one who taught me all about Shinobi History, Raikage-sama," she said, standing her ground.
"Well, let me think about it," he said before there was a knock on the door. "Who is it?" he yelled out, not wanting to be bothered right now.
"Its Isurchi sir! We have your prisoner," he said, waiting at the door.
"Very well, bring him in," the Raikage said, straightening his robe up and signaling for Yugito to stand towards the door. Naruto walked in slowly, then the assistant stood beside him until given further instruction. "Leave, Yugito put him into the chair," they both snapped to action and done what they were told. Naruto just let Yugito help him into the chair, then sighed once he hit the chair.
"Raikage, what the fuck do you want?" he said, looking at the Kage with seething anger.
The Kage was taken back at first, but who wouldn't be pissed if your hand was sawed off earlier that day? The Raikage just sighed before getting up, going to the door, and re-implanting a sound seal on the door. He then turned around and started talking as he walked back, "Naruto Uzumaki, Kohona Ninja, you are hereby being put under the custody of Nii Yugito," he said as he sat down in his chair. "This means that you will no longer be our prisoner, but hers. She will have full rights over you."
Naruto was in simple shock, but not for long. He remembered reading about this rule in the Shinobi Laws class, it was one of the very few rules he happened to learn about, because he was truly lonely in that hell of a school. Naruto started at the Raikage, not giving away any weakness but letting himself seem uncomfortable.
"You will wear a collar that is embedded with her Chakra, only she can take it off and if you disobey her she can use this collar to send a shock through your system that will temporarily disable you," he said, handing his daughter the collar. "Simply put your Chakra through it when you put it on him," he told her, before turning around and looking out the window. Yugito slowly walked up to him and waited to see any reaction, what she saw was a gennin her age that is willingly submitting himself to her.
'Just what has he been through..' she thought before gently sliding the collar around his throat, then pushing some of her chakra into it. The effect was instant, the collar tightened around his throat and her name appeared on the Collar. Afterwards she felt a surge rock her body before she returned to her post, waiting for the Raikage to say the next order or dismiss them.
"I apologize for your hand...It was suppose to grow back," he said before taking his seat and looking at the blond. The said blond glared at him with hatred but restrained himself, he knew better than to get into a fight with a Kage. "Why didn't it?" he asked bluntly, needing the answer more than anything else. He got no reply though, the blond stopped glaring at him and looked down with sadness, then he looked down at the chains at his feet then looked at Yugito.
Yugito saw the look and instantly knew what he wanted, she knew when he looked at them. She looked at the Raikage, he just nodded and handed her a key. She took the key quickly and dropped to her knees, she then unlocked the chains and lock and took them off his feet. There were gashes where the chains cut into his legs and feet, and bruises where he was hung upside down by them. He sighed lightly before leaning back and resting his hand on his head, he didn't speak for a few more minutes though.
By this time, Yugito was standing right beside him, like a comrade. "My..Captive...is no longer able to support me," he said simply, a headache forming in his head and his body beginning to throb from not being hung upside down for a hour. Yugito and the Raikage stared at the boy, dangerously. "They sealed him completely into me, I'm simply a meat shield, scapegoat, and object of their hate for all the losses that came from the attack. He was sealed completely when I was 8, and I'm 16 now. I've been to hell and back," he said as if it was the most common thing in the world. He then yawned before snuggling his head into his hand.
"What do you mean sealed completely?" the Raikage said, never actually hearing of this feat before.
"The fuzzball can't hear me, I can't hear him. He can't send me chakra, I can't receive his chakra. My Chakra Pools remained as high as they did after sealing, meaning I have more chakra than both of you in this room put together..but I can't use it for healing or anything of the sorts. I don't know how, the fox did. Now I'm just a object for hate and abuse...always," he said, letting his stump arm lay on his lap.
The Raikage and Kitty was beyond shocked, they knew that Jinchuriki were treated horribly, but to this extent. 'No,' Yugito thought before bowing to the Raikage. "I ask permission to take Naruto to his new dwelling until further called upon," she said quietly but sternly. Naruto looked at her with indifference before sighing and standing up, both Ninjas snapped to attention but he bowed as well.
"I ask to that I go with her," he said, not coming up from his bow. The Raikage was a little taken off by this but nodded.
"You two are dismissed, I'll call on you later this week. Yugito, you are to not go off on any other missions until you two are successfully settled, and please, keep him out of the public eye for a little bit, until he is cleaned up." The Raikage then sat down and began to fill out paper-work, determined to finish all the paperwork necessary to get these 2 Jinchuriki settled without any problems. Yugito looked at Naruto before walking to the door, then she stopped.
'Something seems off..' she thought before she turned around and searched Naruto's Collar. 'Just as I thought, a leash,' she thought before pulling it out. This leash was expandable at the owner's will, so she could make it extremely long or extremely short. She put it as long enough so it wouldn't be a problem, but he couldn't get to far away from her. Naruto just sighed before limping up to her, it was then she realized that even if he wanted to run away, his legs were in to bad of condition to even get far.
Yugito then slowly slide up beside Naruto, slipped her tiny form under his larger one, and let him use her as a prop. He looked at her strangely, before trying to push her away politely. "Please...let me walk by myself.." he whispered, a lot of pain visible through his face. She looked at him before sighing, and nodding. They walked out the door, slowly, Naruto following her with a bad limp and her holding the Leash like it was all but Normal.
Yugito's Apartment -
Yes, Yugito did indeed have a Apartment. She had only herself to care for, so why bother to buy a house? The public eye wouldn't let her live in her father's house, so instead he opted to purchasing her a apartment that she will stay in. She set up various traps around the area just to scare away angry individuals.
Yugito walked through the front door first and instantly looked around, her place wasn't a mess at all, but it wouldn't still hurt to clean up a little bit. Naruto just followed her until he saw her couch, he then collapsed on the couch, the leash flying out of Yugito's hands. She jerked her head towards where the leash flew and saw Naruto laying down on the couch, his legs hanging off the couch but the rest of his body laying on it. He snuggled his face until it was facing away from her. She watched him for a bit to make sure he wasn't trying to trick her, he didn't move any after that.
She just sighed before putting seals on her apartment. She didn't want anyone intruding on them tonight, and she often got at least 1 intruder, even though her apartment was surrounded by traps. They always seemed to get past her traps and try to talk to her. After she placed the seals, she went into her room and immediately stripped of her clothes. Afterwards she went to the only bathroom in the apartment, which was also located out in the hallway leading away from the Living room, where Naruto was laying. She quickly dashed across to the bathroom before blushing and quickly shutting the door. 'Why am I even bothering..hes...knocked out,' she thought before continuing on to her shower.
She always took freezing cold showers, heat didn't bother her much because her Prisoner was a Fire type demon. She could only naturally feel the cold, and this is what she desired in a shower.
After her shower, she quickly dashed back to her room and got dressed. She dressed in sleeping gear, feeling the apartment to relatively safe, except for the blond who wasn't moving at all on her couch. She walked into the living room and kneeled down beside him, she then unhooked then put chakra into the leash and watched it slide back into the collar as if it wasn't nothing but the collar. Naruto didn't move through this process at all, he laid there like a dead man. She looked at him again before sighing, she poked him lightly, hoping to get a positive response. "If your hungry..I can go make you something," she said, hopefully. The blond didn't move much at all, the only thing that moved was his chest. It took a few more seconds but a big sigh came out, "A small meal would be good."
And with that he went back to being motionless, only breathing in large increments.
A small meal later, the blond was still laying down but his head was facing towards his "master." His eyes were empty, and all that could be seen in them were tiredness. Nii Yugito, for the first time in her life, felt guilty. She felt guilty that this Blond had to go through the life that he did, and he hid his hand from her like it was wolfs bane. She then sighed before deciding it was a lot to take in in one day. She nodded to herself before looking at Naruto, "Get some rest." She then threw a blanket she got out of the apartment's closet, at him and walked back to her own room to sleep. Naruto just let the blanket lay on his back and laid there, staring at nothing, motionless.
The night passed by with no apparent action, they both slept. Naruto didn't sleep though, he sat there, and stared at the ground. 'Damn it...now I'm a prisoner,' he thought in his mind, his thoughts going 1 thought every minute. This is what his thoughts done when he was captured, when there was nothing to do. 'I have to figure out how to get this secondary seal off me...I have to get my hand back,' he thought anxiously. He knew what the Fox would do if the seal was removed, he would protect himself, and make his carrier safe. Everything around Naruto slowed down again and Naruto started complementing on how to get it unsealed. He knew that he had a bloodline, and he used it to his advantage. However, his enemies, his allies, nor the kages knew what his bloodline was. Heck, they didn't even know he had a bloodline. His bloodline wasn't even listed on the records, how he aquired it wasn't any mystery to him either. His father was the Yondaime, and the Yondaime was known for killing hundreds of people in seconds. Of course, this was because he would slow down time around him and plan his next move strategically.
Naruto's Bloodline was indeed the Namikaze's Legacy. And the Yondaime done a good job at keeping it a secret, because if anyone knew of this Bloodline, then it would spread and people would hunt him down just to dissect him. Naruto understood this right after it awakened, he was able to make a few seconds last days in his mind. He of course had many uses of this, when he was in private he would read books extremely fast, well, in normal view. To him, it would be hours of reading the book, but in reality, he would turn a page a second and the book lasted however many pages the book was or how long that scroll was.
He only done this in private though, if anyone else found out of his rather unique ability, they would kill him out of fear. 'That includes people from Kumo..and other shinobi villages,' he thought before sighing internally.
Time went back to normal for him and after a few minutes, he heard very silent footsteps slide out of the fuzzball's room. They came up and stopped in front of his face. Naruto just didn't bother even flinching, he was staring at the one and only Nii Yugito, well, at her knees. Then she plopped down in front of his face and curled her knees up till her chin was touching them, then looked into his eyes.
"Do you ever sleep.." she said to no one in particular, her eyes extremely drowsy.
After a few seconds, she got a reply. "Never..I just sit here..and wait," he whispered hoarsely, barely audible. He wasn't thirsty, he just wasn't use to talking at all, or at least not anymore. Seclusion does that to a person.
Yugito looked like someone just shot her leg, but she didn't move from the position or spot she was in. She stayed silent, just staring at the couch below his face. About a minute later her eyes traveled up to his and she was instantly caught. "Why..." she asked softly, just wanting him to talk more. It took Naruto longer to answer this one, but instead he limply lifted his only hand and brought it in front of her face. She lightly put her hand on his hand and shook her head, he just looked right into her eyes with pleas of allowance. She sighed before gently holding his hand as it continued on its course, her forehead.
Very gently it touched her forehead, 'It's because I've never been able to sleep without something happening.' Her face stretched when she recognized the voice.
"You're -!"
'Yes, I've spoke to you before,' he said quickly, answering her question. Her face then displayed mixed emotions before pushing his hand away, wondering if he could do it without him touching her head. The voice then stopped, but she could still feel it tugging at her conscious, asking to be let in to speak with her. She stared at him before pushing his hand gently back to his side before sighing and rubbing her temples. 'I know he can force his way in..but it seems like he is being a gentleman,' she thought before looking back into his eyes.
"You can do this without touching my forehead?" she asked, wrapping her arms back around her knees. Naruto just nodded before staring back off into space. "Why did you do it before?" she asked, curious beyond reason. This time she felt the voice intrude, 'Because I smelt and felt that you felt differently about that..interrogation.'
He replied simply, but she could already tell he was all but normal. She sighed before getting a chair and pulling it up behind her, she leaned against it instead of getting in it, being more comfortable on the floor than the chair. "Why won't you speak with your voice?" she asked, feeling a bit creeped out at his ability.
Naruto then spoke out softly, a barely audible whisper, "It hurts to speak. My vocal cords have been put under to much strain for my liking." Yes, Naruto was not a mute, but he still did not like to speak. A heat wave bore over Yugito like a Bee to Honey.
She just remained quiet and still, her body was wanting to embrace the teen. Naruto then choose then to spoke, "Yugito-san..what should I call you?" He asked in a way that he seemed loyal, but she couldn't deny the fact that it seemed like he wanted to please her. She was more than shocked, but she recovered quickly.
"What would you like to call me?" she asked, wanting their working names to be something she could stand. She had been paired with far to many people who called her Pussy due to her...Prisoner. 'Fucking Idiots..' she thought, being reminded. Naruto was quiet for awhile before he replied.
"Yugi-ko.." he whispered before shutting his eyes. 'Why is my body burning..' he thought before not bothering to open his eyes. His body felt like it was burning from inside out, and he was doing all he could to hold it back.
Yugito froze at the name. No one has ever called her that, to add -ko to the end of the name usually meant she was his girlfriend. She sighed before snuggled her head into her knees. 'Gah, it feels like I'm having a heat flash 60 years to early!' she thought before having the urge to strip down to just her bra and panties. She looked up and saw Naruto looking straight into her eyes, it was then when everything around the two of them slowed down to the point of nothing moving. She saw emotions running through his eyes, and tears formed and flowed freely. She tried to get up but she couldn't, and nothing but him was moving at all, even if it was his tears. Then everything around them transformed into a Courtyard to what looked like to be a Village Academy. Then she could freely move around, but she was now standing, and so was the Blond beside her.
She immediately turned to the Blond and was about to ask what was going on when she was beat to the chase. "This is one of my memories Yugi-ko.." he said before looking at the massive tree in the Courtyard. There was a swing, and in this swing was one Naruto Uzumaki. Yugito recognized the similarities between the two of them before she looked off into the distance and saw a huge festival going on. She looked at the teenage blond to ask a question but was once again beat to the chase.
"Today is October 10th, 8 years after the sealing of the infamous Kyuubi no Kitsune. Today, happens to be my Birthday," he announced before watching 10 people run over and snatch the little boy out of the swing. The boy struggled the best he could be couldn't struggle much against 10 fully grown men, he was yet a Ninja. Naruto walked after them and Yugito followed after quickly, they followed them to a crowd of people. They reached the edge of people and Yugito quit, but Naruto kept walking, he walked right through the people. Yugito quickly followed, finding she could do the same.
At the center of the crowd was a scared and frightened 8 year old kid who was being beaten to within a inch of his life. When he laid on the ground without moving, they then took it to them to piss on his body. Afterwards, they took out a few civilian combat knives and began to carve harmful messages into his legs, arms, back, and chest. The young blond was now stripped to his boxers, with blood flowing freely down his body. Yugito's stomach then choose that moment to try and puke...if she could. Her stomach was running on almost nothing, and it that came up was water. A few minutes later they started beating him again, but 10 ANBU showed up along with the Hokage, and they stopped the mistreatment of the only thing keeping the Crowd of people alive, Naruto.
The scared Kid tried to get up and go to the Hokage but was unable to, his legs and arms were broken. Instead he settled on staring at the Hokage until he came by and picked the Blond up gently, and ran off with him. 5 of the ANBU staying behind and arresting any who physically touched the boy, including piss. However before the Hokage got to far, Yugito took time to admire the boy. She was absolutely pissed that somebody would do this, but the boy never cried out or shed a tear during the whole treatment.
She was now shocked and stared at the teenage version of the blond, some tears still apparent on his face. "This was you, wasn't it?" she said, before she received a nod.
"This was just when I was eight, my first year of the Academy. I went to the Academy until I was 13," he stated before walking towards her. It was then when everything faded back to the room and she was covered in cold sweat. She looked at the Blond immediately and saw that his eyes were closed and the tears now stopped.
'I won't be showing you anymore tonight...' he announced before letting his eyes open to look at her one last time before shutting them again. He used all the strength he had to flip onto his back to stare at the ceiling rather than her.
She just stared at the Blond before nodding, she got up and walked back to her room and crawled back into bed. The memory he showed her still playing freshly in her mind. It may have took longer but she eventually feel back to sleep, only to wake up when daylight hit her face 3 hours later. She grumbled about the sun before crawling out of bed and staring at her floor, the memory immediately coming back. She sighed before stripping and getting into some appropriate clothes – a red skirt that went down to her knees and a purple tanktop. 'I have no ninja business today, so I'll dress like I have none,' she thought before walking to the living room to check on her captive.
His eyes opened and looked at her for the first time that day, and he didn't bother moving at all. She just giggled before sitting down on the chair across from him, making sure her skirt wasn't facing towards his face. "Are you going to lay there for a week or what?" she asked, really wanting to take him out and get him something to wear. 'Those rags look horribly worn..' she thought before yawning.
Naruto once again didn't say anything but sat up and looked at her before nodding. "Where ever you wish me to go Yugi-sama, I'll follow," he said with unflinching loyalty. This took her off track, it was as if he was programmed for this. She quickly shook it off before standing up and offering her hand to him, he gently took her hand and she tugged him up. She then let go of his hand and walked to the door and opened it for him to walk out, he did so and she quickly followed before making sure to lock the door.
Naruto couldn't help but check her out once she was in the sunlight, walking towards the Village with her. 'Oh kami shes attractive..' he thought before quickly looking away, ashamed of himself. 'I shouldn't be looking at her..' he then slowed down time to calm himself down. Everything slowed down like usual, including him, but he only included his conscious this time. Once he was calmed down he let go of his control and it returned to normal, he followed once again.
Once they got into town, they were stopped by a crowd of people who were crowding around a group of Shinobi, looking to be escorting 3 Figures. Yugito just grabbed Naruto's hand and lead him until both of them could see the guests of the Village. Almost instantly Naruto's grip increased and he quickly slid behind her. She looked at him confusingly before she heard a voice in her head. 'Kohona Ninja, Shikamaru Nara, Ino Yamanaka, and..Sasuke Uchiha,' he said calmly, his body a different action all together. He was on flight all the way, but she quickly shuffled them behind some people. Naruto stood behind them and hoped to kami they didn't see him.
'What the fuck are they doing here?' she thought before she got a decent reply. 'They're here to discuss a treaty between Kohona and Kumo. It was a popular topic before I got attacked and detained...in fact Sasuke Uchiha was on the same mission as me..' he said, sighing. 'My life of stress never ends..'he thought towards her before he saw a Sasuke look straight at where he was. Then almost instantly his Sharigan blazed to life and he jumped up over the escort and towards Naruto. 'SH-' he thought to her before he shushined away, about a mile away. He appeared in a forest that they had just came from. 'There is a river..somewhere..' he thought before sighing, cursing himself for not paying more attention.
Normally most people can't go that far, only about a quarter mile at a time, but it was still a useful technique. However, Naruto was no normal ninja. As quickly as he could he began running on trees, making unnecessary marks due to him not moving much in 6 months. He ran until he came to a river, then there he jumped in the river and let himself float to the bottom, holding his breath he began swimming with the river to cover more distance. It wasn't about 20 seconds later that Sasuke emerged out of the heavy brush. He looked around, seeing the trail just suddenly stop here.
"That dobe couldn't water walk for his life.." he said before looking into the water, looking for any sign of the Blond. He waited, and kept looking around, as if waiting for the dead last to emerge out of the water. Further down the river, Naruto quietly floated to the surface, his face up. Once he hit the surface he took a quiet breath before letting his body just float in the water, sighing at his shoulders tensing up from no physical exercise in 6 months. He just kept floating until he say Yugito standing on the water were the flow of the river would lead them. She bent down and kneed on the water and lightly stopped him from going further down the river.
Her eyes showed anger, but also relief. "What was that about baka?" she asked, feeling a bit crabby. She got no reply but she saw him look up into her eyes with the answers she wanted. 'He doesn't want to go back yet..' she realized before pulling the Blond up to his feet on the water. Naruto then just molded his Chakra to his feet to water walk, but instead he slide back into the water. Yugito giggled before he came back up to the top and glared at her.
His head turned straight down the river and immediately he grabbed Yugito's ankles and pulled her under. 'Hold your breath..we have to go further down' he said before swimming with both of them. His swimming wasn't slow either, even though he was missing a hand. (Imagine a Dolphin swimming, there you go! You got it) When the river came to a slight turn, he quickly pulled her up onto the shore, put her on her feet, and began running back out to the forest. Yugito quickly towed behind him.
Further up the river a angry Sasuke was standing on the water when 2 others joined him, with 4 escorts around them. "Sasuke, what was that about?" shikamaru asked before he got a glare from the emo. Shikamaru just shrugged it off before crossing his arms, expecting a answer.
"Shika-kun! Stop bugging Sasuke-sama!" Ino chipped in, growling herself. Shikamaru glared at her before sighing and shaking his head.
"Naruto is still alive," he said simply before walking off back towards the Village, seeing the pursuit to be useless.
Naruto then stopped and sighed, he collapsed onto a log and was panting. Yugito caught up to him quickly and stood up in front of him, she to sat on the log. "Nar-" she was cut off by a feeling of something entering her mind and calming her down. She was indeed pissed.
'They would have detained me even further and took me back to the Village for Treason and Death. I have no interest in going back to that hell hole unless I get a fair share of what I deserve. My heritage, Respect, and the ability to dish out pain to ANYONE who messes with me,' he finished before breaking off a twig with his hand. It pissed him off now that he couldn't do hand seals do to being one handed. Yugito just nodded before thinking before the wheels in her head began moving.
'Can you hear me like this..?' she thought, looking at him. He just nodded before replying, mentally as well. 'Anytime you are around me, just thinking of me as the target of your thoughts and I'll hear them. However, I cannot pry into any thoughts you don't want me to hear or see..'he said before looking off into the distance. Yugito was now shocked, she stared at him before doing what he said. 'How?' 'It's what my mother and father left me, whoever they were,' he said before looking at her seriuosly. 'It's a bloodline, but don't let anyone know I have one..you're the first to know,' he told her before getting up and offering her a hand. She took his hand before nodding, understanding what this meant for a Jinchuriki who's demon was sealed away. 'The slow down ability comes with it as well. I don't know the name of the bloodline, but all I know is that I have it and it has helped me out far more than I could ever think of,' he said before he began walking back towards her house. Which was indeed, out of the Village. The only reason why it was out of the Village was due to the Villagers being quiet pranksters herself, and the Wilderness always scared them off.
Yugito just followed herself, they were walking now. 'So..we can talk like this to avoid detection from the enemy?' she thought, talking to him with her thoughts. He just nodded before sighing. 'I can't fight anymore anyways..not without knowing 1 handed jutsu anyways. I once knew a enemy who used them against me..she however escaped and I never saw her again,' he thought towards her. Images of Haku flashed between the two of them, and Yugito giggled. Naruto just smiled at her giggling and continued walking. 'I'll help you with that Naruto-kun, I saw some Scrolls on it in the Supplies Closet in Town' she thought towards him. The Supplies' Closet was in fact a store, one of the only Ninja-based stores in town. The owner was a retired ninja himself, so he knew what all the other Ninjas would need in battle and specialized situations.
Naruto just sighed and nodded before they continued to walk on. After awhile they made it back to her apartment, and Naruto sat down in a chair and let his head rest on his hand. Yugito looked at him before looking in the Fridge. She pulled out a Apple and tossed it to him, he caught it and looked at it oddly.
"What's this?" he asked before sniffing it. Yugito just stared at him before she pulled one out and sat down beside him. She then took a big bite of it and chewed while he watched her. He then looked at the apple before mimicing the action, moaning slightly at the taste of the apple. He then devoured the apple, taking huge bites and chewing quickly, swallowing almost as fast. The apple was gone about a minute later before he looked at her, licking his lips slightly. Yugito just giggled before she gave him her apple, which he ate happily. Yugito then stood up and walked to the door, before looking back at him.
"Can I trust you to stay here? It seems you can't be seen in the Village right now," she asked before leaning against the door. He just nodded before looking up at her from his apple.
"You can tie me to a pole but I'm not to sure how much use that would be," he said with a huge grin on his face. Yugito just giggled before staring at his grin, liking the look of it. Naruto's grin moved down to a smile before he yawned.
"Well maybe you can take a nap instead?" she suggested, before he shaked his head quickly at the idea.
"I told you already, I can't sleep..I just wait and let my body do the sleeping," he said, feeling a whole lot more energy going through his system than he felt in 6 months. She just nodded before she walked to the front door, he followed her. "Anyways, I don't think I'm going anywhere anytime soon, there is no where for me to go...and you could always find me with this," he said, pointing at the collar. She just nodded before she pointed at the wall beside the door.
"These are the security protocols here in my home, channel some chakra into them and they are activate. I've already activated them because I know how to avoid them, but they keep 90% of the people away from here," she said, sounding like a true hermit. Naruto just nodded before he turned around and plopped down on the Couch, yawning even more largely. Yugito just grinned before walking out of the house, making sure to lock the door after her.
'I'll make his life better..I promise,' she thought to herself, speeding off towards the Village with renewed determination.
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