Demon talk
Chapter One:
Hoshi looked at the last battle, Madara was going to be killed, but she saw the jutsu he was going to perform that would keep him alive and kill the others. So with a bow and a fire chakra arrow she aimed at him, binding him with her favorite jutsu. She watched the man that took her away from her only sibling when she was only two days old die by the hands of the person that may be her brother and his best friend.
Let's go child, head for Suna, I have a cave there that might be enough to hold you up until the war blows over. Tsukiko tells Hoshi, while she nods lightly hoping against it all that one day she will talk to her brother.
Tsukiko, do you think that one day I can actually talk to my brother or fall in love like I hear the girls in each village we go to talk about? Hoshi asked, sending a prayer to the Tsuki no Megumi, the only celestial being she believed in other than Kami-sama and the Shinigami.
Maybe one day, but do not hold me to it, Kami and who knows who else have been butting into your life for ages, so I cannot tell you for sure. Hoshi, we must go more people are coming, and you are not healed enough to confront people.
Hoshi begins to jump away from the battle, leaving behind her brother who does not know she exists and a marker to say that the Tanuki Mistress was there. She runs and runs not stopping until she reaches the cave Tsukiko told her about. Her thoughts ranging from the safety the desert gives her, to how much her brother and her share the same facial features, though she has violet-gray eyes, slightly pale skin, and vibrant red and blonde hair that is naturally streaked and varies in shades.
She knows people will not find her for a good month, and by then she would have fixed the seal enough for Tsukiko to have her own body, though she will have to stay in a nine hundred square kilometer range.
TIME SKIP: TWO MONTS LATER
Tsukiko was free; Hoshi had freed her by unraveling the seal her father made onto her chakra coils, though the price was somewhat dangerous, Hoshi was now blind, and still sick. So she had sent word to Suna hoping they would help her move Hoshi, who still had enough strength to pull of her arrows, but her body was weakening faster than it normally would have.
"Tsukiko, can I have water, please?" Hoshi asked, hoping that Tsukiko was in range to hear her.
I gave up my sight to free her, so I know she will not leave here all alone. I know I am dying, I can feel it in my bones. I messed up the unraveling, I accidentally nicked the chakra that helped my eyesight, but the fact I am dying I cannot tell why yet. I just wanted to have Tsukiko free, she did not deserve to be sealed within someone, and now I may never see my brother, who doesn't know that his twin sister is alive, and she is so close to him. Hoshi thought, tears springing to her eyes knowing that the only thing she wanted to do more so than fall in love was to see her brother, will never really happen.
"Under the order of the Kazekage, we have come to see if we can help you, Lady-san." A ninja that Tsukiko knew to be Hoshi's brother told her.
"Come with me, please, I fear my little Uzumaki Hoshi is weakening. She unraveled a seal that was on her body, but by doing so she went blind and is dying, I need your help." Tsukiko told the boy, her voice wavering as she heard Hoshi's call for water, and led the boy to the main part of the cave, ignoring the Kazekage behind him and the medic that accompanied them.
Hoshi was sitting on the bed, her bones poking out of her skin; her hair was no longer as vibrant as before, and anyone could see that she was fading away faster than many believed. "Tsukiko, who is here? Can I have water please, I tried to finish the meat, but I couldn't?" Hoshi asked and stated, pointing to where a bowl of meat and rice that was barely touched lay.
"I called for help from Suna, Little One; the boy is here to help me take you to Suna that way they can see what went wrong. Do you think you can travel, Little One? And I will give you water right now; just eat two more spoons of rice." Tsukiko told her, as she saw the boy stare at Hoshi with pity, and sadness.
Hoshi nodded and tried once again to eat two more spoons and bites of meat and rice, even if her stomach did not agree with it. She knew that the people in the room with Tsukiko had a familiar chakra signature, and one of them had Kage level reserves, plus he seemed to have two chakras. "You are a container, like I used to be, did you have a village?"
Naruto looked shocked to hear that the girl that shared his last name was a container too, but the part that shocked him was that she said 'used to be' instead of 'I am'. "Yeah, I am a container, and yes I had and still to do have a village, do you?"
"Nope, never had one, I was kidnapped two days after I was born from Konoha, I believe. I can't really remember the first five years of my life, but then I was abandoned here in the desert, and decided to travel all over the countries. Tsukiko helped, after all what demon would not help their container survive. I am Uzumaki Hoshi, born October tenth, Seal and Tanuki Mistress, but most importantly, I am a girl who knows she is going to die, but when I die Tsukiko will live as long as she has a bit of my chakra." Hoshi told them, as she drank the water given to her, and felt the calming presence of Tsukiko next to her.
"That is not what I asked you Little One, can you travel?" Tsukiko restated, hoping Hoshi would answer.
"I am not sure, if I can control the trajectory of two of my fire chakra arrows, then yes, I can travel, but will need to be carried, sadly." Hoshi stated as she began weaving the fire chakra into her palms, forming the necessary arrows. "My bow please," Hoshi stated as she felt her bow being pushed into her hand, "Stand clear of the one with sandy chakra, I know you can protect yourself, so let me please try this."
The other three in the room where stunned to see how Hoshi could tell the control of their chakra. "I would listen to Little One, she has been doing this since she was four, and at night most of the time half asleep. She has done this before the unraveling of the seal, and after it, on her best day she could control ten, two is the minimum for her to be able to move around."
And with those words said, they watched as Hoshi loaded both arrows on the bow and released, the arrows streaked fast, twisting around one another, but when they reached Gaara, they separated and attacked both sides. Suddenly those two split in half, and four came back towards Hoshi, three flew into a marking on her wrist, a lotus blossom, while one flew into the kanji for love on her right wrist.
"Little One, four, you have control four, so you good to travel, but not enough to move at the speed needed. Little One, sleep, when you wake up we will be there." Tsukiko told Hoshi, who nodded and began drifting to sleep.
"Why did you put her to sleep?" The medic with pink hair asked Tsukiko, who smiled sadly.
"Little One doesn't like people finding out her past, but to heal her you must know it. Like Hoshi said, she was born October Tenth, the day my mate's friend, Kurama was put under a genjutsu that made him attack Konoha. I was there by complete accident, so I tried to stop Kurama, but it was slightly impossible for a one tailed tanuki. Then Hoshi and her brother were born, their parents sealed one of us in each of them. Both parents died, but people separated Hoshi from her brother, leaving me with only a glimpse of what he might become, after all he had some of the same features as their father. Two days later Hoshi was kidnapped, and sold from house to house. Gratefully, Hoshi could not be tamed, so at five they kicked her out into the desert. When she was five she fell in love, with a boy that she called, Panda, though I never took the incentive to look at who it was, and why he was deemed worthy of that name. But I can tell you that when we left the village, we were attacked, and I found out why, they thought that Hoshi would make the boy go on a rampage, so they tried to kill her. This was her childhood, before she took her first life."
"So she had it worse, but she said she can't remember the first five years, why?" Sakura asked, curious why the girl couldn't remember her past.
"She was nearly raped in every home, and her retaliation was to burn all their clothes, and at times burn items they were reaching for. She was small, but a little devil if you ask me, just like most women from the Uzumaki clan. I met a few before I was sealed in her, and all of them were stubborn and could hit so hard that men never wanted them to get angry at them, even their own fathers. Though all of them were seal masters, they understood the seals, so it made sense that Hoshi took a liking to it so young."
"Gaara, shall we move out?" Naruto asked curious as to why Gaara was staring at the girl with something akin to recognition.
Gaara nodded as he saw Tsukiko coming towards him with Hoshi in her arms. The girl looked so frail wrapped up in blankets, and carried in Tsukiko's arms.
"I trust you to carry her, you have the same mark as her, and so you must be Panda. Don't worry about waking her up; she won't wake up as long as she feels warm enough, and also she has been looking for you, and was going to meet you before war broke out, but once it broke out she decided just to save the lives of those who were too far away for medics to reach them." Tsukiko explained as they began the trip to Suna.
Xx Time Skip xX
By the time they reached Suna, Sakura and Naruto could see that Gaara was blushing like crazy at how Hoshi seemed to have ended up with her arms free of her blankets and wrapped them around his neck, pulling her body close to his. Tsukiko on the other hand was constantly checking the chakra levels Hoshi was emitting in order to make sure Hoshi was still healthy enough to be moved. Sakura had tried this, and ended up nearly burned when she went too close to Gaara, showing that Hoshi did not like another female near Gaara, only Tsukiko because she was a demon.
Once they made it to a hospital, Hoshi began waking up, scared out of her mind. She could tell that they were no longer in her home, but she didn't like the smell of this place.
"I don't like this place, Tsukiko, it smells too much of death, sadness, and grief. Can't I just go to my old home here, the house above a small bookstore called Little Rain, Lots of Love?" Hoshi asked, her voice frail, though they all could tell that she was ready to scream at them if they took her closer to the hospital.
"Tsukiko-san, do you remember where this house was?" Gaara asked curious where this house was, and if it was a better place to take Hoshi.
"It would help, if Hoshi felt comfortable when I was healing her, so if she was in a place where she felt at peace it would be good." Sakura told Tsukiko who nodded, and led them through the back alleys of Suna, towards a small bookshop run by an elderly man who smiled at the sight of Hoshi.
The bookstore seemed to be nearly falling apart, but when the man saw Hoshi, he flew out of his shop to see the health of the girl.
"Is this Little Rain, Lots of Love?" Sakura asked as they saw the man stare at Hoshi, and who carried her.
"Hai, is that Uzumaki Hoshi by chance? If it is then this place belongs to her, she bought from me when she was around ten years old, and told me she would be back one day." The man explained as he opened the door and let them in to the bookstore.
"Gramps, it is nice to hear your voice again. Did you take care of my home all this time?" Hoshi asked even though she could not see him, she could still remember him from her memories.
"Yes, of course, you were the one that bought this place and let me keep the bookstore as long as I took care of this building for you. You were a strange child even before when I first met you, you were around five, a little child clutching tightly to a small bow and arrows, dragging behind you some random animal you found to eat. Yet you preserved, and befriended the little boy, who would become today's Kazekage. Your room is still clean, and I never moved any of the things you left behind." Gramps told them as he moved them to the upstairs level where a room could be seen with various sets of bows and arrows, a bed made with a blanket that had silhouettes of a little girl and boy in various stages of playing.
Naruto looked at the room that his supposed sister used, the place was bare, but it held what must have once been a feeling of warmth. The room was littered with bows and arrows, hand drawn pictures of a little girl and boy, books, and a sun flower pot that seemed to still be alive. He stared as they put Hoshi in the bed, and was surprised to find out that she still fit on the bed when she was fully stretched, meaning that she was smaller than he thought.
That was when he found it, the calling card Sasuke and he had found on the body of Madara, a drawing of a heart broken in four with ten stitches holding it together, and the same kanji on Gaara's forehead, and Hoshi's wrist drawn on top of the heart. He tried to piece the pieces of this puzzle together, though it was hard to do when you had a sister you didn't know anything about popping into your life, and finding out she might just die before you even get to know her.
Kit, think about it, you felt a presence before Madara died, and saw a fire arrow pin him in place for you and the Uchiha to kill him, thus this girl is who she says she is. In addition, Tsukiko is the mate of Shukaku, which is why she complained about being a one tailed tanuki and not being able to stop me from attacking your village. You did have a sister, but I thought she died when they took her away from the crib you both shared. Tsukiko was screaming out with her chakra refusing to be taken away, but you both were too young to be able to stop them from separating you. Trust Tsukiko, she cannot lie at all due to the vow she gave the Tsuki no Megumi to allow her and Shukaku to mate, without the world going haywire. Tsukiko is the daughter of the Tsuki no Megumi and an angel. Kurama told Naruto as they both watched Sakura start healing the frail body of a girl who seemed ready to fade away just to make sure the demon that once was her prisoner stayed alive and free.
"Tsukiko-san, is there any way to see where exactly Hoshi started getting sick?" Sakura asked as she continued to scan Hoshi, who seemed to have some sort of poison attacking every single bit of her body, making impossible to tell where it first started.
"Little One, where did it begin to hurt?" Tsukiko asks, watching as Hoshi's hands began to play with themselves, the only sign that Hoshi heard the question, and was contemplating it.
"My stomach, after we left the final battle, I left my calling card, but I was hit by something though I ignored it, though after I unraveled the seal my stomach started hurting a lot, almost as if it was being stabbed repeatedly. I couldn't really tell you because by that time we both were freaking out over the fact I had nicked the chakra line to my eyes making me blind, and leaving me in a world of darkness with no end in sight." Hoshi explained as she tried to remember if she ever left Chibi Panda here.
"Gramps, did I leave Chibi Panda here, he has a sea glass blue colored eyes, and black and red fur? Though I think he has a heart broken in four pieces held together by ten stitches where his heart should be." Hoshi asked curious if she left her panda here, after all it was based on Panda himself.
She still could picture Panda with his blood red hair, black rings around his eyes, sea glass blue or teal eyes depending on the light in the room, and his skin that was just like hers refusing to tan no matter how much he was outside. She knew Panda was alive or else the fire chakra arrows would all go into her lotus tattoo, but as long as one went into the Ai kanji scar he was alive and well. She wondered how he looked now, if he still was the little boy with eyes frozen in a somewhat mean stare only to hide the myriad of emotions surging underneath. She came back four years after she left or so, to buy this place that way she could come back and visit any time she wanted in hopes of finding Panda. She heard rumors that he became a demon, only to be saved by her brother from going totally insane, and she always blamed herself, if she hadn't left maybe he wouldn't have done all of what he did, though that would have meant that she would never have met the people that kept her up to date with the Shinobi world.
Everyone held their breath when they saw Gramps tell something to Hoshi, only to have her be unresponsive no matter how hard they called out to her. Tsukiko seemed to be on the verge of freaking out when they saw Hoshi stand on wobbly legs ignoring the calls of the people around her. She walked slowly to a corner of the room filled with bows and arrows, the bows and arrows parted for her to show the world a stuffed panda frozen in time, just like Hoshi described it.
She seemed to be soaking in the memories the panda had for her, and letting a melody fill the air as she stood up again and the bows and arrows covered the corner once again. She walked back up to the bed slowly, before she curled up around the panda holding it close to her body. Sand, fire and water swirled around Hoshi, swiping at her body before pulling out a black and red substance out of Hoshi and dumping it a trash can.
"What just happened?" Naruto asked the first to get out of the shock that filled the room when they saw what just happened to Hoshi.
"Chibi Panda was created with the use of three elements, sand from me, fire from Hoshi, and water from Tsukiko. The reason behind his creation was to make sure that if anything happened to Hoshi and her body didn't let anyone heal her, Chibi Panda would release a melody into the air and surround Hoshi with the elements it was made with to cure her from whatever seemed to have made her body unresponsive." Gaara explained as he remember making the panda for Hoshi, adding the other elements to make sure Hoshi was safe and healthy wherever she was even if she was not near him to protect her.
"You finally remember her, back then she never really went by Hoshi. Hoshi was the name she was given, but many of the villagers called her Yumi, because she was an anomaly to the people. She constantly was with you, protecting you from their glares, and words, as you protected her from their blows, and weapons. Back then, both of you called me Gramps, though I let you because you two did not deserve the treatment you got, after all you did not have a say in what happened to you before you were born, or when you were born. The ones that should have gotten the blame were the ones that treated you two the way they did." Gramps explained as they all stared at Hoshi who was sleeping peacefully, unaware of what happened, but clutching tightly at Chibi Panda, as if she was scared that he would disappear from her grip, and leave her again.
Tsukiko analyzed the corner that protected Chibi Panda from the world, and traced the chakra that surrounded the corner. The chakra showed that only two people could have gotten Chibi Panda out of his hiding place, Hoshi or Gaara, the main creators of Chibi Panda, the ones that were tied together since they met.
