"Blah"- Kyuubi

'blah'- telepathy or talk in the abyss

Ebony Power

By: SilverEbony5

Ch. 1

Naruto stood in front of the Godaime's desk, shifting from foot to foot, eyes shifting nervously as she glared at him. The mission had been a success but with a lot more dangers and mishaps than should've been possible. He had just finished explaining what happened and feeling compelled to say something, said, "I swear, it wasn't the team's fault. This couldn't have been—"he stopped.

Something was… off. Naruto looked out towards the window at the sunset and felt a rumble. Something—no, someone had come. Someone he knew very well.

'It's her,' came the rumbling voice of the Kyuubi. Over the years, the fox spirit had been merging with his host, until all that remained of him was his consciousness and visual body in a part of Naruto's mind. He prowled both in fox form and human form when he felt like it, and bonded to his host. Naruto had displayed miraculous and admirable signs of courage, strength, fortitude and a sense of light and general goodness that he once despised yet somehow longed for and grew to love. For he loved the young boy like his younger brother, or nephew, as though he were some sort of family and Naruto grew to came for him as well.

'Can it be?' asked the 19 year old ANBU, 'She's been gone so long,' he thought. His heart was pounding in his chest, hope arising. Was she really here?

'Naruto-kun, check your diamond. Focus on it and if it's her, you'll know,' Kyuubi said.

Naruto concentrated on descending to the sapphire level and hummed. The jewel pulsed and that power reacted in glowing lights to the pulsing in the direction of the forest. It was her!

Tsunade glared at Naruto for drifting off so quickly, before taking in his hopeful, yet worried look. She was startled as he suddenly turned to her.

"Gomen baa-chan! I've got to meet someone! Be back in a few!" he said and disappeared out the window before she could stop him. What the hell? She groaned, feeling a large headache coming on.

People could only watch as a blond blur raced to the forest and then mutter something about demons being able to come and go as they pleased, but he ignored them.

'Something's wrong' Naruto said, and Kyuubi growled an affirmative. He cautiously entered the forest, traveling in the direction of where he felt the pulse. What he saw made him freeze.

There was a huge crater in a clearing. He cautiously walked towards it, afraid to see what might be waiting for him. He gasped.

Inside were three bodies, two men mostly unhurt, but the woman, no, girl, inside was bleeding profusely and Naruto could tell, feel how much damage there was to her. "Ebony!" he whispered, scrambling down. He made his way towards the bodies. The people in the crater were so foreign, despite the variety of people in Konoha. They had chocolate mocha skin, not common in the leaf village, and pitch black hair, though if examined closely enough, brown pigmentation could be seen.

They all were unconscious. "Shit, shit, shit!" Naruto muttered. He had to get Ebony to the hospital, no, Tsunade quickly, before she died. Making familiar hand seals, two bunshins appeared and he instructed them to carry the two men as he lifted the heavily injured, unhealthily light Ebony, cringing at her limpness and pallid color as he raced to the tower. In his arms lay the girl who had saved him, her heart starting to fail. Naruto rushed on.

"Tsunade-sama!" yelled Naruto, yelling the honorific to demand seriousness. She snapped to attention and gasped at the three unconscious forms he and his bunshins carried. "Tsunade, please! You have to help her!" Naruto was reduced to tears, the Kyuubi whispering soothing words to him in his mind, but he was still wrought with panic. He rubbed furiously at his eyes as he set the black-haired girl down. "The other two are just unconscious. Tsunade, please! She's dying," he ended in a whisper. And he was right.

Tsunade scanned the body in front of her: there were multiple cuts and deep wounds externally, but what was terrifying was the damage to her internal organs. Her heart was failing and she struggled to breathe. Tsunade looked at her body, unable to see the girl's chakra system like the Byakugan-users could, but something was really off. She couldn't sense any of the girl's chakra at all. The power that was supposed to be surrounding her internal organs was nonexistent. How this girl was alive was beyond her.

" Please, Tsunade, heal her. She's- she's my sister," choked out Naruto. Tsunade steeled herself for the gruesome process.

"I'll do what I can," she replied.

She pumped chakra into the girl's body, delicately healing the crushed veins and arteries, the deteriorating organs. But it wouldn't be enough, she thought. The damage was too extensive, but for Naruto, she would keep going.

Naruto and Kyuubi were praying, hoping. Why wasn't Ebony healing? With the help of Tsunade, Ebony should be fine, especially with the power the girl possessed. Why wasn't Ebony healing?!

'She's not awake!' cried Kyuubi. 'She's not conscious and isn't able to release the power to help with the healing process that only she should be able to do!'

'She's probably in too much pain to be awake right now!' yelled Naruto. 'She's probably deep inside herself; I don't know if I'll be able to reach her!'

'Well, she's got to wake up! Without her, she won't be able to heal herself!!!' Kyuubi yelled frantically, and Naruto paled. Ignoring Tsunade's look, Naruto put his hands to Ebony's forehead and closed his eyes. He descended as far as he could into the depth of the Sapphire and called to Ebony, 'Ebony! Ebony! Come back! Ebony!' and a whirl of black crashed into him, trying to take him away and crush him, but he fought it. He growled and with Kyuubi's strength, propelled upward into consciousness, into his body and slammed Ebony's mind into hers.

Ebony awoke to mind-numbing pain, furious at Naruto's call, but also grateful. She could feel the state of her body and its deterioration, could feel the blonde woman doing her best to heal her. She whimpered.

"Ngh, ahhhh, ugh!!!!!!! Nari, it hurts!!" she cried, tears streaming down her face. She thrashed and screamed as the pain wracked her body in waves. She stared into the indigo orbs above her body, tears falling from his eyes.

"I know Ebony, I know. Shh, come on, please," he whispered. "I'm going to need you to heal yourself, ok, sweetie? Can you do that for me please?" he flinched at her pained scream, feeling only one one-hundredth of the agony she was feeling now as the pain traveled through the psychic threads between them and in the dark abyss. "Shh, Ebony. Please, please call your diamond and heal the body. If the body's healed, you'll live. Please," he begged.

Ebony gave a pained nod before her eyes rolled to the back of her head and she arched her back in pain. She spiraled down into the darkness, gathering her power to the ebony diamond that held her strength and magic. Instantly, her cuts began to heal and her breathing was easier. Her pulse steadied and she began to heal. Dark, caressing power filled her body, helped by Tsunade and she healed to normal, the pain receding.

"Nari," she said, smiling tiredly. Then her eyes rolled at the back of her head and she fell into the comforting clutches of the darkness that called her.

Hey guys! It's Silverebony5. This is my first story so please read and review.