Disclaimer: I Do not own Naruto or any of the places or people represented in it. Asuka and the nameless red head are mine however.
A/N Hello and welcome to We Came after, my first ever fanfic. This thing was born of way to much caffeine and free time and my intense dislike of the way Kishimoto has taken the story recently. Also I'm not particularly fond of the three main characters so while I don't plan to bash them I'm not planning on overly focusing on them.
The Beginning
Or the First chapter of boring exposition.
The village of hidden in the Leaves is a village of orphans. This is not to say that all of the village is orphans. The third great shinobi war left many children without parents it's true but what happened after truly made orphans everywhere in Konoha. A Bjuu attack, specifically the nine tailed fox called Kyuubi no Kitsune by some. The Kyuubi no Kitsune's attack on Konoha left such devastation that there wasn't a single person in the village that didn't have at least one person they knew killed. The most notable orphan from the attack was of course the infant that the Kyuubi itself was sealed into by the Yondaime hokage at the cost of the great ninja's life. While the most obviously affected by the Kyuubi's attack that boys story was not the only one affected. This is the story of another whose path was changed by the attack.
The hours after the Kyuubi's defeat had been announced as well as the Yondaime's death were filled with what ninja remained uninjured digging through the rubble in and effort to save those who still lived. Someone somewhere was in charge since the searches were organized with each squad searching a section. In one particularly ruined section four shapes moved carefully the three males and one female ninja carefully searching the rubble.
Every ninja in the rescue squad wanted nothing to more then to fall down and sleep for a month straight, but the monsters attack had ended and the search for survivors wasn't over yet. This particular area held little hope for successful rescues though as it had been almost totally devastated. What few buildings remained standing had whole floors missing in some cases. Others collapsed as they were approached.
All in all it was a particularly hopeless task for the shinobi that were recovering from the loss of their most beloved leader. So it was understandable that when the team's leader spotted a clump of red hair he assumed the worst. "Not another one…" he muttered in a drained voice. He picked his way over to were he spotted it in the rubble and suddenly felt hope swell in his chest. The way the rubble fell had neatly sheltered the woman leaving her relatively uninjured, when he spotted the slow rise and fall of the woman's chest he shouted "Get a medic we have a live one here!" hearing these words his team exploded into action one dashing toward the medical tents at top speed while the rest joined their leader in carefully pulling the unconscious woman from the rubble that shielded her. By the time this had been done the runner that had been dispatched to the medics had returned with a doctor and a collapsible stretcher.
The medical professional swiftly formed a ball of green chakra and scanned the woman's body with it checking for injuries. Finding that she was safe to move he gestured toward two of the ninja and swiftly the woman was placed on the stretcher and taken to the cluster of tents that was serving as a field hospital, since the more permanent ones were either damaged or full to bursting with injured and refugees.
As the two ninja arrived a medic waved them over and proceeded to do a more thorough check of the woman. "Hrrrm severe head trauma, vitals steady but faint no immediate danger though." Double checking to make sure the woman's head injury wouldn't kill her in the near future he made a note on her chart and directed the two rescue nin's to take the red haired woman to one of the large bed filled tents acting as wards for the injured. After gently laying the woman on a cot and informing the harried nurse in charge of that particular tent of her new patient the two began dashing back to rejoin the rescue efforts.
The smaller of the two turned to her larger male companion. "That's the only one we've found alive in our section, but I still feel like the whole search wasn't a complete waste now." the young kunoichi and just made chuunin and was trying to put the best face on the most horrible experience in her career so far. The older man gave a mental shake of his head. The poor girl wasn't ready for this in truth none of them were, but at least the older ninja were more mentally prepared for the shock. In a way he admired the way she was holding up and trying to be positive, heck she almost managed to cheer his jaded ass up.
"You should visit her when she wakes up." he said forcing a grin. It was meant as a poor joke really so he was surprised when the teenage kunoichi announced. "Yup I will. Gives me something to look forward to after the m-mission." she turned toward him a grin on her face her brown hair whipping in front of her face for a moment were it escaped from the strange hat she'd attached the plate from her hi-ate to instead of the traditional band. The haunted look in her eyes filled with unshed tears told the truth though, she was grasping at anything to distract her from the horrors of what had happened and the duty she still had to do.
"Well Asuka lets get done so we can rest and you can bug that red head, put a good word in for me while you're at it I could use a date." Asuka's snicker seemed to echo through the deserted streets.
Asuka was numb as she walked through the tent city that acted as the hospital and refugee camp all in one. All the digging through rubble and searching had only yielded more dead to be added to the tallies for her team. The only survivor they'd found had been the red haired woman on the first night. This was why she was weaving her way through the tents that held patients in search of the woman. She hoped that talking with the woman would make her feel like all the work and bodies of the last few days had been worth it.
When she arrived at the tent she'd helped bring the woman to the first thing Asuka noticed was that the medics had her on an IV of some clear fluid, and she was now dressed in the typical hospital robes. Reading the woman's chart out of morbid curiosity the brunette was shocked to learn that the woman she'd saved was in some sort of coma and that the odds of her waking up were practically zero. Reading further she was further surprised to learn the woman was pregnant. Apparently the medics were going to try to keep the mother alive long enough for the child to be born. Asuka hung the chart on the end of the cot and stood looking down at the woman numbly. All the work, the hope when they'd found someone only to have it crushed as it was revealed to be another casualty, she'd clung to the fact that they'd at least saved one person in there section through it all.
Asuka stood there for she forgot how long just watching the small rise and fall of the woman's chest as she breathed. A gentle hand on her shoulder started the kunoichi out of her reverie and she glanced over into the concerned eyes of one of the nurses who spoke in a quiet voice. "Are you a friend?" Asuka just shook her head. "I'm part of the squad that rescued her, the chart says she's a Jane Doe?" the nurse simply nodded. "Could you bring me a comb and a camera? We can at least give her child a nice picture if nothing else." the nurse just smiled and went to collect the items the chuunin had requested.
Ending A/N
Well there's the first chapter and I'll try to have the second one up soon. Hopefully once I get past the kiddy stages the story will pick up some. I haven't truly decided on a gener yet so that will most likely change though I do plan for action and violence so I'm rateing M for safety.