An: I hope those of you that follow my stories will like what I have come up with this time. Its something like what I have done before but with a small twist.
Summary: Naruko left the village at age 8 with Itatchi uchiha only to be asked to return along with him after 4 years. Pairing undecided for now but this will be a fem narux a girl. No naruita pairing here people, itachi is more like a big brother. Slight sakura and sasuke bashing.
-3rd person-
A girl with short spiky blond hair no older than 8 ran through the side streets of konohagakure no sato with a backpack over her shoulder. It was a starry night and few people were out on the streets. Mostly drunks and shinobi were the main population and those who noticed her only glared or quickly looked the other way. Who was this young girl and where was she going you might ask? Her name was Naruko Uzumaki and she was leaving the place that had done nothing for her in the short 8 years she had lived.
-Naruko pov-
Naruko ducked into a alleyway when she saw some of the bodyguards the old man hokage had assigned to her run in the direction she was headed covered in orange paint and once he vanished to the rooftops she kept running and avoided all attention to the best of her ability and considering she was famous for getting in and out of anbu headquarters without detection she wasn't seen by any of her pursuers.
She finally reached the gate she had found out had the least guarding due to the guards being lazy. She looked around to see if anyone could see her if she ran through the gate. The gate guards were asleep like she had hoped and she ran as fast as she could towards the gate and as she was about to step outside of the walls she was grabbed by the back of her jacket and lifted into the air. She spun around only to come face to face with one Itachi Uchiha covered in blood. Naruko started struggling in his hold but Itachi had no intentions of letting go.
-Itachi pov-
If there was one person Itachi never expected to see on the night he was supposed abandon his village after killing all of his clan except for his little brother, it was the most troublesome person in his life. He had numerous times had to catch her after one of her pranks due to the other anbu not knowing how to catch her. He had just come back from the hokage after telling him to take care of his brother. He remembered seeing the blond at the academy when he came to pick his brother up.
"What are you doing here Naruko?" Itachi asked making the blond halt in her struggling.
"Leaving."
"why?"
Naruko just gave the older boy a look that said duh. He knew exactly why from that look alone. She was finally leaving after all the abuse she had endured from the hands of the villagers and he couldn't say he blamed her. He could always take her with him and later send the hokage a message through Jiraya of the sannin about her whereabouts.
"Is there no way I can change your mind about this?" Itachi asked the blond just to be sure even though he was pretty sure he already knew the answer.
"No. I'm sick of this place." the blond replied and Itachi nodded.
"Then how about you join me. I'm also leaving this place due to some...complications."
The blonds eyes widened slightly before she nodded and Itachi let her go and they ran into the dark forest surrounding the village hidden in the leaves and left the place that carried many memories for both of them behind.
-4 years later, in a small town near lightning country-
Itachi Uchiha watched his blond companion pace around the room at the inn they were staying in currently. He had just told her about a letter that summoned him out of his fake betrayal of konoha and back to the village along with said blond even though the village had no control over her. The hokage had not ordered her or him to return, rather asked that they consider it, if they were going to return then they were to meet Jiraya of the sannin in Tanzaku gai in 3 days time. Itachi had reached his own decision. He was going to return but his blond companion was quite stubborn about returning to the place she always called hell.
Naruko felt irritated, no scratch that, she was angry that Itachi even wanted to return. The village hadn't exactly been kind to him since his supposed 'betrayal' but now he wanted to go back because the old goat and council told him to? It made no sense to her. She personally loved being able to walk in the streets without anyone spitting at her or glaring at her. And she also had a great reputation as an assassin/mercenary for hire called the shadow fang why should she drop that and return to a place that hated and despised her?
Itachis reasoning was that now that she was as skilled as she was she could show everyone that they were wrong about her. That she wasn't the kyuubi(yes she knew about him. Itachi told her when she asked him why everyone hated her.). To Naruko that didn't feel like enough but she didn't want Itachi to go back and leave her alone either. The blond sighed and stopped in front of the man she had started to think of as the older brother she never had.
"Fine. I'll come back with you. But I will leave if those fucking retards don't straighten up. I don't care if I'll become a missing nin due to it." Naruko finally said after a moments silence.
"If it goes like that I will come with you." Itachi said and got up off the floor where he had been sitting before starting to pack down all of his stuff and noticed the blond doing the same.
After sealing all of her stuff in scrolls, which Itachi had taught her early on, Naruko changed into clothes which would be more suited for battle than the kimono she was wearing. she had grown a lot in the years they had been away. She stood now at 168cm. (an: I know its tall for a naruto char but she has been traveling with itachi who made her eat an healthy diet which means no malnourishment for 4 years.)
She had always worn bright colors when she was a kid with orange being her favorite color but now wore black cargo pants with a belt which had a orange belt buckle in the form of a fox's head and a black sports top which showed off her fit body perfectly. Her skin was healthily tanned after hours of being outside in the sun either doing work, training or traveling. She also wore a black leather jacket over the sports top and black fingerless gloves with a metal plate.
She finished her outfit by strapping a katana on her back which had a hilt which was a black fox's head with ruby eyes and the blade itself was red. The sheath was black and had some seals on it which allowed only her to draw the blade so no one could use it against her. And finally braided her hair so that her now long blond hair wouldn't be getting in her face if they landed in trouble along the road. Once she was ready they headed out.
-1 week later-
Naruko, Itachi and Jiraya, or ero-sennin like Naruko had started to call him during the time that they had travelled together throughout the years, stood in front of the gates of Konoha. Naruko was seriously fighting the urge to turn around and go back due to the gate guards behavior towards them. He refused to let any of them in until the hokage himself came down to prove that they weren't lying. He had even attacked Itachi on sight even though the whole village had been told the truth about the massacre a few days earlier.
Naruko was about to give into her feeling when she suddenly saw the old hokage come walking down the street towards the gate.
"What is the meaning of having me come down here to let my old student and his two companions into the village?" The third hokage asked glaring at the guard who started stammering that he just wanted to be sure that they were not enemies.
"I gave notification that Itachi Uchiha and Naruko Uzumaki were to be allowed into the village the moment of their arrival with Jiraya. Did you not receive it?"
"I-I did sir."
"Then stop being an ignorant fool and start doing your job correctly." the old hokage said before giving the three travelers a sign to follow him.
