A new awakening
I can see why everyone hates me. I can see why mothers worry for their children. I'm supposed to be some kind of monster, some kind of demon. I've wanted to kill myself, believe me I've tried.
There's a reason I wear orange. It's because I know it makes me easy to spot and if that doesn't work, my yelling sure does help.
I keep trying to be the hero. I don't even know how to do it anymore. A lot of the villagers just think its an act, like I'm deceiving them. Everyone is scared in their own little homes. They're all spending their final moments with each other.
I see it, clear as day.
What would be the end for my village.
There have been reports all over the nations. Plenty of meteorites heading towards earth. Some of the villages top minds have estimated that one will hit us directly.
The village is scared. There is no time to evacuate.
A meteor the size of my whole village is heading straight for Kanoha.
I wanna be the first to say goodbye.
Here it comes and here I stand, on the tallest building at the very top.
It finally hit.
I'm so confused.
The meteor hit. I'm still conscious and I'm in pain.
It burns, my entire body from inside and out burns.
I'd scream but it feels like I've been doing it for a while now.
I'm right inside of it. The pain is there so I know I'm alive. What's happening? My whole body is numb.
Almost as if instantly panicking, I can feel the Fox's chakra healing me even more rapidly than before.
There was a small crater and I was in the middle of it.
To my surprise I see a large crowd of people surrounding me with concerned faces.
The village wasn't destroyed and I don't know how long its been since the meteor hit.
I look passed them to see my reflection in the window of a shop. To my horror I saw my self in a molten rock form. I guess the Kyuubi didn't heal me. The bright magma had shaped my body with lines and 3 specific lines on each of my cheeks. My hair was on fire. In my own sense of fear and doubt I chose to run. I chose to run as fast as I could and as far as I could.
What exactly happened to me? I have to stay low under their radar. I looked like a monster. I just saved the entire village, but I looked like a monster. Holy fuck.
Deep inside the woods, I couldn't see much. It was dark but the lights emanating from my body was enough to get around. I looked back to see the steps I had taken were on fire.
I had to stop. There was a small clearing. Hopefully the fire won't spread.
I curled up into a ball and hoped no one would find me. I heard a rustling noise in the trees from a far. I got up thinking it was someone. When no one came out for a while I gave up waiting. I guess I was mistaken. There was no one there and I felt like a fool. I got up without noticing that my skin was no longer hot and my body had gone back to normal.
I stubbed my toe on a rock. I was completely Naked. I had to get home quick.
A couple of days since the meteor…
Everything seemed normal. My body was normal and my hair was fine too. We've received reports of a suspicious building. The hokage gave us the mission to check it out. The details said it was one of Orochimaru's labs in Kanoha. Just how many secret labs did he have hidden in Kanoha?
I heard from some chunin that Kakashi would remain in the hospital for a while. I didn't know the details but the injuries seemed severe. The Jonins of konoha had there own problems to worry about.
Sasuke and Sakura had been running over the rooftops. When I caught up, I had been worried they had found out about the incident. Fortunately nobody found out or figured out it was me in that molten lava form.
"So how are we gonna do this?" I asked.
"Hn," was the reply of an oh so emotionless one.
"We need to think of a plan, fast," Sakura stated in a professional tone.
"Well what do you suggest Sakura-chan," I asked.
"I think we should find out what's going on before we do anything crazy," she said now with a little humor in her voice. She didn't show much emotion towards the Uchiha after my encounter with him at the Valley of Death. I still feel the electricity, but I think Sasuke has cooled down since then.
Then we saw it.
Orochimaru's lair slash lab slash experiment base slash whatever the fuck else that tweezer pleaser called it was above ground which makes no sense to me because that shit was in plain sight.
"So should we check this out or what?" Sasuke asked.
"I'm ready for anything, believe it," 'especially death' my thoughts were cut short when we walked in. It looked like something out of Fright Fest, even more so with the ball of blue electric energy in the center.
The base was just one giant room with experimental equipment. The same equipment held the sphere of energy that was at most, the size of a soccer ball. Then I saw it grow. It grew twice its size. Off to the side on the wall there was a timer. It was a bomb.
"We need to get out of here," I said. My voice a little shaky.
"What?" Sasuke asked.
"I think this thing is going to blow up!" I said.
"This thing could wipe out the surrounding buildings, we need to get out fast," Sakura said as she looked at the blueprints conveniently placed on the floor next to the machine.
"We need to stop it!" Sasuke said with a stern voice.
"We can't, it's about to blow," I said. I may not be afraid of death, but I won't let anyone else die if there is something I can do about it. I still care about my friends.
"How are we gonna warn the other people close by?" Sakura asked.
"I'll see if I can turn it off or maybe delay it somehow," I said as heroic as I could.
"How are you gonna do that?" Sasuke asked me.
"Shadow Clone Jutsu, hehe that's how," I respond giving a high five to my clone. They nodded their heads in agreement since I already made the clone. I was going to stay and hold it off and my clone was going to pose as the real me. They didn't need to know. My clone wouldn't be able to handle the machine anyways.
It began lashing out several bolts of electricity every now and then.
I pressed and pulled every button and every lever. The electric bomb shot out two lightning to both of my hands. The current of electricity hurt like hell and it only increased as the bomb pulled me closer. I felt like I was being torn apart and the bomb was getting bigger.
There was something inside the sphere of electricity. It looked like something that was a part of the meteor. It almost looked like a crystal, but I couldn't really tell. The pain was blinding me from anything visible anymore.
It finally started expanding with no signs of stopping. It pulled me in and then the bomb receded inside me. I fell unconscious, but I felt something manifest itself inside me.
...
I didn't know where I was. My body felt very numb. I had some feeling in my legs, but that quickly turned into discomfort as I felt pins and needles running down my legs. I saw a bright light and some curtains around my bed. Well I knew I wasn't at home.
"How could you be so stupid?" Sasuke said.
"Huh?" I said confused.
"You could have died," Sakura said.
'Bullshit!' " what are you guys talking about?" I asked.
"Back at the base, what were you thinking?" Sasuke asked.
"I was saving every one," I said finally able to sit up.
"Whatever! What happened to you?" he asked.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"You're body was emitting electricity," Sasuke said.
"Sound familiar?" I said with distaste.
"Look I apologized for all of that. Plus I was under the influence of the curse mark," Sasuke justified himself.
"Yeah whatever," I said. I wasn't going to forget any time soon.
"This is about you, not him Naruto," Kakashi said on his bed.
"Kakashi!" I yelled startled by him. He was supposed to be in the hospi-... right.
"Ahh" I yelled as I held my hand at a distance. It was emitting electricity like a itsy bitsy teeny mini-chidori. My teammates also stepped back. Suddenly it stopped and they forgot to ask about what happened.
"What the hell?" I said.
"Hmm some of the energy from the bomb must still be inside you. The doctors should check that out. The lady Hokage has offered us a mission to the land of waves. We'll decide later when everyone is feeling better," Kakashi said looking straight at me.
"Really! Yes!" I cheered. I'll get to see Inari sooner than I'd hoped.
"Just get your rest Naruto, we'll discuss it later," Kakashi said.
A few days passed but that didn't matter for me. I had healed that very same day I woke up in the hospital. Kakashi on the other hand was just beginning to feel at a hundred percent. There they were, my team, off in the distance. I arrived just in time to hear Sakura ask...
"What's the mission?"
"Someone is planning to bring Haku, Zabuza's partner, back to life," Kakashi said.
"What!" I yelled. Kakashi turned to me.
"Calm down Naruto. We'll be there to stop it," Kakashi said
"Why would they bring Haku back to life?" Sakura asked.
"If they do that, then they might have access to his bloodline," Kakashi explained.
"How are they gonna bring him back to life?" I asked.
"We don't know. What we do know is that if they're successful then they could use his powers against us," Kakashi said.
"We need to go there now!" I said.
"No! We're not ready and no other teams are available at this time," Kakashi said.
"We've been wasting too much time as it is," I said.
"Hn. I'll go pack my things then," Sasuke said.
"Yeah me too," Sakura said as they both left.
"Naruto we won't let them get to Haku. You shouldn't have to worry too much. We'll be on our way tomorrow," Kakashi said.
"Fine," I huffed.
The next day…
I made some shadow clones and packed everything I needed as fast as I could. I rushed out the door and headed for the gates. We were ready to leave and I was ready to kick butt.
"Is everyone ready?" Kakashi asked. All three of us nodded.
"OK then lets move out," he said like a soldier.
When we arrived in the Land of Waves I saw the bridge. I saw the title of the bridge and it made me happy. I didn't understand why they would name it after me, but I was proud either way. So I decided to have some fun with it.
"Ha look at that. They named it after me and not you Sasuke," I said and he growled in response.
"Whatever," he said.
"Now, now. We need to find out what's going on first, then you can fight," Kakashi said.
"Hey Kakashi," Tazuna greeted.
"Hi Tazuna," Kakashi said.
"Narutooooo!" Inari yelled.
"Hey there Inari," I said as the boy jumped me.
"I miss you guys so much," he said.
"I missed you too," I said.
"So did you send the letter?" Kakashi asked Tazuna.
"No, it was my daughter. She told me everything though," Tazuna said.
"What did she find out?" Kakashi asked.
"We should talk somewhere else," Tazuna said and Kakashi nodded.
"Inari go play with your friends we'll be going back to the house," Tazuna said.
"Ok grandpa, I'll see you later Naruto," Inari said.
"Later," I said waving my hand.
As we entered, we immediately sat down and began talking about the mission.
"We were on a boat when I heard some men across the shore talking about Haku's DNA or something like that," Tazuna said.
"What did they say?" Kakashi asked.
"They said they needed her alive so they could extract something," Tazuna said
"What's something?" Kakashi asked.
"I don't know. I couldn't hear them because we got farther from them on our boat, luckily the fog was good for camouflage. They just said they needed her alive," Tazuna said.
"Her?" I asked.
"Well yeah that's what they said," Tazuna said.
"Hmm, It could be that Haku lied about her gender," Kakashi said.
"Wait we don't know that for sure. I mean they might have mistaken him for a her," Sakura said.
"He does look feminine," Sasuke said.
"This could all be speculation. Just rumors. Lets go to their graves and see if Zabuza and Haku are still there," Kakashi said.
After grabbing some supplies we went towards their graves. When we got there we noticed some one had been there before us. They left Zabuza's body and took Haku's.
"Damn!" I said.
"Relax Naruto we'll find him," Kakashi said.
"Did any one suspicious come by," Sasuke said.
"Well we let a lot of people come by. We need the money. Ever since we build the bridge, tourists flow in from everywhere and the town has benefited from all the profits we've gained. Although we're progressing, change is coming by slowly," Tazuna said.
"I see. Let's go to the market place and see if any one knows about this," Kakashi said. I re-dug Zabuza's body and found an earring.
"Look" I said.
"It's pretty," Sakura said a little skeptical
"It might be Haku's. Well even if it isn't, I bet whoever has the other earring will know something about where Haku might be," I said.
"Hmm good eye Naruto," Kakashi praised me.
"Well what are we waiting for lets get going," Tazuna said.
"Yeah lets go," Kakashi said.
"Alright," I said as I finished. We all left and headed for the market place. We asked questions and found many people heard rumors about an underground facility.
Then I saw her. Out of the corner of my eye I saw the matching earring on some girl.
She was just a bit shorter than Kakashi and she looked poor. Her earring being the only thing on her that looked expensive. It matched the one I found at Zabuza's grave.
I stayed quiet and followed her.
"Huh?" she said being startled by something I had knocked over.
I tripped over something. Damn rookie I almost got discovered. She headed for the crowds. I was afraid I might lose her so I ran after her. Orange was definitely not a good choice for this moment. I stood out like a sore and inflated thumb. As I turned at a corner there she was.
"Alright kid! What do you want!" she raised her voice in an angry tone.
"I want to know what you did with Haku's body," I yelled back.
"Who," She asked.
"The body you guys dug up at the hill," I said. I could tell she was getting nervous.
"I don't know what you're talking about," she said.
"Cut the crap, we know you took the body. Now tell us where to find it," Sasuke said from behind her.
"Look. I don't know who you people are, but you're wrong. I don't know anything," she said shakily.
"Listen. The body is really important. How much did they pay you?" Kakashi asked walking towards us from the side.
"I-I," she stuttered.
"We'll pay you double~" I said in a singsong way.
"Huh?" she said confused.
"Please miss. The body belonged to a dear friend of ours. We just want him buried," Sakura said.
"Him? I thought he was a girl," the other female said.
"So you do know," I said accusingly.
"Alright, alright. Some guys built this underground facility a while back. They just hired us to dig up the body and take it to them. They paid us and we left, nothing more, nothing less. We didn't ask questions because we needed the money," she said.
"Where's the facility?" Kakashi asked.
"It's close to the coast. Near the docs," she said.
"We understand," Kakashi said lazily.
Kakashi started running. We followed him all the way to the docs. When we got there, he gave us some earpiece walkie-talkies.
"Here. We're going to split up. Start looking up along the coast. If you find it let me know," Kakashi said.
"Right," we all said.
"So what do you think it looks like?" I asked.
"I don't know Naruto," Sasuke said.
"It probably looks old," Sakura said.
"Does it look like that?" I asked pointing to some wooden floorboards I happened to see.
"Like what?" Sasuke asked not being able to see it.
"Hey Sasuke. Can you use your Sharingan to see if any one is in there," Sakura asked.
"Sharingan! I can sense some chakra. Someone is definitely in there," Sasuke said.
"Kakashi-sensei we think we found the base," Sakura said pressing the button on her ear piece.
"On my way," we each heard on the walkie-talkie. He got here pretty fast.
"So what's the plan," I said.
"Me and Sasuke will take them out quietly and hopefully get enough distracted while you two go find Haku," Kakashi said. I was immediately upset that Sasuke was chosen over me, but I let it go. Sakura and I looked for anything that might be imprisoning Haku. We saw two doors and a bunch of weird tubes that held people inside. The tubes had some kind of weird green liquid.
There it was again. That crystal thing. This one was blue and the one while the one at Orachimaru's hidden lab was yellow-ish. I couldn't really remember. I looked around and found more. Its what was powering the machine.
"I'll take the one on the left Naruto you take the right," she told me.
"What about those?" I asked pointing towards the crystals.
"That might alert the guards and any other shinobi's around. Lets take these guys out and find Haku first. Then we'll take this place down," She said.
"Got it Sakura-chan," I said.
There was a place called the security room. It had many screen. We were able to see Sasuke and Kakashi on one particular screen. With no one in the security room we looked for any signs of Haku.
"There! Haku is right there," Sakura said pointing to a screen.
Kakashi and Sasuke we're doing their job well until a guy with a white coat hit an alarm. They were the distraction and we were ready to go.
We ran along the ceiling. Sakura jumped down to the door on the left and I jumped to the one on the right. When I entered I didn't see anybody in there except for Haku. His hands were locked inside some sphere like things. Haku was hanging from her arms.
Across from him there was a set of handlebars that I could barely reach.
"Grab the handlebars," Haku said in a weak voice.
"You're alive," I said surprised.
"Grab the handlebars," he said again.
"Why?" I asked.
"It automatically releases me after," he said.
"After what?" I asked. He didn't respond. I jumped and gripped them. Suddenly a blue crystal came out from the center. The crystal shot out a beam towards Haku and me. Something felt strange, I felt colder, and I felt something being pushed into me. It was weird and it hurt.
Boom
The machine exploded and Haku was released, but he was unconscious. That whole experience with Haku had drained my energy. I was weak, but that wasn't going to stop me. I grabbed Haku and was on my way out when Kakashi kicked the door in and knocked me back. I fell unconscious.
...
I woke up with Haku sitting on his knees right beside me.
"He's waking up," Haku said. Sakura rushed towards me with Sasuke and Kakashi close behind
"How are you feeling?" Kakashi asked.
"My head hurts," I said.
"Sorry about that heh," Kakashi said.
"Haku you're alive!" I yelled quickly forgetting that Kakashi had knocked me out back there.
"Yes. They used some sort of Jutsu that brought me back to life, but their leader said sacrifices had to be made. I didn't know what he was talking about until I looked at three dead bodies around me," Haku said.
"What did you do?" Sakura asked.
"I didn't do anything. I was quickly restrained before I had a chance to do anything," Haku said.
"So um tell us the truth. What are you a boy or a girl," I asked.
"Naruto!" Sakura yelled in a scolding voice.
"What? I wanna know. It's been bugging me since we got here," I said. I needed to know.
"Well I'm a girl," Haku said.
"WHAT!" Sakura and Sasuke yelled. They had completely believed Haku the first time when she said she was a boy.
"It was Zabuza's idea. I went along with it," Haku said. It made me sad to tell her but I had to.
"Haku, I don't know how else to tell you this, but Zabuza is dead," I told her.
"What?" she asked.
"Yes. We're all sorry for your loss. We'll give you time to mourn his passing," Kakashi said as he walked away. I got up and left with my team to give her some time to processes it.
"You think she'll be alright?" I asked.
"She's killed on orders. She knows what death is like. It shouldn't take that long," Kakashi said. I was shocked. She wasn't just a tool, she had feelings, and she said Zabuza was like a father to her. How could Kakashi be so insensitive? I turned around and left into the forest.
"Where are you going?" Sakura asked.
"I admired Zabuza. All these things coming back, I just need some time to think," I said.
"That was kind of mature of him," I heard Sasuke said as I left.
Nothing felt right. I was getting angry and I suddenly felt pain. A bright light blurred my vision. I was looking at three odd reflections of me. The 'me' on the left was in a molten lava form. The same molten lava from the time the meteor hit the village. His form subsided into a normal me but his spikes were slicked back with fire-y red tips.
The 'me' in the middle looked normal. Every now and then electricity would roam around his body. The only change I saw were the 3 lightning bolt shaped lines on each of his cheeks.
Finally, the 'me' on the right didn't have that many differences either. It was like a regular me in a baby blue icy crystallized form. His form also subsided into a normal me. His hair was down.
The one in the middle was the first to speak.
"Yo!"
Chapter end.
I apologize to the ones that had followed this story since the beginning. I want you guys to know I made some minor changes. and I'll be updating this story. Maybe not as much as my top 4 but i will be updating it.