the sun was bright shining down onto the world below. Naboru and ren ran against the wind. their goal was calera. "i'll get there first" naboru yelled to his right. ren veened over at him and smiled " as if your to slow.." and with that he ran faster. calera was in full view now. the boys were running so fast they almost couldnt stop in time. ren jumped up into the air and landed gracefully onto the ground next to the blue haired girl. naboru on the other hand did not have such a gracefull landing. he jumped up and landed with a bang against the ground next to her. when the dust cleared the two saw that naboru had punched a giant crater into the ground." damnit!" he yelled. he stood up straight. ren lightly punched him in the arm. "oh naboru-chan you need to calm down" he laughed as calera began to giggle.
naboru rolled his eyes and felt a cold breeze. he froze "somethings not right...i can feel it..." he looked off into the distance and saw the clouds were coming. his blazing red hair blew in his face. " hey naboru what wrong?"
calera asked through little giggles. naboru's heart sank. "i... dont know.." he began running back to the village. ren called after him "NABORU STOP! GET BACK HERE!" he ran after him and caught him by the arm. "NABORU!..stop" naboru looked at ren and pulled him arm away. " no.." he ran faster this time ren had never seen him run this fast before. he turned back to see calera and she was walking towords him. "so...we're alone..." she smiled at him. ren looked back to see the last glimpse of naboru disapear through the trees.
"....yea...i guess we are.." he turned back to face her. he smiled as she reached up and pulled off his headband. his beautiful silver eyes shined. she got on her tip-toes to kiss him. he kissed her back and stoped. "but naboru..something didnt set right with the way he was acti-" she put her finger on his lips. "shh its always about him..if he wants to run off on his own let him..im done with him...and his cocky atitude..." she kissed him again and he almost pulled away. "ok..i guess your right.." he picked her up and ran off with her to the hidden cave that they found earlier that year.
naboru's heart was beating loud in his chest. he was almost of the verge of tears. he stopped in front of the hokages building. his breath was heavy. he ran inside and up the stairs. he stopped in front of the door which lead to the office. he heard someone crying. his hands were shaking. "h-hello...lady tsunade...?" he lightly knocked on the door. no answer. he got a feeling that something was wrong. he burst through the door and saw tsunade look up at him. her eyes were wet, red and puffy. she turned in her chair to face the window. " N-NABORU!...h-how roud...you..should...k-knock..." her voice was shaky and sad. naboru took a step closer and reached to close the door. he was faceing the door. " lady tsunade i did knock....what happend...?" he was breathing heavily. she slowly turned around and so did he. when his eyes met hers his heart almost stopped. with only 2 words naborus life had nearly ended. she spoke though sobs. "jiraiya...died...". she looked up at him her eyes almost full of regret. "...wh-what....your lieing.." naboru grabbed ahold of his shirt and slowly backed up until he hit the wall. "n-no th-thats imposssable.....he...." naboru could feel hot tears flow from his eyes. his eyes were wide. then his heart stopped if only for a second..it stopped. he fell backwards against the wall and landed on the floor. tsunade got up and ran over to him " SHIZUNE!...GET IN HERE AND CALL KAKASHI!" shizune was in the room within a minute. "what is it miss?!" she saw naboru "i'll go get kakashi" she ran out of the room. tsunade returned her attention to naboru. " im so sorry naboru...so sorry...." her tears started again. within 2 minutes shizune returned with kakashi. tsunade stood up and sniffled " kakashi...can you bring him to the hospital....i cant lift anything right now...and i know you have strength jutsu..." kakashi nodded "yes i can...why is he like this?..and..you know what nevermind.i-" tsunade looked at him directly and said "jiraiya is dead..." she looked down. kakashi closed his eyes and took a deep breath. " im sorry tsunade.." she looked at him. "its not me you need to worry about...its Naruto and naboru..." kakashi nodded slightly and picked naboru up. "i wonder where ren and calera are" he said as he looked up at tsunade. she gave a little shrug. "shizune im going home eairly..make sure nothing gets messed up while im gone ok" she opened the door for kakashi and walked out with him. but when they got into the hallway they gave eachother another glance and parted ways. kakashi looked down at naboru's face and saw bits of naruto in him. " you and naruto are almost exactly alke...but now that your drive is gone what are you going to do?" he poke quietly as he walked into the hospital with naboru in his arms wedding style. a nurse stood up from the desk and gasped "whats wrong with him?" she asked. kakashi looked at her and said "somethings are best left alone...he should be fine just lay him down in a bed and watch him over night i'll be by tomorrow to pick him up" the nurse called for a stretcher which came imideiatly and kakshi placed him on it. tears were still running from behind his closed eyes. kakashi watched as he was rolled off to his room he sighed and walked out of the hospital. as he walked down the street he saw ren and calera walking together laughing and holding hands. kakashi faught down the urge to yell at them. instead he marched forword and said "naboru is in the hospital...jiraiya died...and you two were off doing who knows what.
thats...not what teammates do...you look out for each other...NEVER!..let one face an unknown danger...." he looked at them as their faces went from happy smiles to complete shock and sadness. kakashi started walking away.
calera and ren looked at eachother and started running for the hospital. when they got there ren charged for the desk " WHERES NABORU WHERES MY BROTHER!" the nurse looked scared and pointed to the room all the way at the end of the hall in the corner. " i-in there sir" he followed her finger and started running in that direction. "NABORU!...NABORU! NA-" he stopped at the doorway as he saw his best friend in acoma like state. calera stopped right behind him and gasped. ren almost took off naboru's head when he grabbed him.
" naboru!..im sorry im so sorry...im sorry my brother..." calera noticed naborus eyes were wet. "ren stop hes crying...wait.....what did kakashi say.
.." her eyes got wide and tears started filling her eyes. "j-jiraiya-sensei is....d-dead...." she broke down crying in the middle of the room. ren hugged naboru tighter as he tried as best as he could not to cry. he failed and a thin stream of tears came flowing from under his headband. -
naboru opened his eyes to see his friends there. "..ren...calera..torjr.
kinda.." he was confused. then he saw naruto "n-naruto...what are you doing here?..." naruto faintly smiled at him. "do you remember where you are...and why you got here..?" he said slowly. naboru looked at everyone and then back at naruto "no...was i drinking to much again...if this is an intervention then i don-" naruto put his hand on naborus shoulder."naboru...jiraiya-sensei is dead...." he fought back a small sob. naboru's eyes shown no emotion. " when.....who killed him......" the words sounded dead compared to his normal voice. naruto looked at ren then back at naboru " about a half a week ago...and by the akatsuki leader..." naboru's face shown no emotion as naruto told him what he knew. when naruto was in the middle of explaining something he cut in. his cold voice sinking deep into everyone. " i thaught that i was just dreaming that....but i wasnt....hes really dead...and that just proves what i've known al along...." everyone was confused. " what?" calera asked quietly. naboru's eyes shot to her and he blankly said "that i can't count on anyone but myself." he pushed naruto's arm away and ripped out the I.V needles. he got out of bed. " wait naboru you cant leave now you were out for 3 days..the doctors n-" calera and kinda almost spoke at the same time. naboru sent them a look that not even yamato's scary face stood a chance. it was deep hatred. naruto stood up and saw the same thing was happening with him that happened to sasuke. "naboru...your smart so dont do the same thing as sasuke did...dont make revenge your whole life...i-" naboru was pissed now "GET THE HELL OUT ALL OF YOU!...I HATE YOU ALL!." he looked at ren and deepened and slowed his voice. " all of you..." ren took a step near naboru and started to say something. but naboru punched him in the gut then drop kicked him into the floor. "DONT FUCKING START THAT SHIT!.."
he got closer to ren and whispered in a deeply scary voice "..I....HATE.
YOU..." torjir and naruto held naboru back as ren got up from the floor. calera and kinda helped ren up and kinda took ren out of the room. calera followed them but stopped to look one last time and naboru. his hair was covering half his face. his head hung on his shoulders like weights were hanging around his neck. naruto dimissed torjir and he sat naboru down on the bed. "naboru.. you need to calm down...." naboru shot him a evil look.
"...get....out.." his voice was loud. naruto backed away a little. "fine.
i'll see you later.. im leaving to go train sage chakura..." naboru's eyes sho up with anger. "HOW DARE YOU!...YOU DONT DESERVE THE SAME GREAT JUTSU AS OUR SENSEI! HE WAS TO kind....to careing....FOR YOU TO USE HIS JUTSU!" he yelled at naruto. " naboru...your not making much sense...but he trusted me to go to mount ____? and train...he trusted me to decode the message he left...im sorry naboru but i dont think he was thinking about you in his last moments..." he turned and walked out. naboru grabbed whatever he could and threw it at the door way. he dropped off the bed and hit the floor. he was out cold. --- naboru was around 8 years old. he ran into his house and saw his mother at the kitchen table. his father walked in and grabbed naboru by the shoulder "OW DADDY THAT HURTS!" hs fater squeezed tighter " I DONT CARE YOU LITTLE GOOD FOR NOTHING PEICE OF SHIT!" naborus eyes went form his fater to his mother who glared at him. "MOMMY DADDIES HURTING ME...HELP ME!.." he reached out for his mother and she got up from the table walked over to him and smacked him. " DONT EVER CALL ME THAT AGAIN..I AM NOT! YOUR MOTHER!" naboru was crying hard now. " GET OUT!" his father yelled at him as he pushed him down. "wh-where am - supposed to go..." he whimpered. they both glared at the little boy and the woman said " I DONT CARE JUST GET AWAY FROM HERE!" she grabbed a knife and naboru's eyes widened as he got up and ran out the door. knifes and kunai were thrown at him as he ran then he bumped into jiraiya. " hello there. whats wrong?" naboru sobed and flinched as jiraiya went to put his hand ontop of his small head. "are you lost?" he asked the shivering crying child. he whimpered "n-no...my parents kicked me out...a-and t-told me..not to return...th-they chased..m-me with knives..and hurt my sh-
shoulder..." he wiped his eyes. and jiraiya bent down. "do you have any aunts or uncles...and other family?" naboru shook his head. " n-no.." jiraiya stood up and sighed. he looked at the kid and put a hand on his shoulder gentaly. " come on you can come with me.." he smiled at him and naboru sniffled. " a-are..y-you..going..to make m-me leave to...?" jiraiya bent down again.
"no..i promise i will nevr leave you or make you leave.." -
naboru woke up to the sound of explostions and yelling."damn..."he sat up and looked around. " IM STILL IN THIS FUCKING PLACE!" then he saw out the window everyone was running around and explotions everywhere. "WHAT THE HELL!" he jumped out of bed and ran to the window. he saw people getting hurt. running screaming. then he saw sakura yelling for naruto. he turned around and grabbed his clothes. he quickly put them on and and ran out the door. he quickly pulled his jutsu sashes on and ran outside. he saw sakura on the ground and ran to her. "sakura-chan! are you ok?" he yelled over the sounds of smashing buildings and screams. sakura looked up and without thinking yelled "NARUTO?!!!?...oh im sorry naboru...you sound like him.." she slowly got up and said "we need to protect the people..and dont get touched by the enemy.." she ran past him and his anger flared. he ran the opposite way. he saw ren,calera and torjir getting pushed back with a powerful force. ren caught calera in mid air and grabbed torjir and landed hard against a wall.
naboru sped up towords them. he saw a fat orange haired man walk towords them naboru was 10 feet away from them and he jumped up and his arm flew forword the orange haired man blasted to the right. naboru stood in the orange haired mans place as the dust cleared ren,calera and torjir were wide eyed. not with shock but fear. naboru's soft purple eyes had turned blood red. his face markings had gone all the way from the middle of his face to his neck. grey chakura began filling the air around him. his nails began to grow. his teeth were turning into sharp fangs. he slowly walked forword as the orange haired man turned his head to face him. then calera and torjir couldnt see naboru until he was ontop of him. he was punching the man so fast all they could see were his face getting more and more bloodier. ren could see everything that happened. his mouth gaped open in awe. " GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!" naborus growls got louder. he picked the man up by the neck. his claws sunk deep into his neck and with 3 hits the man went through the ground. the rocks and dirt,
dust and smoke went everywhere. calera covered her face with her arms. the uncovered her face when she heard rens voice. " GAH! NABORU! WH-WHAT.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING! STOP!...STOP!..." he got up so fast calera was tossed to the side. he grabbed naboru by the arms and flipped himover on his back. "STOP! NABORU! WHAT ARE YOU!...LETTING YOUR ANGER GET THE BEST OF YOU!" ren yelled in his face. naboru pushed him away with deadly force it took rens breath away for a couple of seconds. he ran for the hokages building. he ran past the scared people running for their lives he dodged the explosions and attacks as he ran for his goal. as he ran his thoughts got fuzzy. 'if tsunade...IM GOING TO KILL THEM!...she died i'll be without my.
THOSE BASTARDS!...i wont have my mother anymore...I WILL KILL THEM ALL!' his thoughts were everywhere. he saw tsunade on the roof and anbu surrounding her. " LADY TSUNADE WHATS GOING ON!" her eyes flashed open and looked around.
an anbu blocked him from getting any closer. " GET OUT OF MY WAY!" naboru put his hand on the anbu's shoulder and he went flying. the other anbu got up and went to him. tsunade stood up and yelled " ITS FINE...he wont harm me.
na-" her eyes went wide as she noticed naboru's appearence. "naboru why dont you have your seals on...i cant protect you if your like this..." naborus stare hardened " i dont need your protection i need to know whats going on..." tsunade paused for a second. " the akatsuki leader is attacking now.. we need you to stay out of sight...no one knows about you...and naruto is-" naboru yelled even louder " DONT YOU DARE COMPARE ME TO HIM AGAIN IM DONE WITH IT IM DONE WITH HIM...HES WEAK...HE CANT EVEN BRING SASUKE HOME!."
tsunade shook her head as her glare deepened. " naboru you were rough but.
never cruel..." he looked away and said " the people with the orange hair.
and peircings thats the enemy?..." tsunade barely nodded and he was off.
he ran over near jiraiyas house he stopped as he saw the lights off and the widows boarded up. he got madder. then his face markings grew down his neck.
his irises turned into little slits like cat eyes. his nose turned up and his hands twitched. his skin started turning red. his chakura turned from grey to black. the people around him stopped to stare at him. then within the following minutes 6 tails burst out of him and ears pointed down. then he saw a man with large peircings and long orange hair. he charged forword noone could see him until he jumped up in the ari and blasted the man with a large black chakura ball. the man flew backwards into a wall and got up and looked at naboru."what are you...?" the man said in an emotionless voice naboru spoke in a voice not even he recognized. " I AM NABORU SIREN I AM THE SECRET OF MY MASTER AND MOTHER...I AM THE 10 TAILED BEAST... I AM THE TIGER!." after that 4 more tails popped out and his body was taken over by the 10 tails chakura. he charged forword and the man used his power. he was shocked when his deflective powers didnt work on the 10 tails. naboru charged forword and dug his claws deeply into the man. his claws went straight through the mans chest and he started to kick at naboru. but he just froze. naboru was completely gone by now. the 10 tails had taken over. it bit straight through the man and he froze. the tiger beast could taste metal. it flew back and spit out blood. 3 tails went away. ren and calera rounded the corner and ran straight for the taled beast. naboru started to turn back to himself. his red eyes began to flicker into purple. the claws and fangs started to turn back to there normal size and the chakura began to slowly vanish. he dropped to te ground and was almost out cold. he could feel the ground shake. he could hear his friends voices. " NABORU!..wake up...WAKE UP!" calera was yelling for him to wake up. he could feel her shaking him. he could hear ren and a couple other people were dealing with the man. then naboru felt someone calling for him. a very familiar voice. -
naboru opend his eyes just a bit and saw nothing but light. "wh-where am i?"
he sat up and felt a pain in his chest. "ow..." he said then he heard a laugh THE laugh that he wanted to hear for a couple weeks now. he looked around and saw jiraiya sitting in a chair. his giant grin spread wide across his face. naboru slowly got up. "j-jir..aiya..." tears formed in his eyes. he stepped forword still unbeileveing that the one man he wanted to see, wanted to hear was right in front of him. jiraiya looked up at him " hello naboru" naborus knees almost buckled underneath him when he heard his masters voice. "naboru....why did you let your secret out...why did you let your anger out.
i know you, you are a good kid...not angry your a peaceful person.." naboru could barely speak. " i...cant...control it...with you gone..i..." jiraiyas grin went away from his face. "..beacuse i died isnt a good excuse for you to unleash your wrath on everyone...i saw what you said to ren and calera and..i want you to know..you and naruto are alike in many ways yes but you two are different in many more ways. naruto just wants to be hokage..he wants sasuke to come back he wants things that he can control..hes a smart kid but dosent think everything through...and he is my godson..." naboru's fist tightened. "naruto's father was the 4th hokage..and his mother died a little while after giving birth to him and his father died sealing the 9 tailes into narutos body.." naborus eyes widened in shock. "what..i didnt know...i mean i knew his parents died but like that and his father being the 4th..i-"
jiraiya nodded then stood up. he walked to naboru and put his hands on his shoulders. " but you naboru you are my son in everyway.." he laughed "even if you dont think we were as close as i am with naruto we are equally familly both of you are my boys..you naboru have a burning flame in you. that i havent seen in anyone..not even naruto.. you truely want everything to just be peacful. i agree with that..you are truely a kind-hearted person who dosent like to kill..so just hang in there..." naboru didnt realize but he was once again crying. jiraiya wiped away his tears with his thumb and smiled help naruto out he is like your brother. and tell tsunade that all my papers that she might need are under my bed. and i dont know if you remember but when you were little we had a book..that you filled with ideas and little drawings that you wanted me to one day write one of the stories and you draw pictures for it.." naboru nodded. " that book is in my safe..and the story is in there to all it needs is your drawings.." jiraiya smiled " your going to go back now.. just hold in there and live a long happy life..dont forget hotsprings thursday...you should share that with ren..not like he needs it with calera around...oh wait...im sorry to bring her up..." naboru looked away. "its fine..i-" jiraiya smiled at him patted himon the head and started to walk away. " no WAIT jiraiya wait.." he ran after him and hugged him. "...i'll miss you..." jiraiya looked over his shoulder and smiled. " i'll be with you all..and yes naboru i was thinking about you when i died....goodbye"
naboru slowly felt jiraiya fade away. "no jiraiya...." he was alone. -
naboru slowly opened his eyes. he was back in the hospital. he stared at the celing. he slowly closed his eyes as tears flowed from them. he heard some people talking in the hall way. he opened his eyes and tried to move. his hands were tied to the wall and he couldnt move his feet. he struggled to get free. "WHAT THE HELL! LET ME OUT OF THIS CRAZY THING!." he yelled. then he saw ren and calera at the doorway. " ren help me!" he yelled. ren shook his head. he looked like he deeply regretted not helping him. naboru looked at calera "..calera?..." his voice cracked when he said her voice. "HELP ME.
please.." calera took a step in and ren grabbed her by the arm. naboru watched them carefully. then calera spoke. he couuldnt hear her. " im sorry nabo-kun..we cant get in danzo wont allow it..." naboru read her lips. then he looked confused. " what dose he have to do with me.?" he asked a little mad now. ren took a step in the room and mouthed the words "hes...the hokage now..tsunade is in acoma..." he turned his head away from naboru. naboru just shook his head in disbelief. "no.....no....how do i get out...i need to see her." calera and ren spoke "you need 3 medical ninja...but we dont know 3 that are willing to go against the hokage..." naboru grinded his teeth. then he realized 3 people who would. he smiled. "get sakura shizune and ino i bet they will they are loyal to tsunade." ren and calera looked at each other and nodded. ren nodded at naboru and left. calera stayed and said "tonight we will come back and get you out. we can run away and find somewhere else to live..less problmems.." naboru looked confused. " yea.
you ren and me...you two would just go off on your own like you always do.
and now that jiraiya isnt here anymore..i'll be alone...like most of the time " he looked away then calera was standing in front of him. "no.
just you and me...ren hasnt been acting like himself lately..actually not at all like himself...and to be honest when we leave you alone its beacuse ren sees your chakura is turning red..so we think its because of us..naboru ren isnt even like that..hes married...did you know that?" naboru turned his head to look at her. "...what...wait how are you in here.?" calera looked over her shoulder and said " i can o through anything walls,windows,special force feilds,sheilds anything.. and yea rens married. i didnt even know until that one day when you found out...jiraiya died..but the reason he is married is something he dosent want anyone to know." naboru looked at her. she put her hand on his head and brushed his hair away from his face. i'll get you out of here and we can go someplace and.." he looked up at her. "why a sudden change of sides...i know your lieing you get all cuddley when your lieing.
so just tell me what are you doing?" calera sighed "ok..ren says that your chakura has gone from light blue to black...he said its like you have no emotions now...i just wanted you to be happy show some emotions for me?" naboru looked out the window. " let me be alone until you come to realese me"
calera looked at him and sighed she reached up and untied the hand ties. he sat up and untied the foot holds. he looked out the window and then looked back at calera. he tried reaching for his shirt but a pain shot through his arm. "GAAHH" he pulled back his arm. calera reached for his shirt and said " put your arms up.." he looked at her in an odd way and she said "i'll help you get dressed..now put your arms up." she set the shirt down as he slowly raised his arms. she grabbed the bottoms of the shirt he had on and pulled it up. she started to blush when she saw his abs. he looked at her with a face that shown nothing but a deep longing for something. she reached over to grab his new shirt. she looked at it and said " are you really thinking about leaving..." naboru's eyes flashed wide for a second then closed.
he turned his head to the side and quietly said " yes..."