Yugo cried silently as she hid the corner. Her cuts and bruises stung, but she was far used to ignoring them. The seven year old, held her knees to her chest and gripped them tighter as she felt something tug at her mind. Her breath hitched as some unknown force pulled her consciousness into darkness.
--X—
Across the continent, Naruto Uzamaki sat up with a gasp. He was no longer in the hospital bed under the Hokage tower, the only place that would treat his injuries, but instead was a in a long damp hall.
"There you are. Are you coming?" Looked around to see a small fox sitting at the end of the hallway on one side of it was a cage, where masses of power rolled behind the slim bars. On the other was a small path, leading away into the darkness. Feeling curious, Naruto got up and trotted after the fox. They seemed to walk for hours, but he never got tired. After awhile, Naruto saw another trail to his left, made of sand. Down in trotted Gaara, who he had met when his dad visited Old man Hokage. They had become close friends over the similarity's in there lives. (Note: they met before Gaara turned bloodthirsty.)
"Hey Gaara!" Naruto shouted. The boy looked up and gave a little wave, before looking down at the raccoon he seemed to be following. Soon they met at a little intersection. There were other people there, most of them older. They all seemed to be good with ignoring everyone else. Then, from a path that seemed like it was only half there, and glowing purples, a small cat hoped out and a young, injured, girl followed, not really recognizing her surroundings. Naruto, being Naruto, immediately rushed up to her, taking a small roll of extra bandages, which he always kept on him, out of his pocket. Gaara came over too, and helped Naruto bandage her bleeding cuts, following Naruto's orders, since the blond vessel obviously knew what he was doing.
The Nibi, who was planning on healing her host as soon as she had made it to the meeting, walked over to Kyuubi and Shukuku.
"He seems quite adapt at that, Kyu," she said, a question obvious in her voice.
The fox sighed, "I know, he's injured so often, I can't keep up. I mean you'd think its obvious that we're different entities. If they did such things to me, they'd be dead. Plus, I have to wait to heal him out of other's sight, or who knows what they might think."
Shukuku nodded, "In a way, my vessel got lucky, they fear him to much to beat him, plus the seal allowed me to pass on my automatic defense."
The Nibi was about to speak when the three bijuu felt the air tremor. Without further ado, they leapt down a hole in the floor, which closed behind them.
The meeting of the Bijuu had begun.
--X--
Yugo woke up slowly, sitting up, she sat up slowly. She froze when she saw two boys looking at her expectantly.
"What do you want," she demanded, trying to hide her fear.
The two boys didn't react, having known they would have given similar reactions.
After a minute, Naruto spoke up, "My name's Naruto, this is Gaara. We wanted to make sure you're all right." Gaara nodded.
Yugo didn't know how, but she knew these boys wouldn't hurt her. "My name's Yugo, Sorry about my reaction, but there are a lot of people who'd like to hurt me. You see…" she dragged off, unsure how much to tell them.
"You hold a demon, don't you?" Gaara spoke up.
Startled, she looked into his eye's and saw understanding. "Yeah, The Nibi, I was meant to be the perfect killer, but I'm unable to harness her power fully, so they threw me on the streets. What about you?"
Gaara nodded to Naruto signally him to speak.
"Sorry, Gaara's never been much of a talker. He was also meant to be a weapon, but his control became too powerful and people started to fear him. I was never told of the demon inside me. It was suppose to be a secret, since it wasn't sealed as a weapon but as a quick solution to save my village. They see me as the reincarnate of the demon. When Gaara came to my village with his father on a diplo….depli…political mission. We found our lives were similar. When he told me the reason for his, I connected the dots. I was born on October 10th, the day on the Kyuubi attack, everyone despised me and often told me I had done terrible thing to them, calling me names, etc. So it all fit."
Yugo nodded. It made complete since. "So…where are we, she asked, looking around.
They shrugged. "we don't know, we followed are demons here." Gaara said, causing Naruto to glare at him.
"Oh now you talk," Gaara smirked, an expression that was weird on a seven year old's face.
The three were silent for a few moments.
"Say…Yugo, I was wondering…Do you want to come to Konoha?"
Of all the things he could have said, that wasn't one she was expecting. "What!"
The blonde shrugged, "well, we should stick together, you know? Gaara can't come because he's the son of the Kazakage and that might start a war between the villages. And if I leave, the Old man will be frantic. But you said you were tossed out, right? So you should be free to come."
Her brow furrowed, "Old man?" she was under the impression no one cared for him.
"The Hokage," he explained, "he's the only one I can count on to be nice to me, (he has yet to find the ramen stand) But is to busy to look out for me all the time. So what do you say?
She cocked her head to the side, thinking, "Sure why not. I'll come"
There. Hope you Enjoyed. Watch for the next chapter, Journey to Konoha
