Kyuu No Hana
A/N- Hey everyone =), This is my 2nd Naruto Fic, my first is still in progress but it isn't getting the greatest feedback. So depressing =( but anyway please read and COMMENT I want to know what you think, truly I do. By the way though at first she may seem like it, the girl in this chapter is in NO way a mary sue I promise you. So just hold out if that crosses your mind, you need more than a persons looks and speech to know a person, and boy is this girl bipolar. lol. Tell me your thoughts please! This story will mainly be about character building and also my attempt to try and show people what I think true forgiveness is. Lets be honest, most authors botch it. I mean they have the epic tragic betray'll and then the betrayer pulls puppy dogs eyes and all is forgiven. Is that believable? HELL NO! I think people have to suffer a little, but not to much, such as some authors approach of slow torture but then guess what...they are once again forgiven WAY to easily. So here's my attempt at finding middle ground. As for pairings, I have some in mind however the only concrete one that I'll let you know is KakashiXIruka I mean every Naruto Fan girl that likes yaoi has to write about this pair at least once. So here WE go! Hopefully this will be fun!
Love Snowy
I do not own Naruto, I just play with him sometimes. hehehehe
-Chapter One: The Girl In Pale Gold-
(Sakura P.O.V) /sort of/
Haruno Sakura knew she was in deep shit before she opened her eyes. Everything hurt, her limbs were like lead and bile thickly coated her mouth. Each breath sent stabs of pain down her spine. She was lying on her side, arms tied tightly behind her back. She had to bite back a groan as she shifted and sent icy hot pricks down her arms as the blood struggled to circulate.
After a few shallow breathes the pink haired Nin forced her eyes to open half-mast. They widen as she catches sight of what is in front of her. She is not alone in the dank and dripping room, devoid of warmth and any color other than the uniform grey of the bricks.
"Ino! Hinata! Ten Ten!" Sakura whisper shouted voice hoarse and cracking. Next to her was Hinata, face pale and sweaty a trickle of blood flowed down from the corner of her mouth. She too was tied up.
Ino, the pinkette's rival and best friend, wasn't faring any better, other the other side of Hinata her face bore a large bruise across the cheek, a split lip and various cuts varying in severity. The blonde's clothes were ripped and plastered with sweat to her body.
Ten Ten was pushed against the wall her normal hairstyle was destroyed and the girl's brown hair covered her face, her clothes held two large rips exposing the Nin's fishnet chain mail underneath.
"Wake up!" Sakura cried, ignoring the fact it was probably smarter to be silent right now. She maneuvered as best she could to prod her friends with her bond legs.
"Ah…ugh" Hinata moaned before opening her pale pupiless eyes to take in the crying pinkette.
"Sakura?" She whispered, licking at the blood trickle wincing.
"Stop crying, big forehead." Ino breathed gritting her teeth to force a smile.
"I'll cry if I want to Ino-pig!" Sakura cried back, swallowing thickly to force a scowl on her face.
"Ten Ten?" Sakura called after a moment when the weapons specialist didn't wake up. Ino moved to look over her shoulder at the girl studying her with her medical eye.
"I think she's fine, just unconscious." Ino whispered noting that the girl was still breathing evenly and there was no flush of fever or any other aliment easily recognizable. Sakura would have preferred to do the examination herself but it was all that was possible at the moment.
"Wh…where are w…we?" Hinata asks tentatively, looking around the depressing room.
"More importantly, what the fuck happened?" Ino asks as if in a daze her eyes screwed up in concentration. Sakura tried to remember back to what had gotten them into this. However the kunochi's memories were hazy and felt far away…out of reach even. Dizziness set in as the girl tried harder to remember, but for the life of her the last thing she remembered clearly was eating pancakes that morning…well maybe. Had the golden brown disks of heaven pulled a kidnapping? Okay maybe the pink haired Nin should just stop think right about now.
"I can't remember." Hinata whispers pulling Sakura from her thoughts of evil knife bearing pancakes back to the present. Once Ino and Sakura had confirmed that they to had no memory of what had happened past early morning they sat their stunned. What had happened to them?
"Hinata, try your Byakugan." Ino suggests, Hianta nods after a moment of thought. It would be best to see if anyone was in the near by area before they tried anything too drastic.
"Byakugan!" Hinata gasps in surprise. As her blood line instead of activating stays dormant. Her vision going black, with white spots bursting across her retinas. Her frantic mind swamped with heavy sickness, her chest felt as though something large and heavy was being placed on it and being shoved, robbing her of her breath,
"Hinata!" Sakura and Ino cry in surprise and horror as they watch their Raven haired friend and comrade.
"I'm…F…F…Fine, but m…my Byku…gan won't act…tivate." Hinata practically whimpers as she presses her head to the damp floor, not really caring it was probably teeming with germs and…icky stuff.
"What?" Ino exclaims forgetting herself and shouting instead of whispering. She shuts up immediately as emerald green eyes pin her with a look so menacing even the stubborn blonde couldn't rebuke it. Shaking whatever chill the look had given her Ino pipes up once again, only at a quieter more acceptable level.
"Oi, Billboard Brow! Use your monster strength so we aren't completely defenseless." Sakura growls unappreciatively at the rude nickname but still tries to thread chakra into her limbs. Mirroring Hinata, Sakura too feels the same symptoms, she gasps in surprise as her world begins to tilt the wrong way, and air refuses to make it to her lungs.
"Sakura-san!" "Saku!" Hinata and Ino call as Sakura takes longer than Hinata to calm down. Sakura lays her sweaty forehead against the floor, tired and a little scared. She couldn't reach her chakra. She never realized how dependant she had become of it until she no longer had any.
"I can't use my chakra….No I can't even feel it anymore." Sakura would like to believe that her voice didn't shake and give away her inner fear but then she would just be lying to herself. And if she was being truthful she knew that she did that a little too often…the lying to her self part, I mean.
"You pr…probably can't ei…ther Ino-san." Hinata says quietly over her shoulder looking at the ruffled blonde. Ino sighs a little, running her tongue against her split lip and wincing as she touches the wound. Not even able to remember how she had gotten it. Finally she just nods, she would rather not have to experiment and experience the same effects as the other two if she could help it.
"I just wish I knew where we are." Ino groans frustrated, before turning her head to examine Ten Ten once more, making sure the girl hadn't gotten worse as time had past. There was no change, with another sigh Ino turns back to Hinata and Sakura settling into a more comfortable position since it looked like she would be there for a while. The thick silence it cut…no shattered by a booming voice the reverberates through the females chest.
"Good morning sunshine! Glad to see most of our lovely hostages are awake. Now if you would be so obliged please look up Shinobi and ever so lovely Kunochi."
Shinobi? Were there others trapped here? The three Kunochi did as the voice told them and look upward. Each of their mouths open into a gaping hole. Luckily no flies were in the room or they would have surely found their way into the girls mouths.
On the grey ceiling, which hadn't been there before the girls were pretty sure, was an eye shaped hole however since it looked more 2D than anything else it was clearly a projection of some kind. A genjutsu perhaps? In the center of the image is a cruel looking man, laughing manically almost as if he could see the expressions of the kunochi's faces…wait could he?
A scarlet gauze hung loosely from the mans right side hanging from his hair line straight past his shoulders to his mid section. It obscured his eye just enough so the color was unrecognizable, on the other side the mans orange spiked hair hung however you could still plainly seen his pupils were silted and pitch black like a cats and the iris was a darker scarlet than the gauze. It was terrifyingly similar to a certain Shinobi when he was under the influence of a demon. His skin was a sickly pale and his lips, well the side you could see were painted black…well they inferred that it was.
"My name is if your wondering, Delfphine or Delfphine the man hunter…which ever you prefer. Now back to business, as most of you have found out you cannot use your chakra, it would be my suggestion you stop trying (The man pauses to laugh cruelly once more) it will not work as long as you are bound. Now children, you may be wondering why you are here? The answer is simply…you're here to capture some very allusive prey who will in turn allow us to fry the biggest fish of all."
"This man is insane." Sakura whispers through numb lips her eyes wide as she watches the man fall once again into a fit of giggles. Ino and Hinata do not comment too stunned to even speak.
"Well, before we get ahead of our selves, let me make this clear. You will not escape these walls anytime soon, but have no fear you will not be harmed. We need you to be fit for transaction or Kyuu 'o Chibi might react…badly. Moving on then, we will give you the honor of seeing the majestic women you will be pivotal in bringing with-in our walls. You see we could probably kidnap her with force but she is a rather troublesome girl so, we thought it best to have you as insurance of her capture. Just sit back and watch Shinobi and Kunochi, and remember it's your fault."
"It's…our fault? What the fuck!" Ino exclaims forcefully blowing her bangs out of her eyes. Sakura wanted to reprimand her rival for being loud again only to have her gaze snap to the eye shaped image. It goes black before slowly filling with color.
"What the-" Sakura trails off as the scene of a busy market slowly takes shape on the image. It is no normal village market, creatures and animals walking on all fours or unnaturally so on hind legs are the ones busy and bartering. All of the creatures seem sinister, with silted eyes and creepy auras. Somewhat similar to the man…Delfphine.
One person stands out in the crowd. A woman standing tall and elegant in the midst of several creepy looking badgers. All well over 7 foot. The view slowly starts to close in on the girl but not close enough to hear what she is saying softly to the menacing creatures, her long sinuous fingers curl around a sword that is tied at her waist, almost as if she does not know she is doing it. The badgers are aware from the way their eyes dart to the weapon constantly, flinching each time. They are afraid of her.
"So beautiful." Hinata whispers as if to herself, and the other two Kunochi cant disagree, however there is a unsettling similarity to….someone. But who was it? Surely the girls would remember such a face. The three girls study the girl closely trying to see the similarity.
She is about 5 foot tall but somehow manages to seem much, much taller even among the gigantic company she was in. Her features are small and feline like, well except her jaw line and cheekbones both of which are stronger, aristocratic even. Across each cheek are three elegant lines, scars in the shape of whiskers. Perhaps that was it, her scars were so similar to Naruto's but it had to be a coincidence surely.
Her red mouth was parted slightly into an uneven smirk, unveiling slightly shaper and longer canines that glinted whenever she talked. Her eyes twinkle in amusement and it was if they couldn't decide wither they were sea green or clear sky blue.
Her hair is long, and a blushing red streaked with sunny highlights of gold. It is tied intricately with what seems to be cherry blossoms that are scarlet, braided into the soft looking tresses.
Finally the Kunochi's eyes wander to the girls clothes, Pale gold and orange silk cloth, a diamond shape is cut out of the silk showing the girls a pale toned stomach and an intricate layer of seals braiding around her belly button.
The upper half of the wrap shirt is stitched with delicate golden lacing flowing down the diamond and on the long selves of the shirt Even passing onto the skirt that reach to the girls knees. Finally a orange silk sarong is tied around her waist only covering her left side to the calf. Her sword is tied on a black belt where various other pouches are stored.
Finally they image is close enough to catch the girls soft voice. The girls strain to hear anything that might help them, either get out or find out who exactly the women was.
"Your being ridiculous Freid, I can't promise you that. The war will be hard on all of us if it truly comes. I can't promise your clans safety over the rest, it simply isn't possible." The girl's voice is reasonable but anyone could see the strain in her eyes and the way her mouth twitched with irritation, well except the Badger Freid perhaps. On the other hand, maybe he was just stupid; it was a toss up really. "Then I can't promise the Badgers support. And I think we both know how exactly catastrophic that could be for you and little Nar-chan."
"Let's get this straight you old coot." The girl said dangerously her eyes flashing red. "It would be no catastrophe to lose your clan that really is only good for building. There are plenty others willing to help our cause, who are smart enough to understand the strain placed on my brother. Don't you dare EVER insinuate that he is incompetent even the slightest." The badger that had spoken takes a half step away from the girl as if pushed by the voracity she had spit her words. However the bravado doesn't leave the badgers voice, even though it shakes a little.
"Then why are you even asking for our lowly help huh, milady if outside help is so adept to work?" The women isn't even fazed, in fact she laughs straight out in the badgers face. Her own going red from mirth. When she finally calms down she says a little breathlessly.
"My brother feels sorry for you clan that was once respected and even revered before the 2nd demon war which your unfortunate alliance with our enemy left you broken. He offers this out of pity but I am under no orders to pursue the contract any farther if you do not like the conditions."
"You have promised!" The badger Freid thunders towering over the girl. She holds her ground looking levely in the monsters eye.
"I have made no promise, only an offer. I am under no obligation to full fill it, if I think you are being difficult. I will give you a week; give me your answer then. However, think carefully. It would not do well to cross me. Good Day Gentleman." With that, the girl gave the smallest incline of her head before turning on her heel and disappearing into the crowd.
The Kunochi see the looks of panic of the badger's faces before the image is whisked to follow the woman as she walked lazily through the crowd. They continue to follow her out of the market and into woods. Where the light filter's greenly through the trees.
After a few minutes the girl comes to a stop cocking her head before she whirls and a Kunai is suddenly hurtling through the air towards the image, they see the girl face on hers creased in concentration her body folded into a battle stance. When she speaks her voice is just above a whispers.
"It's been too long Delfphine."
A/N~ What did you think? Come on tell me! I really want to know, but please no hardcore flames, I like feedback not posion. DONT TRY TO KILL ME! I am not interested in trolling so just back off and we'll be fine. Okay go back to happiness and butterflies...Yup I'm still a dork. So tell me...who do you think the girl is? lol
Love Snowy