Me no own Naruto. There.
Chapter 1: Renmaru
By: ShadowUnknown
Unchallenged, dedicated. A warrior by heart. A true women by soul. Rough, and talented on the outside. This child is a descendent. From the one and only Tiger Hashi. Everything fit. Everything is perfect.
"What if she discovers that she is not worthy. Leo was a true warrior for battle. Someone we can all trust to be there for us." an ANBU said.
"This child is our only hope for the future. I just hope she doesn't make the same mistake Leo had made 50 years ago." a blue eyed, blonde man said.
"Yes, sir." the ANBU said and left.
"Tiger Hashi, what really happened to you?" the blonde asked himself as he looked out the window. He seen trees, birds, and village people walking around below him. "Leo, we all miss you. We want you to come back to us. Come back." he whispered to himself and closed his clear blue eyes, running his hand through his spiky blonde hair. "Ashizu, Natsu. You are our only hope. Help us. You are a descendant of Tiger Hashi. The real Hashi, Leo. Yet, you can never become her. No one can live up to what Leo had going on. Interrogations, tracking, planning, navigation, and a true weaponry master." the man started to name other things that Leo could do.
"Naruto. You called?" a girls voice said to the man.
"Yes, Natsu. You say you have been having dreams about Hashi Leo. Correct?" said man asked.
"Yes, sir. Before I began having these dreams, the Thunder Dragon came down and told me that I was a descendent of Leo. I didn't believe at first, but I started having dreams of someone's parents dying before me. They were not mine, my parents don't look like what they looked like in my dream. I would always wake up screaming, it felt so real, so vivid." Natsu told him.
"I see." said Naruto.
"It was about 'Her' parents. Isn't it?" Natsu asked. Naruto only nodded, he heard a familiar story like it from Leo's dog. "It started out as me walking down a hall, then I heard screaming. I went to it worried. I wasn't expecting a masked man standing over two people. At first I thought it was my own parents, but it wasn't. I looked up at the man, he pulled down his mask and smiled. I was so scared that I started screaming when the weapon the man was holding came down to meet the two adults fates. The man started to say 'Hashi, Leo. Your next.' then the voice would fade away still saying 'Leo,' I woke up then screaming." Natsu finished telling of her dream. Naruto looked surprised for a moment.
"What about the other dreams?" Naruto asked suddenly.
"They were about a man, with shoulder length brown. No pale black hair, and deep green eyes. He said in a rough voice, it held leadership, and obedience. He said "Who are you? What do you want from me? How do you know me?" Those are the very same questions he would ask in every dream." Natsu said.
"What about the Thunder Dragon?" Naruto asked after a moment of silence.
"He wasn't a dream, I was walking on the path in the forest. Just listening to the sounds it made. Suddenly a blue flash of lightning came down in front of me. A white dog with fur that looked like it was coming off him, but was still covered in. It looked like smoke, white smoke. He told me that I was a descendent of his daughter. Just like he came he was gone again." Natsu said.
"So I see." Naruto looking down at the brown haired girl, her eyes were also brown. Their was one thing that made him think of Leo, it was the clothes she wore, the black jacket she wore undone, with a white shirt under it. Black pants that held a single sword sheath, but no sword. 'She must be the one. She has to be. The next Tiger Hashi.' Naruto thought and he dismissed Ashizu Natsu.
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"Loser!" a boy called to a girl with shoulder length brown hair, her brown eyes slowly crawled up to the one whom has called her. 'Why won't they leave me alone?' she thought as she looked at the boy, he was Uchiha Itachi's grandson. The very same Itachi that destroyed his own clan, ran away and joined Akatsuki. The very same organization that Leo had joined after she killed Orochimaru. The snake man went after Leo because she killed Sasuke. It all seemed to add up to Leo.
Somehow.
"What!" she growled not happy at all with the hurtful nickname he said.
"What did the Hokage want with you? You do something bad?" he sneered.
"No! Why do you want to know anyways?!" she called and ran to the forest to get away from him.
From all of them.
"What's wrong?" a cool calm voice called to her. She looked up and seen an elderly man, pale black hair, starting to age. Onyx eyes, hard lines under them. 'He looks so old.' she thought as she looked at this man. "Tell me." he said.
"That Uchiha boy keeps bugging me. I wish someone would teach him a lesson." Natsu said and sat down on a log. The man didn't speak, so she went on. "He was bugging me because I had to go see the Hokage." she said.
"And why did you have to see him?" the man asked after a minute of silence.
"I'm a descendent of Hashi Leo." she told him, he looked.. Surprised? A few more moments passed before he would say anything.
"Hashi Leo? Are you sure?" he asked her.
"Yes, of course I'm sure. I wouldn't be having her dreams if it wasn't true." she said to him.
"I knew her, you know." the man said and got up to leave.
"Wait! Who are you?" she asked him.
"Uchiha Itachi. I will talk to my grandson. Don't you worry." he smirked and disappeared.
"No way." she whispered as she looked at where Itachi was a moment ago. She stayed there until the sun started to fade away from the trees behind the mountains. 'Time to go.' she thought and started her way home thinking of what Itachi had said. 'How could he know about Leo? It can't be the same Itachi that destroyed his own clan. Can it?' she thought and reached her home.
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"If you are a descendent of me." this man started, then flashes of images started to unfold before her eyes. "Are you Hashi Leo? A true warrior of this village? A protector that will stop at nothing until everything is safe again? Will you live up to the name Tiger Hashi?" the man started to fade away.
She woke up and started to think of what those pictures really mean. 'Tiger Hashi. What is with the name?' she thought. 'I need to find out more about this person. Who am I? Really?' she thought and started to get ready for the day. 'I think I'll go to the library after school, and look up some books about Tiger Hashi. If there is any.' she thought.
All throughout the day she sat listening to the teacher giving them a lecture about the history of all the four Hokage's. 'Maybe I should also ask Itachi about Leo's past.' she thought. The bell finally rang ending the day. She ran outside first and went straight home leaving everything in her room and headed out again. Telling her parents that she will be at the library.
"Be home in time for dinner." her mother called. Throwing an 'Okay' behind she was racing to the library.
Almost immediately she found a book about Tiger Hashi. 'She was the first one to graduate at the age of six. She was also declared as a Jonin when the Chunin exams were finished. Wow. A jonin at the age of six. People knew that she had a tiger inside of her. They also say that she was raised as a boy, dressed like a boy, and acted like one too. She was popular in the school, on looks, talent, and very smart. She was put through some mock missions to see how well she would do. Each one needed a certain talent.
Those missions also formed her team. Nao, Shizuki, Akashi, and Haruka. Yuki was also apart of it all, he was still a chunin at the time training under Leo. After the four men died, she was set up with a new team. Yuki was now the co-commander. It also says that...' her thoughts were interrupted.
"Excuse me, were closing now." a woman said to her.
"Thank you, I'm borrowing this book." she told the woman. She nodded and ran it through. Natsu went home thinking of all the things that Leo did.
"Hello." a voice said behind her. She turned around and seen a white dog, with a ninja head band around it's neck. "I'm Renmaru. Hashi Leo's former dog. I could tell you everything you need to know about her. It's important for you to know. I can tell from your smell that you are her descendent.." the white dog said.
"You're her dog?" she asked as she looked at this white creature. He nodded. "Well come on, we can't stay out here." Natsu said and started to walk home again. She arrived home and seen that her parents were shocked to see a dog behind her. "This is Leo's dog. He's going to tell me more about her. It's for history." she told them, and showed a book on Leo.
"Greetings," he nodded to the parents. "I'm Renmaru, I knew Leo since I was a puppy." he told them. 'He sounds so old.' she thought. She sat down at a couch and listened to what Renmaru told her. "It all started with the dreams. She would always tell me her dreams then she would say 'It get's even more vivid every time I tell someone.' Of course she wouldn't sleep very often, because of those dreams. So she invented a way she could rest, yet still stay awake. On her first mission, she got injured on her left hand. She used a jutsu to help keep in place so she could still fight. It also prevented her hand from healing properly." he said.
"Wow." Natsu said almost breathless. 'I'm speaking to her dog, her dog is telling me about how Leo was.' she thought.
"Yes, she graduated early. Became a Jonin before she could even be a Chunin. She always would tell her four father's, Nao, Shizuki, Akashi, and Haruka to say to the Genin, to call them Chunin's. Just to give them something to hope for. To let them become who they want to become. Even if she was only a small kid, she was well respected. Not feared like she thought. She thought they feared her because of the dark Tiger. Or some call it Kuro Tora. It was not it at all." Renmaru said.
"Then what was it that they feared?" Natsu asked.
"They fear that she might let the Kuro Tora out. They fear the Kumori. Unknown. They were afraid that they might loose the Leo they knew then, but they know the Leo know. A traitor. I haven't heard what had happened after the Kuro Tora attacked the three countries, I was trying to gather enough information on that dark day. No answers came. When I finally did see Leo, she was getting fearful glares from the village people." he was interrupted again.
"Why did they fear her now? I thought they respected her." Natsu asked.
"They were afraid it might be the tiger, and not the real her. She would tell me about the tiger in her, and how it worked. That was all she told me. It felt like she didn't trust me with her words anymore. It hurt to think that." Renmaru said.
"How did it work?" she asked.
"The tiger was caged up in an electric field, it maybe Leo's body. But it didn't know how to control her talents. When it was Leo she would put on a face mask and an ANBU mask." he was once again interrupted.
"Some say that the mask of Hashi Leo was never found, it was lost in time. Just like her." Natsu said.
"Yes," Renmaru nodded. "When she put's on the mask, people would shake because it was a reminder of what really is inside her. They feared what was inside her, then her herself." Renmaru finished telling her about the missions, her four fathers, how they meet, everything that Leo had told him. "I have kept all this to myself because she told me not to tell a soul. Now it is time I pass down these stories to someone I can trust with these words. Keep them to yourself. Tell no one. I hope you find what your looking for in these words." Renmaru said. "I'm releasing the Genjutsu now." he started to fade away.
*Renmaru's Story*
She told me, she went to the exams at the age of 5, by the time the of the last exam took place she was six years old. That is when she graduated, she became a Jounin before a Chunin. That was very rare, she held a talent with in her. Everyone saw that determination. That was when everyone respected her, acknowledged her as a true ninja of the leafs. Her first mission, was a mock mission. The Hokage wanted to know if she was truly a great ninja to be declared as a Jounin.
'Protect the Hokage at all costs. With your life on the line in this mission. There might be no turning back.' she thought as she fought the ninja that thew the first attack. 'Block his attacks!' she thought as she used herself to block the Hokage from harm. 'I'm losing energy.' she thought and thought of something. 'The light.' she thought and threw a kunai at one of the lights making sure a string was attached to it so she can absorb the electricity.
The ninja ducked away from the weapon that was thrown, unknown to it's real purpose. Sure enough the electricity from the light bulb gave her strength again. When the man seen the new found energy he charged at her. Sword at hand of the attack she side stepped and pushed the sword away from her, and the Hokage. Her hand was angled wrong and the impacted of the sword was to much for her to take.
She thought quickly and used a jutsu she found in a Medical book to bind her hand. It was an old jutsu that has seemed to never been used more then once. She used it for her hand so she could still fight. Of course it still hurt like hell, but she didn't let pain control her actions. Not now.
She threw another Kunai at another light bulb and absorb that bulbs life force. The ninja she was fighting was starting to wonder she would ever run out of energy soon, because he sure was. 'Shizuki said he was strong, but he never mentioned he was this strong.' the ninja thought and fought on until Leo took the upper hand. 'Lights out.' he thought as he was knocked out unconscious. (Sorry I added a bit of the ninja's thoughts as well..)
'Something isn't right. Why haven't other ninja's joined him in the fight?' she thought. "Hm." thinking intently on what happened in the small fight with the ninja. 'Maybe, Shizuki knows something. I'll see if I can get something out of him. Anything.' she thought as she looked up at the lazy Shizuki. 'His face reads that he knows something, but what? Something to do with this mission. That noise, it sounded like Shizuki when he made the noise in front of the Hokage.' she thought.
Shizuki turned away and asked 'What did he say?'.
"It was his mission to take out the hokage, that was all I can get out of him. Other then the insults he gave." she said and looked away to the man knowing that she won't get anything out of Shizuki at the moment. 'Was he apart of the attacking? No, he was with some other ninja at the time. Could this be some sort of mission to take out the Hokage? Shizuki informed me on this mission, so he couldn't be apart of this. What is it?' she thought and heard the two men talking about her. 'I feel weak. I'm losing blood.' she thought and heard Shizuki tell her something.
"All that matters now is that I'm safe, Leo take this man and see if you can get anything else out of him. Shizuki you come with me." the hokage ordered.
"But, Leo needs to see..." he was cut off. She wasn't paying attention anymore, she tried to get some of the needles out and used some of her healing to heal herself for the time being. 'I'll need a real medical nin.' she thought as she looked around seeing that the Hokage, and Shizuki left already. 'Shizuki sounded worried. Wonder why.' she thought and waited for the ninja to wake up.
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"I know." Leo said to the Hokage.
"Know?" he asked resting his chin in the back of his hands.
"I know this was a mock mission. What are you trying to test? What is your purpose for putting me through it?" Leo asked him.
"You will know in time." he said and dismissed Leo. She glared at him for a moment and left.
Shizuki was worried about her, but when she got down to her level he seen what no one could even tell. She was a girl. 'Great. How did I let that slip?' she thought and talked to him in her normal voice. Ditching the rough voice she once used. They went to the hospital and checked in.
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"Brave little kid, and strong too." Shizuki said to Leo, whom was laying on the bed. Her hand was bandaged, and had on fresh cloths.
"Strong that I lasted this long? Or strong in strength, and knowlage." Leo said as she sat up on the bed to look at Shizuki directly. 'There are all sorts of strong in this world. Not just mental, and physical.' she thought.
"Both, it was amazing. Your the only person that caught my interest, I thought you were actually going to die, or be scared." Shizuki started. 'His interest? Has he never been interested in anyone else's power?' she thought and realized that there was more to his sentence.
"Just like any other kid?" Leo finished his sentence. 'Scared. Die. Terrified, Death.' she thought gravely.
"Yes." Shizuki looked down ashamed of himself. 'Why is he like that? Why won't he look at me?' she thought as she seen his head move down to the floor.
"It's fine, the truth was. I was scared, scared that someone might get hurt other then me. I also thought I was going to die during the interrogations, the ninja thought I was too. I never thought that I could take that much damage and survie this long. Their must be something about me, something that wants to live." Leo said trailing off into her own thoughts. 'It's true, something want's to live. Doesn't want to die just yet. I've been given some power, I'm going to use this power to help other's no matter what the cost is.' she thought taking a vow.
"You do that a lot, it's annoying." Shizuki said using the exact same words Leo had used earlier. 'Oh! Um. What was I doing?' she thought and finally realized what he meant, Leo gave an annoyed looked, but then smiled. "Such a nice smile," Shizuki said. 'My smile never stays.' she thought.
"Don't get used to it, it won't last long." Leo said as she looked out the window. 'Hardly anything can make me smile for long. Mother, Father. What am I going to do?' she thought.
"I hear that Uda Yuki is training under you, anyone else under your command?" Shizuki asked. 'What? Is he asked to join with me? Sure sounds like it. Well I won't accept.' she thought.
"No, I don't think anyone would want to join with a kid anyways." Leo said as she looked back at Shizuki. 'There that should settle it. All though my mind isn't working right, at the moment.' she thought as she looked at this man.
"I would," Shizuki smiled. "After what you displayed, who wouldn't want to work under your command." Leo looked surprised. "How's your hand?" he asked. 'What? I didn't do anything. What could have impressed him this much?' she thought for a moment.
"I put a jutsu on it before the blade hit, I can move it but at some point it hurts." Leo said. "A sealing jutsu that wraps around the bones and holds it." Leo explained. 'May as well tell him of this, before I'm classified as something else.' she thought.
"How did you lean that jutsu?" Shizuki asked.
"It was in an old text book, I used it for my training. Even though it was all medical." Leo said. 'I found the text books at the library, and in some storage in the academy.' she thought thinking of when she was still there.
"Medical?" Shizuki said his turn to be surprised.
"Yeah, I thought it would help me train, and out in the field. Turns out I was right." Leo said. 'They were useful. Maybe I should study on more of this.' she thought.
"What other jutsu's do you know?" Shizuki asked.
"Chidori, desert coffin, a lot of fire and water techniques." she said.
"Anything else?" Shizuki asked.
"Well I have traveled to the other countries, so I know a lot of them." Leo said.
"Really? Who taught you all these jutsu's?" Shizuki asked. 'The ninja's taught me some. But I learned some of it on my own.' she thought trying to think of something else then that answer.
"I watched their hand signs, and tried them out myself. On some of them I got it right away, the others I had to practice." Leo said.
"So your like the copy nin?" Shizuki said more to himself then to her. 'Kakashi? No. I wish though.' she thought as she thought for a moment.
"You could say that." Leo said to him. "Do you really mean that?" she was referring to him working under her. 'Would someone really work under an unexperienced kid?' she thought as she thought for another moment trying to see if he was serious or not.
"Yes, of course. I'll work under you til I die. I'll even throw myself in front of you to protect you." Shizuki said. 'Maybe I should rethink everything. But. Can I really trust him?' she thought starting to even out the odds of him betraying her, from what she gathered. 'He might be working as a double agent. I can't be to sure.' she thought.
"Maybe I should start a larger team." Leo smiled. Shizuki saw that he was in her team and gave her a hug. "I'll do what ever it takes to help you out." he said still hugging her. 'An act?' she thought.
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'I've been sent on three mock missions already, what more does he want from me?' Leo thought as she made her way to the Stone country. By that time she had all of them, all that made her team almost invincible. She was the strongest of the them all. Akashi, and Shizuki would have done anything to protect her. Nao, and Haruka would have done everything and anything in their power to help her through her years as a ninja. Yuki was as strong as Leo, but yet he was far off from even being close to her status.
Everyone worked well together, with her on the team their was hardly any fighting among them all. They all loved her to death. To all of them she was an angel. A sweet butterfly under all that sweetness was the raging Tiger. Wanting to get out and put fear in all their hearts. That side demanded respect, but everyone already respected her from the very beginning. Yet she always says that they fear her, that she was not wanted their in the first place.
She told me all the other missions she went on, before she got me. She says all of the missions were completed, on the last mission. The one they were together for the last time, that was when I arrived a her house. I didn't know what was going on, so I just sat there until the door opened to revel her. She was the most perfect person that I couldn't help but bark so she would look at me with those wonderful green eyes. That smile was the best I have ever seen.
I started to talk to her, in my own language. Amazing enough she understood every word I said to her. It was the most best day of my life, I will never forget that day. She was the one I loved the most, she loved me also. She taught me how to talk in human, showed me how to use jutsu, she even trained with me. I trained with her also, and mostly she always talked to me, about her day, the mission. Everything. I loved hearing her talking about her day.
When the tiger got out, I was afraid that I would lose the one that always talked to me at night, the one that trains with me. I thought she would die, I thought that she would forget me. I didn't want that, I tried to find her after everyday, each day it got harder and harder to find out what she was doing. I was starting to worry because she always told me where she was, what she was doing. I got nothing on those days. Until she came to me and told me.
I was shocked that she was like that, I wanted my Leo back. That was the last meeting I had with her. That day, I went to look for her, I found that she was taken. I tried to tell someone but no one would listen to a dog. So I gave up on trying to tell someone, I just went back home, listening to the emptiness of it all. That house was nothing now, not without her. She brightened this place up, she made this place come alive. Now it was dead. She was gone.
A year had passed, now I'm a ninja. A dog ninja. That would have made her proud. I thought about her everyday. She was the one thought that kept me going. I missed her dearly. Uda Yuki also missed her. He was the one that was taking care of me now. But then he left because of his injury, he was seriously hurt. He left us that year telling me of what happened to him. But I shall tell you another time, when you find out more.
*End Renmaru's story*
"Honey, you haven't even started reading the book. Are you okay?" her mother asked.
"Yes, fine." Natsu said unsure of what happened to her.
"Why don't you take a break? It's still daylight. I know it's only been a few moments since you came back from the library, but go out and play." her father said. She nodded and took the book with her. 'A few moments? Wow.' she thought amazed at how fast, and how little time she gathered so much information. 'I should go see what I can get from Uchiha Itachi.' she thought and went to find his grandson.
End
Chapter 1: Renmaru
I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Don't worry, this won't be as disappointing as White Dog. I didn't mean to just end it like that. So this is what I'm making to make up for that horrible ending. Very sorry. Okay so I'm bored, plus I could use some of your guy's help. And don't forget the girls also. I have everything planed out, but I need something to add to it all, I'll ask a few questions. You all answer in pm, or in your reviews. If you want it secret pm. Please!!! It would be most appreciated ^^; If I spell something wrong then please do tell me. On with the questions.
Pairings!? Should Renmaru (Leo's dog) die? Or still live? Cause I thing I have a plan for him. Yes I have a plan for him. But I need your help with it. Should Deidara still be alive? Should Gaara still be alive? Itachi what should he say to Natsu? Should Natsu's parents die? Should they live? Should she have a sibling? Will Leo come into her dreams again? What will Leo once she is in Natsu's dream? Should Leo still be alive? Should she be lost in time(dead)? Will Natsu inherit Leo's power? Should she have the Kuro Tora? Will she ever meet Leo personally? Is their anything that I need to change? Is their anything I forgot to mention? See I told you I need your help...I'm working another story at the moment, so updates will be hard for this one, plus I plan on making this a long story. AGAIN very sorry for the ending on White Dog, I just couldn't decide how to end it. So a sequel was involved after I found out about a few things that I mentioned but didn't put down. Very Very sorry.
P.S. I tend to forget something, so if I don't update this soon then please do tell me. I will also be busy trying to fix a few problems in White Dog, so enjoy this chapter, and why haven't you turned to the next chapter? Or if It isn't up yet then stroll to the other stories I have. Have fun reading ^^
Deidara: Your still reading? Yeah.
Oh shut it Deidara!
Deidara: Not until...
Say it and die!
Deidara: Kiss me. Yeah.
Excuse me while I tie him in a closet and lock him up.
Itachi: Will I ever have a say?
No. Your still reading!?
R&R or whatever
Later.