The Akatsuki's Daughter
Brother Lost, Daughter Gained
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto; if I did would I waste my time typing that I don't.
October 10, 0001 A.K – 9:10 P.M
A man with pale orange hair and bandages wrapped around the bottom of his face and a woman with deep blue hair pinned up by a paper flower looked down at the battlefield. Their black coats with crimson clouds swayed with the breeze as they watched the great Kyuubi no Youko get sealed away. They watch their ex-teammate, friend, and brother, Namikaze Minato, die with a happy smile on his face as his cerulean blue eyes glazed over. His long bangs overshadowed his eyes as his corpse held onto a crying baby girl in his arms.
"Konan, retrieve the child," the man said. The woman, Konan, made her way to the corpse and picked up the child. They then left the sight before anyone could reach them.
Border of Fire Country – October 10, 0001 A.K 11:23
They finally stopped traveling as cries were heard from the baby. Konan unraveled the blankets, revealing a baby girl no older then a few hours old. She had a golden tuff of hair on her head and cerulean blue eyes. On the baby's cheeks were whisker like marks and on her stomach was an interesting spiral where the Kyuubi no Youko was trapped. Konan took out a bottle from her cloak and started to feed the baby. A letter fell from the blankets, landing next to the man's feet. It was addressed to no one and it had a seal. He stared at the seal in wonder before wiping a bit of his blood on it. The seal disappeared and he pulled out a letter.
Dear Pein,
I had placed a seal on this letter so if you or the Old Man read this you would receive different letters. I'm happy that you received this first because I'm afraid the Old Man doesn't have the influence over the council anymore. Well, to get to the point, Kushina and I are pretty much dead. Scouts had told that the Kyuubi no Youko is on its way. I had planned to use my daughter, Namikaze Uzumaki Hikari Naru, as the Jinchuuriki, leaving her with Kushina… Unfortunately, there were…complications with the delivery. Please take Hikari with you and leave Konoha. Raise her as your own and tell her when she's ready about her heritage. I have a scroll with all mine and Kushina's techniques which you can give to her when she's old enough.
Namikaze Minato
Pein clutched the letter tightly in his hand while Konan hummed to Hikari. His eyes softened a bit before he turned around. The baby was all they had left of Minato and Kushina. "Let's go," he commanded and they left in a poof.
Konan POV- Akatsuki Base – October 12, 0001 – 5:24 A.M
I looked towards Pein's direction as we walked into the base. Wouldn't the rest of the member's know if we suddenly waltzed into the base with a baby that was sure to cry? I know that the reason we brought the child was because of our obligation to Minato and Kushina, but was it safe for the child. The others had no definite morals so who was to say that they wouldn't slit the child's throat while we were away. I held the baby closer to my chest as I thought of that possibility. 'If they dare harm this child I will personally de-vein them in the most painful way possible using a paper scalpel.'
I grew nervous as we traveled further into the base. I used every ounce of will power to convince the baby in every way not to cry without making too much noise. Thankfully, she stayed a sleep until we reached Pein's room.
Pein closed the door behind me. I let out a sigh of relief. Mine and Pein's room were soundproof and protected by seals just in case someone tried to spy or kill us in our sleep. I hummed a little tune the baby as I watched Pein set up an altar. 'An altar?' I wondered. Was he doing what I thought he was doing? "Are we adopting the gir-"
"Hikari. We are adopting Namikaze Uzumaki Hikari Naru," he corrected me. He cut his finger with a kunai and let it spill into an ink bowl. His wound healed when he channeled chakra through his hand and into the ink. He picked up a brush and started to write the proper seals for the ceremony. He stopped half way and beckoned me to come over. I repeated the same steps as he did and hesitated as I picked up the brush. He looked at me questionably. "Isn't this what you wanted?" he asked.
'What I wanted?' Why would he think a child was what I wanted? We are missing nins. We have bounty on our heads. We have to constantly move. Even if I could have a baby, a child…a precious child. We…we wouldn't be able to keep it safe. We could be killed any minute when we were out on missions! A dry sob escaped from my lips. I had lost all ability to cry tears when I had found out Pein and I were infertile.
He placed his arms around me and held me comfortingly. He hadn't just done this for our deceased friends; he had done it for me. He saw the way I yearned for a child. He never showed affection for me in public but I knew now that he truly loved me.
He helped guide my hand as I finished my part of the seals. We placed Hikari on the altar and we surrounded her from both sides. We flashed through the hand seals in perfect sync. The seals glowed before melting away into her body. The seals slowly dimmed and finally disappeared all together from her skin. I picked her up and held her as Pein wrapped his arms around the both of us. She was ours.
TCB…
Authors Note
Well hello! This is Yuuka Tanari again and I'd love to introduce my forth story ever.
I am sorry to announce that I shall no longer be writing Twin Princes and a Maid or The Priceless Kunoichi. I have lost all drive for those stories for one, I had no idea where the first one was actually going though I had a rough sketch of it and two, I had lost all interest in YuYu Hakusho and InuYasha for the second. I am terribly sorry for the people who liked the stories. I will be putting up the basic plots of the story without too much for limiting the stories if anyone wants to adopt them. Just PM me if you are going to continue them.
Vampirism however I am going to repost under the new name Fangs for I had found that someone on FanFiction had a Naruto vampire story under this name after I edit it a bit.
Okay onto notes about The Akatsuki's Daughter. If you guys actually paid close attention, you would have seen that after the date of the scene it actually said A.K which I made up for standing for After Kyuubi. The date such as before A.K is actually going to be something the same for before the A.K. So Hikari's birthday is actually the start of a new era for the shinobis of the Elemental Countries. Also Naruto's name is Hikari, not Naru. Naru is her middle name. I tried to keep the format of her name as close to Japanese as I could, so it's last, first, then middle name.
Okay, I also want to announce I am looking for a beta reader before I go. Well, review please, something with constructive criticism to help me with the story. I want at least 10 before I update this.
