Experiment 52
Summary: Saratobi realises that the village is becoming more and more corrupt, he realises that unless something is done about the council then the ninja's will begin a rebellion. So he calls in the only person he can think of with enough power to defeat an entire village of corrupt politicians. [Pairings undecided] [FemNaru, FemDei]
"Speech"
'Thoughts'
-- Setting change
** Time Change **
*Scene Setting*
Chapter 1: The Beginning
*Konohagakure, 9pm*
The fire was slowly spreading, the monster ever so slightly forcing its way into the village as good men fell before it. Only one thing had the power to cause such chaos; the king of the tailed beasts, the Kyuubi no Kitsune. With each flick of one of his nine tails, mass destruction, each roar, each step, each breath causing deaths in their thousands. The demon fox was believed to be indestructible, but only a god is immortal, and Kyuubi was not a god, he was a demon.
Only one man stood against him, a man with shocking blond hair and bright blue eyes. He held a bundle in his hands and stood on top of a giant toad. The Yondimane Hokage, a man remembered forever in Konoha history as the one that defeated the demon which no one could beat. The saviour of the village hidden in the leaves.
He moved the bundle to one side, went through the seals, reciting them in his head as he went, before yelling out the sealing name. He watched in silent awe as before him materialised the shape of the shinigami, the death god.
"Good evening. Kyuubi, Minato." The blond stood silent, not knowing how to respond, while the Kyuubi chuckled and bowed its head.
"Shinigami-sama, it has been so long." The shinigami nodded in reply.
"Well then, let's get down to business. First, Kyuubi what are you doing? Second, I'm going to have to seal you, third, not in that child." Minato looked down to the bundle in his arms.
"Shinigami-sama, what is wrong with my son?" he asked, while Kyuubi looked around.
"Hum, these insects deserve to be killed, there is evil brewing in this village, dangerous evil." Kyuubi replied to the shinigami.
"Minato, your son, he is not destined to be on this earth for long, as I think you know he was born premature because of Kushina's stress, in the birth things went wrong. Naruto, the child, his lungs are weak and his heart is failing. Kyuubi would simply break out of the child's body and you death would have been useless. I'm sorry Kyuubi but you must be sealed." He added seeing Kyuubi frown, how the fox managed was lost on the Yondimane but never the less. The shinigami the continued, "I have someone to hold Kyuubi for you though." Minato nodded and held the child towards the shinigami. He took it and watched him sleeping soundly; the death god said a small prayer. There was a ray of sunlight, like the last ray of hope against the red demon fox and beside the shinigami appeared a twelve year old girl, see through with an outline of red. She looked to the death god who nodded and took the sleeping baby's hand, sliding into his body with a slight shimmer of air.
Minato had to admit, it was slightly disturbing yet very beautiful. Shinigami then gently took the fox's soul and sealed it into the now girl child. He nodded to Minato and the blond let himself be taken. Rising with shinigami to watch from the sky how the world would react to the angel with the sealed demon.
Through it all, even the sealing, no one noticed how any other child would have been screaming from the pain of having the toxic chakra put in to the body, as the chakra pathways were under developed but were still there, however this small child never made a sound. The bright blue eyes simply closed and she slept soundly.
*21 years later, Series of alleyways beneath the Hokage's tower, 2:30 am*
Saratobi, the Sandimane Hokage, a man famous around the elemental countries, the only Hokage in history to have taken the Kage title twice. Right now he was walking through the one of the many hallways of Konoha, the village hidden in the leaves. Behind him, his two most trusted shinobi, Hitake Kakashi and Mitarashi Anko. They were heading to a secret place, known only by a select few. A place that had never been opened in 21 years. 'Today,' thought Saratobi 'is the day that I take action. I have been sitting like an old man for too long. I have to save Konoha before it is too late!' his thoughts were brought from rumours through the shinobi grape vine that the council had been having meetings under the disguise of civilian matters, and it was all about the Hokage and his power. The ninja were getting shifty, and the tension was starting to grow. It was best now to stop it then wait for a civil war, a simple conclusion, yet one that was going to change many people's lives, in many ways.
They came to a heavily armoured door, one encrusted with a black seal with parts missing. The third bit his finger and filled in the missing parts before wiping away certain other parts. A pattern of jewels rose out the door and the old man began to tap ones in a code that made sense only to him.
Inside the Sandimane's mind: 'Never Eat Shredded Wheat or You Will Feel the Heat', he gave a little chuckle as he tapped the last jem. The two ninja behind him shared a look. The door slid open with a soft clunk against the stone wall and the three stepped in. They were encased in darkness as the door shut behind them, the lights only turning on once the door had securely locked itself again. Before them lay a wide room with the wall only a few strides away, but the sides at least a few minutes or so. The Sandimane turned right and they found that in the walls were little caves of varying sizes holding various things. Anko saw one with the world record attempt for the most kunai thrown in one minute, while Kakashi saw one holding a potion bottle marked X that seemed to have green blotches floating in it. Saratobi stopped outside the deepest one and gestured for them to look inside.
In the darkness they could make out some sort of wooden box. The wood itself was a dull brown colour, nothing remarkable. It seemed to hold the shape of a coffin. And if the sparkling on the lid was anything to go by it had jewels encrusted in the top.
"This is what we are here for." Sandimane said his voice quiet in the endless halls. They looked at him, slightly shocked before Anko broke the pause.
"We came for a box?" her voice holding slight annoyance.
"No, we came for what is in the box." He replied calmly. They dragged the box out, gritting their teeth against the sound of the wood against the stone floor. Once in the light they could see the jewels clearly, sapphires and rubies, emeralds and diamonds, this was one lucky box. The third sighed, wiping some of his blood on a bright ruby at the top. All the other crystals faded away, leaving just rubies. They glowed, quickly and in a pattern that the man then touched. Locks were heard clicking. Giving the sign Saratobi watched as the two ninja pulled off the heavy lid, yes it may have been made of wood but Saratobi didn't want to take any chances with it, so he had placed seals all over it.
Slowly, revealed by the sliding lid they found a doll, she was so life like that, for only a second, they had though someone had sealed a little girl into the box, maybe she was just a puppet. She had blonde hair tucked behind her body, a blood red knee length dress with purple lace around the sleeves, neck line, and hem, she wasn't wearing any shoes. Around her was a turquoise ribbon with strange seals, a large red jem resting on her forehead. The thoughts of her not being alive were crushed as the old man ripped off the turquoise ribbon, by pulling the jem that was rested on her forehead and chucking it away. He leaned back as the girl's eyes slowly opened, to reveal purple with a black slit. Blinking, she sat herself up.
"What the fuck?" Anko said in amazement.
"Are you ok?" Saratobi asked his hand reaching out but hesitating. She stood herself up, staying securely in the box, not acknowledging anything around her.
"Hey! Show some respect, that's the hokage talking to you!" Anko yelled forgetting her previous thoughts.
"Anko!" Saratobi chided.
"Human." The girl murmured, her voice smooth, "I hate humans" she tipped her head to the side. They all paused, wondering how to react to that. Saratobi acted first, moving to stand in front of her, bowing.
"Please, help us. Our village has become something unworthy of being a part of this world, with selfish people and selfish thoughts. We need your help to set it right, and to save the future generation from the influence of these people." She kneeled to his level, staring into his eyes, looking to the astonished Anko and Kakashi.
"Prove to me that your village is so desperately in need of me."
"How?" Kakashi asked. She stood up again, slowly stepping out of the box.
"Hitake Kakashi. What are you sorry for?" Kakashi's eye said it all to her and she nodded. Turning back to Saratobi she said,
"You understand what is needed for my power?"
Saratobi shook his head, "We do not wish for your power." Her face showed her shocked features before it was schooled into one of indifference, but her tone became annoyed.
"Then you do not know what I am." Saratobi nodded,
"I know who you are, Naruto of the Metherlence line, one of the Shichiko-hoju or would you prefer Experiment 52, Soshi Kokoromi, Element Experiment." Her eyes widened and she turned away,
"Naru would be fine."
"Naru then, we do not want your powers; we want you as a person. Your personality, character and influence, you could change the younger generation." The third hokage was getting more excited, and looked to be convincing him more as he tried to convince Naru.
"What is happening in the village?" She asked Anko as the third went off into a full rant about all the positives of what was going on.
"We have a corrupt council, one that is going to bring about a war, and one that is starting to ruin a young boy's life." Anko and Kakashi told her everything about the Konoha council, how they were starting to get more power and that soon the Hokage would just be a political front. The told her about the Uchia massacar and how Uchia Sasuke was now hell bent on revenge, how the council was pampering him and they were making his ego too big for his power level. "if he faces an enemy now, he will die." Kakashi finished.
"Danzo." She said quietly, "I need to know more about him. A war lord will be one who craves power, blood, death," she paused, and they watched fasinated as she closed her eyes, sat down and a red power circled her. Strange simbols, pictures and sentances were made out of it. With a jolt they realised that it was everything they had told her, and some of it things she had already known about Konoha. Everything formed into a list, and moved to the left while new sentances, pictures and simbols appeared on the right. Scrolling up too fast to be seen clearley but they guessed they were plans. She opened her eyes and the power faded away.
She stood up and turned to the raving hokage.
"Hokage-sama," she scoffed, continuing, "though you are human, I agree that I will help, not for you village but I have three things I need to do, two which will benefit you."
"You will help us?" he asked tentivley.
"Hai Hokage, because I have a plan." She giggled, and added, "It's good to be free, because even when sealed, people can dream, can think, can feel, but real life always turns out so much more exciting!"
Anko and Kakashi shared a look, their doubts about their leader's and new helps's sanity clear to see.
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Anko held her hand as they walked back through the hallways, this time there were no eyes that followed them. The answer to why became apparent as when they emerged into the hallway they found themselves face to face with the Hokage's 'advisors' Homura Mitokado and Koharu Utatane, his old team mates, and Danzo.
"Ah! Saratobi, good, we were just debating about wheather or not to send out a serch party. You've been gone for hours." Koharu told him, her face was well guarded. While Koharu was talking and the other two's attention was on Saratobi, Anko took the chance to push Naru behind her, the girl was shocked enough that she didn't make a sound. Inside her head Anko thatnked what ever god for it. the goup exchanged more words before Saratobi told them that he had things to do and the other three went on their way. They made their way through the winding corridors, keeping Naru in the centre of their group. They made it the Hokage's room and once in locked the doors. The third sat himself behind the desk and they talked about the next plan of action.
"I want to see Uchia Sasuke, and Since I have already met the three councillors I can then change any parts of my plan I may need to." Naru told them as she wrote what she was thinking down on paper. The third nodded and called an ANBU to him.
"Get me Uchia Sasuke." The member nodded and dissapered in a puff of smoke, startling Naru. Five minutes later had, Naru almost finished with her plan and Sasuke in the room. He had an arrogant smirk on his face, like he thought it was only right for the Hokage to want to see him.
"Sasuke, how are you?" The Hokage asked plesently.
"Good, Hokage-Sama" he nodded as he spoke.
"I have heard that you have been getting some of the best marks in the academy. Sasuke, I have to say I'm pleased. At first I thought that you would let your marks go because of what happened." Sasuke frowned, as he thought about what the Hokage was saying.
"But sir, if I want to acheve my dream I have to be the strongest." Saratobi saw Naru frown and stand up. She walked over to him and handed him the paper she had been writing on. Sasuke seemed shocked to find that there was someone else in the room, smone his own age, and someone he had never seen before. "Who are you?" an innocent question but with a tone of arrogance and annoyance. Naru tunred to face him as the third read over her plan.
"It is only manners to introduce your self before you ask the name of others," she looked him up and down, "However, because I already know of you, i will tell you. My Name is not of impotantce but if you are to call me something you will call me Naru." She turned back, as he frowned.
"Naru, this plan, it is so well thought out. I will see to it that it is written up, however I may need to make some changes, nothing big, just enough to fit withing the limits of what I can do." The hokage looked up from the plan as he spoke to her. "Sasuke, you may go now." Sasuke looked unhappy with the way he was dismissed but left quickly anyway.
** Konoha Academy, 9am Monday **
The academy students had been coming in since half eight, and Sasuke had already had enough of them. Having been the first in he had been enjoying the quiet of the morning untill more students had come in, met with friends, enimies and just generally started to make a noise. Iruka-Sensei came in at exactly nine and the room went silent. Not because the teacher had come in but because he had a new student with him. A girl of their age with two plats of long blonde hair down to her hips, a blood red knee length dress, no shoes and startling blue eyes. So late in the year, a few weeks before graduating and this girl was just starting? Murmurs ran through out the room.
Sasuke looked up when he heard the murmurs and saw that the girl from Friday was in the class room. She looked his way and received a chilling glare. Naru simply smiled. Many of the girls saw who she was smiling at, suddenly the room was filled with killing intent, while many of the boys shrank.
"Ok, please introduce yourself."
"My preffered name is Naru, I am tweleve years old and have been trained on the shinobi arts. The only reason I am here is because I need to take the Gennin test and meet my future team mates." Her silky voice came out quietly. Iruka nodded and told her to take a seat where ever she wanted. She headed over to the direction of Sasuke but walked straight past him with out a glance to sit beside Shikamaru and Choji. Nara Shikamaru was the lazyest person you could ever find, he spent every moment he could sitting watching clouds, even though he was an unparalleled genious, and a very good friend. Akamichi Choji was a big boy, he was always seen with some sort of food; it wasn't because he was greedy though, it was because it was needed for many of his clan justu, something many didn't understand.
"Good morning, Shika-kun, Choji-kun." She said as she sat down. They replied the same and Choji offered some of his crisps, something unknown for Choji to do.
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Lunch found many of the students watching the new girl as she sat with Shikamaru and Choji. She had been sitting with them for a while when some of the students came to sit wih them.
"So, Your name is Naru, yeah?" The mentioned blonde looked up to see a boy with brown hair and fang like front teeth in front of her with a small white dog in his hood.
"Yes. Your name is?"
"Inzuka Kiba. This is Akamaru, my patner." The small dog yipped and she stood to bow to them. Behind him a nervous looking girl and a boy with a high collared jacket arrived.
"G-good Afternoon" the nervous girl stuttered, her two index fingers pressing together, "M-my name I-is Hyuga Hinata, Naru-san" Naru laughed,
"Nice to meet you Hinata-chan, please call me Naru." The shy girl nodded.
"Hello, Naru-san, I am Aburame Shino" she bowed to him. After the greetings they sat down, talking and laughing. Naru and Shikamaru laid back to watch the clouds when Akamaru came over to her. She absent mindedly patte him on the head letting him lick her hand. It wasn't until he barked that Kiba realised that she was doing more than stroking him.
"That's not polite" She had murmered to him, and the small group realised she was talking to him. They watched as he barked again.
"I know, but I'm hoping he's gonna fall out of the tree. That's why I didn't mention it before."
"Mention what?" Choji asked curiously. Blinking Naru sat up.
"Uchia Sasuke has been sitting in the tree acroos the playground, staring at us since the beginning of break." They all turned to see him staring at them, when he saw that they had noticed he looked away. they could preactically hear him say "hmf".
"You can talk to Akamaru?" Kiba asked as he looked at the dog sitting on his knee.
"No. I understand him, but to be able to talk to him I would need to be able to bark." She replied, falling back down to watch the sky. Kiba gave a nod as he picked up a nearby stick and let it fly. The white puppy scampering after it. They sat in the peaceful pause of conversation untill a few girls came over to them. They stoppe just close enough to cast shadows over them.
"Suddenly it just got much more colder." Shika said sleepily.
"We're here to warn you." Sakura, a pink haired girl with teal eyes and an annoying voice, told them.
"We'll keep it in mind."Naru replied. Those around her smirking.
"We haven't told you yet!" Amy, a girl with a worse voice than Sakura, squealed.
"And now we can't hear, so your just waisting you time." Kiba shot back as he rubbed his ears.
"Look, we came to tell the new girl that she'd better stay away from Sasuke-kun. He's off limits. Get it?" Ino, a girl with bright blue eyes and long blonde hair, said before things could get out of hand.
"I don't want him." Naru yawned missing the unbeleiving looks from everyone around her, baring Shino. The girls in the group of fangirls started to yel about the outrage of it all. Somehow through it all shikamaru's complaint could be heard.
"You should have just said ok." The group laughed, the fangirls stopped shouting and just stormed away, outraged.
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When Iruka came in after lunch he found, to his surprise, all the girls glaring at Naru instead of staring at Sasuke. Many of the boys were giving her glances as well. he soon found that it was because at lunch she had told the fangirls she didn't like Sasuke, after they had given their customary warning that they gave to all new girls. He found her talking to Choji over a sleeping Shikamaru, totally ignoring the glares being sent her way.
During the next few weeks, the small group of friends got closer. They lernt a few things about Naru, such as she had a fetish for Ramen, she refused to tell them her full name, and that she thought Sasuke was lonley. She spent time doing small things that involved him, such as she asked him to borrow a pencil, she would smile at him whenever he was staring at them, and when ever sparring came she would challenge him. the group around her saw no changes untill she told them it. It was the day before the Gennin exam that it happened. They, mostly Kiba complaining, had been talking about how no matter what she had done, Sasuke had shown no change.
"-You smiled at him and he glared! Then-"
"He's moved branch" Naru's smooth voice cut Kiba off an they tuned to see that indeed Sauke had moved branch. Where he was normally on the left branch of the tree he was now on the right.
"So?" Kiba asked her.
"The left branch is slightly behind the right and closer to the fence." Naru told him
"And this means what?" Choji asked between munching crisps.
"It means that geographically Sasuke is sitting closer to us before." Shikamaru drawled.
"Which means that he feels closer to us than before" Naru said before Kiba could open his mouth. Looks of understanding dawned across their faces.
"Alright! You rock Naru!" Kiba yelled punping a fist into the air. The girl just laughed. She sat watching him untill he looked at her, when he did make eye contact she stood up and walked over to him.
"Uchia Sasuke." He said nothing.
"Uchia Sasuke. Would you like some green tea?" She asked, the fangirls who always sat around Sasuke's tree stared at her. Sasuke ever accepted anything, so why did she still ask. All during they kept eye contact and she knew that Sasuke understood what she truly ment. 'Uchia Sasuke. Would you like a friend?' the whole play ground seemed to have stopped waiting for the last Uchia's answer. Slowly Sasuke gave a tiney nod.
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Sasuke now sat with them at lunch. He was slowly opening up to them, giving retorts when Kiba insulted him, watching the cluods with Shika, accepting a crisp from Choji, green tea from Hinata, acnowleging the nod from Shino. Most of all, accepting Naru's understanding of how he truly felt, no matter how hard he tried to hide it.
** Day of the gennin Exams 10am Thurday **
Sasuke had a calm and cool front but beneith it all he could feel the butterflys in his stomach, he could see his…friends in their various positions, most of them not even nervous. Only hinata and Kiba looked as bad as he felt. Shika was asleep, Choji was eating his crisps, well if it could be counted as eating, it was more like he was teasting how fast he could shove crisps down his throught before he choked. Shino was just sitting there. He could feel them all in various states of panic, Sasuke guessed it was because they hadn't seen Naru in a week. It was only during this time that they came to realise just how much she had impacted their lives. Iruka came in and the room seemed to tense. He started to read out the rules of the first part of the test, a written one. Just as he was almost finished the Hokage came in. he whispered something to Iruka who nodded and cleared his throught.
"Class, the Hokage thought it would be best if he told you, especially her friends, "he aimed a look at the small group gathered on the left of the class, "That Naru has already gotten her headband through another type of test and will not be joinging us today." Saratobi watched as the small group visibly relaxed. He nodded to them and walked out. In the corridor stood three people. Mitarashi Anko, a woman with purple black hair and a sadistic personality. Hitake Kakashi, a man with one sharigan eye and a habit for wandering around reding porn. Lastly, a young girl in ANBU clothes with bright blonde hair and violet eyes with a slit in them. He nodded to the group.
"ANBU Team 12. Viper Kitten, Move out!" the three disapeard in a violet flash and the hokage chuckled as he made his way to the hokage tower.
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Naru, looked to the two beside her as they jumped through the trees. Nether of them looked different and from their chakra she could tell they were calm, though Anko was slightly excited. She looked forward again, a dark smile on her face.
'Obviously they can't feel it'.
Her body landed gracefully on the next branch and the angel headed toward the dark chakra.
There, a lot of you who have faved the origional story will find that this chapter is pretty much the same as our first. However there are changes, such as the little bit at the end.
I hope you like his chapter as much as you all like our origional!
Sorry that it has taken so long but sadly, Envy and I had an argument about where the story was heading.
Just to let you know as well the pairing has been decided however it can be changed. If you have a suggestion please put it forward, if enough people ask for a pairing that we have not chosen we will hold a poll to re decide.
Thank you Angel xx