Today was the 10th of October the day of the Kyuubi Festival. On this day 5 years ago the Yondaime defeated the Demon Fox that had attacked the village. They would spend a week building an effigy of the Fox and burn it down on the anniversary of the battle. But before then the villagers would dress up in Kimono or Yukata and enjoy festival foods such as Takoyaki or Yakisoba. There was a wide range of festival games such as darts and goldfish scooping. You could even watch the ninja tournament where low ranking ninjas would fight for entertainment and the chance to win ¥1,000,000. Sadly we aren't focusing on the fun aspects of this festival.
Our story goes to the red light district of the town with a girl at the age of 5 who went by Uzu and a girl that was 7 who went by Hikaru. They were both Uzumaki's though only one looked like it. Hika the oldest had blood red hair with orange tips. Her skin was pale as fallen snow, her eyes the color of the sky. She had two whisker marks on each cheek. She was wearing a royal blue kimono with orange flowers running along the bottom. Her sash was yellow with red embroidered flowers. She had her hair up in a gold hairpin with the Uzumaki swirl dangling from it. She was fixing her younger sisters hair.
Uzu stared in the mirror as Hika fixed her hair with the matching hairpin Jiji bought them. They were almost the same size though Hika was two inches taller. Uzu looked at the sunny blonde mess that was her hair and looked to Hika's red in envy. Her Amethyst colored eyes watching her sister's skilled hands as they braided her hair to look like a crown. She started playing with her the sleeve of her Orange kimono with a tanned hand. It like her sisters had blue flowers on it with a red sash and yellow flowers.
"Girls are you ready?" Their Guardian called. "Yes!" Hika yelled as they ran towards their bedroom door. There she stood in a dark purple kimono with a light purple sash. Her blue-black hair held back with a crown. She looked at her adopted children with her pale blue-purple eyes. Her name Tsubaki Uzumaki a former branch member ninja or the Hyuuga clan. Before she was cast out after she failed to stop the kidnapping of the Main Branches Heiress.
Tsubaki remembered when she was called in by the Hokage she was so scared. She thought she would be punished by him as well. To her surprise though he offered her a living wage for taking care of the two children she took care of now. He taught her about the seals on them each holding half of the Kyuubi. She has been taking care of them since.
"Ki-chan why are we going to the festival you have never taken us before?" Hikaru asked. "Well, I thought since you guys wanted to go so bad I would take you." "Yay!" The girls screamed while jumping up and down in excitement! Tsubaki stuck out her hands and Uzu grabbed her right hand while Hikaru grabbed her left. They walked out the door with Hikaru locking it on their way out.
A few hours after eating ramen and being turned away from playing any games Tsubaki said that she had someone she wanted to introduce to them. They walked down an alley on the way to the Kyuubi effigy. When 5 shadows jumped down from their hiding place. They were all wearing masks. "Well if it isn't the Traitor and the Kyuubi siblings. You are finally altogether away from the seals that protect your home. You have no idea how long we have waited for this." They started walking towards them slowly. Tsubaki's eyes widened and she activated her Byakugan noticed she was surrounded and outclassed by every one of them. There were ten in all. They were at least Jonin level except for the Chunin and two Anbu. They had no chance.
"I don't care what you do to me but please let the children go." "I'm sorry Traitor we only came for the kids. If you don't give us trouble then we will let you go free." She got into her Gentle Palm defensive stance and got ready to defend the scared children clutching onto her legs. "Wrong move Bitch." The leader stated as he ran towards her with kunai in hand. She grabbed her kunai from under her kimono and blocked the knife headed for her face. They went on trading blows for the next few minutes until he stopped and backed up.
He made a gesture and the other 9 jumped in and she used the Rotation jutsu that her former clan is famous for. It blew them all back and she threw her kunai and killed the Chunin. After doing this 3 more times she was panting and out of chakra, there was still six of them left. She collapses on her knees and pulled a paper out of her sleeve and activated it with her blood and the last of her chakra. "I'm sorry girls. Just know I love you." Tsubaki collapsed the men advanced and separated the sisters each too scared to scream.
It took the Hokage 10 minutes to get there but by then it was too late. Tsubaki was bleeding out with chakra exhaustion. Hikaru was dead and the half of the Kyuubi she held was trying to get out. Uzu was screaming holding her eyes the others were killed instantly when the foul chakra began leaking from the now dead girl. The Hokage put up a barrier and pulled out the seal that he needed in case this ever happened. He began funneling the other half of the Kyuubi's chakra into the screaming girl. Causing her to pass out.
The girl was crying and walking through the sewer she found herself in. She followed the sounds of the angry growls she heard more afraid of the men who had hurt her family than the monster making that noise. She found herself face to face with a giant fox. "Aren't you the Kyuubi? I thought the Yondaime killed you." "No, I'm a pony princess" The angry fox yelled. "Ki-chan said you shouldn't lie." "I am well aware what the human told you, child. If you release me I can bring your sister back to life." "I can't do that Mister Fox. If you are in me then it means you can't hurt anyone but me. I don't want you to hurt anyone else. So no I won't." The fox swung one of his tails at her and she flinched but didn't move. His tail hit a white light that surrounded her and burned him. "How could you want to save the very people who killed your sister and dear Ki-chan" "Because they are just blind and don't know any better. They don't understand that I am not you. They are blinded by their hatred and grief. If I let you kill them I'm no better than they are.
The fox pondered is this the child the sage often babbled about toward the end? He and his siblings thought he was just going crazy. "You are a right child so I will grant you a wish." "Can you save them?" "May I have control of your body?" "Yes." She decided to believe in him because he didn't seem all that bad.
Uzu's body stood up her eyes red and found her sister she put her hand on her and pumped red chakra into her body Kyuubi finding out that the damage of his other half being ripped from her was too much and her spirit had moved on to the other side already. Sadly there was nothing he could do. So he moved onto the woman she looked up at him drawing her last breaths. He couldn't save her either. The Hokage asked what he was doing. "Attempting to help the Girl. She will need all the help she can get. She has a big destiny to uphold. Take her to a hospital her eyes are getting darker by the second."
