Hey guy, again! So, I know that the last one was not really that interesting, but I'm aasking you please be patient with me, 'kay? After this one it'll be better (I hope 0_o). Anyway, I don't own Naruto, or the movie this is based off from, or even the subtitles. The credit goes to its original owner. Thank you and enjoy!


CHAPTER 2: Continue the Mission

In the morning, Naruto and the others headed out toward the shrine, but ended up getting attacked by the intruders again. Naruto and Lee went to intercept the invaders. Sakura and the priestess went to escape with Neji right behind. The other two attackers followed them and were able to trick them and Sakura was attacked from behind without any guard.

Sakura was poisoned and dropped to the ground but Neji caught her and went after Shion. The attacker used dark medical jutsu.

"Time to start the operation." he said

When Naruto was able to finally catch up to them with Lee, he saw Shion dead on the ground. But, it was actually Taruho. Shion came out and expained that her prediction was correct and Taruho died using Shadow Mirror Shapeshift to protect the her by dying in her place.

"Taruho was a fool. There's no need to mourn for an idiot who chose to die." Shion said with her back turned.

"You…" he said angrily. "And just who do you think he died fo-"

"Shut up! Just shut up!" she said and ran. Naruto wasn't finished talking so he ran after her. "Wait!"

"I said wait!" he said. "Taruho sacrificed his life! He threw it away. He did it for you!"he yelled at her as she ran up a hill. "And you won't even cry for him? Are you really that cold-hearted?" The High Priestess stopped to catch her breath beside a tree. "Don't you feel anything?" he criticized.

"Who doesn't feel grief when someone close to them dies?!" she cried. Naruto was caught off guard and was surprised.

"I'm not allowed to cry. If I did, it'd be an insult to all those who have died for me."

"Why?" he asked.

"Foresight is used to protect the priestess. The moment she senses her death is near, her soul separates from her body, and shows and image of her death to her past self. And at the moment of her death, she sees those who are with her at the time. They ask the priestess about premonitions of death, and believe they have to sacrifice themselves to save her. This is how the priestess's foresight works; by sacrificing others to live on."

"I don't really get it, but the visions are a warning that the priestess is going to die?"

"I might as well die… You don't know how many times I've thought that… But that is also not allowed. If I die, then there will be no one left who can seal away Mouryou. And the world will be destroyed. No matter how painful it is, I must keep on living by sacrificing others!"

"That's crazy! Why do the people of the Demon Country have to be sacrificed?"

"That's how it is. That's who we are. No matter how unfair it seems, we must accept it. This is the fate bestowed upon the High Priestess and my village."

"That's okay with you?" he asked. "Do you…really…believe that?"

She cried into her arms and kept her head down.

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"We need to throw off any pursuers," Neji said after they buried Taruho. "Naruto, you're in charge of taking her to the shrine."

"Okay. Let's go."

A few minutes after Naruto left, Neji figured out that they relied greatly on an outside source for their chalkra. When the intruders were close to out of chalkra, Sakura, Neji, and Lee, found a way to defeat them. It was all up to Naruto now.

"There it is!" Naruto said after he found the shrine. "There's the entrance."

"Have you been here before?" she asked.

"No, but I got a feeling that's it!" 'What an unreliable guy', she thought. "Hurry up and seal Mouryou so you can forget about all that destiny junk!"

"Destiny cannot be change-" Naruto already jumped before she finished her sentence.

"Give me a break! I'll prove you wrong!" Right when he said that, the stone ghost army appeared. She sensed that Mouryou was near. He attacked one of them, while he carried her, but it pushed him upward, and she fell off.

'Will I live…?' the falling priestess thought. The ring of a bell was heard. 'Will I be saved again?' She opened her eyes and realized something. "If I die here, Naruto and the villagers…" She slowly turned her body facing the ground below her as she was falling. "…They won't have to die yet." She prepared herself, but just as she did, strong arms caught her and pulled her into his body like a shield right before they hit the lake. Splash!

Naruto walked out of the lake with the young priestess in his arms, with both of them dripping wet. He set her down up against a tree.

"Ouch…. I totally back-flopped…" Naruto said as he tried to soothe his aching back.

"You shouldn't have saved me." Shion said. "Then you wouldn't have to worry about dying. At least, not until Mouryou destroys the world." she looked down almost shamefully.

"Maybe." he replied. He took off his loose headband and shook the water out of his hair. Shion saw his face with a smile; a real, content smile.

"But…" he started. "I won't die!" He tightened his headband. "No way!"

"That's impossible."

"It is not!" he replied.

"Then that means I'm the one who'll di-"

"I won't let you die, either." he interrupted. "One of has to die!" she commented.

"Says who? There's a million different things that could happen."

"Don't make me repeat myself! Destiny cannot be-"

"I'll protect you!" he said up near her face. She was a little surprised at his comment and the distance between them and she quickly turned around.

"You won't be able to." she said, but how he said it, it was getting hard to believe her own words.

"Shion, trust me." Her face was still turned away from him. 'Why am I turning away from him?' she thought. "Trust-!" she turned around, but was caught mid-sentence. His back was towards her and his hand held a thumbs-up. "I have a plan." He turned to look at her.

"This time, everything will be fine!"

"Naruto…"

"Come on." he crouched down and offered his back to carry her. "Let's go." she hesitated but climbed onto his back.

"Naruto?" she asked quietly.

"Hm?"

"You promise?"

"You bet. I swear on my way of the ninja this will work!"

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Naruto ran straight towards the ghost stone army with his Rasengan. His shadow clones were fending off the ghosts. One of the Narutos carried Shion in his arms and got her safely to the entrance of the shrine.

"Naruto…"

He looked back at the army. "Go! Hurry up and-!" Right before he finished his sentence he was stabbed through the chest by one of the ghost soldiers. Shion gasped and blinked her eyes, but her prediction in her vision was a little different. Poof! It was only a shadow clone. Shion fell backwards in shock and relief.

"What are you doing? Hurry up and go!" he said as he tried to fend off the ghost puppets.

She slowly got up. "Well, don't confuse me then!" she yelled at him, but was actually very relieved that he was still alive.


Soooooo, What do you think? WAIT A MINUTE! Please write it in the reviews section thank you. If you don't like this one, try my other fanfic. It might be better. But I think I'm going to make those 2 stories related in the end, so read it anyhow. Thank you again.