A tale never told
3 days later with Naruto
Naruto was now only a minute away from suna. Things had not changed much, though the wall around the town looked more defended than the last time he had been there. Gara was waiting for him in front of the gate with Temari.
"Hey brat its been a while," Temari said.
Gaara just stared and said "Uzumaki."
"Hey Gaara, Temari, how have you two been?" Naruto responded.
"Fine Naruto, but I have some news that will be important for you to know," Gaara said this in a very monotone voice.
Naruto just looked at him, eye twitching and said "You haven't lightened up much since the last time I was here."
"Uzumaki the time for pleasantries will be after we get this over with. Follow me to the kazekage building," Gaara said in his still very monotone voice. Naruto straightened up and walked in a very serious manner towards the building. What ever it was, he could tell he was not going to like it.
In the woods near the hidden leaf, a silver wolf was bleeding, two knives sticking from its back and burn wounds on its back legs. This wolf had lost its pursuers but was not at all able to help himself. His back legs gave out on him so that he was in a sitting position. The silver wolf let out one howl and fell to the ground. The wolf spoke, "Young onnnnee I'mm …. Sorry."
Hinata had spent the last ten minutes crying out her frustration. She had gotten up and was about to go home when she heard the howl of a wolf. Curious as to what was going on, she made a quick dash to where she heard the sound. Making it to the spot she saw a wolf that couldn't stand and looked near death. Hinata walk closer to the wolf but stepped on a twig. The wolf struggled to get in a defensive stance and bared its teeth at her, looking her straight in the eyes but saw no sign of hate, no sign of fear, and no intent to harm. The wolf fell back down still looking at the girl.
Hinata said in a very soft voice, "I won't hurt you. Please just let me help." She said this walking slowly toward the wolf. Hinata's soft voice soothed the wolf, taking away any intent to resist. Hinata sat down beside the wolf pulled, out the blades and started to heal him. The wolf said nothing during this, afraid that if he did she may just notice that he was no ordinary animal.
But Hinata knew something strange was going on. "Wolves aren't seen in this area; they're usually across the water to the north. You must have a master that brought you here huh." Hinata spoke trying to make sure the animal was calm. Though the wolf was irritated at someone thinking he was owned, he just put his head up and licked her for trying to comfort him.
"You're really cute and nice. Why would anyone attack you?" She had finished with the outside wounds and was ready to start on the burns. She spoke again, "That part's done, but I think I should see to these burns."
She put her hand up and activated her Byakugan so she could see on the inside so as not to make any mistakes with the damaged tissue. The wolf tensed, seeing her use something other than medical chakra. Hinata started healing the wounds, also noticing the chakra systems were developed at a high rate.
"Your chakra system is developed pretty well. Were you an attack hound?" She asked, scratching his ears. The wolf melted at the touch.
"Can you understand me somewhat?" The wolf was hesitant but nodded. "Good. When I get done we'll look for your master if you can move, ok?"
The wolf made no response of understanding to this.
"Your master, is he/ she wounded as well?" That was a questions the wolf could not answer, but he thought, the young one will be ok. This girl is kind, but I won't be able to hold this fake chakra system much longer. This power she has, is she looking through me? I did not know humans could do things like this. I'll have to make a run for it before she sees my demonic chakra
Hinata thought the worst when she got no nod and the animal was so to speak looking into space. To be honest, it looked like that question hurt him mentally. She finished healing the tissue. The wolf was about to run for it, but the girl latched onto his neck. He looked at her eyes, they weren't pumping chakra anymore and her eyes were watery. He thought about getting out of her grasp but couldn't get his legs to pull away from her; his body was stiff.
"I'm sorry. Is your master gone?" she said, not wanting to say the other word. Tears hit the wolf's fur. He was a bit taken back by the emotion shown to a simple animal. Young one I wish u could have grown around humans as these, the wolf thoughtOn the outside, the wolf looked sad or lonely. The wolf looked toward her.
"I did not mean to sadden you. I won't let you be you be alone." She embraced him.
She can't see my demonic chakra at the moment. Maybe it wouldn't hurt to stay for a while. I can make a run for it and find the young one later, the wolf thought to itself
Hinata got up and walked the wolf towards the village but not before using a henge jutsu to make the wolf look like a normal dog. As they walked, Hinata talked about her love to the wolf like he was a normal person and halfway back to the village she felt no more sadness from her earlier problemsShe was still in some ways angry, but meeting a new friend and helping him had lifted her spirits. She had seen sadness like that in Naruto and had done nothing. She was happy she could in some small way help someone else.
Naruto was now in Gaara's office, where Gaara stood stone faced in front of him. "Uzumaki, as you know, there are still two members of the Akatsuki out there. Our intelligence gatherers said that they're making their move."
Naruto responded, "I haven't been attacked or anything. You mean they've been spying on me?"
Gaara shook his head. "No Naruto, you are not the last Jinchuuriki."
Naruto's eyes widened "How is that possible? There were only 9 and all the others were taken. The last one to be put into that statue is the 9 tailed fox."
Gaara just shook his head. "There was a legend that that there were not 9 demons but 10. Sit down Naruto and I'll tell you what we were able to understand from an old text we found."
Naruto grumbled "Yea, just what I need history class."
"Ok Naruto, the legend goes that there was a tenth demon, the strongest of demons. It was a wolf named Shakiidaa. He was different from the other demons. Whereas they had demonic chakra, he had a sort of holy or spiritual chakra. Shakiidaa kept order and he was kind and respected by humans and their world. You know best that the nine tails came from the world of summonings, right?"
"You mean to say, like, the 9 or 10 great demons were like cheif toad?"
Gaara shook his head again. "No, the tailed beasts were as gods in that world for many years they balanced the power into ten different areas of their world. Kyuubi wanted more power though and tried to bring down Shakiidaa. He failed, but Shakiidaa was too kind and let him live. Kyuubi began to exploit this weakness to the other demons bringing 4 more of the other tailed beasts against him. The Kyuubi had appealed to their greed, promising that after taking Shakiidaa down they could rule both the human and demon world. Shakiidaa saw the uprising coming and did his best to calm things peacefully, but that wasn't to be. They attacked but still did not completely win the fight for days, until the only ones will enough energy to fight were Shakiidaa and Kyuubi. Shakiidaa pleaded for a peaceful resolve, but Kyuubi wouldn't hear of it."
Gaara took a deep breath and then continued. "They fought until both were on their last legs, about deliver one final move. Both fell, but something happened to Shakiidaa. His normal spiritual chakra was tainted by the demonic chakra of the Kyuubi. The demonic chakra threatened to take him over, so he fled to the human world to purify himself. But, he needed a human. If he could find a human with pure mind he could purify him self. He fond a baby close by, and who has a more pure mind than a baby? So he sealed himself inside this baby. Little did he know of the war within that village, that baby seeing the things he did at such a young age, made the corruption worse. One night the village was being slaughtered and the baby with full knowledge let a massive amount of chakra out killing many enemies in the village. From that day on the baby was known as a demon much like we were. Naruto, are you still following?"
Naruto was in awe at hearing Gaara talk so much, but quickly nodded his head.
Gaara went on, "Ok, well, Akatsuki only needs 9 demons of similar power. Shakiidaa is now over the half way limit of Kyuubi's demonic chakra, but the corruption goes up or down depending on the carrier's heart and mind. If the Akatsuki get the Jinchuuriki, all they would need is to dishearten him and use him as your replacement."
Naruto thought for a second. "But Gaara, there's only two members left. They can't cause this Jinchuuriki that much of a problem."
Gaara nodded, "In some ways that could be true, but they have been sending bounty hunters after him, plus Pein is still a god to the rain village. After the other member were defeated he gained more control of their army, or at least that's what we've heard."
Naruto was thinking again. I knew I wasn't going to like this. Naruto looked at Gaara bit curiously. "So do we know where this other Jinchuuriki is?"
Gaara looked at him and grinned. "Yea. How do you think we found out about the seal?"
Naruto was still curious. "So why am I here for 2 months?"
"That is your choice. The Jinchuuriki only came because Kankuro told him there was someone like him out here and because Kankuro was the only one he ever knew that didn't look at him with hate. I would like you to train him for two months on how to control the demon's power, as he is somewhat unstable."
Naruto considered it for a second. "Well I can do that closer to the leaf village, plus it took me more then two years to get the control I had of that type of chakra and an extra 6 months of my own secret training. I don't think 2 months will be enough."
"Two months will be fine. He's not as challenged as you and where you will be training it may seem like two years anyway."
Naruto frowned at the comment about his slowness but was curious as to where this training will take place. "Ok, so where to then? And where's this guy anyway?"
Gaara sat down, "The Kyuubi chakra has taken over 80 of him so far, but from what he has told Matsuri-chan he can go into a hibernative state that could pull the corruption back down to a least 50 percent, but it will take two months to even get to this 50 percent state, which explains the length of time I wanted you to stay. You will be training in his mindscape.
Naruto frowned again, "I don't like being in my own mindscape, so why would I want to be in someone else's?"
"Look Naruto, if they get either one of you there won't be a soul on earth to save us. We have to make sure he can defend himself properly.
Naruto nodded, "So where is he?"
"He is with Matsuri-chan."
Naruto grinned, "You said Matsuri-chan twice."
Gaara's eye brow twitched. Sand wrapped around Naruto's neck. "That doesn't leave this room or I swear I'll kill you."
The sand let go of Naruto's neck as he backed up a bit from the angry eyes watching him. Temari just sat back against the ginning ear to ear.
"Temari you go get Matsuri and see if the Jinchuuriki is awake yet."
Temari still grinning walked out calling, "Yes kazekage-sama. I'll get Matsuri-chan."
Hinata was getting ready for work. She had been with the wolf, or, to everyone else's eyes, white dog with black spots, for three days now and was happy for the comfort the dog had given her. He had become her outlet to her troubles and for a reason unknown to her a constant reminder of Naruto.
It could have been because she had spoken so much of him to the wolf, but it didn't matter. He was the listener she needed and the soft body to hug when her sorrows overcame her.
To him she was the one spark of hope that humans were not as heartless as he had seen in the past. He had wished so much for "young one" to be with people like her, even though he had deeply hated the name he was given (Ramen) in front of the people she had let him meet, "Tenten and Kurenai".
He was somewhat annoyed being named after a young man's addiction, but couldn't speak on it and blow his cover. Besides, he had decided to leave today to find the "young one". It was five in the morning and Hinata had changed her schedule so as not to come into contact with Sakura and so as to not spend so much time with Ino. She did not want to speak anymore about things that would make her sad or things she really shouldn't know in the first place. She had already thought to herself if she should tell Naruto about Sakura, but was it her place to say? She thought not. Plus, he had already been acting strangely towards her. She didn't want to ruin a chance at keeping a friendship with him and hated the thought of hurt in his eyes if she did tell. She decided to trust what Ino had said, that Sakura would tell him on her own.
"Ok Ramen, I have to get going. You have some food here if you want. I"ll be back soon. Be good," Hinata said, giving a soft smile as she left. The wolf sat in the room alone, almost like a statue, white slit eyes closed for about ten minutes after Hinata had left.
Ok I can sense the young girl is at that place of healing she goes to every day. Now to search for the "young one". He had spent ten more minutes in silence. I can't feel him? He must still be knocked out. Damn that's going to make things harder on me. If I use any abnormal charka, someone may sense me, but I don't have much of a choice at the moment … I'd better look for an escape before I do this.
The wolf placed and large amount of charka into his senses. The charka could be felt by a number of ninja, but many did not want to find out what could produce that much charka. The wolf had a completely black cloak of charka over him. Where is he…. Wait, there
He pin pointed the direction of the young one, stopped the charka flow, and started on his way toward the woods as unnoticeably as he could. Fifteen minutes later, he had made it to the woods and was on a clear path to where he needed to be when he was stopped deed in his tracks by a large dog and a human that resembled a half beast to him.
"I've been smelling wolf for a while now… as if that wasn't enough to kick your sorry ass, you're also the owner of that charka I felt a while ago. I don't know what you're doing or what you've got planed, but it ends now." Kiba said pulling out a knife and getting ready in his stance.
The wolf looked on in annoyance. Looks like I'll have to beat up my trained kin before I get to the young one. This could be interesting.
Note: this comes from an old sayingthat dogs and wolves don't get along. Dogs are the trained wolves of the wild, so Kiba and Akumaru have a natural dislike for wolves.
Next chap I'll try my hand at a fighting scene. Should be fun. Also, we finally meet this young one. Please people, review me. I could really write faster, but the lack of reviews are killing me lol ok.
Quackpotty sill waiting for chapt6!!!