Hand of Doom
Chapter 2
Introduction of my first OC. Saykia Haruno, don't worry though, she wont be a loud mouthed bitch like the others.
(2 years after meeting Raven.)
After the last attack, Naruto and Raven primarily stay in their lair, using his seemingly natural affinity with Crows and Ravens to help hunt for food, along with the odd storage scrolls they find with the symbol of Ne on them.
Unfortunately they must make the odd appearance to placate the old monkey, least he send his dogs after him thinking that he might be trying to defect.
"What is this book again?" Naruto mumbles as he turns a random page. "My mother gave me this when I came to the human world for the first time. It's supposed to explain how my powers work, but..." Seeming to understand her train of thought, Naruto nods. "Turning your powers into a bloodline kinda messes with the natural order."
"S-Sorry..." Naruto stands up and peers into the floor slightly cracked floor length mirror that he salvaged a few days ago. Raven appears in the surface of the glass looking sheepish. "Rae-chan, How many times do I have to tell you not to do that." (After their first face to face, Raven showed Naruto an easy spell to allow them to speak to each other. The spell is similar to how she would enter her inner world.)
"Raven, you I don't need everything to be perfect. We're both in this together, so your mistakes are mine." She smiles softly at his words. "Your right Naru-kun..." A small weight lands on Naruto's shoulder. Naruto turns to find a black raven with red eyes holding a small bundle in it's beak.
"What's this?" Looking on happily, Raven gives a light giggle. "Happy Birthday Naru-kun."
(Line Break)
"Orochimaru-sama! Quickly!" A silver haired young girl calls out to the shadows. "Hmm...n...nar-naruto..." A red haired woman stirs weakly on a hospital bed. "Damn...you..Minato!..." A woman with long ink black hair and pale skin rushes to the bed and grasps the red heads hand.
"Easy Kushina, take it slowly." Her voice flows out like a soft lullaby. Kushina's eyes focus slightly. "Oro-Orochimaru? Wh-what..."She suddenly bolts upright. "OH GOD! Naruto!" Orochimaru gently but firmly grasps Kushina's shoulders. "Calm yourself Kushina-chan, Naruto's...Naruto's ok.."
Kushina gives a weak glare towards the Sanin. "Your not telling me something..." Orochimaru sighs sadly. "A lot has changed Kushina-chan, and not all for the better..."
(Line Break)
Danzo Shimura, Head of Anbu Ne, silent supporter of Naruto Uzumaki and holder of an ancient secret stares longingly at an old photograph. "What do I do?... " His aged hand gently caresses the even older photo.
Two forms phase into the dark chamber. "Danzo-sama, the blood clone has been engaged by the animals." (Danzo took it on himself to set up a reinforced blood clone to aid Naruto in keeping the civilians away from him.)
Danzo looks up to his lieutenant's Torune and Fu. "His status?" Fu scowls slightly. "The Honor Guard that the Hokage gave him have actually assisted in the 'Fox Hunt' this time."
"Damn you Hiruzen..." Danzo looks to Torune. "Any word from our guards in the ruins?" Torune scratches his head in confusion. (Ne is loyal to Danzo as a man, not from seals, so they have emotions. They also care for Naruto.) "Well...that's the thing sir, he's been hold up in that strange little lair of his for days now, reading an odd looking book."
A small smile graces' Danzo's weathered face. "If it's what I think it is, Naruto-kun will be fine."
(Line break)
The little Raven drops it's tiny bundle into Naruto's hand Before poofing away. "I had forgotten.. So, I guess I'm thirteen now huh?" Naruto gives a wide grin to Raven. "Only you could forget how old you are.. " Naruto gives a mock glare at the impishly smiling young woman.
" Raven..." A single tear falls from his eye as he stares at the first true gift from a friend. Unwrapping the small bundle, Naruto spy's a strange bird shaped blade weapon. "What is this?" "A Bird-a-rang, probably the last one in existence. An old friend once gave it to me." Raven grasps her arm and looks away with a slight grimace.
Naruto places his hand on the mirror. "Thank you Rae-chan, but how did that little bird.." Raven smirks slightly. "It's the second gift, I've been working on this for a while." Raven kneels down and as the glass ripples slightly, a scroll appears. "I call this the Astral Raven Contract."
Naruto cocks his head slightly. "You mean those little red eyed bird creatures in the Void?" "They prefer the Birds of Nevermore, and get kinda sulky if you don't call them that." Naruto chuckles at the cute way Raven pouts. "Plus, they all hold a spark of Trigon in them."
(Line Break)
A young child with gray skin and bright pink hair done up in a gravity defying horn like quaff sifts through some garbage in a shadowed alleyway. "Fucking Haruno's... Fucking cursed blood line..." As she mumbles and bemoans her fate, a black form morphs out of the wall behind her.
"Whoa WAA!" Naruto yelped as he face planted onto the ground. "Hm hm hm, life is never boring with you around Naru-kun." Naruto sits up rubbing the lump on his head. "You COULD have warned me you know..."
"Um...are you...alright?" Looking up, Naruto finds himself peering into a pair of big, expressive, and surprisingly cute, slit pupil-ed pink eyes. Seeing the same thing as her container, Raven gasps aloud. "J-Jinx?" The sudden outburst by his tenant causes Naruto to blanch out for a moment. "Hey, uh...anyone home?" The pink haired girl waves her hand in front of his face.
"S-Sorry about that, something on my mind." Naruto scratches the back of his neck slightly. "Um... your name isn't Jinx, is it?" The pink haired girl rears back in confusion slightly inadvertently giving Naruto a better look at her. (5ft looks to be about 90lbs, skin color is similar to Raven. Looks to be about a small b cup.)
"No, my names Saykia Haruno.." The way Saykia vocalized Haruno had so much venom in it that even Raven could feel it. "But...come to think of it, Jinx sound pretty cool." She pulls a confident poise totally confusing Naruto. "Hey um...your that Naruto kid, right?" Naruto tenses up expecting her to start screaming demon or Kyuubi brat.
She reaches out her hand towards Naruto and smiles. "You got a cool sense of fashion, wanna be friends?" Naruto freeze's in shock. "She's telling the truth Naru-kun, and if her bloodline is what I think it is, being friends with her could only be a benefit." 'But what did she mean about my clothes?' He thinks out his response as he looks down.
(Naruto learned long ago, that to stay out of view from the hokage's dogs, along with the 'GOOD people' of his village, black works great.) A long formless black cloak with black fur trim around the collar. (Tensa-Zangetsu's cloak.) Saykia punches her hips with an exasperated huff.
"If you didn't want to be friends, all you had to say was no! JERK!" Naruto leaps up and grasps her shoulder. "NO WAIT! I...I'm sorry, I was just...surprised. I'd love to be friends with you!" Saykia blushes slightly at his heartfelt tone.
"I-It's ok...I'm sorry too, it's just that since I awakened my so-called cursed bloodline..." She looks down at the ground with a sniffle. "Everything in my life has turned to SHIT...sniff...my..my mother threw me out of the house...I don't have anywhere to go.." Seeing her shudder in sadness, Naruto reaches out and wraps her in a gentle hug. "It's ok, you got me now, It's not much but...you could stay with me.."
"But Naru-kun, we barely have enough food for you, and with another person around, the lair could be found by the Hokage's dogs!" 'I know, but... She's like me. I cant turn her away.' "If your worried about me telling the Anbu about where you hide-" Naruto shakes his head. "It's not that Saykia-chan."Naruto frowns slightly. "The problem is how to feed us.."
"I believe I may be able to help you and your new friend Naruto-kun." An aged but still kind sounding voice calls out from the shadows. Naruto pulls Saykia behind him and goes into a low battle stance. "WHO ARE YOU! SHOW YOURSELF!" The sound of a cane clacking on the uneven bricks and the soft shuffling of ninja sandles is his answer. "Calm yourself Naruto-kun, I only wish to help."
"Naruto-kun...th-that's.." The figure that walks into the light happens to be the Council adviser Danzo Shimura.