A/N: It sort of bothers me that Disney XD is keeping Naruto Shippuden and NOT showing it when the kids are awake. They keep showing at one or four in the frickin' morning! Soon enough they're going to drop the series I know it. The reason being that as Naruto goes on it gets more complex and violent. If Disney keeps on censoring out all the important scenes and words the kids won't even understand what the hell is going on and will eventually have to drop the show all together. This is the only thought that keeps me from ripping my hair out and killing each and every person in Disney XD and killing little ten year olds that believe that the Naruto they had just seen is the original version.
This is why I like the subs better than the dubs. It's UNCENSORED!
Okay I this I should stop this rant now before I do something stupid. Ugh, next Tuesday I have a therapy session and my therapist is probably going to bring that up...but who cares! I have a story to write and so here is chapter two of silents stars!
Disclaimer- I DO NOT OWN NARUTO!
Chapter 2: Blood Bound
It was a memory. It was faint and flickering, but it was there.
That single memory was the only thing that didn't seem to belong here in the valley she was in. It was a small white glowing orb that floated above the flowers and not be swayed by the gentle breeze. Being only a mere child she lunged for it wondering about it's properties and what it did. However, as she lunged for it, the white orb quickly skirted around her. Quickly she got up and tried again only for it to do the same thing again. She tried again and again only to fall onto the ground and fail. Determination and humiliation burned her veins as she chased it again.
She couldn't understand why it avoided her. What was she doing wrong? She stopped when the memory stopped moving. While she was chasing it, it seemed to let noises from the memories it holds out. If they were sentences she would never understand them. The words were all mixed and jumbled together and the quality of which the voices were let loose were absolutely horrendous. However, when it stopped moving it started to glow showing that it was trying to show or say something. For some unspoken reason she couldn't hear or see what it was trying to show her. She walked closer to it, but was suddenly repelled by some invisible force field. She put her hands on it only to be shocked and repelled.
"What is this?" she asked herself quietly. She wasn't stupid, she was perfectly aware that she was in the recesses of her mind. She pushed against the barrier and felt it shocking her. She could feel something building up. She pushed harder gritting her teeth and got one of her hand through. She reach and gently grazed the orb, before she was repelled.
She saw herself fall. She felt herself hit the ground. But she wasn't there she was watching pieces of the memory play itself.
"I'm sorry...passed...away," a woman with long brown hair said. Hitomi, Hinata's mother cried as Hinata watched. Her mother scooped her up into her arms and nuzzled her face in her daughter's head.
"Mama, please don't be sad," Hinata said as she kissed her on the cheek, "There now you can be happy now!" Hitomi smiled down at her daughter.
"If only he could see you," she whispered.
...Another memory surfaced...
"You WHORE! Do you know what the Elders would do if they hear of this!"
"I'm sorry!"
"Sorry isn't going to help the fact that you weren't―"
...Another memory...
It was dark.
Hinata woke up to a dark place. Her mother was at her side sleeping. Hinata felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand up,alerting her that she was being watched. She scanned the room. Hoping to find the source of her uneasiness.
"Hinata." She turned to her mother, "You feel something don't you." She nodded her head.
"Who is that? Who's watching me?" Hinata asked.
"Don't fight it. Just let it be."
Finally a small memory one that was burned into her brain…
"Hinata," her mother said. Hitomi weakly waved her hand, gesturing Hinata over to her. Her hair was limp, and sticking to her neck tightly. Her skin was paler than usual, and her eyes seemed dazed and far away. She was only a sack of skin on a skeleton.
Hinata walked slowly to her mother and gently hand her thinner hand in her's. Her mother smiled at her. "I'm so sorry, Hinata. After I gave birth to Hanabi I've just felt so sick," she petted Hinata's hair gently, "I've sorry that this is happening to you. First the Elders give you Amarante-sama and next your losing your mother. If only Akio was here. Maybe this would've never happened. Hinata, tell Hanabi how much I love her when I'm gone…" the lights were slowly fading from her eyes and each breath was labored.
Hitomi moaned, but kept speaking, "Tell her and do everything that we did together. Hinata, you know I love you. Remember what I told you. And tell your father…Gomenasai…"
Her eyes fluttered shut, she took one last breath and promptly went to sleep forever. Hinata was startled when she felt the hand that was caressing her head fall limp. She shook her mother's side.
"Mama! MAMA! MAMA WAKE UP! MAMA!" She screeched. She heard her little sister in the other room crying, but she ignored her. She heard running and the door open, but she ignored it. She needed her mother to wake up! Why wasn't she waking up? Why wasn't Mama waking up!
"Hinata-sama!" a voice said. Arms wrapped around her waist and pulled her away from her mother.
"NO! MAMA! MAMA, WAKE UP! MAMA!" she howled. Why were they taking her away from her mother! Why!
'I...ry...'
What was that? What was that voice? Did it know why her mother wasn't moving?
'Why? Why isn't Mama moving?'
'I...am...so...rry...'
"Hinata! Hinata!"
Hinata's eyes shot open and frantically searched around her. She felt sad and scared. Where in the world had that voice come from. A sigh of relief burst from her lips when she saw Naruto's face. She glanced around and saw that they were still outside. The forest was still lush and green and was raining down leaves.
Sasuke was standing, leaning his back on the trunk of a tree, gazing at them. So it seemed that he wasn't the only one that was plagued with nightmares. He could bet that his dreams were far worse than hers, but what could she have to worry about so much she would have nightmares? He gave a sigh and walked towards them.
"Oi! Does anyone know where those animals went?" Sasuke asked. He was sort of wondering where his friend could have gone. The last thing he remembered before going to sleep was that the three animals walked off somewhere.
"Maybe they went home," Hinata said.
"Aw and I wanted to keep it them too," Naruto said just as their animal friend came bounding over.
"Uhh. Apparently they didn't leave us. Maybe they went off to go get some food?"
"Doesn't matter either way we have to go. The Hokage could already be sending people to come and get us," Sasuke said.
Kakashi Hatake was an ANBU.
Most people would kill for the job the missions, the jutsu, the money. However, to tell you the truth the job was actually not as great as people would usually think it was. Yeah, sure you could probably go toe to toe with one of the Legendary Sannin and probably make it out alive, but the job was really time consuming and caused a lot of stress. You always had to be on guard when guarding the Hokage just in case you were on guard duty. The missions were long, extremely difficult, and mentally scarring. Not to mention how time consuming it was! You could be gone for months, maybe even years, well maybe not years, but you could be gone for what seemed like years. The mission were usually gory and sometime caused you not to sleep not for months at a time.
All the powerful jutsu you learn. Meh. Yeah, sure the jutsus weren't so bad. Though they were powerful and the training to preform them was time consuming, the jutsus had negatives effects if you did them wrong. Like breaking all your bones, making your mental stability disappear, and the worst of all, death. However being a shinobi you were faced with the thought and concept everyday. It was your own choice to stare death in the face the day you put on the head band. Sadly, some saw it more than others.
Like Itachi Uchiha.
The boy had sadly witnessed and was responsible for countless deaths during the Third Shinobi World War. And now as Kakashi stood in the Uchiha District. He could now see how being sent into war too early could effect your mental stability. Bodies and blood lay everywhere. Not even children were spared. Though it did seem that Itachi pitied the children and killed them by stabbing them in places that would kill them instantly and be almost painless.
Kakashi quickly identified the bodies of Mikoto and Fugaku Uchiha and added them to the list. Every Uchiha except two were on an archive that listed every Uchiha to ever be born on Konoha soil. The First Hokage decided to have one for every clan after Madara;s defect and Izuna's death. It was a way to keep track of shinobi if anything happened.
Kakashi looked over the archive and went to the Hokage. Hiruzen Sarutobi stood in front of the Uchiha District. He wore the traditional Hokage robes. He stood, reassuring the crowd of civilians that the ANBU were taking care of the problem.
"Hokage-sama," Kakashi said through his mask.
"Yes," he said. Quickly, Hiruzen said excused himself from the crowd. They walked about fifty feet away from the crowd. Hiruzen seemed to grimace at every corner and every place they walked by, but Kakashi couldn't blame him. Konoha shinobi we're all about team work. If a Konoha shinobi was asked if they would chose the mission or their comrades most would chose their comrades. The Yondaime Hokage proved that. However apparently Itachi Uchiha didn't hold this moral in high regard when he blantly slaughtered his whole family and the Hokage was disgusted by the very evidence of Itachi stopped at what was the Uchiha head household.
"What did you discover?" Hiruzen asked. His face was serious and firm, an impenetrable mask that demanded for answers and your loyalty. It was intimidating.
"Well, we found most of the bodies, except that of Itachi Uchiha and Sasuke Uchiha. The two sons of Fugaku Uchiha. It also appears that the adults were tortured while the children were killed in places that would cause the least pain and killed them almost instantly. Other than that they're all dead," Kakashi answered.
"Strange. The ophanage where Naruto lives said he never returned and Hiashi has been demanding that we go to war with Kumogakure no Sato for the fact that he can't find his daughter. Hmmm..." The Hokage had an analytival look on his face as he gazed around. It was a look that reminded the ANBU of his late sensei, Minato, when he was Hokage and deciding how to purpose a treaty with Iwa and Kumo. He wondered if all Hokages were trained to have that contemplating look when facing something difficult.
"Inu (Dog), I want you and Tenzo to gather four teams. Each team is to gather at the gates of Konoha and search one of the cardinal direction. Search for anythinf suspicious or out of order. When youfind somethin investigate it. The fatherest I want the teams to go is ten miles away from the village before returning. Do you accept this mission?" Sarutobi asked.
"I accept."
"You leave within the hour," the Hokage said as he turned around, "Dismissed." And Kakashi was gone. After this Kakashi was going to retire from ANBU.
"You know I just thought of something," Naruto said. The trio was now walking away. In what direction? Only Kami knows. They didn't know the exact direction, but that didn't matter as long as it was away from Konoha and their tormentors/horrible memories.
"What do you mean, dobe?" Sasuke asked. Ever since they started walking together Sasuke had seen Naruto as a "dead last" since he had been boasting about being Hokage or making a village of his own. So, with that thought in mind Sasuke had quiclky proclaimed him with the name that he thought suited Naruto the best. Hinata thought it was cute and giggled, but Naruto, being on the other end of the stick didn't find it as amusing. So in resentment to the nickname that Sasuke seemed bent on he came up with one of his own. He had heard it once when he was hiding from villagers in the red light district.
"Well, Sasuke-teme (teme = bastard). Why don't we just go to Kiri or Kumo? I'm sure we'd be welcomed there." Naruto said/ Hinata shivered slightly.
"Well, dobe we can't really go to Kirigakure, from what I've heard Kiri has a seemingly never ending civil war between regular shinobi and those with Kekkei Genkais," Sasuke countered easily.
"And K-K-Kumogakure isn't such a great place for Hyuugas. When I was younger I was almost kidnapped in an attempt to achieve the Byakugan," Hinata said shyly. Naruto sighed. He thought he was onto something. He just wanted to get away from Konoha. Maybe somewhere far away where it was just him, Sasuke, and Hinata. Maybe while they were there they would forget all about this shinobi stuff and maybe they'd never be hurt again. Sadly, this isn't how the story goes. He knew that even if they did nothing was going to be as simple and as perfect as everything seemed and so he was just going to have to deal with the fact that maybe they weren't ever going to get off easy.
Honestly, when Naruto thought about being Hokage he had never thought about fighting. He knew there was going to be some fights, but he thought of them as the small fights that he saw at the playground. All he really wanted was to be like the children he saw at the park. Smiling, laughing, those little insde joke that only you and your family knew about. He wanted all that, but Kami-sama had different plans for him. Instead, Naruto, by age eight, had probably already experienced most of what the world was made of; cruel and unusual punishments. Naruto had probably already had experienced hate, pain, despair, sloth, wrath, lies, envy, and many more. But as they say, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, right?
"Hn. I think the dobe was onto something, though," Sasuke said. Naruto's spirits were lifted. Maybe, they'd make their own path to the paradise he'd dreamed about.
"Tenzo, are the teams ready?"
A small nod from Tenzo was Kakashi's only reply. "Okay, Bird, your team has been assigned the eastern gate. Inu, you have the western gate. Tenzo has the southern gate. Know that we can only venture out ten miles from the village. If you see anything suspicious investigate. We start now." And the next thing Kakashi saw shadows leaping away. (A/N: Sorry they look like shadows to me.) Quickly, he and his team, made up of Kurou (Kurou = Crow), Tōdo (Tōdo = Toad), and Hebi (Hebi = Snake), left the village to start their search. Kakashi doubted they would find anything. If the children were as good as the rumors claimed then they would possible never find them. If the Hinata Hyuuga was as like her then they would be spotted easily by how far her Byakugan could see. If Sasuke Uchiha was like his older brother then they could be easily outwitted. And if Naruto Uzumaki was exactly like the Kyuubi like the villagers proclaimed they would be dust being scattered in the wind in mere seconds. With these traits it was easy to see why they were wanted back so much.
It sort of made you think. Maybe Itachi had kidnapped the children? No, Kakashi thought, with three children it would not be possible to move more than five maybe seven feet, below the children had the desire to rest. However, this was Kakashi he was thinking about (A/N: Once you think about it that sentence sounded soooo wrong.) he was well known in knowing traps and obstacles that threatened to get in the way of the goal. He may have made shadow clones to carry the children while they were asleep. That way he could go as fast as he wanted and not have to wait for the children to finish resting. That would make it easier for him to check the point he wanted to. However, the only problem with that thought would be the goal. Where would the kidnapping of the Hyuuga heiress, the Kyuubi jinchuriki, and his own brother play into this?
Bounding from tree to tree with a sigh pouring from his lips Kakashi and his team began their search.
"Okay so basically we have two options. We either go to Sunagakure or Iwagakure," Sasuke said. After Naruto suggested going to another village they decided to entertain the thought a little longer and found that they didn't really need to stay in Konoha. There were plenty of villages where they could stay. Anyways it wasn't like they any real relationships back in Konoha. Sasuke's was destoryed, and Naruto and Hinata's relationships outside of each other and Sasuke was nonexsistant.
"We could also go to Kusagakure, but from what I have learn they are usually short on shinobi was the learning quality is bad," Hinata adding lightly.
"And that's why we're not going there," Naruto stated.
"To tell you the truth, I don't think you're going any where." Startled, Naruto, Hinata, and Sasuke turned to see four ANBU behind them. One had a bird mask and was practically trying to drown them in killer intent and hate. The others ranged from, boar, to tiger, to cat. All three of them also gave off anger and killer intent that paralyzed the children. As you could tell they didn't like the kid, or, mainly, Naruto.
"Well, look at hat we have here," the ANBU with the boar mak said. His voice was a baritone that sounded rough like sand paper, "tha last Uchiha, the Hyuuga heiress, and a demon.
"We have orders to bring the three of you back to the village, but I have a better 'idea'" the one with a cat mask said. The one with the cat mask didn't sound like a man or a woman. It was idea however sound just like it was suppose to. It sounded like a threat. And the torture behind it didn't have to be said to be known.
"B-b-b-but if you d-d-do t-th-t-that we'll t-tell H-Hokage-sama," Hinata stuttered.
"Well, then you'll just have to discover what it's like to sleep forever," Bird said casually as if he was talking about the plant life in the Konoha forest. Like it was nothing. "You thought you could just leave? I'm disappoint in you, Hyuuga, Uchiha. You're ancestors blood soaks Konoha's soil. You're blood bound to this village. You will never leave. Ever.
Let's discover who I am
By digging up the dirt I swore never to touch
And opening a box that was supposed to be long
forgotten
A/N: Why do I have a feeling that I'm going to be weird and make this fic darker then it's supposed to be... Well who cares like I say the darker and more twisted the better! Sorry if this chapter was suckish. I wrote this like a while back, but my parents complained that I have been spending too much time on the computer and it was making me blind, so they locked the door to the computer room. I only go in this weekend. This chapter was suppose to come out soon, but MEH. At least you go the chapter. So now for the FAQ.
Wasn't Kakashi to protect Naruto as a child? Wouldn't he know what Naruto was really like?
This is my fic. I'll do want I want. Anyways I think this makes the fic more fun.
Do you want to make the group bigger than just Naruto, Sasuke and Hinata?
That is what I intend to do.
What village will they go to?
I haven't decided. They may not go to any?
Will they're be SasuHina?
No, but there might be some GaaHina.
Can you do SasuHaku?
I have thougth about it since it was suggest to me by Dreaded Rasengan and actually I might do it.
If you add any more people to the group who would it be?
Haku, Kimimaro, and Gaara, maybe someone else like Ranmaru.
Will Naruto have a Kekkei Genkai?
Maybe. If he does he will not have a doujutsu. I think that's over done...
So that's all for now with the FAQs. Wow when I let people read this chapter they got a lot of questions about later on in the story. So I would like to thank Echo Uchiha (who seems to read my stories no matter if they are Naruto or not), Chewie Cookies (an author whom I have favortied since you reviewed I can die happy! jk), Dreaded Rasengan(thanks for the suggestion made me think), hinataellis, Twin Silver Dragon, and Arashigan 16 for reviewing the first chapter. And I would also like to thank those who read...and didn't review.
Until next time.