Naruto Shippudden:
Legend of the Death Goddess
By
Skylight96
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Chapter 1:
Tears of the Goddess
"Naruto!" Naruto snapped out from his thought and turned to his waited teammate in surprise, "Huh? Ops, sorry Sakura-chan. I wasn't listening" he smiled sheepishly as he scratched behind his neck in nervous gesture. Sakura sighed and pouted playfully, "What's wrong with you today? You seem distracted during the mission. Is there something on your mind right now?"
Naruto sighed in defeat and drank his tea, trying to forget about the scroll that he read last night "It's nothing Sakura-chan. It just I have a lot of thing in my mind right now"
Sakura frowned and cupped her face as she looked at the blonde in concern, "Care to share it with me?" she asked as she tried to ease his thought. Naruto silenced as he debated whether to tell her or not about the scroll.
'Should I tell her about the scroll, Kyuubi?'
'Of course, kit. What if she knew about her? Maybe she could us to know more about her'
'Yeah, maybe you right!' he grinned mentally and quickly turned toward his cherry blossom teammate, "Nah… Sakura-chan! Have you heard about the Legend of the Death goddess?"
Sakura blinked and rubbed her chin as she recalled her memories, "Yeah, I've read it once in a book. She's one of the beautiful and deathly kunoichi in the Shinobi World. I heard her once a member of the Uchiha clan and had been cursed due to her father crimes. She also known as the Red Rose of Konoha for her beauty but still deathly. She was also known around the Fire Country and often been assigned with S rank mission due to her skill in combat. I heard that she was missing in action during her mission in Third Shinobi world" she explained towards the blonde and sighed in defeat as she had nothing to add, "Well that's all I know about her. Why you suddenly interested in this kind of thing Naruto?" she asked curiously.
Naruto smiled sheepishly and shook his head, "Nothing Sakura-chan. Anyway do you still remember what the title of the book?" he asked as he finished his tea. Sakura hummed and nodded, "The title of book is 'The Red Rose of Konoha' if I'm not mistaken. It's in the public library. I don't know if it's still there"
Naruto grinned foxily and got up from his stool anxiously, "Thanks Sakura-chan. Well, I'm off to the library now! See ya!" he waved and walked away. Sakura blinked and sighed as she drank her unfinished tea with a smile.
Naruto happily walked …or rather skipping his way towards the Konoha Public library as he thought about the Legendary Death Goddess and all the information that he could got about her. Ever since he read the scroll, he couldn't get her out of his mind.
How her life had been years ago?… how she has successfully survived the Second Shinobi War and how she mystery disappeared after the Third Shinobi War. There were so many questions about her that he couldn't answers and intent to find no matter what. He couldn't help but loss in his thought until he accidently bumped onto someone who was wearing a white cloak heading towards the Konoha Cemetery.
The figure stumbled from impact and nearly fell onto the ground if weren't for the blonde who quickly caught it by the waist. Suddenly a soft evening breeze blew the upper cloak down and revealed her true face to him. She had a long slightly curly scarlet hair, pale white skin, rosy cheeks with a pair of red ruby Sharingan eyes on her beautiful face. Naruto eyes widen as he look into those eyes, 'Sharingan? Could it mean that she's-?' he thought was stopped when the maiden quickly let go of him and pulled up her upper cloak to cover her feature.
"I'm sorry…" she murmured and quickly walked away from him. Naruto was still stunned by the fact that she looks exactly like in the scroll. Red scarlet hairs. White smooth pale skin. The most importantly was her red crimson eyes that were a permanent sharingan eyes. After a few second pass, he blinked and turned to find her but it was too late. She's gone. He sighed in defeat and scratched behind his head, "I guess I must be imagining thing" he murmured and walked away towards his destination.
"I know you would be here" murmured the silver haired jounin towards the white figure as he spotted it after he finished visiting his teammate's grave. The figure turned to face him with a sad smile, "I won't miss it for the world… Kakashi beside it's his birthday isn't it?"
Kakashi eye sadden at the words as he walked towards it, "You know it's not your fault… Hikari sensei"
The figure pulled down her upper cloak and reveals her true face as she looked at the tombstone, in front of her in sadness, "I know…"
"Then why you keep punishing yourself?" asked Kakashi sadly, "You have been carrying it for a long time. It's time for you to forgive yourself"
She shook her head as she kneed down in front of the tombstone and touched it with her pale hand, "There's even something that time can't erase, Kakashi" she whispered as she kissed the tombstone and got up to hide her tears, "Something that is so deep that it's scar will be there eternity"
Kakashi smiled sadly as he looked up towards the blue sky, "I know" he murmured as he closed his only eye, remind him of his best friend, Obito who dead years ago. Hikari turned to face her former student with a smile, "Well, Kakashi. I'm off now. I still have a mission to complete"
"You not going to stay, aren't you?"
Hikari shook her head as she slowly walked away, "No…" she whispered as her body slowly disappeared into the thin air and turned into crystalized power that been blew by the soft wind. Kakashi opened his eyes and looked at the crystalized power dancing in the air with a smile underneath his mask.
"She's still watching us huh sensei?"
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A/N: Finally I finished the next chapter of this story after a few week of struggling to keep track of it. I hope you all like. Please review for further story or information about it. Have a great day. ^^