A.N: Attempting to update all my stories. Here is chapter 2!
- -melissaaax3
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto!
Chapter 2
last time...
'We have to train your chakra control. This will be very hard compared to tree climbing as it must all be done internally. We will start by trying to forcefully speed up the chakra in it's natural flow through your body. Then we will work on directing chakra to different parts of your body. After that you will focus on gathering varying amounts of chakra to body parts I request at random. Finally you will try to reverse your chakra flow without killing yourself' Kyuubi stated, making Naruto's eyes widen comically.
'To be done in the time limit I have given you, you must start immediately brat. You learned how to feel chakra and direct it to your feet in a steady and changing motion for the tree and water exercises. This time around you must focus on your chakra as a whole and follow its natural path. Once you get an understanding of its path you must use chakra control to guide its movements at a faster pace through your chakra pathways. Concentration is key, you can not waver. Track the flow of your chakra and speed it's circulation' he explained, regarding Naruto seriously.
Naruto nodded, sitting in the lotus position, closing her eyes, and bringing her hands up in the tiger seal.
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The blonde spent hours sitting in the same position. Her legs had begun to hurt and her wrists felt raw under the chains that she had stretched to make her handseal. Kyuubi had quit trying to give her advice after an hour and instead left her to practice on her own.
Despite her sore body, hungry belly, and overall uncomfortable situation as a captive, she attempted to focus only on her chakra network. It was very hard, yet fighting for not only the safety of yourself, but the safety of your unborn child as well made a very good motivator.
Despite Kyuubi's precise and lengthy explanation this was proving to be difficult. Kyuubi had estimated five or six months to complete the training. With three parts to the training that gave her roughly three months to complete each section. It all sounds nice and logical put like that, but she really did not like the thought of staying here for six months and had foolishly hoped to speed through the process.
She cursed at not being able to use her shadow clones. With clone training she could probably finish the whole training in weeks. At the same time, with use of her chakra this training would be unnecesary in the first place.
The blonde had easily found her chakra. Once you learn to access your chakra in the academy, your chakra is as much a part of your body as your left arm. It's familliar and right there. The difficult part was in focusing on each individual chakra pathway instead of seeing her chakra as a huge unrestrained mass as she usually did.
Having as much chakra as she did was both a blessing and a curse. Grandma Tsunade had once told her that normal people have one chakra source in their chest. Their chakra develops there and flows throughout their body via their chakra network. The chakra network is made up of chakra pathways and chakra points.
The Hyuuga are able to see this whole network with their Byakugan and even strike chakra points to close off chakra pathways and prevent a shinobi from using their chakra.
Keeping in mind Naruto's method of learning Tsunade chose to use a diagram of a chakra network and explain it from a Hyuuga point of view. Not only does Naruto have the source of her own massive chakra in her chest, but Kyuubi's even larger chakra output at the seal in her stomach.
She continued to explain that despite not having Byakugan, people with excellent chakra control are aware of every chakra pathway and point in their body. This is a part of the reason why you need excellent control to become a medical ninja.
Following this logic Naruto had decided to start at her chakra's focal point, her chest and try to follow it from there. Needless to say, this was unsucessful.
Naruto huffed in frustruation, releasing her tiger seal and taking a deep breath. After sitting peacefully for a few minutes she readied herself to continue when she head a noise.
She turned her head to stare intently at the door, hearing clearly now approaching footsteps. She struggled with her numb legs out of her sitting position before laying down on the bed and pretending to sleep.
Like any good shinobi, she evened out her breathing and kept still so as not to give it away. Internally she freaked out. What would she do? What if it was Itachi? What if he-
The door opened and the footsteps stoped at the edge of the bed.
Naruto was positively filled with fear. She desperately called for Kyuubi and the fox was attentative right away. She had only a moment to feel reassured and thanful for her furry companion, before a hand roughly shook her shoulder to 'wake' her up.
Naruto didn't bother to pretend to wake up slowly. Shinobi never woke up slowly and slept very lightly, it was something you learned very early. She turned to face the intruder and didn't know whether to sigh in relief or scream in fear at the sight of Madara's masked face.
"Itachi must have really worn you out" he stated with amusement, laughing cruely when Naruto flinched at Itachi's name. "How I wish I was able to watch" he added regretfully.
Naruto glared hatefully at him.
The man chuckled darkly once more before compsing himself. "I'm here to introduce your caretaker for your stay" he stated pleasantly, as if Naruto was on a vacation.
At these words, a second figure entered the room.
To Naruto's relief it wasn't any Akatsuki member she knew, it was a blue haired female.
The woman had dark blue hair, not black-blue like Sasuke's but a literal royal blue. She had an origami flower in her hair and sharp golden colored eyes. Her skin was very pale and she came off as unapproachable but, beautiful nonetheless. She had a piercing in her chin, just under her lower lip and her form was covered in the signature cloak. The only other thing Naruto noticed about her appearance were the shinobi sandals that adorned her feet, black painted nails (both toe and finger) and her lack of identifying village forehead protector.
The woman seemed to be studying her aswell and Naruto faintly wondered if the woman was aware of her gender change and if so what she thought about it.
"This is Konan. She will bring your daily meals and in a couple weeks she will check if you are pregnant or not. She has basic medical ninja skills and will be the only other person you see until we send for a medical ninja once you are in your second trimester" stated Madara, bringing Naruto from her thoughts.
With this said, he turned and left, the woman-Konan following him.
Naruto released a heavy breath but sharply drew in another when Konan swiftly reappeared. The blue haired woman set a tray on her bed and left just as swiftly as she came.
Naruto eyed the tray, rice with some kind of cooked meat and vegetable, a bun and a cup of water. She shrugged and set to eating deciding to go over what Madara told her. Based on his explanation she now had a reassurance that she would atleast be fed daily, not that she had any worries about that before considering his ultimate goal. She had a couple weeks until they would know that she was definitely pregnant. The best part being the "she will be the only other person you see" part, meaning she will not see either Madara or Itachi. She felt a deep sense of relief at the first and relief mixed with a small bit of disappointment at the second. Not only that but her first tri-mester was over after month three, meaning she would have a medic then. She idly wondered where they would find one before writing it off as unimportant at the moment.
She went back to her previous thought. Just why would she feel disappointment, no matter how small, at not seeing Itachi? Ridiculous. He pretty much raped her despite how active a participant she was later on. Fact one, she was chained down and definitely fought to show her resistance. Fact two he used a genjutsu to subdue her and only released it when she was so overcome with pleasure she wouldn't fight. Rape is rape, simple as that.
Kyuubi's earlier accusation came back to her and she blushed before scowling. Bitch in heat indeed. She vaguely remembered ordering him to go harder, if that didn't show how much she enjoyed it maybe the loud scream at the end would. She scowled angrily, tearing into her bun with her teeth.
She wondered just what his motivation was. Surely you wouldn't do something like that just because your leader ordered you to, would you? Maybe because he's a guy? She heard guys are sex-crazed. Yet she didn't remember ever being like that herself and despite the proof of it, still found it awkward to imagine Itachi having sex.
Her scowl grew in intensity. It's as bad as imagining Sasuke-teme having sex, antisocial bastards that they both were.
Pretending that she believed that he was 'just following orders' was he really okay with Madara making him sire a child with her? Was he cool with ending up with a child since according to plans she was going to be dead? Didn't he pretty much kill off his own clan? Why would he want to make Uchiha babies then? She shivered in disgust at the term before continuing on. Even only on musing his thoughts she disliked the thought that her child would be without her; futhermore, with Itachi as his or her lone parent. The man was a child soldier, what would he know of rasing a child?
Sure she didn't have much knowledge on child rearing either, being an orphan and the Kyuubi jinchuuriki left her without much child interaction. Still she knew how to love, she didn't think Itachi did. Frowning sadly at the thought, she brushed off the little thought of 'what about Sasuke, why leave him alive?' because she couldn't even begin to contemplate Itachi loving Sasuke.
She shivered. You don't do that to someone you love. In a way she thinks maybe if he loved Sasuke he should have let him die with the rest of his family before immediately feeling horrible for considering it. She definitely doesn't wish Sasuke died with his clan, but looking at his life she couldn't help but wonder if Sasuke sometimes wished that. What it must be like, having the burden of avenging the massacre of your whole clan on your shoulders. It must be a very heavy burden, no burden an eight year old boy should be left with. These thoughts of Sasuke have left her depressed and she pushes her empty tray away, the food settling heavily in her stomach.
Clearing her mind of all thoughts and worries she sets back to task focusing on her start point and attempting to follow each chakra pathway chakra point by point.
It is exactly two weeks later that Naruto is able to successfully follow her chakra flow throughout her entire body at its regular speed. She knows it's been two weeks by counting her meals. Three a day with the exception of the first day. It is also exactly two weeks later that after bringing Naruto breakfast Konan does not leave.
"I will now check if you are pregnant" The blue haired woman explains, and Naruto marvels at hearing her voice for the first time. It is low and sultry, not at all what Naruto imagined in her daily musings.
The Akatsuki member approaches Naruto's laid out form and her hand light up with green healing chakra. Naruto chooses to say and do nothing, allowing the woman to place her hands a few inches above her lower abdomen.
Konan's hands scan Naruto's lower abdomen once, twice, then three times before the green glow of her healing chakra dissapates. She says not a word to Naruto before turning and leaving the room.
This is completely fine to Naruto, who already knows she is pregnant. The day passes by without anymore unusual occurances and Naruto is secretly greatful that Madara did not decide to visit.
A month after that Naruto completes the process of speeding up her chakra circulation. It is a full month and a half ahead of schedule and Kyuubi praises her endlessly. Naruto is too happy to even tease the fox for being so out of character. Instead she listens intently as Kyuubi explains the second part in detail.
'This is where you will learn to direct your chakra in varying amounts, to different parts of your body and then different chakra points. The hardest part will be directing chakra to the parts furthest from you chakra's focal point (minus feet). So head, hands, arms, and legs. Focusing on only a specific point will be even harder yet. After you complete body parts I will have to teach you the names and corresponding points for each of the 361 chakra points in your body. Then you will learn to direct varying amounts of chakra to each one. This part of the training is necessary for the speed part of chakra agumentation. Speed agumentaion is something that the Senju woman and pink haired girl are unable to use. They may have excellent chakra control but do not have the knowledge on where and how to use chakra to supplement speed. Start with directing chakra to your feet as a warm up and then try your legs' Kyuubi explained, taking on a lecture like tone.
Naruto listened with rapture, none of her usual disobedience to learning. It was pretty unbelievable. If only she had shown this dedication in the academy. So part two began.
A month and a half later and Naruto had accomplished directing chakra to all of her body parts in varying amounts and most of her tenketsu or chakra points. Despite all of this she could only focus on the fact that her first tri-mester was now finished.
This month and a half had also brought with it Naruto's first conversation with Konan. After two months Naruto decided to talk to Konan. She had three reasons for this, reason 1: She needed something else to focus on besides training or she would lose it. Reason 2: She hadn't spoken in 2 months out loud and she needed her voice in working condition. Reason 3: To gather information, unlikely as that was to happen.
So at the end of the second month she decided to strike up a conversation, it was, predictably a fail. Being quite out of practice with talking to humans her opening line was a simple "Hey". She decided to blame this failure on Konan as quite obviously, the woman was an antisocial bastard like Sasuke.
Konan hadn't even spared her a look before turning to leave.
Naruto's solution was to talk about any and every inconsequential thing she could think of when Konan delivered her meals. She did this for two weeks until she finally got a reaction from the stoic woman.
She had been ranting about a time during training when Ero-sennin had left her alone to learn a B-ranked katon jutsu. Specifically Katon: Gōryūka no Jutsu; otherwise known as, Fire Release: Dragon Fireball Jutsu. When using this jutsu, the user compresses a large amount of chakra built up inside their body and changes it into a dragon head-shaped fireball. The user then skilfully manipulates that great fire, and attacks their opponent.
So as the story goes...in a typical Ero-sennin manner, he ditches Naruto for his research. Using clone training, (which Jariya had explained to him at the beginning of their training trip) Naruto completes it in two hours. He tracks down Ero-sennin in the small village somewhere in the Land of Earth.
The pervert is predictably at a whore house in the small village's even smaller red light district. He uses henge to turn into a beautiful, young violet haired woman. Stacked on top like his usual sexy jutsu and dressed in an elegant lavender kimono. He bustles into the run down shack capturing the attention of every male in there.
He poses as the daughter of a travlling merchant and asks for directions to the inn that he and Ero-sennin are staying at. Perfectly planned, the pervert offers to generously escort his disguised self there. On the way Jariya unfortunately falls into a trap Naruto set. Still in disguise Naruto quickly does the single hand seal to the Dragon Fireball Jutsu, tiger, and envelopes his teacher's white hair in dragonshaped flames.
He then laughs uproariously, henge dispelling, rolling on the ground crying from laughter as the man summons Gamakiri and orders the frog to do a water jutsu on his hair.
The effeminate frog spits a torpedo of water at Jariya who goes flying back through the whore house's decrepant wall.
Needless to say, the man was insensed. His butt length hair had been scorched to shoulder length.
Unfortunately for Naruto, he used a hair jutsu to grow it back then put Naruto through training hell for the next two weeks.
Konan's reaction, a small husky laugh that caused Naruto to pause partway through the retelling in surprise before continuing with gusto.
After this occasion Naruto chooses to tell more stories about Ero-sennin and is occasionally graced with another small laugh or quirk of the lips.
These small interactions make Naruto feel a little more relaxed, talking about her grandfather figure and laughing makes the weight on her shoulders much easier to bear.
Month four of her pregnancy has just begun and with it Madara retuns. He enters the room, examing the blonde's dirty clothes and messy hair. She wants to shout that sponge baths once a week will do that to you.
His examination makes her uncomfortable but she stays silent.
When he speaks his tone is calm "Konan will take you for a proper bath and change of clothes. Your medic will be here in a few hours. Do not try anything because you will not like what I do" he explains, voice turning to steel at the end.
Naruto says nothing but sends him a glare.
He takes this as a challenge and elaborates, "There are many things I can do to you that won't hurt the baby..." he says almost nonchalantly before adding, "I could still take pleasure in your body".
Naruto's eyes snap to the floor, glare gone and stomach in her throat. She is effectively subdued.
Her distress is evident to him and he chuckles darkly. "I should feel insulted at your reaction" he states, but his tone is amused and gloating. With an audible air of satisfaction around him, he leaves the room.
Naruto does not move from her curled up position though she hears Konan enter. Stoic as she may be, Naruto can read from Konan's face that she heard the entire exchange.
The older woman attempts to cover her disgust at her leader's words and releases Naruto from her chains using a jutsu.
Naruto weakly stumbles to her feet, leaning against the blue haired woman and Konan coaxes her along gently and without comment.
The shower feels heavenly. Naruto does not want it to end, but knows it will sooner than she'd like. Her hair had grown long since the transformation and even longer over the months passed, reaching to the small of her back in a greasy tangle of locks. She washes it three times then uses much of the conditioner it. She leaves it and continues to thoroughly scrub every inch of her body. She rinses her hair and body before turning off the water and stepping out.
She dries and dresses in the loose white dress and panties. She uses the provided toothbrusth and toothpaste.
Konan returns just as she's finishing and gestures to the hairbrush questioningly.
Naruto nods without hesitation and the older woman sets to combing her locks then elaborately braiding her haid back and tying it off with a hair tie. Naruto smiles at her reflection and through the mirror, catches the barely noticeable twitch of Konan's lips.
They do not return to her room. Instead she is lead to a new room. It looks less cave like and more room like. There is a carpet on the floor in an attempt to stave off the cool feel of stone. A larger bed with sheets, thick blankets and a pile of pillows. She spies a small bathroom to the side with a tiny shower, sink and toilet. She feels a rush of joy. Chamber pots are not fun, neither are sponge baths. There is a dresser and mirror complete with a small chair and table.
Konan places the toothbrush, toothpaste, and hairbrush on the dresser. Naruto didn't even notice her grab them.
The blonde is literally awestruck at the room after three months of her cell. She slowly turns back to the blue haired woman and bows in thanks unable to say anything. She fights off the tears, blamming it on her pregnancy hormones.
Suprisingly Konan nods back. "I will not be your caretaker any longer. Madara has found a suitable medic who will take over bringing your meals" she states and Naruto is flooded with sadness. Enemy or not, the woman's small acts of kindness meant the world to Naruto during such a desolate time.
Naruto gathers her wits before replying. "Thank you for taking care of me and listening to my stories. Goodbye" she says with another formal bow of gratitude.
Konan lets out a tiny smile and bows back just as formal. Her "Goodbye" floats back as she closes the room and Naruto knows she will miss Konan's husky voice.
- - -end chapter
A.N: So Naruto is just starting the fourth month of her pregnancy and her second tri-mester. She is close to finishing the second of three stages to her training. Next chapter she will meet her new medic. Please R&R thank you! =]
- -melissaaax3