Jinchuuriki
Never really had a plan for this story. Here are my notes for the second chapter. Just Wrapping up loose stories and putting them in the 'abandoned' category.
here we go!
Kakashi on a protection mission to Kusa. Thinks about Each of his members.
Naruto feeling weight of his necklace and thinking about how they've all changed.
Bandits come in using rock slide. Kakashi uses Doton jutsu to protect Caravan. Orders team to protect Caravan. Naruto fights and suddenly feels chakra, referencing that it is a jounin level ability. Naruto deduces that there are possibly nins in this squad. Raiga Kurosuki appears as the leader of the attackers. Kakashi says that he is a fake Swordman of the mist. He was against the new Mizukae Mei Ter umi Kakashi and him square off while Rest of them deal with Team 7. Kakashi, while fighting, worries about his team. He notices that Naruto is taking out a lot of them, easily. Kakshi focuses on his fight. Sakura dodges attacks while throwing kunai at the bandits. She sees a bandit trying to attack caravan. She shields with kunai but is forced down due to strength. The bandit tries to strike as well but is stabbed through the back by a sword. Naruto stabs another bandit in the back and freezes as he ships his head towards Sakura. He sees Yagura. Yagura eyes Naruto for a moment and than uses a water Jutsu to pierce all the bandits in the screams in frustration but kakashi rams his Raikiri through him. Yagura cleans his blade and helps Sakura up. Sakura is hesitant to help him up. Sasuke glares at naruto but is more worried about Sakura. Naruto staggers towards Yagura. Sasuke asks if he was injured, Naruto shakes his head, but stares at Yagura. Yagura stares back. Kakashi returns to his team and stares at Yagura. He thanks him for helping but would like to know why he is here. Yagura points to Naruto saying that he felt a familiar presence. Kakshi gets suspiscious and asks if Yagura has a prisoner. Yagura smiles and nods. Naruto, understanding the play along (he is thinking rapidly in his head), asks Kakashi very pointedly, "what is going on. He feels familiar. I've never met him though."
Kakshi thinks about the situation. He always heard rumors that Jinchuuriki could feel each other's presence but never to this degree. Kakashi says that they should move away from this place. They gather the caravan and move away towards the area.
They eat dinner. Sasuke, Sakura, and Naruto discuss their movements and actions during the fight. Kakshi critiques. Yagura watches from a small distance. Kakashi orders Sasuke and Sakura to check up on the caravan for first night shift. Kakashi motions Yagura forward and asks for an explanation. Yagura just asks back. "Does he know he is a Jinchuuriki?" Naruto deciphers the word and says Human sacrifice? Kakshi bites his tongue, trying to figure out how to deliver this. Yagura sighs and asks if Naruto' wants to know who he is. Kakashi says Naruto shouldn't know. Yagura says it is Naruto's choice. Naruto says he wants to know. Kakashi asks if he truly wants to know. Naruto nods. Naruto explains how every day he sees people glaring at him, hating him. He wants to know why. He is tired of just accepting it. Kakashi shakes his head and turns to Yagura, allowing him to speak. Yagura says that Naruto holds the Kyuubi. Kakashi examines Naruto. Naruto is frozen, staring at Kakashi and Yagura. Naruto falls down on his but and Kakashi move towards Naruto but Yagura is already at his side. Kakashi is surprised how gentle Yagura is. Yagura confirms that Naruto is not he Kyuubi and is his own person. Kakashi watches silnelty as Naruto asks questions of what it means to be a Jinchuuriki. Kakashi thanks kami that it went better than it should of.
That night, Naruto and Yagura walk together laughing their ass off.
The Caravan reaches their destination and thanks team 7 and Yagura. Kakashi says that Konoha can welcome Yagura, but Yagura shakes his head. Yagura says he has reason to avoid hidden villages. Yagura says goodbye and nods towards Naruto.
They arrive home and Naruto asks if Sasuke and Sakura would like to go eat Ramen. The two agree and follow Naruto. Sakura thinks about Naruto. He is quiet and smart. He sometimes showed a lot of enthusiasm. When Naruto arrives at the Ramen shop, Naruto starts a conversation about what they are going to do for their break on tomorrow. Ssasuke says he is going to go train and Sakura blushes and says probably relax. Naruto snorts and says that always training is not good. And also, just lazing around is not good either. Sakura looks affronted and Sasuke rolls his eyes. Sasuke counters by asking what Naruto is going to do. Naruto smiles and says he is going to make pottery. Sasuke and Sakura looked surprised and Teuchi laughs. He says that Naruto is a damn good potter as he has received 50 bowls made by Naruto. Naruto blushes in embarrassment and Sasuke asks if he could watch, to see if Naruto really had skill. Sakura asks to join as well. Naruto shrugs and agree.
Naruto, while eating, thinks about why the humans would like to interact him. He had chosen pottery because it could be done by himself. Naruto wonders about Sasuke and Sakura. They accepted his invitation to eaet with him. They wanted to go see his pottery. Naruto thinks that they are just weird humans.
Naruto wakes up to see that Sasuke and Sakura are at his door. Sakura enters and looks around, commentating that there isn't a lot of stuff around. Sasuke notices Naruto is wearing a Necklace nad says that he didn't think Naruto was a jewelry person. Naruto hastily hides it and says it was given to him by afriend. Sasuke doesn't press the matter, wchih Naruto is thankful for.
Shift to Yugito who is getting ready to go to Konoha for Chuunin exams. She is excited to see Naruto in the flesh.
As much as Kakashi liked the out doors, he did not like his current situation. The silver haired jounin, who surprisingly had a gennin team to his name, shifted his walking path slightly to his right. To the jounin's left was a very smelly horse. Kakashi had nothing against animals, hell he loved dogs, but horses... that was a different story entirely. This smelly, slobbery, non-self respecting beast was infuriatingly smelly. Kakashi moved his precious book to his right hand to ensure that the horse wouldn't think of it as food.
"How far do you think we can go today, Kakashi-san?" The leader of the horse said.
"We might be able to get most of the way there before we have to set up camp, Jin-san." Kakashi said, giving a small smile. Jin was an important trader. He led a caravan from Konoha to the Spring country. Kakashi had taken the mission to protect the Caravan as his team's fifth C-rank mission. He thought it would be nice for his team to stretch their legs a bit more. The first two C-ranks were simple courier missions. While the last two were border patrol. Only the most recent C-rank mission, involving scouting out their border with The land of Grass, did they have an encounter. It was a minor bandit encounter which his team easily dismantled.
Kakashi turned his lone eye towards his team. They were walking in a small pack, at the middle of the Caravan. They were talking amiably, which was good to see. They were quite the strange bunch though. A pink haired girl who was infatuated with the black haired avenger, who was also on the team. Both of them had 'mellowed' out in their extremity. Sakura no longer followed Sasuke's every move, and was starting to speak for herself. Sasuke started to laugh anymore, and Kakashi swore Sasuke tried to make a sarcastic joke once. This was probably due to the third member, Uzumaki Naruto. Kakashi stared at the Blonde boy. It was kind of strange, Kakashi expected Naruto to act like Kushina, boisterous and sometimes obnoxious. But he acted more like Minato sensei, calm, collected, enthusiastic, but driven. The boy was quite mature for his age, and held a lot of power.
Kakashi remembered the Bell test where Kakashi was almost halfway to taking out his sharingan. The boy was fast for damn sure, though he felt almost unsure of his movements. It was like he was deciding between two things every time. Kakashi would have to work on him being more decisive, but it was good that the boy was thinking about multiple options.
The blonde boy in particular was humming a small tune he had picked up from his older brother. He was somewhat listening to Sakura and Sasuke discuss the difference between Senbon and Kunai. Naruto was more interested in his family at the moment. He has lost his boisterous personality a long time ago, after Gaara... had his incident. That incident had affected everyone in the family.
Fu had grown bitter at her villagers and promised to run away, when she saw a good opportunity. Yugito and Gaara clung to family harder both Jinchuuriki and human families. Utakata went ballistic and isolated himself from his village, preferring to live away from the humans. They had changed a lot in only 2 years. He never thought about this, never thought about how much they changed until he saw Konohamaru, before he left on the mission. The boy was running around with his friends and Naruto recognized the expression on his face, joy.
Naruto wasn't depressed or anything. He just hadn't experienced genuine happiness, at least in the real world. He could understand Fu's wish, that their dreams were real and that this world was just a nightmare. But Roshi vehemently denied it. He said that the reason why their dreams were so sweet, so joyful, was that they were living in this world. They needed to feel the suffering, needed to understand pain to really understand joy. Naruto felt a flash of hot anger in his stomach. But it was pointless. Hadn't all Jinchuuriki suffered enough, haven't they felt pain. What had they done to deserve this?
Naruto kept walking, while looking up at the clouds. He felt his string pull against his neck under his light brown jacket and white T-shirt. He always wore Yugito's necklace wherever he went. It represented his little good luck charm. Naruto smiled as he remember almost revealing it to Iruka-sensei after he successfully did the simple Bunshin. Naruto shuddered at the memory. He had practiced for 2 weeks straight trying to get it right. But he had finally been able to filter his demon chakra from his regular chakra. He had accomplished this at the age of 11, of course.
Naruto moved his right hand to rub the cord of the necklace.