Princess of Taken
Chapter One: Suddenly it changes!
*Forest of Death, Five years after Kyuubi attack*
Naruko was scared.
While others would think that someone having fear is bad, and would try to solve the problem, this time they wanted to cause more.
They wanted revenge.
And when they got their pound of flesh they left her here.
In the forest filled with low chain animals growing to sizes unnaturally large (giant rabbits might be cute, but those two front teeth bite through freaking trees!).
Naruko ran. Fear was all she knew.
'Happiness was not for monsters' the villagers said.
So they stopped her from having it, she did not know the meaning of the word.
Naruko found herself in a cave. She kept running. The twists and turns made her lost. She ran into a clearing, her sprint coming to a halt. It was lucky she had even made it this far.
She looked around, the grass was a dark green and the walls somehow drained the light from the world and gave out some sort of strange not-light in return.
In the middle of the room was a large stone sword stuck deeply into the ground, about three times the size of short Naruko.
Naruko shuffled towards it. Something deep inside her was trying to stop her, but she didn't want to stop. She slowly raised her hand towards the blade's hilt, and grabbed it. The feeling inside her stopped as her world turned to black.
*?*
Fear.
For the first time in its long life Kyuubi felt fear.
The last thing it wanted to feel when awaking for the first time in this new cage was the drain of its power, it tried to spread a negative emotion to the feeling, trying to get its container to stop, but she powered through it as if she felt more than it before.
The drain was stronger as its container moved to the item, and finally it stopped. The Kyuubi's power was gone, yet it still lived. Something deep inside was awakening... or... reawakening? The Kyuubi felt something pure inside itself as it changed into something new, or maybe it was old?
*Forest of Death's not-light clearing*
The Kyuubi felt life, felt light, felt new.
She sat upright and looked around, and saw something that made her jump.
A small child with hair glowing with the nothingness of the void, wearing nothing but rags and resting on a large sword. She sensed that the blade contained her old power, which it was adding to its own reserves and in connection, the child's.
The child was nothing but skin and bones. Shivering and mumbling in her rest. Kyuubi slowly stood up, not wanting the child to wake. It didn't work out too well though, as Kyuubi usually walked on all fours and was shaped like an animal, so she fell and landed with a dull thud, Kyuubi lifts her head to see the sight of the child being jolted awake. At the first the child looked around with lifeless cyan eyes, confused. Eventually she found sight of Kyuubi and stared in fear.
*focus Naruko*
Naruko looked at the pretty lady, thinking of how nice her hair is, a strange blue almost crackling with the power of the storms, and eyes a stormy cloud grey.
And she does what she does best. She got scared and said the first thing she says to anyone,
"I'm sorry for being such a monster, will my pain make you better? It's alright, I can handle it."
Naruko gets confused at the next sight she sees but her fear remains, slowly the pretty lady gets up, as if she has never stood up before and shuffles toward her, she braced for the impact, the pain, but felt nothing like that, she felt a hand go through her hair instead, the fear increased, the only time anyone did that the masked defenders came and hurt her a lot afterwards for being a monster.
"No! Please don't send the masked men to hurt me more; I'll be a good monster." Naruko mumbles out quietly.
"Shh, don't worry little one, I will protect you now, no more pain." A soft voice replies, Naruko opens her eyes to the kind smile of the pretty lady.
"Protect?" Naruko whispered.
"Yes, I will make sure you're safe." The pretty lady says kindly.
"Why protect a monster? Aren't there others that need protection from someone like me?" Naruko cries out
"You are no monster, all I see is a child who needs to be protected from the darkness of the world, who needs a guardian, which I can be for you." The pretty lady replies
For the first time Naruko felt a positive emotion, hope.
*focus change Kyuubi*
The Kyuubi knew this was the right thing to do, it could sense its old-new energy being kept inside the child, meaning that it was its previous container. Kyuubi could also sense its energy purifying any of the blade's energy that was seeping into the child, Naruko if she remembered from when she was being sealed for the third time, no matter how out of it she was. A child like this needed to learn the good of the world to counteract the dark it could harness, because if she did anything wrong, this world would fall.
Kyuubi picked up Naruko in her arms and the sword strangely turned into just a hilt, which she also picked up and placed it on top of Naruko. She took gentle steps, as she was still having trouble walking on her new legs, the world seemed so different so close to the ground. She slowly made her way round the tunnels until she reached the main forest and she made her way to a safer location.
Strangely, none of the animals followed them and just watched from afar, their instincts not letting them to attack.
Okay, so that was true chapter one, if it disappoints you please go ahead and throw those flames, I probably need it, my previous attempts to make fanfictions did not turn out so well...
Anyway, I want you to talk to me about these two ideas I had, should Naruko age? I thought about it and I had this idea of a cute chibi running around dragging a large sword behind her, but I feel like some of you would not like this idea.
Anyways, I hope you liked this.
NRMania, returning to orbit.