Chapter summary: The team discuss Scion, Scion meets Naruto, and Sakura pummels Naruto. : P
The team reported to Tsunade-sama as soon as they reached Konoha. The trip back had been uneventful, with Scion sleeping most of the time. They told the Hokage how Scion had practically come to life in front of them, then later reattached her arm.
"No human could have done that," Neji said. "I saw her demon chakra rejuvenate her nearly dead body."
"She was starved." Choji observed. "No one had opened that cell for months."
Kakashi agreed. "What about Scion as person? What is she like?" Tsunade asked.
"She is obsessed with light ,and afraid of the dark, not unusual for someone who's been shut up in the dark as much as she has." Sakura said, coming in from taking Scion to the hospital.
"I expected there would be some trauma from her time as one of his subjects." Tsunade replied calmly.
"Also," Kakashi added, "We've seen no evidence of it, but Orochimaru's notes indicate that she is mentally unstable."
Tsunade nodded thoughtfully. "It is unfortunate if that is true. Anything else?"
Sakura looked a little grim. "She looks like Orochimaru."
Tsunade's eyes widened. "She does?"
"Hai. A great deal like him." Kakashi confirmed.
"A DNA comparison might reveal whether she is his daughter, or whether he altered her with his DNA." The ANBU suggested.
Tsunade thought out loud. "She would be around thirty, if he fathered her before he changed himself and took a host body. I doubt he could have after that."
Sakura cut in. "When I told her the date and asked how old she was she said she thought she was about 27. She's been with him her whole life."
Guy shook his head sadly, tears spouting out of his eyes. "The poor young woman! We must befriend her and show her the meaning of family and friendship at once!" Normally Kakashi was somewhere between annoyed and amused by Guy's outbursts, but in this case he agreed with Guy. That was exactly what Scion needed.
When Kakashi next saw Scion she was sitting on the side of her hospital bed, looking out the window and absently brushing out her long hair. Naruto was guarding her, sitting cross legged on the chair by the door, watching her intently. She noticed him and greeted him politely. "Good morning Kakashi-sama."
"I heard you were feeling better and thought you might like a visitor."
"Guy-sama said the same thing." Scion noted. "Thank you for coming to see me. I like seeing lots of different people, and mostly I just see Sakura-sama and my guard."
"I don't imagine they talk much."
"No, especially the ones in the masks. And that boy with the yellow hair, he's hasn't even told me his name. He has just sat there and glared at me all day."
"Well that's rude, Naruto." Kakashi said pointedly.
"Fishcake?" Scion looked puzzled, the most animated he had seen her face. Naruto reddened. Kakashi chuckled.
"Why did you call me a fishcake?" Scion asked. Naruto stuck his lip out.
"No no," Kakashi waved his hands apologetically. "The boy's name is Naruto."
"Oh! So why won't that boy talk to me then?"
"I'm not a boy! I'm a man!" Naruto burst out. Kakashi smiled under his mask.
"You must be much older than you look then." Scion observed. Naruto didn't answer. "He's not talking again."
"So it would seem. Naruto, you really should talk to Scion while you are here."
"But Kakashi-sensei!"
"But what Naruto?"
"I don't trust her." Naruto grumbled quietly.
"Neither does anyone else," Scion pointed out coolly, "And they at least say hello and introduce themselves."
She turned to Kakashi. "Are you really his teacher?"
"I was awhile ago."
"Do you still get to punish him?"
Kakashi laughed. "I suppose I could get Jaraiya-sama to teach him some manners, but I don't think it would work very well."
Scion blinked. "You are probably right about that, if we are thinking of the same Jaraiya."
"Have you met Jariaya then?"
"No, Orochimaru would talk about him sometimes, that's all." She paused. "That's part of why nobody trusts me isn't it? That and being part demon?"
Kakashi wasn't sure how to answer. "It's mostly because you look like him." Naruto said, seeming to think this was worth saying.
"I look like who?"
"Orochimaru of course, did you think I meant Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto burst out. Scion pulled her IV nutrient drip out of her arm and walked quickly across the room to the mirror.
"Don't do that!" Kakashi said too late. Once there leaned in close over the sink, apparently very near sighted. Suddenly she screamed and started punching the mirror.
"NO NO NO NO!" Kakashi pushed the buzzer for the nurse, then grabbed Scion. Of course, her cuts from the broken glass healed instantly, but she still needed to be held back from hurting herself. At least in his opinion she did.
Sakura and an orderly arrived to find the mirror shattered and streaked with blood. Scion was crying into a slightly uncomfortable Kakashi Sensei, and Naruto was sitting on a chair, looking slightly ashamed of himself. Sakura instantly jumped to the most likely conclusion.
"NARUTO! You idiot, what did you do?!"
"Why don't you step out for a minute, Naruto, and tell Sakura what happened." Sakura could tell Kakashi-sensei was upset with Naruto. Naruto rubbed the back of his head nervously.
"Ehehehe." he stammered.
"NOW, Naruto," Sakura said firmly, then grabbing him by the back of his collar and dragging him out the door. "Just a moment Kakashi-sensei." she said, bowing politely while Naruto halfheartedly tried to escape. She slammed the door room so hard dust fell off the ceiling. Sakura threw Naruto down against the wall and loomed over him.
"Explain Naruto." She said menacingly. Naruto gulped and started to sweat. Images of all the things Naruto could have done flashed through her head, and she unconsciously began pounding and grinding her fist against her palm.
Naruto put up his hands defensively, "Calm down Sakura-chan, it's not that bad, really!"
Sakura hphmed, but took a deep breath. "What did you do then?"
"All I did was say nobody trusts her because she looks like Orochimaru, that's all!"
"You're the most insensitive idiot on the face of the earth, Naruto!"
"Well, it's true! She does look just like him. I guess she didn't know but I still don't get why she was so upset about it."
Sakura sighed aggravated. "How would you feel if you had just found that Orochimaru was your father?"
Naruto looked confused. "What do you mean Sakura-chan?"
"You would be angry, right?"
"Well yeah, considering all the bad stuff he's done to us."
"Well, Scion just found out that Orochimaru is her father."
Naruto's confusion deepened. "I don't get it. What's the analo-whatsit?"
Sakura drooped. "There is no analogy! Orochimaru really is Scion's father!"
Naruto pondered this for a moment. "That's gross." Sakura could feel a tension headache building in her forehead. "I mean, he's this weird snake monster, right? You'd think it wouldn't even be possi--" Sakura snapped and punched the top of his head. "OW! Sakura-chan!" he whined.
"For your information, Naruto, he probably fathered her before he changed into the 'weird snake monster."
"So, she's old?"
"Shut up Naruto! If he didn't, then he probably took someone else's child and did genetic alteration to make Scion. Either way she's spent her whole life being experimented on by him and hating him, and you just told Scion Orochimaru is her father."
"I still don't trust her." Naruto said stubbornly. Sakura hit him again. Naruto whined again.
"Now go in and apologize!"
"Aww man..."
Review people. Any suggestions? Is the perspective change format working well? Does Naruto look too much like a wuss?
