Well, this is the new chapter of my story; I have many ideas for this one, but not for Shangrila and Namichuu Fest, so maybe I'm a bit slow in updating the two stories. Well, enjoy everyone….
By the way, if I own Naruto, Sakura and that Uchiha bastard would be together…
By the way the full summary is in my profile now... check at the bottom
Chapter 2: Meeting the Hosts
Normal POV
Naruto comes home with happy face, Minato realizes it and intend to ask his sensei about it, seeing that Naruto won't tell him anything and just write 'nothing'.
"Sensei…" he called the white haired sannin
"Hm? What's wrong, Namikaze brat?" he respond
"What's wrong with Naruto? Usually he would has his blank face all along but he seems happy today"
"Don't know" he answer easily.
The Hokage just sighed; maybe he would know it later. He then comes back to his stressing paper work and decided to think about it later. Then, someone knock his door and he told him to come in. The door opened and revealed the pineapple head shadow user.
"Hey, Shikaku. What's wrong?" he ask
"Ask me what's wrong? You don't know she's back, she didn't meet you?" he bombards him with question
"Whoaa, calm down Shikaku, whose back?" he ask again
"Wakana, of course, W-A-K-A-N-A. Don't tell me you don't even remember her" he tells him
"What's wrong with the circus group's leader?" he asks for the third time, still has no idea about this ruckus
"SHE'S the leader, you've got to be joking" he then screamed at the blond Hokage.
"Yeah, she met me earlier to ask for permission to perform, why?" the Hokage answer him.
"Ok, you don't remember" he sighed at him
"What!"
"Nope, I can't talk with you if you don't remember" he then turns back and left the blond Hokage with confused face.
Naruto's POV
I'm very happy today, Wakana-san gives me her drawing and honestly, I like it very much. Kakashi comes earlier and ask me if there's something that makes me happy and I told him 'nothing', like I would tell him about Wakana-san to this pervert.
Then I heard my father knock my room's door. I ignored him of course.
"Naruto, could you open the door, I have something to give you" he said
I think that it's very weird to him to get something for me, like someone wants to get something for a monster. But, curiosity is killing me and I opened the door at last. His visit really ruined my mood and I'm back with my blank look again.
"Naruto, I have tickets for circus tomorrow, would you like to come with Jiraiya or Kakashi maybe?" he asks me
I paled, I really don't want to get out of the house except for the forest and he use circus tickets to get me out? I then shook my head and close the door, I could see his disappointed face before I close the door and lock up my room.
I then fall asleep, wondering if Wakana-san will be there tomorrow. I really like talking to her and she seems to be a very kind woman. Then I think if she finds out about Kyuubi, will she hate me like my father, the villagers, and that jonin from before. But I fell asleep before finished thinking.
Minato's POV
Okay, now I'm screwed. Naruto refused the ticket that I bought for him. I sighed and think to give the ticket to sensei or Kakashi. But, Shikaku's words really make me curious about this circus group. Just what's wrong with the leader! Then, Fugaku comes to my house uninvited with an angry look on his face.
"Uchiha, what's wrong? Naruto didn't do anything right?" I asked him.
I thought that, 'like he would do anything! He rarely gets out of the house'.
"Why did you let her inside the village?" he ask with angry voice.
"Pardon, who are you talking about?" I ask him back, clearly blanked about this. Really, why there are many people barge inside my house or office to scream and get angry at me.
"That woman, how could you even let a missing nin like her inside the village?" he ask gain, raising his voice.
"Let's see, are you talking about the circus group's leader?" I asked again. I really thinking that I'm clueless about this ruckus and ask many questions.
"I don't know about circus group but I'm talking about Wakana" he answered me with a sigh.
"Right, she's the circus group's leader" I said to him, his jaw dropped to the floor and I laugh at him. It's a rare sight to see an Uchiha dropped his jaw to the floor.
"Oh, I should get a picture" I said. He then growled angrily and turns his back on me while saying that I don't seems to remember and gets back to his house.
Okay, now I'm super confused about this circus group. First, Naruto came home with a happy face, Second, Shikaku barged to my office and started to screamed at me, Next, Fugaku barged to my house and screamed again at me, Last, I see an Uchiha dropped his jaw to the floor. I think the world is going to end after all…
Normal POV
At the group's meeting point…
Karen just back from her little trip to her parents' house and when she's closing to the camp site, she waved her hand to the female host.
"Karen-chan, you're back already? Wakana-san did say that it's alright for you to spend some time with your family even though you have to perform tomorrow" said the 2 tails' host
"Like I will spend that much time for my father" she said back, with angry face.
"Hmm, Even though you like to tell me about your twin brother" she said, smirking, trying to tease the little girl
"Oh, shut up Yugito" she growled angrily.
Kabuto then comes to the girls to inform them to move the costumes and equipments to the tent, the boys, except Kabuto already finished the tent. The girls just nodded at him and continue their work with Yugito's teasing words to the smaller girl.
Naruto's POV
Next day, I left my house before eating breakfast, I'm too happy to eat some. I'm looking forward to see Wakana-san again. But, something disturb me, will she be there today? She did say that she will see him tomorrow, but I really used to someone to break a promise. I shook my head brushing it off. Maybe I only met her yesterday, but I didn't think that she's that type of person. I run to the forest and welcomed by the foxes, already waiting at the forest's entrance. I smiled at them and my stomach growled, the foxes offer some fruits but I said that I have to go to the usual place to meet someone and run again, with the foxes tailing behind.
I arrived at my usual place, a little scared when I'm about to see the place, a little part of me still doubting that she will be here while the other part of me wants to believe that she's there. When I opened my eyes, I see my usual place brighter than usual, maybe because the sun is brighter today and the purple haired woman drawing at the center, leaning her back on a big log I used to lean back to. I really feel very happy and run to her direction, she realized my presence and smiled at me. I sit beside her then, my stomach growled once again. I could feel my face reddened a bit.
"You haven't eaten your breakfast yet?" she asked me.
I nod my head and she offered me a pack of ramen. I smiled and take it from her and eating happily. Then something comes to my mind.
"How do you know that I haven't eaten my breakfast yet?" I asked.
She just smiled and said, "No, I don't know anything. I just know in my experience that when you think that it will happen then it happen"
I really think that it's a weird way of thinking. I then finished my ramen and asked her about her trip. She said that she has been to many places in the world.
"Naruto-kun, when I came to the Kirigakure, it rained heavily and unfortunately my group didn't bring any umbrella or something like that, so we stayed at the tent for 2 days straight" she said to me. I have my confused look, "Hey, if you stayed there, how about your food, or going to the toilet?"
She laughed and said that if they want to go to the toilet, it would make them really wet all around. Then, I asked her what she did with her group. She said that she's with a circus group, travelling around the world, performing. I nod my head and remembered about my father offered me a ticket for a circus performance, so it's her group.
"Hey, you give my father 2 tickets for your performance?" I asked her.
"Who's your father?" she asked me back
"The Hokage" I answered
"Ah, the Namikaze. Yeah, I give him two yesterday" she answered.
I really wondered where she knew my father's last name. Then I asked her, "Where do you come from, and your group?"
"Hmm, where do I come from…? I'm originally from this village and my group… there are lots of them and they're just from anywhere around the worlds" she answer
So she's from this village. I wondered if she knew about Kyuubi and decided to ask her about it. Really, this problem really disturbs me.
"Wakana-san, if I tell you that a monster is sealed inside me, will you hate me?" I ask gazing on the ground.
She seems surprised a bit, but then smiled at me, patting my head.
"Like I would, you know, in my group there are many that have monsters sealed inside them" she said to me.
I raised my head and process her words. There are others like me; they have monsters sealed inside them. Then something comes to my mind. Did they have the same experience as me?
"Wakana-san, did they… well you know about how they are treated at their village?" I asked hesitantly
"Hmm… How they are treated at their village? I don't think I should be the one who tell you this, how about I brought you to my group's meeting place and you could ask them" she offer to me. I want to meet them, but I don't want to go to the city, if they have a meeting point at the forest then it won't be a problem. But, the woman seems to know my problem.
"Our meeting point is near here, do you want to go and meet them?" she ask
This time I nod, if it's in the forest then it won't be a problem. But, a little part of me did worry about meeting new people. She then packed her things and grabs my hand, then, walk to the deeper side of the forest. Then suddenly something comes again to my mind, really, why I want to ask so many questions.
"Wakana-san, why did you leave the village? You are a former shinobi, right?"
"Yeah, I'm a former shinobi, but well… maybe living freely like I want to is a reason, right?" she answered me. Living freely, it was something that I wouldn't even dare to think. But after a while I brushed it off my mind.
After a while of walking, I could hear people's voice. Some of them are laughing while there are some who screaming angrily sounded like scolding them and the sound of dealing kunai or sharp things. Wakana-san sighed and continues to take me to the camping site.
What I see really stuns me. I see an almost transforming 8 tails beast and the other…well, there are some who just laughed at him and the other tried to calm him and there is others who tried to kill him already, seems to be extremely pissed, but being held by the other member. Wakana-san then told me to wait here while I see around. There is a boy, seems to be my age sitting casually at a rock, and seems too used to this kind of event. Then, I have my eyes back to the host, for me it really looks like that he is drunk.
I have never seen someone managed to calm a host who is almost transformed into a beast completely. But I guess Wakana-san is not an average person and the host himself is not an average host. Wakana-san take a log of wood then she walked to the host side, seems to not scared of him a bit. Then, she hit his head hardly with the wood, so hard until I twitch my eyes a bit and thinks, 'that must be hurt'
But, the next thing is the weirdest one. The host stopped transforming and the 8 tailed beasts come out from his body, seems to be drunk. Then I could hear Wakana-san scold him and said something about don't let your bijuu out when you're drunk. The other just laughed at him, including the red haired boy who's just sitting casually before. Then, she comes to my direction while the other stared at her.
"Everyone, this is Naruto from the Leaf Village, he's the 9 tail's host" she said loudly for her group to hear. I feel a little mad about her mentioning it easily but her group's reaction really surprised me. I expect them to glare or maybe scared at me like the other people, but then I remembered about Wakana-san saying that there are other hosts like me here. Then, I see some people running to me with smile on their face, the green haired boy who seems to be a little older than me smiled happily.
"So you're the 9 tail's host…you're short" he said easily. If this is an anime I really would have an angry mark at my head and I scream at him, "I'M NOT A SHORTY!"
He just laughed at me and a chakra formed beside him, revealed a beetle like beast with 7 tails. The boy just glare at the beast mumbling something about don't come out you little beetle bastard. But the beetle seems to ignore him and flying around me, I stared at the beetle curiously and the beetle said, "Nii-san, Nii-san, please come out, your siblings are all here" he said, then the Kyuubi comes out in his usual form of a little fox.
"Yo, Nanabi… your host seems to control you well" he said. Then, a bunch of animals with tails come around Kyuubi, calling him nii-san and he said to me to enjoy your company and comes with the other animal to play, maybe…
"By the way, I haven't introduced myself. I'm Fu, the 7 tails' host" he said, grinning to me. He seems to be a cheerful person. Then, a girl with long light brown hair comes to me and smiled.
"I'm Yugito, the 2 tails' host" she said. The other then comes around me… The cold looking boy who looks like a little older than me introduced himself as Yagura, the 3 tails' host. Then, the dark haired teenager said that his name is Utakata, the 6 tails' host. The 2 old man, one with red haired called himself Roshi while the one with mask on his face called Han. Lastly, the red haired boy, being pushed forward by Yugito introduced himself shyly, "I'm Gaara, the 1 tail's host" Gaara told me about the drunk eight tails' host, his name is Killer Bee and Gaara said he's a little weird.
Then, there are some of them who are not a host comes to me and smiled at me. I'm scared at first, maybe I feel easy with the hosts but, they're a normal people. The long haired girl with head band around her forehead seems to be a cheerful one, like Fu.
"Hi, I'm Karen, I'm from the leaf village too, and don't worry about being host or not, we have a bunch of them here and the normal used to it" she said. Her words really calm me down then, the other member come introduce themselves. There are too many, but I managed to remember all the hosts' name and some of the normal member. Karen, the one from leaf village, Yamato was from leaf village too and the other one with glasses is Kabuto who is also from the leaf village.
I smiled at them and Fu tried to get me to play one of his weird bicycle, but Karen scold him which ends up in a heated battle between them before Utakata stopped them. Gaara seems to be very kind to me and maybe I like him the most after Wakana-san, maybe because we are in the same age. But, someone's voice silent the group.
"Then, everyone we have performance today. After this we will go to the tent secretly, don't forget to mask your chakra brats and Kabuto, you could started to sell the tickets now, bring anyone you want and get your ass there already" scream the red haired old man, if I recall, his name is Roshi. Kabuto then stuck his tongue and go with Yamato to sell tickets. Roshi who realized that Kabuto's mocking him throw a stone and hit him on the head, bulls' eye…
"OW! That hurts you stupid old man" he said turning his back to face the old man.
"Respect me a bit brat!" he said back. Kabuto just huffed and continue to walk farther from the camping site with Yamato trying to calm him down.
Karen then comes to me, offering some toys for me and Gaara to play while Karen is sharpening her sword. I really stunned with her swords. I used to katana, but this sword is different. Katana just have 1 sharp side, but her sword have 2 sharp side on both left and right and the design is very beautiful, I really wondered when did she get this. Then I could hear Gaara giggled at me.
"Yeah, I'm like that too, that kind of sword really rare to find" he said to me. I nod in understanding way and he asks me if I want to play with animals. I said yes, guessing that he said as animals would be cat or dog, but he takes me to play with tiger!
Then, my earlier problem comes to my mind and I decided to ask Gaara about it.
"Hey, how did you…well how your village treat you before you join this group?" I asked him hesitantly, scared if it would make him recall bad memories. I could see his face darkened a bit, but then he smile and answer my question.
"Same like you maybe. Almost the entire host treated the same. My father sealed Shukaku inside me and my mother died giving birth to me. Even though my father is the one who sealed Shukaku, he hates me a lot and tends to sent assassin to kill me almost every week. Fortunately, the Ichibi protect me and then the group came like maybe 4 months ago and I met Wakana-san and the other hosts. Then, I decided to join the group without my father's consent, you could say that I ran away from my house and my father really mad about this and sent ninjas to get me back and destroy the group, I really think we won't perform again at the Sand Village after this" he said.
"Hey, if you said that your father sent ninjas to gets you back, what did the group do that time?" I asked him again
"Wakana-san asked me if I want to go back and I said I want to go with them and she screamed orders for the groups. Some of us fight and some of us hid at the carriage. I saw Karen nee-san was injured by the ninjas and I think to get back to the village so they won't hurts the group's member but, Karen nee-san eyes changed and she finished all of her enemies in one strike. That's really cool and the others do the same too. Finally, they come back with injuries but not that serious and even Wakana-san comes back without any injuries and she then hold me and said that it's safe already and I cried until I asleep on her lap" he said to me again. I nod and think if I go with them, will my father become that mad too?
Normal POV
The Uchiha Compound…
Mikoto is currently watching Sasuke and Itachi training together at the back yard. If a few years ago it was Itachi and Karen training together, now it's Itachi and his little brother. She smiled remembering good past. Then, she remembered the tickets, Karen told her to come to her performance if she wants, with Itachi, Sasuke, and her father, if he want it. But curiosity is killing her, she want to watch her daughter perform but Fugaku may not let her and his children watch a 'pathetic circus group' as he said. She sighed and Itachi realized it.
"Mother, is there something wrong?" he ask his mother
"No, you know Karen left tickets for her performance today and I want you and Sasuke go with me to watch, I want to watch Karen performing you know" she answer
"Let's go then, it's today right?" he said easily then, comes inside after getting Sasuke. His mother just gasped with his easy answer he seems to not even worry about his strict father.
"Wait, Itachi…your father…" before she could finished her sentence, Itachi already stopped and turn to face his mother and said, "No need to worry about him, if you want to go then we will go, mother"
His mother just sighed in defeat when the family head comes from the front door, his face seem frustrated. Mikoto just a little scared with him, even when they already married for who-knows-how-long.
"Fugaku, me, Itachi, and Sasuke wants to watch a circus this afternoon, would you want to come?" ask Mikoto to her husband.
"Why should I watch that woman's show!" he scream at his wife, Mikoto just back off and her eyes stare at him in apologetic way.
"Because Karen will perform" said someone from her back which turned to be Itachi. His father changed his scary gaze to his oldest son and finally he nods his head and said, "I'll go, I want to have a talk with that girl"
Mikoto just sighed and get to the kitchen while Itachi go to Sasuke's room, finding him to wait for him to play. Itachi smiled at him and Sasuke crush him into a bear hug.
"Sasuke, we're going to watch circus, do you want to go?" Itachi ask his younger brother
"Circus, what's that?" he ask back
"It's a show, people will perform many things and some of them could cycle at a rope and there are others who could fly with just a rope and many others, it's very fun and interesting" said Itachi describing the best he could. Sasuke think a while but nod his head in approval, but then something seems to come to his mind.
"Hey, Nii-san you promise me to tell about that girl" he said, hoping his brother to tell him about the mysterious girl.
Itachi just surprised a bit don't expect him to remember the girl. This means that Karen really make him curious. Itachi sighed and said that he will tell him after they watch the circus which makes his little brother's face pouting in defeat.
Meanwhile, Mikoto decided to buy grocery before they watch the show and she go to the city. She's a little surprised with a huge tent in the center of the city, people queuing in front of the desk with a boy with round glasses selling tickets. She then saw Shikaku, and his former team mate buying tickets for the show and Mikoto comes over to greet them.
"Hey, Nara, it's very unusual for you to watch a circus" she said teasing the older Nara
"Nah, it's just because that woman said so" said the blond Yamanaka.
"Wakana-chan visits you too?" she asked them
"Yeah, she really did a good job surprising us with that circus thingy" said the Akimichi.
"Oh, so you are going to watch?"
The three of them nod disappointedly at Mikoto, she knew that they never win against Wakana, that genius kunoichi…
Meanwhile again at a mansion near the Hokage tower…
A girl is sitting on her wheel chair, clearly shown that she can't walk. She's staring outside the window, showing the whole village. An old woman is coming to her direction; she's one of the council members.
"Yuki, there is a circus performing at the town, if you like we could get you there to watch" said the woman, asking the 4 years old girl if she want to watch the show. One of the clan head say to give her entertainment once in a while.
The girl didn't turn her head and shook her head, signaling that she won't come to watch the show today and said, "Maybe the night show"
The old woman just nod and noted to herself to buy a ticket for the night show and turning her back to leave her room. But, the girl suddenly talks to her.
"Oba-san, what do you think of the group?" she ask
"What do you mean, Yuki?" she ask back as she turns again to face the girl
"I'm talking about the member" she said without shifting her gaze from her window
The woman sighed at her, thinking that every time she ask something like this that would means that something will happen. "They came 2 years ago to perform and for me there's nothing wrong with them"
"Is that so…?"
Then, the woman turns her back again, now really trying to leave the room when the girl started to talk something.
"Oba-san, tell the Fourth Hokage. Fix his mistakes before its too late and to judge with cool head" she said. The woman just nods at her and leave her room. After she leaves the room the girl turns her back to face the door. She's a pretty one with wavy black long hair and wearing a black furisode* with red flowers as motives.
"Nothing wrong with the member is it? I wonder if the Hokage will know the meaning behind my words. If not, he will lose something precious" she said to no one.
Meanwhile, the one whose she talking about just walking casually at the street ignoring his current status as the Hokage, deciding to watch the circus seeing that Naruto won't come and he even bought the tickets, what a waste. Oh also eat ramen before that, he then see his old friends chatting happily and decided to join them.
"Hey, what are you doing here?" he greets his friends. His friends then turn around to see their blond Hokage standing there.
"Ah, Hokage-sama, what a sight…" said the head of Hyuuga, smirking and tried to tease the Hokage.
"Hiashi, what a phenomenon to see the head of Hyuuga clan comes to the city to watch circus" said the Hokage back, tried to tease the Hyuuga.
"Nah, my daughters and wife want to spend some family time and here I am" he answer
"And Uchiha! This is a miracle!" scream the Hokage loudly.
"Shut up! Itachi and the others want to watch and I'm just here to talk with my daughter" he said back to the blond Hokage.
"Daughter? The one who was missing years ago, right?" ask Shikaku
"Yes, I believe that bastard woman managed to lure her to join her group" he said angrily.
"Well, don't just assuming badly about your daughter motive to join my group, Uchiha" said someone behind them, automatically surprised all of the ninjas. She then smirked playfully and greet them while the Hokage still clueless about the woman.
"Wakana, just once in a century, don't startle us like that!" scream Mikoto to her friend.
"Well, I'm very surprised myself seeing all of you coming here to watch circus, how about I give you a special seat?" she asked
"You have prepared that?" ask the big Akimichi.
"Yeah, if one of my friends or their family wants to come at least I have to give them a proper seat, right?" she said again
"How do you know we would come?" ask the ever stoic Uchiha
"Ah, I don't know anything…~" she said happily as she rolled her eyes and turns back to the tent.
"Ah, she's weird as usual" said Hiashi, sighing. Leaving the Hokage still clueless about the woman…
Let's leave the old generations and see Gaara and Naruto who still playing…
"Hey, Naruto, we have performance soon, how about watching from the back stage. That way, you don't have to meet the villager right?" offer Gaara to his new friend. Naruto think about it a while then asked him, "How could I get there?"
"You could go with the equipment carriage, no one will see you and I always go to the tent with the carriage" answer the red haired easily. Naruto finally nods and the two of the go to the carriage before it could be transferred to the tent.
After a while, Gaara stuck his head out of the carriage and said that they arrive at the tent and its okay to come out. Then, Gaara jumped from the carriage followed by Naruto to be welcomed by the busy performers running here and there. Then, Yugito who already finished with her costume see the two little boys and mentioned them to come to her direction.
"Naruto, Gaara, you should see the preparation room, it's very interesting" said the older girl
Gaara just nod and he grabs Naruto's hand to come with him. The red haired boy drags him, ignoring the older people who are still very busy with their performance and arrive at the preparation room.
The room is not very big, but what's inside could stun the kids. Karen and some of the members are adjusting their costumes and there are many types of equipment in the room. Roshi already preparing the animals and Killer Bee is now has a white skin, he's a clown right now and the two little boys laugh at him loudly. Yagura and Fu already in their costumes and adjusting their bikes, Karen is sharpening her blades. Suddenly someone pat their heads. It was Wakana who has a free time today.
"Hey, two of you coming here to watch?" ask the leader.
Gaara nod and followed by Naruto. Then Wakana takes them to a place at the back stage. This place could let you see everything clearly. The two boys awed by the sight. They could see the big stage and the empty seats for the audience. The leader then leaves them there after saying that they won't be bad boys and jumped to the stage.
After a while audiences started to pouring in. Mostly villager, but Naruto could see a few ninjas come to watch, maybe they just want to entertain them selves. And the things he sees now really make him want to run away. He could see his father and his friends coming happily to watch. He could see the Uchiha family come together, Sasuke is grabbing his mother's hand to come inside make the two boys a little jealous.
Meanwhile at the back stage, the performers are awed with this sight. They don't expect their show to be this popular. But, the green haired boy witness something, he could at least know Karen's father and her clan so he turns his back and go to the preparation room, Karen still sharpening her blades.
"Karen, your father coming to watch" he said coldly. He knows after all, Karen hated her father more than anything.
"Oh, is that so…?" she answer easily, seems to expect this.
The green haired boy just sighed and told her to get ready, since her performance is the first one and to do it perfectly or he will kill her. Karen just nod and her gaze changed, a while ago she still has the cheerful and relaxed gaze, but now she switch into the cold killing mode, well, it's just decoration to make the tension more mysterious and scary. Fu smirk and gets out of the room while Karen already walking to the stage.
Sasuke's POV
It's my first time watching circus and father coming too with us. It's a rare event for father to spend time with us. So I happily coming with my brother, mother, and father to watch the circus. Nii-san just has his stoic face while father seems not calm and mother has her happy face all along. I wonder if it's connected to that girl.
We are sitting at the special seats prepared by the group's leader who I eavesdropped to be old friend of my parents. I'm waiting patiently for the show to start and suddenly the light turns off, signaling that the show will begin shortly.
Then, I sense that the atmosphere suddenly changed, it's colder and scarier then the lights at the stage turn on, revealing that mysterious girl holding 2 swords both on her hands. Her eyes have a cold gaze, if you want me to describe, it like looking a knight, who's ready for a big war. It seems that my brother realizes it too but he doesn't react a bit while I could feel myself feel cold. Maybe this is how it feels when you're about fighting someone stronger with more will power and experience.
Then, music started to play. For me, the music sounds like music for a war in a movie. She unsheathed her swords and an enemy with mask comes from back stage. They bow to each other and they begin their fights. The fight seems to follow the music's rhythm. The mask man attack first and she defend herself. Then the man attacked form behind and she swings the other sword to the back and defended herself. She then turns back and attack the mask man, two times. One is a direct one and the other one, she attack horizontally and the mask man attack again and she defend and stir her sword to the back. Then, she jumped and tried to attack from above, but the mask man defends and she jumped back. Then, the mask man hand his sword to the girl and the girl begin to juggling the swords around which make me a little awed. Then she throws swords to the air and the mask man jumped and catches it. And the music changed into a little calmer and she seems to dance around with swords and I realized that the atmosphere changed too. If she gives cold aura before, it's gentler, like a female knight training with her swords. Then, the music changed again to the harder one like before and they begin to fight again, this time it's more intense than before. They move quicker than before, it's like seeing a battle field in front of me. The girl attack and disappear then she attack again and disappear, leaving the mask man confused. Finally, she appears behind the man and has one of her sword at the man's neck. The man just shuddered and releases his grip on his sword and the music ends at the same time as the girl's hair settled down, at the same time, signaling that her show is over. The audience cheers loudly, very loud until I could feel my ear drum blow off maybe. My family also clapped hands to give respect for the girl who perform. The girl at the stage then smiled, lifting the atmosphere around me and bow to the audience and left.
I feel awed at the performance and I glance to see my brother. It's a rare sight to see my brother stunned by a performance and I changed my gaze to see my father and mother. My mother has her hand covering her mouth, her eyes seem stunned with the girl and my father has the same expression as my brother. Then the Fourth Hokage's voice breaks the silence.
Minato's POV
I admit it, that performance is beyond good, it's extremely special. Not just they managed to make the choreography that beautiful, but that girl who perform it also talented in sword play, if she becomes a shinobi. I won't doubt her to be a genius in Itachi's level already. Besides, her ability to change the atmosphere that quickly is a crucial thing in a battle. I could feel everyone around to have the same thinking, but the silence really disturbed me so I decided to break the silence already.
"Well, that's really a stunning performance" I said. The other seems to agree with me even though they just nod their heads. Well, the next performance is starting so; I decided to shut my mouth up.
Normal POV
Karen who just finished her performance just sighed weakly when she step her foot at the back stage, But, her companion's reaction seems to stunned her.
"THAT'S BRILLIANT!" scream Fu, in front of her face.
"That's the best I've ever seen!" scream Yagura, decided to leave his usual cold look and praise the girl.
Good words keep coming for a while from all of the members, even Yugito. She smiled happily at the raven haired girl and the girl smiled back at her ignoring her currently exhausted state. But, their leader stopped their uproar, makes them remember that they still have performance to go on.
"All of you, leave her, you still have your own performance to do, right, don't lose from Karen who managed to stunned the entire audience, including my old friends who happened to be an excellent ninja" said the leader. Her comment is welcomed by the other member and they started to go busy again, preparing their show. The leader then smiled widely at the little girl, pat her head and said, "You really did a good job" and Fu is screaming something at the girl, "I won't lose at you, Karen-nee" the girl surprised, it's already a long time since he called her that, even though she's older than him.
The girl smiled back and then, changed to her usual clothes and walking to Gaara and Naruto's place to watch the rest of the show with them. She arrived and welcomed with a bear hug from the red haired boy.
"That was the best thing I see today. You really are the best, Karen nee-san" said Gaara happily. Karen just smiled and a while later, Naruto hug her too, saying the same thing. She then releases their hug and sit down to watch the rest.
The next performance is from the acrobatic group, Yugito is obviously the main performer and this time, they perform a story called "Snow White" (A/N: You obviously know what the story is about). The attractions are like the other circus group. There're some of them who just performing how flexible their body, comedians, and air acrobatics who fly at the air with just a rope. But, it's not just that, the group's ability for costume design and lights control, also the music could make you stunned in awe.
Then, the clown comes, Killer Bee could do some magic and he's very funny, he becomes a good entertainment for the audiences. Then he perform with Fu-Yagura duo and there he is, just act stupidly and make the audience laugh at him.
Last, there is the animals' show. Roshi control them well and there are the tigers jumping and roaring, the elephants that could do some simple mathematics, and also the lions that also do almost the same as the tigers. That's it, the show over now.
The audience cheers and then they leave the tent with smile on their face. Wakana is very proud with her group and they decided to have barbeque this night. Then, when the people comes out from the tent, they will we welcome with handicrafts sales from the other group's member. Yamato and Kabuto are the one responsible with the sales, Yamato will perform his wood style at afternoon, later and he could sell it after that.
Sasuke's POV
That was really good, the best thing I've seen. I could see my brother also thinks the same when we exited the tent, he smiled a bit and my mother smile widely. But, my father seems stoic as usual. Then, I remembered my brother's promise a while before.
"Nii-san, you promise me to tell about that girl" I run to him and beg.
Then, he said yes and our family, along with my parents' friends and their family walk to the back stage. About my parents' friends, all of them have family already and that blond girl named Ino is really annoying. Whan I tell my brother he just smirked and said that it will become worse when I enter the academy. The Hyuuga girl named Hinata is normal and the Nara boy is really a lazy one. I've heard that the Fourth has a son but I've never seen him around and I wonder if he don't like circus and didn't come with his father here.
We arrived at the back stage's entrance, the one who's guarding is named Han, he's weird, and he has that mask on his face, just leaving his eyes visible. He doesn't let us in at first, but when the Fourth Hokage introduces himself he let us in.
What's inside is really crowded. The performers running here and there, they seem busy and I see a woman with purple hair realized our presence and running to our direction. She then arrives in front of our group and smiled at them. The old people bombard her with praises, they seem really stunned with the first performance and the Fourth Hokage asked her about the girl. My brother than drags me somewhere while our parents seems to be very busy talking with the purple haired woman. I realized that he's taking us to the girl's direction while the girl seems to be waiting for us and her hand is holding a scroll.
Itachi's POV
Time to tell my brother the truth then, I drag him to Karen's direction, already witness that she's holding 'that' scroll. I run to her direction and arrive in front of her face, she looks like really exhausted, maybe because her performance earlier. She then smiled at me and I smiled back, leaving my little brother clueless.
"You're really amazing that time" I said.
"Oh, stop it! I'm bored hearing that all over again" she protested to me, I guess she already heard that a lot from the group's member.
"By the way, Sasuke, this is Karen, greet her" I said to my younger brother. Sasuke just nod and introduce himself while Karen also shake her hand with my, no our younger brother. Then I whispered to her ear.
"You're really going to do that?" I asked her.
"Yeah, it's better for him to don't know me at all" she whispered back. Sasuke just stare at us, he seems confused and we finished our conversation and turns back to face Sasuke.
"First of all Sasuke, remember your older sister?" I ask to him.
Sasuke's POV
Nii-san and that girl are whispering to each other and I can't hear them. I really curious about what're they talking about and mu brother's face seems very serious while talking with her, then they turns back to face me and my brother asking something to me.
"First of all, Sasuke, remembers your older sister?" he ask me.
I almost say that I don't have a sister, but memories suddenly come pouring to my mind.
Flashback
Normal POV
2 years old Sasuke's running at his house's back yard, seeing that his two siblings are sparring. The two of them already a full pledge ninja starting yesterday and his older sister already activated her sharingan. Sasuke really respect his siblings, the two of them are genius on their generation. His sister is a pretty one, her long black hair is flying like a petals when she move around. The two of them then stopped their sparring, realized that their brother is here.
"Hey, Sasuke, you're watching?" ask the girl
"Yeah, nii-san and nee-san is amazing, father will be confused who will succeed the clan later" said the little boy. His older sister just laughed at him, saying that just a boy could succeed the clan, not a girl. He then nod in understanding and his mother then called them for dinner, they nod at her and go inside the house.
Present time
Sasuke's POV
I remember now, she's my older sister. If I remember correctly, she was missing and considered as MIA 3 years ago. I'm quite surprised to see my genius sister joining a circus group but remember that she apparently has a fight with out father a day before she left.
Tears started to form in my eyes and I crushed her into a bear hug and she hug me back.
"Long time no sees, Sasu-chan" she said, calling me with her way of calling me 3 years ago. I then release her and she patted my head, grinning. The two of us then chat a bit while my brother just standing near us and after a while, she then look at her pocket clock and then her face changed, she look at my brother and he nod at her, signaling something that I don't know. She then opened a scroll, reading it for a while then, she closed it again. She places her hand on my head and said, "Sorry, but you have to forget me for a while" and she make hand seals and put her hand again on my head and I fainted.
Normal POV
"It succeeds?" ask Itachi, holding a sleeping Sasuke on his arms.
Karen nod and said, "Yeah, I sealed all of his memories about me, he won't remember unless I release the seal"
"You're not going to regret this, right?" ask Itachi, he has his gaze to the ground.
"Like I will, I decided something well, you know it" she said happily pointing to her head.
He then smiled and nod at his sister. 'Sasuke will forget all of this when he wakes up later,' thought Itachi. But then, someone screamed to them, "What're you doing with Sasuke, Karen?"
It revealed Fugaku with a scared Mikoto following on his back, she seems want to hug her daughter, but her scary husband seems to stop her intention. Karen just smirked at her father, she isn't scared a bit.
"Oh, it's the old man, what're you doing here?" she said casually, gaining awe from Fugaku's friends. Even just a few people around his age dared to talk to him like that and his own daughter talk to him like THAT.
"I would like to ask that thing to you, the second, what're you doing to Sasuke?" he asked, raising his tone, signaling that he's quite angry at her.
"Oh, just erasing his memory, it won't be good for him to remember me" she answers easily. Mikoto seems surprised when Fugaku still has his stoic mask.
"You're right it won't be good for him to remember a traitorous older sister like you" said Fugaku, has his superior glare on his face. Karen just smirked and said, "If you want to fight, how about somewhere else, I don't fell good with that many people staring at me, especially my group" Fugaku then nod and the family leave the tent, leaving Minato and his friends worried about the girl.
"Is she going to be alright?" ask Minato to his friends
"Don't know Fugaku isn't known for his patience and his daughter is a rebellious one" said Shikaku
Then, Minato see something that will really disturbed him, he see Naruto and a red haired boy with a tattoo 'love' near his eye and the two of them are running to a girl with light brown hair. They have smile painted on their face and Naruto is laughing happily with the girl who ruffle their hair with her hands. The Hokage is stunned with this sight, he never talks, don't ever think about Naruto smiling happily with him again. He continue to stare at the group until someone pat his back, Nara then smiled at him, whispering something about 'spend your time with him more, you know'. He just sighed and decided to go back to his work.
Meanwhile, with the Uchiha Family…
They are walking until Fugaku stopped under a sakura tree. Then the other also followed his example and stopped, he turns back and glared his oldest daughter.
"What do you want from me, old man?" ask Karen, also glaring at him. Mikoto just stared at the two of them with worried face while Itachi just carried Sasuke and has his stoic face all along.
"You know that you have betrayed the clan, right?" he asked her back.
Karen then smirked at him and laugh, and then she said, "What did I do? I just left three years ago, what's my fault?"
"I hope you don't forget about the plan" said Fugaku, he's passive at the surface, but he's raging on the inside, his daughter doesn't know about respecting her parent after all.
Karen then stopped her laugh and her face changed into serious mode. She then glared with sharingan turned on to her father.
"Of course not, I already tried to stop you and your clan, but you don't ever trying to hear me and you're favoring Itachi from the started after all"
"Not your, our clan" he said, also glaring to his daughter
"I already abandoned that name and the only one I ever grateful being a member of YOUR clan is because of these eyes, no more and no less" she said easily.
"Because, of those eyes, we're exiled from the village, we have to get our pride back. We have the power to control Konoha, why don't you use that power of yours to get back your pride, Karen?" her father screams at her, extremely angry.
"What pride? Is it because Uchiha Madara betrayed the First and our clan is silently exiled from the village, or is it because you're just a power hunger?" she ask back
"It's because we have power, and we want revenge on Konoha, our clan is defeated and exiled by the village and we want our righteous position back, the Uchiha clan will rule over Konoha, our rebellion will show the world our righteous place" her father scream again to her.
"That's why I said you're just a power hunger, old man. I personally didn't mind that, that Uchiha Madara did betrayed the village, which I know because the clan that time didn't help him. They just know him as an evil one who takes his brother's eyes. And you just want revenge, isn't it, old man?" she said, still glaring to her father.
"You ungrateful brat, I FU***** RAISE YOU, KAREN AND NOW YOU BETRAYED YOUR FAMILY AND CLAN AND MOST OF ALL, YOU LEFT THE VILLAGE AND LEFT YOUR ROLE IN OUR PLAN!" her father scream louder, she could see her mother seems scared and Itachi just have his passive expression while she didn't move a bit.
"I don't have any role in that plan and one thing; I don't think that your so called pride is going to save you. From what I learned with the past Uchiha document, revenge is our weakness, revenge will make you walk down on your own path of destruction, and what could you say, old man, if the rebellion failed? Will our clan manage to survive then? What will happen to the civilians? Would you kill the innocent civilians just for your pride, reputation, or revenge?" she asks.
Fugaku then takes her hand and begin to pull her, in the direction to the Uchiha Compound, Karen did think that maybe he would ground me. And she makes her mind, she grabs her father's wrist and use her power, her chakra control is indeed marvelous. "Last chance, release me, old man" she said. But her father don't budge and she grab it harder until a sound of 'crack' heard and her father release his hand, nursing his now broken wrist. Karen then pull out her twin swords and said, "If you won't let me go, I suppose that I'm allowed to kill you right here and now" she said. Mikoto just gasp while Itachi finally acted, he grabs her shoulder and said, "Stop, you won't get anything by killing him now. Father, it seems that she won't join the plan and I'm sure that having someone like her in the clan would disadvantage us so I think to let her go, she isn't need after all"
Fugaku at last nod and Karen left then slap Itachi's hand on her shoulder, smirk to him and them sheathing her swords and turns back, intend to leave the family before glared for the last time to her father and said, "Next time we meet, I will be an enemy, maybe" then she left, leaving an enraged father and the scared mother, also a sleeping younger brother and a stoic twin brother.
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