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Just in case: Due to Naruko being the name created by fans, therefore being a fandom name, it is not required by me to use 'Naruko' as the name for female Naruto. Kishimoto was not the one who created this name for that version of Naruto. I will however, place any and all female Naruto stories I have within the 'Naruko' category due to the story being about the FEMALE Naruto. {Since previously I was complained to for placing my stories in the Naruto Character category; since the story was about a Female Naruto.} Note: For those that feel to call me retarded and say that I am wrong on this information, I have provided a link on my profile that requires you to read the 'Trivia' section of the Sexy no Jutsu and see the part where it states that Naruko is a Fan base made name.

I do realize that I am not the characters however I write my stories in first person perspective. If you do not like first person stories, then feel free to leave if you are not willing to give it a shot. I can understand people's preferences towards stories. Third person is more centered on description, whereas First person is more centered on feelings/emotions.

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Warning: I speak more Japanese than I do English; therefore you will find some translation errors or possibly a few grammar or spelling errors floating around. I don't have a beta reader and, honestly, I do not want one. The last time I tried to have a Beta Reader; they tried to change everything that would happen in my story. It takes me a while, but I do go back to older chapters and rewrite them or check them for errors.

A warning: There will be quite a little time skip here and there from when they first met the real Naruto. This is due to the story not actually starting until what we know as Shippuden.

On another note: If you see the chapter actually has a name, rather than it saying "Chapter 3." That means the story was replaced with a new chapter. If the chapter has a Number and then a title like "3. Power" that means that the story has not been edited yet, but is a 'refreshed' or a 'new' chapter that was released. So in other words, you won't see something like this until after Chapter 12, since this story was already typed up to chapter 12 before it had to be rewritten.

Was everything that I was doing right? I had left to control the devil's flames but came back expecting nothing to have changed. It wasn't right, to force people to accept me right away when I wasn't who they knew. So why was I still trying to do this?

If I wasn't accepted, why did I continue to try getting the acceptance? I guess; I never quite understood the meaning of 'giving up.' If I fell, I would always get back up and continue forward. If there was a wall in my way, I would just climb it, even if it took me all day. Why didn't I just give up? Was there a meaning to this life of mine?

Doing everything on my own, I was quite used to it, because I had to do it. No one was there to protect me from these flames. I had to tame them on my own and make them my own at all costs. So why does it burn so much?

Hatred… did it already consume this world entirely? Was it all because of me?

Could I ever stop this hatred?

"I continually have been stating that you don't need to accept me, but I would appreciate that you would at least work with me or let me work with you on this." A simple mission to baby sit three children was turning into something more than just that.

"We don't know you still though…" Sakura said as she continued to look around the area for at least one of the three misfits that took off on us when we declined to downgrade ourselves to their level of trickery. "So how can you expect us to even trust you right off the bat like that?" Akuma let out a long ragged sigh.

"The lack of faith you have for a teammate could cost you the mission, you should know that. Always treasure your comrades, even if they are new to your team or you detest their very existence." I watched in silence as Akuma turned away from us, his cloak flying in the wind as he walked off. We weren't wrong to ignore him the way we were… were we? Then again, when we think back, Kakashi did always say that those who abandon their comrades were scum. That would make us lower than scum since we left everything up to Naruto in order to save Sakura and me, rather than helping him. We lost him in that action, and now we were probably making the mistake all over again by ignoring the new teammate, like we had when Team 7 first started.

"Hm? What's this?" Turning around, we could see Kakashi staring at us while he held onto several bags. He was probably expecting Akuma to be with us along with the three misfits. "Where are the kids? Actually… where are the kids AND Akuma?" He said as he looked between us. I didn't really want to deal with the whole 'team exercise' process that we dealt with last week in an attempt for us to get along with Akuma. I could see the look in his eyes as he waited for our answer.

"Ah… Akuma… well he… uh…" Sakura fell silent as her voice cracked. It was her words, after all, that caused him to walk off like he did. Kakashi's eye twitched as he stared at us.

"I see… well then, we will have to try and find both the kids and Akuma now, won't we? It was also Akuma's straw that locked his fate into doing the cooking for tonight, so he better not have been driven away, hm?" Kakashi went to look for Akuma but stopped when Sakura spoke up.

"Kakashi-sensei… how is it that you can trust someone so easily, when they aren't the person that you actually knew them to be?" I stared at Sakura in shock. Hell, I knew we both have had that thought for a while now, but I never actually thought she would voice it.

He placed the bags down onto the stairs then sat down between us, sighing. "The Naruto we knew has definitely changed us all… I believe that Sasuke here would have lost all faith in Konoha years ago if Naruto wasn't there to keep his mind bound to the world through his 'idiotic' tactics. And you Sakura, he made you want to strive to become a stronger person, did he not?" We stayed silent, unsure of how to answer him. "But… that Naruto was a clone… but even if this Naruto was a clone with his own personality… a clone still has their user's traits and aspects." He did have a point. A clone was a replica of the person who casted the ninjutsu; all actions are that of the person that created it.

"But Kakashi-sensei… how can we trust someone who has lied to us from the very start?" I stared over to the fields as a frown formed on my face. I could remember Naruto's words as I tried to figure out the answer to Sakura's question. "I was always alone… so I would tend to cause trouble…"

"Ah…" We all peered over to see Akuma walking up to us with the three misfits running around him while also following him, as they all were happy and playing. In their mouths we could see what appeared to be lollipops that they were eating as they played around. The boys would tug on Akuma's cloak every now and then, but in a playful way, rather than the devious action that they were doing earlier.

"Oh I see… you were watching over them?" Kakashi asked instantly as he smiled under his mask. "Ano…" Akuma seemed hesitant to say anything, since it appeared that even he didn't want us to go through the team exercise yet again.

"Ku-chan is so nice! She went and got us these sweet round things!" The other two boys nodded with their older brother as he ran up to us, giggling. Akuma just stood as the younger brothers continued to run around him, even going under the cloak to hide before scaring the other.

I ran the words of the older brother through my head before I did a double take towards Akuma while raising my brow. 'Did he just say… she?'

Break†

"So what is your report conclusion, Kakashi?" The Fifth Hokage asked, obviously annoyed over the fact that she was just woken up. The Third Hokage resigned after Akuma was placed onto our team, saying that he knew that his time was almost up. With a lot of bickering, the position was given to the Legendary Sannin… well, Tsunade.

"I wouldn't really call them a team just yet but, they have made some small progress in the past two weeks." Kakashi said, sounding pleased to see that there was at least some small progress between us working as a team. Tsunade, however, didn't seem as pleased over the thought that we still weren't accepting Akuma on the team.

"I see, well, you are dismissed them. Report back here tomorrow if you wish to do another mission." Kakashi nodded as Tsunade slammed her head back on the desk, falling right off to sleep. We left the building, trying to avoid waking her up since the last time this happened, well, the office didn't have a table.

We all took our separate paths, not really speaking a word to each other before we split. It seemed to dead, ever since we lost Naruto I mean. Sakura asking me on a date, me declining, and Naruto rushing in to say he would go on a date with Sakura to cheer her up… I missed that, as sad as it was for me to admit something like that.

"Ah, Sasuke-kun we were waiting for you." To my side stood a group of four people wearing this weird outfit with a purple sash around their waists. It looked like the outfit that high class ninja was wearing during the Chunnin exams. "Orochimaru has asked us to seek you out. We are here to see if you want that power to defeat your elder brother." Orochimaru… yes that was the name of that man in the Chuunin exams; he was the one that caused the Third to be on his death bed while also being the cause to Naruto's downfall by teaming up with the sand in order to crush Konoha.

I glared over to them. "Tch… I don't need HIS power." I continued to walk, only to be stopped by the one guy who had tanned skin. "You know you can't resist that cursed mark forever, Uchiha." I snorted as I got ready to go around the guy so I could get home. "You know you could get that power that you need… that you strongly crave, in order to defeat your brother." I stopped moving.

'Please Sasuke, for me…' I glared over to them once more, this time activating my sharingan while ignoring the pain of the cursed mark. "My goals are none of your concern."

"Weakling." They all began chanting, saying different things as they began to laugh at me. Weakling, baby… they continued even going as far as to call me princess.

To give my life for power… no I wasn't willing to make that choice. I had a promise that I needed to fulfill, and it took full priority over my own ambition.

"Well then… if you won't come with us peacefully, I guess we will just have to force you to come." I stared at them confused before each jumped me, holding me down in several places as one of them shoved a pill of some sort into my mouth. They forced me to swallow whatever the pill was before they finally let go of me.

I could feel my body going numb and even ignoring my own wishful commands. Just what kind of pill did they force down my throat?

Akuma/Naruto's POV

All I could do was stare at the troubled pink haired girl. She has been crying ever since we found out that Sasuke left the village in order to gain power from the man named Orochimaru. I turned away from the girl, causing the others in the room to lift their heads up to face me. "Akuma?"

I stopped walking before glancing back towards the others in the room. "You can't just expect me to stay here. I'm not going to just sit by as Sasuke runs his path towards despair." I bolted out of the office before Tsunade started her rant on my rash decision to leave. But, she did know I couldn't just wait. Everything just seemed way too fishy for it to be Sasuke leaving on his own like he did. The fact that it was to go with Orochimaru is what caused this to be unlikely. Orochimaru caused my clone to die… Sasuke and Sakura were close to the clone. There is no way Sasuke would team up with the man who caused the death of their 'teammate.'

"I'm sorry kid, but I am going to have to stop you before you interfere with Orochimaru-sama's plans." Tch…

Sasuke's POV

I stared down into the waterfall. I didn't understand why I was even here. Why was my body running away from where I wanted to go?

"What the hell were you thinking?" I quickly turned around. Right behind me stood Akuma. He didn't have a single scratch or even dirt on his cloak, causing me to wonder what happened to the sound four. "Like I even know… My body moved on its own." I growled out. I didn't know why I was so angry.

"Then why run away from Konoha? Why not just run back to it?" I stared in silence. I had just asked myself this same question, so how would I know the answer? "I guess for now… we can talk… or are you going to continue to run from me?"

"Tch… running was never my choice."

-AN-

The original chapter 3 was only 1,171 words long. It is now 2,015 words long. This is the normal minimal amount of words that I use in Uzumaki Twins… yeah; I can also say I am proud of the revised chapter 3 due to its increase in words.

Since these chapters are being edited, the Author notes are relatively smaller, but they do still contain the stupid repeated information in which if I wasn't trolled or spammed with idiotic comments or messages; it wouldn't be needed throughout the story. I really hate doing that, but you can blame the people in the past for it.

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