I don't advise reading this unless you've read The Lone Jinchuuriki, but I suppose you could still read it. It'll be hard to understand, however, since it isn't technically about Naru, but more so about an event in her life in The Lone Jinchuuriki.

Universe-The Lone Jinchuuriki

Main Characters-FemNaru,OC(Sashiko)

Side Characters-Kurai Hafu, Kurama

Pairings-None

Warnings-Slight DarkNaruto, Mentions of Physical & Emotional Abuse, Red Haired Naruto, gore

Origin-So, this was just, well it just came to mind and I figured it might help explain things.

Background-Throughout Sashiko's short life she fought to protect her little sister from many things. However, her view on the things she did and her reasons still remain unknown.

Disclaimer-I wish I owned Naruto…

Chapter dedicated to The Lone Jinchuuriki, the 50 reviews I got on TLJ, and Naruto.

Despite the pain and suffering dealt to Sashiko and her little sister Naruko by Konoha and its villagers, the Oreshizoku Jinchuuriki couldn't bring herself to hate the place she called home. She wasn't a nice person, no, she just found too many good qualities that the bad couldn't override. Her mother had lived here, her siblings were born here, her father was buried with the rest of her family here, aside from her brother Ichihara of course. She was part of one of the founding clans, even if it wasn't very known, and the village had been the place her little sister was born. Sashiko couldn't hate Konoha, despite knowing she ought to.

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Short, faded cyan locks brushed pale skin, the slight dampness causing the smooth strands to stick as watery blue eyes struggled to keep in the rest of the young girl's tears. Sashiko stared down at the chest in her hands, the one engraved with her most careful seal work, the box she had spent the past few months perfecting. She had copied the markings from a scroll, however it was still hard not to mess up, despite her elegant hand writing.

Sighing shakily, Sashi looked to the set of panels lifted upward to show a small storage below. Sashi had discovered it not long ago, and she felt exceedingly thankful late one when she realized that her plan could be completed. The box she held was the perfect fit to, just enough space left for hands to be able to reach in and pull it out. Huffing gently Sashi hefted the chest into the spot, replacing the paneling on top after setting her note down on the lid of the surface.

Sashiko was worried, worried for her little sister and herself. The villagers had grown more agitated lately, and had gotten even braver in their attempts to end the Jinchuuriki siblings. It was only a matter of time before something happened, and if it took one of them away…Sashiko shook her head. She would protect her little sister, no matter the cost. She would rid herself of her childhood once more, as she had done when she had turned 3 and they were kicked from the orphanage. If anyone would die, it would be her. She wouldn't let them hurt her sister.

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She'd protect her because Naru was all she had to protect.

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Sashiko pulled her sister behind her, the red hair that Naru possessed brushing against her shoulder. "S-Sashi w-we need to run…"

Sashi flinched as the shouts of the villagers grew louder, her heart pounding in her chest. "S-Shh, Naru they won't find us. I-I'll protect you if they do."

Her resolve hardened as she gripped her sister's hand, fear coursing through her veins. "I found them!"

Her heart skipped a beat as a man shouted from in front of them. He stood a few meters ahead, a torch burning in his hand despite the constant downpour around them. The flames flickered and hissed but remained alive, casting a glow on the two girls. Naru yelped, backing up in the tree behind them whilst Sashi raised her hands in order to protect her sister. The fire lit up his plain brown hair and brown eyes, a common combination in Konoha. His face held a signature scowl that most villagers held. "Demon Scum…Thought you could hide did you?!"

Sashiko grunted and forced her legs to remain steady as she glared darkly at the man. "G-Get away!"

Naru yelled from behind Sashiko, though her call was ignored. Sashiko spoke up after her sister, angered by the stupid villager who couldn't see he was harming an innocent child. "We never did anything to you!"

The man sneered at her words, lashing out with his torch. Sashiko held back a cry as sparks burnt her arm and she was sent tumbling to the side, mud coating her body. The man glared at her and spat at her. "You never did anything?! Don't give me that shit, you killed so many people, you killed my son!"

His foot smashed down on Sashiko's back, stars exploding in her eyes. Naruko watched from behind, eyes wide and filled with tears. "N-No…"

The foot smashed down onto Sashiko's chest again, making her cry out in pain once more and cough up clear fluid. "Disgusting little bit-"

Sashiko turned to her sister, her blue eyes filling with shock when she saw the redness in Naru's eyes. "Y-you…BASTARD! LET HER GO!"

Naru tore across the muddy clearing, knocking the man over. He tumbled, his light going out as it hit the water. Her hands were now claws, her eyes having slit pupils with a red coloring surrounding it.

Sashiko watched her sister tear into the man, shaking as she did. She had never seen her little sister so angry before, and it hurt inside. Her eyes watered and she forced herself up, choking when she felt something rip inside her chest. She gasped in pain, Naru turning growling as she noticed that Sashi was hurt. The man took his chance and scrambled away from the scene. A woman ran out from behind him, standing in front of the man. "You beast…what the hell is wrong with you!"

Sashi's world froze as her sister turned slowly toward the woman and snarled, the woman shouting demon as Naru rushed toward her, hand extended and ready to kill. Sashiko didn't think, rushing toward them. She pulled in front of her sister, shaking as she thought of the pain Naruko would be in if she killed someone. Sashiko just had to stop the blow that was all. Nothing turned out as planned however.

Sashiko stood staring into the eyes of her little sister, the girl she adored more than anything, as her clawed hand drove into her stomach. Sashiko stood in front of the female villager, guarding her from her sister's anger as blood bubbled from her throat and spilt over her lips. Her eyes stared into Naruko's shocked and horrified ones, the red haired girl shaking as she stared at her sister. Sashiko coughed, blood pouring down her face as the Kyuubi's chakra started to heal her injuries around the clawed hand in her stomach.

The woman behind them screamed and scrambled up to her feet, running away as tears slipped down Naruko's cheeks. "S-Sashi…"

The little red head was shaking so much, her hand quickly removing itself from her sister as she stepped back. Horror was evident in Naru's blue eyes as well as guilt and self-hatred. Shashi grew sad and worried as she saw her sister look down at her blood covered hand, her normally bright blue eyes tormented with emotions. "N-Naruko."

Sashiko stepped forward, gripping her sister's hands. She could feel her sharingan activating, barely at the age of 4, and she pressed her forehead into her shocked sister's. "F-Forget!"

Sashi couldn't allow her little sister to experience this, to believe what had happened was her fault. Sashiko just wished that when she used the Genjutsu on Naruko, she had been paying attention to her surroundings.

A kunai pierced through the small of her back, and she gasped in pain as it was dragged up and bag, slicing open a lung. "S-Shit…"

The Kyuubi chakra wasn't able to heal both the fatal wounds at once, Sashiko knew this. Instead it went back and forth, trying to keep her alive as more blood spilt over her lips. Behind her, the man with the Kunai smirked, before collapsing to the ground as he died. His chest was sliced open with claw-like marks, the blood from his body mingling with the rain soaked ground where he had tried to crawl away earlier. Sashiko looked into her sister's eyes as she felt the genjutsu's will fading. She grunted and called upon the chakra, forcing it away from her wounds. She wasn't important right now, Naru was. She couldn't allow her sister to know, to believe she had killed or hurt anyone in such a brutal manner. It would destroy the girl that Shashiko cared so much for. "Naruko…F-Forgive me."

Sashiko's head tilted to the side as she coughed again, blood hitting Naru's face as chakra flowed from the cyannette into the red head. "Z-Zero Seals Style…T-transfer overlay…" Sashiko's voice dropped and she felt her world darkening as she managed to kiss Naru's forehead and her middle and index finger touched the Uzumaki's right eye.

For a brief moment the sharingan flared, spinning rapidly before the singular tomo split into three and those then extended inside the previously Azure orbs. They twirled, forming three petals on a set of rings. This pattern faded however, along with the mature sharingan, instead revealing glossy blue eyes. Naruko held her dead sister in her arms, shaking still as tears fell freely from her face. She looked at the peaceful smile on the other girl's face, and pain accompanied with loneliness started to build inside her. "N-No…DON'T LEAVE ME!"

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Despite dying however, Sashiko never stopped taking care of her little sister.

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Sad blue eyes looked through the bars that the small girl sat in, her cyan hair brushing her forehead as she stared at the scene before her. Naru was demanding that Kurama release Sashiko's chakra inside her, in order to complete the jutsu in order to revive Sashiko herself. The cyannette sighed gently, clucking her tongue to the roof of her mouth. "Naru…"

Raising her gaze again, Sashiko touched her face. "Unseal."

Her sharingan blazed to life in the uncovered eye, and her hand removed from her first one. Resting there was the Hyuga's Byakugan in a light blue hue. Next, she allowed her Blood Chakra to flow around her, and then lightning built up in the area. The faded seal on her stomach had started to glow as Kurama's presence prodded on her chakra, releasing it from its confines as Naruko performed the blood clone. However, instead of just the Blood Chakra flowing out, so did Sashi's other branches of chakra. "There…Don't hate me…Imuto."

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Soft Blue eyes glanced over toward the girl with red hair, curled into a ball on top of the ice lake. "Naruko."

The eyes trailed upward to a chuckling figure, catching the red eyes of the red haired man before her. "No white hair?" Kurai Hafu paused in his laughter, looking over at the girl with the soft blue eyes. "What was that girl? I couldn't hear you over the Kitsune's pathetic whimpers…no wonder you left her-"

Kurai was swiftly cut off when the blue eyes turned red, the black inside spinning dangerously as she girl's white chakra grew around her. "Leave my sister alone."

The dark tone startled Kurai for only a moment, before he glared over at the girl. "Sashiko…You are the reason I am like this and you know it. Telling me to leave Naruko alone is like telling you to stop meddling with her feelings. We both know that will never happen."

Sashiko lifted her small right hand, and in an instant the ice lake and Naruko vanished from around them, replaced with a pure white space filled with golden chakra. "I do not justify either of our actions. I will pay for what I have meddled with soon enough. You however, cannot be punished without punishing Naru. I will not allow it…You are also me, you also hold the capability of loving her."

Kurai scoffed, stalking forward till he stood in front of the four year old girl, his red chakra growing to press into the large white chakra. He looked down into her sharingan eyes, smirking as his own red orbs glinted darkly. "I could never love someone who gave up."

Shashi stared into his eyes, and Kurai returned the favor. The area seemed to shimmer as Shashiko's white chakra started to recede. "She did give up, but she gave up on her hatred, not on me or herself." Kurai was forced to step back when the sharingan finally stopped spinning. Sashiko's eyes were in a form he would rather not see again, the form that created and controlled him. "Y-you…"

He was silenced when suddenly the white chakra rose up and swallowed his red chakra. White cracks appeared in his skin as his eyes filled with betrayal and hate. Sashi only sighed sadly, and shoved her tiny palm through Kurai's chest. He looked down at the little girl in shock, before screaming out in anger. "D-don't you dare!"

Sashi closed her eyes, sharingan fading away. "Echo…Soul Sealing Jutsu!"

The white cracks spread further, spiraling to form kanji before a blinding light erupted.

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Even if she only hated herself more for it in the end.

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Sashiko stepped away as Kurai vanished, tears slipping from her eyes. The white area faded, and she appeared beside Kurama. She shook, tears spilling from her eyes as she tried desperately to not think about what she had just done. It hurt so much, because Kurai wasn't just part of her, he was part of Naru. "Damn it…"

Kurama's tails wrapped around her, shocking her as the fox spoke. "Kit, don't cry. You did what you had to do to protect your own."

Sashi looked up toward Kurama, her watery eyes forcing back their tears. "Yes, but it costed you being able to talk to her, It costed her someone else she cares for. I had to seal away anything negative, and you are made of malicious chakra. This seal is a double edged sword. It keeps the negative emotions away, stopping the Curse Mark's progress while keeping Kurai's influence far from Naruko's mind, but it also keeps out you and influences what she feels. I'm manipulating her Kurama…"

And done. Not much but it covers what has happened in the story so far. Sashiko has always been the sacrificial type, I designed her like that. This influenced how I wrote The Lone Jinchuuriki, and now how I wrote her perception of the events in it involving her. Several words or sentences may have been changed or added because The Lone Jinchuuriki is mostly told in Naru's view of the world, so I had to change some things and how it was worded. I'm happy with how it turned out however, unlike my other one-shots. Thanks for reading this short clip.

(6-11-16:Fixed the sorce code, now it no longer shows. Sorry TheBeauty!)