Chapter 3
Thanks for reading. I knew many wouldn't like what happening to Hinata and some have even threaten to stop read, but I asked that you keep reading as you don't know how this will all play out in Inuyasha world. Also this story won't stay with in Japan.
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Narutostood in a clearing, next to a large river. In both his hands were the two wakizashi they had taken of the dead samurai years back. He was bloody and bruised his clothes were torn and cut up and he was exhausted. Around him, were three men not in any better shape, then he was.
"I have to say boy. From what I have seen, you could have become a very dangerous ninja. It's unfortunate, you won't live that long," spoke one if older men with a cut across his left eye, courtesy of Naruto.
"Like hell I have no plans to die here. I promised Hinata I would come back to save her and I will as I keep my word no matter what!" The blond spoke bringing the two weapons up in front of him.
His eye quickly darted to the river on his left. 'If I could get across the river, these guys won't be able to follow me and by the time they get to a bridge to cross. I will be long gone!' he thought.
It's been a week since what had happened to him and Hinata. Soon after they left Naruto got his thing together and left but as soon as he was far from the village and almost down the mountain, several of these ninja popped out and attack him. However to his luck they underestimated him and didn't know about his abilities. So when he fought back he took them by surprise and killed some of them and now all that was left was the last three. But now they were being very careful not taking any chances with him. So all her can do now is run and hope he gets away.
The man to his right with a kusarigama charged forward. He launched the chain at him wrapping it around the hid right ankle and yanking it out from under him. He immediately flipped like a cat on all fours, catching himself and at the same time unwrapping the chain. He then quickly brought one of the swords up just in time to block the sickle blade he then brought the other sword across slashed the man across the gut just under the rib cage cutting in deep killing him.
"Duck you fool," came a loud voice in his head. He listens to the voice and duck down just as several throwing stars pass over his head hitting the man he just killed.
'What was that,' he thought, pushing the dead man off. He didn't ponder on it long as he saw his chance to get to the river. The blond quickly jumped to his feet and ran for it the other two men hot on his heels.
"Dam!!" yelled the scared man watching the strange blond run across the river and out of their reach. Thinking quickly he pulled a blow gun out. "You won't get away," he thought taking aim and shooting.
The dart flung threw the air hitting the blond in the neck just as he reached the center of the river. They watch as the blond stumble a little and started to sink till finally he fell in passed out from the poison dart.
"Should we go and find the body," ask the other man.
"No, the river currants are very stronger this time of year, he'll no doubt drown no one will ever find him," the man answered getting a nod from the man.
"Come on let's head back. Our jobs done here," the scared man spoke turning and limped off.
The other man stared at the river I hope that boy is dead because if he isn't and comes back well pay dearly he thought before following after.
In it cage the foxes eyes open and looked down at his unconscious container. "Stupid boy!, I thought not helping you the last time you got hurt would teach you to be more careful, but no you have to get into more trouble." Scowled down at the unconscious blond and growled. "Fine it would seem this time I have little choice, but to help as I can't have you dieing." It spoke before forcing its chakra out and into the boy. "However, we're going to have a little chat latter." It snicker the last part.
Outside the seal Naruto body was engulfed with the fox chakra. It pulled him out of the river before surrounding him into a ball and burst into a small bright ball of white light and finally shooting off over into the horizon.
"Be grateful boy. That I've gone out of my way to help you so far," The fox whispered from the depth of the seal.
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Hinata sat quietly in her room as several women worked on her hair. It had been a week since she got to the brothel house and saw Naruto. Azame took her to this room and told her it was hers. It was a large room on the second floor, with an equally large bed in it. There were silk sheets and heavy blankets she had a window and a small table with a few other thing. It was really nice not something you would think in a whore house. Azame told her to stay here until she got back and just ask for anything and it well be brought to her. After the woman left she quickly fell on the bed and cried. Azame didn't talk to her for the week the woman had left her alone. She soon learned that Azame had left to go take care of some business or something. She was supposed to be back to today that why the women were in such a hurry to clean her up.
Hinata winced as they yanked on her hair pulling out all of the mated tangles as she had never taken the time to brush it out or wash it. Gazing into the large mirror next to her, she was kind of amazed at how long her hair really was or how much she changed physically over the years. Her hair came down past her shoulder a little bit and she was more mature looking now with a rather large bust line, not that she was surprised by that as many women in her clan seem to develop early in that area. All that was more enhanced by the make up they were putting on her.
With Naruto in their little hut she had never even construed how she looked. Living seemed more important at the time getting by day after day. And now that she thought about it Naruto hair must be just as long maybe a little shorter than hers and he had to look more mature under all that dirt to. She kind of smile wondering what her father would think if he saw her like she was covered with dirt with messy hair or the fact she was sleeping next to a boy. 'He probably would get all mad and lecturer me about being a lady and what not.' She then frowned, 'Then he tells me how I wasn't good enough.'
Soon the women were done and dressed her in some fancy black and white under robes, with a purple kimono a white flower patter running around it. They pulled her hair back and tied it at the bottom with a violet ribbon.
"There!!" said one of the women. As they all stepped back and admired their work.
"Wow you really do look beautiful," spoke one of the others.
Before anything else could be said, Azame walked into the room "I don't pay you all to set around. There's thing to be cleaned," she spoke sternly getting them all to quickly leave. Once they had gone Azame walk over to Hinata and smiled "You are very beautiful," she spoke kindly before sitting down.
Hinata looked down "So when do I have to work," she asked dryly not looking forward to what was no doubt going to be a very bad experience.
The woman chuckled "Not for a while and not with my regular girls down below," she answered, getting Hinata to look up at her perplexed by what she meant, "I told you before I have great plans for you. You're too beautiful to waste on average clientele or to be stuck with my normal whores. I made arrangements with a few friends to have you trained to be an Oiran like I was," she answered.
Hinata looked at her a little in surprise, Oiran those were really high class girls they were treated almost like royalty. They were courtesan they played music, read poems, and many other thing. Sure they did sleep with some clients, but that didn't always happen. They also got gift and paid a lot of money and were respected highly for their beauty they even had there own maids.
Hinata looked at the woman. "You once an Oiran," she asked remembering what she said.
The woman smile broadened a little, "Yes and no I was tayu a long time ago, but alas I got old and men lost interest in me and I retired," she answered with a far-off look. Hinata guessed she was reminiscing about her past. "Anyway!" the woman snapped out of it, "I sit it up so you will become one. So basically you'll be my apprentice of sorts, it will take a couple of years for you, but once your done you come back here to work under me, she explained.
"What will I do then" she asked.
"Well that's simple. Flirt and entertain some of the higher class men maybe even a lord or two, and get on their good side so when we need something or have a problem they help us also for the money as they pay ton more than the average clientele," she answered.
"Oh so I don't have to...," she trailed.
"Yes there well be time when you have to, but mostly you well just entertain them at parties and stuff like that."
She nodded that sounded far better then what she thought was going to happen to her. Forced to sleep with ton of strange men every day tell she paid back what she owed and gave Naruto time to get the money to help by her freedom back. However, the Hyuuga wondered why Azame was going through all this trouble. She was curtain the woman could find someone else someone far better. Not that she was complaining as this was a far better alternative than work in the brothel night and day.
"Azame-sama, why are you going through all this trouble, I mean you could just stick me with the rest of the girls," she asked.
The woman smiled faded for just a brief second. "Like I said to you the first time I offered to take you in. That you are a rare beauty that I've only seen once before and I think you could go far as I have, also I like to think we're friends and I won't make you as an average whore if I don't have to," she answered.
"Oh." after seeing the smile falter a little she decided to let go of the question for now. But she couldn't help think that there was more to this than simply she was a rare beauty
Azame's smile came back full force. "Come on let go eat you must be hungry," she spoke getting up. Hinata nodded and got up to and followed the woman.
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A woman was walking down a path, she has always taken every day to get to the market. She suddenly came to a stop as she spotted an unconsciousNaruto on side of the path. She quickly rushes over to his side and checked him over.
'He's been poisoned,' she thought seeing the dart sticking out of his neck she quickly took it out she quickly lifted him up and carried him back to her home.
In his mind Naruto stood before the fox behind the gold gate that separated them.
"Why... why didn't you help me when they caught us and beat me then. Hinata wouldn't have to work there if you did," he yelled at the beast. When he woke up here he immediately freaked seeing the fox and finally knowing the truth of what happen to him at birth.
"I've been helping you since day one brat! Scaring off demon, healing yours and that girl' wounds, keeping the two of you from getting sick and even keeping you both warm at night. I think I helped more than enough," the fox brought its face close to the bars of its cage, "I didn't heal you last time because. I thought it would teach you a lesson and I think it did you will be far more careful in the future."
"You bustard, how dare you do this to teach me a lesson," he yelled at the beast "Hinata will..." but the fox cut him off.
"Will be just fine boy. I gave her a good deal of my chakra and sealed it in her body, it well keep her safe, heal her and keep her from getting any illnesses she might come in contact. She'll be just fine with. However, you won't, as you're not getting a thing from me till you learn to become stronger, because I'm sick of always healing and protecting you. So from now on I'm not going to intervene unless your life is on the line and even then I'll only keep you alive. Understand!! You're on your own." And with that the fox tail shot from the bars and smacked the blond in the face and sent him flying out of the seal.
Narutoshot up with a gasp before collapsing back down in pain. His body felt like hell everything hurt. 'I hate you so much fox,' he thought only to get a mocking snicker from the beast. Groaning he tried to look around.
He found himself in a small room that had dried plants and a large stone grinder. He was on the floor on a small blanket there was what looked like a small fireplace and a few pots and other things. He also noticed that he was hot really hot, but he guessed it was the poison.
Letting out a sigh, he laid his head back and waited for whoever it was that had saved him to come and check up on him. It wasn't long till a woman came into the room he looked her over she was pale skin with black hair and pulled back into a pony tail and a small red dot in the center of her forehead. She also had on strange robes he hasn't seen before. 'Well I'm not in Japan anymore I guess?' He thought.
When she saw the blond was awake she walked over to him. "I see you're awake," she said smiling and setting down some cloth.
"Where am I?"
"In my house, I found you passed out on the side of the path. I brought you here and treated you. You're very lucky that poison should have killed you," she explained.
He nodded before looking up at the ceiling. "Thanks for the help," he spoke.
She nodded "So I take it you from around here," she asks.
"No,"
"How did you wind up here like this," she asked.
He smirked "A spirit brought me here to teach me a lesson."
She looked at him, "Why would a spirit do that," she asked
"Hump not sure, but it seems to have a reason," he answered. it was true he didn't understand the fox's reason in his opinion if the fox had just healed him to began with that he wouldn't have got into that mess.
She nodded "Well don't worry about that right now. Just worry about getting better, I left some cloth here for you. I need to head back to the market I will be back in a few to check up on you," she answered before walking away. But before she left the room she turns to him. "Tell me when I was treating you I found a strange tattoo on you stomach is that the fox's doing to," she asked.
"No. That was someone else," he answered. She nodded again before leaving the room.
After she was gone, tears began to run down the sides of Naruto face "Hinata," he whispered.
Amiya walked back into the main room of her house her mind was on the strange blond and the seal on him. She knew something was very strange about it, but didn't know anything about them. She then reached into her sleeve and pulled out a piece of paper with a copy of the seal on it she had drawn it after seeing it was an exacted copy nothing was left out she had planned to go to a friend who knows more about these sort of things and ask him about it later.
"Well, I better be off," she thought heading outside.
Narutocringed form the pain as he sat up in bed and looked around. He notices that he wasn't speaking japanese when he talk to her ' Ok fox Where am I exactly and how can I speak that woman's language,' he demanded to fox
"I sent you to India and yes I gave you the knowledge on how to speak her language," spoke Kyuubi.
"Where the heck is that," he asked.
"Oh across the sea on the main continent far away from your little girlfriend and the village in the mountains," it chuckled as it felt the boys rage increased. Yes it should take you sometime and doing to get back to Japan and her," he answered with a snicker.
"You bastard, why did you send me here" he yelled, but the answered he got was another chuckle. The blond growled, "Fine, but I swear I'll get back at you," he threatened the beast.
He looked over at the clothes and decided to get dressed and figure out how to get home. Reach over to grab the clothes let out a grunt of pain forced to give up as it hurt too much. In the end he laid back down. "I guess I'm stuck here till I get better," he whispered to himself.
It was some time later Amiya came back and checked up on him. "How are you doing?" she asked sitting down some food she got for him.
"I hurt all over, but other than that I'm fine," he answered looking over at her.
She nodded smiling at his humor. "Here this is some bread," she said helping him set up so he could eat.
After he was up and eating she went over to a stone grinder and started to grind up some herbs. "So how did you get poisoned, did the spirit do that to," she asked.
"No, that was some assassins," he answered he really didn't think she believed him, but he also didn't care either.
She glanced over at him, "spirits, assassins, you seem to live a very interesting life," she spoke before going back to work.
"You have no idea," he answered finishing the bread and lying back down to rest.
"So you make herbal medicine," he asked.
"Yes, its how I make my living and how I was able to save you to," she spoke.
He nodded "Sorry if I'm being a burden or something, I will try to pay you back when I get better," he spoke.
"You're not and I like to help people when I can." she answered.
"I should still pay you back for your kindness," he answered.
"Well if you have to. Then, when you're better you can help me with a few things around the place," she spoke looking back at him with a happy smile.
He nodded, "Alright," he yawned tiredly.
"You should rest your body is still recovering from that poison," she spoke. He nodded again and closed his eyes and fell asleep.
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Hinata sat on the window sill staring up at the stars in the night sky. The two of them used to look up at the stars almost every night when they could or the weather allowed it. She lets out a small sigh "I wonder if Naruto looking up at the stars to," she whispered to herself before yawning and going back to bed not that she would get any sleep. She had a bad feeling in the pit of her stomach telling her that something was wrong with Naruto.
Tomorrow was the day she would be taken for Oiran training. She wasn't sure she wanted to do it, but it was either that or become another brothel whore. At least becoming an Oiran gave her a great chance to buy her freedom from Azame also it would open up doors for her and Naruto they would never get otherwise. She could make some friends with some of the in the higher class, maybe even a lord. Then they could spend more time looking for away home, to their world and less on worrying about simply surviving or getting by.
The door to her room slid open and Azame walked into the room, with a serious look. "Hinata I have some bad news," she spoke sitting down.
"What is it Azame-sama?" Hinata turned and looked at the woman.
"Some farmers said they saw some bandits and that they were attacking a blond boy with whisker mark on his cheeks."
"What," Hinata yelled her face growing deathly pale she rushed over to the woman and grabbed the woman's shoulder "Where's Naruto is he ok," she yelled frantically asked.
"Hinata...," she paused "they say they killed and threw him into the river they said that he tried to steal some money from them," she spoke.
Hinata burst into tears and cried, yelling for her blond saying it wasn't true. Azame pulled the distraught girl into a hug. 'Now you're all mine,' she thought with a triumphant smile.
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