Disclaimer I do not own Bleach or Naruto
This FanFic was done at the inspiration of my favorite FanFics of all time "A Mother's Love: Beyond Life and Death"
There will be a differing story line but for the most part will follow the one it is inspired by.
I think I am going to switch over from using embedded Japanese words to describe things because it gets confusing for example saying son instead of sochi and similar for daughter. I will try to use both for a term in the anime or manga itself just to be same.
I am assuming these are the rules for a fanfiction
"Talking"
'Thinking'
"Kyuubi Talking"
'Kyuubi Thinking'
Italics flashbacks
Jutsu-Italics and Bold
Hope you enjoy!
**IMPORTANT**
DUE TO COMPLAINTS ABOUT NARUKO'S GENDER I WILL BE ADDRESSING 'HIM' FROM NOW ON IN THE FEMALE DENOTATION FROM NOW ON. THIS INCLUDES FLASH BACKS WHEN 'HE' WAS A CHILD. STARTING AT chapter 6
Additionally many are confused on the gender issue here is the lowdown.
Naruko was a boy when 'he' died at the hands of the village.
After coming to 'he' is released from 'his' body as a spirit.
The soul king and Shinigami (of the Naruto universe) change him into a girl immediately following 'his' death
'He' is a she from then onwards and is collected by Kirio as a girl
No more gender changes will occur within the story
Thank you now enjoy!
PM me if this does not make sense!
Second Squad's Captain's house
Naruko didn't know what to do. She was afraid of doing anything. 'I'll wait till mom tells me what to do. She will know what to do.'
'I have absolutely no idea what to do' Soi Fon thought to herself when they arrived at her quarters (captain's house). 'I want to talk about his I mean her past, or is it painful for her I don't want to make her feel worse than I already did when I pulled that knife on him. Maybe I should just ask about his journey here that shouldn't be that bad. Wait no she died and this trip she took here was because she died. I'll wait till she wants to talk.
They stared at each other for a few more minutes before one of them finally gave in. Naruko's curiosity got the better of her and decided to start asking questions. Especially the question that had been on his mind ever since he found out she was still alive.
"Mom why did you leave me? Was it because I was a monster?"
"NOO!" she screamed as loud as she could, surprised and angry that he would even think that. "No Naruto I mean Naruko I am not mad at you and you are not a monster you are my precious son and I love you. Also why I left, I left because I was forced to. A week after your father passed away a woman came for me and told me how I was in a different dimension than I should be…"
"Did this woman have spirals on her cheeks and have purple hair?" interrupting her story."
"Yes she did Naruko she told me she would take me by force if she had to…
Flashback
Three days after the Kyuubi attack
Soi Fon had just taken possession of the Namikaze estate and fortune, and was on her way home from another stressful day when she ran into a woman waiting outside the entrance.
"Can I help you?"
"Yes I am looking for the woman by the name of Soi Fon would you happen to be her by chance?"
"Yes what do you want with me? I can tell by your attire that you're from the Gotei 13. If they want me back tell them I will with my son. Since he died there's nothing but him left for me here."
"I am sorry to hear that truly, but your son can not come with us."
This caught Soi Fon's attention going back without her son. 'Hell will freeze over before that happens.'
"There is no way I am leaving my son behind if that is the deal. I appreciate the offer, but I am not leaving him behind."
"I was afraid it would come to this but you leave me no choice. I am not asking you to come with me. I am under orders and given authorization to use force if necessary. While you may be skilled I have access to my Zanpakuto which for a fact you don't."
Soi Fon took a step back. She could feel the power emanating from this woman, and if she could use her spiritual pressure it was no contest.
"I don't care I can't abandon him without anyone to look after him. He was just born and without a father he needs his mother. Please let me stay or let him come."
Soi Fon could see it in the eyes of this woman in front of her. The turmoil, and the guilt over doing it. Finally she decided. If this woman was not going to come quietly she would do it by force no matter how much it pained her to do it.
Kirio flash stepped behind Soi Fon and hit the second division's head with the blunt of her blade. As the woman fell unconscious one word escaped her mouth "Naruto…"
Kirio Almost gave in right there 'but the Soul King knew what was best, right?' She gave one final look around to make sure no one was there before opening a senkaimon to bring the woman home.
Flash Back end
"…I tried to stop her, but she was to strong and could have easily killed me. I did not abandon you Naruko."
Naruko's eye's looked into hers and they could see she was being sincere. He had looked into the eyes of people for a long time and after years of being tricked to going into back allies and into houses of a possible friend ship only to only be beaten worse than if he had stayed outside he began to see all the signs of deception. By the age of six he could tell if someone was hiding something by seeing their eyes for a second. By the age of seven he could tell their intensions. Finally before he died he was probably the best judge of character within the village maybe even the whole Elemental Nations.
This skill led him to one conclusion that his mother genuinely cared for him. He smiled and for the first time in his life kept his eyes open so he could see her eyes that showed him genuine love.
After that it became much easier for them to talk. They talked about what they liked. Soi Fon liked efficiency and ran her squad with that purpose in mind. Naruko on the other hand liked to prank people not as much as he did now, but the feeling was still there.
Soi Fon disliked sloppiness and laziness. Naruko agreed wholeheartedly, but would not go into other details on what he liked as they pulled up painful memories. She tried pushing for something, but that only caused him to further retreat inside himself. She let it drop after that and decided not to ask.
That's when Soi Fon started to talk about her past. "I have always been a part of the stealth forces. Members of the Fon family are all inducted into the stealth forces, and from an early age are raised to be part of this squad."
"Wow that must mean you're really strong tell me what do the stealth forces do?"
"Members of the stealth force mostly deal with intelligence gathering. We sneak into places and take information when the enemy is not looking, and then give it to the other squads that specialize in combat to go in and take them out. Aside from intelligence gathering we deal with assassinations, where we go in and hide till the enemy drops his guard then we take him out without him knowing."
"That's so cool." She said stars in her eyes as he looked up at his mother. "They sound just like ninjas from the village."
"Yes Naruko that is a very apt comparison. However we seek no glory. In the ninja world we would be more like ANBU than regular ninjas."
"Well I think it sounds awesome do you think I could join?"
Soi Fon took a moment to think it over before replying. On the one hand if he did join she would easily be able to convince her family to accept him as her eventual successor, and it would also make her stronger something Soi Fon was determined to do to make sure her daughter could stand up for herself.
On the other hand it would be dangerous. Being a stealth operative did not have a long projected life span even in the soul society. Also being a stealth operative meant you had to kill people on orders, something she did not find as an attractive prospect for her daughter.
Eventually she relented having her decision made for her by the look in his eyes full of determination. "Okay my lovely daughter how about we get you started tomorrow. But before you decide to be a stealth operative you first have to complete the academy and then be assigned to the second division."
"Okay mom that's what I am going to do. I promise and I never break my promises."
In that moment Soi Fon was reminded so much of her father. The man had said those exact words to her when he made the promise when they first met to protect her. 'So much like his father' she thought as tears rolled down her face.
"Why are you crying mom was it something I said. I won't go into the stealthy guys group if you're unhappy."
Soi Fon quickly dismissed that idea. "No son it's just that when you said that I was reminded of your father."
"Really what was he like?"
"He also never went back on his promises. He was an amazing man, and someone I will hold in my heart till the day I die."
"He must have been good if you can love him that much mom."
"He was."
Can you tell me more about him?"
"Sure honey sure" And she spent the rest of the night telling Naruko about all the stuff her father did. How he single handedly led to the defeat of Iwa during the war, and how kind he was when he returned. It did not take long but eventually he fell asleep resting in her arms.
The next day
Deciding to keep Naruko a secret for now she Soi Fon told her daughter to stay at the house and not let anybody inside for ANY reason. The current head of the Fon clan had been for the better part of two hours been trying to think of a way for Naruko to open up about her past. 'Whenever we start talking about her life in Konoha she clams up. I don't want to make her uncomfortable talking about her past, but I can't just leave it alone she looks broken.'
That was the thought going through her head as she finished off the rest of her paperwork. Most of the documents were nothing special. 'Okay funds for a new addition to the barracks…fine approved I swear that lieutenant of mine just loves new stuff just for the heck of it. Permission to use training grounds seven and eight to teach recognizance in rocky terrain approved. Notice of temporary leave from official duties due to extenuating circumstances…I wonder who this is for…At the approval of the head captain for…Second Division Captain Soi Fon! Well I guess this is to get used to having my daughter around…Free from official duties.'
She filed away the rest of the paperwork and left a note on her office indicating that she had been given some time off. As she was walking towards her house her lieutenant flash stepped on a building next to her. Immediately upon seeing her he jumped down and ran over to her.
Marechiyo Omaeda ran towards her not believing what he had just read when he came to get orders that morning. 'The captain is taking personal time off! She never takes personal time off! I'll get to the bottom of this.'
Omaeda was not the most 'in shape' member of the soul society. He trained as hard as he could but his body never seemed to put off the pounds. He was also a member of the very wealthy Omaeda clan leading him to have expensive and often times fattening meals. He was by no means weak, but often time's people wondered why a heavy hitter like him would join the second squad's stealth forces.
"Captain is it true that you're taking personal time off, and may I ask for the reason behind such a leave from duties?"
The captain of the second squad could only shake her head. 'I knew this would happen not taking any personal time in seventy years would make it look suspicious.'
"Omaeda the reasons for my leave from office were done by the head captain himself. You heard about the captain's meeting last night correct?" the Lieutenant could only nod his head dumbly. "That meeting discussed an issue that requires more flexibility on the one under taking the task he has me doing. To do this he has given me leave of my duties for four months so I can accomplish this mission.", 'that should be good enough that he doesn't ask questions.'
'That doesn't sound like the captain. She is always straight to the point, so why is she avoiding the question. Maybe she's going on a dangerous mission in total secrecy. The only reason she would avoid talking about it is…WE HAVE A TRAITOR IN OUR MITSTS! That must be it! It makes sense now she has to keep her investigation under wraps and four months for personal leave that's ridiculous it's got to be that.'
Omaeda coming to the conclusion his superior was involved in an investigation decided in his infinite wisdom to try and help from the shadows. "Very well captain I hope your leave from office leads to some enlightening discoveries."
Soi Fon thinking she had dodged the bullet continued on her way home, and in her conflicted state did not notice her Lieutenant following her on the rooftops.
She arrived at home unlocking and opening the door to find an interesting sight. Naruko had decided to start training, and since it was inside the house it led to when she tried to test her balance falling over and landing between the table and wall unconscious.
"I have got my work cut out for me." The Fon head said to herself as she proceeded to pick Naruko up and bring her to the only other furnished room in the house, the guest room. Despite it being at her house and as far as she knew no one out to get her, she could not help but feel the hair standing up on the back of her neck almost as if she was being watched.
Meanwhile in a tree trying to conceal himself as much as possible was lieutenant Omaeda. 'So that kid must be part of the investigation. I wonder what she has gotten herself involved with that the captain would need to help her. Funny she looks a lot like the captain, maybe they're related, I mean aside from the hair and eye color they could be twins if the girl was older…NO WAY! There is no way that she is the captain's daughter probably just a relative…'
As the lieutenant thought more and more on the issue the next words he heard ground his thoughts to a complete and utter stop.
Soi Fon looked at her daughter and lightly brushed the girl's hair out of her eyes. "Good night Naruko I hope you can eventually see me as your mother even if I left you behind." She turned to exit the room when she heard a crash outside. Wasting no time she jumped out the guest room window and flash stepped to the cause of the disturbance.
Laying on the ground outside was her lieutenant mumbling to himself over and over "captains a mom…captains a mom…captains a mother…Why is captain a mother?!"
Soi Fon could only shake her head. 'I really need a new lieutenant.'
Thirty minutes later after bringing her subordinate inside and explaining the story to him along with the fact that such information was classified as top secret, and that he would be found guilty of treason if he told anyone did they finally begin to discuss what they would do.
"So you had a child with a person from another dimension, and after he died he became a Shinigami and a woman, and took him back because you were allowed."
"Yes, and now that you know all that I want your advice. Do you think I should take her to squad twelve's labs so they can see if anything is wrong with her?"
"Well I think that would be the best idea, but why are you trying to hide the young girl. If she is your daughter why not come out and say so?"
"I want to wait until things calm down and no one can link my daughter to the one that came from another dimension. I don't trust that smiling idiot Gin, and would not want him hurting my daughter to get information out of her."
"I guess that makes sense. Also to answer your question I do believe that you should take her there, but if you don't feel comfortable having her be the one to look at your daughter I would take her to the fourth division just to make sure she is healthy."
"Yeah I think I'll do that that mad scientist can go without another test subject."
They spent about an hour discussing other things that Naruko would need to do now that he was to be staying there. Soi Fon decided that after she had Naruko checked out she would bring her back to the Fon estates to introduce her to her family, as well as get the elders opinion. From there she was debating. On the one hand she wanted to keep her in the soul society to be raised to be a soul reaper, but on the other hand she might be more comfortable going to the human world for a while so that Naruko could feel more at home.
She eventually decided that she would use the personal time she had off to raise her at the Fon estates, as well as getting her enrolled at the soul reaper academy when new recruits are to be added in the spring.
"Yawn…oh good morning mom…Who is he?" Naruko yawned out as she climber down the stairs to the living room.
"Naruko this is lieutenant Omaeda. He is going to be taking over my duties while I am on leave."
"Sure mom, by the way what are we going to be doing today? I tried doing some training but I can't feel my chakra and so decided to do some balancing exercises."
"Naruko we are going to be visiting the hospital so we can have you looked at to make sure you're healthy."
Naruko paled at this. Having had a good deal of experience of being treated horribly at hospitals, and sometimes coming out in more pain than she went in along with a few dozen new bruises and cuts.
She started to back up taking a few steps before turning and running towards her room slamming the door.
"Omaeda you can leave now if you want I am going to find out what's wrong with my daughter."
"…Of course captain." He spoke before leaving.
'Why are you afraid of hospitals? Did they do something to you? I can't remain in the dark I have to find out what happened.'
She walked up the stairs and knocked on the door. "Naruko do you think I could come in?"
"…sure just don't make me go the hospital."
Soi Fon entered and strode over to the bed where she saw Naruko huddled in her bed covered by a blanket. When she sat on the bed her daughter immediately uncovered herself hugging her mom as hard as she could.
"Please don't make me go. They hurt me and make me eat that disgusting food."
'THEY HURT HIM! IF I AM EVER SENT KONOHA AGAIN SOME HEADS ARE GOING TO ROLL!'
Gathering herself and fixing her composure she looked at her daughter. "No one is going to hurt you here. If they try to I will protect you is that okay with you?"
"…I guess…promise me you will come with me. I don't want to go there without you, you're strong and my mom so I know you'll protect me…please come with me."
The absolute level of desperation in his eyes told her everything she needed to know. "Yes honey your mother will be there with you and protect you."
"Thank you."
'Well if I have to be there with her I don't think I can keep her existence hidden if I go to the hospital. Guess the only way is to call one of them here.'
"On second thought I am going to have one of the doctor's come here, but Naruko I want you to be completely honest with me. Why do you dislike hospitals and what did they do to you?"
Naruko looked up into her mother's eyes and just as before found on ill intent or malice. He decided to tell her.
Flash Back six and a half years after Kyuubi attack
Naruto had a firm dislike for hospitals. He never liked them, they made you wait forever before being treated, made you eat the hospital food which tasted awful, and they would not let you leave for a while after you were healed. Naruto had made it a point to avoid all hospitals including to some extent after beating to curl up in his apartment and endure the pain, so he would not have to go.
This day was different. One of the doctor's Dr. Haruno was new and had no prejudice or so it seemed against him and helped Naruto get better. When after his operation a week ago. The doctor pulled rocks out from under Naruto's skin. The reason they were there is he was being tortured and they used sharp rocks to dig into his skin, and some of them went so deep that because of Naruto's healing made the skin grow over the rocks. Naruto needed to go to the hospital and eventually relented.
He was pleasantly surprised when Dr. Haruno gave him medicine to ease the pain before he removed the rocks. Naruto was so happy to meet someone who he thought genuinely liked him that he agreed to a checkup in a week to see how he was doing. He would regret that decision.
When he arrived he was led to the back of the hospital where Dr. Haruno's personal treatment room was. Naruto was strapped to the table and that's when it happened. The doctor turned towards Naruto, and Naruto recognized the look in her eyes, pure hatred.
"Do you know why you are here subject?"
"No. And my name is Naruto not subject."
"The subject appears to be uncooperative and energetic." He said writing some things down on a clipboard. Before Naruto could say anything else the doctor stuck a needle in his arm and emptied the contents. He waited a few seconds observing where he had made the injection.
"Hey can I ask what did you put in my arm? Is it for my check up or is it another pain med, because you're nice and made the pain go away."
The doctor only smiled at this writing more on the clipboard in front of him. 'Subject appears to be fully trusting of me not resisting or squirming before H26 takes effect.'
"Hello Dr. Haruno can you AAAAAARRRGGGHH…AAAAAAGGGGGGHHH…"
Naruto continued to scream for the next hour. During that time the muscles in his arm grew at an inhuman rate. Just as felt he couldn't take any more his arm exploded. Red chakra pour out of the wound as it rebuilt his muscle and arm while expelling the part affected by the drug.
"Interesting I guess H26 is a failure, well moving on to H27. You should be proud of your healing ability the last test subject died because of this drug."
Whimpering Naruto could only choke out a few words "...why...I thought…you healed…people…" before giving in to the pain and passing out.
"Well subject my goal is to make a human enhancement drug that would let people who were not shinobi gain the strength and power of one. We will take a short break thirty minutes I think then we will use H27 on your other arm. I do hope you can heal faster we might get through all seven of the test samples before I let you go."
Hours went by as the mad doctor continued to test his serums. By the fourth one however, Naruto's healing started neutralizing the drug before it could take effect. Believing that he could no longer test on the young blond he used one of the few jutsu he knew.
Mind Destroyer Jutsu
The jutsu was a forbidden jutsu developed by his village before Madara Uchiha during the first great ninja war burned it to the ground. It was a technique that destroyed all memories for a certain amount of time depending on the amount of chakra used in the jutsu. Since he was only a civilian the longest he could go was about three days, which was enough that he would never be found out.
He did make one miscalculation. The Kyuubi's chakra was able to lessen the effects of the jutsu by healing his brain as it was applied, and so instead of three days it was three minutes. Dr. Haruno threw the boy onto the streets believeing he would never be found.
The next day he was arrested by an ANBU with a dog shaped mask. He learned that Naruto remembered what happened and told the Third Hokage about what had happened.
Even though Naruto was able to report it and the man was arrested and later executed for his experiments, Naruto would never trust doctors or hospitals ever again.
Flash Back End
By the time Naruko got done explaining everything, her mother looked like she was out for blood. Naruko did not understand what it was. 'It happened to me so why is she upset. Did it make her think of something that was done to her? I should apologize for making her remember such a bad thing.'
"I'm sorry"
Shocked Soi Fon turned towards her daughter anger at the 'doctor' forgotten.
"Sorry? What are you sorry for?"
"I thought I made you remember something painful. I would hate myself if I made you sad mom you don't deserve it. I'm sorry if this memory brings up other bad ones."
"No son that's not it at all! I was just angry that they did those things to you, (sigh) but I guess getting angry now won't help. After hearing that I have decided if you don't want to we can forgo having you get an examination until you feel like up to it."
"…Thank you."
They sat there for a few more minutes before Soi Fon left to go down stairs. Naruko drained from the emotional backlash of sharing her story and the time itself decided to go to sleep. Just as she was drifting off she heard a voice speak to her.
"That Doctor's sin was Lust"
*If you find anytime I have switched up the he and she for Naruto/Naruko just report. It is hard to keep them straight when I am writing, and switching between them.