Will of Fire Chapter 3, a Naruto + Glee Crossover fanfic

Standard Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Glee. Heads up, I apologize for any spelling and grammar errors. I do my best to catch them, but I'm not always successful.

xXx-Chapter 3-xXx

Quinn woke up with a start. They were all in very real danger. Something or someone was coming… no, they were here, someone with a chakra so evil, so vile, that it was making her physically ill. Her mother, her father, her sister, this entire town that she lived in was in danger, she had to warn them.

But she was paralyzed with fear, she could see visions of her own death washing over her again and again, she was going to die. This evil chakra was coming for her and she was going to die. She hears Ino begin to babble in her own crib, having awoken but oblivious to the danger she was in. So Quinn focuses the best she can and sits up. She looks across the room at tiny helpless Ino, staring back at her and smiling, just happy to see her twin, and so Quinn forces herself to be brave. To fight through this crippling fear she felt. She gathers as much of her chakra as she can and releases it in a massive pulse, all the while she starts screaming and crying as loudly as she can, doing her best to convey even a small portion of the fear and anxiety that she was feeling. Her family was in danger, she needed to warn them, they had to run away.

In a swirl of energy both parents appeared in her room, looking ready for a fight. If she hadn't been so upset she would have been surprised by what they had just done. I mean they had literally teleported out of thin air, right into the room like magic. But in comparison to the evil presence she felt, it didn't matter. Warning them did. When her parents saw her in the state she was in her father rushed over to her, picking her up, while her mother ran over to grab a now crying Ino.

He was rocking her gently in his arms, whispering what might have been comforting words if she had been able to understand him, pulsing his own chakra in familiar patterns in an attempt to calm her down and get her to stop using so much of her own. His chakra was acting as a beacon of safety and peace against an oncoming storm of darkness. But she ignored it, she had to make him understand, they were in danger.

She hears her mother say something to her father, the worry evident in her voice, and Quinn hated herself for it, hated worrying them, hated not being able to warn them, for being so helpless. This vile chakra was here and it wanted to hurt them all, why couldn't they sense it. They could use their chakra so much better than she could, why couldn't they feel this presence. She could feel her chakra rapidly draining, and at this point she would normally fall asleep and rest, but that wasn't an option. She continues to force her current level of output and even when it began to hurt her she didn't stop. Their safety meant more than her pain.

With a large pulse, the entire world shook as she felt another, even more powerful chakra hit her. So powerful, so evil, that it even put the other one to shame. It was so potent that it stopped her crying, from even accessing her chakra, all in a single moment. She was too late. She looks up scared at her father but he's not looking at her, he's staring towards the source of the new chakra, her mother is too.

Good, she wasn't too late, they could run, they could escape and be safe.

Quinn is handed off to her mother and she doesn't understand why. Her parents exchange a couple of words, share a kiss, and then to Quinn horror her father leaves her and her mother and sister. No he needed to stay and they all needed to leave together! She is startled by a loud explosion and Ino begins to cry in earnest. It was the first of what would be many explosion that night.

Soon after the first explosion occurs there is another and then another. Soon the screams of the scared and dying fill the air. Her mother holds the both of them close to her as she takes a spot in the corner of the room. Crying as she rocks them back and forth, whispering softly to them.

Quinn can literally feel the fear pouring from her mother, she wants to do something to comfort her but she can't. She's physically drained, having used up more of her chakra than she ever had before, her insides felt like they were smoldering and her body just wanted to shut down. But she couldn't, if she closed her eyes they would never open again. She felt like she was being crushed under the weight of this evil chakra that filled the night.

If she moved, if she breathed, if she even blinked, whatever was out there would know they were here and it would kill them. The earth rumbles and a terrible roar fills the air. Quinn wondered if this was the end of the world, if this was the night that the universe decided to end all life. There's a giant crash just outside their house and the world shakes with it. Whatever was doing this was right by them.

She can hear men and women shouting, not in fear but in anger, as more explosions fill the air. The evil chakra is so powerful and overwhelming that Quinn struggles to breathe. She gasps for air but it won't come. And suddenly her mother is moving, fast, rushing from their home and into the night

Their home is crashing all around them as her mother leaps high into the air, her and her sister being held protectively in their mother's arms and for a brief moment Quinn catches a glimpse of the monster that is destroying their home. It's as large as a mountain with nine tails waving around it wildly crushing everything in its path. It's entire form glowing sinisterly in the pale moon light. And then it's gone from view, her mother ducking down into a nearby ally way.

She doesn't know where her mother takes them, all she knows is that when they get there its dark and the sounds of other children crying echoes all around them. It feels like an eternity passes, and with each second it grows darker and darker, with no hope of escape. When suddenly Quinn feels it, the warm chakra of the man in the strange hat, and for the first time since being awoken Quinn feels a glimmer of hope. So much so that she reaches over to a crying Ino and grabs her hand, she then looks up at her mother and with the last bit of chakra available to her sends out a little pulse, something to let them know that it would be okay. And as her consciousness finally fades she can feel the warm chakra wash over her and everyone else for a second and then suddenly it and the evil chakra are gone.

xXx-Scene Break-xXx

Megumi woke with a start, not even sparing a glance at her husband who she felt awaken right beside her, both of them body flicker into their children's bedroom. Rin had just released a massive pulse of her chakra and the scream of terror that followed it made Megumi feel sick inside.

Her babies were in trouble.

When they arrive in the room both Inoichi and herself are ready for combat, ready to annihilate whatever was causing their child to feel this kind of distress. However when they arrive there is no one there. Rin however is screaming her head off, her chakra visibly swirling and pulsing around her, while Ino is crying as well, upset by her sister's distress.

Megumi grabs Ino and manages to calm her down fairly quickly, but Rin is another matter entirely. When Inoichi lifts her up he does everything he can to try and soothe her but it doesn't work, if anything it only serves to upset her more.

"What's wrong with her?" Megumi asks, worried.

"I don't know, but if she doesn't stop using her chakra like this she's going to hurt herself." Inoichi says, both parents watching helplessly as Rin began to show physical signs of chakra exhaustion. She had run out of her reserves and now she was using her life force to create more, if she kept this up she could destroy her own chakra network and eventually kill herself.

"I'm going to get those suppressant seals the fourth gave us," Inoichi says, his voice filled with desperation, "we'll take her to see him tomorrow and-"

Whatever else he was going to say was cut off by a powerful wave of the vilest chakra either of them had ever felt. Rin stops her crying immediately, her chakra disappearing and she lets out a whimper. Suddenly a huge explosion rocks the still night air.

Inoichi moves over to Megumi handing her Rin. "I have to go." Inoichi says as screams of terror from the civilian population fill the air.

"I understand." Megumi chokes back. Whatever was out there was powerful and as a shinobi of the village Inoichi had a duty to defend the village from all threats and she understood that. It didn't mean she had to like it though.

He kisses her as if this will be the last time he will ever see her, and as he pulls away, he keeps his forehead to hers, locking eyes with the love of his life. "I'll come back, to both you and the girls, I swear it."

"I know you will, now go, be safe." And with that Megumi watches as Inoichi vanishes. She shakily stumbles over to the corner of the room and settles down there, trying to be brave for her children, but she doesn't think she's doing too good a job. The sounds of battle fill the air and she can't get Ino to calm down, and as for Rin, her fear seemed to go beyond crying. Her little face is as pale as snow as she grasped onto her shirt as tightly as her little hands could, her entire body shaking.

As she listens to the battle rage on outside she can hear and feel the battle draw closer to her and her family, she stays still hoping the battle will shift away from them. The longer you are a ninja the more refined your sixth sense in battle becomes, the air will just seem to shift and you can just sense when an attack is in coming. Megumi, in that moment, would be forever grateful for her ninja training because as she leaps up from her spot on the floor, the house comes crashing down around her.

She tumbles through the falling debris that was once her home, leaping into the night air, as the tip of a monstrous tail rips through their house as well as a whole line of the surrounding land and buildings. A large gash in the earth left in its wake.

Kyuubi.

The nine-tailed demon fox was destroying their village, their home, it had almost killed her children. She quickly makes her way through the carnage and fighting as more Shinobi flood the area, desperate to hold the beast at bay. She lets out a sigh of relief as she gets herself and her children to one of defensive bunkers throughout the city. But the relief doesn't last long as the sounds of the battle echo even in here.

The battle lasts through the night and when she looks down at her two babies, wondering if they are going to still have a father at the end of the night, she sees Rin reach over and grab Ino's hand with her own. She then lets out a little pulse of chakra, calm as can be as if trying to reassure her sister and mother that everything would be okay. Through the darkness someone in the building lets out a cheer.

"The Fourth Hokage is here, he's arrived!"

Megumi feels it a second later, the chakra signature of a powerful technique taking place. She marvels at the thought that everyone in the village could probably feel it. The Fourth truly was a once in a lifetime shinobi. And then in an instant, the Kyuubi's chakra is gone and a tense silence fall on them for a couple of seconds before shouts and cheers fill the air.

Tears of joy begin to fall down Megumi's face. They were safe, the Fourth had saved them all, he had stopped the Kyuubi from destroying their village. She looks down at her babies, and kisses a fussy Ino who is not happy with all of the noise that is taking place. She then looks to Rin and watches as her sleeping daughter struggles to take in shaky breaths and then it hits her.

Rin had known this was going to happen.

She had been trying to warn them, as impossible as it seemed she had known this attack was coming, had sensed the Kyuubi's chakra before anyone else and had done the best that a baby could do to warn them. But to be able to warn them like that she would either have to have some kind of foreknowledge of the event happening or… Rin was quite possibly an extremely powerful sensor. Many Yamanaka's were sensors, their clan jutsu had shaped and refined their sensor abilities for generations, being a sensor and a Yamanaka often went hand in hand.

And considering the way that Rin had been conceived, a child born from chakra using the DNA of someone who was already predisposed to being a sensor, her sweet girl didn't have a chance. No wonder she used chakra so freely and so easily, she must feel as if she's being bombarded with it.

"Poor girl." Megumi whispers softly as she leans and places a kiss to her other daughter's forehead.

If she was right, if Rin was a sensor who was developing early, then that was good news. There were ways to help her, they wouldn't have to suppress her chakra with seals. They could do more than just work on her control, which in Megumi's opinion was doing just as much harm as it was good. Better control at that age built larger reserves which in turn required more control. She and Inoichi estimated that Rin's reserves were as large now as they should be if she were three or four. That was just too much chakra for a baby. Children shouldn't even be accessing their chakra until five or six, their bodies not having developed enough to handle it properly.

But sensor training was different than chakra control training, if they could work something out with her then she could learn to suppress it naturally, even at this age. She would no longer be bombarded constantly with other people's chakra.

"It's going to be okay baby, everything is going to be just fine, you'll see."

xXx-Scene Break-xXx

Inoichi felt nothing but panic course through him as he frantically dug through the rubble of what had once been his home.

"Megumi!" He calls out, his voice hoarse. He couldn't sense her, why couldn't he sense her? She wasn't dead, he refused to believe it. But he couldn't sense her or either of the girls.

"Megumi!" No, until he found a body she was alive and well, but as time passed with no sign of any of them he felt himself fall into despair. When the attack had begun he and Shikaku had worked together to relay orders to the Shinobi forces as they fought the beast, having been ordered to buy the Fourth time to set up a technique that could defeat the beast. They had been directing their forces to draw the beast away from downtown Konoha, the most populated part of the village, however their plan had worked too well.

Inoichi had only been able to look on, completely helpless, as the beast trampled the area where he and his family lived. His first instinct had been to rush there instantly, only Shikaku and Chouza calling out to him, reminding him of his duty and of what was at stake had stayed him. He had been forced to trust that Megumi and their daughters had somehow escaped, because the village as whole had needed him. Once the beast was gone however all bets were off, he hadn't waited around for any of the fallout, and had rushed straight home.

But he was starting to lose hope. He had been searching for hours and he hadn't found anything to indicate that his family was okay. There were no bodies, in any other situation that meant that they could still be okay. But he had just spent the night watching men and women under his command get crushed into dust and disintegrated by blasts of chakra right before his eyes. No body, in this situation, meant no hope just as much as finding a dead body would.

"Megumi! Ino! Rin!"

If they were here, if they could just make a sound, he could find them. He sinks to his knees as the hopelessness of the situation comes crushing down. There had been so much death, so much destruction, how foolish was he to think that his family could escape unscathed.

Inoichi begins to cry. "No… please, not them…"

"Inoichi?"

Inoichi looks up and stepping over the rubble towards him is his wife with their two daughters safely in her arms. She looks a little tired, but otherwise completely fine. They smile from across the rubble at each other, the overwhelming relief washing over them as they now know for sure that their entire family has survived the night. They rush to each other and Inoichi gathers his family in his arms.

xXx-Scene Break-xXx

It had been three weeks since the attack and Inoichi was standing in the middle of the assembled crowd in front of the Hokage's tower as the Third addressed the village, having officially been reinstated as the Hokage. He had taken command fairly quickly after the Fourth had died but it hadn't been official until yesterday.

Inoichi wasn't sure how he felt about it. He considered the Third to be a good man, and in the face of what had just happened he was the only Shinobi in the village with enough skill and reputation to lead the village and not have them appear any weaker to the other villages than they already did. Kumo was already testing their boarder responses and Iwa was marshaling their forces closer to their borders than they had dared to since the last war.

For the village itself Hiruzen Sarutobi was the best choice for the Konoha. Personally, Inoichi was conflicted. His retirement from the position as the head of their Intelligence division, while officially had been his choice, unofficially it was because the Third couldn't help but hold him partially responsible for the loss of his favorite student and it had made it all but impossible for the Third to ever completely trust him again.

He knew that the Third didn't blame him intellectually, but emotionally the man felt how he felt and he had no more control over it than anyone else did. He couldn't help but see Inoichi as the man who had revealed his prized student, a man he was closer to than his own son, as degenerate scum who was a danger to all those around him.

Inoichi's last investigation as the head of Intelligence had been looking into the disappearance of a young Chūnin. The girl had been the daughter of a friend of a friend and while officially she had been declared a missing-nin her family had been adamant that that wasn't the case. So he had decided to look into it personally. The trail he would follow during the course of that investigation had eventually lead him to Orochimaru.

When he had presented the Third with his information the man had refused to believe it, had been convinced that Inoichi was mistaken. Inoichi had warned him that Orochimaru was right then, even as they spoke, putting some young Chūnin through unspeakable horrors and that this wasn't the first time. Orochimaru had been doing this for years, who knew how many ninja that they had thought turned traitor and fled the village or who Orochimaru had claimed died on mission had been subjected to that man's depravity.

Inoichi had begged the Third to grant him a full squadron of ANBU so that they could put a stop to it, but the Third had refused, had been sure that there was a reasonable explanation for all of it. He wouldn't stand for Inoichi trying to deface the reputation and the character of his favorite student, a man who to everyone else's knowledge was a model Shinobi of Konoha.

However the Third couldn't just ignore his claim. Inoichi had known that he would take it hard and would be reluctant to believe his student was a monster so Inoichi had gone over his head in a manner of speaking and had brought it up during a council meeting. The Hokage, his advisors, the Head of the ANBU division, Shikaku his best friend who was also the newly appointed Jōnin Commander, as well as the various clan heads and civilian governors were all there to witness his testimony that Orochimaru was an enemy of the village. The Hokage may be the head of the village, and the final say on any matter, but he still needed the support of his generals.

Put in that position the Third had no choice but to act, so he had agreed to take a single ANBU unit with him to investigate the matter himself. Inoichi had put his career on the line and had made a bold accusation that one of the shining stars of the village wasn't what he appeared. If Inoichi had been wrong it would have destroyed any credibility he had within the village. Still a part of him had hoped he was wrong.

Unfortunately, he wasn't.

Inoichi had been right and it had destroyed his personal relationship with the Third and by extension his professional. To the Third, Inoichi would always be the man who had taken his prized student from him, and so not long after Inoichi had turned in a letter of resignation and a request to be allowed to retire from the Shinobi forces entirely. His only responsibilities would be those as the head of clan Yamanaka. The Third had readily accepted, eager to be rid of the man who had done his job too well.

Inoichi's actions had also had a farther reaching consequence for the Third. When the Third had said to the village council that he would handle this personally and that Inoichi was mistaken he had also put his reputation on the line. The fact that Orochimaru escaped and that only the Third returned from the encounter alive had shaken the village leadership's faith in him. There began to be talk of the Third growing soft and losing his edge. That maybe he was too old to lead the village anymore and that maybe someone younger should take his place. In the end the Third had no choice but step aside and name a successor.

Inoichi knew it was a little selfish but he wondered what the reinstatement of the Third meant for him personally. He hadn't stayed retired from the Shinobi world completely for very long, with some effort on the Fourth's part as well as Shikaku and Chouza urging him along, he had come out of full retirement and had rejoined the Shinobi forces as an active duty Jōnin once more. He had then been placed under the command of Shikaku where he basically did the same thing for his friend that he did as the head of Intelligence, unofficially becoming the second in command of the Jōnin forces.

It worked well for him. He rarely had any missions outside of the village, he got to work with his best friend, his work days were usually 9 to 5 so he got to spend plenty of time at home with his family. Actually, as far as jobs in the Shinobi ranks went his was pretty ideal. He had an easy life as far as the Shinobi world was concerned and he got to continue to work in a field he loved.

And he did love his job, he loved the spy work and the intelligence gathering aspect of being a ninja. He loved rooting out their enemies secrets and then having that information turned around on them, he got a deep sense of satisfaction from knowing that the information he uncovered could mean the difference between life and death for one of his comrades. The Third wouldn't be so petty as to set him aside, not when his skills were needed so badly right now, but it could make work a little interesting for a while.

He senses the presence of the ANBU well before they make their physical presence known. His little Rin may be some kind of sensor prodigy but her old man was no slouch either.

"What can I do for you?" Inoichi asks, keeping up an appearance of cool and calm.

"Lord Yamanaka, the Hokage wishes to speak with you immediately after he's finished addressing the village. He requests that you await him in his office."

"Now?"

"Yes."

"Very well."

xXx-Scene Break-xXx

When Inoichi arrived at the Hokage's office there was already somebody waiting in there that as a rule he kept both his distance from as well as a careful eye on. Danzo Shimura.

"I was told I was meeting with the Hokage, what are you doing here?" Inoichi asks, not even going through the effort of pretending to be polite to the man. After all he had wanted to either take or abort both of his children. That was something that Inoichi would never forgive or forget.

"I know, I too have business with our leader and it just so happens that that business involves you and the child." Danzo responds, perfectly calm. "So I thought it best to speak with him while you were here."

"You are not getting my daughter!" Inoichi snarls.

Danzo glares at him. "This village is in ruins. We are vulnerable to an attack and yet you continue to put your own selfish desires above the needs of this village. That thing is not your daughter no matter how hard you try to delude yourself otherwise. But whatever it is, it was able to foresee the Kyuubi's attack minutes before it happened, nothing and no one else in the village was able to do that. We need to find out how it is able to do this and then utilize it."

Inoichi's glare hardens, how had Danzo known that Rin had sensed the Kyuubi's attack, he had kept that bit of information very close to the vest, the implications of Danzo knowing were not pleasant. Only his wife who had figured it out, Chouza, and Shikaku had known about it.

"Whether you want her or not is irrelevant, you won't have her, besides the Hokage has already-"

"That was the Fourth's decision," Danzo interrupts, "But the Third is a different man, once he hears all there is to know on the issue-"

"He will make the same decision that his successor did." Hiruzen Sarutobi says as he calmly enters the room, followed closely by Shikaku Nara.

"What!? You can't be serious, this thing is not a child to be protected, it's a chakra construct, admittedly a very intricate one but it's no more real than an earth clone or shadow clone!"

Inoichi snapped at hearing that, it was only quick action on Shikaku's part that a fight was avoided. Inoichi had, in the blink of an eye, been halfway through activating his mind crush technique. He was determined that Danzo would never be a threat to his daughter again. Daughter. Not construct, not a clone, certainly not a weapon, but daughter.

However Shikaku had read his friends mood and intention's perfectly and had bound him with his shadow, interrupting the technique. He had also bound Danzo as well, who had been making a counter attack.

"Enough!" The Third shouts. Drawing all attention in the room to himself.

"Inoichi, please calm yourself, I will uphold the Fourth's stance on this, I will not take your daughter from you, be at ease."

"You cannot be serious!" Danzo snarls. It was the first time any of them had ever seen the man truly lose his composure.

However the Third just smiles serenely in the face of the other man's rage. "I am quite serious."

"Sarutobi, that thing is-"

"By all accounts a perfectly normal little girl, who just happens to be developing her skills a little early. Shikaku has brought me up to speed on the situation-"

Here Inoichi sends a glare at his supposed friend, who either doesn't notice or is pretending not to. Knowing Shikaku it was probably the latter.

"-and while I have no doubt that the girl may one day be an asset to this village, it will be as a proud Kunoichi of this village, not as a living weapon, and it will be her and her family's choice."

"You don't understand-"

"I understand perfectly, and I have spoken." The Third interrupts, "Was that all you wished to discuss?"

"What about the boy, Naruto?" Danzo growls.

The Third chuckles. "You won't like how that conversation goes either. Anything else?"

"No… Lord Hokage." Danzo grits out through his teeth.

However the Third doesn't seem to be bothered by it, "Very well then, you are dismissed. Shikaku, release him."

Once Danzo leaves the room Shikaku releases his hold on Inoichi who then proceeds to grab him and slam him against the wall. "You bastard! I trusted you!"

Shikaku holds his hands up in submission. "What you told me was huge, I had a duty to report this kind of thing to the Hokage, but I made it clear, I swear to you, that it didn't change a thing in terms of her standing in the village. She was still under our protection."

"She is my daughter!"

"I know, but I had my duty. The Third needed to know and I promise you, I only told him."

"Then how the hell did that bastard Shimura find out!?"

"How indeed?" The Third interjects. "Please, Inoichi, Shikaku did the right thing in coming to me, you know he did. You know that if your situations were reversed you would have done the same thing. But I promise you, your daughter is in no danger from me, in fact by Shikaku coming to me means that I learned of all of this from him rather than from Shimura. Release him, please. We have much to discuss."

Inoichi slowly lets go of the other man, but his body is still tense. "What's this about, why did you wish to speak to me?"

"You asked how Danzo knew about your daughter, well I'm very curious about that as well. He shouldn't have known about it and I think the fact that he does is very telling, don't you?"

"Root?" Inoichi says, "But, it was disbanded years ago, by you no less."

"I am well aware, and I know that the fourth would never have sanctioned its recreation either. So that means for Danzo to have the knowledge that he does-"

"Root was never disbanded!" Inoichi says, if Danzo was truly running unsanctioned ops from within their own village and they were just now learning of it, the thought was unsettling to say the least.

"Or he's somehow learned to read minds." The Third says dryly.

"I wouldn't put it past him." Shikaku quips.

Inoichi lets out a breath. "What does this have to do with me sir?"

"If someone within our own village was able to do this, someone who, though extreme his methods might be does love this village, then what are our enemies doing? We need information on our enemies, both foreign and domestic, that is why I would like you to retake your position as the Head of Intelligence."

"Me, of course I will but are you sure… no, forgive me, I humbly accept."

The Third smiles sadly at him, "I owe you a very sincere apology, you stopped a monster from hurting the people of this village, people that I had been charged with protecting and failed to do so. My only excuse is that I am, at the end of the day, only human. So I hope that you can forgive me of my actions and that we can start over new."

Inoichi nods resolutely, "Of course Lord Hokage, you can count on me."

"Good, because we have a lot of work to do."

Late into the evening after the meeting with the Third had concluded, Inoichi and Shikaku finally step out of the Third's office. "Are we okay?" Shikaku asks, his voice taking on that overly even tone it had when he was nervous.

Inoichi takes a moment to consider the question. Shikaku had only done his duty, he had been in a tough spot and he had done the best that he could. And the Third was right, in his position, Inoichi probably would have done the same thing. Shikaku had done what he had thought was best not only for the village but possibly for Rin herself. Inoichi could understand and justify all of it intellectually, it was why he never held a grudge against the Third over Orochimaru. But Rin was his daughter and like with the Third it didn't change how he felt.

"Someday… yes, but not today." And with that Inoichi leaves.