A/N: For Adam because his character is the polar opposite to him. Because Aida-chan is nice (sometimes… n-n) Also for Cara cause she's a bad ass at fighting guys that are bigger than her. Like a boss! Happy now R-chan? I'm making notification pop up in your e-mail! Please don't get Daddy to hurt me…. ): I'm in love with Adam's character! He has a whole creepy twisted back story. If I can't fit it in to the next one or two chapters he will definitely be getting his only chapter with his creepy back story. Review please! Now to find my post it notes with meanings on them. I should really staple them together or something. :L Oh and I'm in great depression because something killed my pumpkins :'(…
Disclaimer: Sadly I do not own Naruto because I would be a whole bucket full happier!
Huyu- Winter (forgot in the last chapter. Winter because he is white.)
Kaiya- Forgiveness
Masato- Justice
"Are you sure we should just let her out like that?..."
"I'm confident in Aoi and her team to do what is right and to watch themselves.." The Hokage replied sternly.
"But letting some-one like her out could be disastrous… I mean the village is only now becoming normal again after the nine-tails attack."
"I've been letting Naruto out for years. The third trusted him, and so do I. Aoi is in good hands. Tenzo is there and so is Kotori in case anything goes pear shaped."
"But Aoi is nothing like Naruto. She isn't some-one who can be controlled if she changes. We had to learn that the hard way." Danzo passed Tsunade a folder with Aoi's ANBU photo stapled to the front and in big red letter 'CONFIDENTIAL'.
"What could she have possibly done that was so horrific?" Tsunade flipped open the page of the rather extensive folder.
"Once in 'ROOT' some of the kids were pushing her friend Kotori around because she was so little. One eventually pushed her to the ground and everyone started kicking her and Aoi snapped and she started to transform. Six tails emerged. She took out nine fully trained ANBU members, three children and put several both trained and un-trained ANBU into hospitalisation for several months…. She only stopped when Kotori got hurt by her hands….. Aoi was seven years old…." Danzo spoke in a grim tone. Tsunade and Shizune's faces pictures of complete horror.
-oX-Xo-
Aoi
God my head hurts…. I stood up and rubbed my eyes. Everything was dull and hazy. Heavy breathing was coming from some where. I looked about and realised I was in a maze of plants and vines. I started walking at a slow pace towards the breathing. Turning more and more corners. Little animals scattered as I walked through. I reached the end of a passage and it opened up to a large field. I looked over the landscape with groggy vision. Oh shit! I know where I am. I turned around to go back into the maze but the entrance of the passage I had left through was sealing itself up. I ran towards it and started clawing at the vines ripping them away but everything I did seemed to be in vain. The passage closed over and I was trapped.
"Aoi….." a breathy call came from behind me. I turned round my eyes widened in horror. My legs started moving on their own accord. As hard as I tried they would not stop moving. They were dragging me towards it. I closed my eyes wishing it was all a bad dream. My legs came to a stand still. I peeked through one eye. And sure enough I was standing on top of the large cage that contained my nightmare. I stood still on top of the twisting vines keeping my occupant at bay and hoped it would go away. I squeezed my eyes so tightly shut it began to hurt. A throaty laugh came from beneath me. I felt sick to my stomach.
"Now my dear… Why are we here this time? Did we stupidly get caught in a gen-jutsu?" I just stood there, eyes closed, listening. And thinking. I did a lot of thinking. About a lot of things. Was the plan going well? Could Himeko work around my absence? About how Naruto was? About the hot Suna ninja. What was his name again? Oh I don't remember but it's not like it matters now, does it? No cause your probably getting cut up and the only thing stopping you dying is this horrific creature inside you. "Now that's no way to talk about me is it?" I was brought back from my daydream by a voice that sent shivers up my spine and made my hair stand up on end. I had one last thought to myself about Naruto smiling. I smiled. "That Suna boy is nice. Isn't he?" My smile turned to a frown and I furrowed my brow in anger. "I bet he would hate you if he knew about me. Everyone would hate you. Only two of your so called friends know what you are. The rest are all clueless. What are you going to tell them when they find out what you are? A monster!"
"SHUT UP! Shut up, shut up, shut up!" I doubled over and covered my ears. But what use would that be? It was in my head. It was me. It saw my thoughts, I saw it's. I saw images of my friends running in horror, Kankuro looking at me in disgust, my loved ones leaving me. I opened my eyes and the scenery had changed. I saw Konoha. I was standing on the Hokage mountain. I was enjoying the view when all of a sudden a loud scream came from behind me. I turned and saw all my friends looking at me in shock. I looked down at myself and saw I had transformed, green bubbles were forming a layer around me. I could feel my canine teeth growing and poking my bottom lip. I could feel my tails growing.
"Tenzo! Help me!" I screamed towards him but he looked terrified. He started backing away slowly and then turned and ran. I could see all of my friends having the same thoughts. I could see them all leaving me, until it was only Kotori standing, my sister looking at me, tears spilling down her face…. I started walking towards her to comfort her. I had taken one step when she screamed at me.
"Don't come any closer! You're not my friend! You're not my sister! All you are is a weapon of mass destruction! A..a….a MONSTER!" and with that she turned and fled. Rage over came me. A distorted roar came rumbling from my chest and echoed over the mountains. I stopped thinking. I had lost all that was dear to me and I just let go. The mind of the wolf took over me. I rose up from my body and looked at it from above. The wolf had completely taken over. My body, was it's body now. I didn't even exist anymore. I watched the wolf take my body down to the village and cause havoc. I watched all tails emerge and waited for the tenth to appear and everything to come to an end. I could see it ripping the throats out of innocent by-standers. I saw many brave ninja's be killed. It was my ultimate nightmare. After all I had created to keep this demon locked away…..
Kotori
It was pitch black and in the middle of the darkness was a razor thin door, thinner that a strand of hair and it had absolutely no colour. Even from meters away I could feel it, it was horrible and it was all over my hands and it wouldn't go away. It felt like silk when you rub it the wrong way and made me want to throw up. There's something behind the door and I know its there but I don't know what it is?
Himeko
I opened my eyes to nothingness. I pulled myself up and sat cross-legged. I appeared to be sitting on nothing. But there was nothing here. I sat and thought to myself. I pondered what kind of gen-jutsu this could be? Our opponent is very strong. I sat for what seemed like an eternity of time. But only a milli-second as well. This was a good gen-jutsu. Well it could either be a gen-jutsu that makes you sit in nothingness and go insane like I am or it could be a gen-jutsu that makes you see your worst nightmare. I deducted this because I am afraid of nothing. No fears plague my mind. I was trained like that and that's the way I'll be.
-oX-Xo-
Himeko slowly opened her eyes. Everything was fuzzy, she went to rub her eyes but found that her arms and hands were restricted. She blinked rapidly and her vision started to clear. She tried to move her feet but found that they were bound too. She thrashed around violently on the table that she was strapped to. She gave up with a huff and looked around. She was in a dimly lit room. There was another table across the room. There was another person strapped to that one. Himeko scrunched her eyes and saw Kotori's small body slumped on the table only being held up by her arms. She was still in the gen-jutsu probably. Himeko scanned the other side of the room and spotted an iron bar cage, and curled up in the middle of it was the idiot herself. Aoi….
"Ah you're awake, good…" A voice purred from the darkness in front of her. A man in a purple cloak and a panther taller than the man himself emerged from the darkness. "Now are you going to be good and co-operate?" The man stopped in front of Himeko and the panther slinked round the back of the board tickling Himeko's chin with it's tail. It's fur shined purple in the light. "From my reports, you two strapped to the tables are the most likely to give me what I want with out a fuss." The man brought a hand out from underneath his cloak and waved it in Kotori's direction. "However, I have had to fix many men, all because of your wild animal over there." He waved his other hand in Aoi's direction.
"She's not an animal!" Himeko shouted and spat in his face. The panther growled angrily.
"Leave it Kaiya." The man said gently and the panther went back to it's sulking. The way the man looked at the panther was strange. It almost looked lovingly. But not in the way Aoi looked at her wolf or the way Himeko looked at her lemur. It was almost human.
"Well it looks like I'm going to be here a while. I should probably introduce myself?" Himeko said in defeat. "I'm Himeko, and you are?" The man just looked at her. "It's good manners to introduce yourself before you ask from someone else's name." Himeko told him.
"Ah you're of good manners? My name is Masato, and she is Kaiya." The panther flicked it's tail over Himeko's nose.
Kotori was starting to come around. Her head was pounding and her wrists were sore. She groaned slightly.
"KOTORI!" Himeko shouted towards her friend. It was followed by hissing from the panther then a growl from somewhere else. Himeko looked over and Aoi was crouched in her cage growling with her imaginary hackles raised. The panther fell silent.
"So now you're all up? This may make things slightly harder. Oh well the more the merrier, right?"
"Master, you're getting off topic." The panther purred in a silk like voice. Masato nodded at the panther and smiled.
"Right, so I have brought you here to ask you about something very important." He turned his attention back to Himeko. The panther stalked over to Kotori which earned her a growl from Aoi. Kaiya just chuckled. "The Nine Tails… Where is it?" Kotori shot Himeko a look which Himeko understood completely. Aoi wasn't aware that Naruto was carrying the Nine Tails with in him. Kotori had thought it was for the best that Aoi didn't know about it.
"I don't know anything about the Nine Tails." Himeko replied. Masato just chuckled.
"LIAR!" He shouted at Himeko. There was a sudden and loud crack. Himeko looked at the man, he had brought out a whip from under his large cloak. Himeko noticed his eyes were blood shot and there was black shading under them. Lack of sleep Himeko thought to herself. "I'm not a patient man Himeko. I know you know about the Nine Tails! Tell me where it is!" and with that another crack of the whip but this time it was followed by a distorted scream as Himeko bit her lip trying not to scream. Aoi could see blood seeping through Himeko's net top.
"Leave her alone!" Aoi screamed. The panther lurched at Aoi's cage and clawed at the bars. Aoi jumped back and growled low in her throat at the beast.
"Don't shout at my master, or I'll rip your throat out small human." The panther hissed at Aoi.
"Let me out of here, and you can try it!" Aoi retaliated. The panther growled and clawed the cage again almost knocking over.
"Kaiya! Leave her! We may need her as leverage later!" The man shouted at the panther and went back to torturing Himeko.
-oX-Xo-
"Right guys… We're three men down." Hotaru looked grim. The teams had retreated leaving their team mates on the ground several hours ago. It was nightfall now and the three members of Squad Stella were being sorely missed. Tsukiko was busying herself making a fire. Sai and Sakura were huddling near the glowing starts of the it, talking. Hotaru was under a tree, eyes closed thinking and Kakashi and Yamato were standing deliberating what they should do next. Everyone seemed to be quite worried even Sai was frowning.
"I have an idea." Everyone turned round and looked at Sakura. With the sudden attention she blushed a little bit. "Ermm.. Well all we have to do is send someone else into the gen-jutsu but this time, not retreat because they enemy will have to take the wards down to get the ninja, right?" Hotaru took this information in and nodded. "Then when they take the wards down we sneak in and find the others?" Hotaru continued to nod and started biting her lip.
"Right, and the hybrids that were walking around, we've established, aren't very smart, so we probably could go un-detected for quite a while." Hotaru finished.
-oX-Xo-
The moon was high in the sky when Squad Stella and Team 7 reached the edge of the wards.
"Right, who wants to be the distraction?" Hotaru asked. Everyone looked at each other with pleading looks. Hotaru sighed and face palmed.
"Oh wait!" Yamato interjected. He made his wood clone and told him the plan. The clone nodded and walked out in to the open. He reached the point where Aoi had gone down, but he was still standing. He turned to face the group and shrugged.
"Hey what's happening?" Naruto whispered to Hotaru who waved a hand at him to keep quiet, while concentrating on Yamato's clone.
"I'm going to assume it's safe, but no-one follow until I give the signal right? It might not work on clones? If I go under continue with the plan and Kakashi is in charge, got it?" Everyone nodded while Hotaru started edging towards the clone. She reached the clone and put her hands on her hips. There wasn't even any of the hybrids around. She turned back to face her team and waved at them to move. They all stood by her side staring at the empty camp.
"Well this looks like it's gonna be easier than we thought it'd be." Naruto said proudly. Yamato slapped on the back of the head.
"Nothing is ever this easy Naruto…" Yamato sighed. They started sliding down the embankment towards where the camp site once was. There was still tents up, but they were disserted, flapping in the wind. They all walked around in little groups checking the place out. A small thump came from behind everyone, they turned around to see Sai flopped on the ground. Naruto started to snigger until Sakura punched him. Hotaru went over to check on him.
"I don't know how that happened, I seemed to have tripped over nothing." Sai said with slightly flushed cheeks. Hotaru dusted the floor around Sai's feet and found a metal hoop attached to a trap door.
"Looks like we know where they went." Hotaru said. She ripped the door open and looked down in to the darkness. "Two minutes." She hopped down. There was some thumping and distorted grunts. Two bodies were thrown up through the hole. Hotaru popped her head through the hole with a big grin on her face. " It's clear. Oh and some one bind them please?" They all jumped into the hole in the ground one by one. Everyone looked around at the dimly lit corridor. Hotaru scratched her head. "Well now we probably should split up but I'm not really for losing anymore of you." Murmuring and faint foots steps were coming from one end of the passage. "Everyone quietly come this way." Hotaru hissed to the teams.