Shiroi Kyuubi
~ 忍者運命 ~
Here's another update for you nice people! Plus, I want to answers some questions from some reviewers as well.
UzumakiCest: Thanks for reviewing! I try to make Naruto be more mature now that he's 16, but he still ends up sometimes as a complete idiot. That's what makes his fun to write about. And he is one of the head characters so, let him keep his idiocy once in a while ;p
Vendetta419: I can't really say that or else my clue will be gone. Perhaps when you read this chapter, you might know more about Yue and her relations with others. Thanks for the question and review! ;)
I hope this chapter will please you, Yue will meet some new people and of course, this chapter might reveal more about Yue herself and her past for all those who have been wondering. Either way, I had so much fun writing this one, let me tell you that ;p Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything except my OC and Storyline. The rest belongs to their natural creators.
Opening Theme: Echoes - Universe
Ending Theme: Sora - UVERworld
Chapter Four : Konohagakure (Meeting Asuma-sensei)
It was a beautiful day outside and Konohagakure was slowly waking from their deep sleeps. Through the open curtains, the sun cascaded down upon Yue's cheek, bathing her in it's warmth. She was laying on something soft as she forced her eyes to open.
Her cobalt eyes scanned the room and noticed two things. One: it was a peaceful room with white walls and the slight smell of antiseptic in the air. Two: she was laying on a bed near the window with a blanket over her and a bandaged wrapped around her neck.
The soft sound of singing birds was just outside the window and Yue couldn't help but smile. She got of the bed and walked towards the window, opening it to breath in the fresh morning air. The village of Konohagakure lay before her and was like she, waking from their slumber. The sun had risen from behind the mountains and Yue sighed in content.
"It's good to be home again…"
"Oh, you're finally awake."
Yue turned and saw Sakura enter with a tray of food in her hands. She hadn't noticed the door open in the first and blushed a little in embarrassment. Sakura placed the tray on the nightstand and walked over to her. For the first time, Yue noticed that her cloths were removed and replaced by a simple white kimono and a red obi.
"How long have I been asleep, Sakura-chan?"
"About three days, I think. You must be hungry."
Yue moved over towards her bed and sat on it. Three days she had been fast asleep and recovering from her chakra exhaustion. Taking the red apple from the tray, she bit in it with pleasure. Yue hadn't eating for a long time and moaned by the sweet taste. Then, she saw a vase with a single flower, a blue rose. She smiled warmly.
"Ah, Naruto left that as thanks for saving my life." Sakura noticed her smile.
"So, you're really close then? I only did what I needed to do."
Sakura started blushing a little at Yue, who was still enjoying the apple she brought. Sure, you could call her close with Naruto because they're team-mates and are both linked with Sasuke. Others had asked her many times before if she and Naruto were an item now, by the way they acted to each other.
"We're team-mates and best friends. Naruto has been through so much lately that we kind of need each other's support right now."
"Souka. I should thank him for the flower then when I see him. I wonder if he knew…"
"Knew what?" Sakura looked up.
Yue smiled at an old memory. "When I was little, back in Yukigakure, we had gardens full of blue roses. It's our kamon actually. So when we moved here, my mother started growing them in our garden. It's become my favourite flower ever since."
"It's a beautiful flower. But, doesn't your family name mean fox?" Yue laughed.
"I know. I always thought it was a little silly, but there's a good story to that. The clan elders told us about the first Kitsune ever. His name was Heero. It was said he had mastered every Ice jutsu that existed. One day, he saved a beautiful woman from death. In return, she gave him a rare flower that only grew once a ten years. When she disappeared, he started creating an Ice release based on the blue rose she gave him. Many Kitsune shinobi had tried to figure out what he actually created since he wrote down his jutsu in some sort of weird writting."
"This used to grow once a ten years?" Sakura pointed towards the flower.
"According to the story they told us. I'm surprised to see it again after so long. I kind of missed it…"
"I bet. How's your neck doing?"
Yue touched her neck slightly and felt the bandages under her fingers. She remembered Aoshi strangling her with his vines and wondered how bruised or how bad it looked under them.
"It doesn't hurt. I guess that I was lucky, ne?" She grinned.
Sakura shook her head. "Yeah, you're lucky. I would say you have the same stamina like Naruto. Stubborn and strong at the same time."
"Maybe…Or, I'm just really persistent."
"Ha, wouldn't surprise me. After you ate, you should rest a little more. Your chakra isn't fully restored yet and Hokage-sama would rather see you healthy and strong enough to stand on your own two feet."
"Hai…Arigatou, Sakura-chan."
"Hey, that's what friends do. I'll see you later then. Ya ne."
She left the room and closed the door behind her silently. Yue still looked over at the flower. Slowly, very slowly, she formed her hands into a seal and closed her eyes. The rose started moving a little and eventually, the water from the vase surrounded it in a sort of cocoon. Then it froze, leaving the blue rose preserved into a ice shell. Yue smiled satisfied and opened her eyes.
"At least, my chakra's coming back again. Demo…a rose deservers to grow free. Kai!"
The ice melted and fell again into the vase as liquid water. The rose shined from the small drops of water still left on it. Yue looked again at the rising sun and made her decision. Like her mother used to say to her : You can't wait for the rain to pour if you need to do something important.
"Good work everyone!"
"It was nothing, really."
"Naruto, you're the one to talk, baka!"
Tsunade sighed as her student and Naruto were caught in yet another cockfight with each other. The others could only agree with her sighing and looked at the two with bored expressions. Eventually, they calmed down and faced her again in silence.
"Finally…Sakura, how is she holding up?"
"From what I've seen, she's still a little weak from the chakra exhaustion but my guess is that by the end of the week, she should be able to use her chakra at a normal rate again."
"Souka. Kakashi, were there anymore leads on the two men?" She turned her head.
"Not really, apart from the fact that they worked for Orochimaru and that they were responsible for the training of Kitsune Yuetsu."
Tsunade leaned her head on her hands. That girl had been through a lot. Her clan massacred, her parents killed in action and she herself kidnapped to become one of Orochimaru's horrible experiments.
"Alright. You are all free to go. Dismissed!"
The team left the room is silence. Tsunade leaned back into the familiar blue chair and cast her eyes to a drawer in her desk. Shizune noticed her stare and couldn't help but wonder what it was all about.
"Shizune."
"Ha…Hai?" She stuttered.
"Wouldn't life be easier if it was just about gambling, sake and less problems?"
"Probably, Tsunade-sama. But then again, life is the hardest road we all take."
"Ah…Shizune, keep an extra eye out for Yuetsu for me. She's important."
"Wakata, Tsunade-sama."
Tsunade inhaled deeply and looked outside again. Her honey eyes suddenly were fixed on the small tower of the hospital, that stood out a little. 'Right now, she's probably the most important thing besides Naruto at the moment. The best I can do is look out for her too.'
"Sorry for interrupting you, Hokage-sama. But Kitsune-san ran away from the hospital."
'Looks like I got my work cut out for me…'
"Inform everyone on standby to look for her. She still needs to rest. Dismissed!"
It was pretty easy escaping that place. Yue had only asked to go to the bathroom and escaped through the back window which was just big enough for her to climb through. Plus, she had managed to change in her old cloths as well.
Yue wears a navy blue tank-top with a white roses design underneath a sleeveless black vest. Both stop just below the rib-cage, revealing her well-toned midriff. Her shorts, while still khaki, fold back (showing the interior fabric to be black) over a belted weapon pouch, dark-gray in colour, that rests across her right hip. She liked it there much better then on her thigh.
Her navy-blue forehead protector is tied with long strings and was a little hidden below her white bangs. There's a white wristband on her right arm and there's a black fishnet partially covering her left hand that starts from below her elbow. Her shoes were something different. They were black, laced knee-high boots with open toes. Black socks that have two white stripes at the top seems to end her outfit into a dared look.
Not to forget her waist long white hair that trailed behind her in a long and thick braid that left her long bangs to frame her face.
Grinning like a hyena to herself, Yue walked through the streets of Konoha and enjoyed the different smells that hit her nose. Long had she missed this place, missed it's people and it's morning breeze. And right now, she hoped that her memory was leading her to the training fields.
The four years she had spend with Aoshi and Kohaku, Orochimaru's minions, they neglected her previous training and skills. They even sealed it away for a long time so her mind would forget it eventually. But not anymore…
"Looks like I made it. This place never changed, did it?"
The field looked peaceful and was near a large pond. It was surrounded by lots of trees from a small forest and was absolutely secluded.
"Time to work." She said, taking of her shoes and small jacket.
Lighting yet another cigarette, Sarutobi Asuma walked away from the Hokage Tower towards the streets of Konoha. Even though her orders were clear, he still couldn't understand why he had to spend his free day looking for some runaway girl in Konoha.
"You know that smoking kills, Asuma-sensei."
"Ino."
His former student looked at him with her blue eyes, the eyes he had grown used to. After she had become chuunin, she had a certain style change over the years. Not to forget, she had trained herself to become a medical-nin as well, just like Sakura.
"Also looking for that girl then?"
"Hokage-sama's orders were clear. I'd suggest we'd split up and search her from different directions."
"Wakata. Ya ne, Asuma-sensei." Ino waved one last time and ran to her right, not before turning around once more.
"Say hey to Kurenai-sensei when you see her." Then, she ran off again.
His eyes widened.
"How does she know that?" He drew from his cigarette again "But then again, what doesn't Ino know?"
Asuma shook his head a little. Throwing the now used cigarette away, he made his way towards the training grounds Perhaps, he could find her there. Most shinobi ran away from the hospital if they either were scared of needles (funny even though they deal with sharp objects each day) or if they wanted to train.
After running over each training field, he found no one, if you didn't count the training genin at the moment.
"At this rate, we might never find her. Maybe she left the village."
But then, he felt a sudden rise of chakra run over his spine, making his instincts kick in like a soccer player chasing the ball.
"Mizu no Tatsumaki!" (Tornado of Water)
Asuma, as sneaky as a panther, looked from behind a tree at a girl who preformed a powerful Water Release. A technique that utilizes water to create a spinning water vortex around the user. The water vortex acts both as a barrier and an attack mechanism. The power of the vortex is enough to knock an opponent unconscious. At least, that's what he knew of it since he was wind natured.
"So this must be her."
Yue looked satisfied at her jutsu and started breathing heavily. It took a lot of chakra, but at least she was able to use her water techniques again. Leaning forwards on her knees, Yue supported her now heavy body. The wind blew itself a way through her sweating hair, leaving the training girl behind on the clearing.
"That was a very powerful jutsu." Asuma appeared suddenly, surprising Yue who moved her hand in front of her in defence.
The movement caused streaks of water from the pond to splash all over Asuma's face. Yue could have screamed to herself for being of guard again. Asuma, whipping away the water from his face, looked at her with a silent thinking expression.
"So powerful that even water follows your every move. That's kind of strange."
Yue stared at her hand and at the water that had escaped the pond. Ever since she was little, she always loved water and everything that evolved around it. When she found out about her clan's sort of Ice Bloodline Limit, Yue trained so hard on her jutsu's until her hands bled. Eventually, moving water or wind (since the two make ice together) became a everyday thing in every movement she made.
"It's sort of a habit. I bet you do that all the time."
Asuma looked surprised at the young girl. Like Tsunade had said, she was something else in an important way. She looked different if he had to be honest. Soft white hair that framed her face and cascaded down her back in a braid and clear cobalt eyes that in a way, looking through your soul. Her comment was something else. No one is that good in contact with their natural element. Asuma had never seen someone use it like it was an everyday thing. It was like she was in contact with the water, communicating with it.
"Sorry to disappoint you, but no one can do that." He said, pulling out yet another cigarette.
"He?"
He blew out the smoke.
"Judging by it, your natural element is water. And lots of it too." He laughed, referred to the water splash he got moments ago.
"I'm really sorry that happened, but you did kind of scared me by popping up like that."
"I'm a ninja after all. Can't blame me from being good at sneaking around."
"Guess I can't." She suddenly clutched her side in pain.
Asuma stepped forwards a little in concern. Only now, he noticed the tightly wrapped bandages around her waist. According to what they had told him, she had suffered from several wounds next to chakra exhaustion and a serious case of an empty stomach.
"I'm fine, it just caught me by surprise."
"You should have stayed in the hospital. It won't help you if you hurt yourself. Besides, now that I found you, I have to take you there."
"Why? What use am I if I'm laying in a bed and being weak?"
"You are of use if you actually let yourself rest. After that, you can kick ass as much as you want." He smiled at her.
Yue looked up with a solemn face but nodded anyway She knew that she wouldn't be any help if she was ill. Agreeing to him would only help her out. At least, she knew that her chakra was getting better and better everyday. Asuma had supported her by now, picking up her little jacket as well and lead her towards the hospital. He had to admit, this kid had stamina.
"Enter!"
The chuunin entered silently and closed the door behind him. His lazy or irritated expression stared back into the face of Tsunade.
"Shikamaru. What brings you here?"
"A message from Asuma-sensei. He found Kitsune Yuestu and escorted her back to the hospital."
"Yokata…" She sighted. "How is she?"
"Asuma-sensei said she was still hurt at her waist, but it seems like the other wounds have disappeared. Her chakra had fully restored as well."
"How? It usually takes a week or so to recover from that." She said disbelieving.
Shikamaru raised his shoulders. Never as a chuunin had he seen her so surprised when it came to matters of medical attention. You would almost think she had seen everything already. With Naruto she almost would have seen every possible thing, but Yue seemed to surprise her. For the fact that her chakra was restored in a matter of days was way of the charts. It would take weeks at a normal rate.
"Ah…Anyway, arigatou Shikamaru. You can leave now."
"Can I as you something before I go, Tsunade-sama?"
Tsunade raised her eyebrow. "What is it?"
"That girl, Kitsune Yuestu, why is she so important to you?"
She sighed and leaned back a little in her chair. Tsunade knew that someone would come with that question anytime now, either it was Shizune or Jiraiya from whom she would have suspected. The chair rolled back as Tsunade got up and looked out the window.
"She was The Third's student and a promising candidate in his eyes."
"Candidate? Does that mean-"
"Ah…Kitsune Yuetsu was personally handpicked by Sarutobi-sensei to become The Fifth."
Cliffhanger (dum, dum, dum dum...)!
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