AN- So I learned that I should not be a lazy-ass and copy chapters from my Quotev account and instead type chapters twice; once on each site... IT'S UNFAIR! :(
Disclaimer
I do not own, neither have any intentions of gaining profit from the Anime-Manga series 'Naruto'. I only own the character of Nidhi/Ned and this story titled 'The Part I Played' which is a fan-fiction inspired by the aforementioned series. All the characters, Jutsu, places, history and storyline of 'Naruto' rightfully belong to Kishimoto Masashi.
Being The Girl Who Survived (1)
The room I woke up in officially became my dwelling and the balcony, my official spying spot. The coming week found me permanently sitting in a 'hidden corner' of the balcony watching people or lying awake all night in fear of nightmares. Lord Hokage would sometimes come visit me and sometimes voices of people supplying food to my room; but other than that nothing to disturb my solitude. At times I would think, is this the way they are going to let me live? Locked away from society, in a beautiful lonely room, until I grow my hairs long enough for some prince to climb up, fall in love and rescue me; although people here didn't need Rapunzel hairs to climb up as they can jump from freaking houses!
I came to many revelations during those idle hours spent in the balcony spying. Like I never fully came over the 'jumping-from-house-to-house' talent of Bird's gang and I think I'll never; being born and raised on land there are some habits that never leave, like walking. And from my 'hidden corner' I never saw anyone else flying over houses, but quite a few people looking like Bird's gang often used to come and leave the mansion like the hundreds of other non-masked people doing the same; some coming singly, some in groups of three or two. At first I thought they come for attendance or something by Lord Hokage; and even though the idea was absurd in itself, I would have pursued it if I haven't seen those two boys I saw on my first day, come to the mansion multiple times a day throughout the week I spied.
They would always come glaring at each other with a masked man reading a tiny orange book (that interested me a lot, me being a bookworm & all) and a PINK haired girl. The first day I thought it was my misunderstanding, but when I saw her many times I realised her hair were really pink and it wasn't that she was the only mutant; through the week I saw many other people with colourful hairs, eyes and dresses. The result of all this being, me going into self-conscious depression realising how boring I was in my 'all-shades-of-brown' glory when compared to this colourful world. Another negative feeling added to my ever increasing list of self-pity.
I would have decayed there on the balcony, sulking why I wasn't as colorful as the people here, or why I didn't had my own world like these people; had Lord Hokage not saved me with a hell lot of astounding news.
It was the first day of my second week there; I was sitting in my 'hidden corner' looking at two green coloured beings with pudding cut hair followed by two girls, one looking certainly blind. While I was busy being sad for her and another blind girl I saw last week, for leading the life of a ninja; the said girl suddenly turned and looked straight at me with those white eyes, making my heart forget how to beat and my mouth to leak out a squeal as I jumped up and ran inside.
As I was sitting on my bed calming my racing heart I realised two things; one, that person was not blind at all and two, that person was in fact a boy; and a very-very-VERY good looking one indeed, because my heart didn't skip a beat due to fear out there! Almost half an hour later, I was lying on my bed thinking about that pale-eyed boy's look and wondering why the gaze of boys of this world had such an effect on me, when the door of my room brought in the familiar face of old man Hokage with an unfamiliar glint in his eyes.
"I've got news for you." He said, voice bubbling. I gave him a long questioning look on which he finally gave an impatient snort; like a five year old child who badly wants to tell you something, and murmured "You're no fun…" making me giggle, and then continued shaking his head and smiling "…I've finally found the person to teach you about our world, way of living and all the other major things you need to know to start a life here. More accurately he found me, as he was really interested to teach you."
"You see he recently let go one of his close students who was quite a 'special-case', and when he heard about me needing someone to teach you, another 'special-case' he couldn't stop himself. He would have started last week but I refused because he had the job of managing the graduation of his class... Umino Iruka is a Ninja Academy teacher in addition to being a shinobi of Konoha and as such already has a lot in his plate... so I hope you would try your best and will not make it hard for him, although I know you would not; you do not seem to be the troublemaker type. He is a nice person and I'm sure he will be the perfect teacher for you… So… what do you say?" he asked but I was way too much surprised to reply at once.
'There I was thinking that these people are planning to make me their in-house Rapunzel, I mean what else do people do to inter-universal aliens? But here the old man is telling me he was looking for someone to teach me to start a new life! I was so-so wrong, as wrong as the Nazi peace policy' I thought guiltily. "What I say? ... I'll never be able to repay you, never... Thank you so-so much. I'll... I'll love to learn about your world, I'll be a perfect student; no complaints and all. For all this that you are doing for me, no one would have done, I'll try my best to make your's and Umino-san's efforts worth it Hokage Sama!" I replied beaming confidently. I was becoming a lot confident on my decisions these days; some positive effect of starting life all over I guess.
"Well that's the answer I was looking for. It's good to see you are recovering and ready to accept changes; I've seen your nightmares have also lessened. You're really strong child, going through all that and coming out without any scar on your heart, it takes strength not many people have..." he said with a distant look in his eyes. "Now about your classes, Iruka will be teaching you every alternate evening from 5 to 8. Tomorrow he will be here at 11 in the morning to take you to buy the things he thinks are needed and also to buy you some cloths; size-less robes don't really suit you, you know. So be ready at the prescribed time, Iruka will fetch you from here… And yes, don't forget to try a Garigari-kun; it's a speciality of our Fire country and children's favourite also! Now allow me… there's this huge heap of paperwork waiting at my table calling out my name." Lord Hokage said huffing and smiling at the same time.
He then got up to leave, but stopped midway and asked turning back "By the way Ned, did men back in your world had long hairs?" "...Mmm in the olden times they used to have long hairs but now it was not so much in trend..." I trailed off on his weird question but then saw the glint in his eyes and suddenly realized! "H-h-how... you... t-that...?" "Hahahahaa… I was informed by a young shinobi half an hour ago, about a chakra-less girl sitting huddled in one of the balconies spying. And I was also requested by the same shinobi to enlighten the intruder about dangers of spying on a shinobi... and about men having long hairs; interesting isn't it?" Lord Hokage said smirking with that glint in his eyes; he guessed the exact misunderstandings that went by back then. After that he messed my hair and left, leaving me looking like a tomato on fire.
FLASHBACK
As the loud voices of two people talking reached Hokage's office, the old man sitting inside with the dignity of a leader of the most powerful Ninja Village of their world prepared himself for what was to come. Two green-clad beings entered the room making weird poses, followed by two kids. The elder green-being started reporting about the success of their mission proudly as the younger green-being shed tears of joy, the girl behind them smiled embarrassedly at her team members as the pale eyed boy beside her stood passively. The Hokage patiently went through the loud report, and then gave them another mission after some praise for their work. As the weird group began to retreat and the Hokage prepared himself to take a small sigh, something stopped everyone midway.
"Hokage sama" the pale eyed boy spoke inertly, in a smooth and refined voice. "Hmmmm..." the mentioned old man reacted. "I want to report about a spy I saw a few minutes ago while entering this building." The boy answered. The old Hokage looked at the Hyuuga prodigy with surprise; arms crossed, face emotionless and pale eyes holding pride, definitely a genius from a refined clan. He then nodded for the boy to continue. "It was a girl of around my age although smaller in size; brown-black hair, dark brown eyes, a strikingly dark complexion- even darker than the people of Kumo –and exceptionally unusual facial features wearing shabby brown robes. She was sitting huddled in one of the balconies of this mansion spying on people coming and leaving. Her physic and body language spoke that she wasn't a ninja but the way she was able to hide her chakra signature so well- as if not at all present –shows that she is a highly trained shinobi and a possible threat." The boy finished, pale eyes closed shut to remember every single detail of the potential danger.
A hearty chuckle came as reply and the boy snapped open his pupil-less eyes to look at its source. The Hokage smiled with amusement in his dark eyes as he replied to the young shinobi and his team "I see... you four were out of village for the mission that's why you don't know; although I'm surprised no one informed you about that 'happening' the moment you all entered the gates... The girl you saw Neji, is no spy but witness of a rather unfortunate catastrophe. Her name is Ned and she is the sole survivor of end of her Universe... Yes her universe ended and she is the only survivor, appearing suddenly in our world and falling from the sky right into our village... And about her not having any chakra signature; it is because of the fact that she doesn't have any chakra. As she doesn't hold any threat for our village I have decided to let her live in Konoha as a fellow citizen."
Silence, disbelief, astonishment and confusion filled the room; even the loud green-beings stood dumbfounded. Then the brown haired girl spoke up "So the word about someone falling out of the sky is true...? We heard some people talking about it on our way here... but thought it was some misunderstanding as the people talking were civilians but... How..." The girl trailed off in bewilderment. "Chakra is the source of life; it is present in every living being. If she is alive then how is it possible that she doesn't have chakra? That's impossible. But my Byakugan can't be wrong; I myself have seen her without any chakra." Put in the pale eyed boy; arguing with himself, his previous composer broken.
"No one in her world had chakra. When seen in the context that it was a different universe; life would have evolved differently there, lots of possibilities." The Hokage said and silence again surrounded as everyone began to ponder on the thought put forward, until the elder green clad being erupted "WHAT A YOUTHFUL DISCOVERY! WE WOULD NEVER HAVE KNOWN ABOUT THIS AMAZINGLY DIFFERENT WORLD IF THIS 'BLOSSOM IN A BUD' WOULDN'T HAVE FALLEN INTO THE COMPASSIONATE HANDS OF OUR LOVELY VILLAGE! ALTHOUGH THE SITUATIONS THAT LEAD TO THIS 'INTER-UNIVERSAL UNION' ARE QUITE SADDENING, BUT I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT THE GLORIOUS YOUTHFULNESS OF YOUR'S HOKAGE SAMA, TO GIVE HER REFUGE WILL SURELY BRING FRUIT WITH THE TENDER HELP OF US FELLOW VILLAGERS TO GET HER OUT OF THIS GLOOM TOWARDS A LIFE WHERE THE BUD WILL FINALLY BLOOM INTO A 'BLOSSOM OF YOUTHFULNESS'! I MYSELF WILL LOVE TO HELP HER PERSONALLY WITH MY FELLOW GENI-"
"N-no need… no need for this 'youthful' help of yours Gai…. I-I really appreciate it but I have already chosen Iruka to help her and teach her about this world; I would rather like you and your genin to do your regular missions. And I hope she will get out of her gloom soon enough as you said Gai." The Hokage cut in; afraid that letting the child meet Gai after going through the end of her world will probably wither the 'Bud' even before it blooms. "CERTAINLY HOKAGE SAMA…! JUST LIKE GAI-SENSEI SAID, IN THIS SPRING TIME OF YOUTH SHE WILL SURELY RECOVER AND BLOOM! AND WE WILL ALWAYS BE WILLING TO HELP YOU IN THIS WITH OUR YOUTHFUL EFFORTS HOKAGE SAMA!" the younger green-being added with tears running down his sparkling eyes.
"….MmmmHmmm…" the old Hokage nodded sweat-dropping and continued "Well, now I say you all go and take some rest to start your new mission tomorrow. And I hope I have eased your alarm on the enemy spy Neji, although I appreciate your instant report to me about your discovery, even if not of real threat." "Hai Hokage sama and thank you so much; although I regret causing a false alarm at the first place. I also want to request you, with all due respect to inform the girl about the fate of spying on shinobi… and… about men in our world having long hair." The Hyuuga prodigy finished with a bow and left the room in an interesting shade of pink; eyes closed and mind wandering towards the stranger somewhere in the building.
*** END ***
AN- Expect next update after 23rd August.
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