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I still haven't gotten the right answer to who Yuri's father is. It's not Pein/Pain. I've put a hint in this chapter.
chapter four
NoPoV
Once The Masaro family entered their home, Yuri was happily surprised. "SURPRISE!" All her friends threw her a welcome home/birthday party. She was hugged by Tenten and Hinata. Naruto hugged the three of us. Hinata blushed very dark. Kiba threw Naruto off of the girls while Shikamaru and Shino helped them up. Then they congratulated Yuri. "What do you want to do first? cake or presents?" Mom asked. Yuri's stomach answered for her. "Cake it is." Yori chuckled.
YuPoV
I blushed a little and Mom came walking in with a chocolate cake, with whipped cream and little pieces of chocolate. We all got a glass of lemonade with it. It was simply delicious. Then it was time for the presents. but first they started to sing. "Happy birthday dear Yuri, Happy birthday... to.. MOO!" Naruto sang. I laughed and dumped a little of the cake that was left on his face. his face was priceless.
Then it was time for presents. Naruto went first. He got me a stuffed tiger and a fox. I loved the idea and hugged him with a kiss on the cheek. "Thank you." He got a bit shy and rubbed his neck and went a little red. Tenten went next. First she hugged me and then she gave my first weapon-pouch with five kunai and five shuriken. I was really happy because now I could practice my aim too. I hugged her with a big smile. "Thanks Tenten." She smiled back and went back to her seat. Shino and Kiba gave me another present. A cd from some singer called Shakira. I like music quite a lot. so I thanked them the same way as I did with Naruto. Shikamaru promised me to teach chogi to me.
Kiba acted a little shy too, and Shino hid his blush in his high collar. Then it was Hinata's turn she stuttered a little congratulating me. I thanked her and she gave me a bracelet with a charm of a tiger on it and the kanji for friendship. I smiled at it and thanked her with a hug. "Now for your final present." Yori said. Mom and Dad congratulated me and kissed each gave me a rectangular box. I opened it and I squealed from surprise. It was a very beautiful dress. It was red with a golden tiger with black stripes. I changed into it in my room and mom helped me do my hair. I got black open shoes with it and when I returned to the party all the boys' jaws dropped. Even Shino's! "Well we should go to the restaurant."
During the walk, I saw Sasuke walking. I greeted him friendly. "Hello Sasuke, How are you?" He just looked at me and and walked away. I was confused. Kiba walked to me and whispered. "Sasuke's older brother, Itachi, killed the entire clan except for Sasuke. Rumors go that Itachi told Sauke to get stronger by hating him. ever since then Sasuke has been different." I looked after Sasuke. then I looked down deep in thought. When I looked up again, I ran after him. As soon as I caught up with him I hugged Sasuke from behind. I snuggled in his back. "I'm sorry Sasuke. If I can help you then tell me. Whatever it is." Then I ran away again.
Dinner was fun. It was an Italian menu because it's my birthday-party. First we had Tomato-soup. Naruto made it his job to cheer me up because I felt a little sad about Sasuke. During the main course, Spaghetti or pizza, a voice came from behind. "Can I join?" Before Naruto could protest, I gave him a death-glare. then I looked at mom and she nodded with a smile so "Of course you can join us Sasuke. Take a seat." I replied. Sasuke sat down, after congratulating me with my birthday, between Shino and Shikamaru. He got some Spaghetti. When we all finished the waiters who served us brought in a cake completely made of ice. It held seven birthday candles and they sang happy birthday, to me. Naruto and Kiba sang the last sentence the same as Naruto did when we came home. We had to laugh at the faces of the waiters. Even Sasuke showed the smallest of a smile.
I blew out the candles and a waiter called Haru, cut the ice-cake in pieces. I got the biggest piece. It tasted SO GOOOD! It was vanilla ice with a layer of strawberry ice on top and some whipped cream with a strawberry or a small piece of chocolate.
When we finished with dinner, I thanked everyone for coming and Tenten walked home with me because she would sleepover.
the next day...
The next day I woke up to a pillow in my face. I plucked it off of me and I threw it in the general direction of the door. "Wake up Yuri you're starting at the academy today." I jumped off of bed and rushed to dress myself. In fifteen minutes I was done and eating. Mom laughed at my enthusiasm. Tenten walked with me and we were right on time. Tenten sat next to a guy... or was it a girl. with pretty long hair I think it was Neji from the Hyuuga clan. I sat next to a boy who looked a little like Guy-sensei. He looked at me curiously. "Hello I'm Masaro Yuri. Who are you?" "I am Rock Lee Nice to meet you Yuri-san." before we could talk the teacher, Iruka-sensei walked in. "Good morning class, please sit down. I believe we have a new student today. Please stand up Azura Yuri." Many whispers were heard around me as I did.
"Please tell us a bit more about yourself." "Name is Azura Yuri, I am seven years old, Likes..My best friends, Naruto, Gaara and Tora who I want to show you all later. Dislikes, Bullies, liars and cheaters. My dream is to find out about my family and what happened to them." I sat down again. Iruka started the class reviewing what they did last week. Theory about chakra control and practicing on aiming. I already knew that so I had it a little easy. Lee told me he wanted to be a famous ninja using only taijutsu. I wished him good luck and that if he believed in it his dream would come true.
We would go outside now to practice two techniques. Transformation and clone techniques. I told Iruka that I hadn't learned the handsigns yet. He said that it was okay and that I would watch first then if I wanted that I could try it. He would tell Kakashi that I had to practice the hand signs and aiming with Kunai and Shuriken. Apparently Hokage-sama talked to him about me. First was Tenten. She changed into Iruka. Then her clone technique. I tried to follow the handsigns and suddenly I could see it very clearly, like I had eyes of an eagle or something. I focused and knew that the handsigns for the transformation technique were; Dog → Boar → Ram, and for the clone technique; Ram → Snake → Tiger. An eagle appeared on my shoulder. I decided to call it Swift. My classmates jumped away from me. Tenten asked me to show Tora too. I did and the kids jumped in the trees surrounding the grounds. Tora snuggled against me purring comfortingly because I felt sad knowing that my classmates would bully me. Suddenly I felt someone hug me. It was Tenten, and Lee hugged me from the other side. Then more classmates came and we had a group hug. Neji was the only one who didn't hug, but that was okay. I knew he wasn't a hugger
After the hug I tried the jutsu's and I could do the transformation jutsu pretty good for a first time but the clone jutsu went not that good. Iruka said I did pretty well for a first time. When school was over I had to go home then after I had something to drink I would meet again with Guy-sensei and Kakashi and do more training. "Today we will go over the hand-signs. As you know each one represents one of the twelve animals from the Chinese zodiac(?) The hand-signs are. Bird, Boar, Dog, Dragon, Ox, Tiger, Snake, Rat, Horse, Monkey Hare and Ram." Kakashi did each hand-sign slowly for me and I tried to copy it. When I did it wrong he would show me again. Mentally I went through them the whole time. Then I combined Dog, Boar and Ram and transformed into Kakashi. Then I did a silly dance, and transformed back. Guy-sensei laughed at that. I remembered I still had to talk to the Hokage about my dream. Kakashi faked an angry look. He decided that i could do that jutsu well enough and that we would practice walking on water for chakra control. Guy-sensei practiced aiming with Kunai with me. He showed me how to hold it and how to throw it. It was a hard training and after it I was tired.
I fell asleep on Tora's back. After ten minutes I was woken up and Kakashi and I entered the Kage Tower. I knocked and we went in. "Yuri, I've heard you had something to tell me?" "Yes Hokage-Sama. I had a strange dream and I think it was about how I got on the river." "What was it about then?" "Well...
'I was in a field. I saw a chase, between two ninja's one female and one male. The female looked a lot like me but with violet eyes. She was holding a basket. The man was wearing a black cloak with red clouds. The clouds had each a white rim. He had long black hair and snake like eyes. He yelled at the woman to give him the child she was holding. I went after them on Tora to take a look at the baby. I saw... me but then in baby-form. the woman must be Neith. She ran to a river and used a swan. She put the basket on the back of the swan and sent it away. It swam as fast as possible. The woman went to stop the man. She called all her other animals. horse, viper, panda, monkey, tiger, dragon, rat, rooster, and boar. It was a heavy and long fight. in the end the man gave up after killing four animals. and the woman was unconscious. The scene changed. the woman was in a hospital in Iwagakure. I sighed in relief when I saw she was still alive.
The scene changed in darkness. "Leader-sama, I failed the mission to obtain the child it is now in the Hidden Leaf village." "You are lucky that I need you Orochimaru, or else. ZETSU!" A plant like man came in. "Watch over the child, Orochimaru failed to get and make sure it is kept alive. I want to have it here in ten years." "Yes, leader-sama." the man left. The scene changed. I saw a pair of strange lavender eyes. "We will meet soon, Azura Yuri.' and that is what I dreamt about." Soon I felt like something was entering my mind. another dream? The lavender eyes and the plant man were talking. "Leader-Sama, the girl's bloodlimit has woken up and she has already two animals." "Does he know that he is her father?" "No and he isn't allowed to know for as long as possible." "But.." "No buts."
I 'woke up' and told the Hokage what I saw. He thought for a bit and said that I had to go home alone he needed to talk to Kakashi. I went home after I bowed again.
NoPoV
Sarutobi turned to Kakashi. "I'm afraid we will have to expect a visit from the Akatsuki pretty soon. It seems that they want Yuri, I'm not sure for what yet. I think her real father is part of that organization too. Apparently he doesn't know that he has a daughter. I think I'll let some ANBU guard her. You keep an eye on her too Kakashi." Kakashi nodded and he left in a poof of smoke. Sarutobi sighed "You can come out now Yuri. I know you're there." A poof of smoke and a poster changed into Yuri. "What is Akatsuki?" An organization consisting of missing-nin's from every hidden village. They are after the tailed-beasts, like the one in Naruto. Now, you should go home. Goodnight." "Goodnight, Hokage-Sama." Yuri left and she slept well that night.
Sorry that this one is shorter than usual but the next one will be three years later when Yuri first encounters the Akatsuki. If you can guess who her father is I'll send you a preview. Please review.
