Second Taile
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
Summary: It's hard to be a regular person when your father- the greatest ninja in the world- and the Kyuubi, the most powerful demon to ever walk the land, are sealed inside you. Not to mention you're also a hanyou.
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"Let's see… You've trained in Wave Country, Wind Country, Grass Country, Water Country, Thunder Country, Rain Country, Snow Country, Waterfall Country, even Earth Country. Those are a lot of countries, Natsuko… so then why do you still have two whiskers?" Jiraiya listed the countries off on his fingers and used the remaining finger to poke the hanyou.
"It's not my fault, Ji-sama, is it really this hard to become a jounin?" The blonde scowled and looked over the cliff. The sun was setting and the wet rocks glowed red. She would have said it was beautiful if Jiraiya hadn't previously pushed her off the cliff.
"It is training, Natsuko, do not doubt my teaching skills." Jiraiya said leading the twelve-year-old to the edge of a cliff.
Natsuko looked over the edge, "What am I supposed to do here?" She was about to turn around when all of a sudden Jiraiya's hand pushed her over.
"Survive," was the answer.
"Ji-sama, I hate you." Blue eyes widened as the walls of rock surrounded her. She couldn't hold on to the sides of the cliff, too wet; and those jagged rocks at the bottom weren't exactly comfortable.
Jiraiya looked down after his only female student. "I think I forgot something." He muttered to himself. "Cliff, water, rocks, near death experience… what am I forgetting? Oh yeah! I haven't given her the Gama contract… oh, damn."
"Divine Attack Air!" A gust of wind circled around her and lifted her next to the muttering old man. "Ji-sama! I'm going to hurt you so bad!"
Once Natsuko got rid of her anger and Jiraiya came out from his hiding spot they went over her training.
"Shippou-jii-sama sent a message last night. He says that I'm really close to my third whisker," Natsuko fingered the vacant spot on her cheek, "I just need one more push. And not a push off a cliff!"
"A message last night? Oh, through a fox?" Jiraiya asked; he was still unused to teaching Natsuko. She was female, she was a hanyou, and she still didn't know about the seal.
"Nope, dream. It's a kitsune thing." The half kitsune explained, "Anyways, he said maybe one powerful jutsu should do it. So… maybe you can teach me the Rasengan. Please?" Natsuko pleaded to her teacher. She had seen him use it once and immediately fell in love with it, but Jiraiya had refused to teach her since she was still at genin level.
"Well," Jiraiya turned his back on her and smirked as her pleading became more and more desperate, "I guess I could teach it to you." He faced her again and put on a serious face, "But you must promise to use it only on your enemies and only to protect your precious people. Promise?"
A serious Jiraiya is as common as a crying Tsunade… very rare; which means that this promise was very important to the Frog Hermit. "I promise Ji-sama. I will not let you down." Natsuko smiled at the old man to reassure him. "But if you ever push me off a cliff again you're not going to be one of my precious people anymore."
"A water balloon?" Natsuko looked at the object in her hand, how was this going to help her learn Rasengan?
"There are three steps for learning Rasengan; this will help you with the first step." Jiraiya explained; he also held a water balloon in his hand. "Using chakra, I want you to break the water balloon." As he said that the water balloon started to warp and finally popped; wetting both teacher and student.
"Okay!"
It took her 5 hours to finish the first step; 11 to figure out the second; and 18 to master the third. But due to traveling with Jiraiya, Natsuko was unable to do the Rasengan until after a week had passed.
"Ji-sama, Ji-sama! I finished it!" The twelve-year-old pulled on the long white ponytail.
"Let's see it then." The Frog Hermit turned to face the brightly dressed hanyou. It was strange, for the past few days while she was learning Rasengan she started to act differently. No longer was she a quiet, polite little girl; she had become louder, more energetic, and… annoying. Much like Naruto was.
"Rasengan!" A swirling blue sphere of chakra formed in Natsuko's hand. Then she rammed it into a wooden post, grinding a large crater until it finally broke. "See? I told you I could." Natsuko panted out before fainting to the floor.
As Jiraiya picked the sleeping girl off the ground he noticed a red stripe slowly forming on her cheek. "Three stripes, so she's past jounin level already." He muttered to himself, "Time for another meeting in Kitsune-Gakure."
"SHE HAS HER THIRD WHISKER. SHOULDN'T YOU BE ALL… ANNOYINGLY HAPPY AND… SUCH?"
"I guess I should be, but I don't know."
Two voices were conversing, rather loudly, about… her?
"WHAT? WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'I DON'T KNOW'? WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE GIRL WHO WE ARE SEALED IN, THE HANYOU GIRL, AND YOUR DAUGHTER! SHE IS FINALLY STRONG ENOUGH TO GO TO KONOHA… LIKE YOU WANTED HER TO."
"Yeah, but she still doesn't know about the seal. And I don't want her to be… to be…"
"HURT?"
"Tainted, corrupted by those damned villagers."
"OH YEAH, YOU'RE VERY CARING ABOUT YOUR ONE AND ONLY CHILD."
"Why does my head hurt? Why are you two talking so loud? Who are you?"
"Shut up, wait. I think she just said something… to us."
"NATSUKO, CAN YOU HEAR US?"
"How do you know my name? Why is it so dark in here, and why are my feet wet?"
"OH, YES, WE USUALLY LEAVE THE LIGHTS OFF… THERE IS NO USE FOR IT IF YOU ARE STUCK IN A CAGE."
Natsuko closed her eyes as a series of lights were turned on. When her eyes adjusted she saw that she was in a tunnel. As the lights at the end of the tunnel were lit she saw a large cage with a paper seal on the door. Inside the cage were two boys.
"Since when have we been brats, and since when have you been a human?"
"What are you two doing in a cage? And where are we?"
"IT'S BECAUSE NATSUKO IS THIS AGE. AND I'M NOT A HUMAN, I HAVE TAILS. SEE?"
"Stop ignoring me! Answer my questions!"
"NARUTO, EXPLAIN TO HER."
"Wait, you're Naruto? Naruto Uzumaki? As in my father, Naruto Uzumaki? What are you doing inside a cage?"
"Yes, yes, yes, and I will explain as soon as you stop asking questions!"
Natsuko quieted, she wanted an explanation.
"I am your father, Naruto Uzumaki. This is the Kyuubi no Kitsune. And we are inside you mind. And don't ask any questions until after the story.
When I was born some couple of years ago, Kyuubi here started to attack Konoha. In order to save that damned village, the Yondaime Hokage sealed Kyuubi into me. But I wish he hadn't so that Kyuubi would have killed all of those freaking damned villagers. Those bas-"
"I know that part."
"Well, anyways, when you were born your mother gave up her life for you. But since you're a hanyou my life also had to be sacrificed."
"AND SINCE THE IDIOT HAD NO IDEA WHAT HE WAS DOING HE ENDED UP SEALING THE BOTH OF US IN HERE."
"I'm not an idiot! But, yeah, that's pretty much it."
"Oh… well that's… nice."
"WE'LL TALK TO YOU AGAIN LATER, BUT NOW I THINK YOU'RE WAKING UP."
"She has her third stripe." Jiraiya stated. It was always so quiet during these meetings in Kitsune-Gakure. Shippou, Tsunade, and him were sitting around a table in Natsuko's room; the young girl asleep on her bed.
"She's allowed to go to Konoha now." Tsunade said in reply.
"She knows about the seal." Shippou said, surprising the two humans. "She's talking to them right now, in her head." He explained; it was a kitsune thing.
"And I'm awake." Natsuko added from the bed, surprising the sannin even more.
"You've met them, right?" The kitsune asked calmly, it just wouldn't do if he was surprised like a human.
"Yes, and for some reason I do not feel shocked. It does explain some things, though." She stared at the ceiling, ignoring the tears that fell. Tsunade and Jiraiya looked at her sadly; they were unable to help her.
"What things?" Tsunade asked, curious.
"Like how in my dreams I remember lives that weren't mine. And why all those people offered to train me but at the same time they feared me. Why Ichiyo-chan seemed to be just like me. Why sometimes I feel really energetic and other times I feel like I can do anything I want to. And, no matter how hard I looked I could never find my father in the Land of Spirits. It's because I'm the jinchuuriki for Otou-sama and Kyuubi-sama." She listed off; the tears were slowing down now.
"Are you okay now?" Jiraiya asked, turning his chair to face her.
"Yes, I just wanted a good cry before we start planning for Konoha."
"It has been a month since you have earned your third whisker; a month of planning and details. It is now time for you to become Kitsune-Gakure's only ninja. Natsuko, we give you the first ever Kitsune hitai-ate." Shippou stood on the same stage where baby Natsuko was presented to the village. Kneeling in front of the leader was the thirteen-year-old blonde, holding the forehead protector.
"I will wear it proudly." Natsuko tied it on, adjusting it to make it comfortable.
"Your first mission is to prepare for the Chuunin exams that will be held in Konoha-Gakure next month." Shippou shut his eyes as he heard the audience's murmurs. The princess would go to the cursed village? Why?
Natsuko merely nodded. It was her life's goal, to be the greatest ninja ever and to prove Konoha wrong. She had prepared for it all her life, so why was she nervous?
"These two hitai-ate are for your… teammates." These two did not seem to shine like Natsuko's did; but Natsuko's was special.
The hanyou nodded again. She took them and placed them in the pouch on her hip. Now, why were her hands shaking so much? The mystery of her hands made her forget her surroundings until a pair of arms wrapped around her. "Kurama?"
"If it gets too hard, I –no- all kitsunes are always here for you." He whispered in Natsuko's ear as he released her from the hug. When the ninja team was chosen Kurama had been sad that he wasn't in it.
"Thanks," She said back, finding her voice again, "but I have good teammates. And I'm not half bad myself." A smile almost made it onto her face but Jiraiya and Tsunade made their presence known.
"It's time to go now." Tsunade stated; she didn't want Natsuko to start regretting the decisions made.
"Right! Goodbye everybody, see you soon!" Hopefully… Natsuko waved farewell at all the kitsunes. They were family, even if she only saw them a month every year.
She kept waving when they left the village, and wouldn't stop waving until it was out of sight. Leaving Kitsune. On to Konoha.
"That is Konoha." A blonde kunoichi stood on the top of a hill, staring at the village below. Navy blue ninja pants, a yellow shirt, and a small orange jacket; her choice of clothing.
The girl's two teammates stood behind her. Both of them male; one with red hair and the other with yellow.
"Yeah." The blonde boy said. His hair spiked up, the edges slowly becoming orange. Blue eyes were hidden by orange bangs. Orange pants, blue shirt, and an orange jacket screamed out 'Notice me'.
"Shall we get going then?" The only redhead of the team said. He had unusual yellow eyes with slits for pupils. He was wearing black ninja pants, a red shirt, and a black ninja vest; the darkest outfit out of the three of them.
"Okay," Natsuko took a deep breath and turned to face the boys, "Let's go Tou-sama, Kyuu-sama."
Naruto Words:
Gama- Frog
Yondaime- The fourth leader/Kage of a ninja village
Rasengan- A jutsu used by Jiraiya, Naruto, and the Yondaime Hokage. Literally means "Spiraling Sphere".
A/N: What have I done? I don't know… this chapter is full of confusing stuff (I think… it should be) that will be explained in the rest of the story.
Next Chapter: Natsuko sees Konoha for the first time and she meets genin that are her age! What's this? Sasuke-teme has a son?
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