Ok guys, it me. Chaos star951, and I decided to show some mercy and not have all those same paragraphs at the beginning of each chapter. Cause, hopefully, everyone's got the point by now. But I still might put them back in, we'll see how the next couple chapters go without it.

The rating will be T to M (for teens, older teens, and everyone above that) because of some violence, adult situations, maybe mild language, sexual innuendo, and jokes made at someone else's (mostly Sasuke) expense. PS I don't own Naruto, but I do own all my OCs, plus their backstories and abilities.

By the way, this is supposed entertain the viewing audience. So its okay to laugh at parts, and always remember: Read and REVIEW.

"People's Talking"

'People's Thoughts'

Mayhem, Chaos, Romance: Chapter Four

Romance starts to blossom

and the last of the Ashuras

The pair had been walking for several hours, and fortunately for the blonde his traveling companion didn't have to take a break every ten minutes. The boy and girl had talked almost nonstop during this, each seemed fascinated by the stories from the others' lives.

"So you can really walk on water?!" Koneko asked excitedly.

"Of course. It took awhile to get the hang of it. But now its pretty easy."

"Can you show me sometime?"

"Sure. I think there's a lake in between here and my home. Its probably another day from now though. Man, I bet baa-chan's going to be really ticked at me for being late getting back from my mission."

"Sorry that the village held you up for a day and a half." She said sincerely, but sounded a little depressed in saying the village and not her village. Looked like she was still upset about being banished.

"Its not your fault. They don't allow men in their territory, its just a law there."

"Yeah." She responded somewhat dejectedly.

The blonde looked back at her. He didn't know how to cheer her up at all.

"Hey, Naruto?"

"Yeah?"

"Are you sure its okay for me to go with you back to your village?" She asked quietly.

"Of course. Konoha is a great place to live. There's lots of things to do and see, and just as many people to talk to." He responded enthusiastically, trying to raise the redhead female's spirits.

Koneko was quiet for a moment. The blonde thought for a moment that perhaps he had unintentionally reminded the girl of her former home.

"Are there other men there?"

"Huh?"

"Are there other men in your village?"

"There's tons of them." He noticed that her body gave a involuntary jerk at this statement. "But there are just as many women as well. Infact, the Hokage, our village's leader, is a woman."

"Really?" She sounded very surprised that men and women lived together. She had been told that men were selfish, monsterous beasts that were only motivated by their own basic desires. Living together just didn't seem natural at all. But then, Naruto didn't fit the description that she was led to believe either.

When she saw him leaving the village, she wanted to ask why he defended her without hesitation but something about him made her feel kind of nervous and being directly in his presence made it worse. It was like hundreds of butterflies fluttering around in her stomach.

Because she couldn't ask him, she opted to find out for herself. And what better way than to visit his home? Hopefully she would discover why she felt this way around him.

"Can you tell me about her?"

"Who? Baa-chan?"

"No, I mean your leader. This Hokage you spoke of. What's she like?" Obviously believing that he had started talking about someone else while she was thinking to herself.

Naruto chuckled a bit, earning a confused reaction from the amazon girl.

"Baa-chan is my nickname for her. Her name is Tsunade and she's the strongest kunoichi I've ever met. Her techniques of healing and strength are completely unbelievable. She's in her mid-fifties but uses her abilities to appear in her twenties. She also is rather fond of gambling and sake. Despite some of her bad habits, I've seen her smash boulders with little effort."

"And she's the leader of Konoha?"

"Yep. Baa-chan also trained one of my teammates, Sakura-chan. Learning from the Hokage, Sakura-chan became dramatically stronger. I'd always known she had a ton of potential but she was distracted. However, once she got serious about getting stronger and now she can use many of baa-chans techniques." The young man had a small smile on his face as he described the girl. This did not go unnoticed by his companion.

"Is this Sakura special to you?" Koneko asked.

"Yeah, she's probably my closest friend. She's the one who usually tends to my injuries. She's always been the smartest in our group. However before Tsunade baa-chan's training, she just followed around some emo who had hair that looked like he'd gone through shock therapy. That bugged me because I had a crush on her ever since the academy and she never really paid me much attention."

"What's a crush?"

"A crush is when you really like a person."

It felt like her chest tightened at his answer. "Do you still like her that way?"

Koneko didn't even know why she asked. Maybe it was just the more curious part of her nature, or perhaps it was something else in her.

"Not really. There was a time when I thought I would always feel that way about her, but she's never shown that much interest in me. So, I decided it would be best to just remain friends." He said in a somewhat solemn tone.

"Are you okay with that?"

"Yeah, I am."

Suddenly both of them sensed another presence nearby. Some bushes rustled not too far away from them. Naruto reached behind, getting ready to draw the kunai he had hidden in his sleeve. Koneko took a defensive stance, preparing to defend against an attack should the intruder be hostile.

A young man who looked to be in his low-twenties emerged from the bushes before the two. He had dark red hair which obscured the right half of his face and was dressed in normal shinobi sandals, black colored pants, and a midnight blue shirt with an open white jacket on top of the shirt.

He looked them over suspiciously for a moment. Then he raised his hands infront of his torso in a manner that said he didn't mean any harm.

"Sorry about this sudden confrontation, but I sensed a couple presences in this direction. So I came to see if it was some bandits looking for trouble. My mistake."

He seemed to be sincere, so the blonde placed his arm back at his side. The redhaired amazon still remained in her fighting stance, obviously still unsure of this stranger's intentions.

"You see my camp is not to far from here and I was just making sure that the area was safe."

"I understand." Naruto replied. "I'm a ninja of Konoha so I know all about surviving in the forest."

"I see. So that headband isn't just for show, guess my instincts were wrong. At first I didn't think too much of you, since you look like such a spaz." The redhaired young man replied in a condescending voice.

"Hey, I'm not a spaz! I'm Naruto Uzumaki, the next Hokage!"

"I'm Koji. Koji Ashura. I'm just a wanderer, traveling from place to place."

"What for?"

"Its not really any of your business. One would think that since you're a shinobi, you'd understand the importance of secrets."

"Are you mocking me?!"

"Not really. Just saying that you don't look like much of a ninja."

This guy was really pushing the blonde's buttons. Who was he to judge him? He would have retorted but some else spoke up before him.

"Naruto's a great ninja." Both Koji and Naruto looked over at Koneko, who had been silent until now. "He's able to walk on water and he managed to defeate me in battle."

Koji glanced her over one more time. "That hardly seems impressive." Turning to the blonde. "And if you're proud about beating up a little girl then that's rather sad, but then I'd heard ninja's don't always have morals."

"Shut up!" In the blink of an eye the foxlike ninja had thrown a punch right at the redhaired young man. However the blow was blocked by his palm. The instant they clashed a strange bolt of energy shot through their arms, causing both of them to jump apart from each other and glare back at one another.

The amazon looked from Naruto to Koji wearing a very confused expression. Why had they both reacted so strong after just one clash?

The young man stood across from Naruto in the middle of the clearing. "You're a jinchuuriki, aren't you?" Naruto's eyes widened, how did he know?

'Jinchuuriki?' Koneko wondered. She glanced back at her blonde companion, he looked very unnerved for some reason.

"Who would have guessed there'd be one all the way out here? I guess that means you need to be eliminated. The bijuu are too dangerous and unstable to be allowed to exist."

What?! Eliminate? Naruto? Jinchuuriki? Bijuu? What was going on?! The air around the two boys was charged full of hostility, but why? It must have something to do with what they were talking about, but she hadn't heard of anything like that.

"Hope you've enjoyed your life, Cause I'm about to put an end to it!" With that Koji stepped forward to dash towards the blonde, when he froze all of a sudden. What was that he'd just sensed? Surely, it couldn't be...

"KOJI!" A loud cry was heard from deeper in the forest behind Naruto. Something was coming this way. And at an incredible speed. He and the amazon turned back to see what in the world was headed here. Both the blonde and the amazon stared at Koji who looked half-panicked at this point.

Before any of them had time to react a blur shot out of the brush. Launching itself at the Ashura, it yelled again.

"KOJI!"

Crashing head on with him, the blur sent both it and its target flying back, creating a long skid mark of unearthed dirt along the forest floor.

"..."

"..."

Neither the shinobi nor the amazon had a clue what had just happened or what that was. So they stealthily followed the skid mark to find...

A young woman with long dirty blonde hair dressed in white capris, sandals, and low-cut pinkish colored shirt kneeling on Koji's chest.

"Koji what are you doing out here?! You said you'd wait at the campsite for me! And here I find you making trouble with some travelling couple who happens to be passing by!"

Naruto couldn't help but blush at the 'couple' comment. Koneko noticed this and wondered what was wrong. The blonde had a similar to this when he first saw her.

Koji spoke to the girl on top of him. "That wasn't neccessary, you know. And I was not causing trouble, I went to see whose presence's I detected."

"Then why were you starting a fight with that boy?" The girl demanded shaking the young man beneath her by his collar.

"He's a jinchuuriki."

When he said that the girl dropped him and stood up. She glanced over to Naruto and walked towards him with an unreadable expression.

She now stood right infront of him staring at him closely. Nervous droplets of sweat dripped down the shinobi's neck, it usually wasn't a good reaction when someone found out about his 'inner demon.'

"So you're a jinchuuriki." She seemed to be in deep thought for a moment. Then suddenly she turned around and strutted back over to Koji.

"You're so naive Koji." And without another word, she kicked him in the side earning a sharp grunt of pain from him.

Turning back to the other two she bowed her head politely. "I apologize for his rash behavior. He tends to overreact to things."

"I do not!" He groaned as he got up to his feet holding his now aching side. "Damn you're violent sometimes."

"Oh lighten up, its not like I hit you that hard."

"Says the one who didn't get kicked in the ribs." He muttered back at her.

"Ignoring that," the young woman said, now sporting an angered tick mark at his previous comment, "Its obvious this boy is harmless to us. I can't sense any maliciousness emanating from him at all. Not even a trace of demonic aura, so relax!"

Koji was silent for a couple minutes before letting out an aggravated sigh.

"Fine. I can't believe I let you talk me into anything you want."

"Oh, thats because you're so easily swayed by my feminine wiles." she replied looking away as she covered her cheeks with her hands in a very shy-like manner. "Its truly a curse to be this beautiful."

Naruto had to admit it, she had some rather dazzling features. Gorgeous violet pools acted as her eyes with luscious ruby red lips that all complimented her angelic face. She stood around five foot, seven inches (Around 170 cm) tall and had curves that would make any man turn to look at her and drove women mad with jealousy. If his perverted master was here now, he would no doubt be taking notes and attempting to flirt with this beauty.

A scoff interrupted the ninja's thoughts. He glanced in the direction that it came from as did this girl who appeared out of nowhere.

"You really let what everyone tells you go to your head. It amazes me how vain you can be at times." Koji stated, ignoring her obviously irritated demeanor. Without any warning she fired her fist straight into the Ashura's jaw, sending him hurtling deeper into the forest.

"Well, I feel better." She replied before turning to Naruto and Koneko. "Sorry about him, he has a tendecy to be extremely stubborn and doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut. Anyways, we weren't properly introduced earlier. I'm Takara, and you two are?"

"Naruto Uzumaki." The replied in a surprised yet fearful like tone of voice. He hadn't seen such ruthless violence in a woman since he last made Sakura mad.

"I'm Koneko, an Amazon." She seemed more at ease being around another woman and didn't appear fazed at the previous display of violence. But then again coming from an entire village of women warriors that probably wouldn't be too different than what she was used to from back home Naruto thought.

"Well its a pleasure to meet both of you. Since Koji started this mess, I'd like to invite you both back to our campsite for dinner. After all its going to get dark out soon."

As if on cue, the fox like ninja's stomach gurgled loudly like some carnivorous beast.

"I'll take that as your acceptence to my offer." Said Takara chuckling a bit. Grabbing both the blonde and the redhead by their wrists she dragged them to a larger clearing which served as the campsite mentioned earlier.

As dinner was cooking above the fire, Koji arrived at the clearing. He was about to object at seeing the two guests but Takara shot him a nasty glare so he just sighed and slumped down infront of the fire.

Naruto was sitting nearby. 'Are these two married or what? I can't tell at all, but they don't seem to get along, yet they travel together.Why?'

Koji grumbling something broke the blonde out of his reverie.

"What?"

"I said, sorry." He repeated clearly showing his reluctance to do so.

"Its okay, I know that lots of people dislike the bijuu."

"What are the bijuu?" Koneko asked out of nowhere. The two males glanced over to her, both obviously forgetting that the redhaired girl was sitting along side them the whole time.

"Uh...well, the bijuu are" began Naruto nervously.

"Demons." Koji inserted. "The Bijuu are powerful demons that possess incredible powers. No one is sure where they came from exactly, but everyone knows how dangerous they are."

"Then what about jinchuuriki? You called Naruto that earlier. What is it?" Koneko asked with a twinge of worry in her voice.

"Food's done." Called Takara cheerfully as walked over to them. Taking a look around at them she asked, "Hey what's going on over here? You all look kind of gloomy."

"A jinchuuriki is" Koji started. Naruto, panicked, quickly asked a question to change the subject at least for the moment. He would explain later but he didn't want an audience as he did.

"Hey Koji, what is your relationship to Takara?!" Damn it,that stupid habit of blurting out whatever crossed his mind had appeared again.

Koneko glanced over at her companion, why was he avoiding the subject. He knew she would wonder why so he just whispered, "I'll explain it later." to her. Koji seemed to drop the matter and just resumed to answer the blonde's question.

"Well actually Takara is my"

"Lover." Replied Takara.

Koji's face turned almost as red as his crimson locks at that comment. He turned to her, practically livid at her response. "Don't tell them that! You know that's not funny, Takara. You know that you can't make jokes like that, especially around people who will believe it."

"You're so uptight, Koji." She said feigning hurt at him snapping at her.

"Takara is my older sister. We are the last of the Ashura clan."

Neither the amazon or the shinobi seem to recognize that name. Koji sighed again. "The Ashura's were just a small clan of people with the ability to slay demons. We came from a small impoverished territory."

"I've always wanted to see the world so I dragged Koji all over several of the elemental countries. Its been fun even if he's a stick in the mud."

"At least I'm not obscenely flamboyant in every town we visit."

"Oh you're no fun."

Dinner was eaten while each told stories, well most of them. Takara was right, Koji was a cold fish. After they had finished Takara invited Koneko and Naruto to use a couple of spare tents they had since as the saying goes, there's safety in numbers.

So here they were, Koneko sitting there waiting for an explanation from earlier. Naruto looked so nervous that he could be sick at any moment.

"Naruto? Is something wrong?" She could see that this was clearly upsetting the blonde. Part of her didn't want to force him to tell her something he didn't want to, but she had to know. What was his secret?

"Its nothing."He lied. He paused a moment before taking a deep breath to try and calm his nerves.

He said something so quiet that she couldn't hear it.

"What did you say?"

"Its a human sacrifice."

That didn't sound to good at all. The amazon couldn't find her voice to respond so she waited for Naruto to continue which he did.

"A jinchuuriki is a human sacrifice. They're called that because it sacrifices a person in an attempt to seal away a bijuu. Like Koji said earlier, bijuu are practically demons, both in power and by nature. Back in Konoha about sixteen years ago, a bijuu with nine tails attacked. I was chosen as an infant to be the container for a beast that slaughtered many people."

There, he said it. Now all he had to do was wait for her reaction. This was always the worst part of revealing his secret.

The redhaired girl hadn't moved a muscle. Her look of shock remained frozen to her face as she let all this new information sink in. It couldn't be...Naruto had a demon inside his body? But demons were dark, evil creatures who ravaged the lands and devoured people. And Naruto was kind and generous. It didn't fit together at all. Her thoughts were a muddled cloud of all these thoughts.

Naruto could tell she needed some time so he stood up to leave. "I'll leave you alone for awhile." As he turned to get out of the tent he felt someone grab the back of his shirt. He spun around to see her arm extended and clinging to him.

Koneko hadn't even realized she did it. Nor did she know what possessed her to do it. But, she finally came to a conclusion.

"I don't think you're a monster." She said firmly. The blonde just looked at her with eyes that just expressed an unending happiness.

"All my life, I was told that men were evil creatures. But you're different. It doesn't matter if there's a demon in you. You are only Naruto to me. No dark beast will change that."

The next thing she knew Naruto had wrapped his arms around. It was a strange feeling indeed. She never even considered embracing anyone else that wasn't from her home village, yet here, a man no less, had his arms around her. It made her feel warm...safe...happy...

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Chaos: Well, that was a lot of drama, don't you think? Don't expect that in all my chapters cause this story is meant to entertain you, the audience, and me, the author. There will be drama throughout this story but hopefully not every chapter. I want this to be a fun story.

Chaos: Any ways there's no preview except for the title.

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