Chapter 4 History
"You look like your mom?" asked Sakura as Adria nodded her head with a smile.
"Ya….people say I look like her and judging from the image I have seen of my older brother in the files he looks like my dad when he was a human." added Adria before looking at Sakura "Can you tell me about him."
"You want to know about Naruto?" asked Sakura
"Please you're his teammate." said Adria with a sad look on her face "The files my parents and I stole to look at aren't that detail apart from chakra strength and other battle history, on top of that they stop us from looking at the files three years ago. They said my love of the human world was bad and my parents need to accept being demons."
"What do you want to know?" asked Sakura
"Everything what is he like, his likes, his dislikes, his friends, how the village looks at him." said Adria in a hyperactive voice that reminded Sakura so much of Naruto when he was excited "Does he have many friends, a girlfriend or does he have a wife?"
Sakura was stunned for a moment as she forced the thought of Naruto with another girl out of her mind.
"Actually your brother had a huge childhood crush on forehead here." said Ino as she looked at Sakura. "What did he always say when we were in school I will become the Hokage and win your heart Sakura-chan.'
"Really are you and my brother an item?" asked Adria
"No…no.' said Sakura with a blush.
"Please Sakura admit it you may have not liked Naruto as a kid but that blonde fox won your heart." said Ino
"Blonde Fox?" asked Adria
"It is a Naruto's nickname since he mastered the Kyuubi's chakra." explained Sakura "But I guess that is a lie."
"In a way, the Kyuubi ranked fox inside my brother is letting himself be somewhat controlled to see if he can master the demon chakra." said Adria "Makes him more valuable once they turn him into a fox."
"Wait you know he is going to become a fox in this plan of their?" asked Ino as Adria nodded her head.
"Certain people have already been preselected not only to be taken but what they are to become." said Adria "More than likely they already have a chakra bomb inside Naruto's body.'
"Chakra bomb?" asked Sakura
"It's a nickname for how they plan to turn certain people." explained Adria "All it is a some of the transforming agent which has been mixed with demon chakra of the race they are to become in it. Once it breaks the transformation begins. It allowed different races to have their first picks already selected so another race doesn't steal all the good picks."
"Can you see if we have it in us?" asked Sakura
"I can." answered Adria 'They like to put it in the palm of the right hand."
"Alright." answered Sakura as she and Ino put their right hands out with palms up. A thin amount of red chakra covered Adria's hand as she guided the hand over the older woman's hand. Sakura's and Ino's eyes widened as a small pill sized object began glowing in the palm of Sakura's hand. Ino's hand was clean.
"Looks like Sakura have already been preselected but not reassigned." stated Adria
"How can you tell?" asked Ino
'If you were selected by a race then it would be glowing different colors based on the demon chakra sealed within." explained Adria "Demon foxes have different chakra color then a demon snake or lion."
"I see." said Sakura as she looked at the item buried deep under her very skin without her even knowing.
"Now can you tell me about my older brother?" asked Adria
"Alright." said Sakura as she tried to remember what all the questions "His favorite food is Ramen noodles with pork.'
"That is my mom and mine favorite, well I am a fan of the fish and mom likes chicken but still." said Adria with a smile as she looked toward Sakura for more information.
"He hates vegetables most of all carrots." said Sakura
"I have to admit I am not a fan of them but I like a good salad every once in a while." said Adria "Does he have a lot of friends? I read in the files that he normally goes on missions with a group you call the rookie 12 plus someone named Sai and a sand ninja named Temari.'
"Yes they are all Naruto's friends." answered Sakura "Well apart from Sasuke Uchiha."
"Him." said Adria "That guy is a cold jerk."
"How could you know that?" asked Ino
"Because I meet him last week." answered Adria as Ino and Sakura's eyes widened.
"That is impossible." said Sakura "I killed him just before he tried killed Naruto-kun."
"So you don't like Naruto but yet you add kun to his name?" laughed Ino
"That doesn't matter right now, Sasuke is dead." said Sakura
"No he isn't." stated Adria
"That is impossible I saw Sasuke's head roll off, I held the sword." stated Sakura
'A simple time stop justu allows them up to two minutes to replace the Sasuke you where about to kill with a clone. That is how they do it, to humans it seems that the people are dead but in reality it was clone." explained Adria, slowly Sakura lowered her head as she tried to process the information, Sasuke the man she had killed wasn't dead.
"So Sasuke is a demon fox?" asked Ino
"No, Sasuke would never fit in as a demon fox." stated Adria "He is a demon snake."
"Fits." said Ino
"Sasuke Uchiha is still alive." stated Sakura again trying to process the information.
"Why does that matter?" asked Adria
"Forehead had a crush on Sasuke." explained Ino as Adria raised an eyebrow.
"I don't like him anymore…it was just a stupid kid thing." stated Sakura
"You better hope that the demon councils see that." said Adria
"Demon council?" asked Ino
"It is the council which is going to select what race people are going to become." explained Adria "Sasuke was preselected and pre assigned meaning they want him to breed so will give him a mate."
"You mean me?" asked Sakura as her skin crawled at the idea of Sasuke touching her.
"Maybe…or someone else." said Adria "Depends on different things, what traits you have and how it would be use full to any offspring. That is one of the reasons I hate there plan. Force matting, breaking apart of families and marriages. Friends become enemies, so on and so forth."
"Wait a second how could you meet Sasuke, he is a snake and you're a fox wouldn't you too be enemies?" asked Sakura
"No…." said Adria "They are our closest friendly nation."
"Snakes and Foxes Allies?" asked Sakura "But they are such different animals."
"True however the snakes and the foxes both had to go though wars of independence from the original families. They share a similar history to us, so they are our allies." explained Adria "In fact the nation that really hates the foxes is the wolves, they think they should still be ruling over us."
"I see." said Sakura
"So the village do they like my brother?" asked Adria as Ino and Sakura look at each other for a moment.
"Adria I am going to be honest with you, while your brother is seen as a hero by the village now it wasn't always like that." said Sakura as Adria raised an eyebrow
"What? My dad said his last orders he gave before the demons took him was that Naruto was to be treated as a hero." said Adria
"Well that didn't happen." explained Sakura "They saw him as the demon Kyuubi and…"
"He was mistreated." said Ino
"Mistreated?" growled Adria as her eyes became silted and two sharpened fangs poked out of her mouth.
"Listen….the villagers know they made a mistake." said Ino
"Mistake isn't what I would call what they did to Naruto….I can't forgive myself for making fun of him when I was a kid and I wasn't you fucking idiots who chased Naruto in the street and beat him up." Said Sakura as Adria's eyes widened.
"They did what to my bother?" asked Adria
"Listen that is all in the past." said Ino 'And most of the village didn't do that."
"They just socially isolated him." added Sakura as she looked down "Sadly I was part of that group."
"All of Naruto's friends now where part of that group at one time or another." explained Ino "We were just stupid kids following what our parents told us to do."
Adria closed her eyes as the fangs disappeared and when she opened her eyes they where back to their normal blue.
"Is there anything else the villagers did to my brother?" asked Adria
"Well for the longest time they kept breaking into his apartment and trashing it." Said Sakura as Ino and Adria looked at her.
"How do you know that Sakura?" asked Ino "I don't remember him ever saying that?"
'I saw it firsthand." said Sakura
Flashback
"Why do we have to go pick up Naruto, sensei if he is late for training then it is his own fault." said the 12 year old Sakura Haruno as she walked along side her sensei Kakashi Hatake and her love Sasuke Uchiha.
"Because we are a team." answered Kakashi as they passed by another genin team who was busy with their mission, setting up the stands for the massive street party celebrating the defeat of the Kyuubi by the 4th Hokage which was only two days away. The three of them walked down one of the side roads into the poorer area of the leaf. Here the buildings where older and a little bit rundown.
"Why would anyone want to live here." said Sakura in her naivety as they started up the stairs passing a broken beer bottle. Finally they reached Naruto's door only to find the door with a huge foot print on it with the lock clearly broken.
Instantly Kakashi was on guard as they entered the room. Sakura's eyes widened as they found a dozen Narutos dressed in a dirty white shirt with orange pants trying to clean up a huge mess. The old couch was ripped in half; the coffee table was smashed to bits. The carpets where ripped up and in the kitchen the fridge was on its side and the cupboards where ripped down from the walls. Broken plates and destroyed cooking utensils covered the ground. The only food that could be seen was ramen noodle packets. All over the walls spray painted in bright red was the word Demon child and Die. Also on the walls where a dark brown substance that Sakura didn't want to hazarded a guess.
"Naruto." said Kakashi as the clones turned to look at them. Each clone had a different cleaning item in their hands as they tried to clean up.
"What are you guys doing here?" asked Naruto
"You are late for training dead last….even Kakashi beat you." said Sasuke coldly.
"Sorry….I didn't know the time they took my watch on top of my clocks." answered Naruto
"What happened here?" asked Sakura as Naruto tried to find a way to explain why this was happening to him without telling them of the Kyuubi
"Looks like burglar." answered Kakashi as he looked at Naruto with reassurement in his one visible eyes.
"A burglar?" asked Sakura
"Yes, instead of training we are going to help a teammate." said Kakashi as he picked up a sponge form the sink.
"No it isn't needed; I can take care of it." said Naruto
"No teammates never leave each other behind and they help each other." said Kakashi
End Flashback
'I didn't understand at the time but they were trying to get Naruto-kun to leave the village." explained Sakura "I was a baka for not seeing it before."
"So my brother was mistreated by the villagers and his friends." growled Adria
"Well his friends came around long before the villagers but after they saw him as the hero he is after he beat Pain.' said Ino "He is expected to be the next Hokage."
"Doesn't make up for what we did, to Naruto." said Sakura 'Nothing will."
Meanwhile far away from the leaf Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze sneezed for the fourth time in less than ten minutes.
"Are you feeling ok Naruto?" asked the main aid to the Hokage Shizune as the medical ninja looked toward the leader of the mission.
"Ya…I don't know what is going on?" said the 19 almost 20 years old Naruto as he looked around as the five of them walked down the road. Apart from Shizune there was his male teammate Sai, his former sensei Kakashi Hatake and lastly the elder Koharu Utatane with her granddaughter turned aid. They had hoped to be in the lightening country by now but Koharu could only go so fast on her almost 80 year old legs and flooding along the river had washed out the main bridge forcing them to take the long route. They had sent a message to lightening explaining their delay and pushing back their trade meeting.
"Ino told me once that whenever someone sneezes someone is talking about them.' Stated Sai as Naruto rolled his blue eyes.
"Or maybe just maybe I am coming down with a cold." laughed Naruto
"Cold and flu season is just around the corner." explained Shizune
"Naruto." stated Kakashi as he looked toward one of the nearby trees to see one of the leaf village's message hawks. "It's Tobias."
"Tobias?" Koharu's granddaughter.
'It's the name of the fastest message hawk we have. He once flew all the way to the Sand and back in a single day." answered Naruto as he held up his hand as Tobias swopped down and landed on his arm. The hawk seamed tried as he held out his leg allowing Naruto to take the message off before handing Tobias to Sai who pulled out a hunk of meet and some water for the hungry bird of prey.
"What is it?' asked Shizune
"I am to report back to the leaf at once." said Naruto
"Is something wrong?" asked Shizune
"Doesn't say.' explained Naruto "Just that I am to report to the Leaf at once and with all possible speed."
"Nothing more?" asked Koharu
'No.' answered Naruto as he handed the message over to the elder council member. "Just report back at once."
"What could it be?" asked Koharu's granddaughter "Could something have happened to the village?"
"Probably just an S level mission I have to take on at once." stated Naruto with a smile "Trust me if something bad had happened they would have ordered everyone of us back not just me."
"Alright Naruto, lets head back." Stated Sai
"No." said Naruto as he looked at his friend "Without me your are in charge of getting these people to the meeting and back.'
"I can take care of that Naruto. I this may be my first mission back from the war but Shizune and I can handle a simple guard mission." stated Kakashi as Naruto nodded his head.
"Alright but I still want Sai along with you." said Naruto "In the last message the Raikage said he was sending a team to meet us correct?"
"Correct." stated Sai "About an hour up the road."
"So once you meet up with them Sai can meet up with me on the way back to the leaf." Added Naruto
"That would leave you alone in the field Naruto." stated Kakashi 'I thought I taught you, never go into the field alone."
"True but sometimes it has to be done." said Naruto "Besides Sai is faster than any of us on those inc birds so he get meet up with me in what twenty minutes after he leaves you."
"Likely less than ten." corrected Sai
"See….and I will be in radio range most of that time." said Naruto "And who would really want to fight me."
'Alright just be careful.' said Kakashi
"Don't worry." said Naruto with a smile as he started running toward the Leaf.
Well I hope you liked this chapter. Yes Sasuke is alive. Did you think that Minato and Kushina where the only people that the demons saved and turned? Some of the people who are dead in the regular series are alive in this story but not all. Only people the demon races felt they wanted and could be turned where taken. Now I would like to thank everyone who reviewed and I ask that you keep on reading and reviewing. Also since my next planed update is on Friday Happy early Thanksgiving.