Ino: Hey guys! It's me, Ino! Well... If you guys wondering why I'm the first one to speak and not A-N, it's because... He's...
(Playing Super Smash Bros Brawl) Damn you, players! I don't understand why can't I beat those guys down! I'm using damn Falco now!
Ino: He's playing SSBB. He's in a Wifi battle against other players. But each time he's playing online, he always lost.
Arrgh! Dammit! I want that damn Smash Ball! Why did Bowser had to take it?!
Ino: I tried to tell him that he'll never win un this until he improves a little. But he just won't listen.
Oh man! That is not good! Ike just used Dragoon on me!
Ino: Anyway, A-N already made the latest chapter. So you won't wait for him to make it for a long time. It's good news to you guys.
Fire, Falco! Fire at all of them! Please, just fire!
Ino: Well, I guess I better do the disclaimer. A-N does not own Naruto. Well, here's the latest chapter, everyone!
GAAAAHHH!! I lost again! Damn you, lag connection! (Attempts to throw the Wii remote and the nunchuck at the screen.)
Ino: (Holds his arms so he can't throw the Wii remote and the nunchuck.) Enjoy the chapter!
"Speaking"
'Thought'
Flashbacks
"Inner/Demon Speaking"
'Inner/Demon Thought'
Jutsu name
Chapter 7:
The Truth about Kira.
The retrieval team continues their way to find Naruto around the world. They have already took on a challenge very dangerous. They have succeeded. What was the challenge? Well... It's a bridge... A very old bridge... But we like to call it...
The Bridge of Death!!
And that was not a good sign for the team, but they succeeded it.
The birdge is now behind them. But this is just the beginning, as more others are waiting for them.
It's been half an hour since they had took on the bridge. Some genins are tired already.
"Waaaah! I'm so tired!" cried Ino. "When are we going to find Naruto?"
"Soon, my friend! Naruto must not be far from here! We will find him at any cost!" said Lee, being the one of the people who is not tired.
"Waaaah! I'm getting sick of this! Kira, where are we now?"
Kira sighed. "Ino, it's only been half an hour. Why are you so tired now?"
"Why aren't I tired? I'm just a beautiful kunoichi, who loves flowers, boys and most of all, that adorable blond shinobi, who just left the village without me telling him that I lo-" Ino now realized what she said, 'causing her to close her mouth from speaking again. She looked at the team, who looked at her with curious look, except for Sakura, who already know what Ino is gonna say. "Uh... I mean... And most of all... flowers?"
The team still curiously looked at her. Then, they bought it. "Ok, that's good to know." said Kira.
"I see." said Hinata.
"Of course!" said Lee.
"Hmph." Sasuke is brooding again.
"I see. It is nice to know you well, Ino." said Kakashi, with an innocent smile hidden in his mask... Oh, when I said innocent, I meant, he already knew what Ino is gonna say.
"He he... Thanks, you guys." Ino said sheepishly.
After a while, Sakura then asked Sasuke about something. "Sasuke?"
"Yeah?" answered Sasuke.
"I know that question will probably annoy you, but do you have a brother?"
Sasuke stopped dead track, followed by the others with a curious look. The genins want to know if Sasuke has a brother, except for Kira and Kakashi, who already knew about it. "..."
"Well? Do you have a brother or not?"
No response.
"Sasuke, answer me."
Still no response.
"Sasuke, please answer me. Do you have a brother?"
Nope. Still nothing.
"Sasuke, if you "..." me one more time, I'll tell everyone that you're gay!"
"... I'm not gay, Sakura! I never was gay!"
That got everyone's attention. Kira was the first one to speak. "Hm... Now that you mention it, we have a team with three beautiful kunoichis with us and Sasuke never show us a sign of a blush at them."
Kakashi placed his hand on his chin, doing his thinking position. "You're right... I never saw Sasuke being interested in girls, but boys."
Sasuke glared at Kira and Kakashi. "I'm not gay, you hear me?"
Hinata was the next one to speak. "Sakura-san is r-right... I saw Sasuke-san interested in N-Neji-niisan then the other kunoichis."
Followed by Ino. "Hm... So... Sasuke never got interest in me, Sakura and the rest of the girls because... He's gay?"
Sasuke growled. "I'm not gay! I'm only interested in guys, like that Neji guy, because they looked strong to me!"
Lee followed the rest. "Now that you said that... Sasuke is interested in me, Neji and Gaara... Does he has a crush on us?"
Kira chuckled. "Well, would you look at that. The great Uchiha Sasuke, the most stongest genin of the Rookie Nine, the last avenger of the Uchiha clan, the girls' boy of their dreams, is gay. That's rich!"
That really ticks Sasuke off. "I told you, I'm not gay! I'm not interest in girls because they're annoying! And the reason why I'm interest in boys is because they're strong!"
"Oh really? Then why aren't you interest in Naruto, since he was in your team for long?"
"That's because he's a weakling to me! That's why I'm not interest in him!"
"Are you sure?"
"Damn right I'm sure!"
"So you're not in love with Naruto?"
"Hell no!"
Then, Kira shrugged. "Hm. Very well... Oh! And guys? Can we stay here for a minute? I need to have some privacy in some spot of the trees."
"Ok, Kira. Just don't take it too long." said Sakura.
"Thanks." Kira ran off in the trees, to find some spot that he can have some privacy on.
"S-Sakura-san? Are you sure it's ok for K-Kira-san to go?" asked Hinata.
"Of course. It'll only be in a minute. He'll come back in one piece." said Sakura, sure of herself that Kira will come back after his little privacy.
Three minutes and fifty-nine seconds later...
... What the hell? It's already four minutes and he still not coming back? The others waited for Kira to finish his privacy. But it doesn't seemed that his finish yet... Or he could be killed by an enemy ninja... Or found a girl his interest in it and made love with... Or that he bailed on them... Or he's actually an enemy ninja in disguise and prepared an ambush on the team... or he's an alien!
... Naw. He can't be an alien. But what's keeping him so long?
"Kira? Are you still there?" cried out Sakura.
"Yeah! I'm still here! I'm not done with my privacy yet!" cried back Kira.
"It's already been four minutes! Are you sure you're not pissing, but instead, masterbating yourself?" asked Ino, feeling a suspicious feeling running in her body.
"Wha...? No! I'm not masterbating! I'm pissing... Though, It takes a little bit longer than when you are pissing."
Ino groaned. "Fine. We'll wait for you in another minute, at least when your done with it."
"Thank you!"
Another minute later...
Kira is still not done yet. Man, does he take it that long? This really starting to get annoying.
Sasuke groaned. "Just as I thought... He's even annoying than Naruto. He's just as stupid as him."
Suddenly, they heard someone. Someone quite familliar. "Hey! I'm not stupid, Sasuke-teme!"
That voice hit everyone. it was the same voice of the blond boy who left the village. 'That voice... Could it be?' thought Sakura.
'That voice... That same familiar voice!' thought Ino.
'Could it be...? No... It can't...' thought Hinata.
'That familiar voice! It is... Is it?!' thought Lee.
'No way... How did he...?' thought Kakashi.
"N... Naruto?" said Sasuke, making sure if it's the same voice.
The team turned and see the same blond boy who left the village. Naruto grinned. "Hey! What's up, everyone?"
"Naruto?" said Sakura.
"Naruto?" said Ino.
"Naruto-kun?" Hinata.
"Naruto-kun?!" Lee.
"Naruto?" Kakashi.
And last, but not least, Sasuke. And for the first time in history, he looked like he's happy to see Naruto. He has a smile of a happy man. "Naruto... It's really you... NARUTO!!" He ran towards Naruto and glomped him... Wait, he glomped?!
Everyone are very surprised of what Sasuke did at Naruto. He actually glomped him... Totally OOC. "Hey! Stop glomping me, Sasuke!" said Naruto.
"Naruto! It's really you! I missed you for so long! I can't believe it's really you!"
Other than that, Sakura is also very happy to see Naruto. 'I can't believe it... Naruto... He's really here... Naruto... It's really you...' she thought.
Naruto is really here! Is it too good to be true?!
... Of course.
Naruto then formed a kai handseal, as he shouted, "Kai!" A poof of smoke appeared around Naruto. Everyone, except Sasuke, who is still glomping Naruto, are surprised about that.
Sasuke soon realized the sound and smell of a poof of smoke. He looked back to Naruto and realized...
He was actually glomping Kira instead!
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!"
Kira laughed. "Hah hah hah! That was funny as hell! I can't believe you swung that way!"
Sasuke growled. "KIRA!!"
"Hah hah! Sorry, I couldn't help myself! I still believe that you're gay. And that one, leaves no exception! You really are gay, glomping Naruto like that!"
"YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS, KIRA!!"
Kira then looked at the others. "Sorry, guys. I was just pretend that I'm in privacy. I was just playing a trick on Sasuke and to know if he's gay or not. And from the looks of it, he really is gay."
Kakashi chuckled. "That was a fun trick to play. It's good to see Sasuke's happy side in him."
"Wow... Sasuke is gay? I never knew..." said Ino.
"I'M NOT GAY!!" shouted Sasuke.
"Yeah, yeah... Keep telling yourself that."
Kira continues to laugh. "Hah hah hah! I never laughed like this since, like, in the academy!" He slowly stop laughing when he saw Sakura, with a disbelieving face. "Uh... Hey, Sakura. How's it going?" Sakura answered by walking towards him. "Huh? Why are you walking towards me like that? Is something wrong?" As Sakura stood by Kira, she punched him really hard to the face, sending him flying above ground. He landed on the ground with a large thump.
"OW!! OH MY GOD!! MY DAMN FACE!! I'M RUIN, DAMMIT!! I'M TOTALLY RUIN!! OWW!!" he yelled it out. But he soon examined his face and it feels ok, except for the injured spot. He then looked at Sakura. "Sakura! Why did you do that?!" He soon discovered that Sakura was in tears. "Sakura...?"
"Why did you have to do that?! I almost believed that Naruto was really here! How could you do this, you jerk!" she placed her hands on her eyes, keeping the tears from falling.
Kira, realizing that what he did was wrong, quickly stood up and tries to comfort Sakura. "S-sorry, Sakura. I didn't think very well. Naruto was a very good freind to you, right? I'm sorry that I did that kind of a prank. I promise, that I'll never do that kind of a trick again!"
Sakura looked at Kira. "Promise?"
"Yeah! I'll put my life on a line, for Naruto!"
Sakura smiled. "Thank you... Kira."
"Well, since this is all settled, Let's go continue our search for Naruto!" Kira was about to walk down the path, until Ino stopped him.
"Wait! How did you know that Naruto looks like that?"
Kira frozed. Indeed. How DID Kira know that Naruto looks like that? Unfortunately, he answered, "We have no time to waste! Let's go!" he resumed walking down the path.
Ino sighed. "Where did he...? Oh forget it! We have to find Naruto!" The retrieval team continued to walk down the path.
It's back to the brother topic, everybody! So everyone asked each other if they have a brother. But the answer is no. Well, there's only one person left. And it's Kira.
"Kira?" asked Sakura.
"Yeah, what's up?" he answered.
"Well, since you're the last person left, do you have a brother?"
That's when Kira stopped dead track. The others stopped as well, confusing on why Kira stopped suddenly. "Do I... have a brother...?" he said with a hint of fear in his voice.
"Yeah... Do you have one?" Sakura asked again.
Kira didn't answered that question. And no one knows why. After a while, he said to the team, "Everyone, can we camp soon? It's already sundown." He then looked at the setting sky.
"Wait a sec. Since when did the sun set so quickly? It's not even five o'clock!" said Ino.
"Use your imagination, Ino." said Kakashi, not seem to caring this at all.
"Alright. We'll camp in a well comfort place. It's not gonna be that long for us to find it." said Sakura as she continues walking, finding a place to rest for the night.
"Right." Kira followed her, as of the rest of the team. While they are looking for some spot, Kira then thought about the question...
'Do I have a brother...? Do I...? No... I don't have a brother... At least... not anymore...'
The night came...
So they have found a place to camp. And that place has no bear activities, bugs, rotten earth, fishes, ninjas. When they're about to go to sleep, Lee was too hyperactive to go to sleep yet. So he kicked a tree and smashed it. It nearly hit the camp site. So they had to drug him in order for him to sleep.
It is the middle of the night. And everyone is sleeping... Well, except for one. I'll give you a hint, it's not Lee.
Sakura slowly woke up. She looked around her and see that everything is fine. Everything... except for one thing. She saw that there's an empty sleeping bag here. And that was Kira's bag. "Kira?" wondered Sakura. She decided to look around the area, to search for Kira.
Meanwhile...
"Damn you! Damn you to hell!" That voice sounded like Kira. He was seen punching a tree. He was complaining about something. "Why... Why the hell do you have to kill them off for?! It was our clan! Our home! And you... you killed them because they're weak?! How could you, you bastard!" He continues to punch the tree, until he hears someone.
"Kira?" He gasped. He turned to see Sakura, with a look of a worry person.
"Sakura!"
"What's going on, Kira? Who are you talking to?"
"N-nothing! It's nothing! I'm just... talking to myself."
But Sakura didn't bought it. "Kira, tell me the truth. Who are you talking to and why are you so angry about it?"
Knowing that there's no way to outsmart Sakura, Kira gives up. "Alright... I'll tell you..." He looked down on the ground. "Sakura... Remember the thing you asked me about lately?"
"About you having a brother? Well? Do you have one?"
"To tell you the truth... Yes. I had a brother."
"Had?"
"Yeah... I lost him... It was about six years ago... I lost my brother..."
"Oh... That's so sad..."
"And my brother... Do you remember that I told you that I had a great ninja?"
"Yeah, what about it?"
"My brother... was the great ninja I was talking about..."
Sakura gasped. "It was... him?"
"Yeah... He's still around here somewhere..."
"But... I thought you said that he died in a battle."
"He did died in a battle... In his mind... A new one was born within him. The one who I want vengeance at..."
"Your brother... Who is he?"
"He was a great big brother to me. He always took care of me whenever I am sad, make fun at, hurt or scared. He was the great ninja I once had. His name... is Asuran."
"Asuran?"
"Yes. He was promoted ANBU when he was 15 years old. I was four when he was promoted. After a long year of protecting our village, Kuchiki village, our clan, the villagers of the Kuchiki village, wanted my brother to become their lord. He, however, declined the offer, saying that he will still protect the village, even if he isn't a lord. I admired him. I spent a whole year practising Ninjutsu, kunai throwing, ninja skills and all that. I wanted to be like my brother, as of what he is before... Until..."
Flashback
Outside of the village Kuchiki, the young six years old Kira was just practising ninja skills. He was out there in almost the whole day. He really wanted to be like Asuran. He was now practising Bunshin no Jutsu.
He made several of handseals and shouted, "Bunshin no Jutsu!" However, nothing happened. "Aw man! I still haven't got it yet! If I don't do it good, I'll never be as good as my brother." Then, the young Kira decided to call it a day. "Well, I better stop now, or else, my parents will freak out." He goes back to his village.
He was excited to see his clan and parents again. He thought that it was almost a long time he had seen them. But when he reached the entrance of his village, he saw something that scared him so much...
His entire clan were wipe out. So many bodies lying on the ground, with severals of blood marks around them. "W... what's going on?" Kira doesn't understand what's happening. Why is his clan dead? He looked to his left and saw the dead bodies of someone. "U... uncle? Aunt?" He then looked to his right. "Cousins?" There are no answers in neither of the sides. They were dead. Kira realized something. "Father! Mother!" He ran to his house, where he and his parents lived.
As he reached to his house, he shouted to his parents. "Father? Mother?" No response. "Is anyone there? Father? Mother?" He slowly walked in the dark and silent house of the Kinashi. No one was there in his room. Niether in the bedroom or the kitchen. There is one left. And it's the living room. He walked towards the path way of the living. As he reached to the room, he was petrified.
His parents were lying on the ground, with a pool of blood around them.
"FATHER!! MOTHER!!" He ran to the dead bodies of his parents. They were dead also. Who could have done this? "Father... Mother... Who did this to you...? Who...?" he sobbed. He then noticed a shadow of a person. He looked up on the window and saw someone. "Brother...?" He then ran back outside, to see if his brother was here.
As he ran outside, he saw someone facing the entrance of the village. It was a man, with black, long hair with a ponytail on the back of it. He wore an ANBU uniform. "Brother? Is that you?" Kira was relieved that his brother was here. "Brother, tell me. Who killed our clan? Who did this? Do you know who it is?"
Suddenly, Asuran cackled. "Hm hm hm hm hm... Heh heh heh heh... Hah hah hah hah hah... Hah hah hah hah! Hahahahahaha! Bwahahahaha!!"
Kira was confused of why Asuran laughed like that. "Brother...?"
"Heh heh heh... Little brother... It is good to see you..."
"What's going on, brother? Why did you...?"
"Little brother... Do you remember the legend of the dangerous Doujutsu?"
"Legend... Doujutsu...?"
"The legendary Doujutsu was made to destroy everything that gets in its way. The Doujutsu which is the terror of the world... Nothing could stop it... Until... The great ninjas of all five nations had sealed it away from the world."
"What are you... talking about?"
"Kira, after these five hundred years... Someone has found this Doujutsu... And can use it to destroy everything..."
"What...?"
"Do you want to know who killed our clan?"
"Y... yes..."
Once again, Asuran cackled. "I am sorry, little brother... But the truth is... I killed them..."
Kira at first gasped of fear. Then, he thought that Asuran was joking. "Ha... ha ha... Stop joking around, big brother... Who really kill off our clan?"
"Still don't believe me? Well, then... I'll show you." He turned to look at his brother. After he turned, Kira gasped of fear.
Asuran's eyes aren't the same black eyes he once had. His eyeballs were all black all around, with a small white orb in the center and a crecent shape moon both on the opposite side of each other. "Asuran...?"
"Now do you believe me?"
"W... why...?"
"Because I have found the Doujutsu I had been looking for... The Kagegan."
"Kage... gan...?"
"Here, little brother... Allow me to demonstrate." Suddenly, his black covered eyes turned into a kanji each. His left eye means "Hell". His right means "Death".
The next thing Kira saw, is darkness. He doesn't know where he is. Then, he saw a demonic-like sword appearing in front of him. "What...?"
"Behold, little brother! Behold the nightmare!" The voice of Asuran was heared. The demonic-like sword then rains down on Kira, strucking him right in his heart. Kira cried of pain, as he felt like he's going to die. Then, the next thing he knew, he was back in reality. He breathed heavily, sweats all over him and tears falling endlessly. Asuran smiled devilly. "Now do you see, little brother?"
He doesn't respond.
"If you want to live, then run. Run away from your own brother!"
Then, Kira does what Asuran said. He ran away from the one who he admired the most. Asuran, the man who he was protected, the one who protects the village, has turned evil on him.
End of flashback
"He killed our clan... He killed the village... I loved my brother... Until he became... like that! That damn bastard!" Kira clentched his hands with anger.
"Kira..." Sakura can finally see why Kira didn't respond to her question lately.
"After I ran from the village... I spent a week without food, sleep. I haven't bathe for days... This fear was still inflickted on me... One day... The Konoha nins have found me, lying on a tree, on a virge of dying... They brung me to their village, where I was safe from my brother... But why...?" As he said that, tears began falling down on his cheeks. "Why...? I thought he could be a hero for me... But instead, he became a devil... I was such a fool... For not knowing Asuran's true intentions..." He started to sob.
"Kira..." Sakura doesn't want to see Kira's pain and sorrow. She placed her arms around him and hugged him. "I'm sorry to hear that..." Kira still continues to sob.
It has been a while that Kira sobbed and that Sakura comforts him by hugging him. When Kira's sobbing slowly stopped, Sakura then said to him that they'll go back to the camp. So he and Sakura got back to the camp site.
As they have got back in their sleeping bag, Sakura then said to Kira, "Good night, Kira. I hope the next morning will be a happy one."
"Yeah... You too, Sakura."
After those exchanged good nights, Kira then thought about something before he goes to sleep. 'Naruto... I will bring him back... For Sakura... and the rest of the village.'
Meanwhile...
We know see Naruto walking on the path to nowhere. We have no idea where is he going.
"It's been two days since I'm gone... I guess the village are happy that I'm gone, since I'm the demon and all... It's better if I don't exist..." he said.
Unknown to him, he was watched by someone from afar. Someone very evil.
"Hm hm hm... So this is Kyuubi no Kitsune... Hm hm hm... At last, I shall use this power to capture the demon and extract it from the container... Hm hm hm hm... Heh heh heh... Hahahahahah! Bwahahahahahah!!"
The adventure has becoming a dangerous quest for the retrieval team. Can they survive?
End of chapter
Phew... Hey, guys! What's up! Sorry that I have been playing SSBB during this latest update. I was trying to see if I can beat those guys on Wifi connection. Well, it's a good thing that Ino was here.
Ino: Yep! If I haven't been there, they would just leave the fanfic without you.
Yes, well... I hope you enjoy this chapter. And I know it's not funny towards the end. I just want to make this dramatic to you guys.
Ino: Ja ne, everyone! And review, kudasai!
Hey! that's my line! You're so mean, Ino-chan!
Ino: Aww! You're so cute! (Hugs A-N)
He he... I have been growing on this for quite a while, now...
