Healing the Past, Fighting the Future (Naruto Shippuden) Part 7: The Truth
A/N: THIS ONE'S REALLY LONG!! It gives all the background information... I hope you guys like it! Please review!
You woke up and looked around you. You were back at the SAME inn you were before. You slowly remembered what happened and realized both Naruto and Sakura were fighting before you fainted. Ugh. You can't believe you fainted... it just proves you're not strong enough to win a fight. But, either way that's what happened. You quickly ran out the door, and scanned the hallway for the room that Naruto was in. You found the room and knocked. The door quickly opened to reveal a completely unhurt Naruto. You gaped at him. "What is it? Why are you staring at me like that, Shiori?" he asked. You looked blankly up at him, "YOUR NOT INJURED AT ALL!!" you blushed, that sounded like you wanted him to be hurt. "I mean- it's not that I want you to be hurt, but with that many ninjas fighting you and--" your voice trailed off. Naruto looked at you funny. "Well, after the main guy, Kouhei right?" he asked. You nodded. "Well you passed out, he ran away leaving the rest of the ninjas to fight us. They weren't that strong so both me and Sakura managed to fight them off. But, still I did get a little hurt, but I heal from most injuries after a night's rest." "Is Sakura ok?" you asked.
"Yea, she is alright, but she hasn't completely healed yet, she needs another day of rest," he answered. You sighed in relief. The important thing was that she was alright.
You needed to think about stuff for a while
"Hey Naruto?"
"Yea?"
"Can I talk to you later tonight?"
"Uhhhhh sure..."
You went back to your room. You needed to explain everything to Naruto, after all it was your fault they got involved into this. That was the second time they saved you. You have to let both him and Sakura know why they had to save you.
LATER THAT DAY (night time)
You knocked on Naruto's door and were greeted with astonishing blue eyes.
"So you ready?" You asked
"Yep let's go!"
You were waling beside him outside on the moonlit path. How were you going to start this?
"Shiori?"
"Hmm?"
"What did you want to talk about?"
"Oh... um here let's sit down its kinda long"
You both sat down on a couple of large rocks on the side of the path. Well it was now or never…
"Okay," you started "I think that since my stupidity has involved you and Sakura into fights, it's time I owe you an explanation"
"Oh," Naruto said, and waited for you to go on.
Here it goes…
"Well I was born in a small ninja village, not to powerful; it wasn't the most powerful village
but we could definitely fight off danger pretty well. Most of my family was killed when I was pretty young, it really devastated me, but my mom survived and we helped each other get through it. There was one other person who helped me get through that time, and that was...Kouhei. He was my boyfriend at the time and I really, really loved him. Seemingly he loved me too. So after three years, Kouhei came up to me with a couple of ninjas behind him and stabbed me in the back with a kunai. I probably would've died if I didn't heal automatically. Kouhei knew I healed fast though he never said anything about it. Anyway, as I was healing the ninjas behind him spoke to him and said that he was right. I was very confused, it's not like my boyfriend usually stabbed me from time to time. A started yelling at him to quit being ridiculous when he suddenly knocked me unconscious. I remember thinking that this had to be a horrible stupid joke that I would beat up Kouhei for later. So later when I woke up Kouhei came in and started saying stuff I didn't really understand. Stuff about death, me not dying when I was supposed to, stuff like that. When I asked him what the hell he was talking about he smiled at me. It was a smile I've never seen on him before, it made him look evil. He asked me if I had ever wondered who killed my family, and why, wasn't I dead along with them. I mean of course I wondered who killed my family, but my family was really great, there was never any reason to kill them. I even discussed this with my mother, but she always avoided the subject! I decided to stop making her uncomfortable about the topic and I completely stopped speaking about my family. While I was thinking, Kouhei smiled his stupid smile again and said if I ever realized I was slightly different from everyone else. I realized he was talking about at once. I reflected upon how most people avoided me, I just answered that I seemed pretty unsocial that's all. I smiled at him, still hoping that there was still someway for this situation to be a joke. I didn't see what he was talking about and I told him that whatever prank he was trying to pull, it was extremely stupid, and he should stop. He smiled once again and left the room. I decided to play along to his idiotic joke. Then one of the moronic ninjas from before came in and told me to go with him. Though I could completely kill the ninja, I decided not to hurt someone who was trying to play some prank, and did what I was told. The ninja lead me outside to see Kouhei standing next to my mother with a knife pointed to her. I stared bewildered for a second, then I realized there was no way this could be a lie. He was going to kill my mother! As I screamed and tried to run toward them, the ninja behind me grabbed me and I couldn't get out of his grip. I watched my mother, my last member of my family get killed in front of me."
You stopped for a second pulling in a deep breath, and holding in tears that were threatening to pour out. You started once again "As Kouhei walked toward me with another kunai, I remember feeling a jolt of fear, and then I felt unusually sleepy, and don't remember much from there, except for a lot of blood. When I woke up again I felt myself unable to move, and I was in front of the entire village. I quickly scanned the people and found Kouhei badly injured talking to the village leader. I tried to attack him but I couldn't move for some reason. The village leader told me why I killed my mother and attacked Kouhei. I stared at him blankly. I didn't kill my mother! Before I could retort to his stupid accusations the village leader interrupted and said that with the type of power that I had this would happen sooner or later and that I was officially banished from the village. I had two days to leave. I tried to tell the villagers that it wasn't me who killed my mother and that I didn't know how Kouhei got injured. He said I lost control of the power inside of me and I tried to kill everyone around me. I didn't know what the hell he was talking about. What power? The healing power was nothing drastic. I screamed for an explanation, when the village leader finally offered details to what he was saying. He explained to me that I was born with immense power inside of me, a power that gets released when I am in fear of my death. The leader said that many people wanted that sort of power and the village was attacked by unknown ninjas for it. Though the village wanted to give me up at that time, my entire family fought to keep me alive, concluding of everyone dying. I was in a state of shock, how no one seemed it fit to enlighten me with this information mystified me. But with no choice left, I left the village after that. Soon after I left, I found out that Kouhei knew what was inside of me and stayed with me all those years to figure out how the power is triggered. I also found that it was Kouhei who set up the attack on my village to get me. It was his fault my entire family is dead. And since then I have been running from him and he has been chasing me."
There that was it. Naruto sat there for a long time, silent.
