SADLY I DON'T OWN NARUTO; IF I DID THEY WOULD BE LIKE 'OMG! I LUFFLE YOU!' AND I DON'T OWN ANY MUSIC USED IN THIS STORY WHAT SO EVER

Nanami: I apologize, this was supposed to be out on Thursday but let's just say when I finished it and was reading over to make sure everything was good (on Friday) before posting, I realized I made a HUGE mistake with one of the scenes and it screwed up the entire plot I had planned, (FORGIVE ME Ohihihi!) so here it is after its many corrections. Merry Christmas!

This chapter (and my eternal love for all of my readers) s my gift to you! Hope you enjoy :)

An angel's cry

Chapter Nine:

Orochimaru rolled over in his bed sleepily. He couldn't sleep anymore. He had awoken with a terrible feeling he didn't want to name. He felt as if something was gone, and he didn't want to know what it was. He reluctantly decided it was time for him to rise from his bed. Instead of getting dressed and showered like he usually did every morning he just left his room to get coffee. He didn't feel like getting ready for the day, which was highly unusual for Orochimaru. He usually immediately got ready and decided what he wanted to get done that day; he just didn't feel any motivation.

He finally decided that it was time for him to get ready. He did have multiple things to do that day, first he was going to Kakashi's house and continuing their conversation from before, he was also going to check up on poor Sasuke. He couldn't get it out of his mind, how the unfortunate boy was being eaten alive by his own power. Death would purge him from life soon if he remained like this for much longer. If things kept up, Orochimaru estimated that Sasuke would live for three more months at the most, and the pain he was in would only increase. Chances were as soon as Sasuke reached the point of no return Naruto would slowly disappear. Without light there is not darkness, yet in the same way as darkness leaves the world light disappears.

Orochimaru sighed and shook his head, as if to be shaking the worry out of his mind. If that was truly it, it did not work. Orochimaru's life had been full to the brim with problems since a week before Obito died. Why was this time so complicated? Was it possible to return to the time where they had all been happily living in heaven?

No, Orochimaru answered, there wasn't. The only thing he could do was protect his mother from the sidelines. Orochimaru frowned at the ground as he remembered the letter he received.

Dear Orochimaru,

How are you doing? Miserable I'm guessing because you just received my letter. As said before, the day after tomorrow I will invade heaven. I have come up with new conditions for you to meet for her to live. You cannot warn heaven still, but now I have had it. I do NOT trust the blond boy I spoke of with you before. Kill him by time I invade or I will kill her, you count on it.

There was no name signed, after all, he knewwho sent the letter. He didn't want to, but he had no choice but to comply with the orders.


Naruto sleepily left his room and headed towards the kitchen for some juice, but the second Naruto entered the kitchen the juice was forgotten. He could see his mother hen like teacher in the kitchen talking to Kakashi. The man was the one who not only taught Naruto, but had taught all of the angels everything and he was also the one who kept an eye on the youngest angels when Azami could not. The man had long brown hair pulled into a pony tail and a birthmark that stretched across the bridge of his nose.

"Iruka-Sensei!" Naruto shouted excitedly while running up to him like a young child with a grin on his face. Iruka turned to the blond boy and smiled at his old student.

"Hello Naruto, how are you?" Iruka questioned, happy to see one of his favorite but must troubling students. Naruto just continued to grin up at Iruka as he subconsciously ruffled his hair.

"I'm fine, what'cha doing here? Are you here to help me find the angel of darkness? It would be very helpful if you did," Naruto replied with his eyes shining. Iruka shook his head and Kakashi opened his mouth.

"Wait Iru-

"No, apparently there is a young angel girl that Kiba found that I am supposed to identify," He explained and looked to Kakashi who sighed.

"Never mind, come on I'll lead you to her room," Kakashi replied and lead the pair, as Kakashi walked he gained the curiosity of Ino who was sitting in the library doing her school work and she decided to leave and follow.

"Sensei!" Ino exclaimed following them. "What are you doing here?" She asked.

"Uh, Well I'm-

"Hello Iruka." It was Gaara this time joining the parade and Kakashi sighed. Were his 'people' really such so terrible at keeping something quiet? Kakashi silently sulked as he approached the room the strange girl was in and opened the door, to see Kiba (whom he had anticipated to be there) but he also saw someone he didn't expect to see, a blond haired boy named Minato, who was staring very interestedly at the long red haired girl whom was lying upon the bed.

"Ah- Minato- would you mind going and keeping an eye on Sasuke?" Kakashi asked interrupting his thoughts. Minato looked up to Kakashi and he repeated the question. "Will you go watch Sasuke for me?" Minato nodded and left the room without questioning Kakashi, obviously in a daze. As Minato wandered to Sasuke's room he couldn't help but wonder who she was. She seemed so familiar to him, he pulled open Sasuke's door and began pondering the color of the girl's eyes.

"Kiba, why was Minato, a human, in the unknown angel's bedroom after I had asked you to try to keep her room clear until Iruka got here," Kakashi asked in a scolding tone. Kiba sighed, his confusion echoing in the room.

"I honestly don't know, I left to use the bathroom, came back, and he was just standing there, staring at her," Kiba replied before motioning for Iruka to examine the unknown angel. Iruka walked up to the girl and knelt at the bedside before using his hand to gently hold her face like a mother checking for injuries. He pulled back her hair and looked behind both of her ears before softly putting her head back down and pulling back to think with a puzzled expression.

"What is it?" Kakashi asked and Iruka shook his head.

"It's nothing," he replied before going back to investigating the girl. He picked up one of her arms and began investigating her palms. "Kiba, you said that she used her powers against someone who was chasing her right?" he asked looking back to Kiba who just nodded. "It was fire wasn't it? I can tell she was very inexperienced in using it. Its effect actually tells me a lot," he continued then pointed to the tops of her fingers which looked like she had put them in a boiling grease pan for at least a few moments. "This tells me she is very new to her power of fire, but has not received her wings yet. When an angel gains its wings it gains much more of an understanding of how to use their power and the body learns how to protect itself," Iruka explained. "By the looks of those, you probably want Lady Tsunade to heal her hands."

"I will remember to ask her that soon," Kakashi said making a mental note.

"Is there anything else you know?" Naruto asked curiously. Iruka looked back to the red head.

"She… she seems to be a new born, I haven't once heard of her from Azami-san or met her before, she can use her powers but not skillfully, and now she has fallen into the deep sleep every angel begins with, but there is one thing that makes me unsure if she is an angel, she doesn't have the mark, all of these together lead me into thinking…" Iruka paused cautiously.

"What?"

"She seems…. incomplete," Iruka finally said. "I don't feel right deciding that someone is incomplete or saying what they are just isn't enough for it to be what they would be if they were whole, but, truthfully it seems she woke up early," Iruka finished.

"That's impossible," Kakashi stated and Iruka nodded. The other angels looked at them questioningly.

"How is it impossible?" Ino asked leaning against a nearby wall.

"When she creates someone, she creates their body first, the next step is creating and inserting the soul and what their strength is then she puts a birthmark behind one of the ears," Kakashi answered. "She always does it all in one go." Kakashi then turned his head to Iruka. "What is her name?"

"I don't know, she was never even mentioned to me and I last spoke to Azami yesterday morning," Iruka replied.

"Why not just ask her when she wakes up?" Kiba asked.

"She could sleep for any amount of time, and assuming we are correct in her just being created, since she woke up and the first thing she did was run in terror and use her powers, she will probably be asleep for a week minimum, someone needs to try to be at her side at all times in a few days because as soon as she awakes, she will think she is in danger most likely and she will possibly torch the room," Iruka replied, closing his eyes and silently visualizing it. Orange and red flames could engulf the entire city if they did not make sure she knew she was safe when she awoke. The worst possible angel to face was one whose emotions were at the height of their possible activity, the one worse emotion to face besides fear was anger and they hadn't a clue on her temperament.

"Ok, I would like all of you but Naruto and Iruka to go report this to Azami got it?" Kakashi ordered them.

"But why all of us?" Kiba argued due to his overwhelming curiosity.

"Because; if there was someone threatening enough in heaven to chase a new born angel and it was not stopped by Azami she will be upset about not knowing the whereabouts of said angel and who knows if she even knows about what happened?" Kakashi explained before sending the trio away. Kakashi and his remaining group left the room so the red head could sleep in peace.

"You idiot, that's not at all why you made them go. Just two would have been enough or if you wanted multiple to help with searching, all of us but one would have gone," Iruka said shaking his head. "I can't believe you are still protecting him."

"The poor guy has been through enough, besides we are supposed to respect our elders," Kakashi responded. Their strange conversation caused Naruto to look at them curiously.

"Who? Who is Kakashi protecting? From what?" Naruto asked eagerly. Iruka smiled at his usual childish antics.

"Do you remember my friend Orochimaru I introduced you to?" Kakashi asked.

"Yeah! Sasuke's guardian right?"

"Well, let's just say most angels do not like him, I can't blame them but truth be told it isn't his fault that they hate him," Kakashi vaguely answered.

"Wait, they hate him? Are you using the lighter version that the humans use as opposed to its true depth?" Naruto asked in shock. He had never heard of a single angel feeling such an extent of that negative emotion. Kakashi couldn't help but chuckle at his wording and looked to Iruka.

"It looks like you were able to teach someone such wording without it mixing. No Naruto, I mean they truly hate him, with the full intensity and meaning of the word, they dislike him so much they wish him the most painful death possible or that his mere existence never began, they truly hate him Naruto," Kakashi explained. "He should already be here, probably waiting in the library for us," Kakashi said eyeing his wrist watch as he turned and lead them into said library. As he had anticipated, Orochimaru was sitting at a table close to a window and staring out of it. Hearing their footsteps, he turned his head to see the trio.

"Hello Kakashi, Iruka and Naruto," he acknowledged them.

"You're late, as always Kakashi," Orochimaru commented, not in the least bit surprised.

"Hey! I have a perfectly reasonable excuse this time, there was a sick redheaded angel whose condition just demanded my help," he explained and Orochimaru rolled his eyes.

"Shockingly enough he isn't lying again," Iruka replied, "there was a fire angel who was chased and possibly attacked in heaven, he just now sent Kiba, Ino and Gaara to go check on the situation up there and discuss it with Azami. You wouldn't happen to have an idea if he-?"

"Like I said last time, I haven't seen Jashin since he was tricked by Madara that he knew what he was doing and he would help Jashin with his plans. Although that bastard might dislike all of Azami's children, I don't think he'd chance a confrontation with a crying, or gods forbid a furious Azami," Orochimaru explained. "I bet he had his reborn phase already, if we find out what he looks like we may be able to find him, but I don't have the faintest idea as to why we would want to-"

Orochimaru was interrupted by the chorus of who let the dogs out and all heads turned to Kakashi who just pulled out his phone, as if it were nothing and answered.

"Hey Kiba, right now? Ok, ok I got it. Yeah I'll send Iruka up with her, bye." Kakashi hung up the phone. "It's amazing how quickly they work, apparently Azami can't be found right now but they think they might be able to identify her with the records so they want you to bring her to heaven, I guess we can all go back, Orochimaru, you might be able to guess at who she is," Kakashi said before dragging the group back to her room. Orochimaru was the first one to enter the room before he glanced over to Kakashi with an unamused look in his eyes.

"You have the wrong room," he commented. Kakashi looked in the room to see that the girl was gone, but a long single strand of her crimson hair remained upon the bed.

"Search the city, I'm going to try to get help from the other angels," Kakashi ordered and the three left.


A crimson haired girl ran down the side walk in pure terror. Where was she? What was this place? What were those terrible things rushing down the black walkway? She was forced to come to a halt as she ran into someone head first. She looked up to see a man with blond hair and blue eyes who smirked along with his fellow gang goons. She didn't know him but the look in his eyes revealed his anything but pure intentions which caused her to back into an alley behind her.

Her fear only heightened as she was backed into the dead end and saw the light disappearing. The man and his followers were cornering her. He reached out and lurched onto her arm and yanked her forward and she shrieked in terror. He moved his lips to her ear and spoke quietly.

"Hiya girlie, you scream like that again things will only get worse," he coldly ordered. He pulled at the sleeve of her shirt as she shrieked for help and literally kicked him in the stomach, knocking him backwards. She did her best, she really did, to throw fire to scare him away but the flames refused to even ignite in her hands which only caused her to panic more as the man's goons began to corner her while shouting profanities at the girl.

She continued to back up as three of the gang members helped up their leader. She ran into a metal fence that was attempting to cut her off from escape. She quickly turned and climbed as quickly as her inexperienced arms and legs could possibly go. She cried out for help once more before a hand caught her ankle and she screamed and was pulled back which caused her to fall into the arms of one of her attackers. The rest was a blur. All she knew was that the gang members were defeated, now lying on the ground and there was someone new, actually two, one was holding her protectively at the opening of the alley while the other just stood, staring at the gang members whom were much further in the alley.


"Sasuke! Stop! You're still sick!" Minato ordered him but Sasuke just continued to put on his jacket and lead the way out of the house. "Sasuke!"

"Listen Minato, I've been stuck in that room for the past few days, it won't kill me to get some fresh air. I'm going on a walk whether or not you approve," Sasuke plainly stated as he continued to walk down the side walk with Minato tailing behind.

"But-"

"Look, if your so worried, tag along," Sasuke interrupted due to his irritation. Each breath that Sasuke took was a deep one. Sasuke felt frustrated, he was terribly sick which confused him. He had always had a strong immune system and could not remember being sick a single time and to add to his frustration he was being put on such a tight house arrest that Minato had begun his worry rampage the second Sasuke stood up from his bed.

"Are you feeling alright Sasuke?" Minato, the worry wart (as deemed by Sasuke) questioned.

"Yes," Sasuke lied. He wasn't alright. Not even close. He felt sad and furious, his throat burnt and he could still taste the iron flavored blood from his last cough attack. To make things worse, he felt a ripping feeling deep inside himself, so deep in fact he wasn't even sure where it was coming from. Although he felt all of these things, Sasuke refused to admit defeat. He refused to explode or give up in anyway; he wanted to continue to always be the calm and collected Sasuke no matter the situation. On the outside he seemed to be the normal Sasuke, just in a bad mood.

"Are you sure?" he persisted.

"Yes Minato, I am perfectly fine, I may be a little sick, but I'm walking and talking well so I think that might be a hint," he said, his voice drenched with sarcasm.

"I just don't want you to get any worse Sasuke, I hate watching you cough your guts out," Minato replied.

"Don't worry about m-" Sasuke was interrupted by a shriek of terror. Sasuke looked to Minato, who immediately started running to the source. Sasuke rolled his eyes, mentally calling Minato and idiot with a hero complex. Sasuke began to approach the scene at a calm jogging pace; after all he didn't want Minato to get knifed in an alley.

Sasuke approached the alley and looked at the scene before him. Minato was being cornered and held down in a corner while the rest of the gang was trying to pull a red headed girl off the fence. Sasuke sneered with disgust and anger. He was disgusted at how low these men would stoop for rape and murder- like it was nothing! And the fact that there were so many of them and they were even hurting the innocent pissed him off, but he knew he couldn't fight them off alone. Sasuke felt the darkness gravitating around him.

What do you want to do? The voice came from the darkness inside Sasuke.

To fight! Sasuke answered.

Why do you want to fight? The shadows questioned.

To protect the innocent ones and to stop the low-life jerks who do things like this! Sasuke answered and nearly had a heart attack as the girl was pulled off the fence shrieking.

Your wish shall be granted. The darkness told him. Suddenly the shadows that were pooling at his feet shot out and hit the gang members, knocking each and every one unconscious and a dark blob caught the falling girl and held her until Minato took her. Minato carried her to the edge of the alley way to help her calm down while contemplating the event that just happened.

Now, Sasuke on the other hand was currently in shock. What the hell happened? What was with those weird shadows? How did they attack the gang members and how did they catch the girl? Was it the voice he had answered? He originally thought it to be himself just asking him questions to get ideas… and why the hell did he know that the gang members weren't dead, but passed out and now blind?

Those were the questions filling his mind before and overwhelming pain from his back that caused him to collapse.

To be continued

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