Hard to Forgive
Summary: Banished from Konoha after an accident with Kyuubi, Naruto swears to come back too powerful to be brought down. Years pass with no sign. Until they hear a Hidden Village has risen, and its' residents are demons and outcasts. Will they find Naruto there?
Pairing/s: None.
Warnings: Strong!Naruto, Demon!Naruto, some people-bashing, blood, violence… maybe some more, I don't know.
Disclaimers: Does it look like I own Naruto? I didn't think so either…
Thank for all the reviews (well, not everyone but most of them)!
It seemed like someone felt if there was no pairings, why even bother reading? Kinda funny; if I do a pairing, people complains, if I don't do a pairing people complains. Hmm, how can you satisfy everyone without simply throwing all the stories away and sit in a corner for the rest of your miserable life? Wait… then I won't satisfy those who want to read my stories! Aaah, dilemma! -runs around her room, thinking like crazy for a solution-
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I think I'll call it even and just do whatever the hell I want with my stories -smile-
I originally had a whole lot more written here but I decided not to torture you guys with it, as it has nothing to do with you. Just know I appreciate all your comments, and I hope you enjoy this somewhat short chapter (but hey, I got it out early!)
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UPDATED 2011-07-15
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Chapter Ten
"Tsunade-sama, you must immediately demand the Onikage to hand over Uchiha Itachi to us!" Hiashi said.
"No!" the woman said. "I will have a message brought to him, but I will not just run in there and demand a man they might not have living there."
"Of course he lives there!" one council-member said. "That demon takes in everyone, even traitors it seems!"
"What did I say about calling Onikage-sama a demon?" she hissed, eyes burning with rage. "The meeting is over, now please get out!"
They filed out under complaint but Shikaku and Shibi stayed along with Sasuke and Shizune. Kakashi was scouting along with Kankuro and Temari around Sound village. He should come back in a few hours to share what they had found out, which most probably would be very little.
"What am I supposed to do now?" Tsunade sighed.
"Let's start with the message," Shizune said. "We only need to know if Itachi is there. As long as he's there, and not with Orochimaru it should be fine, right?"
Tsunade looked over at Sasuke. He shrugged and said:
"You know I don't hate him anymore. I don't care where he is."
"Alright. Let's write the message."
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"Hmm…"
"That is not usually your response to a message from Konoha," Yokaze said carefully.
"Tsunade-hime wishes to know if we have one Uchiha Itachi living here," Sora said. "She explains Orochimaru wants him, and Konoha don't want the snake-bastard to get the Uchiha."
"Did she really write snake-bastard?" the younger man sweat-dropped.
"Actually she did."
"So… what is our response?"
"Oh, I don't know. Does it live a man with the name Uchiha Itachi here?" Sora asked curiously and looked at the younger man. Yokaze looked confused for a moment before he understood. He smiled and said:
"No… there isn't a man living here with the name Uchiha Itachi."
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"He's lying!"
Tsunade rubbed her forehead and said for what must be the tenth time:
"He wrote there wasn't anyone with the name Uchiha Itachi in the village, so Itachi doesn't live there."
"It's a lie!" Hiashi shouted. Several nodded. Tsunade felt like banging her skull into the desk but thought better of it. At least Shikaku and Shibi had skipped this meeting; lucky them. Sasuke's, Kakashi's and Shizune's presences gave her strength.
"Why would he lie? He knows our situation, and offered to help us search for Itachi," the woman said.
"He wants the Sharingan eyes!"
"Please, Onikage-san is not Orochimaru," Tsunade groaned.
"How do you know he's not like Orochimaru?"
"Well, considering Onikage really wants to torture Orochimaru to death I doubt he's any like that snake-bastard. And you all saw his reaction when you accused him of being allied with the snake-bastard!" How stupid were they?
"You're too naïve," Koharu spoke, tone cold. "You barely know him, and you dare saying that?" What are you thinking with, you old hag? Tsunade refrained from rising up and trying to choke the old woman.
"The first time I was in their village, he told us indirectly what he felt about Orochimaru," Tsunade said. "He said if he had the chance he would kill Orochimaru himself. You all know he hates the man, his people hate the man."
"I still say he's lying about Uchiha Itachi," Hiashi sneered. "He didn't say anything about picking him up in the message, did he?"
"I never asked, Hiashi," Tsunade said. "It will make it sound like we're watching him."
"Well, we should be watching him," Homura spoke up. "People like him can't be trusted!"
"How many times do we have to return to this?" Tsunade moaned. "I told you already, drop it! I won't listen to anyone of you the moment you start, and as we now know Itachi is not in Chigakure you can all leave."
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"We already know Uchiha Itachi is in Chigakure, he must be!"
Danzou nodded a bit and Homura continued to mutter curses under his breath.
"Why not send a squad to get him?" Danzou suggested. "Tsunade is growing out of touch. We must take matters in our own hands to get something done."
"We must," Koharu agreed. "She will be angry though."
"She will calm down if we return with Uchiha Itachi, which I know we will," Danzou said with a malicious smile.
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Yasha looked at the squad closing in with narrowed eyes.
"Mouko," she said, and the man only nodded, tightening his grip on the spear he was holding. "Makai, go and tell Onikage-sama."
Makai took a look at the Konoha shinobis and nodded. A moment later he vanished. As the shinobis came in hearing range Yasha spoke up:
"State your purpose and under whose orders!"
"We are here to take missing-nin Uchiha Itachi back to Konoha under the orders of Koharu-sama, Homura-sama and Danzou-sama," the apparent leader spoke arrogantly, looking down at her.
"We have no man named Uchiha Itachi living here, and the only ones allowed in from Konoha must be under the direct order of Godaime Hokage Tsunade-hime," Yasha said. "Stand back."
"You are to question us? You have a person we are looking for inside your village, and if you don't bring him here at once we will go in by force!"
Mouko raised his spear, but a pale hand was put on it, calming the man down. Meikon looked at them with his glowing eyes and said:
"If you take one step into the village before you have spoken to Onikage-sama, I'll kill you all." Yasha looked over at him, slightly nervous that the men would be stupid enough and still force their way in. She hoped not, as it would practically mean war.
Luckily, they saw he was serious, and did the smartest; they waited. The woman sighed of relief.
A few minutes later Sora arrived and looked at them.
"May I ask what you are doing here?" he said.
"We're here to retrieve Uchiha Itachi."
"I already told Tsunade-hime he does not live here," Sora said, frowning. What was going on?
"We're not here on her orders. She is weak, and is fooled too easy. We're here on someone else's orders, those who know you're lying."
Meikon made a move to attack but Sora stopped him with a look.
"I am not lying," the demon-like man said. "And for what you said… disrespecting your leader is not quite right if I am informed correct."
"Tsunade is not our leader!" the head of the group said arrogantly. "We don't listen to that weak cow!"
"Either way," Sora said, "you're not allowed entrance."
"Don't kid with us!" The shinobis took forth swords. "If you don't allow us to do our mission, we'll kill you."
Onikage looked at them and sighed wearily.
"Meikon, Yasha… knock them out."
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When a group of unconscious shinobis arrived on the table in the council room with Yokaze kneeling next to them, all ran up. He looked around and spoke up with a toneless voice:
"Homura-san, Koharu-san and Danzou-san, all bastards according to me, your shinobis failed to retrieve a person who doesn't even live in Chigakure."
Tsunade's eyes widened and she turned to glare at the three. They reddened and Koharu shouted:
"And you killed them?"
"No, they are not dead, they are merely unconscious" Yokaze continued. It was true; they did not even have a scratch on them. He then reached into his vest and removed a scroll. He put it down, closed his eyes for a moment, opened them again and said, "As of today… all Konoha shinobis are forbidden to enter Chigakure. Only messages from Tsunade-hime will even be considered to be read, and anymore tries to try to force yourselves into our village will result in them being brought back here in unconscious state. I'm sorry, Tsunade-hime, but this order was decided by our entire village. Konoha has caused too much pain for our leader."
Before anyone could say anything, Danzou made a sign for one of his bodyguards who threw a kunai towards Yokaze.
"No!" Tsunade screamed.
Yokaze closed his eyes and the kunai went right through him. He began to fade from view, like he became the air itself.
"My powers are feared, for I can turn into the very air you breath," Yokaze spoke and looked at Danzou. "You cannot kill me with such simple things as weapons."
A moment later he was gone.
Tbc…
How was that? I like to track down on the Konoha council for some reason right now. And I hate Danzou. I know the chapter's short, I just didn't find anything more to write about at the moment.
Chapter eleven: Tsunade decides, after scaring the shit out of the stupid council, to go to Chigakure to speak with Sora on his own ground, only to come to a still burning battlefield…
Until later,
Ja,
Tiro