Naruto Kumo Nin

by Dark Hunter006

My father is Dendou, a ninja from Kumo. My mother is Kushina, a ninja from Whirlpool. When these two came together, they unraveled a war which had been years in the making. A strange group are after Yugito and I, and I don't know why everyone at Whirlpool was killed off. Strange things are happening and I am revolving around it. Please R & R !

10. What if?

Naruto Kumo Nin

Chapter 10

What If?

Word Count: 6,132

A/N: Soooo… Just to point out Naruto's emotions have been all over the place the past couple chapters. Just in case nobody caught it he hasn't been the same since finding Karm in the forest, and he won't change for a while. There's a big secret that will be revealed in a few chapters that won't help his emotions either. Thus his fight against Sasuke, and getting blinded by his swords breaking.

Hope you guys enjoy the flashbacks in this chapter.

Naruto POV

I could feel my body tighten at the word Yugito. I wasn't sure if that was the real reason my muscles tensed, or if I was just telling myself that. What was going on with me? There were moments were I felt my control slip, like I would go ballistic, but other times I knew I had nothing to fear. I wasn't sure how a monster like me even managed to hold my control. I was part human part beast, part freak. That's what I was, I was an abomination. I could feel my emotions shaking up and down like a Richter scale. This had started with Karm, seeing him in the forest had drove the Kyuubi, and me over the edge. If I had to be honest though, this might have started when I met Yugito.

I hated the fact that it had to do with her. Why was she so damn important to me? I squeezed my temples closer together but it wasn't helping my head that felt like it was spinning with thoughts. I was having so many thoughts I couldn't seem to shut them all off. Everything was starting with what if. What if my parents were alive? What if I had met Yugito before? What if Karm had not betrayed all of Whirlpool with the war? What if Karm had been the one who was responsible for everything?

Damn this world and what it was coming too. All of the anger, all of the hate, all of the different emotions. Being so special I happened to pick up on everything that the world threw at me. I closed my eyes and leaned up close against the railing before I felt Yugito look my way. I could feel her staring at me with that concerned look that she always gave me. Why did she have to worry about me so much? Why did we have such a connection? Was our connection really as simple as our beasts?

"You're worried" I heard her ask me. It wasn't a question it was something that she was noticing. I hated that she could read me like she knew me. Maybe on some kind of level she knew me. She knew some of the problems that I had gone through when I grew up. When I didn't answer her she started to walk past me before she gave me one quick look over. "Not about my fight, but I know that look. We'll take about this afterward." I didn't nod my head or give any kind of reaction to her comment, and that apparently was another give away that something was wrong. I was teetering on the edge of control with my emotions.

Yugito's POV

So I guess it was my turn to fight. I was eager no doubt but I didn't know anything about my enemy other than he was a ninja from Suna, the village hidden in the sand, and his name was Kankuro. As I started to walk down the steps to the arena I could feel my heart starting to pick up its pace. Was I scared about facing Kankuro? Maybe it was the unknown I was afraid of. No way was I admitting that I was scared to fight, absolutely not.

When I finally stepped into the arena I saw Hayate look at both of us to see if we were ready to fight. I was so ready. I quickly nodded by head and he struck his hand down letting the battle commence. I was going to make my body move into action but I noticed Kankuro just staring at me. Oh so we were going to play the staring game. Too bad it wasn't a blink first you die kind of game, this was simply who was going to make the first move. I kept my eyes on his eyes but felt my body start to move to the right like I was corralling him into a certain area.

Truth was I had no idea what I was doing but I didn't want to make that clear as a bell. As I kept my eyes on his I started to feel my eyes pulse purple. That little bitch demon inside of me was way too impatient, she couldn't wait for the battle to start. I thought that Kankuro might take a step back when the Nibi flashed in my eyes but he seemed completely unaffected. I wonder why. My hand slowly went for the kunai pouch on my hip, but my eyes were still connected to his; this was getting creepier by the minute. I flashed my kunai into action, and happily spun the end in my hand. 'Taste this you creeper' I thought to myself as I hurled the kunai at his head.

The moment seemed to last forever. This one moment of me throwing a kunai seemed so tense. I could see it flying and flying, and he wasn't moving. HE WASN'T REACTING. WHAT THE HELL was he doing? At the end of the moment I heard the sound of something shattering. I didn't realize in that long drawn out moment that I had moved my eyes to a different location. The piercing sound the kunai made threw me out of my thoughts.

The diamond dagger was in his right eye, but something was wrong. I heard the sound first before I saw the cracks of what looked like skin falling to the ground like shattered glass, fragments and pieces everywhere and that was when I knew I was scared. This wasn't Kankuro this was something that I couldn't even put into words. I could feel fear strike me hard as the dead eyes glared at me, pieces still falling from his broken face. I definitely wasn't excited to fight him anymore.

I heard the rip of fabric then a monstrous creation exploded out Kankuro's clothing. Faster than I could even blink I sailed across the arena slamming into the wall with a blade that had pierced my left shoulder. I looked at the blade and noticed a wooden arm connected to it. As I tried to move I felt another blade pierce my right leg, and I knew I wasn't going anywhere. 'What the hell is he doing to you' I heard Naruto ask in my head. It sounded more confused than worried but his thoughts were welcome.

'You have got to be kidding me. This clown is playing with dolls. How childish is that' I questioned back to Naruto who I knew was looking down intrigued by the situation. I'm sorry but being tortured by a freak with make up on was not part of today's agenda.

"What's wrong Kumo you trapped" I heard Kankuro say. I wasn't sure were his voice was coming from but I saw whatever had been on his back start to unravel leaving a completely unharmed Kankuro with blue chakra threads stuck into the monster creation that I had thought was Kankuro, as well as the two blades stuck into my shoulder and leg. "Oh don't be too shocked now. You've never seen a puppeteer have you. Shall I show you all the painful things we can do?"

'There is only one person who can put their hands all over me and it ain't you, you fucking clown' I said to myself. I lowered my head and closed my eyes for a moment. Before I felt another blade pierce through my left leg this time. I had to put a stop to this. This couldn't go on. I wasn't going to let myself be tortured to death by this multi colored, spineless, no good, little shit.

The end was near and I knew it, but it wasn't my end. I felt a surge of purple chakra start to rise from my body and it erupted in great waves of anger. I felt myself let out a low roar before I knew who was taking control. I could feel my eyes pulsing and switching, and it was then that I felt a slow release of pain. "You can't have her. She is claimed already" I felt the Nibi growl out. In a split second the blades jetted out of my body as fast as rushing water. I could feel my nails growing longer as my body blazed off the wall. With a rush of adrenaline and anger the Nibi slashed across Kankuro's face with my new favorite weapons.

I saw him take a step back and run his hand along his cheek. He looked down for only a short moment before he directed his hands straight out. I wasn't sure what that meant until I saw the puppet follow its master's directions. So Kankuro controlled the puppet with chakra interesting. I saw more blades with the wooden arms coming my direction. I heard the familiar sound of crackling before I looked and saw my body covered in purple lightning. So my chakra was already starting to change to the Nibi's color, and she had activated the lightning strike armor.

With a rush of purple my body rushed forward drilling right through the damn puppet. I bet it had to do with the Nibi's enhanced strength and the lightning strike armor that I learned from my grandfather. It was obviously a surprise to Kankuro to see someone beat his puppet. The look on his face was so priceless. It was a kind of 'oh crap' moment. He must have known then that he wasn't going to win. He was never meant to win this battle. Who could stand up against the Nibi besides another tailed beast?

I heard Kankuro's puppet shatter into a million pieces before the Nibi got up real close and personal. This was her payback for sticking those blades in me. We were so high into are adrenaline I almost didn't notice the few senbon that were guided to my neck when his puppet exploded. It obviously took the Nibi a moment to notice too because I felt my body take in a painful deep breath before I crashed to the floor. He had gotten the senbons right in the arteries in my neck. "Don't count me out yet" I heard his arrogant ass say as he tried to connect his chakra threads into a limb or two that was left over from the puppet. The bulk of his wooden abomination was destroyed but there were still a few left overs.

So even when he knew he was outmatched Kankuro didn't give up. The man had guts I had to give him that much. With my eyes barely open I saw two blades with the arms still attached coming for my chest. 'Yugito you can't give up' I heard an oh so familiar voice say. I wasn't sure what I could do to Kankuro but I knew I had to do something. In quick and painful flashes I saw a technique that I knew would help me win this battle. It was so painful for me to move my arms but I had to. One sign was all I needed.

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" I said in a low voice filled with rage that only Naruto would pick up on. The two blades did pierce a body but…not my body or not my real one anyway. 'Thank you Naruto' I whispered in my thoughts. This battle was now over thanks to him. With the Nibi still in control of my body I felt myself stiff arm and clothes hang Kankuro in his surprise. I surprise people that should not be so much a surprise. I wasn't done yet though. He was going to pay for what he put me through and I knew how. 'Have fun casting jutsu asshole' I thought as I slipped behind Kankuro and with the Nibi's strength broke his shoulders.

He dropped right to the ground. He looked dead but I knew he was still breathing I could hear it. Slowly I reached up and pulled the senbons out of my neck before I could take a real breath. 'Wow that was an insane battle' I said to Naruto who was the only one who could listen, besides the Nibi of course. My eyes started to shift back and now I was in control.

"Kankuro is unable to battle and Yugito Nii wins this match" I barely heard Hayate say. I was too busy having a hard time climbing the stairs. Of course Naruto was there to greet me at the top.

"Nice battle" I heard him say before he helped me the rest of the way. He started to walk me toward the room where Nailah had told us about herself. Slowly and softly he set me down against the wall in the corner where no one could easily see me.

"I'm still getting used to having the Nibi in me and I was still wounded from that last fight" I said so pitifully. Really, why did he always have to save me? It always was about Naruto and there was a small part of me that hated that.

"You're still not sure how to work with the Nibi and not against her." I nodded my head because I didn't want to say anything. What could I say anyway? Yes I'm pathetic and have a lot to learn. Yeah that was a good boost on my already low self-esteem. "When I first started to learn about the Kyuubi in me we argued all the time. We could never agree on which moves to use or who was in charge of my body. It took months for us to learn to cooperate correctly and efficiently but you are also becoming a hybrid where I had time to learn.

Becoming a hybrid is not so bad Yugito. I complain and get infuriated with a lot of things but I'm still alive. I live in Kumo now and I have a home again. I had a family with my mother, and then with Seiji and his wife. They are all gone and I've forgotten what it feels like to care. I'm learning right along with you. I am learning to let my humanity show again, to be the carefree-ish Naruto that I was when I was with Seiji and his wife.

This may surprise you but the Kyuubi hides his memories from before me from me. Even now that I'm a hybrid, a mix of the two souls there is still a part of me that is hidden. So many times I have tried to find out about my past but to no avail. I do know one thing though that the Kyuubi can't hide from me, his emotions. The Kyuubi's history and my history are filled with pain, and agony, and suffering. Sometimes it's his suffering, and sometimes it's of the host. I have tried so many times to get a picture of my mother from him but he hides that too. The Kyuubi will never say it but he misses my mother.

The Kyuubi has had a connection with each of his hosts." I could hear the sincerity in Naruto's voice as he was talking and it gave me chills just thinking about how close we were getting. I was getting through to the real Naruto. The vulnerable little kid who had been abandoned twice in his life time. I didn't plan on doing it to him again. He was stuck with me regardless of what he wanted.

"Do you remember what you were like when you were young? I mean when you lived with Seiji and his wife. Do you remember the happiness that you felt to have a parent?" I asked. Naruto slowly sat down next to me and brought his arms around his shoulders, and lightly pulled me close. I was grinding my teeth together to keep from saying anything but Naruto stopped when he must have felt the pain start to pulse from my shoulder and legs. To say I was surprised about his next action would be an understatement.

Ever so lightly he expelled a little bit of his chakra out of his fingers and started to run them through my hair. I started to smile when I heard myself purr with pleasure at his touch. This was what I needed. I needed Naruto and his intimate side that he tried to hide.

"I only remember a little bit of it. You have to keep in mind that for the past few years' revenge has been on my mind and it's consuming. The need for violence and bloodshed can and will take hold of you if you let it. I told you that I let the Kyuubi take control when he hurt innocents because I couldn't stand to look at their faces. As the years went on revenge started to settle in more and more and my resolve was getting hardened." He stroked through my hair a few times before continued his story telling.

"I remember the first bed that I ever laid in. Oh my gosh was I excited. Seiji told me that he had something all set out for me whenever I was ready to go to bed. I was so young and still innocent and I jumped at the chance in order to sleep in a bed. I ran right away to the bedroom, jumped in my bed and sunk like a boat into my covers. I think I slept for like 15 hours or something crazy like that. That was the first time I really felt like I was home. Little did I know that I would lose everything I hold dear." I felt the anger start to rise in Naruto as he told his story. His emotions were my emotions, and they were strong. I was getting ready to say something to him but he continued.

"I want to show you something if you'll let me." I felt some kind of pull at my soul and almost jerked away from him till I recognized what he was doing. I was going mind surfing.

Naruto's mind Yugito POV

So I have been in Naruto's mind before. Once when I first met him and the Nibi and the Kyuubi battled for dominance. The last time was when I had to go look for him after sending the Kyuubi to the far reaches of his mind. This time though was different. I didn't have to look for Naruto because he was right there with me. It gave me some form of comfort that I didn't have to go looking for him. I turned my head a little to the right, and saw Naruto just staring off into something. I wasn't even really sure what he was staring at until I saw the shapes and colors starting to take form.

I heard the sound of a little kid giggling and running before I even started to see what exactly was going on. It took a minute for the blackness to start to take shape but I could see a kid with red hair. I also noticed an older man who I assumed was Seiji since this was a younger version of Naruto. A younger version yes but not naïve at all. Even a young Naruto was a ball of fire. After a moment the fresh green grass started to take form in the memory. I then started to see the blue sky and the clouds happily rolling by.

"This was when Seiji's wife was still alive. She was in the house making dinner and Seiji was playing with me in the yard. All hell broke loose after she died. Seiji hunted for her killer but never found him" Naruto started saying. He seemed to pause for a moment and his face hardened before he started to talk again. "I don't think Seiji even knew who her killer was. I only know who the killer is because you went through my memories and found out. It's a pity to think Seiji was never able to exact revenge on his wife's murderer. Revenge is what makes the whole world go round."

I turned to him for a moment, completely confused at his words. Why was he so bent on revenge? Didn't he just give me an ear full about being tired of revenge? He had explained that revenge was consuming his life. "Are you feeding off of the Kyuubi's feelings inside you? You hate being consumed with anger and hatred. Why would you let yourself be controlled with something that you hate?"

"You don't get it" he suddenly yelled. He turned his full attention toward me, eyes flaring. "The Kyuubi and I are mixed. His anger is my anger. My thoughts are his thoughts. You'll never understand what that entails. You think you're going to be a hybrid like me. Yugito you will never be like me. The Nibi has sat in a jar for who knows how long and she was upset. You don't understand the rage from watching your past two hosts die. Mito and my mother died. The Kyuubi wallowed in anger and killed more people than I can count. I was almost killed by that one group after us before I managed to get away. You are nothing compared to me. Don't you even dare try to say you understand my hate. My whole village was destroyed. My mother and my father both were trying to save a people that were never meant to be saved.

Whirlpool was destroyed from the inside. Karm corrupted and twisted the people until they were nothing more than little peons. YOU ARE NOTHING" he yelled one final time. I felt my breath get caught in my throat. This couldn't be happening. I was something. I was a part of something wanted or not. When an unknown group hunts your kind for a purpose I call that pretty important.

"HOW DARE YOU JUDGE ME" I said right before I gave him a nice right hook across the face. He stumbled a few feet back and turned those wicked red and black eyes at me. I felt my eyes shift into their Nibi form, and I felt her essence take over. "You're a miserable ball of fiery red. Pull your nine tails out of your ass and stop PMSing like a female. Yes you lost two hosts' so what. You didn't think that we would stay in one host did you. You're so full of your hate that you can't even see anything else going on. I understand that I can't have my revenge right now, and I thought you knew that. You talk about how much you and Naruto have grown up over the past couple years, I don't see any change.

Do you even realize how beat up your host is? His eyes are damaged and his emotions are all over the place. I made a vow to Yugito's mother that I would get revenge, and believe me I intend to collect on that revenge but when it is an appropriate time. Don't think that I don't know what your pathetic excuse for a tailed beast did to the Raikage. Enraging the Raikage, that's someone you want on your side, even I know that. Do you really even know what's going on or did your stupid fox ass just go hide in your den until someone else fixes the problem. Hell, you fucking dumb nuts you couldn't even kill Karm when you had the chance. You're always going on and on about revenge, you had your bloody fucking chance and you could take it." The Nibi may have been in control of my body but it was like watching from the sidelines.

The two tailed bitch demon was tearing the Kyuubi apart. Why were we even fighting anyway? Damn it I thought we were on good terms. I thought that was one of the things that changed about us. I understood that the Kyuubi wanted revenge. That much was clear in the Kyuubi's thoughts, and in Naruto's attitude. Had I really made the right choice by committing to him though? Was a person a few seconds from losing control a good choice of character on my part, probably not?

I felt the Nibi slightly slip from control and my mind taking over again. Don't ask me what was pulling at me to do what I was about to do, but I was going to do it anyway. Any other person would have ended things right then but I couldn't. When Naruto, my Naruto wasn't looking I forcefully grabbed his face in my hands, and let my lips and emotion do the rest. I felt him resist for a moment but he never pulled away from me.

"Why damn it" I growled out when his lips slipped away from mine. "Why are you trying to torture me? I should hate your guts profusely but…"

"Then hate me Yugito. It's a hell a lot easier than loving you" he spat out with what I figured was venom. So now we were getting to the root of the problem huh. He couldn't stand that he was falling in love with me, because he had been alone. He had only known hate, anger, rage; he didn't know what to do with anything else.

"You're a fucking pussy you know that. You start to feel one little thing for me and suddenly your whole world flips upside down. I want to hate you" I growled in frustration as I slammed my fist against his chest. "I hate you. I hate you. I hate you. I hate you." I pulled back at my sudden outburst and I felt my knees start to give out. I couldn't hold myself up for whatever reason and I crashed hard against the ground. I could feel Naruto just staring at me, trying to decide if he really wanted to help me.

"If anyone is torturing anyone Yugito Nii it's what you do to me. You can only guess at what your thoughts and feeling do to me. On the outside you see an angry Naruto bent on revenge, but sometimes you look right past that and see the younger Naruto and I hate that. I hate that you do what you do to me. It's really me who wants to hate you Yugito. Things would be so much easier for if you just hated me, but you don't, it's against your nature." I felt a few wet tears fall down my cheeks and it just fueled my rage. Why the hell was I crying at a time like this? I really was so pathetic.

"Why are you showing me this" I questioned as I started to push myself off the group. He didn't answer me and that was when I noticed the surroundings starting to change. I wasn't sure what I was looking at until I saw a body just lying there, face first in the dirt. "What the hell is this" I spat out as I grabbed his shirt and pulled him in my grasp tight. "What in the world are you trying to do. We have already established that you want me to hate you but this…" I pushed him away from me and closed my eyes. I couldn't look at the dead lifeless body anymore.

"I told you that the Kyuubi and I killed people and this is one of them. If you really want me Yugito then you need to understand a lot more than you do right now. I need to explain some history to you though, and I only know this from the Kyuubi. Before the Kyuubi ever took a host he ravaged the land in an uncontrollable rage. All of the tailed beasts did as a matter of fact. After a lot of deaths from the Kyuubi someone took a stand and sealed him in Mito Uzumaki his first host, and wife to the first Hokage of Konoha. During the Kyuubi's rampage though he traveled all over the world and he still had those memories from where he went.

In our anger when I became a hybrid, I traveled to one of the places he went and I killed someone in their village. That's what this memory is Yugito. I went to Takigakure and was later exiled from the village. The Kage told me if I ever came back to Waterfall that he would kill me himself. Taki already has its own Jinchuuriki anyway, so I wasn't ever going to be accepted there. From what I could tell the village didn't much care for their own Jinchuuriki that lived there but that's another story.

I have a feeling that your grandfather only allowed me to become Kumo because my father was one. I can't imagine the council's village likes having three Jinchuuriki in one place. It sounds like a bad accident waiting to happen." I cocked my head to the side at his mention of the third Jinchuuriki. How did he know about that? I never told him that. Damn it, he went mind surfing didn't he. He did it without my permission. I wouldn't have said no but he needed to ask.

"You know you need to ask before you start going through someone's personal mind. I thought we agreed that wasn't a fair thing to do." I was half expecting him to give me a crooked smile but nothing happened. I knew there was more that he needed to show me, but something else happened. My thoughts were cut short when my body recoiled and I found myself on the ground again. I felt purple that's the only sensation I could describe. I could feel the Nibi's chakra pulsing and I put my hands on my head to try to get a grip about what was going on. I felt myself let out a dark menacing growl but it was filled with pain. Every part of me was screaming at me for control so I closed my eyes.

As fast as the pain came it suddenly just went silent. Everything was quiet and for a moment, it was like I couldn't feel the Nibi in me. I opened my eyes but I didn't dare try to stand up. "What's going on" I asked but that's when I heard a familiar voice. No, damn it I didn't want Naruto to see this. The Nibi was forcing my memories in Naruto mind. I closed my eyes so I could block out the memories but I could still here the sounds of glasses landing hard on the table. I could hear the sound the Sake bottle was making as it was poured into the glasses. This wasn't happening, this wasn't real.

"Now I get to see what happened. You didn't explain this part to me Yugito, and you should have." I should have, what the hell did that mean. Even though my body was still in pain I sped to Naruto in a flash of purple and slammed his ass down to the ground. My hybrid mode shinning as bright as ever.

"You have no idea what happened there so how can you be so rash. I watched my friend get knifed right in front of my eyes over a grudge." I made sure to slam his chest into the ground ever harder. "Kumo has a tradition to go on an easy mission to pass your gennin test. That's what that mission was supposed to be, it was going to be simple. We had collected some incriminating evidence against someone in Iwa and that's where we were headed. When we got there everything was fine, they let us in, and we didn't have any trouble until we went for information.

We stopped at the village's tavern for some news but instead found a fight. My old teammate's father killed some other guy's father and he wanted revenge. He tried to talk the guy out of the fight but he quickly pulled a knife out and stabbed him straight through the gut. None of us were even fast enough to stop it and that's when my rage exploded. A fire hotter than the Uchiha's fire unleashed itself on the man from Iwa. A few people tried to protect him but we took them out too. My anger had no limits and within minutes everything around us had been turned to rubble.

What you saw last time was my exploding rage. You saw the built up hate and more."

"There are primal forces more powerful than either of us can comprehend at work, and that's what happened here." With another quick flash of purple Naruto and I were on our feet face to face. My breath was rigged for a moment so I closed my eyes to concentrate on just the breathing.

When I opened my eyes to look around I noticed that we were no longer in his mindscape. We were back in the real world. I felt someone enter the room and turned my head a little to see who was daring to follow us.

"Is she ok" I head the black haired cold blue eyes say. She walked a few feet toward us before she knelt down and tried to look directly in my eyes. "You got hurt pretty bad in that last fight."

"I'm fine Nailah" I winced. "I'm just a little off my game." Ok so that wasn't a complete and utter lie but she didn't need to know the rest. She didn't need to know that I was having trouble with the Nibi. I was having trouble accessing complete control over her powers.

"I thought you might want to watch the next fight. I heard Kankuro and this other girl talking before the prelim's started. It think the girl who is about to fight is his sister. Temari is her name right, I think that's what I heard." I didn't really answer Nailah, I don't know why. I turned eyes to Naruto's and he nodded before he slipped his arm around my shoulders and pulled me to my feet. Nailah looked kind of confused. She didn't know if she really should help or leave us alone but I pointed my head in the direction of the arena. She nodded happily and we followed us till we saw the two new fighters head toward the center. So Temari verses black haired pom pom girl.

Sorry for the wait, I hope I did this chapter justice. I wasn't really sure how I wanted to write Kankuro at first but I'm happy as to how it came out. Just as a side note Yugito will get a lot stronger in the next couple chapters but as I tried to explain in the chapter she's having trouble with her new abilities that come with being a hybrid. So the closer she is to being a hybrid the more control she will have.

I hope Yugito flashback made sense. We are still a few chapters away from a surprise that will change Naruto forever, but it wouldn't be a surprise if I told you would it, hahahaha.

As always R&R, I really enjoy feedback. It helps the writer a lot.

Translations:

Kage Bunshin no Jutsu – Shadow Clone Technique

Edited 10/17/13