This is the last chapter for awhile enjoy!
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Something You Can't Ignore
Chapter 11: Poisoned Youth
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In the early hours of the morning one still figure laid immobile in her bed sheets as memories of the previous night played before her dull coal eyes that once held a fiery spark that struck fear in her opponents. The morning sun rose and struck her face as a reminder that the world still moved on without her.
I…should get up. She slowly rose up from the bed and peeled away the bed sheet covers, leaving her bare to the world and yet she could not bring herself to care. She walked into her bathroom and just stared at her reflection- her body. Tainted… She looked away from the mirror and entered into the shower, letting the water run over her.
She put both of her hands against the wall of her shower only allowing water to flow down from her head and along the curve of her back. She shivered at the feeling of the cold air striking her exposed arms until she retreated into herself as she sat down and curled into a ball, feeling the water embrace her entire body like a warm blanket that was cleaning her.
Why?..."Because I love you Satsuki-chan." She felt deep guilt well inside her as if what happened was her fault. Was it because she ignored him after she was with- Naruto-kun…I don't think you would want a weak mouthy bitch like me huh? She retreated further into herself as she lacked a sense of personal identity and personal power.
She felt dirty, unclean, and unfit for others as though if she left the shower she would only be living a lie, ignoring what happened to her. But who would believe me? Yes, who would believe her: The great Uchiha Heiress, one who was destined to be a prodigy even greater than her brother…a future hero of the Hidden Leaf.
She clutched her head as she could no longer think straight. She began doubting herself, she was indecisive as she was submitted to his will and lost all feeling of personal power. So she searched and searched and searched inside herself to find some nerve some will that not been broken inside her- yet she could not find one as her skills failed her, her bloodline, her friends-
Wait what? My friends couldn't have done anything. Satsuki lifted her head slightly and let the water run down over her ears silencing any outside noises to listen to herself. But what if others knew about this? What if they could have stopped it? She stopped that train of thought as she knew that none of her friends would do that to her.
…but he used to be a friend. Friend. That word left a sour taste in her mouth and she could fight off the desire just to spit onto the floor of her shower at that word. Who is a true friend? What does friend mean? Are they simply people you allow close to you?...close enough to hurt you? Satsuki began doubting her personal relationships so she tucked her head back between her legs as fear filled her.
Maybe I shouldn't see anyone for a while. Yeah just for a little bit until… She did not know when she would return. When would she get over this? When would she be herself again? How much time alone would it take for her to trust herself and others again? She dug her fingers into her head as it was becoming too much for her.
They would just reject me. How am I supposed to deal with this kami! I'm just 15! She got up and turned off the shower, slowly approaching her image in the mirror. She let her eyes trail down the bite marks and bruises on her body only to slowly return back up to eyes reflected in the mirror. When she met those eyes she grew angry and turned all of her hurt and fear outward instead of keeping it inside.
"AHHH!" She slammed her arms onto her bathroom counter and slid her arms along its cool surface trying to throw everything off to the side. She punched the mirror shattering the image of her broken self and let the blood from the shattered glass flow through her clenched fingers. She pulled back her clenched fist and stared at the freely flowing blood to focus on the pain that was happening to her right now- this reality, not the one where she was weak.
Where she was submitting to anyone.
Where she was just a princess.
Where she was a foolish little girl.
Now I am a ninja. Satsuki wiped off the blood coming from her hand only to find that in her fit of rage one of her bangs now covered her right eye. She did not care at the moment so she did not brush it away but instead let the rest of her hair fall down to her neck. Her jagged black hair was now eerily similar in form to a great and fearsome Uchiha of the past.
Satsuki walked away from the destroyed bathroom and re-entered her room to change into her clothes. None of these clothes suit me anymore. Indeed what sort of ninja dressed themselves in such a revealing manner? If she were truly serious about leaving the past behind she would need to leave behind what the old Satsuki Uchiha would wear.
She grabbed some of her training clothes and wrapped her headband around her neck for the time being. I did not want to wear it until I became at least a chunin but now is the time. She shunshined from her room into the closed Uchiha Weapons Shop only to walk by all of the shinobi gear on display and head directly into the dark backroom. The room itself was dusty and primarily used for storage as the room was littered with boxes full of useless gear: broken tantos, rusty kunai and shuriken, etc.
Satsuki ignored the junk and headed straight to the large bookshelf covering the back wall. "Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu." Instead of a large fireball, she produced a stream of flames that slowly burnt down the large wooden bookshelf leaving only leaving burnt wooden splinters and charred edges of pages floating around in the air. She turned on her fully matured sharingan revealing a small text faded into the wood that was only legible to someone gifted enough with the bloodline to read the faint letters written in by chakra. She could not read it before as her sharingan was simply too weak but now she would not fail to decipher the text as she could only guess what was behind the white and red fan.
A duo unlike any other: a great wind god and one of flames fought the great tree and its water tempest. The wind was silenced by the water and its last moments gave its power to the flames allowing the flame god to reach unbelievable heights and yet in the end it lost to the great tree…however together they created what two boys dreamed together on opposite sides of a vast river.
Satsuki's face scrunched up in confusion as she analyzed the text. Ok I have no idea who the two boys are but let me take a look again at the characters: wind god, fire god, great tree, water tempest. Right there we have the main elements of wind, fire, and water but wood…that is a combination of earth and water right?...Think Satsuki! Ok, Ai-chan is the second wood user after Hashirama so the "great wood tree" must be him!
Ok then its water tempest. "Its" is possessive and personal so with people it must be a relative of some kind. Water…water….Tobirama! Yes, of course his brother! But that's not the duo the story is talking about though so a "great god of wind" and "one of flames"… Hashirama and Tobirama fought Madara Uchiha in the past so he must be the answer!
She cleared her throat and then said out loud "Madara Uchiha" expecting something to happen to the wall but nothing did. She then tried it again until she was sure that it was not right. Satsuki took a couple steps away from the wall and sat on a box just to sit and stare at the inscribed text.
Hmm. She narrowed her eyes and tucked her hands under her chin in thought. If it's not Madara then who could it be? "A great god of wind." there were no users of wind style in the Uchiha and certainly none that Madara would work with. All the others were associated by their element: Hashirama-wood, Tobirama-water, Madara-fire, but who-wind?
Maybe since it's different it must be the answer I'm looking for! Ok, since it is not associated to the person's abilities then it must be to the person's name. "The wind was silenced by the water and its last moments gave its power to the flames" Then Tobirama killed this person since the "wind" was silenced by the "water" and the "wind" gave his powers to Madara. If he was also an Uchiha then the only way to give power is to exchange eyes but that's only if one user is going blind.
So Madara was going blind from his Mangekyo sharingan but the exchange for a normal sharingan would only make him weaker so the "wind" must have been also a user of the Mangekyo but the only other user was his brother. That must be who are they are talking about!,,,but no one knows his name. Ok the name must be in the title "great god of wind" like Susanoo "great god of storms" or Amaterasu "goddess of the sun" so then his name must be-
"Izuna Uchiha!"Satsuki jumped up from the box she was sitting on and yelled the name at the wall thinking she had gotten the answer. The Uchiha fan began to rotate slowly until it was completely upside down. Satsuki approached the flipped Uchiha symbol and pushed down on it releasing the locks holding the wall. A loud rumbling noise filled the room as the ancient wall began to slide open revealing a dark stairwell.
As if the riddle wasn't enough. She huffed but proceeded down the stairs anyways. It was deathly silent in the tunnel as only the sound of her footsteps echoed in the empty hall. With each step forward a new set of torches ignited so she could only see what was five feet ahead of her. As she made her way down she could not help but notice the large Uchiha clan symbols that were covered in cobwebs of dust meaning that they must not have been cleaned in decades.
Finally she reached the end of the tunnel where she was met with a simple looking door but when she tried to open it, the lock prevented her from entering. I did not come all this way for nothing! She began weaving hand signs to burn the door down but stopped when she saw a small scroll, about the width of four of her fingers, unfurl its self over the door knob.
She stared at the scroll wondering what to do until she instinctively bit her thumb and streaked blood across the sealing array. The seal began to glow for a while until it closed itself back up and hid itself in the door again. Satsuki timidly reached out for the door knob and turned it only to find that it had been unlocked!
That was weird I wonder why it would open after getting a sample of my blood? She entered the room only to be surprised at what she saw. There was a bed along the far side wall with the Uchiha crest over it, nearby was a large closet that was painted dark blue, next to it was what appeared to be a weapon shelf as the rows were filled with shuriken, kunai, fuma shuriken, katanas, etc.
She had not known it yet but she was now in the armory of her unknown ancestor.
She approached the closet hoping to find a new set of clothes for her to wear as her old ones were not fit for the new Satsuki Uchiha. Opening the door, she was pleasantly surprised to find a rack full of clothes but what drew her attention was the large wooden chest at the bottom of the closet. She picked it up to find that it was light and she moved it over to the bed.
"Woah." Inside the chest was a large chokutō with a black hilt inside of a black scabbard. (Think Sasuke's Sword of Kusanagi). On top of it was a letter written on old paper, she picked it up gently as to not let it crumble in her hands. Satsuki lit the candle on the bed post to read the faded ink text.
Izuna, The sword I have given you was made so that you may combat that Senju's sword of Lightning. I trust it is in good hands and you will need to use it to its full potential if we are to be victorious.
-Madara
Satsuki's eyes were wide at the letter. So this sword was made by the Uchiha to defeat Tobirama's Sword of the Thunder God! She walked back to the edge of the bed and picked up the long chokuto to begin to slowly run through the katas that Itachi taught her. It's longer than the one nii-san and I trained with. I wonder if I can run my lighting chakra through it? She focused her lightning chakra out from her chest and down her arm…
As soon as lighting chakra hit the blade a large eruption of wind exploded from the blade, which surprised Satsuki enough to send her to the ground along with ruining the other objects in the room. Satsuki got up slowly and immediately regretted her decision. She made a note never to try to channel lightning but when she channeled regular chakra into the blade a small tornado of wind revolved around the length of the blade.
How am I supposed to use this to its full potential? I am not a wind user! She cut off chakra to the blade letting the winds reside and she returned it back to its scabbard. Satsuki took a deep breath and re-approached the closet again to leave her old self behind. I can't be that little girl anymore. I need to become a true kunoichi!
She undressed herself and reached out for the clothes only to stop suddenly. Satsuki looked down at her bare body that was still covered with his marks. I can't let my past ruin my future. She summoned a shadow clone and used what little medical chakra techniques she knew to remove all of the marks she could see and had the shadow clone get the rest.
Once she was now purified of her past she put on her ancestor's clothes which were unfortunately too big so she took them off and laid them on the bed. Her eyes traced down the black high collar top towards the center that bore the Uchiha fan and onto the front of the top that split at the bottom over the long black pants that fit the robe. (The design is based on the Naruto Revolution Madara's Black Robe. You should find it easily.)
It's not me though. Maybe if I…She pulled out a kunai and tore off the entire left sleeve making sure that it looked jagged at the end of the shoulder. Satsuki continued to cut away at the excess cloth until it fit her, but she made sure not to make it uneven. Before she put on the robe, she put on a tight black top that would hold everything important in place while she moved around and it would cover all the way up her neck.
She put on the robes of Izuna and slowly wrapped white bandages all along her exposed arm and even down her entire hand. She took the sword out of the chest and held it in her hand until she could find something in the weapons shop to hold it. Satsuki began to walk out of the room as the time approached for their team to meet for practice.
She walked out of the armory and took a look back to her old clothes that were laying on the floor only to close the door quickly and continue back up to the shop. Once she made it back up the stairs leading into the backroom, she resealed the hidden door so it looked as it once did before she entered. Satsuki re-entered the store in search of something to hold her new weapon in place only not to find anything that could hold such a unique item.
Damn. I can't just hold it in my hands the entire time. I guess I just have to be creative. She looked around the store once more with her new mentality until she found something that would work. Satsuki had a small smirk on her face and you could clearly see in her right exposed eye that she was pleased with her choice. She had found a large thick white rope that was wrapped around one of the barrels so she tied it around her waist twice and finished it by looping it with the excess rope. (Shippuden Sasuke outfit.)
She stuck the sword of Izuna in between the rope on her back and took a look at the new Satsuki Uchiha in the mirror and could not help but notice the big change. She no longer held a cheery disposition with only one of her sharp coal eyes exposed as the other was hidden under a curtain of her black hair. Her stomach and her legs were now covered by her ancestor's robes while her right arm was wrapped in white bandages that made her look bad-ass.
She walked away and headed towards Team 7's normal meeting place with her head held high refusing to meet anyone's questioning look at her new clothes. New Satsuki moved at her own pace, at her own expense, from her own will. In her lowest moment she found her unknown ancestor's armory and she made it a personal mission to not be the princess she was before but to be a ninja.
She was not healthy but at least she was someone else…
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Team 7 Bridge
Satsuki leaned against the bridge with both of her eyes closed so she could listen to the sounds of nature. She heard the sound of a fish leaping into the air and the small splash it made as it re-entered the small river. She heard the rustling of the tree leaves as the breeze gently waved her hair back and forth. However in this silence, memories of the previous night raced to her mind, but she fought and fought to suppress her old self, fought to suppress her own moans that shattered her peaceful state of mind, fought to suppress the happy face of her attacker.
"OI SATSUKI-CHAN!" she immediately was brought back into the present with Ai's loud shout. "Why were you not listening to me?" Ai looked over Satsuki's outfit and had stars in her eyes. "Satsuki-chan! Why did you not take me with you go shopping? I would have loved to join you! I love what you did with the sleeve and I really like the robe…." She continued on as Satsuki let her talk excitably, she looked over to her right to see Arashi dangling his legs over the side of the bridge.
"Ai-chan, stop for a second." Ai stopped talking about clothes and let her talk. "What's going on with Arashi? Did something happen?" Ai looked down and lost all of her happy façade. She began to speak in a low voice as she told her what happened last night. Satsuki's exposed eye went wide at hearing that Ai had a brother that died and how crushed her parents were. She took another look over at Arashi and was thankful that he was there for Ai when she needed someone.
Maybe I should tell someone what happened to me? Ai however continued to talk. "Yeah Arashi, nii-san let me cry on his shoulder the whole night and even put me into his own bed. He is such a nice guy." Ai sighed as she truly appreciated Arashi's kind actions. Satsuki looked back at Ai with a "Are you stupid" look on her face.
"Wait. You are calling him your brother now?" Ai gave her an enthusiastic nod, while Satsuki turned back to look at the depressed Arashi. "Yup! I love him for doing that and it only felt right that I call him nii-san for doing all that for me! I mean he gave me flowers, a great dinner, and even listened to me when I needed a friend!" Ai had a true smile on her face as Satsuki gave one of her own, seeing as her surrogate sister was really happy but…
"Ai-chan…You really shouldn't call Arashi your brother." Ai tilted her head and Satsuki took a sidelong glance over at Arashi who was trying to look disinterested but was obviously listening in to their conversation. She sighed and looked back up at Ai's curious look. What if Arashi is going to do the same thing he did? What if I end up responsible for ruining Ai-chan's heart? Could I live with myself if she goes through the same thing that happened to me?
"You should not get so close to someone you barely know." She said it so definitively that it sounded even offensive to her own ears. Ai came to the defense of Arashi while Arashi was angry at Satsuki for saying that he was basically a stranger to them. Seeing his team fight Kakashi decided that now was the time to interrupt.
"Yo!" He gave them an eye smile and a small hand wave bringing the small fight to a close and drawing in their attention. Kakashi unnoticeably narrowed his eye at Satsuki's new look as it was a really sudden change from her normal gear. Guess she became serious about being a ninja…but there was no reason to do so right now. Something happened to make this change…
"Kakashi-sensei! Are we going on a real mission now or what? Because I know for damn sure I am not delivering anymore packages!" Arashi had his arms crossed and huffed out loud as he and the others were tired of these academy-level missions. Kakashi looked over at Arashi and told his team that they would get another C-rank mission, as Arashi and Ai groaned while Satsuki looked peeved, he continued that they would be performing an escort mission for a VIP.
They looked at their sense with gratitude in their eyes and quickly followed him to the mission hall. When they got there Team 7 witnessed what seemed to be a blast from the past as an academy team had just finished their D-rank mission to capture Tora as the young students eyed the smothered brown cat with glee as it was being crushed in its owner's grip.
"Ohh, my cute Tora-chan! I was so worried about you!" The chunky wife of the Fire Country's Feudal Lord was cheek to cheek with her- now in tears- cat as it tried to escape her tight grip. "That cat's getting what he deserves," mumbled one of the academy students as the genin of Team 7 sweat dropped at this scene as it was exactly the same as their first time doing the mission years ago.
As the academy students and their client left the air in the mission hall was awkward to say the least. Minato looked over at team 7 who was ready to get a new mission but it was clear that Minato wanted to talk to Ai. Ai on the other hand was still uncomfortable with talking to her father so soon, picking up on this Kakashi broke the air by asking if Guy's team made it back yet.
"The mission was a success Kakashi though from early reports flown in from the team leaders it was a much more difficult mission than originally predicted." Team 7 was intrigued as to who actually took the mission in their place. "Well…" Minato scratched the back of his head as he wanted to avoid the answer but under the glare of Ai he folded but Satsuki could have cared less as they now had a new mission themselves.
"Naruto Uzumaki was the closest genin out in the field and based on his previous performance he was best suited to complete this mission." That got all of the genin's attention as Satsuki's exposed sharingan came to life trying to melt Minato in his seat. How reckless! How could he send him out for another mission when he was clearly injured!
She was about to say something but she stopped herself and deactivated her sharingan while casting her gaze to the ground. Everyone expected her to have some sort of outburst but this? "Aren't you going to say something?!" Arashi said to Satsuki as he was furious that they sent Naruto out again after what he went through.
"It doesn't matter anymore clearly it was successful. We have our own mission to complete." She said it in such a cold fashion that it quelled Arashi immediately and left the others wide eyed. Minato coughed into his hand and told them that their mission would be to escort a bridge builder to the Land of Waves but that it was expected to be a C-rank mission.
"Alright, bring in the client please." The wooden door to the mission hall slowly opened to reveal an aging man guzzling down sake from a large bottle to the point that it ran down his cheek from trying to drink too much at once. "What? They're all kids!" He took another swig from his brown bottle and propped himself against the door.
"Hey listen here old man we are the best of the best believe it!" Arashi gave Tazuna an annoyed look as he was underestimated again, which was the worst thing to him. Tazuna ignored him and introduced himself with a serious expression on his face. "I am the bridge building master Tazuna. Once I have returned to my country, I will have all of you protect my life with yours while I complete the bridge." Arashi and Ai were getting excited at the prospect of this mission whereas Satsuki and Kakashi were acting nonchalant.
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Road to the Wave
The group walked at a civilian pace to ensure that Tazuna could keep up and while Arashi and Ai were enjoying the weather Satsuki was lost in thought. I need to do more! These missions are just too easy I need to prove myself. She reached for the handle of her new blade and fingered the hilt as she felt two foreign entities nearby. Satsuki was about to say something but Arashi had wrapped his arm around her neck in a half way hug.
"Don't worry about it Satsuki I will protect you since Naruto isn't here-" He could not say anymore as he was thrown into a nearby creek with a sudden throw. "What the hell was that all about?!" Arashi spat out the water that was in his mouth but he did not think when he resurfaced he would have seen Satsuki so shaken.
She caught her jagged breath and re-assumed her original emotional-less walk away from the now curious and wet Arashi. He emerged from the water and caught up with the group. Tazuna said nothing as he did not want to get on the bad side of the Uchiha heiress. "You know if anything is bothering you, you can tell me, Ai, or hell even Naruto but he probably wouldn't listen." Satsuki casted her gaze over to Arashi while glancing over at the puddle in the road.
"What I mean is that he most likely would try to use his fists first as he can get…defensive as you probably know." Arashi tucked his arms behind his head acting as if was relaxing but in reality he was getting his hands near his bo staff. "Yeah Naruto can be a little aggressive sometimes but he still is a good guy." Ai said with a cute smile as she held her arms behind her back while leaning forward to look at Satsuki.
Satsuki looked down and silently turned on her sharingan as the previous chakra sources were now rushing out of the water puddle. "What the-!" Kakashi was quickly wrapped up in a large chain held by none other than the Demon brothers. They pulled on their chain hard slicing Kakashi into pieces. "One down." They disappeared and reappeared behind Satsuki who was facing Tazuna and was the only one in front of their target.
"Got you!" They were on top of her and stretched out their chain to wrap around her.
Clang!
Their eyes widened as their chain was cut in half from an unbelievably quick sword draw from Satsuki who quickly tucked the sword back into its scabbard to avoid any future questions from her team since in that brief moment she used its wind properties to easily break their chain. The Demon Brothers refused to give up and rushed at her side by side with their claws extended.
Satsuki slowly turned around and lifted her head making eye contact with the two who could not look away fast enough. Her exposed sharingan caught the two so quickly that they could not react fast enough. "Genjutsu…" They both passed out while running at full speed causing the two to roll onto the ground on both sides of the calmly standing Uchiha who no longer had her sharingan active.
The skidded on the ground for a few moments before they laid immobile at Tazuna's feet indicating just who the target actually was. Kakashi came out of the bushes congratulating the team on their successful counter to the ambush. He narrowed his eye at Tazuna who was sighing heavily in relief, but he continued on to pick up the two unconscious missing ninja and tied them to a nearby tree trunk.
He released the genjutsu on them and began to speak again. "These guys are Chunin-class ninja from the Hidden Village of the Mist. They are known to keep fighting no matter what the cost." One of the two bound ninja spoke up asking how they were able to detect them so quickly. "It hasn't rained for the past few days, and it's sunny today, so a water puddle shouldn't exist." Tazuna asked Kakashi why he let the kids fight if he knew they were going to attack.
"If I was up to it, I could have killed these two in the blink of an eye but…" He turned slightly and sharply glared at Tazuna. "I needed to know who the target was for these two. In other words, were you being targeted, or was it somebody from our group? We have not heard anything about you being targeted by ninja. Your request was protection from armed groups like gangs and robbers. This mission as it stands now is above a B rank as there are enemy ninjas involved."
Tazuna looked down as he had not considered just how dangerous this mission would be. He looked away from the group as he did not want to reveal anything. "It looks like you have your reasons, but it only troubles us if you lie in your request details. This wasn't part of the mission."
"We are not running away from this." Everyone turned to Arashi who had a fierce look in his eyes. "I am tired of being babied like some brats. I refuse to give up! We can handle this Kakashi-sensei. If we back out now who knows when we will ever get another mission like this!" Satsuki and Ai silently stood behind him in support as Kakashi was silently happy at this moment of team bonding.
He gave an exaggerated sigh and told Tazuna that he was lucky for getting such an exceptional group of genin. "Now to deal with you two." He turned onto the now panicking Demon Brothers. "Wait! We will tell you all you want to know if you let us live!" Kakashi stopped moving towards them and gestured them to continue. "Look ok, we have been traveling with a camp that should be somewhere nearby. We are really only scouts and were just to see who was escorting the target but we got cocky and tried to get him ourselves for more money."
"Who hired you?" The Demon Brothers hesitated for few seconds until a kunai was lodged between both of their heads sending the clear message that they would die if they held back information. "OK! OK! We don't know! Our camp was approached by some shady man in a business suit who just handed over a picture of the old guy and some money up front along with the rest once the mission was done."
"Did you get a name or something?" They quickly shook their heads indicating that they had no idea but Tazuna knew, however he did not say anything. Kakashi sighed as they had little intelligence on who was after their client. Whoever it is they must have deep pockets to hire an entire camp of bandits and chunin-level ninja…and I doubt that even if we take them out it will end this mission.
His thoughts were interrupted by the Demon Brothers as they asked what was going to happen to them. "Ahh don't worry about it now I did promise you will live so…" He pulled up his headband and knocked them out with a heavy sleep genjutsu. Kakashi whistled loudly and after a minute or so a small bird landed on his shoulder so he wrote down as much necessary information as he could and sent it on its way.
Ai asked Kakashi what would happen to them and he told everyone that someone from the hunter division would retrieve them and put them away in the Konoha Correctional Facility since they don't really have a large bounty on their heads and they did technically help them. "Come on guys we will set up camp for the night and we will ambush their camp at dawn." All three genin nodded and followed Kakashi as Tazuna was glad that he had such great protection.
As the pigeon was flying away it was struck down by two senbon needles, killing it instantly. A masked ninja appeared in front of the unconscious Demon Brothers and crossed his arms in thought. "I can't let the Leaf Village send reinforcements as it will make both mine and Zabuza-sama's job harder but I simply can't let you go." He thought for a few more moments and decided that the best course of action would be just to get rid of the bodies as they would certainly cause trouble in the future.
I will harden my heart for you Zabuza-sama. And with that thought in mind Haku killed the Demon Brothers and eliminated any remains that would give away his presence.
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Night: Team 7 Camp
Once they made camp night fell quickly so Kakashi had Arashi and Ai set up traps around the camp whereas Kakashi and Satsuki set up the tents. Tazuna slept with Kakashi and Arashi while Ai and Satsuki slept together for the night. No one was needed for night watch as they had no worries of the bandit camp locating them before they could react.
"Gasp!" Satsuki suddenly woke up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat as she could see the thin layer of sweat from the small moonlight filtering into the tent. She looked over at Ai who was still sound asleep and breathed a sigh of relief. An intense headache struck her out of nowhere so she began to grip her head tightly. Where is this coming from?
She was now suffering from flashbacks as the drug did nothing to help her forget but rather make sure she remembered the experience. Fuck! I am not that girl anymore! I am Satsuki Uchiha the ninja not the heiress! She grabbed her battle gear and clothes that were folded beside her and left the tent. She stared at the slowly dying flame of their campfire as she put on her clothes. I need to do this for myself.
The flames of the campfire were put out in the wind of her shunshin as she left to prove herself worthy, to prove she was not weak, and to prove she could move past her previous self. She saved her chakra and began to sprint toward the enemy camp by herself when she thought she was far enough away from Team 7 camp.
After a while of sprinting she reached the bandit camp so she quickly dashed into some nearby bushes to analyze the situation. It is much larger than I thought there are at least 30 tents here. Plus they seem well prepared for any ambush. She looked over to her right to see a large alarm bell on a wooden post and someone standing right underneath it. I need to get rid of the alarms and the people guarding them.
She silently dashed out of the bushes and shoved a kunai into the guard's heart while covering his mouth as to not alert the others who were nearby drinking and loudly singing in front of their campfire. She gently laid him down and cut off the rope connected to the bell. Satsuki dragged the body off to the bushes she was previously in and took a scouting position high in a nearby tree.
Ok that is one there are at least three more from where I can- "Oi Jack are you really just going to stand next to the bell like a prude?! We just got an easy gig for a ton of money come on get over here!" The bandit turned only not to find his friend standing by the bell. He tapped the guys beside of him to go and investigate with him. "Why don't you go look yourself? He is probably just taking a piss I'd rather just stay here drinking."
The first bandit just ignored the third and began to walk over to where his friend was along with another guy. "Dumb cunts...more liquor for me then." He looked into his full mug only to a reflection of Satsuki behind him about to strike. "Ah-" He could only let out a short cry as he was suddenly pierced from behind and silenced. "What was that?!" The other two who had left came rushing back only to see the third bandit slouched over himself dead.
"We need to alert-!"
"You will do no such thing." Satsuki had jump tackled them from behind and eliminated the both of them from driving two kunai though their necks as she used the body of the first victim to distract them so she could get behind them. As she got up she silently wondered why the hell she got herself into this mess in the first place.
"RING RING RING INTRUDER! INTRUDER! RING RING RING" She picked her head quickly as the sounds of both an alarm bell and someone yelling woke up the entire camp. Shit! Satsuki unfortunately could not run away as she was standing in the center of their camp next to the large campfire. Slowly the numbers that encircled her were growing larger and larger but she refused to panic.
That was until she heard clapping and the sea of bandits parted for their leader, a man with a black Mohawk, red wife-beater, and green cargo pants. "Jumping out of trees? Killing in the silence of the night like a ninja? That is crazy." He began to lightly laugh to himself and looked over to the bandit next to him. "I like her. She's a nice fucking ninja. So who do we have here…"
A bandit on the other side of the circle pointed out the Uchiha crest on her back. "Oh wow an Uchiha…from the Leaf Village huh?" He took a few steps closer to the still silent Uchiha. "Hmp. Well I hope your mama and papa really really love you. Cause you, white girl, look very expensive and that's good because I like expensive things."
Satsuki snarled under her breath as she was still thinking of a way to get out of this situation or just try to take them all down. The leader heard this and came threateningly close to her. "I'm sorry what did you say? No seriously what did you say? DO YOU WANT ME TO SLICE YOU OPEN LIKE I DID TO THE OTHERS?! SHUT THE FUCK UP! Ok?! I'm the one with the fucking dick." Satsuki refused to make eye contact with him but rather began to focus her chakra throughout her body letting it flow through her chakra pathways.
"Look me in the eye." Seeing that she didn't he continued. "HEY! Look me in the fucking eye! Look me in the eye!" Satsuki looked up with her frigid coal eyes making eye contact with the psychopath. "You're a bitch. I rule the land of Waves. Shut the fuck up unless you want to try me and my men and you die." He came close to her side and gestured out to the numerous amount of bandits that were surrounding them.
"Uchiha, what is it? Why aren't you enjoying yourself now like you did over there in those bushes? What is this not fun anymore? Have I failed to entertain you? You see the thing is…" He pointed up into the tree where she was previously scouting from. "Up there, you thought you had a chance. Way up in the fucking sky you thought you were a great ninja…but hermana, down here." He bent down and rubbed his hand in the dirt.
"Down here…you hit the ground." He let a handful of dirt slowly fall to the ground as he finished and he got up chuckling. "But its ok. I'm gonna chill, I'm relaxed. Because you and I are going to have a lot of fun together while we wait for the money." He walked away from her and signaled for the men to tie her up but stopped from leaving when he heard her begin to chuckle then laugh loudly at him.
"So you want to dance…" She slowly pulled out the sword of Izuna from her scabbard and ran chakra through it making a small tornado flow around the blade. "I hope that you are quick on your feet…" She lifted her head up revealing her glowing sharingan that were slowly spinning. The fire behind her began to slowly reach up and coiled down her arm, twisting itself around the wind blade creating a powerful mix of fire and wind tornado in her hand. "Because…"
She disappeared and reappeared in front of the leader with her sword already through his chest. "I hate slow dance partners." She dramatically increased the amount of chakra into the blade creating a massive swirling fire storm through the bandit and anyone caught behind him. She pulled out her blade from the now charred bandit and began to speak again to the now terrified camp without turning around.
"Let's make this quick…I have a mission in the morning." Lighting began to crackle in her bandaged hand letting the night be filled with the sound of 1,000 birds. She slightly turned to look over her shoulder showing the rest of the camp her dark grin and blazing sharingan. "Come on then, here I am, on the ground! Entertain me!"
They got their senses back and charged at the Uchiha ignoring all forms of common sense. She quickly ducked under a wild katana swing of the first bandit and slid on the ground before propelling herself up and use his back as a launch pad. She swung her flaming sword, while she flipped in the air, slicing the first bandit in the back and easily cutting through the defense of the next one charging at her.
She continued to move through the group in a zig-zag pattern alternating between the chidori and her sword making sure to stay unpredictable. Satsuki battled hard as she would bat away their weapon first before plunging her lighting encased jab into their chest within seconds of each opponent. Her sharingan traced a giant of a man trying to slam a large war hammer with a downward slice in the cool air.
"AHHH!" Satsuki jumped back from the earth shattering blow and rolled over his bent back to block the next blow coming that intended to go through the other man and into her. She kicked his shin causing him to stumble momentarily, as the giant pulled the war hammer out of the ground and with the other man Satsuki was engaging, attacked her from both sides.
However before they could land the blow she formed a chidori lance in her left arm piercing the giant and at the same time she extended the flaming tornado around her blade to pierce the other bandit causing them to both fall over dead before they could strike her. Though it looked cool she was running out of chakra too quickly so she deactivated the chidori and sheathed her sword.
"Looks like she's all tired out let's get her men!" Satsuki took a deep breath and charged forward meeting the new wave of bandits head on when she was face to face with the first bandit she bent low and rocketed forward with a large surge of chakra to her feet sending the first few bandits around her flying into the air.
Once she reached the middle of the unprepared bandit wave she used her taijutsu and her sharingan to track her opponents. Satsuki deliver a lightning fast kick to one man's jaw knocking him out cold before she leapt into the air and stomped her way into a new group of bandits with kunai in hand ready to strike.
She dodged all of the wild slices coming at her and quickly grabbed one of the lighter men and spun him around, then releasing him into the crowd causing a number of nearby bandits who were rushing to help them to fall onto the ground due to the surprising throw from Satsuki. She continued to run through the crowd grabbing one of their kunai and making sure to eliminate as many as she could while speeding through.
One second she was stabbing a bandit in the chest and the next she was already 10 feet away delivering a fierce kick to another man's chest sending him flying into other bandits. Suddenly a kunai came rushing toward the back of her head but she quickly caught it and with her sharingan she saw the explosive tag attached to it.
Without missing a beat she peeled off the explosive tag on the kunai, slapped it on the stomach of the closest enemy, and kicked him away into a large group of bandits sending the kunai back to the man who threw it at her killing him instantly. The man freaked out and tried to pull it off him but it detonated quickly killing him and the others nearby while creating a large smokescreen.
She dashed around under the cover of smoke and grabbed two katana that were lying on the ground. Satsuki then restarting her previous method of chakra dashing and slashing making sure to take down those stunned from the explosion. She shoved both of her weapons in one bandit and charged out of the smoke.
A barrage of shuriken hit the body of the bandit she was using for as protection so she immediately threw it off of her swords and crouched down as she ducked under a new wave of shuriken. As a large man prepared to cut her down with a wide sword Satsuki looked up and activated her sharingan putting the man in an ocular paralysis jutsu. She quickly got up and sliced him down and jumped away from the bandit wave.
Shit, there are still too many. Satsuki was heavily breathing and was starting to feel the exhaustion of pumping chakra throughout her body for too long. She looked down at her ankles thinking about removing…them.
"Before I leave I almost forgot to give you something." Naruto rolled up his sleeve to reveal a small sealing array on his left shoulder. He pushed some chakra into the seal which made a small scroll to appear. He slid off her and sat on the side of the bed with Satsuki sitting right next to him. "Here I thought I would get you a gift for you know, um, everything." She took the scroll from his hand and opened it to reveal another sealing array.
Naruto looked nervous as the smoke cleared, showing a set of leg weights. "I know it's not jewelry or something pretty but they are really useful. I improved them by making the weight equal to the amount of chakra that is pumped into it. You don't have to worry about constantly charging them as they have their own locking mechanism that can be easily broken when you need to take them off. You just have to-"
Satsuki reached down and was going to take them off but stopped suddenly.
Kiba stopped for a second and hovered his face in front of hers and she shivered at the possessive look in his eyes. "He tried to take you, Satsuki-chan." He said then returned to nipping at the raven's skin.
"I just could not let that stand any longer. After all, I would never forgive anyone who dare take you away from me."
She pulled away her hand away from the weights and stood before the rest of the bandits fearless as she remembered why she was here in the first place. I DON'T BELONG TO ANYONE! I AM A NINJA! I AM SATSUKI UCHIHA AN ELITE! She formed the horse hand sign and charged the rest of her chakra into her lungs.
"FIRE STYLE: GREAT FIRE ANNIHILATION!" A sea of flames were expelled from her mouth forming a massive wall of intense flames that roared through the entire camp burning the bandit camp into nothing but charred remains. After she ended her technique some of the camp ground still had areas where the flames were still burning.
I…did it! Her celebration was short-lived as she collapsed onto one knee and was breathing heavily as her stamina and chakra plummeted to life threatening levels. I can't do that again or I will die for sure. Her sharingan was deactivated and she struggled to get up but when she was going to get up she felt the ground in front of her rumble.
What, they hid underground? A few missing ninja were able to hide in the ground during her fire jutsu and they were waiting for this moment. "DIE!" The closest one emerged from the ground and aimed to kill her with a downward slice to the skull. She activated her sharingan instinctively only for her to watch her impending death in slow motion as she could not move.
I guess this is it…maybe I was foolish to think I changed.
She could not hear the anguish cries of the other ninja behind the one in front of her. Nor did she hear the snarls of wolves ripping through their opponents to reach her. She could only see the tip of the kunai that was about to pierce her head only an inch away.
Suddenly the kunai was stopped cold and she could see a hand wrapped around the blade of it. "You know when I saw you again I thought of asking you out for a second date but this works too I guess." Naruto ignored the pain from his rapidly bleeding hand and he pulled the kunai out of the stunned missing ninja's hand then killed him instantly with it.
"Hey. Come on, there are still some left." He gently picked Satsuki up and helped her up to her feet. Seeing her poor state he reached into his pack and fed her a food pill giving her the necessary physical energy and chakra to continue. "How…" She asked in a shaky tone.
"Well, I was coming back from the Land of Greens and I sensed that you were in trouble, since you literally burnt down a section of the forest, so I rushed over." He gave her a smile that was only reserved for her and she knew it. "I really like your new look too. It really suits you." She slightly blushed, but remembered just where they were and punched him in the chest.
"Baka. We still have to finish this." Naruto nodded and turned on the surviving missing ninja. Satsuki stepped in front and pulled out "Izuna". Naruto was curious of the new blade and was wide eyed at the sudden wind tornado around the blade. "Satsuki where did you?-" She did not answer and continued on by holding up half a tiger hand sign, releasing a small stream of flames to wrap around the mini-tornado.
"I will lead," she said definitively, Naruto just shrugged and took his place beside her. "Let's go!" They rushed forward and engaged the few remaining enemies in sync. Satsuki began a flurry of sword swipes at one of the missing ninjas who clearly had experience in sword wielding. They continued for a little while until Satsuki suddenly tilted her head to the side allowing a kunai Naruto launched from his kunai arm bracers to fly past her and right in between the eyes of her opponent.
This went back and forth as they would engage an enemy and allow the other to strike from a blind spot. "Satsuki!" Naruto called out to her and she rushed right at Naruto. He put his hands together forming a platform and sent her sky high. "Fire Style: Blazing Whirlwind!" She began to spin rapidly in the air and funneled her chakra into the blade to form a large fire tornado that blazed through the already scorched battlefield.
They tried to go underground again only to find the ground to dense too break through. They looked over to see Naruto shrug his shoulders and pet a large brown wolf. By the end of the jutsu all of the remaining missing ninja were dead- or so they thought. As Satsuki was descending a barrage of shuriken were thrown at her.
Naruto tackled her in the air to avoid the attack. They rolled on the ground but were on their feet immediately, back to back, trying to hold back their final two opponents. Naruto held off a katana with a kunai whereas Satsuki held off her opponent with her deactivated Izuna. They were fighting to overpower their opponents when Satsuki's sharingan eyes slightly widened at the feeling of Naruto's chakra wrap around her.
So that's how you want to end this huh? She had a smirk on her face as lighting crackled around her free bandaged hand, Naruto matched her by condensing water around his other hand and increasing the PSI of the water to a level that could pierce steel. Their opponents' eyes widened and as the two thrust their jutsu forward, the missing ninja aimed their swords right where the attacks were going to land. Got them!
"Chidori!/Water Piercing Blade!" The missing ninja were wide eyed at the sudden feeling of their opponent's hand buried in their chest. They substituted with each other, so when we blocked, our weapons would be out of place! Naruto planned for them to take their final opponents by surprise with a quick substitution jutsu leaving them defenseless from the other's final blow.
Naruto pulled out his arm and let his enemy fall to the ground at the same time Satsuki did. "Damn. You sure know how to ruin a camp site. Just remind me not to get on your bad side anytime soon. Satsuki?" He turned away from the burnt bandit campground and turned to the falling Uchiha Elite. "Satsuki! Hey it will be ok!" Naruto caught her before she hit the ground.
She was already passed out so she could not hear Naruto curse himself for forgetting about what state she was in before he gave her a food pill. She should not have tried to do two high rank jutsu back to back after just eating the pill. He gently carried her over to a nearby tree that wasn't burnt to a crisp and laid down letting her rest against his chest.
I could find their camp but that would lead to some unnecessary questions seeing as I doubt she should be out here alone. Naruto was about to fall asleep but began to violently cough into his right hand. Fuck that hurts. Naruto pulled back his hand and could see the blood that coated his hand so he rubbed it on the ground. Hasuga did remind me that teleporting again so soon after my last fight was a bad idea seeing how Chiryo could not heal all of the internal damage but… He looked down at Satsuki's sleeping face and brushed away the hair covering the other side of her face. I could not really live with myself knowing I let her die.
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Dawn: Ex-Bandit Camp
Satsuki began to slowly wake up as the sun hit her face. She snuggled into what she thought was her tent sleeping bag. Hmm. It feels so warm and…hard? She began to feel up Naruto as she tried to think of what just happened until she remembered and almost jumped off of him with her brightly blushing face. Satsuki tilted her head and looked up from Naruto's fur collar to see his still sleeping face.
She traced the whisker marks on his face and slightly giggled as he made a light purring noise but it was a manly purr like a lion!...at least that's what he would have told her if he was awake. She looked down to his hand that was still had some blood on it. He was still injured from the previous mission!...and yet he did not hesitate to save me.
The raven haired girl bit her lower lip and fought off the emotions that were rising in her heart. He doesn't deserve someone like me… I am still weak and I cheated on him with Kiba because I was too weak willed to resist. He deserves someone stronger than me I can't let him hurt himself for me. I need to find my nindo…my own ninja way.
She pulled away from Naruto and lightly groan at the loss of his body heat due to the cool mist hitting her body. Satsuki began to walk away until she heard Naruto wake up. "Hey wait up." He ran up to her and began to lightly stretch to shake off the tension in his muscles from the rough night. "Ugh. Its dawn already Anko is going to kill me but I think she will understand." I hope so or we will probably spar again and I don't really want to know what it feels like to be eaten alive.
Naruto walked up to Satsuki and held her. "Well I got to go send me a message if you need any help I will be over here as faster than raindrop hitting the ground." He moved in for a good bye kiss only to be met with Satsuki's bandaged hand. Satsuki moved herself out of his grip and began to walk away. "It's over between us Naruto."
As he watched her retreating back Naruto tensed. "Wait what?" He reached out and grabbed her left arm only to be electrocuted from Satsuki's lightning style. He shook his hand to remove the tingling sensation in his hand. "Satsuki-chan…" He said it in such a small voice that she never had heard from him. It shattered her heart hearing him sound so defeated. Satsuki bit her lower lip and fought off the tears coming out.
"You heard me dobe! I don't need you anymore. It was just a stupid crush in the academy that's all it ever was! We are ninja now, not children so deal with it. I don't think I ever…" She hesitated for a second as she refused to turn around. Naruto was getting ill by the second but asked anyways what she was going to say.
I am sorry Naruto-kun, please forgive me one day…
"I never loved you. You were just a toy I played with." Naruto's eyes widened as this must have been some cruel joke. "You can't be serious but I thought we?" Satsuki simply shook her head no. "Go find someone else that will put up your little boy act. I need a man not whatever you are." Naruto was confused more than anything at what she said.
"A man? What the hell do you mean? I just saved you last night! Is this because I didn't have sex with you is that it? I'm not a real man if I don't fuck you? That's bullshit! You know how hard it is for me to get close to anyone!" Satsuki turned around and slowly walked up to Naruto before giving him a light kiss on the cheek.
Find someone better than me Naruto-kun. You deserve that you need the love. "Thanks for the memories but move on its over." She disappeared in a shunshin leaving Naruto alone in the early morning mist of the Wave Country. He held out his hand as he felt something wet land on it. Is it raining? He looked up to the sky to find that it was not raining.
I'm crying? I had forgot this feeling… He clutched his chest as there was a sharp pain that hit him. I hate it. He bit his thumb and streaked a blood streak over his wolf tattoo. A second later Hasuga appeared with an angry look on his feral face. "I told you. You cannot teleport again so-" He stopped talking when he saw Naruto's tear filled face.
"I need a drink or something…" Hasuga silently wrapped his tail around his summoner in a comforting gesture and teleported them into the Leaf Village. Naruto stumbled forward but caught himself on the side of a wooden building. He looked up and saw the sign for a shinobi tavern so he dried off his face and walked inside sitting at the edge of the bar.
"I will have chilled sake and just bring the whole bottle…" He grabbed the bottle from the bartender's hand and poured himself a drink. After about a few shots he felt the pain subside but he continued to drink. The person who had been watching him this entire time had seen enough and got up. Naruto reached out for a re-fill only for a hand to grab his wrist.
"I think you have had enough. I wouldn't want my precious princess to find himself in a stranger's bed by the end of the night." Naruto didn't react except to pull his arm away from her grip and rubbed his wrist. "Anko-sensei…"
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End of chapter sorry it took so long but man was it a hell of a break. Hope you guys like the Far Cry reference I made so if you played the game you will know what I am talking about (wink wink). What I really need from you guys is a DOPE/TOTALLY AWESOME moniker for Naruto to go by as I plan for it to be introduced next chapter.
For those who don't know what I mean I will give examples. Kakashi the Copy Ninja. Minato Namikaze the Yellow Flash. Unruly Ay. Princess Tsunade. I think you get it by now, so the one I think is the best will be the one I stick with the rest of the story and the author who creates it will be featured in the next chapter AN.
Final Exams are coming up so I don't really know when I can get the next chapter up but I promise you it will be the most surprising one yet as you will see how Naruto will try to come back from his loss of Satsuki, See how they will interact and how he will find out what happened between her and Kiba, AND you will get a small look into the OC clans as I have some epic fights for this fanfiction re-make of a classic Naruto mission in an even better way than I did for chapters 8 and 9.
Now would be the time to get this story on alert/fav cause it will be turning up real quick and you won't want to miss it when I do publish it.
Until next time, BarelySage.