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I hope you all enjoy this chapter, I cried while writing it. Yeah, I did a mean thing. I hope you guys understand that this chapter is me trying to strengthen Jade and Naruto's bond. I do not plan on making into a romantic pairing, sorry, they are siblings. I do have a pairing in mind for Jade, well more like a person she is going to fangirl over and want romantically, but that will be closer to the middle/end of the story, which is not in the near future. In fact this story might end up have a couple sequels...or be ridiculously long...I don't know, we'll see how it goes!
Next chapter they start at the Ninja Academy! Yay! The story is finally beginning!

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For those wondering, the song in the last chapter is called Invisable by; Hunter Hayes

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The needle I got at the hospital was like getting caffeine inject into me.

I swear to god I have never been this energetic in my life. This one or my pass one.

Running is my new favourite thing to do. It almost feels like I'm flying.

My small arms flung behind me, my hair blowing in the wind, I run as fast as I can through the dirt streets of Konohagakure to the dingy little apartment that is currently still my and Naruto's home.

My and Naruto's home...Man I don't think I will ever get use to that!

Rounding the corner I make it into the small alley, and run up the creaky stairs that leads to the little living space. My hand grabs the door handle, turning it, I stop right before pushing the door open. I'm breathing heavily, and my legs hurt. A wide smile forms on my face and I thrust open the door, expecting to see Naruto right inside the door, with a shit eating grin on his face, ready to tell me that he won.

He's not.

"Nii-san?" I say loudly, hoping the blue eyed boy is just in the bathroom or something.

The sound of puking answers me.

My whole face scrunches up as the smell reaches my nose. "Are you okay Naruto-kun!?" I shout pulling the collar of my light purple t-shirt over my nose in attempt to ward off the scent.

"GO WAIT WITH IRUKA-SENSAI!" The whiskered boy replies in a pain and urgent filled voice.

Quickly running through the house, I reach the bedroom, and rush out of the mold covered glass doors. Spotting Iruka at the end of the unsturdy balcony, I pull my shirt back into its proper position and sit down next to him.

"Hello Iruka-sensai!" I happily say, swinging my feet in the wind, having completely forgiven him for eavesdropping on my singing. I lay down on my back, staring up at the clouds, using my arms as pillows.

I understand why this is Shikamaru's favourite half time.

"Hello Jade-chan. How was the your trip to the hospital?" The dark brown haired man asks sweetly.

I can feel the warmth of the sun on my skin, as well as the warm breeze. "It was pretty boring. They gave me this chakra injection thing. So I think that was the temporary fix that Inoichi mentioned before he left me alone to nap in the Hokage's office." Images of Naruto dead on the ground, and my family looking at me with the eyes of a stranger take over my minds eye as I finish the sentence. I quickly shake my head to erase the internal pictures. "Anyways, all they did was give me the shot, it kinda hurt, and apparently the already started a file for me from the other day. So I didn't have to do any paperwork!" I say with a small smile.

Don't think about nightmares. Its just your subconsciousness being an ass hole. You think to hard about it you'll start to cry like a little bitch.

"Well," The man starts, snapping me out of my inner ramblings. "I bet they will find you a permanent fix soon. Then you won't have to take the painful needles anymore!" He says with an encouraging smile.

Yeah, and then I'll be a fucking jinchuriki.

I exhale loudly and do my best to bury the negative thoughts deep with in me.

"Yeah," I say, my voice barely above a whisper. "I can't wait."

Spotting a cloud that looks like a heart I follow it with my eyes. I always wonder why the clouds make such shapes, even though I know that its just a bunch of water particles. They always looks so magical to me.

The cloud escapes my line of vision. Iruka sighs beside me.

"So, uh, Iruka-sensai?" My question comes out timidly and concerned. I move my arms to my sides, and turn my head to look in his direction.

Yeah, I need that ninja 'no more emotion' class thing ASAP!

"Yes Jade-chan?" Iruka responds monotonously.

"What caused Naruto to get so sick?" I asked, lifting my upper body up, and leaning on my forearms.

Iruka sighs, using his index finger and is thumb to rub at both of his eyes simultaneously. "The Hokage explained to him why the villager's treat him like a criminal, and why he doesn't have either of his parents. It was a shock to him, and I thought he was happy learning who his father was. Now the boy is throwing up. From excitement or horror, I do not know."

I nod my head, understanding how Naruto is feeling. Well sort of. I understand the fear of being told you are going to have a beast in you, I think if I multiply that by one hundred it would be equivalent to the fear of being told that you already have a beast inside of you.

"I'll be right back Iruka-sensai" I inform the ponytailed man as I start getting up.

While standing up, I wipe the dirt from my behind, and go back into the house. My breaths are short, and my hands shake slightly. Quickly moving through the small apartment, I make it to the bathroom before I am mentally ready.

I knock three times on the door.

"Nii-san? Are you okay?" I ask loud enough for him to hear me through the thin wood. I already know the answer, but its still polite to ask.

"I don't know! Go wait wi-" Naruto's sentence gets cut off by the sound of him hurling. I gag.

I can't puke at the sight of puke right now. I need to be strong for Naruto!

"Can I come in Nii-san?" I ask before trying the door handle.

I hear no answer.

The nob turns.

Don't puke. Don't fucking puke.

Biting my tongue I step in to the tiny wash-room, and see Naruto's small figure hunched over the toilet bowl. The depressing scene tugs at my heart strings.

I grab the towel that is hung up beside the small shower, and put it in the sink. I turn on the tap, and the orange fabric soaks up the cool water.

"Get out!" The blond boy yells at me. I ignore him, and sit down on the floor beside him, bringing the towel with me.

I flush the toilet and the puke leaves the bowl, leaving only a slight stain on the outer rim.

I'm gonna have to clean that later...Great...

I wipe the throw up from his flushed face with the corner of the towel, and give him a small smile, still not breathing in through my nose, and doing my best to think of anything other than the smell of barf in the room.

Switching ends, I wipe his brow, and the rest of Naruto's face. "You're going to be okay. Everything is going to be fine." I start chanting to the both of us. I need the words about as much as Naruto does right now.

Standing back up, I take the two steps to the sink, and rinse the puke off of the towels corner. Easily going back to Naruto, I wipe his face again, this time including his neck. "You're going to be okay. Everything is going to be fine."

His blue eyes well up with tears. I take him into my arms, holding the back of his head with my left hand, rubbing his back gently with my right. Naruto places his head where my shoulder connects with my neck, and cries.

Repeating my soothing words and strokes, I start to rock us back and forth.


It took about a couple of hours for Naruto to calm down.

Naruto is still not himself yet, but Iruka promised to treat the both of us to ramen, and that at least got a small smile on his face. The blue eyed boy is not sad about his parents, in fact he is very proud of both his mother, and especially his father, although I do also believe that Naruto is angry with the man. He was mainly freaking out because he does not know how to deal with a beast living inside of him.

I haven't told him that I am getting one too. Its hard to know if something like that would help, or make it worse for him. So I kept my mouth shut.

It is now mid-afternoon, and Iruka has taken Naruto and I to three medium sized apartments already. I said no to all of them. They are all mold and rat infested.

I refuse to live in a house code violation!

"Jade-chan, there is not many apartments left that is in your budget!" Iruka whines as we walk through the busy streets.

"Well what about a small house then!? And again, I don't want to live in a place that has things living in the walls!" I argue, ignoring Iruka's begs again.

"And we need a place to train so we can become the best ninja's in the village, and so that I can become the Hokage!" Naruto says putting his two cents in.

Although he thinks that any room thats bigger than a standard closet is good enough for training space. So his opinion barely counts.

"Well there is one small house by outskirts that might fit your requirements." The dark haired man sighs, rubbing the back of his head.

I smile up at him, getting my way again. Iruka is a very easy man to feel comfortable around, so I felt happy that I could just be myself. Meaning I'm not afraid to use my devilish mind to get what I want. "Okay sensai! Lead the way!" I say, jumping onto his back. He catches me me quickly, and Naruto laughs.

"Come on Iruka-sensai! Lets go, lets go lets go!" Naruto giggles, getting excited that we might finally find our new home. Iruka picks up his pace, and we start moving towards the edge of the village.

As we walk we get out of the village square, and slowly make it into suburb area. Then the houses slowly start becoming father apart. We finally reached the villages edge.

There are some small well made house scattered around as well as what looks like hobby barns. The wall that surrounds the village off in the distance.

I never thought the village was this big...

Tightening my hold on Iruka's shoulders. I turn and look behind us. The lights from the village square reach out here.

As we walk, we walk up to a very large bamboo wall. It seems to fence in an area that is about 50 acres wide, and 100 acres long. I could hear the sound of dogs barking, kids laughing, and metal colliding with metal. The greatness of the wall has me staring with my mouth hanging open.

Making it to the gate, I see a single upside-down red triangle on each of the double doors leading inside.

"That is the Inuzuka compound. A boy named Kiba from there will be joining you two in class tomorrow." Iruka states as we walk away from the gate of the compound.

Holy shit...I never thought compounds where that big! But I guess it makes sense, they have how many generations of people living there? And how many extended family members? Wait a minute, how freaking big are most of the clans!?

I shift on my soon-to-be teacher's back, and glance down at Naruto. He stares longingly at the walls, like its a prize in a carnival game that he just can't win.

My heart breaks.

"Hey Nii-san!" I say with forced happiness.

The blond changes his view of the walls to a view of my face. If you don't look into his large blue eyes you can ignore the pain in them. "What Jade-chan?"

"Why do you want to become Hokage?" I ask, pretending that I don't already know.

"So that all the villagers will acknowledge me and respect me!" Naruto states, flames in his eyes. I shake my head head at him.

"That's not why you should want to be the Hokage," I take a deep breath, not knowing why I let the words fall out of my mouth. "The Hokage is the person who protects everyone. To become Hokage means willing to die for your village. Your reason for wanting to be Hokage is so that you can protect your love ones, your family. When you become the Hokage everyone in the village will be your family."

Naruto looks away from me, and crosses his arms over his chest.

Should of kept my mouth shut. God damn I'm a stupid bitch. Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid...

"How about I become Hokage to protect you, Iruka-sensai, old man Teuchi and Ayame, and old man Hokage!" Naruto says smiling up at me.

Smiling back at him, I agree that he found a good reason to become Hokage.

We finally make it to the small wooden house with a hand made 'For Sale' . It looks like to be a decent size.

Iruka sets me on the ground, and by the little girl instinct I have inside of me, I grab hold of the grown man's hand.

As we walk up to the front door, I reach over and grab a hold of Naruto's shirt. He gives me a look, raising a blond eyebrow.

"Hold my hand please Nii-san." I say in the a terrified, little girl voice.

His blue eyes soften, and he grabs my free left hand into his right one.

"We all ready?" Iruka asks, raising his hand to knock on the door.

My grip on Naruto's hand tightens, and I nod my head instead of saying yes, because inside I am really not ready. I know if I spoke out loud my voice would of cracked.

Naruto gives Iruke a thumbs up with his free hand, as well as a toothy grin.

Iruka knocks, and the door opens.

A large balding man opens the door.

"Hello sir, we are here to look at the house!" Iruka informs the fat man very politely.

Fatty gave Iruka and I a once over, as soon as his eyes landed on Naruto, he became rigid.

"Get the fuck outta here ya little monstrosity!" Fatty drawls at Naruto.

My mouth falls open in shock and anger. Naruto tighten his grip on my hand.

"I'm not a monster!" Naruto says with a shaky voice.

I look over at my new brother and see the tears fill his eyes. Letting go of Iruka's hand, I move to stand in front of the blond. My left arm his behind my back awkwardly because I refuse to let go of Naruto's hand I'm holding.

The balding man glares at Iruka-sensai. "Get him outta here. He should be put down!" He says rather loudly.

Attempting to act like a human shield to protect Naruto from the words, I hear a heart shattering sob from behind me.

I'm failing. I need to protect him.

"Fuck you! This house is a dump anyways!" I shout, tears streaming down my face.

Iruka stares at me, eyes wide, mouth hanging open.

"What did ya say, ya little brat!?" The fat man growls at me.

"If anyone is the fucking monster here its you! You fucking asshole!" I say, my face heating up from anger, my legs shaking from nervousness.

The man's ugly thick face heats up from anger as he starts stuttering.

"If Naruto wasn't alive you'd be dead! Have you ever fucking thought about that you prick! HUH!? HAVE YOU!?" I start shrieking at him, not feeling the need to even try to be polite.

"IF NARUTO DIDN'T BECOME A HUMAN FUCKING CAGE FOR THE BEAST YOU'D BE DEAD! MAYBE YOU SHOULD SHOW SOME FUCKING RESPECT TO THE BOY WHO HAS BEEN FORCED TO CARRY A FUCKING BURDEN FOR THE REST OF HIS FUCKING LIFE JUST TO KEEP DOUCHE BAGS LIKE YOU ALIVE AND FUCKING WELL!" I could feel myself starting a rant, my nervousness gone, and the need to punch this man's face was becoming stronger with each passing second. My little body is shaking all over with anger.

The owner of the house shoots a look at the frozen Iruka. "Get these little shits off my property right now, or I will contact the police force."

Iruka starts stuttering out apologizes, moving slowly.

I snap.

"YOU LITTLE FUCKER!" I shouted loud enough for everyone at the Inuzuka compound to hear me. I let go of Naruto's hand to pick up a rock that's by my foot.

I throw it at the fat man.

Iruka picks up Naruto and I as soon as the large gray rock contacts with his face, and starts running back to the village square while holding the two of us tightly to his chest.

I can hear the man screaming death threats as his image becomes smaller.

Instead of screaming back worse threats like I wanted, I kept my mouth shut, and held on to the dark haired man carrying me.

Sniff, sniff.

I look over at Naruto to find that he's still crying. I reach over and grab hold of his hand again.

"You will always be my hero Nii-san." I say softly, truly meaning the words I was saying.

Naruto looks at me, and with tears still heavily flowing down his face, and the agony obvious in his eyes, he gives me a wide toothy grin.

"Thank you Jade-chan. I promise I'll always protect you. Believe it!" The slightly older boy's voice cracks a couple times.

I lean my head against Iruka's chest, and tighten my hold on Naruto's hand.

"I do Naruto. I do believe you." I say with a small smile.

Naruto starts crying harder, lets go of my hand, and throws both of his arms around me, causing Iruka to adjust his hold on us, still running.

"Th-thank you Jade-chan. Th-thank y-y-you!" Naruto sobs into my shoulder.

I wrap one of my arms tightly around him, and rub small circles on his back.

Not paying attention to the time, and just to Naruto it seems like we made it back to the tiny apartment in a matter of seconds. Iruka sets us down of the front door.

"Jade-chan you got a fire in your soul." Iruka says, causing me to smile. Then the dark haired man turns his attention to the silently crying boy. "Naruto do you still want to go out for ramen?" Iruka asks, kneeling down beside the depressed boy.

"I'm not very hungry. See you tomorrow at school Iruka-sensai. Good night." Naruto says in a very gruff and husky voice. The blond unlocks the door and walks inside, leaving me on the front step with Iruka.

Tears pool in my eyes, and I quickly give the chunin a hug. "See you tomorrow Sensai." I say, and enter the apartment.

Walking into the bedroom, I find Naruto sitting on the bed crying.

I open the top of his dresser, and pull out his pale blue button up pajama top and matching pajama bottoms.

"Here, change into this." I quietly say, placing the garments beside him.

Moving to my five shopping bags, I grab a yellow t-shirt like pajama top that has a pink butterfly in the middle, with matching yellow pajama shorts with little pink butterflies all over the fabric.

I leave the bedroom, and enter the bathroom. I use the toilet and brush my teeth with my purple toothbrush that I placed into the small plastic cup with Naruto's orange tooth brush this morning. I then strip down to only my bright pink panties, and then pull on my pajamas.

Quickly I folded up my clothes, and go back to the bedroom. As I enter, Naruto is slowly buttoning up his pajama shirt, tears still streaming down his face. I smile sadly, put my clothes in the first bag. I walk over to him, and finish buttoning up his shirt for him.

Naruto gets into bed and curls up in a small ball. I move to leave, but stop when his broken voice reaches my ears.

"Wh-why did h-he have t-to put the f-f-fox in me? Wh-why m-me?"

My heart starts to break for him. "Because you're the only one in the world that is strong enough." I softly say.

"But I don't want it! I just want to fit in." Naruto cries.

Tears fill my eyes. "I understand Naruto-kun. I really do." I tell him, as I walk back to the bed a sit down on the edge.

He sits up and glares at me. "How! How could you possibly understand!?"

I pull him into a tight hug, needing one as much as he does. "Because, I use to be unwanted too."

Naruto hugs me back and cries into my shirt. I cry as well.

We cling to each other crying for completely different reasons.

As the night wears on, we end up cuddling under the covers of the bed. Not in a romantic way, in a sibling way. The both of us needing to know that someone else is there.

"Jade-chan? Can we share the bed tonight?" Naruto asks quietly, his voice hoarse.

"Yeah nii-san." My voice cracks.

The tears on my face dried up. I feel numb, clinging to Naruto like a life line.

I never thought this life would be so hard. I want to go back home.

Naruto falls asleep first. I follow him into a deep slumber, dreaming of the family that I abandoned.