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CHAPTER 14: DREAMS, REALITY, AND THE TRUTH

A small blond child, about five-years old, was running. His laughter filling the air as the sun began to set.

"Catch me if you can Meme!" He sang loudly, but the blonde didn't hear a reply.

"Meme?" He asked looking over his shoulder.

"Meme! I thought I told you not to associate with that child!" A shrill voice scolded, wagging her finger in front of Meme's face.

"But mother!" Meme protested.

"No buts! That child is nothing but a hindrance to society!"

The small Meme looked down, knowing she couldn't win against her mother. She began to trudge silently behind her mother before looking over her shoulder to wave goodbye.

The blond boy hung his head.

The eyes.

The hating eyes. They followed him everywhere.

There was no escaping them.

"You were left to?"

The blond turned abruptly at the sound of the voice talking to him.

It was a boy, about his age. He had black hair and onyx eyes that looked sad and broken.

"Me too."

Naruto bolted up straight, a cold sweat collecting on his brow. His breathing was sporadic, nearly hyperventilating.

Its been awhile since he's had this dream, and the way it always made him feel made him want to tear out his heart out of his chest. The hating eyes that boar into his head would never go away.

The encounter of that day was fresh in his mind, despite being 10 or 11 years ago. The image of being left alone, and the look on everyone's faces would never fade no matter how many years pass.

Deciding to leave the dream and move on with the day was a no brainer as Naruto shook it off and stepped out of bed to get dressed.

"Hey Temari, Naruto said you were all demons right?" I was currently eating lunch in the mall with Temari, yet the mall was half abandoned because it was a Sunday. I had called Tenten to but she said she had some homework she needed to finish.

"Yeah." Temari said sticking a fry in her mouth.

"Well I was wondering, what are you? What type of demon I mean."

"Wow, you got over that fast." She said with a smile.

"Got over what?"

"Well just last night you were screaming at us and now you're totally normal."

I smiled. "What can I say, maybe I'm bipolar."

She laughed at this, nearly choking on her chewed up hamburger before speaking. " Okay, well I'm a class B marching horde."

"Okkayy…" I said urging her to explain.

"Well there are different types of demons, like last night we were attacked by a class C." She grabbed a pen and napkin off the table beginning to draw. "Demons are generally ranked in power, ranging anywhere from E being the weakest to A being the strongest."

She began to draw a ladder writing E at the bottom then continuing up.

"But in some special cases, you may get an S ranked power level, and you never EVER wanna mess with those guys." She said completing her ladder with S at the top.

I groaned slightly and leaned back in my chair. "I feel like I'm playing a video game!"

She laughed. "Hey, you were the one who asked."

"What do you mean by marching horde?" I asked leaning forward again, placing my elbows on the table.

"It basically means I'm a demon that causes war, normally were in packs but I'm independent and I can hold my end in anything. Hand to hand combat, shooting, and all that stuff."

"Ohhh, alright then what is Tenten?"

She took a bit of her burger, answering with her mouth half full. "I'm surprised you haven't figured that one out yourself."

I gave her a puzzled look and she swallowed.

"Tenten's a class A archer, she has scary good aim."

I smiled and nodded recalling how amazing Tenten's aim is and continued to ask questions.

"So, what about all the others?"

"I'm not really sure about the others.

"Not even your own brothers?"

"Nope."

" Why don't you ask them yourselves?"

"I don't wanna pry into their lives or anything though."

"Well that sure didn't stop you from asking me."

I smiled at her until something dawned on me. "Wait, Nejis in your group to right?"

'Yeah. I've know that guy for 2 years and he still has that stick up his ass, I'm surprised it hasn't made him cross eyed."

I couldn't help but laugh, but quickly stifled it asking my question. "Well you know he's my cousin. Does that make me a demon?"

Temari's face went blank. "I don't know, it can't hurt to ask."

"Will you come with me?"

"I guess."

Sasuke sat in the darkness of his room. The dream he just had put him in a bad mood.

It had been a long time since he's even thought of that moment, of that park, or of that boy. That time had long since passed, that was before he knew the truth about his brother, the truth about life.

Uchiha Itachi.

His very name sent tendrils of rage down his spine.

That night was permanently engraved in his brain. He'd have nightmare upon nightmare of that night. Dreams of tearing his brother apart. Dreams of dying by his hand.

He was lost. He had no way of thinking rationally anymore. No way of turning back.

Then why did he keep thinking about him. About the boy. About the whole situation that he was in.

A knock on the door pushed him out of his thoughts, and silently he was thankful for it.

"Sasuke?" Said a deep male voice and he immediately knew it was Jugo.

"Come in."

Jugo opened the door, his bright orange hair was clearly visible even in the dim room.

"We're all waiting for the next move. Everyone's in the briefing room."

Sasuke nodded and stood up slowly, he was itching for a fight but he knew he had to wait. To break them physiologically before physically.

And he had plenty of people to help him do it.

Temari and I headed over the only sure place I knew they all would be. The abandoned shed.

Knowing the front gates were locked we walked through the back woods. It was a lot less scary in the daylight.

Walking in the shed I was greeted by everyone, yet a certain blond was missing.

"Hey guys." I said as I took of my jacket. It was slightly chilly outside."Where's Naruto?"

"Don't know, he should be here soon though." Shikamaru said from the computer.

As if on cue Naruto stepped through the door. His hair was more messy than usual and there were dark circles under his eyes.

"Geez, someone didn't get enough sleep last night." Kankuro said lightheartedly.

Naruto just ignored him and looked at me. "Hinata, can you come with me for a minute."

I nodded and grabbed my jacket again, stepping outside with him.

"Come on lets go for a walk."

I nodded and followed right behind.

There were a couple minutes of comfortable silence before Naruto started talking.

"The Hokage."

"What?" I asked looking at him quizzically.

"The Hokage, the leader of all demons. The one who controls the underworld and keeps it intact."

"So hes like the president? Don't tell me your in cahoots with the devil."

Naruto chuckled a little and smirked at me. "No it has nothing to do with the devil and hes more like the king." Naruto reached back and scratched the back of his head. "How do I say this? The underworld that I'm talking about is more like the kind the mafia run around in."

I still gave him a puzzled look.

"You know, the underground. Drugs and stuff in secret."

"You guys do drugs?" I asked with mock shock.

Naruto didn't seem to understand the joke and stopped immediately, waving his hands in front of him. "No no! nothing like that!"

I giggled. "It was a joke."

Naruto seemed to breathe a sigh of relief before going back into serious mode. "Anyway, I'm striving to become Hokage."

"Why?" I asked looking at him. He stopped walking for a second to look at me.

He smiled. "I'll tell you later."

I groaned. "MORE SECRETS! Come on!"

He smiled one last time, ruffling my hair like I was a little kid. "Come on lets go, back its getting cold."

Back in the shed Naruto had to leave early for some reason after he talked to me, so it was just the rest of us.

"Geez, Naruto's still not telling me anything." I said crossing one leg over the other as I sat on the couch. 'Its like hes only telling me a little at a time and its just confusing me more and more!'

"Hey what can I say that boy has a lot of secrets, even ones we don't know about." Shikamaru said spinning in the office chair.

"But still! Aren't I one of you guys now?" I said with a tad bit of annoyance.

"Hinata, let me tell you something." Shikamaru said. He stopped spinning for a moment to look at me.

"Naruto used to be extremely depressed. Always putting up a mask for school, but as soon as he was alone all he would do was sulk." Shikamaru scooted a little closer. "Ever since you came along, hes smiling. I meand REALLY smiling, Something we haven't seen in years. He's turning back into his real self. So don't push to hard, okay? He'll come around."

Shikamaru's words shocked me a bit. I was changing Naruto? Me?

Now I was curious.

I wanted to know the real Naruto.

Not telling Hinata everything was hard. I just wanted to spill my guts out and lay everything on the table.

But I knew I couldn't do that.

I didn't want to scare her away. She made me feel… different.

Happy even.

I wanted to tell her slowly, to let it all sink in.

I didn't want to see her reactiong and worse yet her eyes.

I didn't want her eyes to change.

The beautiful lavender white eyes to turn hating.

I shuddered.

I walked slowly down the dimly lit sidewalk, kicking rocks as I go. I stopped and looked up, watching the full moon as a thin wispy cloud passes over, clouding the silvery light.

A noise.

I turned around shaply, yelling at whoever is following me.

"Come out, I know your there!" I felt a dark chill run down my spine so I had the right to yell. Its been to long of a day for this crap.

There was a chuckle, deep and seductive, giving its identity away as a woman.

"Show yourself!" I growled, I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, whoever this is their powerful.

"Calm yourself." The voice said as she stepped out of the alley I was facing.

The figure was most defiantly a woman, she was tall, her blond hair catching in the moonlight. The only problem was that she was still covered by shadow so I couldn't see much.

""Who are you?" I asked, still with a slight growl.

She let out a sigh before taking a step forward. "Geez, I'm surprised you don't remember me Naruto."

I froze.

Oh, hell.

"Kankuro, have you and Shikamaru finished looking at that game?" I asked, walking back into the 'living room' of the abandoned shed from the kitchen.

It was dark outside despite only being about 8:30, but my curfew was 11 so I was fine for the moment.

This shed was slowly growing on me despite it only being my 2 or 3 time being in here, I can tell why they chose this place. Its got a small homey feel, despite the tools and kind of musty smell. ( and not to mention the weapons.)

But it was home away from home all the same.

"Not yet but we have an idea, take a look at this." Kankuro said, getting up from his seat.

He walked over to the computer desk Shikamaru always sits at and opened a drawer, pulling out the game, paper, and a pencil.

Moving over to where I was, he set the piece of paper over the back of the board. With the pencil started scribbling on the paper, creating thick grey streaks all over it.

Finally when he was done he lifted the paper to reveal the back of the bored.

My eyes widened a little, because on the back was a symbol that wasn't there before.

It was an eye with three tomoe.

Noticing my look Shikamaru added, "It's the sign of Sasuke's gang."

"Sasuke? How did Ino get something from Sasuke?"

"Well theres only two , they work for him, or two, he planted the game on them." Shikamaru said with a yawn.

"No, there's no way Ino would work with Sasuke, and Ino said that the game was with her family for generations." I said, quickly shutting down the ideas.

Shikamaru shrugged. "There just suggestions, you never know."

I sat silent in my seat for a moment, not knowing what else to say. I decided to ask some questions.

"So what type of demon are you guys?"

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