Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or the characters. I simply own the story itself. Naruto belongs to Sasuk…. I mean Kishimoto.
Just in case: Due to Naruko being the name created by fans, therefore being a fandom name, it is not required by me to use 'Naruko' as the name for female Naruto. Kishimoto was not the one who created this name for that version of Naruto. I will however, place any and all female Naruto stories I have within the 'Naruko' category due to the story being about the FEMALE Naruto. {Since previously I was complained to for placing my stories in the Naruto Character category; since the story was about a Female Naruto.}
I do realize that I am not the characters however I write my stories in first person perspective. If you do not like first person stories, then feel free to leave if you are not willing to give it a shot. I can understand people's preferences towards stories. Third person is more centered on description, whereas First person is more centered on feelings/emotions.
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Warning: I speak more Japanese than I do English; therefore you will find some translation errors or possibly a few grammar or spelling errors floating around. I don't have a beta reader and, honestly, I do not want one. The last time I tried to have a Beta Reader; they tried to change everything that would happen in my story. It takes me a while, but I do go back to older chapters and rewrite them or check them for errors.
So I have a poll for this story… I will place the poll in the bottom AN since I prefer doing stuff like that in the bottom one… However I will not be doing the poll on the profile for a while since I am currently undergoing a poll that can't be taken down until possibly November? I did put the poll up late since I wasn't publishing stories at the time…
Hey guys; I am sorry about not updating for a while. The reason for the lack of updates is because of these several reasons. I will list them in order from the highest reason to the lowest.
1. I had two teeth extracted on October 11th. I was all fine and dandy until I started to take the meds that were prescribed to me. Being underweight, I am high susceptible to drugs that I was never introduced to. This drug happened to be 'Lortab.' Lortab was causing me problems from day one. I would pass out, get dizzy, get very nauseous and my blood pressure and heart beat would drop drastically. I dug around, after getting confused on why I was suddenly feeling like that, and found that I was prescribed 500mg of Lortab to take 4-6 times a day along with 400mg of Ibuprophen, which I had to take 6 times a day, 2 per taking. With that alone, I was taking 16-18 pills for pain and fever. I was also prescribed 500mg of Amoxicillin, which I was to take 3 times every day; leaving me with taking 21-23 pills a day for my teeth that were extracted. For those that are wondering, I had a wisdom tooth taken out plus the tooth that it broke and infected. I have more teeth to be extracted after November 20th.
2. I am currently in South Jersey and was here the whole time during Hurricane Sandy. (For those who are wondering, I love South Jersey.) While I ignored my medication (yes, bad Daemon) I had to help get things ready to take a hit from the storm.
3. Internet is unstable and due to being in South Jersey with this storm, the connection here is even weaker. Electricity flickers every now and then.
I won't be updating my stories after today due to everything going on. I will try to get things caught up by Saturday or Sunday and then get back on track by next Monday.
Another note: Due to my reaction towards the medication, I won't update stories on November 20th-November 23rd. It is possible that I might update the new story release during that time, but otherwise there won't be an update.
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How could I let her get like this? I was put in charge of the little ball of energy… now that little ball of energy was dying in my hands. Was I in over my head? No… no I couldn't have been, could I? I tried everything to protect her but in the end; she comes out with her body practically torn to shreds while she coughed up blood.
Why wasn't Kyuubi doing anything? No… I shouldn't be putting pressure on others. I took this task into my own hands, so this is my fault. She is in pain because of my inability to keep a grasp on reality. To make it worse; I let that damn bastard do this to her! Orochimaru… He hurt Akuma and now, now he was number 1 on my hit list.
"Sasuke… You need to slow down or the movement of you running might cause further injury to her…" I glared over to Sakura, causing her to gasp. "I'm not willing to lose anyone else! Not you, not Naruto, not Akuma!" I pushed my foot hard against the branch as I neared the towers. Would they take us in? Would they treat Akuma? Would they say that due to Akuma we are all stuck as genin forever? She would forever feel guilty… I wouldn't want her to feel that way.
That's why…
That's why I had to make it and get Kakashi! He… he would be the only one would be able to help… right? He had us as his students so he had to know something about each of us in order to train us so that means he knew something about Naruto. He did, after all, call this child in my hand 'Akuma' when asked what her name was by Ino. For some reason, this caused a reaction from Asuma…
"Sasuke, the tower!" I looked up to see the tower clear in my view. Yes… we were going to make it.
"I don't think so." My eyes went wide as we were surrounded. "S-Sasuke-kun." I glanced over to Sakura to see her work of worry. I narrowed my eyes before facing Sakura and pushing Akuma into her hands. "Take her to the tower. Whatever you do, don't turn around!" I pushed her off the branch; knowing she was able to catch herself in time.
"Trying to act brave?" I glanced to the side as one of the ninja held up a kunai. I could tell that these were a bunch of clones but I wasn't sure where the real ones were. This would be the moment where we would have greatly needed Naruto's shadow clones… well at least, myself since Sakura was heading to the tower.
Wait…
If these were the clones, couldn't the real ones head after Sakura and Akuma? Damn it! I didn't think any of this through did I? I just tossed my teammates right into a pack of wolves! I slowly put my hand into a fist; keeping the grip firm as anger rose through my body. Was this a trap? Did they know that the scrolls were on the girls and not me? Did they know that because we were down a teammate, that we were the easiest target?
"Which scroll do you have?" I heard one of the clones say. I glanced over to the one that spoke. "None." I quickly thought over my reply. "Our scroll was taken from us by a sound ninja." I could see that even after sharing that information, even if it was a lie, that they were going to kill me anyway, scroll or not.
"Why were you rushing to the tower then? Seems suspicious to us." I glanced over to the other clone that spoke. "Because unlike you, we care about the survival of our other teammates." I knew I was in for a snarky reply like 'that runt is too weak to be a ninja' or something like that. I just had to bear with it and ignore it in anyway. Even if Akuma wasn't hear, the fact that I made her scared from my sudden random killing spree… I just didn't want that to happen again.
"You Leaf ninja are irritating. 'My teammate this' or 'my teammate that'… all you guys talk about is your teammates!" I dodged a spray of shuriken. Wait… these shuriken wasn't coming from the clones, but from the owner of the clone. That means that these clones can only be a distraction, not a use of fighting tools.
"That's because everyone in Konoha is family." What was I saying? Were we really like family? What would that make Akuma to me then? If she was still Naruto I guess that would make him a little brother since he was annoying as hell. Sakura? A sister… sisters are annoying too right? Though that would be sick if your sister was trying to subdue you. Oh well. Kakashi would be like a father then since he always sticks his nose where it doesn't belong.
"Family? Your clan was completely wiped out and yet you call the village your family?" I glared at the clone. "Have you ever heard of the phrase 'shit happens'? Just because I lost my real family doesn't mean I can't have people who are just like it! I'm sure you have friends who you think are like a brother or sister to you!" They fell silent.
Even if the people are a tough guy, they always have one person that is close to them that they consider family. I would assume, by Akuma's information, that for Orochimaru… Kabuto is his 'family'… that or a tool. I would assume that Kabuto is a tool. He acts like a tool… Yeah, he most definitely is a tool.
"What do you know?" The clone shouted as they all lunged at me once more. I narrowed my eyes as I did a back flip to land on another branch before throwing a few kunai with explosive tags on it. Several went off; taking out some clones but only to be replaced by new ones that appeared from the tree trunks.
"I know what it feels to lose everyone close to me. I know what it feels like to have an idiot pry into my life. As much as I hate admitting it; I have a family once again. My teammates are my family and the only reason I am still sane enough to be here." My mind thought of Naruto. In truth, I was only talking about Naruto the whole time.
I did lose my family, but I also lost Naruto when he became that munchkin on our team. He pried into my life when I tried to push him away. To hide that we were friends, we always called each other rivals. I was close to that idiot, too close. He was like a brother to me now and I always felt the need to protect him. As much as I question that man, he did watch over me. But like he said… he pretended to be the person I wanted him to be.
"So that child… was that your family?" I glanced at the clone that stood above me on another branch. "Why?" I asked as I tried to avoid showing signs that gave away what those two meant to me. "Answer." He stated.
"Even if I said yes or no; you would kill them. So what difference does it make?"
"Clever…"
-AN-
Yogen no Ko Chapter 22 will be put up possibly on Friday. NamikazeUzumaki Akuma Chapter 73 will be put up today while Chapter 74 will be placed up possibly on Friday with Yogen no Ko.
Uzumaki Twins Chapter 29 will be placed up today while Chapter 30 will be put up on either Saturday or Sunday.
The publication towards my other stories is unknown for now.
Author Responds to reviews:
Irish Shift: Yes I do realize these chapters are short. The story behind that was stated in another story so I never went over it in any of my newer stories. The reason behind the short chapters is because a lot of people can't read long chapters. My boyfriend is an example of one of those people. He can spend up to 4 hours on 1 chapter alone and sometimes have to go back to the start to read over from Chapter 1. I feel bad for people that go through with this because of something like a disability preventing them from reading fast or comprehending words fast. I always take these people into consideration and write chapters that are anywhere between 1.2k words long to 2.5k(Which is mainly used for Uzumaki Twins) I care about my readers but to make up for short chapters, I update every week rather than once a month or after a certain amount of reviews or hits. Yes, there are times I don't update; and normally that is due to an emergency or something related to real life.
Pinksamurai1014: Funny thing… I think you'll like Sasuke in the next chapter. Sasuke makes a comment about that. I wish I had updated these stories on time for you to get the humor right away.
Alright now for the Story poll!
What relationship standing would you like to see between Naruto/Akuma and Sasuke?
Akuma returns to her older self and Sasuke and her get together as a couple. 「６」
The relationship stands as a fatherly Sasuke. 「０」
Akuma and Sasuke just stay as friends. 「０」
Thank you Cairn Ramius for asking this lovely question. Your vote was put into the poll already to make it easier on you! If you guys have any other things you'd rather see, you can leave that in a PM or review stating how you would like to see the relationship develop to. Sadly… not everyone would probably get it the way they would like it to be… but I could make an 'alternate' side if there are people that rather see it one way over the other way.
Vote my readers! Vote! You can vote anyyyyywhere you want… meaning through any of my accounts I created for you guys, through PMs on any account I have, including this, through reviews or even through the email that I gave you guys! I don't bite guys! {Actually this is only partially true, since I bite my BF's hand… which…. He is creepily enough… okay with….}
December Calendar Choices:
Zouri
Dan
Kidoumaru
Oboro
Madam Shizimi
Uchiha Madara 「１」
Inari
Hinata
Konohamaru 「１」
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