All of you that didn't read the author's note at the end of the last chapter, you probably should have. Otherwise you'll just be disappointed with who is being reanimated.
I don't own Naruto.
Ps. This chapter sucks but it's necessary, for the end is near.
The woman in the center of the seal drawn in blood spasmed, screaming around her gag as she collapsed to ashes, gray and white sheets of paper scuttling over her skin and engulfing her whole.
She collapsed forward, her short hair becoming long, dark, pink strands, her pale skin taking on a more peachy pigment.
"Naruto…" Shisui called, standing dangerously close to the invisible barrier as he watched Naruto do what she was doing from several feet away.
The tree made of black earth still towered, bloody blossoms lit with the candlelight in the Graveyard, scorch marks and splatters of blood littered about the black and red checkered floor.
"What are you doing?" Shisui asked.
"What the fuck?"
Karin flinched at that familiar voice.
The reanimated Tayuya pushed herself up from her lying position, her brown eyes sharp as she studied her surroundings, the white of her eyes a muted gray color, marking her as brought back from the dead.
"You!" Tayuya snarled, eyes meeting Naruto's single solemn blue one. "You shitty bitch! You set me up! They tortured me!"
Karin flinched, and Harime lied in a peaceful forced sleep at her side.
"Yeah…" Naruto drawled. "About that…. I'm sorry?"
"FUCK YOU!"
Naruto gusted out a sigh.
"Okay, you know what? I deserved that." She admitted. "I deserve that and worse. But I am sorry. Though, I didn't bring you back for my sake."
"What the hell do you want?" Tayuya snapped.
"Karin," Naruto prompted blankly.
"S-sure." The other girl nodded, reaching into the pouch at her waist, despite the blood staining her fingers.
She pulled out some smelling salts and waved them around Harime's nose, recoiling when the small girl deftly caught her wrist in a vice like grip.
Her right eye snapped open, glaring through her unruly bangs.
"Oh…" Harime rasped, releasing Karin's bruise blooming wrist. "It's just you."
Karin nodded, tucking away her salts and gingerly palming her bruising wrist.
Harime sat up, eye finding Naruto, before settling on the reanimated Tayuya.
"Now why did you go and do a thing like that Naru-chan?" The child asked, cocking her head to the side.
"Who the fuck are you?" Tayuya cursed, lip lifting in a snarl. "And where the hell are your legs?"
"Don't recognize me~?" Harime sang, her shadow pooling between the stumps of her legs before bubbling up, forming a round black ball that sprouted curling tendrils on either side of it.
Soon two splits opened up, deep trenches that flickered before filling with red light.
A wide grin stretched across the shadow's face, mouth moving when Harime spoke again, using her favored childish lilt.
"Tayuya-chan, hello~"
Tayuya flinched, before her face twisted in rage.
"You!"
"Don't move." Naruto commanded, forcing the Sound nin to remain stiffly in her kneeling position instead of attacking Harime like she'd intended to.
"There won't be any more bloodshed today." Naruto stated simply. "Understand?"
"Eat a dick!" Tayuya spat, ripping her gaze away from Naruto to glare at Harime and Karin.
"Okay, now that that's settled, Harime do you have something you want to say to Tayuya?" The redhead asked.
Harime's puppet collapsed, returning to the shadows.
"Eh, yeah I guess so." Harime shrugged, leaning forward and dragging herself closer to the reanimated Sound nin.
"What are you doing? Stay back you shitstain!" Tayuya yelled, body trembling as if to move, but unable to due to Naruto's command.
Harime peered through her bangs, studying Tayuya intently as the pink haired girl glared her intentions of bodily harm.
"It was fun." Harime began. "Playing with you, I mean. But at the same time, it wasn't. I guess I'm saying… what I did to you, and what I made Karin do to you, was wrong."
"You're telling me that tattooed bitch brought me back so that you could give me the shittiest apology ever spoken?" Tayuya spat. "If that's all, you better let me go back to where I was. It was way better than this shit."
Harime shrugged.
"Well, I can't say I'm surprised by that." The legless girl went on. "We did torture you really bad. And then we stole your body and stuff so… yeah."
Tayuya studied Harime for a long moment. She seemed to be contemplating something, and for a moment everyone thought she was going to start cursing Harime out. But when she spoke again, her tone was calm, if slightly bitter.
"I'm never going to forgive you guys for what you did to me." The Sound nin declared. "But if I'm honest, I got what was coming to me for things that I've done. I'm not saying that I don't hope every last one of you don't get fucked in the worst way imaginable, but I am saying fuck it. It happened, and fuck you guys for it. But I'm dead, and it's not as shitty as I thought it would be."
Harime cokced her head to the side.
"What's hell like?" She asked curiously.
"Who said I went to hell?" Tayuya returned.
Harime's eye widened.
"I faced all of the fucked up things I ever did, and when that was that I went somewhere else, and it ain't hell, that's for damn sure."
Harime and Naruto both looked as if they wanted to know more, but Tayuya glared again.
"So I'd liked to get back to that place, and I really don't give a crap if you mind. Send me back."
"But what about my closure~?" Harime whined.
"Piss off." Tayuya cursed. "I don't care what you do to my body. I don't care about you using my summonings, or anything else. I just want to leave."
"That's good enough for me." Naruto muttered.
Karin watched as Naruto's hands formed the release sign.
"Sorry Tayuya…" Karin whispered, flinching when the girl's brown eyes sliced into her.
The Sound nin didn't say anything as her features began to crumble to dust. She didn't need to say anything more though. Everyone present could see that she was relieved to be returning to wherever it was she had gone to after her demise.
When Tayuya's features completely disappeared, the corpse of the prisoner woman collapsed onto her side in the center of the Edo Tensei seal.
"Well, I honestly don't know what I expected when I thought of summoning Tayuya." Naruto began, looking up. "But how do you guys feel? About this, I mean."
"I didn't think she would forgive me either." Harime said, but her bloodied lips tilted up in a small smile. "But, thank you for letting me talk to her, Naru-chan. It was a sweet thought."
"She barely acknowledged me," Karin muttered. "But I could see in her eyes that she'd kick my ass if she ever got the chance. Weirdly though… I'm okay with that. I don't feel better about what I did to her, but knowing she's not stewing over it makes it more bearable."
"I guess it was a little much to summon a soul from the dead, but this is good." Naruto voiced. "It's progress. And fuck me if I don't try to progress after all of this crap."
"Baby steps." Harime tittered.
"They are steps nonetheless." Jorōgumo intoned, stepping from behind a large cross shaped grave.
"Where did you come from?" Karin exclaimed.
Jorōgumo elegantly folded her hands in front of her as she moved closer and stood at Naruto's side.
"I am the same clone that aided you against The Hag." Jorōgumo explained. "I quickly went ahead to beat you all to Naruto. Harime failed to explain that the seals that keeps all chakra signatures but her own and Master's outside of this barrier is only activated by a pulse of her own or Naruto's chakra. So I was here before she activated the barrier. Karin-san, you didn't sense me because I was suppressing my presence, and all of the chakra hidden throughout the Graveyard served to hide my presence even more. If any of you had looked, you'd have found me."
"I thought you were gonna wait until Naruto was normal again to greet her." Harime asked.
"I did." Jorōgumo said. "Master is as Master should be, is she not? So, here I am."
"I honestly didn't expect to see you until we all made it back to the Resting Place." Harime admitted.
"Well, there is something I want to do." The one eyed clone murmured, turning to Naruto. "Master, I sealed your original body into the Underground. If you would like to return to it, I will retrieve it for you."
Surprised, it took Naruto a moment to respond. With a small chuckle, she nodded.
"That would be awesome, Jorōgumo."
"And after all I went through to make you that cooler one." Harime grumbled.
"Do you want it?" Naruto asked her other half.
"Huh?" Harime looked up.
Naruto shrugged.
"Tayuya said she didn't care what we did to her body or her summons." The redhead reminded her. "And I think the living threads suit you more at this point than they do me."
"If you use the body, all the work that went into it wouldn't have been for nothing…" Karin spoke up.
"And it won't hurt to breathe…" Harime murmured.
"Wait, you meant that literally?" Naruto asked, alarmed.
"Yeah, and figuratively." Harime said. "This body really is very weak. It's part of the reason I always stay in the shadows. It hurts to move."
Naruto felt guilt flare painfully in her heart, but it wasn't the time for her to act like she was the one put out. It was time for her to start working towards being the person she wanted to be.
She knew she'd probably never be"good", but she could be a person that she was not utterly ashamed of. That was enough. That was fine.
"Alright then." Naruto nodded to herself, looking up, meeting eyes with her father, and then Shisui. "I know you guys probably want all this to be over. But can you wait a little longer?"
She knew it was asking for a lot, and honestly she wanted to get the heck out of the coffin too, but she owed Harime at least a little relief from the pain she caused her.
"Do what you have to." Her father finally said.
Shisui nodded at her.
Relieved, Naruto took a breath. She turned slightly, her blue eye reaching Jorōgumo's.
"Do it." The teen ordered.
"As you wish." She returned, dropping into a squat and drawing a seal in the blood already smeared across the floor.
Jorōgumo brought her hands up when she was done, weaving through hand signs. She slapped her hands against the checkered flooring, a flare of blue flame following the action. She stood and stepped back as a familiar door rose from the flaming symbols.
"Harime resealed the Kyuubi into your old body," Jorōgumo explained, stepping around the lone standing door and placing her hand on the shimmering handle. "So, your body may move, and when you return to it, you will once again be the Jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi no Kitsune."
Naruto took a breath.
"It was always my responsibility." The redhead muttered. "No, I didn't ask for it, and no I didn't want it, nor do I now... but Mom trusted me enough even as a baby and as her child to take on her burden. So… alright. I've lived with it all this time and I can live with it some more."
"When did you seal the Kyuubi?" Karin asked the legless girl, agasp.
Harime grinned, all bloodied teeth.
"In the split second it took to after summoning Naruto's soul from the in between. His presence came along with hers, and I just sealed him into her old body 'cause there was already a seal there, and I didn't know what would happen if he got away. Jorōgumo, thinking quickly, sealed the old body with him in it into the Underground. Everybody was a little preoccupied with Naruto's return to notice." Harime explained. "And before you start to lecture about how dangerous that was, I kinda already know, Yondy."
Naruto's dad simply gritted his teeth, and didn't say anything.
With no further prompting, Jorōgumo twisted the knob to the Underground's door, and pushed it open with an audible creak.
Immediately, Naruto showed an impressive amount of speed when she flashed before the door, right hand extended, taking hold of the snarling face that had leapt forward as soon as the door opened. Naruto crashed into the Underground, slamming the whiskered creature in her grasp against the wall inside the doorway.
Pinned, the captured being stared at Naruto through her eyes, only, these were crimson with fox slitted pupils. The hair atop her old body's head was a deep orange, and the whiskers on that identical face were rugged and feral.
"So you live, foolish little wretch."
"I see you still have nothing nice to say, Kurama." Naruto returned pleasantly. "Now, if you don't mind, I'm gonna need this body back."
"Take it if you can, meatbag."
Naruto grinned.
"Is that a challenge?" The blonde baited.
The fox bared its fangs at her.
She tossed Kurama down the stairs and into the darkness of the Underground.
"That's fine." Naruto continued. "I accept. Let's rock, Harime, Jorōgumo."
"Okie dokie~" Harime sang, dragging herself after Naruto.
Jorōgumo followed behind them both, turning momentarily to meet eyes with Karin, who had been frozen since the Kyuubi had made its appearance. She had recognized the dark chakra of the creature that had been hidden within Naruto since the very day they met.
"Karin-san, we will return." The stitched clone promised.
"H-hai." Karin stuttered.
With a nod, Jorōgumo closed the door of the Underground behind her.
And then, every one waited.
Karin waited a few feet away from the Underground's door, Shisui and the Yondaime doing the same outside of the barrier.
The Uzumaki didn't know how long they all waited, but she knew it had been a while.
And just when Karin was strung taut with nerves, ready to snap, the knob to the Underground twisted, and the door swung open. Karin gusted out a breath of relief.
Jorōgumo exited first, followed by the body of Tayuya that looked like Naruto minus the whiskers.
Checking the chakra, Karin found Harime was the one inhabiting the body with the Jiongu hidden beneath its skin. In Harime's arms, she held her whiskered look alike. Again, checking the chakra, Karin found Naruto was very much alive in her original body, the only differences was the fact that her hair was a bright sunshine blonde and her body held no tattoos.
She was wearing the same slightly baggy black bodysuit as Harime, and Karin knew she probably kept those spare clothes in the Underground just in case.
"Put me down." Naruto muttered. "I can walk Harime."
Harime pouted, but did as Naruto wished.
When Naruto met eyes with Karin, the Uzumaki found they were no longer red, but the pretty blue hue with hints of green that she had always favored.
Harime had the same two eyes.
Jorōgumo moved aside as both Harime and Naruto left the Underground's doorway, and the one eyed clone pulled the door closed behind them, a flash of hand signs sending the door away in a flare of flame and smoke.
"What happened to your old body Harime?" Karin couldn't help but ask.
"I absorbed it with the chimera jutsu along with all the abilities inside of it." The redhead said, grinning.
She gave a little spin.
"What do you think? Aren't I pretty?"
Karin startled out a laugh.
'Oh my god. Is… is it actually over? Is it… is it done?'
"Yes!" She laughed again. "You look very pretty, Harime."
"Yay!" Harime cheered.
"What about me?" Naruto asked, fingering a tuft of her bangs. "It's still blonde. Think I should do something to it?"
"I dunno," Harime said, eyeing her creator. "I think it looks nice on you, Naru-chan. I missed your cute little whiskers too."
Karin did a double take when she saw a hint of rose rise in Naruto's cheeks.
"Don't call me cute." She grumbled. "It's just wrong on so many levels…"
"Naru-chan is mean." Harime huffed, crossing her arms.
"Alright," Jorōgumo spoke up. "That's enough of that. Master is as Master should be, Harime is as fine as she shall ever be, and now it is time for us all to leave this coffin."
"Okay fine, just spoil all the fun then, bloodbag." Harime muttered, waving a hand.
Karin felt the chakra making up the barrier surrounding them waver before dispersing.
"Time to face the music." Naruto said, sighing.
Karin winced.
Oh yeah… things had gotten so laid back she had forgotten how deep in shit they all were.
'Please... please tell me I'm not going to get executed…'
Karin finally stood, grateful when no one commented on her trembling.
Karin, Naruto, Harime, and Jorōgumo all looked to the ones who had remained outside of the barrier. The ones who made no move to get closer once said barrier had been dropped.
The Hokage looked cold, and Karin couldn't help grimacing again.
"We will not discuss anything in here." The Yondaime declared emotionlessly. "All of you will leave this coffin with me, and we will go to my office. When we make it there, then we'll discuss what's going to happen."
"Hai…" They all said.
Jorōgumo looked to her master.
"Master, my true self is waiting in the Resting Place. I will see you there."
"Okay." Naruto nodded.
With that, Jorōgumo's form collapsed into a sea of hair, slithering away to no doubt return to the true Jorōgumo. Minato turned on his heel and began walking away.
Harime made her way to Karin and took the Uzumaki's hand, startling her.
"C'mon Karin-chan, we can't keep Yondy-pon waiting too long. Otherwise the stick in his butt might rupture something important."
The redhead paid no heed to Karin's incoherent sputtering as she skipped along, dragging the glasses wearing girl behind her.
Karin looked back, finding that Naruto was following behind them, but instead of continuing on, she stopped before Shisui, who hadn't moved a muscle since his Hokage had left the premises.
Karin turned back around, hurrying to keep pace with the bouncy Harime.
'Well, I'll let those two have their moment.'
"You little shit."
Naruto didn't try to dodge as Shisui launched a punch smooth into the middle of her face. She took the blow with a pained grunt as her lip split and fell back, but he grabbed the front of her jumpsuit and yanked her forward, leaning down so his forehead connected with hers a little painfully. She winced slightly but didn't complain.
"I was worried about you." Shisui mumbled.
Naruto stared into his midnight eyes with her blue ones.
They both studied one another for a long moment. Suddenly, Naruto smirked, the fresh split in her lip pulling painfully.
Shisui pulled back, unable to stop himself from chuckling.
"You really are a brat, you know that?"
"Aw, I missed you too bitch." Naruto returned, reaching up and patting his cheek mockingly.
With a snort Shisui released her shirt, and she took a step back, straightening out her clothing.
"Look man… I… I'm sorry." Naruto said, shoving her hands into her pockets.
"I know." Shisui said, reaching out and ruffling the top of her unruly hair. "I just… I hope you learned something, Naruto. You need to think about the things you do and what kind of effect they'll bring. Alright?"
"Alright." Naruto murmured.
Shisui left his hand on her head a moment longer before pulling away.
"You know you're in like, so much trouble that no words can be put to it, right?" Shisui asked.
Naruto snorted.
"Oh I know." The blonde admitted. "But we both know Dad won't have me executed or imprisoned. But it's guaranteed something is gonna suck big time."
"Oh you better believe it." Shisui returned, shaking his head.
Naruto hit Shisui's arm when he grinned.
"C'mon, everyone's waiting." The Uchiha said. "We can't hide out back here forever. Stalling is only going to make it worse."
The Uchiha turned, making to leave.
"Hey 'Sui, one more thing." Naruto called.
"Huh?" The Uchiha turned around, only for the collar of his shirt to be seized and yanked down so that he was eye level with Naruto.
She stared for a long moment, obviously amused by his wide eyes.
"That little crush I mentioned?" She murmured. "It's tiny."
She leaned forward and pecked his lips lightly.
She pulled back, smirking as he gaped.
"Tiny, but there."
The blonde released the Uchiha and confidently strode past him to face the consequences of her actions.
No one said anything as they stood before the Yondaime, who had calmly closed and locked the door to his office after them.
Jorogumo had left Naruto's coffin with everyone, but she had been returned to her own coffin. The Hokage obviously found no reason to punish her. She was a mere clone after all.
The Yondaime stood behind his desk, hands folded behind his back in a regal manner as his sharp blue eyes studied the people before him.
"Shisui, you have no punishment, but you will speak of nothing that transpired since I summoned you for this mission. Ever. Is that understood?" Minato finally spoke.
"Hai, Hokage-sama."
"Excellent, you are dismissed until further notice."
"Hai."
The Uchiha couldn't help reaching out one more time and ruffling Naruto's hair. He gave her a small reassuring smile that she returned hesitantly and flickered out of existence.
Minato turned his attention to Karin once Shisui's presence left.
She stiffened under his unreadable gaze.
"Karin-san, you are already a citizen of Konoha, but you have shown me that you have no true loyalty to this village." The Yondaime addressed her.
Karin shrank back.
"You will not be allowed to ever become a shinobi of Konoha. Despite your blood, you will be executed immediately if you perform such treasonous acts within Konoha's borders ever again. I am showing you mercy that you quite frankly have not earned, do I make myself clear?"
"Y-yes, Hokage-sama! C-crystal clear sir!" The redhead squeaked, quaking hands clasped before her chest.
"Excellent." The Yondaime intoned. "And to reiterate, for your benefit, if you do anything that you know you should not while within this village, I will have your head. This is my last and only mercy to you. Is that clear?"
"Yes!" She swore, crimson eyes full of tears.
"That's all I wanted to hear." The Hokage said. "Now get out of my sight."
Karin didn't need any further prompting and hightailed it out of his office, leaving out the window. Both remaining Uzumaki knew she was going to be in Naruto's home.
Said blonde grimaced.
She hadn't known Karin could move that fast. Naruto startled out of her thoughts, looking to her right when she felt Harime take her hand.
Her redheaded other half only smiled sweetly.
The Hokage stepped around his desk, so that he was closer to the two remaining people in his office.
They stood hand in hand as his sharp eyes traveled between each of them coldly, before finally settling on Harime.
"You are not a citizen of Konoha. By all means, I should take your head now for all you've done and for all the things I have yet to find or may never will."
Harime knew he chose to ignore the insolent smirk she sent his way.
"You say "should", so does that mean my head stays on my shoulders?" Harime asked, not acknowledging the way Naruto squeezed her hand in warning.
"Still as you stand before me you show such deep disrespect." Minato noted blankly.
"That's 'cause I barely respect you." Harime returned, equally deadpan. "You and I both know you've never really done anything to make me respect you. And we both know there's not a damn thing you can do about it. Now, you gonna punish me for what I've done, or are we gonna keep playing this stupid game?"
"You will share the same punishment as Naruto." Minato said flatly. "Now get out."
Harime pulled her hand away from Naruto and blew a kiss at the Yondaime.
"I guess Naruto will tell me the news then." The redhead chuckled. "Whatever. I don't care."
She made for the window.
"I'll be in your room with Karin, Naru-chan." Harime called over her shoulder. "Don't be too hard on her, Yondy. Otherwise I'll have to be bad again~"
Harime's giggles faded away as she climbed out the window and fell to the village below.
'And then there was one.' Naruto thought.
She looked up, watching her father, a little wary as he walked closer to her.
He stopped when he was in arm's reach.
"Naruto…"
The blonde swallowed.
Minato smacked Naruto smoothe across her face, the action so swift she didn't feel the impact but the sting after lingered painfully and reopened the split in her lip.
"Are you entirely daft?" Her father demanded. "Completely out of your damn mind? Do you have any idea how many accounts of treason you have committed against this village? A village you are sworn to protect and serve with absolute loyalty? I could have you executed right now not even touching on the crimes committed by Karin and Harime during your little vacation."
Naruto wanted to curse at him, demand who the fuck he thought he was talking to but she doubted he'd let it slide when he was so obviously furious with her. Reacting to his anger would only make the situation worse.
"But, I cannot have you killed." Her father said, blue eyes narrowing. "You are a Jinchuuriki and I'm sure the consequences of your death do not have to be explained, not to mention there is no one suitable to take your place as the bijuu holder. As Karin is new and cannot be trusted with such dangerous power."
Naruto thought she should be hurt by the technical way her father discussed her theoretical death, but honestly she was so passed done it didn't even matter. She'd been so close to dead mere hours before that the possibility of actually dying didn't frighten her.
If she could be reunited with her mother in the after life, then maybe being dead wouldn't be such a bad thing.
But then again, living… she would make the most of the life she had. She was determined to be someone that at least she herself could be proud of.
"But," Her father went on, leaving behind his rant about suitable Jinchuuriki. "Before you are a treasonous brat, before you are a bijuu holder, and before you are anything else, you are my daughter. You are my child."
Naruto's eyes widened impossibly.
"I realise it's unfair to show favoritism, and I realise that it probably makes me an unsuitable Hokage for allowing you to go mostly unpunished, but frankly I don't care. The only people that would know would never betray you, or me."
Harime, Shisui, and Karin would never betray Naruto. And neither would they betray the Yondaime. Shisui for obvious reasons, and Karin and Harime because they knew Naruto would be displeased if they did such a thing to her father, despite certain things between them both in the past and present…
"Dad…?" Naruto trailed off, uncertain.
With a frustrated sigh, Minato shoved his hand through his hair.
"That is not to say that you will not be punished. Because you will." Her father said, lips pursing.
Naruto winced, previous irritation and temper forgotten. It seemed she'd been wincing a lot lately.
"Well," Naruto finally drawled after a long moment. "What do you have in mind?"
"Leave." Minato ordered.
Naruto's mouth went dry.
"W-what?"
"You will leave this village." Minato said. "You have one week to situate all the matters that you need to. And on this same day next week, you will leave Konoha."
Naruto stared up into the blue eyes so similar to her own, yet so very different.
"You're serious." Naruto said, head cocking to the side slightly, her shock fading. "You're absolutely serious, aren't you."
"It won't be forever." Minato continued, not bothering to respond because they both knew he was serious. "You will leave on a trip for three years under the supervision of a shinobi of my choosing. And you will send a report on your whereabouts on every first of the month until you return."
Naruto watched her father as he watched her.
"And you will return, Naruto." Minato said gravely. "Three years you will be gone. No more and no less. Do not make me send ANBU after you."
Naruto tore her gaze away from her father's, looking out the window, into the evening orange glow that was slowly spreading across the village.
'Three whole years out of this village huh?'
Sure, she'd have a guard dog, but a temporary exile really didn't sound that bad…
"You have one week to prepare for this trip." Her father repeated.
"Okay," Naruto allowed, still gazing out at Konoha. "You can send your guard dog with me, but can I take Karin? You said Harime will share this punishment, so that's chill. But I want Karin to come too."
'I think I'll take Harime's little friends too. The ones who helped bring me back from the dead.'
"Alright, I'll allow you Karin as well." Her father muttered. "But also, when you return I want you to have the answer to a question I have for you."
Finally, Naruto looked back at her father.
"Hm? A question?" The blonde hummed.
""Have you found what you're looking for?" Is the question." The Yondaime revealed.
"Huh?" Naruto asked intelligently.
"You are going on this trip to find something. I'm sending you to find it, and it is not a tangible thing. It's something only you can find."
"What am I gonna be looking for?" Naruto asked.
"I don't know." He said. "What will you be looking for? You have three years to figure out what you're looking for and to find it. It's something that you can't touch, and only you can decide you want to find it. Only you can find it."
"Hm." Naruto hummed again. "Okay. I can do that."
Naruto could already tell it would be difficult to find what she was looking for, but she had a hunch already on what exactly she was going to be searching out.
"Get going then." Her dad said quietly.
Naruto nodded once.
"I'll be back in a week to say goodbye." The blonde promised.
Her dad just looked at her.
With a shake of her head, Naruto fled through the window.
'That…' She thought, feeling slightly giddy. 'That definitely could have been worse.'
She knew it to be true. She also knew things were going to be changing.
'The only question is, for better, or for worse?'
She'd strive for better.