LIES, LOVE AND BETRAYAL
Greetings from the Void!
Well folks I'm trying this pairing idea out just 'cause it hasn't been done yet. On this site at least. Lets see if it sticks shall we? Mind you there's a limited understanding of Fu's personality. So I will do my best to make her seem as believable as possible.
CHAPTER 1: How It Came To This.
The skies above the valley swirled with dark ominous clouds. With each boom of resounding thunder, with each drop of torrential rain, the clouds seemed to respond to the rage and sorrow of a young blonde girl below.
It was impossible to tell the rain from her tears as she cradled the lifeless body in her arms, blood being washed away by the rain.
"Why did this happen!?" The girl shouted throughout the valley, "It wasn't supposed to be like this..." Her grief and rage weighed her down. "You have to wake up! I need you..." Her heart sank deeper with each second that her wish was not realized. Her throat felt like it was swelling.
Her head began spinning, her vision fading black, "F-Fu-chan..." She muttered sorrowfully. She looked down at the vicious wound on the the other girls stomach. Red chakra began to pour from her body.
This girl, Uzumaki Naruko, had lost the one thing that mattered to her more than anything. Her sorrowful wails echoed with the thunder as she pressed her forehead to Fu's. As the red chakra completely consumed her body it formed fox-like ears and one fox-like tail, then a second, and a third, until 7 tails had appeared, thrashing around her body.
Naruko looked to the stormy heavens, her sapphire iris' now a blood red, her pupils now slits. Her skin dissolving away from the intensity of the demonic chakra consuming her. With one more strike of lightning and a boom of thunder, she released a roar that shook the earth and overcame the chaos in the skies.
Far and wide, people across the great and minor nations alike, heard-no they Felt- the roar... and felt the pain it carried.
14 months earlier...
The sun was high in the sky radiating a pleasant warmth. The winds blew just slightly enough to ease the heat. Konohagakure had finally returned to normal after the Incident with the chunin exams, and the inauguration of the Godaime Hokage.
A young blonde girl, strolled through the streets, Her hands behind her back as she hummed to herself. The Sunlight glimmering off her sapphire eyes.
This young girl was the very one that defended Konoha from Sunagakure's Jinichuuriki, Gaara no Sabaku. The girl that sought out and brought the Sanin Tsunade to take up the mantle of Godaime Hokage. This girl was none of than Uzumaki Naruko, The jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi no Youko.
Her long blond hair was tied with black strings, into two fluffy and slightly curly ponytails that hung from the sides of her head. She wore a tight black jacket. The half under her b-cup(and growing) breasts was orange. The jacket sleeves grew baggier and wider as they went down her arm, finally reaching her first knuckles. The jacket ended at the bottom of her ribs, revealing her mid-drift while its collar reached up to her chin. She wore a short orange skirt that was secured to her waist by a black belt. To top it off she had a kunai pouch tied to her right thigh and black, boot-like sandals that almost reached up to her knees.
Naruko smiled as she reached her desired destination. The one. The only; Ichiraku ramen. She walked into the small stand, and noticed there was no one to greet her, but she also noticed the rustling in the back kitchen, "Oi, Teuchi-san!" She called.
An older man poked his head out from the back and smiled, "Ah Naruko! I was wondering when you'd show up today. And how is the Herald of Hokages doing today?" He asked his favorite customer.
"I'm good, thanks." She giggled slightly and took a seat on one of the stools, "Starving though! Bring me 3 Miso pork's please!"
"Coming up!" He replied before retreating his head back into the kitchen.
Soon her first bowl was placed in front of her. She readied her chopsticks, "Itadakimasu!" She said before digging in.
The young blonde quickly finished off her three bowls, and no sooner had she slurped the last noodle down did a certain pink haired kunoichi enter the stand, "There you are Naruko. I figured I'd find you here."
Naruko drank down the last of her broth and placed the bowl down before standing up and placing the money on the counter. She turned to her teammate, "Hey Sakura, whats up?"
"Have you seen Sasuke today?" Sakura inquired.
Naruko's face went blank and her eye brow twitched ever so slightly, "No Sakura, I haven't seen Sasuke today." she pinched the bridge of her nose. If there was one thing she couldn't stand anymore of, it was her friends constant obsession with the third member of their team. "Why don't you get it? He doesn't like you! He doesn't like anybody for that matter."
The last comment received Naruko a fist to the top of her head, sending her to the ground. A fuming and furious Sakura clinched her fist tightly, looming over the blond, "Shut up!" Sakura's fury subsided with a sigh, "I'm worried about him."
Naruko stood up, rubbing the top of her head, "Yeah. Ever since the fight with Gaara he's kept to himself allot more than usual." She said, a twinge of concern escaping with her words. The two left the stand to the streets.
"Darn...I'm worried about him... and I wanted to ask him a question" Sakura sighed.
Naruko stopped in her tracks and turned to face her pink haired friend, "I'll answer your question for him; No, he does not want to go out with you." And a solid fist collided with her whiskered cheeks.
"That's not even close to what I wanted to ask him!" Sakura barked.
Again, having to stand back up, Naruko looked at Sakura rubbing her new wound. "Well how the hell should I know? Every time your around him you're either swooning over him or beg him to go out with you."
Sakura would have clobbered her for a third time, if what the blonde said wasn't right. "I wanted to ask him about that new technique Kaka-sensei taught him for the chunin exams."
"Ha! My Jutsu is better!" Naruko replied arrogantly. A massive grin on her cheeks as she put her hands behind her head.
"What jutsu?" Sakura was confused, did she mean her shadow clones? Not likely.
"Oh yeah, you haven't seen it yet!" Naruko suddenly remembered she hadn't even had a chance to show it off to her fellow villagers yet. The only ones who had seen her do it were Tsunade, Jiraiya and the first victim she used it on...
"Ero-senin taught me a jutsu the Yondaime Hokage created!" Naruko beamed as she directed her thumb to herself, "It's called the Rasengan!"
Sakura's face sank, "You learned a crazy new jutsu too?" she exasperated. "What's it like?"
"Well follow me to the training grounds. I don't want to get yelled at for breaking stuff." Naruko said.
After they had arrived at the training grounds Naruko picked out her target, a large boulder protruding from the ground.
She formed a particular hand sign, "Shadow clone jutsu." With that a clone appeared next to her. She held out her hand to the clone who quickly began molding chakra into the originals hand. Swirling it around into a tightly condensed sphere.
Naruko ran at the rock, rearing the sphere back, "Rasengan!" she shouted as she smashed the sphere into the stones surface, ripping into it. It drilled its way in until it faded leaving a rather large crater in the rock.
Sakura's jaw plummeted, "You're kidding me..." She sighed, "I'm falling so far behind."
"Don't worry, you will get better with time. Maybe pick a field and master it or something. I don't know." Naruko tried to console her friend.
"Well... I did have one Idea. Kinda inspired by you. You're Jiraiya's student in a way. Maybe I could be Tsunade-sama's." Sakura suggested, "I heard she's the best med-nin ever. And I'm good at chakra control so maybe that's something I can do."
"Not a bad idea... If she actually trains you. It wasn't actually easy to convince oba-chan's drunken ass to be Hokage. I had to master an A-Rank Jutsu, get my butt kicked, my hand impaled, and save her life..." Naruko's rant kinda went off on a tangent. "But in the end she gave me this." She reached into her collar and pulled out a necklace with a crystal hanging from it.
"Well, I know that you and Jiraiya brought her back, and so I was wondering if you could maybe... throw in a good word for me?"
"Sure. We can go talk to her tonight when she leaves the Central Building. But for now, I'm gonna get some training in. And you can keep looking for Sasuke." Naruko said. "Meet me at my place at nine."
"Thanks." Sakura nodded and left to continue her search for Sasuke.
9 o'clock had finally come around. She was anxious, butterflies in her chest and throat. She was so hoping Tsunade would train her. She hadn't been able to find Sasuke so this could cheer her up. The pink haired girl reached the apartment of her blond teammate and walked up the stairs, seeing the lights were on.
Sakura knocked on the door, "Ne, Naruko, I'm here!" She called through the entrance, she soon heard the girl reply.
"Come in, it's unlocked!"
Sakura turned the door nob and entered the apartment. Hope filling her mind and heart.
Naruko fell to her back, panting. Dirtied, tired and sore. She resolved it a good bit of training, "Well... probably should head home... gotta meet Sakura-san still."
The blond sat up and darted towards her home. She was kinda eager to see if Tsunade would take Sakura as a student.
Naruko soon reached her apartment and looked up, noticing the lights were on. She stopped in her tracks, "Did Sakura get there? Did I leave my door unlocked again?!"
Naruko began walking up the stairs to her door when she heard a scream and a loud crash echo from inside her home, "Sakura?!" She darted to the door as the lights inside turned off.
She slammed the door open and found her living room table had been smashed. Sakura laying on top of the debris, gasping for air, a bloody wound on her chest. A person stood over her, covered by the shadows, holding a kunai dripping with blood. The person turned to Naruko, who was in shock at what she saw... the sheer suddenness, topped with the cruelty and terrible image before her left Naruko frozen, her teeth beginning to grind.
"Ah, she returns home." The stranger said.
She could feel an aura unlike anything she felt before. A pressure on her body that began to make her knee's tremble, "Wh-who are you?"
The man paused for a second, "You could say... I knew your parents."
Naruko looked back at Sakura, then to the stranger, "Wh-what did you do?"
The man chuckled slightly. Naruko's rage began to over power her fear, and she formed a shadow clone, who quickly helped her mold a Rasengan in her hand, "I'LL KILL YOU!" she shouted as she dashed at the man and drove her attack at him.
The desire she felt for his death was not realized though, as her Rasengan and her whole body, phased through the stranger, who merely took a few steps towards the door as Naruko canceled her jutsu and turned around.
The man turned to her, the light revealing a mask with lines on it and one circular eye hole on the right side, this also revealed his black cloak with red clouds on it. Akatsuki, "The question that should be asked is, what did you do?" He said as he tossed the kunai at her lazily and she, by reflex, caught it.
Before Naruko could say another word the man seemed to vanish into a vortex emitting from his right eye.
Naruko dropped the blade to the ground and knelt down next to Sakura who was still gasping for air. But blood poured from her mouth and the wound in her chest. Naruko was desperately attempting to stop the bleeding, "Nar-Naruko..." Sakura managed to choke out, caughing blood onto Naruko.
Then Naruko noticed something in Sakura's eyes, they had the same markings as Sasuke's Sharingan. As much as she wondered why they were in her eyes she was more concerned with her friends life.
"Sakura-san, Hang in there I'm gonna get you to the hospital!" Naruko said desperately.
"N-Naruko... I... I can't br-breathe..." She grabbed the blonds arms tight in her pain, digging her nails into her skin, enough to draw blood, Then scratched at her face and neck. "It hu-hurts... Naruko... Stop...pl-please." Sakura's eyes went dull and her desperate attempts to breathe ceased... and Finally her grip released.
"Sakura-san! Sakura!" Naruko's eyes couldn't fight back the tears that began gushing out, "SAKURA!"
"Naruko! What have you done?!" A Harsh and assertive tone bellowed into the home. Naruko turned her sorrowful eye's back to the entrance of her home. Seeing an enraged trio of ANBU.
"Wait... no! I-I didn't do this... it was th-"
Naruko was cut off, "We just saw her trying to fight you off!" One ANBU shouted, "I always knew you were a monster! You're coming with us."
"No, I-"
"You'll be lucky if you don't get the death penalty." The second ANBU said, takign a step towards her.
"Stay away!" before Naruko herself even realized it, she pulled out a smoke bomb and tossed it on the floor. Then ten of her clones burst from the smoke scattering in all directions, towards the door, the windows. Anyway out. She did the only thing her body told her to do. She ran.
"Oh kami... what the hell is happening? What am I doing. I just have to get away, I can't... I can't get captured! Sakura-san... I'm so sorry I couldn't save you." As her mind raced, she didn't even realize the speed at which she ran across the roof tops. She quickly reached the protective wall around the village and scaled it before jumping to the tree's on the other side.
She ran as fast as she could, for as long as she could. She ran all night until the sun rose the next morning. She eventually collapsed on a tree, her legs no longer strong enough to carry her 5'3" tall, 100 pound body.
She panted, gasping for air, tears still pouring down her cheeks, "Sakura... who was that man and why did he do this to you?" She thought, then realized her biggest mistake, "Oh yeah smart thinking Naruko, running like that. What the hell is wrong with me?! Now they think for sure that I'm the one that killed her. Kami, I'm such an idiot! I'm so fucking stupid."
It hadn't sunk in yet just how suddenly this all happened. However, her exhaustion won out. The world grew darker to her as she drifted into unconsciousness. Never noticing the hypnotizing Sharingan Tomoe in her own eyes.
NEXT CHAPTER:
Naruko trains secretly and has a fateful encounter with another young female jinchuuriki.
Her world will never be the same.
No, Naruko does not own the Sharingan. That is not why she had it for the brief moment there. Just to clear that up quick.
Well there you folks have it. I hope I caught your interest. I know it wasn't the longest chapter but it's mostly a prologue. The following ones will be longer. Please review and tell me what you think. You're opinion DOES matter.
'Til Next Time this Damiad, Signing off from the Void!