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I DO NOT OWN NARUTO IN ANY SHAPE OR CAPACITY. I ONLY OWN MY FICTITIOUS OC'S.
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So, I haven't worked on any of my stories for a while, and to be honest I have very little time due to how my classes are going. Though I will have a large chunk of time each day I should be able to use to write so I may be getting back into my stories soon. I am having to drop a course and due to that my MWF schedule will run 8-10 classes, 10-12:40 empty 12:45 choir. On TTH my schedule will be 8-10:40 classes, 10:50-12:40 empty 12:45 Choir. Hopefully I will be able to continue on with all of my stories, but to be honest, I have lost sight of Flaming Leaves so it will be on a temporary hiatus till I can reconfigure my story and try to find the will to continue it. Till then this story and Silence Left Behind will be my major stories.
This story was inspired by an SI-OC I read and I felt compelled since I have the time to write. This is probably going to be replacing Flaming Leaves for the time being till I figure that situation out. My uploading WILL be sporadic, I will write and post as I can but do not expect anything till after new years as of a schedule. I will have January 1-March 9 off till I transfer to my 4 year university. Hopefully you all can enjoy this and will look forward to more of my writing.
Till the end, Ardent Chronicler
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Glossary: Scene breaks will be denoted by a line of X's
"Speech"
'Thoughts'
"Demonic or summons speech"
'Demonic or summons thoughts'
Jutsus shall be rendered in Japanese or English depending on which they are. For example, I will not be saying Almighty Push, I will be saying Shinra Tensei, or Rasengan instead of Spiraling Sphere. However instead of Raiton: Gian I will be saying Lightning Style: False Darkness, I am now starting to consider going only Japanese or English with the jutsu. Please let me know which you would rather.
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Ever since I can remember I have never been able to see. My mother coddles me as much as possible, my father thinks I can't smell it but he has been drinking since I was a baby. I am getting ahead of myself, my name is, wait, what is my name? I-I can't seem to remember. I remember other things, my sister, mother, my father, my best friend, even that anime my sister was addicted to, Naruto was it? Why can't I remember my name?
I don't know how long I was there, wherever there was when I felt a shock to my system. I heard sounds, familiar but terrifying. I heard laughing, I heard growling, grunts, screams. What was going on?
Oh, oh I remember now. I was stabbed in my chest, I don't know how many times. The screams must have been my girlfriends, but I can't be sure. The feeling encapsulates me and I start to scream, I felt the burning and the pain all around me. I scream and try to fight against whatever I feel but I start to feel things slip. The warm pressure surrounds me throwing me like a ragdoll and as I move I feel my life slipping from me, or at least my memory. I start to forget my mother's voice, my fathers, my sisters, my girlfriends. I forget the feeling of the cold rains in New York, the warm summers in Arkansas. I start to forget events, like winning in my schools thumb war competition, getting my AoA at college, I feel everything leaving. Before everything can disappear I grab onto the last thing I have, that damned anime, Naruto and I hold on for dear life.
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There are sounds, screaming in pain, a child? I hear male voices and female voices rushing around. I struggle to catch my breath but I can't. I'm in the hospital I can smell the antiseptic for a mile, but something's wrong. I am weak, weaker than I feel I should be. I feel hands, though they are huge like a giants. One behind my head and on my neck, the other on my rear. I yell, I shout in pain, I can't see, I still can't see, WHY CAN'T I SEE! I struggle as I hear a light voice, she sounded so nice but I knew I wasn't supposed to be this small or weak, what is happening? Then I am lowered, a soft pillow below me, I guess a bed? I can't be sure because I still can't see.
I stop screaming as I feel myself slipping away, why can't I breathe well? Someone help me, please.
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The next thing I can remember is waking up and feeling something running down my neck, I want to cry but I am weak and tired. I can't move well and I hear crying and hushed voices. I her someone getting slapped and I groan before going back to sleep.
For the longest time I feel so tired that I can't stay awake more than a few minutes at a time. I get glimpses of sound, a woman humming, a mans deep bass, a woman's beautiful soprano lulling me to sleep. Then it happened, it was like a wisp, but then it grew, and slowly but surely I could see something, I didn't know how to describe it, maybe like the color of water? Then there were others, a world lighting up a bright green, flowing all around the people in the room. I began to cry tears of joy, I could see something! The blue people seemed to shake as they moved, and a small hand leaned down and a finger caressed my cheek and there it was, that lulling soprano once again in my ear.
"It is ok my little Niko-chan, it's going to be ok. Kaa-chan is here Niko-chan, Kaa-chan is here."
Kaa-chan? It's a nice name, I like it, and did she call me Niko? I had a name, something to latch onto and as best as I could I moved my hand, I saw the swirling blue in my own limb and wrapped my fingers around her thumb. I heard her begin to cry and I tried to smile, I was weak, but for this kind woman, I will smile like nothing was wrong. Then I slipped away once again.
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"Niko-chan?"
I was roused from my sleep by the woman named Kaa-chan, and I let out that bright smile I had been practicing. I tried to say something but all that came out was a gurgle.
"My sweet little one. Are you ready to come home?"
I watch the blue appendages lift me up and lay me against it's shoulder and I curl into the shoulder as well as I could.
"Tatsuki-san, what are you doing!? You know Niko-kun can't be out of that!"
I hear shuffling footsteps and I was yanked away from the warmness, I began to cry.
"Senju-sama, You don't even want him, why won't you just let me take him home!"
"You know I can't do that, so please Tatsuki-san, just go home."
I looked over and I saw the blue form I was pulled from, her shoulders were shaking and her arms wrapped around her torso. She was crying, I hated it when she cried so I reached out for her and tried to tell her it would be ok, but all that came out was a wispy wheeze. I hadn't realized but it was getting hard to breathe again.
"Please."
The utter pain and anguish in her voice killed me. I needed her to smile, to be ok.
"I can't, like I told you before, give it another three months, by his first birthday I should have the damage done to his lungs fixed. Then he can come home."
Three months? Lung damage? What was going on? I saw the blue woman leaving, shaking as I heard the cries from her as she walked away. This blue person with a star on her forehead, I decided then and there I do not like her. I would fight her tooth and nail as much as I can. Looking at the star on her forehead I saw the darker blue lines that I supposed where her lips smiling town at me and I gave her the most anger filled look I could and I heard her gasp.
"Why are you looking at me like that Niko-kun?"
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Three months, it had gone by in a figurative flash for me. I learned some cool tricks though, I could move the blue that made up my body if I would focus on it and I could make it dance! I was enthralled and payed attention to how other people made their blue bodies dance and it was enrapturing. I loved watching the people floating around, seeing their blue hands turn green, some turned a brighter blue, and even three turned a dark blue. Though when blue bodies vanished I got sad, I guess that meant they died.
It was my last day in this hospital, the star woman who I learned was named Tsunade had been telling me all day about it! I was kind of excited to be honest, I had been learning that the green stuff wasn't people, and the blue stuff was people. Tsunade was mean to other people but for some reason she was nicer to me. Then it happened, I don't know what time it was but I remember waking up and seeing six blue people climb into my room. I heard hushed voices and angry snarls, I saw the star lady coming towards the room and I made a noise. One of the blue people grabbed me by my right leg and hung me upside down in his grip. I started crying, it hurt, it hurt so badly! I heard a loud bang and then the star woman was in my room, and I tried to call out her name but I started coughing, and it hurt like razors.
"Let him go!"
"Now now Tsunade-hime, you don't want something bad to happen to him do you?"
I saw Tsunades blue form still and it was coiling, but strangely calm, then the next thing I know I hear gagled choking and I drop. Tsunade caught me and held me close, I turned my head while coughing and I saw a shorter blue figure but his blu seemed so blue, and so deep like an ocean.
"Sensei, thank you for helping."
"Of course Tsunade-chan, anything for you and Niko-kun. Though, I do have to ask, have you changed your mind?"
"Sensei…..The only reason I am even taking care of him is because of his illness. HE reminds me too much of Dan. As soon as tomorrow ends, I am gone."
"He has a name and is your son, and the last Senju heir after you."
"Sensei, I am done fighting about it. I am giving my rights up to Niko-kun, he is going with Tasuki-san and the Uzumaki in trade for Kushina-san and that is final."
I watched Sensei-san look down and then surprisingly he vanished, he was alive I was sure but he had just vanished. Tsunade's glowing green hand rested on my chest and immediately my coughs started to stop, and my throat felt better but I tasted copper.
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The next day ended and sure enough I was with Kaa-chan again, she was a nice lady so I clung to her as much as I could. Tsunade had been teaching me to walk and crawl over the last week, but to be honest I liked being held so I might just pay like I can't yet. I snuggled into Kaa-chan's chest and listened to her heartbeat, it was strange. The more I focused the more I could see what was beating, a weird pulsating thing in her chest surrounded by blue. I like it, it was nice and it lulled me to sleep.
The next time I woke up I was in some place surrounded by the green colored stuff, and I was enthralled. While the blue color seemed to pulse and be, well, alive, the green stuff was so much more. It didn't separate, it didn't stutter, it was like one big entity and it was gorgeous. I was bobbing up and down and when I looked down I saw the blue figure of Kaa-san and three other men all around. I couldn't help but laugh and I felt Kaa-san' blue twingy rapidly and the only way I could say is that it was happy!
"Uzumaki-dono, it might be wise to make sure the child is silent during the trip."
"Nonsense Hachi-san, Niko-chan is just enjoying the ride. Isn't that right my beautiful boy?"
I couldn't help but let a happy squeal out with joy, I loved whatever this green hoping thing is! IT WAS AWESOME.
"Still my lady, with Kaminari and Mizu being active, we need to take precautions."
I hear Kaa-chan sigh and saw her nod.
"Fine, but only till we reach Uzushiogakure."
The next thing I knew, I was asleep.
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"Hey, you!"
I turned around, standing across from me was a tall man with milky eyes.
"Yes you, quickly, I'm disappearing and I need to tell you something."
Against better judgement I walked closer, and when he held his hand out I reached out and took it. Then it was pain, flashes, I remembered things, or saw them it was hard to explain. I began to panic, the man was flowing into me but at the same time, I felt he WAS me. He was what I had been, and I am what will become. I don't understand but I remembered things, recipes, mathematics, science equations, rationality, experiences, reflexes, languages, everything and it hurt so badly.
"I'm sorry Niko, I am so so sorry, but I can't just disappear so I am giving my all to you. Everything I was is now yours, so please, live and love, be more, want more. Never forget who YOU are, forget who I am but don't forget what I am giving you."
I wanted to talk but I couldn't the pain was immeasurable and I fell, and I never stopped.
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"-ko, Ni- Niko-chan!"
I jumped with a start, it was the dream again. I turned towards Kaa-chans blue body and stood. It had been two years since the dreams started, and two since I came to live with the Uzumaki with Kaa-chan. I ran towards Kaa-chan and leapt into her arms, she hugged me tightly as I began to cry.
"Shhh, shhh, it's ok Niko-chan, it's ok."
I felt her hand smoothing the back of my head and leave my room. I buried my head into the crook of her neck as I cried. I had dreams of people dying or people being hurt, and last night the Uzumaki clan had been wiped out. It was the most vivid dream I have ever had.
I was lowered onto a large bed and I felt Kaa-chan cuddle up to me and I clung to her tightly. I was terrified to sleep or to try and sleep. She was humming a lullaby to me but I couldn't help but cry. I mourned for people who I didn't know and those I did know. I couldn't help it, I cried even harder.
"Do you want to tell me about it?"
I did, I told her all of it, the dream from start to finish, and that I couldn't remember anyone surviving outside of Kushina. I described our attackers and what would happen to the village, how Konoha wouldn't help even though we were allies. It took an hour but at the end her blue form seemed serene and she held me close and kissed my forehead.
"It's just a dream my little Niko-chan, just a dream."
The next morning, my dream came true.
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