[Started on October 19, 2020]
[10:02 hours, Philippines]
=== (IMPORTANT AUTHOR'S NOTE) ===
Welcome, everybody! Now, I know some of you followed me from my Naruto x Star Wars (Clone Wars) crossover "Chosen by a God", and if you've read it, you will see a huge difference between that fanfic when compared to this one. The difference you'll notice right off the bat is how serious I'm going to make this. Don't fret though, that doesn't mean my humour is gone, just toned down. Which also means there MIGHT be some fourth-wall breaking, but I have a plan to keep it far and few in between IF ever. Which so far, in this chapter, I doubt.
20-40% humour, 80-60% drama/seriousness/and all that other jazz.
This will contain a prologue with Chapter One right after!
Oh, right, and my writing style is so much different here than from Chosen by a God so read properly. Let's see how engaged you peeps are! Cheers!
WARNING!
While in "Chosen by a God" I was less serious, in this story I plan on bringing out the big guns. That means that I won't shy away from mentions and depictions of rape, torture, molestation, bestiality, paedophilia, the use of child soldiers, and certain first-hand oppressive experiences I'm currently experiencing here in the Philippines with our current government.
Rated M for 'Mature'
Summary: This is a slow burn story of forbidden love. A love between Templar and Assassin. Can they challenge fate and live to love each other, or will they become another Arno and Elis, another Altair and Maria? Naruto x Satsuki (Female Sasuke) and some other women. Rated M for 'Mature'.
Story Setting: Elemental Nations of the Naruto-verse
=== (Prologue) ===
A boy weighed down by drenched and muddied tattered rags runs through the damp and raining forest surrounding one Konoha no Gakure. The darkness of the night and the occasional rumbling of thunder does little to calm him, but the constant hammering of the rain soothes his aching body.
"You! Take your group and check over there! You! You! And You! Keep watch! The rest of you! With me!" The voice comes swiftly even through the deafening rain. Twelve shinobi dressed very similarly to ANBU fan out atop the trees while three remain, their eyes scanning the place.
The boy is nearby, behind a tree, doing his best not to pant and breathes through his nose. The rain hammers harder reducing visibility as fog builds up.
"Someone, get me a damn Hyuuga! There's no way we'll find him in this!"
BOOM! CRASH! SMASH!
"SHIT!" One of the shinobi looks at what they believe to be the direction the sound came from.
A high pitch sound reaches their ears making them clench their fists. A whistle-command.
"Dammit! Call off the search! Everyone, head back! The storm's getting stronger!"
"But what about—"
"We continue when the storm lets up! Move! Now!"
The boy waits with bated breath, his eyes and ears on high alert. He cannot, he will not let his guard down! Not anymore. Yet, struggle as he might, he cannot fight off the fatigue for much longer, as the storm still continues, his eyelids grow heavy, his breathing returns to a sense of normalcy that is only a tad bit strained, and finally, as the adrenaline leaves him, as the cold takes him, one thought crosses his mind.
"Damn it! Damn it all! Templars! Assassins! You're all the same!"
=== (Chapter One) ===
In Konoha Gakure no Sato, the village hidden in the leaves, a boy at the age of nine walks down the street going towards the Academy. The boy in question wears a navy-blue sleeveless hoody over a bright orange shirt, black pants, and black shinobi sandals. His hair is blonde, his eyes cerulean, and three whisker-like marks on each check make him distinct from all the others who dare fit the rest of the description.
This boy is Naruto Uzumaki, and he is currently… yawning while scratching his head, his hands clearly tense as he does his best to ignore the natural reaction of rubbing sleep from his eyes.
He drones his way into his class and takes a seat around the centre of the first row, and then… promptly rests his head onto the table with a loud bang.
"Naruto! If you're going to sleep in class, just get out!"
Heaving a sigh, Naruto gives the teacher a thumbs up and leaves. All the while, a certain top student eyes the boy as he leaves. Still, there is nothing she can currently do about it. Not that she cares, but…
"Hey, dead-last," a kick to Naruto's right leg stirs him from his sleep underneath the tree with a wooden swing.
"Satsuki," Naruto glares. "What do you want?"
"It's lunchtime. You've been asleep for nearly four hours."
"I was kicked out of class," he says with a shrug. "It's nothing new for you guys, right?"
"Please. As if that matters. Why don't you spend time in the library—"
"Sure, sure, like they'll let me in, right?"
A deafening silence grows between the two. Satsuki Uchiha, a girl born into the prestigious Uchiha clan, specifically as the second daughter of the clan head Fugaku Uchiha. She wears a black high-collar sleeveless shirt, black arm warmers, and white three-quarter pants with matching black high-cuff shinobi sandals. Her hair is tied into a ponytail, "typical," Naruto thinks, and her black eyes sparkle with a certain shine that compliments her "definitely pretty" face as Naruto's mind puts it. Not that he'd tell her out-loud, of course.
Satsuki, on her end, takes in the blonde in front of her. This "definitely annoying, good-looking—no, wait, idiotic-looking dead-last is testing me, I'm sure of it!" Not that she'd tell him out-loud, of course.
With all said and done, however, Naruto takes this time to say, "see? You can't even answer!" Which Satsuki immediately replies with a scoff followed up by, "right, yeah, sure. Well, whatever you did, I'm sure you deserved it! Dead-last!" She finishes with her arms crossed and eyes closed triumphantly. Of course, Satsuki, being who she is, expects an irritated comeback.
Yet, to her surprise, nothing comes.
She furrows her eyes in confusion when she waits, and still no witty comeback comes, and instead, it is her ears that pick up the sound of rustling grass. She opens her eyes just in time for her to see Naruto walk past. "Huh?" She cannot help but turn to face the retreating blonde. "W-wait, Naruto—" the blonde stops mid-step, "did I… say something wrong?" For his reply, Naruto does something so simple, it throws her off.
He pulls his hood over his head and walks away.
"O-oi! Y-you're joking, right?" Satsuki rushes after him. "Come on! I thought we were just having fun," she exclaims! And yet… his silence remains.
Turning a corner, Naruto gives an 'oomph' and stumbles back nearly hitting Satsuki before landing on his rear. The girl, of course, begins to scold the blonde.
"What the hell are—" only for her to stop after seeing the person the blonde bumped into. "Nee-sama? Nii-sama?"
Kazumi Uchiha and Itachi Uchiha, the eldest of the main Uchiha household. Twins that are almost indistinguishable from each other in both looks and skill. If anything, the only way to distinguish the two is to recognize Kazumi's more angular face to Itachi's more stoic look, and even that is near hard to do when they look so similar. Of course, Kazumi has a much more feminine body, which is hidden fairly well when she is dressed in ANBU armour. Their personalities are also similar, although Kazumi is still more emotionally expressive between herself and Itachi. All-in-all, she is considered an Uchiha beauty and prodigy.
"Hello, Satsuki-chan," Kazumi greets with a smile as she bends down and places a hand over her younger sister's head. "Is this your friend?"
"Huh?! No way! As if I'd ever be friends with the dead-last of the class!" Satsuki blurts out while crossing her arms—a very small blush present on her face.
"Satsuki," Itachi says and walks over to her and the blonde. "I told you to mind your words, didn't I?"
Meanwhile, Naruto sits up to stare at the three Uchiha siblings. With a sigh, he picks himself up and dusts his butt. "That's going to be an annoyance when washing, that's for sure," he thinks to himself as he takes a step to leave the three alone—"oh, Itachi! It's Naruto-kun!" only to freeze as Kazumi cheers.
"Indeed, it is," Itachi then walks over to Naruto specifically and places a hand on the boy's shoulder. "Hello, Naruto-kun."
"Y-yo… Uchiha-san."
"Heeehhhh? Itachi, I think you're scaring him," Kazumi says before walking over to the blonde. "So, Naruto-kun—"
"H-hai!"
"Are you friends with Satsuki-chan?"
At this, Naruto pauses. "Huh?"
"Oh? You're not friends?" Kazumi puts a finger to her chin. "That's odd, I could have sworn you two were very friendly a few minutes ago."
"Kazumi," Itachi calls. "We need to hurry. We don't have much time."
The twin sighs. "Mood killer." She then turns to Naruto and says something that makes the blonde raise a brow. "Hey, can you keep our sister company for the rest of the day?"
"Hah?"
"I'll pay you!" Kazumi smiles.
Naruto looks at her weirdly before shifting his gaze to his classmate. His eyes dance back and forth once, twice, five times, before he sighs. He then looks at Kazumi and says, "how much?" surprising her in the process.
"Heh."
The world pauses.
Three pairs of eyes all congregate on the oldest male present making Itachi go, "what," rather innocently.
"You just laughed, didn't you?!" Satsuki blurts out making Itachi close his eyes with a gentle smile settling on his lips and he replies with, "I think you're sorely mistaken, Imouto." Of course, it is swiftly followed by a shout of "LIAR!" and a very cute pouting Satsuki. Not that Naruto would voice such thoughts, of course.
Itachi then says, "Kazumi, give the kid some gold and let's go." It is swiftly followed by a prolonged, "hai~!" before his twin tosses a pouch of gold to the boy. "We expect you to take care of her while you're with her as well. Do you understand that, Naruto-kun?"
"Ehhhh?!" Naruto then scratches his head before sighing in defeat. "Fine, fine—"
"Do you promise?"
This gives Naruto pause. "Promise?" he thinks with wide eyes.
Itachi interrupts his thoughts. "I hear you always keep your promises, you know?"
Naruto furrows his brows at Itachi's words. He eyes the older male, and as he recognizes the ANBU vest the Uchiha twins wear, he gives a mental nod of understanding. "So that's how they know…" his thoughts pause as he looks at Satsuki who only gives him and her older siblings confused looks. With closed eyes and the pouch of gold weighing on his hands and their soft and near-inaudible jiggle in his ears, he opens his eyes to lock eyes with Itachi. "I promise."
Itachi nods with Kazumi smiling. "Satsuki," the older brother receives a nervous "h-hai!" in response. "I suggest you train with your fire jutsu and kenjutsu when you finish your classes today."
Satsuki's reply comes quick, "Hai, Nii-sama!" although a tad bit nervous.
The Uchiha twins vanish from the children's sight making the raven-haired girl sigh.
"So—"
"GAH!"
Naruto's brow twitches. "You forgot I was here that quickly?" He asks with a strained smile. Satsuki's reply is a rather cute huff. Not that the Uzumaki will dare to tell her, of course. "Well, I don't care what you want," Naruto states bluntly. "I was paid to stay by your side the whole day, and I plan to earn what they paid me."
Satsuki, as she usually does, gives an annoyed 'tsk' before stomping off. "Do as you want! Ya damn dead-last!"
Naruto smiles with a shrug. His mind very briefly reflecting on Satsuki's earlier words that made him want to leave, but only briefly. He pushes such thoughts aside as he is determined to earn what he was paid.
The rest of the day passes without incident, save Naruto constantly annoying Satsuki with his presence, that is, "even if his presence is somewhat enjoyable." Not that she'd tell him that, of course.
As the sun sets and the moon and stars rise, Naruto scratches his head when Satsuki blows a giant fireball over the river that flows through Konoha.
"So," Satsuki starts with a pout. "Pretty bad, right?"
"Satsuki, for the fiftieth time, I'm the last person you should be asking," Naruto replies, defeated. "I can't even do the simple clone Jutsu, let alone an elemental one!"
"Oh, shut up and answer!"
Naruto sighs. "So, do you want me to shut up, or answer? Which is it?" His eyes go wide as he dodges a shuriken aimed right between his eyes. "Watch where you throw that thing!"
Satsuki huffs. "Whatever. I'm going home."
"Eh?" Naruto's gaze follows her retreating form as she leaves him. "EEEEHHHH?!" He rushes after her leading to occasional shouts of "Satsuki! Wait up!" and other variants.
The two, of course, finally make it to the entrance of the Uchiha compound.
"Well, Naruto," Satsuki says after stopping at the entrance. "You were really annoying."
"Hmph! And you're just a stuck-up bitch."
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?!"
"EEEEP! Nothing! Nothing at all! You're the most beautiful girl ever!"
Satsuki gives him an irritated look accompanied by a matching twitching brow. "You know… coming from you… that sounds like an insult." This ultimately makes Naruto scoff.
"Right, right, sure, sure," Naruto says with a shooing motion. "I've earned my p—" yet his eyes widen as a strange stench reaches his nose… "No… not strange… familiar… rusting iron?"
"Helloooo? Earth to Naruto? Did you say some—"
"Satsuki-san." In an instant, the girl in question looks at the blonde boy's eyes that are… "wide with fear?" And that tone… that honorific… that— "Satsuki-san."
"Y-yes…."
"Why… do I smell rusting iron?"
Satsuki blinks. With a short questioning "huh?" she sniffs the air. She smells nothing causing her to give him a quizzical look… only for it to finally hit her.
Both children stare at the nearest building, a house with open—no—broken windows along with some red splatter on the broken glass…
The two children walk towards the window, each step feeling heavier until…
"OH MY—" Satsuki suppresses her gasp with a hand over her mouth! Naruto on the other hand stares with wide eyes. The shattering of glass further into the compound breaks their trance making both of them look at each other. Satsuki's higher adrenaline lets her speak first. "Naruto, I need to check my—"
Naruto cuts her off by suddenly putting his hands on her shoulders "I'll get help, I promise!" He leaves in a sprint, a sprint far faster than he ever showed her in their physical academy exercises. Satsuki is unable to do anything to chase after him.
After the blonde finally vanishes, Satsuki's eyes widen as the thoughts of her parents and siblings come flying back. "NO!" She makes a dash towards her house, doing everything in her power to move as fast as she can, trying to match the speed of that boy that went to get help, all in hopes for her to reach her parents on time! "Please be safe! Please be safe! Please be safe!" The mantra within her head grows louder as she does her best to not look at all the corpses strewn throughout the streets! Faster… faster… faster! Faster! FASTER! There!
"Kaa-san! Tou-san! Nee-chan! Nii—" her eyes widen as the last honorific is whispered, "san?"
Before her lie the bodies of her father and mother, stomachs to the floor, Itachi standing above them with a bloodied blade—a curved blade not used by shinobi, one with an eagle's design. "Itachi… nii-san?"
"You're early. Pity," Itachi says as he eyes her… before turning and shrugging her off as if she were nothing.
"Nii-san?!" Satsuki cries out as she scrambles after him. "Nii-san!" She sees him take to the roofs with a powerful jump! She follows suit, shouting, "Itachi-nii-san!" Her eyes grow wide when pain rocks through her body as she falls—"GAH!" she screams as she falls on her wounds! Yet still! Her mind only cares about one thing! "Itachi! Why?!" Tears stream down her cheeks as Itachi watches her from atop an electric post, shuriken embedded into Satsuki's right leg.
"Ara, ara?"
Satsuki's eyes widen upon hearing a sweet voice from behind her, a sliver of hope rising as she turns what she can to face the person with a relieved smile and teary eyes. "Nee-chan! You're a—GHH!"
Pain strikes the youngest Uchiha present, and she looks down in shock to see a blade, very much so similar to Itachi's, held by her sister, yet this one… is plunged into her stomach.
"Itachi," Kazumi calls her twin. "I thought you would have taken care of her by now."
Itachi gives a cold reply. "You were on your way. I saw no problem with you taking care of—" his eyes widen in shock—"Kazumi! Look out!"
Faster than either Anbu-turned-traitor expects, a bright orange blur manages to send a grazing kick to the older sister's face forcing her away and capturing Satsuki in one swift motion.
"Who—" Kazumi's eyes widen. "Naruto-kun?!"
Indeed, before her and Itachi crouches one Naruto Uzumaki who has forgone his hooded jacket leaving him now with a bright orange shirt with Satsuki Uchiha in his arms.
The blonde in question glares daggers at them. "For some siblings who asked me to take care of their youngest sister," he pauses, placing a hand over Satsuki's wound that still holds the curved blade, "you sure are trying to kill her," he says while glaring daggers into the twins. A weak calling of his name catches his ear "N-Naru…to?" which he promptly cuts off. "Don't worry, everything will be fine."
Kazumi gives an annoyed 'tsk' before jumping to regroup with her brother, balancing on a cable wire.
"Where are you going?" Naruto asks as he gently lays Satsuki on the ground and removing the knife causing the girl grunt at the pain and cough up a bit of blood.
"A place where neither of you can follow," Itachi replies.
Naruto nods and glances back at Satsuki. Seeing her look at him in confusion, Naruto gives her a weak smile before once again facing her brother and sister. "So be it."
PWISH!
Smoke erupts from Naruto's position blocking the twins' line of sight. In a rare instance of panic, Itachi and Kazumi rush after them, Sharingan active—one of them still needs to use the Tsukuyomi!
"Kazumi! Secure Satsuki! I—"
Kazumi's eyes widen as Itachi lets out a grunt of 'GAK!' and an arrow pierces through his neck. Her eyes shine a new red.
"Itachi—" Kazumi gasps as the boy rushes out of the smoke faster than any mere academy student, her only warning being the glint of the dagger she used on her sister. "What?!" Even with her now unlocked Mangekyou Sharingan, Naruto's above-average speed catches her off guard.
CLANG!
Kazumi brings down her tanto just in time to block an upward strike. She jumps back as the blonde throws five pellets at her which she slices upon instinct—such an easy read, after all. From within the smoke, she sees the shadow of the boy… vanish?
Naruto then says from outside the smoke, "goodbye, Itachi,"
Kazumi's eyes widen. She jumps out of the smoke to the direction of where Itachi lies—WHAM! Only to be body-slammed onto a wall by none other than Naruto. "H-how?"
Naruto looks at her, very tempted to explain, but a young man's voice rings in his ears. "Explaining how things work to your enemy is asking for them to counter it. Don't be stupid." He shakes his head and heads over to Itachi's body and, using Kazumi's knife, he slits the man's throat.
"NOOOOOO!" Kazumi rushes the boy, her mind complete ignoring a simple fact.
Naruto's movements, from his tackling of her to his killing of Itachi… were never slowed.
The smoke cloud obscuring Satsuki starts to fade.
Kazumi sends a punch to the blonde boy who surprises her with a leg sweep! She falls onto her back and feels a weight over her—Naruto! She moves just in time to block her former dagger two inches from her right eye and…
It is then and there she sees it. In the reflection of cerulean, she sees it through the moonlight! Her eyes! They're… black?
Realization hits her as she glances at the smoke. "No wonder!" She shouts and tilts her head allowing Naruto to stab the ground instead of her eye. "You're more than you seem, Naruto-kun," she says as she pushes him off. She tries to feel her chakra and gives an annoyed 'tsk' as Naruto readies himself. "To think you had smoke bombs to disrupt anyone's usage of chakra…"
"Leave, Kazumi," Naruto orders. "Unless you want both of us to die here tonight. I might not be able to kill you without dying, but I sure plan on taking you down with me."
The woman... mulls things over before giving a 'tch' in frustration and looks the blonde in the eye. "You'll regret letting me go, Naruto-kun."
"I know…" Naruto takes a cautious step back as he says those words. "But you and Itachi paid me to take care of Satsuki," his words cause Kazumi's eyes to widen. "I plan to earn my keep."
For a moment, a very brief moment, Kazumi smiles… before she replaces it with a glare. "Make sure you do, then," she turns and leaves.
Naruto takes careful steps back allowing him to walk backwards towards Satsuki. Kazumi, after all, is now a former Anbu who just slaughtered her entire clan. "Only a fool would dare to take their eyes off her," he thinks to himself, not noticing how the adrenaline keeps his eyes open until finally, whistles cry throughout the village forcing her to start running.
Seeing as she will be now too busy to finish him off, Naruto heads over to Itachi's body and removes the arrow—more specifically a crossbow bolt. He looks to the highest roof and sees a hooded figure standing atop a roof staring down at him.
The smoke Naruto used against Kazumi begins to fade.
The hooded man on the roof draped in black robes smiles. "So much improvement in two years… I suppose he really might just be the one," he thinks before waving and then running off to a direction that takes him anywhere but to the oncoming shinobi.
Seeing the man vanish, Naruto rushes over to Satsuki. "Satsuki!" He calls out as Satsuki stares at him, her eyes meeting his. "Hang in there. I promise it'll all be—"
"Demon brat! You did this?!"
Satsuki's eyes widen as Naruto is kicked by an arriving shinobi. "Naruto?! What?! No!" she tries to reach out for him only to find herself unable to move. "No!" The man sends a kick to Naruto's head. "Stop!" A kick to Naruto's stomach. "Stop it!" A kunai is raised to strike Naruto's chest! "Someone! Stop him!"
"You! Stand back!"
"But, Sir! He—"
"Don't make me repeat myself! That boy was the one to inform us of what happened here!"
"That demon—"
"In accordance with the Third's Law, your punishment is death!"
"What—No! NO! Nonononono—GAK!"
"You, you, and you! Take care of this idiot! You! That girl! Hospital! Now! You! That boy! Same hospital room as the girl! Any further harm to him will be punished accordingly! The rest of you! Clean this sector! I want bodies identified and sorted out yesterday!"
"Sir! Yes, Sir!"
=== (To be continued) ===
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[Finished on October 25, 2020]
[02:01 hours, Philippines]
[Proofread on October 25, 2020]
[02:57 hours, Philippines]