You Can Reclaim Your Crown

Summary: No one paid her much attention, Naruto's landlady, this woman who paid visits to the Uchiha compound with baskets of bread and fruit for the little Uchiha survivor. The woman who sat down to dinner with the Nine Tails Jinchuriki...who had befriended the silent Itachi, the impassive Kakashi...and had enraptured the hearts of Kushina and Minato...no one paid her any attention, until she's forced to act as a Shinobi of the Hidden Leaf Village once again.

Pairing: Kagome/?

Anime/Manga: InuYasha/Naruto

Genre: Romance/Spiritual/Adventure

Rated: M

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"This is ridiculous! You guys are telling me you can't find a twelve-year-old boy?!" Kagome was racking her brain as she tried to think of where Naruto could have wandered off to. Not long ago, the Hokage's personal dogs had arrived at her door pounding on it, saying that Naruto had stolen one of the forbidden scrolls. "How pathetic, you guys are supposed to be among the best...and a kid bested you..." she shook her head as she pulled her shoes on. She'd only just come in, so she was still dressed, having just removed her shoes before they'd arrived. "I'll help you find him, you guys look in all of the training grounds, and search the Uchiha District too."

"Right!"

She leaped off into a tree and started searching through the nearby forest that surrounded her compound. "Naruto~!" Silence met her as she looked around, her eyes taking in every detail as she ran, her ears listening for anything that wasn't normal. "NARUTO~!"

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Sasuke ran through the streets of Konoha, he'd overheard the Nin searching his district for Naruto, and had a decent idea as to where to find the blonde. "Never thought he'd resort to something like this..."

"Sasuke!"

Sasuke stopped running and turned to see a familiar blonde female running his way. He thought about ignoring her, but stopped at the look on her face, "...what is it?"

"Y-you are looking for Naruto too...right? My dad left to find him, and I remembered...I saw him leave towards the outskirts of the forest..."

"The outskirts!?" He looked back in a different direction then where he'd been heading, "thanks Ino, I owe you one!"

She blushed as he left her standing, out of breath, in the middle of the streets of Konoha. "Wow...he's so cool..."

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Kagome ran along the gates of Konoha and jumped to a tree, Iruka caught up to her and she eyed him curiously. She knew him only through Kakashi, but she barely spoke to the man. She looked forward and her eyes widened at the familiar sight of Sasuke. "Wow, he must have caught onto Naruto's scent too," the two of them stop on a branch as Sasuke landed in front of Naruto.

"Naruto! What are you thinking!?"

"Ah! Sasuke?! How did you find me...? Mizuki-Sensei told me that this was a secret place..."

"Mizuki...!" Iruka's eyes widened.

Another name Kagome only knew of but couldn't put a face to. "Seems like a trap has been placed, shall we take a step back, Iruka?" Kagome said calmly, though anger clearly lacing her words, "Mizuki will be coming soon...and we can catch him then."

Iruka frowned as he turned to Kagome, she was fighting to not show how pissed off she really was. "..." Not saying anything, the two jumped off into different directions and waited.

"-me to believe a teacher told you to steal a Forbidden Scroll?"

"Expect you to believe me? Tch, I'm not lying! He said...that if I learned a technique from this scroll, I'd pass my graduation! Then..."

"...then?"

"Then Kagome won't be disappointed in me...and my parents...my mom and dad. You know, I don't want to let them down, but...I'm not like you. I...mess up, all the time...I can't do things right, and I just keep messing up. My dad, I just know he was amazing...and my mom...I want to be great, like I know they were. I'm scared though..."

"That's normal, isn't it?" Sasuke placed his hand on Naruto's shoulder, "...everyday, wondering if you're good enough, if they'll see you improving and getting better, if they are proud...I know that you will make them proud, I'm sure of it. However, this isn't the way to do it...Naruto, let's take the scroll back."

Naruto frowned, "fine...I guess..."

Kagome felt her heart stop as shuriken shot through the bushes towards the boys. Her body moving before she understood what she was doing, she was between the boys and the flying blades. "Ack!"

"KAGOME!"

"AugH!"

The boys turned from where they were holding onto Kagome to keep her from falling over.

"Mizuki-Sensei...a-and Iruka-Sensei...what...what is..." Naruto looked shocked and confused.

Iruka had a blade to Mizuki's throat only for Mizuki to disappear from in front of him and reappear in front of Kagome.

"MIZUKI! DON'T!"

"You guys should have just left the kid to me!" Blade poised to attack Kagome, he brought it down as she pushed Naruto and Sasuke to the sides. The attack that should have struck her...as a citizen...but she had brought her hand up and blocked the attack with a pink glow that they'd never seen before.

"Mizuki? Is that you?" She asked through the pain of her wounds, though from where Iruka stood, he could clearly see those wounds healing as that pink glow covered her injuries. "Are you the so-called Sensei...that has stooped so low as to use his student to attain his own greed!?" She yelled, her glowing energy flared dangerously around her.

"What do you care! It's not like you really even care about Naruto...none of you do!" He yelled out, "Naruto!" Mizuki back-flipped out of the way of a shuriken as Iruka got involved, "give me the scroll! These guys, they act like they care about you, but I promise you...they don't! They are just afraid of what you'll do if you get too strong!"

"...what?" Naruto held the scroll tightly to himself as he hid behind Sasuke who was standing in front of him with his own Shuriken drawn.

"Twelve years ago, the decree that was made, to keep you in the dark..."

"MIZUKI! STOP!" Iruka yelled as he tried to attack Mizuki, but he only vanished from his sight before sending a rush of blades at the man, catching him in the arms as he did.

"What are you talking about, what decree twelve years ago."

"Naruto..." Kagome frowned, "you remember what I told you. Some things were kept silent, to keep you safe...remember..."

"Y-yeah! I already...I already know...I'm not supposed to know things about my parents...and I'm not supposed to know about what happened twelve years ago...I know!"

"Do you?" Mizuki laughed, "then it should come as no surprise to you, that the fox demon, that destroyed this village, and killed Iruka's family...that very same fox demon...was sealed inside of you! You are the fox demon!"

"SHUT UP!" Kagome yelled, taking them all by surprise, "don't you dare! Calling him the fox demon, he's nothing of the sort!" She shot forward past Iruka, delivering a gut blow with her elbow, blood covering her clothes from her healed wounds, she spun and kicked him to the ground, but a poof sounded as his body hit the grass and she found herself turning quickly in the air to catch a blade.

"Such a stupid woman," he brought his other hand down and a hidden shuriken was met with little resistance as she failed to block the strike.

It was silent for a moment...

No one moved...

Until...Kagome coughed slightly, blood forming at her lips as she glared hard at Mizuki. "You can fill his head...with whatever lies you wish...but that boy...is my life. I won't let you dirty his name."

He smirked as he pushed her off his knife and watched her drop to her side.

"...K-Kagome..." Sasuke barely was able to say her name as he watched her hit the ground.

Naruto on the other hand, moving past Sasuke, the scroll hanging off his shoulder, he shook his head in disbelief as he stared at the blood spilling from the open wound. There was no glow to heal her, and the dirt ground beneath her had started to stain red with what life she had. "No...no...KAGOME!"

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Me: Here is chapter nine of You Can Reclaim Your Crown! I know, it's been a very long time since I've been updating, I started a week ago and just haven't stopped. It'll take me awhile, but I hope I'll be able to finish these stories! Tell me what you think! I didn't watch the anime, so it's not accurate, which is exactly what I want. Review, tell me what you think!