Charmed Kitsune

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Naruto x Phoebe x Prue x Piper x ?

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Story Start

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On the table in the recess of a cave sat an attractive woman wearing a rather revealing cleavage bearing dress was at a table. Her eyes seemed to glaze over; the deep green was a nice contrast to her brown hair. "Oracle, what do you see?" Diriel asked. "Do you see my master's revival?"

"No, I see something else. Something more important, perhaps," she added.

"Nothing is more important," he argued.

"Not even The Charmed Ones?"

"The Charmed Ones are not my concerned right now. They are powerful, but they are still inexperienced. Once their guardian is taking care of, it's just a matter of using their own human fallacies against them."

"I see a future, a Power of Four."

"Impossible!" Diriel calmly rebuked. "There are only three sisters. The genetic of the Witches have prevented them from having three magically inclined children. "

"I see - a witch's call on the spirit winds. I see... another." She paused, before adding suddenly, "I see a child separated…surrounded by lights. So close yet so far away. If they fully come into their powers, your master will meet his end."

"Then do your job and identify the witch! I will see to it her life is snuffed out!"

Back in San Francisco the sisters and Naruto were at the Mousseline. It was the anniversary of Patty Halliwell's death. Phoebe stood by Naruto's side, her fingers interlacing with his. Prue leaned against Naruto's chest and Piper was on his other side. Silent tears slid down their cheeks. Suddenly they heard a voice behind her.

"Oh. I'm sorry I didn't know anyone was here. I'll come back later." They spun to see it was none other than Paige.

"No, it's fine. Were here to mourn our mother's death." Phoebe said wiping the tears from her eyes. "Paige…" she softly trailed off. There really wasn't any right way to answer the question.

"I'm mourning my mother as well. My birth mother. " she clarified. "I…I never knew her."

"I'm so sorry for your loss." Prue said as she tried to rain in her emotions.

"You too."

And as if on cue it happened. Several demons flamed in and immediately began firing fire balls. "Duck!" Naruto screamed as he reacted instinctively to shield himself against a series of flame balls. Without so much as having to communicate the Quartet went to work. "Phoebe! Get Paige out of here!" Prue ordered, sending two demons flying with a telekinetic burst.

Without having to be told twice, Phoebe grabbed Paige's wrist and began leading the shocked young woman out of the combat zone. "Paige duck!" Phoebe barked as another demon flamed in front of them. Without so much as thinking Phoebe reacting on instinct, landing a solid 720 kick blow to the demon's jaw.

Though the demon would not let himself be deterred. With one last ditched effort he launched another attack at his target.

Since the whole attack began Paige was like a deer caught in the headlight. Frightened not to mention confused by what the hell was going on. In that moment when the ball of flame went flying at her everything went quiet. She couldn't hear the crackling singes of the flame or anyone's screams. At that moment she couldn't feel anything, it was as if her heart had stopped. Then all of a sudden it was as if she could hear a hymn, a pleasant soft melodious tone. Her body felt like it was as light as feathers and that she didn't need to breed. In a matter of seconds her body began to glow and she then evaporated in a series of sparkles as the flame harmlessly passed through her, impacting the wall and leaving searing burn marks. Seconds later the sparkles reconstituted themselves in the form of a frightened young woman.

Paige was beyond stunned and surprised, though the same could be said of the Charmed Ones themselves. Naruto took the opportunity to eliminate the demon before he could use the opportunity to finish the girl off.

After finally regaining her wits Paige ran. "She orbed," Phoebe remarked. "Did anyone else just see that?"

The front door to the Halliwell Manor flew open and Prue, Piper and Phoebe strode in, three women on a mission with Naruto strolling behind them.

"Okay! Alright you all saw that too right?" Phoebe asked as she headed towards the kitchen, "She disappeared, bright white shiny thingy's came and then she reappeared….right?"

"Oh yeah." Prue replied nodding as she and Piper sat down at the kitchen counter, "That girl orbed no doubt about it."

Piper turned to their love, "That was a white lighter thing right? Or is there yet another magical species we need to be aware of."

"That was definitely orbing and without a doubt that girl was a white lighter or at least had white lighter powers which doesn't make any sense in terms of M.O. The main reason anyone would want to kill a white lighter who isn't a dark lighter is to make their witch vulnerable." Naruto turned to face Phoebe who was already dialing a number on the phone. "Are you sure he aimed for her Phoebe?"

"I'm definitely sure. He could have easily countered me and caught me off guard, but he aimed for Paige." Phoebe explained as she placed her ear up to the receiver.

"Something about this girl definitely isn't right. There is no way anyone with any sort of agenda would risk anything if it could mean crippling or killing an Ultimate Power on the opposite side unless that particular person is deeply connected to them or their cause."

Phoebe sighed, ending the call and trying again. "Whatever reason they're after Paige, I don't think she knows. I saw the look on her face when she orbed. She didn't have any idea on what was going on."

"Well there's only one way to find out," Prue suggested. "Allison!" she called out as a bright white glow filled the room. A good deal of time had passed since the White Lighter had shown up.

"Hi, you girls called?"

"We need a favor. Do you mind asking the elders if they know anything in regards of a situation where a Whitelighter wouldn't know they were a Whitelighter?"

"I'll see what I can do." The young woman said as she disappeared in a swirl of bright light.

"Any luck?" Naruto asked after Phoebe's third attempt on the phone.

"She's not answering her phone." Phoebe looked up at him and then bit her bottom lip. Her eyes were filled with worry and dread.

"I should go under and see if I can dig up information from the other side." Naruto suggested.

"What about your cover? We still don't know who or how many demons know Tempest isn't so demonic. What if its smokescreen to draw you out?" Piper questioned as a frown tugged at Naruto's lips.

"Either way, we won't get answers if we just stand around. I'll be careful ok. I've been doing this for some time."

"That leaves us to get prepared. There's no telling how many vanquishing potions it's going to take." Prue suggested. Some time had passed since the quartet began their preparations. The kitchen tabled had a row of potions lined up as the sisters toiled in the kitchen.

Allison had finally returned resulting in the sister hurriedly turning their attention to the white lighter with expectant looks. "Well?" Prue questioned.

"Well…." Allison began, nervously rubbing her left arm. "….they didn't know anything about her so, she can't be a white lighter."

"But only white lighters can orb right? Do you they think that it's a possibility that a white lighter had their power stolen and they were lost in some sort of shuffle?"

"It was considered and all white lighters we're accounted for. They can't explain why this girl can orb.

"Of course not." Naruto spoke causing the sisters to turn their attention to them.

"Did you find out anything?" Phoebe demanded, nearly bowling the blond over.

"If our little Missy Paige is involved with something, either the development is recent or they're keeping it secret. It leads me to believe that whoever she is, the person after her absolutely does not want anyone to key in on to her. The keys are pointing to her being a powerful force of good magic in the future and there is hardly a low level demon who either wouldn't attempt to steal her power or sell the information to save their own skins."

"Maybe we should ask Aubrey?" Piper suddenly piped up. "I mean who better to ask about this sort of thing. She would know about the magical families in this area right? Maybe Paige has a power similar to a Whitelighter?"

Naruto stroked his chin as he contemplated the suggestion. The old priestess would likely know about this sort of thing. "I'll contact her and set up a meeting." he stated as he went over to the phone to dial a number. Tea was prepared for the old priestess arrival as they all vacated to the sitting room.

A few pleasantries were exchanged before they got to the reason why they were brought here.

"Miss Aubrey, we need to know if you know anything about a woman by the name of Paige Matthews."

"Matthews?" the old lady kindly smiled. "I'm afraid I don't know anyone by that name." as she finished her statement with a very slight inhale before speaking.

"You're lying." Naruto immediately accused.

"Oh?" the priestess challenged without so much as changing her tone.

"I have to congratulate you, you managed to avoid most of the very noticeable signs of lying, but you took a slight inhale of air before you started talking not to mention you seem to be doing your best to make sure you're not overly animated in body language. Very few people who aren't in the field of law enforcement know about those specific tales."

"I was sworn to secrecy by a friend of mine. That child's life and livelihood depended on her existence being kept a secret. Demons won't the only ones who would be adverse to the nature of her existence if it ever got out."

"It doesn't matter anymore. Demons are for a fact trying to kill her. We need to know who she is or she'll die."

A tired sigh escaped the woman's lips. "That child is the daughter of a Witch and a White lighter." She began, causing them all to coil in surprise.

"White lighter can have children? Aren't they…dead?" Phoebe hesitantly asked, but only to remember that Leo was in fact not neutered like many depictions of angels described.

"With magic, sometimes anything is possible."

"Though that doesn't answer the question about who she is?" Prue pressed for information. "Who is she?"

"She is my fourth daughter and your baby sister." None other than Patty Halliwell had materialized. "It's been so long. I've missed you girls terribly, but I'm so proud at strong you've gotten. "

"Mom," Piper was the first to react pulling her mom into a hug.

"You've gotten so brave Piper." she said as she hugged her tight. Patty then turned her attention to Phoebe. "Hi baby girl." Phoebe was almost in tears as she walked over and hugged her mom. "You've gotten so big and I'm proud of you."

"R-Really?" Phoebe asked through the sniffles. She was so overcome with emotion she found it difficult to speak.

"Yes. You've grown so much." She said, rubbing the youngest shoulders and kissed her forehead.

"Prue…" softly called out to her mom.

"Mom." Despite all the resentment she felt at having to take care of her sisters at such a young age and feelings of abandonment she could not deny how much she missed her mother and how good it was to see her.

Naruto watched with a warm smile at the reunion. The mother and daughter hugs soon ended as Patty soon turned to him. "Hello Naruto."

"Patty. It's nice to see you again." He replied as his features softened.

A warm smile graced her face. "Yes, thank you. Thank you for being there for them."

"Of course, I care about this family. As far as I'm concerned, you're all my family. Though, we haven't had time for pleasantries. What do you mean by fourth daughter?" the sisters were so overcome by seeing their mother, the revelation almost slipped their mind.

"Why wasn't anyone told? How could you keep this a secret?" Prue couldn't believe this. How could her mother keep such a secret from them? A sister? Their powers were one thing, coming into this world was dangerous and Prue could understand why in some sense by means of keeping them safe, but keeping a relative's existence a secret was something else completely different. That also dropped the bombshell on the three sisters. If Paige was their sister and half Whitelighter that meant she had a different father.

"You had to understand, such a thing wasn't tolerated. Whitelighter and Witches are supposed to maintain a completely platonic relationship. Unions between them were forbidden and we were afraid of reprisals. The only people I could turn to was Paige's father and of course Aubrey and your Gramms. We decided it was far too dangerous to keep Paige with us. Even if we bound her powers the fact that I would have four daughters would bring more than enough attention, especially the moment there was ever an incident that forced us to go to the hospital." Patty paused before continuing. "It happened after your father and I were divorced." She continued glancing warily at her daughters whose once confused eyes were now blazing with anger or hurt or both.

Prue looked over at her sharply, "So that makes it alright then?" she asked and accused already knowing where this was going having figured it out for herself already.

Patty closed her eyes momentarily, the words of her eldest daughter stinging, "When Sam and I were together." she continued. "You were all so young you….you just thought mommy got a little fat." Patty laughed lightly at the memory, "You never knew I was pregnant." She told them her voice growing more serious once more. "And you were gone." She finished, sending Naruto one last glance.

Silence fell amongst the group, the sisters weren't willing to make any form of eye contact with their mother, all feeling far too betrayed to do so.

Patty tried desperately to get at least one of her daughters to look at her but they refused and Patty felt her heart sink knowing that she had hurt them so badly. She took a deep breath and fought against the tears threatening to fall, "We wanted to keep the baby." She whispered nodding her head, "But we feared you girls would have been taken away. It isn't unheard of for magical children to be taken from their parents if they were negligible. It doesn't happen as often as non-magical societies as family problems are often taken care of behind closed doors, but our case would have been too high-profile to ignore. That's why we had to…." She choked up and blinked back tears, "….why we decided to, give the baby up." She revealed eyes full of sadness. Piper closed her eyes and bowed her head; Prue drew in a shaky breath while Phoebe looked at her big sisters and moved closer to them.

"Sam, my White lighter and I took her to a local church, as soon as she was born and…." Patty sucked in a breath, memories flooding her, "….we asked the nun there to find a home for her and she did, a very good home."

"Then why didn't the Elders know? For all there so called power, you would have thought such a thing would be impossible to hide from them?" Naruto spoke up as the sisters remained silent.

Prue was standing straight, back rigid, arms folded across her chest eyes hard. Prue was furious, Piper was hurt and Phoebe was really confused.

"That's something even I don't know."

"No wonder those demons wanted her dead." Naruto decided. "Melinda's prophecy was that of three sister witches who would form the most powerful witches of all time. If Paige were join the Halliwell line the Power of Three will become something else entirely. A nearly unstoppable force of Good Magic. That's why it's all been so hushed. If word got out, we're looking at the possibility of an all-out war between Light and Dark magic itself with her in the middle." Naruto turned to the girl's, he could feel it, and they were ready to blow up, especially Prue. "I know you girls are upset."

"UPSET!" Prue cried, her voice rising. "Upset isn't even the word to describe it. How are we supposed to handle this? How are we just supposed to just deal with this?"

"How many more lies are we supposed to deal with?" Piper threw in. "Every time we look around either someone is trying to deceive us, kill us, or use us. I thought I could handle it, I really could, but my own mother and grandmother have been keeping something like this from us? This is way too much to handle!"

"No-one can blame you for being angry sweetie." Patty stated with understanding then looked to Prue, "Any of you."

Prue shook her head in reply, turning away from her mother as Piper spoke again, "And the worst part is the first time we see you, you didn't come back for us, but her." bitter resentment filled Piper's voice. "Do you know how many times we wished you were here? How many times we cried ourselves to sleep at night? How much we wanted or needed a mother. I couldn't imagine us trying to do this on our own. If Naruto hadn't been here to help us there's no telling how things could have turned out. After all this time why are you just now coming back to us?"

"Piper, you have no idea how much it killed me not being there for you girls. How much I wished that if I was stronger or made another decision I wouldn't have put you girls in so much danger. I have to live with the rest of my afterlife with my mistakes, but please, don't let these feelings of resentment and anger consume you I assure you, the moment I thought it was possible to come see the three of you I would have, but it was forbidden."

"Another brilliant decision of the Elders I bet." Naruto grumbled.

"In fact my being here now is forbidden. It is a law that magical beings can't summon the spirits of their departed ones until they've 'let them go' so to speak otherwise it is believed they'll never let go of them. I know you girls feel that I've betrayed you, but I did everything I could to protect you girls. I love you, never forget that." With that Patty disappeared.

"Are you girls okay?"

"Its…just a lot to take in." Prue answered. "We have a…an innocent to save." She corrected herself something which hadn't gone unnoticed by the others."

"I've never considered myself one to pry into other's business." Aubrey spoke up for the first time since the confrontation began. "I will see myself out." Miss Aubrey finished. Allison was soon called on to see if she could sense where Paige was.

"I can't sense where she is because technically she isn't a witch yet." Allison explained, feeling rather hopeless as a white lighter. So far she had as of yet received an opportunity to improve herself.

"Well I know her name, description, and scent. It won't be that hard to track her down," he turned his attention to Paige. "She works as Social Bay Services right?" he asked, receiving a nod from Phoebe. Naruto paused, "I know you girls need time to accept everything you've learned, but please don't take it out on this girl. I'm not asking you to immediately be best friends with her, but she's still a Halliwell and your sister."

"You make it sound so easy. She maybe our sister by blood, but that's it." Prue decided, practically all but distancing herself from having any relation to the girl.

"C'mon Prue, that's not fair." Phoebe dejectedly remarked. "You've gotten along fine with Paige until now. You know she's not a bad person."

"Phoebe, Prue's right. It's just too soon. I…we just need more time." Piper added.

"Either way we know her history. Now we need to find her and quickly." Naruto ushered them. Grabbing the gear the group was out the door, set on finding Paige before something happened to the young hybrid.