Authors note:
This is a rewrite of the chapter that I post previously, I realized that it was rather too short so I added some details that were originally on chapter four. Bear with me guys on this one, since I'm having a hard time..hehehe..
So, anyway guys here's chapter three.
Chapter three
Kyubii taught her hide her chakra, when she was young. The young girl became an expert in doing so, the reason why the bijuu taught her that was because he feared someone will come after her. Kyubii and his kind were hunted down because of people's desire for power. Naruto wasn't the first jailor and Kyubii wasn't the only one in his kind that is held inside a host for the purpose of gaining power. Though he had no memory on how he got stuck inside the girl, the faintest memory that the biju could remember was a young girl with long crimson hair. Which he believes to be his past jailor, but he wasn't sure if that woman was Nauto's sister or mother.
As for Naruto, no matter how she tried to remember nothing came. Granny Miko told her that everything takes time, and you have to be patient. It's been years and not one single shard of her memory has returned. She had no family name that could link to her past, but name or no name memories or no memories she believed that she had a family. She believed that she had parents that use to hold her, comfort her when the thunderstorms arrive. A family that use to sing lullabies and tell bed time stories before she sleeps. She doesn't have any lead, all she has is hope.
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"Neji, use your Byakugan on her." Kakashi narrowed his eyes at the girl.
He refused to believe that this girl wasn't his Naru-hime. Naruto swallowed as she stared at the silver haired man, she had no clue what the Byakugan was but she still felt uneasy at his words.
She wanted to run but she felt tired and weak, she just stood back as she looked at the ninjas that were eyeing her.
"Kakashi?" Gai muttered as he looked at his friend.
Gai knew Kakashi for long, he knew what was going on the silver haired man's mind. He knew about his obsession in finding Naru-hime, Gai also had his doubts on the young blonde standing in front of them. The girl was a spitting image of Kushina and Minato. Through the years he had seen impostors coming in Konoha claiming that they're the lost girl. They all had blonde hair, and blue eyes. But this girl was the closest resemblance.
"Kakashi-san?" Neji asked the copy-nin.
"Do it now." He said sternly at the younger ninja.
Before the young Hyugaa could activate his Byakugan, something grabbed the girl out of nowhere. Before the frightened blonde girl could respond, her world turned dark.
Before she dived into slumber, she heard the shouting of the ninjas. She couldn't understand a word they said, all she heard was their voices.
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"Get that impostor out of here!" A woman who had light blonde hair yelled.
Her assistant Shizune escorted the young girl and her male companion out of the Hokage office.
Tsunade massaged her temples, she was getting tired of these charlatans coming into her office demanding money from her. She wanted to find the girl whom she considered as her granddaughter, but the search was futile. Her sensei Hiruzen Sarutobi who was the third Hokage couldn't find her. The man had died three years ago, her former team mate Ororchimaru was the cause of his death.
"Jiraiya! I know your there!" She shouted.
Her former team mate entered the room from the window, Shizune just sweat dropped at the man. He could sense that Tsunade wasn't in a good mood, eight women came in the office claiming to be Naruto and she was losing her patience dealing with all those impostors.
"Any good news?' She asked him.
"The sales on my icha icha books have doubled this past two months." He chuckled as he crossed his arms.
"I don't want to here that crap." She sneered at him while giving him with a deathly glare.
Jiraiya sighed at her, he tried humoring her to get her to cool down. But it seems that tactic won't hurt. So, he decided to get to the point and just give her his report.
"Any luck finding our beloved hime?" he asked her.
"Yeah, I just found eight of them today." Tsunade replied sarcastically.
Jiraiya sweat dropped as he look at his former team mates grin.
"I have to report my recent findings and it may spark your interest." He told.
Tsunade could tell from the tone of his voice that he was being serious this time.
'His spy network might have found something.' She thought.
"One of my spy networks had cracked something about Naruto, it wasn't easy for him to go undercover inside a terrorist organization that are after biju." He explained.
Tsunade was getting impatient, but she knew that Jiraiya would get on his point. She just quietly waited for him to spit it out.
"The thing is he finally managed to track down Naruto without the organization finding out." He said and Tsunades eyes widened.
"Did you say track her down?" she asked.
"He did but when he returned to the place to retrieve her, she was gone. Apparently, the orphanage had to sent her away because she was too old to be there." He added.
Tsunade folded her hands, Jiraiya could see that she was having deep thoughts on the situation.
"As of this moment her location is still unknown, he has to track her down before the organization will find her. I still haven't received a word from him." He told her.
The blonde woman stood from her seat and stared at the window. This wasn't going to be easy; she knew that the council was getting restless. They advised Tsunade not to send anymore shinobi to hunt down the missing girl.
She knew that something was off, the council were people who were always scheming behind Konoha. Since the time of Sarutobi Hiruzen they were always up to something, especially Danzo.
He was someone that Tsunade had to be aware of, since she knew that he's always scheming behind her back.
"Jiraiya, this information should stay between you and I, the hokage. Right now, I have my suspicions behind the assassination of the fourth and his wife. "she told him.
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Flashback
"On the wind across the sea hear this song and remember
Soon you'll be home with me Once upon a December." A blonde woman sang the lullaby to a five-year-old girl.
The song had this eerie and enchanting melody as if it was calling someone to come home.
The little girl was also blonde, but the shade of her hair was more golden than the older woman. The little blonde girl was lying under the warm covers of her orange blanket. The older woman was sitting beside her as she played with the little girls long golden tresses.
"Mommy sings that songs to me too, granny Tsunade." The little girl said.
"My grandmother used to sing this song to me when I was young, then I taught this song to your mum." She spoke as she continued to run her fingers on the girl's hair.
The older blonde hummed the song as she stares at the sleepy little girl. The child yawned and she slowly closed her eyes, as the song ends the child was in deep sleep.
The woman smiled and kissed the little girls' fore head softly.
"Once a upon a December." Tsunade sang softly as the soft breeze entered her office.
The woman was working late again at the hokage office, she was on her break when she began to reminiscence her goddaughter. When she was visiting her god daughter, she would sing the lullaby to her.
Kushina had always sing the song whenever she was putting little Naru to bed, Naru had always been a hyperactive child and the couple would always have trouble putting her to sleep. The song was the only thing that could calm the girl and let her doze off to dream land.
Tsunade opened her drawer and pulled out a photo album that had chibi fox prints on the cover. On the corner of the front cover, there was a small label there. 'Namikaze family' was written on that corner. Tsunade opened the photo album and looked at the photos. The first page had two photos, it was a photo of a red-haired woman and her new born baby. The baby looked like it was recently born, the red-haired woman was holding the baby's tiny hands.
The second photo was a blonde man who was holding the baby, the baby was wrapped in a salmon pink blanket. The man was beside the red-haired woman who was sitting down on the hospital bed. The couple had bright smiles on their faces.
Tsunade's lips formed a smile as she looked at the couple in the photo, she continued to flip at the pages until she came across a particular photo. On that photo there was Tsunade with a four- year blonde girl, they were at the hokage office. Tsunade was carrying the girl on her hips, the young girl had a wide opened smile and her eyes were closed.
The older woman snickered as she remembered when the photo was taken. She suddenly felt a chill in her heart, she closed the album and tossed it on her desk.
She stood up from her chair and looked at the window. The night sky had light up the dark, she couldn't help but feel at ease as she looked at the starry night sky.
"Naruto, please come back home." She whispered.
It was as if the winds have carried Tsunade's message, far across Konoha the cold wind had waken Naruto. The girl felt as if someone was calling her, but she shrugged it off thinking it was just the howling wind.
She looked around her surroundings, she was lying on the floor at the dock of a ship and it was already night time. She tried to remember what happened but everything was a blur. She looked around and saw the men at the ship. She noticed that the men walked and moved around like they were zombies. Not one of them noticed that she was there.
"They're under my genjutsu." A baritone voice said.
She turned around to see a raven-haired man dressed in a black cloak that had red cloud patterns. The man had this intimidating aura around him, Naruto just stared at his onyx eyes and gulped.
"Naru-hime, listen to me we don't have much time. This ship will be headed on an island near wave country. Gai-san and Kakashi-senpai will be by your side, they're under my genjutsu but by the next 24 hours they will wake up. They'll protect you, and return you to Konoha." He explained.
Everything was happening so fast, first she nearly got attacked by two strange men then a group of ninjas were accusing her, and now this emotionally constipated man is sending her off to another country with two men that she barely even knows.
'Where is that fox when I need him? She thought as she tried to process everything on her head.
"I don't know what the heck you're talking about but I won't stay on this ship." She hissed at as she got up.
Before she could jump out of the ship the raven grabbed her by the wrist, and pulled her on his side. Onyx eyes met frightened cerulean eyes; Naruto felt that uneasy feeling again as she looked at his emotionless face.
"I don't have much time, Kisame will catch up and he'll eventually find that something got rigged. I wish I could explain everything but time is running out. You'll stay there while I try to get some reinforcements to get you home. For now, you have trust me on this, I know that you have lost your memories Naru-hime." He said.
He knew her name every man that she had come across this day knew her name as if they had met her before, but she swore that this was her first time seeing them.
"Why are you doing this?" she asked her gaze still locked on the man.
"Orochimaru is not the only one who is after you, there are others who are after people like you. They won't stop until they get their hands on you, I was going to take you home but right now things are getting complicated." He told her.
Orochimaru, she remembered that weird snake man the thought of that creep and his pervert lackey had her shaking.
'Take me home? Does he know who family is?' she thought.
This man could lead her to her past but she was having her doubts. Sending her away would take off her chance in knowing about herself. She needed him right now because he could be the only connection towards who she is.
"Take me with you, mister. If you know who I am then please take me with you." she begged him.
The man pulled himself away from her and stepped back at her.
"I'm sorry." He muttered as he jumped off the ship.
"Hey!" Naruto yelled at him.
Before she could try to jumped the ship begun to hoist and set sail, she lost her balance and fell on the floor. She stood up and saw how far the ship was from the shore.
Uchiha Itachi stood by as he watched the ship set sail to the sea, he was able to distract Kisame by using those three kids. He only hoped that those three survived would survive and report everything to the hokage.
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The three chunins were able to evade the nook nin due to the help of Uchiha Shisui. Kisame was going after them but he realized that he no longer sensed his partners chakra. He had to go after Itachi he couldn't read what the man was thinking since he barely says a word.
He was beginning to doubt that he was aiding those leaf ninjas, Itachi had knocked out the Jinchuriki but those two jounin went after him. As for him he got too occupied enjoying the match between him and this 'brats' as he calls them.
Shisui was able to lead the three to the village without being followed by that rouge ninja.
"What happened?" he asked them before they could go in the gates.
"We were returning from a mission when we ran into Orochimaru, Gai-sensei and Kakashi- sensei were able to chase them away." Neji explained to him.
"One of Orochimaru's minions got left behind." Lee added.
"You mean that shark man?" Shisui pressed on.
"No, it was a girl. She had blonde and blue eyes, she seemed younger than us by one year." Tenten replied.
Shisui's eyes widened, 'Itachi, did you find her?' he thought.
"What of Kakashi and Gai-sensei?" he asked them.
"After that run in with Orochimaru, Uchiha Itachi suddenly appeared along with that shark face man. Then he just put the girl on a genjutsu and grabbed her." Tenten answered.
Everyone in the village thought that Itachi was a traitor who fled Konoha and became a nook nin. Shisui, the hokage, and Jiraiya are the only ones who knew about the truth. The truth that Itachi went on an espionage mission on the organization that were after the biju.
Originally, it was Shisui who was chosen but Itachi asked that he take his place. No one knew why he volunteered not even Shisui. Itachi's own family and the rest of his clan had no knowledge of why he left his village. They too think of him as a traitor.
"So, Kakashi and Gai wen t after him." He mumbled.
'Itachi, we're running out time.' He thought.
"We have to report this to the hokage, this is an urgent matter." He told them.
Authors note:
Sorry, for the late upload something came up and I had to take care of matters.
But anyway, I might upload the next chapter much early. Please review guys, I appreciate if you do. Thanks….