Hello everyone, back again with another chapter. I just wanted to let you all know that this chapter in particular will be the chapter to introduce more mature content. Naruko is growing up and in the ninja world she and Sasuke will be maturing through their environment. Please let me know what you think by leaving a comment or review!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto :(
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It was dark, really dark. Naruko stood in the center of a room of which she had no recollection. While she hazily tried to remember where she was or how she got there, a dull orange ember suddenly lit up within a lantern behind her. She swiveled her head and watched as the flame grew, warmly lighting up the room she was in. While the light expanded she noticed the mattress in the corner, a night stand beside it. The lantern glowed on top of the nightstand, the small fire within brought a calming sense to the young blonde.
A sudden creaking of a door brought Naruko's attention away from the bed and towards the room's entrance. She saw a figure, taller than her leaning against the door frame, and as the light in the room grew brighter, the shadow that had shrouded the figure in mystery began to slowly disappear. Naruko felt her eyes widen, as she began to realize who was standing in front of her.
Black spikey hair, tall lean figure, pale complexion, and charcoal black eyes that somehow managed to show so much emotion while they gazed upon her. Naruko's breath hitched. After so many years apart were they finally reunited? She called out to him in a gentle whisper, as if startling him would cause him to disappear forever.
"Sasuke, is that you?" She whispered.
Sasuke took a step further into the room. The wood creaked beneath his feet, other than that the room was completely silent. The black haired Uchiha came closer and closer until he was standing a few mere inches away from Naruko. Naruko tried to restrain herself, but ultimately launched herself forward and gripped onto Sasuke, holding him tightly.
"I-is it really you?" She asked, trembling as tears began to shine in her eyes. She dug her face into his chest, remembering his scent, trying to be absolutely sure that this wasn't fake.
"Yeah…it's me." Sasuke replied. Naruko choked back a sob as Sasuke confirmed his existence.
Sasuke's arms pulled Naruko out of her chest and while Naruko was immediately missing the closeness between them, Sasuke leaned down and placed his lips against hers. Naruko felt the muscles in her legs go numb and latched her arms around Sasuke's neck for support. The Uchiha lifted his lips off of Naruko's but Naruko thrust her lips forward, roughly against his own. She needed him. As their lips began roughly colliding together, Naruko felt her body heat up. This feeling of need, she had never felt something so…intense.
Naruko moaned against Sasuke and felt his arms wrapping around the small of her back before picking her up and throwing her on the bed. Naruko laughed with excitement and joy before she was silenced again by Sasuke's lips. This time he was on top of her, holding her down on the bed and kissing her.
Naruko could sense the growing lust within her and gasped as Sasuke began kissing at her neck. All Naruko could do was grip Sasuke's shoulder blades, appreciating his smooth yet muscular body. She felt his tongue trace over her skin, slowly licking and kissing further down her neck.
'More…' She thought, 'I want more.'
As if complying with her thoughts, she felt Sasuke pull at her jacket zipper, tugging it downward and revealing her black tank top underneath. The Uchiha kissed at her collar bone and Naruko's eyes were clouded with lust. She gripped the back of his head, entangling her fingers in his jet black hair and pressing him closer to her body.
Sasuke placed his fingers at the hem of her tank top, ready to lift the clothing off of her and reveal her upper body to him. Sasuke lifted his eyes and made contact with Naruko's own lusty blue ones.
"Can I?" Sasuke asked, his voice was slow and husky.
Naruko couldn't trust herself to speak properly so instead she nodded her head. His hands slowly lifted the black material up, while gliding across Naruko's smooth stomach. Naruko felt shivers run through her body while she felt her body being further and further exposed to the man she loved. There was such an intoxicating warmth that Sasuke gave off and she closed her eyes in bliss.
Suddenly the warmth was gone. She opened her eyes in curiosity and found that the room was cold and Sasuke was nowhere to be found. The lantern at her bedside was making strange noises as the fire that was held within began to thrash around violently. Naruko watched her breath leave her lungs in a cold misty air and suddenly she felt a great sense of fear.
"Sasuke?!" She called out, but there was no response.
The house began to rumble and items were falling off their shelves. Naruko quickly jumped out of the bed and tried to stead herself. The fire in the lantern began to grow larger and larger until the glass shattered and the flames spilled onto the floor. Naruko gasped and ran out of the room, feeling a large, painful heat growing behind her.
She raced out of the Uchiha mansion and crashed onto the dirt path. She looked behind her and saw that the entire mansion was now a blazing inferno. Horrified Naruko screamed for help but her voice was drowned out by an animalistic roar. She felt her body freeze and she looked towards the direction of the roar. Then she could see it. Her village was up in flames, and beyond that she could see a massive creature with orange fur, bright red eyes, and nine tails. The red slitted eyes of the nine tails glared across the village, staring at Naruko, and Naruko felt her entire world go dark.
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"NOOO!" Naruko shrieked as she suddenly flung her body up right. She stared around her bedroom and noticed that everything was still intact and the sun was fluttering through her blinds. She jumped out of the bed and hurriedly looked out her window, sighing with ease as she saw that the village was not on fire and the Kyuubi hadn't been released.
"A dream…" She muttered with relief.
Across her bedroom, a sudden buzzing noise from her alarm clock made itself present and Naruko remembered that she had a mission today. Shaking the thoughts of her dream/nightmare out of her head, Naruko ran to the closet and changed into her ninja uniform.
Finally she would be able to go out on a mission! It's been too long for the young blonde.
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Dust flicked up from the dirt path as Naruko, followed by three others, raced past the opening gates of Konoha. Naruko smiled gleefully as she took large strides across the land, enjoying the feeling of being outside the village. She took a deep breath, filling her lungs with fresh air.
"You look like you're enjoying yourself Naruko-san, you know the air here is no different from inside the village." A weirdly monotone voice said from behind her.
Whatever good mood Naruko was in, was now gone. The owner of the voice was their third new teammate, an odd boy with a pale complexion, black hair, and a weird sense of social situations. His name was Sai, and despite Naruko wanting to understand and get to know the boy, she couldn't get past the fact that he was Sasuke's replacement.
Naruko didn't like Sai one bit, and it was even worse when he made passive aggressive comments about her looks or her actions. She wanted to scream at the boy at least five times since he was assigned to team 7 only an hour ago. Naruko decided it would probably be best to ignore him and focus on the mission.
The mission itself was actually quite simple. Apparently there were multiple sightings of bandits around the edges of the village, and Team 7 was tasked to hunt down and take out any enemies in the area. According to Kakashi, bandits would most likely hide near the edges of the main road to abuse any merchants or supplies leaving or entering the village.
Naruko kept her senses alert as she raced along the road, scanning the trees for any foreign movement. Behind Naruko, Sai was trailing on her left, keeping watch on his side of the forest, while Sakura was watching the right side. Kakashi was in the very back, double checking everyone's sections. No mere bandits would be able to hide from them.
Everything looked normal until Naruko spotted a strange green spot deep into the forest on her right. It looked like there was a dirty green blanket clumped up on the ground, trying to hide itself amongst the similar green grass.
"Left!" Naruko shouted.
"I see it!" Sakura yelled back, while Kakashi and Sai nodded.
The ninja team pivoted their feet and launched themselves into the forest in a wide line. As they approached the large blanket, it began to move and shake violently.
"We've been spotted! Run!" A gruff voice yelled before the green sheet was thrown back, revealing roughly twelve muscular and mean looking men.
'Found them.' Naruko smirked as she chased them through the forest.
The blonde weaved through the trees, barely missing the bark with her skin. She could feel her legs moving faster and faster, her body naturally fueling them with chakra. The bandits were running fast and with a head start, they found an advantage in preparing an ambush. They raced to a clearing near the edge of the forest and began laying down ropes and traps, only to be surprised as Naruko flew into the clearing much earlier than they expected. Naruko immediately began to flash through multiple hand signs.
"Lightning Beast Running Jutsu!" Naruko shouted as lightning began to spark at her hands and suddenly a beast made out of lightning was running along her side.
She watched as the beast collided with the closest bandit and he crashed into the ground in a paralyzed state. Naruko could hear many of the bandits curse and shout before turning around to face her. Perhaps they thought they could quickly surround and defeat her.
Naruko stopped running and watched as the bandits began surrounding her, shouting insults and disturbing thoughts. None of that mattered though. With a triumphant roar the bandits raced forward with simple weapons like spears and axes and Naruko closed her eyes.
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Sakura, Kakashi, and Sai ran through the forest, chasing after Naruko. Sakura couldn't believe how fast her blonde teammate had been. Was it just her excitement that fueled Naruko's speed? Or something greater?
She shook her head, no longer concerned about her friend's speed, but her wellbeing. It came as no surprise to Sakura that Naruko was excited about her first mission in years, but Kakashi's clearly concerned face is what made Sakura worry so much. Why was Kakashi so worried?
As they came closer and closer to Naruko's chakra, Kakashi began to speed up more and more, concern for his young pupil triumphing his knowledge that she was strong. He knew Naruko wasn't going to be defeated by a group of bandits, he just wanted to be there after the fight.
As the rest of Team 7 came into the forest clearing they immediately heard the battle cry of the bandits closing in on Naruko. Sakura's eyes widened as she watched them slowly dive towards her teammate, who seemed to just be standing there in concentration.
Sakura's green eyes could barely make out a tiny movement around Naruko, no wait that was electricity. Suddenly more electricity gathered around Naruko, then Sakura heard her teammate shout.
"Chidori Nagashi!" Naruko shouted, while lightning all around her burst outwards, latching onto all the bandits that surrounded her, paralyzing them.
Sakura breathed a sigh of relief as Naruko turned to look back at her team while grinning cheekily. Not soon after her entire team had surrounded her.
"Naruko-chan! You had me so worried!" Sakura shouted.
Naruko chuckled shyly while scratching the back of her neck, only for Kakashi to 'boop' her on the top of her head with his hand.
"Ah hurts!" Naruko whined while crouching down and rubbing the top of her head.
"Next time don't run off without the rest of your team." Kakashi scolded while Naruko nodded, understanding that her actions were not thought out completely.
Sai walked over to one of the downed bandits and gave him a little kick to see if he was alive. A groan confirmed that the man, in fact all of the bandits were still alive.
"We better haul them back to the village." Sai said, "Get whatever intel we can."
"Good idea Sai." Kakashi commented, and the rest of Team 7 went to pick up the downed bandits.
Naruko placed her hands in a cross formation and built up the chakra within herself.
"Shadow Clone Jut-"
"Naruko watch out!" Sakura cried, as the bandit that had been paralyzed first, had seemingly recovered and was now running towards Naruko, ready to strike her in the back.
Everything happened in an instant. Naruko, off of mere training and reaction fished a kunai out of her pouch and whirled her body around, swinging the kunai in her hand with unrivaled accuracy. Naruko's eyes widened at her own actions and watched as the kunai slowly pierced into the man's temple, causing blood to rush out in a messy stream. The bandit fell sideways, dead instantly.
Sakura sighed in relief, but watched as Kakashi raced to Naruko's side faster than she had ever seen. The pink haired ninja decided to run over as well, perhaps Naruko had been hurt in that surprise attack.
As Sakura came closer and closer to Naruko and Kakashi she knew something was wrong. It seemed as though Naruko was shaking while Kakashi was trying to tell her something. When Sakura had finally managed to make it to the pair of ninja she saw it. Sakura suddenly knew what condition Jiraiya was talking about. The thing holding Naruko back as a ninja.
Naruko's blue eyes were wide with fear and shock. Her body was trembling uncontrollably as tears began to form in her eyes. The young girl kept muttering to herself, struggling with her actions.
"I didn't mean it. I didn't mean it. I didn't mean it." She repeated over and over.
Kakashi was at her side, holding Naruko and trying to calm her down. He knew what to do, because this had happened many times before.
"It's okay Naruko." Kakashi whispered, although he knew it would be awhile before she would recover.
Sakura stood by and watched with sadness in her eyes, as she witnessed her dear friend breaking down.
Naruko couldn't kill.
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It was night. A cry for help was suddenly changed into sounds of gurgling blood. Two guards standing in front of a metal door cringed in fear and gripped their weapons tighter. Sounds of slashing death made its way into their ears and for a moment they wondered if they should stay or run.
A figure slowly approached out of the shadows, a blade being held out to the side, letting the blood that it had just been coated in, fall onto the grass below. Two red eyes glared through the darkness and the guards had enough fear built up in them that they ran, but not far. In a single motion, the figure's blade had sliced their heads clean off, and the man continued to step closer and closer to the door.
An explosion of fire had blown the door off its hinges and the figure stepped into the dimly light corridor. Two fully mature sharingan eyes scanned the nearby surroundings and detected multiple enemies coming towards him. With a set of quick hand signs and chakra, a ball of fire traveled down the hallway and incinerated the unknowing enemies.
The dark figure stepped over the burned ashes and corpses not sparring them a glance before arriving at his destination. A large wooden door was kicked open and within revealed a throne like chair, and sitting in the chair was none other than Orochimaru.
The snake eyes gazed at the figure with curiosity and interest.
"You finally decided to come out from hiding eh…Sasuke?" Orochimaru chuckled.
Sasuke took a deep breath and let it out slowly before raising his sword, not muttering a single word.
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Personally I loved this chapter, but I'm interested in what you all think! Although I have a very specific plan for the story, I'm still open to new ideas and twists so please review and comment, even P.M. Me if you have any questions!
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