Out of Placed Rabbit

"Divine/large beings speaking."

'Divine/large beings thinking.'

"Normal talking."

'Normal thinking.'

Disclaimer: This work is not me trying to offend someone and Naruto isn't mine.

Kaguya

I stare at the same kunai that is used to make my first kill, still covered in blood and not yet cleaned with rags. Naruto told me to clean it. I refused; he asked why; I said I don't know. It's wrong, yet, somehow it felt so right. My first kill was not to protect the one I love, not even my own life, but to execute a defenseless man in the name of my sake, on the off chance I face a scenario that might happen in the future.

'No, they deserve this. They deserve all of it. Maybe they've raped someone or, or destroyed villages killing innocent men and women in the name of riches and vain glory.' I tried to justify myself, attempting to find meaning in my merciless act of killing those bandits. 'But what if they did it because it's for their survival and for their family to live? It certainly explained why they attacked us. They are illiterate but that doesn't mean they're stupid. Something pushed them to do this. Or is it the nature of this world? And I'm rambling inside my mind again, why does this always happen.' I raged inside my mind throwing an imaginary chair.

My mind spiraled into memories relieving my past action onto the bandits I have killed. Every second of their expression and cries of pain and pleas for forgiveness ink into my mind. When my memories arrived at the fight between us and the bandits I remembered how happy I am, how the adrenaline made me want to hurt people. Since when did I become a psychopath? I'm usually the scared girl that is afraid when seeing a drop of blood. And that grin on my face of happiness when I find pleasure in someone else's pain. That was not me. That was never me, right? I don't like violence, my dream is to become an accountant, not a killer. Then it hit me, what if in the future instead of me just taking pleasure in simple pain that someone else experienced, when will I take pleasure in killing somebody? Taking a life and making it to be one of the sources of my happiness.

"I'll be a monster. Oof," I stumbled. Naruto laughs seeing me, Sakura follows suit, and sensei just shakes his head amused by the sight. Saying that I'm embarrassed is an understatement of the higher order. My face heats up and I stand up immediately cleaning my white shirt and pants. In hindsight, I shouldn't have worn white as the color of my combat gear.

"Didn't We agree to always focus when we walk and not dive into our mind? If I remember correctly you're the one that suggested that idea," Naruto said while coming closer to me, taking out a tissue, and wiping any dirt on my face with it. "Thank the gods you also suggested for me to always bring tissues."

"Yeah, yeah thanks, mom." Naruto made an amused face. Judging from his reaction I've made a funny face.

"Well someone is in a bad mood c'mon let's… Go, hmm." Naruto and I see in both unison that sensei and Sakura left us and just kept walking forward without a care in the world. "Those mofos, c'mon Kaguya let's go." Naruto dragged my arm. I accepted my fate. Remembering the kunai I left (dropped) snapping my head in all directions my neck permits. I spotted it inside a clear and clean puddle in the road. Weird. Picking it up as Naruto dragged me. The blood cleaned off the kunai leaving a bloodied puddle behind. Turning my focus to Naruto who is smiling despite the cheeky act sensei and Sakura did with both of them in the distance and the sunset lighting us all. Storing my kunai in my pouch. A lip curve formed on a face that was previously filled with sorrow. And I ran along with him.

Cue naruto opening 1

Use your imagination

Next day

"Sensei, are we there yet?" Naruto slouches his body upwards looking at the open wheat field of Grass country. A very misleading title if I might say. All morning, since we arrived at the border all I can see are wheat fields as far as the eye can see. Making the golden yellow ground and the bright blue sky a beautiful sight.

"Naruto, no, we're not doing this, and Kaguya, watch where you're going, young lady, there's a cart in front of you. Sakura you're doing perfect," Kakashi sensei sounded like mama when she was exhausted. We've been walking for 5 hours straight of course he's tired. My antics with Naruto do not help him at all.

"I'm just walking, not doing anything," said Sakura innocently. The man that pulled the cart stacked full of hay with his horse just looked at us weirdly, probably hearing our conversation. The cart hit a bump and one of the hay hit my face. The universe must hate me because how is that even possible!!? Naruto again gave me a tissue to wipe my face and he just shook his head only for him to trip at another bump but he recovered with a summersault.

'Lucky bastard.'

"That's exactly why you're my favorite student," both of them who are leading us looked behind to see me and Naruto in an absolute mess. "Look at them," he showed his hand, presenting us like a weird object. Sakura just takes a deep breath and keeps walking. I can't help but be insulted by something I completely agree with.

"I'm surrounded by idiots," Sakura Just keeps walking and mutters something about how this team is so ridiculous that she is turned into the straight woman of the group. Honestly a fair take from her. She's the most normal. Thank the gods, I'm weird hahaha. In this kind of (weird), situations where I thrive. I unknowingly made a mischievous grin. In the corner of my eye, I could see Naruto staring at me, when I glanced at him he averted his eyes, finding the ground to be more agreeable.

'what?' Uhh, my brain just kinda froze. Now it's my turn to just stare at him (unintentionally). His unkempt hair, whisker mark, white shirt with an orange jacket, and pants. I tried to talk him out of using it but I failed of course. Don't get me wrong, it's a cool jacket. It's just, I wish we wore the same color. No, I will not wear orange. I'm ugly wearing that color, unlike Naruto who is handsome when wearing it. At least I managed to make him wear a white shirt so that's a win. Of course, I requested him to not zip his jacket, it's cooler. And I could see him wearing my color scheme. This time Naruto caught me staring at him. His face turned red and so did mine. This time both of us have our eyes finding the ground to be agreeable to look at.

A few hours and an awkward tense moment later we arrived on someone else's property being marked with a wooden face and one entrance for us to enter. While their neighbor's property is full of wheat being farmed, this one is barren. Only a quarter of the land has been plowed. At least I now have some idea why the client wants to immigrate. There's a dirt path in the property that leads us into a house made out of wood. Sitting in front is an old woman and man sitting on the elevated porch of the house that was made to prevent flooding. With both of their eyes closed.

"Excuse me, is this the Noka household?" asked sensei with a respectful tone. The old woman's eyes opened and then smiled. The wrinkles on her face made her smile all the more sweeter.

"Ahh, are you the ninjas Konoha sent?" said the old woman.

"Yes ma'am." replied sensei.

"Please, please just call me grandma. Noza, wake up." the old woman shook the shoulder of the old man. He didn't wake up. "Noza, are you dead?!!" The old woman screamed and the newly named grandpa Noza awoke.

"wahaha? Am I dead?" He said with hopefulness.

"No; not yet." Grandma stood up from the porch and cracked her back. " Be a dear, can you tell Reze that the ninjas are here and prepare your luggage? I'll tell them about the carriage." Grandpa Noza grumbled and made his way inside not before he glared at me for some reason. seeing this sensei instructed Naruto to help him carry the luggage. He also grumbled.

"Follow me," she instructed us. Following her to the house's backyard with her cane. The first thing I noticed was a large tree in the base of its roots is an unknown amount of gravestones with offerings given to them. Oh and a wagon, not a normal wagon. Instead of being pulled by a horse, it was pulled by a cow. Sakura and I just looked at each other, both of us making weird faces that are confused by the image of a cow pulling a Wagon!

"We bought this carriage yesterday from our neighbor. As you can see we don't have the money to buy horses."

"Moo," said the cow, agreeing with grandma. Said the cow?

"Is it too rude to ask why you want to immigrate to Fire country?" asked Sakura. I flicked my head toward her not expecting such an insensitive question. To my surprise and endless thanks to the universe, the old woman did not find Sakura's question insulting. She merely smiled.

"No dear. Our land is always the battle of armies. Some even say the only reason why our land is so fertile is because of all the dead men and women that enrich the soil. Yet, my family for generations still believe that there is still hope of peace," the old woman said solemnly. Her eyes darted to the graves on the base of the tree with a posture she looked like has done many times before.

"What happened?" Sakura asked again with hesitation and when she enunciated those words regret finally showed on her face. I want to scream at her. For someone so talented she can be a dumbass too it seems.

"My son died leaving a widow and a newly born fatherless child. For me, that is the last straw." There was genuine silence and shock at how nonchalantly she said those words. There is sadness yet it seems she already expects this in her life. "Now that's enough of me telling a moppy story. What can I expect from the journey to arrive at our new homes?"

"Only the usual ma'am"

"Grandma." Kakashi-sensei was cut off by grandma.

"Right, grandma. There might be some bandits but my adorable students can handle them. They're well-trained so you don't have to worry about anything that'll harm your family. We'll take care of it," explained sensei. She gazed at us with his old eyes pensively judging us. Her gaze fell onto me and she held it long enough to see my weird body complexion. I instinctively moved behind Sakura's body not wanting to be seen.

"What's the name of my family Protector?"She asked sensei. Sensei gave the answer he wanted and explained all of our names. "And the grumbly one?" She looked past us, focusing her attention on Naruto, who is carrying an obscenely large amount of the client's luggage, and yes, of course, he grumbled.

"That's Naruto," I can't help but smile even if he's struggling to carry large amounts of luggage with none of us helping him. "Uzumaki Naruto." his face ahahaha. Sakura smiled with a knowing expression toward me for some reason I raised an eyebrow. "What?"

"Nothing," came her simple response.

'What?' This woman is becoming as confusing as Naruto.

"Now that everyone is here it's time to take a road trip!!" He said as if this was a theater. Pointing her finger somewhere in the sky.

"Sensei, is there any Jutsu for me to be at 2 places at the same time?" Naruto asked while putting the luggage inside the waggon.

"Next time."

"Your name is Kaguya, right?" The woman who is driving the Wagon asked me a question. Her previously focused eye on the bumpy road turned to me and her son whom I hold. "You're pretty good at holding my son. Do you have a little brother at home?" I shook my head.

"No. I don't. I'm quite surprised myself with my skill in handling a child." It's one of those instincts again. Those weird instincts always gave me such random knowledge. Now it gave me the instinct of becoming a good babysitter. The baby is asleep. There's a smile on his little face dreaming about something delightful I hope.

"You'll be a great mother," she flashed me a smile. I was surprised by her compliment, not expecting it. There was a weird feeling in my heart, a feeling of hope and cynicism that I am not what she said of me. I have always wanted to have a family living a peaceful life surrounded by children and family. That dream goes ever distant since I awakened my chakra. Since those dreams or are they memories? I don't know anymore.

Click

"That was some long musing you got there young lady. So young and I already see the troubles of life weighing down on you," Grandpa Noza said with one of his eyebrows raised. "It's too soon for a young woman such as you to be a pessimist. That kind of thought is not deserving for someone so young."

"I'm sorry sir it's just I don't think I'd be a good mother. What if I'm too controlling, too overbearing on my children? I don't want them to hate me because I tried to show that I love them," the baby made a sound that he is troubled by something. I instinctively moved my hands that cradled him up and down gently. He smiled and I smiled back seeing his cute reaction.

The old couple who was with me in the passenger seats of the wagon chuckled softly. "Spoken like a true mother. Listen Kaguya, if you're already worried this much while being so young I can already imagine the nervous wreck you'd become when you have a child of your own." I felt as if my heart was stricken by 1000 arrows. This is a criticism I completely agree with, but that doesn't stop me from feeling hurt by the comment granny made. "Do you want to improve?" I nodded without hesitation.

"Yes," I confirmed. Her smile widens.

"Accepting that you're not ready and wanting to improve. With those two qualities alone you'd be a great mother." I was left speechless for a second. That was one of the greatest pieces of advice people have told me in my entire life.

"Thank you," was the only thing I could say.

"Who's the lucky man?" Grandpa's question soaked in quite slowly when I realized my face was heating up and tried my hardest not to scream and woke up the baby.

"I haven't thought of that far yet," I said while diverting my eyes to avoid more of these silly and similar questions.

"For a ninja, you're pretty bad at hiding your emotions. C'mon just tell us, it's not like the answer will appear out of nowhere." I didn't answer Grandpa's question, not wanting to answer humiliating questions. The gods have other plans.

"Hey, Kaguya. Sensei told us it's your turn to guard the carriage. I'll take your place to hold the baby." Naruto appeared at the most inconvenient times. Surprising me as he said those words right to my face. I could see the old couple now chuckling with themselves.

"So it's like that I see." Naruto turned to grandma and tilted his head.

"What do you mean granny?" He inquired her.

"Nothing," she waved off Naruto's question. "Tell your sensei that if we switch the ones who cradle little Yoshi he will cry. Let Kaguya stay with us."

"But-But…"

"Consider it a client's request," Naruto sighed, hearing her.

"if you say so granny." he left holding the rooftop of the wagon and summer saluted out to the air. Leaving me to be the designated babysitter, entertainer of the group, and subject of teasing.

'This sucks.'

Days turn into night. As the road was only illuminated by the moon. Sensei deemed it unsafe for us to continue our long journey ahead. Setting up camps on the side of the roads with the wagon at its center and the place where the client would be asleep. While we have to sleep on top of the trees circling the wagon to make sure no harm will pass them. Granny was about to start a fire to make dinner; Sensei advised against it, but the client knew best she would get her dinner even if sensei told her it was unwise to do so.

Sakura, Naruto, and even sensei are stuck with guarding duty. I'm still stuck with the job of being a babysitter. Sakura at first gave me a look of envy but after one glance at what I had to do her look turned into something akin to pitying. Naruto as well, he patted me on the back and just smiled encouraging me. I think it was rather sweet when I asked him to help me, he diverted it with an excuse that sensei needed his help. Coward.

Now it's just me half awake resisting to sleep to hold a child. Wooden floorboards of a wagon is not a good idea for a baby to sleep on, UNCLEAN!!!! You get the idea. My musing was stopped by Yoshi's little hand reaching forward trying to reach something giving him my hand he returned to sleep soundlessly. This baby is quite cute.

"Not sleeping Kaguya?" I turned my head toward Reze-san at the look of her unkempt black hair. She was just awoken from her sleep. I shook my head confirming her. Her eyes darted to her son knowing what she meant I gave him to her. "You know Kaguya you look so familiar to the girls in my family's dreams."

"Dreams?"

"Ever since my husband left this world. I, no, we have this dream of meeting you. A girl with hair and skin as white as the full moon. Seeing you right now is kinda eerie." Old course it's dreams why is it always dreams? Then as if a switch was being turned on her expression changed. "So why did someone like you become a ninja?" She said with a smile. "You clearly don't want it." What we were talking about is dreams. Why does she suddenly switch topics?

"Is it that obvious?" I tried to hide my confusion by answering her question and playing along.

"Yes. From the stories I've heard and the events that I've seen, you are not the type to be," she said while rocking little Yoshi.

"I was forced to be one. My original dream was to continue my family business. Dealing with other people's Tax returns, helping the village denizens and government to do their paperwork and other boring dreams. A stable one. A peaceful one. A loving one. In an instant, that dream was dragged from my life. I tried to pull it back. That is too late now." The air felt gloomy. I just cringed at myself not believing that I just spouted those lines with confidence.

"I thought so. You're too emotional to be one. Not like your other friend slash boyfriend," she said the last word with a grim trying to get a reaction out of me. It's working. "You lack ruthlessness" What did she just say? Naruto is ruthless, that's absurd if anything I'm ruthless.

"He is not what you think she is. I've known him my entire life and he is one of the most caring and compassionate people I've known." I gripped my hand at the white battle kimono I'm wearing and just glared at her. Accusing Naruto of having those traits is an insult to him. I will not stand to let it slip.

"Maybe I should give more detail about what I meant: Cold efficiency enhanced by ruthlessness. He is the same ilk as his kind. Loving, caring, and compassionate is the quintessential quality of being a great shinobi," she responded, not gratifying me in the slightest.

"You made it sound like it's a bad thing. All I've heard from you is that he would do anything for the ones he loves."

"And that's the problem. The shinobi that fit my description is also the fourth Hokage. While your history book will write him to be one of the most exalted members of your village. I and many of my fellow civies as you ninjas would call us can only see one thing: A man that is ready to do anything for his loved one. Even untold destruction." She spoke with an experience that I would never hope to have in my life.

"What do you mean exalted? We respect them, not worship them." The Hokages no matter how the 4th and 3rd have fucked my and Naturo 's life is still to be respected.

"An idolatry in the form of a statue of your glorious leader looking at you from above. Tell me, how does that not count as excessive respect?" I mean what. "You are speechless. A normal response from someone that realized that they've been subjected to propaganda. You ninja villages are all the same. Eating the food on the land we sow." I finally grit my teeth not caring that I'll wake up the baby I stood up shaking the carriage.

"If you hate us so much why'd you move to Fire country? A land that is protected by the blood of our ilk!"

"Because my family's safety is more important than petty squabbles I have with your kind. Even if you all are monsters," she said the last part with spite. And I have had enough of her words.

"I'm not a monster! I will never be one!!" I shouted, tightening the grip of my hand until it sounded like a crack. Saying that I am angry with her is an understatement.

She smirked, "Then prove it."

"Prove what?"

"Prove to me that you're not a monster. Abandon your duty to your village and come with us, No." Her eyes turned purple, and the mother then smiled like a madwoman as if she was being passed by something. A chakra that is full of malice emitted from her making my spine and forehead to be filled with pain. "Come with me Kaguya Otsutsuki." Her purple eyes turned back to black closing as she fell to the ground unconscious. I see this acting fast holding her and Yoshi from falling.

"Kaguya, what was that chakra…" Naruto's words become a blur, my mind forcefully longer without my consent on what she called me.

"Otsusuki," I muttered what was inside my mind.

"What are you muttering about again?!!" I did not listen to naruto. As my head is in pain and all I can see is purple.

"They're here."

Naruto

"They're here,"

Kaguya looked up to the ceiling of the wagon, her third eye opened, and the root of the wagon exploded into bits of pieces flinging me around. Still holding Reze-san's child, her gaze only focused on the moon.

"Naruto what's going on here?!" sensei appeared beside me with Sakura following.

"I don't know. Kaguya just said something about they're here and Otsutsuki. And for some reason, she's acting weird and her third eye is purple. Look!" I pointed at her and sensei's eyes followed my direction. When he studied Kaguya's eyes his breath hitched. Not a good sign at all.

"The Rinnegan," he simply said. I and Sakura looked at each other utterly confused about what sensei was talking about.

"So that's what you mortals called it." A gruff tone appeared behind our back."A fitting name I suppose." when I see him I can only think of one word.

"Demons."

"That is awfully harsh of you. I'm genuinely hurt by that," the creative said.

"Who are you?!! And what are you doing with this family?" Sensei demands him, implying a threat of violence if he doesn't comply. The creature simply laughs. A third eye similar to Kaguya's opened on his forehead.

"Now I see why she is so interested in humans. All of you are interesting, I've learned. Especially you, Kakashi Hatake. Obito would be disappointed if he knew that you let his clan die," he said with such glee that it is disturbing. I don't know who Obito is but his words seem to have shaken sensei to his core.

"You have no right to say that name!" Sensei's one visible eye narrowed, holding a kunai in his hand.

"I was right once again." came his confusing response. 'Right about what?'

"Enough with the pleasantry. It's time the little princess returned to her place," the man reached out his hand moving them as it was attached to strings.

"Arise my slave. Arise and serve your master!" he said dramatically. The air grew tense as we readied ourselves for the fight to come.

'I thought this was going to be a normal C-rank mission.'

Sorry for being late.