The Lazy Wolf – I am trying to tone down my speed of my stories and hopefully this chapter helps with the toning down a bit.
Dragonbolt21 – I have seen few stories that were betray fics but they only seem to force on one or two betrays not a large amount of them in a single story. In this story you will see many different times of betrays not just love and hate kind. Sometimes you most betray the ones you love in order to keep them safe and happy.
Deathgod – Is this soon enough?
Snake1980 – You got a good idea about Kurenai really now? Mhm I wonder? I wonder.
"Isn't today the gathering of the entire rookie nine in order to have a party? I think Guy's team also all family members are coming to the party." Naruto looked over at Kiba only he wished it didn't help today at all, he didn't want to deal with these two. He didn't even know if he could hold back from hurting that bastard after seeing how much it had hurt Hana because of his actions he had done.
"This is truly going be a pain if it really is today, I don't know if I can hold back from killing that bastard." Naruto got up once he was done eating and walked over to the window still staring outside of it. "I'm used to this village hating me and I'm used to them wishing I was dead because that just the burden I have to live with."
Naruto had hit against the wall with his hand which didn't leave any holes in the wall because he didn't slam against it hard. "Even so, the people I thought I could trust were the ones that had backstabbed me. First it was Sasuke when he almost killed me and now? Now its Hinata and Shino who have done it, ones I trusted are always the ones that betray me." Tsume just stared over at him because she could see he was breaking inside yet he was trying his best to stay whole because he didn't want to break in front of them.
He couldn't let himself break down no matter what because he just kept saying he had to keep moving forward no matter what the pain he felt, once you stop moving forward you just trapped in the past. He didn't want to be trapped in the past because there's no way out once you are struck living in the past of your former self.
They heard a knock on the front door only Tsume went to get the door while Naruto just kept staring out the window. "I live with a burden that was forced on me and it's one that had to be done even so, eve so why do I need being hurt like this? I live every day, every single day keeping the Kyuubi locked up and this is the thanks I get?"
"Naruto-kun I think we need to tell her the truth because she came to pick up Kiba for his training." Naruto let himself leave his thinking and looked over at Tsume who was standing beside an anger genjutsu mistress only he let out a long sigh. He didn't want to deal with anyone only he had known that wasn't something he could do at the time like this.
"You are anger at me Kurenai-sensei because you think I had slept with Hinata right? You're mad because you think I was the first person she had slept with." Kurenai was shocked that he had known only if that was just part of the reason she was anger, she just nodded her head. Her red eyes just stared back into his blue eyes only she could see that his eyes were filled with pain and sadness.
She didn't know why his eyes had become like that and she was worried something had happened to cause this change in him. She had always seen his happy side not the side he was showing in front of her eyes. Her anger was fading away just because of seeing his eyes in the state they were in.
"I'm sorry but I didn't sleep with her, first person I ever slept with was Tsume-hime which happened last night." He waited to let his words sink in only her face became a mix of anger and shock because she didn't know he would do that with an older woman and was anger that Hinata had lied to her.
She thought of Hinata as a daughter to her and she had lied right to her face when she asked her who she had slept with. She couldn't believe the innocent image she had kept of Hinata was the same woman who would have the guts to lie right to her like that, she was mad at her student for lying these three years.
She felt betrayed by one of the few people she could call her family and she had a tear come down her cheek because she just couldn't believe it. She looked back at him and seen no lie in his eyes and worse yet he had slept with another woman. "Did the two of them break up? Is that why he's in so much pain or is there something else he hasn't said to me yet?"
"Last night I had walked in on Hinata having sex with Shino, he is the one she has been with only Kiba helped fill me in one thing. That it only took her two weeks after hearing I was MIA to start dating someone else or that people I care about have been ones stabbing me in the back like this." Kurenai just moved her arms around Naruto hugging him because she didn't know what to say about what had happened, she couldn't believe Hinata would have done that. She could tell he was in deep pain and wanted to do the best to help, her anger on the other hand had faded all away.
"It's ok you don't need to do this and I need to speak to Baa-chan. " Naruto got out of her arms and walked out of the house leaving three women to just watch him leave the house, they didn't know what he was going talk to her about. They just shared at look of worried because they didn't know just how much more pain he could handle in his life.
"Will he be ok kaa-chan?" Hana was the first to ask only Tsume looked back over to her daughter with a sad look on her face. She didn't know what will happen in the future only that she would be there for him no matter what, she weren't let him go in this alone.
"I do not know but I do know he has us here for him and I do know he won't let anything keep him down from doing what he believes he has to do. I know he's stronger than anyone else in this world because of his will to do what is right and not what is wrong." Tsume smiled because she believed in Naruto with all her heart.
When Naruto got inside the Hokage tower he walked right inside Tsunade's room who just was sitting behind her desk drinking. "We need to talk baa-chan and this is something I need to do so don't try to talk me out of it." Tsunade put the drink down because his voice sounded different to what she was used to hearing from the loud mouth Naruto.
Tsunade wasn't used to this side of Naruto because he would rush into her room and start screaming while doing it yet in front of her isn't that Naruto. This one was calm and was just staring back at her if his blood just turned cold and was unable to feel anything besides being calm.
Naruto had filled her in on what had happened last night and in the morning which caused the woman to become mad at how these two had hurt him, hurt person she thought of as her own son. "What are you going to do now? I mean with all that had happened and I know you said you came here to talk about something but what is it?"
"I want to take the test to enter into Anbu and it's something I need to do more than ever not just because of events of last night but other reasons as well." Tsunade couldn't believe what hear ears had just heard that he wanted to join Anbu of all things? She didn't know what to say to that because she didn't want him to be a part of that kind of group.
"Naruto-kun you do know that's not something anyone can just join and are you sure you can really handle the tests to get into it?" Her voice showed her worry and sadness that he wanted to join only he closed his eyes, he didn't want hurt her yet he felt he had to do this.
"I do know that and I know you don't want me to do it but it's something I feel I have to do. I'm sorry if it causes you pain but I do know that I can truly handle these tests and make it into the Anbu." Tsunade sighed and looked at his face yet she stared into his blue eyes only to see that he meant everything he said.
She didn't know his reasons for wanting to be part of Anbu and she did know that she could tell just by his actions and words it had to be a huge reason. A reason she may never know or a reason she may know in the future just not now. She got up and walked out the room waving him to follow him which he did quickly, the two of them headed to the Anbu HQ.
Naruto just kept walking side by side with Tsunade only his mind wasn't there because it was back thinking of the past. The promise he had made to be an Anbu member one day and to fight alongside the one he had promised that day, he never would break this promise no matter what the cost was.
When the two of them had finally got inside the building an Anbu that had a neko mask walked over to them only Tsunade just smile at the Anbu. She had long purple hair that went right down to her rear and two black eyes which Naruto tired his best to remember where he had seen her before, he couldn't figure it out only it had been years ago.
"Neko-chan it's a good thing that you're on duty today because I need someone to give Naruto the Anbu tests and to make sure he can handle it or not." The neko masked woman just looked over at Naruto with her eyes just locked on his blue ones. "I don't get why Naruto-kun why do you want to join Anbu? Is it because he was once a member of this group and you want to follow in his footsteps?"
"I understand Hokage-sama and come this way." She started to lead Naruto to the testing area and Tsunade went to the other room to watch the tests unfold. She wasn't going leave not knowing if he could handle the tests or if he can pass them then she wanted to be here to see it for her own self.
Once inside the room she noticed Jiraiya was already waiting for her only he didn't look happy to see her. "I can't believe you would really let him do this, I mean when I followed him to you I thought you were going say no not bring him here." Jiraiya had started following him after he left the clan house only he didn't know what his student was planning.
"I don't know his main reasons to why he want join but if you followed him then you heard about what his teammates did to him?" He nodded his head over at her. "I can't believe these two would do something like that to him, I just want to hurt them for hurting my son." She covered her mouth only Jiraiya let out a long laugh to cause Tsunade to let out a pissed off growl.
"You don't need to be mad because I also think of him as my son or my grandson because he has that effect on me." Tsunade smiled and went over to the viewing window that was only one way glass that she looked at the two of them talking. Naruto seem to be getting his gear out of a sealing scrolling while Yugao just watched him closely like a cat.
"Do you really think he can survive what she about to do to him? She is one of the best Anbu members we have right now." She looked over at old teammate only he just walked over to the glass window, his eyes looking down at his student with worry in his eyes.
"I won't lie to you, I'm worried about him but I know he'll make it. I know no matter what is thrown at him he will overcome anything and anyone. Even if odds and fate are stacked against him he will still find a way to overcome it and keep moving forward." Jiraiya eyes may show worry but his voice showed pride of his student and proudness that caused Tsunade to smile once more.
"Are you ready now Naruto-san?" Yugao asked him only she didn't want him to know who it was because it had been a very long time. A long time since she had last seen him and that was when he was still in the village along with the two of them. Times like these were ones she couldn't bring herself to keep reliving because it had hurt too much.
"Yes I'm ready Anbu-san and what are we going to test first?" Naruto asked her because he did know that there it many tests to be done in a single day. Tests from hand to hand to weapon training to jutsu being one of last things they test you in. He did know he was good in hand to hand and great in jutsu but lacking in weapon training.
"First we do hand to hand in order to test how well your endurance is and just how far you can take this fight. Only one rule and that is don't hold back and come at me in order to kill me, Anbu never hold back no matter what on a mission." Naruto nodded and rushed right at her trying to land the first hit only it was blocked by Yugao arm which had a metal guard on it to block incoming attacks with.
"Not bad speed but you going have to do better than that if you want to pass my tests." Yugao did a round kick only it was blocked but Naruto when he formed an x with his arms to block her leg then he grabbed the heel of her foot. He had thrown her food backwards which she did a flip to land back on her feet with her eyes staring at him surprised that he had done that.
"So it is true kitties do land on their feet." Naruto teased her only she just let out a low growl at the kitty joke which she didn't like at all. She then rushed at him once again a bit faster this time to get back at him for the joke. She kept throwing punches that Naruto blocked even if he did fail to stop few here and there which landed hard.
He also landed some hits on Yugao even if they were a fewer than the ones that she had landed on him. He had grabbed her waist and caused her to backwards with him on top of her only shook his head before he looked down into her face which shocked him. Her mask had fall off her when she hit the ground and he realized just where he had met her and just stared in shock.
"Tell me Yugao-chan? This whole time it has been you and you never told me? You even stopped coming to talk to me years ago when he was no longer in the village." Naruto had a tear coming down his face only Yugao looked away because regret was one thing she was feeling greatly because he found the truth out.
"I'll tell you why just please take your hand off my breast first." Naruto looked down to notice his right hand was against her right breast which he let go fast, both of them shared a deep blush only he just stand on top of her. He wasn't going let her up till she had told him just why she just left him all alone like that.
"Good and I'm going tell you later because not going tell you it in front of these two." She pointed to the wall which she didn't understand why she was doing that. "There a one way window there but the Hokage-sama and your sensei are behind it." Naruto nodded and got off her still blushing at what had happened only the two of them went back to fighting each other.
Yugao couldn't believe just how well he had become in hand to hand because she remembered him being very bad at the area of fighting. Throughout the fight with their hands her mind went back to the past only to think of what would have happened if she stayed around him. The regret is one thing she had lived with for eight years and she can no longer hide it from him.
"That's enough and you proved you can toe to toe with my in hand to hand only I know you lack weapon training so we will just skip it. So we will go to ninjutsu now." She just smiled only gave him a look that told him to start coming at her once more. The two of them went at each other the hardest they could only Naruto was panting and standing over her.
"You truly have grown over the years that I have been away, they're going talk to you now." She pointed to Jiraiya and Tsunade who were walking over to them only Yugao got back on her feet and left the room to give them some private time.
"I can't believe you passed and it seems you will become an Anbu only know this one thing Naruto-kun ok? That thing is no matter what you are ordered to do no matter what, never lose your heart." Naruto could see by the look in her eyes that she was greatly worried about him losing his heart while doing his Anbu duties.
It wasn't unheard of for an Anbu to lose their heart or become a darker side to which they were when they first took the duties of an Anbu member. Naruto didn't know what will happen when he goes down that path only that he won't let himself stop being who he was and will be.
"I not going to let this change me like that and I need to go speak to Yugao-chan because there is something I need to know." Naruto started to walk away only his past and future were burdens that were crashing down hard on him. The weight of these burdens didn't stop him from walking forward only it caused him to walk down paths he may never come back from.
When he opened the door where Yugao had left he didn't realize it was a changing room because Yugao was in middle of changing her clothes. She was only in her undershirt which was already passed her breasts which caused her to look over at him. "Just come in already, last thing I need is for them to see as well!"
Yugao wanted to hit him only she looked away blushing, she heard the door close and she looked back over at him. "Turn around already!" Naruto turned around to face the other way while she started to change into new set of clothes. She couldn't believe he had walked in on her like that and she just hurried to get clothes on her body to cover up.
"You can turn around now if you want." Naruto turned around to see that she was in a long orange shirt that covered her butt which he noticed she was just in black panties not bothering to put pants on. Her eyes just looked down only in a shameful way which caused him to move closer to her, his hand moved to her face to move her head up so she would stop looking in that kind of way.
"You still want to know why I left like that don't you." He nodded his head at her only she looked into his blue eyes. "When he left us and it was just the two of us, I was worried that I would grow too close to you. I didn't want ruin things that we had and I also need time to deal with the pain of losing him as well."
She put black pants on and walked out only Naruto followed after her, she didn't want him to follow her yet he did. "Naruto-kun and Yugao-chan let's go because we need show him around the place and give him his Anbu Tattoo." Yugao nodded only she picked up her mask and placed it on her face once more.
She didn't know why she had told him the truth like that only that she couldn't face him after saying that. She just kept walking with the three of them and they got to where they had photos of Anbu members of now and of the past ones. Naruto noticed a photo of a younger Kakashi and Itachi which caused him to stare at it before his hand touched it.
"Is it ok to add a photo to this wall?" Yugao nodded because it was his right to add any photo he wished to add of himself or any other Anbu member. Naruto took a photo out of his jacket pocket and placed it up only it shocked all three of them deeply each for different reasons.
The photo was of three people and one was Itachi who was laughing hard with Yugao sitting on the ground which that seemed like a normal photo. The one that caused everyone to stare at it was because Naruto was also in the photo, he was sitting on Yugao lap which the age gap of these two were only seven years.
On Naruto head was Itachi's Anbu mask and words were written on the photo itself above their heads, a promise made today. A promise to join Anbu to fight alongside these ones I care about, to fight alongside my family. Naruto stared at the words because these two were the closet people he had to family at the time it was taken.
"You were close to Itachi were you Naruto-kun? You had never told me or even talked about him at all which seeing this causes me to wonder why you had hidden from us." Naruto looked back at Tsunade only his eyes just stared because he didn't hide anything because he just never wanted to speak of it.
"I don't speak of it because it only brings me pain, the day Itachi-onii killed his clan was the day it all fall apart. My family fall apart because of it and I still remember seeing him after he killed his clan, he was crying. He was crying so badly and I never understand why till later the next day after hearing what he had done." Naruto had a tear coming down his face and he just shook his head because he wasn't going let himself cry over this anymore.
"I had pleaded with him to take me with him only he refused to take me out of the village yet he refused to let me leave a village that hated me. I felt betrayed and abandoned which hurt me so badly because he was the Anbu that was the one that kept me safe from the village's hate." Naruto couldn't stop the tears from coming down his face because the more he kept things hidden the more it just piled up.
"He was the one that was my guardian and after he was gone, I had no one. No one was there to guard me and no one was there to keep me safe anymore. I was on my own unlike so many people who had families yet I had no one because he left me behind." Yugao walked over to him and pulled him into a caring embrace because she should have been there for him, she should have been there for him all this time.
"I'm sorry Naruto-kun, I'm so sorry that I left because of my own foolish. I should have stayed after Itachi left because I should have stayed by your side no matter what had happened because of me being there with you." She let her own tears come down her face because she had left him all alone when he needed someone the most.
"Naruto-kun you weren't alone because Kakashi had been watching you ever since you were born and ever since day one he had been watching you. He just couldn't bring himself to be seen by you for any reasons that he should tell you not me." Jiraiya told him because he also had told his student who his real family was during their training trip because after being MIA it caused Jiraiya to tell him.
Naruto had taken the news very well and even though at times he wondered if Naruto truly forgave his family or not for giving them the burden he had to live with. He just looked at his crying student because he couldn't handle seeing him this sad because of something that shouldn't have happened. Itachi should never have killed his clan and Naruto shouldn't have had to live a life the way he did.
"We will let the two of you catch up but meet us at the party tonight." Tsunade dragged her teammate away only Naruto just took Yugao's mask off her face. He didn't want to have to talk to her with that mask hiding her face only he had just wiped her tears away while he kept on crying more of his own tears.
When he finally calmed down he just lay his head on Yugao's chest letting the whole world around him fade away, he didn't care about it. He just wanted the pain that he was given by so many people to go away, the pain of Itachi leaving him, the pain of Yugao leaving. The hell that Hinata, Sasuke and Shino put him through and the loss of so many people he cared about.
"Naruto-kun I know I can never be forgiven for what I have done just listen to me about this one thing, I'm going to always be by your side no matter what." She just rubbed his head and tried her best to comfort him the best she could.
"I will." She looked at him confused because she didn't understand what he meant by that. "I will bring him back no matter what because I'll bring Itachi-onii back and restore this broken family. I don't care if he doesn't want come back because I going drag him back here no matter what the cost." He meant it because he will bring him back even if he doesn't want to come back to the village he was born in
"Yes, we will bring him back and we can be a family again." Yugao smiled before she took his jacket and shirt off then did hand signs to put the Anbu tattoo on his shoulder. She just took his clothes and then his hand to bring him to the room with all the anbu uniforms. The two of them put they uniform on and Naruto noticed a mask hanging on the wall, a single mask.
"It was made under Itachi orders and it was made just for you Naruto-kun." Naruto took the mask which was a kitsune looking mask only he put it on his face and looked in the mirror that was in the room. He had known this was the path eh had to walk down even if there was no turning back once he makes the first step forward.
"Let's go we have a party to go to and we can't be late for it." He looked over at Yugao who had simply nodded her head before walking out of the room followed by him. "This is my choice and no matter what kind of dark path this may bring me down, I was the one that had made the choice to do it."
This ends chapter two and like I said there are many kinds of betrayal that can happen in life.
Betrayal of being left behind and all alone, to be abandoned by the ones you love.
What path will he walk down, how far will he go to restore the things he had lost.
