Naruto: Children of the Ninja
By Hikari Dohjutsu
A/N: I highly suggest people read my A/N since they do give you information on upcoming chapter or other stuff, both at the top and the bottom.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, however I do own the o.c's and I guess I do own the plot of this story.
Sakurako is sitting on a bench talking to Ichie who is sitting on the ground watching the clouds, gently roll by.
So peaceful…….or not.
Sakurako glares at Haruka who is once again training under her tree.
"How can twins be so different?" Sakurako asks, glaring malevolently at Haruka.
"What are you talking about?" Ichie asks still staring at the clouds.
"I mean take Haruka and Haku for example," Sakurako attempts to clarify, "Haku is popular and funny, while Haruka is quiet and nasty to everyone."
Hotaka is training with Taiji nearby and Daichi is inspecting a nearby anthill when they hear Sakurako's description of Haruka. Oh great, now they had to go to Haruka's rescue. Well, they didn't have to but there was this little naggy voice at the back of their heads which told them they should. The little naggy, voices sounded an awful lot like Kiba and Shino.
"Shut up," Hotaka appears in front of the girls with Daichi behind him.
Sakurako smirks. "Oh look it's the ILHC."
"The I love Haruka club," Ichie explains with a smirk the equivalent of Sakurako's.
The two girls start to giggle but are silenced by the two boys infuriated glares.
"Why do you guys stand up for her anyways?" Sakurako asks in her demanding way.
"Like we have a choice," Hotaka mutters under his breath.
"What was that?" Ichie asks curiously.
Hotaka starts twitching. "Umm…Nothing." The truth is Hotaka hates her more than Sakurako and Ichie. They only slightly dislike Haruka, but Hotaka hates her. No matter how many times he had tried to be nice to her, all she had done was give him a blank stare and turn away as though he didn't exist. She thought she was so tough. Yeah right. The only reason he was there right now sticking up for her was because of his father. Both Hotaka's father and Daichi' father were adamant about protecting Haruka and both father's pressured their son's to do the same. Both Hotaka and Daichi had promised their father's that they would protect Haruka Uzumaki no matter how much they dislike her.
"Look," Hotaka starts, "She's really nice and caring once you get to know her."
He's lying through his teeth.
Both girls certainly think so and burst out laughing.
"Yeah right," Ichie snorts.
"Haruka doesn't care about anyone but herself," Sakurako scoffs.
"She cares about Haku!" Daichi grunts knowing everyone likes Haku.
"You know I'm not even sure about that," Sakurako says after deep contemplation.
"Yeah," Ichie huffs "She's never exactly shown it!"
Hotaka sighs. This was taking way too long. "What if I made you a proposition?" he asks with a wide grin similar to his father's.
"We're listening," Sakurako says, curious.
After Hotaka told the group what he had in mind, Sakurako looks satisfied, Ichie looks worried, and Daichi looks furious.
"Saki(as Sakurako is usually called) I'm don't think we sho.."
"Haruka would kill us!" Daichi interrupts Ichie. He glares furiously at his friend. Taiji is also looking reproachfully at his master.
"Oh chill," Hotaka rolls his eyes "If worse comes to worse we can always just let Haku go."
Daichi shook his head vigorously. "No way, you're on your own this time Hotaka," and with that he stalks away angrily.
"Whatever," Hotaka shrugs, looking slightly worried now.
"Saki, bug boy's right and besides that's mean," Ichie says timidly "I mean why go after Haku?"
Sakurako rolls her eyes, "Ichie just do it, besides it'll make life easier for the poor ILHC." She smirks at Hotaka who start growling under his breath.
"Whatever Sakurako phase 1 is all yours."
"Hi Haku-kun," Sakurako says batting her eyelashes.
"Hey Saki-chan!" Haku waves good-naturedly to the girl.
Sakurako thinks guiltily of their plan. Pull it together Sakurako Lee, nothing bad is going to happen. "There's something I would like to show you," she says, beckoning him over.
"Alright," he agrees following Sakurako. She leads him around the ninja academy to an empty alley way, a dump was lounging in the far-back corner.
They stop, Haku looks around. Suddenly Hotaka jumps from behind the dump and holds a kunai to Haku's neck.
"What's going on?" Haku yells, struggling against his captor.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you," Hotaka sneers holding the kunai closer to Haku's neck.
Haku forces himself to calm down. "What is going on?" he asks in a voice of forced calm.
"Just a bet Haku," Hotaka laughs a little, "Don't worry you won't get hurt."
Haku's eyes dart rapidly around. He didn't want to hurt these guys, and he was slightly curious as to what this bet was. His body slumped down and he did not struggle.
"Good thinking," Hotaka mutters at Haku's resignation.
Ichie appears. She had reluctantly agreed to join her friends in this particular scheme. She tried once more to stop her friends from going through with this bet.
"Come on guys, lets just forget about this," Ichie urges.
Sakurako glares at Ichie. "Ichie stop chickening out, gees I've never know you to be a coward."
Ichie sighs. She just can't win against Sakurako.
Hotaka looks at Ichie, "Alright Phase 2 is all yours."
Ichie runs off.
Haruka was (A/N: You'll never guess) training (A/N: Gasp!) under her tree when she hears Ichie Nara yelling and running up to the school building.
"Haruka!" Ichie yells.
Said person looks up, startled to see Ichie standing behind her.
"Yes?" Haruka asks, annoyed at the interruption.
Ichie doesn't answer right away and appears extremely worried.
"What is it?" Haruka asks impatiently.
"I-Its Haku,"
Haruka's heart dropped to her stomach.
"H-he's i-in t-trouble," Ichie stammers.
"Where is he?" Haruka asks, her voice dangerously quiet.
"In the alleyway behind the school."
Haruka runs off at a tremendous speed.
Ichie watches the receding back of Haruka and sighs, already regretting her actions. She looks at the beat up old tree, bark was peeling off, branches littered the ground, and sap was oozing out of random areas.
This was bad, things were going to get really ugly, she just felt it in her gut.
Ichie starts to sprint toward the alleyway.
Why didn't she stand against the others? She hadn't said no and now if anything bad were to happen it would be partially her fault. She was going to wait and see. If things got even the tiniest bit bad she would go get her father.
Haruka enters the alleyway, cautiously.
Smack dab in front of her, Hotaka has a kunai held to Haku's neck.
Time stopped.
Flashback
Young Haruka is sitting down, her arms wrapped around her knees and she is sobbing into her knees. Suddenly she feels a presence kneel sown in front of her and wrap his arms around her in a hug. Young Haku comforts the sobbing Haruka, "It's okay Haru-chan, everything's going to be okay. She looks up. "Promise Haku?"Haku grins "I promise!"
End Flashback
Haku, the only one who comforted her and truly knew her as a person, the only one who cared about her and was her only real friend was in trouble. She would not let anything happen to him. She would die first.
Haruka's bangs cover her eyes.
Sakurako suddenly appears beside her ready to grab her, but Haruka pins her against the wall. "Stay out of this," Haruka snarls menacingly.
Sakurako stood stock still afraid. Haruka's eyes were a bright red, almost fox-like.
Ichie notices and runs off to get her father.
Hotaka who doesn't seem to notice anything continues to sneer. Taiji starts growling.
"What is it Tai?" Hotaka asks hearing the dog's warning growls.
Haku suddenly senses something. His sister, that charka wasn't hers. What was that chakra, that anger. Something was wrong, Hotaka was in trouble.
"Hotaka, let go of me now!" Haku instructs urgency in his voice.
Hotaka looks at Haku, then Taiji, than at the frozen Sakurako.
"Alright," he mutters releasing Haku, but for some reason Haruka doesn't stop.
"Byakugan!"she yells, and stands in her Jyuuken stance.
"What the heck is she doing!" Hotaka yells out, backing up slowly.
The Jyuuken? What was she trying to do? Kill him! Haku thinks stricken.
Haruka runs at Hotaka at a terrifying speed.
"Haruka!" Haku yells.
Haruka looks at her brother and suddenly seems to calm down, she cancels out the Byakugan and slowly sinks to the ground.
"Haruka!" Haku yells again running toward his sister. He kneels down next to her and gives her a hug like he did when they were younger.
"I'm okay Haru-chan," he says using her baby name.
"Haku," she sobs into his shoulder. "I thought I almost lost you." She looks up at him tears, streaming down her face. "Don't leave me Haku," she clings onto him tightly.
"I won't leave you Haruka," she hugs him tighter. "Promise?" she whispers.
"I promise!" Haku declares.
A/N: Alright let me make this very clear. This was NOT an incest chapter! I do not like incest so there will not be any in this story. I'm sorry if this offends anyone! Don't flame me because of it! Haku and Haruka only have a brother/sister relationship nothing more.
I also ask readers not to hate Ichie, Sakurako, or Hotaka yet. Hotaka was trying to help Haruka, Ichie didn't want to hurt Haruka, and Sakurako is a nice person once you are introduced more to her character.
So anyway Yeah! Another Chapter done! I would like to thank Tarson for pointing out my grammar errors! I hope I got all the grammar errors. Please let me know if there's anything else I need to fix!
I know these last two chapters have been sad, but there will be more comedy in the chapters to come!
Next Chapter the o.c's get put into their genin teams because they passed. WOOT!
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In case anyone is curious….
Haruka was crying because it was mother's day and someone told her that she couldn't celebrate mother's day because she didn't have a mother. Haruka argues that she does the mean person who doesn't have a name or play any important role in this story makes her cry and Haruka runs off.
Ichie took so long to get to her dad, she can't find him anywhere, she then finds him napping behind the school. Lazy Shikamaru.