Naruto's Weakening Seal and the Darkness Shinobi :
Part I of the Darkness Chronicles
Written by Entei Artist, Devdog47, and Senacku
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This story is written in three perspectives. Kyoka is written by Devdog47, Natari is written by Senacku, and Mikomi is written by Entei Artist. Chapters will have different writing styles because of the variation of authors.
Disclaimer: We do not own Naruto, nor its characters, places, etc., etc.
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Chapter 9
Told by Mikomi Miyako
Okay, so Natari, my best friend and worst enemy, knew my deepest darkest secret. How bad could it get? Very bad, obviously.
The past few days went okay. Kyoka came back, Natari was kidnapped by Itachi and the gay idiot, and Kyoka sneaked her back out. It was all good. Until KYOKA HAD TO OPEN HER BIG MOUTH! I'm still mad at you for this, Kyoka.
Anyways, we rested and ate (and in Natari's case, gobbled up all the ramen in a three-mile radius that she could get her hands on. Don't forget that wimpy boyfriend of hers, Naruto.) We then packed up our campsite and began our walk to the Darkness Village. The air had a stuffy feel to it, which seemed highly unusual. But I ignored it and went on. Once we had crossed the short expanse of mountains that blocked the Darkness Village from the rest of the world, all you could see before you were trees and grassland and… well, more trees.
"Mikomi and Itachi, sitting in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" Natari sang cheerfully, which I failed miserably to block out. Please remind me to pay for singing lessons for Natari when we get back home.
"Shut up before I do something I will regret," came my very grumpy reply.
Eureka sighed and grumbled. "Could you two give it a rest? I don't think I need a headache right now."
Natari stuck out her tongue at him. "I can tease her all I want. Besides, it isn't my fault she fell in love with some red-eyed freak."
Kyoka had a guilty look on her face (serves her right!), and tried blandly to ignore our conversation.
"Shut up," I told her again. And guess what? It didn't work!
I was finally glad when Natari stopped with the love songs about Itachi and I, but groaned inwardly when she began humming the lyrics from those rap songs she listens to.
"So," Natari said casually. "Are you going to plead to your boyfriend to leave us alone or something?"
"He's not my boyfriend."
"Come on, Natari, leave Mikomi alone," Kyoka said.
"You're probably hoping he kidnaps you when he comes back, ne?" Natari said, ignoring Kyoka.
"No, I wish he would kidnap you and take you somewhere so the world won't have to suffer the ugliness of your face."
"Gosh, you people fight too much," Naruto grumbled.
"Agreed," Eureka said quietly.
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We stopped along a familiar river, and decided to rest a while. I took our canteens to the river to fill them up. As I approached the slow-moving mass of water, I frowned. The water had a yellow tint to it, one that wouldn't have been noticed by a regular person. Deciding it was just excess silt, I dipped the container into the water and pulled it out when I deemed it was full enough.
"What took you so long?" were the first words that came out of Natari's big mouth. "We've been waiting forever."
"Stop complaining," I told her as I threw her canteen at her.
She took a drink from it, and closed the lid. I proceeded to distribute them to their respective owners. All of them drank, except Kyoka, who sniffed the water with a suspicious look on her face.
"So, have you ever kissed Itachi?" Natari asked as soon as I sat down.
I rolled my eyes and took a drink. Frowning once again, I decided to share my worries. "Hey," I said, "don't you think this water tastes a little weird?"
"A little," Eureka replied as Natari yelled for me not to avoid her question.
I suddenly realized what the yellow substance was and my skin suddenly paled. I saw the others give looks of concern. "I think I know why it looks yellow," I told them slowly.
"Hurry up and tell us!" Natari said impatiently.
"I think its poison."
The others, except Kyoka, looked at me strangely, as if I had grown a second head and whatnot. Kyoka's eyes widened.
"But who could have done this? I mean, there –" But before Natari could finish her sentence, her body slumped onto the ground.
"Natari? Crap, I knew there was something wrong with that water, that's why I didn't drink! No, you guys all drank it!" Kyoka said worriedly. Her voice was followed by the thud of Eureka's body, then Naruto's.
"Well, well, what do we have here?"
I turned my head to see who had said that, and was consequently caught in a pair of red eyes. "Itachi… I –"
And my world went black.
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I was only thirteen, hardly a chunin, when I was requested for a mission. I was to join the Akatuski – a band of criminals – and act as a double-agent for the Darkness Village. Afraid and unconfident, I had set out on a journey to seek the leader of their group, who I would never find. Instead I ran into him – him, so strong and dark and mysterious. He was Itachi.
I was supposed to pose as the young ninja that despised her village and wanted to gain power to destroy it. They had taken me in, hesitantly at first, but I knew I was getting somewhere (and in the back of my head, I was glad that my grandmother had made me take those dumb acting lessons when I was ten.) Itachi had reasoned with them that I was an expert, a master in manipulating water, and that I had a lot of potential and a strong chakra.
I resided with them for a short expanse of time, and my residence had faded so gradually that they hadn't really noticed. They forgot about me easily enough, only occasionally asking each other "You remember that Mikomi kid? I don't see her around much anymore."
But no, I had not forgotten about Itachi. He was most likely lodged in the back of my mind, until I was ready to deal with the emotions I felt towards him. And whoever would have guessed? He pops up after three years, unchanged and ready to kill. I hope he doesn't remember me – for my sake, and his, too.