Crimson Tide

Ok well I ran out of ideas so far for this chapter so I decided to make this whole chapter a flashback chapter so there will be nothing about the present, there might be a few of these spread throughout the story I'm not entirely sure at the moment it all depends on if I can think of anything to have them do in the present.

I'm starting to find some of the episodes of Shippuuden a little annoying because they are sad, like the part where the bastards kill Gaara and the recent one where Elder Cho dies reviving Gaara. I find it annoying cause I'm a big sap when it comes to things like that in some shows. Just goes to show I'm not always mean and nasty :p instead I'm just a moody girl with permanent PMS or so I've been told by my mum.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, or any of the lyrics in here but I do own this story.

Chapter 3: Drama In Konoha Part 1

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Kakashi stood in front of the Hokage, it wasn't that long ago that him and Naruka had fled the Uzumaki compound when it was being attacked. When they had first arrived at Konoha, the young blond was still asleep on his back, even now while he has standing in front of the Hokage she was asleep, it seemed that with the events of last night she had been tired out since by the time they made it to Konoha the sun was just rising. He had told Tsunade everything about the mission including everything that had transpired late last night, he could tell though that she didn't like this new information at all since it would cause allot of problems amongst the other Feudal Lords, since they might think that they specifically were being targeted.

Tsunade looks up from the pile of papers in front of her, her elbows leaning on the desk, her fingers interlaced with one another as she leans over slightly on her desk. The information that the copy-ninja had told her running through her mind as she thinks about what to do, after a few minutes of silence between the both of them the busty blond finally speaks up.

"I'll send an ANBU and a medic team to the Uzumaki estate to see if anyone else is still alive and to asses the damage. Hopefully there are more of the clan members alive apart from the girl" she says as she stands up and walks over to the sleeping blond.

Kakashi pulls his orange covered novel out of his back pouch "Till then she is going to need somewhere to stay."

Tsunade brushes a few stands of hair away from the young girls face and turns around to face the silver haired nin "Your still guarding her though even if she is in the village, just keep an eye on her during the day, I may be able to see if anyone will allow her to stay with them until we can get everything sorted out" she then lets out a sigh as she makes her way back over to her desk, rubbing her temples.

"Hai Tsunade-sama... Anything else?" the copy-nin asks just as Shizune enters the room

"No, I'll inform you if anything comes up and I'll send someone once she wakes up" she says to him as she looks at the pile of papers in Shizune's hands and frowns.

Kakashi leaves the room in a puff of smoke, Shizune looks from the spot where Kakashi was then over to Tsunade

"Shizune, could you go and inform the council and tell them that I would like to hold a meeting" the busty blond asks as she looks around her desk for the bottle of sake that she normally keeps on hand.

"Hai Tsunade-sama..." the brunette says as she places the papers on the desk.

Just then the room grew silent as the Hokage and her secretary turn to face the blond girl laying on the lounge after hearing her groan. Slowly Naruka sits up, her hands raising up and rubbing her eyes slightly as she tries to rub the sleep from them. After awhile a pair of azure eyes open to see two women staring at her, the features on her face showing that she was confused. Before she could speak up though the older blond spoke first.

"Ah so your finally awake, just in time to. I'm Tsunade and this is Shizune." she says as she slowly walks over to the young blond.

Unfortunately before the young blond could speak a raven masked ANBU puffed into the room, startling the blond girl on the lounge. The Hokage turns to face the raven masked ANBU with a frown.

"Honestly Sasuke next time use the door, you scared the poor girl" the busty blond says as she points over towards Naruka.

The now named ANBU looks over towards the blond girl whom Tsunade was talking about "Gomen..." he says to her as he bows slightly, though not looking at the girl properly "You wanted to see me Hokage-sama?" he asks as he faces the Hokage once more.

"Hai, I would like for you to lead a team to the Uzumaki compound, it seems that last night it was attack. We are still not sure who did it, but I want you to take a med team just in case there are any more survivor's there, quickly report back to me once your finished"

Sasuke looks at the busty blond with a strange look. Just like most people he never knew much about the Uzumaki's since they kept to themselves most of the time, though what he did know was that the Uzumaki's were one of the more powerful clans in fire country even if they believed not to train themselves as ninja. Though rumours did go around that they trained privately as ninja to protect their clan, it was even said that they were once apart of Konoha and that their clansmen once train amongst the shinobi of the village. But rumours were just rumours no one knew if it was all true or not. To think that one of the most powerful clans in all of fire country was attacked in one night and more of less completely destroyed and almost wiped out.

Sasuke bows once more "Hai Hokage-sama" he says as he quickly does a set of hand seals and exits the room in a swirl of leaves.

Naruka looked over at Tsunade "Excuse me Hokage-sama, would it be alright if I have a look around Konoha on my own?"

Tsunade looks over at the blue eyed blond "Sure I don't see any harm in that, I'll send someone for you once Sasuke comes back. Then we can inform the council and hopefully find someone who will allow you to stay with them. I'll tell Kakashi that your awake as well, would you like him to show you around the village?" she asks the young girl as she sits back down behind her large desk.

Naruka stands up and pushes the blanket further off of herself "No thanks, I should be fine on my own. If I get lost I can always ask for directions back here. Right now though I would like to be on my own to think about things"

Tsunade looks over at the young blond once more "All right, I'm sure that he will understand. If you need anything then just ask other then that just don't leave the village" she says to her as she goes back to the stacks of paperwork set upon the desk before her 'Damn paperwork will be the death of me' she thinks to herself making sure not to say it out loud for Shizune to hear her.

Naruka bows slightly towards the Hokage and pushes one of the large wooden doors open enough for her to walk out of the room, the ANBU guards nodding slightly to her as she closes the doors. She nods slightly towards them and walks down the hallway away from the Hokage's office towards the front entrance to the building.

Upon exiting the Hokage building through the front entrance she stop just outside the doors only to see that a few people have stopped to stare at her, all of them wondering who the young blond haired girl is. Naruka looks around at everyone, her sky blue eyes taking in the looks that everyone was giving her, her eyes then look down at the white yukata. A faint blush dusting her cheeks as she realises that she would need to buy herself a new kimono, she was just lucky to know that her mother and father kept an account here in Konoha that she could charge the items to.

A soft sigh passes through her pink pouty lips as she starts walking, looking around at the buildings looking for the clothing shop. It wasn't long before she found it across the street from a flower shop. Though she had only been in Konoha a few times when she was younger she could still remember where some of the shops where that her mother had taken her to. Pushing the shop door open a small bell jingles above the door alerting the store owner that they have a customer. A forty year old brunette women steps out from a door behind the counter to see if she could help assist the customer who had entered her store.

The brunette women stops dead in her tracks as she looks over at the young blond who had entered her store, her hazel eyes widening slightly as she instantly realises who she was "U...Uzumaki-sama, h...how may I help you?" she asks as she bows.

A small smile forms on the young blonds lips "Please you don't have to be so formal..." She says as she walks up to the counter where the brunette woman was standing "If it's not to much trouble I would like to purchase one of the kimono's that my mother might have asked you to make for me awhile ago"

The brunette woman straightens herself up as she looks at the blond girl now standing before her "O...Of course, you don't have to worry bout paying for them though your mother has already taken care of the payment, I'll just go and get one of them for you. I'm sure you would like to change out of your yukata into something a little more appropriate"

A faint blush appears across her cheeks again as she pulls at her yukata sleeves slightly "That would be nice, do you by any chance have any slippers that might go with one of them, I don't really think that I should walk around bare foot"

The brunette woman bows slightly "Hai, I'll just go and get them right now I shouldn't be to long" with that the woman quickly walks through the doorway leading to the back room and looks for the young Uzumaki's Kimono and slippers.

It wasn't long before the brunette woman came back out from the back room with a beautiful blue and purple kimono with a silver obi in her hands as well as a pair of purple strapped wooden slippers that had a four inch heel. "Here they are, would you like any help?" she asks as she hands Naruka the kimono and slippers.

Naruka takes the kimono from the woman "I should be fine, I'll call out if I need help thanks" she says to her as she walks towards one of the changing rooms and pulls the red curtain across so that no one could watch her change.

The young blond then undresses letting the white yukata fall to the floor and pool around her feet, she then pushes it aside with her foot as she slips the first layer of the kimono on and wraps it around herself making sure that the small strings were tied around her wait securely so that it doesn't come undone. She then picks up the second layer to the kimono and slips her arms into the sleeves, securing it around herself before slipping the last layer of the blue and purple kimono on before picking up the silver embroided obi and tying it around her waist making sure that it was in a bow at the back and that it would not come undone.

Once she was finished she slipped her feet into the purple wooden slippers, part of the kimono from her waist down being parted slightly so that part of her right leg could be seen, while the left shoulder of the kimono slipped down her shoulder slightly showing a bit more of her neck. Her hair was still done up, none of her hair was out of place, as though she had never had her hair like it when she went to sleep. The Uzumaki symbol on the back of her kimono could be seen clearly since it was in the centre of her upper back and it was large enough to be seem from a decent distance away from her.

Naruka bent down to pick up her yukata, making sure to fold it up as she pushed the red curtain open and stepped out of the changing room, the store clerk looking over towards the changing rooms as she hears the curtain being pushed open, upon seeing Naruka stepping out of the changing room she drops the papers that were in her hands. The Blue and purple kimono made the blond girl look more beautiful and stunning, she was defiantly the type of young woman that could get any man that she wanted as well as make any other girl envious of her natural beauty.

Naruka look over at the shop owner and smile slightly as she walks over towards her "Arrigato, the kimono is lovely. I'll come back for the other's when I can" she says to her as she bows to the brunette woman and leaves the clothing store.

Once she exited the store more people around the street who had seen her walk out of the clothing store stopped what they were doing only to stare at the young blond girl, even some of the shinobi stopped what they were doing both the males and the females in the street. After all it wasn't every day that a beautiful girl was in their village that they didn't already know about. Naruka payed no attention to the people that were staring at her instead she turned away and started walking down the street once more, not paying attention to the change of the people that were looking at her since some of them had noticed the clan symbol that was on the back of her kimono, instantly knowing that she was of the Uzumaki clan.

-To Be Continued-

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Preview Chapter 4: Drama In Konoha Part 2

This preview will come up once I actually get some of Chapter 4 typed up so bare with me for now cause it will take awhile since I also have another story to update on as well. I'll update this part when I can.

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Sorry that this Chapter is short but I could hardly think of anything to put in here and well I changed it into a two part flash back so the next chapter will be similar to this and well I decided to make the tittle for the next chapter the same as this one, I'm not having a really creative day which might by why this chapter is short. So I apologise that this chapter is not as long as the last chapter though I was hoping to make this chapter longer.

Just so you know anything with the little star () symbol might not be spelt correctly since I might not spell certain Japanese words correctly. Its kinda hard when you don't have an internet hook up and well I'm using a laptop to write out all of my fan-fictions and well my mum doesn't like for me to use the internet even when I ask to use it. Lets just say she doesn't like anyone using the internet on her computer besides herself because she is weird and blames people for screwing up her computer when she is the one that does it herself since she has that much junk on it...

Anyway while I'm at my mums house I can only go onto the net to check my emails since that is all that she will let me do, pfft though while she is at work I do sneak onto fan-fiction and Gaia I figure I should be aloud to since I've caught my older sister on it not looking at her emails or eBay... bloody cow even try's to get up me for it. I'm getting slightly off topic aren't I. I can only update chapters during the weekends and maybe some of the holidays (I'm Australian we don't call them vacations so deal with it)

Oh and well if your wondering in this chapter Sasuke is still human and yes he is in the village when Naruka is there but he doesn't remember meeting her anymore. The reason for this will probably eventually pop up in another chapter... Though if your smart enough you might figure out why since I might haven given out a small hint. If you can't figure it out though then don't worry cause you will find out eventually.

No one is forcing you to read it though I will make Sasuke force you to REVIEW with his 'death glare' so tell me what you all think about my lovely new story. Also if you want you can give me some suggestions about what I could put in the next chapters since I haven't really started on them yet and I'm always open for another persons suggestion or opinion. Hell if you have better song lyrics then please tell me since I can only make do with what I know.

Nya... Ja Ne