Experiment 52
Summary: Saratobi realises that the village is becoming more and more corrupt, he realises that unless something is done about the council then the ninja's will begin a rebellion. So he calls in the only person he can think of with enough power to defeat an entire village of corrupt politicians. [Pairings undecided] [FemNaru, FemDei]
"Speech"
'Thoughts'
-- Setting change
** Time Change **
Chapter 2: ANBU Team 12, Viper Kitten
"-Too dangerous-"
"-52 and 22-"
"-Life-"
"NO!"
"Poor child, Deranged-"
"- the jewels-"
"-man made-"
"Experimented-"
A fuzzy picture, like seeing something through a bad TV signal, the words perfectly clear, the pictures barley there. The memories…Never left.
"Sisters, apparently"
Sister? I recognise that word, like something I once knew so well. A strange feeling, what was it? Anger? Pain? No, longing. Why do I feel longing?
"Separate them, Seal the youngest, she holds that, the eldest… dump her somewhere outside the borders"
That voice…I know it…I'm Trying… to remember…But I'm so sleepy…So tired…Can…I just…sleep…?
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Naru sat up suddenly, gasping for breath; she clawed her way out of the dark green tent. Her violet eyes guiding her through black, night time had never been a problem for her, her eyes were like a cat's or a foxes, reflecting whatever light to let her see as though it was day. She had calmed by the time she was at the other side of the clearing. Her friend dropped to the earth beside her.
"It's not your shift for two hours yet." He stated.
"I was woken. Can I take it early?" she asked him. He stared at her for a few seconds, debating, before nodding. She quickly got her weapons and swapped with him. The second he was gone leaping into the tree, to the tallest branch to watch the night go by.
It came to her shift's end but she didn't move, the night's sounds went on uninterrupted by human movement. Leaning her head back she gazed at the sky as nature moved. Setting it's own pace, its own tune, bending to its own rules and not man's, never man's. She sighed in soft contentment.
The moment only being ruined by a burst of dark chakra, it made her smile turn deadly. Using her power she sends a thin stream of chakra down to her companions. Both were heavily asleep, their chakra spinning lazily through their bodies at a slow rate, this told her that they were so deeply asleep they wouldn't wake for a long time. She reached deep inside and found her tenant's chakra.
"What are you doing?" he asked, his voice slightly slurred from sleep.
'I'm going to send a message to our friend. If he keeps on releasing his chakra like that soon the whole place will be crawling with others and those who hunt us.'
"It's unlikely that he will listen." Kyuubi yawned.
'True, but if I mix my chakra with yours and underline it with my power he will be more likely to understand tat we are different, therefore more powerful than him.'
"You can try but this monster has never been one to listen to anyone. I would like to see his reaction though." She gave a small laugh that echoed through the forest, startling a few night animals. Carefully she sent out the missed chakra, it was so low that most things wouldn't feel it, however it was on the perfect level for this person to. As soon as she felt it make contact she stopped it. The person sent out another beam, obviously testing to see if what he had felt was a glitch. She replied with the same amount as last time but this time with a warning in the chakra. Immediately the chakra slowed then stopped. Naru smiled, she was looking forward to meeting the other like herself. Though it would be fun, obviously her guard would not be down for the rest of the night. As such, when her shift was over she didn't get down to wake her comrade, knowing that they wouldn't be able to warn her if the took the watch.
The sun rose with out a sound, the sky lightening with soft gold's, purple pinks and dreamy blues. She watched it in detachment as the forest started to waken, the night time beat starting to fasten, until it would become the beating drums of day time. Below her she heard one of her friends roll over with a mumble of five more minutes and smiled. She waited until they were both up before she jumped down and made a fire, putting that day's rationed breakfast down on a close rock.
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Anko stumbled out of the tent, blurry eyes finding her two team mates staring at her, both with cups of tea in their hands. She looked down to find her wearing her oversized shirt that she always wore for bed.
"What?" She asked them, confusion seeping into her voice.
"It's, erm, just the first time we've seen you in your sleeping clothes, Anko" Naru said, looking down to her tea.
"Oh, well, get used to it." she mumbled grabbing a cup for herself.
They talked about the mission as Naru turned the bacon over on the rock that had been placed in the middle of the fire. Once breakfast was over they quickly tided and set off again.
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"Ruby, Target in site, North west." Came a hushed, silky voice through the headphone set.
"Rodger, Snaky in position, East" replied a hushed hyper voice.
"Received, Icha South, Standby" Kakashi told them, releasing the send button and readying his ANBU katana.
They were to take out three of Konoha's missing Nins that had been camping in a base with others on the border of mist. As they got closer to the base they had found them to be fighting a sand team. Three of them looking young enough to be genin, but in Kakashi's life he had learned never to underestimate the young, after all he had been young himself. The sand team finished the last ninja, the ANBU jumped down.
"Why are you here?" Anko asked, her voice taking on a professional tone.
"To complete our mission, to kill the missing sand ninja in this group. However, the rest attacked us therefore we fought back. If one of your ninja was killed in the process then it is not our fault." Their genin teacher replied,
"Ah, we do not hold you at fault, we were sent to kill the missing Konoha Nin anyway." Kakashi told them, his hands held up in an easy surrender gesture.
"However, a genin team on an ANBU mission is cause for concern, no?" Anko said, examining the genin behind their teacher. The oldest was a girl with her hair in four pigtails and a large fan on her back. The next was a boy with a one piece suit with a hood that had cat style ears on it; he had a large bandaged parcel on his back. The youngest had the symbol for love on his forehead and deep shadows around his eyes; he was currently locked in a staring match with Naru.
"These are the Kazekage's children; as such have a level far superior than normal genin." Replied the teacher, giving them just enough information to satisfy their curiosity. A rustle in the bushes had every Nin on edge, apart from the two still staring at each other. More missing Nin spread from the bushes. The loyal Nin cursed at their lack of attention. They stood still watching at the missing Nin carefully spread themselves out, they were most definitely out numbered. Naru took a step towards the other boy.
"No! Stay away from him!" The teacher cried out, startling everyone, especially since he seemed concerned for Naru and not for the other boy. Naru smiled at him and grabbed the boy's hand. The Suna Nin, even the missing one tensed, expecting something to happen to Naru. The boy looked down at their hands.
"Naru" He looked up at the smiling girl.
"Gaara" he quietly replied.
"Sing with me?" she asked, confusing many, especially Anko and Kakashi. They shared a look, was this part of her powers?
Gaara smiled, the Suna Nin getting even more creeped out. They were surrounded by red and gold chakra, seals appearing on both their foreheads and symbol wrapping around their linked hands like a ribbon.
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"- the power was amazing! To have such -" Naru tuned her hearing in only to find that Anko was still rambling, immediately she tuned back out again. A glance across to Kakashi showed that he was tuning Anko out as well, reading the "Icha Icha Make-Out Violence Volume 2" book while he jumped through the trees. Looking at it Naru was finally reminded about what she had forgotten to pack with her. Of course, no wonder she had been so bored and annoyed. Sadly for Naru she also knew the exact location of the book in her apartment which bugged her even more. Left to the door, Kitchen entrance, third cupboard along, second shelf down, behind the stew pot, troublesome. Naru sighed, sometimes Anko was too stressful.
"Anko" she interrupted, the woman looked at her expectantly, "shut up" Kakashi sniggered.
"You two seemed to be very close for just having met each other." Kakashi seemed to be frowning from behind his ANBU mask. Naru smirked.
"We did" she left it to be interpreted as a statement or a question, talking Anko into a race back to Konoha, which the other easily accepted. Kakashi watched them go, the frown still in place.
'What are you hiding?' Kakashi knew that while she looked, acted and spoke like a human, she wasn't, and this bothered him. After being sealed for 21 years he was sure she wouldn't so easily accept the missions given to her. But something else was bugging him, something she had said when she had first spoke of her plans.
I agree that I will help, not for your village but I have three things I need to do, two which will benefit you.
If this was so, then, what was the third thing? This thing that would obviously change every plan they made without her. There were no clues and he seriously doubted that she would tell them. A stray thought crossed Kakashi's mind, what if Naru wasn't helping them? They had locked her away, in a cold sleep, with nothing but the clothes she was wearing. Then when they had no other options they let her out, using her as a spy, training her to become their best, allowing her to make the plans, allowing her access to everything, and acting a spy to the civilian council. If Naru truly wasn't good then this meant that they had just created their biggest threat. She knew everything, and they would have no power to stop her if she turned against them. She even had the rookies as her friends, the last Uchia was wrapped around her little finger. Kakashi had seen the way they acted. The silver haired man almost stopped, he cut off his thoughts before they went any further.
"Kakashi-sensei, are you ok?" He looked up to see Naru and Anko a few branches ahead. He stopped next to them.
"My thoughts just went a little too far." He told them smiling. Relief blossomed over Naru's face, and Kakashi was surprised to hear it in her voice as well,
"That's good, you worried me, because you looked so scared and for a second I thought you had felt someone that was about to attack or something!" Naru continued her explanation with waving arms to the amusement of the other two with her. As if realising what she was doing Naru was immediately back to her silent self. But the damage was done and Anko burst out laughing. With a smile Kakashi ruffled her hair.
"I'm glad you care so much, Naru." They continued their journey back, chatting happily, acting like a real team. Quickly Kakashi forgot all about his thoughts of an evil Naru.
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However, if he had paid attention to her, he would have noticed the dark smile that spread across her face as they took off once more. Or maybe when they stopped because Anko started to choke, he would have noticed her scratch the bark of the tree with a kunai. Or maybe as they ran the last few metres he would have noticed the letter on the floor behind Naru, the letter addressed to a missing Nin.
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So? How was the second chapter?
Yes, we do realise that the chapters are quite short but, um, well they just are. No real reason.
There are quite a lot of hints in this chapter about there being a dark Naru, and there's something going on with Gaara. But what can I say?
The comment from Angel about the paring still goes, if you don't know what it is go back to the first chapter and you will find it at the bottom!
Hopefully you all liked this one as much as the first, and if you have just gotten this chapter on story update, I recommend reading the first chapter again as we added some changes to the original and replaced it. ^.^
Happy reading, Envy xx