Experiment 52 Chapter 6: You Know Naru?, a naruto fanfic

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]

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"Speech"

'Thoughts'

-- Setting change

** Time Change **

"Demon Speech"

Chapter 6: You Know Naru?

The other genin seemed to have gotten over their small dislike towards Naru after finding out she had killed and now treated her as usual. Sasuke had even found the time to privately apologised to her for the way he had acted earlier on in the week. Naru had joyfully told him that she had forgotten about it until then, which only made Sasuke annoyed.

They reached Konoha in time for dinner. They split up at the gates, everyone heading home or to hand in the report for the hokage. All except one. Naru simply walked further down and jumped over the wall, heading to the Sand Konoha boarder for a rather important meeting.

It had taken her less than an hour to arrive at the boarder, already there were four figures waiting. As she got closer she heard them talking. She knew that they hadn't heard her yet, but she also knew that knew of them knew she was there. Of course if they hadn't she would have been especially annoyed.

"C'mon, it's obvious she can't make it here, can't we just go, meet her halfway or something?" one of them was complaining, She smirked, 'Sounds like he doesn't want to meet me'

"Quiet Kankerou, she is here." Replied a monotone voice.

"Daaaamn Gaara, you really need to stop talking like that." She leaped down, landing in front of them with a rustle of skirts.

"No way, there is no way you are a shinobi!" The one named Kankerou yelled, pointing at her.

"I must agree, you have only a civilian level of chakra." Said a man who was standing behind them, a veil covering half his face.

"Quiet, she is not here to discuss with you." Gaara told them, he turned to her, "the Kazekage will be here shortly, he wants to meet you." she smiled,

"Well that wont do, shall we Gaara?" Gaara gave a tiny smile to the astonishment of the others, and they leaped away. His team followed with cries of astonishment.

"Gaara, the Kazekage!" Yelled out the girl, who up till now had been silent. Naru simply laughed, the sound carried back to them and Baki frowned.

"That girl, she may ruin all the plans." Gaara's siblings frowned, if Gaara messed up, everything would go badly.

Naru and Gaara sped up, deviating from the straight line, slowly loosing his team. Eventually they were so far away that they knew the team would never find them again. They landed in a clearing, a river was running through it. Naru turned to Gaara,

"It's been a while." She smiled, gaining a hesitant smile back, "Oh Gaara!" she hugged him, Gaara's hands slowly wrapped around her.

"I missed you" he whispered.

"Don't worry, things will be better." She whispered back to him. Silence echoed,

"I felt it. What happened?" Gaara asked quietly. Naru's eyes slid closed, red power encased them, and she opened her mind to show him the memory.

**Flashback**

"I'm sorry I'm late, it's been hard to get away." She told the empty clearing.

"That's fine, I think we all remember what Genin teams are like." A voice said, drifting over from the shadows just to the left of her. Naru sighed and sat down in a whoosh of skirts. She was once more wearing her gothic Lolita clothes, this one a slim black and white.

"Are all nine here now?" asked another voice this time to her right.

"All nine, and the second nine." Came a voice from behind.

"Very well. As the container for the Kyuubi no Kitsune, lord of the foxes, strongest of the Bijuu. I start this meeting by welcoming you all, my fellow Jinchuuriki, My friends Akatsuki." Naru spoke to those circled around her, who had now stepped out of the shadows,

"Welcome, Lady Elemental, Leader of us here, Last of the Metherlence line, Experiment 52. As your servants, we activate your power, as your servants we use it, as your servants we control it." In a spike of bright pain she was surrounded by a circle of blue charka, expelled from those around her, her own blue chakra was brought forward by it, and with it her power as an elemental, the blood red pooling around her. The bandages around her forehead fell, her eyes slid closed, and the beautiful blood red stone was shown for all to see.

The memory deviated from Gaara's, showing what she saw instead of what he had.

Naru opened her eyes, she was inside her mind. There were nine pillars of white marble around her. One of them, the one directly behind her, was empty. The rest held pictures of beasts, Shikaku, seated just to the right of the empty one, was black, sealed. All around her the statues were black, and she sighed, finally turning to face the empty pillar.

"So this one is ours?" She asked to the empty air.

"Of Course. Let's take our place." Came a reply from the air, red eyes opening in the darkness behind the pillar, light spread to it, showing towering golden bars as thick as herself, and in the middle a small piece of paper reading seal. She walked forward, no sound made as her heals hit the marble floor, climbed stairs that weren't there and when she reached the top, sat on a chair that wasn't there. All a small reminder to Kyuubi of how much control she had over her mind. The blonde glanced behind her and looked at the cage.

"That wont do." She muttered to herself. Immediately Kyuubi was wearing a collar with the world's longest chain, the paper seal attached the chain to the wall. Kyuubi stretched and padded over to her. Towering over her he looked down. On the floor was a projected image of the outside world, what her eyes were seeing now. The other Jinchuuriki were looking at her. She pulled up her power and created the image from her mindscape, they sat where their statue was. The second nine placing themselves behind. With a few seconds of concentration she pulled most of her power, leaving enough to survive, it formed in a ball in the centre of the circle.

"What is it?" One of them asked.

"Power. Pure power." Another replied, Naru didn't know who, she didn't care. The power split, eight pieces floating to eight Jinchuuriki.

"Take it. It will help you. Save it for when the Akatsuki comes for you, we will come to help you, nine against the two they send, it will never be enough." They nodded. And took the power in their hands. Watching as it folded around their hands like water. Slowly shapes formed. There were eight small barks as fox's cubs formed. "You may name them what you like, they can also shape shift, they are loyal to you if you take care of them. If you mistreat them Kyuubi will know and you will be hunted down and murdered in the most brutal way. Understood?" her voice did not change, it remained slightly sweet, and that made them all even more scared, shaky nods surrounded her.

The nine behind watched amused, until she turned to them.

"As our protectors it is up to you to make sure that they do not mistreat them, after all, as protectors you will take the blame as well." she received nervous nods from them as well. She stood and almost fell, if it hadn't been for her own protectors quick movements.

"I think you used too much power. Your eyes are almost white." Gaara whispered to her. She sighed and realised she was shaking.

"I have to get back, the power ball gave off a shockwave that will have woke my team, and I need sleep." Slowly she managed to stand without help. Her protector walked with her back to the house.

**End flashback**

"So different from my memory." Gaara whispered. Naru nodded, Together they started to walk to Konoha again. When they found the sound team and the Kazekage just round the corner from the gates, they stopped and greeted Gaara's team.

"Hey! You made it!" Naru cried out, attracting the Sand's attention.

"Gaara! And err, what is your name?" Temari asked, waving slightly. The Kazekage watched with interest, stepping forward once Gaara and Naru were close enough.

"Gaara, I told you I wanted to meet this girl, and yet you left before I arrived." He stated, watching them both, Naru took an immediate dislike to him, and didn't hide it.

"I didn't want to meet you." Her voice was slightly sweet, and she had a charming smile, but her eyes were turning a poisonous violet. His eyebrow raised.

"Well, how interesting, are you always so rude to those who command you." she smirked,

"I am not commanded." Her eyes turned a darker purple, going almost black, Gaara grabbed her hand. Shocked she turned to him.

"Your eyes, your getting angry." He whispered. Immediately her eyes turned to a light violet.

"If you are not commanded, what makes you work for Saratobi?"

"That is a rather personal question." She smirked, "He asked me to."

"So If I was to offer you a higher deal, would you swap sides?" The Kazekage asked.

"I-"

"Naru!" She turned shocked, again, to find Saratobi himself.

"Hu- Hokage-sama!" she faltered at the start, as if to say something else, the Kazekage narrowed his eyes. 'Something is going on here, and I don't like the chances of it being in my favour…'

"Why are you here? With Kazekage-sama?" Saratobi questioned, his eyes flicking between them.

"Ah! I found them and thought it best to ask if you knew they were coming." Naru told him, honesty flowing through her voice, inside the Kazekage smirked.

"Why were you outside the village walls Naru?" Though barley susceptible, suspicion was in the Hokage's voice, Naru's eyes narrowed a fraction.

"You don't trust me. Even with the seals you have wrapped round me? I should have known." Naru glared at him, "I take my leave, Hokage." She was gone before anyone could muster a protest.

"Defiant soldiers lead to a leaders downfall." The Kazekage told Saratobi,

"Naru's mistrust is not because of defiance."

"And the seals?"

"Are simply metaphorical and none of your concern. Shall we get your own soldiers inside?" The hokage turned without waiting for an answer. Simply expecting the Kazekage to follow, which he did with an annoyed "tch!"

-- Warning --

-- Naru's apartment --

Naru slammed the door shut and locked it; leaning back she wiped away her tears of frustration. She stumbled into the bathroom, annoyed and not thinking straight. Standing in the bathroom doorway she scanned it and found, through blurry vision, what she was looking for. She landed heavily on the floor and pulled up half of the tile in front of her. It was like the others, cracked, now a dirty white, but this one was purely different because it had small gaps between it and its other half where you could slide nails to pull it up. She did just that and revealed a red towel; she pulled that up and opened it. Inside was a beautiful knife, the handle was wood, stained sherry red with black carvings and the knife was gleaming silver. She picked it up and blinked away the remaining tear. Letting out a slow breath she held the knife to her arm, it was positioned just at the top of the seals around her wrists. Breathing in she stuck in into her arm and dragged downwards. Blood spilled down on to the once white towel, marking it with yet anther attempt at freedom.

"Get off!" she cried pulling the knife and with it the top layers of her skin. Mockingly underneath, on the raw skin between the blood, was the seal.

No matter how many times she tried the seal remained, she would have cut off her arm but she needed it and wasn't sure Kyuubi could grow back limbs. She hadn't asked, and she was pretty sure he never knew about this, her moments of desperation, when freedom seemed to become just a distant dream to her.

-- End Of Warning --

"Naru, Naru!" It was Sasuke. Shit. Slowly she cleaned the knife in the sink, wrapped it in the towel and hid the towel again, replaced the tile. Looking down she saw that blood was still running down her arm, and the seals were showing.

"Excellent." She muttered.

"Naru! Open up, we know your in there, your not exactly being silent." Sakura yelled,

"I'm not trying to hide. Give me a sec." she called back to them. She opened one of the kitchen cupboards to find some bandages.

Sasuke and Sakura stepped back once they heard the lock click. Naru stood holding the door with one hand, it was bandaged from wrist to elbow. Her other was bandaged from wrist to half way down her arm.

"Naru! What did you do?" Sakura gasped, grabbing her arm, Naru flinched, pulling her arm back none to gently.

"You see that it's bandaged and yet you grab it so hard." She rubbed it gently and walked into her house. Leaving the door open but neither inviting them in nor telling them to go. Sakura stood shocked for a little while before storming in after her; Sasuke sighed and followed, closing the door behind him.

"But what did you do?" Sakura pressed. Naru sat down and covered her face with an arm.

"I trained, that's what shinobi do no?" she replied, her voice quieter. Sakura, now subdued sat down. In the silence Naru's sigh seemed to echo, "Why are you here?"

"Ah! The chunnin exams, Kakashi-sensei gave us the entrance slips!" Sakura told her, quickly forgetting what had previously occurred as she pulled out the slips and waved them about. Calmly Naru plucked her own from between her fingertips.

"The chunnin exams" she mumbled quietly, humming as she read it over, "and I suppose your participating?" she looked up to see Sasuke slowly nodding, Sakura still looked unsure.

"I- Don't know." Sakura paused, "what are you doing Naru?"

"I see no reason why not to do it." she saw the uneasiness across the pink girl's face, "Sakura if you feel you are not ready then please don't try it just because we are. If you are sure that is what you want to do then I will help you train for it." 'Dear god, did I just offer to help her?' Naru felt like she had ate something with a particularly bad taste.

Sasuke studied her face, Naru didn't look well at all.

"How about we all think about it for one more night, we have the time." He suggested, privately he felt like he wasn't ready for it either, on the other hand it was a step closer to avenging his family…

Naru nodded, aware that Sasuke's thought were taking a darker turn and wanting him out of her apartment. "bridge tomorrow?" she questioned receiving two nods.

As soon as they had left she collapsed on to her bed, eyes closed, feeling the familiar burn of healing on her arms. The healing seemed to be automatic, maybe Kyuubi didn't know what she did. Slowly she fell asleep, unaware of the demon's jealous eyes, he knew that it was not her fault for his being locked inside, but at least she had a way of taking her anger out, even if it was on herself.

** The Next Morning **

Naruto was the last on the bridge, not counting Kakashi-sensei of course. Sakura was staring at a filled in chunnin form with a troubled look on her face. Sasuke looked confident and gave a half smile as she arrived.

"Are you sure Sakura?" Naru asked after seeing the full form. The girl nodded, her eyes flitting over to Sasuke for a second, that told Naru all she needed to know.

"I-Im sure. This is something we need to do as a team." It seemed fake, rehearsed but Naru took it and turned to Sasuke.

"Of course the high and mighty Uchia is going in." and she turned back, seeing the small half smile Sakura gave before it left as Sasuke glared at her. "Well if that's all, me and you Sakura are going shopping. You can go train or whatever it is that you do Sasuke." She waved her hand at him while grabbing Sakura and taking her into the heart of Konoha, where they were soon lost in the bustling crowds.

After a while and a lot of pushing they made it to Ichiraku ramen. The stand was quiet just one visitor, and old man with long grey hair and traditional wooden sandals. Naru sat down, dragging the poor pink haired girl with her.

"Naru? I thought we were going shopping." Sakura questioned her.

"this is shopping" she replied, "Hey old man! The usual!" she yelled to the back of the shop, the chief waved to say he had heard,

"The young lady next to you?" he yelled back.

"Sakura, what do you want?" Naru nudged her,

"Uhm, beef noodles." Immediately the order was yelled to the back where the chief continued to cook.

"So, how exactly did Sasuke blackmail you into taking the chunnin exams?" she asked casually, swinging slightly on her stood, watching the old man a few seats away scribble in his notebook with a smile.

"Ah! Blackmail? I, um, don't know what your talking about." Sakura shifted uncomftoble.

"Oh please! If the eye movement wasn't enough, your uncomftoble around him, you didn't protect hi when I took a stab at his heritage, you rehearsed that statement about the team!" She snorted shaking her head to look at the girl beside her; Sakura had lowered her head and was fiddling with some chopsticks.

"He just told me to say it." she was quiet.

"Oh Sakura! Your so much smarter than him. Put these doubts about the chunnin exams behind you. Go home get some rest and tomorrow we train! 7 at the bridge, don't be late!"

Sakura nodded, looking decidedly happier, quickly she ate the noodles placed in front of her and left with a wave. Naru watched with a small perfect smile before turning to finish her own five bowls, (her third helping).

"Such a confidence you have dear elemental." Her eyes slid to the man at the other side of the noodle bar, her chopsticks were placed into her mouth, a slow blink and the eating utensils were calmly place on the desk as her hand folded.

"What do you want?" she didn't look at him, staring frostily ahead.

"Don't get the wrong idea, I'm not here for your power or any such shit." He snorted, "I am Saratobi's former student. The Toad sage Jiraiya." He stood up as he said his name, waving his hand and starting to do a dance.

"The seal master." She stated, cutting him off. he paused mid dance, managing to look extremely foolish.

"You know who I am?!" he asked, his eyes shining.

"Of course I do. I was alive before being sealed into that box." She turned her head, looking him up and down, "you were younger then." Jiraiya hit the ground, a large sweat drop on his head, Naru took this time to leave.

Jiraiya stood, opening his mouth as he realised the girl was gone, no sign of her… except from the large bill…

** Two days later – Day of the chunnin exams, 2.45 pm **

Naru met Sakura outside the academy. Already the pink haired girl was looking more like a confident konochi. Her hair was tied up into a ponytail, her dress had been replaced with a top and spandex shorts beneath a pink shirt, all visible flesh had bandages. Her arms had arm warmers and around her legs were boots that were specially built for shinobi. She had two weapons pouches and had a scroll with supplies in one. In the day they had trained she had learnt the few medical justu Naru knew as well as some other basic things, such as how to handle another weapon and use a enemies weapon against them, her flexibility was put to good use with that as well as some time spent improving her stamina.

When Sasuke arrived he was clearly surprised to see both his female team mates wearing new clothes, and looking more like shinobi. The Uchia now felt underdressed as he simply had his normal clothes on, but with typical Sasuke pride he brushed it off as 'not like clothes will make a difference in the long run.'

"I think we should vote a team caption. Someone that the whole of the team listens to, no one is to make a move without the leaders yes. Agree?" they both nodded.

"I think Naru should be leader." Both Naru and Sasuke looked at her surprised.

"I was going to suggest you." Naru replied, rubbing her arm.

"Im no good at leading, I panic in tough situations. Besides you always have a clear head and give good support, so I think you should do it." Sasuke sighed, eager to just get it over with.

"Yes fine, Naru is leader. Can we go in now?" Naru nodded.

"Try to act as weak as you can, remember a ninja's greatest tool is deception." She whispered to them as the climbed the stairs. They reached a crowed where people were all yelling to get in, two men were standing at the door.

"No, no, you cant get in. we know talent when we see it and none of you have it." one of them said, the other beside him nodding.

"Cant you please just let us in?" a young girl, maybe a little older than them begged, a boy beside her in green spandex let out a yell and charged to him, only to be slammed on to the floor with no effort.

"No. we can't." Came the short reply.

"Go around the back of the crowd to the stairs." Naru whispered to Sasuke who led the team.

"Look, isn't that the famous Uchia Sasuke?" a random girl from the crowed nudged her friend and bobbed her head towards Sasuke.

"Yosh! The famous Uchia. Fight me oh worthy rival!" the boy who had been slammed to the floor appeared in front of Sasuke, in all his green spandex glory.

"No." Naru said to him, "We need to be moving on and Sasuke has no need to prove his worth."

"Ah! The youth of this beautiful girl! Sticking up for a worthy rival, her youthful team mate!" He bowed to her before straightening in all seriousness, "I request that Uchia-san does not listen to his team mate however and agrees to fight me." He stared at Sasuke.

Sasuke pushed past him, a simple no sufficing for the Uchia. Naru followed him, taking Sakura's hand in her own to keep them all together. They past the crowd and continued to the stairs, reaching the top they found their sensei standing outside the real door.

"Ah, good, your all here."

"What do you mean sensei?" Sakura questioned, Kakashi looked at her new clothes for a few seconds before replying,

"Well this is a team even, if only two of you had been here I am under orders no to let you pass."

"Naru! You said it didn't matter if is didn't come!" Sakura turned to the blonde only to find her staring intently at the door.

Sakura turned away a shrugged, together the team passed their sensei and opened the doors…

Gaara turned to the door, ignoring the fact that he had been in the middle of a word. For Gaara to talk was one thing, for Gaara to be talking and to stop was something completely different. It meant either something bloody was happening or someone incredibly powerful was approaching. Both Temari and Kankoru tensed and the steady sound of feet echoed down the hall. Slowly the talk stopped as the doors were pushed open. In the centre of the doors, flanked by a boy with a smug smirk and a pink haired girl with a confident stance was a blonde girl who looked like a porcelain doll. She had long blonde hair down to her waist that was pure ringlets, she had a tight blood red corset on top of a pure lace top with sleeves that touched her fingertips and showed the black nail varnish, below that was a skirt made of fabric and chains that was frills, her legs were covered in knee high buckled boots that gave her three extra inches. To top it off her skin was a pale white and her light violet eyes were ringed with a deep red and black. The killing intent was enough to make the weaker ones shake. Gaara almost grinned. Her eyes stared intently at each and every person before she walked into the room. The doors swung closed and talk started again.

"Gaara." Temari and Kankoru almost back-pedalled to the back wall as the strange girl appeared in front of them.

"Naru." Gaara replied calmly, ignoring his two shaking siblings. She smiled, and to the surprise of everyone, including those who were even scarier than Gaara, she lent down and hugged him. to the surprise of his siblings his sand didn't stop her and even more he returned the hug. then something clicked, this was the girl who they had met at the sand – Konoha border. Temari studied her and her team mates, she seemed quite content to be amongst the powerful opponents, however the other two, especially the girl, didn't.

she stood from where she had been kneeling whispering in his ear and led her team away. they headed straight for the other rookie teams, many of the members stared at Naru after that stunt. Ino turned from where she had been poking a sleeping Shikamaru and squealed, many expected her to 'attack' Sasuke, instead she glomped Naru.

"Where have you been?" She asked, still being carried by Naru.

"Training." Naru replied calmly, smiling and easily holding Ino's weight. The others came over and soon the teams were just a group of loud chatter.

"Hey, if you guys don't quiet down your gonna make some strong enemies." A silver haired late teenage boy stood behind them, in front of Gaara's team.

"And who are you to be telling us this?" Naru took the defensive, she didn't like this man, he smelled… off.

"My name is Kabuto." He didn't notice Naru's breath hitch and her eyes slightly open before she had blinked and it was gone.

"And what do you want?" Sasuke asked.

"I'm just here to help you out, with these," he held up some cards, "information cards. I can tell you about anyone in this room."

"Gaara and a green spandex boy." Sasuke said, glancing at Naru to see her disapproving glare, "And Naru." He added, watching as her eyes widened slightly.

"Gaara of the sand, The boy is Rock Lee of Konoha, and Naru is your own team mate." Kabuto brought out three cards.

"Gaara of the sand, hmm not much, completed three C rank, ten B rank, and fifteen A, two S and has returned from all missions without a scratch. His siblings are Temari and Kankoru who are also his team mates. Nothing else is known. Rock Lee, weak in most areas except tijustu, the reason being he cannot mould chakra. Exceptional stamina, strength and determination. Team mates are Tenten and Hyuga Neji, he has completed thirty five D rank, twenty C rank, their team has been around for a year longer than you rookies. Naru, your own team mate, five D rank, One C turned A rank, and another Four C ranks. Strong in ninjustu and mediocre in other areas, nothing much is known but before this year she was not a registered civilian of the village." All eyes turned to Naru who was glaring at the card. She snatched it in lightning quick reflexes, the second it left Kabuto's fingers the card fell to the floor in ash. She stormed away from the group, happily kicking Kabuto and Sasuke in the shins as she went. They watched her collapse on Gaara's knee and bury her head in his shoulder; he patted her back and wrapped his arm around her. Kabuto shrugged and opened his mouth to continue, however before he could get far several puffs of smoke signalled the arrival of the examiners, and the start of the chunnin exams.

"Alright Maggots, you give us your entrance slips, in return you get these pretty slips with a number on. You sit in the seat with your number. If you worms aren't in your seat in thee seconds your disqualified. Go!" there was a panicked rush as the candidates made hurried queues and ran to their seats. Thankfully the head examiner, later introduced as Ibiki was slightly merciful and let them get to their seats, sadly that was the only mercy they would know during the next few days.

Naru stared at the paper, she had read over the nine questions once already, that was one time too many. 'Pfft. What a ridiculous test, and to make these humans stronger. If the other two don't get the idea of this test ill shoot them.' She looked to them to see Sasuke not so subtly using his sharingan, and Sakura using pure brain power. She shook her head and sighed. Looking to the paper once more she summoned her power and let it travel to Gaara's paper. The red haired boy watched in vague interest as his paper gained a slight purple taint, the purple seemed to lift off the page, making a carbon copy of his answers that disappeared. Sometimes Naru was just too boring.

Ibiki watched the blonde girl carefully, she had a dangerous aura, not that she looked dangerous, on the contrary she looked like a china doll. As he was watching her paper gained a purple taint and someone's writing faded into the answer boxes. 'Stealthy. Cant give her a mark either. Damn.' Ibiki gave a disappointed sigh and chucked a kunai at the boy behind her. The boy stared at the kunai that was a hands span away while Naru didn't even bother to blink as it passed hairs breadth away. Ibiki twitched.

"END!" he gave no warning but simply started to call off the last few numbers before informing them it was time for the tenth and final question. He ran through a list of too long and confusingly worded rules and information. 'Well I suppose it's only confusing because I wasn't listening…' Naru mulled over what was going on before turning her attention to the question.

"So if we leave we loose. If we get it wrong we loose, if we get it right we win." Naru stated, posing it as a question. Ibiki stared at her for a while, sizing her up before he nodded.

"Yes, so, who will be taking the tenth question? If you aren't, leave now." Naru sat back and watched as people all around her left. She glanced to Sasuke to see him looking quite comftorble, Sakura on the other hand was looking unsure but nodded when Naru shook her head. At least she understood that. The pressure was building and more people were finding it harder to decide. Naru sighed, from already leaning back on two legs of her chair she brought her foot forward and kicked the desk to the front of the room, breaking the tense atmosphere.

"I want to leave without failing, can we hurry this up?" she asked, bored out of her mind and yawning to prove it. Ibiki very nearly glared at her but restrained himself (Ibiki's glare causes heart attacks), she was only an overconfident genin, soon to be sorted out by Anko. Speaking of that woman, where was she?

"Well since so many of you have passed, you will just have to be sorted-" a crash as a black ball sprang through the window, the ball unfurled to become a woman with a black square of fabric pinned at the corners, on it in white paint was "The sexy second Procter, The only Mitarashi Anko."

"Anko." Ibiki's rough voice came from behind the fabric, "You're early." Anko gave a half blush, before counting the candidates gathered before her.

"Over half. Ibiki, you're getting soft." Ibiki actually glared at her, but Anko waved it off, she had been around him too much.

"They are a tough batch." He stated. Watching Naru in particular, Anko got the hint, watch out for that girl.

"Listen up! Follow me to the second round!" Anko stood watching as slowly the candidates shuffled up. After what had just gone on they we're still quite confused, or, most of them were. Without waiting Anko took off through the window she had broken by coming in. behind her she heard those who were quick on the uptake following. 'oh, a mini test!' Anko sniggered and sped up.

"Alright then. We meet here tomorrow, 9 am. Any who are late don't get to participate in the second exam. By late I mean even past one second." She smiled at their surprised faces. With a nod to the chunnin that had come with her, she left.

"What tough rules!" Kiba moaned from just behind Naru. The others replied to him but she said nothing. Her violet eyes narrowed, staring into the depths of the place in front of her. Without knowing she walked forward, her brain not registering the gasps of the chunnin and genin behind her, nor the deadly aura the place gave off as she got closer. Something… something was in there. Staring… staring back at her, like a monster hiding in your closet as you lay in bed at night. Her hand reached out and grasped the chain link fence.

"Naru?" Ino's unsure voice came from behind her, her cold pale hand reaching her shoulder. Naru gave a jump, her eyes turning away.

"Sorry, I thought I saw a snake." They gave her a puzzled look, "I hate snakes."

She left the group, her team mates running to keep up as others slowly started to depart as well. at the back of the crowd a person watched the blonde go with a small smile. Their thoughts were nothing less than evil after learning Naru's hate. Meanwhile Naru spent the rest of the afternoon telling her team mates they didn't need to train and the best thing to do would be for each of them to go home an have a rest. Apparently Sakura and Sasuke didn't take to well to subtle hints. In the end the blonde girl resorted t telling them outright that she wanted to go home, have a shower and sleep, and that no thank you, she did not need an escort home.

Naru slammed her home door shut. "Humans!" She almost screamed, managing to keep it to small yell that the neighbour two floors down wouldn't hear, these walls were quite thin. She stepped away from the door, turning and locking it. as she padded to the shower bits of clothing were dropped carelessly on the floor along side other days clothes. Since being in the 'coffin', as she lovingly called it, she had taken the liberty of being as messy as she possibly could. Once she reached the bathroom the blonde was completely naked. Without even closing the door she turned on the water and sat on the side of the bathtub. "Do you make a habit of this?" She questioned thin air.

"Only for you." Came the reply.

"Well then, come in, don't be shy." A heavy object was dropped on the floor and footsteps grew louder as a person approached her.

"Whoever said I was shy was lying." They whispered in to her ear. She shivered pleasantly.

"I suppose I'm lying then" she whispered back. His lips ghosted over her's, causing more shivers to go up her spine. He placed his arms around her bare waist, trailing his fingers along the length of her spine. She gasped into his mouth, letting his tongue enter hers; slowly he lowered to his knees. More at her height now his lips roamed down to her neck, sucking on it gently. Her hands trailed up his back, her nails leaving smooth lines through the material of his shirt. A sudden nock at the door split them apart quickly.

"You shower, I'll get it." She nodded, standing up and stepping beneath the now warm water. Through the now closed bathroom door she heard his footsteps to the front door and the locks clicking open. There was silence for a few seconds before the awaited yell of,

"Who the fuck are you?" from a surprised Kiba. There was the mumble of more words then running footsteps to the bath room. Naru smirked, placing herself so that they would all see her bare back. it wouldn't do for them to see her forehead now. The door opened and was just as quickly closed. There was the rumble of more voices and then the sound of someone going through one of her windows followed by three girl's righteous screaming. Poor Kiba, if she liked humans they would get along. She stepped out the shower and wrapped a conveniently short towel around herself. Continuing to the door, she opened it a little bit.

"Neh, Gaara, can you get my pyjamas? I left them in my bedroom." She called out, acting as if she didn't know they were there. She smirked her back to the door she knew that they could see the full beauty of her body. Oh the joys of not being human. A cold hand touched her shoulder and she turned to see Gaara's smirking face, so he knew what she was doing, excellent. She took the pj's from him, seeing that they were of a modest length. Quickly she was dried and the bandages placed around her forehead. She exited the bathroom and paused.

"Oh. I didn't know I had guests." She looked at them; the boys were averting their eyes with blushes, especially Kiba while the girls were staring at her in jealousy. "Is there something wrong?" she asked innocently, her face showing the picture perfect image of a small child from a manga.

"Ah, um, that is, you left the door open, and, um, well…" Hinata, after trying her hardest, stopped.

"Oh, I see." Naru turned to the bathroom before looking at them again, "Well it's nothing you haven't seen before, well the girls have seen it." She paused considering. Then shrugged and sat herself down with a small huff. Her half dried hair fluttering about around her. "So, why do I have guests?" she questioned them.

"Well we thought that since we are obviously the most inexperienced rookies we should gather to form a battle plan." Ino told her, never taking her eyes off Gaara, who was now behind Naru.

Naru nodded, considering, "I can see where your coming from. Obviously because of this I shall have to remove Gaara from your presence." She stood, her hair fluttering down her back in a wave of gold. They watched as she led him to the door, opening it and closing it behind them. There were a few moments of silence before she came back in. "Don't worry. Gaara won't say anything." The others nodded.

"Since we are the rookies, do you think we should try to help each other?" Sakura asked, her nervousness shown by her fidgeting hands.

"Hmm, I agree, staying together would improve our chances of survival." Shikamaru gave his input from his seat on the recliner chair. Naru stared at him.

"I have a spare bed if you want it." She offered to him, in reply she only received a wave that was interpreted as 'I'm fine here, thank you'.

The genin spent the nest three hours discussing their plans, and well, messing around. It was in this moment that Naru realised, yes, these people were ninja but in all realism; they were in fact, still children. Many times she smiled, getting to thinking that maybe all humans weren't bad.

Dark. It was dark. Movement, oh, floating around in endless space. This was freedom. This was movement. This was… life? Was this what it was? A twist, a turn, moving with no weight. An endless black abyss of nothing but freedom.

"This is your world. This is what you control. Do you like it? My daughter." A sound, this was a voice, yes. Knowledge came from nowhere, she, for that's what she was, a she, knew everything, all maths, English and science, all the history of the world, more than what a normal human should know. It felt like someone had opened a gate, and from beyond her senses she heard the hiss of satisfaction. Slowly after the rush and accompanying pain had ended she opened her eyes. That's why her world was black. Now as she opened her eyes it was all a stormy blue, she was in some sort of solution. There was a blurry outline, a person beyond her solution. She blinked a few times, her eyes getting used to seeing through the solution, something she knew a human shouldn't be able to do. Maybe, maybe she wasn't human. She raised her hand's, they were pale, with childish fingers. She swished around a few times; seeing her legs, they were pale as well. Her body was covered in a short purple dress, a child's dress, a square neckline and 'cute' puffy skirt. Looking at herself she decided she was probably a child. She twirled in the water, something pale white caught her attention. A small hand grabbed it and pulled hard, at the back of her head she felt pain. A hand went up to it and trailed down the length of the thing attached to come to the pale white thing. Oh hair, this was her hair, pale white because of lack of sun, that's why her skin was pale. It reached down past her knees, probably because she had lived in this solution since being born, well she didn't remember anything else.

"Mitsukai."

Father?! What, what is this? A dream? No, no, a memory, but why this one?

"Mitsukai, you have to wake up."

I don't want to see this again. I don't, I don't!

The glass around her shattered. She fell on it, the solution draining away as she kneeled on the broken glass.

"Im sorry Mitsukai, I didn't mean for you to wake up now, you're not ready." He knelt to her level, gently cleaning her face with a towel. Getting rid of the solution she had lived in. he grabbed her beneath her amrs and gently lifted her, setting her on a nearby table to keep her safe from the glass. He patted the rest of her down, pulling out some small shards of glass. Soon she was dry, the wounds already healed. From a far place away alarms rang. "No! We should have more time!" Another man ran in, he paused looking at her curiously.

"Sir, they know, they're heading this way." He saluted and left. The man turned back to her.

"Come my darling, we're going to leave this place." He picked her up, she rested her head on his shoulder watching from behind curled fingers as he ran down pathway after pathway, joining other men and women who called out to him, telling him things that were happening, Mitsukai blocked her ears, burrowing her head into his shoulder. His black hair tickled her face and she gave a small giggle, pulling on it gently. She looked up suddenly, behind him.

No! Not again, please, not again!

"They're here." Her voice made him stop, slowly turning to see four men. He swong round and saw the other way blocked. His workers had escaped, the attackers didn't want them, they wanted him, and the child in his arms.

"What have you done, that poor child!" An outraged voice yelled, he turned back round to the original four men. Her father tutted,

"Please, like I've harmed her!" this only seemed to outrage the man more.

"You could've put her to sleep. Experimenting on people, men, women, children, all to harm her more."

"You don't know her, old man!" Her father hissed, angry.

"You've gone far enough Orochimaru!" The other man spat out her father's name.

"Oro – Oroch-i-ma-r-u, Orochi-maru, Orochimaru." Every head turned to stare at the child, though her right hand was in front of her mouth they knew she was the one who had just said it. her left hand grasped Orochimaru's shoulder tightly.

"How old is she meant to be?" the 'old man' asked Orochimaru quietly.

"She's only four, and she's been unconscious for that time until not ten minutes ago." They stared at her once more. Slowly Orochimaru crouched and set her down, her legs holding her weight immediately. They watched as she took a step back, amazed. In the hurry earlier, Orochimaru hadn't noticed in the rush earlier, the child was a prodigy. If what Orochimaru has said was true she should be acting like a ten minute old baby, instead she was acting like a normal four year old. They watched her as she watched them, turning to see those behind her. her violet eyes flicked around her, her left hand clenching as she even glanced to the ceiling.

"There are four more An-Bu" she struggled over the word for a second, "Two on the left, one in the ceiling and one behind a corner on the right. all ANBU have a weapon in hand, Hokage sir, has a two kunai in each hand. Even one thrown would cause permanent damage." A kunai was thrown from the shadows at the left to the young girl, two shouts of distress came form Orochimaru and the Hokage. However to everyonjes amazement a red jewel appeared on her forehead and a red power expelled from her body.

She looked to each of them. Slowly she started to walkt towards Orochimaru again.

"Papa, I don't like these people." Her eyes were teary and she held out her hands for him. he reached out towards her, his attention taken away from the hokage, and so he missed the nod given. In a flash a standard ANBU katana was through Orochimaru's heart.

"PAPA! NO!"

NO!

An ANBU grabbed her and the world went black.

Naru woke, sweat dripping down her face.That memory. It was one of her first memory's, the others being before that time and after, this life. Naru had a way of referring to all the times she was woken for her power, each time she went to sleep, she 'died', for normally she would sleep as those around her died and then, once she was summoned again, the world would have changed, with new places and new power hungry humans. But that memory, that was one from a short life. It lasted from the time she woke in the solution to the time when the world went black. She didn't even know if her 'papa' was still alive. Currently she didn't care though. All she cared about was having a shower and the meaning of reliving a memory. It was one of her 'powers', when she was to meet someone from a past life she would dream a memory. Maybe her papa was alive and she was going to be reunited with him? No, he had been stabbed, killed by the very man she was sealed to now. Fantastic. She sighed, stepping out the shower. This could wait till tomorrow. Finally she climbed back into bed and slept through to the next morning, the second exam.

Okay, so we're going to stop here. We really are sorry for the ridiculously long wait, sadly both me and Angel have exams we are focusing on. (Well Angel's revising). We're going to start on the next chapter straight away. Please tell us what you think of this, we were thinking that it's a bit of a mess so please give us your opinions.

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