Chapter 3: Rikku and the Albed
an: I can see that alot of you really like this story alot and i appreciate that. in this chapter you will get a summarized version of Naruto's life in Konoha from his Childhood to when and why he left. i hope you enjoy this chapter as much as you have the other chapters. remember to review because as many authors have said before they are the life blood of the writers and inspire us to write more.
Two hours later the ship was out on open water continuing its mission of finding salvageable Machina.
Back inside the ship Naruto had finally begun to regain consciousness and the first thing he did was ask Kurami what had happened while he was unconscious.
" Well when you collapsed in front of them Rikku automatically issued orders for you to be carried back to their ship. When we arrived onboard you were placed in a empty room and Rikku placed guards outside with orders to get her when you woke up and you've been out for two hours since then." Kurami explained to him.
" Well damn, guess I better get this over with then." Naruto said to her as he sat up in the bed and looked around.
' Well at least it isn't a hospital room' Naruto thought as he cringed at the memory's of his times at hospitals.
While Naruto was moving around inside the room to get ready the guards outside it had heard him and one had run off to let Rikku know he was awake.
" Rikku the man we found earlier is awake." the man said as he came to a halt in front of her.
" Good go retrieve some food for him and bring it to the deck I'll be talking to him there." Rikku ordered as she walked off in the direction of the room Naruto was in. The man nodded and ran off to get the food.
Meanwhile naruto was just about to let the guards know he was awake when the door opened and Rikku walked in.
" So your finally awake, I'm Rikku by the way." Rikku said in Spiran.
" Yeah, I'm alright just pushed myself a little to hard, and I'm Naruto by the way." Naruto said beginning in Albed and finishing in Spiran.
" Oh yeah that's right you can speak Albed too, well come on I'm sure you want some fresh air so I'll take you to the deck." Rikku said as she led him out of the room.
" Yeah I would, and so you don't have to wonder I learned Albed from this thing." Naruto said as he reached into his pocket and pressed a seal pulling out the sphere from earlier with a puff of smoke and handed it to Rikku.
" This thing is amazing wish we had more of them then maybe the Albed wouldn't be such outcasts in Spira." Rikku said as she analyzed the sphere before handing it back to Naruto who put it back in the seal.
" So Naruto what were you doing in those ruins anyway I didn't see any other ships in the area?" Rikku asked as she opened a door and walked out onto the deck with Naruto right behind her.
" Long story, lets just say I ended up stranded there and leave it at that. Besides I'm not sure you would believe me anyway." Naruto answered her as he walked to the railing and looked out at the sea.
" Rikku here is the food you asked for." the guard from before said as he walked onto the deck and handed her it then headed back inside the ship.
" Here Naruto, I'm sure your hungry we can continue talking after you eat." Rikku said while holding the tray of food and a canteen of water out to Naruto.
" Thanks, I haven't had food in a while." Naruto said as he took both and sat down near the railing to begin eating.
" Your welcome." Rikku said as she sat down beside him to wait till he was done eating to continue talking with him.
" Ah that was good, so what brings the Albed out here anyway Rikku?" Naruto asked as he leaned back against the railing and pat his stomach content for the moment.
" Were looking for salvageable ancient Machina." Rikku answered him while starring at him questionably for why he asked.
" Ah that's cool need any help might as well pay my way while I'm onboard." Naruto said as he stood up and turned towards Rikku.
" I was just going to ask if you would be willing to help us so you saved me the time of asking." Rikku said as she stood up as well.
" Cool what do you need me to do?" Naruto asked.
" Well right now were anchored here because the monitors picked up a large Machina beneath us and we were wondering if you would be willing to come with me and a crew to check it out." Rikku said.
" No problem lead the way and I'll help as much as I can." Naruto said as he pressed a seal on his clothes making them waterproof.
" Great I'll let everyone know and we can get started." Rikku said as she ran back inside to get the crew together and inform them of Naruto's decision to help.
While she gathered the crew Naruto began walking around the deck of the ship looking at some of the stuff they had found.
A few minutes later Rikku returned with six men dressed for the mission and two others who were talking to her in whispers about something.
" Well kid names Cid, thanks for helping us out." the older of the two said.
" No problem." Naruto said back.
" This here is Brother, by the way he doesn't talk much." Rikku added in.
" Rikku shut up that's not funny." Brother said angrily while glaring at Naruto who was laughing with Rikku.
" Well pops gotta go we'll be back as fast as we can." Rikku said as she jumped into the water to avoid brother.
Naruto saluted Cid then back flipped into the water after Rikku followed by the crew.
" The men have orders to look for any damage outside the Machina while we go inside it to check for a way to turn its power on. Oh and here." Rikku told Naruto then tossed him a portable breathing device.
They then began there decent towards the Machina with there weapons ready incase they were attacked by fiends on the way.
When they reached the Machina the crew broke up into three teams of two and separated to look for any damage on the outside of the Machina while Naruto and Rikku found a hole in its side and swam into the Machina to find its power source.
Once inside they swam down a long corridor and into a room that looked like a control center.
They split up and searched the room for some way to get the console running.
While searching Naruto bumped into a switch and a voice sounded.
"Power off please go to the engine room to turn on emergency power." it said and a map popped up showing how to get to the engine room.
When he turned around he saw Rikku signaling " Good job lets get to the engine room." and signaled back his acknowledgement and led the way through the corridors to the engine room.
When they reached the engine room they split up again to search for the emergency power switch.
This time it was Rikku who found the power switch and flipped it.
There was a loud humming sound and then all the lights turned on in and outside of the Machina.
As they were preparing to leave the Machina they were attacked by a octopus like fiend.
Rikku acted first and threw a grenade at it doing some damage to the fiend which caused it to become enraged and do a rushing attack which did a lot of damage.
Suddenly Naruto got a idea and used chakra to propel himself towards the fiend and grabbed it by the mouth signaling Rikku to throw a grenade into its mouth.
Rikku got the idea and threw her last grenade into the fiends mouth. As soon as the grenade entered its mouth Naruto slammed it shut and stabbed his sword through it to keep it shut. He then propelled himself away just as the grenade blew up killing the fiend. Once Naruto was sure the fiend was dead and turned into pyre flies and had found his sword he turned to Rikku and found her bent over clutching her side. He rushed over immediately and grabbed Rikku using chakra to propel them out of the Machina and quickly towards the surface. Once they broke the surface they were pulled onto the ship by the crew and had potions poured on any wounds they had.
" What happened how did you get injured Rikku?" Naruto asked.
" I'm not sure I think it was the backlash from the grenade." Rikku answered.
" Well neither one of you are fit to go back out there for now so you are stuck onboard." Cid said before he and the others headed back inside the ship.
" Well that sucks." Naruto said.
" Well I guess you have time to tell me that long story now." Rikku said.
" Yeah I guess I could." Naruto said as he moved to beside her.
"Naruto are you sure you want to tell her? I know how much just the memories hurt you." Kurami asked him in a concerned tone.
"Yeah I'm sure Kurami. I have to get over the pain of it some how and hopefully telling her will help a little." Naruto replied mentally receiving a nod from her in understanding. He began to tell her his whole story of Konoha then Zanarkand and all the way up to the present.
" My story begins on the day of my birth in a place called Konaha. At that time a great beast called the Kyubi no Yoko was attacking the village for an unknown reason. Many of the villages warriors called ninja were fighting and dieing to hold the beast off until the Hokage or village leader could arrive to battle the beast. The man finally appeared in the midst of the battle atop his giant summon the toad boss Gamabunta while holding a baby in his arms. You see the man knew that a being like the Kyubi couldn't be killed by humans so he planned to do the next best thing seal the beast into the child he had brought with him using a forbidden sealing technique that would summon the death god. The price for using this technique and summoning the death god was the soul of the person who cast it. So the Hokage gave his soul to the death god to seal the Kyubi into the child. His one wish he made to his predecessor was for the child to be seen as a hero. Sadly only a handful of people would ever see the child as the hero the Hokage would want him to be. For the first few years of the child's life he would be raised in a orphanage with a law placed saying that the younger generation would not be told of his burden or the punishment would be death for whoever spoke. The child was ostracized from the beginning of what he could remember never allowed to play with other kids and always scorned or ignored by the villagers. On his fourth birthday the child was kicked out of the orphanage by the matron and told that demons deserved to live on the street. That same night was when all the beatings he would receive from the people in the village would begin. These beatings were also how the child found out about his tenet and met her after one such beating on his fifth birthday. The beating was more severe than any he had received before and caused him to pass out half way through. He would then come to inside what he would later find out was his mind to hear soft crying coming from behind bars at the end of a large room. Through this encounter he would find the great Kyubi in her human form crying and begging for forgiveness. He would as all children can forgive her with his whole being. He after a few moments would find out many things from the Kyubi who said her name was Kurami. Such as the fact that his parents were the fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze who died sealing her into him. That his mother was Kushina Uzumaki Namikaze who was a kenjutsu expert for the village. That she did not attack the village of her own free will. That a man wearing a spiraling mask had controlled her and made her attack. After hours of talking to her he would find a fierce friend and teacher in Kurami for the rest of his life. He would then wake up to find himself in a hospital room where the Third hokage was at staring at him waiting for him to wake up. He would receive a home from him and the ability to join the academy to become a ninja the next day from the man. After that day the boy trained in secret everyday for the next few years under Kurami's tutelage. He learned many amazing things from her. Like the fact he had a ancient bloodline called the rinnegan but that parts of it were blocked and that he could only use the elemental mastery it allowed until she could unblock its other abilities. Sadly during this time he still received many beatings from the villagers. His life went on like this for the next eight years with him purposefully failing the academy twice to keep the village from being afraid of his power and killing him off outright. He would then be placed on a team with a boy who was obsessed with revenge and a girl who was a fan girl to the boy and a jonin sensei who was alright but lazy and always late. The team would go for many months doing d rank missions within the village before receiving their first c rank. It would be during this mission that the boy would learn a valuable lesson from one of his enemies. That lesson was that when one fights for the ones they love and other loved ones they become strong. The boy would take that lesson to heart even as he found out it was the enemy he learned it from. Upon his teams return to the village he would learn that they were nominated for the chunin exams by their sensei. His team would make it through the first two rounds of the exam and he and his other male teammate would make it through the preliminaries, but not with out difficulties. His other male teammate was given a mark by an enemy of his village called the cursed mark. During the month long break during the exam for the competitors of the third exam to train the boy would find his father's sensei and be trained by him. While also learning more from Kurami which he was still told to keep hidden. After the month long break the exams began and the boy won his fight. But half way through the fight an invasion of his village began. Where they would come out victorious but not without casualties. The third Hokage would die in his battle against the leader of the invasion. During the days after the battle he would leave with his fathers sensei to find the mans teammate to bring her back to become the fifth Hokage. Many things would happen on this trip from finding out there was a group of missing-nin after him for Kurami, to finding the woman and winning a bet against her to make her return. Upon there return and her instatement as the fifth hokage it would only be a few days later that he and a team of other ninja of his graduating class would be sent on a mission to catch his male teammate who was betraying the village to join the man who led the invasion on the village for power for his revenge. The group would ultimately fail in their mission to return him with many having critical wounds including the boy. They would all be healed in the end with the boy leaving the village for three long years with his fathers sensei. But not before finding out that Tsunade the fifth Hokage had secretly adopted him as her son. That her apprentice Shizune would know be his sister. He would also find out about a girl Named Hinata from his graduating class having a crush on him when he was about to leave. He would then promise to write the girl during his Journey and promise to see where there feelings would lead upon his return to the village. He would learn many things on this three year Journey and reveal a lot of his secrets to his fathers sensei in person his mother and sister figure and Hinata through letters. They would all accept these secrets and still love him. Upon his return from his training he started up a secret relationship with Hinata. After many missions he would receive another chance to return his traitorous teammate to his village. While gone on this mission his relationship with Hinata would be found out but not acted upon by the village at that moment in time. Upon his return to the village empty handed. The village would then turn on the boy forcing him to watch them kill Hinata in front of him. Afterwards he was locked up in a cell to be executed at a later date with suppression seals on him to keep him from escaping. He would escape soon after being locked up with Tsunade and Shizune's help. Though none but them would know. He would then with Kurami's help use a Dimension jumping Jutsu to go to a new dimension that he would later find out was called Zanarkand. Where he would awaken to find out he was turned into a Hanyou or half demon by Kurami to survive the jump and that his body had regressed to that of a baby. He would then be found and raised by a family that would slowly fall apart over time with the father going missing out at sea. And the mother losing the will to live soon after. The boy would stay in this place till the age 20 years old. When during a blitzball game Zanarkand would be attacked by Sin and he would be dimension traveled by it to another time 1000 years into the future. Where he would then be charged a mission and then found by the Albed."
A few hours later Naruto finished his story and looked up to see that he had gathered a crowed of crew members around him who were all angered or sad at his story.
Suddenly he was being clung to by a crying Rikku.
" How could you have had such a terrible life and still be sane?" Rikku asked through her tears.
" Because I needed to be strong for the people I cared about." Naruto said while comforting her.
" Damn Konoha they were monsters!" One crew member said while punching the deck and received agreement from the others.
" Do you mind if we tell others your story?" another of the crew asked.
" No go ahead hopefully it will be able to help another who is suffering." Naruto answered and received a nod of thanks for agreeing.
Soon the crew dispersed and it was only Naruto and Rikku who had finally calmed down.
" How did you do it for so long?" Rikku asked as she looked at Naruto.
" My precious people gave me the strength to do it." Naruto answered as he looked back at Rikku in her eyes.
They became mesmerized by each others eyes and began inching closer to each other before suddenly their lips connected . Which seemed to brake whatever trance they were under causing them to break apart in embarrassment. Suddenly Brother came running from inside the ship.
" Rikku a huge blip has appeared on the radar and is approaching fast get him inside." he called out right before something hit the side of the ship. Naruto sensing something was about to happen and that he may not be around afterwards grabbed some paper off a nearby crate and wrote a swift message to Rikku. " Rikku I'm probably going to disappear in the middle of whatever happens don't worry much I'll be okay and will find you later when I can. 'Naruto'." and slid the note into her pocket just before the ship was hit again and he was thrown overboard.
The last thing he saw before going unconscious this time was Rikku's worried face.
" Naruto!" Rikku screamed as he went overboard. She then slumped down and grabbed her knees. But heard a crinkling sound and reached into her pocket to find the note Naruto wrote and let out a sigh of relief after reading it but still looked worriedly over the railing.
an: i hope this chapter was to your liking and up to the standard you expect from me. please excuse some of the parts for being long winded, but it was the only way i could see to get out certain parts of the story and Naruto's past in Konoha. as i said before i hope you enjoyed reading this chapter. please review to tell me how you liked it.
-End Chapter 3-