Into the night.
Disclaimer:
I don't own Naruto or Naruto Shippuden, but I can dream can't I? Well, I do own any OC's included so ha!
Author's Note:
Yay, you've read up to 'Chapter 1', which is good…hopefully. So, yeah I'll include a character description in the next chapter. Now, parts of Deidara and Emi's childhood will be in this chapter and in one (Maybe two) of my amazing filler chapters! AKA an Interlude. Plus other OCs are introduced in this chapter…even though it's unlikely they'll make a comeback in any other chapters.
ENJOY!
Thanks to:
Aya Ayame
wait...I only had one reviewer, c'mon people, I live of reviews!(Not really, but I like that warm fuzzy feeling I get when I read them, even if the review is full of critisim.)
Chapter 1
Well, I suppose there's not much left to say about my childhood, except I haven't really explained about how I'm still here…considering that I just wrote and I quote "At that point I did not know how to deactivate the Endogan, which was extremely dangerous… At that point I didn't know how to shut it off so the chakra was building up and I didn't even notice it." I did say 'At that point' a lot. Anyway, I'm still alive around fourteen years later, give or take, but I was lucky.
A few months after becoming friends with Deidara my health started to degenerate, I still owe the Medical-nin for spotting the cause of my illness. My Endogan had been on constantly for three months, again give or take, so the chakra produced was starting to bite into my organs. The aforementioned Medical-nin had taken it upon himself to report this 'illness' to the Tsuchikage, who had sent a message to the village of Tanigakure, located in the Land of Rivers, where my Clan resided (Which my mother ran away from and subsequently met my father, but, as I've said before, that's a story for another time.).
They responded quickly, sending their reply on a spider's back, or so I was told. They sent one of their best healers, my cousin, Yuuka. She arrived a day after the reply and was quick to find me in the depths of the Hospital. Naturally I was unconscious at the time, but Yuuka told me that over the time it took to heal me Deidara had come to visit me every day after school, with bundles of notes and homework for me.
Yuuka's POV.
"We have just received word of Emi's status. She is currently suffering from a chakra overload in the hospital located in Iwagakure." My grandfather, Itsuki, sniffed throwing me a thin scroll, "The Tsuchikage has requested that we send a medical-nin immediately, as he believes that Emi will not last much longer than a week-"
"A week? She is only on level one, isn't she? How old is she? You're skipping any vital information!" I responded glaring down at the scroll, "Plus I only just got back from a mission, why not send Michi?" Itsuki sighed in exasperation.
"He is also out on a mission and I've already sent our response. We do not want to lose her, Yuuka, as much as I hated her father there is a chance that her blood holds his gene which we need. Now please go."
I nodded in defeat and turned to leave.
"There is one more thing you must know."
"What? I'm kind of leaving now, Ojī-san!" I snapped; there is one thing that I strongly dislike, when people tell you to do something but then hold you up by starting up another conversation with you.
"Emi is a killer. She is the one who killed your aunt, but don't judge her. If we show that we care for her she may return to us." My jaw dropped, but I carried on walking, tightening my forehead protector as I went.
I dropped down next to the entrance gates of Iwagakure just as two ninja began to move towards me.
"I have come at the request of your Kage to heal an Academy student in your hospital!" I barked out and they backed away, gesturing that I could pass. I ran to the hospital, knocking over a few civilians as I went.
I skidded to a halt in front of the hospital, narrowly avoiding the possibility of crashing through the doors. I pushed the door open and entered cautiously, sure I'm a fully trained Medical-nin but that doesn't mean I automatically love hospitals or places where people are dying! A small, plump nurse approached me.
"I assume you're here to heal that Emi girl, well go ahead. We have no idea what we're dealing with!" She handed me a clipboard which showed the results of blood tests. I sighed.
"Don't worry, I can handle this. I just have to hope that she'll cooperate." I followed the nurse down the long winding hallways until we stopped at a door.
"Well, good luck." She mumbled before walking down the corridor. I knocked on the door and I was surprised to hear a reply from the other side.
I pulled the door open, spotting the source of the reply, a young boy, with long blonde hair. 'He looks like a girl!' I thought, barely containing a laugh. He stood up.
"Good, you're leaving. Tell the nurses not to bother me; this will be a reasonably quick." I told him, before pushing him out of the door, "I'll tell Emi that you were here, okay?" I closed the door behind him before he could protest; though I couldn't hear footsteps growing faint, so he was probably waiting for me to finish with Emi.
I sighed and set to work, I examined Emi. She had short greyish-red hair, which was odd considering that neither of her parents had had that colour hair, then it dawned on me. 'Don't worry Ojī-san, she's inherited the gene.' I smirked. Everyone in the Sasaki clan had blonde hair, but Emi's father wasn't from the Sasaki clan and his Kekkei Genkai was very complicated, but it seemed that she had only inherited a watered down version of it.
I opened one of Emi's eyes, she only had a level one Endogan, but bringing her age into consideration it would burn her quicker than normal. I closed her eye and covered both closed eyes with my hands.
"This'll only be a temporary measure, so I'll have to teach you how to control your Endogan properly." I muttered. I concentrated my chakra into my palms and activated my own Endogan; since her Endogan is weaker than mine this should take a matter of seconds.
Emi suddenly sat up, pushing my hands away and blinked rapidly.
"What happened? Everything looks blurry!" She shouted, glancing around quickly.
"Shh, calm down! I had to deactivate your Endogan, but you're not out of the woods yet. You're still feeling pain? Good…wait, I mean bad! Give me your hands." I snatched up her hands quickly,
"Now, push the chakra out, all that pain out. Don't box it up, push it out!" There was a loud bang and I fell to the floor, "Wow that was a lot of chakra! The name's Yuuka Sasaki and I…will be teaching you how to control that Endogan of yours!" I shouted in triumph.
Emi slowly got out of bed and blinked at me.
"W-Wait…did you say Sasaki? Are you my older sister or something?" She stuttered, making me giggle; she reminded me of Michi.
"Close, I'm your cousin. Hell, you've got loads more cousins than me and loads of aunts, uncles, second cousins and tons of pet spiders…oh yeah, remind me to teach you about spiders…" I paused for a breath, "Oh yeah…" I spun round and pulled the door open, "You can come in now, you strange boy-girl-thing!"
The boy ran in, nearly knocking over the fragile looking Emi.
"You're not dead then, un!" He smirked, casting a glance towards me.
"I-I'm fine Deidara-sempai…" I burst out laughing.
"You two…with your 'un'…and your 'sempai'!" I managed to wheeze between laughs.
They both glared at me, "Anyway, we need to go Emi. As in now. I mean if we're not careful you'll end up here again." I shuddered, "Oh and…uh…Deidara wasn't it? You'll have to come to!"
"Why, un?"
"Because, one Emi trusts you, two if Emi trusts you then you'll be willing to help her, yes? Good!" I pointed to the door.
"W-What about the notes Deidara-sempai has left for me?" Emi stammered; aww she is just like a mini-girl Michi! I glanced over to the bedside table, there were two or three scrolls lying there, I walked over and scooped them up, along with a small rucksack. I pushed the scrolls in there and threw it to Emi, who caught it.
"Happy now?" I walked out the door, Deidara and Emi trotting along behind me.
Emi's POV (book)
Yuuka's training wasn't too hard, she taught Deidara and me loads of different ninjutsu. She taught Deidara how to spot the sign of my chakra burn and how to prevent it from escalating. She taught me how to activate and deactivate the Endogan, how to spot that I was undergoing the early stages of chakra burn and how to prevent it and finally she taught me what the Endogan could do.
Before Yuuka left she taught me one thing, how to summon the spiders. I signed the contract with my blood and summoned my spider; she called herself 'Amarante', apparently she was only very young but she was the size of a dinner plate. Yuuka said she was a Black Widow spider and that Amarante could live for over a hundred years and would eventually weigh around a ton.
The meeting of Deidara and Amarante had been strange to say the least. Amarante had declared the fact that she would like to taste Deidara's flesh, which had led to Yuuka lecturing me on how to make sure that Amarante would never bite Deidara.
Actually, it's been a long time since I last saw Amarante, though last time I saw her she did weigh just under one ton and boy was she huge; she would put those Giant Toads to shame.
I was sad to see Yuuka go, but she promised that she'd come back, with even harder training.
A/N: I'm thinking that I'll ditch the 'from the future' POV... Tell me in a review if you like the idea. Oh and my brain is bugging me with ideas for another fanfic, so I'll probably write this one and post it while writing the other, which one of my few friends will read through and grammar check.