Chapter 23- Naruto And His Nee-San

Author's Note: So there might seem to be some spoilers since this talks about Naruto's parents and how they sealed the kyuubi inside Naruto…if you have not watched that in Shipuuden then this will explain it a little, I didn't really add any spoilers, just letting people know.

"Naruto!" I yelled as I ran through the village.

I looked around and then was sad since I couldn't find him.

Hmmm….I'll try his place…maybe he's there. I feel really bad for ignoring him all this time.

I ran and jumped through the village until I reached Naruto's window. I looked through it to see him sitting at his table with his back to me. He looked so much like Minato Senpai from behind…not the sweet little baby I remembered him being. I gently tapped the window and saw him turn his head with a somewhat sad expression. He looked at me and then smiled before he walked to open the window.

"Hi Kiki-san." He said a bit quietly.

"NARUTO I'M SO SORRY!" I said rather loudly before glomping him with a hug and making him fall back on his bed.

"Nee-san was not being a very good nee-san to her little Naruto! I'm so sorry!" I said as I continued to hug him.

"-chuckles- that's okay nee-san. I'm glad you're feeling better now." He said in the hug.

I think I really hurt Naruto…I will do whatever it takes to make up for my rudeness.

I got up and smiled at him before pulling him up.

"I'm starving! Let me treat you to Ramen!" I said happily.

"Really!?" Naruto said with upmost excitement.

"Let's go! I have so much I wanna talk to you about!" I said as I grabbed him and jumped out the window with him. I had super Tsunade strength so it wasn't any trouble to drag him out with me.

He screamed and fell on his face when we hit the bottom.

"Naruto it's not time to be silly but time to go find food! No playing till after!" I said before picking him up and running in the direction of Ichiraku's Ramen.

"Nee-san I'm glad you came to find me. I was worried that you didn't like me anymore." Naruto said with a chuckle as we waited for ramen.

"I'm really sorry Naruto. I didn't mean to be like that. This demon curse is hard to deal with and if I don't destroy them fast enough, they'll take over my emotions and actions." I stated as I gave him a side hug.

"Did you kill one today? Is that why you were so nice to me all of a sudden today?" Naruto asked curiously.

I feel really bad…Naruto is the last person in this world that I would ever think of hurting…

"Oh Naruto…you are so important to me…I'm the last person that should be treating you that way. Demon or no demon I should have still treated you better. Kakashi and I killed two of them. I have 3 left. One was actually added to the poison and I ended up having 7 instead of 6 but either way, they are almost gone." I said

"You didn't seem like you were the mean type Kiki-san. You are kind and caring. I knew something wasn't right when you were ignoring me." He said.

Suddenly Kakashi came in and sat down with us.

"SORRY KAKASHI-KUN!" I said as I suddenly realized that I ditched him to find Naruto.

"It's okay Kiki. I knew you needed to patch things up."

"Hey nee-san, you were in the anbu with Kakashi-sensei right? How old was I when you joined?" Naruto asked curiously.

"Well, actually, I am the first female to get into the anbu at 14 years old. Kakashi joined when he was 17 and we were teamed together on many missions. That's how Kakashi knew me when you guys first saw me come back a few years ago. I was 13 when your father Minato-kun and your mother Kushina- chan gave their lives to seal the kyuubi inside of you. So I was anbu for a year before you were born. I was very close to them and they solemnly made me your god mother if something were to happen. I immediately cared for you from the day you were born until just before your 4th birthday. Your birthday was just 3 months before mine." I said while eating.

Naruto was tearing up a little bit and Kakashi just sat on the other side of him just listening.

"How could you take me in and care for when you knew there was a tailed inside of me?" Naruto asked with tears streaming.

"I love you Naruto. I love you just as much if not more than I loved your parents. There was nothing wrong with you. People were afraid of you because the tailed beast was inside of you. Your tailed beast did massacre the village the night you were born. It was unfair to put such a burden on you but your father knew you would be okay and that I would be here to love you when he knew others would not. I also specialize in sealing jutsu so I helped your father develop the sealing jutsu he put on you. I was supposed to help you control the kyuubi when you got older but I could not be there for you for very long… " I said with a light frown.

"You…you love me?"

"Of course silly! I always have loved you." I said before placing a kiss on his forehead like Tsunade would do to me when I felt unloved as a child.

Naruto strung his arms around me awkwardly since we were sitting on stools and I smiled as Naruto silently cried on me.

"It's alright now. I'm here. As long as you'll have me." I said as I stoked his hair.

I could see Kakashi glancing at me every once in a while and smiling slightly through his mask. I couldn't help but wonder how he grew up as well.

"Please stay Kiki-chan. I feel really comfortable and happy when I'm around you." Naruto said with a wide grinned smile as he wiped away the tears and continued eating.

"I will. I sure hope you feel comfortable…I mean with the way I turned out, I'm just glad you don't fear me." I said with a slight chuckle.

"It's not a matter of fearing you, we more like respecting you." Naruto said.

"Why?" I asked curiously.

"Like we talked about the other night Kiki-chan. You are the Guardian." Kakashi stated.

"Oh yea, I have forgotten. I'm no guardian though." I said as I picked at the egg in my ramen.

"Of course you are! You saved us! You've taken out so many criminals from other villages and saved a lot of other people. You are known throughout the nations as the one female rough ninja who guards the good souls." Naruto said before smiling again at another ramen bowl that was placed in front of him.

I feel like the definition of evil has changed since I was last up here…Do people even know that a reaper is no angel let alone a guardian? I'm surprised that Kakashi still sees me as such a person when I told him half an hour ago that I helped build an army.

I paid for the food and stretched before Naruto grabbed me and started running off somewhere.

"Naruto! Where are we going?" I asked in shock before giggling at his eagerness.

He's so much stronger now…

"See you later Kakashi sensei!" Naruto said before we rounded the corner.

Naruto dragged me back up to the Hokage building and we ended up sitting on a roof right next to it where the school children would gather for lunch. No one was there though since it was Sunday but it had a great view of the village.

"I missed it up here. I almost forgot how nice it was." I said with a smile as Naruto let go of me to lay in the grass on the other side of the railing.

"Over here Kiki-san!" Naruto said before giggling with excitement.

"You have such a happy personality Naruto." I said with a smile as I sat next to him.

"So tell me! I wanna know everything!" Naruto said with his fists up in excitement.

"Okay calm down a little! –laughs- what do you want to know first?" I asked him.

"Well…how did you meet my parents?"

"Actually…I met your father through Jiraiya Senpai." I said with a chuckle.

"I remember pervy sage mentioned you but I don't think he was comfortable talking about you." Naruto said.

"I understand…Jiraiya and I talked once while I was a reaper and I made him swear to keep his mouth shut about me when he trained you. So he said that if he was to keep his mouth shut about me, he'd need something in return." I said with a chuckle.

"What did he ask for?"

"He…wanted to have me feature in his next novel. See the outfit that the devil picked out for me to wear as reaper was very revealing as you saw back when you last saw me as reaper. Well Jiraiya found me inspirational and wanted to add me as a character." I said as I mentally beat the crap out of Jiraiya and his idiot smiling face.

"EWWW you're like a little sister to him aren't you!?" Naruto asked in stupefaction.

"Yea but at the same time, I think he meant it as me being this so called "guardian" you all keep calling me."

"Oh, that makes better sense."

"Anyways, I made him swear that he wouldn't say a word about me to you because I thought I was never going to make it out the mess I was in and I didn't want you to try and find me."

"I understand…I just wished I had you around when I was a kid."

"You're still a kid. You're my kid brother and I'm here now so deal with it!" I said with a smile as I ruffled his hair.

He smiled and we laughed for a few moments before I continued.

"So, I met your father first but spent more time with your mother. Your parents were around 10 years older than me but they realized that I was lonely since Tsunade left to travel and spent more time with me and Jiraiya did as well. I had joined the anbu a few weeks after their wedding and on my free time, I would watch Jiraiya train your father and his comrades. Other times, I would help your mother out with house chores and do girly things to keep each other company. They had a beautiful wedding when I was around 14 and I was the bride's maid who helped your mother out since she was a nervous mess. She loved your father dearly though. She was one of my best friend's aside from Kurenai and Asuma. Those two were actually my comrades when we were going through training. Our sensei isn't alive anymore…he died when the kyuubi was summoned the night you were born." I said with a slight tear as I remembered the memories.

"The Kyuubi killed many people we cared about." Naruto said as he rubbed his belly a little.

"Believe it or not…the tailed beasts used to be peaceful creators. But they were forced into the hands of very evil people and they turned bitter and angered because all they had in their lives were hatred…especially your tailed beast Naruto. I can't tell you how to change them…you have to figure out that for yourself. I just wanted you to know that there is another side to every story and don't always jump to conclusions or listen to what people say sometimes because they don't know either." I said as I grabbed his hand.

"I never looked at it that way…"

"Yep…hatred isn't really reborn…it's absorbed. The person that carried it has the choice to either give up and let it consume them or step up and cleanse themselves of it. The key is to let people in and work together... without friends, hatred thrives." I said.

"Kiki-chan…how did my parents die?" Naruto then asked.

"I don't think you should know Naruto-"

"Please! I want to know…I'm old enough to know what happened." He said as he looked at me with his adorable puppy face.

"-sigh- 17 years ago when your mother was about to give birth to you, I was just coming back from a mission and was to help escort her to the hideaway so she could give birth to you. I was requested by your mother to be her bodyguard as we were making our way to the hideaway. I guarded your mother and the 3rd's wife. She was there to deliver you and care for you while your father fixed the kyuubi's seal. I remember we were walking and we ended up running into your old friend Sasuke's mother. He was born a few weeks before you and your mother was so nervous about the child birth pain. It was the same nerves I witnessed the day of their wedding. Anyways, something went wrong and the nine-tails was stolen from Kushina. I was knocked out by a cloaked figure and woke up when the nine tails started terrorizing the village. I couldn't find your mother or father so I found the 3rd and was ordered to help guard him. Then when we ran to where your father took the kyuubi outside the village and your parents were already gone. I ran as fast as I could and found you lying in an altar. The kyuubi tried to kill you but your parents stood and protected you. Your father put up a barrier so the nine-talks couldn't escape but that also meant that I couldn't get to them until they passed. You were so tiny and so very upset after it all happened. I cried as I picked you up and after a few moments, I was able to calm you down. The 3rd gave me a scroll and I was to leave with you and let the other's give your parent's a proper burial." I said with a few tears as I continued to hold Naruto's hand.

"What happened next?" Naruto asked curiously.

"Well, I took you home with me and gave you a bath. You were still a little scuzzy from birth and I already had some stuff that I bought your mother as a baby shower gift. The scroll I was given by the 3rd was a note from your father and mother. It said that they named me your god mother and if anything were to happen to them, I would be your guardian. I was more than happy to care for you. I loved them so much and all I could ever think about while you were growing inside your mother was how much I wanted to play with you when you were born and watch you grow. I looked to your parents as my parents too sometimes and I never had a little brother so I saw it fitting." I said with a huge smile as I looked at Naruto.

"How did you care for me if you were in the anbu?" Naruto asked.

"I ended up having to take you to a daycare for a while when I went on missions but you did just fine there. I took care of you and sang to you and had you sleep in my bed with me when you were just a toddler because the kyuubi wouldn't let you sleep sometimes. However, the last time I saw you, I had just left you at the daycare and I didn't think that was ever going to be the last time that I saw you until a few years ago." I said before I stretched.

"Wow…I wish I was old enough to remember…but I do remember a tune playing in my mind every so often." He said as he tried to hum something.

I smiled and actually sang the lullaby to him since he had a little of the melody down.

"Don't cry my little Tod Fox, Nee-san is here for you.

I know your sad little baby but I am here too,

Let me hold you and keep you warm,

No need to cry up a storm,

Hush now little Tod Fox,

Nee-san will be here to protect you,

I love you so don't be sad,

Time to have sweet dreams and be glad,

Nee-san loves you." I sang to him and he looked at me with wide eyes.

"That's the one!" He said with a huge smile.

"I'm surprised you remembered." I said as I gave him a side hug.

"Will you sing it again?" He then asked.

I sang it again for him and his spirit was lifted. He seemed so happy and he laughed and smiled. We sat and I told him funny stories about some missions I had and how Kakashi had a bit of a clumsy side for a while. I've waited so long to see him smile again and to spend time with him and I wished I was able to do this sooner.

"Nee-san you are so funny! I think I got my pranking from you but I have one very serious question for you." Naruto said as he eased into me.

"Yes?" I asked curiously.

"Have you seen what's been under Kakashi's mask?" Naruto asked.

Ahahahahahaha he's just as curious about it as I was!

"As a matter of fact, I have!" I said as I stood up.

"Really!? What under it?" He asked with upmost curiosity as he stood up really quickly to get in my face.

"Come here I'll tell you." I said as I brought him in to whisper something in his ear.

"Under is mask is….another mask." I whispered into his ear before walking down the hill.

"AHHH COME ON!" Naruto shouted behind me.

"Hahahaha!" I laughed out loud as I started running from Naruto.

Finally, I feel at home again. I'm really glad that I can be back with my nee-san and Naruto and Kakashi and all my old friends! I missed them all sooo much!

Awe! Naruto finally got some sisterly love! There is a lot more to come but prepare, there are still demons lurking. Stay tuned for the newest chapter!