Rangrids - Being lazy can be relaxing at times though. And thank you for the compliment! For your first question-Sasuke loved her as a brother, your second question-Naruto will only have Sasuke's abilities, which were shown in the manga, nothing more, nothing less. Thanks for the review!

Asura's Will

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By Angelbloodlover

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~ "A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
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Elbert Hubbard

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Chapter 2: Blossoming Friendship

"Every one of us must do what's in their power! If we're going to die anyway, then it's better to die fighting than to do nothing!"

- Haruno Sakura

"So, you have no home..no family...?" Hashirama whispered softly, not daring to look inside her black orbs for fear of what he may find.

Naruto suppressed flinching at the word 'family'. Such a bitter-sweet word, she had always craved it and when she had finally gotten it...

...it had...

-...slipped,

...rightthrough...her fingers.

"No, I have no one," came her hurtful answer and both Madara and Hashirama flinched hearing those words. They couldn't imagine what it would feel like if they had lost everyone precious to them.

The blonde Namikaze knew what they were thinking about, she'd be blind not to. After the introduction, Madara had opened up a tiny bit, but remained suspicious of her. Although the same couldn't be said about Hashirama, she had noticed that he'd prefer Hashirama over her. How cute, she thought in bemusement. It had been awkward at first to talk to them when she had tried to kill Madara not an hour ago, but gradually on that had changed and she started to feel more at ease. Shaking her head, she stood up and threw her rock to the other side, beaming when it went flying and disappearing in the forest.

Madara's jaws slacked open and Hashirama was watching her with childish excitement. "So awesome, Naruto-chan!"

"Thanks, Hashi-kun!"

She chuckled when his cheeks flushed a cute red and quirked her eyebrows when Madara was glaring at her. "You're obviously a kunoichi, who taught you?"

Naruto returned the glare tenfold, "My dead family."

Madara had the decency to flinch and look down in shame. Even Hashirama dipped his head in sadness, a gloomy atmosphere surrounding him. Before Madara could utter an apologize, he was silenced when they saw a dead body floating on the water. He watched the blonde-haired brat jump towards the corpse and inspect it closely, not even flinching from the sight of a dead man nor the ominous smell that the rotting body was emitting.

...it was as if she was used to these things.

How frightening and interesting at the same time.

Naruto furrowed her eyebrows, examining the dead man and his clan's emblem. She didn't recognize, but by the looks of Hashirama and Madara, they both knew. Maybe a clan that had aligned themselves with either the Uchiha or the Senju.

"It seems that the war has finally reached these lands too..." Hashirama spoke tiredly, "It's best that we all head h-" Before he could finish his words, he stopped, eyes widening as he stared at Naruto, "W-where will y-you go..?"

"I will go where I go."

Madara sweatdropped at her cryptic answer. "You better not die, baka."

Eyes twinkling with mischief, Naruto looked at Madara, "Are you worried about me, Madara-kun?"

"Don't be an idiot!"

Hashirama snickered when Madara's cheeks became tomato-red. "Oh, I think you do."

Flustered, he jumped to the other side of the river, "I do not!"

The holder of the mighty Kyuubi smirked, enjoying the way Madara got so riled up, "No worries, Madara, your secret will remain safe with us!"

"I have no damn feelings for you, you dumb blonde!" He shouted in dismay, glaring at the snickering idiots. He didn't know which one annoyed him even more; the idiotic, fashionless boy or the annoying blonde.

Naruto didn't think she would see the day where Uchiha Madara was blushing madly, she'd make sure to memorize this moment for blackmail material. Never said she'd be nice to him. She waved farewell to the Uchiha and turned her attention on Hashirama who was sobering up. His smile was soon replaced by a frown, "...what about you?"

Hashirama would be lying if he said that he didn't care about her well-being. There was something about Naruto that drew him in, but what? He felt at ease around her, although he shouldn't what with her being a complete stranger to him. His father would be so disappointed in him if he would know about this.

'How revolting.' Kurama snorted in obvious dislike. 'Go get a room you two!'

Not able to hide her horrified emotions, she stumbled in shock and mortification. 'Kurama, you disgust me at times... I'm way too old for him.' Damn she felt like that bastard Orochimaru, the slithering snake who continuously kidnapped children. Kurama only laughed at her expense.

"Are you alright?" Hashirama asked softly, not knowing what to do or say. This little girl was all alone, she had no one. No clan, no siblings, no family.

"I will be, Hashi-kun. Now go, your family must be worried about you."

He couldn't move, frozen in place as he stared at her warm, black orbs, "I-I.."

Naruto sighed quietly and nudged the twelve-year old teenager to move, "Go Hashi-kun, I'll be safe. There is no way someone would be able to kill me off that easily. Believe it!" She grinned widely, whisker marks crinkling upwards and eyes shining beautifully.

Cheeks red, Hashirama nodded, slightly mesmerized by her happy aura that she seemed to exude. "A-alright Naruto-chan. I'll see you then...maybe..." He trailed off, uncertainty lacing his words.

"There won't be a maybe! We'll see each other for sure!" And just like that, Hashirama believed her. It wasn't so hard to do so either, there was something about her that made you believe in her. "Now get your butt moving!" She scolded him good-naturedly.

Waving his hands in defense, he chuckled, "Alright, I'm moving. Stay safe, Naruto-chan."

"I will."

Without another word, he left her too, leaving her all alone. Sighing softly, she craned her neck and jumped on the tree branch.

There was so much to do, she didn't even know where to start.

'Start by summing up what you're trying to accomplish.' Kurama added helpfully.

Naruto nodded mentally, listing the numerous things she wanted to reach. First of all, she had to find a place to sleep, a nice, hollow tree would do the job. Second, she had to find a way to associate with the Uchiha clan without leading to distrust and modify the tablet again. Third, get closer to Hashirama. Fourth, find the Uzumaki clan and join their clan, through that she'd be able to get even closer to the Senju clan and ultimately Hashirama. Fifth, get stronger-Kami knew that she needed to up her strength. Sixth, she'll have to find that damned Black Zetsu, or whatever that freak was. He'd probably try to manipulate the Uchiha or the Senju so he would be near one of the two clans. She'll have to sense him out. Seventh, try to get in contact with the Toads. Eight, maybe she could try to find the Kurama from this time-line..?

Kurama was chuckling darkly at the thought of meeting himself. ...she'll have to think about that one, maybe it'd do some good to do so?

First thing first, find a hideout and food-her stomach churned painfully and she sped up her pace, ignoring her rumbling stomach.

Man, she felt like she could eat dozens and dozens of ramen bowls.

Naruto choked on her spit as she went flying towards a tree or two. She started counting them as she flew through them. Too rough, she whimpered inwardly. This body wasn't used to fighting non-stop, which was also the reason why she had started doing gruelling training, together with her clones.

A true battle royale.

On the good side, she had all her powers. The downside to it was the annoying task-her stamina had remained the same, but her speed, strength, aiming skills, Taijutsu sucked majorly. She glared at her clones as she stood up in one fluid movement. "Like hell I'll let myself get owned by mere clones!"

With a loud battle cry, she charged at her many clones, intent on pummeling them all.

"Rasenshuriken!"Majestic and ethereal it glowed until it exploded in a burning light so bright.

Lips curling upwards, she heard her clones dispel one after another. "That's right bitches, Uzumaki Naruto is back and strong-" Her eyes widened when she felt one of her clones sneak behind her. She gulped and glanced behind her back, laughing sheepishly, "Yo!" Without another word, she substituted herself with one of her remaining clones, giggling when her clone glowered at her in annoyance.

A week had already passed and Naruto was starting to get into a habit of sleeping, training and eating. She knew that she wouldn't get back to her real prowess, not for a long time. Being in a nine-year old body really made her mood plummet down. All that hard work from her previous body, all for naught. She had even lost all her feminine curves and boobs to top down.

Well, at least she had helped out a lot of people in her previous life. She made up for the fact that she had killed many people. Balance was the key for everything.

Looking up at the starry sky, she couldn't help but be in awe at the entrancing sight before her. The moon shone brightly, illuminating the forest she was residing in. Really, to think that the moon could be used for such an ulterior move as the Infinite Tsukuyomi made her scowl at it. When she had been little, she used to look at the moon, whispering all her secrets to it. Now, she could safely say that she didn't trust the moon.

So many lives had been destroyed and for what...?

A fake world with fake people and fake feelings.

She clenched her fists tightly, her sharp nail digging in her tender flesh, drawing blood. How could people stoop so low, erasing their entire feelings so easily. For Naruto, emotions and feelings were everything to her. No one, not even the Hokage could order her to erase them. Why erase something that was a part of you. She couldn't. Absolutely not.

Before she could venture too deep inside her mind, she had felt many chakra flares brightly all of a sudden-chaos was around her and she couldn't breathe.

Too many bad-anger, hate-surrounding her.

She closed her eyes and inhaled, trying to take of control herself. It'd be stupid to get distracted because she couldn't keep control of herself. At times, it was annoying to feel everyone's negative chakra, but that was something she had to relearn. If used wisely, she could detect anyone who tried to attempt something stupid. Breathing out, she opened her eyes, suppressing her chakra with the help of Kurama since her chakra control still needed perfection. When one tried to hide its chakra, perfect chakra control was needed.

That didn't mean that her chakra control was awful, she had practically trained her chakra for more than fifty years. In fact, she didn't even know how old she had been when she was lying on her deathbed.

Standing up, she moved towards all the flaring chakra where she could feel all the evil emotions swirling like a dark cloud.

Once she got there, hiding on top of a tree branch, her eyes widened in horror. Sickness invaded her gut and she was about to throw up, but withheld herself. Sure, she had heard many horror tales about the Warring States Period, but this was inhumane, she didn't think it would be this bad. No wonder the Uchiha and the Senju hated each other's guts, no wonder Madara lost his sanity in this violent and brutal era.

Who wouldn't growing up in such a dark era?

Children younger than ten were being slaughtered like lambs, their eyes wide as saucers as the sparkle in their eyes doused out.

...how did it even turn out like this?

She sobbed, fingers shaking as bile rose to her throat.

Uchiha against Senju.

Blood was splattered everywhere, body parts decorating the dead landscape. Hell, she would surely lose her sanity if she had been born in this era instead of the peaceful one in Konoha. Back then, she had been granted the most beautiful gift a child could have-childhood. Sure, it hadn't been that perfect, but she still had it.

That damned Zetsu would pay for this, he would pay with his life for manipulating everyone's feelings for taking life so easily. All for that power-hungry monster, she spat in the safety of her mind.

And now what?

Her body trembled and for once Kurama remained silent. She stared down at the battlefield, a silent gasp escaping her bloodied lips as she watched how a little boy-no older than eight, clad in armor tried to flee from five stronger-looking Uchihas. Keeping her head cool, she followed them from above, hiding her chakra signature from the surely skilled shinobis.

One threw a kunai, which the boy deflected with his own. She winced when the boy stumbled and fell face-first on the ground, eliciting dark laughter from the arrogant men. They were playing with him, Naruto thought in disgust, an ugly snarl appearing on her face. She watched as they threw more kunais, effectively blocking his path as the boy crawled against a giant boulder, terrified eyes moving from one man to the other.

His eyes shone from the tears and her heart went out to him.

Before they could kill him off, Naruto summoned up chakra and watched on as a beautiful water dragon appeared out of thin air. The appearance of the dragon made the Uchiha men jump backwards, avoiding the gigantic beast. While they were focused on dodging her jutsu, Naruto picked up the shaking boy and disappeared in a yellow flash.

When Naruto disappeared, the dragon exploded into droplets of water, leaving behind five confused, angry men. No matter how hard they tried, they couldn't find that unknown person nor the boy whom they had tried to kill not a second ago.

"Let's go." And they, too, disappeared within the darkness.