Hi! I forgot the disclaimer last time, but not this time! I don't own Naruto or Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni (Kai). Now, the basics!
"Talking."
'Thinking.'
~Ryuuguu Oyashiro Rena.~
"Kyuubi no Kitsune."
"Oyashiro Natsumi"
"Natsumi no Kitsune"
"Oyashiro Natsumi no Kitsune"
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It's all very confusing… oh well. ONWARD!…-ish.
"I'M TELLING YOU!! WE'RE CHASING A DEMON! THE LITTLE BITCH JUST RAN THROUGH HERE!! I SAW!!!" an ANBU Black OP yelled to the border guard.
"And I'm telling you, NO ENTRY WITHOUT ORDERS FROM A KAGE!! Either you get the papers, or no go!" the guard yelled back.
'-giggle- I knew it!' Natsumi cheered in her head. 'I just saw an ANBU leave a few minutes ago, though. He's probably gone to get the papers they need. This guy's just stalling. Tch, weakling.' she thought as she jumped from the last tree before the desert began, running into the distance without a specific direction. "I'm free of those gits! Oyashiro-sama, which direction should I go now?"
~West. Just head west. You'll find some one of great interest, I'm sure.~
"Yes Oyashiro-sama!" she said back. "Kyuubi otou-san! Did you hear?"
"Yes kit, I heard." the Kyuubi responded. "It's a little hard not to, considering she's in here as well. By choice." he added glumly. "I'm glad to see you so excited, though, kit. You haven't gotten this worked up since Oyashiro Rena told you that you were her great or so granddaughter."
~Yes. I remember her actually bouncing off the walls. Those pursuers of hers almost caught us, she was cheering so loudly.~
-blush-"I was excited, okay?! Gees, I find out I have a family, and the only thing those nut jobs did was try to pound me into the dirt again."
~Yes, but now, you don't have to worry about that happening anymore. Also, we should be there in an hour or so if you keep running at this speed.~
"Ne, ne, Oyashiro-sama, where are we going anyway?" Natsumi asked her grandmother(it's just easier to call her just grandmother).
~You will see, child.~ she replied. ~You will see.~
(Tempted to end it here, but I like long chapters, so, nya.)
About an hour later, just as Oyashiro-sama had said, they came upon a village with the outside wall completely made of sand.
"Whoa… it's so… wow…" Natsumi said at a loss for words.
~Go in.~
"But… what if they don't…"
~Go in.~
"… I'll kill them…?" Natsumi asked.
~… heheh… Go in.~
"Yes ma'am!" Natsumi said, smiling genuinely as she ran up to what appeared to be the entrance.
"Excuse me!" she yelled happily as she approached the ninja at the entrance. "Can I go in the village please?"
Natsumi had run up to a Suna jounin with bandages all around his head and left eye, and a cloth hanging down over the left half of his face. He looked down at Natsumi with a deep frown on his face. "No. Get lost, ya dumb brat. I'm not here to baby sit, I'm here to guard the village, and if you look suspicious by my standards, I'm not to let you in." the jounin said.
"-giggle- You're funny!" Natsumi said to him. "My name is Higurashi Natsumi. What's yours?"
"Baki. Now scram." the jounin, Baki, told her.
"But I wanna go inside." Natsumi asked with a confused look on her face.
"Well, too bad. You look suspicious to me, and since you're suspicious by my standards, if you don't leave, the Kazekage has given me permission to kill you. Now buzz off!"
"…" Natsumi did nothing but bow her head, hiding her eyes behind her bangs. "So," she began without looking up. "You want to kill me if I don't leave… is that right?" she asked him.
"Yes, now go a-"
"You can't hurt me." she said looking up, her pupils slit. "Oyashiro-sama won't let you. Now let us through."
The jounin, Baki, was too frightened to say anything, and just stood there with a terrified look on his face.
"Let. Us. In. Now." Natsumi said threateningly, tapping into both Kyuubi and her grandmother's powers, her voice demonic, and her emotionless slitted eyes turning crimson and bloodthirsty.
He finally gained enough composure to yell to open the gate. Natsumi returned to her normal blue-eyed, giddy self almost instantly after.
"Thanks Baka-san! Thank you for letting me in!" she yelled as she ran in, this time at normal human capacity.
As she ran through the village, Natsumi couldn't help but sense the intense discomfort from the placid looking villagers.
'I wonder what has them so scared…' "Is it what you said would interest me Oyashiro-sama?" Natsumi asked her grandmother after stopping in a seemingly deserted park.
~… You'll just have to wait and see, Natsumi-chan.~
"-pout-Hmph! You're always so cryptic, obaa-sama!"
~Hmhmhm(A/N It's that close-mouthed chuckle), I know child. Why don't you go swing on that swing set over there? I can hear a few kids playing over there. You should watch.~
"Alright obaa-sama, but I still wish you would be more blunt; if only just a little." Natsumi replied, walking over and sitting on one of the swings. True to her grandmother's word, there were a few children about thirty meters away, playing a game of ball. The game seemed to come to an abrupt halt, though, as one of the kids had kicked the ball too hard, causing it to go onto the roof of one of the buildings.
'I wonder who was stupid enough to do that… huh? Who's that kid?' Natsumi asked to herself as a red-haired kid, that looked around her age, came around the corner. 'He's alone… no, there's a ninja fallowing him… I'm gonna go say hi.' she thought, getting off the swing and starting to run over, being careful to stay at normal four year old speed. 'I hope he's nice. I'd like to have at least one friend before I leave for the next village… four year olds are so slow.' she thought with a sweat-drop.
Right when she was only five meters away, the boy did something that made her stop running in amazement, but made the other kids stop laughing out of fear.
"Wow…" 'He just used sand to get the ball off the roof!' she thought to herself, choosing to walk the last five meters. What happened next made her stop dead in her tracks.
"DEMON! It's the demon boy! Run before he kills you!!" one of the kids shouted before they all started running in the opposite direction. The boy with red hair and the power over sand looked completely crestfallen.
"Wait!" Natsumi heard him yell. "I just wanted to play…" his voice slowly lowering from a shout to a whisper.
'Well that's not very nice of them!' Natsumi thought to herself. "HEY!" she yelled to the kids, some of which stopped running to see who had shouted, while the red haired boy who had been holding his head looked over at her, looking surprised. "That's not nice! All he wanted was to play with you! He even got your ball back!" she finished, glaring at them.
"Are you insane?!" one of the kids yelled. "He's a demon! He'll kill you with his sand! Why aren't you running away?!"
"YOU LITTLE SHITS!!" Natsumi yelled, starting to loose her temper. "The only demons I see are you! Cowardly demons who are so afraid of different things that they make up excuses not to be around them. My obaa-sama says that people like you deserve only one thing, and that's a painful death! If this boy does kill you, I'm gonna laugh my ass off!" she finished, stomping her foot on the ground to show her anger.
They were all too surprised to speak, move, or do anything but stare at her. The boy beside her, though, looked confused.
"Why did you just stand up for me? Aren't you afraid?" he asked her.
"Why would I be afraid?" Natsumi asked him, dropping her glare to smile at him. "In my opinion, no one deserves to be treated badly just because others are retarded.-giggle- Besides, I've probably killed more people than you have!" she told him with a proud smile. The boy next her just got a surprised look on his face.
"S-she's a demon too! RUN!!" someone shouted before they all ran off again.
"I thought I just told them… ugh, never mind." she ended with a bored look.
"What do you mean you've killed more people than me? Are you… unstu- inst- uh… un-sta-ble, too?" the boy asked, cutely stumbling over the last few words.
"Un-wha? I'm a demon container, if that's what you mean." Natsumi told him. "My name's Higurashi Natsumi, what's yours?"
"… I'm… Sabaku no Gaara… nice to meet you, Natsumi-san." the boy, Gaara, said while nodding his head as a sign of respect.
"Gaara… hmm… I think I've heard that name some where… are you related to the Kazekage in any way?" she asked him. She started to regret her question after he flinched.
"… Yes… I'm his youngest son… how did you know?" Gaara asked her.
"-giggle- Cuz I hid in the air vents of the Hokage's office when he came for a treaty between the villages. I heard him mention your name in one of their side conversations. I don't know if you were there or not, since I left soon after, but he was saying something about how 'his new weapon was stronger than theirs already' and how 'Gaara could destroy any village that apposed them' and 'Konoha hasn't even trained their weapon' and crap like that. I just figured he was retarded and left for the torture chamber to watch my aunt interrogate prisoners." she finished with a shrug. When she looked to see his reaction he was looking at his feet in sadness.
"Oh…" was all that he said.
"Hey, if it makes you feel sad, then we won't talk about it any more. We'll talk about… um… what is there to talk about… uh… hmm… yeah, I got nothing." she said, looking defeated. She looked up when she heard him giggle at her expression.
"You're not that bright, huh?" Gaara asked her.
"-blush-Uh… no. Not really. I'm street smart, but no people skills." Natsumi replied sheepishly.
~That just about sums it up.~
"-snicker, snicker-"
"-vain-Well at least I'm not completely retarded like otou-san is!!" she suddenly screamed.
"Huh? Who are you talking to?" Gaara asked, looking completely lost.
"My retarded otou-san and my meanie obaa-sama! Bijuu and gods are so mean!" she ranted, crossing her arms and glaring at the air.(A/N Poor air…)
"You have a bijuu too?! And you can talk to him?" Gaara asked amazed.
"Yeah! I've got Kyuubi no Kitsune inside of me. Who do you have?" she asked him.
"Ichibi no Shukaku. He lets me hear my mother…" he trailed off, looking sad.
"Hmm… Hey! You want to see them meet?" Natsumi asked excitedly.
"Meet?! But, if I let Shukaku out-" he started before getting cut off.
"No, silly! We go into my mind, and your demon will be forced to fallow, thus my otou-san and Shukaku can meet and talk about… stuff!" she ended offhandedly.
"Well… I don't know… it's not really safe out here in the open…" he reasoned.
"Then we go to your house, duh." she told him.
"-sigh- Okay. I guess it's alright." he said.
"YAY!" Natsumi cheered, grabbing Gaara's hand and walking towards the Kazekage building.
"How did you know that I lived there?" Gaara asked, blushing at the human contact.
"I guessed." she told him. "We'll have so much fun! I can show you my memories… most of them… and we can talk about our demons, we can ask Shukaku to let you sleep, since judging from the rings around your eyes is his fault, then… um… well, then I guess I talk to the Kazekage… we'll get to that later, though!"
She rambled all the way to the Gaara's house, Gaara sweat dropping all the way there. Suddenly, just three meters from the door, Natsumi stops and bows her head so her bangs hide her eyes and lets go of Gaara's hand.
"Huh? Natsumi-san? Are you okay?" Gaara asks, worried about his new friend.
"… You can come out now, ninja-san." she said, loud enough to reach the tree nearest them. "I've known you were there since before Gaara even got that ball off the roof. No use in hiding."
From the tree, a sand chunin jumped out and landed in front of them. The headband proudly displayed on his forehead, a look of caution in his eyes.
"Why have you been following Gaara? Tell us the truth before we kill you." she ordered.
"-smirk-Heheh, first of all, I know all of Gaara's tricks, so he can't touch me. Second of all, you may also be a demon, but you're just a little pipsqueak! You couldn't hurt a fly if you tried your hardest! I don't think either of you could even tap me on the shoulder." the ninja bragged. And the longer he bragged, the angrier Natsumi got.
"I wasn't talking about Gaa-chan. Foolish worm." she said, raising her head, showing her slit pupiled, emotionless eyes, and hollow grin.
The chunin took a step back, momentarily shocked by the change. Then the chunin smirked.
"Heh, seems you can tap into the demon's power at will, ne? Well, that's nothing I can't handle!" he announced, charging for her.
Gaara, fearing for his friend's life was about to use his sand barrier in front of her, until he saw blood running down her arm. A lot of blood. But the chunin didn't seem to notice, and if he did, he didn't think anything of it. And neither did Natsumi. Suddenly, a black pattern appeared on her arm where the blood was covering. A small puff of smoke appeared above her arm. Barely noticeable unless you were looking for it.
Clang.
The chunin's kunai was blocked by a large bull horned cleaver that Natsumi suddenly wielded in front of herself; blade up.
"Now, what did I tell you? I'm going to tell you the same thing I told that guard at the gate before I entered this village. You can't hurt me. Oyashiro-sama won't let you. Now let us through."
"W-where'd this knife come from?!" the ninja questioned hysterically, jumping back to gain distance from the lethal weapon that sliced his kunai in two. "W-what are you?!!"
"…-smirk-… I am Higurashi Oyashiro Natsumi no Kitsune. Let. Us. Through.-frown- Now!"
The ninja had a look of pure fear on his face.
"…!… -smirk- I-I'm not afraid of either of you. You-"
"LIAR!!" Natsumi screamed at him, running faster than Gaara could see at the ninja, and bring the cleaver down on his middle, cutting him open his stomach, and spilling his insides. Blood spurting everywhere, but mostly on Natsumi, the cleaver having mysteriously vanished, along with the black seal on her arm. Only then did Gaara notice the previous bloodstains on her clothes and shoes. He watched as she went over to his top half and removed his head band, looking at his uniform and using the broken kunai to write something on it, before taking a scroll out of her vest and sealing the hitaiate(A/N the head band) in it.
"Well, now that that's out of the way, let's go inside!" Natsumi said, turning to smile at Gaara, back to her normal self.
"… Sure. Come on, I'll introduce you to my siblings." Gaara said taking her hand and leading her inside.
'I've found a friend… awesome!' Natsumi cheered to herself. 'I wonder who I'll meet in the next village…?'
'She's not afraid to kill, she's not afraid to die… and she's not afraid of me… I hope my siblings like her too.' Gaara thought, a smile on his face.
~I told you my plan would work, Kyuubi-san.~
"-sigh- Yes, for right now, it has. I'll hand it to you, Rena-san, I didn't think you could pull it off with just a four year old descendant."
~-smirk-I can do anything, Kyuubi-san,~
"So, who are your siblings Gaa-chan?"
"My older brother, Kankuro, and my even older sister, Temari. And why are you calling me 'Gaa-chan'?!"
"-giggle-I give those kinds of nick-names to all my friends and followers! It helps me communicate with them. Hey, maybe I'll give them to your brother and sister, too!"
~I can do anything. It's in my blood.~
*Outside, on The Body*
On the edges of the gash, on the entrails, and in a small puddle of blood, not from this body, a few feet away, maggots squirm in contentment for their first meal.
~And it's in her blood, too.~