Naruto: Hi Lunar winter is back!
Lunar Winter: nods shyly
Naru: Why are you here?
Naruto: Ha-ha are you going to let her talk to you like that?
Naru: I'm talking to you dobe
Naru: I thought you were supposed to be nice. T.T
Naru:"..."
Ok well that was weird anyway hope you like the story so far! Don't forget to review also if there are any pairings besides the Naru/Neji which already is then just send them to me.
Disclaimer: I don't nor have I ever owned Naruto
On to the Fic!
Chapter three: Snakes in a hot spring!
Kyubi's past revealed.
Ahhhhh! This is so nice Naru thought as she laid her head back against the rock lip of the hot spring. Steam rose in swirls around her and the spring was pleasantly empty so that the sounds of chirping birds could be heard somewhere in the distance.
It was evening Naru had arrived sometime during the afternoon. Tired and hungry she had gone to the lady in charge offering to cook for the opportunity to stay the night and use the spring. Her food had been a hit so much so that the woman had tried bribing Naru to stay. The bribes had been tempting she reflected.
Naru had been traveling for days camping out in the open, her only source of hygiene was the river she was following and there wasn't a single bit of soap anywhere. "I knew I would forget something.
Feeling dirty not to mention bone tired Naru was just about ready to throw in the towel for the day. Up ahead she spotted a hill telling her that was a good vantage point to camp from. Trudging up it she called the Hokage several not very lady like names. If he hadn't gone off his rocker she wouldn't have had to leave and she would be home taking a nice warm bath right now. In her nice air conditioned house.
But noooooo she was here getting ready to rough it for the third night in a row without even the benefit of soap.
You're supposed to be a shinobi you have to be able to deal with these kinds of circumstances. The Kyubi spoke up after three days of silence.
"Ahh put a sock in it I can deal with it. It's not even a matter of being able to or not. It's just that I don't waaaaannt to!" Naru paused thinking back on her behavior she was acting like a spoiled brat. But why?
It's because you miss Neji that's who you're really mad at. His snide voice sneered at her.
"Ack am I in love with him or pissed off at him make up your mind!" Naru brought her hands up to her rats nest hair and scrunched her eyes shut. Sure she was smart when it came to non personal things. Introduce the mushy and she just about broke down.
Let me spell this out for you slowly.
You like Neji maybe even love him and that is why you're mad at him. Kyubi saidthis like he was talking to a three year old.
Naru opened her mouth
The reason you're acting like this is your transposing your anger on others and since I'm the only intelligent thing here that would be me.
Naru closed her mouth.
Either she was hearing things or the Kyubi was making sense, and had he just called her stupid? Shaking away the last she focused on the more pressing issue of how she felt.
She knew she certainly liked Neji quite a bit actually. So then why was she mad? She should feel the need to want to be with him... that was it! It's because deep down she had hoped he would volunteer to go with her but he hadn't so she felt betrayed and rejected.
"That's ridiculous and makes absolutely no sense!"
Love hardly ever does.
"Who said anything about lo- Oh my god! Yes!" Naru jumped in the air at the top of the hill her eyes wide a smile on her face. "Hot Spring!"
Just a few minutes later Naru had been ready to hit the hay, now wild horses couldn't keep her from getting to the building at the side of the road. Vaguely she heard a chuckle in her mind but she didn't comment she was just too excited. Soap! Food! Hair products! And this of someone who used to dress like a boy!
"Naru you're so good at cooking! All the patrons are complimenting the new chef."
A pretty woman in a yukata her black hair held up with jeweled pins, spoke to her from next to the stove she was cooking on. Her name was Hime Tazaka.
Naru looked up and smiled; cooking was her favorite thing ever and finding people who appreciated a good meal was something she loved. "I was wondering though what if you stayed here? You could use the springs whenever you wanted, and have a suite to yourself, and you could have outfits like this." Hime seemed like she really wanted this. Naru knew for a fact that Hime really wanted a little girl but her aging father wouldn't let her marry so she latched onto any and all young pretty girls that stopped here.
"I'm sorry I have something that I have to do, your offer is tempting though but I have my own obligations to keep." Naru tried to be as gentle as she could. The woman seemed to accept her answer drifting away with a sigh and a sad look making Naru shift uncomfortably.
Later Naru had been worried that Hime would want to get revenge for her refusal but she had been pleasantly surprised, the woman approached her telling her she could have the spring to herself.
Now everything came back full circle with Naru back in the spring feeling her sore muscles unwind her hair now dirt and twig free floating on the surface. In the itself spring to cover her she wore a bathing suit bikini. It was orange with blue trim. On the back of the bottom was a red swirl. Naru had fallen in love with them at first sight deciding she wanted to wear them.
'SNAP!' Huh what the? Naru thought, this is supposed to be private until nine and it was only seven thirty. When nothing showed up she thought it was just an animal.
Kit! Watch out there's someone here! The panic in Kyubi's voice forced her to move but the heat from the spring slowed her down so that she got a kunai in her shoulder rather then her chest where it had no doubt been aimed.
Hissing with pain Naru held the kunai against her right shoulder blood trailing in small rivulets down her arm. Her face was squinted up in pain one eye closed she stood half bent over in the water eyes darting through her bangs for the culprit.
"Why are you here?" a familiar voice spoke before another kunai came her way. Cursing Naru moved out of the spring and harms way just in time.
I'd tell you if you would stop throwing sharp pointy objects at me. She thought dodging another.
The mysterious figure stepped out from behind the bushes he didn't have any more kunai instead he held his hands in front of him palms facing each other. She sensed the faint Chakra signature surrounding him concentrating around the hands and knew he was using chakra scalpels. This guy was serious. So then Ill guess ill have to be as well she said. "Water Clone Jutsu!" immediately the water in the spring rose up and formed into six clones. These clones were special though. Because they came from the hot springs they were hot too and would burn anything that touched them or that they touched. "This aught to even the odds don't you think."
"I don't think so." the young man said his round glasses flashing wind gently ruffling his blue ponytail. Just then another person came out of the bushes. "Orochimaru!' she gasped she hadn't even felt his presence. The sennin looked at her a look of disdain on his face. He still hadn't gotten over her help in stopping him from taking over Konaha he hadn't even been able to kill his sensei.
"What do you want here?" by the shocked looks on there faces she knew that she had not been a target but had simply been in the wrong place at the wrong time. Damn damn and double damn.
"So you didn't come to locate the sound village and report back to the Hokage so they can come and wipe it out?" Kabuto asked, he was being specific because he wanted to see how she would react. To his surprise she Snorted and said "Hell no I'm going to the mountains for a year to es- I mean Train." She finished lamely.
Orochimaru was more curious then ever, it had sounded like she had started to say one thing then had changed it at the last minute. If training wasn't the full story to her going away for a year then it must be something else. The possibility that it might have something to do with the sound village was too great to ignore.
Kabuto leaped forward aiming a hand at her injured shoulder to cut the tendons. Naru barely dodged skidding through the water as she jumped backwards. She cursed as she was forced to dodge to the right then feint as another chakra fueled blow aimed at her left thigh.
Naru's clones jumped in going to attack the medic nin with the gray hair. He lashed out at one that hadn't been able to get away in time. When his hand made contact the clone fell into its original form ,water, but Kabuto's face changed to pain as his hand reddened with a rising burn.
Naru smirked she knew that would happen now he would be more cautious when attacking or she hoped he would.
Naru went through a series of hand seals as the burning had gotten her some time. Finishing she yelled out fire element! fire Dragon flame blast!" Immediately a stream of fire was shot out towards Kabuto was singed slightly trying to get away.
When he was distracted Naru created another clone transforming it into a Dai shuriken and through at him, he dodged in time, barely, only to be nailed by the smaller shuriken hidden in its shadow. Kabuto was panting blood dripped from the many wounds. Then eh was laughing he casually pulled out all the shuriken and to Naru's amazement healed himself. "Hey! That's Cheating!"
She was too busy dodging his chakra scalpels after that. He was clearly out of control.
By the time Orochimaru finally stepped in she had lost the use of her right arm and her left ankle was wobbling dangerously.
"Its time to finish this!" Biting his thumb Orochimaru began the seals for a summoning jutsu. "Summoning jutsu!" A cloud of smoke billowed obscuring everything from view and encasing the three occupants.
A splash in the water alerted Naru to the fact that something large was in there. Here and there she caught glimpses of snake coils... BIG snake coils.
Naru was practically holding her breath waiting for the attack to come. Her hair and bathing suit stuck to her skin clammily sweat standing out on her brow. She was all too aware of the fact of her near undress. This was when she began to long for the advantage the hill had given her, twig filled hair, no soap and all.
Naru was faced with fighting two opponents well three Kabuto, Orochimaru, and the snake against her five clones and her. Frankly things were looking grim.
Naru decided to try and get the sennin rather then the snake. She used the smoke to her advantage dodging in and out of the snakes coils she pursued the summoner hoping that if she knocked him out the summons would leave. Spotting him she ran forward shouting "Shadow clone jutsu!" About 20 Shadow clones were added to the water clones already there. Together they weaved in out of the smoke looking for Orochimaru. Finally a clone was destroyed and she went to where it had disappeared. Orochimaru stood at the edge of the pond surveying what as happening Kabuto calm at his side.
The water clones distracted The snake while the clones went in for the attack. As fast as they had been summoned all Naru's clones had soon been destroyed. Turning back to the smoke screen she felt that her water clones were gone too. Now all she could do was wait foe the counterstrike and think of a plan.
Finally something happened, it hurt, a lot. A large snake tail came swooping at her and slammed her across the yard into the side of the building reducing it to rubble. Climbing out of the mess her body white with mortar she blinked taking stalk. Her right arm had been injured again. It could have been a lot worse.
Kit are you ok? You should get rid of the smoke; try using the wind blades jutsu it can also serve to wound the snake summon.
Nodding Naru pulled in lungful of air, "Wind element Blades of wind!" She blew out all the air emptying her lungs. The smoke whirled a few seconds longer before dispersing revealing a large snake. It was larger then the building she stood next to. Its scales were purple and jewel bright Slitted gold eyes glared balefully down at her. His coils thrashed lazily in the spring that had seemed so large before but now seemed no more than a puddle. The wind blades hit the snake making deep gouges in its hide. It lashed out at her missing by mere inches.
Naru Stumbled when she came down he ankle almost giving out on her. She readied herself to attack again.
"AiiiiiEEEE!" Both Naru and the snake looked around to see a woman standing at the hole in the wall. She was staring terrified at the large snake. 'Food!' is probably what went through the snakes mind. It shot a tail at her whipping her to the side effectively knocking her out, well at least she was out of the way. Naru was worried though.
Naru is a loving soul and hates to see her precious people get hurt and sometime during her short stay there Hime had became important to her. She had treated Naru like a daughter and now because of her she had been hurt. Naru lost control. But it wasn't that, because she could tell the woman was alive and fine, that caused it. No it was the music the strange erhu that was playing in her mind. She felt herself stir and blood filled her vision. Tears of blood fell down as she moved forward.
"Enough!" her voice was hoarse the whisker marks appeared and her eyes turned red and slitted. Her nails became claws and her canines became fangs. A red demonic chakra completed the terrifying picture that the blood tears had started.
The snake lunged forward intent on taking off Naru's head. Naru didn't so much as move she just lifted up her eyes then flipped back kicking the snake high into the air as she did so. Quickly she followed her clones had long since disappeared so she made a second one and they began molding chakra. "Fire tornado!" A fountain of fire powered by the Kyubi and her natural affinity for wind roared toward the snake summons turning the water in the spring to steam instantly leaving the snake in mud.
The snake tried to escape but couldn't, so in a poof of smoke he disappeared.
Naru turned her anger on the two remaining people they visibly shook even the sennin.
Naru was about to attack possibly no probably to kill her face was obscured by her bangs and wildly waving hair. Her shoulder were hunched and all that could be seen of her face was a smiling mouth full of fangs. The whirling remains of steam from the evaporated hot spring against the evening sky gave an over all eerie effect to the whole scene.
Kabuto looked terrified Orochimaru looked thoughtful Kyubi was frantically trying to get Naru's attention.
'Splat!'
Suddenly Naru stumbled she reached up with a hand whose claws were rapidly decreasing her fangs were shrinking too. Everything seemed to freeze in that instant. Naru's eyes still slightly blood red the only sign of the Kyubi's power left The Kyubi's feeling of gratitude, Orochimaru's still thoughtful face and Kabuto's shocked one, last was Jiraiya standing on the bank of where the spring used to be. Naru fell as if in slow motion before she hit the ground before she lost consciousness a small square of paper fluttered to the ground on it was a note split in half.
Kit kiiiit? Kyubi's voice sounded far off and distant to her. She was in a warm dark place. The erhu was playing again an echo of the song she had heard before.
She didn't want to wake up it was so beautiful, so she slept on.
Meanwhile Orochimaru sat with Kabuto and Jiraiya looking down at the young girl. Jiraiya had just finished explaining why she had come out here. Orochimaru for his part didn't seem too surprised Kabuto on the other hand was another story.
Naru lay on a bed in one of the hotels room. Her bed was a four poster with dark blue heavily embroidered comforters. Naru was underneath them despite the fact that it was July. She was cold to the touch. Next to the bed was a window against the other wall continuing on in the direction was a window with light streaming in. Orochimaru sat casually in a chair across the bed from Orochimaru. Standing up Kabuto had his head bowed to hide the deep blush that stained his cheeks.
"So you think it was that." Orochimaru didn't say it as a question he knew it to be the truth he had recognized that chakra even if he hadn't heard the music. It hadn't been played for him. Ran through his mind half filled with relief half with jealousy. The latter was an effect of the music it left a longing in the mind so that it would be easier the next time to take control.
"Yes god I had hoped that it was destroyed but I guess that you and now her are living proof that it was not and someone has it once again." Jiraiya pinched the bridge of his nose pushing his fingers outward in circular motions rubbing his eyes. He was getting too old for this. Orochimaru understood completely.
He wasn't really the bad guy every one thought. He had been out of his mind, literally, and someone else had taken control. With Kabuto's help he had managed to come back from the realm of nothingness except for that alluring music that kept him there, trapped. Kabuto had know going to Jiraiya thinking that something was up. Unfortunately Jiraiya had gotten there too late the damage was done but the toad sage expunged the presence anyway.
"Ahh if only we knew what was going on who is this person!"
Inside Naru someone knew and that was the Kyubi. As he listened to the erhu playing softly he was brought back against his will into the past.
Fourteen years ago the king of demons attacked Konohagakure the village hidden in the leaves. The attack came with out warning and apparently without cause. One swish of one his massive tails caused tsunamis avalanches death. His eyes were lit up with blood two lines of blood streaked his fury cheeks probably an intimidation effect. Whatever it was it worked.
He crouched low over the forest as if over a cave or den of some sort. His tails swished wrathfully. The people around were gaping at him in awe and terror some shinobi were attempting to fight them he just swatted them away.
All he could hear in his head was a strange music all he could think about was that he needed to protect his mate his offspring. He didn't even remember that he had no such things he was a loner the demon king! He needed no one. But the music said otherwise. It told him that he was standing over a den and that his mate and kits stood within and if these people didn't die then they would.
"Raaaaaaaaghghgh!" he shouted preparing for a final attack when suddenly he felt another presence. He looked up and saw a yellow flash come hurtling at him. He swatted at it and it dodged. The yellow flash stopped moving on a wall of the village just out of range or so he hoped.
Arashi Kazama the nondaime looked over sadly at the Kyubi then he took out something from his pocket it was a small square with a broken note on it. "I need cover if I get this on the kitsune it will give me a chance to defeat it, but first I need Sarutobi and... Get Naru." The anbu he talked to had a wolf mask and spiky silver hair. He wore the traditional arm guards of the anbu and he had the tattoo as well. Nodding he disappeared leaving the yondaime to contemplate what was to befall him and his village.
In short order Sarutobi arrived along with wolf anbu who was holding an infant in his arms. Nodding at him Arashi drew Sarutobi away a little and told him part of what he was going to do he doubted the old man would believe the whole thing.
Sarutobi immediately tried to dissuade him "Isn't there any other way!" he looked at the infant as he said this then turned back "You'll die you know and she will be shunned." his voice was harsh but the time for babying was long past there were people dying out there The yondaime was needed.
"If it means saving my village that it what I'll do, you're the one who taught me that the village comes before even my own life!"
"Even the life and happiness of your child?" Sarutobi stared coolly at the fierce looking man front of him. his wild blonde hair waving in the winds blue eyes sparking his cloak flapping the Kyubi's tails dancing in the distance as the sky roiled a dark foreboding gray. All around noises of battle could be heard sounds screams of grief of dying.
"Yes."
Sarutobi knew he had no choice. "Fine what do you want me to do?"
"You will protect Naru once I am finished you will put her somewhere safe and make sure she is treated as a hero."Arashi put his hand on the soon to be reinstated Hokage then pulled him into a bear hug. Goodbye. He disappeared into the smoke.
Kyubi swatted irritably at the little creatures called humans attacking him with there silly jutsus. All he had to do was swish a tail and like a horse swats away flies shinobi went flying. Suddenly the Kyubi felt pain. He had been hit by a water bullet. Looking forward he saw Gambunta the chief toad he had a pipe in his mouth. The yondaime stood on his head between his large eyes arms crossed a determined look on his face.
"Are you ready Arashi?" the toad asked eyes crossing to look at the man on his head. He nodded unable to speak at the moment. "THEN LET'S BEGIN!" Gambunta leaped forward drawing a blade and went to stab at the Kyubi. The two clashed one clawed hand like paw holding the quivering sword at bay. Gambunta had both hands on the hilt of the sword.
While Gambunta was other wise occupied the yondaime took his chance disappearing in a flash of yellow to appear in front of the Kyubi. He held something tightly in his own hand. Lifting it up he sent a signal into the air at the same time his hand shot out to hit the Kyubi's great head. After that everything happened at once.
The Broken note square paper landed on his head cutting off the music abruptly. He was brought back to himself and looked around in horror remembering that he didn't have any kits or a mate. The Sarutobi appeared a swaddled bundle in his hands. The Kyubi began to fall People were screaming The Yondaime pulled out a scroll placing it on Gambunta's head he put Naru on then went through a ton of hand seals. The great body of the Kyubi hadn't even hit the ground before the yellow flash yelled "Eight Divination Seal Style!" With a poof the Kyubi disappeared Arashi started to fall "I'm sorry Naru please forgive Me." he was dead. A baby wailed.
A girl cried restlessly in her sleep.
Kyubi snapped out of it he could sense Naru again. He pushed his awareness forward determined to make sure that the human he had come to care about was still herself.
She was sitting just outside the cage huddled up in a ball shaking and sobbing. Suddenly a thought came to Kyubi You shared my vision?
Naru nodded "some, only flashes, I didn't really understand it."
Kyubi sighed relieved he lay down in front of the bars. Water dripped and caused ripples to form on the surface of the water on the floor. The torches on the walls that lit the room in an eerie orange glow flickered in a non existent wind. In the face of Kyubi's caring eyes she slowly calmed down enough to ask "Kyubi what's the instrument of Mourning?"
A shocked silence filled the cave.
To be continued...
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Naruto: Wow never expected that twist with Orochimaru!
"Naru: what I want to know is what is that watchyamacallit anyway and why can it control me!
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"Naru and Naruto: HEY!
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Also this is supposed to be a cross over with Tortal but I Can go two ways with this story
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