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Chapter 22: Never

Yuffie was pretty much an orphan she wandered around stealing any food from shops or food stands, stole from people when they were grocery shopping and that's how she met Naruto. She saw Naruto shopping in the crowded street, juggling the bags while his partner in crime laughed at him. Both being distracted Yuffie took that opportunity to steal a bag and when she did Naruto noticed and made a mad dash following her. She tried to escape trying to lose him in the crowd but he was right behind her and not once dropping any grocery bags. When she couldn't see him anymore she went through an alley and slid down the wall and sat down. She was gasping for air trying to get some airflow through her lungs. She heard a thud and there he stood right in front of her. She squeaked and tried to make a run for it but Naruto caught her wrist and told her to sit. She did as told. After a minute his partner caught up gasping for air.

"Please don't turn me in. I promise I wont steal from you again." Yuffie said scared.

"Where are your parents?"

"I don't have any. They passed away when I was eight." Yuffie answered head down staring at the ground.

Both of them talked things over and then turned around to look at Yuffie and smiled. Naruto bend down and extended his hand to her.

"How about joining our little family?" He smiled at her.

Yuffie couldn't believe it. These two wanted to take her in. These two people she just stole from. She got teary eyed and jump to Naruto and hugged him. Naruto caught off guard took her in his arms and returned the gesture. The other just patted her head and Yuffie sobbed. Ever since then she was trusted with Naruto and they were both there for her. She saw them both as siblings and she was happy.

All four of them sat at the table reminiscing and didn't hear their savior come downstairs.

"Whats going on here? Team meeting and I wasn't invited? Am I getting thrown out of the club?" Naruto joked to them. He hated when he saw his team all serious. His team turned to look at him and he had one arm stretched to grab the door frame while the other was rubbing the sleep out from his eyes. With a sleepy look now replaced by surprised. His team mates were now hugging him and crying.

"Okay, who died?" He tried to joke.

"No one did. Jeez can't you ever just accept a friendly hug?" Leon snapped at him.

"Then what's for the hugs all of a sudden?" Naruto asked.

"Just a thank you for taking us in." Yuffie said and the rest nodded.

"Aww… You guys are all saps. Your all growing soft on me." Naruto laughed and Yuffie playfully hit him on his chest.

"Yeah, well, don't get too use to it'" Riku said.

"But Riku your hugs are always the best from everyone. I can never be complete till I have a Riku hug." Naruto said playfully to him. Everyone laughed at Naruto chasing Riku with his arms open as if to give him a hug.

Once they all calmed down and were now sitting at the table Leon was the first to ask. "So what happened?"

"It's a mission." Naruto answered.

"Whats it about?" Leon asked again.

"To kill." He answered back.

"Kill who?" Yuffie intervened

"Not who but what." Naruto corrected.

"So what's got you so upset? If it was just that it wouldn't have bothered you but if it has it must be personal." Leon could read him like an open book. Naruto hated when he did that.

"They say some villager saw a fox." He said trying to prolong it.

"That's it?" Sora asked.

"A demon fox." He said glaring at the table.

"So that's the reason." Riku said in a bored tone.

"So how do they know it's a demon fox?" Yuffie trying to get the story out of him.

"It had nine tails and was at the lake up the mountain. Their mission is to find it and kill it before the village is in ruins." Naruto finished.

The team mates can now understand why he was mad. Naruto continued. "They wanted me to kill it. ME! Of all people!"

"So what did you tell them?" Leon asked him.

"I told them to kill me since I too am a demon fox. Of course they said no and I showed them I was." Naruto smirked evilly.

"The eye trick thing again?" Leon smiled at him. He remembered when he told him he was half demon. He didn't believe him and Naruto did the eye trick and then showed him another trick.

"Hey! Why didn't you do the other trick like you did to us?" Leon asked curiously.

"Because its not meant to be seen by them." NAruto pouted.

"Too late for that now isn't it? Yuffie said in a know it all voice.

"You think I don't know. I'm also mad at myself for it. Oh sorry about fighting you Leon. I guess I wasn't seeing right. How's your hand?" Naruto now concerned.

"Its okay. Better than Yuffie's girly beatings." Leon shrugged.

"Hey!" Yuffie said feeling insulted.

"My hand is good. Sora healed me up. See! Good as new!" Leon showed him moving his hand around.

"So what do you plan to do?" Leon asked.

"I don't know the mission is tomorrow. I'm going out for a bit. Be back to make dinner." Naruto got up and left. Not bothering to put on his boots. His team mates sat there looking at each other and nodded. They too got up and left to follow their leader to make sure nothing went wrong.

Sasuke made his way to his house only to stop in front of it. He didn't want to go back home instead he got an idea. If the fox was seen today it means that it should be there right now. Better to go now than tomorrow missing their chance otherwise. With that new idea he went to tell Sakura and see if she was in.

Once arriving to Sakura's house he told her his idea and it seemed to make more sense than going tomorrow. Making their way to the mountains they tried to remember where exactly is the lake the villager had said it was. They searched for hours looking for that lake. The mountains were huge to just find one thing let alone already having trouble finding a lake.

It was dark and it seemed to be around eight at night. They were having trouble seeing. The trees were so crowded together that it didn't let any moonlight seep through the leaves.

"I think it opens up there. I see light." Sasuke pointed out to the direction sees light that's dim. Sakura just nodded and followed.

Almost stepping out to the opening. Sasuke stopped abruptly and pushed Sakura into some nearby bushes. She was about to protest when Sasuke covered her mouth with his hand and held a finger to his own lips indicating to be quiet. With his hand covering her mouth he waved to come up and pointed to something over the bush. She got up and was in shock.

'Oh man I must have fallen asleep.' Naruto stretched as much as he could. 'I sleep much better when I'm in the forest, sleeping on the ground. Must be thanks to kyu for this.' Now sitting up he looked around. He walked to where he was earlier and just decided to sleep off the stress that was building up.

Kyuubi always told him the best way to relax is to be with nature and just sleep on the earth. Boy was he ever right.

He was about to lay back down when he caught a noise coming towards him. He turned around to see what it was.

Sasuke took the opportunity to strike now. It was off guard just looking around just sitting there. He didn't want to hurt the animal it looked so beautiful. It had nine tails and its fur was not red but of the same color of the moonlight itself. He had no choice. He took one of his kunai and closed his eyes and threw it at the direction the fox sit. Sakura covered her eyes as well she too thought the animal looked beautiful to die. They waited to hear a howl a anything identifying it got hit but they never heard anything. Instead they heard a thud right between them. They opened their eyes to see the same kunai Sasuke just threw. They looked up to see one of Naruto's team member. There stood Leon with all of his glory, grinning at them. They stood up to see where the fox was at but found Riku, Sora, and Yuffie right next to the fox.

Yuffie was petting it and could be seen talking to it. Leon looked over to what they were looking at and just started to walk toward the others.

Sasuke didn't get it. Why was the fox not running away from them. Was Naruto right about it? Did it bring no harm? He looked at the fox again and there the fox was licking Yuffie's face and she was laughing then she got on its back giving her a ride. He saw Leon trying to get on its back too but only got a nip and a growl and the team all laughed while Leon pouted. He couldn't get what awas going on. Sakura was the first to move towards them Sasuke soon followed her antics. When they were within five feet Leon, Riku, Sora stood in front of the fox to protect it.

"How dare you almost hurt niisan!" Yuffie yelled from behind the three man wall. She got off of the fox and went to stand in front of them to glare at them. Both Sasuke and Sakura were taken back from her outburst. What did she mean they almost hurt her niisan. Naruto wasn't even here. What could she be talking about? More questions came up than answers then they saw a bright white light coming from behind the three man and one girl wall. It looked like white flames engulfing the white fox. It was twisting around growing up to seven feet and when it disburse there he stood . Naruto was mad once again not at himself this time but at them. They were really going to kill him. He stood staring at them. They staring right back at him in disbelief to what they had witness.

"I said I was the demon. Are you still going to kill me?" Naruto asked them.

"But how is it possible?" Sakura asked still shocked to what just happened.

"He already explained that. What? Memory loss has come full blown for you old hag." Yuffie told Sakura and blew a raspberry to her. Sakura got mad that she was called a hag but she was right. Naruto had explained it all but not enough to explain he can turn into a fox.

"He explained but how can he turn into a fox?" Sakura asked again.

"What's it to you anyways? He just can and leave it as that." Riku stated.

Riku was getting annoyed with them always asking questions of his leader when they don't even care for him all those times ago.

Naruto approached them and stood in front of Sasuke. He slowly grabbed one of his kunai from Sasuke's pouch and put it into Sasuke's hand. He grabbed Sasuke's hand with the kunai in it and had his hand right at his heart.

"Aren't you going to kill the demon fox as ordered?" Naruto asked Sasuke.

Sasuke's eyes widen he couldn't believe what Naruto just asked him. Sasuke looked Naruto in the eyes and saw no emotion in them. Does Naruto want to die? Sasuke asked himself. Sasuke shook his head and was about to move his with the kunai pointed directly over Naruto's heart. He tried to pull away but realized that Naruto grabbed his wrist to stay in place. He narrowed his eyes at Naruto not liking where this was going. He tried to pull away once more but couldn't.

"Let go." Sasuke said in a threatening tone.

"Do your duty to the village." Naruto said right back.

"I'm not going to kill you." Sasuke fought back.

"It seemed to me that you were earlier, I mean you could have but luckily for him I'm always around to save my love." Leon cut in.

Sasuke didn't like the last part he said. 'My love.' Naruto did not belong to him, Naruto belonged to who he was destined to be and that man was Sasuke Uchiha.

"It was a misunderstanding. We were misinformed." Sasuke said in his defense.

"Not really. Leader here told you the truth. He said he was the demon. You guys didn't listen." Leon shrugged his shoulders to what he said. It was somewhat the truth. Naruto did in his way did say he was the fox demon but not able to turn into one. Still he did notify them that he was the demon fox and to kill him.

"He didn't tell us he was able to turn into a fox!" Sakura yelled at Leon.

"You found the demon so now do what you have to do. Kill the demon to protect the village." Leon just wanted to see them squirm. To see that they were at fault. Almost killing his leader.

"I can't." Sasuke was first to speak. He let go of the kunai and it dropped to the ground. He couldn't look at Naruto in his eyes. He chose instead to look at the grass around them. Naruto letting go of Sasuke's hand Naruto still stood in front of Sasuke. Naruto was tall but Sasuke was still a little bit taller than him. He would say at least four inches taller than him. Naruto didn't know why he was staring at him but he just stood there. He had nothing to say to him or even why he was just staring at him. He began to turn to leave but before he walked away.

"I'm sorry." Sasuke said and he disappeared in a puff of smoke just like their ex teacher use to do. Sakura left as well following Sasuke as always. Naruto was surprised but didn't let it show on his face. He stood there just thinking. An apology isn't enough. He just apologized for almost killing him but not from all the hurt he caused him through the years when they were younger. It didn't matter.

"So he actually apologized. He does have a heart. Aww…" Leon broke the awkward silence. Naruto shrugged.

"So what's that mean?" Riku asked.

"Nothing. It will never be enough if they all apologized. Never will be." Naruto said. Now heading to the direction to what he now called home but who knows maybe he will leave again. For good this time.

'I will never forgive them. Never.' Were Naruto's last thoughts.

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