Chapter 16:

Faith

Previously:

"Kami." Konan stood behind me. Her eyes filled with concern. "We're in here." She gestured to the dinning room door. As I walked past her she whispered into my ear, "I promise all your questions will be answered, now." I immediately understood what she meant when I walked in and saw my parents along with the Akasuki, Uncle Lou, and Miss Lenny sitting at the table.

"Finally," I whispered to my myself.

"I thought you weren't going to be here until Saturday." I asked. We were all gathered at the table, with Pein and my Father at each of the heads. Konan and My mother took to their representative side. I was please to see that I was wrong, not all the Akatsuki members where in the room. Only Pein, Konan, Zetsu, and Tobi sat at the table along with Uncle Lou and Miss. Len.

"Yes, that was the scheduled plan but then we got a call from Lou telling us to come tonight." As my mom replied I looked over at Uncle Lou.

"Why did you tell them to come tonight?" I asked.

"It was your face, man. You pushed out of my hug and your face looked so depressing. It broke my heart, man... I knew that you had had enough of waiting for answers and I honestly don't think you could have waited any longer...And, I could feel it... that 'Power' was intensifying within you, I was afraid of what might happen if it was released and you -"

"Your getting ahead of yourself, Lu." My father interrupted.

"Wait but what 'Power' is he talking about?" I asked. "What 'Power' was I going to release?"

"We'll answer that question soon, Kami." My mother spoke soothingly as she reached over and rubbed my hands. Fine, I'll accept that answer for now. As long as I get the answer.

"How did you get here so fast?" I asked, moving on to the next question on my mind.

"The same way they were able to get here," mother nodded to the Akatsuki, "a Portal Jutsu."

A Jutsu? My parents can perform Jutsu?... Then that means.

"Kami, to hinder and answer all your questions, allow me to start from the beginning." Mother said as she turned in her chair, so she faced me. "Your father, Uncle Lou, and Miss Lenny belong to the same world as the Akatsuki. In fact, we were a squadron led under Len Sensei. We come from a village, your already aware of, named Konoha. Both me and your father are from the Fen Clan. The Fen Clan is very different than other ones. You see while most Clan stay together and build a small community within the village, our Clan separated and married outside of the Clan. We held shame to our name and wanted to erase it. But we weren't always like this. There was a time when our Clan was united, it was in the beginning of the shinobi world in the time of peace. But over time as Wars erupted and lives were lost, we changed. You see the Fen Clan is notorious for their 'Portal' jutsu, because of this we were used by Konoha to help infiltrate enemy villages quickly during battle. You may be familiar with a lower level 'Portal' jutsu named 'the Flying Thunder God Technique' created by the Second Hokage Senji Tobirama. This technique allows the user to transfer themselves or teleport to any marked location with this jutsu. The only way to be able to perform any type of 'Portal' jutsu is for the person to have Fen Clan blood. Since our Clan married outside the Clan, some people today contain this ability through ancestors. Also our Clan held no pride for their name so it was never passed down. But like the Uzumaki Clan's trademarked red hair and the Uchiha's with their dark hair and fair skin, We had a distinguishable common trait which is our golden olive skin tone, only dominant in female Fens."

"Well don't forget, the females of our Clan were notorious for having curvacious bodies, probably why our name disappeared off the map so fast cause all the other Clans were fiending to get their grubby hands on our women." My father spoke heatedly.

"Haha, yes dear, that's also true. Anyways, years back when we were in our early teens, Your father and I were talking about how we wanted peace once again, and how maybe peace will unite our Clan as it once did before War. Through intense research and determination we came across a man named Madara Uchiha. He told us about his grand plan of the 'Moon's Eye,' it seemed like eternal bliss. A utopia! Madara-Sama had poor health at the time due to his age, and so he introduced us to Obito Uchiha. The man who will carry out the plan until his resurrection. We pledged our loyalty to Madara-sama and he entrusted us with an important task; To give the Zero-Tailed Bijuu a jinchuuriki. The History of the Tailed Beasts is that the Ten-Tails is the original demon. The Ten-Tails was subdued by the Sage of the Six Paths and sealed within his body to become the first Jinchuriki. However, this method was only a temporary way of sealing the demon, as once the Sage died, the Ten-Tails would be free again. As the Sage was close to death, he used his "Creation of All Things" ability to split the monster into nine tailed beasts and scattered them across the world. But what most people don't know is that there was a Bijuu created without a Tail named Nebbu the Zero-Tailed Beast. Madara-sama knew about Nebbu and was able to capture it. However he knew that death was approaching for him because of his age and he would not be able to detain the Bijuu so he gave us the responsibility of finding a jinchuuriki for it." My mother's voice trembled towards the end, and then she shook her and continued to speak.

"After Madara-sama's death, many people became wary of us. When we told Len Sensei and Lou, they were furious at what we had done, at first. Even threatened to tell and turn us in for treason against Konoha. But we insisted that we were helping Konoha, and the entire shinobi world by giving them eternal peace. They finally came around with the help of Obito." I noticed that she gave Obito a look when she said the last sentence, one that I've never seen my mother make before... it was sinister. Why did I feel like Obito's "help" was more of a forced persuasion. I gazed at Obito who sat quietly listening with his sharingan a blaze. Come to think of it, doesn't the sharingan have the ability to suggest actions and thought to an opponent through genjutsu by eye contact? And can't more advanced sharingan userscan take the ability even further to a point of total control?

I could feel a surge of fear cast over me... What have they done? What have my parents done? And the Bijuu, Nebbu. What became of it? Who became the jinchuuriki?

"When the Kyubi attacked the village," My mother's voice made me jump, as I had been lost in thought, "we seized the opportunity and fled the village using the 'Portal' jujtsu. We predicted that everyone would assume we died in the attack." I began to feel as though my mother was holding out information from me. I still did not know the power that Uncle Lou thought I was going to unleash or what became of the Bijuu Nebbu. But this is suppose to be Q&A, so I was getting my answers.

"Mom, what about the jinchuuriki the Bijuu Nebbu is suppose to possess?... And you still didn't tell me the power Uncle Lou told me I had." The room was silent as I waited for my answer. "You told me you would tell me everything! So answer my questions!" I was getting frustrated again, I hated it! Why didn't she want to tell me. Unless it's something so bad, she felt ashamed to tell me. I looked around the room; Pein sat at the far head of the table with an emotionless face, Obito sat looking straight ahead leaning casually in his chair, Konan, to Pein's right, fidgeted with her fingers, and Zetsu laid half emerged in the wall. At my end of the table Miss Len looked down at the table, Uncle Lou stared hard at the floor, And Dad covered his face in hands in a grieving manner. Mom had shifted her body away from mine.

Not one person in the room looked at me.

"Tell me." I begged. I could already sense the answers to my questions but I wanted to hear it out loud. I needed to hear it out loud. The silence was torturing me. I was going to scream, but then my mother finally spoke.

" Your interest in the manga 'Naruto' was intentional by us. When we arrived here we where unaware that Naruto was a book. It was a shocking coincident, but useful for us in telling you the truth later in the future." Why is she changing the subject?

"Yes, when Kami informed us that our world is a cartoon book it surprised me as well." Pein agreed. "It made me curious to see how far in the future it contained information, I thought perhaps it could help us towards our goal but according to Kami the novel hasn't even started with our capture of the One-Tailed Bijuu."

"Yes, Marsza and I used to read it, but we've been so busy these past few years since our careers took off that we haven't been able to keep up to date with the latest chapters and episodes." Dad spoke with his hands no longer covering his face. But I had had enough. I wanted them to say what I am out loud. They where mortified by what they did to me, and they should be. How could they have sided with Madara Uchiha! I stood up in my seat and slammed my hand on the table, causing the room to enter an eerie silence once again.

"TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BIJUU NEBBU!?" I yelled. I was breathing heavy and I could feel myself getting hot, not like the hotflashes I feel around Itachi. But this one was different. It was more intense. I felt like I was on fire,literally. I could feel my skin begin to boil.

"We gave it a jinchuuriki." My mother spoke low, "We gave it you. Your a jinchuuriki to the Zero-Tailed Best Nebbu. As part of the plan with Madara-sama, your father and I conceived a child that would be the host. We where so young at the time, barely 15... Anyway, a few days after we confirmed we were pregnant, the Kyuubi attacked the village and we fled. When it was time to give birth, we returned to the Shinobi World and sealed Nebbu inside of you." Tears swell in my eyes,How could they do that? Didn't they know that when it came time to extract the Bijuu I would... die.

"When your father and I returned to this new world with you," Mother continued."We promised that we would make your limited time here something great and give you everything, and anything, you wanted. When you were a young child, you became so infatuated by movie stars, and told me you wanted to be one when you grew up. You probably don't remember since you where so young at the time,but I remembered. When you told me your dream of becoming an actress, your Father and I worked hard, so that your dream could be a reality. We thought that you would have an easier time breaking into the industry if your parents where in it as well. I became an actress myself. And your Father took it a step further by becoming a director and producer. So even if you lacked the talent to act you would still be place in a movie. In your life, you have anything you wanted because we knew your faith. The short life of a jinchuuriki in the Akatsuki. A sacrifice, but for the greater good of eternal peace."

***Review*** by SushiKamiChi

So, I've been working on this Chapter for the past three days. Today is the fourth day! I worked very hard on this one, harder than I've worked on any other Chapter so far!

Sooo... I really hope you enjoy this one!

Next Chapter will be more Fun, though! I promise ;-P