Seamstress: This is the second chapter of The Kitsune Siblings, please enjoy it.
Moonlight: I'm sorry for the delay, Raine had washed the flash drive in the washer again and so we had to retype this chapter sense the file was not willing to work.
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Chapter Two: Instincts
She had been in Konohagakure for a few months and within those months she had figured how things worked around here, she was in a place that military force was composed of Ninja that used things called chakra that made illusions that confused the mind or create huge fireballs with the proper hand signs. The ground had no concrete just densely packed earth, the buildings were old and had a few cracks in them, the market place was always packed with people, they were people that had some strange fans on their backs that patrolled the streets they were the police but also ninja, their eyes would flicker from black to red as if they were looking for something to happen at any notice what they were waiting for she did not know.
The raven haired girl had also noticed the cold and hateful glares that was directed with malice and utter loathing to Naruto, the glares were similar to the ones gang members used when they saw a rival gang member who took their friend or brother away. It was as they blamed him for everything that went wrong, if someone lost a loved one a few years ago the blame went to Naruto, they had also called him a demon but he was normal like everyone else, he was just a kid yet they hated and despised him. The raven hared girl was confused as to why they hated him, she even asked him why but he didn't know either, he said that they just did.
She looked to the setting sun with a bit of sorrow the night was always brought her worry and pain, it was if people were crying out for their loved ones to notice them, to acknowledge them and give them a final goodbye, to say that they loved them one last time. It was if they were so far down grieving that they ignored them and wanted to blame the very demon that took them away, but Naruto was not the nine tailed fox so why was he blamed? This was what she wanted to find out but she had no idea where to start.
Naruto looked at his friend she had been living with him for a few months now and he was glad that she stood up for him when the other kids picked on him, he didn't know why the people hated him he wanted to know why but he had no idea where to start. She was really nice and kind to him, she was like an older sibling that some of the other kids had that watched out and protected them from harm. Of course he would never call her that out loud but she would often give a small smile and tell him that he was doing well when she was teaching him how to read and write she was also showing him how to hunt in the woods to get food when they were low on money. She even made the apartment have hot water and not just cold water to bathe and cook in, she was really nice and Naruto was always making sure that everything was perfect so that she would see how grateful he was to her.
The blond has also noticed her reading those strange books that she carries around with her, he tried reading them once but he didn't understand what they were saying, the characters were completely different than the ones that he knew of and the book cover had strange swirls covering it. She told him it had stories and poems in it but she said that he needed to be more mature in order for her to read it to him, why did he have to be more mature? She was reading it so he could read it after all they were the same age.
Over the days that she lived with him Naruto was told stories and was sung to sleep by her, she ruffled his hair before sleeping next to him. Even when she was sleeping she hugged him, the embrace was that like a mother would do to a child that had a nightmare. She would sing to him in a different language but then she would sing it to where he would understand it, those songs were so…sad. Tonight was no different, but it would change so much.
"Closing my eyes
Come into my mind
Two clouds, two shades gone in the wind"
Her voice was light as she sang the song it lulled him to sleep, hopefully it would be a dreamless sleep and not one that made him whimper and cry out. Hearing those cries and pleas for the pain to stop was like a knife going through her heart. What did they do to him to make him have nightmares like this? Naruto had wormed his way into her heart and she saw him as a friend that was treated unfairly, he was seeing the dark side of what humanity had to offer first hand, and yet he still smiled like it never happens. But she knew if anyone were to get to know him and care for him they would see the scars that would always be torn open and would be gnarled with all the rips that he tried to hide from them. His eyes told her everything that she need to know, he was on the edge of being broken and all he needed was one push to fall into the abyss and be broken beyond repair.
The raven haired girl looked at him and sighed letting the darkness claim her, she needed to rest something told her that she would need it in the morning.
It was early in the morning, the village was not awake quite yet as the vendors and merchants were getting ready for another day. Naruto woke up to the warm embrace that she provided, he sighed blissfully knowing that it's not a dream, that she's here with him, that she cares for him and acknowledges him. He had been doing this since he had first met her, checking to see that she was real and not a dream, that he actually had a friend that cared for him. She was different then everyone else, she stayed by him when everyone else stayed away, she comforted him when the day was bad, she sang him to sleep and he would have good dreams and not nightmares, she was a light in all the darkness that surrounded him.
"Naruto, I know you're awake." She said. He shifted his head up at her staring at her blue eyes that were cold but he knew, he knew that she was kind and sweet behind the blank mask that she wore.
Naruto sighed and got up it was no use staying in bed when she decided to do something; he was used to waking up before others but it seems that she was always awake making sure that he slept well.
"Ne what are we gonna do today?" he asked. He saw that her eyes flicker a bit at the question, she was always making him do something and asking him questions where he had to answer so that he would remember. Like the best way to hunt in a forest environment, or in a swamp.
"Maybe hunt again or watch the shinobi battle in the training grounds." she replied. It was interesting watching them fight, sometimes she would point something out to Naruto when they found someone fighting about what they might be doing or thinking of a strategy to battle the opponent that they were fighting.
Naruto gave a dazzling smile at her answer. She knew that Naruto loved watching the battles and figuring out what to do when he would become a shinobi. The raven haired girl got out of bed and grabbed her things and headed to the bathroom. If she was going to spy on the military strength of the village and hunt she wanted to have a nice hot shower before they went out.
She took little time to take a shower and get dressed and nodded to Naruto to go and get ready, when she heard the water turn on she went to the small kitchen to cook what was left of the rabbit that she and had hunted last night. Teaching Naruto how to hunt was interesting, it was like he was a natural at it as if he was born to hunt for prey. It was easier to teach him how to hunt then it was teaching him how to read and write. When hunting you were able to move freely but with reading and writing he had to stay in a chair for a few hours a day to get everything to her satisfactory. But she had to admit Naruto's handwriting was no longer chicken scratch and you can actually make out what the words are.
The raven haired girl looked at the cooked rabbit meat and rice that they will be having for breakfast, with the way the villagers treating them this was all that she could do with what they had. Naruto didn't mind the lack of food that he was able to get being an orphan that lived on the streets when the orphanage kicked him out, he would skip a few days or week without food even with the unbearable pain that pierced his stomach with the lack of nutrients. She sighed as she placed the food on the table the thought of hunting made her smile, she loved the idea of hunting, the chase, the thrill and the adrenalin pumping in her veins. Every single time she hunted she loved every second of it and so did Naruto.
She looked at the blond as she ate wondering what he would think about the name she thought of. The raven haired girl set her chopsticks down and sighed.
"Ne Naruto what do you want to do when your older?" she asked looking at his eyes.
"Huh? What do you mean?" Naruto said confused, where did this come from?
She sighed looking at him, "When you get older what do you want to do?"
"I want to be a shinobi." Naruto stated.
"For what reason do you wish to be one?" she inquired as she looked into his eyes.
Naruto thought for a moment about it, why did he want to become a shinobi? He never really thought about it, he just wanted to be one, to be cool like all the other shinobi and get the respect of the villagers. But was that really the reason he wanted to be one? He turned his eyes to her, she was always there for him, always making sure that he was alright and played with him and that he had enough to eat. She was his closest friend, she was his older sister.
"I want to-to protect the people that I care for, the people that believe in me and see me for me, I want to protect my precious people." The blond said with serious face, which was not that serious considered that it was on a four year old.
"That's a good reason Naru-chan, I kinda knew you wanted to be a shinobi but I wanted to know your reason for it. You have to have a reason for fighting, if you don't then you just an idiot. If you have something you hold dear and want to protect it then that's what gives you the drive to be stronger, to be prepared for the inevitable." She looked away from him as she looked at the window at the sky. "Besides if you're going to become a shinobi then I'll be one with you, your gonna need someone to watch your back when things go down."
She picked up her plate and placed it in the sink and began washing the dishes. Naruto looked at her and smiled, she really was someone that he held close to his heart. She had stayed by his side this long, maybe this was what some of the shinobi said when they were at that bar "To have a teammate that sticks with you in the end is one of the few things that we ninja can lean back on, but once their gone then you have nothing left but yourself."
After a few minutes the raven hired girl walked outside with her messenger bag and her ear buds in her ears listing to music that she had, the volume was low but it still was loud enough for to hear if someone were to talk to her. Naruto came out just as the song changed and took out one of her buds and offered it to Naruto who took it and smiled. She played Forlorn Hearts by Adrian Von Ziegler and let the melancholy music play as they walked down the stairs and onto the dirt path that led to the village from the slums.
The glares were sent to Naruto and a few to her for being with him and defending him from the older kids that threw things at him and called him names. The raven haired girl talked like she would normally often ignoring the disbelieving looks that some of the villagers and shinobi when she explained something to Naruto about the best way to hunt different animals and that had also gone into the anatomy of them.
"Now the hide of every animal is different Naruto, the skin can be extremely thin or thick depending on the animal that you choose to hunt." She explained as she walked the music was playing but was a bit drowned out from the talking and yelling from the market place.
"So how does that affect anything?" Naruto asked, once you shot the arrow the animal should go down right?
"Naruto the animal's hide is a factor when hunting, the hide of a boar is pretty thick compare the boars hide to a rabbit's it makes the rabbits hide look like paper while the boar's is like a brick." The raven haired girl lectured as she walked by a dango shop oblivious stare that a purple haired Kunoichi was giving them.
Naruto looked at her with his face scrunched up. "If a boar's hide is made of brick then how do you kill it?" The raven haired girl almost tripped and face planted into the ground but didn't, the people that listened to their conversation had sweeatdroped at Naruto's question.
The former seventeen year old turned four had looked at Naruto with a questionably look she knew that Naruto was not well liked in the village and was unable to read and write before she taught him but some of his questions just made her wonder if there was some hidden damage done to him that she was unable to find. The mind is a fragile thing, she mused as she walked with Naruto, it can create another world for that person to live in is reality was not to their liking or it can cause a man to go mad with rage and sorrow while people treat them as if they're not human, the mind was as dangerous as it is interesting and fragile.
The people of the village watched as they went to the forest, none of the civilians knew what they were doing there but the shinobi did, they knew because they watched them hunt the rabbits and other small game. Many of them have watched them hunt and were surprised when Naruto would shoot the arrow and hit it's pray, though the raven haired girl would tell the blond that if he were to hit here or here then the target would be down faster but praised him none the less. The skill that those two showed had gotten some attention and not the good kind, the Uchiha watched with hate filled eyes at them as the killed another rabbit and proceeded to skin the animal.
They hated the little Uzumaki child with a passion; the small blond child was the cause for all of the Uchiha's misfortune. Oh how they wanted to kill the brat in a slow and painful torture for all the suffering that the little demon brat caused, oh killing the brat would bring them great satisfaction and make them hero's among the village. Wicked smiled spread onto their faces with malice in their eyes, tonight would be glorious.
The raven haired girl tensed as she looked up seeing nothing, her instincts were screaming at her to run and get far away and hide. She looked at the surroundings and looked at Naruto, she needed to relax and calm down so that Naruto won't worry. 'I must be paranoid,' she thought as she finished skinning the dead rabbit and began cutting off the meat 'after all it's not like we're going to be the prey.'
Oh how wrong she was.
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