Can I be my true self? A Naruto story.

We all know who knows Naruto, and we all know it is not me.

This chapter is pretty long but not as long as the last chapter. I hope you like. Thanks for all the reviews last time, and please review some more. I think some of you will like this chapter.

Remeber i won't be updating as fast, since my mother does not have internet at her house, which is where i will be staying for the summer. I will try to update, so i will just have to find some internet. It would be easier if, i still had a car, but no one in my family can drive, but me, and they break my car. (crying) It was my first car too!!

Enjoy.

Chapter Eight

You promise?

Part 8

"You know what happens now, don't you?"

"Master, p-please for-forgive m-me," Yuki begged on his hands and knees.

"You disobeyed me, and now the Konoha Shinobi know who we are after," he blustered. His evil eyes left Yuki. "Ryu, what do you think I should do with Yuki?"

"Destroy the bane," Ryu answered. Ryu had no interest in Yuki, if it would put him in cold water with their Master. Ryu never really liked Yuki anyway, but he never showed it in public. "Do what you see fit."

"Yes, I will." The master cackled as his hand rose.

"No, p-please for-forgive me!" Yuki chocked out, begging for his life.

"Your life is forfeit," their Master guffawed. The master raised his hand, and Yuki's scream flow throughout the hide out. Yuki's frigid body fell to the ground as Ryu tittered lightly. "Ryu, go to Konoha and find out everything you can. Don't follow the girl just yet. Konoha will be expecting that."

"Hai."

The trip back to Konoha was rather quiet, and it was a blessing. Naruto still was unconscious as they entered the gates of Konoha. Tsunade got Naruto into a stable condition, but the she never left the white square room. "What do you want?" The Godaime snapped at the next person who entered the room.

"The council had a meeting to see what we should do with the girl," the elder Council member, same one from before, answered. His eyes laid on Naruto, who was breathing slowly.

The council member didn't say anything yet, but yet, he was infuriating Lady Tsunade already. "What about Naruto?"

"We think it would be best to take her off missions for the time being."

"No! Naruto was just caught off guard, and besides, she's the best Anbu we have," Tsunade hissed. "I will not take her off."

"Then we will add Sasuke Uchiha to Team Fox, since they only have three members anyway," he explained. His grin was matched with a glare from Tsunade.

"I don't trust that traitor," she spited.

"We don't care what you think. It is that, or she won't do missions."

"She lives for missions." Tsunade glanced to the sleeping blonde. It would kill Naruto, if she couldn't do missions. Missions were her life; they were what kept her alive. Naruto had gain a lot from being a ninja: respect, friends, etc. Tsunade had no choice. "Fine."

"We believe that Naruto should have guards with her at all times," the elder vocalized. He walked over to Naruto. "We don't want anything to happen to Naruto Namikaze, the daughter of the Yondaime," He chuckled to himself.

"Stop calling her that!" The hokage hissed, securing a glare from the council member. "I'm planning to have guards for Naruto Uzumaki," she stressed.

"I meant a body guard that will be at her side 24/7," he stated.

"I can understand that. I know some candidates that will be perfect for that position," Tsunade spited. He better not say that Uchiha!

"Sasuke Uchiha will be her body guard."

Shit, he just said the one name that Tsunade didn't want to hear right now. "Why do you keep putting them two together?" She bellowed at the man.

"I thought you knew why already," he spoke. He walked backward to the door slowly. "You will have him as her body guard, or take her off missions. Your choice."

Tsunade was backed up into the corner, not literally speaking. The Godaime couldn't go against the council. The Hokage was a puppet for them, and she knew it. So why did she take this job again? O yea, Naruto! All this trouble and work was all Naruto's fault in some sense, but she wouldn't take any of it back. Naruto had won a spot in Tsunade's heart, and she wasn't willing to give that up. Naruto needed missions, so what could Tsunade do, really?

"Fine." The words struggled to get out. There was nothing she could do.

"This is what I hoped to hear," He grinned.

Naruto laid on a comfortable bed, and she felt a warm feeling washed over her. This feeling was the complete opposite of what she felt in the damp cell. She felt safe, but she couldn't compute why. Her body felt heavy and tired, even through it felt like she slept forever. Voices filled her tan ears, but her eye lids were too heavy. The voices became clearer. There were at least five different voices in the room.

The safe feeling that washed over her was soon vanishing. Anger was taking it's place, and questions followed. Where was she? She had to be in Konoha, right? The voices, she knew them. Why did they lie to her all those years? Why did her father seal the demon into her? Naruto's life would be different, if her father sealed it in someone else. But she would be dead without the demon, right? She should be happy, right?

Naruto wasn't mad at the Yondaime; in fact, he was her hero. The blonde cared deeply for the man, she never met, and she could never understood why. Her subconscience must had sense the connection between them. Naruto only wished she could had met Minato, her father. Apart of her was happy that she now knew why her father left her, but did he really care about her? He did seal the fox in her. Naruto prayed he did, or rather hoped he cared about her. Then there was her mother. Did she care? Where was she? Dead? Alive? What are with all these questions? She would never know answers to them.

The voices got louder, and she could distinguish that there were five diverse people. These five adults were her teachers,… and they lied to her. How could they lie to her, if they cared for her? That was unbelieve. They didn't care. They liked my father not me, Naruto assumed.

The blonde forced open her eyes and came face to face with the surprise crowd in her hospital room. It was silent, since no one knew what to say. Naruto was sure that she wasn't going to speak first.

"Gaki, you're okay," Tsunade cried, catapulting to Naruto. The Godaime just wanted to hug the kunoichi, but Naruto moved out of the way. "Naruto, what's wrong?"

"Don't touch me," Naruto growled, rotating away from her. "Don't ever touch me!"

"Naruto, don't speak to her like that. She's the Hokage," Iruka beseeched.

"Why are you even here?" Naruto inquired ,looking to Kakashi, Jiraiya, Iruka, Yamato, and Tsunade. "You don't even care, so why are you here?" She paused. "I am just a chore to you, so why are you even here?" She repeated again.

"Don't ever think that, gaki," Jiraiya snapped. "We care very deeply for you."

"No! You don't," Naruto blustered. "You only cared about my father!"

"Naruto, I wished you hadn't found out that way," Kakashi told her.

"How did you wished for me to find out? Were you even going to tell me?!" Naruto paused. She tried to get out of bed, but her body was still too weak from the shocks. "No, I had to find out from a guy posed over top of me!"

"Naruto, we were going to tell you," Tsunade pleaded. "Look at me." She tried again to place her hand on the kunoichi, but Naruto swatted her hand away. "Please forgive us. I'm sorry," she begged. Tears embarked from her golden eyes.

"No," The sun-kissed blonde stated. Naruto was always so forgiving before. What happened to her to make her cold?

"Naruto, we should've told you……" Jiraiya started. "You should have-"

"Should have what?" Naruto inquired, cutting him off. "Shouldn't have heard from that man, or shouldn't have known at all?!" Naruto was ferocious. How dare they try to reason their way out of this? It was not fair! Why didn't they love her? She only wanted to be love. The whole group in Naruto's room could see the tears as they fell on the bed. She covered her face trying to hide it.

"We should've told you," corrected Kakashi, pointing to the group. Naruto, please forgive me, he thought. Yamato and Iruka only recently found out who was Naruto's father, but they weren't without blame in Naruto's eyes, even if They only knew for about a year now. It didn't change anything.

"Hai, you should've," Naruto said, not looking at them. Her voice was softer, but she still didn't want anything to do with them. Why did they have to play with her emotions? She only wanted to feel love. What was wrong with that?

"Gaki, please tell us what Yuki did to you?" Jiraiya pleaded. He moved to the end of the bed.

Tsunade reached for the sun kissed blonde, but once more Naruto swatted her hand away again. "Naruto, please don't do this," the Hokage begged.

"NO, I had been for hell, and you guys think I will let it go that like that! You lied to me! It almost cost me my life," Naruto wept. "I had been shocked so many times, and if I was anyone else, I would be dead!" She paused. Her fists became married with the sheets. "I couldn't even move as I had to listen to what he said, which was something I should have been told by you!"

She paused not sure if she could go on. "He posed naked over top of a naked me. He would've raped me, if he didn't sense you guys coming! Do you know how that makes me feel? I feel dirty and…" Naruto couldn't finish. She curled up in a ball. The gang moved closer to the injured girl. "Don't touch me! Please, don't touch me. Please, just don't," she wailed. "I don't want to be touched by anyone ever again."

Five hearts broke, watching Naruto. How could Naruto be broken like this? How could this be their Naruto, the happy-go-lucky girl who never gave up? The girl in this bed had given up.

"Naruto." Kakashi started. His heart broke at the sight of this.

"GET OUT!" Naruto bellowed.

"Naruto," They all uttered

"GET OUT!" She repeated. "GET OUT!"

Tsunade pushed them out of the room. "We are leaving. You will have a guard, who will be staying with you at all times," she paused. "I'm truly sorry." She latched the door as she left. Outside the door, Tsunade broke down.

Inside the room, Naruto positioned herself to see the door. Her eyes flowed a river, when she propelled her limb body from the warm bed. I have to get out of this Hell House. I can't stay here. I don't want to stay here anymore.

In the waiting room, it was fill of glares. Gaara was glaring at Sai. Sai was glaring at Sasuke. Sasuke was glaring at Neji. Neji was glaring at Gaara. It was a never ending cycle as each member of the loop wanted to kill the other. The other people just stared exposed mouths at them. Lee and Sakura sat in one corner looking at all the idiots. Lee, well, glaring at the Uchiha. Temari and Shikamaru stared at Gaara then Sasuke and back again. Ino couldn't take her eyes off of Sasuke. Hinata and Kiba was confound at the whole sight in front of them.

The rest of the gang tried not to be in the way, not wanting to get killed by the people listed above. True, they all wanted the same thing, Naruto getting well, but they couldn't stand each other. It was war with them.

It was too tranquil like it was foretelling something. "GET OUT." Naruto's scream turned everyone's blood, in the waiting room, cold. Her voice sounded distance. "GET OUT!" Her voice caused the men to stand in the room. Not long after the second cry, the third one was heard. "GET OUT."

Sasuke's heart broke as he rushed toward the hallway that would lead to Naruto's room. Neji, Sai, and Gaara soon followed behind him. The cycle turned into a line to Naruto's room.

In the hallway, they encountered a crying Tsunade. They had never seen the Hokage like this. The Godaime, they knew, was willful and would kill you, if you got on her nerves. This Tsunade looked so breakable. Kakashi and Jiraiya looked equally breakable, but they held their emotions in check. Iruka faced Naruto's room, and he looked just as mediocre as Tsunade. Yamato was the only one, who looked alive.

"What is wrong?" Neji asked.

"Naruto," Jiraiya answered, putting his hand on the Godaime Hokage.

"What is wrong with her?" inquired Sai.

"Whatever Yuki did to her broke her." Kakashi answered.

Sasuke glanced to Naruto's room. He was going to kill Yuki for hurting his dobe. What did Yuki do to her to make her lose herself? "Can we see her?" Sasuke inquired.

"I don't think that would be a good idea," Iruka stated.

"I don't care what you think," Sasuke hissed.

"Uchiha, we don't care what you think," Gaara corrected the Uchiha.

"I can see the dobe whenever I wanted," Sasuke snapped.

"No, you can't," Neji said.

"That isn't completely true," Tsunade finally muttered.

"What do you mean by that?" Yamato inquired.

Tsunade was the only one who knew about her and the council member's conversations. "Uchiha has been added to Team Fox and appointed Naruto's body guard. He isn't allow to leave her side," she whispered. This caused a lot of whats.

"Who gives those orders?" The Kazekage inquired.

"The council," Tsunade articulated.

"Can I go do my job then?" Sasuke smirked. The raven knew he liked the council for some reason. There was nothing stopping him from getting what he wanted. He liked his new mission, since he never desired to leave Naruto's side ever again, anyway. He also liked the faces of her fan boys around him, when they heard it.

To bad for Sasuke, Neji was the first to enter the room, only to see that Naruto wasn't in the room. The blonde would be in hell of a lots of trouble, when they found her. What was Naruto thinking?

Naruto didn't go to Yondaime's head, but she did go to see him. The blonde kunoichi went to the spot, where she was tied to the post. This very post was the spot, where they became team seven. This was the spot where she thought she made friends. More importantly, this was the spot where the stone was located. The Memorial stone that had all the names of all the Shinobi who died honorably on it. The Charcoal stone called her over. She looked over the KIA stone until one name popped out at her. 'Minato Namikaze.'

Her father's name lit her darken face. Her finger tips ran over the name as she spoke it aloud. "Minato Namikaze." Naruto, back in her normal ninja outfit, paused. That name had a bizarre effect on her. "What would you think of me, if you saw me now? Would you even care?" She paused again. She never believed how hard this would be. "Fa…Father." That word didn't feel right on her tongue. "Why did you choose me for the Nine Tailed fox? Why me? Did you hate me?" She wouldn't be able to live with herself, if her father hated her. If her hero hated her.

"No, Minato-Sensei loved you."

Naruto rotated to see Kakashi walking over to her. He was one of the last people she wanted to see right now. "What are you doing here?" She spited.

"I could ask you the same question."

"I came to see my father," she hissed, which was so un-Naruto like.

"I knew that."

"Then why did you asked?" Naruto snapped again.

"I meant, why are you alone?" Kakashi was now only inches away from the trouble girl. He knew she was heading here. Naruto was predictable, but he knew also that she would want to see her father or at very least this stone.

"Why do you care?" She rotated from him. "Is it because I'm the daughter of your Sensei, and you would hate to let him down?… I'm just the monster that took him away from you and nothing more."

"NO!" He bellowed. He pulled her to face him. "Don't you ever think that again! You are very important to me. You aren't a monster in anyway."

"Not that important, if you keep secrets from me!" She swatted him away. "You lied just like everyone else…… You have no idea what I went through."

"Naruto." He reached out to her.

"Don't touch me. Don't ever touch me," she warned him. "I don't ever want to be touch by anyone ever again!" I can't be hurt like that again.

Naruto, I hate seeing you like see you like this. "Naruto, Yuki won't ever touch you again. We will protect you," Kakashi added.

"NO!… You can't." She sprinted away from Kakashi, who was calling her name. She knew he would looking for her, but Naruto didn't want anything to do with anyone right now. Unfortunately, she wasn't that lucky, since she ran into a certain raven.

"Dobe, where…" Sasuke paused, seeing the tears in her cerulean eyes, her beautiful eyes. "What happened?" Who do I kill?

"Teme." Naruto discontinued in front of her old teammate. "What are you doing here?" Her platinum hair fell in her face blocking her azure eyes.

"I was looking for you, since I am your body guard," He answered.

"You?…You are the one who's never suppose to leave my side. Why?"

He moved closer to his dobe. "I can protect you best." I never want to leave your side ever again. I would die if anything happens to you. Can't you see that I love you. Can't you see that I am breaking as I look into your eyes. I never want to see you cry again. He did something very un-Uchiha like, when he pulled his dobe into a hug.

Her hands found his chest, and he became wet with her tears. If she was any other person, he would have killed them, but Naruto was his light. "Teme?" She uttered.

"Hn."

"You won't lie to me, right?" She didn't mind him touching her.

"Hn." I could never do that to you… Yuki broke my dobe, and now he will pay with his life. He looked down Naruto. What did he do to you?… I will find out later. Naruto still was in pain, and her limb body couldn't handle her weight anymore. The raven noticed this and picked her up bridal style. "You're fine," he said. "You will be fine in my care."

"Teme, you promise?"

"Hn."

"Thank you."

I hope you like the SasNar moment.

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-Cass-

6/05/08- chapter updated!

8/12/08- I have updated this chapter, since one of the reviewers said I'm 'abusing' Fanfiction's rules, or something like that! If they think i'm abusing the rules, then he should read other stories, which have far worse grammar then i do!!... I'm starting to agree with them!