July 24, 2008

It had been almost month, since i have updated.

I am so sorry, but my sister kept me busy while I was in California.

I did write one shots (and posted them) Every time I write a one shot for her, she would write more of the story that she is working on. You can read them if you like.

Not long after the one shots for my sister, my dog, Mocha, was killed by a motorcycle. I blame my brother since he was supposed to be watching her!! I didn't feel like writing my story for the longest time. (all this happened, when I was in California, so I couldn't even say good bye to my dog, who died in Ohio)

Life sucks. No wait... Yea, Life sucks

My sister, who I didn't even get to say good bye to, proof read the first half of this, so I'm pretty sure that grammar is good. The second half, I was back in Ohio, so she didn't get to proof read it. I hope it is okay!

The second half, I typed on a four-five hour plane ride and I'm so proud of myself!

I hate airports. I had to transfer, so after 4/5 hour plane ride, I had to get on another. But the other had two hour delay! I was pissed. I didn't get to bed until 4:30am in the morning in a messy room, which my side messed up. (I had to wake up at 10am the next morning too)

Then I had to deal with a puppy. My sister got a new puppy; however, I told her I wouldn't help take care of it. But yet I am? How is that? Oh Yea! MY Mother.

and I had to drive my 22 year old brother somewhere to get car parts, since he crashed his 2005 Rams Truck a couple of days ago, and my mother won't yet him drive her 2000 Ford Escort (it is in really good shape. Like brand new). So i got suck driving him around in my mother's gold cat car! (it has cats on it!) My baka for a brother had me waiting in the car for about a hour (if not more) waiting for the guy to get him the parts that he needed!

I had a bad week!! I had a very bad week.

Sorry for the long note, but I had to get it out.

I hope you like this chapter. It is the longest chapter so far, even without the long note I wrote above!

Please Review!!

Oh yea! I don't own Naruto. I just own the OCs and plot (I guess)

And a special thanks goes to Iana Sabelle, who proof this for me!

Her Father's House

Chapter 15

Part 15

Naruto felt trapped in herself. She couldn't force herself up. Her nightmares just kept on recurring as if a record that plays repeatedly. She wanted to scream, but she cannot find her voice. She was stuck.

She always had nightmares that she was able to wake herself up, but now Tsunade had sedated her. There was no waking up now until the Godaime wanted her to. Naruto, however, didn't know this, and she couldn't figure out why she couldn't open her eyes. She felt like everyone had forgotten about her. She felt deserted.

It didn't make her feel great to think everyone had forgotten her. She felt the opposite of great for the longest time, and she was sick of it. One, someone is after her, because of her father. Two, She almost lost something very important to her. Three, she opened her heart to him, and he broke it in a matter of seconds. Life sucks.

She didn't know how long she had been out. She didn't even know how long she was in this nightmare. To put it lightly, she didn't know anything about her situation.

She has been, or at least been called stupid and she detested it. Now, she felt stupid and this feeling was worse than people calling her so. She just wanted to be liked for who she was, not for pretending to be someone else. If she was to change, she wouldn't be Naruto anymore, just some look alike. She wouldn't stand for sometime like that!

Everything around her started to flash every color in the world. It was pretty to say the least. Something was changing and the blonde couldn't figure out what was happening. She was lost in her own mind. She didn't know what to make of this change of scenery. Objects were manifesting around her. She felt trapped even in this mind change.

Her eyes were shut, and she forced them open. To her disbelief, she was in the boring white room in the hospital. Tsunade was standing at her bed side staring at her and Jiraiya was sitting in the corner of the room.

This room was better than the darkness of her mind, but she still didn't want to be here. The hospital should let her design a room for herself since she was here so many times. If they let her do that, she wouldn't be staring at this white room. It had no creativity. It was like the hospital was waiting for their patients to die. That was why the hospital was colored in white. It would be useless to paint the room for the patient wouldn't be there for long. That was the very reason

why Naruto hated hospitals. It was a bad sign to her, to get the patient out so fast that they would miss something. She didn't want to die just yet. There was so many things that she wanted to do.

Naruto's body felt heavy on the hospital bed. Her leg was no longer broken thanks to the demon fox. Her arm, however, was still broken in a couple of spots. "Obaa-chan, Ero-Sennin. I feel weird." She muttered. Her voice was barely audible.

"I had to sedate you." Tsunade informed her.

"Why?" Naruto asked. Her voice barely audible, still.

"Gaki, you have a habit of leaving the hospital." Jiraiya answered for Tsunade. His eyes wondered from Naruto to Tsunade and back again.

"I know, but do I have to be here. I want to go home." Naruto whined, and her voice was a little bit louder.

"You're not going back to that apartment." Tsunade revealed. "Also, you will have new body guards." Guards. More than one. "You will have two!"

Naruto stared at the Hokage for some time. "I thought that he had to be my body guard in order for me to go on missions."

"You knew about that?" Jiraiya eyed the blonde.

"Hai."

"There won't be any missions for some time anyway." Tsunade told her.

"What do you mean?" Naruto asked.

"You were out for two days, so you didn't hear about the tournament." Tsunade answered the blonde.

"I've been out for TWO DAYS!" Naruto hollered out the last two words of her sentence. She was angry. "Two days! How can you keep me sedated for Two days?! I can't believe you knocked me out for two days. What kin–…. What do you mean by tournament?" She was yelling at them one minute, and the next she was asking about a tournament. She was something, but they didn't know what.

Jiraiya and Tsunade laughed at the girl. She completely changed the subject by herself in a matter of seconds.

"You would be the last person to know." Jiraiya said.

"THAT'S SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO UNFAIR! WHY AM I THE LAST TO KNOW?!" Naruto yelled at the top of her lungs.

"Gaki, my ears!" The toad sage blustered at the blonde in bed.

Naruto rubbed the back of her head and grinned. "Sorry. So Obaa-chan, are you going to explain this tournament to me?" Naruto asked; she already planned to enter the second she heard about it. There was nothing that they could do to stop her even if she had to henge herself, she would.

"Well, I know you'll want to enter. That's why I'm able to get you a new body guard. Chicken Butt was only your body guard because that was the only way to keep you on missions," Tsunade started.

"And now you won't be on missions, since you will be in the tournament. Chicken Butt won't be your guard in the meanwhile. So we have until the tournament is over to find the guy that is after you." Jiraiya finished for the Godaime. "Or you will be put back on missions and the Chicken Butt will be your body guard…..again."

Naruto laughed at their new nickname for the teme. She might even have to call him that. "You two are great." Tears ran down her cheek.

Tsunade sat on the bed and pulled Naruto into a motherly hug. She even kissed the girl on the forehead. "So I take it you agree with our plan?" Naruto nodded in Tsunade's arms. "You will move into your father's house. Anbu will be watching the outside of the house. Sai will be your body guard as well as Kakashi."

Naruto nodded, but she did an anime drop on the inside. Sai was, well, you know, a pervert. He just did a better job at hiding it. And there was a chance that he liked her. Naruto wasn't sure if she could handle another heartbreak. She was sure Sai would do just that. Well, at least Kakashi would be there. On the other hand, she would be living in the same house that her father once lived in. It felt weird, but in a good way. "So what about the tournament?"

Jiraiya remained quiet. The last time that he interrupted Tsunade, he was sent through a wall. He didn't want to go through that again.

Tsunade took in a deep breath. "The first leg of the tournament will be held in the Forbidden Forest, which will lastup to three days. Each player will get one crystal, and there are three different color crystals: red, green, and blue. Green is worth one point. Red is worth two. And Blue is worth five. The higher the rank of a person determines the crystal they get." she paused as she looked at Naruto. "You would get a blue, since you are an Anbu. When you beat someone, you get their crystals. The eight who have the most crystals would then go to Suna. There the eight will fight until there is only one left. The winner will get one wish, but this wish must not hurt anyone in anyway."

Naruto stared at the Hokage for a second. "One wish?" Tsunade nodded. "Hm. I've got something in mind!" They looked at Naruto. "I'm not telling you! NANANANANANA!" She pointed her finger at them. They glared at her childlike behavior.

"Naruto, I must tell you that during the first part of the tournament, you won't have any guards. There will be, however, Ninjas who will not take part of the tournament;they will make sure that nothing goes wrong. They will be like the rule keepers so if someone tried to break the rules, the 'rule keepers' will know. The rule breakers will be kicked out." Tsunade told her. "The ninjas will also look out for trouble makers, who might enter to get you, but there will be times where you will be all alone."

"I get it." Naruto muttered. "So I will have to watch my back!"

"Good, Gaki… since that will be the best time to kidnap you." Jiraiya eyed the injured blonde, but the only thing she did was give him the peace sign. He wanted to hit her on the head for being that naive.

"I doubt they would act then since I had done background checks on everyone." Tsunade revealed. "The tournament will start in five days and everyone should start showing up in a couple of days. The Kazekage will be here as well."

"Yea!" Naruto yelled. "THIS WILL BE SO MUCH FUN!"

"Ouch! Gaki! My ears!" Tsunade and Jiraiya both yelled. They looked like a family. It was so cute.

"So when can I leave this hell hole?" Naruto cried out.

Tsunade glared. "A HOSPITAL IS NOT A HELL HOLE! And you can leave in a couple of hours." She loved the baka, even when Naruto did a number of pranks on her.

Ryu laughed rather loud when he got his green crystal. It was worth only one point. If they only knew who he was…he was Ryu, who was known for his love to kill. He had killed so many Ninjas just because he wanted to feel their blood trickle on his fingers. He would also kill anyone who got in his way, and was also known for killing children. If he could kill a defenseless child, what could his master do?

Ryu only feared one person—his master, the man that was after Minato's daughter. He wasn't the type of person who you would want to make mad. Ryu would shake at the thought of making his master mad. He was that evil….. Ryu only chased the girl, because he was afraid of that man.

Far from the subject of his master, he was sure his prey, Naruto, would have a blue crystal. The crystals weren't a big deal since he would get the blonde during the first stage of the tournament. He knew the Hokage probably expected him to go after the girl then, but he also knew it would be the best time to get the girl. He knew the daughter of the Yondaime meant a lot to the Godaime and he knew the Godaime would do anything to protect the girl. He had to be careful. On the other hand, Ryu was sure he could outsmart the Hokage. He did once before when he stole the scroll. He knew Tsunade did background checks on everyone (including him) and yet he was able to fool her. He was sure he would be able to do it again. There was no doubt.

The Hokage wouldn't know he had taken the Yondaime's daughter until it was too late. She wouldn't know until the first leg was over, but he would be too far ahead for her to do anything. After he'd handed the girl to his master, he would be free of that cursed man. He would be free to disappear. That was what Ryu planned to do after he handed the girl over.

Sasuke found himself pacing in the Uchiha Compound. He had to fix the problem he had with the blonde dobe. He hadn't seen her since that day in the hospital. He had to talk to her to straighten everything out. He just needed to talk to her alone which would be a problem however, since he wasn't allowed to see her. The council heard about it and they had Naruto taken off from missions since she was still in danger... so him being her guard was temporarily null since that deal was applicable only so she can go on missions and as of now, she hasn't received any yet. Tsunade just laughed saying she found a loop hole in that bargain.

Then the next day, the tournament was announced. It made sense. Naruto wouldn't be on missions, since she will be in the tournament. Loop hole. Then Naruto would get one wish if she won. He was sure her wish would be to keep him away from her and still be able to go on missions. He was sure that was Tsunade's plan, so he entered the tournament to get that wish for himself and to see Naruto. That would be the only way that he would be able to see her. No one will be able to stop him when they were in the Forbidden Forest. Two could play it that way. That wish would help him get Naruto and there would be nothing Tsunade could do to stop him.

The Hokage glared at him when he entered, but there was nothing that she could do to stop him. He took his blue crystal and walked way. This was how he was for the next day. He just paced as the time went on. He just hoped his plan would work. All his other plans didn't go to well. He tried to go to the hospital, but they wouldn't let him in. They even threatened to call the Anbu or worse, the Hokage, if he didn't leave. He wasn't the kind of person you could order around, but there was nothing he could do.

He stopped by at Naruto's apartment, but it was empty. There was nothing there. All her stuff was moved. It was just an empty apartment. Tsunade musthave moved her. He was screwed, but he wouldn't give up. He would see the blonde dobe in time.

"Just wait. I haven't given up yet." He called out. There was a knock at the door. He wondered, if the person at the door heard him or not. He made his way through the house to the door. To his surprise, it was his old Sensei, Kakashi. He hadn't seen the old man in the last couple of days. In fact, the last time he saw Kakashi was before he talked to Jiraiya at the hospital.

He blinked. Was his old Sensei glaring at him? He was. How odd. He never saw an emotion on the man's face before now. Did he know? Did Tsunade or Jiraiya tell him what happened in the cave? He was sure he would find out in time.

Kakashi pushed passed him without any stupid comment. Something must be up if he didn't say anything like 'cat got your tongue'. Sasuke followed five feet behind him. He wanted to be out of reach, if Kakashi were to hit him. It was unlikely, but he wasn't taking any chances. "What is it, Kakashi?" He asked in his firm hard voice.

"I believe you already know." He snapped back.

Sasuke had to step back. He had never seen Kakashi mad like this before. It freaked him out. His Sensei was known for his carefree personality, since he didn't worry about anything. He snapped at the last Uchiha, and that was weird. He had never seen him lose his cool before.

"I don't, so enlighten me." He snapped right back.

Kakashi glared at Sasuke. "Naruto." He hissed. He was angry, and too bad for the teme, Kakashi was evil when he was angry.

"What about her?" Sasuke asked. He would play dumb. It didn't work all the other times, but it had to work sometime right?

"She is not an outlet for your sick fantasies!" Kakashi gnarled. He was sick of his old student in a matter of seconds.

"It is none of your busy what we've talked about!" What was with all of these people fighting to protect Naruto's honor?

"But it is." Kakashi paused. "I thought you cared for her."

"I do." Sasuke muttered. "But it still isn't any of your business!"

"But it is." Kakashi explained once again. "She is the daughter of my Sensei, and I won't let anything happen to her." His glare wasn't as strong as before, but it was still there. He may care for her, but he isn't right for her. He thought. He isn't ready for a relationship himself. He told himself. He wouldn't let Sasuke hurt Naruto again.

"I don't care about that."

"This is why you aren't right for her."

"I didn't know it was up to you to decide who I was right for!" The boy hissed.

"I am sick of your smart mouth!" Kakashi blustered. He was angry and he had every right to be, but he had to calm down. He would do something stupid if he let his anger get the best off of him. He cared too much for Naruto to lose himself.

"And I am sick of you!" Sasuke yelled.

"I will leave. You, however, wouldn't get lucky with Naruto any time soon." Kakashi walked past the raven. He was so close to punching Sasuke and he would if he didn't leave. He cared too much for Naruto to hurt her by hurting the teme so he left.

Naruto stood in her father's house. Her arm was still in a sling, and she felt weird. She felt inferior to this perfect house. It was bigger than her apartment, has around five bed rooms (if not more), two floors in which you could see the second floor from the living room, a big beautiful back yard,and more than one living room as well as other rooms. It was a big house. It even has a large kitchen, but Naruto doubted that she would use it to any degree of success. She was never a good cook.

Sai stood behind her, by the front door. Kakashi wasn't there yet, but he would be in a matter of minutes. Sai's eyes never left Naruto as she walked around the ground floor. He saw her eye the steps, but she looked unsure of herself. It was like she was debating with herself whether or not she should go up. "I'll be down here, if you need me." He told her. She nodded.

Naruto took each step slowly. She had already decided to explore the house. She was glad that Sai decided to leave her alone for this was something she had to do on her own. She found most of the floor boring, but there were a couple rooms that caught her eyes. The first was the nursery. This was supposed to be my room. She couldn't keep the tears in. They did want me. She thought.

It was a light orange color. No wonder she loved the color orange! She was in that room for the longest time. There were so many toys and the blonde had to hug all of them, which was one reason it took her so long. The room was filled with baby items that she would have had use if her parents didn't die the day she was born. She cried a good bit before she left the room.

There was a door at the far side of the hallway. She didn't look at the room in between her and the door, but she would eventually. When she arrived at the door, she tried to open it, but it was locked. I shouldn't open it. It had to be locked for a reason. She thought for a second. Hmm, but this is my house now, so I should be allow to open it! She just had to think of a way to open the door. She tried so many things and was about to give up when she remembered a special jutsu that Ero-Sennin showed her. He told her not to use it if she planned to prank someone with it.

She started the hand signs which were hard since one arm was in a sling. After that, she placed her hand on the door and sent her chakra into it. "Release!" She called out. To her surprise, the door popped open on her first try. "Yes! I did it!" She called out as she did a victory dance.

She went inside the room. It was a study. Wait, a minute! This has to be my father's study. And he locked it because he was the Hokage. It all made sense. This was where her father worked when he wasn't at the Hokage Tower.

Naruto made her waytowards the desk and wanted to scream at the mess that greeted her. It was hard just to get to the desk without stepping on something. She figured out where she got her messiness from. There were papers everywhere. He could have just locked it because he didn't want mom to see it. She thought. The book shelves were in good order, but she could hardly see the floor. She would have to clean up this mess, when she had time. She wasn't in a cleaning mood to do it now though.

She picked up the first thing she saw on the desk. It must be hard to be the Hokage with all these paperwork. No wonder Tsunade is in a bad mood all the time. Naruto saw Tsunade in her mind's eye and it wasn't a pretty picture. She took a close look at the papers in her hand. These papers are dated a day before my birth. She pulled it in to her chest.

I wonder if anyone else had looked at these papers. Probably not, since the door was locked. And if they did, they wouldn't have left these important documents here. She thought. She would look over all of them, she promised to herself. She hoped there were at least copies of these papers in the Hokage's office. She hoped they didn't mess anything special. She sat down on the desk. There were papers everywhere. Naruto put them in a neat column. She pushed the chair back. Something black caught her eyes as she made a move from the desk.

She picked up the frame. Her fingers tightened around it as her heart fell. It was a photo. She wondered why it was faced down on the desk. It looked like something had knocked it down. It had to be the same thing that launched the papers around the room. It didn't matter what or how it happened; what was in the picture was breath taking. There was a blonde well-built tall man who was wearing a jounin uniform under the Hokage's robe. Next to him was a woman with red hair which ended around her mid-back. She looked beautiful. She's pregnant! Naruto thought. She looked about seven or eight months pregnant. Mom, Dad. She wished she could have met them.

Sadly, she would never get to meet them and would have to settle for stories. She would have to ask Kakashi if he could tell her something about her parents. She pulled the photo to her heart and held the picture in her right arm, which was in a sling. She was taking the photo with her. Naruto made a path through the papers to the study's door. Once outside, she relocked the door, not wanting someone else to go into her father's study.

She just noticed the rooms she passed up when she found a guest room that she might later stay in after she finished looking around. She was at the last room of the house or rather the mansion—yea, it was a big, it even has a gym. She wondered what she would do with all of this space. She could even get lost in this house—no, she would get lost in this house.

Her left hand pushed the door open. It was another bedroom but this was more personal. There were more photographs in it. The room didn't look different when she added the photo from the Study.

She walked around the neatly made bed, unlike hers. She hardly ever made her bed, let alone cleans her apartment since she didn't have the luxury of time. Missions took most of her it and now the tournament was coming up. Good thing this place was clean already.

She pushed the closet door open to reveal clothes. On the left were her father's clothes, and on the right were her mother's. She stared at the clothes for some time. She even took a deep breath of all the scents. This is too much. Tears flowed from her cerulean eyes as she rested her good arm against her forehead. I can't take this! Her tears soon wet the floor.

She slowly walked away from the closet, crawled on to the bed, held one of the pillows against her chest, and cried herself to sleep. Being a woman was too emotional for her.

Kakashi stood in front of his Sensei's house. His mind flashed back to all old days, when he was a child. He would come to Minato's house every so often that going back there after all this time was hard on him. Minato was rock for him when he needed him. He just hoped he would able to be a rock to Naruto, who needs one more than ever. It just hurt Kakashi to be here—that Minato couldn't.

The Copy Cat Ninja pushed his way into the mansion. He took a deep breath as he always did, whenever he walked into his Sensei's house. He felt small in this mansion. No one really needed a big home like this. Well, he guessed the Yondaime did. He didn't. So what if his apartment could fit in this mansion about five times, if not more? That didn't make him a lesser man, did it? It was beautiful home though, unlike his tiny apartment which needed work, well, a lot of work.

Kakashi scanned the room to see Sai sitting Indian style on the sofa, drawing something Kakashi couldn't make out of. He really didn't care, anyway. Naruto wasn't anywhere in sight, but he sensed that she was in the house. "Sai."

Said brunet looked up to the older gentleman. "Hai."

"You are supposed to be watching Naruto." Kakashi told Sai. He may had sounded like he couldn't care less, but he did care. If he showed how much he cared, he would drive someone insane.

"Don't have a cow. She's just upstairs." Sai answered. He looked up to only look down in a matter of seconds. It wasn't that Sai didn't care about Naruto because he does. He only acted like that because Kakashi was there. He doesn't believe that Kakashi likes the blonde kunoichi, thus, there was no need to piss him off with being so close to her.

"You aren't supposed to leave her alone." Kakashi stated.

"You try to restrict Naruto."

"I know Naruto doesn't like the situation, but she doesn't have a say."

Sai didn't say anything. He wanted to protect Naruto but he didn't want to overdo it. Naruto wouldn't like it and he didn't want her to be unhappy with him. He wanted her to like him not want to hurt/kill him. "….."

Kakashi sighed. Something tells me that this is going to be very difficult. He walked away from the brunet.

The stairs didn't come soon enough with Sai eyeing him. He checked a couple of rooms, but there was no sight of the blonde Anbu Captain. She couldn't be in the study since it was locked and no one knew how to unlock it. There were very important scrolls and jutsus in that room that on one could get to, but at least they were safe. The last room which he didn't check yet was Minato's bedroom.

The doorknob was cool to the touch and the door opened, revealing the room to him. He scanned the room to see a girl sleeping on the bed, curled up with pillow on her right arm, her left arm holding a photograph. She looked rather uncomfortable in that sling. Kakashi shuffled to the bed. "Naruto," he whispered noticing that the bed was wet with her tears.

He slowly took the photograph from her and felt his heart fall when he saw the people in the picture. He had a good idea who was in the photo before he looked, but looking at it was hard.

Naruto's mother and father were good people. It pained Kakashi that Naruto would never know her parents. He put the picture down on the end table, took a blanket from the closet and covered the sleeping girl.

He gently sat on the bed next to Naruto, careful not to wake up the girl. He moved the hair out of her face… She was breathing-takingly beautiful when she was out like this. He just wished that she wasn't in this situation and to make matter worse, she was facing the haunting past, her past. She was up against ghosts…….Just don't tell her that! She's scared to death of ghosts.

She was in the house of her father that she never knew. She was faced with emotions, she never knew she had.

He wondered what was going on through her head when she walked in this room, her father's and mother's room.

Minato was a great man. He wondered if Naruto would personally ever know that. Kakashi ran his fingers through her hair, before he rose from the bed. He was going to leave her in the room, but he would have to check up on her every so often, not wanting to leave her in this emotional state, and time.

He had to make her feel safe. That included making her feel loved. She also needed to know about her father, the man who gave up everything to protect the ones he loves. Kakashi knew that her father loved her with every fiber of his being. He even saw it in Minato's eyes when he found out he was going to be a father. He also saw it whenever he was near Kushina. He walked out of the room and head to Sai, who was in the very same spot when he left him.

I hope there wasn't too many grammatical errors!

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