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Author's Note: Well, here you are; chapter twelve! I'm sorry to those whom I've promised for an update on Wednesday. I nearly died working on Wednesday and Thursday! Just soooo much work to do! LOL. Anyway, thank you so much for those who have reviewed! I truly love you guys! Do give me more reviews, okay! Hugs and kisses! :D
Kakashi stared at the blonde girl who was blushing and gaping at him in utter shock. He kept taking in the soft gentle features she had, the pink kips, the bright blue eyes and the perfect curves that seemed to flow down her body. The carelessly strewn white blanket around her could not hide her body which was mostly definitely female.
Kakashi regained his composure soon enough and turned to look at Sasuke for the answers, his visible eyebrow shooting up in question. Sasuke mentally growled when he saw his teacher's accusing eye looking straight at him. Damn the man, it was certainly going to be difficult to explain the current situation.
Cold black eyes bore into a questioning gaze by a lone black eye. After what felt like an eternity, Sasuke sighed and relented. It would be too difficult to come up with a lie as lies were hard to remember because they weren't the truth. They usually caught up to you and you would forget certain things. Best get the story out of the bag now before Kakashi figured it out himself. He was an intelligent man after all and Sasuke had to admit that regardless of how much it grated on his nerves.
"Fine!" Sasuke stated as he gave in to his teacher's steady gaze. "I'll tell you all that you need to know..."
"No!" cried Naruto in protest, "You can't do that! You can't tell him anything! Sasuke, you promised not to tell anyone my secret!"
"Well, look around you already, usuratonkachi! Your secret's already out, there's no point in trying to hide it anymore...!," he yelled out angrily, then growling in annoyance as he shot a deathly look at his teacher he muttered darkly, "At least, no point in trying to hide it from him..."
Kakashi merely crinkled up his eye upward once more as he smiled at his student's comment.
"Indeed, Sasuke-chan!," Kakashi said sounding please, "I would most certainly discover whatever it is you're hiding, little miss. You can count on that." He looked at Naruto with the crinkled eye and nodded as if to give her the message of 'go ahead, try to hide it from me and see what happens, see what happens to stupid little girls who tamper with experienced shinobis like me'.
Naruto shivered and looked away. Her bright blue eyes seemed to be welling up with tears as the idea of her true gender coming out to the surface sank in...Of Mother being discovered and labelled as a complete nutjob and of them being separated and never ever seeing each other again...Oh, God, it was just too horrible to even think.
"Oh, my, little missy, there's absolutely no need for that now," Kakashi looked worriedly at the now crying teen, "You're in good hands and I won't hurt you if you just tell me what's going on here and answer my questions truthfully."
Naruto gasped and touched her face and felt wet salty tears dribbling down her cheeks to her chin. She wiped her eyes with the back of her hand and glared up at the tall silver haired shinobi. Just how dare these bastard shinobis come into her life and turn it completely upside down! Just how dare they? What gave them the right to try and exploit her and treat her life as if it were a joke?
"I will not tell you anything at all!" she spat at him.
"What's your name, missy?" Kakashi asked gently.
"None of your goddamn business!" came the swift and angry retort.
"It's Uzumaki Naruto," Sasuke answered calmly, at the very same moment she spoke.
Naruto gasped in astonishment and angrily eyed the Uchiha. Why did he have to be such an asshole at times like these when it really mattered?
"Uzumaki, huh?" Kakashi mumbled thoughtfully, stroking his chin, "Well, then, Naruto-chan, do tell why is it that you were masquerading as a boy at Hyuuga Hinata's party a couple of weeks ago? I'd say that is very suspicious behaviour..."
Naruto shot him a look that could melt a potted plant and refused to answer.
"She has a psychotic mother who dresses her up as boy for absolutely no reason whatsoever except to satisfy her crazy urges," Sasuke answered, not looking the least bit flustered as he did.
"Shut UP, Uchiha-teme!" Naruto cried out angrily. She shoved the pointy part of her elbow sharply in his ribs and the Uchiha bent over slightly at the impact, a small 'oof!' came out as his breath hitched.
"Bitch! I dare you to that again and I'll give you a taste of my Tsukuyomi!" Sasuke said darkly as he looked down at her.
"Just go ahead and do it then, teme! I couldn't give a shit anymore, my secret's already out no thanks to you, fucking shithead!" she screeched, her hands were flying everywhere as she tried to beat him with her fists. "How dare you come into my life and touch me the way you did? How dare you grope me! How dare molest me! And you were just about to rape me even, you sick freak! If anyone's a psycho it's not Mother, it's you!"
Sasuke swiftly grabbed her wrists and rendered her immobile. He was determined not to get hit but her elbow and beatings did sting a bit and he was more than pissed off. He felt blood rushing to his ears and there was a loud roaring and before he knew it, his sharingan was already activated and he had only one thing in mind; Tsukuyomi.
Naruto noticed it too late. She saw his dark eyes turned slightly lighter in colour. Saw those cold orbs spin into s swirling red. Saw the three tomoe shift into a mesmerizing star pattern which was his famed Magenkyo Sharingan and she nearly screamed for the pain that was to come. But it never came and instead all she saw was darkness and she knew he was putting her to sleep.
Sasuke caught her unconscious body as it was in mid fall, catching her by the stomach as her body leaned forward. He turned to Kakashi and gave a brief nod. Yes, he would tell everything he knew about this girl and it would be easier if she weren't awake and aware of what was happening.
"So, that is how it is. I found out that she was a girl almost immediately and her mother truly is the one behind all this...All of that is true," Sasuke spoke, gently laying down the unconscious blonde on to his bed, adjusting the blanket so that her body was well covered.
"I see..." Kakashi muttered, taking in a good look at the sleeping girl. So Sasuke said her name was Uzumaki, eh? That name was enough to set the clockwork in his mind gearing and churning to all sorts of conclusions and understanding. Connecting the mental dots, Kakashi knew that this girl was no ordinary civilian. Why, she must Uzumaki Kushina's because there were no other Uzumakis left in this entire world!
"I also know that she happens to be a Jinchuuriki and she has sealed inside her what seems to be the nine tailed foxed. She wasn't aware of this fact before I told her though, so I wonder if her mother knows or if she truly is unaware of what this little idiot really is," Sasuke eyed the blonde briefly before locking eyes with his sensei once more, "I highly doubt it was the later."
Kakashi nodded and stroked his chin some more as he processed the information. Well, well, well, this was highly shocking news! The Kyuubi was known to have attacked Konoha sixteen years ago and the Yondaime had fought it off with all his might, eventually losing his life for the cause. The demon tailed beast was believed to have died with him but Kakashi being the intelligent man that he was found it suspicious that there was absolutely no traces of the Kyuubi left. Of course there were theories such as Yondaime sending the demon into another dimension and that sort of bullshit but Kakashi knew the Yondaime, knew his sensei very well. Well enough to know that whilst his sensei was extremely skilled, he would not have been powerful enough to contain a tailed beast's chakra and have enough energy to conjure up a large jutsu to suck in the kyuubi to another world for good. And if the kyuubi's body was gone, how come his sensei's corpse was still there when they went to investigate? Wouldn't he have been sucked into a jutsu that powerful as well? It all had seemed just too suspicious to have believed it without raising a few questions of your own.
Sasuke was a smart man, Kakashi thought as he looked at his student, but the kyuubi attack was when he was far too young to remember. It could not be possible for Sasuke to know anything other than the information Naruto had told him and his own means of finding out the truth. Kakashi was not about to tell him what he knew though. Even though Sasuke was his student, Kakashi knew that the young Uchiha was still hell bent on his revenge and that his loyalties laid elsewhere. It was not to Konoha and it was most certainly not to him, much as it saddened him to admit how far his student had fallen from grace.
"There's something else you're not telling me, Sasuke...," Kakashi prodded. "Such as why are you with her and why is she half naked and in your bed when I walked in on you?"
Sasuke looked away briefly. Sucking in his breath, he answered, "She is like a mystery to me...I can't explain it but there's something about her that draws her to me...She's mine!"
Kakashi nearly laughed at his statement. Sasuke almost sounded like a spoilt child when he said the last bit.
'How cute, my student is finally falling in love...'
"Right, okie," Kakashi said thoughtfully as he glanced back down the blonde girl and nodded to himself. "So you're not just using her as bait to lure Akatsuki to you?"
Sasuke coloured slightly at this question but defiantly stared back at his sensei. The young Uchiha was always a stubborn one and he wasn't about to let his sensei look down on him just because he was planning his revenge. He had to give Kakashi credit though; the man was sure as hell smart. Smarter than Sasuke cared to admit...
"That is none of your business, Kakashi!" he snarled, dark onyx eyes cold and tinted with a furious gleam. He didn't even bother adding the respectful 'sensei' as suffix at the end of his teacher's name. An avenger like him could care less about such trivial matters as being polite and respectful.
Kakashi stared in amusement at Sasuke and was silently pleased with the fact that he managed to figure out the boy's purpose spot on. The young self appointed avenger never did something without a purpose. Oh, he didn't doubt the boy's attraction toward the pretty blonde but now every piece of the puzzle was falling into place.
"Tsk, tsk, Sasuke," Kakashi mocked as he began to reach for the latest Icha Icha series he had tucked in one of his pockets, "Now that's not very nice of you to do, is it? The poor blonde is completely unaware of such things and you using her as a mere tool like that...I bet she wouldn't be too pleased if she were to ever find out..."
Sasuke growled at his teacher and gritted his teeth in annoyance. He didn't like Kakashi's tone at all, not one bit as it seemed to imply that he would probably threaten to tell the golden haired idiot the reason why he wanted Naruto to belong to him. (Well, part of the reason why. He also loved that beautiful body of her s as well as her lovely face.)
"Now, now, I know you probably don't care what actually happens to the little miss, but my moral compass doesn't exactly point South...I may not be a saint but I don't think it's right if you're just gonna use her as bait and toss her aside once you're done with her, Sasuke..." Kakashi rambled as he read his book.
"And what makes you think I'm going to do that?" Sasuke replied scathingly.
"Oh, you weren't?" Kakashi asked pretending to look surprised which only made Sasuke's blood boil hotter, "Well, that's good to hear. Perhaps you will also lend a hand to me as well then..."
Sasuke snapped his head to look at his teacher as he heard the last sentence ring in his ears. Lend a hand? Lend a hand for what?
"What are you implying, Kakashi-sensei?" he asked darkly, his eyes narrowing slightly.
Kakashi presented his student with his trademark eye smile before he spoke again. "Well, since you aren't planning on letting the Akatsuki catch her and kill her just so you could get to Itachi, I think it's safe to assume that you would help me in her training."
"What training?" Sasuke growled lowly and his eyes narrowed a bit more.
"Her training to become a kunoichi of course. She is a civilian and as such she is completely helpless. We can't just let her go about as she is now that we've discovered she is a jinchuuriki!" Kakashi exclaimed as if that was obvious and Sasuke was a total fool for not figuring that out, "I mean, if she were to know how to defend herself at least just a bit, that could help when she is faced with Akatsuki, wouldn't you say?"
Upon hearing this, Sasuke's eyes narrowed to near slits. This was just too rich! There was no way this was his lazy sensei that was willing to teach an unknown civilian without even missing a beat. Something was certainly up and Sasuke felt the compelling need to know.
"There's something you're not telling me now, sensei..." Sasuke drawled, his tone meant to deliver a message that he was not to be trifled with.
Kakashi merely gave him a brief eye smile before his eye went back to the book in his hand. He didn't look up as he spoke. "She is a Jinchuuriki and like all Jinchuurikis, she is an asset to this village. If she is indeed containing the legendary Kyuubi within her, then she is invaluable to Konoha. The Godaime would not appreciate it if I let such treasure get stolen right from under our noses..."
"Then shouldn't you inform the Godaime first?" Sasuke argued, "I'm sure a matter of this scale and importance would be of interest to her! Who gave you the right to teach her ninjutsu? She's just a normal civilian! She has no ninjutsu background whatsoever; she's weak and completely undeserving of learning ninjutsu!"
"Oho, and what makes you say that?" Kakashi asked feigning interest but anyone with eyes could see that he was still glued to his book.
"She never went to the Academy like we did! She has not even an inkling of what it takes to be a shinobi. How can you teach someone like that? Who gave you the right to teach her?" Sasuke continued to argue, getting angrier and angrier as he venomously eyed his teacher who seemed as nonchalant as ever.
"Hm?" Kakashi hummed, an eyebrow quirking, "Well, if you want to ask that question, Sasuke-chan, then I can ask you this as well; who gave you the right to treat her like a little fuck toy, eh?"
In a flash, Sasuke had leaped at his teacher with his katana drawn out and Kakashi had disappeared into a heap of leaves. He was just so pissed at hearing that question from Kakashi. Uchiha Sasuke was many things but he was certainly someone who hated being put in his place. It dented his Uchiha pride an awful lot and Uchihas can't stand it if they were humiliated.
"Yare, yare..." Kakashi said as he reluctantly tucked in his book in a pocket of his Jonin vest, "What a temper you've got Sasuke...I would think you would've been thrilled at my suggestion of teaching her ninjutsu. At least then she wouldn't be a complete waste of space when you're using her for luring Itachi..."
"Don't say that name in front of me, ever!" Sasuke hissed as he grudgingly sheathed his katana. He truly hated his sensei at that very moment but he knew Kakashi had a point (okay, he had several) and he knew Kakashi was also extremely strong. Even with both sharingans, Sasuke didn't think he was quite capable of toppling the great Copy Nin.
Kakashi sighed and closed his eye for a bit. Then glancing back down at the young blonde girl, he contemplated his actions and what he was to do next.
Flashback.
"You were supposed to teach the Yondaime's son, Kakashi..." muttered the old Sandaime, blowing a puff of smoke from his pipe, he continued, "Unfortunately, the boy died during the Kyuubi attack a couple of years back...It would only have been fitting though, if you were to teach your own sensei's son."
Kakashi nodded solemnly.
"Aa. I know...It was unfortunate that the Yondaime, his son and the Kyuubi were all completely destroyed," Kakashi said, sadness lingering in his voice, "I just cannot believe that sensei could get into such a hopeless situation like that...It just seems so...unrealistic."
"Yes, I know how you feel," replied the Sandaime gravely, "And we had such high hopes for Minato-san...He was such a talented shinobi, truly one of Konoha's best. A serious misfortune on Konohagakure's part. We not only lost our Hokage and his son but we also eliminated our very own Bijuu."
"Hokage-sama, if I may...?" Kakashi called out before the old man could turn and walk away to the Hokage building.
"Yes, what is it, Kakashi-san?" the old man asked patiently.
"I don't understand how my sensei's body could remain but his son and the kyuubi's were just...nowhere to be found," Kakashi said, frowning as he did so, "It just doesn't fit."
"Aye," agreed the old man, "It would seem a tad suspicious when you put it like that...I myself have some questions regarding this matter and have asked other ANBU members to take a look at it, however, there have been more recent and I'm afraid much more serious matter at hand that a Hokage must look into."
Kakashi's eyes widened in curiosity at what the Hokage was trying to say. It sounded like something extremely important and something that signalled an impending doom. Or was his overworked mind just playing tricks on him again? Making him jump to conclusions before truly analyzing what the Hokage meant?
"Sir?" he questioned, his brow furrowed worriedly.
The old man then flashed a smile at Kakashi and turned around swiftly. Whistling a merry tune and blowing more smoke from his pipe, he waved a hand lazily in the air.
"It's nothing that would concern you, Kakashi-san! Just keep your head focused on your missions and everything will be fine..." called out the Sandaime.
And then, perhaps it was Kakashi's imagination or maybe it was even his dizzy mind wanting to believe it really happened or maybe it truly did happen because he knew his hearing was almost as legendary as his sense of smell, Kakashi heard the Sandaime mutter under his breath.
"Everything will go well with the Uchiha situation...Hopefully..."
It had set Kakashi's mind reeling for days and weeks on end. He had wanted to convince himself that what he heard was untrue and just a mere illusion his tired brain had conjured when he was exhausted from missions. But Kakashi knew his own body better than anyone and yes, he was tired but it wasn't enough to cause him to be delirious. And he was very confident of his hearing as well. It may not be quite as sharp as his nose, but as an ANBU member, he truly did rely on his sense of hearing just the same. He had heard the Hokage spoke the Uchiha name and it seemed to be a form of warning on the Hokage's part.
Was the Uchihas planning something? Kakashi knew of the Uchiha clan quite well seeing as one of his own teammates was an Uchiha as well. He knew of their kekkai genkai; the sharingan almost as well as he knew the back of his hand because you can't not know something that you actually possessed. He also knew that they were known as an elite clan filled to the brim with the best shinobis the world had ever seen. He knew they were the police force of Konohagakure and that the current head of the clan was Uchiha Fugaku whose son was a youngling barely into adulthood but already on an ANBU squad much like his own.
They were skilled, talented and strong; these Uchihas...However, he also knew that aside from Uchiha Obito, his teammate who had died, there wasn't probably any other humble and kind hearted Uchiha in that clan. They were usually cocky, proud, arrogant with a taste for showing off and looking under their noses at people they deemed not good enough or strong enough. Anyone weak was seen as ugly and useless. Kakashi used to be that way too until he bonded with Obito during that one mission and lost Obito just as he began to open his eyes. It had been heart wrenching and it did wonders to him now.
He wasn't the same as them or as his younger self might be anymore but he still had a keen mind and Kakashi wandered over to the ANBU's training ground mulling over his thoughts. Several other ANBU members were there already and they were already working up a sweat.
He heard a grunt from afar and turned only to see a young boy crouch lowly before he jumped dodging an array of kunai thrown at him. In midair, he twisted his lean small body and flung his own kunais right back at his attacker. He landed on his feet and before his attacker could even blink, he was gone and appeared right behind the man and gave him a good kick. The young boy stood up, glaring coldly at his sparring partner. The older man who had been kicked got up in a huff and walked away, obviously humiliated by being defeated by a mere child.
Kakashi looked at Uchiha Itachi for a second longer and whistled lowly. Man, that is some talent right there. Pure genius was what that was. Kakashi wondered what made a boy as young as that want to join ANBU? Heck, why'd a boy like that even get to be so cold in the first place. It nearly reminded him of himself when he became such a cold and uncaring bastard.
"Maa, Yuki-chan, do you think maybe we could delay this spar? I'd like to go talk to someone, if you don't mind?" Kakashi flashed his sparring partner a wonderful smile (that she couldn't see because he had a mask on obviously). Yuki glared angrily at her partner before sighing and giving him a slight jerk of the head. She'd been waiting for him for almost an hour already but Hatake was obviously a man with a complete disregard for the rules so she probably needn't bother.
"Thanks," Kakashi muttered as he walked away and headed towards a young thirteen year old sipping some tea at a bench nearby.
"Uchiha Itachi, right?" he asked gently, presenting the boy with one of his crescent shaped eye-smiles. "That was quite something to see...You're very quick on your feet, aren't you?"
Itachi merely stared at the man before him with silent dark eyes. He seemed to regard Kakashi with a cool calculating look. Wiping the sweat of his brow gracefully, he looked up to see the older man hold out his hand with something clenched in his palm.
"Here, don't worry, it's clean," Kakashi assured the boy, flashing him with another one of those famous curved eyes that Itachi could only assume was a smile.
"Thank you," he said after a second of staring at the white as sheet handkerchief.
"I know who you are...," Itachi said gently, eyeing the older man from the corner of his eye.
"Do you, now?" Kakashi asked with amusement shining in his eyes as well as in his voice.
"Yes, you are Hatake Kakashi and your father is the famous 'White Fang of Konoha'," Itachi stated as if reciting a well read passage, "You were also on a team with Uchiha Obito, my second cousin who has been gone for some time now and whom I cannot recall..."
Kakashi turned away but he still kept up the good humour and spirit in his voice when he spoke.
"That's right. I am Hatake Kakashi...and everything that you've said is true," Kakashi said, nodding in agreement.
The young Uchiha turned to look into the horizon as well and sipped at his tea quietly. He had not expected that the older man would ever come over and talk to him. Most of his other ANBU teammates or ANBU members usually stared at him with utter disdain as he was so much younger than they were and he was usually much better than them. But this was probably the first time that an adult shinobi had tried to talk to him nicely and Itachi grew suspicious at things that seemed out of the ordinary.
"If I may be so bold, Uchiha-san," Kakashi started, "What made you want to join ANBU at such a young age?"
"What made you want to join ANBU?" Itachi shot back at him although his voice contained no malice or any sort of emotion for that matter. But kakashi knew the kid wasn't happy about his question due to the fact that the young man replied the question at lightning speed. That could only mean one thing; he was touchy on the subject.
"I joined ANBU at the age of fifteen. I was still young, yes, but you're barely fresh out of your Jounin exams," Kakashi answered, "Shouldn't you play around first before joining something quite as serious and dangerous as ANBU?"
"Hn," Itachi snorted, glaring down at the tea cup in his hands. He didn't like where this conversation was going.
"Ah, I see, you don't want to be here, do you?" Kakashi cried out as the fact surfaced in his mind.
"What makes you think that?" Itachi snapped up at him, eyes blazing in fury.
"That, young Uchiha," Kakashi said smiling as he walked away satisfied that he had gotten the answer from the boy without even asking him, "That thing you just said right there. Yeah, that's how I know."
Itachi stared at the retrieving back of the much older man. He had heard many stories about Hatake Kakashi and he wondered if most of them were true. The man was very eccentric, from what Itachi could tell but he knew that he wasn't anyone to be taken lightly. Kakashi was quite legendary for being one of the best most efficient shinobi they've got on the ANBU team and even Itachi who had only joined for a month, knew this.
His inner self was in turmoil at the brief conversation he had just exchanged with the silver haired ANBU. Part of him, the young reckless part wanted to yell up at the older man and tell him he was wrong and that he had absolutely no right to assume such stupid things about him. Another part of him, the more mature and intelligent part told him to hold his tongue and not let his anger get in the way lest he would make another folly such as this.
'He doesn't know anything...' Itachi thought hard as he tried to convince himself this was true, 'What I just said doesn't mean anything at all. He cannot possibly know what the Uchiha are going through right now...'
On the other side of the training field, the silver haired Jonin wondered about what the Uchihas were doing and how the Sandaime's words kept ringing in his ears...
"Everything will go well with the Uchiha situation...Hopefully..."
"Everything will go well with the Uchiha situation...Hopefully..."
Everything...
Will...
Uchiha...
Situation...
End of Flashback.
Kakashi stared at his young student for a second or so before giving him a curt nod and schooling his features into the stoical mask that he sometimes wore when he was deadly serious.
"Right, we'll inform the Hokage first. She'll want to know, no, she needs to know something as important as this," Kakashi spoke out as he bent over the bed to slip both his arms underneath the blonde's supple body.
"What the hell are you doing?" Sasuke hissed angrily when he saw Kakashi touch what was his.
"I'm taking her to the Goidaime. Tsunade-sama can take a look at her while we discuss what to do with her," Kakashi answered nonchalantly.
Sasuke shot Kakashi a particularly venomous look before turning his head swiftly as if he was in a huff.
"Fine!" Sasuke growled in annoyance as he begrudgingly agreed, "But she will be staying at my house while we train her!"
Kakashi smirked at his student. Oh, he would never have pegged Sasuke to be a pervert but this whole thing was getting better and better at every passing second.
"That remains to be seen, young one," Kakashi replied in an amused tone, "That remains to be seen."
Kakashi had a feeling that the Godaime would probably agree with most of his plans since a Jinchuuriki was considered a national treasure and who would let their national treasure run around freely without even being able to fend for itself? No, Tsunade would probably either agree or assign them to look after her or probably even both, with the later to be more likely.
Kakashi smirked again as he stared at the young blonde girl in his arms. She was beautiful, Kakashi had to give her that and she looked so very much like his sensei. Was it a daughter that Minato had brought into this world instead of a boy? And if her name was Uzumaki, her mother was obviously Uzumaki Kushina. Kakashi was aware of the fact that his sensei had been having an affair with Kushina for quite some time before his untimely death. A lot of people even speculated that they had gone off and eloped before the Nine Tails Attack in Konoha.
If it was true that she was still living with her mother, then that would mean that Kushina was somewhere in Konoha and she had been keeping some secrets of her own it would seem. But how was it that Kushina had been able to keep herself hidden from the Hokage for so long? Or was the Hokage even aware?
Well, whatever the reason may be, Tsunade-sama was facing a shit load of questions when they would reach her. Kakashi also kept hoping that perhaps, with the girl being alive, his sensei's offspring, he would still be in charge of teaching her ninjutsu.
Naruto's POV
I moaned when I felt something cool hit my face. It felt like splashes of cold water. Groaning a bit before I stretched up, I blinked rapidly a couple of times before my eyelids fluttered open and my eyes adjusted to the light.
"Wha-? Where am I?" I croaked out loud, my throat felt like there were two spinning jagged discs in them.
"You're in the Hokage's office," came a calm, soothing voice. It belonged to a woman but she sounded like a matured, womanly type of female instead of a fresh giggly young girl.
"I am?" I asked drowsily, wondering if this were all a dream, "What am I doing here? Where's Mother? Where's Sasuke?"
The minute I said his name, my mind whirled as a recollection of everything in the past few days came back flashing to me. Sasuke and I were about to have sex! He was touching me and licking me and holding me in the most delicious ways before a much older man had came in and interrupted us!
OH MY GOD! THE OLDER SILVER HAIRED GUY!
Where could he have gone to? He'd threatened to know things about me, right? Wasn't he completely appalled at the fact that I was a girl? What happened after that?
Ooooh, I really can't remember and there's this sharp pain in my head that just makes everyone seem fuzzier.
"Uzumaki," boomed the female voice and I tried to focus my mind on her face. She was right in front of me but she seemed so far away behind her desk.
"Uzumaki," she called again, "Uzumaki, look at me, focus, focus..."
"God, dobe, you're such a weak little girl!" came a cold snort whose voice I know can only belong to a certain teme, "Snap out of it and look at the Hokage for crying out loud."
At his command, I immediately snapped my eyes open and my eyes took in the sight of Lady Tusnade sitting in front of me casually behind her desk. Her long pale blonde hair was tied in two low ponytails and she looked as young as everyone had claimed she looked like despite her fifty years over in age. She was a beautiful woman with the most enormous breasts I'd ever laid eyes on and I blushed and turned away. Mother said young boys shouldn't stare at girls' chests as if they were pieces of meat to be defiled...Not like I was turned on by it or anything...
Stop it, Naruto! Now's not the time to be thinking like a boy or what Mother said.
I stared about me and saw the silver haired Jonin earlier on lounging in the left corner of Tusnade's office and Sasuke was near the door behind me.
"What's going on here?" I asked, trying to put some steel into my backbone. I can't believe this! I was sitting in the Hokage's office! Literally! And this was the legendary Tsunade-sama! The thought alone was nerve wrecking enough as it is.
"Why did you guys bring me here?" I demanded as I looked from Sasuke to Kakashi, swivelling in my chair as I did this, "What do they know, Sasuke? What did you tell them?"
I could feel tears and bile crawling up my eyes and throat. Please don't let Sasuke tell them anything! Please dear God, don't take me away from my Mother!
"Uzumaki Naruto..." Tsunade began, "I know of your parents, personally, I might add. And now I know about you as well."
Not being able to take the suspense anymore, I turned around to glare at Sasuke with tears blurring my eyes.
"What did you tell them, Sasuke?" WHAT DID YOU TELL THEM?" I yelled at him in desperation.
He looked at me with those cold unflinching onyx eyes of his without the slightest bit of emotion. And then he sighed slightly before he answered.
"Everything."
And that was when I knew that this was probably the end of the line for me and my mom. Here was the fan and there was the shit and you couldn't do anything at all but to just breathe in the shitty scent that would be blown right in your face. It was worse than when Sasuke had used his sharingan on me 'cause at least when he used it, a small part of me knew it was just an illusion. But this time, this time was real and I was powerless to stop it. It was just like the worse scenario you could possibly imagine yourself being put in and that horrid thing actually came true.
"No!" I choked out a sob and I buried my face in my hands.
I think after that, Tsunade-sama was trying to comfort me or something and that silver haired guy was patting on my shoulder. But it all seemed so vague and I don't think I can hear their voices at all during those few minutes...or maybe it was an eternity. Everything just seemed to move in slow motion and the voices completely disappeared. All I could see after that was Sasuke glaring down at me with those menacing eyes of his and saying something to me but his mouth just seemed to move and no sounds came out.
"He he he," I giggled at him, because his mouth moving slowly like that made him looked like a gaping fish, "You look like a retarded fish, Sasuke!"
I think he got seriously pissed off at me for saying that cause his face turned really stormy then and I felt myself being suddenly whisked away by someone, possibly that silver haired male. The silver haired guy was kind of hot in an older more mature way now that I think about it...Was that why Sasuke looked so jealous now that the older man was holding me? Probably. Well, sah sah and sucks to you, Sasuke-teme! You're not a very nice man!
And then all of a sudden, my mind went completely blank and I cried and laughed at the same time which was totally weird but it felt just so exciting and at the same time frightening! I don't think I can remember what's happened? Who are these people? And what the hell have they done to me? Where was I? No, the proper question would probably be who am I?
I can't remember anymore...
A/N: Well, here we are with the eleventh chapter! XD I hope you guys liked it. I know it's probably weird and has a ton of spelling errors, typos and grammar mistakes but I am just sooo sleepy right now and concentrating is just so hard when you're sleep deprived. I have been so busy with internship life that it has given me absolutely no time whatsoever during the weekdays to continue writing fanfiction.
There are a couple of things about this chapter that I would like to point out. First of all, I am not quite so sure whether or not when Kakashi was ANBU, Itachi was also part of it. I don't know for sure if the time line is correct but I read several articles and they all seem to have stated the same thing which was; Kakashi became ANBU sometime after the war and he was part of ANBU during the Nine Tails Attack on Konoha. Itachi was probably around five years old, I think? If my math is correct that is...Is it safe to assume that when he was thirteen and joined ANBU, Kakashi was still part of it? Well, even if I'm wrong, for the purpose of this fic, I would just leave things as they are.
Yeah, there's a lot of mystery and shit going on with Kushina and Naruto's life story...I'll shed some more light later on in the next chapter, hopefully. I'll try and update the next one by next weekend. I'm so sorry but on weekdays I'm usually left completely drained from working my butt off (frm 9 to 8).
Give me reviews, okay? Cuz I looooove me some sugar! ;)