Chapter 3 A Home or a Prison
The sound of singing birds filled the air as Utakata opened his eyes only to find himself lying on a simple bed mat in what appeared to be a simple traditional bedroom. The floor was wooden and aside from some small tables, nothing seemed to be in the room. A sliding door lead out somewhere but it had frosted glass making it impossible to see anything besides outlines of what appeared to be trees.
"What happened?" inquired Utakata as he sat up only to see that Hotaru was sound asleep beside him. He jumped back as Hotaru snored ever so softy in her sleep, for some reason she did not wake up as he left the room. What he found surprised and confused him, instead of a prison cell or some other form of containment however what he found was a traditional set up for a home, living room with low table and couch. A dining room attached to the kitchen with a table large enough to seat six people. Even so the rooms where spars as if it was designed to be filled in with time with different items.
"Where am I?" inquired Utakata as one of the sliding panels moved to show a small table sitting out on a poach. Sitting out there was a woman which looked to be either in her late 20's or early 30's she had her long blond hair pulled back into a ponytail. She had Kumogakure headband wrapped around her neck but she wore no weapons and was dressed in a simple pair of pants and a t-shirt.
"I see your up," said the woman as she took a drink from the tea glass in front of her. "Please sit, I am sure you are confused and we have much to talk about."
"Who are you?" inquired Utakata
"Yugito Nii of Kumogakure, well I guess I was of Kumogakure they think I am dead now." said Yugito "Just like your village likely thinks you're dead."
"You're a jinchuriki aren't you?" inquired Utakata as she raised up two fingers.
"I have the two tailed Matatabi sealed inside me." Confirmed Yugito "For the moment at least."
"For the moment?" inquired Utakata as he sat down.
"I don't know their full plan but part of it had to do with merging my chakra with Matatabi, in sense she was will die and I take all her chakra," explained Yugito "I am betting they do the same with your demon what tail number?"
"Six." answered Utakata
"Well then you're the highest demon they taken, that leaves only the seventh, Eight and ninth I believe." stated Yugito as she thought back.
Flashback
The sound of running footsteps on concert filled the air as a lone figure ran through the storm water tunnels which ran under the ninja village of Kumogakure. The figure looked back just in time to see a three bladed scythe flying toward her, with a graceful backflip she landing on top of the stream of water in the main tunnel. Her long blonde hair fell behind her shoulder as she looked into the darkness of the tunnel she had just run out of. As she waited she prepared herself for battle, she did a quick mental check of her weapons and looked around her environment for the possible escape route.
"Ah, so we finally have the two tailed cornered," stated one of the pair, which had been chasing her through the water systems. She scanned the two men with her black eyes, one was tall thin with his hair pulled back and the other was just a hair shorter with strange very green eyes. Both of them wore the all black with red clouds of the Akatsuki.
"Yugito Nii, do you want to come peacefully?" inquired the man with the green eyes.
"Please say no, it will give me a chance to practice my faith," stated the man with the scythe.
"We are not hear to carry out your long and pointless ritual, Haden." said the other with some announce in his voice.
"I will never give in to you monsters, this place will be your tomb not mine." snapped the 29 year old jonnin Yugito Nii
"I was hoping you would say that," admitted Hidan as suddenly the sound of ringing came bouncing off the concrete walls of the water removal system.
"What the?" inquired the green eyed, Akatsuki member as he turned his head toward the right to see a figure walked toward them. It was a tall man, dressed as a monk with a large brimmed hat covering his face and in his hand was a traditional Khakkhara. As he walked across the water, the rings Khakkhara walking stick rung out filling the tunnels with sound. He came to a stop only a couple of steps away from both the Akatsuki and Yugito Nii.
"Who are you?" inquired the green-eyed Akatsuki
"Who cares Kakuzu, it is just someone else who I can feel their wonderful pain." laughed Hidan as more ringing filled the air. The two Akatsuki members turned to see another similar dressed man coming from the left and finally another one this one a woman came up behind them.
"Stand down, Akatsuki." ordered the first monk, in a strangely young but wise voice "You know not what you are doing."
"Well this is laughable we have three monks armed with sticks," laughed Hidan as he prepared his scythe for the slaughter. With a mighty throw he aimed to take the head off the first monk, however his blade simply bounced off an inviable barrier of some kind.
"Kashi, if you would?" inquired the first monk as the second male waved his hand almost laxity as the two Akatsuki members where flung against the wall as if it was nothing. What struck Yugito was that while the figure clearly had the body types of a man his hands where long and delicate with green figure nails, he also had a tattoo of a yellow flower on the top of his hand. The concrete wall seamed to soften as the two of them where pulled inside up until only their heads where on the surface. Then at once it hardened again trapping them within.
"What the?" inquired Yugito Nii, she was still on edge but these three strange figures had defeated two Akatsuki members with a flick of the wrist and no sign of a hand sign of any kind.
"Do not worry Yugito Nii, we mean you no harm." said the female member as she moved forward as the two males stood back and watched. They seemed more interested in herself then in the two missing ninjas which would have fetched enough money to let all three retire for life. "We come in peace."
"Who are you?" inquired Yugito
"Well that is hard to explain but I am Mehit and the one which Haden tried to kill is Raitaro." explained Mehit "I am sure a smart ninja such as yourself caught Kashi's name."
"And what do you want?" inquired Yugito
"To save your life, see you and your fellow Jinchuriki are very important to us and we need to protect you from men like these." explained Mehit
"Some job you're doing, last intel report I had said they had gotten ahold of five of the nine." snapped Yugito
"Actually that is far from the truth, we faked the captured of all but one of the demons they claimed to have taken. In truth they only have the one tailed Shukaku." reported Mehit "We were sadly un prepared for that attack, we expected the village to defend their Kage better. That was our blunder."
"Mehit the longer we are here the more chance we have to be discovered," stated Kashi in a strangely musical voice "We need to get going."
"Yes, now Yugito would you please come with us." Stated Mehit
"You're not going anywhere!" yelled Haden
"Sleep." ordered Kashi with another wave of his hand as both Akatsuki members heads fell down and sleep took them.
"See we will insert memories into these two making them believe they have beaten you and taken your demon when in fact you will be living in a safe location until the time is right." offered Mehit
"And if I should turn down your help." Snapped Yugito
"Well we will not take no for an answer but we prefer if you came on your own free will." admitted Mehit "Don't worry you will see your family and friends again when the time is right, in the mean time you will be safe with us."
"I don't think so." stated Yugito as went to move toward her weapon pouch only to suddenly have her hand stop. It was as if her body was no longer under her control, she watched as her own hand moved to undo the straps, which held her weapon pouch in place. With two simple clicks, the pouch fell off her side and down into the water.
"What the?" inquired Yugito as she began to show fear. Suddenly her other hand moved to her back pouch and undid that before her until body bent over. Her mind began to race as her hand pulled out the hidden knives she had in both of her legs and the small of her back. Her hands even pulled out the small needles she had hidden in her ponytail. There was no way these people could have known the location of all her weapons but she now stood before them totally unarmed. Once her own arms had finished betraying her they came together and where held out away from her body.
"You're wondering how this is possible, how your own body could betray you." stated Mehit as she reached into her own pack and pulled a pair of ninja handcuffs. The cuffs went around her entire hand locking her fingers in place stopping her from doing any hand signs cutting her off from her last offensive option. "I understand why you are afraid but you have nothing to worry about."
"Well aside from this." said Raitaro as Mehit flinched as a razor sharp black blade ran across her lower arm, it was not a deep cut but it was enough to draw blood.
"Raitaro, I could have given her a warning," offered Mehit more pissed off with the other cloaked figure. Raitaro shrugged his shoulders before dropping the blood-covered knife into the water, almost instantly the water began to boil. Then before Yugito's eyes a perfect copy of herself came up out of the water, she had seen almost every kind of clone and this one was the best looking one she had ever seen.
"A blood clone." answered Raitaro as he moved some of the fake Yugito's hair out of her eyes. "The best clone every developed, it can take a beating and has all the illation of life minus the ability to talk or move in any way."
"Which is a major flaw but great for our uses," reported Kashi as he moved toward away from the Akatsuki members, for the first time Yugito noticed that they were free but lying on the ground. "The job is done, they will wake up thinking that they just beat her in a long battle. Our cover is still intact."
"Good, then let's get going," ordered Raitaro as all three slammed the front of their poles down. Then before Yugito eyes the area around her began to fall apart as pieces of concreate fell into the water giving the appearance of a battle. She was so focus on that, that she did not notice that she along with the strangers had begun to sink below the water. Only when the water reached her chest did she notice but it was too late, her body was not her own and she disappeared below the waves.
End Flashback
"So this group that is holding us has five jinchuriki?" inquired Utakata
"No only four, the Akatsuki actually got the one tailed, these demons while good are not God," countered Yugito as she took a drink of tea before looking out toward the village. That is when Utakata saw that while he first registered the background to be nothing more than a normal small to medium fishing village it was in fact something very different. There was no humans in the streets instead it was full of those creatures and other kind of creatures he had never seen before.
"What are they?" inquired Utakata
"I can't fully answer those questions but from what I gather they are what remains of the first races to walk the earth, humans killed them all besides for the population here. They learned how to take human form to hid but it wasn't enough they are still what they are even if they look human." Stated Yugito
"I have seen four of them." explained Utakata as he remembered those human like creatures he had seen.
"Which ones?" inquired Yugito
"Kitsunes, Rhyus, Jorogumos and Yoseis." reported Utakata as Yugito nodded her head.
"Well besides those there are the eight others for twelve total, there used to be others but somehow the ancient humans killed them off." explained Yugito "There entire population is limited basically to this village."
"How?" inquired Utakata "How did they kill them?
"Don't know how our ancient ancestors did it but they did." explained Yugito "They had to had an easy way because they did it before justus."
"What do they want?" asked Utakata
"They have too small of a population and because of so many generations of inbreeding they are about to die out." Came another voice as Utakata looked to see an other woman about of age with Yugito, however she had short straight brown hair, she was dressed in a light purple sundress the same shade as the marks under her brown eyes.
"Who are you?" inquired Utakata
"Rin Nohara of the Hidden Leaf and I have been here since I was 14." explained Rin as she sat down on the other side of the table. Yugito quickly poured the new comer a cup of tea, as she poured Rin pulled out a small pile vile full of pills and took two of them with her tea. "That was fifteen years ago."
"Fifteen years?" stated Utakata
"Better here than dead." stated Rin as she touched her chest, right about where her heart was. "Which is where I would have been if they hadn't taken me."
"So you're a jinchuriki as well?" inquired Utakata
"I was for a few hours," confirmed Rin "Madara Uchiha wanted to use me to sneak the three tails into the Leaf but my teammate Kakashi stopped me by killing me. Well I helped by jumping in the way of his lightning blade."
"Kakashi Hatake the copycat ninja?" inquired Utakata as Rin smiled a bit
"Yes, I was the one who transplanted the Sharingan eye from our teammate into his body," explained Rin with a small smile of pride. "I haven't seen him since that day, but we do get some news from the outside."
"Well you're the luckily one you actually get to leave." said Yugito as she held up her wrist, there was a seal of some kind implanted into her very skin.
"That is an explosion seal," stated Utakata as Yugito nodded her head.
"Yes, they put one on you and that woman you came in with," explained Yugito "If anyone of us leave this place they all explode, I mean all not just your friend. I would go and every other human here. It's how they keep control over us. Not even the best ninja in the world could disarm every one of the bombs before they explode and since they brought someone you care about here even if you're heartless you aren't likely to risk them."
"Makes a sick sense I guess," admitted Utakata
"It has worked for a long time," confirmed Rin
"So if they have a small population why do they want us?" inquired Utakata
"I don't know the master plan, they don't trust me with that, I was a former human after all," stated Rin "But it has something to do with the effects of demon chakra and the chances of a successful turn?"
"Wait you said you're a former human?" inquired Utakata as he looked at the woman "They turned you into one of them?"
"Yes, that is why the Jinchuriki are here we were the test subjects," explained Rin "From my understanding they wanted to find a way to raised the percentage people who can make it through the turn alive."
"What do you mean?" inquired Utakata
"You have seen what they look like do you really think every person can live through a change like that?" inquired Yugito "Your body is changed, new limbs added, new organs and everything else. It is a wonder that they can change people and have those live, most people don't."
"What is it like?" inquired Utakata as Yugito looked toward Rin.
"I was on death's door when they brought me here, so they changed me right away. I can hardly remember it," explained Rin as she tried not to remember the flashes of memory, which came flooding forward from the moment she lost her humanity. She remembered being warm, wet and the sound of bones snapping and flesh tearing. "You and your girlfriend in there will not be changed until the time is right, they aren't doing any more research they are about to move forward with their plans."
"She is not my girlfriend, she is my student." explained Utakata as the two women shrugged.
"Girlfriend, student it makes no matter she should be safe when the turn comes because of you." explained Rin, suddenly a young girl maybe 14 or so came running around the corner, unlike almost everyone else he had seen, this young woman seemed to be human. She was tall with long right red hair, which framed her face showing violent eyes, she had a slender frame, which showed promise to become very beautiful as she grew into womanhood.
"Aunt Rin, I finally did it!" reported the girl at the top of her lungs, as Rin smiled. In truth, the girl had no blood relations to her but she had been with her since just after she was born.
"Great job, Mieko." confirmed Rin "Make sure you show me tomorrow when we train, I want to make sure you master it in a combat situation."
"Of course Rin-sensei," said Meiko as she looked at her newest neighbor. "Who are you?"
"He is a new arrival, his name is Utakata." reported Yugito as Meiko blinked.
"Oh, do you have any news?" inquired Meiko "Maybe about the Leaf village?"
"Not really I met up with a team from the Leaf before I was taken here, wherever here is but they really didn't say much in the ways of news." explained Utakata as Meiko looked down in disappointment. "You would think how much Naruto talks he would have said something."
"Na…ru…to?" inquired Meiko in a shaking voice "Naruto Uzumaki?"
"Yes, you know him?" inquired Utakata as tears formed in the girls eyes.
"No, but I should, he's my big brother." answered Meiko "Tell me everything?"
"What, big brother?" inquired Utakata "As far as I know Naruto is an orphan."
"He shouldn't be," said Meiko as she lowered her head, she was close to tears. "Mom and Dad where taken on the day he was born and held here, I was born on this island. Please tell me everything? He is my brother."
"Wait are you a demon too?" inquired Utakata
"No, not yet at least. They know that if they turn my family that they would have no way of controlling my parents from going to get my brother." explained Meiko
"It is hard to control the Yellow Flash without threatening his family," explained Rin as the new comers eyes widened.
"Wait the yellow flash of the Leaf, the 4th Hokage?" inquired Utakata
"I normally go by Minato." corrected a male voice as Utakata looked to see a man who looked to be an older version of Naruto standing beside a woman who looked a lot like Meiko. "So please tell us about our son."
Well I hope you liked this chapter and the introduction of Naruto's sister and that his parents are still alive. I know some people may be surprised that I have not introduced Naruto yet, but that is coming. Until next time please keep reading, thanks Wilkins75.