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I know I let my OC go through some hardship but it will get better after some time and other well known charakers will make they entrace.
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Chapter 14: Waking up
3rd POV
After the dust began to settle down the ninjas worked repairing the damage on the village. The damage was lesser than it would have been without the measurements namely strategically placed groups of Uchihas winning back a big deal of trust from the village with that.
Hiruzen managed to survive his fight with Orochimaru he didn´t sealed the former Hokage, they disappeared through the loop hole in Edo Tensei releasing themselves back to Peace after a good fight seeing that their village was in good hands. Cutting of Orochimarus hands Hiruzen attacked one of the sound four to release the barrier letting ANBU jump to aid, getting the pedosnake to retreat.
Kabuto was caught sneaking into the hospital room from Sasuke instantly being killed by an Uchicha Itachi on his way to Yuukis room.
Danzo tried also a coup but only managed to give Hiruzen enough evidence to get rid of him for all.
Ibiki had his fun with three cooperative soundninjas giving up all the information they had to the Hokage even that one how they even landed in capture. He thought it really funny how three nobodies managed it to signing Sonds death sentence only by attacking one girl, apparently the wrong girl. On the other hand he for once was impressed with Itachis handiwork, he reduced this ninja to begging things that flinched and screamed only at the mention of the repeat of their experience with Tsukuyomi.
The Hokage feeling his aged called in Tsunade as his successor sending Naruto and Jiraiya to retrieve her as soon as Naruto is out of the hospital.
In his remaining time as Hokage he gave out orders to find every bit of Information on the location of the Akatsuki members and to keep track of them until the time is ready. He also prepared the Information he got from Yuuki for Tsunade, the only thing left to be dealt with was Yuuki who still laid unconscious in the hospital visited by her friends and an Uchiha Itachi watching over her never leaving his post letting Shisui take charge of ANBU for that time.
In the hospital
It was now two days since Itachi brought her into the hospital he never left her side beside short little breaks to shower and eat. His family heard of the incident that lead to him activating his mangekyou but he didn´t care, so much feelings were running through his body mainly worry for her and a chocking heart wrenching feeling at the thought almost losing her. He didn´t want this to happen ever again.
Hearing of Yuukis near death all of her friends gathered, pulled Naruto and Sasuke out of their own hospital beds and went straight for her room seeing for themselves her condition.
Opening the door they were greeted with the sight of an unconscious Yuuki and an Uchiha Itachi sitting in a chair beside her looking dead tried.
"Brother" Sasuke came up to Itachi standing beside him his eyes never leaving the pale form of Yuuki now more resembling her namesake than ever, only to conclude that it didn´t suit her.
"How-"
"Instable, didn´t move or woke up" he answered shortly that shut them all up, who now stand all around her bed. Shikamaru standing opposite from Itachi took Yuukis hand carefully shortly marvelling at softness of her skin, he wanted to touch her face and caress it but there were too much people around for him, watching him.
"Yuuki...wake up soon...please" he spoke out and tried to fight down his tears.
"Yeah you better do Yuuki I want you to meet someone, a new friend" Naruto said placing his hand over Shikas and Yuukis.
The others did the same telling her to get better soon, but they were shattered helping built up some destroyed buildings and get to do missions or training, the only ones who nearly never left their place beside her were, Itachi, Sasuke and Shikamaru taking turns to leave for eating, showring and a bit sleep. Waiting patiently for her to wake up.
On one occasion Team Gai came to visit or more like Lee came and dragged the others along, he heard of a brave girl fighting and wanted to see the beautiful flower.
Lee swung open the door only to stop in his tracks when he was meet with three death glares from the self-assigned guards.
Brave Tenten stepped forward.
"How is she?" She asked nearing the bed to see better followed by Lee and Neji. She gasped when she saw Yuuki bandaged up and pale lying there unmoving beside the up and down of her chest.
"How did that happen?"
The males were silent until Itachi spoke up, telling for the first time about his finding of her.
"I found her. She dispelled the Genjutsu that was placed over the area only to be noticed by some soundninjas, she fought and lost" He didn´t looked up, no one knew of this so all were surprised, but Shikamaru understand his silent about this, would the others know of this hell would break lose.
Neji now with some opened eyes through Naruto and the story behind her hospitalization got him to rethink his first option on her of a weak no one. She fought knowing of the consequence and it looked like she had some friends in high placed seeing Itachi sitting here.
The other occasion was Naruto bringing his new friend Gaara. (For knowing Sound orchestrated everything and killing the Kazekage Hiruzen forgave the Sandnins allowing them to stay and rest before going home) Naruto told Gaara a lot about his first friend Yuuki on the way to her room, how she fought for his friendship defending him despite knowing of the demon inside him. How she made others see him too becoming his friends. Hearing all this and now seeing this person lying in a hospital bed in an unstable condition made her seem so fragile, but for the first time in his live Shukaku didn´t desired blood, he don´t want her blood. his eyes widened at that and he looked at Naruto.
"Can I visit again?"
"Sure, I think she would like you as a friend, and when she won´t wake up before you must go I´m sure she will come and visit you in Sand" Naruto grinned.
"And I will come with her" both soon left feeling the tension from the three other shinobis in the room that didn´t forget sands involvement, the Hokage might have forgiven them and sound was the main actor, but it would be better to let them alone until they calmed down.
3rd POV end
With Yuuki
First everything was dark and I knew I was unconscious but then I felt it, the same sensation I felt when I died the first time.
"NO! I don´t want to die again" I fought against the pull but it was stronger and everything turned white like the last time.
"There you are little one" a voice neither one of a man nor of a woman called out into the void room. Turning I saw a neutral person not showing any hint of man or woman or its age, clad in a long plain white garment stood there looking at me with piercing golden eyes.
"Who are you?" I asked fearing the answer.
"The only god that matters, live and death" he answered coming nearer towering over me by two heads.
´Well...shit´
"Am I dead?" My voice shook, I don´t want to be dead not again after I found friends and something to live for.
"No" a simple answer but until know the best answer in my life the relief was great but at the same time it uncovers a new question.
"Why I´m here then?"
"For healing, you nearly died so I will lend you a hand" he reached out to me and laid his hand down on my head.
´Lend me a hand?´
3rd POV
The dead were mourned and Naruto left together with Jiraiya searching for Tsunade and training.
Gaara and his people also left for home thanking the Hokage for his generosity hoping silently that Naruto kept his promise and would come to visit together with this Yuuki the first person who Shukaku doesn´t want to kill asking him only got him one answer.
"Even I don´t want to hurt someone like her, even we monster have principles"
In the following week Yuukis condition got worse and she had a heart attack, the doctors managed to stabilise her again, but this incident made three shinobis realizing that they are powerless, they are strong but in this situation they can´t do anything. And then Ino one day after that snapped at them finally.
"You god dam males get your heads out of your arses, you are so pathetic to watch!" She got some serious death glares but she ignored them in favour for their wellbeing.
"Look at yourself you are the strongest of your generation sitting here running yourselves down slowly watching over Yuuki, sweet but do you think Yuuki would like it to hear that you disregarded your duties running down your health and ignoring your family and friends!? Do something meaningful like Naruto fetching or next Hokage!" She lectured them finally getting through to them with her comment on Yuukis displeasure about what they are doing, because they knew Ino was right about that.
They all returned to their duties, Itachi to ANBU, Shikamaru accepting his new Chunin Rank and leaving for a mission and Sasuke like the others in his team didn´t made Chunin so he returned to train, but they still visited Yuuki whenever they found time hoping that Naruto would return soon with Tsunade.
After three weeks after Naruto left he returned with Tsunade directly leading her first into the hospital to Yuuki not to the old Hokage.
"Brat where are you leading me!?" Tsunade shouted stopping Naruto who turned around and showing her for the first time a dead serious face.
"My Friend needs your help first, she is important to me, and not just to me to a lots of other peoples, too" He went on and opened the door revealing that said friend to Tsunade.
"Please...help her" he pleaded standing beside her clearly seeing that her condition wasn´t any better than before he left. Tsunade hearing the emotions in his voice shooed him a bit away and laid her hand down on the forehead of the pale girl channelling her Chakra to analyse the situation.
"Ne ne Baa-san can you help her?" Asked anxiously.
"No" Naruto looked distressed at Tsunade who had a grim face.
"She will wake up, but there is something that I need to investigate." Tsunade continued while standing up and left Naruto with that hope, returning every day to check the mysterious flow of this girls chakra and even let Shizune look at that. She digs out the old report of the doctors out who diagnosed Yuuki once.
After an additional week of checking and testing in the labour beside reading up dusty old books and scrolls fuelled by the mystery and the other people who came to her pleading to heal their dear friend, even two Uchihas came not directly pleading more like ordered her to heal her, surprised her to no end never heard before of Uchihas caring. Then on the last day of that week after reading a secret scroll from the closed library she found the answer.
"I never thought this possible" Tsunade said after looking on the results of some test and rereading the passage of the scroll.
"What did you found Tsunade-sama" Shizune asked with Tonton in her arm truly interest in the solution of the mystery of that girl..
"I will tell you later, Hiruzen wants to talk to me" she stormed out of the labour with the file of the girl, intending to consult that old man about this result.
3rd POV End
Back with Yuuki
While I was in this realm I didn´t know that weeks already passed, for me it was only a little moment. The hand of the god just settled down on my head and I had now the chance to ask the question that burned on my tongue since I was born again.
"Why me?"
He gazed at me with his neutral face getting a warm look of care in his eyes.
"You are one of the rarest and purest souls I have ever seen in my long existence and I have seen a lots of souls but yours pure white emitting a golden light was the purest of them. A soul so gentle not able to hurt someone, caring for every life even when it is one of a murderer with the undying desire to help the weak ones even when not being strong for yourself.
But where light is, is also darkness you were befallen from darkness that ate at you, but still in the death you fought it, it impressed me, so I gave you a new live in a world that is in need of your light and in return will be able to erase the darkness in you"
He stated looking into me at my soul and shifted his hand from my head down to my heart.
´My light?´
´Itachi calls you that´
I looked up to him and he nodded certainly knowing my thoughts.
"You will soon wake up, continue your work, it will be a long time before we see each other again" He and the white light slowly faded and made place for darkness again.
"-waking up-" I heard voices around me and slowly I opened my eyes only to close them again blinded by the brightness of the ceiling light.
"Yuuki, Yuuki can you hear me?" A voice sounded at my side early familiar.
´This Voice...there is no mistake´
"Shikamaru" I rasped through my throat that felt like a desert, I was sat upright and hold a glass to my lips with cool water. Drinking slowly I opened my eyes again seeing the person that shifted me and was holding the glass.
´Tsunade´
She looked good with her blond hair in pigtails and her light brown eyes and she was surprisingly not even tipsy.
´Not like the chocolate ones from Shikamarus´
"Shikamaru out, go tell the others that you can visit when I´m done with her" She ordered handing me a second glass of water.
"Why?" Shikamaru sounded like he really didn´t want to leave he crossed his arms and got a defiant look on his face.
"She need to be undressed for the examination, so out with you" she orders again throwing him out of the room.
"You have some persisting friends. It was nearly impossible to get this damm Uchihas to hold their post after hearing you waking up. Seems like my head ANBU used his position to have you guarded and got that little information even before me, little brat." Tsunaded ranted for a while letting me blink at her in some disbelieve.
´He did? What the hell was going on while I was out?´
´Good question better ask it out loud´
"What happened?" My throat didn´t hurt anymore so my voice sounded better than before but still held an edge to it.
"This would be my tale to tell" Hiruzen entered my room locking the door behind him.
He sat on my other side beginning to tell me what happened while I was unconscious.
"Some buildings are rebuilt thanks to you we could hold the damage to a minimum even the causalities weren´t high, we both know that we could only do so much" He let out a long breath with some smoke.
"You were bought into this hospital by Itachi, it was a close call Yuuki. He didn´t leave your side and after your friends heard of your condition they came straight to you and two other ones teamed up with Itachi, you know which one right? Shikamaru and Sasuke. Beside that we manage to get some information about Orochimaru out of some hostages sadly Kabuto was killed so we couldn´t question him. I also sent people out to locate the Akatzuki members and motion them with the orders to protect the Jinchuuriki when they stumble over one." He finished and then looked over at Tsunade.
"Hiruzen gave me the scroll and let me in on the secret who wrote this so we could work together on the next problem called Akatsuki, but I wasn´t lazy, I healed your friend Lee and made researches on your unique situation finding an answer" That got my attention.
"You did?"
"It wasn´t easy for a little one you had a really big puzzle there for me but yes I did after all I´m the greatest mednin in the five great countries"
I looked expecting on her waiting for my answer if I could be able to be a ninja.
"I try to hold it simple. It only happens maybe to one out of a million and is really a random happening. It happened to the time you were around 11 and 12 the age most girls began their monthly cycle like you did, but at the same time something else happened. You entering puberty lead your chakra to your uterus beginning to form a nourishing bed for any coming foetus and also it builds a shield around it, because of this most of your chakra is used up already render you unable to even execute the simples ninjutsu or even to walk up a tree."
"I don´t understand that fully what do you mean with nourishing ground for a foetus?" I was really confused the shield I understood somehow but the other thing and that combination really let me on a loss.
"Simply said you have a super uterus"
That got her a more puzzled look from me than before.
"Should you ever have a man, you do not really need to try to become pregnant with this the chance for that without protection will be by 99%. Furthermore the nourishing ground simply said your children will be strong, really strong and should their father have a blood limit they will inherit it for sure and not even that they will have it enchanted through you. The last is the shield that will protect them from any outer and inner danger making the chance to lose them through any occasion at near 0%."
I absorbed that information carefully already understanding the decision that will come.
´Simply said you have a super womb to have super strong children...crazy´
´Yeah may be but truth be told I´m even glad about that to hear that the possibility of having children is so high and to lose them so low´
´But it has its price, you will never be a ninja´
"I may be able to reserve this, BUT that would be permanently and I can´t redo it then, it would be even possible that you would become unfertile"
´And here a choice again and not a small one´
´...´
Like I once told Sakura I closed my eyes letting my inner thoughts wander to me being a ninja helping the people and defending them. I felt happy about that prospect only to feel a very sharp pain of loss going through me and a scene showed up. Myself sitting on a porch in a garden of a traditional house having a little baby on my arm feeding it while watching a boy and his little sister playing ninja running around. Some other women entered. Hinata, Sakura and Ino with their own children coming up and beginning to chatter with me.
The scene changed and showed me tucking my children in and reading them a goodnight story and kissing them goodnight.
My heart clenched by the prospect of giving that up so I made my decision.
´I always wanted my own family´
I opened my eyes and locked my gaze with Tsunades.
"I want a family" at that she smiled at me.
"I thought so, I heard really much about you and thinking of that I knew that you would choose to have children" She even smiled brightly at me.
"You have made a good choice, when you didn´t I would have punched you so long until you understand that a life without founding an own family is cold and hard...I would have given myself as an example for such bad decision"
´Right she can´t have children because of the rebirth jutsu´
´Oh...´
´She really would have wiped the floor with you to make you understand´
"When we are by family...Yuuki" My head snapped to him cracking my neck in the progress.
´Everything that begins like that sounds like bad news´
´They are dead...that is what he tries to tell me´
"Your Parents are dead, your father died in duty fighting the soundnins, your mother on the other side was unfortunately crushed by your collapsing house that was hit by a summon"
I hang my head.
´He didn´t felt the need to tell me´
´He is a god why should he?´
´...´
´They are in a better place now don´t be too sad, you know better than anyone that is the flow of the things living and dying´
That maybe seems too cold for other ones but I didn´t shed any tear for them they will watch over me from another place, together with my beloved grandfather from my old world.
"I see...So what now?" Hiruzen and Tsunade were startled by the lack of crying and both gave me suspicious looks.
"Don´t look like that just because my view of the death is different, crying won´t bring them back and won´t help me. I believe firmly that they are in a better place and watching over me from there so I better make them proud don´t you think?" I smiled at them and they understood nodding slowly.
Hiruzen cleared his throat.
"The Akimichi clan, Yamanaka clan, Nara clan, Inuzuka clan, Aburame clan, Uchiha and even the Hyuga clan offered to give you shelter" with each listed clan Tsunades yawn descended more towards the floor and even I was surprised that all of them offered that.
"I don´t want to impose on any of them...can I have an own flat?"
"You would need money and a job for that" Hiruzen reminded.
"When I beat Shikaku in a shogi match will you let me work under him?" I was fast thinking getting our plan for my 16 birthday a bit early into motion. Hiruzen mustered me.
"You are sure of this?"
"Yes it may be a bit early but I could pass as a genius and everyone knows that I´m a friend from the Naras, no one would question this, I want to be independent standing on my own feet."
´You really have an issue with accepting help from others´
´Why should I when I can do this alone?´
"With all this attention from the clan I think it also better for you when we seal the result that Tsunade found"
"So you will let me have my match with Shikaku?" Hiruzen released a long wary sight.
"That doesn´t lies by me anymore Tsunade is now Hokage" I turned to said lady giving her a pleading look and she too sighted.
"Alright but you must win that match then I will give you a flat, the job and your independence"
"Thank you very much" I bowed my head to her to show her my gratitude.
"That won´t be an easy feat" She huffed giving me a warning glare.
"I will hope for it" I grinned madly at the prospect of a really intensive match making Tsunade blinking at me in confusion and Hiruzen laughing.
"Are you ready for your friends?" He asked as we heard a lot of footsteps nearing the door.
"If I´m ready or not they will find a way inside this room" I laughed hearty at the antics of my dear friends.
Tsunade and Hiruzen stood up from their chair.
"I will tell them about your parents death and your decision to life alone so that they take it easy on you" I gave him a thankful bow and he winked at me opening the door greeting my friends together with Tsunade. I heard them talking and whispering outside then the door was opened and they all flow inside hugging me giving me their consult for my parents death and began chatting to get me up to date on the current gossip on of that about a certain Uchiha heir caring for me.
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