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Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters here that belong to Naruto that I put into this story except for my own Original Characters. Neither do I own any of the character in any of the crossovers I do. I'm just using them in this fan fiction and I have no money so don't bother suing me. You'll just lose money instead of gaining any. And remember to leave a review!
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The Gathering –
Sunagakure, literally Village Hidden Among Sand is one of the five great ninja villages, and as such has a Kage as its leader, known as the Kazekage. With its military forces being scaled down by the Land of Winds lord, the Fourth Kazekage realized that they had to increase the quality of each ninja to maintain a military force. As more time passed, the lord started commissioning Konoha with requests he should have been making to Sunagakure. On top of that, he had begun cutting back on Sunagakure's military budget.
After hearing about the attacks on the Leaf the Kazekage was overjoyed as this would mean that the Leaf would be spending more time on rebuilding their village then doing missions. The Sand would be taking jobs that the Leaf would normally have been taking from them. With so many ninjas injured in each of the attacks and the fact that the Leaf were so badly beaten by much smaller forces it would mean that a lot of people would be looking elsewhere for ninjas to do missions. And the plot that the Sound leader had sent to him would be much easier when the exams would begin. But then everything changed when he was watching the news two nights ago reading over the letters sent to him. He had just finished the letter that the Queen of Metal, a major trader to the Land of the Wind, as they control the trade roads from the West where many of the imported crops they needed to feed their people came from.
Standing in his office was the best ninja team that the Sand Village had produced yet. The first of the team and the oldest Temari who is his daughter. She carries a giant, iron fan on her back, which she uses as a powerful ninja tool; she specializes in long-range combat, and has demonstrated herself to be a keen analyst in combat.
The second and the middle child is Kankuro, and is a ninja who specializes in ninja puppetry. At first he appears, that he's carrying a large marionette wrapped in bandages on his back called Karasu. In combat Kankuro tends to use Karasu in combination with a technique similar to a Kawarimi no Jutsu (Body Replacement Technique); he first lures his opponents into getting close to Karasu (disguised as himself), then unveils himself from the bandages to finish his opponent off. His puppets are also equipped with various traps and numerous concealed weapons, such as hidden poison-coated blades, poison gas, and projectile launchers. In addition, the heads and limbs of his puppets can be disengaged from their respective bodies and used as projectiles themselves.
Then there is Gaara his third child the youngest, brother of Temari and Kankuro , his older siblings. As a child, the one-tailed Shukaku was sealed within Gaara during birth on the order by him, his father. This was done with a possession jutsu by one of Sunagakurs elders, a woman named Chiyo. Because a sacrifice was needed, Gaaras mother, Karura, was used. Before she died, Karura cursed Sunagakure, hoping Gaara would avenge her death.
The reason Gaara's own father had inflicted such a fate on him was due to the country's feudal lord slowly weakening the Hidden Village, minimizing their ability to defend themselves. The feudal lord even began offering jobs to other hidden villages rather than his own. Seeing what was happening to his village, the Fourth Kazekage realized that their ninja would have to be of much higher quality than ordinary ninja to compete, and Gaara was to be their ultimate weapon.
Gaara was trained by his father, but raised mainly by his uncle Yashamaru. Being host to Shukaku gave Gaara almost instinctive control over sand. In addition, the sand itself guarded him, making Gaara a near-impossible person to touch. For six years, everyone in the village feared Gaara, with the exception of Yashamaru. For a time, it seemed as if Yashamaru was the only person who cared for Gaara. Gaaras attempts to fit in often led to disaster, leading his father to begin ordering assassination attempts. Gaara had become, in the Kazekages eyes, a failed experiment and too much of a threat to the other villagers to be allowed to live. Eventually, after quite a few failed attempts, the Kazekage ordered Yashamaru to kill him. Gaara mortally wounded the assassin before he knew it was Yashamaru. Saddened by the unfortunate incident, Gaara tried to apologize and ran next to Yashamaru. Yashamaru then revealed to Gaara that he never loved him. In fact, despite trying to love him, Yashamaru always resented Gaara for taking the life of his beloved sister, who was Gaara's mother. Yashamaru also revealed the source of Gaara's name: (Ware wo ai suru shura, a self-loving carnage). Before Yashamaru died, he opened his vest to reveal explosive notes, and gave his final words: Please die. Gaara survived, protected by the sand.
Gaaras mother had resented the village for using her and her son as a sacrifice and a weapon, respectively, and cursed Gaara for putting her in so much pain. After realizing that no one loved him, Gaara used his sand to create the tattoo on his forehead (love) as a symbol of a demon loving only himself. For the next six years, Gaara would be the victim of almost constant assassination attempts, all ordered by his father. Each attempt ended with the assailant dead and him that much stronger and darker with each life he took.
His entire village hated and feared him for the awful power of the Demon sealed within his body; his own father, before later realizing that Gaara could be an effective tool, wanted him dead. As a result, Gaara became emotionally withdrawn, all but silent, and consumed with a bitter loathing for everyone but himself. He learned to find pleasure and eventually a reason to live in annihilating the numerous assassins sent to kill him and by extension, anyone who threatened his existence (anyone who was not himself). His insomnia, forced upon him by the fact that the demon inside him would eat away at his personality if he were to fall asleep, made Gaara further unstable.
"Who do you want us to kill now?" Gaara asked his father.
"No, this isn't a simple mission like that. This mission is going to take years of hard work to complete. And it's all up to Temari to complete it," their father replied.
"What kind of mission is this?" His daughter asked wondering where this is going.
"As you may have already heard that the Land of Metal's heir was announced two nights ago." he asks them.
"Yeah we can't turn on a TV without that being shown on all of the news channels," Kankuro said.
"Yes and with a male heir to the throne, for the first time ever, its time for us to act. A letter was sent to me the same day the news broke out. The Queen of Metal has informed every nation and village that we can not send more then two girls with a small escort for any engagements with her grandson Naruto the Prince of Metal. The rest of the Hidden Villages have received similar letters."
"Wait you're going to engage me to this PRINCE!?!" Temari shouted loud enough for the entire village to hear.
"Yes I am." her father said as he waited for his ears to stop ringing. "Your brothers are going to be your escort. In two months you all are going to go to the Land of Metal, and will then enroll into their ninja school while trying to attract Prince Naruto to you. In the mean time you're going to train with the older Kunoichis in the art of seduction. If this mission goes as planed the Delmo bloodline will be introduced into the village making us the strongest in the East."
"Why bother?" Gaara snorted.
"Because, even with the Shukaku inside of you; compared to the Delmos and the others nins in the West you're nothing more then a rank-B ninja compared to the ones beyond the Land of Metal. All of his children's eyes widened at the fact Gaara would rank no more then a B class ninja. "The Land of Metal has been our shield protecting us from the fighters from the Western nations, but this has also weakened us as we have never had to train at the kind of level or fought against the forces of the western lands. When the Gold Delmos of Metal took Naruto from the Leaf, there were no more then six of them. They alone injured many of the Leaf ninjas, and destroyed many buildings before they escaped by an airship. Then the Turks, the elitist of the special forces of Metal, numbering in twelve came to steal the belongings of the Fourth Hokage and his wife. Who was none other than the current Queen's only daughter. These two are Naruto's parents. They took out all of the best ninjas of the Leaf that were thrown at them including two of the three legendary Sannins."
"So there's people that are even stronger then me," Gaara said as it filled him with joy at the through of becoming even stronger by facing people in the West.
"While there you are to refrain from killing or maiming, anything of that will break off your sister's engagement with the prince," his father said. "And while there you won't have to worry about assassination attempts from me. Anything that might cause harm to the prince by any of the villages or nations will have the offending nation or village engagement broken off. And that's something that we can't risk with so much to gain."
"Who else is going to be engaged to him?" his daughter ask.
"The village council is still deciding on that. We have two months before the engagement starts. So all of you start should preparing to leave for Ironmount, in the two months before you have to leave."
"Why are you letting me go?" Gaara asked knowing that his father would never let him go somewhere without having something up his sleeves.
"Because the prince is just like you," He stated as he presented the letter he had received from Metal. "It's all in the letter. Queen Carline wants everyone who's engage to her grandson to know the secret that was kept hidden by the leaf."
The three siblings stared as they began reading the letter and what was written about the Prince of Metal.
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In another Hidden Village –
Zaku Abumi is a Genin-level ninja from the Hidden Sound Village. Like many Sound ninja, he has been physically altered with unnatural enhancements that enhance his abilities; in his case, he was fitted with hollow air tubes that extend through his arms and open through his hands, allowing him to propel a combination of air pressure and sound in various ratios, controlled by his chakra. He's wondering why their leader had called him and his team to his office.
The only female member of his team, Kin Tsuchi is a Genin-level ninja as well. She uses a combination of bells, strings, and needles to confuse her enemies. In battles, the bells cause a genjutsu, further confusing and disorientating her opponent.
And the last is Dosu Kinuta. Out of all of them, he is the strongest. Dosu is equipped with a special speaker tied to his wrist which serves to amplify sound waves and dramatically strengthen his sound-based attacks. Even if his attack is blocked the sound waves caused by his speakers are enough to harm the one he's attacking.
"Let me get right down to the point," Orochimaru said to three ninjas present. "The Queen of Metal has sent all of the Hidden Villages letters with rules about of engagements with her grandson. I can only send two girls around this prince Naruto's age and a small escort with them."
"I see then, I'm to be engage to him," Kin stated understanding her mission immediately.
"Yes you and your team are going to go to the Land of Metal," Orochimaru explained. "You'll be joined by Hana's team once they comeback from their mission. We only have two months to get you and Hana ready to meet prince Naruto."
"So Kin is going to have to act like a girl for once," Zaku snickered at his female teammate.
"That would be a nice change of pace," Dozu said agreeing with him.
"Why you two!" Kin growled at her teammates as a red battle aura surround her.
"What do we do with the other girls who are engaged with Naruto?" Dozu asked ignoring his angry female teammate.
"Should we go and level the playing field for Kin?" Zaku asked.
"No, we can't afford them finding out that it was us who got rid of some of the girls. If that happens than any future relationships with Metal will be hostel and seen as a treat, as well as the girl's village or nation seeing us as dangerous threat against them. That's why none of you can do anything of a hostel nature while in Metal. The Delmos are much stronger then any ninja force here in the East. The 4th Hokage, Naruto's father just barely beat his mother when they first met, I should know I was there when it happen. And the 4th only beat her because she was caught off guard when she had accidentally ripped all of his clothes off during their fight, the 4th didn't even know that he was naked until after he had knock her out." (1)
"What about the Leaf?" Dozu asked.
"Wouldn't they have a better chance of getting one of those girls they're sending to get this Naruto to fall for him?" Kin asked.
"No need to worry about that," Orochimaru chuckled with that creepy laugh of his as he shows them the letter he gotten from the Land of Metal. "Read it and you'll know what I'm talking about."
They all read the letter not believing what they were reading let alone for the royal family would allow to be known. Zaku the first to finish the letter is the first to speak. "This Naruto has the Nine-Tail fox sealed inside of him?"
"Yes his father sealed the fox inside of him to save the Leaf. And all he asked from the people he protected was that the village would see him as a hero, instead they treated him as a monster, treating him little more then trash. I highly doubt that they'll be able to find even one girl in the village that has treated the prince nicely while he was going up. Where the Leaf fail the Sound will gain. If you or Hana manage to become his wife the next queen of Metal, well you can see how easy it will be to get him to destroy the village that shunned him. Leaving a power vacuum in the East that's ripe for the taking, The Sound will take the place of The Leaf as one of the five great ninja villages of the East."
"Queen Kin, that has a nice ring to it," said girl smirks, "And if this Naruto isn't bad looking, I think I'm going to enjoy this mission."
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In the Hidden Leaf Village –
"In the whole village these two are the only ones who have treated Naruto as a person," Sarutobi said as the files on the two girls were given to the council members.
"Have you made certain that these are the only ones?" one of the council members asked.
"I wasn't even expecting to have even one girl who didn't harm or mistreat him in one way or another," Sarutobi stated with annoyance.
"What about girls that he hasn't met before?" one of the members ask.
"No that will do no good since one of the rules the Queen made in the engagement is that all girls who wish to be engaged to Naruto must know that he has the demon fox sealed inside of him," Sarutobi said causing all of the members to gasp out in shock.
"She wants us to tell my daughter that boy has the demon fox inside of him!" Hinata's father shouted.
"Yes she does," Sarutobi answered. "Failure to do so will break off the engagement for both girls. All of the other nations and villages have already been given letters like the one I received already. They know everything about Naruto and who his parents are."
"But once any girl in the village finds out that he has..." one of the members started.
"They'll be too scared of him to be forced into the engagement. And even if they do they will look at Naruto as the demon fox making any kind of relationship between them impossible," Sarutobi finished.
"They're not even giving us a chance," one of the members growled out.
"And this village has never given Naruto a chance either." Sarutobi stated causing the members to glare at him. "Like it or not. The demon as many of you see Naruto as is the future King of Metal and once he is King he's going to comeback here for his revenge. And before you all go about killing him before that happens, think about of what that kind of action is going to cause! The current Queen his grandmother will point the finger at us and send out every Delmo she has to destroy us. Think about it, remember Naruto's mother, Kikko no matter how hard Arashi trained he could never beat her. He only beat her the first time because she ripped off all of his clothes distracting her long enough to knock her out."
"Yes we all remember that day," one of the member's chuckles.
"Too bad this village didn't see his son as a hero as he had wanted or what were facing now would have never happened," The 3rd sighed as he failed his friend. "If they did Naruto would have a bond with this village instead of hating it as he does now. Both of the girls Hinata and Ayane are going to have an extremely hard time of gaining any kind of trust with him. While they're trying to get any level of trust with him the girls from the other villages are going to have the chance to get Naruto to fall for one of them instead. Leaving us to face the revenge that this village has planted into Narutos heart, we're going to weep what we have sown."
"The escort we're going to send, can we send his teacher?" one of the members asked. They all knew the relationship between them.
"No! That's out of the question," Sarutobi shouted. "Naruto now thinks that Iruka hates him as all of the others in this village do. If they found out that he's still alive they'll kill him on sight. And when Naruto was taken up on the mountain during the escape, I called out to him but instead of coming to me he hid behind the women who took him. He was more scared of me then those women. He will never trust this village and will do everything he can to destroy it once he becomes King."
"What about the demon fox?" one of the members shouted.
"Aren't they afraid of it breaking free?" another asked.
"Or it taking over the boy?" another pointed out.
"No they're not. The seal Arashi used to seal the demon came from the lands to the West. Kikko was the one who gave it to him and taught him how to use it. The very same seal that was used to seal the ancient demon Hardstone, the mountain size demon tortoise. The Nine-Tail fox is nothing more then a pup to Hardstone in age and he is more powerful then the fox. If something like Hardstone couldn't break free there's no way that the Nine-Tail fox would be able to escape either. This entire village has treated him like trash for no reason other that he contains the demon fox inside of him."
"How do you know this?" Hiashi asked.
"Because it's all written in the letter that was sent to me as well as the other villages and nations," Sarutobi explained. "The reason why they're letting this information become public knowledge is because they have little fear of a group trying to take the fox away from Naruto that would kill him. As any group that does will have the entire Delmo army hot on their heels. There's no group or nation with the resources or the numbers to take on the entire Delmo army without suffering a terrible lost win or lose."
"If this leaks out!" one of the members started to saw but was cut off by the 3rd.
"I'm afraid it's already too late for that by tomorrow morning all the news stations and newspapers are going to print that story." All of the council members took on grim faces as they will know of what this will do to the name of the Leaf. "And the traders coming from the West are saying that the royal family of Metal is having a trading band on the Land of Fire. The best that we can hope for is for trading to be cut in half. Our feudal lord is going to be looking elsewhere for mission to be done just like the lord in the Land of Wind."
"They're weakening us slowly first with the cost of rebuilding the damages that the two raids made and with customers looking towards other villages. By the time Naruto is King we'll be too weak to put up any kind of fight to stop the Delmo's from destroying us," Sarutobi sighed. "The only hope that is left to us, are the two girls were going to be sending to be engage to him."
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In the Hyuuga manor –
Hinata curled up in her bed holding a pillow as she through about what she has learned today. All of this time Naruto has been treated badly by the adults of the village, was because of the Demon Fox that his father the 4th had sealed inside of him to save it. She was shedding tears as she remembered all of the time that she had watched in the distance when he was alone. She held a letter sent by the Hokage that told her everything about the reason why Naruto was treated as he was and what she had to do to save the village.
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In the Ichiraku household that doubles as a ramen stand –
Ayame lay on her back on her bed as she looks over the letter again. Naruto the number one customer of the family ramen stand as his father was before him. The letter given to her by the 3rd was that of an engagement of her to Naruto. Thinking of him, Ayame let out a smile. Every time he came over she was the one who cheered him up. She saw that beside her no one in her age group had tried becoming friends with him. Their parents had kept them away from him leaving him alone. While there is that shy Hinata girl but Naruto doesn't even notice her as she never says anything to him.
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Both girls shared the same thought as they thought about the same boy. "I hope that Naruto is doing well in his new home."
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In the royal places of Metal –
Carline Delmo, the Queen Metal stared at the still form of her grandson. He's been place in his mother's old room. For days now all he's been doing is sleeping and eating. If this continues on longer he needs something to break him out of his depression.
"Naruto how are you today?" Carline asked him as she walked up behind him as he sat in a chair staring out of a window.
"Fine," Naruto said as he just sat there.
"I know that it's been hard for you to get used to all of this. I just want you to know that you take all the time you need. Remember this from now on you'll have people who care and will help you now."
"Grandma?" he spoke.
"Yes Naruto?" she said glad inside that he was showing life in him for the first time since he came here.
"Can the Delmo bloodline inside of me can be awaken?"
"Yes dear. It's hard for the first time but once you learn how to use it, it become as natural as a fish knowing how to swim. I can have Setsuna show you how to unlock it, if you want to start now."
"That's okay I can wait for tomorrow, its already late," Naruto punctuated with a tried yawn. He felt so very tried, since he has gotten here he has stayed up looking up at the night sky, wondering where he would go from here.
"Alright dear," Carline said with a smile seeing life in her grandson.
"Grandma once I become King. I would like to go back to the Leaf." Naruto said.
"The Leaf whatever for dear?" his grandmother asked him.
"I would like to destroy it..."
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Also I need some help in deciding and describing the girls that are engage to Naruto. Everyone with an OC character for Naruto to be engage to please send me your idea to me by review or e-mail. And I still need a pre-reader who doesn't take weeks to give me back a chapter.
Authors Notes
1 – For all those who are wondering how Narutos father had beaten Kikko.
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