A/N: Whew that was a while before I was able to update sorry about that, my college courses and my body are being distracting me. No sleep for long amounts of time is not fun. Hopefully you all like this chapter, thank you for all the reviews! Later!
Chapter nine: Her name is Yuki Akika!
Naruto ate pretty much because he wanted to avoid any conflict. At the moment all he really wanted was to go back to the bedroom and wait for the girl who was like him to wake up. as far as he knew she had yet to wake up since her experience the night before. He glanced over at Kyuubi who seemed to be in deep thought as he squinted down at a book.
"You actually write this kind of stuff?" the demon fox demanded looking up at Jiraiya. Naruto continued to watch him, taking in every detail about him, while Kyuubi's hair was blonde it was long going down most of his back and was pulled into a tight pony tail. The fox demon did not have the same eyes as he did, instead when he wasn't angry or annoyed, he had amber colored eyes. But when he did become angry they blazed flame red. He was wearing a pair of jeans that Jiraiya had dug out of some box that had been lying around the home. The shirt was plain grey t-shirt that looked like it had seen better days. All together the man sitting at the breakfast table squinting at a book while he read it did not seem like the horrible demon fox that had killed so many. Looking up Kyuubi met his eyes.
"Something wrong kit?" he asked, Naruto turned bright red and mumbled an excuse turning his attention back down onto his food. All in all, he had no idea how to react to the man. I mean he's Kyuubi! The nine tailed fox! The one that was inside me, well still is but how the heck am I supposed to react to this! Naruto thought pushing what was left of his meal around the plate.
"Eat." A voice said into his ear, he jumped staring blankly at Kyuubi. The demon fox sighed and grabbed the fork from Naruto's hand and speared one of the pieces of sausage that the boy had yet to eat, he held out the fork to the boy.
"Eat, and stop thinking. You are going to give yourself a headache." Kyuubi said. Naruto looked away taking back his fork and stared down at it.
"It's not ramen, so he doesn't really like it." Jiraiya said with a smirk, Naruto rolled his eyes.
"I eat more than just ramen." He snapped. Smiling behind his mask Kakashi tilted his head to the side.
"You do?" he asked, his plate was already empty. Naruto glared at his sensei.
"Yeah, but ramen is the only GOOD food that I eat." Naruto sat but he bit into the sausage, he glanced in the direction of his room.
"I'm sure the girl has yet to wake u…" Arashi said with a smile. A blood curdling scream was heard coming from his room. All of them jumped to their feet running towards it. The girl ran from the room, her green eyes wild with fear. She looked at them for one moment then took a stumbling step back.
"Stay…stay away from me!" she screamed stumbling back more. Kyuubi rolled his eyes.
"I can't believe that Sylph is within someone that is such as you." He said coldly. The girl's eyes widened and she fell to her knees staring at him.
"Who…who are you?" she asked. Arashi sent Kyuubi a angry look as he walked over and knelt down in front of the girl.
"It's okay, your not with those men anymore. My name is Arashi." He said with a cheerful smile. The girl stared at him blankly.
"Name?" she asked confused. Arashi frowned and gently took her hands into his own helping her to her feet.
"Yes what you call yourself." He said without glancing at the others behind him. Naruto stepped forward rubbing the back of his head.
"I'm Uzumaki Naruto." He said grinning. The girl stared at him her body was shaking slightly, then she closed her eyes and took a deep breath.
"I…I am….called Yuki Akika." She said quietly then looked up at Naruto who was grinning even more.
"Awesome, so what do you want us to call you? You know do you want us to call you by your first name?" Naruto said excitedly. Jiraiya walked over to him and slammed his fist down on top of Naruto's head. The boy yelped and glared up at the sannin.
"Naruto, she just woke up she doesn't need you pestering her." He said. Naruto looked away. The girl bit the top of her lip then looked at Arashi who still held her hands.
"Where am I?" she asked finally. Arashi smiled even more.
"At an old house, it belongs to the old man with the white hair." He said with a grin. Naruto snickered, and Kakashi wisely made no sound.
"Old man! Why you…!" Jiraiya shouted. Yuki Akika stepped back afraid by the sudden outburst. Arashi sighed.
"It's alright, I am afraid he is always like that." He said with an apologetic smile. She nodded then her eyes widened and she took back her hands they flew to her neck covering her seal. Kyuubi snorted.
"Don't worry we already saw it, and know what it is. So relax." He said his voice still cool. She looked down her face sad, Naruto glared once at the demon fox before he walked over putting a hand on her shoulder.
"I have one to." He said, she looked up shocked.
"How?" she asked timidly. Naruto shrugged.
"It was sealed into me when I was just a baby. How come you have one sealed into you?" Naruto asked earning another fist on his head, Jiraiya glared at him.
"If your well enough to pester about things like that, then you can go do the training Arashi told you to do." He snapped. Naruto rolled his eyes but nodded.
"Alright, shesh Ero-sensei…" Naruto said rubbing his head as he began to walk away. The girl looked up.
"Akika! Call me Akika!" She called out to Naruto, the boy turned and flashed her a grin then he walked out into the courtyard and sat down in the center. Akika watched him, a hand rested on her shoulder.
"You have to be hungry." A kind voice said. She turned, Arashi was smiling at her again. She looked away.
"No not really, I'm just…" she trailed off and Arashi nodded.
"It's alright why don't you go lay back down then." He said and she nodded walking back to the room, she paused looking back at Naruto, who was trying to sit still.
"What is his…training?" she asked, Jiraiya turned to look at her.
"Mediation." He said simply. She tilted her head to the side and glanced down at what she was wearing.
"There are a change of clothes by the bed." Arashi offered. She looked starlted and nodded rushing into the room and shutting the door.
"She jumps like a cat scared of a dog." Jiraiya said shaking his head. Kyuubi snorted.
"She's useless when she has her mind it seems." He commented then turned to see Naruto was sitting absolutely still only his breathing was the movement his body had.
"Looks like the kit managed your task, Arashi." He remarked, Arashi turned to stare at him.
"So it does. Guess I should go train him." He said starting to walk, but the demon fox grabbed his arm.
"Wait…trust me on this. I have a feeling that something interesting just might happen." He said then let go of Arashi's arm. Then turned and walked back into the kitchen area. Kakashi shrugged and pulled out his latest book sitting down so that his back was leaning against the wall.
"Ugh. Even you are reading those I see. Jiraiya when did you corrupt my student!" Arashi said rolling his eyes. Jiraiya let out a bellowing laugh.
"I did no such thing!" he said laughing harder as he walked back to the kitchen also.
"I have a very bad feeling." Arashi said rubbing one of his temples. Kakashi giggled as he read, turning slowly Arashi stared at him.
"I don't want to know, I don't even want to think about knowing." He said and headed for the bathroom. He was going to have a nice long bath, maybe even drown himself…his student was just like his teacher. Groaning he walked to the bathroom as he shuddered hearing Kakashi giggle again.
Akika stared at herself in the mirror. She now wore a pear of green cargo pants, the shirt that the man had left for her, (she was still wondering why a group of men would have women's clothes was beyond her).
"What are you doing girly?" the voice said in her head. Akika groaned as she tugged on the tank top, she looked like a girl. She hadn't looked like a girl in a while.
"What do you want Sylph?" she asked quietly out loud, the throaty voice chuckled in the back of her mind.
"This is rather interesting, a lot more interesting than those others we were with. But you don't remember any of that…do you?" Akika sighed and tugged at her long hair.
"No I can't…but you do, don't you? Can you tell me?" she asked. The voice was silent then she heard it sigh, something Sylph rarely did.
"I could…but I am not going to. You don't need to remember, you don't need to know. Kika trust me you don't need this!" the voice said. Akika smiled softly.
"Are you actually worried about me Sylph?" she asked surprised. She heard a mumbled reply and then silence. She walked over to the door and opened it. The boy was still sitting in the center but she didn't notice any of the other men around. Slowly she walked stepping off the platform. The boy opened his eyes and turned to look at her.
"….hi…" she said in a quiet voice, the boy didn't move but waited as she walked over and sat down by him.
"Hi Akika." He said flashing her a blinding grin, Akika looked away.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to bother you so much earlier." He said looking down. Akika looked up and shook her head.
"Naruto? It's okay, but why do you actually have a monster sealed into you? Were you bad also?" she asked quietly. Naruto blinked and shook his head.
"Uh uh, the Yondaime had to save the village, you know that guy with the long blonde hair, the one that's kind of Kyuubi, the being that's inside of me. Well a part of him. I don't know why he did it, but well at least this part doesn't seem to be completely bad. But…anyway that's not what you asked was it, I didn't have a choice I was just a baby. Why do you have one sealed into you?" Naruto asked. Akika looked away.
"Because of my family." She said her shoulders slumping.
"Your family? Why is it because of them?" Naruto asked confused. Akika turned to stare at him.
"My family has always had one in them, every one of us, my village…before it was destroyed used to hunt them down, just to punish us…they hunted Sylph, that's the spirit in me, they hunted her even though she wasn't entirely evil. They wanted to punish me the most of all…" she said looking down at her hands.
"Why?" Naruto asked again. She raised her eyes to meet his.
"Because I was to good, because I was to nice, because I lived when I should have died, because the chief's son died protecting me from one of the other villagers when the villager had been drunk. I should've died that day. But I didn't, I was to perfect, and I came from the cursed family." She explained. Naruto rubbed the back of his head.
"I'm still really confused, none of that makes any sense." Naruto said sheepishly. Akika blinked then suddenly smiled, Naruto stared at her, she was probably the most beautiful girl he had seen, even more beautiful than Sakura…he thought.
"Alright, well…um basically my family runs from a long line, years ago one of my ancestors betrayed the current chief of our village, so the chief declared that anyone from that line would be forced to bear the burden as containers. So that's why all of my family has one in them. They are all dead, my whole village because of the men who…the ones who I was with. I was the only to survive, and that was thanks to Sylph. She protected me. But then those men…they caught me, I fought back of course but I was so tired from everything that happened, and I was already hurt, in the end I guess I collapsed, I came to and they were trying to get me to join them, I told them I'd rather die and the next thing I knew I was here." She explained. Naruto nodded.
"Ah…okay I guess I understand part of it. Not all but enough…" the two sat looking at each other silent. They jumped as they heard a giggle. Turning both saw that Kakashi had his nose still buried in one of his books. Naruto began to laugh when Kakashi giggled again, and Akika began to laugh quietly, soon the two were laughing loud enough to cause Kakashi to lower his book to look at them. The sunlight struck a picture into the ninja's mind, Naruto sitting still without his head protector, his new earring glinting in the sunlight, with a red haired girl who was pale, and they were laughing so hard that tears were in their eyes.
"Kind of gives you hope that they haven't lost their innocence." A voice said, turning Kakashi stared at his former sensei. Arashi's hair was soaking wet and he had a towel over his shoulders, his shirt was clutched in one of his hands.
"Yes. It does." Kakashi said setting his book down to watch as the two children began to calm down, then Naruto said something that sent the girl into another fit of laughter.
"Did I do the right thing, all those years ago Kakashi?" Arashi asked frowning. Kakashi smiled underneath his mask.
"Naruto wouldn't be the Naruto he is today if you didn't. So in the long run, even though he has been through a lot…I think it was a wise thing to do Arashi-sensei." He said. Arashi smiled.
"Thank you Kakashi…" he said and the two men watched as Naruto leapt to his feet dragging Akika to hers then began to wave his arms around as if he was trying to explain something. Akika began to laugh again.
"I wonder what he is telling her." Arashi muttered.
"He's telling her about Konoha." Kyuubi said walking out a steaming mug of coffee in his hands. Arashi glanced at him.
"Is that so?" he said with a raised eyebrow. Kyuubi shrugged.
"I'm still connected to him, so of course I can still hear what he says. Right now he is telling her about ramen, which…" he trailed off as Naruto grabbed Akika's hand and ran towards them.
"Kakashi-sensei can we have ramen for lunch?" he asked. Kakashi raised an eyebrow.
"Come on please, Akika hasn't had any ever! Can you believe it she hasn't had any ramen!" Naruto said. Arashi laughed.
"Alright how about I make some homemade ramen, only if you go back to your training though." The Yondaime said grinning. Naruto groaned and Akika glanced at him.
"I'll train with you if you want me to." She said smiling. Naruto grinned and dragged her back to the center plopping back down on the ground. Arashi smiled even more as Akika sat down dusting her pants off.
"How much do you want to bet me that she comes out of her shell because of Naruto?" Arashi said glancing at Kakashi and Kyuubi. Kyuubi shrugged and took a sip of his coffee.
"They aren't going to be to much training." He commented. Arashi shrugged.
"I have a feeling it'll be alright. Besides he managed to mediate for short amount of time, by tomorrow he should be ready." Arashi said walking away. Kyuubi shook his head.
"Does he really think it's that simple to get the kit to use his head in a fight?" he asked Kakashi, who laughed.
"Well he will find out on his own now wont he? Though Arashi-sensei never was stupid, I'm sure he has a plan." He said picking his book back up. Kyuubi's eye twitched.
"How can you read that?" he demanded. Kakashi turned his head.
"Simple I don't need glasses." He said, Kyuubi snarled and stalked off muttering under his breath about the fact that if it weren't for the kit he'd kill him where he stood. Grinning Kakashi glanced at the two in the center, Naruto was trying to talk to Akika but the girl was already mediating. Shaking his head he went back to his book, he couldn't wait to read what happened next…