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Chapter 2

The next morning I was surprised that I got up in time. I heard a tiny knock on my door. I yelled for them to come in. It was Sasuke. Kakashi relayed a message to him to tell me to shower. I guessed it was a good idea because we needed to feel refreshed.

I hid my arms under the covers the whole time that Sasuke was in the room. I didn't want him to see anything that was on my arms. He would get suspicious if he saw the cuts because we didn't get into any fights yesterday. I know that he would probably get upset if he knew.

I took my clothes off and too be safe put a towel around my waist just in case someone came in. I don't really think they would want to see me without a towel on. When I got into the bathroom I stripped the town and stepped into the shower. It felt good when the hot water ran over my cuts. It made the skin burn. The burning felt good on my skin. I also didn't mind the burning because I inflicted the wounds.

It was sad when I had to get out of the shower. I just wanted to feel a little bit more burning, but it seemed like the hot water was all gone. I showered until it turned cold. I put some clothes on. I went back to my backpack and pulled the kunai out again. I pulled up my sleeves and slit my arm again. I watched the blood drip from my body. When I stopped bleeding I pulled my sleeve down again. I wiped the blood clean off my kunai.

I left the room, but before I did I made sure that no blood got on the comforter. I was glad that it didn't and threw the bloody tissues into my bag. I went out to where everyone was and Princess Amaya was still getting ready.

"How did everyone sleep?" Sakura asked stretching out.

"It was pretty comfortable. I almost fell off the bed," I responded.

"I did too," Sasuke said with embarrassment. That made Sakura smile widely at him.

"How did you sleep, Kakashi-Sensei," I asked. I didn't want to leave him out of the conversation, but when I looked at him I saw that he was reading the dirty books again. That made me sweat drop just a bit. Same ole' Kakashi-Sensei.

"Like a baby," he responded not taking his eyes away from the book. Amaya came out of her room at that time. She was ready to get back into heading towards the village. She made eye contact with me and winked. That made me smile. Amaya seemed to like me like the idiots in my village. They were the main cause of my depression. It was sad that they didn't even recognize me after I saved them from Gaara. Gaara was just like me. Gaara became my friend after the fight.

When we started walking again we were all bored. No one was talking which surprised me. Sasuke was the first one to break the silence. "Can you tell us a little bit more about yourself?"

"Sure, my full name is Amaya Haru. I was born on April 3rd My father actually died while my mother was pregnant with me. After that I lost my mother turned three," Amaya responded. I felt bad because she had a rough beginning just like I did.

"Do you live with anyone?" Kakashi asked.

"I live with my grandparents," she responded quietly.

"Do you remember much about your mother?"

I guessed that the information that was being given was important to the mission. I guess we need to know a little bit about her background. "The only thing that I remember about her was that she had the same color hair as me. She was sensitive, compassionate, and sweet like I have to be. She had the same eye color as me. The only real thing that I obtained from my father was his power."

"We are going to keep you safe. We will not let anyone lay a hair on your head," I told her. She smiled, but she looked sad.

"I know. That's why you were hired. I need to be guarded at all times because someone will try to kill me. They would only do that to gain my powers," she responded.

"Why is this power so important though?" Sakura asked with annoyance in her tone. She didn't need to speak to Amaya like that. What did she have against her anyway? Was Sakura really just jealous? Women, I really just don't understand them.

"I know that it opens something in the village, but I don't know what yet. That is why I'm going to find out. The people wanted their heir to come three years ago, but I couldn't. My grandfather got sick and I didn't want to leave his side. My grandmother didn't either. He's better now and they requested me this year and I couldn't say no." She responded. All of a sudden out of nowhere a kunai knife came flying toward us.

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When I looked up I saw a guy standing on the tree above us. Amaya had a scared look in her eyes. I nodded at her reassuringly that we were going to protect her. Kakashi told Sakura and Sasuke to protect Amaya while him and I fought him off. That statement made the guy laugh.

"What do you think is so funny?" I asked him, smirking, because in all honesty he didn't look that tough in my opinion.

"Do you think it will be that easy to ward me off? I'm not a weakling. I am normally stronger than my pray," the mysterious guy said in a chilling voice.

"I think I will have an easy time doing so," I said with over confidence. The guy had to laugh a little again. It got my blood boiling because he was annoying me to no end. Did he really think he was a good fighter?

"Who do you really think you are dealing with kid? I don't like that cocky attitude of yours," he said.

"I don't know who you are, but all I know is that I will not let you lay a finger on this girl," I responded pointing to Amaya. Amaya smiled wide when I said that. Then I looked over at Kakashi and he was studying the guy really hard. I noticed that the guy had really big muscles.

"Aren't you Fuyuki," he asked. The guy looked shocked that someone in our group knew his name. "I have seen you in a book before. You are wanted for killing children. Naruto, be careful fighting him. You don't know what he's capable of."

The guy laughed again. I rolled my eyes because his laugh was really starting to get irritating. "I am wanted for killing innocent children. I mostly killed females because they were more fun. I am after that Princess of yours over there. Move out of my way so I don't have to kill you."

"I don't think you can kill me if you tried," I responded. The guy looked as if he was angry. Kakashi repeated for me to be careful. I nodded and I gave him a pleading look to let me take him on. I was glad when he let me handle him on my own.

The first thing I did was shadow clone jutsu and five clones came out. I punched the big lug in the face and the other clones were kicking and punching him all over his body. He came down really quickly and was holding himself in pain. I found it completely funny to watch. I thought he said he was strong.

He got back up in a couple of minutes. He tried to attack me, but I blocked his attacks and kicked him backwards. I then decided to use Rasengan. I summoned another clone and we performed the jutsu. I could feel all the chakra in my hand. That move sent the guy flying and he screamed. He came back down to the ground with a hard hit. Everyone stood around shocked because they didn't know I had a move like that. Kakashi looked just as shocked as everyone else.

I hadn't told him that I learned that from the pervy sage. Kakashi was too busy training Sasuke anyways.

"Naruto, who taught you that," Sasuke asked wide eyes.

"Jiraiya," I told them.

"Who is that?" Sakura asked.

"My sensei that trained me while Kakashi was busy training Sasuke," I responded. Kakashi still looked a little shocked. I wondered why.

"Why did he teach you that," he asked me in bewilderment. Why was it such a shock that I learned the Rasengan?

"He said that I had potential. At first he didn't believe me and neither did the old lady." They were trying to figure out who the old lady was. Kakashi figured it out and said the fifth Hokage. "When Orochimaru showed up she was getting hurt really badly. I stepped in and I hit him with the Rasengan. I mastered it that day, but I figured how to do it with a clone."

"You never told anyone about this," Sakura said about to hit me in the head. I grabbed her arm tightly. I didn't want her to touch me. She didn't have a right to.

"Don't touch me," I warned her. I wasn't playing either. Sasuke told me to let go of her arm. I did what I was asked and I could see that it was going to bruise. Sakura looked at her arm shocked. "You don't have a right to touch me. You turned me down so many times when I truly liked you. He finally is with you now and you know you are happy with him."

Amaya was studying me a little bit. "Naruto, I've gone through some of the same things that you did with Sakura. There was this one guy in my old village that I liked. I asked him out and he said no. He wasn't interested in my like that. I found out that he asked another girl out. She didn't want to date him, but she accepted him after months of him fighting for her. I don't talk to him anymore, but I'm glad that he found happiness. I guess that's how you feel for Sasuke."

Everyone looked at her with a shocked expression. She was reading my eyes. The only thing I knew she could read in my eyes was pain, loneliness, and anger. That was before Sasuke, Sakura, and Kakashi entered my life. I knew at home I had a few more friends, but it was still hard to struggle with the pain. I was happy that I had Sasuke and Sakura in my life even though I was envious of our friendship. "Naruto, you didn't have friends in the beginning either, did you?"

"I didn't really have anyone until I was put in a three man squad when I became a ninja," I responded.

"I feel bad about that. You shouldn't have been lonely. No one ever deserves to be alone," she said. She looked sadly at me. I smiled at her. She was trying to understand me like no one else.

"I was always left on my own when I was little. No one would ever look at me and when they did all I could see was hatred in their eyes. In time the children wouldn't look at me either. I suffered all the time when I saw a family pass. Something I was yearning to have, but couldn't have. It all seemed unfair in my opinion, but the village hated me. They always have."

I could feel the pain fill back up inside of me again. "Do you know why they hated you so much?"

"For a long time now," I responded. Sasuke looked at me and I could sense that he really wanted to ask me. So I just decided to blurt everything out at once, "the nine-tailed fox spirit lays dormant inside of me. I was a baby when the demon was put inside of me."

"How did you find that out?" Kakashi asked dumbfounded.

"When Mizuki told me to steal the Scroll of Seals. He told me that the nine tails was inside of me. I was shocked when he first told me. I knew I had that power when Jiraiya asked me if I could feel any other chakra besides my own. I felt that chakra before when we fought Haku," I responded. Kakashi looked like he was deep in thought again.

"I didn't know you had such a dark past," Sasuke responded quietly. I nodded, but didn't really have much else to say. Sasuke told me about how his brother killed his whole clan and kept him alive. He told me he wanted to get revenge on him. He told us that the first day that we met. I wondered if he had forgotten.

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I was walking by myself behind everyone. I had a lot of things on my mind and didn't want to share any of them with anyone. I was just happy that they all respected my wishes. I took the kunai knife out of my backpack and slit my arm in a couple of places.

I was just glad that no one was watching me when I did that. They wouldn't understand the pain that I went through as a child. It was hard to even explain those feelings to anyone. I wanted a mother so badly and I knew I could never have one. I had no one there to help or watch me.

I shouldn't have brought those feelings back up. It was causing me to become really depressed. I took the blade again and forced it to cut me deeper until I was satisfied.