Lost Life
Chapter Two – Changes
Waking up in a white room wasn't a different experience for the young Uzumaki now turned Ōtsutsuki she was used to hearing the noise of the machine that was connected to her pulse, the constant beeping was like a soothing hum for some reason.
'Then again, I could do without the cords jabbed into my body.' Naruko thought, these where of course the only things that really annoyed the girl other than waking up in a hospital, the cords where a nuisance even if they were necessary, most of the time the doctors didn't even put them in the right place.
'You're dealing with this reincarnation thing pretty well.' The Kyuubi cut in, adding his two cents.
'Not surprising, I have changed allot in the hours that have past, I am starting to relive memories again as Kaguya and then some of my old memories as Naruko are popping in like a battle of wills.' Naruko responded to the Tailed-beast.
Of course she was a little confused as to why this was happening now, why would it not happen when she was born? She didn't really get to have a conversation with her past self so most of the questions she wants to ask will have to go un answered for now.
Staring at the plain white ceiling was getting tiresome, so she decided to sit up, taking it slowly as to not hit herself with nausea she looked around the room a little to get a bearing as to where she was, while she knew she was in a hospital, Naruko wanted a sense of feeling as to what room she was in.
Looking around the room she spotted a door to her left and a window to her right, she closed her eyes and concentrated and was able to sense three other people in the room four including herself, obviously ANBU watching over her.
'Usually a squad of ANBU contained four people, so where was the fourth one?' Naruko ask herself, of course she didn't expect anyone to answer her question, but it was answered seconds later when the door to her room opened and an old man walked in.
The old man didn't have anything notable about himself, accept the way he carried himself like a person who has been through war and survived, Naruko noticed the old man was on guard constantly. The old man was Hiruzen Sarutobi, wearing what was the robes of the Hokage, while other may think that he was too old to be a Kage, Naruko could tell by the look in his eyes that he could probably be one of the strongest people alive right now, even if he isn't in his prime.
"Jiji." Naruko whispered.
"Naruko." Hiruzen spoke in a sincere tone. "Are you alright young one?"
Naruko although not liking being called young because technically she is the oldest person alive at the moment, nodded and responded with a kind smile.
"You look different." He spoke in an amusing tone, he waved his hand in the air and Naruko could no longer feel the ANBU in the room. "What's happ-"
Hiruzen was about to continue until Naruko Interrupted him with a single name "Kushina Uzumaki."
There was silence and Naruko was looking dead into the sandaime Hokage's eyes as if daring him to say something. With a sigh the battle of wills was over and the eyes of Sandaime closed as if recalling a memory, a memory of a hyper young girl with dazzling red hair and the smile she wore that would make even the most depressed people happy if not for a single moment.
"Allot has happened within the hours that have past Jiji, I've met my mother." He looked into her eyes with shock bit she continued. "I have met my father." The Sandaime was shocked that he choked on his own breath.
"I have also talked with the Kyuubi." The sandaime was about to interrupt her be she held up her own hand "and you needn't worry about the beast." She said with confidence, the Sandaime though was at a loss for words.
"I can explain the change of appearance if you believe me." Naruko spoke in a soft voice, obviously doubting the Sandaime would believe her.
"Go ahead child, I doubt anything else could surprise me." The Sandaime would later of course doubt saying these words, if the cheeky smile on Naruko's face was evident enough then the twinkle of mischief in her eyes was troubling.
With a heavy sigh the Sandaime sat down in the chair next to the hospital bed that Naruko was currently sitting in, he looked lost in thought, or one could say speechless. This is to be expected of course this has hardly if ever happened before in the world.
'Reincarnation, who would have thought such a thing existed after all.' These where the thoughts currently going through the mind of the Sandaime Hokage.
"What are you going to do now?"
"I won't be staying in this village." Naruko responded "If the people found out what has happened this night, then not only will they wish to turn me into a mindless weapon with little to no emotion, yes I am talking about your friend Danzo." Naruko said giving him a pointed look, the Sandaime responded with a heavy sigh but didn't interrupt the girl knowing this to true.
"They will also turn me into breeding stock to fuel their petty wars with my children." She finished with a sour look, this village and their morals where disgusting.
"You will come back?" The Sandaime asked with a curious but hopeful expression.
Naruko responded with a sigh "In time, when I have regained most, if not all of my powers, then and only then will I return."
"I will let you go then, only if you keep in contact with me." The Sandaime spoke as he started to get out of the chair he was currently sitting in. "Come by my office later and I will give you a something to contact me with, rest well Naruko." With that the Sandaime smiled one last time at Naruko and walked out the door.
'Why did you tell him who you where?' The Kyuubi asked out of milled curiosity, the beast would have thought the girl would keep this under lock and key.
'While I don't trust him fully, he is the only person who has my respect, plus he is also my ticket to the way out of this village, without the use of useless violence.' Naruko responded to the Kyuubi, in a sage like tone. Though she didn't need to present an answer to the Kyuubi she would indulge the beast.
'Whatever.' Was the last thing heard before all went quiet, Naruko spared one last look out the window to her left to see the full moon in all its glory, before she rested her head back down on the pillow of the hospital bed and fell asleep dreaming of memories long since forgotten.
The world was dying, ashes float around in the air following the breeze of the wind and fire danced in rhythm with the breeze, and the trees where dead shriveled up and grey, where they were previously brown with green leaves. Except for one giant root, which was white in color extending towards the sky, the root branched off in different directions, looking like a giant tree, but it held no leaves, this was the only thing that looked alive in the world.
"Kaguya!" a voice broke through the wind. "What have you done?!"
Turning toward the voice, we see multiple people, but the voice belonged to a man that looked to be the age of 40, he had white hair that was short cut to his neck, and he was wearing white armor lined with gold, a white cloak with a black sigil of a dragon wrapped around a sword, This man was Forgas Ōtsutsuki father and leader of the royal clan Ōtsutsuki.
"Eating that fruit was forbidden! What you have done was against the laws set to us by our ancestors!" Forgas spoke as he looked at his daughter with disappointed eyes.
"Laws that were set for what?" she asked the crowd of people namely her clan. "You are all cowards." The crowd gasped, Forgas looked at his daughter with nothing but anger. "You follow laws because you are scared of the outcome, the consequence, but you don't know what the consequence of eating this fruit." The 16 year old girl stated. "I do however."
"Kaguya, you have lost your mind!" Forgas responded to the girl "You will pay for disobeying the laws, with your head." Forgas pulled out the sword hanging on his left side and charged towards his daughter, Kaguya showed no difference towards the man and stood there with a bored look.
When Forgas was close enough and about to make contact with his sword Kaguya had disappeared and reappeared behind the man, everyone gasped, how had she moved so fast? Forgas had soon gone up in an explosion of blood and fell to the floor, gasping for breath.
The crowd was shocked not only had she moved so fast for their eyes to follow but she had also cut her father in multiple places causing a shower of blood to fly into the air, when they got over their shock they all started to charge the girl they once saw as their princess.
It was all for naught, not even trying they were all pushed to the floor by power that was so omnipotent it scared the life out of all of them, 30 people died without her even lifting a finger, Kaguya had turned to her father that was barely alive, the man was staring out at all the people that looked as if they had just dropped dead.
"I have seen a future after eating that fruit." Kaguya stated, they both made eye contact, and that's when her father truly noticed her eyes, they were white and hypnotizing, but she also had a third eye that was in the center of her fore head, the eye was red with a ripple of rings containing a pattern of nine tomoe.
"The others will find out what has happened here." Forgas spoke, as if she was going to get punished for the crimes she has committed.
"I plan on it, father."
Waking up to the sunlight coming through the room Naruko looked around, everything was suddenly clearer and brighter, getting out of the hospital bed she walked towards the bathroom section of the room, once she was inside the bathroom she walked over to the basin and began to run the water intending on washing her face.
But she looked into the mirror first, and she smiled. 'My eyes are back.' Looking down she looked for the scars from last night and noticed she had none, thanks to her healing abilities, she also noticed her lack of attire but thankful that god awful orange jumpsuit was nowhere in sight, possibly destroyed from last night.
Having a quick shower and walking back to look into the mirror she decided to conjure up some clothes that looked similar to what she wore in her previous life, she decided cast an illusion over her eyes and forehead, least she be spotted by a Hyūga, her eyes changed to a royal purple and the line on her forehead that represented her third-eye disappeared.
Walking back into the main room where the hospital bed was she looked around just in case she forgot anything. When she realized she wouldn't be leaving anything behind she headed out of the room and down the hallway towards the exit of the hospital.
On her way down the hall she got looks from the staff as if trying to figure out who she was, none of them would recognize her of course so she didn't seem fit to pay attention to any of them, Naruko walked with her eyes closed and expanded her senses using her chakra hearing everything that was going on around her and seeing peoples chakra.
Noticing that everyone's chakra was blue was troubling at first, she wasn't really used to anyone other than herself and her sons having chakra in their system.
Exiting the hospital she noticed a group of people standing to the left of the entrance, they seemed to be civilians, if they were 'ninja' she would be very surprised with how low their chakra is, unless of course they bought their way to the rank they are.
Sparing one last glance over to the group of people and hearing the mumblings of 'Demon' and 'Must die' she turned around and continued to walk away from the hospital towards the Hokage tower with her eyes closed.
Arriving at the Hokage tower she walked right in and straight past the secretary, the woman tried to stop her but as soon as she opened her eyes and made eye contact with the woman, the woman was instantly put to sleep, Naruko cast an illusion over her that was untraceable without being trained in the illusionary arts, illusions are different to genjutsu.
Walking up the stairs she walked up to the door labeled 'Hokage' the only door on the level, With a roll of her eyes she walked in to see Hiruzen having a conversation with three other people, of course you couldn't really call it a conversation as the three other people in the room where the only ones doing the talking.
These three people were the village elders namely, Homura Mitokado a male between the ages of 60 and 65, Koharu Utatane a female between the ages of 60 and 65 and Danzō Shimura a male between the ages of 60 and 65.
Naruko noticed they hadn't even realized that she had walked in, she also noticed they were talking about her, Hiruzen being the only one to realize that she had walked into the room was about to tell them to leave but Naruko waved him off giving him a pointed look as to say. 'I'll handle this.'
"I didn't realize a dictatorship was run by three old people who don't do anything but govern a council and sit on their asses." Naruko spoke with a loud voice that held authority, it seemed to do the job she wanted and the three people stopped their whining, at not getting their own way and turned towards the source to find a little girl, their faces where filled with rage and anger as they were about to yell at the girl but she spoke again voice laced with chakra.
"I also didn't realize that the three elders where a bunch of 5 year olds, complaining to their mother about not getting the toy they wanted." The three elders faces where further filled with rage. "Perhaps it's time to retire them Hiruzen, they obviously don't know what it means to be, advisors." Naruko finished, sending the three elders into a speechless state.
"Now listen hear!" Koharu seemed to snap out of her speechless state and wanted to put this girl in her place.
"Koharu, Homura and Danzō get out of my office, we will speak about your retirement later." Hiruzen spoke with a smirk and a twinkle in his eye.
Koharu and Homura left but Danzō seemed like he wasn't done, he looked at the girl as if trying to do something, when he realized it wasn't working he walked out of Hiruzen's office sparing one last glance at the girl, if he looked hard enough he would of noticed the color of her chakra, luckily he didn't.
"That man, he has an eye with power, behind that bandage of his." Naruko spoke sending Hiruzen into a shocked state.
"You're sure of this Naruko?" Hiruzen spoke, he wanted this confirmed, if he did, he finally had a reason to put Danzō into the ground, his friend had lost his way long ago, and he was beyond redemption, just like his old student.
"Yes, perhaps it was from an Uchiha, were they not recently all killed by the clan heir Itachi Uchiha the sharingan I believe they call it." Naruko spoke looking off to the side, the sharingan want a thing when she was around "That man also had two chakra signatures following him, they were hidden well, too good for ANBU."
"Dammit! I told him to get rid of that NE program." Hiruzen shouted, annoyed that his old friend has fallen so low. "Anyway, I suppose you will be leaving now Naruko?" He asked, when he got a nod in response he got out of his Hokage chair, and walked over to Naruko, handing the girl a piece of paper he looked her in the eyes "This will allow you to contact me, there is a seal on the back of this piece of paper that will allow you to write to me, it will connect with the paper I have in my desk."
Looking at Naruko a little longer he bent down and hugged the girl, surprising her, but she did return it nonetheless. "Even though you are two different people I still see you as my own grand-daughter." Hiruzen spoke in a sincere tone, braking the hug Hiruzen looked at the girl before bringing out another scroll. "I thought it best to give you something else, a scroll containing your inheritance, they are yours by birthright."
Looking at the scroll she saw the symbol of the Uzumaki clan, obviously her mother Kushina had prepared this if the worst was to come, she pocketed the contact paper and the scroll as she doesn't have any seals set up yet and looked one last time at Hiruzen.
"I will be going then, please keep my absence a secret from the council, no doubt Danzō will come after me if found that I am no longer within the walls Konoha."
"Where will you be going Naruko?" Hiruzen asked.
"Somewhere lost in History." She said, with that she walked out of the Hokage's office leaving him to think, although she spoke in code she made it plainly clear where she would be going.
"Uzushio" He whispered, before returning to his desk to continue with paperwork.
Naruko had arrived at her apartment, which had somehow survived the previous night, ANBU must have acted fast enough to save the building. Currently she was looking for sealing equipment so she can place seals on her clothes.
It didn't take long to do so, and now she had storage seals placed on her clothes, she could add more seals but she would do so later, it was now time to head to Uzushiogakure which gave her a perfect opportunity to test her abilities to get there faster than walking or running.
Opening a portal she walked through it leaving Konoha behind. When she was on the other side of the portal it closed and she was in another dimension, looking around she saw it was a desolated desert, nothing could be seen for miles except sand, getting sick of this place she opened a portal which hopefully would leader her to Uzushio.
Stepping through the portal she noticed that she wasn't in Uzushio, instead she was on a beach looking out to the ocean, before she could do anything she heard a scream, looking towards the source of the scream she saw a girl that looked the same age as herself running away from three full grown men.
"Come back here girl!" one of the men yelled.
They had been running towards Naruko, and they didn't even realize that yet, she was interested though about why they were chasing after this girl, the girl was interesting she had red hair that came to the middle of her back it was swaying because she was running, red hair was a common trait for those with Uzumaki blood, could she be related to Naruko?
So lost in thought that Naruko forgot they were running towards her until the girl ran into her, falling onto her back with the girl landing on top of her, the men stopped and looked down towards the two girls with grins, thinking they had finally caught the red haired girl and scored a little extra by capturing another girl.
"Maybe we can have some fun with them." One of the men seemed to say with a perverse grin, snapping Naruko's attention to the trio of men.
'Slavers still exists in this time.' Naruko thought in disgust, looking towards the girl currently lying on her stomach she could see she was scared and looked like she had lost hope, resigning to her fate. Standing up Naruko placed the girl behind her back and looked at the men with a bored expression, her eyes though told another story.
"Look guys, the girl thinks she can take us on." The man said laughing, the other two soon joined in until they were all pressed to the floor by Killing Intent, and this made all three of them chock on their breath and soil themselves.
Naruko meanwhile looked at them with such anger that they would die by simply being in her presence, but she would saver this, if there was one thing that Naruko Uzumaki hated above all else it was rape, but to rape a child is a sentence that will get you sent to the ninth level of maki as food for the demons.
The men on the floor couldn't do anything but look up to the girl that made them look like ants, they saw her wave a hand in the air and were about to question this, until skeletal hands rose from the ground and grabbed them, pulling them down beneath the earth into a fiery cave, once there the three men could finally stand, they looked around for an exit but heard a loud rumble that shook the cave, sending rocks to fall to the ground.
That's when a beast emerged from the ground that looked like a three headed dog that was on fire, the three men screamed and tried to run but it was all for naught as the three headed do got a hold of them and began to eat them.
Naruko looked on as the three men looked at her and then their eyes went stone white, dead.
The girl behind Naruko looked shocked that a girl her age could do something like this with a simple wave of her hand, the girl was too busy being shocked that she didn't realize that Naruko was looking at her until she saw someone waving their hand in her face, instantly causing her to get scared that what happened to those men may happened to her.
Instantly realizing her mistake Naruko spoke to her in a soft tone. "Don't worry I'm not going to hurt you, It's okay, you're safe now." Giving the girl a smile.
The girl suddenly tackled Naruko hugging her and crying into her neck. "Thank you, thank you so much!" she said hugging her tighter as if she was a life line.
Pushing the girl away she held her at arm's reach. "Who are you? Why where those men after you?" Naruko asked.
"They wanted me to be a slave, they killed mummy and, and" the girl burst into tears again.
Instantly getting the Idea of what happened Naruko hugged her again. "What's your name?" Naruko asked still hugging the girl.
"M-my name is Shari U-uzumaki."
