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Chapter 3: The Rosette Girl

Sakura stood face to face with her friend. They were now in a head lock. The rosette's words had struck a nerve with her friend and now she had to fight for what she wanted.

Ino placed her dainty hands on her hips and lifted one eye brow. "What you are suggesting is literally illegal without consent. Which I'm assuming you don't have."

"Ino I know the rules… but I'm begging you as a friend, please do this for me." The green eyed girl begged.

The blond looked away from her friends looks and sighed. "What makes you think I'm gonna see something in the first place. Coma patients have little to no brain function. I've seen what they see and it is dull and boring." Ino explained as she went to her bed and sat down.

Sakura took a deep breath and shifted in her heels. "I don't think he is in a coma." She finally admitted.

"And what makes you say that." Her blue eyes fierce.

Green eyes met ice blue ones and the two of them just stared at each other for the longest time.

"Trust me."

xXx

Naruto had been sitting at the doorway steps of his school for the past ten minutes waiting for his mother to come and get him. His mind had been caught in a daze as the events of his first day at school recoiled through his head.

He had talked to his friend or more like rival, Sasuke about his current dream situation to which the Uchiha shrugged and told him that he was probably just feeling chicken and thus that was why he was having the terrible nightmares.

All the same it bugged him how Sasuke had taken him so lightly. 'Who did he think he was?' was all Naruto could think of as he blew hair out of his face.

From behind came a small little figure who clinged to the first brick wall in sight in hopes of hiding from the blond.

Her pale eyes looked at him from afar as she tightened her grasp on her small book bag. He was there in front of her, all alone, waiting…. Her mouth slightly opened to form a small 'O' like shape, while her face turned beat red. 'What would she do?' was all she could think.

With a deep breath she bit down on her lip and closed her eyes painfully tight. She was going to do this! Forcing herself she walked over towards his form. Every fiber in her small body shook, until finally it all stopped as he caught wind of her and turned to face her.

His large pacific blue eyes took her in as a smile graced his lips.

"Hinata?" he spoke out looking rather confused at how oddly she was walking towards him.

Hinata quickly stiffened as she stood merely inches away from him. Her short blue-black hair gently fluttering in the light breeze that ran through the village. With a smile and the diverting of her eyes she took a deep breath.

"N-Naruto-kun."

Naruto could feel his eye brows drooping. She always did this to him, come up from behind and then say nothing but his name.

The young Hyuga heiress quickly shook her head and forced her fears out. "Why are you by yourself?" she asked finally, now looking at him directly. The blood in her body rising to her face.

"My mom hasn't arrived yet, so I'm waiting for her. What about you? I thought you had left by now." He responded with a soft grin on his face.

The girl shuffled her weight and looked up at the sky. "I'm waiting too." She finally explained with a twinkle in her pale lavender eyes.

The blond just nodded in understanding as she stood there motionless.

"You know you can sit next to me. You don't have to just stand awkwardly like that." He explained while scratching the back of his head to relieve a very pesterous itch.

Hinata squeaked almost at his statement and gently nodded before coming to sit next to him.

Her eyes never looked directly at him, but instead on the ground or her small feet.

They sat still for minutes just staring off into the sun, not a word had been spoken since and seemed it was going to stay that way until finally something sparked in the little Hyuga heiress.

"N-Naruto-kun... have you ever heard of the fable titled 'Seven Devils?' she asked still not looking at him.

Naruto lifted a single eye brow in confusion. The name had sounded familiar as if his own father had once told him about it, yet nothing seemed to ring a real bell with him.

"No, I haven't, why?" he finally asked, staring at her with curiosity blooming in his eyes.

Hinata bit her lip once more and looked up to the birds fluttering in the sky. "That dream you and Sasuke were talking about earlier at lunch. It rem-minded me about it."

Naruto finally stared in shock at her. Never once did the thought of how odd it was that she had been listening in on him bother him. No he was now interested in this so called story.

Leaning closely towards her his eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets.

" 'Seven Devils' you say?"

xXx

They had slipped in past all the hospital officials as Shizune wanted to keep Naruto's room monitored at all times, now thanks to what had happened. No visitors were really allowed but that didn't stop the two girls from getting in.

Bolting into the room as they turned the corner to his hall way, Ino and Sakura sighed as they finally had escaped sight from every fricken nurse that was on standby near this section of the hospital.

Finally Sakura came face to face with her team mate once more and gently grinned.

Walking to his bed side she gently placed herself next his head and reached out to stroke his soft golden hair.

"Naruto, I brought help." She cooed out as if he were alert to the whole situation.

Ino who was now taking off the doctor's coat they had stolen from the lounge, came trotting to the whiskered boy's side. She forced the rosette from her seat and took it for herself. Gently she placed both of her hands over his pale forehead. Only her thumbs dared to touch him as she eyed him closely.

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Ino finally asked her friend with hopes that the rosette was going to change her mind.

Sakura stared once more at Naruto and then back at her friend, "Yes."

"Fine, but you are so buying me that dress now." Ino pointed out as she finally turned all her attention to the coma toast Naruto.

With a deep breath, she swallowed all doubts away. "Here we go."

Her hands moved quickly forming signs until finally they stopped and both thumbs were forcefully against the man's skull. Her mouth voiced out silent words that Sakura couldn't even understand.

The world dulled in those moments and went black as Ino entered into a new world. A world where nothing was out of shape or odd, where everything was so damn simple and predictable, or at least so she had thought.

As she opened her eyes, Ino was met with the most usual things. Like everyone, their minds were placed sort of like an art gallery. And like others Naruto's mind was like an old worn down hall way full of rooms with large frames all along the room.

Ino slowly went down the hallway that was flooded with knee high water. She stared loosely at the frames as memories of his life appeared. She could see the time he stole a carton of milk from the supermarket that used to be on the corner of the main avenue, or the time he graduated from the academy.

It interested her how in every image, may it be sad or happy he always managed to make the best out of it all.

Yet as she came towards a corner in his mind her eyes froze one image. It was different from the rest. While all the other ones were black and white, this one was in color. Its frame reached the top of the ceiling to under the flooded floor. A vibrant golden frame surrounded it and in every corner of the frame odd markings shimmered out at the girl.

Inside of the image It was of the academy, yet it didn't look like the academy that she grew up and learned in. This one was much older and different looking.

Her hand went out to gently touch it as her interest peeked its height. Running a hand over the image her hand fell through the picture and ended up somewhere else.

Ino's eyes narrowed as she pulled her arm back towards her and stared at it. It was colder.

"What is this?" she whispered to herself.

Looking fiercely at the image, the girl gulped. Pushing a few strands of hair back behind her ear she walked through the large frame.

Instantly she was brought into a world unlike anything she had ever seen before. Her icy blue eyes wide and full of concern as she came to view a world she had only seen in photos of the village before she was born. .

"Konoha….".

xXx

After their short talk, Hinata had been picked up and was forced to leave, leaving Naruto once more in the dark about his dream.

Eventually his beautiful mother had come forth with a smile on her face as she stood in front of him outstretching a hand to him. Yet her eyes caught wind of his distraught look and it concerned her deeply.

"What's wrong sweetie? Aren't you ready to go home?" she asked with curious eyes.

The boy looked down at his feet and began to shuffle in his steps. His heart felt lost.

"Mom I want to know something." He asked finally looking her in the eyes.

Kushina smiled gently as she held her hand out for him to take it. "Anything."

Naruto gently grasped her hands which were warmer than anything he knew. The cool autumn day chilled his body, yet her hands and gentle smile were the only things that warmed him.

"Hinata told me today about a story she had heard as a baby. It was called 'Seven Devils'. What is it about?" he asked looking at his mother with a confused face.

The red head froze for a second but regained herself and gently grinned as she walked with him down to the lake bank which was near their home.

"Well, as the story goes if I remember there was once a lost boy who was in search of the truth."

"The truth?" he asked with a twinkle in his looks

His mother nodded, "Yep. As legend goes the boy one day was walking down an old country road and came across a cat sitting in the shade under a tree. It's foot had been caught a snare." His mother explained as they continued walking. With a deep breath she continued. "The lost boy came forth to the cat and freed it. However, when he freed the cat it grinned at him."

"CATS DON'T GRIN!" Naruto shouted out interrupting her story with a cute little smile on his face.

"No they don't." Kushina responded with a soft look on her face. "But this was no ordinary cat. This cat had two eyes of a different color and grinned because he was not a cat but a wandering demon."

Naruto froze in his steps and stared wide eyed at his mother. "A demon?" he asked with a scared look.

Kushina turned to him and came before him. Her purple eyes soft as she knew the word demon was not too new to her son as he had heard people yell the word at his mother and even himself from time to time by the ignorance of the world.

Placing a soft hand on his cheek she smiled and came to his eye level. "Should I continue?"

The blond gently nodded with concern and fear in his eyes.

His mother spoke out in detail of what had happened. The cat which had been caught had spoken to the boy and granted him a small token of thanks for being freed. The cat had offered the boy his best weapon, the ability to see into the future. The cat had told the boy that he could ask anything he wanted too and he would then be shown if what he was interested in would happen or not. However the cat gave fair warning that looking into the future had its cost.

The lost boy took a leap of faith and asked the cat his deepest wish for which he was searching for, 'if he would find his parents'.

As agreed the cat did as promised and showed the boy what he future held, but what the child saw was no warmth or love, but pain and tragedy.

Screaming at the cat in fury the boy stormed off calling the cat a liar, a devil with seven lives.

Naruto had made his mother stop at that as he essentially could figure out what happened after that as insulting something such as a demon had its costs.

At around the same time a loud call had been made catching his mother off guard. Kushina stood up gently only to be met with Ms. Haruno who softly came over towards the two. Her soft emerald eyes shimmered in the falling sunlight as she began talking to the blond's mother.

The red head gently nudged her son to go on ahead as she would catch up. Naruto didn't hesitate to wait as he went off staring at the woman as he walked on. She looked very familiar, but for some reason he couldn't put his finger on how so.

Sure he knew her but there was something more to his short relationship with her.

Naruto padded along the only river bank road pondering on and on about the story. He felt a terrible tear in the back of his heart and he worried for the lost boy. How terrible it must have felt to not know your parents and only to learn that you will never get to be with them. Tears nearly filled his vibrant blue eyes. He nearly began to cry until something caught his large eyes.

The girl she was just standing there in front of the pathway to his home. Her long blond hair was pulled back in a pony tail while it blew limply in the wind.

His eyes narrowed on her as she stood with a very confused look on her face.

"N-Naruto?" she shouted out with large blue eyes.

The little boy tilted his head and began to furrow his brows. "How do you know my name? Do I know you?"

Ino stared at him with a very surprised look. "Oh cut the crap Naruto! Of course you know me! We went to school together at the academy; we've been fighting together in the Fourth Ninja war. Besides the point what's with the child like form?" She spoke out as she came closer towards him.

Naruto's eyes squinted while his brows furrowed as she spoke. "Fourth Ninja war?" he asked out with a lost look. The blond scratched the back of his head as he began to feel confused. "Who are Y-" he mouthed out but was cut off as he mother finally caught back up with him.

"Naruto there you are!" she panted out as she came to her son's side. Looking in his direction she stared violently at Ino.

"Can I help you?" Kushina asked out politely while her face gave off a much different tone.

Ino was starting to feel nauseous as she stared at the unknown figure. Ignoring the woman Ino went back to looking at Naruto.

"Naruto, it's me Ino! You have to wake up now this is all a lie! A DREAM!" she yelled out at the boy.

Sensing the danger Kushina threw her son behind her and began closing in on the blond.

"Naruto get back." she growled out as she came nose to nose with the yelling blond.

Ino shut her mouth as the red head stood right in front of her. Only inches away.

With no warning the red head latched onto the blonds white blouse and began grinning wildly.

"HEY BACK OFF" The Yamanaka girl yelled, yet it fell on deaf ears.

Kushina began to lift the girl up from off the ground. Her violet eyes swirled with a red aura turning them into what demons would have.

Naruto stood behind his mother in fear as he watched her lift the lost blond girl off the ground as if she was nothing. The red head's hair rapidly began to lift off from the woman's back and into the air. The scene was becoming crazed with hate.

Naruto closed his eyes and dared not to look. He could hear screaming in the background from the girl. He knew her name as there was a girl named Ino at his school who was desperately in love with his best friend. Yet while the two shared the same name and somehow did seem sort of similar if he thought hard on it, he could begin to imagine how it was possible for two identical Ino's to exist.

xXx

Ino screamed, frightening Sakura as she sat next to the girl who still hand her thumbs on the unconscious blond man.

Within seconds Ino jumped backwards from the coma patient with sweat pouring down her face. Her eyes wide and full of fear, as she stared at the hospital bed. Blood gently began to trickle from the Yamanaka girl's baby blue eyes as she continued to stare, panting wildly as if the air had become her enemy.

Sakura raced to her friend's side as she grew worried with concern. "Ino! Are you ok? WHAT HAPPENED!" The rosete yelled out with fear in her voice for her friend's health, but it fell on deaf ears. The blond dared not to speak as she stared at the man in the bed.

Her once strong and steady hands were now shaking as the girl brought them to her face and began to whimper in fear. Her blue eyes poured out tears of fear that mixed in with the blood that had been shed from their once amazing forms. All the while her whole body shook, like a branch in the wind.

Sakura sat in front of her friend as she placed a hand on the blond's shaking shoulders. Tears now pouring out from her own emerald eyes, as she looked between the two of them.

xXx

Naruto tossed in turned in his bed. His eyes squeezed tight in pain while sweat poured from his body. Grabbing onto the sheets he squeezed the fabric and panted.

His eyes were stuck in a dream. This dream was ever so real and felt impossible to escape. Yet there he was again, in that same ally way that left all lost.

From afar the rosette threw her short hair back as she raced through the streets. Her old childish teen outfit blowing in the wind, as she searched down the streets for him. As she raced down the old broken down streets she felt something loosen on top of her head. Her red headband began to lift from its once permanent spot.

Gently the object drifted up into the air only to land perfectly in a muddy puddle in the city streets. Sakura's eyes followed as it drifted away. She had reached out for it like a child full of hope but failed. Stopping in her tracks she went to go back for it.

Her short pink hair began to fall as she leaned forwards, over the dark puddles of water. She eyed the water as the ripples broke forth from it, shattering her perfect image and making her look like an abstract painting. Yet as the water calmed a new figure came forth. His short black shorts and white t-shirt with the familiar red spiral on it were all too familiar. As she grabbed the soaked crimson object her eyes never left the small person's form. She began to go breathless as she finally caught site of his bright blue eyes and uncanny three whisker marks on each cheek.

Tears whelmed in her eyes as she began to lose a heart beat ever so often.

"N-Naruto?" she spoke out spooking the boy.

Naruto stepped cautiously backwards away from her. His mind scared. 'It's that woman again.' was all he could think as he stood a good distance from her.

She stood before him now with her arms open. His blue orbs stared back at her as if he had seen a ghost. His feet were wobbly and trying ever so desperately not to shake. Yet he couldn't help it. She was finally before him and the worlds around him had finally stopped spinning.

Green eyes began to stream with tears as she stared at him and smiled. "Come home!" she whispered out. The blond boy began to grow his own fear. His feet began to take a step forwards on their own.

"Naruto! PLEASE!" she screamed out suddenly, scaring him.

The little boy went to open his mouth, but was stopped as soft red objects came floating down in front of them. His soul began to flutter with their brightness and beauty. They were calming and familiar as if they were a part of his own self.

Suddenly a flash of white light broke forth causing the little boy to cringe and slam his eyes shut. The force of the light threw him backwards into the street.

For minutes the light shinned brightly, hurting the boy's eyes under his own eyelids. Yet slowly the light died down and the blond finally dared to open his eyes and as he did he was shocked to find a much more disturbing sight.

The rosette still stood before him yet was much more different than she had previously been. Her soft looks of innocence and warmth had been replaced with a vest covered in blood that may have once resembled his fathers. Naruto was at a loss for words as he looked at the deathly injured and sickly looking beauty. Her hair was fluttering in the wind with blood soaked in it. It was longer and more crazed then it had been before.

"W-who are you?" he finally asked out with fear soaked in his voice.

Green eyes stared at him with a lifeless motion. "Seven Devils." She spoke out

"What?" the boy asked in confusion. That couldn't possibly be her name. "What did you say?" he asked as if those words meant something dearly to him.

Coming to his feet the boy wobbled and cringed as if he were in pain.

Her hair lifted once more in the wind as she looked down at him with a broken look. "They are all around you."

"WHO IS?" he yelled out in fear

The girl grinned as she held onto her vest and looked up at the moon that rested in the skies of the old village.

"The lies." She finally spoke out.

Naruto lifted an eyebrow at her statement. 'How could lies be all around me?' he pondered.

"Who is lying?" was the only thing he could ask.

The rosette just looked at him with a gleam in her eyes. "You are." She finally explained. The rosette turned at her statement from him and began walking off into the cold roads. Her bloodied hair seemed to blend in with her once rosy colored locks.

Naruto stood ever so still as her answer had frightened him. Shaking his thoughts from his head, he looked up finally and noticed she was nearly gone.

"W-WAIT!" He screamed out, his heart beating wildly in his chest as if it dared to burst out.

The girl stopped in her tracks at his word.

"What is your name?"

Her head looked over her shoulders and two vibrant green eyes stared at him. A grin broke forth from her worn face.

He listened as she softly spoke out one word. Yet the word fell on deaf ears as suddenly he threw himself forwards only to find himself back in his dark old room.

Sweat dripped down his face as he stared at the poster on his wall in front of him. It was a ramen shop poster he had gotten a year ago from eating a lot of ramen.

Taking a deep breath, Naruto wiped the sweat from his brow and gently threw his feet off the side of the bed. His eyes wandered in the dark as he came to stand finally on his own two feet.

The moon gently beamed into his room from his two large bay windows. The blond stared at the direction of the light and slowly went towards it.

His sea blue eyes looked out into the night sky that covered his village. The stars were all hidden and only the moon remained shinning lonely in the night. His heart sunk as he stared at it.

"Sakura-chan." Was all he could muster as he stared at the moon. The name rolled off his tongue as if he had said it a thousand times.

Yet he knew nothing of the name. It was in all ways meaningless to him. It was just a name he had randomly come to think of.

But in the back of the boy's mind it held some meaning, it felt as though it was a key to something he had lost.

xXx

The nurses had caught a hold of the loud scream and rushed into Naruto's room without a second to waste. The concern over the boy had changed to Ino as she was frozen with fear in the room.

After a few minutes of coaxing from both them and Sakura the blond girl finally was able to move and calm down.

Her green eyes never left her friend as they sat in the hospital's staff room sipping down some cold ice water. Ino had yet to speak a single word after the experience and it made Sakura worry.

The blond woman sat staring into her foam cup watching the ice melt. Her eyes red and irritated from the crying and bleeding that had happened. All of her beauty had died in those moments as she freaked out to the extreme as she liked to put it.

Solemnly she finally looked up at her pink haired friend and sighed.

"It isn't a coma…" Ino whispered out, shaking.

Sakura opened her mouth to speak but was speechless.

Finally Ino got a deep breath and continued. "We need to speak to Lady Tsunade about this. What I saw isn't normal."

"What did you see!" Sakura yelped out as if her heart was going to burst from the suspense it held.

"You can wait and tell us all about it Ino." A new voice spoke out shaking both girls.

A new much older woman stood in the entrance way to the staff room. Her arms were crossed and her eyes were hard. She was in every way pissed to no end as she stared directly at the rosette, who dared not move from that stare.

"Both of you need to be in my office now." The older woman pointed out as she threw some of her dark blond hair back from her face.

Sakura looked away as did Ino as they both muttered two words,

"Yes Tsunade…"

End

Uhh I hated writing this chapter… :S I hope it was ok. Depending on how things work Sasuke will be appearing within the next few chapters. Please review they tell me if I should continue or not.