Chapter 3
-4 days later—
Kurama woke up still tired and a bit stiff from sleeping for so long. He looked around before remembering what had happened before he fell asleep. He got up and went deeper into his partner's mind to see the memories of the past week or so. He was proud at the way she handled the situation and loved the way she had tortured the other genins, and how well she messed with Danzo's agents.
He thought of a way to surprise her and tell her that he was awake, looking at what she will be doing today maybe he would do it when she meets up with team 7 so she could take Naruto with her and start working on him using his chakra and other areas he needs to improve in. With that he went back to his 'cage' and fell back asleep before she woke up.
Naru woke up at 6 to make breakfast, 'I wonder when Kurama is going to wake up? It's been a week and he said it would take that much time for him to recuperate, so sometime today or tomorrow he'll be waking up. I'll tell Kakashi, jiji and Naruto that we will be starting on that training soon.' She pulled out her thoughts and set the table before going to Naruto's room to wake him up.
"Naruto, wake up breakfast is on the table and I have some news for you." She heard him grumble from the other side of the door before she heard him fall onto the floor. She went back down and thought what training she would do with him to prepare.
Naruto came down 15 minutes later and they ate before starting to walk to the bridge.
"Ne, ne, nee-san what did you have to tell me?"
"Oh, it's been about a week since I got here so soon he will be awake and we are going to start on our other training I told you about when we were cleaning this house."
"Really?! Oh this going to be so cool I'm going learn cool new ninjustus and get more powerful making me one step closer to my dream of being Hokage, dattebyo!" His excitement in his voice made her chuckle and remind her of how she used to be at that age.
"Naru-neesan, did you ever get to be Hokage where you were from?" He looked to her with an honest expression.
"Yes, I did actually, but it was during the war and I was about 18 when baa-chan had gotten badly hurt and the Shinobi Alliance chose me for the next Hokage, even all the other Kages agreed."
The rest of the walk was silent until they came up to the bridge with Sakura and Sasuke already there.
In the past week each day she was with a different team helping them out for the day, she didn't really train with team 7 though, Kakashi had been pushing them like no tomorrow. She hadn't really talk to the other two though some words of advice in their forms when sparring but otherwise she having Naruto improve on what he needed help on the most since most of his Academy days were sabotaged by the teachers there.
The only thing she was doing at the moment was making the genin teams stronger for the exams and only after the second exam will she actually start to help each of them to know what they need to do for the 3 years she is away helping Jiraiya train Naruto.
Sasuke saw Naruto and Naru come up to the bridge and waited in silence for Kakashi-sensei to show up. It was weird ever since she had shown up sensei had been pushing them to their limits, she was strong, very strong yet she only had paid attention to the dobe and almost none to him. She was a mystery to him, she appeared in the Hokage's office a week ago in a white light then had Sakura and I kicked out while the dobe and sensei had stayed inside. He didn't see Naruto or his 'sister' until 3 days later when they were doing the new training that sensei had us do.
She hadn't even given him a glance, which was strange since almost every woman in the village would always praise him, look his way or were fangirls, but she didn't even care. He thought that she was there to train him since she looked very powerful. The air around her felt like she demanded respect and you could feel how powerful she was. He was an Uchiha she should be helping him get stronger to get his revenge but she had barely even spoken a word to him, she was strange and he didn't know what to think about her.
Sakura looked at Naru, she didn't know what to think about Naruto's new sister, and all she knew was that she had appeared about a week ago after the reporting to the Hokage's office. After she had appeared everything changed, Kakashi-sensei was actually showing up early and training them into the ground and Naruto had somewhat changed over the week too. He was happier than she had ever seen him and he hadn't been asking her out for any dates either.
She was jealous of her because she had noticed that Sasuke had been paying attention to her and she didn't even care. She knew she was beautiful and a strong ninja. She had seen Ino the other day and it was like she was a completely different person, when she had asked what happened she had told her that Naru had talked some sense into her to focus on training. Sakura felt that sooner or later that Naru was going to be talking to her and Sasuke.
Kakashi arrived to the bridge to see Sasuke and Sakura silently looking at Naru and Naruto who were sitting on the railing facing the water talking about something. He coughed into his hands which caused them to snap their attention to him.
"Well today we have a couple of D-rank missions and some light training after that, I think Naru-san here has something in store for you three throughout the day." Kakashi saw the confused faces on his genin faces.
"What Kakashi means it that over the next couple of days I'm going to be taking each of you out so I can train you for a while." Naru explained.
"Anyway so right now I'm going to take Sakura and Naruto to start with the missions today and Sasuke you are the lucky one to go first." Kakashi gave him an eye-smile, but for some reason Sasuke felt as though he should fear for his life.
With an eerie 'Good luck' from his sensei and teammates were gone.
Sasuke turned to Naru with an expected look, what he found was harsh cold blue eyes staring at him. She took him by the arm and body flickered to an empty training ground and threw him into the ground.
"What the hell was that for?!" Sasuke glared at her with his Sharingan blaring fiercely at her.
"Let me tell you this right now Uchiha-sama," she spat the words out with venom, "I do not care if you are from a clan, I do not care that everyone in your clan was murdered right in front of you by your brother. You have been brought up with the idea that your clan was the best and that no one could beat them."
Sasuke interrupted her, "Because they were."
She picked him up and punched him in the face with enough strength to send him flying. "You say they were the best and yet look where that got them, six feet under and only a memory of what the 'so called' clan was. You are not above anyone, I have met people that have been through a lot more than you but still treat others with respect and not like trash."
She now stood in front of him, "You think that people are here to serve you to become stronger and that others only pull you down. Well let me tell you this right now, you are dead wrong because there are people who will always be stronger than you. Without our bonds, the friends and family we have in our life then we would not be here right now. They pull us up when we are at our lowest. They are there for us when we need them the most. We are nothing without our precious people."
"You say that you want revenge, then let me ask you this, what are you going to do after you do get your revenge?" Sasuke looked away from her. "Revenge will not get your family back, revenge will not make you feel better. No once you get your revenge you know what will happen to you? You will be all alone wasting away with no one around. You. Would. Be. Alone." She emphasized her last words.
Sasuke didn't really know what to think with what she had told him. She doesn't know what she's talking about, with every word that she told him he was getting angrier. At her last sentence he lashed out at her. "And what would you know?!"
Naru knew this would happen and blocked every punch he threw at her. She knew she was getting to him with her words, and was making him think, before answering his question.
"You want to know, I was alone for all my life, and people hated me. I was alone, until I found friends that treated me like family, I had a happy life before it was all taken away from me one by one. Every person I ever knew was dead and killed in front of me. So don't come to me spouting shit that you are special or that because you are the last of your clan that everyone should obey every last whim of yours." She finally stopped blocking his attacks and began to hit back with some restraint.
"And let me tell you this, do you even know the reason behind your brother's betrayal?" She saw him falter at that question.
"Don't look at it one-sided, there is always more to the story than just what you have been told and what you know of." Sasuke was now lying on the ground panting from exhaustion and now thinking about what she had said.
He knew he hadn't been the best person to be around, and it sounded to him as though she wanted to have revenge too but didn't take it when she had the chance. He thought back to that night, he remembered that Itachi was crying, he knows that he did. He had ignored it thinking it was just some figment of his imagination.
Naru sat down next to him. "Look I already know that you starting to get attached to your Team and let me tell you this, that is a good thing. You say you don't want to be like your brother than don't be like him because the way you are right now you are going to end up just like him. Betraying everyone and leaving the village, and alone."
'She's right.' Sasuke's mind supplied, every word she had said was true. He felt something wet go down his face. When he lifted his arms to wipe it, he saw that he was crying.
Naru saw this and pulled him into a hug. Sasuke hadn't had someone hold him like this since the massacre had happened, that's when he broke down and just let it all out.
They stayed like that for the next 45 minutes, until Sasuke pulled away. He rubbed his eyes to dry them of any stray tears.
"Thanks." Was what made Naru smile as bright as the sun, Sasuke looked away blushing, not knowing why.
"Now then," Naru stood up and dusted off her pants, she held out a hand to him and he took it, "now that that's done, I can start to really train you." Sasuke smiled at that.
"Great job with the boy, kit." A deep voice interrupted making Naru jump.
"Shit Kurama, don't scare me like that!" Naru said out loud making Sasuke look at her weirdly.
She gave him a nervous smile, "Um, sorry Sasuke looks like we are going to have put out training on hold, a friend of mine just contacted me that he is here. So I'm going to go drop you off with Kakashi and steal Naruto away for the rest of the day."
Sasuke nodded, thanking Kami for whomever that had just saved him. His body was feeling numb from the beat down she had given him earlier and he didn't want to know what kind of training she had in store for him.
Naru took him by the arm and body flickered to where Team 7 would be at right about now. She had found them chasing that damn cat again. One day she will kill the damn thing for all the trouble she had caused them in the past.
Kakashi appeared right next to her, "What's wrong Naru, you weren't supposed to be back with him until the end of the day and unconscious."
"Well, he is awake now so I'm stealing Naruto for the rest of the day." She turned in the direction where Naruto was coming out of the bushes with the cat in his arms. "Ah, perfect timing Naruto, you are coming with me now we have work to do."
Naru quickly took the cat from his arms and gave it to Sasuke and left with Naruto in a yellow flash.
Sasuke turned to Kakashi while trying to prevent the cat from scratching his face, "Sensei, Naruto's sister is weird and scary."
Kakashi sweat dropped from the sentence, but he noticed that he looked better, like something had been taken off his shoulders. "Well, Sasuke-chan don't let her hear that or you will regret it. Now then let's get that cat back to the Hokage's office, come on Sakura." He called back to her.
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With Naruto and Naru, they appeared in the Hokage's office quickly saying that it was time and she was taking him outside the village for the day, not waiting for a reply Naruto had found himself at the gates. With how fast they had been going Naruto felt sick.
"Ah, hey you two, I'm heading out for the day with Naruto for some training." Without waiting for their reply she took Naruto and dragged him out of the village.
"Alright there is an open field about 12 miles out in that direction, so it will take us a good 20 minutes to get there, come on you already know the tree climbing exercise this is just like it, except you use it to stick to the trees while jumping to tree to tree. Now come on." Naru jumped into the trees with Naruto following close behind.
"Hey Naru, what exactly are we going to be doing?" Naruto wanted to know if it had something to do with the fox.
"Oh were training with the fox's chakra right now, since your body was first introduced to it when you were at the bridge but now you need to get your body to build up some resistance to his chakra since his chakra right now would be like poison in your body." Naru explained, she saw the hesitant look on his face.
"Don't worry we won't start out with that just yet, first we are going to talk to him and you are going to know the full story of what I haven't told to everybody, except Kakashi he knows a bit and I'm planning to tell Shikaku about what happens during the exams."
"Alright." It did make him feel a bit better, but not by much he has had her training before and it was pure torture, he still had some bruises on him to prove it.
They arrived to the field and Naru set off to put out seals around the field so they wouldn't be interrupted and no one would be able to get in.
She sat down in the middle of the field and told him to sit across from her. She held out her hand in a fist, and Naruto just looked at her clueless.
She signed, "Bump my fist, and trust me on this."
Naruto did she did and when their fists bumped Naruto found himself in a dark sewer, with a large red cage in front of him. He looked to the side to see Naru there and on the other side of her a free, Kyuubi. He felt some fear built up inside him when Naru gave him a reassuring smile.
"Don't worry the plushy right next to me is harmless." The said fox gave her a playful glare.
"And if you call me plushy again you might find yourself eaten brat." Kurama saw that she gave him an innocent looked and scoffed at it.
"Why are you here?" A voice from behind the red bars.
Red chakra began to swirl around them, until it was pulled into the cage where a large figure was outlined with the red chakra a large figure and red eyes looked to them.
The inside of the cage lite up and you could see an angry, reddish orange, fox looking at them.
"Oh, what a wonderful entrance, Kurama, much better than my own Kurama's. No offence but you did try to eat me the first time around." She said looking to the one in the cage before looking at her Kurama. "Damn that's confusing, I'm just going to call you Kyuubi since you haven't told us your name here, and mine is going to be Kurama."
"No that you have decided to show yourself we have a lot to discuss." Naru's voice turned serious.
Kyuubi's eyes narrowed at her, "And what do I have to discuss with a furless creature like you?"
"Well Kyuu-chan first things first you need to let go of your hate, and you need to be friends or at least be a bit nicer." Naru looked around the mindscape with some distaste.
"Alright, I'm not going to be talking you two in this place," she closed her eyes and they suddenly found themselves in an open field with a forest not too far from them, Kyuubi was also no longer in a cage but wearing a collar with 'seal' on it.
"Ah, so much better." Naru sat down right next to Kurama who decided to lay down in the grass. "Now Kyuubi, Kurama is going to transfer some of his memories to you so you could see what happens and you can decide whether or not you want to help us out. Naruto you're going to be seeing my memories while they are doing that." Naruto nodded.
Kyuubi on the other hand didn't seem to be on the same page, and got into a stance to attack them. Kurama stood up and face his counterpart.
"Enough, you should know that even if you try to attack him the seal will hold you back." Kurama saw the other calm down a bit. "We came here to help, and trust me in the long run it's better to stick with the idiot kit, or else they will just annoy you until you like them."
"Hey, it's not like you weren't annoying in the beginning either." Naru pouted as she saw the fox stuck out its tongue at her and then turned back to his counterpart.
"Fine I will listen. Let's get this over with and then you will have my decision." Kyuubi stated still looking skeptical at the two.
"Alright then we should get started ourselves too uh, Naruto?" Naru looked over to Naruto who was silent at the entire conversation.
Naruto nodded and followed Naru as a door appeared and went through.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.