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Broken Angel
Chapter 5: Departure
Narumi sat on top of her apartment building humming to herself. She was set to leave the village the following day and she couldn't be happier. The fire Jonin who tested her abilities said, that she had what it takes to become a jonin and placed her in the running for rapid promotion. She could pick up her full license at the Fire capital, when she got there. Her Ronin license would definitely be Chuunin level, but if things worked out well, then she may get a Jonin level license instead.
A ronin license basically makes a person a ninja and allows them to take missions in any country. Depending on your rank, determines the level of missions you could take. Narumi blew away the Fire jonin in every task he set for her, including Ninjutsu, Taijutsu and Genjutsu tests, along with throwing accuracy and other skills. With all her abilities Narumi was more than capable of becoming a Jonin, it was just unusual for someone to jump into being a ronin, and instantly be Jonin level. There was a lot of paperwork involved so she may or may not get that level.
She was going to leave with Uncle Remus. They would head to the Fire capitol, get her license, head to the Gringotts there, check on her assets and then head for someplace else. Narumi didn't care where, she still had three years until she was old enough to become a student at one of the Wizarding schools, so it was a good time for some adventuring.
The village was in quite a state right now, apparently the Leaf council had sent a message to Gringotts to inquire as to the identity of the previous head of Slytherin house. Lily had asked for a Blood Reading from Gringotts since she had no clue that she was Ravenclaw's heir. And the council had already sent two ninja to try to bribe her to stay, one was actually pretty amusing to her, one of the ninja they sent was their best hostage negotiator, who apparently had a perfect record.
Narumi remembered spending nearly an hour denying all of the man's offers. The guy was so full of himself and so proud of his perfect record in negotiations that her refusal was causing him to have an anxiety attack.
"Please just tell me what you want!" She remembered him begging.
"We'll give you anything! Jutsu? Money? Men? ...Women?" He finished giving her a look.
Her reply was to kangaroo kick him thirty yards down the street.
So yeah, things were a bit hectic.
Narumi lost her smile as she felt three presences appear behind her.
"Can I help you Lord third?" Narumi asked as she turned around and spotted Hiruzen, Jiraiya, and Tsunade.
"I'm just here to make sure they don't do something stupid. I didn't want to disturb you." Hiruzen replied giving both of his students a look.
"Hey brat. How have you been?" Jiraiya asked after a moment.
"Busy. Best friend died. Unlocked a legendary hidden doujutsu. Oh, and apparently, I'm head of Slytherin house... so yeah. Also, busy getting ready to move to a new country and go on adventures... so... I've had a lot on my plate recently." Narumi replied eying the two Sanin curiously.
"Listen... we're here to try and talk you out of leaving." Jiraiya began.
"Do you realize what you are putting your parents through? Lily still hasn't stopped bawling her eyes out because of you." Tsunade interrupted.
"Ya know... I don't think I ever asked you what your deal with me was. I mean my mother's an idiot, my father is a jackass, and my sister is probably the best example of why you shouldn't smoke and drink while pregnant. But I never did find out why you hate me so much." Narumi asked. "It's because I'm an Uchiwa isn't it?"
"What? No." Tsunade looked a little surprised at being called out like that.
"It is, isn't it? You've had this unnatural hatred for me since I was born, and it's because I'm an Uchiwa. I knew it." Narumi replied with a chuckle.
"That... that has nothing to do with why I don't like you." Tsunade replied.
"Huh... racist." Narumi muttered, earning her a glare from Tsunade.
"I don't hate you, Narumi. And the reason I don't like you has nothing to do with you being an Uchiwa, I just learned about that like everybody else." Tsunade explained, trying not to explode and get attacked again.
"Then why? I know why he doesn't like me. It's because he doesn't really know me." Narumi stated as she pointed at Jiraiya.
"Hey, I don't have any problem with you..." Jiraiya began but Narumi cut him off.
"I didn't say you did. But you don't like me. Not like you like Naruko. Or Minato, or Lily, or Tsunade, or Kakashi... I could go on. You treat me like a friend's child is supposed to be treated. I'm not your godchild, therefore you don't need to have a close bond with me. I would have liked to, but I don't hate you for not having one with me. She's my godmother though, and she hates me." Narumi explained to Jiraiya. She could tell her explanation got to him as a look of shame took up residence on his face.
Jiraiya really did wish he got to know Narumi better. Especially after all he had learned about her recently. He could tell she had grown into a mature, and dynamic individual and it saddened him that even after all these years, he hadn't formed any sort of bond with Minato's eldest.
"I told you. I don't hate you Narumi." Tsunade said again.
"Well, it feels like you do." Narumi told her.
"I'm sorry Narumi... I just... I don't have any family. Minato, Lily, Sensei, even this fool Jiraiya... they're all I have... I guess I just chose to follow what Minato and Lily did. I guess I never took the chance to get to know you either. I just assumed that Naruko knew you best, and when she spoke, I thought it was the truth. I also wanted to apologize for trying to hit you before... it was stupid, and I guess I just let my emotions get to me sometimes... my family is all I have... I don't take kindly to people insulting them. So, I'm sorry." Tsunade offered up her apology actually sounding like she meant it.
"I guess I'll take what I can get from you people. Whatever, apology accepted, now let's move on to why you're here. You want to try and talk me out of leaving? I gotta here the argument you prepared for this." Narumi stated with a chuckle.
Both Sanin shared a look with each other before beginning. "Look kid... it's a tough world out there..." Jiraiya began, but a chuckle from Narumi cut him off.
"It's a tough world in here too. At least out there no one knows who I am. And I don't look a thing like the Fourth so you can't say people will recognize me, plus I'm already planning on dropping his last name." Narumi told them.
"You're disowning yourself?" Jiraiya asked in shock. Tsunade and Hiruzen both had similar looks of surprise.
"Sure. Why not? My father already said that he wanted Naruko to become Namikaze clan leader, anyway. I'm just making it easier on him. Plus, it wouldn't do to have a clan leader who isn't even a part of the village now would it?" Narumi stated with a knowing smirk.
Both Sannin mentally cursed, that had been one of their attempts to get her to stay, since she couldn't be Namikaze clan leader if she wasn't in the village.
"Next?" Narumi asked with a smirk.
"Nothing we say in going to convince you to stay, is it?" Jiraiya asked, sensing that they would get nowhere.
"Nope. You could tell me that if I stay, I'll be made Hokage, and I'd still tell you to ram it up your rear." Narumi replied joyfully.
"Is there anything we can do to get you to stay?" Tsunade asked.
"No. I've been in this shit hole for too long. You stay and enjoy your happy lives here. I'm not going to stay just so I can deal with more of this village's bigotry and hypocrisy." Narumi told the two with a solemn look.
"You are an amazing young lady Narumi. I'm sure if Madara were still alive he would be proud of the person you have become. This situation, your treatment in the Leaf. You are handling it very maturely. A lesser person would have done something foolish." Hiruzen complimented her.
"Thank you, lord Third. I plan on writing Kakashi and the Ichiraku's. If you ever feel like talking, you can send me a letter." Narumi offered.
"I would like that." Hiruzen stated with a smile.
"You two can send me letters as well. Can't say whether I'll read them or not, I guess it would depend on my mood. But you can still write." Narumi informed the two Sannin with a smile.
Both shared a look, knowing that that was probably the best they could hope for.
"Where will you go?" Jiraiya asked.
"I don't know. I want to attend one of the magical schools in Europe, but I still have a few years of free time until then. Maybe I'll do some adventuring with Uncle Remus, see what kind of trouble we can get into before I'm old enough to go to school." Narumi replied with a thoughtful look.
"Hmm... well you keep in contact okay kid. And let me know what kind of adventures you get up to." Jiraiya told her.
"Sure." Narumi replied with a smile.
"Just... stay safe. I know you don't believe me, but your parents really do worry about you." Tsunade said with a sad look.
Narumi stared at her for a second, before sighing and giving a slight nod to show she understood.
-The next day-
Narumi and Remus stood at the gate of the village. Both were just about to leave. A few people had stopped by to say their goodbyes.
The Ichiraku's had come to offer their farewells, and even brought a nice supply of their own brand of instant ramen, for Narumi to try.
Kakashi was there too.
"You stay safe alright kiddo and keep in touch." Kakashi told her, as the two shared a hug.
"I will Kakashi." Narumi replied with a smile.
"Oh, and this is for you. I planned on teaching it to you when you were older, but I have no clue when we'll see each other again. Now I want you to promise me you will only use this technique if your life depends on it." Kakashi told the girl as he handed her a scroll.
Sensing what technique Kakashi had given her, Narumi nodded.
"Good girl." Kakashi said with an eye smile, as he patted her head.
"I had hoped to catch you before you left." A voice stated.
Narumi turned to see Itachi had arrived.
"Itachi? What are you doing here?" Narumi asked.
"Just wanted to say my goodbyes and give you something." Itachi replied as he fished a scroll out of his pocket and gave it to her.
"What is this?" Narumi asked as he handed her the scroll.
"A gift... from Shisui. He gave it to me before he died. I think he wanted you to have it." Itachi replied offering her a warm smile.
Narumi stared at the scroll for a moment before nodding and offering her hand to Itachi.
"For what it's worth Itachi... I hope we meet again." Narumi stated as Itachi shook her hand.
"As do I. You keep that safe alright, and use it wisely, or at least better then Shisui would. He could be so troublesome sometimes." Itachi told her with a smile, which quickly changed to an unamused look, as he recalled Shisui's antics.
"Ha... I will. Thank you." Narumi replied as she pocketed the scroll.
"Narumi?" Narumi heard her name called, she turned and spotted her whole family, plus the Sannin, standing nearby.
Narumi stared at them all with an expressionless face.
"We just wanted to say goodbye." Minato stated with obvious sadness.
"I see. Goodbye then." Narumi stated curtly.
At her words, her mother started to tear up, and at the sight of her mother's tears Naruko became angry.
"Why Narumi? Why can't we just go home and start over? Why do you have to leave? Don't you know how much this hurts?" Lily cried, as Minato wrapped an arm around her.
"Why? Why you ask? Maybe I should ask how much fun all those little family outings were without me? Maybe I should ask how nice it was for the three of you to sleep in warm comfy beds, while I slept outside in the cold? Maybe I should ask, how those meals tasted, without having to make any for me?" Narumi replied her voice steadily rising.
"Maybe I should ask when the four of us, became the three of you." Narumi finished in a low cold tone.
Her statement shocked both of her parents. Neither had thought their treatment of her was anything that bad, in fact both had assumed the reason for her leaving was the argument of her wall walking escapade. Neither had thought that her real reason for leaving was neglect on their part.
It brought tears to their eyes as they remembered some of those times that she mentioned.
"Gah... you see what you do!? Why do you have to make mom and dad cry, Huh? You know what? Just go if things are so bad here, none of us want you here!" Naruko shouted at her, with tears in her eyes.
Both of her parents and the Sannin seemed surprised by her words, Kakashi meanwhile let out a sigh, as did Remus, both having seen and acknowledged this part of Naruko's behavior before.
Narumi stared at her twin with a blank expression for a few moments before nodding and turning to leave.
Remus watched Naruko's eyes tear up even more as she watched her sister walk away. All Remus could do was sigh, Naruko was just too damn proud and stubborn to admit that it tore her apart that her sister was leaving.
If Naruko had ever bothered to treat her sister with kindness or respect, then maybe Narumi would have actually taken notice of the tears streaming down her little sister's face.
Remus sighed once again and turned to leave, when he heard someone say his name.
He glanced back and locked eyes with Minato.
"You take care of her Remus... that's our little girl... you take good care of her." Minato ordered, tears falling from his eyes as he did.
Remus could only nod, as he watched his old friends finally come to realize just what they had done to push their daughter away. It filled him with a bit of hope that they would finally try to make amends.
"Write when you can Remus... and keep her safe." Lily called after him. Remus offered a wave to say that he understood her.
"So... how are you feeling?" Remus asked after a few moments of walking in silence.
"Liberated." Narumi replied with a smile.
"Well, it'll take us two days walk to get to the capital. The portkey the goblins are making for us, where does it lead?" Remus asked.
"Germany. It was the farthest into Europe they could go from here." Narumi replied.
"Germany huh? There's plenty of things to do there." Remus noted.
"Yeah... do you think I can finally get a wand?" Narumi asked with a bit of excitement.
"Hm... I'm sure we can find a wandcrafter for you. They aren't cheap though. I'm sure someone like you is going to need a custom wand." Remus told her.
"No problem." Narumi said with a smile, as the two continued their chat as they made their way to the Fire capital.
-Later that night-
Narumi and Remus lay sleeping under the stars, in one of the many fields dotting the countryside. Remus had brought a tent, but it was a beautiful night out. So, they decided to sleep under the stars.
Narumi was suddenly awoken by feedback from one of her clones popping. Twenty Individuals were rushing towards them at top speed.
"Remus!" She hissed as she shot to her feet.
Remus shot awake just as twenty figures burst from the forest heading straight at them.
"Those look like Leaf Anbu." Remus stated.
"Fuck!" Narumi hissed as she saw the front five Anbu whip their arms back and launch a barrage of shuriken at them.
Narumi quickly sped through handsigns and slammed her palms into the ground. A wall of earth rose up and shielded the two from the shuriken.
After a moment, the wall exploded as two of the Anbu punched through it and dove at the two of them. Remus already had his wand out and with a single motion, he banished one of the Anbu back into the others.
The one that jumped at Narumi, was also stopped when Narumi raised her hand, and a red light shot from it. Remus recognized the spell as Reducto. The end result for the Anbu was not pleasant, he split into pieces as most of his torso exploded showering poor Narumi in blood.
She visibly flinched from the end result of her spell as she had reacted on instinct. It took only a moment for her to recover as her eyes suddenly turned red with the Sharingan and she shot over to Remus, so she could watch his back.
Another Anbu came at her, she drew her tonto to block his strike, and quickly delivered a chakra enhanced strike to his chest. She could clearly hear bone snap as he was pushed back.
Narumi knew that in a moment more Anbu would be on them, she had to think fast.
"Do you have a broom?" Narumi asked Remus, quickly coming up with a plan.
"Yes." Remus replied as he conjured one.
"Fly!" Narumi ordered as she started to flash through handsigns. Remus didn't think to argue with the prodigy as he hopped onto the broom and flew straight into the air. Just as he did more Anbu passed by the broken wall.
Just as they appeared Narumi jumped high into the air, well over a hundred feet. She looked down and shouted, "Fire Style: Great Fire Annihilation!"
Suddenly with a great breath she spit out a huge wall of fire down onto the field. Remus watched as the Anbu scattered to try and escape the flames. Some did, but not many.
Narumi hung in the air for a few moments as she finished breathing out the flames. Though gravity quickly overpowered magic and she was pulled down towards the inferno.
Remus however was on her in flash, he caught her as she fell.
"Holy shit. Thanks Remus." Narumi stated breathlessly, as she glanced down at the inferno.
"No, thank you. Where the hell did you learn something like that?" Remus asked with shock.
"My grandfather taught it to me." Narumi replied eying the inferno.
Remus was about to question her about that when the front of his broom was sheared off. He had just enough time to catch the glint of a Windmill shuriken as it flew off into the night.
The two spiraled down to the ground, Remus was able to slow their descent partly, but not enough to avoid injury. Both were thrown when they hit the ground, and Narumi was sure she'd dislocated her shoulder with how she landed.
"You are coming with us." A dead emotionless voice stated.
Narumi glanced up and saw five of the Anbu staring down at her. She quickly took note that all of their masks were blank and featureless.
"Come and try cocksuckers!" Narumi hissed as her Mangekyou spun to life, and she cast Amaterasu on the one who spoke.
The man had no time to dodge as his whole body burst into black flames. He screamed in agony as the other Anbu jumped back to avoid a follow up attack.
She saw one Anbu start to go through some handsigns but he was cut off by a blade the size of a bus sheering the fool in half.
"Hmm seems you're in a bit of a bind there brat." Came a familiar voice.
Narumi was greeted to the sight of a massive red toad with a pipe in its mouth and standing atop it was none other than Jiraiya.
"Well. Well. Well. What do we have here Bunta?" Jiraiya stated.
"Looks like a bunch of punks, tryin' to pick on a little girl." The massive toad replied as it took a drag from its pipe.
"Well, you know what we do to punks who pick on children?" Jiraiya stated with a murderous glint in his eyes.
The Toad nodded and withdrew its blade from the ground, chunks of dead Anbu were stuck to the sword as the great toad hefted its massive blade into the air.
The Anbu immediately scattered, one wasn't fast enough and was bisected by the toad's blade and the other two, were hit by two mud dragons Jiraiya had summoned to deal with them.
"Hey kid, you okay?" Jiraiya asked as he hopped down to Narumi.
"Yeah... Uncle Remus! We need to find Uncle Remus!" Naurmi stated in a bit of panic as she glanced around for her companion.
"I'm alright Narumi." Came Remus' voice.
Narumi glanced over to see two Anbu, one with a weasel mask and another with a dog mask, walking with Remus over to her. It looked like he had hurt his leg during their nasty crash landing with the way he was limping, but he otherwise seemed unharmed.
"Thank goodness." Narumi said with a sigh of relief.
"Who were these guys?" She asked after a moment.
"No clue. But they aren't Leaf Anbu. Your old man sent us to keep an eye on you two until you made it to the capital. He figured something like this would happen." Jiraiya replied.
"Whomever these men were, I think they belonged to the same faction that attacked Shisui." Weasel stated.
"You don't think..." Dog began.
"I do..." Jiraiya answered his unfinished question.
"What do we do?" Weasel asked Jiraiya.
"You two get them to the capital... I'll stay here and clean this mess up. With a little bit of luck, we'll finally have the proof we need to take that bastard down." Jiraiya ordered as he made his way to one of the corpses.
"Thanks, you guys, for coming to help." Narumi thanked them.
"No problem. What are friends for?" Dog replied happily.
"You never change Kakashi." Narumi said with a chuckle, as she wrenched her arm back into place and let out a hiss of pain.
"You gonna be alright uncle?" Narumi asked.
"Yes... let's hurry to the capital though. I'll feel safer once we're gone." Remus replied.
-The Next Day-
The four of them had arrived in the capital around noon. They quickly made their way to the Ronin registration office for Narumi to pick up her license. After consideration they decided that they would give her an upgrading license. She was Chuunin rank now but would become a Jonin in two years' time. Narumi was happy with that and the four headed to Gringotts.
"Well. It looks like we're here." Dog stated.
"Time to part ways." Weasel added.
"Thank you both. I hope you two write." Narumi said with a smile.
"We will. You just stay safe." Weasel replied.
"Yeah... now before we part ways. I have something I'm supposed to give you. They say they know it won't make up for everything, but they both wanted you to have these." Dog stated as he pulled out a book, and a scroll.
Narumi instantly recognized her mother's old charms book, from her fifth year. Lily always said that that was her favorite. The scroll turned out to be instructions for her father's Rasengan.
"Now I know how you feel, but you shouldn't waste such gifts even if you don't like where they came from." Dog added, hoping she'd keep them.
"I... tell them thanks okay." Narumi stated after a moment as she packed away the book and scroll.
"Alright well we'll head back. You guys finish your business and get away from this place. And also, don't place your location in any letters you send this way. Alright?" Dog told her.
"Got it." Narumi said with a smile as she and Remus turned and headed into the Gringotts. Ready for their next big adventure.
-To be Continued-
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