Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ A Life for a Life ❯ Struggling Realizations... ( Chapter 34 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

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I am sick and tired of people telling me how to write this fiction. This story is NOT CANON nor will it be CANON! The fact that the FOURTH is alive in this fic should tell you that much. GET OVER IT! DO NOT TELL ME HOW I SHOULD WRITE THE STORY! DO NOT TELL ME I SHOULD MAKE SEALS LONGER OR SHORTER OR ANYTHING! I DO NOT APPRECIATE BEING TOLD TO DO IT!

Forgive me for my rant ladies and gentlemen, but this has been a peeve of mine for a long time. I do not mind reviews that are constructive as Rasengan or Shrapnel Man have posted. Even the one that is essentially Anon with the fanfiction reader is constructive and designed to make me think. But when I get reviews such as one I have recently received in a way I ranted about above. I tend to get a little psst…actually a lot psst…

Do forgive me…

Chapter 34

Two days later…

Umiko found herself looking outside the window as her two landlords of a sort were training in tandem exercises.

By all accounts from what she understood via Kabuto, before she had left. This boy was supposedly an orphan. But here he was with his father that looked too much like him for it not to be true. There was something odd at this moment going on…

Because despite the friendship that is developing between the two, there is an underlying tension that she can sense. During her shopping, to help store the kitchen, she had listened to the idle gossip as she had been trained to do. And the gossip was indeed surprising…

For starters, the older man whom she called, Arashi-san, was indeed Naruto's father. But on top of that he was the legendary Yondaime, the Fourth Hokage of Konoha! Known as the Yellow Flash, he was in many a bingo book, because of his skills when he was supposedly alive seventeen years ago. He was also the one who had defeated the Kyuubi as the Five Great Nations were led to believe.

Apparently Konoha had lied to their countries…

The Kyuubi had not been defeated, according to what she over heard. Not that she believed it anyway. The Kyuubi no yoko was said to be the greatest of the Bijus. And that would not be an easy thing to destroy.

Which means he had to have sealed it away…

And according to other bits and pieces, she figured he sealed it away into his son.

Naruto...her target of observation…was a demon vessel. And not just any demon vessel, but the one for the nine-tailed fox demon.

This was going to prove difficult for many in Sound. Not that she cared to be honest, but there were innocent women and children there, that this mere boy could destroy.

Especially her child…

No matter how kind or how friendly, Naruto and Arashi were to her. She had to report, she had to protect her daughter from harm. Many of the Sound villages' ninjas had children at their version of the academy, some willingly. Most not at all…as it was in her case.

Steeling her face to be warm and friendly as her musings had gone on longer then she had planned on Umiko smiles as they have quit for right now and were heading back towards her and the house.

Her determination to do her job repeating itself over and over through her mind, she fights back that hesitancy as the older of the two blondes look at her with such intensity that her heart pounds against her chest.

“L…lunch is ready Arashi-san, Naruto-san…” She is startled as she finds herself stuttering for the first time in 10 years.

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Sasuke was angry. He had only gone through a quarter of the sealed scrolls, to discover nothing so far as to what his former sensei was keeping from him, jutsu wise. But he has discovered other things…

Things, that were disturbing even for him…

Some of these scrolls were stories and that's all they were. But it was the contents of these stories that made him think. Especially with what he knows of his friend, since they saw each other not to long ago.

Naruto was a vessel…and the one for the Kyuubi No Yoko…

Looking at what he has in his hand, he begins to wonder as he reads…

There have always been questions as to why the Biju appeared over a thousand years ago and have since then never truly left.

But when they had arrived it seemed as if the land itself fought against their presence. All over the world it trembled and shook with the footstepsof these beasts. Some were good…others were evil beyond comprehension..

Once I heard in a story, a sage had stumbled across the Six-Tailed Dragon. Considered to be the wisest of the Nine although not the most powerful….

This man had asked why they had come…and the Biju had responded simply by saying this.

Because we were told to….

The scroll was worn and faded by then, as he read and he couldn't make out the words of what was said.

The Biju were told to come to us?

This had further intrigued him. Knowing Orichamaru who had never done anything without a good reason, the youth continued to look for more information on the Biju besides other jutsus.

There had to be a reason why the Snake Sannin had put a seal on the blonde three years ago.

After hours of searching, the Uchiha was able to break through all of them. Setting aside the ones with jutsus he has never seen before, including the one to summon the snakes. He has found only one other reference to the Biju. Specifically the Nine-tailed Fox…

Most dangerous of all the Biju, for his destructive capability, itis he who knows more then even the wise Six-Tailed Dragon. And for which he uses this knowledge more or less as a weapon. One of the views that when truly enraged, nothing can stop him….

It is rumored thatthe Kyuubi can resonate with any of the other eight beasts, and in doing so increase its own power tenfold.

Just a small paragraph describing the powers of the beast within the blonde, but it makes sense as he looks back at his memories.

In the second half of the Chuunin exams, the blonde was inexplicably drawn to the Sand Ninja's beast. Orichamaru had told him, that Gaara of the Sand was like Naruto in retrospect and he understands what he meant now after what he had seen.

The Desert Ninja had the One-Tailed Biju, within him. And from the power fluctuating between the two as they fought that day, one could say that Naruto was in sync with Gaara…

If Gaara lost Chakra in the battle, it was like the Kyuubi had gained it…revitalizing Naruto. A dawning realization hit the Uchiha now…

The Kyuubi was resonating with the Shukaku…!

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Okay this part was tricky….

And now begins the arc I am starting with the Akatsuki

And once again I ask all of you to forgive me concerning my rant above the story chapter. It is not often I get psst.

Now dances off happily to baka-updates .com to see if she can download Naruto:Shippuudeen episodes 8-9 yet…its almost 10 YAY! Should be online shortly there tee hee