Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Collision Courses ❯ Just the begining... ( Chapter 1 )

Just the beginning…

 

Naruto: Master Koi-chan does not own nor does she claim to own `Naruto' or any of the characters belonging to Masashi Kishimoto sensei!

 

Kurai: Good job Naru-kun! I just love how manly you can be when you do a disclaimer… *wink, wink. Snuggles close to Naruto*

 

Sasuke: Hey! *eyebrow twitches* Hands off my Naruto!!!!

 

Kurai: *Sticks out tongue at Sasuke* He's mine till you say that you love him, in front of everyone! *points at the entire village*

 

Koi-chan: -_-, You have got to be kidding me! Naruto go and find Sakura-sama!

 

Naruto: *salutes* Hai! Master Koi-chan sensei!

 

Koi-chan: *smirks* Well that takes care of that! And now on with the story!

 

7:54 am.

Kurai awoke with faint traces of sunlight filtering in through the shades. She curled up in her thick blankets tempted to doze off to sleep once again, she groaned knowing that she only had about an hour to get dressed and go meet the new team. She quickly tossed her warm covers off and stripped her night shirt off, standing nude in her room she could feel cold fingers of dread clawing into her gut, she turned facing the window and caught her reflection in the standing mirror in the corner. She found herself tracing her demon markings with her eyes, she shuddered remembering how that monster had taken a razor sharp kunai* and traced them laughing at her when blood flowed forming a crimson border around her toxic green tattoos.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~FLASHBACK~~~~~~~~~~~~

Orochimaru had tied her to her father's throne, and forced her to watch as he raped her mother, and as he beat her to the edge of death. Leaving her mother in a pool of her own blood, he then raped her father after disabling him by cutting various muscles in his arms and legs. He forced her father to ask for it, every time he would say `no' the monster would twist a kunai in each wound till he screamed out the words `YES, fuck me...' Her mother lay crying as she watched the beast rape her beloved husband. The monster then had them bring the girl to him, and then had her parents chained to their respective thrones, forcing them to watch as he tortured and raped their only daughter; the last living child of the prestigious Shinkiro* clan. After the snake had had his fun forcing the girls parents watch as he raped her, he slit their throats and kept telling her that it was all her fault, for two weeks he tortured her tracing her demon markings damn near every day. He smiled every time the green demon chakra healed her wounds leaving no scars to show how he had tortured her. On the last day of the snake's occupation of the village he tortured her till he got tired, he traced her markings three times already, and still she refused to heal herself. He realized she wanted to die, to join her parents and other members of her village, she wanted to go to paradise; the final resting place of many great shinobi. He kicked her still form and wrapped her in a white sheet leaving only her face revealed. He watched with morbid interest as her blood seeped through the white fabric, staining the snow white cloth in deep crimson patterns mimicking her markings. He left her at the foot of her parent's thrones, each throne holding its respective rotting corpse. She lay there crying after the monster left her to die in a pool of her own life blood. The demon within her slowly began healing her wounds; Kurai could feel the kitsune* crying loudly from her cage deep inside of her own body. The demon cried out in anger and sorrow for her young host, the demon knew that the monster named Orochimaru had targeted her host knowing that the girl held a demon inside of her. It was all the demons fault; Aerith* knew that she was the cause of her human host's pain and suffering. But at the time of the girls birth she was in need of a new body, she had been dying and knew that it was her time to take a human host as much as she hadn't wanted too, she knew it would be the only way to keep her rivals Kyuubi, Shukaku, and Orochimaru trapped in their respective hosts. Aerith felt horrible pitying the hosts of her dangerous rivals, after all it was not the host's faults. Jinn, Gaara and Naruto had been innocent people. Jinn had been an ANBU* and during his morning routine he had been tricked into the demons trap; Whereas, Gaara and Naruto had been innocent orphans in the right place at the wrong time. Aerith knew that Orochimaru was looking for a new host, therefore she and her own host must slay the snake and his host if need be. Kurai flinched upon hearing footsteps growing closer behind her, and then a pale hand lay on her sore shoulder causing Kurai to whimper as the visitor turned her onto her back. Tears poured from the girls eyes as she recognized the boy as the one her father had rescued from the sound four years ago, the one who was to share rule of Shingakure*, her step-brother of sorts; Kai. He had returned to the sand village he had been abducted from many years before, he had gone to find his parents and let them know that their son would be a Shinkage alongside the current Shinkage's daughter. The boy had angry tears forming in his gorgeous crimson eyes as he sat there holding his step-sister in his arms, comforting her as she cried into his muscled chest. He couldn't bear to look at the rotting corpses of his former step-parents, his heart grew heavy remembering how that mass of rotting flesh had rescued him and took him in as their own child. He told her he would go and send for help from her grandfather as he carried her outside and to a nearby hot spring. He unwrapped the bloody sheet from around her limp form, he then helped her to bathe and left, letting her soak in the hot water. As she sat there she watched as the remaining scars on her legs dissipated leaving no marks on her fair skin.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~END OF FLASHBACK~~~~~~~~~~

 

Kurai glanced at the digital clock sitting on her bedside table, she noted that she still had almost an hour to shower and eat breakfast. She hopped into the shower and bathed quickly jumping out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around her still dripping form, she popped a piece of sourdough bread in the toaster and ran to her room to quickly get dressed. Fully dressed she ran to the kitchen and slapped some butter on the warm bread and went to the bathroom to quickly and carefully apply her make-up, `After all good first impressions are the most important impressions,' she thought quickly applying her black eyeliner and crimson shadow, adding a pale pink lip gloss as a final touch before putting on her silver hoop earrings and black wristbands and silver bangles.

Meanwhile, Sasuke, Sakura, and Naruto had arrived early like Kakashi-sensei had told them. Sasuke sat meditating on a large rock, Sakura stood leaning against a nearby tree reading her latest book on genjutsu* techniques, and finally Naruto lay on the warm ground enjoying the sun playing on his tanned face. Naruto figured that Kakashi would be late as usual; however they all started surprised when he let out a cough smiling at them all. Suddenly Naruto turned facing the trees drawing a kunai from his hip as he took a combat stance preparing for whatever attack came from the dark trees. Naruto nearly fell over from shock as a silver haired girl burst clumsily out from the trees panting as she ran towards them, he blushed ferociously when she tumbled tripping over a rock showing her black underwear as she slid down the remaining hill, she lay there for a moment with a dazed look in her eyes before recovering and apologizing profusely to Kakashi for being late on her first day of training. Sasuke and Naruto stood there in shock staring at the strange girl with bloody noses, Sakura, however, simply stared at the new girl with severe disapproval in her eyes. Kakashi stood there a moment appraising her with his one visible eye. He liked how she dressed with a sense of style and practicality, her black sleeveless mandarin style dress had a high collar and slits up the sides of her skirt that came to just above her knees. He liked her wristbands and silver bangle combo with her three silver hoop earrings in each ear, her jewelry went well with her black and crimson eye make-up. Then he noticed the red and green nine tailed kitsune youkai* sigil over her left breast, he recognized it as the symbol that worn by the Shinkiro clan of Shingakure village of the Shadow country. He cleared his throat, and replied, “Just don't do it again, and besides you are early by fifteen minutes my dear girl, however, just remember you aren't supposed to be later than your sensei.” He smiled at the look of confusion on her beautiful face, and found himself explaining that it was only 8:45a.m. He smiled as she blushed profusely and stared at the ground embarrassed. He cleared his throat to regain the lost attention of his pupils before proceeding to tell them that today one of them would be sparring with their new team mate. He had her introduce herself. She spoke in an almost musical voice introducing herself as Kurai Shinkiro, daughter of the late Shinkage of Shingakure village in the Shadow country. Kakashi explained that she was now a member of Konohagakure since she was the granddaughter of the Hokage*. And that she would be training with team 7 from now on, he handed her a Konoha hitae ate*. She wore her new headband around her waist, He then announced that Sakura would be sparring with Kurai first, to compare her combat level with the skills of the new girl. Kurai bowed to Sakura, and Sakura took a combat stance waiting for Kurai to attack, however, the other girl simply stood there with her eyes closed smiling up as the sun shone on her fair skin.

Sakura frowned wondering if this was supposed to be some kind of joke. Suddenly Kurai swiftly took a fighting stance facing Sakura with an evil glint in her nearly glowing green eyes; Sakura shivered feeling cold fingers of fear crawling up her spine. Sakura mentally shrugged the feeling into the back of her mind focusing on the strange girl in front of her. Using a kagebushin no jutsu* combined with a substitution technique she attempted to trick her opponent into forfeiting the competition. However, the kunai of her shadow clones bit into empty air destroying the clone that had stood there moments before. Sakura frantically scanned the field for her opponent; she was caught off guard by the other girl holding a kunai to her throat.

Kurai smiled, lowering her kunai she twirled away from her pink haired rookie team mate, and thought to herself, `This is too easy! This girl isn't even near being any kind of ANBU.' She could sense the shock radiating from the boys watching from the sidelines, mostly coming from the raven haired one. Kurai stopped and released her silver mane from its braid and let her hair flow freely in the wind, the effect was nearly hypnotizing to the others in the field. Kurai smiled inwardly, she was going to have fun with her opponent after all part of being a shadow ANBU was to trick your opponent with mind games till they got pissed off then play with them till they got too tired to fight and claim victory while not even laying a hand on their opponent. Adding to that fact Kurai could read a persons mind by looking into their eyes and reading their chakra*, she saw that Sakura had a serious crush on Sasuke and didn't want to even think about possibly being a lesbian. Kurai was going to use this to piss the pink haired girl off big time, Kurai sauntered toward her team mate and came so close that she could kiss the other girl if she had wanted too. She backed Sakura into a tree still not touching the other girl she whispered into the pink haired girl's ear.

“You know Sakura, you are way too pretty to be deflowered by such a callous thug like Sasuke, I mean after all he does like Naruto more than he could ever like you. But I'll make it worth your time my pretty pink flower…” Kurai blew in the smaller girls ear, eliciting a muffled whimper, “I mean after all surely you must have thought about it? Haven't you? Oh, I'm sure you must have after all you haven't pushed me away yet… You're still a virgin, ne*? I thought so, I mean after all it shows my pretty flower; your technique is so submissive my dear. You need to be more aggressive, and being aggressive comes from being dominant in many fields of expertise, ne? In other words being a pretty fragile flower isn't going to get you very far with a dominant minded young man like Sasuke Uchiha. He likes his crushes to be able to take care of themselves in battle; he doesn't like weak little cherry blossoms that can be as easily bruised as you can.” She could tell from the angry chakra boiling inside her smaller opponent that she had succeeded in pissing off the smaller girl. “Well are you going to do something about it, or not? Are you going to let yourself be seduced by your opponent or are you going to fight and prove me wrong?” Kurai flicked her tongue out and traced the outer shell of the other girl's ear, and blew a puff of warm air into her ear again. “Are you going to just stand here and be my little bitch or are you gonna prove to Sasuke that you are worth his attention? Well? What's it gonna be my little cherry blossom?”

Sakura blushed in frustration, `How did she know I like Sasuke and that I'm still a virgin? I think she is trying to seduce me…oh my god! Does she really have the `hots' for me? No! I won't let her embarrass me in front of Sasuke! I won't succumb to her mind games I will fight her!' She shook her head and pushed the taller girl away and lashed out with a kunai sinking it deep into the soft flesh of her opponent's upper arm. She twisted the kunai and received laughter from her injured opponent instead of a scream of pain; confused Sakura released her grip on the kunai allowing her injured team mate to twist away.

Kurai pulled the kunai from its deep bed in her warm flesh and laughed as she licked the blood from sharp blade earning a look of horror from her shorter pink haired opponent. She knew the other girl could see that her eyes had turned red; she could feel unease emanating from her sensei but knew that he wouldn't interfere unless he sensed that Kurai would attempt to kill the other girl. Sakura had backed against the tree in fear of the other girl's morbid behaviour. “Lesson one, be able to read your opponents behaviour so that you can figure out what his or her response to pain will be. Lesson two, be able to decide wether to disable or injure your opponent and which will benefit you in battle most. These are two of the most important lessons you will need to learn in order to be a skilled ANBU shinobi*, now Sakura shall we continue our sparring match?”

Sakura gulped as she noticed that the wound on Kurai's arm was gone leaving only the blood that had flowed from the wound on her arm, she broke into a cold sweat of fear as she sensed the other girl's immense chakra. Sakura knew that she couldn't win and bowed to her opponent before forfeiting the match. Kakashi clapped his hands applauding Kurai's skill at defeating her opponent without so much as touching her. He stretched and dismissed all of them except for Kurai; he wanted a word with her before he went to find Iruka. “So… how did a young girl such as yourself manage to beat Sakura without even touching her, hmm?” He stood leaning against a nearby tree his one visible eye focused on her instead of on his newest volume of make out paradise. Kurai bowed her head staring at the ground before looking into his lazy looking eye. “Well, sensei I'm supposed to be shinobi not chunin*. But my grandfather prefers that I have more training before he will consider my becoming a shinobi of his beloved Konohagakure.” He noticed how she pretty much spat out the words grandfather and Konohagakure, “So you don't want to be here?” He noticed how her eyes darkened and then turned red. She spoke in a voice that was not the one he recognized as belonging to his pupil, the voice sounded ancient and had an accent that he couldn't place. “The Hokage does indeed believe that his actions are to help protect his granddaughter, but little does he know that she is capable of taking care of herself. I, however, do agree with the old man that more training will come in handy for my young host. He does not know what pain this girl has suffered and if she has her way he will never know. Kurai would prefer to spare the old man from suffering more heartache than he has already.”

Kakashi grew curious and cautiously asked, “What is your name ancient one? I wish to know so that I may address you by your proper name.”

The demon smiled with his pupil's mouth and replied, “You are very brave young shinobi, not many would dare venture to ask an old demon its name. But since you ask so nicely I will tell you my name. My name is Aerith of the Shadow realm.” He watched as the girl's eyes turned green once more and she spoke, “I do not want to be here, I would rather be hunting down the monster that hath slain my entire village. Vengeance is the only thing that I live for at the moment sensei.” Kakashi looked her straight in the eye and spoke, “Never live only for revenge, trust me, bad things can happen to you and then you find yourself sorry that you never took the time to live life like you should have, after all we all have to die sometime…right? So why not live now and seek revenge later?” he turned to walk away when she placed her hand on his shoulder, he saw tears forming in her eyes as she spoke to him. “Please understand that I only want to kill that beast for what he did to me…and I also want to kill him for what he has done to others, and what he will do if I don't stop him. The demon Orochimaru has already selected a new host and will come to retrieve him soon, his host current has gotten old and is weak, and therefore he will not have much time before he will come for Sasuke. Unless I stop him, he will take Sasuke and destroy the boys mind making him into a twisted host worthy only of the snake demon, we won't be able to help him even if we did manage to rescue him from the snake… Aerith has seen what happens to the snakes former hosts when he releases them from his grasp, it isn't pretty. I don't want Naruto to blame himself for the loss of Sasuke Uchiha. Sasuke already bears the mark used by Orochimaru to twist his future hosts into violent creatures that thirst only for power. I don't want Sasuke to suffer this fate, he has already suffered the loss of his entire clan.” She smiled at her sensei before continuing, “After all you know how it is to love some one and be unable to show your true self to anyone other than that one person, ne?” He watched as she turned and walked away toward the waterfall, he watched as she undressed and jumped into the cold water to wash away the remaining dried blood from earlier. He turned and walked away leaving his strange new pupil to bathe in peace. Kakashi became engrossed in her words wondering what she meant by being unable to show love for a person in front of others…then it struck him, she meant his relationship with Iruka! But how could she know about that? No one knew about them and their love for each other. He shrugged it off, `oh well, maybe it is time I showed how I feel about my little dolphin in front of everyone, after all I have heard of weirder relationships…' He smiled and mentally thanked her for the idea.

 

Sakura: I can't believe you Koi-chan sensei! Why did you do that to me! How embarrassing!!!

 

Kurai: Hmph! Don't get your panties in a wad Sakura! It's not like you are cute or anything! And besides pink hair doesn't do shit for me… Now blondes are another story all together! ^.^

 

Koi-chan: *sweatdrops* ^_^, Ummmmm… what on earth have I done…I've created a monster!!!! *runs screaming out of Naruto's apartment* Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!

 

Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, Kurai: *sweatdrops* (all mumble) geezzzz……whats gotten into her?!?!?!

 

A/N: This is the first chapter so please be patient! I'll write as fast as I possibly can with the aid of my limited supply of manga and my system of a down cd! BTW! Plz don't flame me! I do, however, enjoy creative criticism! *points to the reader* And now for the definitions of words you, the audience, may not even have a clue about what each word means! P.S. If I have a definition wrong plz don't flame me! I'm such a fragile soul!!! 0_- # *twitches, vein pop*(BTW I really DON'T like FLAMERS!!!!!!)

 

^.^ But anywho on with more notes and definitions!!! Yay!!!!!!

 

NOTE: These words can be found in the text denoted by a word being underlined and having an asterisk(*) at the end.

 

Terms:

 

Kunai: throwing knife with a small weighted loop at one end.

 

Shinkiro: old Japanese term meaning mirage.

 

Kitsune: a nine-tailed fox of Japanese folklore, usually an antagonistic creature.

 

Aerith: Kitsune demon who currently lives inside of Kurai, loves humans. (Not to be confused with Aerith from Final Fantasy!)

 

ANBU: high level ninja soldiers.

 

Shingakure: village I made up for the story, name means village hidden in the mirage.

 

Genjutsu: ninja technique that uses a mysterious force inside of each ninja and is used in battle.

 

Youkai: Japanese term for demon.

 

Hokage: Village champion.

 

Hitae Ate: head band with a symbol representing village of ninja wearing it.

 

Kagebunshin no Jutsu: Art of the shadow doppelganger, favorite genjutsu technique of our favorite lil ninja Naruto.

 

Chakra: Mysterious force in every ninja that is used to inflict damage on an opponent through non-physical combat.

 

Ne: used kinda like eh?, no?, yes?, right?, correct?

 

Shinobi: Ninja. (how hard is this one to figure out?)

 

Chunin: journeyman ninja.