Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Everlasting Nightmare ❯ Night of Truths ( Chapter 2 )

 

Chapter 2

 

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“I'm back!”, Hisoka exclaims, as she walks through the door with a bag of groceries tucked in her arm.

 

“Welcome back”, she heard Itachi greet, as she saw him poke his head out from his bedroom, “I'll be out in a minute!”, he says, completely disappearing inside his room again.

 

She simply smiles as she sets the bag onto the counter and begins to put away the food, while humming a little tune, before opening the fridge to put away the freshly purchased milk and takes out a cold-can of cola.

 

“So, how was your day?”, she heard Itachi ask.

 

“It was alright, except for the perverted-leer of a visiting-leader”, she sighs, opening the can and takes a swig.

 

“I see…”, he says, wrapping his arms around her from behind, “Where's Sasuke?”

 

“The place he always goes when he wants to be alone”, she replies.

 

“The lake-pier, huh?”, he says, as he takes the soda from her hand and takes a drink from it.

 

“Yep”, she confirms, trying not to blush at indirect-kiss they just shared.

 

(A/N: If you are confused about the `indirect-kiss' thing, I'll explain in the closing-notes!)

 

“Well, I have a few hours before I have to leave”, he informs, nuzzling his face into the nook of her neck, “And we're alone...”

 

“No, not when you have to leave so soon…”, she blushes.

 

“But I can't just leave you here all stressed”, he whispers, sweetly into her ear, “Just relax and enjoy”, he adds, as he places his hands onto her shoulders and begins to knead the skin & muscles.

 

As soon as he started massaging her neck & shoulders, she became like putty in his hands and forgot what was bothering her, `Having an Anbu for a boyfriend does have its benefits, massages that are beyond divine!', she thinks, as she leans back into his touch.

 

Knock-Knock!

 

“What now…?”, Hisoka growls, as she reluctantly steps away from the pleasing hands of Itachi, “Who is it?”, she asks, as she opens the door to find a Jounin on the other side, “What is it?”

 

“I'm sorry to bother you, Kurosaki-san, but Hokage-sama has requested your presence”, he hurriedly explains.

 

“What's wrong?”

 

“Naruto Uzumaki has broken into the Hokage's residence and stolen the forbidden Scroll of Seals!”

 

“What…?”, she gasps, worriedly glancing back towards Itachi.

 

“Go, duty calls”, he states.

 

“Right”, she nods, before leaving the apartment, “Let's go!”, she commands, as she pulls her head-band from her pocket and ties it around her head, `Naruto-kun… What have you gotten yourself into this time?', she thinks, while she follows her fellow ninja to the scene of the crime.

 

 

 

 

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“Hokage-sama, we cannot let this slide as a prank!”, a male shinobi shouts.

 

“The Scroll of Seals is something so dangerous that the First-Hokage sealed it away!”, a second ninja exclaims, “If it gets into the wrong hands, it'll be disastrous!”

 

“Bring Naruto here!”, the Third orders.

 

“Yes, sir!”, the gathered ninja nod, before scattering.

 

“Hokage-sama, you wished to see me?”, Hisoka asks, she kneels beside him.

 

“Kurosaki-san, I'm sure you've realized that the current situation is beyond Naruto-kun's normal level of pranks”

 

“Painting graffiti on the Hokage-Monument; like he did yesterday is more of Naruto-kun's style”, she replies, “Not to insult his intelligence, but stealing a `secret' scroll is beyond his capabilities. Someone else is involved in this and Naruto was just a pawn”

 

“My thoughts exactly, which is why I'm assigning you this special-mission”, he agrees, “I want you to find Naruto and bring him back safely before anyone else can find him”

 

“And if another shinobi is to find him before I can make contact, what am I to do?”

 

“Survey the situation, and if it looks like Naruto-kun is going to be harmed intervene before he is”, he commands, “I think you understand why I can only assign this mission to you and you alone, considering your past with him”

 

“I won't let the Legacy of the Fourth down!”, she vows, before vanishing.

 

 

 

 

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-In the Forest-

 

 

 

 

Hisoka leaps from branch to branch heading deeper into the woods, her skirt flapping against her legs while her newly re-tied hair fluttered behind her.

 

`Naruto-kun…', she thinks, landing in a tree next to a house in the forest where she sees the familiar hair of spiky-blonde hair of the orange-wearing ninja-student as he sat on the ground trying to catch his breath, `Good, he's safe…', she mentally sighs.

 

“Hey, Naruto”, she heard someone growl.

 

`Crap! Someone beat me to him!', she thinks, concealing her presence to watch the situation, and sees Iruka leaning over the young-teen looking annoyed, `Iruka-san…', she mentally notes, slightly relaxing; knowing that the teacher wasn't a total threat to Naruto, but still completely prepared to intervene if she had to.

 

“Oh man, I got caught”, she heard Naruto light-heartedly chuckle, as he rose to his feet scratching the back of his head, “I only learned one technique”

 

“Naruto-kun…”, she quietly mutters to herself, while shaking her head in amusement.

 

“Hey, I'm going to show you a great technique, so you'll let me graduate if I can do it!”, Naruto energetically exclaims, “If I show you a technique from this scroll, I can graduate, right?”

 

“Who said that?”, Iruka questions.

 

“Mizuki-sensei. He told me about this place and this scroll”, the teen replies.

 

`I knew it! Naruto's just being used…', Hisoka thinks, recalling her premonition at the Academy when she saw Mizuki and Naruto together.

 

She almost broke her cover when she heard the distinct sound of flying kunai, but relaxes as she saw Iruka shove Naruto to safety, only to watch as they struck him instead.

 

“I'm surprised you found out about this place”, she heard a male's voice coldly taunt.

 

“I see, so that's how it is…”, Iruka groans, as Hisoka looks at where the teacher was gazing, and sees the fair-haired teacher crouched on a branch.

 

“Naruto, hand over the scroll”, Mizuki orders.

 

“H-hey…What's going on here?”, Naruto confusingly asks, looking back & forth between Mizuki and Iruka, before his eyes stay focused on the darker haired of the two.

 

“Naruto, don't let him get the scroll no matter what”, Iruka commands, as he removes kunai from his flesh, “That's a dangerous scroll that has forbidden techniques inside!”, he explains, “Mizuki used you so he could get his hands on it!”, he continues, causing Naruto to glare at his trickster.

 

“Naruto, Iruka is afraid of you possessing that”, Mizuki calmly states, as he holds out a hand.

 

“What…?”, the teen gasps, looking over at his teacher.

 

“What are you saying, Mizuki?!”, Iruka shouts, before turning his head towards the blonde-teen, “Don't believe him, Naruto”

 

“I'll tell you the truth”, the evil teacher laughs.

 

“Don't!”, Iruka exclaims, while Hisoka shouted it in her mind.

 

“A rule was created after the incident that occurred 12 years ago”, he explains.

 

“A rule…?”

 

“It's a rule that only you, Naruto, cannot find out about”

 

“Only me…?! What's that rule?!”

 

“Stop Mizuki!”, Iruka warns.

 

“It's the rule not to say that Naruto is a demon fox…”

 

“Wha…?”, the teen gasps, as his blue eyes widen.

 

“In other words, you are the Kyuubi who killed Iruka's parents and destroyed the village”

 

“Stop!, Iruka shouts.

 

“Stop it… Don't say any more…”, Hisoka whispers, as tears form in her eyes.

 

“You've been deceived by the villagers all this time. Didn't you think it was weird for everyone to hate you so much?”

 

“Damn it…!”, Naruto curses, as his chakra swirled around him.

 

“No one's ever going to recognize you!”, Mizuki sneers, “Even Iruka hates you”

 

`That's not true…', Hisoka woefully thinks, `The way I see it, Naruto and his father are both heroes for saving the village. Even though Naruto wasn't given the choice to become the Kyuubi's cage'

 

“Die, Naruto!”, Mizuki yells, as he started to spin his giant-shuriken and threw it straight at the boy.

 

`Shit! I'm not going to make it in time!', she inwardly curses, rushing from her hidden-location.

 

She doesn't get far when she hears Iruka shouting at Naruto to duck, and then the unmistakable sound of the shuriken striking flesh and bone, but the weapon hadn't hit it's intended target, instead it found itself planted in Iruka's back as he shielded Naruto's body.

 

`Thank goodness…', she mentally sighs at the fact that Naruto wasn't harmed and that her presence was still a secret, `Damn it! I nearly had a heart-attack', she adds, as she places a hand over her pounding-heart.

 

“W-why…?”, she heard Naruto stammer from underneath his teacher's protecting body.

 

“Because you're the same as me…”, he replies, “After my parents died, no one ever complimented me or recognized me. Being the bad student I was, I screwed up a lot during class, because I wanted to get everyone's attention. I couldn't get anyone's attention when I was a good student, so I acted like an idiot”, he explains, “It was tough…”, he sobs, as tears began to run down his face, “Right, Naruto? You were lonely, right? It was tough, right?”, he continued, “I'm sorry, Naruto… You didn't have to feel that way it I was more aware”

 

Naruto's face was marred with confusion, confused about what he was told and what he was seeing.

 

“Don't make me laugh!”, Mizuki mocks, “Iruka has hated you since you killed his parents! He just wants to get that scroll back”

 

The blonde-haired teen's uncertainty continued to mount as the overload of new-found information finally caught up to him and caused him to flee from the confusing-situation, unknowingly being followed by Hisoka.

 

“Naruto!!”, she heard Iruka call out, as she ran after the teenager.

 

`This is one hell of a bloody mess you've turned this into, Mizuki', she inwardly curses, staying a Naruto's trail, `I just hope Naruto is still in the mood to peacefully-talk… I'd hate to have to resort to violence with him', she thinks, `Especially after what his father had sacrificed to save the village…'

 

 

 

 

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A very young child runs through the forest, her blue-dress was caked with mud and her pig-tailed sections of her hair bounced as she hurriedly climbs over a fallen-tree.

 

“Hisoka-chan, come back it's too dangerous!”, a boy's voice warns.

 

“It's right over there, Ita-chan”, she giggles, pointing ahead of them, “Besides, the fox is now gone”, she adds, as she climbs under another tree and runs into the freshly-made clearing.

 

“W-wait, Hisoka-chan!”, the boy cries out, his ponytailed black-hair trailing behind him as he ran to where his friend stood, “What's wrong?”

 

“Minato-san!”, she shouts, ignoring the question as she runs towards the lone blonde-figure standing in the middle of the clearing.

 

“Hey!”, he yells, running after her.

 

“Minato-san!”, she screams, when she reaches the figure's side just as he collapsed to his knees with a bundle in his arms, “Are you alright?”

 

The man looks at her with glazed-blue eyes, “Little ones you're alright…”, he says, regarding them as the boy finally reaches the spot, “Take… my son…”, he instructs, handing the squirming-bundle into her arms, causing her to kneel just to maintain her balance.

 

“Hokage-sama, where did the fox go?”, the boy asks.

 

“Unfortunately…only caged away…”, he informs, weakly moving the blanket from the infant's abdomen to reveal a spiral surrounded by 8-columns of what looked like ancient-kanji which slowly faded away, “Pay close…attention to what…I've to say…”, he says.

 

“What is it, Minato-san?”, young Hisoka questions.

 

“My son, Naruto…He's a hero that helped save the village…”, he states, “Don't forget that…and do not view him as what is sealed within him…”

 

“I understand”, the two children nod, “We promise…”

 

“Keep…my…son…safe…”, the Fourth trails off, as he falls backwards and lands on the ground in a boneless-matter.

 

“Minato-san…?”

 

“Hokage-sama!”, a ninja calls out, as he walks over to check for a pulse.

 

“How…?”, his partner asks, only to receive a head-shake from the ninja to signify no-pulse.

 

The wail of an infant fills the air as if the child could sense the passing of the father he'll never know.

 

 

 

 

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`I'm sorry, Minato-san… Unfortunately, only a few people have respected your final wish…', she mentally apologizes to the memory, as she looks forward at the grown-infant she had once held in her arms all those years ago, she watches him leap down to the ground and lean against a tree gasping for breath, causing her to land on a nearby branch.

 

“Now, how to approach him…?”, she quietly asks herself, `It won't easy with the idea that Mizuki planted in his head that everyone hates him…', she contemplates.

 

But as fate would have it, again, she didn't have any time to approach Naruto when the chance was interrupted. By a second Naruto attacking Iruka, and the two of them fall to the ground in a clearing just on the other-side of the tree where the first Naruto was hiding.

 

“What the hell is with all the interruptions…?”, she quietly groans in annoyance, before turning her attention towards the two figures in the clearing.

 

“W-what…?”, Iruka pants, recovering from the blow, “How… Naruto…?”, he questions, looking over his shoulder at the Naruto in the clearing, “How…?” he asks, before turning into Mizuki in a puff of smoke, “Did you know that I'm not Iruka?”

 

The second Naruto simply grins and chuckles before vanishing in a puff of smoke to reveal a wounded Iruka, “I'm Iruka”

 

“I see…”, Mizuki mutters, as he stands up, “What good is there in protecting the one who killed your parents?”

 

“I'm not going to let an idiot like you get that scroll”, Iruka scoffs.

 

“You're an idiot. Naruto is the same as me”

 

“Same as you…?”

 

“Anything is possible with that scroll. There's no way Naruto; the demon-fox, won't use it's powers”

 

“Yeah, you're right”, Iruka agrees, causing both Naruto and Hisoka's eyes to widen in shock, “If he was a monster-fox…”, he recants, “But Naruto is different. He's…He's an excellent student that I recognize”, he continues, “He's a hardworking, earnest, clumsy, and no one recognizes him”

 

`As far as he knows, that is…', Hisoka mentally adds.

 

“He knows the pain of others”, he praises, “He's not a monster-fox. He's Naruto Uzumaki of Konoha!”

 

“What an idiot”, Mizuki mocks, un-strapping his second giant-shuriken from his back, “Iruka, I said I would kill you later, but I take that back”, he says, as he prepares to throw it, “Die now!”

 

Suddenly, Naruto appears in front of Mizuki, punching him away and causing the shuriken to fly far off-course.

 

“Damn you…”, the evil ninja curses, as he gets back to his feet.

 

“Don't lay a finger on Iruka-sensei”, Naruto threatens, with one hand resting on the scroll he had stolen, “I'll kill you if you do!”

 

“Talk while you can. I'll finish a kid like you in a flash”

 

`That “kid's” dad could finish you even faster than that', Hisoka mentally laughs.

 

“Try, jerk. I'll do a thousand times more damage back to you”, the teen challenges, making a cross with his first two-fingers.

 

“Why don't you try it, that is if you can, you monster-fox!”

 

“Kage Bunshin-no-jutsu!”, Naruto shouts and the whole clearing fills up with multiple Naruto that surround Mizuki.

 

“W-what…?”, he stammers, as glances around in a panic.

 

“What's the matter?”, many of the Naruto taunt, “Come and get me! Come on!”, they continue, “If you're not coming… We're coming!”, they warn, before they all crowd around the man, swinging punches and kicks at him.

 

Moments later, a singular Naruto stands over a severely-beaten Mizuki, nervously scratching the back of his head, “Maybe I hurt him too much”, he chuckles, “Iruka-sensei, are you okay?”

 

“Yeah…”, he answers, still in awe at what Naruto had done, “Naruto, come here a second. I want to give you something”

 

Hisoka watches as Naruto walks over to his teacher and obeys him when he asked him to close his eyes, then she sees Iruka removes the goggles from the teen's head and then removes his own head-band, tying it around Naruto's head.

 

“Sensei, are you done yet?”, Naruto impatiently asks.

 

“All right, open your eyes”, he instructs, just as dawn was breaking over the horizon, “Congratulations. You graduate”, he smiles, as Naruto stares at him in disbelief, “All right, let's celebrate. I'll treat you to ramen!”

 

“Iruka-sensei!”, Naruto exclaims, as he suddenly leaps at Iruka to hug the man.

 

“Ouch! That hurts!”, the man cries out, as he falls backwards onto his injured-back.

 

`Minato-san, I hope you're proud of your son', Hisoka prays, as she looks up at the sky, `Even though he ends up doing some pretty stupid things from time to time…', she mentally adds, “Well, better now than never to make my presence known… Finally…”, she mutters, leaping down from the tree.

 

“Having fun, you two?”, she teases, as she walks up to the excited males.

 

“Hisoka-chan, what are you doing here?”, Iruka questions.

 

“I was sent out to find Naruto, just like everybody else”, she replies, “You have the whole village in an uproar, because of this”, she says to Naruto, as she picks up the scroll from where it rested on the ground, “Of course, it wasn't your fault that this happened…”, she adds, nudging Mizuki in the head with her foot.

 

“Uh… Who exactly are you miss?”, Naruto asks.

 

“I'm Hisoka Kurosaki, it's a pleasure to meet you Naruto Uzumaki”, she smiles, as she offers her hand to him.

 

“So, do you want to get some ramen with us?”, Iruka offers.

 

“Maybe, after I heft this loser to jail”, she states, as she binds Mizuki's wrists together behind his back and lifts him off the ground, “Later Naruto-kun, and good luck on achieving your dream”, she waves, before vanishing with the prisoner.

 

“Iruka-sensei, who is she really?”

 

“She works as an assistant to the Hokage, when she doesn't have any missions”

 

“She's that high-ranking?!”

 

“Rank has nothing to do with being an assistant”, he explains, “Even though she is a rank-high than me…”, he sighs.

 

“What rank would that be?”

 

“I'm a Chunin, while she's a Jounin”

 

“Jounin…?”

 

“Your next teacher is going to be a Jounin”

 

“Ah ha!”, Naruto gasps, “What rank am I?”

 

“You're a Genin, Naruto-kun”, Hisoka says, ruffling his spiky-hair.

 

“Hisoka-sensei!”, the teen exclaims.

 

“You don't have to call me that you know, I'm not your teacher”, she states.

 

“Sorry, Hisoka-san”

 

“That's a little better”, she smiles.

 

“That was fast, Hisoka-chan”

 

“I ran into a couple of Anbu on my way back to town and let them take care of the rest”, she explains.

 

“Come on, you two can chit-chat later, I need ramen now!”, Naruto whines.

 

“Hold your horses”, Hisoka yawns, “Just a little forewarning, I've been up a full 24-hours, so if I fall asleep while eating make sure I don't end up accidently drowning in the broth”

 

“Deal”, Iruka agrees.

 

`Now I really want a massage! Hiding in trees all night has put some seriously painful-knots in my back', she thinks, as she pops her spine a few times.

 

 

 

 

 

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