Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Naruto......SISTER?!?!?!? ❯ Birthday gift ( Chapter 7 )

The boroughs of the large tree at the top of a hill several leagues west of Konoha sat 5 shinobi deep in conversation as the night's breeze rustled the leaves over their heads. The pink haired kunoichi stood poking a stick at the dieing flames causing them to send sparks into the air and carefully added another log so as not to create to much smoke. She stretched her arms above her head then dropping her arms turned back to her companions.

“Sakura-Chan” Naruto began, “we're going to be passing though Kumi village tomorrow and I heard they have a very awesome ramen restaurant I was wondering..” Sakura cut him off rolling her eyes.

“Naruto don't you ever eat anything but ramen one day your going to grow ramen noodles for hair!” she announced. Sasuke hide a smirk by busying himself with his pack trying not to laugh since her statement came out so bland. He struggled to choke back a laugh as Kakashi sitting next to noticed his difficulty he reached over and thumped him on his back in false assistance.

“There is nothing wrong with RAMEN!” he growled and proceeded to pout. Arashia's eyebrows disappeared into her hairline as she struggled not to have a fit laughing. Sai was the only one who remained silent his face a study of thoughtful contemplation as he tried to work out why everyone thought Sakura's statement was so funny.

“Well I'll take the first watch.” Arashia offered she stood up from her spot beside her sulking brother and thumped him on the top of the head.

“See you in the morning grouch.” She motioned to his sleeping bag as she moved off to sit away from the fire. She could hear him continue to grumble more and she listened as Sasuke growled back at him when he walked around him to his sleeping bag. Looking back at them she noticed the grin that spread across his handsome young face and his sea blue eyes glowed with happiness. She smiled to herself, whatever the Uchiha had said to him obviously improved his attitude and he more or less flopped into his sleeping bag without further complaint the others weren't far behind and soon she could hear the soft snoring the signaled Naruto becoming blissfully unaware to the world. She formed the seal and breathed out Tajj Kage Bushin no Jutsu three clones popped into existence and she sent them out in a circle around their camp to guard.

Her thoughts roamed back to the past before Akatsuki even knew her little brother was alive or to be more precise before he was even born. She was 7 when her father told her she would be a big sister soon, she was about to start at the academy to become a ninja like her father and mother. She didn't want to be Hokage though she remembered telling him because you had to work all of the time. He had smiled and told her one day she might change her mind after all it was a family tradition. She had shaken blonde curls at him making a face.

“I don't like desks!” she had adamantly refused him and he had patted her on the head

“You'll understand when you get older.” His voice was deep and soothing if she concentrated she could almost hear him again. A tear slide down her cheek as the image of the man she had known as `daddy' was superimposed with her nii-chan and another tear leaked out tracing an unbroken trail down her face. It wasn't until it slipped off the end of her chin that she realized she was humming an old tune she remembered hearing growing up. She continued to hum for several seconds before the words finial returned and very softly began to sing the hearing her father's deep baritone in her mind singing along.

 

May it be an evening star
Shines down upon you
May it be when darkness falls
Your heart will be true
You walk a lonely road
Oh! How far you are from home

Darkness has come
Believe and you will find your way
Darkness has fallen
A promise lives within you now

May it be the shadows call
Will fly away
May it be your journey on
To light the day
When the night is overcome
You may rise to find the sun

Darkness has come
Believe and you will find your way
Darkness has fallen
A promise lives within you now

A promise lives within you now

 

Her heart ached and burned in her chest as silent tears flowed down her cheeks as the song faded she looked back at her sleeping brother the last remnants of her father clearing showing on his face. At 17 Naruto looked so much like the Yodamine it hurt to look at him and not see the man he would become and the man whom had given his life for the promise her brother now carried.

“A promise lives within you now.” She whispered still looking at him. She shook herself and looked up into the tree branches overhead.

“Hope you appreciated that I don't sing anymore.” Her dry tone directed at the joninnin perched above her. He dropped silent to the ground beside and remained in a crouch studying the ground in front of him.

“He wants to be Hokage.” Kakashi stated.

Arashia nodded her head “I know.”

“He will probably surpass the 4th.”

“Hai.” Silence she had nothing else to say on it Kakashi was still squatted on the ground he folded his legs under him then looked up at her from the corner of his eye.

“Care to talk about.” She titled her head at him from the teen she had known all those years ago she couldn't ever remember him offer a sympathetic ear to anyone he had been so closed off and she distinctly remember annoying him by trying to follow him every where demanding to know what his problem was, so to say she was surprised was an understatement. He remained setted legs folded waiting.

“I some times wonder…” she began but then abruptly changed directions and sitting down next to him she turned her head and grinned at him.

“Tomorrow is the 10th of October!” her voice fairly sparkled her topic shift had the man looking her full in the face with a puzzled expression.

“Why do you think he was asking Sakura-chan to go to the ramen bar with him?” Kakashi's eyebrow arched as he looked at her and got a palm to the forehead for his lack of response.

“Naruto will be 18 tomorrow and I for one have a gift for him what about you?” His eye widen in shock.

“I didn't even release what tomorrow was.” His voice was even but Arashia could tell she had the upper hand in this case and planned to use it to her advantage. Besides if she could get the others in on it then Naruto would have a very good surprise before the shit hit the fan so to speak. She grimaced inward that his birthday would be celebrated on the road but it was unavoidable and it was even more twisted in her mind that they were headed to face Akatsuki and its agents.

“Good I have a plan.”

 

 

 

Kumi Village Ramen bar

 

A laughing Naruto sat between his to best friends in the world, Sasuke his adopted brother and Sakura he now thought of as sister. Across from the three sat Sai between Kakashi and Arashia who was currently preparing a silent assault on her nii-chin who had blissfully finished off 5 bowls of ramen and was now rubbing his belly talking animatedly to his tablemates.

Her attack was almost foiled by Sai when he looked at her and cocked his head to the side blinking at her several times. He opened his mouth to comment but she widened her eyes slightly and shook her head ever so slightly while maintaining her focus on her target. She was fighting a mad grin and just before letting it fly ramen noodles came sailing at her from Sasukes discarded unfinished bowl she shot her load at Naruto and ducked as best she could the offending noodles hit Sai instead of her and his puzzled blinking caused her to double over laughing so much so that tears sprang to her eyes. Naruto for once wasn't lucky enough to dodge the noodles coming at his face he could only duck his head down enough so that the noodles landed in his hair instead of his face when he looked up at her Sakura's comment from last night played though her mind again and she was laughing in harder than before falling off the bench and on to the floor unable to stop. The others stared at the pair until Arashia's incoherent mumbling finally became clear.

“N-N-N-Noodle-N-N-Noodle haaaaiiir—hahahahahaahah” she rolled on the floor and soon the others where laughing as well he laughter infectious and it got worse as they each remembered last nights comment even Sai laughed this time more so from the infectious nature of the others than any true understanding of the joke. Sasuke tried his damnedest not to laugh and only smile but the smile lead to a snicker and the snicker lead to gauf which resulting in a true laugh and soon he was in no better shape then the others. The owner of the bar rolled his eyes at the group, he just knew if they didn't settle down soon he would have to ask them leave they where scaring his other customers.

Several minutes passed as every began to calm down, Arashia was holding her sides still smiling and observed each of them in turn as the recouped. Sasuke had loosed up considerably since she had first meet him he smiled more and his darkness was set off by Naruto and Sakura's light the same seemed to be true for Sai he responded to them as much as Sasuke and despite his lack of understanding in the emotional department she could see in his eyes on his face the signs that spoke of loyalty and attachment. He was another who Naruto had helped and in doing so garnered the teens friendship and protection. Kakashi was the only one she didn't fully understand she had her own 7 year old self's crush on the silver haired joninnin to draw from but that didn't really help all she really knew for any certainty was he had refused to give up on team 7 during the 3 years of one Uchiha's absence and he had a soft spot for those perverted books the Frog hermit pervert wrote.

She reviewed in her mind everything she knew about each of them from personal experience as well as what was in their files. Sakura was as strong as Tsunade and in a very short period of time mastered almost all of medical ninja arts Tsunade had taken several years to master. Sasuke held a number of jutsu some of which were forbidden as well as his Kekki Genki. Kakashi had his Sharingan eye from Obito which also gave him the Kekki Genki of the Uchiha clan. Naruto with Kyuubi was the only wild card, her brother was strong and capable even without the Kyuubi's chakra but the creatures own talents where a mystery to those around him. He could Access the power but if he manifested more then two tails of chakra from the beast his body would deteriorate covering him in his own blood slowly killing him from the inside out. Mentally she shivered, it was a gastily occurrence and thus far unavoidable Yamata was the only one able to suppress the nine-tails chakra and from what Naruto had told her the creature he housed was not intentional trying to kill him when it happened he had informed her that the Kyuubi had told him the last time they talked that when ever he loaned Naruto his power that was all he was giving him, power and with out the Kyuubi to govern it the power went with his subconscious desire or the strongest emotion he was experiencing at the time and acted. He did admit that he could suppress it but past 3 tails and he lost consciousness and didn't remember what happened. She had seen the fear in his eyes at that possibility as they danced across his teammates and the shudder that coursed though his body. Returning to the conversation taking place she noted Kakashi had been watching her as well she meet his eye raising one eyebrow and a corner of her mouth at him, he returned the look over the top of his ever present Icha Icha Paradise. Reaching into her pack on the floor between her legs she produced a small box wrapped in orange wrapping paper.

“Happy birthday otouto.” She handed him the box, his eyes were wide and his jaw hung open. “This is from myself and,” she pause debating if she should admit to the rest when she felt a hand landed on her shoulder, Kakashi's arm was resting along the back of the set and Sai was leaning forward to get a look at what was in the box. “dad.” She managed to say without her voice cracking and giving away the pain she felt. The hand squeezed briefly then was removed.

Sakura averted her eyes before the other woman could see that Kakashi's gestured was seen since apparently neither wanted anyone to know. She was looking at Naruto when she noticed Sasuke raise and eyebrow at her and she shook her head and mouthed `Later' at him he nodded slightly and they turned there attention to Naruto and his gift.

He had already removed the wrapping with careful fingers and was looking at a small box opening it he gapped. Sitting in the middle nestled in a velvety cushion was a ring of silver that spiraled and looped in an intricate design, in the center was the swirl that decorated the vest of a Konoha ninja and weaving in and around the swirl was a second swirl that appeared to touch the center swirl then flare out from it.

“Its beautiful.” Sakura breathed out.

“Nice.” Sasuke offered while silently agreeing with Sakura.

“ That is a very detailed ring Naruto-kun. It looks like the design of a seal around the center swirl.” Sai added. Arashia wanted to shot daggers at the boy but ignored him instead.

“Father wore that ring every day and when you were conceived he wanted you to have it. I used to pester him about the it, it was the only jewelry I every saw him wear.” Her throat felt heavy and tight and she was having a hard time speaking but she thanked the gods that the others hadn't noticed giving her a chance to collect herself. Sai's remark forgotten Naruto had taken the ring from its box and was holding it up.

“He always wore it on his right hand middle finger.” Naruto slipped the ring onto the same finger it fit like it was made for him. “ Now you have a piece of him too.” She added smiling at him. “”I can share my memories of him with you later if you wish.”” Her mental voice wavered and he smiled at her though misty eyes nodding his head in silent acknowledgement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ok well I hope that answers any questions about Arashia's contact in the past with Kakashi, and He is the same age as in the Manga at this point. The only pairings I am hoping will work out are Kakashi/Arashia I don't know if it will work out yet. Since I am hoping to make this mostly adventure there maybe some romance but it will be boy/girl for the most part possible one-sided boy/boy but I haven't made up my mind yet. I may just throw that idea out altogether. I will try to stay as true to the main characters as possible but since I am not Naruto's creator I don't know how they will develop in the manga. More action to come I have two chapters after this one I am reviewing and may chop up and splice for a new idea. The next Chap will explain what else happened between Kakashi and Arashia under the stars for sure that's the significance of Sasuke and Sakura's shared look, that's all I know for sure. I borrowed Enya's song It fit the moment and Arashia's memories.