Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ The Druid, The Shinobi, and The Container ❯ Running Interference ( Prologue )

The Druid, the Shinobi, and the Container

 

Disclaimer:

I don't own Naruto, the great Kishimoto-sama that owns it. I only own my lovely Druid, err, or rather Druidess. If you check out my other stories I tend to insert an OFC. I also tend to erase what could be construed as Mary-Sue….::shudder:: Dear God if anything, tell me if my OFC is becoming even slightly Mary-Sue. Anyway, Naruto is going to be pretty AU. Then again how can fanfiction be canon anyway? So on with the story, finally geez….

 

Prologue: Running Interference

 

“I have to do what?” The Time Keeper, Chronos, sighed and rolled his eyes at the youngest of the full-fledged true Druids, Lillias McGregor. Damn these modern day druids, they always questioned everything now. What happened to the good old days when he was obeyed, no questions asked? Then again the last time he had even done this was five hundred years ago with the whole having a druid move the Holy Grail again, damned normal mortals keep getting closer and God had said…. Bah whatever, got to answer McGregor.

 

“Och, pay attention Druidess McGregor.” Here she glared at Chronos who ignored her as he continued. “You have to go to this one dimension, raise some boy to be a proper shinobi, and then come back whenever. You know how to call me.”

 

“Beggin' yer pardon, Laird Chronos but that's not verra clear and I canna understand yer blathering. Wha in the blinkin' hell is a shinobi?” Chronos grimaced at the fact that the little Scottish Druidess before him was losing her temper, thus butchering her previously accent free English.

 

“All right, McGregor, listen and use that photographic memory that your clan is so famous for. Now then….”

 

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Hatake Kakashi frowned under his mask and warily eyed the Kyuubi container, Uzumaki Naruto, who was demanding in his squeaky six year old voice why he was here in the office of Sandaime, the Hokage of Konoha. The twenty year old former ANBU, now just an elite jounin, slouched, stuffing his hands in the pockets of the standard issue jounin uniform pants.

 

“Be patient, Naruto-kun.” Sandaime smiled at the bundle of golden haired energy that was the Uzumaki. “She'll be here soon.”

 

“A girl, Sandaime-sama?” Kakashi asked, speaking for the first time since he arrived in the office. Naruto looked at him curiously, bright blue eyes exactly like his father's that made Kakashi flinch slightly to where only a well trained shinobi would be able to notice, like say the Sandaime.

 

“I am not a girl. I am a Druidess.” Kakashi whirled around to see a girl with hair the color of flames and flashing emerald eyes behind him. Her fists were propped on her hips in defiance.

 

“How….?” Hatake Kakashi was dumbfounded, he had not sensed her, scented her, or anything. He did not like the feeling of being surprised.

 

“You're a shinobi with powers beyond that of a normal mortal and you ask how?” The girl walked over to Sandaime to hand him a scroll and Kakashi noted how tall she was compared to his height. Damn it, she was such a little thing, the crown of her head barely reached his chin.

 

“Ah, Druidess McGregor, I presume.”

 

“Aye, you presume correctly.” She had an accent that Kakashi couldn't place for the life of him. It was a drawl, yet wasn't as well. A brogue was what it was, he concluded.

 

“HEY, WHO ARE YOU?!” All three, the girl, Sandaime, and Kakashi, looked down at Uzumaki Naruto. He, meanwhile, was pointing at the girl.

 

“My name, child, is Lillias.”

 

“Oh, what kind of name is that?” Lillias scowled at his question and Naruto shrunk a little into himself. Lillias' glare disappeared and she answered.

 

“It is the name that was chosen for me on my naming day.” Bright blue eyes blinked at her in confusion. She sighed and elaborated. “My name is my country's version of Liliana, which is made from the word lilium.”

 

“What does lilium mean?” Naruto asked, thus voicing the question that Kakashi had wanted to ask himself. Lillias smiled softly, a glint of mischief in her emerald eyes, and bent down at the waist so that she and Naruto were eye-to-eye.

 

“It means lily.”

 

“So your name means lily?”

 

“In short, yes, Lillias means lily.”

 

“Why didn't you just say so?!” Naruto burst out. Lillias then just outright grinned at him and straightened up.

 

“Just to drive you crazy.”

“ARGH!!” The little blonde cried, slamming his fists on his waist. He glared up into the laughing eyes of the druidess. Lillias, in turn, ruffled his blonde spikes, chuckling. Kakashi watched the two in curiosity. Didn't she know he was a demon container? That Naruto was potentially dangerous?

 

“Naruto-kun, Druidess McGregor, please pay attention.” Sandaime said in amusement. The two addressed looked at him, the blonde pouting and the redhead smiling faintly. Kakashi eyed them both and regarded Sandaime warily as well. “Naruto-kun, Druidess McGregor Lillias is to be one of your new guardians.” Kakashi raised his visible eyebrow at this and soon neurons started to fire off as he quickly reached a conclusion. Damn, he was going to be Naruto's other guardian. “Hatake Kakashi over there,” Sandaime pointed him out and the jounin nervously, though not visibly nervous, raised a hand in a salute, “He will be training you in the shinobi arts on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays.” Or maybe Kakashi wasn't going to be the boy's other guardian. “He is to be your other guardian part time.” Or maybe he was…

 

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End of Prologue