Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Two of a Kind ❯ A different life ( Chapter 2 )

Declaimer: I do not own Naruto, some guy named Kishimoto Masashi does.

 

Ok, I'm starting my second chapter, enjoy.

 

 

“Shukaku speech”

“Kyuubi speech”

“Everyone else speech”

“Thought speech”

 

Chapter 2

On with the story

The hokage sat at his desk, he was finally done with all the paper work for today. He took a puff of his pipe and sat back in his chair. It was hard work being hokage, constantly signing papers, dealing with everyone's problems, it was very stressful. He was surprised he lived so long, seeing as he's under so much stress. As he took a break from the day there was a swirl of leaves in the middle of his office and a masked shinobi appeared bowing In front of the hokage.

 

“Hokage-sama, a message from the kazekage,” the man said while throwing a scroll towards Saratobi. He caught the scroll with ease and opened it. He read through it once and then again to make sure he read it right. He took another puff on his pipe before looking at his messenger.

 

“Summon the council; we have important issues to discuss.” The man disappeared and Saratobi got up and walked over to his window over looking the village. A hokage must see all. He looked into the distance where Naruto lived by his self. He stared at that spot before whispering sadly.

 

“Not another one.”

 

 

A few hours later the third hokage, Saratobi sat in a new room. This was the meeting room for him and the twelve council members. He sat at the end of a long vertical table. The council members assembled, waited patiently for the reason they were called. Saratobi set the scroll in front of him and turned his attention to the council.

 

“Today I received a message from the kazekage. He wishes to send us a gift as a symbol of our good standings with each other.” As he finished, smiles appeared on the faces of the council members. This was great news. The hidden village was one of the five great shinobi villages and this gift from the kazekage was a good sign that he wanted to ally himself with the leaf. An alliance with the sand would make both villages stronger and detour any other villages from attacking. One of the council members saw a problem in this situation. An elderly woman decided to speak up.

 

“Saratobi, this is obviously good news, news that would not require our presence, what other news do you have.” The council seeing sense in her words turned to Saratobi.

 

“You are right; there is more to this news. The kazekage sends us a gift, but the gift is his son, Gaara of the dessert, the carrier of the one tailed demon, Shukaku.” Instantly their faces changed. This was not good news, each one new the risk of having another demon child. If the demon ever escaped it could bring disaster to the village. They sat there in silence before one elder finally stood up and spoke.

 

“I say we accept him, not only will we be in good terms with the sand, he can be trained as a very powerful weapon.” As he finished, another council member stood up.

 

“Its too risky, what if the demon escapes.” With that everyone began getting up and throwing in their opinion. The room was soon filled with unintelligible screams and shouts. Saratobi watched the seen with disappointment, this was no way to handle the situation. He raised his hand and sternly called out,

 

“Silence,” Instantly the room went quite. The council sat down and waited for Saratobi to speak. “We shall have a vote. All in favor of declining the kazekage's offer raise your hand.” Three hands went up including the hokage's. “And all those who want to accept the kazekage's offer raise your hand.” Ten other hands flew up. Saratobi looked over everyone before nodding. “Very well, Gaara of the dessert will become a citizen of the hidden leaf village.” as he said this, smiles appeared on the councils face. Even those who lost didn't care that much. One council member stood up and began to speak.

 

“Of-course we will have to worn the older citizens of Konoha so they can take the proper actions to protect their families from a second demon child.” Nods of approval came from the others as decided Gaara's fate. He would be treated the same as Naruto, feared, hated, and shunned. He would be treated unfairly by everyone and he would live alone. Again Saratobi found himself disappointed by his people. He opened the scroll in front of him which had a photo of Gaara on the paper. He had sad and broken eyes; he'd seen those eyes in Naruto as well. He stared at the picture and whispered, “I'm sorry.”

 

Three days later at the gates of Konoha

Three figures walked slowly towards the great gate of Konoha. Two guards stood at the gates and took notice of the approaching figures. As the figures grew closer, the guards were able to make out their appearances. There were two taller figures wearing the traditional sand Junín uniforms, they wore white and brown striped ambu masks on their faces. In the middle of them walked a child. This child wore a pair of dirty brown pants. Above that the child wore a dirty brown shirt with a small brown poncho over it. He wore small brown worn shoes on his feet. Long dirty red hair covered his, his head lowered. He carried a stick with a small cloth tied onto it. Inside the cloth he carried his only belongings. The three made their way to the gates and were stopped by the guards.

 

 

“Halt, what is your business in Konoha?” One guards asked while stepping forward. One of the guards near the child began to speak as well.

 

“We come only to drop of the child. He is now in your care. The hokage is expecting him.” The person said before both shinobi disappeared, leaving the child alone with the two guards. The guards looked down at the child curiously.

 

“What is your name child?”

 

“Gaara,” he said in a small voice while keeping his head down. The two shinobi took a step back, realizing the thing in front of them was the demon child. They eyes narrowed and they both became alert, they didn't want to risk any surprises.

 

“You will be meeting with the hokage, move forward.” One guard ordered. Gaara moved past them and up to the gate, once he neared it the gate began to open. He moved into the village with the two guards following a good ways behind, not wanting to be near the demon child. The guards were replaced as they left their posts. Gaara walked through the village with his head slightly up to see the place he would be spending the rest of his life. His father had suddenly decided that he would be sent to Konoha, he barely had the time to pack before he was sent off. In some ways he was glad to leave; maybe he could start over here, nobody knew about him here right? Wrong, because as he walked through the streets of Konoha he began to notice the faces. People around him stopped and stared at him as he passed them. The same distrust and fear in their eyes as the people in the Suna.

 

Gaara lowered his head, not wanting to see those faces.

 

“No matter where you go you will always be hated.”

 

Gaara shook his head softly not wanting to believe what the voice said. He tried to justify the people's actions. “I am a stranger, anyone would be afraid of anyone they don't know.” He said trying to convince himself more than the voice.

 

“Your seven years old, no one would fear a seven year old unless they had good reason. They know you're a monster Gaara, everyone knows, you can't escape.”

 

“Shut-up!!!” Gaara screamed out loud, and as he screamed, the streets of Konoha went silent. The once busy and loud business streets of Konoha went silent at the command of a single child. The guards behind Gaara reached for their kunai, fearing an attack. Gaara realized he just screamed out loud, and he looked up and got a full look at the people around him. He saw their faces, their reactions. Mothers grabbed their children and people glared at Gaara with hate filled eyes. Gaara's appearance was unmistakable; the adults were warned of Gaara but were forbidden to speak of the demon he carried, of-course like Naruto, that didn't stop their hate. Gaara lowered his head and began to walk even faster, he jus wanted…he didn't know what he wanted, he just didn't want to be their. He began to move even faster towards the huge tower in the middle of the city, it was getting dark.

 

A few miles away a lone figure walked threw the streets of Konoha. It was a small figure; he wore a baggy orange jumpsuit, the only thing he could afford. He walked home alone after failing again to make friends at the park for reasons unknown. It was getting dark and he hurried to get home. Ever since he was kicked out of his foster home it had gotten much more dangerous for him to be out at night. He wouldn't want to run into another drunken villager. The seven year old child walked fast threw the streets, until he caught the sight of his apartment building, a dirty, broken down, rat infested apartment building. He continued to his home where he would collapse in his dirty, ripped, bumpy bed, and have another night, of unmerciful sleep. The child was Naruto Uzumaki, aka, the demon child. Unknown to Naruto, there was as he walked home, something awoke inside him.

 

Inside Naruto mind, there is a room with pipes running along the walls leading to a giant cage. And on the cage there is a tiny piece of paper with the kanji for “seal” written on it. Inside that cage there is a creature, an enormous creature with fiery red fur and nine tails swinging powerfully behind it. Inside that cage the creature slept, but suddenly its eyes lids flew open, revealing its blood red slitted eyes. The creature was the nine tailed fox, the most powerful demon in the world trapped inside this small child. And even though it was trapped, a small smile appeared on its muzzle.

 

“That chakra, it's faint but I can still sense it. Shukaku,” As the fox said this, its smile grew into a huge grin, revealing its razor sharp teeth. “We will be together again Shukaku, very soon.” The fox then closed its eyes again, awaiting the right time to enact its plan.

 

On the outside, Naruto climbed into his bed, unaware of the plan already being set in motion.

 

 

That's the end of this chapter, please review.

Hey everyone, I decided I wanted to continue this story I started a while age. I've been thinking about this fic and I finally decided where I wanted to go with this. So I'm going to be working on this and my other fix at the same time. Tell me what you think, I love reviews. Well I hope you enjoyed this chapter, thanks for reading.