Chapter 1
Kurama was annoying her.
This wasn’t something new to the blonde haired Uzumaki. Ever since the ‘defection’ of Itachi Uchiha she had formed a contract with the demon. Every now and again she would release part of him into a forest, or the valley of end, at dawn and he would return at dusk into her seal.
This contract also allowed him to constantly talk to her, whether or not she went into her mindscape, much to her chagrin.
In return, however, he gave her many gifts. One was merging their chakra together, allowing him to feel her surroundings as if they were his own. The second, he would teach her the jutsus he had witnessed other ‘ningen’, as he called them, had used. The third was helping her to master her natural abilities such her sensory abilities. The fourth and last was more of a side-effect of merging with someone with Ashura’s soul so young; if she tried hard enough, she could see images of the future.
The last was dangerous as it often left her light headed and, on the occasion, made her sick.
I’m telling you, let me out and allow me to have a fight with the Uchiha. It’ll show him to respect us then.
It will also show him to the Tori gates, so no thank-you. I don’t mind how he is now… well I do mind but it’s workable.
Brat!
What?! I didn’t do anything!
No not you! I feel an ominous presence. Nothing more powerful than myself of course, because no one is more powerful than the almighty kyuubi no kitsune!
Get on with it Kurama!
There’s something dangerous not far from us!
I live in a hidden village. Nearly everyone here is dangerous one way or another. She rolled her eyes at his idiocy.
She went forward to intercept Sakura’s fist before it Konohamaru’s head. “I wouldn’t advise hitting his Sakura. Lest you forget, he is the grandson of the old man and has his own ANBU guard.” She then added, “And I’m sure he didn’t mean it. Besides, he’s a kid with no awareness of the opposite gender.”
“I did too mean it big sis! She has a big forehead, flat chest and wears too much pink! Even her hair is pink! At least you look pretty, big sis!”
Narutos sweat dropped. He really shouldn’t have said that. “Konohamaru, run.” The boy was wise enough to listen to her and start running, Sakura following after him, anger clear in her eyes.
She sighed and looked towards Moegi and Udon, “I’m gonna go after them. You guys come along as well.” With that she chased after them, only to stop when she saw a boy in a cat outfit and purple paint on his face and black eyes, with something strapped round his back, holding Konohamaru by his shirt as Sakura said something to him.
“Not a chance. He still needs to apologise to me for bumping into me.” He must have noticed Naruto by her bright choice of clothing as he smirked, and said, “On second thought… I’d be willing to let him go if you agree to go on a date with me, blondie.”
He leered at her chest causing Naruto to huff in annoyance. She really shouldn’t get annoyed by it, after all, she had already started in her specialization; seduction.
His comment caused all eyes to go onto her, which was when she noticed the blonde standing next to the pervert. She gave her a once over and decided she was a kunoichi who actually worked for her title.
She wore a lilac dress with a mesh shirt underneath with a large fan strapped to her back. Her hair was pulled into four ponytails, her eyes green and she wore her headhand around her neck and looked carefully at the Sigel carved into it.
Sunagakure.
She recalled a conversation the sandaime had had with her regarding the arrival of the Kazekages children some time before the chunin exams being, however she also recalled him saying there were three of them, not two.
She was bought out of her musings when Konohamaru started to speak up, “Like I’d let you go out with my sister! She’s too good for you, you big old pervert!”
The boy in the cat outfit paid no mind to what he said, too busy staring at her, “I’d suggest you put him down. It wouldn’t be wise to harm the grandson of the sandaime hokage, especially if his ANBU detail aren’t far behind. You’re likely to get into trouble, even if you are the children of the Kazekage.”
Both the siblings eyes grew wide ever so slightly, clearly they didn’t believe anyone her age would know who they were.
Just as the cat guy released Konohamaru, a pebble hit the elder’s hand, causing the four teenagers to look up only to see Sasuke Uchiha sitting on a branch.
“What brings ninja from Sunagakure to Konohagakure, I wonder?”
“Big sis, why couldn’t you do that?” whispered Konohamaru behind her legs.
“You should always look for a diplomatic way out of things and not the violent way out. The violent way out tends to cause wars.” She whispered back.
They started to talk but Naruto was suddenly thrust into a very short conversation with her demon.
Brat that feeling is here again! I know what it is now and I’m not very happy about it!
Oh hush you.
The cat boy took off the thing that was strapped to his back, which Naruto assumed was a puppet since she recalled one of the kazekages children being a puppet user.
He was about to speak up when a gravelly voice spoke up, “Konkuro. Enough.” All heads turned wide eyed at the boy who spoke. He was upside-down on the opposite side of the tree Sasuke was on.
He used a sand shunshin to appear next to the puppet weilder and Naruto got a chance to really see what he was wearing.
A simple black outfit with a mesh shirt underneath and a white fabric going around him. The thing that really caught her attention was the large gourd that was held by a thick brown strap. He had red hair and the katakana for love in the same shade of red on his forehead. One feature of his face that drew her in; his teal shade eyes that held the same pain she had felt in her early childhood.
Why do all three of the kazekages children have something strapped onto their backs?!
Sasuke jumped down and landed beside her, and began to speak to her however to sensory abilities were on the fritz.
Naruto could feel his chakra. It held two parts. One was confused and… loving. The other part was chaotic. The chaotic part felt familiar. As if she was seeing a long lost friend.
Before she could properly assess what that meant as images forced their way into her mind:
She stood on a high building, looking at a sand filled village with an arm around her.
A red head, smiling across from her as they shook hands.
The same red head holding her as she wept.
As per usual her head started to throb as an after effect, yet she didn’t allow that to show. She was far too fascinated to pay much attention to her pain anyway. This stranger clearly paid an important part of her future yet he also seemed to play a part in her past.
Naruto was curious. And when Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze was curious, she would go to the ends of the earth to get answers and sate her curiosity.
It was when Kurama spoke, that she realised why he was familiar to her, He has a tailed beast sealed inside him. Shukaku. The one tailed tanuki ‘belonging’ to the sand. I see his madness hasn’t depleted at all over the past generation.
The conversation was near its end, so the three siblings started to leave, causing her heart rate to spike up.
She, however, refused to let them leave without finding out their names first.
“Wait!” all heads turned to look at her and if it was any other occasion, she would have turned pink from the attention yet she paid no heed to them. “What’s your name?”
The cat boy smirked and replied, “Konkuro-”
She cut him off as she shook her head, “Not you. The red head.” She pointed at him for good measure in case the cat boy had red hair under his hat.
Teal eyes met her own sapphire blue ones. She thought they were a strange colour, teal, not green nor blue, not even turquoise. Those same eyes stared at her with a heated intensity that made her proud she hadn’t turned even brighter. The owner of those cold yet smouldering eyes replied none the less, “Gaara no Subaku. And what are your names?”
Sasuke being the ever so pretentious teme that he was thought Gaara was talking to him, “I’m Sasuke Uchiha.”
Gaara paid no attention to him as he stared into the young blondes blue eyes, making her face heat up again, “N-Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze.” She mentally berated herself for stuttering as Kurama started to snicker in her mind.
Konkuro and the other blonde’s eyes widened at the proclamation, her last name was very well known so it wasn’t surprising, she was the daughter of Minato Namikaze the yondaime hokage. Not that people outside the village actually knew that.
She distinctively felt Sakura hitting the back of her head in a smack for telling another village her name but she, once again, paid no mind to the pain, “We’ll be entering the chunin exams as well. Just so you know.”
Gaara looked to her and Sasuke as he replied, “Make sure neither of you lose before I get to fight you. I will feed your blood to mother.” With that the three siblings left. It was as they left that Naruto remembered the eldest siblings name; Temari.