Kyuubi's debt 1
Title: Kyuubi's debt
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: NaruHina
Spoilers: follows the manga until Sasuke leaves.
Warnings: Violence, blood, fluff.
Summary: Naruto is enjoying his relationship with Hinata in spite of her Father's disagreement while the Kyuubi is trying to break free and an unknown threat makes its way to Konoha.
Author note: I started translating that fic 4 years ago, and while the french version is complete, the english one is barely two chapters done.
Pain, so much pain. His chakra was fleeing him, leaving with the blood flowing from his wounds. Where was she ? He was nearly blind. He could hear angry roars far above, but it didn’t matter anymore. The only thing that mattered was to know if she had been able to run away. Lying on the ground in a pool of his own blood, he somehow found the strength to whisper her name one last time : “Hinata ...”
1. The lost village
The sky was an intense shade of blue, filled with light. The few clouds that were pushed by a lazy wind were flame red. Underneath, Konoha was goldened by the setting sun.On the Hokage cliff, two young people were looking at the scene in silence.
Naruto turned his head and breathed the scent of Hinata’s hair. He loved that scent that reminded him of a flower meadow in spring. She looked up and he lightly kissed her forehead then her eyes. Her smile was as full of love as his.
“I love you.” He whispered gently.
She had becomed a beautifull woman over these last six years. The shy girl had becomed a kunoichi proud of her strength. The only trouble was her father. Hyuga Hiashi fully disagreed with their relationship, unable to trust someone holding a demon. Naruto was doing his best to prouve himself worthy of her, but it hadn’t worked very well. Hinata had only managed to get outside tonight with help from Kiba and Sakura who said they had organised a small party.
The sun disappeared and a cool breeze started to blow. Naruto got up and helped Hinata to do the same.
“Are you ready for what’s next ?” He said in her ear.
She shivered eagerly.
“Of course I am !”
They left the cliff and went inside the forest near Konoha.
At first light, they left the forest, both smiling. Naruto left her at the entrance of the village. He saw her go away, not believing his own luck. She disappeared at the corner of a street and he made to go to his flat. Hardly a step later his stomach started hurting violently. The seal was clearly visible and it was radiating waves of pain.
“Stupid fox, what are you trying to do ?” The answer came as a small wave of anger, like an echo of a more profound feeling. Then the pain was gone and the seal faded away. Naruto was left alone in the street, looking like an idiot. He was worried. Kyuubi had never reacted that way before. Was it attempting to break free ? Changing direction, he went to speak with Jiraiya.
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Kitano sighed. This mission was the most boring he’d ever done. He didn’t understand why it deserved a C rank. They simply had to walk a man and his son home! The kid had run away and come to Konoha to try and become a ninja. His father followed two days later and hired them to for protection on their way back. Kitano found it all pretty stupid. They had managed to come on their own, hadn’t they ? Why ask for protection now ? When he asked Mizu-sensei, she answered that the place where they were to go was near an old hidden village that had been destroyed by a demon centuries ago. There often were dissappearances nearby, which was reason enough for them to go and earn that mission a C.
He hid a smirk. A lot of trouble for folk’s tale. They had arrived at the small number of houses pompously named ‘town’ whithout even metting thieves they could have practiced their shuriken skill on. Now he was sitting on a trunk near the village, looking at the forest that stood behind. The very forest were the destroyed hidden village was. Without thinking, he got up and started slowly toward the trees, entranced by the death scent that was escaping from them .
“Kitano ! Could you stop with your damn forest ? We said we’d explore it this afternoon !”
He turned around. The girl who had just spoken, Kaede, was a member of his team. Her speciality was genjutsu. He usually found her stupid. She wasn’t even pretty. Her face had too many angles and her hair were greasy.
“All right, all right ! Is dinner ready ?” he asked with his usual drawl.
“Yes, it is. And if you don’t hurry, Talyn will eat everything, again.”
“If he keeps on copying Choji-san, he will end up blowing his insides.” He said, smirking.
“Everybody has his models.”
He went with the girl after a last look at the forest.
When they finished eating, the genins gathered at the edge of forest, their sensei next to them. That forest had some kind of magnetic pull that made the jounin curious. She went inside, following her students.
In the beginning it was easy to advance, then the trees became closer, their branches clawing at the ninjas’ clothes but they took no notice, keeping ahead. Finally they came to a great clearing. Mizu was sure the village had been there a few centuries before. She shivered, not liking the thought of a destroyed hidden village, especially when the surrounding was so much like Konoha. The genins started exploring. There wasn’t much to see, as most of the buildings had collapsed a long time ago. The jounin went to what had been the central square of the village. A few minutes later her students joined her, attracted by the same buzz that she had heard. There was a spot on the ground where the grass didn’t grow, where the earth seemed dry and drained. In this spot a kind of circle with strange writings was embedded in the ground. Mizu couldn’t help but stare at it. She had heard about a jutsu that needed that kind of circle, a jutsu forbidden because it could suck a ninja dry of chakra. As far as she knew, no one in the last centuries had succeeded in using it ... She wanted to tell the three genins to get away, but they had already entered the circle. Suddendly she was hit by something and lost consciousness.
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Mizu opened her eyes. She felt sick and had a sudden impulse to throw up. When she felt better, she looked around. She did not understand why she was in that clearing. Hesitantly, she headed for the forest, without even looking at the blood stains on the grass behind her. There was nothing left of the three younger shinobis.