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The Ten Tails by lovinganimetoomuch27

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Chapter notes: Sorry if its boring. Getting a writer's block but I know where this story is going so hang in there.

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I start off easy, throwing shurikens and kunai at logs. I’ve been at it for hours, but there still not landing where I want them to. A few shurikens don’t even land on the logs, they impale the earth near it. I know it’ll take time, but I’m starting to get impatient with the results. I’m covered in a light layer of sweat and dirt, and I’m thirsty. I lean on a log and rest for a while, I wonder if Naruto started to train with Master Jiraiya. If i remember correctly Kakashi was reading a book that Jiraiya wrote, are they any good? I think I saw a book he wrote yesterday at the book stand. I don’t remember the title though.

My tired body doesn’t want to move but I do anyways. I retrieve the shurikens and get into position. Maybe if I do it on a moving object then it would get me better results. I make a shadow clone meters away from me, it charges and moves from side to side, making it a challenge to land a shuriken on it. I concentrate on the area it will be going next and throw it in that direction. My clone is faster and dodges it, I expected no less from myself. I charge, I’ll be able to get a better shot at closer range. I had an opening as I tried to move left. I had the shuriken in position, just flick the wrist in the right position.

“Hey what are you doing!” Someone yells. I trip over a rock, pain surges through my ankle.

“Shit.” I curse as I land on my elbow. Who the hell would interrupt me, I had the shot. Damn who ever interrupted me. I see a little boy with a long blue scarf. He was hiding behind a tree. I tried to get up, but the pain from my ankle was too great.

“Who are you? I’ve never seen you around,” He asks.

“I’m Kiyoko. Who are you?” I ask from my seat on the ground.

“My name is Konohamaru. That’s is the same jutsu brother Naruto uses, isn’t it.” He comes closer. So Naruto knows the shadow clone jutsu too. I nod. I hiss as Konohamaru tries to help me up, he quickly lets go sending me plummeting to the ground again.

“Sorry.”

“If you don’t mind, can you get me to the hospital so someone can check my ankle.” I ask. I lean on him as I hop to the hospital. I sigh, I really hope its just a little sprain, I have to get back to training. The throbbing goes away and so does the pain. We enter the main door, and Konohamaru leaves me there. I gingerly test my ankle, surprised that its only an ache, and going away quickly. Hmm. I wonder why it healed this fast, Sakura mentioned something about my healing abilities, but I know nothing about it. While I’m here I’ll check Kakashi. Sakura and Sai have left, and Kakashi is still engrossed into the same book. I’ll have to look into the book, and see for myself if its any good.

I’m still a little iffy on my ankle, and somewhat limp to a chair.

“You look like you’ve been run through a beater” He says.

“I feel like it. I was training, but ended up hurting my ankle thanks to a surprise from Konohamaru. That little kid made me miss a great shot.” I humh, and cross my arms, he might be a little kid but I’m still upset. I’ll try again tomorrow, maybe then no one will interrupt me.

“Shouldn’t you rest too. You can train after you’ve had a good night sleep.” He says as he puts a bookmark in the spot he ended.

“I’ve fallen behind enough, if I slack off I’ll only be getting weaker and weaker everyday. Next thing you know Konohamaru will be passing me. I want to become a chunin as soon as possible. Its been my dream to become a jounin. I grew up thinking it will never be possible, but I have the chance now and I won’t let it go by.”

He laughs, and I felt self conscious of my dream, was it really that unrealistic. Kakashi is a jounin after all, I could do it if I put enough time into it.

“I’m sorry. Its not you I’m laughing at, it just that you and Naruto are so much alike its funny. I thought I would have a peaceful time, but you showed up and brought new adventure to my life. You want to become a jounin and we’ll get you there, Naruto wants to become Hokage and I believe he will get there too.” He gives me a smile of encouragement. I feel something new, I’ve never felt it before. Was this hope, pride, support? I don’t know how I feel about his words.

“I’m going to go back to the apartment and shower. Do you need anything?” I ask.

“I need fresh cloths. Just look around in my room.” He says confidently. I nod and roll my neck, it was getting stiff. My body did feel tired as I walked to the apartment.

“Kiyoko!” I hear Eri say from behind me. I mentally groan, I was happy we’ve put our past behind us, but I wanted to get home. Take a long hot shower, oh yea that sounded so great right now.

“Hey I’m glad I ran into you. Where are you heading?”

“Home.” I say and keep walking, she smiles as she walks besides me.

“Mind if I accompany you. Since my husband just left on a mission I have a lot of time on my hand. I’d love to catch up.” I never realized she was this energetic.
“I was going home to take a shower actually.”

“I don’t mind, I’ll wait for you.” And I don’t remember her being this pushy. I give in, and let her come into the apartment, she takes a seat in the living room as I take a quick shower. So much for a long hot shower. I quickly wash myself and change before looking for a bag to put Kakashi’s cloths in. His room is the same, it looked like it never changed. I go over to his dresser, and open the first door, his underwear drawer. I close it in embarrassment, and look behind me to see if anyone saw me. He said he need fresh clothes, does he need underwear too? Of course he does, its not like I’m snooping around. I open it again and pick the top one, and open the next drawer. I grab a clean shirt and pants, on the side are some masks. I have no idea what lays under his mask but I grab a clean one anyways. I fold them nicely in the bag.

Eri was browsing the books in the living room. Humming to an unfamiliar toon.

“I have something to drop off at the hospital, want to come?” I ask. Kakashi did say he’s never met her, well now he can. She nods and jumps into step beside me. Eri’s orange hair sways in the breeze, and my own hair gets into my eyes.

“So you’re going to be a mother. How does that feel?” I ask. I’m curious.

“I’m excited. The thought that I’m going to be a mother is scary, but honestly I don’t feel any different. Not now anyways. Maybe when I get bigger I will, but at this moment I am so content with the way my life is going.”

“When did you marry?”

“About ten months ago. I met Rokuro about five years ago, we started dating four years ago. Look at me I’m rambling on and on. What about you? What have you been doing all these years?” Eri looks down at me, her height made me feel smaller. My story isn’t so happy and sappy like her’s. I don’t feel like we’re close enough to share that information. Its hard to talk about my life on the run.

“I went traveling.” I say shortly. Eri takes a hint and keeps quiet for the rest of the trip. She doesn’t even question who we are visiting as we make our way to Kakashi’s room. I really hope Kakashi doesn’t mind her coming with me. I knock and slide the door open.

“Hope you don’t mind but I bumped into someone and she insisted to follow.” I leave his clothes next to his bed, he doesn’t say anything as Eri enters the room. She politely smiles.

“Hello I’m Eri. Kiyoko’s childhood friend.” I sit on a chair, and see Kakashi turn to me and raise his eyebrows in question, yup that’s her I nod slightly.

“Kakashi. Please take a seat, sorry for my current shape.” He sits up on his bed. I feel his serious demeanor switch on. Eri is too dense to notice, was he going to throw endless questions at her? She’ll probably answer them, and keep talking and talking. In the short reunion we had I’ve noticed she is a chatty person.

“So how did you two meet?”Kakashi starts with one of the most horrible questions you can ask. I open my mouth to reply, but she beat me to it.

“I tried to kill her.” Eri says confidently. I gulp, and stare at her. Why on earth would she say that? I give her props for being honest but I don’t think the idea of moving on brings back things that passed in the past. Kakashi shifts uncomfortably, not knowing what to say next. Well neither do I, remember not good with these awkward situations. I fiddle with my fingers instead waiting for who ever spoke next.

“I’ll be honest, I absolutely hated her, not because of her but the way I’ve been raised. My parents told me she was a danger to our village, that it would be better off if she would go away. I didn’t know I was doing something wrong. I tried to lock her in a well, thinking no one was going to save her because everyone felt the same way towards her.” She says quietly, full of shame.

Eri doesn’t know how to hold back does she. “I realize now, how cruel I was. How cruel everyone was, yet no one knows the entire truth behind the reason. My parents never told me what made everyone hate her. It looks like Kiyoko doesn’t know either.” Eri stares at me with her brown eyes concentrated on my expression. I was shocked she didn’t have a filter, the truth hurts. I already knew the entire village hates me, but it still like getting slapped across the face. I thought over the years the pain would fade away, but it only seemed to get stronger.

“Everyone was too full of hatred or fear to care, and the townspeople eventually started to ignore her existence. We didn’t realize she fled the village weeks after. “

Glad to know people still don’t care.

“I need to get some fresh air. You guys can keep talking about how shitty my life has been so far.” I say boldly, as I slide my chair away, and hear it fall as I slide the door harshly. I wasn’t going to stay in there, they were talking about me like I wasn’t even there. I just wanted to throw Eri across the room, but then I remembered she is pregnant. I was boiling, its been a while since I’ve felt like this. I can’t remember the last time I’ve felt this angry. My fingers itched for something to strangle. The beast in me felt present in the back of my mind.

I walk quickly for the training field, I need to let out some steam without hurting others. There were too many people around.

“What’s wrong little Kiyoko?” The beast laughs, I shove him back to the deep end of my head. Not in the mood. He stays there and doesn’t come back to the surface again. The logs were marked with my shurikens, but I stood where I stood last time. I throw with no concentration, just anger.

“Who does she think she is, telling him that!” I yell as I throw a kunai. It goes through the log. I scream in frustration, I didn’t know I had so much anger store in me. I reach for me more shurikens and notice I’ve run out. I charge at the log and just throw punches. Letting all of it go with every contact I make.

“Just let me go.” I whisper to my past. Let me go. Tears blind me, but I don’t stop. I don’t even stop when I see blood stain the wood log. I don’t even stop when I notice I can’t feel my arms anymore. I don’t want to stop. If I stop then I’ll have the time to think about things, things that I want to forget.

“You’ll hurt yourself further if you keep beating it.” I hear a voice say. I stop and focus on his voice. Kakashi looked like he just got out of bed, maybe he did. He was leaning on a tree on my far right, cautiously getting closer.

“I heal quickly,” I tell him. He shakes his head and slowly walks closer. He shouldn’t be out of bed yet, it's clear he isn’t fully healed yet. I can tell just by looking at him, his body still didn’t have that bounce to it. His shoulders sagged as if they were too heavy to carry.

“Don’t push your body’s limit.” He warns. I roll my eyes.

“You shouldn’t either.”

“Lets go back. We’ll talk at home.” Kakashi waits for me to lead the way back. The walk was short and quiet. My knuckle wounds were healing but the blood still dripped as I opened the door. I cup my hand to try to keep the blood from spilling everywhere, but that didn’t work so well. I ended up making a bigger mess. No worries it’ll wash out.

The cold water feels nice on my warm hands. It was cooling the rest of anger I had in me. My kickles feel soft from the new skin that closed the wounds. The water slowly became clear from my blood, and anger became into fatigue. It was then when I noticed the soreness in my arms. My body felt like it was going to fall apart.

“You know Eri feels sorry about saying those things.” Kakashi walks to the living room, suggesting I follow him. He closes his eyes and leans his head back. Has he fallen asleep?

“It was wrong of her for saying those things. I get it,” He says with his eyes still closed. I clean the blood from the floor. The pinkness of my knuckles slowly disappearing with every second that past.

“Try to get some rest. We’ll begin training again in a few days once I’m back to normal.” Kakashi makes his way to his bedroom leaving me with my thoughts. I was sitting on the ground, and the only noise was the buzz of the lightbulb in the room. What happened to Eri over the years? She was so quiet and polite when we were kids and now she was big mouthed and energized. This change of character surprised me, was she really done teasing me like she said she was? I want to ask her, but she must be home now. I couldn’t sleep with so many questions in mind, but my body didn’t want to move from its spot on the floor. I sigh, these past days it seems like my body is always sore. I shake my head and pull myself up from the comfortable ground, and put on my shoes. I lock the door behind me and step onto the dark streets. If I want a stronger body then I have to work for it.

No more running from awkward situations, no more weakness. First off my endurance, I need to build it up, so against my brain’s signal to rest I begin to jog around the town. Starting off slow, I made my way around the dark town a couple times, before my knees collapse on me.

“No way, you’re not resting yet. Not until I see the sun rise,” I think to myself. The adults from the Moon Village always prevented me from training further, they said I couldn’t do it. That’s the more of a reason to prove them wrong. I will not let them hold it against me, I will not let them win. I will train harder than everyone else, I will become the strongest ninja from the Moon Village.

The next thing I practice is dodging. There wasn’t anyone or anything thrown at me so I practiced by dodging tree branches that came onto my path. I wouldn’t fall if I used chakra every time I took a step. With chakra on base of my feet I’ll be able to use it as a little platform to get momentum. That’s where speed comes into play. Every time my body wanted to give up on me I reminded myself of my father’s face. That was all I needed. I never saw him smile. All I remember is his scowl, and a strange look in his eye. I don’t know what emotion he had inside him because he wouldn’t talk to me often. I can’t remember the sound of his voice very well either.

I was more of a stranger to him than a daughter.
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