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The Ten Tails by lovinganimetoomuch27

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Chapter notes: Here is a long chapter since the last ones have been short.. Enjoy reading, things are going to get very interesting in a chapter or two. Thanks for sticking with me for this long.
“What do you think you were doing?” Lady Tsunade storms in, anger written all over her face. I slip back into bed. I can tell she has been stressed, all about this whole situation, making me feel bad about putting worry on her.

“I’m sorry Lady Tsunade,”

“Sorry? Do you know what you did? You left the village without permission. You jeopardize an ANBU mission. Then you let yourself be captured by the enemy. We were lucky they didn’t extract the beast from your body. Your lucky they rescued you in time,” She scolds at me. Her eyes are hard and serious. It was hard to look back at her.

“Look I know I have caused a lot of trouble, but I couldn’t simply turn the other cheek. I couldn’t let you send them in blind like a bat. That is my values, I can’t let others fight my battles. I had vital information that could have helped the mission, but you didn’t consult with me,” I respond. I really hope I wasn’t being rude. She sighs and rubs her eyes.

“You received a lot of severe damage to your muscle. But the seal looks intact. I’m going to have to keep you in here until you are completely healed. Even then I will have restrictions on you, until I know you are not conspiring with the Moon. I have my rights to be suspicious,”

“Do you really believe all of this is some kind of plan to take down the Leaf? I hate my father. I don’t ever want to be affiliated with the Moon. I can understand the position you are in Lady Tsunade. I do, but remember that I promised to treat the Village like I am from here. I promised to protect it, and all who live here. I tend to keep that promise. I kept my mouth shut, I never said a word about anything, nor could they read my mind. Their best sensory ninja couldn’t get through the wall my beast acts like. I promise you they know nothing about the Leaf.” I tell her. I promised, and I will always keep my promises. There is a knock on the door, Kakashi slides the door open. His face is serious as he sees Lady Tsunade standing in front of me. He tries to hide the bag of food he brought.

“Come in Kakashi. We were just about to begin discussing the intel she had on the Moon,” Lady Tsunade goes over to close my window. Kakashi leaves the bag under my table side. He stands in her presence.

“By the information you managed to bring back, it looks like they are tracking the Akatsuki and Orochimaru. Why are they tracking them?”

“They are after the Sharingan. He knows Itachi is with the Akatsuki, and Sasuke is with Orochimaru. They even know Kakashi holds one. They want to control the beast I host. My father wants ‘peace’ , he intends to manipulate Sasuke’s revenge for his advantage. He said Sasuke is the key to peace, and I am peace. I don’t know what he plans on doing. Not only did he say that but he knows about Minato Namikaze. He asked me if I knew about Kushina Uzumaki,”

Kakashi clenches his fist “How does he know about them?” He says to himself.

“What else did he ask?” Lady Tsunade had forgotten all about her anger towards me. I try to remember the names but only come up with a few more.

“He asked if I knew about Madara Uchiha, Hashirama Senju, and the Sage of Six Paths.”

“So he knows about that legend as well. Who is he to know about these founders of the Leaf. How does he know so much about us?” Lady Tsunade asks, but I don’t answer. She knew I didn’t know.

“Who is the Sage of Six Paths?” I ask.

“He is a godlike shinobi, who was the first human to wield chakra. Of course we don’t believe everything about him is real. Its said that his eyes were Rinnegan. He could control death and life. And countless of other jutsus that seem inhuman. Its just a legend, nothing more,” Lady Tsunade says. She looks out over the town. I noticed that she does it often when she is thinking. Why would my father think I know about a godlike shinobi? If he could really control like and death, then he must be a myth. No ninja could do that. You died, and you stayed dead, you lived until you died. It was the way everyone left this world one way of another. I will eventually die too, no one can live forever.

“Not only are we racing against time to get Sasuke from Orochimaru, but the Akatsuki is planning something big, it’ll be about three years until they are ready to attack. Now we have to race against the Moon for Sasuke. Three years to get powerful enough to fight back, we all need to be ready for the unexpected.” Lady Tsunade looks over my chart one more time. Writing down a few things, before she leaves. He face was set on a frown, like she was thinking of something to much. I finally smell my breakfast, my stomach roars, and my bladder issues are forgotten. Kakashi grabs the bag and hands me the containers.

“Eri made them yesterday, she’s been coming every day. I’m sure she’ll be here in a bit, eat slowly or you’ll get sick,” Kakashi hands me the sealed cup of tea. It smelled fruity and I knew Eri brewed the tea too. She loved to use honey. They are warm, at least Kakashi knows how to reheat food. The dumplings are sweet, I savor the taste. It felt like forever since that last time I ate. I offer Kakashi some, but he refuses. The food hits my empty stomach, I feel a lot stronger.

“Who is Kushina Uzumaki? Isn’t that Naruto’s last name? Are they related?” I ask with a mouth full of bean paste. Kakashi looks at the Stone Faces outside, then back at me.

“Not many know who she really is. Of course the town knew who she was, but they don’t know she is Naruto’s mother. She was the previous nine tail jinchuuriki. Naruto doesn’t even know who his parents are. Its better to keep it from him, if he knew then the burden may be too much for him. When he is stronger then he’ll know. His parents were very powerful shinobi, so naturally they had many enemies. If they knew Naruto was their son then Naruto would be in danger. Their dying wish was to protect Naruto, and so far we’ve succeeded, but its been difficult considering Naruto likes to jump into dangerous situations.” He says in a very quiet voice. Another secret that was kept hidden. She died because of the beast, but now Naruto is her inheritor. He is the jinchuuriki now, no wonder they share the last name. It was odd he took his mother’s name instead of his father’s.

“Who was his father?” I ask in an even quieter voice. Kakashi sighs “you really do ask difficult questions.”

He continues, “Minato Namikaze.”

I nearly choke on my food. That was a mind teaser.

“So you’re telling me Minato, your sensei, was married to Kushina Uzumaki, and they had a son, and that son is Naruto. And on the day he was born, they died saving the village from the nine tails’ rampage. Then the Fourth Hokage, Minato, sealed the Nine tail inside Naruto and thats why he has always had a rough time with the villagers.” I say in confusion. What was all of this. “And Naruto knows nothing about this?”

Kakashi nods. Another knock interrupts our conversation. A very irritated Eri enters the room. Everytime I see her she looks bigger. She was finally looking pregnant, I can finally picture the little life that is growing inside. Eventually I will meet this little life, and I’ll be their godmother.

“Kiyoko! Why would you be so stupid to go back there! Do you know how it felt to be asked if I knew where you were? I had to stay here, because I can’t go out and fight anymore! I was so worried,” Eri scolds me, but then she starts to cry. She hugs me for dear life, this time I am the shoulder who is being cried on. Her round belly pokes my flat one. Kakashi simply smiles. Looks like I am thought about. I hug her back “I’m so glad you are safe,” she whispers. She pulls away and wipes her tears away.

“I bet the village hasn’t changed at all,” she guesses. I nod, “It just like I remembered.”

“How are you?” I change the subject. I didn’t want to talk about the incident.

“Other than the fact that I am always hungry, and my feet ache all the time. Not to mention the morning sickness, and back pain, I’m doing just fine. In a couple of weeks, I’ll be able to find out the sex of the baby. I’m hoping its girl, but my husband wants a boy. What do you think it’ll be?” She asks me.

“I think it’ll be a girl.” I say with a smile. She would be the cutest girl ever, and maybe I’ll be able to be a better godmother if it was a girl rather than a boy. Eri asks Kakashi.

“I don’t know. It could be a boy or a girl. I would want a boy first,” Kakashi says. Eri sticks her tongue at him like a little girl. She wants everyone else to agree with her, but she can’t always get her way. She leans back in her chair, a hand over her growing stomach. She dives into a conversation of the pros and cons of having a boy. Then she talks about all the things she would do if it was a girl. She would shop for her as an infant. Eri would buy lots and lots of dresses, cute little shoes, and hair ties. She talked about all of the mother daughter bonding days she would take with her. She didn’t say any down part to having a girl first. But then she talked about having a baby boy. How her husband would be so happy to have him. She would watch them play in the park, she would take him to school everyday. She would tease him in front of his friends, make him lunch.

“Either way I’ll love them,” She says. I no longer feel so jealous, just happy for her. Maybe sometime in the future I can feel the love of being a mother. After everything is resolved and its safe to bring someone into the world, only then would I want kids. Now, that would only be unfair for the child. I’m not ready to be a mother at the moment, maybe being a godmother will help me with learning the ways of being a mom. I feel my bladder again, I really had to go to the bathroom.

“I really need to go to the bathroom,” I say as I get sit up. Kakashi and Eri both stand to help.

“I’ll help her Kakashi,” Eri says, as she grabs hold of my waist, I move my arm around her neck.

“You’ve lost so much weight Kiyoko,” Eri says besides me. She tries to keep most of my weight, but I can’t have that much strain on her body. She’s pregnant. I take a step forward, my knees buckle under me. I begin to fall, but Eri keeps me standing. Its harder to move, I didn’t expect to walk out of bed like nothing ever happened to me, but I didn’t know the electricity had taken this much out of me. I do feel weak, its from all of the weight I’ve lost. Eri and I struggle to get to the bathroom, I nearly fall multiple times. Eri pulls me up without effort every time. Kakashi opens the door for us, thank god its big enough for both of us, Kakashi closes the door behind us. Eri sets me on the toilet, before she turns around.

The walk to the bathroom has left me breathless, all of that training, all of that hard work to get into shape, it has all been thrown away. Eri waits until I finish.

“Do you want to take a bath? I can help you with that too. I don’t mind at all,” Eri says as she nods toward the tub near by. I feel my face redden, I did want her to help me, I must stink from all of the sweat, tears and blood. I was just embarrassed.

“Its not like I haven’t seen it before. We’re both females, remember. Now if you were a guy, that would be a different story,” Eri encourages me. I nod in agreement. Eri prepares the water for me as I undress myself the best I could. I felt like a baby, I was getting everything done for me. I’m just happy I can eat on my own. Eri helps me stand, before she unties the rob in back, she helps me sit inside the warm water.

“I’m going to go get clean clothes, be back in a bit,” She says. She shuts the door behind her. It feels so nice to be soaking in warm water. My hair still felt brittle, but the water was softening it. I look at my hands, both Lady Tsunade and Eri said I have lost weight, and now that I look at my fingers they do look thinner. Now that I can see my naked body, I can see all of the tiny scars clearly, the water magnified all of the little details. The scar on my hand looked bigger than before. I’m glad there aren’t mirrors in the hospital bathrooms, I don’t think I’ll be able to look at my reflection, not like this. Eri enter again, her arms full of towels, clean clothes, soap and shampoo. She sets them on the rim, before she stands before me. She washes my hair first.

“You can tell me anything you know. You and I are from that village, so I’ll be able to understand just a bit of what you feel, not much, but I’ll try.” She scrubs my scalp.

“I just want to pretend it never happened,” I tell her. Eri pours water to wash the shampoo away.

“Pretending to forget and forgetting are two completely different things,” She says. She begins to scrub my arms. Her eyes scan the scars lining my skin. I see her swallow her tears.

“What was the scariest part of being there again?” She asks quietly. Eri was trying to be strong and not cry again. I turn away, I didn’t want anyone to cry anymore, I didn’t want to cause pain to anyone.

“Not knowing how much time passed by, that was scary, but the scariest thing is believing I still belonged to my father,” I tell her.

“When I have this child, and I raise him. I’ll be a ninja again, and I’ll kill that bastard,” Eri hands my hand, her eyes are hard. She means it every bit of it. I squeeze her hand the best I could.

“No, I don’t want that. It’ll be okay,” I say. I don’t want to put that burden on her. She has a family to keep together, and I am not part of it. I am a friend, family must always come first. That child comes before me.

“Will it really? Kiyoko all of your life you have been dealing with this on your own. Do you think he’ll stop now? Just because you escaped once, doesn’t mean you will if he captured you again,” Eri lifts my leg from the water and begins to wash it to.

“I can’t stay in the village forever Eri. I have to get stronger so if they do come for me again, they won’t be able to capture me. I won’t let myself be used,” I reclaim. Eri stays quiet for the rest of the bath. She helps me out, and wraps the towel around me, I lean on the wall as I put on my clothes, Eri helps me with brushing my hair.

“I just don’t want anything to happen to you,” Eri glides the comb through my hair. It feels silky.

“Nothing will happen,” I end the conversation. Eri helps me out, we must have been in the bathroom for sometime because more visitors have arrived. Sai, Sakura, Hinata, Kiba, Akamaru, Ino, Tenten, Guy, and even Kurenai were crowded in my room. Kakashi helps me for the rest of the way to bed, while Eri cleans up the mess we’ve made in the bathroom. All of them have smiles of relief on their faces, though Hinata still looks a bit worried.

“Glad to know you’re beginning to get on your feet, but you mustn't push yourself,” Hinata speaks. Ino gives me a bouquet of yellow lilies. They brightened the room, the curtains were open letting the afternoon sunshine. Kakashi brings the covers over my body, and takes the bouquet. He puts them in a vase that I didn’t seem to notice before on the window sill. Eri comes out of the room, looking flushed from the heat of the hot water. She sits down, fanning herself. We don’t talk very much, there isn’t very much to say either. They know what happened to a certain extent, but they don’t want to talk about it. I’m glad they don’t push either.

“So Kiyoko how does it feel to be a chunin now? Does it feel more empowering?” Ino asks me. I speak to reply, but Sakura butts in.

“No you dummy, it’s just more work, but you wouldn’t know about being a chunin, now would you.” Sakura smirks at Ino. In reply Ino rolls her eyes. I was sure they were friends, but now that I look at them closely, they did have a rivalry going. Was friendship all about rivalry? Naruto and Sasuke, Sakura and Ino, and there is Kiba and Naruto. Not to mention there is Guy and Kakashi’s rivalry going on to. Should I have a rival too? Maybe Eri is my rival, I sneak a peek at her, she was still fanning herself. No, she’s not my rival not in the way everyone’s is. I think the only competition would be cooking. I’m obviously the better cook.

“So do you know when you’re being released from the hospital? I’m thinking a celebratory dinner the night you get discharged,” Guy comments. Tenten grunts and smacks him in the back of the head.

“Don’t hit on her, it is disturbing,” Tenten looks a little irritated. I laugh a bit, it feels funny, its been a while since I’ve laughed isn’t it. Everyone in the room laughs at the pain Guy feels. Its funny how just a little comment and action can change the rooms’ mood. Kurenai leaves first, something about watering her plants. Sai leaves soon after, but promises to come back around dinner time. Guy and Tenten leave, their team has a mission tomorrow morning. Ino and Sakura leave, arguing about something. Kiba and Hinata stay just a few more minutes before they have training to do.

“I have to get home and make dinner, I’ll stop by tomorrow,” Eri leaves once she has cooled down. Kakashi lets out a sigh, he looked as tired as he sounded. I wonder if he’s gone home at all.

“I’m going to go get dinner. I’ll be back,” Kakashi leaves the window open for me. The weather hasn’t improved. The sun was still shining, but it was still cold. The wind is strong, but I like the feeling of it against my face. I’ve always liked the feeling of wind blowing, I loved how it felt as it ripped through my hair. The wind knocks down my vase, sending glass and water everywhere. The lilies scatter, a few drift outside and fall to the ground. By instinct I go to pick it up, but find myself too tired to move. To tired to do anything. I feel so useless, like a ragdoll that’s been thrown away. I hate feeling like a child. I just stare at the puddle of water, I scoot to the side of my bed, getting closer to the water. I wonder if it still feels like second nature to form my jutsus. I reach out to the water, and notice my chakra levels aren’t strong like they used to be. Its harder to visualize my chakra now than before. I worked so hard to achieve mastery of my jutsus, but he took it away. I think about forming a whip, the water begins to rise to palm, but it falls to the ground again.

I lean my weight too far, and I fall to the ground. I don’t land on any glass, but my leg is wet from the water. I can feel the water, but I can’t use it. And its all his fault! I feel so angry, I just wanted to repay him for what he’s done to me. I’m so angry, but I’m so afraid of facing him again. The door opens after some time, I see Kakashi’s feet walk quickly to the side of the bed. He sets dinner on the chair, before he helps me to bed. It was then that I notice I’m crying again. I’ve been crying too much lately, so I hold in my tears, and put a brave face on. He shouldn’t worry about me like a mother worries for her child.

“Don’t hold it back,” Kakashi whispers as he cleans up the shattered glass. But I don’t cry anymore, instead I grab my pillow and punch it. I hit it over and over, but it barely leaves an indent.

“Its all his fault! I worked so hard to improve myself, and he takes it all away! Its not fair, its not fair!” I scream immediately feeling better. Kakashi throws away the glass, I look at the pillow before me. I was too weak to make much of a difference, he’s taken my strength away. I hate him more than ever, he didn’t have the right to do this to me. I have the right to live my life, I put time and effort into training myself. I felt so angry I could throw up.

Kakashi takes out two bowls of ramen, they were still steamy. He gives me my chopsticks, I know I have enough strength to break them apart. I did, but I was tired afterwards. It eat my dinner in silence, I was still a little angry, but I can’t do anything about it now. What is done is done, now I have to work again to get back to where I was before. I’m just going to have to work ten times as hard. After dinner, Kakashi brings out that Shoji to keep me busy.

“You better try to win this time, I’m getting tired of winning,” He says with a smile on his face as he puts the pieces on the board.

“I always try to win, maybe you should try losing. Its fun to lose sometimes you know,”

“I bet it is,”
We end up playing for four hours this time, much longer than the last we played. But at the end of the day Kakashi captures my king, and I lose, again. I see Kakashi trying to hide the smile beneath his mask, but I knew he was smiling at me. He is the winner again. It was getting closer to sunset, it was then that Sai enters the room. He had an easel in his hand, and a bag in another.

“Sai,” I say as he sets up in front of the window. “What are you doing here so late?” I asked. By now he should have had some down time, instead he is here.

“I read in a book that to cheer a friend up it would be considerate to make them something bright,” Sai says without looking at me, he gets his paintbrushes out and his paints. He begins to dip the brush in paint. Strokes revealed the picture, he was painting the setting sun, he was doing it for me. Kakashi cleans the board game, as I watch Sai paint from the comfort of my bed. Watching him stroke the brush to his liking, made me tired. My body relaxed as Sai worked on the painting. I fell asleep as Sai painted me a piece of paradise.

I dream tonight, but I am not in Sai’s paradise. Instead I am in the Moon Village again. But all of the Leaf villagers were there instead. Everyone, even the old man who greeted me everyday was there. I don’t know how they all got here, but they did. They walked and talked to each other like their were home. Kakashi is talking to Guy. I turn in a circle, watching for any movement of the enemy. but there aren’t any. I can’t sense any enemy chakra, but I can sense my father. And if my father is here, then I have to warm Kakashi. He’s after the Sharingan after all. I run toward him, but when I call his name he doesn’t respond. He keeps talking to Guy like nothing happened.

I can’t clearly tell what he is saying, everything is white noise, its just a blob. I wave my hand in front of him, and then Guy, but they don’t move. Its like I am invisible, like they can’t see me. I try to grab his arm, but my hand goes right through him. I don’t exist. I feel my stomach drop, I. Don’t. Exist.

I feel the tears begin to form as Sakura and Hinata walk closer to their senseis. Both greet them, and never glance my way, they can’t see me either. No one can see me because I don’t exist. From a far I see Lady Tsunade walk out from a bar, Shizune is running after her, its like a normal day in the Leaf, but its in the Moon. This is how their lives would have been if I have not shown up, they wouldn’t have gone to the trouble of rescuing me. They wouldn’t have another burden to carry. Tomoko soars above us all, and my father walks in her shadow. Tomoko screams something, but its lost in the white noise. Her facial expression is full of worry, she was trying to warm me. My father was walking towards me, his legs moved, but the space between us did not change. He can’t get to me, so why is Tomoko so worried? She screams her battle dry one more time, but no one wakes from their dream, no one takes notice of my existence.

I wake up with Tomoko’s cry ringing in my ear. Kakashi is standing above me, his hands are on my shoulder. He must have shaken me from my dream. I feel his hand, he knows I am real. I know he is real, and that helps me calm down a bit. I sit up to look out the window, it is dark but I can see the Hokage’s faces, I was home. We were all home, and my father is thousands of miles away, he can’t reach me. Kakashi brushes my hair away from my face, his touch calms me. Just knowing that he sees me dismisses the dream. It was only a dream.

“Im okay,” I whisper to myself, and to Kakashi. He must have stayed again, he should get some rest, but I am glad that he was here to wake me up. Sweat rolls down my back making me shiver. Sai’s finished painting is resting against the window, it looks just like the scenery in front of me but hours earlier. He painted the faces of the Hokage, and the trees. He painted the colors of the sunset, and the buildings. He painted the people in the streets. Sai even painted a white owl flying over a tree.
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