NARUTO: The Demons Within Us

[Akai]

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Sora, a very special ninja, has a secret to hide. Being hunted by the Akatsuki, she has to run and lie to get herself safe. She comes across the Hidden Leaf Village and meets everyone's favorite knuckle-headed ninja. Want secret could she be hiding? Will anyone help her? Will the evil that's after her win?

Sora, on her neverending journey, travels to a new village. She had no idea where she was, since she was mostly chased there. She pulled her scarf up over her face, to hid it and walked off. She passed a waterfall, where Jiraiya mostly stayed and did his 'research'. After stopping for a quick drink, she saw a village and happily hurried to it for her own protection. She scaled the wall and dropped to the ground, rushing to a crowd, trying to blend in.

A blonde headed kid with blue eyes and whiskers dressed in an orange jump suit walks around Konoha after stuffing himself with ramen at Ikatatchi Ramen for the fifth time this week and it being only Tursday. "Man, that was the best ramen yet I xan't wait until dinner so I can go get more...hey what's that crowd standing arond there for?" He sees a crowd and wanders over wondering what all of the commotion is about. He asks a girl in a red scarf he spots. "Hey what's going on? Why's everyone standing around here?"

She gasps a little, pulling the scarf over her face, "I, um... don't know." She quickly moved away. 'Annoying little kid...' She grumbled to herself.

"Huh? What's her problem? Hey Kakashi-sensei! What's all of the hub-bub over?"

Kakashi was also in the crowd and wasn't that hard to miss. He says "Oh, Naruto you didn't hear? The Hokage is giving a speech and invited everyone to come. "

"Oh so Grandma Tsunade's making a speech huh? I'm not really interested in hearing hr talk for an hour and boring me out of my mind."

"You know it isn't often the Hokage makes...wait...Naruto I want you to follow that girl around. I've never seen her before."

"If you want to go out with her just ask her I'm not..."

"No. Follow her to make sure she isn't a Sound Village spy."

"Oh okay why didn't you just say so." Naruto walks back over to the girl and acts concpiuously like he's not doing anything by whistling and overacting.

More people were gathering and Sora got nervous. She jumped to a building top and ran off, trying to find a secluded spot so she could rest. From the high perch, she saw the orange jumpsuited kid and ran off. 'Did he recognize me? I doubt it. Just another stupid kid staring at my chest again...' Her eyes narrowed, as her head moved left to right and back, trying to find the perfect hiding spot.

Naruto sees the girl leap to a buildtop and he immediately follows her being stealful so as not to be seen by her.

Sora ran for a few minutes, before a wrong step sends her foot out from under her and to the ground. She hit the ground hard, "Ow.... stupid awnings." She gets back up, rubbing her butt.

Naruto leaps down without really thinking and says "Hey are you okay? That was a pretty bad fall you took there."

"I-I'm fine." She pulls her scarf up and looks off. "Thank you. You can go now."

"Hey want some ramen? I'll buy." He says jsut trying to be nice pretty sure she isn't from the Sound Village by now.

"Ramen?" She puts a hand over her stomach. "I guess... I am a little hungry."

"Alright then follow me I know the perfect place right in town." He leaps on top of a buoilding and heads East towards Ikatachi.

She followed, staying close behind him, looking around to see if anyone else was following. "My name is Itsuwari. People just call me Wari for short."

"Nice to meet you. I'm Naruto Uzumaki the future Hokage of Konoha!" He grins stupidly.

"Oh?" She smiled a little. "That's a good goal to set for. Are we close?"

"Yeah it's right there" He points to a small shop with an older an and a young girl manning it. "It has the best ramen in the world."

"I know." She started her huge lie. "I use to come here all the time. I remember when it first started. It was good then. I'm sure it only got better."

"Oh then you must know the old man. He's really good at rememebering people so I'm sure he'll recognize you."

"No, no. I grew up a lot. Not even my parents recognized me when I visited a few years ago. If this place got really popular, he'd have a little trouble."

"Have trouble with what?" Kakashi smiles, appearing next to them.

"Oh, hey, old man, this is Wari. She said she came here a long time ago do you recognize her?"

Kakashi examines her face very closly with a look that makes you feel like he's looking right through you.

Her heart skipped a beat. She didn't even feel Kakashi approach. She stared at him, looking away, pulling her scarf up, thinking hard. "He-he won't.... I don't even recognize him."

"Let's see...nope I've neevr seen her before in my life."

"Oh okay...hey three Miso pork ramen! I'm buying."

"Coming right up." The shopkeep nodded.

"So where did you say you were from again?"

"I'm from this village. It's been a while since I've been here. Everything's changed." She sat quietly, closing her eyes.

"I meant where have you been?" He says as he breaks apart a pair of chopsticks. "Oh hey Kaka..shi sensei...he left already."

She sighed with relief. 'Good. He suspected something. I need to go after I eat.' She broke her chopsticks. "This does look good... Are you certain you're paying?"

"Yeah see I've got plenty of money." He takes out a frog money purse that is almost breaking at the seems from all of the money in it.

She smirks, "Good. I'll feel bad if you didn't have enough." Within a few seconds, her bowl was empty. "May I have another?"

"...gah!" He was shocked Naruto not even halfway through his and he's used to being the first one done by far.

"Okay another bowl comign right up."

She sat quietly, fiddling with her chopsticks. "Naruto, who was that guy from before? Kakashoo, something?"

"Oh Kakashi Sensei." He says it like it's one word. "Yeah he's the jonin who trained me Sakura and Sasuke before we became full fledged genin ready for the chunin exams."

"I see. So you're still a genin. How sad." She recieved her other bowl and made that disappear too. With a sigh, she got up. "I'll only have to. No need to put you in the poor house."

"Hey wait I forgot to ask what brought you back to Konoha? Was it the news that the Third Hokage was killed?"

"...Killed? By who? No, I... I didn't hear about this." 'This is the wrong time to be here. I'm going to get caught for sure.' She broke into a sweat. "I need to go."

"H..hey where are you going so fast?"

"I need to go. Don't follow me." She jumped back fast, her headband popping out of her shirt and landing on the floor. The marking on it had several large scratches on it, making her land nearly impossible to dicypher. "Damn!" She picked it up quickly and ran off.

"Huh?...her headband had scratches over the symbol...that means! Hey come back here!" He follows her despite her insistance on him not to. "Hey I can help you!"

"Leave me alone! I don't need help." She ran faster, trying to lose him, but being in an unfamiliar place, she got herself more lost.

He finally catches up to her and hanging over a veranda from above right in front of her he says "Stop right there!!"

[Akai]

She stops, "You stop! Leave me alone!" She turns to leave another away, but seeing another Naruto, slowly realizing she was surrounded by his Shadow Clones.

"If you're headband got damaged Let's just get you a new one."

*anime fall* "What!?... Oh, no, it's okay. It's hard to replace the first headband you're given. It's like getting rid of a memory you love." She held herself and looked off.

"I'm sure they'll et you keep it... besides if you keep one like this people will think you're a rogue ninja or something."

'I am, you idiot.' "I guess..." She smiled. 'Good lord, this kid is stupid. This is almost fun.' "If you think they'll give me another one... Do you think I'll have to take a test for it?" She giggled.

"No idea I've never gotten a new one...hey I bet Kakashi sensei will know. He's been a shinobi like forever. I'm sure he's had to get a new one at least once. Let's go ask him."

'Dammit...' "Fine. Let's go." She sighed. "Thanks."

They find Kakashi standing atop a really tall building reading his book as usual. "Hey there he is."

She sees the book, 'Hmm... this could work.' She smirked, "Good. I want to make this fast."

"Hey Kakashi Sensei!!" Naruto yells out suddenly.

"Oh Naruto...and Wasabi was it?"

"Wari... (I think)." She wasn't so sure what she named herself this time. She walks to Kakashi, faking a trip, falling and exposing some of her breast to him, "Oh... I can't walk today." She blushed a little, "Maybe it's all your fault, Mr Sensei." She giggled.

"Hmm?...Do you like saki? maybe you've had a little too much. So umm what id you two need me for?"

"Wario here needs to replace her headband it got all scratched up. You know so people don't think she's a rogue ninja and stuff. We were wodnering if there was like a test or something you had to take to get one."

She glared at Kakashi. Yeah, she liked saki and gets tipsy on it, but she didn't have the time or the money to get wasted now. She sighed, getting up, a couple headbands falling out, both from different villages. "Oh, sh*t..." She froze.

Kakashi was fully aware of what she was trying to pull but he figured to place innocent in the whole thing. "Whoa looks like you have quite the collection of headbands from defeated shinobi. I personally try to forget my kill count."

She quickly picked them up, trying to calm herself, "Ye-yeah... I guess I need to find a better place for these." She turned her back to her, stuffing the headbands deeper in her robes.

"But as for your own headbamnd you can only get one It is a mark of honor and responsibility and so it is the responsibility of the shinobi to protect their own headband."

"Thought so. No problem." 'I got one from nearly all the villages I've been to... and I want one of these.' She turned around, "Sorry. I guess I've been careless." She laughed a little.

"And in a dddition to that the headbands of fallen ninja are buried with them...a shinobi in life and in death."

'I don't care, old man...' She looked at Naruto, smiling a little, hidden under her scarf. "I didn't know I was in for a lecturing."

"Oh by the way are you involved in a relationship right now?"

She turned to him, turning red, "Um... no. Why?"

"Would you care to go out with me?" He was holding her hands looking at her with his one uncovered eye.

'Ew...' "Aren't you a little too old for me? I'm sorry, but I'm only 20..."

"I'm only 26...why did Naruto tell you I was an old man or something?...My hair is silver not grey."

"Sorry, but I'm leaving soon. I don't have the time."

"Then stay awhile longer come on."

"Sorry. I really must go." She pulled away from him.

He sighs. "I'll never get a date." (Thousands of kakashi fangirl scream "me,me, ooh me!" but he just ignores them.) "Well I could pull some strings to possibly get my hands on another headband for you."

"That won't be necessary." She grabs Naruto's, ripping it off and jumping to the ground, running as fast as her ninja legs can take her.

"Hey that's my headband! Get back here you thief!" ::Naruto makes the handsigns and uses Shadow Clone jutsu. Ten clones appear in pufdfs of smoke and he follows in hot pursuit.:: "Give me back my headband!"

"Forget it! I need this, since this stupid village is too stingy on handing them out." She did her own Shadow Clones, splitting up.

Naruto is taken aback and the real one of him says "You know the shadow clone jutsu?!"

"Learned it from you, kid." She laughed; they all did.

"What do you mean?...all of who?"

"There's no fun in telling you." A few clones vanish. 'No!... It's still weak, even for this. Gotta get out of this village.'

Suddenly some ANBU Black Ops ninja appear and they start to pursue Wari.:: "Huh?...Why are there ANBU following us?"

She looked around, losing her focus. Her clones disappear. "No!" She panicked and dropped to the ground, running to the village wall as fast as she could.

The masked ANBU surround her and use some kind of a wierd cage ninjutsu.

She hits it, growling. "Let me out!" The cage tightens around her, paralyzing her.

"Not a chance. In Konoha we don't just let rogue ninjas wander into and through our village. Let's go, you're going to the Hokage....Bring Naruto too. He'll be a witness."

Naruto is shocked and says "Waaaht!? You mean you're a rogue ninja!!"

She sighed, closing her eyes. "You have no idea..."

[Akai]

They are lead into Tsunade's office. "Madam Hokage forgive the intrusion but we found a rogue ninja who stole a Leaf Village headband and was attemting to flee with it."

"It's no trouble let me see her more closely." They bring Wari closer to Tsunade. "Can't say I've ever met you before. So why have you come to Konoha? And why did you steal naruto's headband? Explain your case or I'll have you executed."

"Executed?...Hey don;t you think that's kind of harsh? I mean it's not like she..."

"Naruto be silent."

"Yeah, kid. Please shut up. You are a little annoying." She sighed, "I'm not saying a thing. Please kill me."

"Hey come on Grandma Tsunade you can't kill her...I mean yeah she lied, stole and tried to seduce Kakashi sensei but she didn't do anything that bad."

"If you won't cooperate by your own accord I'll just have to have the ANBU interrogate you. And their methods are more psysical than my own." Two of them punch their cuppsed palsm with their fists.

She looked at them. "..." She looked to Naruto, "I did not try to seduce him."

"Yeah you pretended to trip in front of him and everything. ...man I've been hanging out with Pervy Sage too long..."

"...do you not see the book he reads." Her eyes twitches.

"Regardless , you are still a rogue ninja within Konoha's borders and so as the hed ninja of this village I am allowed to pass judgement. I am willing to offer you mercy if you cooperate."

"I told you to kill me!"

"Nah...I'll just let you rot in jail for a few years."

"...Fine." She looked off, a little happy with her sentence.

"...and by jail I mean you have to do a few years worth of community service in about a month."

"That's bull! I'm not doing anything!"

"You don't really have a choice now do you?"

"...Heh. You're coming to all the wrong conclusions."

"Or maybe we'll just turn you over to the people who are chasing you down...and yes I know about that."

She broke into a sweat. "No, please! Anything but that."

"Then spill it...why are you here? And why do you collect headbands from ninja villages?"

She narrowed her eyes, laughing, "I thought you knew. It was just a bluff."

"I know who is chasing you not why."

"Who then? If you know, I will tell you everything."

"Orochimaru or more specifically several of his sound ninja."

"Heh. Not even close. I haven't even heard of this guy."

"The Akatsuki then"

"...Yes."

"I thought as much...what else would force a rogue ninja to be so desperate that they would hide in an established ninja village like Konokagure."

"I actually had no idea where I was, or how I even got here."

"I see...well in any casse why are they chadsing you? if there's any village that can protect you then it is the Hidden Leaf Village."

She sighed, "Since you did guess, I should tell you the entire story... My real name is Sora. I am from a now extinct Wind village in the land of Thunder. My clan has a rare ability called Kopigan. It gives us the ability to copy any jutsu we see, which is how I could copy your Shadow Clone so well... but the catch is every time we use it, we lose life. This ability, great enough to save our lives, can sometimes take it from us. Most of my village died because of that, and the ones who survived are hunted down. The Akatsuki wants to take our Kopigan and use it as a weapon... which could be so great, it could work, and they could do whatever they want."

"Oh so it's kind of like the Sharingan's ability to copy jutsu...but in this case you don't need to understand the jutsu but in turn you use up some of your life force to ue the kekki genkai. Well you are more than welcome to join the village...on the comndition that you cut allegiances with all other organizations and villages including you old clan and agree to disclose any information you know about the other villages and the Akatsuki. Oh yes and you'll have to start off as a genin."

"No. I want you to kill me."

"Sorry but I can't do that. I was bluffing about having you executed."

"Then let me go and I'll leave."

"Nah I still need to punish you for trespassing within Konoha without permission...I have some filing that needs doing and my assistant is sick so you'll have to do it."

"Screw that! I'm not doing anything. It's your own fault for making it so easy for me to get in. You should punish whoever was guarding it, not me."

"I don't feel like punishing the guards anymore today. I already have them cleaning out the basement and that's a job they'll be doing for about a month even with there being ten of them."

"...Naruto was right about you... Grandma." She smirked.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY!!!!? That's it time for some corperal punishment."Tsunade crasks her knuckles. "I needed an excuse to let off some steam."

She laughed, "Help! Before she breaks a hip!"

A flurry of fists come at Sora as Tsunade take sout her anger on her.

Naruto jumps on her but she kicks him off and says "Stay out of this! For the last time! Or I'll send you back to the academy!"

Sora gasps in pain, falling to the floor, getting injured too easily. "...I told you I was still weak." She coughed up blood. "Just go ahead and kill me."

"Put her under medical care and keep an eye on her. I'll do some more interrogations when she isn't so weak.

Sora faded out of conciousness, drifting into a deep, dreamless sleep.

[Akai]

In the hospital Naruto is peering over Sora's face looking really close to her. "..."

She groans, opening her eyes. "Can I help you?" She shifts a little, feeling straps around her to confine her to the bed with her hands cuffed to the bars on the bed so she couldn't do even the simplest jutsus.

"Ah so your finally awake. You've been out of it for a week."

"A week? Is that all? How long have I been tied up?"

"Pretty much the entire time."

"Can you untie me?"

"Nope these ropes have been sealed with chakra so I can't undo the knots."

"****... Why are you here anyway? Tell me they didn't assign some kid to watch over me."

"No I'm just bored."

"..." She grumbled, trying to turn over.

"Oh hey I bought this for you!" He hold out a plastic konoha ninja headband made for tourists. "I figured you might like it since you seem to like headbands so much."

She looked at him, "Aw... thanks, but I don't really care since I'm a prisoner now!"

"Help! The village is being attacked by pirates!!" Some guy with only two front teeth runs in and says "It's the end of the world! Pirates have invaded! AHHH!!!!"

"Pirates?......what's he talking about?...Wait here I'm going to go check it out."

"...Pirates?" She glared at Naruto, "Oh, funny... wait here... Like I could go anywhere."

Naruto heads out without a word.

The crazed old man makes a hand sign and in a puff of smoke Itachi Uchiha's red eyes peer into the captive Sora's eyes as he says "Found you."

She stared up at him, "...Help! Someone, help me!" She thrashes about.

"...they can't help you from the afterlife."

"Please. Don't hurt me." She looked around, hoping someone would come.

Naruto walks back in and says "Hey there weren't any...you again!! You're that guy who attacked me and Pervy Sage with that shark guy! What are you doing in the Hidden Leaf Village!?"

Itachi looks up at Naruto and says:: "I came for a new weapon. It was all too easy reaching it."

"You!" Naruto charges Itachi who before the human eye can see has his fist in Naruto's chest knlcing the wind out of him and smashing him against the far wall of the room.

"Now that, that annoyance is out of the way...you will be joining me back to the Akatsuki." He starts to cut the ropes that are binding her.

"I don't want to help you! Naruto, get up! Kakashi! Grandma! Someone!"

Five ANBU appear along with Kakashi. "I thought as much...Itachi Uchiha. You've returned to Konoha yet again. Release her she is a prisoner of the Hidden leaf Village."

"Not if I take her..." He finshes cutting the ropes that bind her.

She jumps up, slamming back down, forgetting the cuffs, "Dammit." She grunted, getting to her knees.

"You aren't escapig me...not this time." Itachi dodges the same cage jutsu that bound Sora before and slays an Anbu with a shiriken whle dodgeing. "Flies...how vexing."

She struggles, "Don't just stand there! Help me!"

Naruto comes to and sees what's happening. While Itachi and the ANBU are too busy fighting one another Naruto undoes the handcuffs for Sora using a skeleton key. "There now go while I distract them." He whispers to her. "Multi Shadow clone Jutsu!" The room starts to fill up with Narutos.

She nods, getting up and jumping out the window. She slids down the roof and lands on the ground, running to get far away.

"Not so fast...you are still a prisoner of Konoha rememeber?" Kakashi was wating in front of the hospital for her despite the fact that there was one with the ANBU.

She didn't care. She kept running until her legs felt like Jell-o and she went down. The week she was down was bad, letting her enemies hone in on her and feeling weak from the days of doing nothing.

"I...can't move...this boy...shall die once I am free." Itachi stuggles bu is pinned by the sheer mass and volume of the Naruto clones.

The real Naruto follows after her and yells "Hey Sora wait for me!" He yells passing by Kakashi without so much as looking back at him.

Sora looks back at him, stopping, "Naruto... I can't run anymore. My legs are locking up."

"Here lean on my shoulder and I'll help you walk...you shouldn't have tried running so soon after getting up. Being bed ridden for a week there's no way your body could adjust that fast."

"Sorry. It was either run for my life, or have that Akatsuki guy take it." She leaned on him. "I need to get to a safer place. Please."

"Okay come on I'll take you to Grandma Tsunade she'll be able to help you....she's the best medical ninja in the whole village."

"Do it fast." She put a hand on her leg, wincing in pain. "I want to give her methods a piece of my mind."

[Akai]

Naruto picks her and rusn as fast as he can to the Hokage's place and bursts in. "Grandma Tsunade!! Hey Grandma Tsunade!! I need your help."

Tsunade walks in and says "Ahh Naruto you...are dead!!. She gets up and smashes him in the face. "You freed the rogue ninja prisoner! What is the meaning of this!?"

She looked up at her, "For a leader, you are clueless..."

"Silence you! You're still a prisoner so remember your manners!"

"Itachi...came in and attacked her...He was trying to take her away."

"Itachi Uchiha...here in Konoha!? What about the ANBU I stationed to guard her?"

"What about them? They were useless! I may be a prisoner, but at least I'm some stupid old lady."

"Well then at least we're both stupid old ladies...I am not a stupid old lady! Besides there's more important things on hand" Tsunade pushes a button that sets off an alarm throughout the village. "Okay the village is going under lockdown. You two...I'll forgive the both of you if you help me gather up the Jonin."

"I don't know anyone here. Just find me a safe place I can hide... and please don't tie me up this time."

"Not a chance here look for these people" She hands her pictures of Might Guy, Kurenai and the guy with the goatee among others. "Quickly threre's no time to waste...the faster we act the less people may die."

"They're only after me. I told you they were after me and you leave me out in the open, for a week, bound and there for the taking... I can't walk anyway, so me looking is pointless."

Tsunade makses three hand signs and touches Sora's legs and they are instantly healed like new. "There now go."

She moves them, "How?... It's completely healed. I can't even feel any pain anymore." She fumbled with her brace, taking it off. "Unbelieveable... it's better than before."

"Yeah yeah I'm amazing I know, now get going."

She nodded, taking the pictures and running out.

"Kakashi sensei and four ANBU guys fighting him right now." Naruto says then leaves following Sora. "Okay let's see Might Guy...he'll be out there training with Rock Lee." Naruto says pointing to the training grounds.

"Lead the way. I don't know this village like you do."

He leads the way and Might Guy and Rock Lee have giant boulders tied to their backs and are trying to scale a sheer cliff. "Hey Grandma Tsunade needs you Guy sensei!" He explains the situation to them and Guy goes off and tells lee to keep training.:: "Okay next is Kurenai and Obito...they're probably together but I don't know where."

Sora stared at Might Guy, amazed at his training methods. "Yeah..." She nods, turning to Naruto, "But where? I wish I knew this village more."

"No idea."

She turns to Might Guy, "Would you know?"

"Hmm....try at the colleseum."

"Where the Chunin exams were held?"

"Yes they said something about a tournament."

"...Well, okay. Let's hurry. There could be more than just that one Akatsuki."

Naruto leads her tothe large stadium the chunin exams were held in. "They should be in there somewhere."

She ran in, looking around, "Hello! Anyone here?"

There were siome guys with black hair and orange martial artist outfits but this symbols from a dojo on them. And Kurenai and Obito along with Neji Hyuuga talking.

"Where is Lee?...he should have been here by now. He's going to be disqualified if he isn't here soon."

"Is that them?" She looked at the pictures, getting a bad feeling about something.

"Yeah that's them."

She ran up to them, "You need to see Grandma right now. It's important."

"But who are those other guys?..."

"Don't know. Don't care. We have to get out of here."

Obito says, "My grandmother...what's happened to her!? Is she alright?"

She gives him a blank stare, "The grandma leader of this village."

"Oh you mean Lady Tsunade...it is highly disrespectful to call one of the three Sannin not to mmention the Hokage, Grandma."

"Look. We're on a time limit." She runs out.

They nod and Kurenai tells Neji to inform the Hyugga clan he agrees and they all leap off.

"Alright who's next...Pervy Sage...I know wherre he is follow me." Naruto looked like he really didn't want to go.

Sora nodded, "I don't think anyone by that name could be of any use..."

"He's one of the three Sannin."

"I don't even know what a Sannin is." She gets that bad feeling again, but ignores it. "Are we close?"

He leads Sora to the bathhouse and walks over to the tree overlooking the ladies section and shakes it. A man with long white hair falls out of it and into the baths. Girls screaming and a lot of slaps can be heard. Naruto sighs.

She turns red, mainly for the girls. "Oh my... Does he normally come here?"

"Yeah...he practically lives her sometimes. He says he's doing research..for what I could never imagine."

"What kind of research?" She smiled a little, pushing her glasses back on her face.

"Believe me you don't want to know."

"Let's hurry and get him. We're running out of time."

Jiraya walks out his face covered in red hand prints. "Oh come on girls I don't bite!" He looks and sees Naruto and Sora. He immedately goes over to Sora and says "Hey there beautiful so what's you;re name?"


"Um... Sora." She looks nervously to Naruto.

"So uhh are you? Busy tonight?"

"I'm being stalked by Akatsuki... Can you stay focused?"

"Oh don't worry I've dealt with them before. Now how about it...you want to go on a date?"

"No..." She walks off.

Naruto explains the situation and Jiraya noda and goes to the Hokage's place. "Alright...this guy I've never seen before."

Sora sits in the corner, surrounded by ANBU. "..." She heaves a sigh. "Can I help? Just a little bit? I can fight."

"Sure why not the more fighting the better."

She smiled, "Good..." 'When they're not looking, I'll escape.'

"Okay...well I haven't seen any other Akatsuki yet and we've been all over the village."

"You know he'll come back... and with more. They know I'm here. Just let me go."

"Then we'll just have to make sure he can't come back."

[Akai]

"Hey wait! Sora come on Pervy Sage is harmless!"

"Naruto... I'm sorry. I need to go."

"Wait come on! I need your help finding these three other jonin. I don't even know where to begin looking!" He starts panicking. "If I don't find them Grandma Tsunade's going to send me back to the academy!"

"No." She walked off, jumping out the window and running along the building tops.

He follows behind her and grabs onto her legs pleeding more as he's dragged along with her.

She falls, "Kid, you are starting to piss me off. Get off." She kicks him.

He holds on tighter. "Please!"

"Get off! I'm going to lose my balance!"

Naruto wraps his arms around her legs intent on doing just that so she'll be forced to stop and help him. he grips his hands to each arm pulling towards his body tightening his grip.

She slipped, sliding down a roof, and clinging to the gutter, "Come on, kid... Please let go."

"Only if you promise to help me....besides I can;t just let you leave the village. I'll be thrown in jail!"

"You can just run off with me. You seem pretty strong." She slipped more, her face twisting in pain. "Just let go for a moment."

"No way! If I run off then I'll never be able to become hokage!"

She suddenly let go, taking her hand back. Her and Naruto fell to the ground, landing hard.

He lands hard and gets a foot slammed into his arm and is forced to let go from the pain.

She growls, "You shoulda let go! I knew this stupid village was... stupid." She got up, blood dripping to the ground from the gash in her hand, thanks to the gutter.

"Now will you help me? Or do I have to get serious with you.:" He narrows his eyes.

"You can get serious?" She calmed her breathing a few times. 'I hope I have enough chakra for this... I have one shot.'

"What are you doing?"

She took a few steps, whimpering a little, "M-my hand... Is there a rain barrel around here? I need to clean it."

"...there's a barrel of something over there." ::Naruto points to an open barrel sitting behind a house.::

She looks at him, "Can you help me? This is your fault. I told you I was losing my balance."

"Well you wouldn't help me. I needed to do something."

She went to the barrel. "Oh... It's almost empty. I don't think I can reach the water."

Naruro smells it. "Hey this isn't water...It's ramen!" He starts eating it.

"...Ramen?" She moved back. 'Gross... There's no telling how long that's been here.'

"Oh I put it out here yesterday."

She looked off, 'No one around... Now's my chance.' "Do you have a kunai? I think there's something in the cut."

"Oh yeah just walk in my house they're sitting next to the cup of ramen in the kitchen."

'Idiot...' "Thanks." She smiles, going in his house. She steals a few thing she'll need and finds a whole collection of kunai, taking two. Sora looks around, find bandages and fixes her cut. She peeks out, "Naruto... are you still out here?"
"Ahh! help I'm stuck!!" He is upside down in the barrel figeting trying to get himself out without success.

She laughed, happy he was too concerned with old ramen. She swung the kunai on her fingers, plunging them deep in her back. She did a few quick hand signs, touching the kunai, "Bird Wing Jutsu!" The kunai glowed a little, chakra flowing out into wings. She walked out, "Goodbye Naruto..." She ran off, flapping her newly made wings and heading for the village wall.

A dark red and black cloaked figure with red piercing eyes waits for her atop the village wall his eyes tracing her every movement.

[Akai]

Sora was a little happy, flying. Her original clan jutsu served her well, since most opponents were mostly surprised at the start of the jutsu, injuring herself with the weapons, but now she barely felt them. Thanks to the constant chakra flow, when she was finished, the wounds would seal right up. She was almost to the wall, flying fasting, happy to finally get out of the village.

"Predictable of you...now join us...or die."

She stopped, sharply flying away, '****... How is he still here? This village is pathetic on sercurity.'

He rushes after her making hand signs as he runs whatever jutsu he is planning it requires alot of hand signs to do it.

She folds her wings back, dropping, only to collect energy to soar back up, into the sun.

He makes the last hand sign and bites his hand and summons a giant six armed, blindfolded winged person. "Summoning Jutsu...Wrath of Justice."

She glances back, gasping, "What is that?" She tries to changes direction, but her wings froze up.

"Meet Justice...a summoning of my own creation. My will is her beckoning."

"What would you know of justice!?"

"In power is justice. I have power therefore I decide what is just."

She grabs the kunai, ripping them out. 'I know the fall will kill me... but it's a lot better than him getting me.' "Here! A parting gift!" She threw a kunai at him, already starting to fall. She threw the other.

He catches the first and calls Justice to stop her descent. It flies like an arrow from a bow and stops her pinning her with its arms to a building while staring at her with an emotionless face.


"Let go!" She kicks at it a few times.

It pins her throat but itachi lands on a building top next to her and waves his hand and it un pins her throat. "I told you...you won't be escaping this time...even through death."

She smirks, "Where's your partner... the cute one? Fine. You have me... but you'll never get my power. I'll make sure of that."

"And how do you intend to ensure that?"

She looked off, "You don't know? How sad... I'd thought the all mighty Akatsuki knew everything." She smirks again.

"Enough...let's go Kisame" He nods and with gesture makes Justice bring Sora along.

She struggles, trying to free at least one arm.

Its grip on her tightens.

"Not so fast! Itachi! We have a score to settle rememeber!" Naruto yells out.

"Naruto!" She smiles, looking around for him.

"..."

Naruto is standing atop the village wall with his eyes looking fiercly at the two Akatsuki members. "Leave her alone!" Around him a red aura of chakra is visable.

"...red chakra?" She chuckles, "You heard him. Leave me alone."

"The nine tailed fox's chakra...quicklly kill him!" Kisame charges at Naruto with his spiny sword. Naurto makes a few hand signs and says "Summoning jutsu!" He bites his thumb and puts it on the ground. There is a huge surge of power as he summons Gama Bunta, "Chief toad...I need you help! Help me get my frined from Itachi and his wierd summoning thing."

Whoa... he can summon too. This kid is pretty amazing.' She smiled a little, knowing she'll be rescued soon.

[Akai]

Kakashi and the other jonin along with Tsunade arrive behind Itachi and Kisame. "Alright you two we have you surrounded. Give up or face the full force of the Hidden leaf Village!"

"Aww...this is turning really bad really fast."

"...if they want a fight ...then we'll take it.."

Sora looked around, 'Why do they care? The Kopigan isn't that strong...' She looks up at Justice, then to Itachi. "Fight? I thought you wanted me."

"Killing a few Hidden leaf ninjas is a bonus."

"No. Don't kill them. I'll come quietly and do whatever you want. Please don't kill anyone."

"They must die...for interfering."

"Please! Itachi, don't."

"I see no reason why not to...the more I kill. The less enemies ofmine remain."

"Itachi! I promised to not do anything. What more do you want?"

"Them to be dead."

"Please... Itachi... don't. I'm begging you. Just take me and go. You came for me."

"...I can't just leave...they are blocking my way."

She looked to them, "Please move. Please get out of our way."

"Not a chance...we're birng ing these killers to justice once and for all!"

"Get out of the way!"

"I am not letting this chance slip by me...Itachi the the most wanted criminal ninja in the worls and you expect me to just let him walk out of the village with a prisoner of ours...no way!" She calls for them to attack. Several ANBU do so and kisame starts fighting them.

"Alright...make way! The Toad Sage has has arrived!" Jiraya lands next to Itachi and says "So...you came for the girl...It's as I thought...too bad I was here when you came. You're dead!" He summons another giant but none talking toad.

"Itachi, let me go. I can help you. Please."

"No."

"Please... we can fly out of here..." She whispered.

"I have no need of your assistance. I will kill all of them,"

"You really are stupid. Fine... Go ahead." She looked at Jiraiya, wiggling her ropes open a little, flashing cleavage, "Mr. Sage. Please help me... I'll go on a date with you." She batted her eyes, blushing cutely.

"You got it beautiful! Just wait right there and I'll get rid of that guy real quick like." They all attack Itachi at the same time...unable to defend against all of Konoha's straongest itachi is killed...lots of Itachi fagirls cry...until one who is also a Final Fantasy fan uses a pheonix down on him and he is revived.

"I will not die...fine keep her! She is of no use to the Akatsuki anyway...Kisame come we are through here!"

He had killed around fifteen ANBU ninja. "Oh and I was haiving such fun too...oh well." They punch Naruto out of the way and dodge Gama bunta's attacks and flee the village.

Sora is released and falls to the ground. She pulls her robe closed, sighing, as she pushes her hair out of her face.

Itachi snaops his fingers as he leaves. Justice begins to attack going straight at Tsunade. Before being killed by several elemental attacks and the two giant toads it managaes to put a deep gash into the sixth Hokage.

"Ahh!...ghh." Tsunade falls to her knees and begins coughing up blood. "Schizune...quickly...get the mediciene." Her assistant hurries and fumbling through a bag she pulls out a pill and gives it to Tsunade who swallows it. Her profuse bleeding immmediately stops but the wound remains. "...well at least I'll live now."

"Hey Jiraya!...why is it that this tadpole is calling me and not you!?"

"...uhh sorry Gama Bunta he just arrived before me that's all!" Naruto shakes off the hit and leaps down to check and Sora..:: "Hey speak to me. Are you okay?"

Sora looks around, "I'm fine..." She gets up, going to Jiraiya, "You rescued me."

"Hey girl...I was talking to him first...Kindly wait until I am finshed with him." The giant toad goes back to berating Jiraya.::

Sora growled, "Hey, ugly thing! He's more interested in me!"

"What did you call me!? Do you have any idea who I am?"

"Uhh Sora...it might not be a good idea to make Chief Toad angry..." Naruto is sweating profusely and nervously.

"I called you ugly! And you are, with warts all over your fat face!"

"I'll have you know I am actually thin for a toad my age! And you're not that great looking either what with your face covered in blood and dirt like that!"

"That can wash off. Ugly can't." She stuck her tongue out.

"Alright that's it! I'm leaving I don't need to hear this from a tadpole like her....Jiraiya we'll finsh our talk later...and that means you'd better call me." The toad is gone in a puff of smoke.

"Phew...that was close I was sure he was gonna kill you."

"Kill me... He's lucky I didn't call Karasu to teach him a lesson." 'Not that I could... I'm really weak.' "Mr. Sage, please... not only do you get me for a date for your heroic rescue, I need a bath and new clothes. Can you please help me?"

Jiraya says :You got it." And he picks her up and starts carrying her away.

She lays on him, closing his eyes. "You're so nice to me... Can I stay with you tonight? I don't like that Grandma person. She'll lock me up and forget me.... like old ladies do." She smiles.

"Sure why not? My mansion is big enough for the both of us."

"Mansion?!" Her eyes lit up, glittering. "Oh, wow. I can't believe with such good manners and a big house how you are still single."

"Well don't tell anyone but alot of girl's are really intimidated by me."

She hugs around his neck. "I think I need to regain my strength before I get cleaned up..."

"Well okay you can sleep in my bed."

"Thank.... *yawn* you."

[Akai]

"So uhh...what kind of men do you like?"

"Hmm? What?" She was becoming drowsy.

"I ask uhh what you like in men?"

"I don't know. I never had enough time to get to know any, other than my brothers."

"Oh so you have brothers...how many?"

"Six... to begin with. With this Kopigan curse, I think two are left."

"Oh okay...are any of them near Konoha?"

"No... I don't think. We're all running."

"Oh...so they're too busy to come here and let's say for some reason attack me right?"

"Why would that attack you?... You're helping... me..." She closed her eyes, curling into him.
(Ah~ Jiraiya's dream... a big chested girl, passed out in his arms. lol)

"Well now this is a dream come true for me..." ::Whast would actually follow was removed due to the censors objection to such things so instead they had this happen.::

Sora woke up in Jiraiya's bed, dressed in a sleeping robe. Her hair was down and her glasses were gone. "..." She looked around the blurry room. "...Where... am I?"

"Oh hey beautiful...did you sleep well? I certainly had a good night...plenty of research. I made you coffee. I Hope you like it strong." He hands her a cup.

She takes it and sips, "Mm... I slept good. I had a good dream, for once."

"Yeah you should have after the effects kicked in...err of the fight you looked exhausted,"

She nodded. "I'm still a little tired." She slipped out of the bed, stretching. She blinked a few times, "Where are my clothes?" She pulled at the robe.

"Oh uhh you must have undressed and forgot. They're right here on the chair."

She looks. "Perhaps. My head is a little fuzzy." She goes to her clothes, dropping the robe as she changes. Once she has her pants, shoes and shirt all on, she turns, "Thank you for letting me stay here. I really need to go."

"Huh...already I mean that was a pretty intense fight and you just said you were still feelijng tired. Are you sure you shouldn't stay for another day....or a week?"

"No. I need to go." She smiled. "Thank you."

"Uhh alright...see you real soon. Come by anytime!"

She walks out, into the sun. It was bright and warm, making Sora feel a lot better.

A cloaked figure dropped down, scooped Sora up and jumped off.

She gasped a scream in surprise.

"Huh?...Uh oh!" He leaps out of the doorway and looks around but sees Sora nowhere. "...She must have been kidnapped!...but where did the kidnapper go off too?" He looks around carefully looking for any clue as to the location fot he kidnapper...or the direction he went in.

Several birds fly from the trees as he set her down, laughing a little, "Why are you screaming? Scared?"

She fell back on the branch, "Jerk!"

He laughed, squating down to her.

Jiraiya sees some birds fly from a tree in the distance and he heads off that way moving silently nd well like a ninja but still swiftly.

He sighed, sitting down. "It's just us now."

She looked at him.

"Kumo is dead."

She pulled her legs to her, crying.

He rubs her back. "Shh... shh... It's okay."

Jiraiya lands on a tree adjacent to the one they're in but doesn't catch what they said.

He picks her up, "I'm taking you with me."

She cries, trying to push away. "No. Leave me alone!"

"Stop being such a brat." He throws her over his shoulder.

"Hey drop her, whoever you are!" He rushes in and goes into a punch enhanced with chakra aimmed at the guy's face.

He turns and jumps to another branch. "Who the **** are you?"

"Some call be the Mountain Toad Sage. Others one fo the Three Sanin...but all know me as Jiraiya!"

"Jiraiya?... What a loser."

She grunts, "Jiraiya, no. Stop.

"So another Akatsuki member after this girl's powers huh? Well I'm gonna teach you what happens to people like you. When they face one of Konoha's best!"

He smiled, "You really think I'm a member?" He giggled.

She groaned a little.