A Demon's Past (Naruto)

The Price of a Heart

The next morning, the jinchuriki were practically forced into the meeting room. "No, we need rest!", Yugito exclaims. "You had plenty of that last night, now it's time to report!", Oonoki demanded. "No!", she yells. "Mother, quiet! You'll wake the children.", Uta said softly, rocking Fuu and Gaara in his arms to keep them from waking. Oonoki and Yugito felt kinda bad for being loud when the two children were sleeping so peacefully. "Fine, we'll take part in the meeting, but the children will stay out of it.", she said, finally relenting. "For now.", Mei supplied. Meigumi and Tsunade sent their fellow female kage a warning glare. Yugito bristled, growling and hissing in the back of her throat. "Mother please calm down. I really don't want a fight to break out and have the children wake up.", Uta said. She calmed down but continued to glare daggers at Mei. "Yugito-san please report.", Meigumi requested. Once she told them the report, she was bursting with rage. Uta signaled Yagura to calm her down. "Mother its alright. They are safe now, so no reason to get so angry. The men who hurt them are already dead. Please calm down.", Yagura said calmly. She relaxed her shoulders but her eyes remained mixed-matched. "Now can we please get on with this meeting?",Mei asked. "Forgive me, it's just....I'm a bit....unsettled.", Yugito said, her eyes switching between blue/green and black eyes. 'What could have you, one of the jinchuriki, unsettled?", Oonoki asked. "I...don't know...I guess you could call it my cat senses.", she claimed. Her ears were twitching and her 2 tails were waving back and forth. The other jinchuriki were no better, as they too were shifting nervously. 'We just get this feeling that something bad is gonna happen.", Yagura said. 'And it's gonna happen soon.", Uta finished. The two children started to wake at that moment. "Uta, I don't want them in here for this...", Yugito whispered. "Yes mother.", he said as he took them to the room before they fully woke up. "Mother!!!", Uta screamed. All the jinchuriki rushed to the room. The Kage followed as well. Uta was holding a convlusing Gaara and a crying Fuu was sitting next to him. "What happened?!", Yugito yelled. "I don't know! One minute they were waking up peacefully, the next he falls and starts convlusing and she starts crying!!", he yelled back. He was clearly panicking. "Calm down Uta! We'll figure this out and help them." "We'll never start this meeting at this rate ", Mei said. Yugito bristled in anger. "Mother...", Yagura said softly. Tsunade rushed over to Gaara and searched for any Injuries and the like. When she came near his head she lingered for a bit longer. "He's having a seizure. It seems to be from trauma. He'll be ok once he calms down." "Isn't there anything you can do to stop it?" "I could sedate him?", she offered. "Please do...", Yugito pleads. Tsunade sedated him and he goes back to sleep. They decided to get information from Fuu, who was only crying not convlusing. "Fuu...will you tell us what happened? Please? For me?", Tsunade asked softly and sweetly. She shied away from them and started to cry even harder. Uta goes to hug her, but she flinched. He gives a pained look and she launches herself at his chest. "U-Uta-nii!!..", she cried. He rocked her back and forth and ran his fingers through her hair, hoping to calm her down. "Please....hime....tell me what's wrong...Please??", Uta pleaded. "Uta-nii...I don't want to remember. Don't make me remember. I don't want to remember. I don't want to remember.....", she sobbed into his chest loudly. Uta blew a scented bubble at Fuu. It popped and she inhaled the fumes. She slowly went to sleep. "She most likely remembered things from the tower. Poor child is traumatized. Gaara as well must have remembered something. The past tends to haunt you at the most unlikely of times and in the cruelest of ways " "....no..No!", Fuu started to thrash around in her sleep. "Fuu?", Yugito yelled. "Seems like going back to sleep didn't help any.", Ay said. "Stop it, please...please don't ignore me! I didn't do anything..I didn't do anything!!...PLEASE!! LOOK AT ME!! I'M SORRY!! I'm sorry, please....please. stop and look at me..DON'T IGNORE ME!! PLEASE...I'm sorry...", she was shaking and crying even in her sleep. "These....these aren't memories of the tower, they are memories of her village.', Tsunade said her glowing hands resting on her head. "Her village??", Mei asked. "Yes, her village. The one where she was born....your village, Mei-san.", Tsunade said. "Kakashi, call the Ino-Shika-Cho team please." "Hai, Hokage-sama!" Two hours later, Team 10 arrived, breathing harshly. "Sorry to call you on such short notice." "We're fine Hokage-sama. What was it you needed?" "Ino, do you know your clan's justu to portray a person's memories?" "Yes, Tsunade-sama." "Then please look into Fuu's mind and show us her memories." "Wait, this is what you had in mind?!", Yugito exclaimed, "You can't do that. Its to dangerous. You will never like what's inside a jinchuriki's head. You could die!!' 'We need to know this. Its the only way." Ino did the hand signs so fast, not even Sasuke's sharingan could copy. They felt a creeping chill then they all passed out. When they woke up, they were in a dark cave with only a few minor cracks along the wall and dripping water everywhere. "What is this! I thought you would play out her memories like a movie! I don't even know where we are!", Ay said angrily. "The way the justu works is customized by the user, so each person has their own way to see memories.", Ink said. "We are in Fuu's mindscape." "Mindscape??", Sakura asked. "A part of the brain that is rarely used. Manley because most people don't k ow how to get into their mindscapes.", she frowns while looking around. "The darkness means that she has had physiological abuse and the cracks show physical abuse. The leaking water shows the tears we don't see, and gives proof if the kind if torture she has been through." "I-Is there any way to....fix this?", Meigumi asks quietly. 'The physical part yes, but the damage has been done. This is permanent. You will never be able to heal physiological trauma." That's so horrible!" "Yes it is. Follow me, you don't want to get lost in her mind. You may never find your way out.", Ino said grimly. They followed silently behind Ino. Then they heard the rustling of chains and a low hum. "Hey what was that?", Sakura asked heading down the hall to the right, where the noise came from. "Don't go that way, you'll die ", Yagura stated as he grabbed her arm. "That is the way to her tailed beast, and they don't like trespassers very much." Then the hall to their left disappeared, leaving them with the way that leads to Fuu's tailed beast. They ventured down the hall way and came across a door. Yagura opened it and a vast cavern opened up to them. "Who are you and why are you here?!", demanded a rich female voice. "We are Fuu's friends and family. We have come to see Fuu's memories so we could understand her a little better. Will you permit us to pass...Chomei-chan?", Uta asks smoothly. There was a tense pause then the beetle said "..Very well, you may pass...Saiken-kun. Her memories are down the hall and in order starting at 1 as her oldest memories. I suggest trying door 0 first. That is important. You won't see the real Fuu for a while." "Thank You.", Yugito and Bee said. They walked down said hall and stoped at a door with a big 0 on it. They opened it and walked in. Then the black room turned light and the memory started.
There was a house on a hill. It was very nice and beautiful. There was a knock on the door. It opened and out came a woman with a baby girl in her arms. The woman had royal blue hair and olive green eyes. The baby had mint green hair and amber eyes. "Fusuma, there is a council member at the door.", the woman said. Fusuma, a man with mint green hair and amber eyes, came out quickly. "Y-Yes what is it..I-I mean what can I help you with?", Fusuma asked with a forced smile. "Well We'd like to congratulate you for your newborn daughter has been chosen by the council to become a possible sealing candidate, along with 2 other royal families. Have a nice day and stay in your house please.", the man said while smiling.
Once he walked away, the new family stopped smiling." Fusuma...", the woman said with tears in her eyes. "I know, but there is a chance we never get picked. I'm sure one of the other families will." "But remember the last time a jinchuriki was made it took them 12 tries before they were able to seal that monster away. That's 12 children. 12!! They were all killed, Fusuma, KILLED!! Before they could even walk! I don't want that to happen to our baby girl ." "I know, Maruki. I know. We should pack a few bags, just in case we are picked, so we can get the hell out of this village!" "I agree.", they packed all their clothes and food and blankets and such for the road. They planed on going to the Land of Snow. They would leave in 3 days. The next day, they heard rumors on the street, that the Tsurito's youngest, a newborn boy only a few weeks old, suddenly fell ill and died. They said there was nothing even left to bury! But Fusuma knew better. Those council members failed again to seal the monster and killed another innocent child. " 2 more days, then we would be ready to leave." , Fusuma thought. They were almost ready to leave late the next day, when they heard a knock on the door. "Do to complications in the last attempt, you are now the only available option.", the grinning council members from before said. We will be back in the morning for your turn. Goodnight!" "Oh, kami! Fusuma we have to leave tonight, like now!" They gathered their things quickly and left the house. They had almost made it to the gate when shinobi jumped out of the trees. "Halt! You are not to leave this village, Mr. Kizuko.", one said. "To bad! I am leaving!" They surrounded the small family and began throwing weapons at them. They were only civilians though and were not trained to dodge weapons. They grabbed Maruki and held her back as they beat her husband and...killed him. "FUSUMA!!", Maruki screamed. They tried to take Fuu, Maruki's daughter, away. They dragged her by her hair and slammed her hard against a wall. They took the crying baby from her hands as she fell. "Fuu!! My baby!! Give me back my baby!!!", she cried. They held her down as she watched her baby disappear into an underground lab. " Noo!!" 'I don't want my baby girl to end up like the last 2!! The first was a baby boy and he just crumbled to ashes!! The second was a girl and she...she..EXPLODED!!' "Give me MY BABY, NOW!!!", she yelled. She waited for 15 hours. When the doctor in charge came out she gasped. "Here is your daughter miss!" "Thank you so much for bringing my baby ba-!!' When she moved the blanket aside, she saw a little spaded tail poke out. Then she noticed the ears were pointed and there were wings on the back. The sealing had been a success. "Um...excuse me but I think you gave me the wrong baby." "Excuse me??" "This...this thing is not my baby." "Uh..Yes, this us your daughter, Fuu Kizuko." "No! U refuse to believe that monster is my daughter! My daughter DIED when my husband DIED!!", she yelled. She shoved the baby back into the doctor's hands. "If you refuse to claim this girl, then what shall I do with her?" "Take her out to the caves and leave her. Let her die. That thing in your arms is not the child I gave birth to!! I don't care what you do with it, just get it away from me!!" "Y-yes ma'am." So the doctor took little Fuu to a cave and left her, never to been seen again....untill he came back the next day to retrieve her for the council. They raised her separate from the other children and trained her how to fight when she was 3 and then sent her out on her own to survive.
The light from the memory died down and the room went dark. They walked out into the hallway and just stood there. "Well, that explained a lot. Her own mother abandoned her after the sealing. That's why she kinda shys away from me, especially when I say I'm her "mother.", Yugito says. "Let's go into the nest door now.", Bee said. They walked up to door number 1. They walked inside. It only showed them raising her and so on till door 4. They opened door 4 and watched it as well.
Fuu was running from 2 grown men. She had a loaf of bread in her hand. She ran and hid in an alley. She ate it quickly. Then she heard the sound of fighting. She walked out the other side if the alley and saw 3 big boys picking on a small girl. "Hey leave that girl alone!' , she yelled. "And why would do that when its fun time?" Then two women walked over to see what's going on. The girl had disappeared when no one was looking. The boys started to get fake tears in their eyes. "What's going on?", asked the red-headed woman. The boys said," T-This demon was picking on a little kid so we had to stand up for her, right?" "Right", the other boys said. "We told the little girl to run away so she wouldn't get hurt." "Hey that demon whore needs to be taught a lesson, dont you agree Nishion?" "Of course, Plishia." They looked at Fuu and grabbed her and tried to stab her. She ran but got cornered. "Help!!" It was her first and last beating. They completely ignored her like she was a ghost. "People don't see me...am I a ghost? Am I dead? This is more painful that being beaten...my heart hurts so much...so much. If people only hurt each other why care? No...I will always care about people, even if they kill me inside and out. That will be the price of my heart."
They left the room, most of the women were crying, some men too. "Such a horrible life, but she cares! She really did put a price on her heart...I will always admire her for that.", Yugito exclaimed, Uta and Yagura agreed. "Should we continue?", Mei asked. "No we have pried enough into her life.", Yagura said. "Lets leave things be. We can discuss this with her later." And so they left Fuu's mindscape.