Little Misfits

Chapter Twenty Three : Becoming a Shinobi

Third Pov____________

It was the honorable third Hokage' s funeral, nearly the whole village had gathered to mourn the loss of their leader.

Konohamaru, the thirds grandson was crying his body shaking , his friend Naruto was also crying as he comforted the younger kid.

But Uzumaki Akumi stood silently her gaze fixed on the memorial that was placed.

It was unnerving to say the least. When she first heard of the news her strict facade slipped. She spouted out angry yells calling her informants liars and trying to shake the deceased man. Kept telling him that it wasn't funny and begging him to wake up.

But after that incident she had been painfully quite. Her gaze would at times be distant and she stayed close to her brother.

Her teammates were concerned, she had been opening up to them and all of a sudden she was blocking them out again. it had been days since she had last spoke.

"Akumi the funeral is over." Naruto sniffled as he tugged on his sister's shirt. He felt the tears swell up again as he saw his sister's slow and emotionless reaction.

It reminded him of how she would act when they lived in the orphanage and after he had moved back in with her after rehabilitation.

she gave a slow nodded and started walking to their apartment. "Naruto, don't you think akumiis taking the Hokage's death to hard?" Sakura whispered to her teammate.

"Were you guys close to him?" Sasuke asked noticing Naruto reaction to the news as well.

Naruto bit his lower lip.

"Yeah, she is taking his death pretty hard. But then again he was the only one that was there for her then." He mumbled.

"Then? You mean what happened in the orphanage?" Sasuke asked and Naruto shook his head.

"No, I mean the aftermath of it." he mumbled looking down at the ground.

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Flashback

Akumi had been healed, but there were several chakra suppression seals on her and she was curled up in the corner of a cell.

The civilian council was vivid and thirsty for the blood of what they called a unstable psychotic murder.

Timoro Detsume had been tortured, placed on trial and was on her way to serving her death sentence. But she wasn't the cause of the uproar.

instead the civilian council focused on Akumi, calling her the kyubi whore who manipulated the good citizen Timoro and forced her to do the demons bidding.

They spread elaborate stories about how the Kyubi was probably laughing at all of Konoha as his vessel and whore destroyed the village orphanage and turned it into a mass graveyard.

The small child wasn't really affected by the fear in people's eyes or their mistreatment and often mistaked them for kindness.

They could throw food on the ground, spit on it and she would think of them as kind and generous people for giving her free food.

This appalled the old Hokage. After her arrest that was done publically to place the civilians minds at ease. The old man would go to the child's cell everyday to teach her the difference from right and wrong.