Kaze No Kokoro (Naruto fanfic)

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~Please don't listen to the song until I say play. ^^ Enjoy!~

Midori had recovered as the days past, the Hokage hadn't dared bring it up going to the cave again. However that didn't mean he just left her alone. The analysis of her memories had continued at a swift pace, barely giving her any breathing room. She was alright with that, after all it meant they'd get it over with faster.

Today had been the last day, and thankfully it ended early. After they had gotten to the memories of her being forced to fight and kill, they looked at her differently. Midori wasn't sure what it was, pity, disgust? Either way she didn't like it.

Midori decided to go to the training grounds, the woods calmed her, and she needed some calming. A week had past since Kakashi and the rest of team 7 left. 'Where are they? Wasn't it just supposed to be a simple escort mission?' She had to say she was tempted to just dissolve and go there, but ignoring the Hokage's orders and leaving the village without permission didn't seem like a good idea, not if she wanted to stay.

The loneliness she felt now, after knowing happiness, was infinitely worse than before. But then...

The hairs on her back stood on end, shivers ran down her spine. 'Kyuubi. No, it can't be, it was sealed, I sensed it myself. What happened? Naruto, something happened to them. The seal, it is coming undone.'

Focusing her chakra she searched for them, guiding her consciousness through the wind, hoping her body would remain safe. 'Found them.' But before she could let out a sigh of relief she saw Naruto charge at an unknown boy. She knew it was likely an enemy but she couldn't let Naruto deal that finishing blow, she couldn't let him have blood on his hands, not yet.

So she did the only thing she could do, she called to him. "Naruto!"

The boy instantly came back to his senses, hearing his friends voice as if she was next to him, and realised who he was standing in front of.

"You're the guy from before..."
"Why did you stop? I killed an important friend of yours, but you can't kill me?"
At those word Midori scanned the environment finding Sasuke on the floor, several senbon sticking out of him. He seemed dead, but she focused more anyway. Before she could make any determination Naruto struck his opponent, dragging her attention back to him.

"Where did that energy of yours go? You can't defeat me like that. Wasn't he an important person to you?
There are those who have the wrong idea. They fail to defeat an enemy that need to be defeated, show them mercy instead, and decide not to take their life.
If you ask me, doing something like that is not showing mercy.
Do you know the pain of living without a dream? Knowing you're not needed by anyone?"

"What are you trying to say?"

"Zabuza-san doesn't need a weak ninja. You stole my reason the exist."

"Why..? Why do you fight for that guy? He gets money from bad guys and does evil things! Is that no-brow the only important person you have?!"

"I had people that were important to me a long time ago. My parents.
I was born in a smal village in the Country of Water, where snow piled up deep. All we did was farm, and we were poor, but my father and mother were happy with it.
I was happy. They were really kind parents.
But when I first took notice of my surroundings, something happened."

"Something? What happened?"

"My father killed my mother, and tried to kill me.
The Country of Water has experienced many civil wars, and those who possess the bloodline limit were hated."

"Bloodline limit?"

"It is passed from parent to child, or grandparent to grandchild. It's a special ability or technique that runs in the family. Because of the special abilities the possessed the families were used in many disputes, and the country itself feared them as the harbingers of disasters and wars.
After those wars, those families hid their abilities and lived on. Because only death awaited them if their secret was revealed.
That boy probably had a tough time, as well. Those who possess a special ability are feared by everyone.
My mother possessed the bloodline limit. She kept it a secret and married my father, and must have believed that an ordinary life would continue for a while... No, forever...
But my father found out about our secret.
When I came to, I realized that I killed my own father. And at that time I though of myself as.. No, I had to think of myself as being...
I realized that that was the most painful thing one could feel."