Through the Pain

Fem Naru X Harem (Kurenai X Anko X Yuugao X Shizune)

Today was not a good day for the Sandaime Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen. No, today is a very bad day for the elderly Shinobi, he stood at the foot of a hospital bed, reading over the chart of a young girl, who just got out of critical condition, and had slipped into a coma. It had been thirteen hours since the incident and he was still furious.

It enraged him that one so young had suffered so much. Uzumaki Naru had just recently turned 4 years old. The attack happened on the day of her fourth birthday, Oct. 10. Reading over the chart, he became more and more enraged.

Upon admittance, she had 9 broken ribs, both of her legs were crushed and her right arm had several compound fractures. Her lungs had been pierced and nearly destroyed; the reports stated that her chest had been punctured by a Raiton jutsu, the size of a fist. 'I'm gonna kill that bastard' the old man thought to himself. The worst parts made him want to throw up, the child had been raped, and had her sexual organs carved into. 'She'll never have children because of this.' He scowled at this thought, the little girl wanted to have a family as much as she wanted to be a ninja, this will destroy her. He remembered her words to him only months ago, when she had found his Icha Icha book on his desk. 'I want to have a whole bunch of children, and I'll never leave them on their own, I'll be the best mommy ever!' she exclaimed loudly. He'd never seen a smile so large on the girl he considered a granddaughter. He had gone as far as to unofficially adopt the child, seeing as the council had forbid adoption, to as they claimed 'keep the power of the Kyuubi away from a centralized clan.' It was bull shit but he couldn't overturn a unanimous vote by all parties of the council, clan or otherwise. "Ugh, I'm getting too old for this shit."

Looking back down at the chart in his hands, again he thought to himself, 'One so young had suffered so much' this thought made the tears fall freely from his eyes. 'I'm so sorry Minato; I have failed to protect her for you.' Looking back over her chart, he notices that a side note made was that she had large amounts of scarred tissue on her vaginal walls, as well as her anal cavity, that were month's old, meaning that she had been raped on more than just this occasion. 'I don't know how I'm gonna face you when I get there Minato.' Shaking his head, "Luckily Eboshi was here to get her, I doubt she would have lasted fifteen minutes otherwise, and we we got twelve sample of external DNA sources." Chuckling evilly, "We'll get those bastards, and Ibiki is gonna get a free reign no restrictions. Ku ku ku ku ku ku kukukuku."

Turning, Sarutobi snapped his fingers, and eight ANBU appeared. "Boar, Tiger, Wolf, Rat and Hare. Go and round up everyone on this list, take them all to Ibiki, no restrictions, no goal. Understood?" After a chorus of 'Hai', "Dismissed!" The five vanished. "Dragon, Weasel. Apprehend Hatake, Kakashi. AKA ANBU Taicho Dog. Bring him to me, and send a message to Snake, have her meet us here. Understood?"

"Hai, Hokage-sama." "Dismissed!"

Turning to the last ANBU. "Cat, I want you to stand guard in this room, not outside, I want you bedside, anyone but myself, Eboshi-sensei, or Snake enters this room, lethal force is authorized, no questions asked." Turning to the door, "If she wakes up, please take your mask off, I fear she well be terrified of your mask. Also, Yuugao, please keep her company, she will need a friendly face to help her through this time. Read the report for full information. I will be here as soon as you send word. Understood?"

"Hai, Hokage-sama."

"Good. Thank you, Yuugao-chan."

"My pleasure Hokage-sama." After the Hokage left, Yuugao took off her mask, letting her long purple hair fall around her pale, smooth face. Her bangs fell over her purplish-black eyes. Picking up the patients chart, she began to read. The more she read, the angrier she became, being in ANBU she had seen some terrible things, but this was atrocious, all of these injuries to anyone, let alone a four year old. One line stood out to her, this poor pitiful child had been raped by no less than 12 men, and apparently it had happened for months. "What kind of monsters would rape a child, a four year old little girl with a burden that she shouldn't have ever gotten. Where's that list the Hokage had." Finding the list, she reads over it,

Yamanaka, Inotachi, Clan heads little brother.

Nara, Shikoto, Current Nara council head.

Uchiha, Genji, Elder council member.

Uchiha, Harimoto, Clan heads nephew.

Uchiha, Shusui, Council heads son.

Haruno, Sakumichi, Haruno Clan head.

Akimichi, Choubo, Clan heads father.

Yuuhi, Daichi, Clan heads husband.

Gekkou, Hayate, ex-ANBU. Tori.

Suzumaki, Juun, Council member for Civilian council.

Hyuuga, Yuuji, Hyuuga Main branch council member.

As a side note made after they left, was…

Hatake, Kakashi, ANBU Taicho, Inu.

"Hayate, you bastard!! How could you do that to a little girl. She's a sweet, gentle happy little girl, there's no way she could be the Kyuubi. Just look at her." Yuugao couldn't believe some of the people that lived in this village, there blind hatred for a demon migrated to a four year old little girl, that happened to be used as a prison. They call her a monster, but they are the monsters. "If I see you again, Hayate, I'm gonna kill you myself! That's if Anko will let me have any fun." She was brought out of her thoughts by a strained moan, and gasp of pain. Whipping her head around, she seen the little girl that's been unconscious since her exit from surgery, start to wake up. The pain was so immense it was plain on her face. Then the child cried out in agony. The scream was like an animal slowly dying, it tore her heart out to see her like that. So she softly hit a pressure point on her neck, to let her sleep.

"I better let Hokage-sama know she has started to wake up." Looking back at the little girl wrapped up like a mummy, "That little girl will never feel this pain ever again." She walked to the door and called a nurse over. "Excuse me, but I need you to call the Hokage, and have him return right away." Nodding the nurse walked back towards the nurses' station. "Thank you." "Anko, I'm getting first dibs on Hayate, I'll make him suffer." She thought as she sat back down next to the now sleeping girl.

Back in the room, Naru was waking up again.

Looking around, Naru noticed she was not in the hospital like normal, but instead she was laying face down in what appeared to be a sewer, if the water was any indication. Her eyes slowly adjusting to the low light, she noticed four differently colored pipes running through the dank walls and roof of the sewer. At first she could only see the bright color of the pipes, but as her vision adjusted to the darkness, she could make out each one. The first was a bright azure blue, it was the smallest, and least numerous pipe. They were cool, but not unpleasant. The next was a bright crimson red, and was nearly three times the size of the blue pipes, and almost that many more times numerous. They were hot, almost burning.

The next was purple, and they were by far the largest pipes of the four, nearly twice as large as the red pipes, but were a pleasant warmth, very comforting and made her feel safe. There was also twice the amount of these than the red.

The last set were a a dull white, like a dimming light. These were by far the most numerous, having nearly eight times more than the purple, even though they were less in number. They felt like the purple, but softer, almost like what she imagined a mothers' embrace to be.

Before she could look any closer, she heard a faint muffled crying sound. Not sure what it was, she slowly tip toed towards it, slowly she came to a large room that at one end had a set of colossal doors, with what appeared to thousands of soft azure lines that made up an intricate design, spreading from a spiral in the center, across the doors, to the walls, then around the room, ending on a small piece of paper with the kanji for SEAL on it. Like a giant prison gate, the doors rose up and Naru couldn't make out the top of them. Following the crying, she walked up to the doors, the darkness gave way to little light, but as she neared, it got brighter. In the depths of the lighted shadows, she could make out a figure, it appeared to be a young woman, she had a brilliant shade of golden blonde hair, that from her position, pooled on the floor, soaking up the watery substance the woman was crouched down upon. She wore, a tattered, emerald and azure kimono, it looked like it had been ripped at, and the sleeves were shredded, as if an animal had tore at them. It had the remnants of an intricate design, of a dragon and fox racing around a lake opposite a giant waterfall. Her feet were bare, and bleeding, like she had walked on broken glass. The most noticeable features had to be the medium sized blood red fox ears on the top of her head, and the three large fox tails, of the same color, protruding from her tail bone.

Looking at her face again, Naru noticed the dark lines running down her face. At first she was unsure of what it was, but the closer she got the more visible the young woman face was, and it showed dark red lines, then Naru realized it was blood. The blood was coming from her eyes, as if she were crying tears of blood. Tearing her eyes away from the foxgirl, Naru noticed the images on the wall, it appeared to be a giant fox with nine tails, fighting a man atop the biggest toad she had ever seen. The small man stood in front of what had to be the scariest looking person Naru had ever seen he was partially translucent, and covered in flowing black robes. On his head he had what looked like a demon mask, with large jagged teeth, horns and soulless black eyes. He carried a humongous wakazashi, and was cutting a pearly white substance, that appeared to be being pulled out of the giant fox.

Turning to the image next to this was a small baby girl, with a weird spiral tattoo, on her stomach, in the arms of the tiny man from the last image, and having the pearly substance shoved into her stomach. The man holding her was crying, and wiping the tears that had fallen on the little girls face. As she stared at the picture she felt a sense of familiarity with the tall blonde man. He wore a long short sleeved trench coat, that was all white except the bright red flames at the bottom of his coat, he had bright cerulean blue eyes that were covered by his wild blonde locks. She finally recognized the tall man, he was the Yondaime! Why was there an image of the forth in this place? Why was there a little foxgirl laying in the middle of this place crying, and where was this place anyway? What had she been dropped into, and how was she going to get home again?

Again her thoughts were cut off by the crying coming from the huddled foxgirl, she decided to ask her what was wrong, leaning down to the frail woman, she noticed the fearful look in the girls eyes, not knowing what else to do, she pulled the woman into an embrace, and whispered that it was okay, she was safe. "Even though I don't feel that way, I can stand to hear her cry." She thought to herself.

Soon, Naru had gotten the girls tears under control, and was now getting the tattered kimono righted. Finally, the woman seemed to come to her senses, and looked at Naru with a look she could not place, it seemed somewhere between guilt, fear and pity. Two of which she didn't understand, and one she hated. Pity, why should one give pity? It gained you nothing, and only brought discomfort and ill advised annoyances.

"You don't have to pity, me it is I, that should be worried about you, you hands and feet seem terribly damaged, and I think we need to get you to a hospital, if only for bandages. The infections from that could be very bad." She said in the voice that should not have been portrayed by any child, let alone one so young. The voice showed knowledge beyond the infantile four years she had.

The woman shook her head, and began slowly, "You do not know who am do you?" getting the negative answer, she continued, "Then you don't know where we are, or why am here?" Again the negative. The woman looked over the small girl before her, in this place she had none of the terrible injuries, that had caused the woman herself to breakdown as she just had. The girl looked like any other child, no worries, cares except what her mother would get for her dinner. But the truth would most likely destroy the child, she'd had beatings before, and the rapes had started in the last year, but the brutality of this was astounding, never in all her years had the fox known anything so monstrous to befall a child, demon related or otherwise. She decided to let the child know everything, and let her decide the next course of action.

"Well I guess, it's time for answers, ne?" Without a response, she continued, "First, I want you to ask each question, one at a time, and I'll answer to the best of my knowledge and ability, alright?" A nod was her only affirmation, "Good, your first question?"

"Well, where am I?" Naru asked skeptically, whenever she wanted answers, they usually came as half truths and dodging.

"Well, the simplest way to describe it, would be your mind. Everything here is your mind, and that is why you have no injuries here, the mind is a very powerful tool, and her, everything is in your control. What is your next question?"

"Why is my mind like this, all dark, smell and wet?"

"This is a reflection of your true mind, this is what you feel deep down inside. It is also in your ability to change all of this, but that is for a later time. For now it is sufficed to say, this is your mind, and it reflects everything you've suppressed behind the mask you were. So, about your next question?"

"Well the next most prevalent question, I think, is who you are?"

"This is a hard and yet laughably simple question to answer. I am Matsumoto, Yukiko. The last Queen of the Nine Courts, Crimson Queen of the Yoko. Put more simply, I am the Kyuubi no Yoko, nine-tailed demon fox."

"So, you're the Kyuubi, the fox that attacked the village four years ago? The same fox that the Yondaime had killed? That Kyuubi?"

"Yes, the same."

What followed was not expected to the queen of the foxes, the blonde girl before her laughed, an unsettling laugh. One that is not normally heard from a child. It was cold and hollow, lifeless.

"So, that is why I am attacked, they think I am you, or your new avatar, you reincarnated, that sort of thing. Well, it does make some morbid sense, they think I am you. Well for the next question, I don't think I need to ask but I planned to, why are you here?"

"The Yondaime used a sealing jutsu to put me here, to lock my mind, soul and all of my power into a human vessel, so that I may never again threaten the village that scorned you."

"Alright, I can see that," she seemed to take it well, like she expected it to be true, "Next is why were you crying just now?"

"I think that should be left until last okay, but I will answer it before you leave here, I Promise."

"Very well, can I ask why you attacked the village?"

"I believe this is something you have a right to know, seeing as I am the reason you have been tormented so." She started, she seemed it hesitant, but honestly Naru could understand it. It was probably not her most brilliantly shining moment. "First, I would ask that you wait until I am completely finished explaining it, before you ask your questions, then I'll answer whatever you ask." The woman took, what Naru assumed, to be a calming breath, then began, "I attacked for one reason, and one only. I wanted revenge."

She paused to see if Naru would ask anything, getting no interruption, she continued. "The attack was retribution for failing to fulfill a demonic contract. I made a deal with Hyuuga, Madara. A branch member of the Hyuuga clan, who wanted freedom from the caged bird seal that they wear. So I granted him what he wished. But to accomplish this, I needed to change his Kekkei Genkai, and thus was born the Uchiha Clan. I used my demon power to mutate his Byakugan, into the Sharingan, but in return the clan must give me one child, whenever I request it, six years ago, I requested a child, one Uchiha, Itachi. He showed great promise, and I wanted him he was to be the mate of my kit." After mentioning the kit, the fox-woman, paused as a flash of pain crossed her face. But as fast as it came it was gone, and she continued. "I gave them 5 years to raise the child, then I would come for him. The day came when I was to retrieve the promised child, but when I came they turned me away, and said that the contract was made for the past, and they would no longer honor it. So I told them they had one more year to give me the child, or I would fulfill my end of the contract, which stated, if the contract was broken, I would slaughter the entire clan, whipping my gift from the earth. Around the time I was to return, I had left my den to hunt, when I returned, I found all of my kits slaughtered, and the only body was of a shinobi from this village, the forehead protector was of the leaf village. The body was not an Uchiha. So I assumed that your village had sent ninjas to kill me and mine. I left my den and headed straight for this village, apparently the Yondaime had no knowledge of the contract or, he did but wanted to protect his village anyway, so he sent out wave after wave of shinobi to stop me, but I am not the Kyuubi just because of my tails, it is because I am the most powerful demon in all the realms. There are only two people stronger than me, and that would be Kami and the Shinigami. So a thousand humans, is little more than a chore, but alas, the fourth was smarter than I had given credit for, he summoned the Shinigami, one of the only ones stronger than me, to seal me in your stomach. As far as I can tell, I have been bonded, only body and soul. I think that the Hokage wished for your soul the purest soul on the earth that day to 'cleanse' the evil from my own. The evil being my rage, it was powerful and foul, not what you felt here, but anger increased its potency. And made it unbearable to the weaker souls on the battlefield and beyond." Stopping for a moment, she looked at Naru, who seemed to be enthralled with her words.

Continuing, "I want to let you know, contrary to the belief of most of your village, I do not want to corrupt your mind or steal your body for revenge. That is not what I want. Now, do you have anything to ask about what I just told you?"

"No, I can understand why you did it, and before you start with the 'It's my fault your life sucks' and all that remember, if it wasn't for your chakra and the fact that you are in me, I think I would have been dead, And I feel I must do this next thing." Getting down on her knees, and touching her head to the watery floor, she said, "I'm sorry for what my village has done to you. I know you are sorry for what you did, and I am sorry about what you had to go through, I don't know what I could do to make you better, but I promise I'll do anything, okay?"

Nodding, Yukiko looked back at the child in front of her, she should not have the wisdom that she has, and it almost brought her tears again, with everything that she had endured, Naru had still forgiven her, the queen of the demons, the sole reason for her pain. She had said nothing before now mattered, and they would live each day forward. Yukiko came up with an idea that could change their lives for the better, "Naru, there is nothing for you to ask to be forgiven for, and there is only one thing that I ask of you. I would ask that you let me care for you as I would my Musume. You don't have to answer now, but if you ever want to call me Okaa, I would love that."

"I would be happy to have a mommy!!" Naru squealed. "Then, I can tell you everything, and we can laugh and play, and be a family!!"

The smile on the little girls face, brought the fox demon to tears, she scooped up the little girl and hugged her to her chest, "Then I'll call you Musume."

Holding the young girl to her chest she realized that she still needed to tel her about the injuries she had suffered, and a frown formed on her face, "How am I gonna tell her she'll never have children?" She was brought out of her thought by Naru's call,

"Okaa, what's wrong?"

"Naru-cha, I need to tell you about what's going on outside, you still in the hospital, and the injuries are serious…"

Sorry to cut it off there, but I want to have the next set of events on the same page, and I don't want a 8000 word chapter.