The Prophecy Of Nine

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Ankoku - Hey, thanks for the review, glad you like. Oh and I’m a big fan of Christine Feehan, I love all her books. My fav

Okay guys, I’m really sorry to have to be doing this, but my laptop seems to be under the weather, it had smoke coming out of the grill, where the little fan is. My dad has taken it into work with him and is getting their computer wiz to take a look at it. I am stuck with using my dads old PC. I managed to write this chapter by memory, but I can’t remember the rest, which makes me curse my lack of memory. But, hopefully, I will get my laptop back soon.

Oh and one more thing, I need names for the babies, so if you guys have any ideas, let me know, I need girls names. Thanks and hope you enjoy this chapter.

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Chapter Eleven

It was three in the afternoon and all the Carpathians were supposed to be dead to the world. All were except for Naruto. He had been awake for a few hours. At first he couldn’t understand why he had awoken, but after a few moments, his head filled with images, strong enough to make him cry out. In his mind were images that plagued him when he was younger and growing up. Image after image of him being beaten and raped. He panicked, wondering what was happening and why he couldn’t stop the images from playing over and over in his mind.

Without thinking, he commanded the earth resting upon him and Sasuke to move and he leapt out of the hole, his heart hammering uncomfortably hard against his chest and throat. He looked down at his mate, but the dark haired man was still dead to the world. With a wave of his hand, he covered Sasuke and made his way up the stairs and into the kitchen. He hissed as sunlight hit him, and made quick work of closing the curtains, so the room was covered in shadows from the black curtains.

With a gasp, he slid down the wall, covering his mouth as his mind was abused again. He shook his head, not wanting to relive all the things that had happened to him. ‘Kyuubi, why is this happening?’ He called to the fox.

Said fox was trying all he could to prevent this from happening, but he felt the work of a powerful psychic. He growled in annoyance as a smirking face flashed before his eyes. ‘Naruto, try and calm down. It’s Kabuto. I don’t know why he’s doing this, but-’

‘Kabuto, well its obvious isn’t it. Orochimaru’s behind this isn’t he!’ Naruto interrupted. Covering his face, he screamed. He blocked out Kyuubi who was trying to calm him, but he couldn’t think straight. He suddenly fell silent and his head flopped onto his chest. His eyes remained open, but it was like he had gone into a catatonic state. The images were too much for him to handle, as they kept playing over and over again.

Kyuubi swore foully as Naruto’s mind slipped from him. He closed his eyes and called to Shukaku. The raccoon was the closet demon to him and they had always shared a bond, due to Naruto and Gaara being best friends. (1)

Shukaku awoke suddenly and roused his vessel. Gaara was out of his resting place and racing up the stairs before anyone could blink. He had also made sure to reclose the hole over his mate. As he burst through the kitchen door, he called out to his friends. He felt them coming fast. His eyes widened as he saw the state of Naruto, he fell to his knees and caught hold of his friend’s shoulders.

“Naruto, come on. Snap out of it. What’s the matter?” He shook the blonde, but he received no reply. He looked up as all his friends came bursting through the door.

Sakura slapped a hand to her mouth to stifle her cry at seeing her friend in this state. “We need our mates.” She said as calmly as she could. “Kyuubi, call to Sasuke.” She said as she reached out her mind to rouse her mate.

The others too were calling to their mates. It didn’t take too long. The Carpathians were awoken by their mates fear, and were all bursting from their sleeping places and racing towards their mates. Sasuke was the first one to reach the kitchen. He dropped to his knees and took hold of Naruto’s shoulders. His black eyes worried as he tried to bring his mate back to him. But the blondes mind would not come back. It was like it was too far away for him to reach.

“What’s happening?” Ino sobbed against Chouji’s shoulder.

A red mist appeared before them, which rose from Naruto. Gaara looked over to Kyuubi who had just emerged from Naruto. “What happened?” He asked.

The fox sighed. “You’re not going to like this. Kabuto.” He didn’t need to say anymore. The others gasped and their eyes filled with anger.

Sasuke and his companions looked on in confusion. Seeing this, Iruka explained. “When Naruto was younger and in foster care, one of his guardians was a man named Orochimaru, he and his foster son Kabuto, who is a powerful psychic, tortured Naruto the worst. He was with them for about four years before he was moved to another place. Now, it seems as if Kabuto is being used to send Naruto images of what happened to him when he was younger. For what, we’re not sure.” He fell silent and buried his head into Kakashi’s shoulder.

“Where is this Orochimaru?” Sasuke asked through gritted teeth.

“We’re not sure. He and Kabuto went into hiding when Naruto was moved. We’ve looked for them, we were going to kill them, but we’ve never found them.” Gaara explained.

Sasuke picked his mate up from the ground and after making sure the curtains were closed, placed Naruto on the couch. Sitting on the floor beside the blondes head, he looked down helplessly. He didn’t know what to do. “I know Naruto won’t like it, but I think we need to call Tsunade, maybe she can help?” He looked up at Naruto’s friends, waiting for an answer.

Gaara and the others were looking at each other. They knew Naruto would probably skin them alive, but there wasn’t another option. As long as Naruto was safe, that was all they cared about. They would put up with Naruto’s wrath when he was better. They turned to Sasuke, and they all nodded in consent.

Sasuke looked over to Kakashi, who was already sending his mind out to Tsunade. He was the strongest at sending telepathic messages. He refocused and nodded. “When I mentioned Naruto, she said she will be here as soon as the sun goes down.

The others nodded, knowing that it was only a few hours they had to wait, but it was going to feel like an eternity.

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An hour after the sun had gone down, the door burst open and Tsunade flew through the door with Jiraiya right behind her. Shzune closed the door behind them. The blonde woman collapsed beside her grandson and began trying to bring him round, while the others explained what was happening.

Tsuande bit her lip hard enough to draw blood. She couldn’t reach Naruto. What he was seeing had made him lock himself inside his mind. She knelt back and shook her head. “The only way to stop this is to find them and kill them.”

Gaara glared. “How? We don’t know where to find them. If we did they would be dead by now.” He stormed away, Neji hot on his tail. He found his mate leant against the kitchen wall, his fists curled and he was breathing hard. He moved closer, and Gaara turned and collapsed against him. He held his mate tight. Gaara didn’t cry, he never cried, but his body was shaking in anger and fear for his friend.

The others were in the same state, they huddled around the room, their mates comforting them as best as they could. Sasuke was left kneeling beside Naruto, feeling helpless, holding the blondes hand. He looked to the blonde woman, who was glaring into space.

An hour later, they were all in the kitchen, trying to think of a solution. Sasuke’s head suddenly snapped up. He rushed into the front room to find Naruto standing up. He made his way over to his mate, but frowned. Naruto still seemed to be unaware of what was going on. It was like he was being controlled. He looked back at the others, who nodded. They followed as Naruto walked out of the house and down the drive way. They all shape shifted and kept pace with the blonde who was still walking, unaware of everything around him.

Naruto kept walking, and the others continued to follow. They had been in the air for about an hour when they realised Naruto had finally stopped, he stood before a hidden cabin deep in the woods. The door opened and a snake looking man emerged with the biggest smirk on his face, and bespectacled teen behind him, a glint in his grey eyes.

“Well Naruto-kun, it’s good to see you again.” Orochimaru said, his eyes flickering to Naruto’s stomach. “Well, well, well, are you having a baby?” The snakelike man smirked at the thought of what a powerful baby this would be.

He looked behind him and two men emerged from the cabin. Sasuke growled as he recognised the cloaks of the Akatsuki, but he frowned, the men wearing the cloaks didn’t belong to the group, and they weren’t even vampires. They knew immediately what was happening, the Akatsuki wanted them out of the house. Sasuke cursed. The only thing that was valuable in the house was the prophecy. That was why they had used the snake like man and his foster son to lure Naruto out of the house. He relayed his thought to the others and winced as telepathic curses flooded his head.

The two humans wearing the Akatsuki cloaks moved forwards towards Naruto, but the Carpathains were already reverting to their original forms and landing in a circle around Naruto. Orochimaru hissed as he realised he had been set up. He tried to make a break for it with Kabuto, but Tsuande and Jirayia had re-materialised before them. Two heads rolled away from their bodies to come to rest in front of the human’s feet, who looked to be under hypnosis. Kakashi took care of them, and when they were all right, wiped their memories clean.

Sasuke had Naruto in his arms, as the blonde had passed out when he was pulled from his catatonic state. Relief washed over the raven, not caring about the prophecy. He knew his brother and the other vampires would have a tough time deciphering it, as it was in an ancient demonic language. After cleaning up the mess of the two dead bodies and sending the humans on their way, Sasuke and the others made their way back to the house, the others had shape shifted into birds of prey, but Sasuke had to keep his body so he could carry Naruto. Large raven wings sprouted from his back and he flapped them as he flew through the air.

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When they were settled back into the house, Naruto was once again placed upon the couch. Sasuke knelt beside him. He held breath as Naruto’s eyes fluttered open. Locking eyes with his mate, he felt his heart break as beautiful blue eyes filled with tears and spilled down whiskered cheeks. He sensed the others in the room leave. He pulled Naruto into his arms and let him cry.

Naruto held onto his mate as tight as he could. He felt relief wash over him when he realised he was no longer being burdened with images from his past. Kyuubi was comforting him too, and told him that Orochimaru and Kabuto had been killed by his grandmother and her life mate. Naruto felt gratitude for his grandmother and realised how much he had missed her. He forgot about being angry with her. He pulled away from Sasuke, who frowned at him. Naruto just smiled and walked into the kitchen, where his found his grandmother leaning against the counter. Everyone become alert as he came into the room, but he ignored them and walked straight to the blonde woman, who eyed him wearily, but began to sob as he put his arms around her. She hugged her grandson and wept. The others retreated back into the front room to give the pair time on their own. (2)

Sasuke and the others all sat in the front room. Kakashi disappeared for a moment, only to return shaking his head. “They took the prophecy.” He sighed and sat beside Iruka.

“Well, they can’t decipher it, unless they have access to a demon that we don’t know about.” Sasuke said.

“Let’s hope they haven’t, otherwise they will be able to prevent the prophecy from coming true.” Sakura answered, looking up suddenly when the room fell into an uncomfortable silence. Her friends were looking at her with narrowed eyes. She realised she had just let slip that they were planning on following through with their plan. She felt Lee’s angry eyes on her. She bowed her head, unable to meet his eyes.

Sasuke stood up. “Naruto, get your ass in here now.” He shouted, making everyone jump.

Naruto walked in with Tsunade behind him. He locked eyes with his mate, only to cock his head to side in confusion. He looked at his friends for help.

“It’s my fault-” Sakura began, but was cut off.

“I thought we agreed that you weren’t going to follow through with that ridiculous plan to kill Akasuki? I thought I made it clear you were to stay away from the-” He stopped when he felt an almost too unbearable power radiating from his mate. The red fire like substance burst around Naruto, who was shaking to try and keep his temper from flaring. Sasuke winced, hoping he wouldn’t get thrown across the room. “Naruto calm down. Think about the baby.” He winced again. Maybe he shouldn’t have said that. The power surged upward and was nearly bad enough to choke on.

Tsuande placed a hand on her grandsons shoulder, and winced as the fire like substance burned her hand. “Calm down. You have to think about the baby.” The redness vanished and the power extinguished like a candle.

Naruto glared at his mate, before walking out of the room and back into the kitchen. He stood for a moment, before walking out the door and into the garden, where he sat down by his favourite tree, and leant his head back, looking up into the sky. He cursed his mate, calling him every name he could think of and a few in a demonic language that Kyuubi supplied him with.

He winced, but smiled. A hand flew to his stomach, his baby was kicking. “I’m sorry.” He cooed. “I’ll calm down.” He narrowed his eyes as he felt Sasuke coming towards him. He looked up and glared, only to laugh, and rub his stomach. “Okay, okay. Teme, come and feel our baby kicking.”

Sasuke’s eyes widened as he knelt on the ground and let Naruto’s hand guide his to his mate’s large stomach. He smiled as he felt a kick from beneath his hand. He looked up and locked eyes with his mate. Their lips suddenly met and Sasuke cupped Naruto’s face in his spare hand. When they pulled away, he tried to glare, but failed with the silly grin he was sporting. “Don’t think this isn’t over. We will be having a talk later.” He gave Naruto a no argument look, who sighed and looked up at the sky. He knew nothing would get through that thick head of his mate’s. If only Sakura hadn’t opened her mouth, they wouldn’t be in this mess now. He let Sasuke pull him to his feet and let him lead him back into the house, where everyone seemed to be arguing.

Tsunade was becoming pissed, placing her fingers into her mouth, she whistled loud enough to feel like your ears were going to bleed. Silence fell upon the room and they all looked down like children being scolded. The blonde woman rubbed her temples and sighed. “Okay, calm down and tell me what’s going on.” She looked to her grandson, who sat down and began to explain about the prophecy and about their plan.

When Naruto had finished, she bit her lip. “Well, like the prophecy said, it has to be them who do it.” She held her hands up as the men began to shout. “Look, the only way for the Akatsuki to be killed is by the Kokonotsu no akuma, that’s how it has to be, unless…” She paused to make sure she had everyone’s attention. “…You would prefer to always live in fear that the Akatsuki will kill your mates.” She smirked as the silence became more profound.

Naruto hid a smile. “Let’s make a deal.” He said into the silence and waited until he had everyone’s attention. “You lot can try to kill Akatsuki, but if you haven’t done it by the eve of our baby’s birth, we will do it. Deal?”

“Okay.” The Carpathians agreed quickly, confident that they would be able to kill the group before the babies were due. Naruto looked at his friends and they all held a hand over their mouths to hide their smiles. Their mate’s were so predictable. Naruto nodded, and stood. Walking into the kitchen, he pulled out the tub of ice cream from the freezer and began spooning the cold substance into his mouth, moaning at the taste of the chocolate. He smiled as Sasuke stood behind him. The taller mans arms wrapped around his waist. He leant back against his mate’s chest and closed his eyes.

Only three months left to go until the babies were due. Only three months when they would have to finally fulfil the prophecy. He finally understood it was his destiny, their destiny.

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(1) I know the tailed demons don’t like each other, but they do in my story and it would be obvious that Kyuubi and Shukaku would be friends, because of how close Naruto and Gaara are.

(2) I don’t know if I made Naruto forgive Tsunade to soon, but I couldn’t help it, I hate being mean to her.

Well, there ya go. Another chapter over with, thanks so much for reading and remember to let me know on the names, if I choose to use your suggestions, I will make sure to give you credit.

I’ll see you as soon as I get my laptop back.