And The Pain Ends

a/n: The poem in this story just like my original character Taku belongs to me. Yet again thanks Jinx your my only reveiwer right now and with my work schedule your reveiw is the only thing getting me on this computer every day to update. I have a feeling if this doesn't change soon i might not update for a long while.

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Taku was in the clearing with Yondaime again. It seemed the both of you them waiting on someone. "Daddy, why do I have to call him Uncle Naruto if he is my age? Why does he live with us too?" (I know many people out there believe that Naruto is the fourths son but in my story he is his way younger brother.)

Yondaime looked down at her then squatted down so they were eye to eye. "Well, you see dear you call him uncle because of the fact that we are brothers. Even though he is so much younger than me our parents had him three months before we were blessed with you my dear. As for why he lives with us, that’s a very painful story for daddy to tell but since you asked. Please have a seat Takumari."

Yondaime sighed before he began again. "Before my mother even found out she was pregnant my father died on a very dangerous mission. My mother took this very hard she got very sick before Naruto was born. He was born happy and healthy, but my mother was very weak and did not survive the birth."

"So, daddy what your saying is that we are Uncle Naruto’s only family left?" Yondaime nodded. "Then why is his surname different than ours?"

"This is an easier question to answer my dear. I got my fathers surname but since father died before Naruto was born they gave him mothers surname to honor her spirit." You both looked up as a younger version of Naruto came running down the hill. Hey guys sorry I am late I met Shikamaru and Chouji on the way here they are nice.

"No they aren’t!! They made fun of my pigtails the other day and called me a baby." The younger version of Taku crossed her arms over her chest in indignation. Yondaime then explained little boys like to pick on little girls and she should think nothing of it instead she should get stronger and beat them up next time they try. The three sat there talking for a little while the conversation kind of blurred like it was on fast forward.

Suddenly, Yondaime spoke up and once again Taku could understand the words, "Alright you two I want you both to learn how to do the body flicker today. Do you have the Kunai with your own special seals?" The younger versions of Taku and Naruto both nodded their heads and held out the kunai for Yondaime to inspect. "Very good, now before going in to battle you will need to use this concealment Justus to hide the seal so your opponent thinks it is just a normal Kunai. Next you will need to throw the Kunai but remember you have to make them think you are trying to throw at them but instead you have to miss spreading the Kunai over the field."

The younger Taku laughed, "That shouldn’t be too hard for Uncle Naruto, all he has to do is actually aim at the target." This was the start of a small battle between the young Taku and Naruto but Yondaime picked them both up by their collars and told them to calm down. He continued to teach them both the hand signs and words to say once the Kunai were in place. In no time Taku and Naruto were popping in and out all over the field. He called them both back over and drew another seal on one of each of their Kunai.

"Now adding this seal allows for your friends or family members to summon you in case of an emergency. Transporting you instantly to their aid." With that the dream slowly started to fade and she awoke with a tear on her cheek. 'I could have grown up here happy if something hadn’t happened that changed fate.'

Taku slowly got up and walked to her room and grabbed the dream journal. She began writing . She thought back to the time when writing down a dream for a teacher got her an A. It all seemed so long ago even though she had only been here a little over a week. After she finished writing out her dream, including drawing every seal she saw even though they were committed to her memory, she turned to the next page of the notebook.

Taku started to write:
‘One single instant can change your entire life. One single moment has the power to create or destroy you. The future is not written in stone and can be easily changed if people can find the power in themselves to change it. I found that power. I changed my life twice. When my spirit should have died it found a still born baby to reside in, in a different dimension than the one I was supposed to be born in. When life in that dimension was not enough my spirit searched out and found the place where I truly belonged. In one moment I left the world I was born in and knew to go to the one that was truly home though I have no parents here and only the history I could make while dreaming. Now my dreams are using my sleeping moments to change me again. I’m not sure what’s happening or if any of this is truly real. I could just be going insane but for some reason I don’t believe that, of course I doubt anyone who ever went insane believed it was happening to them. There is only one way to find out though I am going to use both of these techniques in training today. I know I am not very good at writing but I need to try to write this for some reason, a poem for my family‘:

As the sun set on another normal day,
In your arms I should have lain,
Two lives ripped away too soon,
Two young lovers soon to be,
My mother and father or so it seems,
Young and happily in love,
Ripped away to soon by the forces above,
The love of you I never felt,
Because of the bad hand fate had dealt,
I only see your faces in my dreams,
ripping the life I thought was mine,
ruining my ideas and tearing the seams,
now thoughts of you do fill my mind,
I only wish I knew,
If I had been born to you,
would I now still be,
In the place I found for me.

Taku then put down the journal and threw it in her weapons pouch. From now on she wanted to have it very close by. Taku and Chouji did the normal ritual of morning. Taku made breakfast the smell woke Chouji and he came ate and cleaned up. Then they both headed off for training. Shikamaru stood up and sent Taku over with Ino so he could spar with Chouji. While sparring Chouji looked over at Taku. To him she seemed different this morning like something was bothering her. He could only guess she was getting bored with him. "Shikamaru, did you notice that Taku has been kind of well distancing herself from me the past two days. I mean sure we obviously had a great make out session yesterday but afterwards she just kind of, I don’t know I just think she is getting bored with me."

"Women, how troublesome. Well I’m not sure if she is happy with you or not Chouji. One thing I definitely am not is a mind reader. If you think she isn’t so happy with you maybe you should talk to her about it, especially if it is bothering you this much." Chouji nodded knowing in his mind he wouldn’t bring it up. 'If I let her know that I have noticed she might decide our relationship is getting boring and dump me. Ill just wait and see if she gets back to normal soon.' After the morning spar they all had lunch. Taku had packed some rice balls for everyone along with strips of cooked meat.

"Hey Shikamaru after lunch can Ino join the two of you. I kind of want to train on my own with a few special Justus I learned. I’m afraid I might do them wrong and someone might get hurt." Shikamaru agreed with Taku and then she walked to the other side of a hill so the others couldn’t see what she was doing. Unknown to Taku though Chouji told Shikamaru he wanted to watch to see how well you would do. So Chouji climbed up a tree and watched what Taku was doing from a high branch. He saw her take out the notebook in her bag and paint seals on the Kunai she pulled from her pouch. What he saw next though surprised him so much he nearly fell out of the tree.

Taku had just preformed the body flicker Justus that nobody since the fourth Hokage had mastered. He spoke very quietly to himself in the tree far away, "How did she even know about that move let alone perform it. Maybe Ino was right in the beginning maybe Taku isn’t who she says she is." Next he saw the Justus preformed by only Hitomi the Fourths wife. She had created the technique and died before she was able to teach anyone. Chouji had seen enough he ran straight to the Hokage’s office. Meanwhile Taku kept practicing the two techniques rejoicing in the fact that she wasn’t going insane after all.

When Chouji reached the office he knocked on Tsundae’s door. She screamed out, "I am in the middle of paperwork only come in if its very important or you want you head bit off." Chouji took a deep breath before walking in and explaining to Tsundae what he saw. "Thank you for telling me this Chouji if you don’t mind could you bring Taku here to me?" He bowed, and walked out heading back to he training grounds and the girl who he wasn’t so sure about anymore.

Back at the training grounds they had all given in when a huge storm came around so they sat under the trees talking. "Hey Shikamaru where is Chouji? I thought he was training with you guys."

Shikamaru shook his head, "he told me he was going to watch you from a tree to see how good you were getting. We haven’t seen him since I guess he must have ran off after some more food." Soon afterwards you three saw Chouji walking up the road with a blank expression on his face. This made Taku curious because normally when he saw her he had at least a little bit of a smile.

He passed by their friends and stood straight in front of her and said in a toneless voice. "I have orders to take you Lorraine Westley to The Hokage’s office immediately." Taku looked at him seriously confused, since when did anyone especially Chouji use her real name. Everyone had called her by her nickname since she got here. Taku looked over and saw the confusion in her friends eyes too. Chouji seemed to be acting very cold to her. Thinking this couldn’t really be Chouji she stood up to follow hoping to find out what this imposter really wanted. Just as he said though he led her straight to Tsundae’s office. When Taku walked in the first thing out of herr mouth was, "Somebody is posing as Chouji why would they do that? Why would anyone trying to convince me he was Chouji act so cold toward me? Did you really send him?"

Tsundae raised her hand cutting Taku off. "Taku that really was Chouji. He saw something on the training field that truly disturbed him. He came to me to tell me about a few moves you did back there and I myself am curious to ask you about them. Can you tell me how you knew about and preformed two very difficult moves that nobody has been able to master since the fourth Hokage and his wife?"

Taku looked Tsundae in the eyes knowing she couldn’t lie. "The last three nights I have been having some really strange dreams. Those moves came to me in the dreams and well I tried them out to make sure they were real and I wasn’t going insane. Though it is possible I still could be." Taku took the notebook from her pouch and handed it to Tsundae. "I wrote down each dream in here after I had them. Read them for yourself and see what you can make of them." While Tsundae was reading the dreams Taku had written down Chouji waited in the waiting room. He wished to speak to Tsundae after she was finished with Taku so he could find out who or what she really was.

After reading each page including what Taku wrote after her dreams and the poem she looked up at Taku. "Your not going crazy Taku. There are things in here you couldn’t know about Yondaime and Hitomi the people who were meant to be your mother and father. For instance nobody except myself, the frog hermit, and The last Hokage knew about Naruto being his younger brother. We kept that fact completely hidden. Another thing you knew was that your mother was three months away from her due date when she was killed Naruto had been born the day before that." Taku looked up at her with a question in her eyes as Tsundae handed her the book back. A single tear slid down her cheek. Tsundae automatically knew Taku was thinking about Chouji’s reaction to her. "I’m sorry about his coldness my dear but after seeing you do those moves he got extremely confused just as anyone would. He wasn’t sure any longer that you truly were who you said you were."

Another tear slid down and then her face turned stone cold. All Taku could think about was that he didn’t trust her. "Tsundae are there any empty apartments open currently? Suddenly, I’m not feeling exactly comfortable with my living accommodations."

"I’m sorry but at this time nothing is available. I’m sorry Taku." Taku thanked Tsundae and left. "Thank god she didn’t call me on my bluff we have five places available but I really want her and Chouji to make up they are such a charming couple."

As Taku walked from the Hokage’s office she saw Shino walking down the street. Taku remembered that he didn’t offer a room at first but she decided to take a chance anyway. "Shino, can I stay at your place for a while? I wouldn’t normally ask but Chouji did something that really hurt me today and I really don’t want to be there when he gets home." Shino agreed and walked to Chouji’s house with her to pick up her stuff. Taku tore a page out of the notebook and left it on the table with the rest of the money she owed Chouji. It was a little over half of everything she had but she didn’t want to feel as if she owed him anything. Taku and Shino then left to set her up at his house.

Chouji walked into the Hokage’s office as soon as he was sure Taku was gone. "Alright Tsundae who or what is she really?" Tsundae just got an angry look on her face at his appearance. He could tell from the get go that this wasn’t going to be a pleasant meeting.

"You idiotic moronic imbecile how could you! She came in here confused and upset thinking you were a damn imposter because of how coldly you treated her. Before she walked out of this office she realized you were acting that way because you didn’t trust her. Right now I want to ring your stupid neck and pop that idiotic head like a pimple! She shed two tears for you before all emotion was wiped from her face. It was like she lost that little light inside of her." Tsundae then sat down in her chair with a sigh. "She lost the light of happiness Chouji, that light of love that is normally sparkling in her eyes. You screwed up big time buddy, before she left she asked if there were any empty apartments here. Luckily I lied to her and told her no because I wanted the two of you to make up. Chouji she didn’t know anymore than you did about those moves she had seen them in dreams and decided to try them out to make sure she wasn’t losing her mind. Now, if I were you I’d try to find her and get on your knees and beg her to forgive you before its too late."

Chouji sat there for two full minutes before everything that Tsundae had just said sunk in. Once it did though it took hold of his mind with a vengeance. He just knew that he had to find Taku. He ran all the way to his house but by the time he got there it was too late. It was as if all traces of her were taken away except for the money on the table and the note she left behind.

The note read:
Chouji,
I am sorry that you didn’t love me enough
that you could trust me. I have found another
place to stay and left the money to pay you back
for all you have done for me. Goodbye Chouji.
Sincerely,
Lorraine Westley

Chouji dropped to his knees and began to cry. He knew ninja were not supposed to show emotion but he felt like his heart had been completely ripped to shreds from the inside out. He cried so hard and for so long that he passed out right there on the kitchen floor clutching the note to his chest.

Over at Shino’s house Taku was dressed in her pajamas and she was telling Shino about what happened today. "You see Shino I have been having these dreams lately that have told me I was actually meant to be born here. Dreams that say I was supposed to be born as the child of Yondaime and Hitomi, and by the way until I talked to Tsundae today I had no idea who Yondaime actually was. I knew things from those dreams I couldn’t have found out. Secrets that almost nobody knew. Also, I saw myself learning their techniques. Today at the training ground I decided to try them out to see if my dreams were correct or to find out if I was going insane. To me that only thing that could prove I wasn’t was to be able to do the moves I saw in my dreams. Chouji saw me practicing and suddenly didn’t trust me and ran to Tsundae thinking I was a spy or something. He was so cold toward me and it hurt so much."

Shino looked at her, "Why didn’t you tell him about the dreams? I mean he is the closest person to you here in this village."
"Shino, I was planning on telling Chouji after I found out if I was going crazy or not. I just had to confirm my own sanity first before I could talk about it."

Shino nodded and took Taku to the guest bedroom. Before closing the door he added, "Get a good nights rest Taku things may look different in mornings light. These things normally do." Taku fell asleep thinking that Shino was very wise for someone his age. Soon though she was back in the forest clearing with the man who was meant to be her father.