Chapter 24: Naruto's Dark Secret

A/N - It's done! And oh, you guys.. some of y'all got confused with last chapter. When Nia "stabbed" Naruto and told him she "cheated" on him when in reality she never did, he was experiencing genjutsu placed on him by Black Zetsu. This chapter continues into that. The reason Nia stabbed Kiba is because she's under Obito's control and the reason she seemed to have ratted out on Naruto at the end of last chapter, was cause Obito was forcing her to speak out of her own will with his sharingan or whatever. He was extracting information out of her.

Hope that cleared things up! Please comment and vote and enjoy ❤️

Oh and this chapter is pretty dark. Don't take everything in it seriously though.

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Chapter 24: Naruto's Dark Secret

"STAY STILL ALREADY!" Nia shouted as she wildly swung a chakra blade, determined to cut through Naruto's flesh.

Naruto still hadn't learned that he was only in genjutsu and that everything being done and said to him weren't real. The illusion of Nia he was facing was nothing more than a figment of everything he feared for her to turn out as. Black Zetsu was only trying to keep him away from Sasuke's group and the actual Nia that followed him around.

Naruto kept sidestepping and evading the illusion girl's attempts to strike him down.

"Nia, just calm down already!" The blonde yelled, ducking before springing back up and grabbing her by her wrist. "Tell me... who made you this way?! I refuse to believe you're truly like this! There's no way that can be possible! Who triggered you?!"

"Ugh! This is exactly why I hate you! You never ever take me seriously! I've been this way the whole time!" The girl opted to using her free hand to attack but only got it to be caught by her opponent.

Naruto glared daggers into her eyes as Nia struggled to free her hands from him.

"I'm serious, Nia! What happened?!"

Responding with a headbutt, the ninja barely dodged as the kunoichi tossed her weapon to her left hand and attempted cutting him open though only managed to nearly scathe his cheek, as Naruto was capable of keeping some sort of distance.

This was what the illusion was built on, attacking and forcing her opponent to a corner. To really toy with him, she shifted her feet, giving the impression she was going to throw a kick. And Naruto fell for it...

The ninja took a bigger jump back, and was hit with a powerful punch to the stomach as a result. However, Nia didn't stop there. The force stunned the blonde, but it didn't launch him. The kunoichi smirked, and unleashed a flurry of haymakers, uppercuts, gut checks, and hooks to any vulnerable point she could find, and in rapid succession.

On the final punch, Nia held her fist back, a look of nearly sadistic malice painted her face as she prepared to knock the genin out.

On instinct, Naruto crouched albeit in pain due to his stab wound done from the girl earlier, then barely dodged the oncoming blade aimed for his neck. With a glare, he turned and threw a few shuriken, trying to knock the kunai out of Nia's hand yet frowned as she simply caught it and threw it back, hitting his headband rather than the skin. The jumpsuit wearing shinobi clicked his tongue and tried to come up with a plan, only to be forced to jump to the side as his opponent swung downward in attempt to cleave him in half, ripping the branch behind him with ease.

The girl didn't seem to give up despite the blonde having gone into hiding. Gripping the handle, she swung the chakra blade once more, the pressure from the swing taking down multiple trees for twenty-seven meters. Naruto didn't get the chance to react as he landed and was forced instead to dodge the timbering chunks of wood that threatened to turn him into a ninja pancake.

'WOAH!' He retreated behind a boulder, holding his wounded stomach, peeking his head to see Nia actively looking for where he had gone. 'What the hell was that?! She literally swung that kunai and created such a powerful wind that it knocked those trees down... I never seen her do something like that before. That scared me for a second! Amazing!'

"Honeybuuuun," She called out to him. "Where'd you go? Why don't you come out back here? I promise if you do, I won't hurt you as bad. I'll kill you quick and easy. Would you rather bleed out from that deep stab wound I gave you earlier instead?"

A shiver ran down the blonde's spine.

His heart still ached from her coldness... from what she had told him earlier.

How could she have done something so terrible to him? How could she have had slept with other guys behind his back? How could she have pretended to have been in love with him and make him feel things he never experienced before?

He had thought she had truly loved him — that she loved him despite the fact that he has a literal beast inside him that could kill her if he were to get out of hand. He had thought she would never leave his side nor get caught up in the darkness ever again. He believed her to be the person he could rely on the most if he needed comfort or someone to talk to or support him at any point in time.

He felt they had developed such a strong bond that couldn't easily be broken. He let her stay with him, he showed compassion to her when she was at her lowest, and helped make her smile again. Did nothing of that truly matter to her? Had she forgotten? Was she ever really depressed to begin with?

Was everything... truly a lie? Did he know her at all the entire time?

The blonde narrowed his eyes at Nia's wrists as she slowly walked in his direction, his blood dripping from the tip of her blade. Sure enough, he saw the scarring on her wrist. The scars she told him she had inflicted on herself when she was younger and before she had even knew who he was.

In fact, he thought back to a much simpler time than the situation he was in now. A few months prior, the genin had asked to speak with the girl atop the Hokage monument privately sometime after having read through her diary even many more months ago. There were many things in it that she never told him about in detail and wanted there to be no secrets kept between them any longer.

He wanted to understand her past better and why she was doing the things she did. All she ever told him was the more basic things she went through, not really anymore deeper than what her diary had described. He wanted to hear everything in her own words so they could further strengthen their bond.

~FLASHBACK~

"Back then... the only way I knew how to deal with my pain was to hurt myself constantly," Nia opened up to the genin one night as he led her to the Hokage monument to speak about what he had read in her diary many months prior. "I couldn't handle the emotional abuse being done to me 24/7 and so I'd just beat myself as hard as I could. I wouldn't care about bruising my eye, breaking my nose, making my mouth bleed or any of that stuff. I just felt like I deserved to die just for being born."

This was something she had only told Akihiko way back when they were on a mission in his village. She told him in the hopes that he'd be so turned off by her past issues, that he'd leave her alone.... which didn't end up working on him anyway.

However, now she was opening up to the person she did fancy. She knew a person having had mental issues was a sure fire way to get someone to stay far away from her. The thing was, she wasn't the one to bring up the topic these days — in fact, she hadn't expressed her insecurities in months and when she would, it would only be because Naruto asked something about it, not her bringing it up.

She lowered her chin to her knees. "Nothing ever mattered to me. I just wanted to die... but no matter how hard I'd try to kill myself in so many ways possible, something always kept me alive in the end of each attempt. I felt it was so annoying. I should've died a long time ago... yet here I am still breathing for some reason."

Naruto, though noticeably a bit upset, tried to muster up a comforting soft smile to her.

"You ever think... the reason you kept surviving... was cause you're meant to do something great on this planet before it's your time to go?" He questioned. "That you were absolutely meant to be alive for a special reason?"

Nia slowly turned her head to look at him, slightly in disbelief of what he just said.

"Listen... since we're not keeping any secrets between one another... I... read through the entirety of your diary multiple times a long time ago," The blonde admitted before lowering his eyes and then locking them with the kunoichi's. "I... know about all the suicide attempts you made and all the self harm you've done to yourself. I know about the beatings, the cutting, the poisons... and all that other crazy stuff, and I know about the overdoses..."

"...I see..." Nia didn't seem surprised or upset that he snooped through all that.

Somehow... it relieved her that he did. It relieved her that she didn't have to tell him everything with her mouth cause he already knew everything from reading her diary.

"You really should be dead from all the stuff you pulled off. Hundreds of pills, Nia? Drinking all sorts of killer poisons? Beating yourself till you couldn't feel your face or until all the hate you had for yourself left briefly only to start that all over again when all that self-hatred resurfaced and even leaving scars on your body? Really, Sweetie?"

"I know..." The girl choked up and raised a finger near her eye before a tear could escape out from it. "I couldn't take it. I didn't want to hurt myself, but I just had to. I felt so worthless and like I was just some monster or something. I needed to punish myself and felt doing that stuff was a perfect release. The pain... the numbness... the bleeding... it all gave me a high and even if it would be temporal, it calmed me down from the intense aching in my heart. I didn't know how to cope with my situation. I was weak and I felt like I was truly nothing. I was hurting so badly. I'm so sorry."

"..." The blonde didn't reply.

"It's just... crazy to me when I think back on it," She continued. "When... I'd realize I survived... I just... would cry. I'd be so upset that I wasn't able to die yet so many other people were able to escape their misery. Why couldn't I just rest in peace? Why did I have to continue being tormented? Every day I would always hope I would go to sleep and never wake up or if I did wake up, be someone else. When I would try to tell someone how depressed I was and that I wanted to die... no one would really care. Some people would only pretend to... but would go behind my back and do the very thing that made me want to hurt myself to begin with. I wanted someone to hug me... to tell me that I was beautiful and that I was loved and actually mean it, but all I really heard was that I was weak and incredibly selfish for feeling the way I did."

"..."

The girl sighed.

"I knew that I had a family who cared for me, but... it just wasn't enough. They all thought I wasn't beautiful either yet would continue to lie to my face that they did think I was when I would hear them at times say that I was hideous behind my back — that... made me feel even more unloved. Even now it still hurts me. They always lie to me... I just... couldn't see any point of loving myself. How could you love yourself when you look like a monster? When everyone else in the world, including the ones you love the most, agrees that you do look like one?"

"How old were you when you would mainly do all of this?" The genin question.

"I was at my absolute worst when I was fourteen-fifteen-sixteen. It was absolutely unbearable... I never thought I'd make it this far into my life to be honest."

Nia lowered her eyes.

"S-Sorry... I babbled."

"No... keep talking," Naruto encouraged her. "I wanna hear everything. That's why I brought you all the way up here to begin with. Ever since I read your diary... I've been meaning to talk to you about this, but I was unsure of how to bring it up cause I didn't want to upset you... so please, tell me more. Let it all out. No secrets, right?"

Nia nodded.

"Well... I just felt like suicide was the right answer. You could've literally put me in a room with thousands of people, yet... I still would feel alone. You could have someone talk to me, yet... I still would think they thought I was nothing nor would speaking to a person make me feel any better. I really tried so hard to be strong at first... to ignore what was being said about me... to ignore how I was getting treated... to ignore how undesirable I was... and to ignore the monster staring back at me in the mirror. I tried just loving myself... but I couldn't."

A soft breeze blew through the air.

"I felt so alone. Usually when someone has a serious problem, they usually have people to relate to, yet... I have to deal with something most people can't understand cause I'm in the extreme minority. 99% of people aren't hideous. Most people are normal, yet..."

Nia's heart broke.

"I was born too different. Yeah... I don't have it as worse as some people, but... the fact that there's really nobody that can truly understand me... it literally... hurts me so much. Like with really big people, they have so many people they can relate too and lean on, but someone who looks like me...? Ya... I just felt like I was cursed. I always questioned why I had to be born, why my parents had to have me. Neither of them were ever ugly... they were actually very attractive in their younger days. My siblings are all very attractive... but I was born a beast. That added insult to injury cause I would see them and wonder why I wasn't blessed... why I wasn't born like them. I started thinking I must've been adopted."

The blonde just listened.

"If anyone were to feel bad for me, it would always be in the way where they're just glad they aren't me or that they were born with a decent or good face. It was never in the way where they would want to show compassion to me — where they'd want to hug me or tell me that I was born for a reason or something actually genuine or something. I hated being friendly towards people who would be nice to me to my face, but behind my back, would laugh and insult me because of my looks. It was hardly ever because of my actions or my personality. I want to be judged on who I am or what I do instead of something I just can't change unless I do something painful and change my face into something completely different than how it really is. I was born this way!"

Again, she glanced over at the blonde.

"Are you sure you wanna keep talking about this, Naruto? Don't you find me annoying?"

"No. You need to get this off your chest. Besides, I wanna know everything about you. Down to the last detail. You told me the reason you were so sad a lot of times, but this is the first time you're going way deeper than that. You never really told me about the ways you tried to get rid of yourself or anything like that. This makes me feel like we're bonding even more powerfully than before, ya know?" He winked. "I feel a lot closer to you."

He then gently wiped some of the tears off her face with his thumbs. "I mean ya, you had some completely serious issues, but what I was trying to get at earlier was, ya... those toxic poisons and all those pills you took should've killed you. You really shouldn't be alive right now, but you are... Most people would've died from that sort of thing, but you didn't. To me... that seems like a sign that your future is supposed to be super bright or something that's meant to be incredibly impactful to either the world, the people of the world, or just both in general. You didn't die cause you still clearly have something to do here. It's obvious, ya know?"

"You really think that, Naruto?" The girl wouldn't take her eyes away from him.

"Well... ya, of course. I'm blown away that you're even able to talk or move at all or are not even bed ridden right now. You're like a walking miracle, Nia."

Hearing this, the girl smiled to herself.

"You're always so kind. Thank you for saying all that and maybe you are right? Maybe I was always born and meant to survive my suicide attempts because I have certain incredible things I'm meant to do before I die...?"

"I am right."

"R-Right," Nia caught her silly mistake and apologized. "You are right — my bad, honeybun."

The genin rested his hand on her forehead then gently pushed her hair back and next brought the side of her head to his shoulder, kissing the top of it and soothing the girl.

"If you want my honest opinion... even though I didn't like you at first, I never thought you looked like some monster, Nia. I didn't think you were cute at the time, but the face never makes someone a monster even if you weren't blessed with amazing beauty."

"Yeah, but," Nia looked up at him. "You kept obsessing over Sakura cause she was pretty, so I didn't understand how you were able to be nice to someone like me then for sure give me a chance. I'm one of those girls where no one has ever thought was pretty or decent looking at the very least. I have a lot more confidence now, but... c'mon Naruto, it's hard to believe you... well..."

"Geez... why does everyone keep thinking that?" He wanted to roll his eyes. "I'm not that shallow or horrible. Yeah, I appreciate a girl's looks, but that's not all I want from a girl. I don't know how to explain it, Nia. I didn't think you were pretty at first, but getting to know you for a while and bonding with you made me start to think you were cute overtime, there. I wish everyone would lay off me about that. If I like you, I like you. I don't care if everyone thinks I'm not supposed to like you or that I could never think you're cute. Just cause they think you're ugly, doesn't mean I'm 100% guaranteed to think you are too. Damn, give me a break..."

Hearing this, Nia blushed a little and softly smiled to herself.

"Listen Nia... you really should be thankful you survived all that with no long lasting side effects. You pulled off something that really should've killed you. If that doesn't scream to you that you were meant to be born and live no matter what horrible things people say and do to you, then I don't know what does."

"Well, ya... I realize that." She acknowledged his words. "Oh and thanks for listening to me and not judging me super harshly or being annoyed with the fact that earlier on, I kept getting bothered by the same thing over and over. I just wanted someone to care for me... you know, that was outside of my family. Being able to have gotten everything off my chest made me feel a lot more happier. I don't know how you could've been so patient with my negative and cold hearted self back then, but... thanks."

"No problem, and besides, I like helping pulling people out of that sort of state of mind cause when they do snap out of it, they turn out to actually be really good people. Like, my friend, Gaara. He was dealing with some serious problems that were waaaaay worse than yours, but if you were to meet him now, you wouldn't think he'd ever had any issues cause he's so calm and kind now. Dealing with you might've been very irritating sometimes, but at least you're a lot different now. I just think showing someone true kindness and acceptance goes a long way, ya know?"

"Well... I guess I'm a believer of that now," The girl chuckled. "A-Anyway, was there anything else you wanted to know?"

"Not anything in particular," Naruto replied. "That was all I wanted to talk to you about. Now that I've got the full story, I feel like a huge weight has lifted off my shoulders. You suffered really badly over something so... well, something that shouldn't be that big of a deal. I had no idea that someone looking a certain way could get them treated that especially horrible. I thought it would be bad, but not that bad."

Nia lowered her eyes.

"Maybe you were thinking about a guy being not good-looking enough, cause even though it's pretty bad for them too, nothing is worse than being a girl who doesn't fit the standard of hot or sexy cause with us, it's like our appearance is the only thing that could ever define us to a point where nothing else matters in the slightest bit no matter how hard you try or what you say or do."

The girl stared down at the lighted up village down below.

"You'll get treated like you're absolutely nothing and no one will take you seriously, you'll get insulted constantly and laughed at wherever you go, people will hate you for no reason, they'll want to abuse you physically and for sure emotionally, and it's hard to find people who won't be nice to your face but talk crap about you behind your back and laugh at you. Others simply won't even let you talk to them and push you away then call you annoying mainly cause they don't like looking at you. Don't get me started on how guys will treat you — you're either invisible or something that absolutely needs to be exterminated. They will hate you with a passion no matter what you say or do and make it known to you how much you're this hideous creature or how you should kill yourself."

Nia then sighed. "That's not even the worst part. The worst part is how no one believes you when you try to tell them how badly you're treated because of how you look. They think it's too ridiculous and small to be a super serious problem, but it's really not. That's why so many people kill themselves over it and that's why I tried to do it too — it's unbearable and a flaw you can't truly hide from others for long like you can with a rotten personality or mental issue unless you do something extremely drastic and transform yourself into a different person basically."

Realizing how much she ranted, the girl gasped and apologized.

"Oh crap, I'm sorry. I just sound like I'm whining! I'm just trying to tell you how it is since you pondered over it. We can go back to your place and I can start making dinner for us, kay? Then we can make love and- mmph!"

She was cut off when the blonde cupped her face and pressed his lips against her's. Having been extremely flustered by his sudden movement, Nia impulsively and timidly pushed away from him as her face was bright red and steam pushed out of it.

Her eyes then became black swirls while her body leaned forward quick enough to toss her over the edge of the fourth hokage's face statue.

"OH MAN! NIA!" Naruto screamed, jumping off the statue as she was falling to what could be her death if he didn't catch her.

Fortunately, he was able to and when he landed to the ground, kneeled and sat her down, holding her up with his arm.

"What the hell was that?" He spoke to her, not realizing she had nearly passed out from the random affection. "You could've died, ya know!

"Affstbufdyhfujfsrhiffujddtd," The girl could only mumble, still utterly in some trance.

Naruto sighed and shook his head.

"Damn... you're helpless..."

~FLASHBACK ENDS~

'It's just too much of a good act for this to be possibly real,' Naruto still stayed hiding behind the boulder, observing the girl's behavior as she searched for him. 'But at the same time...'

Just then, he was forced to jump to his left, evading what appeared to be another kunai trying to strike him in the heart. At first, this seemed relatively easy to dodge... then he saw the piece of paper attached to it sizzling.

BOOM!

An explosion covered the ground and coated it in smoke. As the illusion of Nia watched, she gave a confident smirk and grabbed another kunai, just to be safe. When the smoke started to clear, she saw her blonde haired foe had vanished, but before she could think of what to do, the genin suddenly emerged from another angle, with a rasengan in hand.

There, he could've gotten her. He could've blasted her right in the gut and send her flying. However, a sudden epiphany caused him to draw back his jutsu and using his moment of hesitation to her advantage, Nia swirled around and kicked him across the cheek, being the one to send him flying and crashing to the ground instead.

Naruto coughed out blood, holding onto his stomach as he attempted to get back up with a wobbly arm.

"Wow..." Nia sauntered toward him. "You're pathetic. You could've done some major damage on me right then and there, but you hesitated last second. Are you honestly that soft that you can't even hurt the girl you came to love but betrayed you in the worst way possible? I'm pretty sure no one would hesitate to kill someone whom they thought they loved who was actively trying to murder them themselves. You won't even hit me to defend yourself for goodness sake. What are you? Some saint?"

Having made it over to him, she kicked him in the gut where he was stabbed deeply, turning him over to his back and causing the ninja to groan in agony.

"Do you still want me to give birth to your babies now?" She taunted him, squatting down to get a better look of pain on his expression.

"Y-Yes..." He gave an unexpected answer as he staggered to sit up. "I still... I still want you to marry me when we're older, Nia."

"WHAT?!" The evil genjutsu Nia bursted out laughing. "Ahahahaha! Is this really happening?! You can't be serious! Please tell me you're joking!"

"It's not... a lie," Tears were sliding down the blonde's face as he gritted his teeth and squeezed his eyes shut, gripping his heart as her cruelty ate at him. "The reason... I pulled back my rasengan... was cause... I... I got scared about the possibility of you being pregnant. The truth is... I'VE BEEN SECRETLY TRYING TO GET YOU PREGNANT THIS WHOLE TIME, YA KNOW!"

~FLASHBACK~

"Where is it?!" Naruto rummaged through his apartment looking for the container that held Nia's birth control pills in.

He had looked through the bag she left in his room, but found nothing. The bathroom didn't have what he was looking for either nor his bedroom.

He knew she didn't keep it at Iruka's since she mainly lived with himself instead. She felt she could trust the blonde with it.

However... that was a mistake to leave it at his place.

When Naruto went through the kitchen, he found it pushed to the very back in one of the cabinets. Immediately, he took hold of it and pulled it out. It was a relatively new bottle given to her a few days back.

He breathed a huge sigh of relief then smiled. Finally! Finally, he was going to do what he should've done a long time ago. Taking out a different set of pills, he placed the two on the counter for comparison.

My, did they look identical...

This was it... this was the moment. He was going to save her life. He had enough of worrying to death where she was if he were gone on a mission and away from her. He was tired of coming back to the village and finding out Tsunade sent her out with no one but herself on a mission and him having to violate the village rules to retrieve Nia himself despite her being perfectly okay when he would catch up to her.

Didn't the old lady know better than to send Nia away by herself when she KNEW she was an open target for a member of the Akatsuki to assassinate?! Countless times he tried to express his concerns to the Hokage, but she'd always tell him that he needed to stop freaking out — that the missions she'd sent Nia on by herself was nothing major and something one person could handle.

Despite that, the blonde would hold a grudge against the woman. To him, her actions and decisions made it feel to him that she couldn't care less about Nia getting killed. When he would try to vent his frustrations to his friends and sensei about the situation, they'd always tell him the same things: That he was paranoid, that he needed to relax, that Nia was capable of protecting herself.

Even his own master would tell him to chill out though he did agree that Nia shouldn't be alone on missions.

Finally, he decided to take the problem to Nia, and though she was a lot more understanding of his concerns, in the end, she didn't want to quit going on missions altogether — she felt the ones she'd go on was perfectly safe and that the genin shouldn't stress so hard about not being able to keep an eye on her at all times.

This would lead the blonde into starting an argument with her on multiple occasions.

"Dammit! Why can't you see that I just want you safe, Nia?!" He would tell her with an ache in his voice. "I don't want you dying like you did before! Why won't you let me protect you?! Listen, if you quit the ninja life, then I promise we can get married and you can start giving birth to my babies as soon as possible! I don't care if we're young! I'll make you my wife and the mother of our kids immediately if it means you'll stay alive and won't put yourself at risk of getting killed! I can't be at your side 24/7, but if you stay here raising our babies, then at least I'll know you're safe, ya know! You wanna be a wife and a mommy, right?! C-C'mon, lets start a new life together, Sweetie!"

"But that's just wrong, Naruto," She would always tell him, feeling terrible over his immense concern for her. "That's a terrible reason for wanting to have babies with me right now. Marriage and being parents should come when we both feel ready for it and should be done out of love, not desperation to ensure I'll stay put here and lessen my chances of being killed. I'll be just fine, Bab-"

"BUT NIA, I LOVE YOU!" He would get choked up, grab at his heart, and nearly start sobbing. "I DON'T WANNA LOSE YOU AGAIN, YA KNOW! I WONT BE ABLE TO HANDLE IT IF YOU WERE MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD!"

Despite tearing up at his pleads and taking it into serious consideration, Nia would still wind up declining his proposal, knowing that it just wasn't being asked with the right intentions. They both weren't ready for all of that and she knew it, he knew it. She knew there were still some things he needed to do without having a baby to distract him, like bringing his best friend back to the village and getting as powerful as he could do he could make his dream of becoming Hokage come true.

However, her refusal only made things worse in the end. Naruto saw it as her signing her own death certificate — He was crushed. He could never just lock her up or anything. Though overtime, even though he was greatly upset with her, he eventually decided to take everyone's advice and just take the time to chill out and although difficult at first, he started to ease up. Nia was coming home safely and was taking the extra time to improve her skills in the hopes that him seeing her do so would calm him down.

And it did calm him somewhat for quite a while until one certain day... when she was found unconscious near the village gates by the guards. Apparently, she had suffered from a head injury and a fractured bone in her arm and was emitted to the hospital where she would end up having to stay there for some days.

When Naruto heard about what happened while she was on a solo mission than saw the state she was in while in the hospital, he snapped. Again, he would get into a heated argument with Tsunade — blaming her for why Nia was injured. Sadly, it was true cause she had mixed up Nia's mission with that of Team Guy's. As a result, with no one to back her up, the kunoichi was nearly killed if it weren't for some ANBU having spotted her being attacked whilst coming back from a mission of their own.

No more... no more was the blonde going to stay on the sidelines and let this whole mess unfold. It was time for him to take matters into his own hands. If this continued any longer, he believed she was going to die.

So, squeezing onto the bottle he now had in his hand, Naruto untwisted the cap and poured out the birth control pills before grabbing the vitamin pills that looked identical to it and pouring those into the already empty bottle.

The plan was to make Nia think she was still taking her pills when in actuality, she was only taking special pill vitamins. In fact, these vitamin pills were so incredibly special that they helped to boost her estrogen levels back up, increase her sexual libido, and increase her chances of becoming pregnant with what he hoped to be their first baby.

Yes... he knew what he was doing was wrong. He knew that having a baby so early wasn't something the two of them wanted at the moment. However, he justified in his mind that her having a baby too early was much better than her dying and not being able to have a baby with him at all as a result. Her having a baby would mean that she would be forced to stay put in the village and most likely cause her to retire from the dangerous life of a shinobi.

Her life would be spared... at least that's what was supposed to happen in his mind.

In actuality, in the prophecy, this action of his would inadvertently lead her to that of her death by the hands of the orange masked individual of the Akatsuki — It was the moment that Naruto himself had unawarely signed her death certificate.

Nia's death was rapidly approaching just like the Great Toad Sage of Mt. Myoboku said it would.

His visions were said to never be wrong.

Thinking she had a chance of living, the genin would proceed to do whatever it took to get her to lay in bed with him so he could impregnate her. This was why he seemed to have gotten so obsessed with sex to everyone lately — it wasn't that he wanted to keep at it multiple times a day and drain Nia out. He was trying to save her life and because he didn't want anyone trying to find out of his true intentions, pretended to act like he was becoming some sort of sex maniac. It was just a facade.

This act did have its downsides. He did notice how much it was beginning to cause Nia to question his true feelings for her. Did he just want sex from her? Did he value that aspect of their relationship more than anything?

And so, he was forced to come up with a plausible reason for his increasing libido and though he did enjoy having sex, he only told half truths to her. He didn't like that he had to kinda lie to her, but this was her life he was trying to protect. If she were to have found out he was replacing her birth control with pills that made her want more sex and would increase her chances of getting pregnant, things would end up extremely terrible for him and could end up with her being killed if she weren't already pregnant by that time.

For now... saying and doing whatever he could to keep her alive was something he needed to do, no matter how wrong his actions were to be to everyone... and even himself. He was not going to lose her again. It would be unbearable.

~FLASHBACK ENDS~

"I lo-love you, Nia," Naruto panted, trying to catch his breath as it was shallow. "I r-refuse to hurt you wh-when I know you c-can be carrying my b-baby right now, ya know."

"Tch!" The genjutsu Nia smacked his hand away when he tried to stroke her cheek.

Standing up, she gritted her teeth, furious as to what he had admitted to her.

"You... You got me pregnant?!"

Naruto was hoping he did, but wasn't sure if he did like he had told her.

Nia stepped her foot on his palm, rubbing it atop of it.

"Oh well," She took a deep breath to calm herself. "There's always abortion."

Naruto's eyes shot open as he suddenly found it in himself to kip up and throw a strong right hook across the girl's cheek, crashing her against a nearby tree.

"You're not killing a baby — especially not ours! Over my dead body!"

Nia fell to her knees, throwing her hand over her throbbing cheek as blood slid from the corner of her lip. When she stared ahead, she observed as the injuries done to her opponent's face had already healed and the wound done to his stomach was patching up suddenly by itself.

When she looked into his eyes though, she was appalled by the sight of his now red eyes.

"You've crossed the line with that comment, Nia!" He walked towards her, gritting his teeth and glaring intensely at her. "I'll never forgive you if you were to ever carry out something like that! I don't care how in love I am with you, ya know!"

"So what, you're gonna kill me now?" The girl stood her ground. "You and I both know you don't got it in you to-"

"Shut the hell up, would ya?! I don't plan on killing you. I'm gonna beat you back into your senses while making sure not to hit your gut, drag your ass right back to the village, then get you to give birth to our baby if you are pregnant right now and spend the rest of my life protecting you, the baby, and the rest of the Hidden Leaf villagers!"

Genjutsu Nia chuckled at this.

"Delusional... you're absolutely delusional! I told you what we had was fake! I don't have feelings for you! I never did! What aren't you understanding?!"

"I can't hate you, Nia," Naruto replied. "Even now as you're trying to literally kill me... I still can't hate you... not even hurt you badly at the very least."

Nia narrowed her eyes at him.

"It's cause you're soft," She told him. "I've told you since the time I met you that being soft hearted would get you in some deep trouble. Open your eyes, Naruto... the world's rotten... especially the people living on it. The only person you should trust is yourself. I hate how damn naive you are."

"But... that would only lead someone into falling into despair... because they have no one they can lean on... that they can trust..." He softly responded.

"No... it's because trusting someone can lead you into becoming wounded when they betray you in any way, shape, or form. Why do you think you're so hurt now? It's because you trusted me... and look what I've done to you. You're a damn fool."

Naruto weakly chuckled.

"That's funny... I get called that all the time by everyone... especially by Pervy Sage, but you know what I told him? If it comes down to it, I don't give a damn if I remain a fool my entire life, ya know!"

"Tch," The girl was annoyed. "I hate you."

"Well... the feeling isn't mutual; I love you."

Nia only looked away from him almost sadly.

"Stupid..." She said under her breath.

Catching onto her behavior, the genin called her out on it.

"You still love me too, don't you? Just... admit it already and cut the crap."

Naruto then took a step forward.

Nia pointed her kunai at him. "Stay... away."

"If you're really going to kill me... then get on with it already. Why're you hesitating?" He taunted her. "You having second thoughts or something?"

The girl gripped the handle tighter.

"I hate you... what aren't you understanding? I literally told you right from the start I hate everyone — no exceptions. We might've had sex and had some dates, but..."

"But nothing!"

Observing the situation from above, Black Zetsu used his jutsu to record what Naruto was doing whilst being deceived in this illusion.

Perhaps, it could be something used against him in the future?

"Nia..." The blonde held his arms out. "Everything that we experienced... there's no way you could've ever faked that. If you didn't love me... then... why would you ever die for me willingly? I'm not sure why you're doing this, but... if you come back to me, I can... I can forgive you."

The girl bit her tongue.

Black Zetsu couldn't come up with any good thing to make her say. Nothing he thought of would give an excuse as to why Nia would give her life if she claimed to have always hated the blonde.

Naruto was finding his way out of the genjutsu and Black Zetsu needed to stall him for just a bit while longer.

And that's when he had Nia go on the offensive.

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A/N - Once again, I was forced to push the Jiraiya scene another chapter lol at this point, when it happens, it happens 😂

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