I Can Trust You

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What up guys! So this chapter should provide some background infro about Kaji ^_^ (I just love using that face) and hopefully some tender moments between her and her teamates *WINK WINK*

Oh and the youtube link is an AMV for Naruto, I love it so much! Not sure if you guys like dubstep but whatevs!

Peace <3

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Naruto's POV

"Kakashi-sensei! How would've Kaji gotten that scar!" I whisper-yelled over to my sensei.

I looked down at her sleeping form, my eyes drifting to the giant kanji for 'demon' on her back.

'Why would anyone do that to her?' I ask myself in my head.

(A little while before)

We all sat around the table waiting for Tsunami to come down and give us a repot on our sensei and teammates health. Right when we got home, Kaji dropped Kakashi-sensei on the bed and passed out on the floor next to him. I don't know why, but hopefully she is alright. Now is one of those times is when I would have really liked to have a talent for medical ninjut-

"AHHHHH!" Tsunami screams from upstairs.

I am the first one to jump to my feet and sprint upstairs. I skip two steps at a time and bust the door open to the room Tsunami and Kaji were in.

"What happened!?" I asked worriedly.

Tsunami doesn't say anything, just drifts her sympathy and pain filled eyes to Kaji, who is lying on her stomach. I drift my eyes to her back, where her shirt is open, and see a scar the size of my head on her back. I gasp and my mouth falls open, just as my other teammates come into the room.

Their eyes drop to Kaji, who is lying on the floor, and they gasp just as loud as I did. Kakashi wakes up from our loud gasps, and his eyes travel to the passed-out Kaji who is on the floor. He was still resting, although he got up a while ago. Tsunami-chan told him to go back to sleep, which he did, after explaining to us that Zabuza was still alive.

His eyes immediately fill with regret and pity, a look that I am sure Kaji wouldn't like. Tsunami shakily gets up.

"Kakashi-sensei! How would've Kaji gotten that scar!

I see her start to stir awake from my question, and she turns over covering her scar involuntarily.

She slowly opens her eyes, to see all of our shocked faces and immediately straightens up.

"What happened? Who's here? Is something wrong?" She asks, obviously worried that something happened to her comrades.

She scrunches her eyebrows at everyones shocked faces, before taking a hand and placing it on her exposed back. Her eyes widen, before she hangs her head lower so no one would see her eyes. She lowers her eyes as she fixes her shirt.

"What." She demands to know, as she raises her head, eyes now cold.

She looks over at all of us, eyes slowly scanning each one of us. Her eyes land on me, and I gasp again as I feel a pang of hurt run through my chest. Usually her eyes would soften at me, seeing as I am her best friend. But as her eyes scanned me, I could see the pain and loneliness. I am almost positive no one else saw it. But the thing I saw most, even as she looked at me, was distrust and coldness.

Something happened to her when she was at the Land of the Moon. She hasn't told me everything, she probably hasn't even told the Hokage yet. Her eyes move on to Kakashi-sensei, eyes still hard and void of emotion. Kakashi-sensei flinches at her foreign cold glance at him.

"I am going to be getting food and leaving to train. Do not bother me for the next day or two, unless you wish to die." Kaji says, a shadow coming over her beautiful eyes.

We all mumble an 'ok', still shocked that Kaji would talk to us like that.

We were all so used to Kaji's natural aura, that when something personal of hers was revealed, she didn't know how to react. I guess we were more similar than we thought, when I found out the Nine Tailed Fox was inside of me, I didn't know how to react.

Mizuki, that scumbag, made me feel so bad. Worse than I ever felt before, and I felt as if that was the worst moment of my life. No bullying, name calling, or dirty glances could have compared to the shock and hurt that I felt at that moment.

I could understand her.

My teammates slowly regain their senses as they all walk back to the dinner table, quietly sipping on their tea.

Kakashi-sensei come down and tells us that he will help us train.

"But sensei!" Sakura yells at him, like a strict mother would, "You are still recovering! Plus, how would a little training help us defeat Zabuza! You were barely able to beat him!"

"Sakura, this training will help you. Trust me." Kakashi-sensei replies.

(Woohoo timeskip)

"So," Kakashi-sensei starts, " You are going to be climbing a tree today."

Sasuke snorts, and Sakura looks at Kakashi-sensei weirdly.

"What! That is so easy! How would that help us!?" I yell at him.

"Now now, you guys didn't let me finish. You are going to be climbing a tree, with no hands," Kakashi-sensei says, as he walks over to a thick tree and starts to walk up the tree.

"What!? How is he doing that??" I question loudly.

"Shut up Naruto! Kakashi-sensei has to explain it!" Sakura yells as she punches me on top of the head.

I cover up the hurt bubbling in my stomach, and instead start to rub the bump on my head.

"Ok you guys, what you want to do is focus chakra into your feet and run up the tree. If you focus too much chakra, you'll be bounced off the tree. But, if you use too little, than you won't stick to the tree. You will need perfect chakra control to do this. Basically, if you are able to do this, you will be able to do any jutsu." Kakashi-sensei finishes.

He throws three kunai all at our feet and says, "Mark how high you get and try to get higher and higher each time."

We all take the kunai in hand and begin our training.

"I'm off to look for Kaji... she will receive... special training." Kakashi-sensei says as he disappears.

Kaji's POV

I ignored the hot tears trying to spill out of my eyes, and focused on getting as far away from that house and my teammates as I could. I felt extremely guilty from causing Naruto and my teammates hurt, but I pushed that feeling into the pits of my stomach.

I ran about 5 miles away to the house, and stopped in a clearing with trees surrounding me in a circle. I screamed, as all my emotions busted out of me as if I was a volcano. I kept screaming, feeling my throat get raw, and put a huge amount of chakra into my fist as I punched the thickest tree I could find. The tree had a hole that went through it, and stared to sway. I punched it again and again until my hands were covered in blood.

Since my hands were now handicapped, I powered a kick with chakra at a new tree, as the tree I was punching collapsed. I kicked it until I felt my feet get bloody, and started to scream again.

The tears poured down my face, as I pushed all of my emotions to the surface, allowing them to take hold of me. I felt light blue chakra surround me, and power flowed through my veins. I kicked and punched everything in my vicinity, feeling my emotions flood my thoughts.

All the hate, despair, depression, anger was flowing out of me as I repeatedly punched the ground making huge craters. Everything I held back for the 6 years I was gone suddenly came out.

I punched and punched until I felt the light blue chakra succeed back into me. I sensed a heart beat coming my way, and recognized it as familiar. My thoughts were foggy, as if Zabuza came into my mind and performed the hidden mist jutsu. That obviously wasn't the case, I guess I was going into shock. I had never let out my emotions before. After the death of my clan, I didn't see any point in showing them if they were just going to stab you in the back.

I fell to my knees, breathing heavily as I lowered my head to look at my hands. I looked at my blood soaked hands, and it reminded me of when my hands were covered in my brothers blood.

I looked back up at the sky and felt the hot tears run down my face. I could sense the heart beat getting closer and closer, until I was enveloped into a warm hug from behind.

I turned my head around to face my best friend.

"It's ok Kaji, I am here for ya, believe it!" He whisper-yelled softly into my ear. I started to cry softly, but it soon turned to intense sobbing as I let out all my feelings. I clutched Naruto's orange jumpsuit tighter and tighter, as his hold also got tighter and tighter around me.

It was strange, getting a hug from somebody. I felt this warm feeling before, but that was a long time ago. I hugged Naruto tighter and asked him something that I have wanted to ask someone deep down for the past 6 years.

"Can I trust you Naruto? Will you every betray me, hurt me, or use me?" I ask him, my puffy red eyes connecting with his beautiful blue eyes.

"You can trust me Kaji." He says softly, eyes showing nothing but the truth.

"Can I tell you then? My past? I just.." I started to cry softly again, "Need to let it out. Vent to someone."

"You can tell me anything Kaji!" He replies back whole heartedly.

"6 years ago, I used to live in Konoha, I am sure you knew that. However, one day, I came home to find my clan dead. Like Sasuke's clan, mine was massacred. Not just killed, but tortured. The friends that I would play tag with on weekends, no longer had hands, and their faces with bashed in and mutilated. I did sense one persons heart beat. Their slow.. slow heart beat. I rushed over to the person, who happened to be my brother. His eyes, were gauged out of his head and they laid next to his head. His legs, weren't connected to his thighs. You could see the bone on his hands, Naruto... I won't ever be able to erase that image from my thoughts. I saw the man who killed my clan, but he disappeared before I could get revenge. After which, I went to the Hokage who told me I would be sent away to the Land of the Moon. You know why? So I could become a jinchuuriki for the ten-tails. His name is Minoru. When I was in the Land of the Moon.." I started to cry slightly more than I was before, "I was bullied. Much like you. Stupid reasons too, because I had red eyes, my hair was different, I was from a foreign place. Most of them probably didn't even know that I held a beast that could go on a rampage any time. Although, I don't hold my beast in contempt. It was humans who made him this way, he was probably a peaceful creature before we decided to abuse his power. That scar you saw on my back, I got that on the first day there. I almost died from blood loss, however my clan were fast healers. Thankfully I was able to heal most of the words they carved into my skin. I wasn't able to heal the kanji scar on my back. All the tourists and villagers found out that I was host for the ten-tails, and just abused me more. Probably the only glance that wasn't filled with hatred that was directed to me was from the librarian there. Her eyes were filled with greed, seeing as I spent most of my money there. She just acted nice. But after receiving so many hateful glances... I became thankful that she gave me a fake look. I fell in love once too, while I was there. His name was Hikaru. I don't know why I liked him, as he was one of the people that bullied me. But sometimes, I could see regret in his eyes after they beat me. I am sure you know the feeling of not being able to fight back, right? If you did... they would just see you as more of a monster than they claimed you were. So I took it, from the boy I loved, from my peers. I trained my ass off Naruto, I worked so hard to push back all of my feeling and be nothing but a blank slate. And eventually, I did. Right when I accomplished that though, Hikaru came to me and told me he liked me. Little did he know, people were watching. Do you know what happened to Hikaru, Naruto?" I asked him.

"What happened?" Naruto asked me softly.

"They stoned him to death. I couldn't protect him. They held me back and made me watch as the first guy I ever loved was stoned and beaten to death. I became so over come with anger, I asked Minoru for power, to get out of their grasp. I was covered with light blue chakra, and I killed 11 children by accident. By the time I had came ot Hikaru, he was dying. You know what his last words were, Naruto? 'Kaji Tora, I hate you and everything you represent. I never really liked you, it is your fault that I am dying. I hate you, you should... die.'. He said it with so much venom... I isolated myself and trained to the brink of death to push back all my feelings. All of this.." I say as I point to the damage I did within the mile radius of us, "Were the feeling that I pushed back." I finish, still softly crying.

Naruto looks at me, and uses his hand to take my chin and pull it so I was looking directly at him.

"Kaji, you didn't deserve any of that. If only I could show you how much I cared..." Naruto said.

"Show me Naruto." I say to him.

He looks hesitant, but his eyes clear of hesitation and changes to determination.

He leans in, and pulls my mask down. I involuntarily close my eyes, but instead bolt my eyes open as I hear a voice calling us.

"Naruto! Kaji! You guys there?!" Sakura yells.

We both pull a little away from each other, as I see Sakura coming towards us.

"Oh hello Sakura." I say tiredly.

"What happened!? Are you ok?!" She asks frantically.

I give her a tired smile, and open my mouth to reply, but instead start to feel darkness pulling me out of consciousness.

I look over to see Naruto, and fall down on his lap. I smile a soft smile at him, as my eyes close and I am pulled into darkness.