I’ve never seen a story like this, but may a request a naruto x fem!reader. Basically enemies to lovers type of story. It could be smut or fluff I don’t mind, but it’s been on my mind for a while.
thank you for this amazing ask 😫😫 you're brilliant!
it stayed with me since i received it
this is such an interesting concept - true, haven't seen it before
i attempted it in a way i hope it works - took me a bit to circle around this one - they are kind of enemies - will make sense along the way
hope you'll enjoy 😊🥰
notes: fluff/angst
Rain mercilessly tore through any bit of clothing her body was covered with, drenching every inch, the pitch black cloak unable to sustain the heaviness of it along with its hood, all the cold water dripping down her face in multiple waves. Gritted teeth forced the jaw into a tensed contraction in hopes of alleviating the sharp pain conferred by the deep cut along the calf, wound oozing with dark blood slowly washed away by the rain. Her body flew at a desperate speed through the trees, once every three branches a foot landing and pushing even further, pleading with a deeply embedded rage that she will be capable of making it back, of not fainting from the amount of blood loss and collapse.
When the past and the present violently crashed into each other an hour ago, she did not expect for a single moment for such a trained mind, body and soul to crumble under a single, deep stare filled with nothing but love and purity. For the past few years, she did nothing but to live in a blinding haze of lost memories, aggravating blackouts and rivers of blood staining the porcelain skin of, now, bruised hands. When all countries deemed Y/N a traitor, a rogue Shinobi lost to a group that became an entirely dysfunctional family, taking her in and nursing every bit of the immense power she possessed, the fallen princess of Konoha believed it all to be true. She did not remember when the decision to desert all that was the most dearest was taken and never received an answer when the question was asked.
Multiple sounds of sharpness were picked up by one of the most skilled and keen hearing, blades missing the target by chance only for one specific kunai to stab its pointy tip through the material of the cloak covering her right arm. Tearing through it, Y/N made a miscalculated choice to dodge any possible incoming attacks and the ninja sandal's rubbery sole slipped against one of the branches, pushing her into losing all balance, dangerously plummeting to the ground. In an attempt to land safely, Y/N pressed the wounded leg against the muddy ground, keeping the hearing as active as possible despite heartbeats booming into her ears. Wincing, the knee caved under her from the searing pain, digging into the rain drenched mud.
"Finally." the voice that has been haunting her for years said, laced with tiredness and sorrow.
"Stay there!" Y/N growled, eyes trained on a pair of ninja sandals taking two steps towards her, feeling how the blood oozing out of the calf was flowing down furiously.
"Look at me." the other Shinobi said broken, yet relived, stopping where she instructed. "Please .."
That was the fatality of such moment that threw Y/N into a loop of unavoidable feelings, heart and mind fighting a most gruesome battle as she raised her head against all judgement. Barren eyes met bright blue, their shade stripping away all the darkness brought by the brutal storm, two flashes of pure light stabbing right through the numb organ pulsating into her heaving chest.
Children's laughter danced into ringing ears, whispers of a faint life that seemed to barely be alive, dying out heartbeats accompanying a past Y/N remembered through the cracks of a reality that was foreign. She recognized the boy standing before her, head cocked to the side with a painful melancholy that sent shivers down her tired spine.
"It's me." he said weakly, almost as if in a pain that could not be understood by anyone but her, lips curved downwards in disbelief at the sight. "Naruto."
Electric shocks pierced each synapse pulsating into her brain, the forceful grip of a familiar rage suffocating every part of what makes one human, being remembered, flashback after flashback, on who the person standing before her was. Every single fight in which they have been involved against each other, all the cuts and bruises left on one another, his voice calling her name over and over again as years passed by, relentlessly chasing Y/N for a purpose she could not quite understand. A kunai deeply embedded into Naruto's abdomen flashed inside her troubled mind, blood flowing in merciless waves that had him cough violently. This was one of the moments that have haunted Y/N for the past year, when they last met both on the brink of death in their fight, his desperate pleads for her to return.
Return where?
Do I have where?
She did not remember of having a home and it most certainly could not be in Konoha, the village embedded into the brain to be destroyed completely.
"Y/N." Naruto extended a hand. "You will bleed out."
"Thanks to you." she sneered, gaining the force to push herself upwards, to level with the boy that could not wipe the sadness off his beautiful face.
"That was not me." Naruto replied, finally avoiding her piercing gaze and eyeing the ground in shame. "That was Ino. Remember her?"
Frustration overcame Y/N, all the names learned over the years that meant absolutely nothing to her and, yet, they felt incredibly familiar and warm: Naruto, Ino, Sasuke, Sakura, Shikamaru, Kakashi, Tsunade, Jiraiya. The list could continue until the sky would clear out and the moon will be finally seen, him throwing these names at her every single time they met as if they meant something.
Am I missing information?
Y/N was well aware of how time seemed to pass by with unfilled gaps in her memory, not knowing how a certain place was reached, how a week flew by without any knowledge of her actions during the time, how bodies would pile up without knowing if it was her bringing them to their demise.
Am I losing my mind?
Am I supposed to know all of those people?
Am I supposed to know Naruto?
Allowing her heart to ask the mind questions which seemed to have their answers held by Naruto, waves of shocks were short-circuiting again and again her entire, now fragile, being. Eerie whispers with demands lacing their tonality spilled into the reality Y/N was trying so hard to cling herself to. Commanding the kill instilled into a scrambled mind, a harsher voice summoned all the rage such small, yet strong, body could produce, pumping constantly scenes of past fights with the people of Konoha, twisting the beautiful, kind and warm boy that Naruto always seemed to be into a monstrosity that came to claim her heart through the sharp stab of a kunai.
I have to kill him.
With every ounce of force Y/N exerted on herself to not listen to what was dictated, the louder the voice was getting, menacing, laughing into her face for being a weakling. This was the mission of a cursed life.
The bane of my existence: Naruto Uzumaki.
Taking advantage of Naruto's gaze shamefully eyeing the ground drenched in the endless pouring rain, Y/N pushed forward to grab the extended hand, ignoring the wounded calf that could not be felt anymore, numbness enveloping it as all the adrenaline of the attack spilling into the boiling blood pumped through the veins. Fingers latching around his wrist, Y/N pulled, chakra concentrating into the other hand, fist ready to strike, wanting to destabilize him before going for the kill. Naruto simply sighed and quickly shifted, her fist missing him by an inch, body going forward into complete nothingness. With a blinding speed, Naruto turned around the balance of power, twisting her arm upwards and pulling her backwards, back hitting his chest with a quiet gasp. The other hand found Y/N's free one, catching the wrist and applying the necessary pressure until her fingers straightened out in a pain he never wished to inflict on her.
"Stop." Naruto's warm breath brushed against her ear, fingers reaching upwards from the wrist and intertwining with hers. "For once just .. stop."
Why am I shivering?
Y/N was not cold, the rain was as warm as the air, a Summer storm that brewed around two hearts beating in harmony, one not recognizing the other. The familiar closeness she had always felt when in Naruto's presence, calmness of a purity that drove her into madness nights on end, not understanding one bit who this boy was supposed to be to her. With every passing second in which Y/N felt his body pressed to hers, shivers ran along the skin, wanting to know more, to understand better why he has been chasing her around as if his life depended on her. Quiet shift of a body had Y/N feel Naruto's head bowing, forehead colliding on top of her head as a deep, shaky breath left him.
"I know you're in there." Naruto whispered, pain and yearning dancing with the pouring rain, drenching even the deepest part of his hopeful and tired soul. "Remember me, please."
"I-I don't .." Y/N breathed, demeanor caving suddenly, betraying a past life that was hidden under a vicious purpose. "I don't know you."
"You do." Naruto said, holding back the same tears that have been nestled into his heart for far too long, guiding their arms forward until four hands intertwined on her belly, completely enveloped into the warmest hug ever felt. "Better than anyone."
Screams boomed into Y/N's head, surges of pure killer instinct being spilled into her blood, bubbling to the surface, pulling out a vicious smirk as the boy stood there filled with a hope many did not had anymore. Y/N betrayed again the instinct deeply rooted into her gut to not touch a hair on his head, leg swiftly moving backwards in between Naruto's, kicking him right in the shin, a loud groan erupting from the Shinobi. Arms released, she quickly spun around and bent forward, palm pressing against his stomach from which a wave of strong chakra was released. Naruto gasped the moment he felt electroshocks ravaging the insides of his body, pushed forward through the air, back hitting a tree causing a choked cough to come out. He watched in pain, sadness pooling into his eyes as Y/N came towards him, kunai in one hand, rage splitting such gracious and beautiful features in a monstrosity he did not recognize. Naruto knew she used the last of her chakra in this hit, the chances of taking Y/N down being substantial now and yet .. he could not bring himself to take action.
When Y/N disappeared from Konoha, everyone believed she went on to join Sasuke in his endeavors, their weird, dark bond always present since children. Searches have been done, ANBU scouring the land as far as it went and always coming empty handed. Six months later when she reemerged in an Akatsuki cloak, empty eyes with an unrecognizable void, standing by Obito Uchiha and declaring the start of the Fourth Shinobi War, everyone left behind was in shambles. It was for the first time in his life, Naruto turned love into hate, a love so powerful that could turn in nothing else but the disgusting feeling he never wished to acquire.
How could Y/N leave everyone? Leave me for THEM?
The answer never came, chasing her all over, fighting almost to the brink of death, painfully remembering how he deemed Y/N a traitor, something he did not do with Sasuke but was ready to do with her out of pure hurt. Naruto could not remove the image of her bright smile and blushed cheeks whenever he would say the most stupid thing, all of that only so he can see Y/N laugh time and time again. He could not get over how her hand felt in his, walking the streets of Konoha as if nothing else mattered into this accursed world, the first girl to ever hold and feel things only seen at others.
How come the person of my entire being turned her back on the life she always deemed so precious?
Y/N suffered greatly the moment she woke up without a family around. Father in ANBU, killed by Orochimaru. Two younger brothers perishing shortly thereafter - one in Orochimaru's experiments and the other by Kabuto's hand when refusing capture, fighting back for his freedom. Mother taking her own life shortly thereafter.
THE INFINITE TSUKUYOMI IS THE ANSWER! - Y/N screamed to Naruto, her figure menacingly guarding Obito in the war - all she wanted was to be with her family again.
Why does she not remember us? Me?
It took a dying Madara to reveal the answer to Hashirama and the chasing resumed for another two years. Drained, tired, mentally exhausted to be the target before Y/N's eyes, Naruto finally caved against the tree, knowing that her life will peacefully resume once he would die by her hand.
"You're done." Y/N spat, body landing on top of his, straddling Naruto with the kunai held against his throat. "This ends here."
"Can I do something before I die?" Naruto asked, half-smile tugging at his chapped lips.
"A last wish." Y/N chuckled eerily. "Go on."
Naruto's features softened, melancholy pooling into his bright blue eyes, the sadness of his smile gripping at Y/N’s heart with a force she did not recognize as his index finger brushed away a wet hair strand and placed it behind her ear. She shivered leaning in, body reacting on its own at the contact, Y/N's rage fighting a confusion that rattled into the deep ends of her soul. Naruto's arms wrapped around her body, pulling until their bodies flushed against each other completely with the kunai resting in between their necks.
"I love you." Naruto whispered, nose nudging a cold cheek that used to always burn under his intense gaze, now grazed with bruises and an unforgiving pain.
Pangs of pain littered Y/N’s heart, soul humming harmoniously at the sound of such intimate words, small, quiet cracks could be heard inside of her brain as if something started crumbling the moment the boy uttered the sentence. Body trembling, mind in complete disarray as children's laughter resounded again into Y/N's ears, the warmth of foreign tingles pinching her bloodied lips, taste buds tickled by the flavor of a ramen she never had, madness stretching every inch of her being at all of the sensations hitting at once.
"What are you on about, Y/N?" Naruto's voice boomed inside her head. "This is for life."
Jolts pushing Y/N back, staring wide-eyed at the defeated boy before her, wondering if all of those feelings were born out of love, an equally foreign factor she has not encountered in years, since her entire family passed away but could recognize it faintly. Tears streamed down Y/N's face, kunai trembling against Naruto's neck, his eerily peaceful smile bringing her desperation.
Why?
Why can't I remember?
Why don't I know why he loves me?
The menacing voice was raging inside her mind, commanding to kill him once and for all, that she will be free of duty to live the life she always dreamed of. One Y/N was not capable of remembering. In a twisted way of events, she managed to keep the voice at bay as bright blue entrapped her completely, allowing Naruto's fingers to explore her face, tracing every single curve, stopping for a moment on a dimple inherited from her mother.
"Who am I to you?" Y/N asked, head cocked slightly to the side like a clueless kid staring at the wonders of the world. "Why do you .. love someone like me?"
"Do you truly want to know?" Naruto asked, tears pooling into his eyes as all he wanted was to kiss her back to him.
"P-pl-please .." she whispered, kunai pushing slowly into the skin of his neck. "T-the voice .. I can't .. i-it doesn't stop .."
"It will." Naruto said with a soft smile, noticing Ino walking quietly right behind Y/N with tears streaming down her face seeing her best friend in an unforgiving pain. "I promise."
"Please, Naruto." she sobbed, small droplets of blood trickling from the shallow wound the kunai began inflicting, his name rolling off her lips as it used to having Naruto choke back heavy tears.
"Shinranshin no Jutsu!" was all Y/N heard before blackness engulfed her troubled mind, Ino taking over completely.
6 months later
"Naruto, drop it!" Y/N laughed, dishcloth thrown skillfully as it landed on his head.
"Why do you always have to fight my help?" Naruto asked, pouting while closing the faucet and turning around.
"Because there are only two plates." she sighed, leaning against the door frame of the kitchen, arms crossed against the chest. "You did more than enough for me."
"So what?" Naruto rolled his eyes, throwing the dishcloth on the counter. "I chose to."
"Kakashi Sensei chose for you." Y/N replied, watching how he walked up to her, fingers pinching the dimple on her left cheek.
"Oh, God!" he groaned, pinching the bridge of his nose. "Is Kiba getting in your head again?"
"Wh- .. No!" she said while puffing her cheeks, a faint blush covering them. "I just want you to resume a normal life, not taking care of me when I am perfectly fine."
"Well .." Naruto grinned, bending forward slightly only for her blush to intensify at the closeness. "Then I'll go. I was thinking of seeing a movie and have dinner together but if that is what you wish .."
"NO!" Y/N jumped, hand clasping the material of his shirt, pulling him in even more.
Both froze in their spot, wide-eyes and bright blushes gracing their features, noses almost brushing with such closeness and the air grew thicker, tension bubbling around the two. Muttering a quick and quiet 'sorry', Y/N let the shirt go while taking a step back, hitting the wall that cooled down the hotness enveloping her body.
"I have to meet Sakura." Naruto replied, brushing the entire incident with a face splitting smile. "She has the medicinal tea ready for your headaches."
Nodding slowly, Y/N slipped out of the kitchen as Naruto went for the door, bedroom door slamming behind her. He let out a much needed deep breath and slipped out, heading to meet the person that made her life easier in these past months.
When Ino and Naruto brought Y/N back, she was immediately induced into a coma to break the Jutsu Obito placed on her brain with the sole purpose to hunt and kill Naruto. It took two days of relentless work on such an intricate method of controlling one's mind with everyone waiting breathless outside the doors of a tightly guarded by ANBU location. Screams, tears, agonizing pain shattered Y/N’s entire being as everything that happened in the blackouts she sustained all those years returned - people killed and tortured for information. The downside of regaining her true self? Forgetting parts of the past that no one knew if they would ever come back anytime soon. Including what Naruto had told her two days prior to her disappearance.
When Y/N woke up, Tsunade was beyond herself as she recognized almost everyone. She had a bit of trouble with Shikamaru, Kakashi and Ino - exactly a part of the most important people in her life, the ones that had a deep impact. Missing conversations and events were slowly pieced back together, flashbacks appearing in the most random moments, in her dreams or nightmares.
When Naruto saw Y/N for the first time after waking up, she cried as never before, remembering attacking him but not what they talked about and he refused to tell her. She begged and begged but to no avail. Naruto did not wanted to force on her moments and words that did not came naturally, from the bottom of a heart that sustained one of the most darkest strains one could experience.
"After you save the world, you'll forget about me." Y/N said it under the form of a joke but Naruto frowned. "What?"
"That is what you believe?" Naruto questioned, both laying in his bed staring at the ceiling in their free day.
"Yes." Y/N chuckled. "What is a best friend compared to girls swarming you?"
"What are you on about Y/N?" Naruto followed, raising his hand to point in between them with a small smile. "This is for life."
"What are you .." she began asking, words waiting on the tip of her tongue, confused, yet hopeful, gaze meeting his.
"What I said." Naruto replied with a shrug, head turning away and severing the stare that threatened to become intense, hand finding hers on the bed. "We are for life."
The memory dissipated, words of a confession made under the blade of a kunai dancing on the tonality of his mind, as Naruto walked along the streets of Konoha, heart booming with yearning, absorbing every ounce of love he could gather from the past 6 months in which he practically lived with her. Naruto wanted nothing more than for Y/N to remember being in love with him, stupidly not noticing it earlier all those years ago.
**
Y/N paced around the house, from the bedroom to the front door and back again, fingers ruffling through the hair, the small moment in the kitchen playing on repeat into her mind. She has been trying to have a conversation with Naruto for the past two weeks, wanting to find a good moment to tell him the truth. After all the hurt she had inflicted upon him, after being in the dark for so many years, after losing the sight of what was real under a merciless and controlling Jutsu, after all the care Naruto offered for 6 months straight, almost fully moving in to watch over her and that troubled mind that was close to healing completely, Y/N needed to confess, to pull him out of the dark.
In the past half of a year, Y/N worked hard to come to terms that everything that had happened was not her fault, not out of her own desire to strike down all of those poor people, working for a force that was too great for her. Even with remembering everything and absolutely everyone, all the conversations, all the moments she shared with them, there was still something missing. It gnawed at her soul, a small pain swirling around yearning, the familiar feeling of loving someone tugging at the heart, mind refusing to unblock the last piece of the puzzle.
However, two weeks ago when Naruto came late from a two day mission, he walked into the bedroom to check if she was sound asleep, something he did every single night to make sure that there were no nightmares or tears, and that is when Y/N heard it. The pure 'I love you' laced with the same pain she kept feeling when around him 24/7, the words that unlocked the memory of her holding a kunai at his throat, the words that unlocked the memory of an innocent promise before she disappeared. Every single second of every minute of their lives spent together came crashing down as if her entire being waited for those words to be uttered again to feel completely safe before making Y/N whole again.
"I'm home." Naruto announced walking through the door to find her standing in the middle of the hallway, pale as a sheet and gawking at him. "Y/N?! Are you alright?"
She stared at his bright blue eyes, wondering how the hell was she capable of remembering all of it except the most important and deepest thing - being in love with him. Naruto walked around the house for 6 months carrying all the love they had for each other on his shoulders, leaving her to be happy and clueless, waiting for the day in which she will remember. Y/N understood why all the deep stares, the blushing glances and stuttering words were a part of their lives living together. He couldn't stop loving her, not even after almost killing him countless times, not even after she could not remember their feelings, their promise, their bond. Tears began streaming down red cheeks, hands trembling with a powerful emotion she kept hidden for the past two weeks afraid that it might be too much after all was said and done.
"Talk to me." Naruto dropped the bag in which Sakura's tea was tightly packed, rushing to place his hands on her shoulders.
"I love you." Y/N whispered, lips remaining parted, chest heaving with a deep rooted anxiety.
"W-what?" Naruto asked, shock written all over his face as he studied the face he could not forget, not even in death.
"I remembered, Naruto." she continued, searching for the moment in which he would look away at the next words. "T-two w-weeks ago."
"Everything?" he swallowed hard, wanting to make sure that all of it was etched back into her head, not avoiding her gaze for a split second, not caring that she did not tell him right away.
"Everything." Y/N replied with a small nod, hands grabbing at his opened jacket, tugging towards her. "I love you and I am so, so sorry for making you wait this long."
Forehead crashing into Naruto's chest, she let it all out, sobs and gasps between hot tears cleansed the heart and soul of a girl that was mending the cracks in them, all closing one by one with every passing second in which her life became complete.
Naruto stood there, one hand resting on top of her head while the other was wrapped around the waist, absorbing all the pain the woman he loved felt in that moment, catching up to lost emotions and feelings that have been forsaken for years.
"I'm sorry." Y/N uttered for the tenth time. "You waited too long."
"Don't." Naruto replied, hand moving from her head and under the chin to push it up slightly, wanting to see all of that love pooling into the eyes that haunted him for years. "It was all worth it and I would not have it any other way."
Pulling back slightly, her hands let go of the jacket and went to cup his whiskered cheeks, a loving smile adorning his lips as Y/N met them without wasting another second. Naruto hummed at the contact, finally being blessed with the touch and feeling he had searched for all of these years. Love and fervor danced with the softness of each other's lips, allowing themselves more space as the second went by, tongues meeting to seal shut a promise made under the innocence of a joke that was bound to turn into a fated future.
"I love you." Y/N whispered against his feverish lips. "I love you."
"Say it again." Naruto said, pulling her upwards, legs circling around his waist tightly, arms wrapping around the shoulders, completely flushed against him in fear of not losing each other again.
"I love you so much." she obeyed willingly, wanting nothing more than to say it for the rest of her life, lips pressing against his and stealing yet another kiss.
"Will you let me be yours?" Naruto asked, heartwarming vulnerability gracing the tonality of his voice as they stood in the middle of the hallway.
"Yes, please." Y/N replied, pushing back the tears threatening to spill again at how their hearts thumped into heaving chests in sync. "Can it be forever?"
"I wouldn't have it any other way." he replied, kisses being stolen between words as he carried her towards the bedroom.
"If you are mine .." Y/N whispered, lips peppering small kisses along his jawline. ".. then I want to be yours."
Two beings shattered in the twisted fate of life, not even the greatest of evils capable to withstand the most deepest of bonds, where hearts became one under the spell love binds existence with as one's soul hummed a unique song recognized only in the purest of forms by its fated other.
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