I own nothing in this but the OCs. The rest is probably Kishimoto's or another awesome anime director
In the forests between the Country of Rice and the Country of Fire, there was a young girl with long brown hair that went to the middle of her back and beautiful brown eyes. She wore a white shirt and white pants. She was running in the trees trying to get away from someone. Three sound ninja were hot on her trail. "GET BACK HERE!" one yelled. "Hell no!" she thought. Then one threw a kunais at her, she dodged most but one grazed her shoulder and another slashed her left leg. She winced in pain and put her hand in her small bag on her waist. She took out a food pill. Once eaten she began to picking up even more speed creating an even bigger gap between her and the ninja.
"I have to keep running!" the girl thought. "They're catching up!" a women's voice told the girl. She knew she could trust the voice. The girl turned her head and saw them again. "They just don't know when to quit" it was very annoying they were still trying to get her. She grabbed a scroll turned fully around, still jumping in the trees, and made a blaze of shuriken and kunais fly at the sound ninja following her. The kunais only had to just cut the skin to help her, and each one did. They all fall to the ground. The weapons were laced with a special sleep medication that makes the person drowsy and forget where they are when they wake up. The girl jumps down and looks at them. "That's for before. Please forgive me, I didn't want to fight you" thought the girl. "Now to Konoha. Maybe they could help…" the girl thought before running again. She was trying to get as far away from any other ninja that could be following her. Keeping a relatively quick pace, trying not to waste all her energy at once. A few hours pass, no sign of any ninja following. She finds a nice shady spot under a tree and decides to rest for a bit. But being exhausted from all the running she ended up falling asleep.
~Anbu POV~
It was a normal B ranked mission. You know where you have to stop an allied nation's kage from being murdered. We were on our way back to the village, no thugs or anyone trying to attack us on our way. But then I noticed a body lying under a tree. When I got closer I noticed it was a girl and she was in a beaten up state. She wore a dirty white shirt and pants and there was something over her mouth. It looked like a huge muzzle, the only thing was it was entirely metal and covered from the top of her nose to bottom of her chin. There were only two nostril holes for her to breath threw. "What is this? Ushi come look at this!" one anbu said. He wore a mask that was white and black, it almost looked like a cat. The other anbu called Ushi walked over. His mask was all whit except for a purple triangle between the eyes. "What is it Tora?" Ushi asked as he walked over to his teammate. "It's a girl. And there is something on her face." Tora said bending down and picking up the girl. She was pretty light so it was easy to hold her. "What are you doing?! She could be an enemy!" Ushi said with concern in his voice. Bringing an enemy into their village could spell disaster. "I don't see a headband on her and she's pretty beaten up. She needs to see a doctor." replied Tora as he stared walking towards the direction of the village. "I don't like this. I have a bad feeling" said Ushi while trying to keep up with Tora. The village wasn't too far, only a few more miles.
~The Girl POV~
The girl awoke to sun shining very brightly in her face. She squinted trying to see where she was. She looked around and noticed the Konoha doors to the village, then she noticed she was moving. The girl then looked at the anbu man that was holding her. He looked back at her. "Oh you're awake? Morning." He said smiling under his mask. "Why is he carrying me? Where am I going?" she thought. Being very worried what might happen she jumped out of his arms and a good fifty feet from him. She ran quickly. Not knowing the area at all, this was bad. And she really didn't want to get cornered.
~Anbu POV~
Tora was just a few yards into Konoha when he noticed the girl woke up. He smiled, not that she could tell, and greeted her. The girl in his arms started to move, then jumped out of his arms and started to run. "Hay!" he yelled, but she was too far away. "What did I tell you?" Ushi said. The two men began to go after her. No use, they ran to where she last was but couldn't see her anywhere. "We have to find her. I'll inform the Hokage, you look for her" said Ushi he disappeared already on his way to the Hokage tower not waiting for Tora to protest or anwser. Tora chose a direction and started running to look for the missing girl. "If she is an enemy, the Hokage will have my head on a stick for sure!" he said
~The Girl POV~
She looked behind her to see if the anbu men had caught up to her, nope no sign of them. "I need this thing off so I can defend myself better" she thought. But who would help? For all she knew, she was going to be interrogated by the leaf's Ibiki Morino, Konoha's interrogator and torturer. Just the thought chilled her to the bone. When she wasn't looking she bumped into someone. She fell over and landed on him. When she looked she noticed a green flak jacket. "Anbu!?" She got up fast. But then she noticed, it wasn't an anbu.
~Shikamaru's POV~
I was just walking with Asuma Sensei talking to him about shogi and how he could almost beat me at it if he took his time with each piece. He thinks I play like an old man. Then all of a sudden I was knocked off my feet by someone and they landed on me. I looked and saw a girl about my age staring back at me. She got up pretty quick and began backing away then started running. "That was weird, are you ok Shikamaru?" Asuma Sensei asked holding out his hand to me. "Yeah I'm fine. But she looked terrified when she saw me. And did you see what was on her face?" I said getting up with Asuma's help. "Her clothes were dirty too. Do you think she is an escaped prisoner? It'll be a drag if she is." I continued. "Well I don't know but we should just follow just in case" Asuma said as he began to follow her. "What a drag" I said. I could think of many other better things I could be doing, like playing shogi, but I decided to follow Asuma "you owe me a game of shogi when this is all over". Asuma laughed.
~The Girl POV~
The person she bumped into was Shikamaru Nara and his sensei Asuma Sarutobi. Her face turned pale and started to back away in fear. "Oh no! I'm in some serious shit here" "Its ok just start running out of the Nara's jutsu range" the women's voice told her. She started running faster this time. She jumped on the top of a tall building to see where the Nara boy was. She looked left than right. But when she turned around she noticed he was only a few houses away. Their eyes met. "He's following me!" Then the girl decided to walk over to the edge of the building, she looked at him and began to fall backwards. But she was in no danger because when she was down far enough, she focused the chakra in her hands and feet to cling to the wall. She went to the right side of the building and climbed down. "Maybe that will fool them". She got off the wall and began walking trying to blend in as much as she could with the people around her.
~Shikamaru POV~
"She saw us! What a drag now she's gonna run faster" I complained. I noticed she stared walking to the end of the other house. Not run like I thought. "What the hell?"
"Maybe she heard you" Asuma said stopping where he was.
Then the girl turned to us and started to fall.
"Is she insane?!" Asuma exclaimed and began to run towards the girl.
We ran to where she fell. But we didn't see a body on the ground, in fact it was as if she wasn't there. And that's when it dawned on me "She tricked us. She knew we'd come here as she made her escape". Asuma nodded in agreement with what I said.
"And she is probably trying to blend in now" he said
"What a drag" I sighed. "I guess we will have to split up"
~The Girl's POV~
"Maybe if I find him he could help me" the girl was thinking to herself and was completely unaware of the person coming up behind her at great speed. She was knocked off her feet. How ironic. "Are you ok Miss?" she turned slightly and saw a boy in a green jumpsuit with sweatbands on his ankles. His hair was in a bowl cut and his eyebrows were so thick they could probably be braided. "Miss? Did I hurt you?" she shook her head. "He doesn't seem threatening. Maybe he could help". He held out his hand to help her up and she took it. She kept her head down so he wouldn't see the metal muzzle on her face. "What's the matter?" the bushy browed boy (AN: try saying that ten times fast) questioned trying to look at her face. The girl hesitated for a moment not wanting to scare the boy, then slowly lifted her head to show him why she wasn't talking and pointed at the muzzle. "What is that?" "LEE!" she and the boy, Lee looked at the direction of the yell.
~Shikamaru POV~
After Asuma and I decided to go on either side of the building to find the girl. I went to the right, Asuma went to the left. I was looking for less than ten minutes when I noticed Lee talking to someone. Poor girl he's probable talking up a storm. When I got a little closer I realized he was talking to the girl we were looking for. "LEE!" I yelled at him. He has no clue what is going on. She and Lee both look at me. "Shit!" I thought "she might start running. What a drag". I get closer and realize she isn't going to start moving. "What is she planning?" "Hay Lee what are you doing?" I asked him keeping my distance. "Oh, hay Shikamaru! I was just doing my daily warm up of five hundred laps around the village when I accidently bumped into this girl." Lee then pointed to the girl who was trying to hide behind him. She would occasionally look at the ground then back at me.
"Is she seeing if I am going to use my shadow possession jutsu?" I thought.
"What's wrong?" he asked her.
The girl would look at me and then back at Lee. "Is she trying to make me seem like the bad guy?"
Lee then looked at me and said "Shikamaru, do you know her?"
"Yes, "I only partially lied "and she has to come with me" I took one step forward toward Lee when she jumped high into the air and away from us. "Not again!"
Lee looked at me with confusion "What's going on?"
"Asuma and I think she is an escaped prisoner but we are unsure. All we know is she wants to stay away from Asuma and me"
"Well then let's go find her!" he said before going after her.
"What a drag, now I have to watch out for two people".
~Girl POV~
"Why do I keep running into him? I need to find…" she trailed off looking everywhere in a panic when she spotted a certain short brown haired anbu "THERE!" she jumped down a few hundred yards behind him, he was wearing a green flak jacket like the other anbu, with a blue long sleeved shirt and blue pants. She slowly walked up on him. She was about to tap his shoulder when he turned around and looked at her. She jumped a little. "Hm? Do you need something?" he asked with a smile. The girl nodded and pointed at the mask.
"That? You want that mask off?" he questioned
The girl nodded again in agreement. "Sure, I'll get it off for you." He said and went to go touch the front of it when the girl jumped back quickly and shook her head. "What's wrong? You want me to get it off you right?" The girl was pointing to the back of her neck. She moved her hair to show the back of the muzzle. There was what looked like a buckle and a paper seal. "I see. One second please." The man then release the seal from the mask and unbuckled it for her. She took a deep breath of the fresh air.
Chapter one is done. Please review. And thank you.
