NINJA TO KERUSHI

chapter I

It was six years after the nine-tailed beast was sealed inside the hokage's son. A six year old girl of the Baguu clan had arrived at the Uchiha household. The adults would chat, and the children would play. It wasn't the first time this six year old girl would enjoy the company of the incredibly influential alliance between the Baguus and the Uchihas. In fact, she frequently visited the household. She was an only child and her best friend was all she had to rely on other than her parents.

Her best friend, Uchiha Sasuke. He was a fun loving boy who was eager to learn. Incredibly excited to attend the academy, he would train with his older brother, Itachi. That six year old girl thought much of Itachi. Almost as much as Sasuke; for she had nobody else to look up to. She even knew Itachi as nii-san and Sasuke as Saa-kun. Who was this strange girl that was one of the select few who could have full access to the Uchiha clan? Kerushi Baguu.

Kerushi had been playing with Sasuke nearby when her parents arrived to pick her up. She twirled around in silence as the wind blew her short, wavy, dark-blonde hair. For a moment, she wondered why her parents had disrupted her fun. "Kerushi," her mother began, "We're bringing you to the doctor so that you can feel better." Kerushi was confused. "I feel fine," she muttered, tossing the ball back to Sasuke who caught it with ease, though his facial expression showed sorrow.

Kerushi's father scooped her up off of the ground carried her away. "Why are you taking Keru-chan!?" Sasuke shouted. He began to chase after them, but he was stopped by Itachi. "Don't worry, she's going to become stronger," Itachi explained to Sasuke. "You can see her in a week."

(THE HOSPITAL)

The hospital frightened Kerushi. The tense environment refused to cooperate with her body. She could feel herself becoming stiffer and stiffer as she walked. "Dad, why do I have to come here?" her father smiled and explained "Because your body lacks something very important, Dear. Something called chakra." Kerushi had heard some things about chakra. She was pretty sure it was a source of energy...but she felt perfectly energized. She pondered the meaning of his words.

The family arrived at the room and Kerushi was placed on a small bed. The doctor stood across from her. "Wow, I can't believe she can walk just fine without using chakra! She's very strong!" he announced "After the chakra infusion with her blood, she should be incredibly powerful and able to learn!" The doctor made it sound really fun with the exception of the word "blood."

The doctor had Kerushi lay down as he injected Chakra through a needle into her. She winced slightly, but she managed not to moan, for she refused to look at the sight of some small sharp object puncturing her. Soon, she felt dizzy. A nurse had entered the room. Kerushi was hooked up to a monitor, just to make sure everything was running correctly in her body. But soon, her heartbeat began to slow with her breathing. Everything went blurry and Kerushi felt lightheaded as she tipped back onto a pillow into a deep sleep.

To her parents anger and dismay, Kerushi was in a coma and they couldn't get her out until the chakra could be manipulated.

Over the course of the year, the Uchiha clan had been killed off, with the exception of Sasuke, and doctors developed an elaborate genjutsu that they would use on Kerushi while she was comatose. This jutsu would allow her to live a near-average life inside a fantasy, genjutsu world. This would allow her to grow and develop a stable mentality for her age so she wouldn't wake up a six year old in a fourteen year old body.

Before the Uchihas were killed, the Baguu family had created a deal that they would receive the sharingan after the Uchiha' s death. Though Kerushi was in a coma, the deal was still on and her pretty green eyes were replaced with Uchiha eyes.

Occasionally, Sasuke would visit but keep it a secret from his peers. And, once a year, Itachi would visit and use the jutsu he's known for using on Sasuke. He would press his fingers to Kerushi's forehead and allow her to learn all he knows. Kerushi's body matured along with her mind under genjutsu's illusion. Due to a small, unimportant war, Kerushi's parents died in battle only 3 years before she awoke to a new world.

"What's going on?" she asked, frightened "Why am I in the hospital?" whatever jutsu that was being used while she was asleep now felt like a distant dream. Kerushi remembered going to the hospital as a child. She stood up, now noticing she was wearing a set of matching light blue PJs, the shirt a button-down that was oversized. Kerushi rushed over to the door, slid it open and peeked around the hallway. Two doctors were rounding the corner. They gawked in surprise when they saw Kerushi.

"Baguu's awake!" They yelled. Kerushi was nudged by something moving so fast she could barely see. In a moment, she was sitting back on her hospital bed, a tall blonde woman with loose piggy-tails and a strange indigo diamond on her head stared intensely at her. "Kerushi Baguu," she began "I am Lady Tsunade, the Hokage." Kerushi wondered what had happened to the previous hokage, but that was the least of her concerns. The thought was almost immediately overwhelmed by other, more important questions.

"Um....erm...Nice to meet you," Said Kerushi, happy to use her voice which had changed from a child's to a teenagers while she was asleep. She opened her mouth to ask her first question but Tsunade interrupted her, "I'll give you all the answers I can right now. So listen up," Tsunade sighed and then took another breath before starting. "You were born with no chakra, I trust you know what that is?" she asked. Kerushi nodded. After her genjutsu world, she had a pretty good understanding of ninja terms.

"Most of us, can't even move without using chakra, but you were an exception. You moved purely on body power. But, without chakra, you can't preform jutsu. Though you're perfectly capable of learning techniques, you'd never be able to learn them. As a result, we developed a procedure specifically for you, however, the chakra had a negative affect on you and it placed you into a coma." Tsunade stopped and looked at Kerushi. Kerushi wasn't overwhelmed yet, she just needed to know how old she was and what she missed. She nodded "go on."

"While you were asleep, your parents passed on." Kerushi bit her quivering lip, but she failed to hold back tears. She focused on breathing and for the next ten minutes she began to calm down. "Continue," she muttered with a sniffle to Tsunade, who patted her on the back. "You were given an Uchiha's eyes as well; because of a deal your clan had."

Keushi smiled at the thought of her childhood friends. She wondered if she would get to see Sasuke-nii and Itachi-nii ever again. She assumed there wasn't anything to prevent her from seeing them. Maybe they had even visited her in her long, deep sleep. Tsunade was curious about her thoughts. "Do you know what that means?" she asked. Kerushi looked up, her thoughts disrupted, "What?" "That you have the power of the sharingan," Tsunade repeated. "Yes, I do." she announced. She occasionally got to witness Itachi's sharingan in action while he was training.

Tsunade arose. "I'm going to get you place to stay for the time being."

(HOKAGE'S QUARTERS)

"Get me Naruto Uzumaki!" Tsunade commanded. The staff ran out of the room and in the next few minutes Naruto was ushered in, the door slamming behind him. "Yeah Granny?" he yawned. It was 7:30 in the morning, and Naruto planned to sleep in in order to gather strength for the mission he was intended to go on. "Listen up, I have an A rank misison for you, and its long term!" Tsunade announced. Naruto looked up, now paying close attention, "What about the other o--" he was interrupted by Tsunade's solid voice "Delayed!"

"You are to house a young girl for the time being, and help her learn our way of life," Tsunade began. "What, am I? A babysitter for a foreigner?" he asked in agitation. Tsunade replied immediately, "No, you are a guardian for a future very special shinobi." Naruto gaped at her, confused. "Why me?!" he asked intently "Because you need to learn responsibility," Tsunade explained "And because I have a feeling you'll be a good team if she ever discovers the disappearance of Sasuke." Naruto was quiet.

"Don't worry, she's not that much younger than you; just a year. She's fourteen." Naruto nodded in relief that he really wasn't a baby-sitter. "Come, your mission starts immediately, I'll fill you in on the details and your compensation information."