You know how everyone is always born silent, but then they cry like there was no tomorrow after the doctor swats their bottom? Well I'm different. When I was swat, all I did was growl and glare at the doctor with big golden eyes. My mother said that it was because I was the first female born into the Ĺtsuki clan with the attitude of all the females on her side of the family. My father and older brother agreed with that statement. When I was in the womb Okami, whom we are descended from, blessed me with some of his chakra. His chakra gave me the gift to transform into a majestic white wolf with his red markings, but I have to follow his rules. Protect those who deserve to be protected and those who have done evil deeds without ever repenting for them die by my claws. I haven't been able to control the evil bloodlust part of me that likes to come out and kill the evil souls around me. I killed my older brother when I was 2 because he was killing innocent wolf pups while their parents were out hunting. When they found him he had Okami's symbols burnt into his forehead and his throat was ripped out. They found me sitting there with his gold blood running down my chin and the front of my dress. My parents understood what happened when they saw his symbol, but I could tell that they feared me and somewhat hated me because of what I had to do to their first born.
The next month, Orochimaru got upset when my father and mother declined his proposition to gain more ninjutsu and in exchange to give him all of the kids that were my age. I overheard my parents and other members said that it was wrong because all he would do is experiment on us to save his own life. From then on no one talked or even thought about that snake coming. During our full moon festival he attacked with his followers that had strange justus and my family quickly pushed me into my cousins' arms. My eldest cousins that are twin 10 year olds, Taro and Ginro Otsuki, the biggest goofballs but also the most protective goofballs ever. Taro has short black hair with light blue highlights and Ginro has shoulder length black hair with medium blue highlights while both of them have the clans' golden eyes and medium tan skin like their dad, my dad's brother. We escaped with a small pack of clothes, our clans' scrolls, and my mothers' weapons. We had escaped with tears in our eyes, a thick mist covering us, and a promise under the full moon that we three will live on for our family.
For the past three years we have been running, masking our scent, and staying far away from people as best we could. Just in case they were associated with the snake of a man. Otherwise all of our clans fighting to keep us from being caught escaping the massacre, would've been for nothing. For the past year and a half, we have stay just behind the border of the Hidden Leaf Village just outside of their wall. We've been staying with a wolf pack, so that we won't get eaten by other animals and the fact that we have a natural scent of wolf blood in us cause of Okami.
At the moment, Taro is off hunting with the wolf pack that we're living with while Ginro is getting some water for our little bath in the back of the cave. I'm in the cave with the pups in my little Okami pup form scrapping while the mothers watch us. They practically smile as we scrap and I get a shiver up my spine of something weird near us. I bark out to them as I smell a weird scent coming near the cave and I tilt my head wondering where it's come from. I slowly transform into my human form and as I do I stretch out popping my joints. In my human form I am a short little girl with dark blue and turquoise highlighted hair with gold eyes that come from my clan. My mother's nice tan skin with the bright red Okami's' marks on my forehead, under and around my eyes, on my upper arms, and down my ribs to my hips. I fix my clan's beads in my hair and I walk out of the back of the cave before peeking out. All I see is the forest around the cave while it's nice and cool there is barely a breeze. I put my nose to the wind and take a deep breath. I smell the wet leaves after the latest rain, the wolf pack's scent since it's their territory and something that smells weird. I change back into my wolf form and I walk out kinda hesitantly while I use my extra senses to try and find that weird smell.
As I walk around in my wolf form trying to find the weird scent from the wind, I get distracted by the simplest things but hey they can't blame me, I'm only 5 years old. Being 5 and with no adults around I can do what I want. This stuff is all new to me. I look around and I whine slightly to see that I am really lost. I growl to myself just because I was chasing a big butterfly with bright blue wings and I was able to make myself lost. I keep walking until I stop when I climb onto a big boulder and I see big green doors with red paint. I tilt my head smelling some pretty smelly stuff coming from inside of it. I jump off the boulder before walking closer to the gate hesitantly and I get stopped. I yelp lightly before looking up to see a very tall man with brown hair and dark brown eyes. His hair is combed down and is covering his right eye. I wonder why? He has a forehead protector like a bandana like my father used to wear his, but this has a swirly leaf with a beak instead of two crescent moons back to back.
He bends down to my level and tilts his head at me with a smile on his face. "What are you doing here little wolf?" He asks softly and I tilt my head copying him which makes himself chuckle at me. "Hey Kotetsu come down here. Check out this this cute little wolf pup." he says as he gently picks me up and cradles me to his chest. I put my nose to his vest and take in his scent, so I can recognize it easier. Then as he's petting me a man with long spiky, black hair jumps down. I jump a bit when I see him and his dark colored eyes.
"She is kinda cute Izumo. I wonder where her pack is. She barely looks old enough to be on her own." He says as I see that he has strip of bandage running across the bridge of his nose and a light-colored marking on his chin that looks like a tattoo. He looks around hesitantly while I close my eyes loving the pets I'm getting. I smell the other man as well taking in his scent, so that I can remember it later.
"Do you think we should have her checked out by the Inuzuka clan?" Izumo asks as they start walking into town with me in his arms.
"I think that we should. Just in case she's injured and we can't see it." Kotetsu says as he scratches behind my ear before rubbing Okami's mark on the middle of my forehead. I let out a quiet sigh and relax in Izumo's arms before we can walk fully into the village I hear fast footsteps.
"Hey! Let go of our cousin!" I hear Taro and Ginro yell out with growls in their voices. I open my eyes and jump out of the man's arms before I transform midair stopping them. I land behind them before I grab Taro's ponytail and Ginro's braid. I pull them back and push them to the ground making them land on their butts hard whining at me that I did.
"Stop. They were trying to help me out. I got lost." I sign out to them with some whines since I got myself lost and they stand up and rub their butts. The both of them look down at me embarrassed that they were about to attack the adults. It's quite obvious that they have never seen a little girl wearing only ripped up pair of shorts and a tank top that has my clans' print on it. Her older twin cousins are wearing no shirts and baggy pants with rope belts with no shoes on and their hair also very long.
"Oh. Sorry about that we're just overprotective of our baby cousin." Taro says with a light blush on his cheeks. Ginro kneels down to pick me up and put me on his back. I look at Izumo and Kotetsu as they look us over before looking around in the surrounding area.
"It's fine. Where are you parents at?" Izumo asks as he looks around slightly tensed up as if he's going to attack anything that sneaks up on him.
I whine and nuzzle into Ginro's back, "They were all wiped out. We're the only three to survive the attack." Ginro says as I look up at Izumo and Kotetsu.
"What land are you from?" Kotetsu asks.
"I think that the elders called the land. The land of Spirits." Ginro says as he makes sure that my ankles are locked around his waist.
"But the adults said that our village was the one everyone called um The Village Hidden under the Twin Moons." Taro says and he shows the birthmarks that we have on our left wrists. I trace it with my nails and a picture of my mom and dad pops up in my head.
"Orochimaru slaughtered our clan three years ago for not giving into his demands." Taro says as he pets my long hair playing with my three beads. My beads are a symbol I'm supposed to get at least five. My clans' name in kanji sign on one of the greens when I'm born, our double crescents on the blue one when I turn 12, a white one when I have my first successful hunt, another green one for passing my graduation exam, and a black one when I get engaged to my soulmate. Our stomach growl and we blush as the adults' chuckle at us.
"Please come with us. We'll take you three to go get some real food in your tummies then we can take you to get some real clothes to wear." Kotetsu says and the boys look at me. The reason they look at me is because technically I'm the heiress to our clan even though we're the only ones left.
"I say that we can trust these two. Okami isn't calling for their blood." I sign to them and they nod their heads before they escort us into the village. I look around and I hear the whispers while people pass us. I growl lightly before the adults bump into a man that has spiky silver hair that's combed to his left-side, one dark grey eye that looks really relaxed with the protector over his left eye.
"Hey Kakashi, wanna join us for lunch?" The adults ask him as he looks over at us three and I look my eyes with his visible one. His scent comes over the wind and it instantly calms me for some reason. I smile at him and wave to him and I see that it shocked him through his only visible eye. He relaxes and smiles behind the mask and through his visible eye.
"Sure. Let's go get some barbecue." He says as he comes over to us faster than we never seen. He was so fast that Ginro and Taro are startled and they even jumped. It makes Ginro drop me which makes me let out a yelp as I land on my back. He bends down in front of me and helps me up. "You okay little one?" He asks softly and I nod. "Would you like to be picked up?" He asks softly and I hear gasps all around us before I nod lifting my arms up. I jut my lower lip out in a pout and he picks me up putting me on his hip with a happy squint in his eye. I put a hand on his mask and he shakes his head.
"Did you see that? Did Kakashi really act like a father to the girl?" I hear people whisper as we walk and I try to get more of this Kakashi's scent on me while my cousins smirk at me. I growl at them playfully and they chuckle at me before we get to the restaurant where I pout at them they continue chuckling at me. We get seats and I try to grab the meat that they put down before he grabs my wrist making me look up at him.
"This kind of meat can make you sick if you don't let it cook on the grill. You have to be patient, little one." He says softly and I pout before he lets me settle down on my seat.
"Aww look our little Maiko is pouting." Taro signs to me and I stick my tongue out at him. Of course makes my cousins chuckle at my childlike behavior because of us having to be on the run and we have to act a lot like adults. Unbeknownst to us kids the adults talk of things while we start talking about who should go get what little belongings that we do have in the cave. "I'll get them when they aren't paying attention."
I nod, "Good. I need my Kohaku or else I can't sleep." I sign to them with a blush on my cheeks and they nod. They know that the stuffed animal is the last gift I got from my parents before the festival massacre happened. As we have our conversation my ears twitch feeling they're talking about us fully now. I tune into the adults conversation as I feel their eyes on us and I look at them tilting my head slightly.
"Wow. I have never seen you so parental Kakashi." Izumo says with a smirk on his lips. I tilt my head slightly confused at Izumo before my cousins make sure to fill my plate and my water cup before dealing with their own food. The three of us start eating, but we don't let them see that we're paying attention to their conversation.
"She's the only kid that has ever smiled at me besides..." He trails off, "The only one to not look at me with fear in their eyes because of what they have overheard their parents say about me. About what has happened in my past." He whispers to them and I eat quickly, but gracefully making the adults look at me with pride and shock in their eyes. I blush as I wipe my mouth with my napkin and drink my entire water glass in one chug. I smile as a waitress comes by and refills my drink. I nod my head and sign to her a simple, 'thank you.' She smiles and bows to me halfway.
"Sorry, we've been with wolves for too long to let food sit around for too long." Ginro says as the adults chuckle before eating some more of their barbecue off the grill.
"No problem. So what land are you from kids?" Kakashi asks as he puts some veggies on my plate and I growl before pushing the plate slightly. "Ah ah, eat some or else no candy." He says and my eyes widen. I pout and bat my eyes at him, "No trying to use your big eyes. Eat some of the veggies and then you can have candy later."
I pout ignoring the question about what land we're from, but do it anyways while I see my cousins gaping at me and even as we're shopping for clothes I keep my hand in Kakashi's. After he gives me some candy we go to what they call the 'The Hokage's office.' Kakashi stays with us while the boys talk in their twin bond and I nibble on some strawberry gummy candy Kakashi bought for me. Kakashi glares at people who walk by staring at me on his lap while Izumo and Kotetsu are talking to the person. I look around as I take in the different scents around us and the twin look out of the little windows as best they can. As adults walk by they stop and stare at my marks and my old colored eyes.
"So boys, why does your cousin not talk?" Kakashi asks as he braids my messy hair without it getting into crazy rats nest which is quite surprising. I smile as I pet the braids and move them to my back.
They look at me and I nod before I keep eating more of the yummy gummy candy, "The last time she ever spoke a word was at the full moon festival three years ago, when she was dancing with her father around the fire. From then on she says that she has no reason to talk anymore and she learned how to sign from a book we found at an abandoned house in the land of earth." Ginro says as he looks at me while Kakashi finishes the two braids and he leaves my bangs and beads out of the braids.
"You can come in now. Izumo and I have got to go back to the gate." I wave at them happily as they leave and they wave at me back with smiles. Kakashi puts me down and we walk into the big office. I hold onto Kakashi's pant leg while Ginro and Taro are on high alert.
"Hokage-sama, as you know they were found by the guards at the main gate." The old man nods, "They are the only known survivors of the Full Moon massacre. They say they are from the Land of Spirits from the Otsuki clan." Kakashi says and I look up confused wondering how he knew when the other two didn't know as the old man takes a puff of smoke that smells gross. The man nods and puffed out the remaining smoke and stood up. He walked to stand in front of his desk to face us fully.
"That was three years ago. How did you three escape?" The old man asks as he looks at us and I tilt my head unsure if I should sign or have them talk instead. I bite my lip and motion for Taro to translate for me.
"I was dancing with my cousins during the family dance of the full moon. There was a strange scent that came over the wind. It was something that I have never smelt before. My family and I were about to start the family hunt when..." I reply signing to him making his face seem slightly surprised, but he quickly recovers. I put my hands down as the memories come back and I start tearing up slightly.
"Then all of a sudden there was people screaming. Our shinobi automatically started fighting the intruders that ran through the village. Mine and Ginro's mom didn't want the shinobi life, so she started helping the wounded and treating them. Our fathers hid us three in a room that was hidden in one of the caves near the ocean. We fell asleep to the screams of our village and once morning came we didn't leave. We didn't leave for four days waiting for someone to come get us and tell us that they're safe. That we didn't need to worry, but when we emerged we saw the ashes and the bodies everyone from then on we ran." Ginro and Taro switching off sentences as they tell our story since I have my head down trying to shake their screams out of my head. "And we have never looked back."
"For the past year and a half, we have been living with the wolf pack that lives just outside that wall." I sign to them and then point off to our right.
"I see, what are your names?" He asks with a smile.
"I am Taro Ideka. Ginro is my younger twin and our little cousin is Maiko Otsuki." Taro introduces us and we bow to the Hokage since we sense that he is kinda like the alpha. We look up at him and I listen for Okami's howl just in case, but I relax my body when I don't.
"Well, young ones. My name is Sarutobi Hiruzen, but you may call me Hokage-sama. Alright?" We nod and he rubs his sharp goatee. "For the time being, since you three just children, I can assign for someone to take care of you for a while but when you're older or when you have no need of a caretaker, you will need to fend for yourself. Is that all right?"
I nod as do my cousin, "Who will take care of us?" I sign to them and I look at the three adults while Taro and Ginro cross their arms while they watch their faces. I look up as I see the Hokage wave his hands to the three behind us.