*Flashback*

I walked up the road, watching the sun set. "I sure hope Onii-chan is okay," I said to myself. He was always training so hard. It almost made me feel like I was slacking off. But I couldn't help it, I got worn out easily. The sun set quickly, and before I knew it, it was dark. I reached the Uchiha district, but something felt wrong. The air was strangely eerie, and then I heard it, the screaming. I froze on the spot; it wasn't any normal screaming, say if someone snuck up on you for fun. It was a real, blood curdling scream. I forced myself to move forward, why were all the lights turned off?

I could hear Sasuke coming up behind me. I gasped when I saw everyone on the ground, aunty, uncle, everyone. I felt tears build up in my eyes but I blinked them away and headed for my house.

They would be okay, Otou-san was strong, he would protect us!

When I got to our house everything was strangely silent, I ran for father and mother's room and opened the doors. There was the silhouette of a man standing behind them, he took out a sword and I screamed as my mother and father hit the ground. "No! Otou-san! Okaa-san"' I cried. I then looked at the murderer in fear. "Who are you?" I asked him, and he stepped into the light. I felt tears run down my face as I saw my brothers face. "No...Itachi-kun...please tell me you didn't do this!" I yelled at him. I collapsed onto my knees, weeping. I was surprised by the cold expression on his face. "Onii-san?" I asked. "You're pitiful, I should just end your life right now," he said, pulling out his sword, I screamed and ran out of the house, I felt a shuriken dig into my leg and I collapsed, examining my wound, hoping I'd still be able to walk in fear of Itachi killing me.

I stayed there for a few moments in pain, my leg bleeding.

And then I heard Sasuke's screams, he screamed that he didn't want to die. "Sasuke-chan!" I wanted to shout. Then his screaming stopped. My eyes widened, I felt tears build up again.

No! I told myself. I mustn't cry! I have to go! I have to save myself! And even with my injured leg, I got up and ran, knowing my whole clan was dead.

*End Of Flashback*

"Heeyyy, Sakura-chan?" Naruto said, his arms placed behind his head. "What is it Naruto?" she sighed. "How come this place is in Konoha....but has a different name?"

"I told you already, Naruto. It's because during the war, they sent off all the children so they'd be protected. But when the war was over, most of their parents had died, so they had nowhere to go, the older ones got to choose whether they wanted to go back to Konoha or not, and the younger ones where given homes here. And that's the way it's been ever since. They still send some orphans here, but very rarely," she said, sighing. "It's sort of a sad village actually.'"

"Ohhh, right," Naruto said, nodding and pretending to understand. "But that still doesn't explain why it has a different name!" he exclaimed. "Because it got so big, it sort of became its own village, but they felt they still belonged to Konoha so they stayed part of our village, while being their own," Sakura continued to explain. "Oh! Now I get it!..... Sort of," Naruto said sheepishly. "Oh, Naruto," Sakura sighed. "You're so hopeless."

Sasuke ignored the two of them, staring at the path ahead. This mission was going to be easy. All they had to do was retrieve some kind of message.

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I sat down on the tree that had fallen only the night before. Even though during the day the sun shone brightly, at night the winds were fierce and normally were joined by thunder and lighting.

I watched Kane and Sayomi train, Kane with his umbrella (Which would create a shower of hari when needed) and Sayomi's common kunai, twinned with the metal wire she had tied to the end, making it easier to make a critical attack in one blow.

"Hey, Kaminari?" she said, putting her hands on her knees in an attempt to get her breathe back. "Mmm?" I said, glancing at her. "Have you heard? Some shinobi from the Konoha have come to retrieve some kind of message..." she told me, walking over to me and also sitting down on the log.

I twitched as she mentioned Konoha; I had lived there, a long time ago, before the massacre.

"They're probably going to be gone by this time tomorrow, maybe sooner"' Kane chipped in.

I knew what they were trying to do. It got pretty boring in this village, and most of the missions only ever included house work. But you rarely saw Jounin anymore; they were off helping Konoha. So, since they were bored, and there would most likely be no Jounin there to stop them, they wanted to have a little fight.

"No," I told them. "This village may have a different name but we are still part of Konoha."

They groaned in union.

"Kaminari, we're bored to death with training and training and more training! And all of that training just to plant flowers in some old geezer's garden!" Sayomi exclaimed. Kane nodded in agreement. I sighed. "I know it's hard but-"

"And what if they're real bastard's that deserve a beating!" Sayomi interrupted me, hitting her fist against her palm. "Sayomi..." I said; trying to reason with her, and not doing a very good job of it. Sayomi was stubborn, and so was Kane, they wouldn't stop bothering me unless I let them go start a useless fight. Suddenly, Sayomi got onto her knees and put her hands in praying position. "Please, please, please, pleeaassseeee let us go! We won't even start a fight! We just want to check them out! Please, Kaminari?' Sayomi begged me. I gave up, there was no point. They would go without my permission anyway. I stood up and looked at them; Sayomi was looking back up at me with her classic puppy dog eyes. "Fine, but only if it's just to check them out, and I'm coming with you too," I told them. "Yatta!" Sayomi screamed. "Finally!" Kane said, grinning and standing up.