'Where am I?' I think to myself drowsily as I struggle to sit up, my eyes still closed from exhaustion that I don't rememberthe cause of. I go through life as I knew it for the past couple of days, hours, weeks? I can't even tell how much time has passed since I came here. Where is here anyway? 'Oh well start with the basics,' I remind myself.

My name is Tsuki of the Hitomatome clan. I come from a small town in the middle of nowhere. I was busy caring for the animals in the barns and pastures like I always did. Just the other day it had been announced that intruders had been spotted along our borders. One was a ninja with white hair tied back, glasses, and a devilish grin on his face that I supposed was there permanently. The other looked like a snake. His eyes were greenish-yellow slits and he stuck his unnaturally long purple tongue out often. They seemed to only be passing through so we didn't try to hinder their approach.

That is the last thing I remember before mysteriously waking up on this room. I open my eyes to see. Since I'm lying on my back I first glance at the bed beneath me, then the room to my left. I'm in a hospital room with a curtain drawn on this side of me. I turn quickly and scream as I saw see a boy with brown ruffled hair, slight eyes, and red triangular shapes on his cheeks.

"Geez, girl! You sure have a mouth on you." He yells.

"Sorry," I say sheepishly blushing madly because he is actually really cute.

"Sheesh. Your just like Hinata," he says pointing to the girl with long, black hair and orb-like eyes standing behind him, " Are all girls this sensitive?" He asks astoundingly.

"Kiba, give her a break she just woke up and she doesn't even know where she is." Says a figure whose head is covered with a hood. He (I know it's a guy only by his voice) also wears sunglasses which is odd considering it's raining outside.

"Oh, yeah, um, sorry about that," says a the girl behind Kiba who has a small and high-pitched but very timid voice. "We forgot to introduce ourselves. I'm Hinata Hyuga." she pauses before pointing to the hooded figure who spoke previously, "And this is Shino Aburame and…"

"Kiba Inuzuka," the boy quickly speaks up not want to be introduced instead of doing it himself." Nice to meet ya loudmouth."
I growl for I know the Inuzuka clan all too well and he will not be insulting me again anytime soon. "Hey, whoa, take it easy I was just messing with you." he says defensively.

"Kiba, seriously,leave her alone" Hinata says.

"And you are?" Kiba says leaning in way too close for comfort until he is literally 2 millimeters away from my face. 'Has nobody ever taught him about personal space?' I scream in my head. I feel my face turn beet red as Hinata says,

"Um, Kiba, you might want to give her a little bit of space. I know I would want it especially if I didn't know you."

"Oh, right." He leans back giving me my personal space finally.

"I'm Tsuki Hitomatome." I reply.

"Hitomatome," Kiba says snarling.

"Yeah. Why? Got a problem with that?" I sneer right back at him. Kiba turns around to see Hinata and Shino staring at him wide- eyed thinking that he was going attack me or something to that effect.

"Nope," he says, teeth still bared, "not at all."

I smirk. "Well maybe I do have a problem with you," I state boldly.

"What did you say?" he growls back."Just because I don't have a problem with you doesn't mean that we accept you into the leaf village."

"So that's where I am, huh? I was waiting for someone to explain that to me. But, why am I here?"

"You don't remember what happened?" Hinata asks. 'Oh, yeah people, like I'm supposed to be aware of everything around me even though I've been unconscious for…'

"Hey how long have been out?" I ask, still confused of why I'm at the leaf village of all places which is absolutely nowhere near my home.

"About a week." Kiba informs me. "Don't you remember anything?"

"The last thing that I remember was working in the garden and going to feed the horses and the tracking wolves.

"T-tracking w-wolves?" Hinata stammers. "T-that sounds s-s-scary."

"Nah, they're very well trained and won't hurt anyone unless we command them to. By the way," I say changing the subject," where is Ooparu?"

"Who?" Kiba asks.

"My wolf…" I trail off as I see her on the other side of the room also lying on a hospital bed. "Ooparu!" I say trying desperately to sit up, but the pain in my head and back is too great so I simply slump back down again.

"Don't try to sit up yet," a pink-haired girl walks in holding a clipboard.

"At least bring her closer to me because if she can't sense me near her then she will die."

"Oh stop over exaggerating no she won't." I start sobbing because she actually will die if she is too far away for too long from me.

"Sakura, I think you had better listen to her." I glance at Kiba surprised that he is actually taking my side since he practically hates me already. "The Hitomatome clan have very…special…bonds with their wolves. They can't be separated for too long or one and sometimes both of them will die." I stare at him again.

"How do you know that about my clan?"

"I'm from the Inuzuka clan, remember?" he says like it should be obvious, "we have had to learn everything about the Hitomatome from a very young age."

"Oh, right, forgot." I say shyly. Everyone goggles at us.

"Do your two clans know each other?" Shino asks speaking for the first time since he reprimanded Kiba telling him to leave me alone.

"It's a long story, Shino." Kiba says and then sighs.

"Well you will all have a lot more time to get to know her because I'm assigning her to join Squad 8 on training and missions. Plus you three will be guides throughout the village. Oh, and Kiba?"

"Yes Lady Tsunade?"

"Your mother, Lady Tsume, has offered to house Tsuki while she remains in the leaf."

"WHAT? WHY? Does she know that she is from the Hitomatome clan?"

"I doubt that it would phase her decision in the slightest. Besides, the Hitomatome clan is no more." My throat clenched.

"What?" I said my voice sounding 3 octaves higher than usual. "Why is it no more? What happened to my clan!"

"You don't remember?" Tsunade I guess her name was asked.

"Will everyone stop asking me that? Of course I don't remember, I never even knew in the first place! Now will someone please tell me what the heck is going on?" Everyone else in the room glance at each other wondering who will explain the situation.

"It would probably be less painful if we didn't try to tell you nicely," Kiba says. "Orochimaru destroyed your clan. He burnt down the whole village. You were the only one still alive after we got there. We found you unconscious but unharmed in the cellar of a cottage. You're the last Hitomatome." Kiba managed to let those sentences out all in one breath to get it over with. Honestly it would have been comical if not for the content of those few sentences.

"No, no that can't be true! I don't even remember a fire at all!" I screamed sobbing.

"That's the thing, we think that you were knocked out before the fire but we have no idea why," the women called Lady Tsunade says, "Well Sakura,"

"Yes my lady?"

"Give her the puppy."

"Oh, right." I sigh in relief as I see Ooparu's color fade from ashy gray to her normal silvery white. As she is pushed nearer to me my own pain decreases and I am able to sit up slowly.

"You shouldn't move," Sakura says pushing me down.

"I feel fine. Get off me!"

"Sakura," Tsunade starts exasperated," her pain has eased because her wolf has come back into range."

"I'm really confused," say Hinata, Sakura, and Shino in unison.

"It's complicated," I say in sync with Tsunade and Kiba.

"But I feel fine enough to walk," I say starting to stand up but then noticing that I'm only in my netting shirt lay back down and pull the covers over me.

"Can... can I have my jacket back?" I ask Sakura who seems to be in charge of my condition.

"Oh yeah sure. It's over here." She points to the table at my red and black Hitomatome symbolizing jacket.

"Um, do you mind bringing it here?"

"Why? I thought you said you could stand." I glare at her and Kiba sniggers.

"What?"

"Here I'll get it for ya."

I blush and say a shy "Uh, thanks."

This is my first story so help, ideas, comments,and constructive criticism are appreciated. :)