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Mind, Body, and Soul

By: LexLogikk

Prologue

Third Person Point of View

"Oi! Come here and look at this."

"Do you see that, too?"

"Oh my God!"

It was the middle of the night. The sky was alight with a fire in the distance, the smell of smoke in the air. It was October 10th, the five year anniversary of the Kyuubi attacking Konoha. The same red sky was visible for miles.

"Get the Hokage! There are children on the path!" the guard shouted to his partner before scurrying over the wall to get over to the young girls stumbling away from the fire.

The two toddlers would stumble from time to time, each holding onto each other for support. Both of the little girls' knees buckled just moments before the guard reached them, the blonde and brunette heads of hair hitting the ground with a thump.

The guard got them into his arms, holding them so that they hung over his shoulders. The Hokage appeared before him. "What the hell happened?"

"I don't know, sir. These two just collapsed. I think they came from the fire back there," the guard replied.

The Hokage looked at the children in the shinobi's arms, with the clothes and faces bloodied. The youngest one had tears staining her face, though it was the oldest one who looked more traumatized- she was having spasms in her sleep, her face pained. "I will take them from here. Gather some men and head to the flame. Figure out what happened."

The guard nodded, handing the Hokage the children and darting back over the Village walls before reappearing with three others, racing towards the fire that was licking at the sky.

The Hokage quickly got the young girls to the hospital, calling for a medic ninja to watch over them and alert him when they woke. The med nin nodded. "Hai, Hokage-sama."

He rubbed his temple when he reached his office. He wished that he could be still in his bed, sleeping soundly like men of his advanced age should be doing at this time of night. But he soon heard a knock on his door and called for the person on the other side to enter.

Kakashi Hatake stepped inside the room. "It was a massacre. The whole lot of them were dead, save for those little girls you found."

"Who were they?" the Hokage inquired, though he thought he already knew.

"The Chiaki clan. Every single one of them."

The Hokage nodded, placing his head on his hands, calculating. The Chiaki clan was strictly a clan of Konoha, and had always been. They simply preferred to live outside of the Village walls, so that they might wander to have their children born in a certain place. The Chiaki clan was very abnormal, with their kekkei genkai being nothing like that of other clans. Where most families had a set clan trait that all their members could use (or none at all, in the cases of some,) the Chiaki clan had varying gifts among them. It all depended on where the baby was born. Born under the hot Suna skies, you were likely to have a baby with fire techniques, whereas a baby born on the shores of the Lightning Village would more than likely have a talent for water jutsu. Being born nowhere special typically ended up with increased levels of chakara and far better control of it, or the baby having no power as a shinobi whatsoever.

Losing that clan was a blow to Konoha. Many of the Village's best shinobi were of that bloodline. The Hokage knew that he would have to get his ass working his Chuunin and Genin harder so he might promote them to a higher rank.

"Sir, there was one body missing from the massacre."

The Hokage looked up at Kakashi, his left eye covered by his headband. The Jounin ran a hand through his hair. "We don't yet know who it is. But we do know that all of the Chiaki clan was at the site for a clan festival that night. We suspect that the murderer was of the Chiaki clan."

This caused the older shinobi to frown in dismay. Betrayal was something he did not tolerate well. "Find out who it is, and make him or her a S-class wanted shinobi. Whoever did this is not only rogue against their clan and their village, but incredibly powerful. Make sure everyone knows to be on guard. The killer might come to the Village tonight to wreak more havoc."

Kakashi nods. "Yes, sir. We should know who is responsible by morning, if not sooner."

Just then, another, quieter knock sounds from the door. A nurse sticks her head inside the door. "Excuse me. Hokage-sama wanted us to alert him of the children's waking."

The old man nods to her. "They've awaken, then?"

"Yes, sir."

The Hokage sighs, standing. "We might find out who is responsible sooner than morning, then. Kakashi, I want you to come with."

The silver haired Jounin nods. "Right."

~*~

The young blonde opens her green eyes, looking up at the ceiling off-handedly. When she surfaces fully, her body shoots upright, her eyes darting around worriedly for her little sister. Her heart rate slowed when she saw the brunette lying next to her in the bed.

Then the door opened. The little girl whimpers, wanting so badly to crawl away from the people in the doorway, but putting herself between the strangers and her sleeping sister instead.

A gentle-looking man entered the room first. He came right up to the bed, sitting in the chair next to it. The child could not see it, but he looked at her proudly. She was obviously scared out of her mind, but she still protected the younger girl sleeping next to her. "I'm not going to hurt you," he says softly, letting the truth of the words and their meaning put the soothing tone into his voice.

The child relaxes; though her body still wanted to be defensive, her mind and her heart believed the old man's every word. Her shoulders slumped.

"What's your name?"

She looked at him hesitantly before speaking. "Emi Chiaki…"

The Hokage looked at her, softly smiling. Emi means 'smile.' I wish she could smile. She shouldn't have to look like that, the Hokage thinks. "Emi, who is it that is laying next to you?"

Emi looks down at the brunette. "Moeru. She's my little sister."

"How old are you?"

"I'm almost six. Moeru is just turned four a few months ago."

The Hokage's heart broke for them. They were still practically toddlers. Infants, even, in his eyes. "Emi-chan, can you tell me what happened…?"

The blonde suddenly loses her focus. Tears well up in her eyes, but she doesn't let them fall. "Nii-san… he… he k-k-kill…" she started to choke, bending over herself. "He killed everyone!" she sobbed. Still no tear fell.

"Who is your brother?"

"S-Setsu Chiaki…"

The Hokage froze. Setsu was one of his most praised Anbu. The knowledge of it being him that killed his entire clan, not to mention traumatizing his two little sisters (which he knew that Setsu loved more than anything else…) it made him sick to his stomach. Behind him, Kakashi also stiffened. Setsu was the same age as him. He'd gone to the academy with him, though they'd never been the best of friends.

The younger girl stirred in her sleep. Her lids opened to reveal eyes as red as the fire from which she'd fled. She took one look at her sister and started to bawl.

Emi turned to her with a big, sad frown, hugging her crying sister in hopes to help her. A nurse also came, wrapping her arms around the both of them in a motherly way.

Even with her sister crying in her arms, Emi did not cry.

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