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I found this on my computer and finally got this thing finished!

Enjoy~

Akari sighed sadly as she looked around only to sigh in defeat, "It's no use. I've never been good at finding my way out of forests."

"Does that mean you need some help?" came a voice from behind her. She stiffened and slowly turned around making her long dark brown hair go slightly in her face as her red-orange eyes landed on a man with silver hair and only his right eye visible. She watched him carefully as he laughed sheepishly, "I'm Hatake Kakashi." Akari just looked back at her map with a place called Konoha circled on it and the word 'Baka' written quickly beside it. "I take it you're heading to Konoha," he said and she nodded. "I'm on my way there back from a mission, I'll show you." She thought for a few minutes then shrugged and pulled her bag back on her shoulder and followed quietly behind him. After several minutes of silence, Kakashi glanced over and watched the new girl, "So where are you from?"

Akari's sunset eyes locked with his one eye then looked straight ahead, "I don't see what any business it is of yours." He narrowed his eye as he studied her. Her long dark brown hair hung down almost to her waist. She wore a black lace-up top that had the left sleeve come to her elbow while the right side had no sleeve and stopped at her ribs. It was just low enough to show she was well endowed with a pair of matching shorts that hung low on her lithe frame. Her skin was a little pale but not too much which brought out her unique fiery orange eyes.

"It is my business if you're coming to Konoha," he said this as he tapped his headband.

She glanced over at him then away, "I don't have a home if you need to know. I'm looking for someone." Kakashi was about to ask but noticed the shield she had placed up and sighed as an uncomfortable silence fell over the two as they finally came in view of the gates.

Kakashi looked at the girl again, "The village is big, but I'm sure you'll find who you're looking for." He paused, "Exactly, who are you looking for?" But she didn't hear him as she quickened her pace at the sight of a small group of teenagers walking down the street. Kakashi sped to keep up with her but blinked as she sprinted away quickly, leaving him behind as he tried to catch up.

The group turned in confusion to see two people running towards them. Kiba leant over, "Hey Naruto, wonder who Kakashi's running after?"

At the same time that he turned with a confused look on his face, Akari launched herself at him, dropping her bag in the process, "Naruto!"

Within the next second, they were on the ground with this strange girl hugging the confused 15 year old blonde until he looked up as sky blue eyes met burning sunset, "Akari?!" Kakashi came walking up and watched as the others did with big eyes. Here was this beautiful girl that literally threw herself at the blonde idiot. Naruto stood up and spun her around as she began to cry. She was an inch taller than him. Kakashi walked closer and listened as they spoke. "What are you doing here Akari?"

She pulled back then cried more, hugging him tightly, "They're gone."

The blonde froze then hugged her more, "What happened? Wait! It shouldn't have taken you this long to get here. Don't tell me you got lost in the woods again."

She laughed sheepishly and looked away as Kakashi decided to add his two cents, "I found her in the forest surrounding Konoha talking to herself."

Akari glared as Naruto laughed and hit him in the back of the head. "Hey! That's not nice," he pouted. She shook her head smiling, then looked at the Hokage tower. Naruto caught on and grabbed her bag and hand, pulling her quickly behind him. Kakashi sighed and followed after them to make sure they didn't cause any trouble.

"Obaa-chan open up!" Naruto pounded on the door loudly.

The door swung open, revealing an angry looking blonde behind the desk and a raven haired teen she had been talking to, "What is it gaki? Can't you see I'm busy?"

She looked rather ticked as the raven stood there smirking. Naruto growled, "Sasuke-teme doesn't matter right now!"

"Why you…" Tsunade began to stand up only to be tackled as a blur came from behind the blonde. Several ANBU appeared out of nowhere as the Hokage looked down in shock, "Akari?" She quickly waved the ANBU away and stood back up with the crying girl attached to her waist like a little kid would. Sasuke blinked a few times as Kakashi appeared beside him while Naruto smiled sadly as the crying girl broke down. Tsunade helped her stand up and looked over the still crying girl, "What happened?"

"They're gone Ts-Tsunade," she cried out and hugged the woman tighter.

The blonde woman blinked, "What happened to them Akari?"

The girl managed to compose herself and got her bag, searching through it quickly and pulled out a piece of fabric. The others watched with narrowed eyes as she held out the black fabric with half of a red cloud on it. "They came in the night when everyone was asleep. Our night watch were taken out first, then several others that woke up from the noise," she looked at Naruto as he came closer.

"How many were there?" he asked quietly.

She looked around at everyone else and gasped as she locked eyes with the raven, almost fainting in the process but Tsunade and Naruto caught her before she could fall over. Shaking, she took out something small from her pocket and had a death grip on it. She looked back to Naruto, "Five. Me and father tried to get everyone to safety but one of them caught him before I could save him." She clenched her fists tighter, drawing blood in the process, "One of them came after me. I don't even know how I lived through it," she pulled the collar of her top down enough to show a two inch scar where her heart is.

"What's in your hand Akari?" Tsunade asked sternly. The girl flinched and held up her shaking hand, showing a small red ring.

Sasuke growled, "How did you kill him?" Akari jumped and hid behind Naruto as the raven got closer, "How!?"

"Sasuke," Tsunade warned as Kakashi held him back.

"B-brother got in front of me so I only got stabbed with the end of the blade. But he-he," she began to break down again as Naruto rubbed her back, "I got brother's sword and…" she couldn't say anymore but simply brought her bleeding hand up and with her pointer finger, drug it across her throat unknowingly leaving a trail of blood from her hand in it's wake. Tsunade blinked as Naruto quickly cleaned the mark off her neck. Akari had stopped crying but she hadn't stopped shaking. "I'm alone," she whispered into the quiet room.

The blondes blinked then both hit her in the head making her yelp and jump away closer to Kakashi. Her red-orange eyes darted around and landed on the Uchiha again. He was glaring at her as she shrunk back, "You couldn't have killed Itachi, you're younger than us."

Naruto began to snicker as Tsunade tried not to laugh, "Teme she's tw-"

"What the hell do you mean 'younger than you'!?" Akari glared and walked up to the raven, who had finally noticed that she was taller than him, "The hell I'm younger than you!" Kakashi tried not to smile as the raven began to back up as Akari walked closer to him and hardened her glare, "I may look young but I'm not." She looked over to Tsunade and whined, "Why does everyone think I'm so young?"

"Well, you do still look young Akari," she grinned making the girl groan and slump over as she stood beside Naruto who snickered.

"No one's ever going to believe me," she groaned and went hunting in her bag.

Tsunade smiled, "Well, you've grown since the last time I'd seen you. But how old are you now?"

She had a hold of something in her bag and sighed, "What's the point? No one's going to believe it."

"I still remember," Naruto beamed. They all turned to look at the blonde as he looked around, "What?"

Akari smiled as she pulled her hair up into a ponytail and carefully pulled out something wrapped up in cloth, "Thanks Naruto." She looked to Tsunade, "I want to join Konoha."