Chapter 1

Maeko Takeuchi

This story starts with a baby girl named Maeko Takeuchi, from the Takeuchi clan in the hidden Water village. Maeko's mother died while giving birth to her, so she only had a father. Her uncle from her mother's side of the family thought of Maeko as a cursed being, and wanted to kill her.

About a year from then the village was attacked by one of the great tailed beasts. This one was the five tailed wolf, Gobi. A lot of people in the village had already died including Maeko's father, so her uncle captured the spirit of the five tailed wolf and sealed it away within Maeko, and killing himself in the process.

Maeko grew up without a mother or father, and everyone in the whole village hated Maeko because they knew what was inside of her. She grew up without any friends and being picked on every day.

At the age of seven Maeko entered her village's ninja school, in attempt to try and make friends and become a stronger person inside and out. At the age of twelve Maeko passed the exam and became a genin (first rank in becoming a ninja), but still had no friends. Eventually Maeko started to rebel against those around her. No one liked her anyway, so why even try, she thought.

She later found out that everyone hated her because she had a monster living inside of her. After Maeko found that out she left the village in the middle of the night when nobody would see her. For the next year she lived on her own, and developed her skills quickly and learned how to defend herself better.

But one day she found herself going head to head with an opponent way stronger than her. She almost died. Lying on the floor bleeding out, her golden brown hair was getting covered in blood. She watched as the man lifted his fist up in the air, about to punch her again. She felt in her heart that if she took one more shot she would surely die. Maeko closed her turquoise blue eyes waiting for the last blow from her opponent, but when it never came she opened her eyes to find herself in a place of nothing but white emptiness.

All of the sudden she felt a little rejuvenated and a little stronger than she was before. Maeko had wondered if this was the afterlife. Getting up off the floor she looked around a little more and as far as her eye could see was white. All around her there was nothing but white. She started to panic a little, then burst out into a run, having no idea where she was going, wondering into the nothingness. When all of the sudden there was no more white and she was in the darkness.

When her eyes adjusted she could see a little better but not completely. She saw a wall in front of her. Thinking that maybe she could figure out where she was, she started to touch the wall. It felt hard and cold with ridged edges, like a rock. She could also see something sparkling from the little light that was in the cave, Maeko felt it, but it felt just the same as the rock wall all around her. She thought it must be a diamond or jewel of some sort. She figured she must be in some sort of mine or cave or something. But how did she get there, she wondered.

Then as she was just about finished examining the wall, a bright light came out of nowhere from the left side of her. As she looked into it, it went all the way down the cave to the end. Maeko figured it must be a way out and started walking toward it. But as she did she no longer had the want or need to get out. She felt she was being drawn to something.

As she reached the end of the cave she appeared in a large room, about thirty, maybe forty feet tall and wide. But halfway through the room from floor to ceiling, wall to wall, were bars, like a cage. As the bars met in the middle there was a large seal on it. And by the looks of it, it was meant to keep someone or something in.

Being drawn to the cage Maeko started walking toward it slowly. She felt she was losing more and more blood by the second. She felt weak and powerless. She only made it about half way across the room before falling to her knees with barely any strength left.

But then, just then, she heard a voice call out to her, a calm voice, yet frightening at the same time. "If you wish to live rip the seal from this cage and set me free."

All Maeko wanted to do right now was to find a way to live, but not this way. This was the thing that destroyed half her village, the whole reason why she had no friends when she was younger. All this thing did was cause pain to her and others why would she want to do something as stupid as that.

"You see, if I do that you'll either take over my body and use me like a puppet to do whatever it is that you do. Or you'll destroy my body and become one with yourself again and destroy other villages and cause nothing but pain to others!" Maeko exclaimed without fear. "I have no reason for living, no one who will miss me, so if I die you die with me! But if you wish to live on, we're doing this my way! You're in my body so I set the rules, got it!"

Maeko felt the hot breath of the beast reaching her. With all the strength she had left she stood up and walked inches within the cage. From the ground beneath her she could feel something moving, something huge. As she looked head on she met gaze with the beast. It's eyes were so huge that not even the whole length of her body was as tall as its eye ball. She wasn't afraid though, she knew it wouldn't kill her.

At that moment Maeko coughed up some blood. "You better hurry with that answer. I'm starting to feel like I'm goin out." Maeko said as she breathed heavily.

The tailed beast growled in anger as he knew she was right. "Fine, you get your wish. If you unseal me I will give you wisdom and power beyond all knowledge, and I will train you to use these powers wisely. I will teach you without hesitation, and I will never try to take control of you or get rid of you." The beast said.

"But how can I know that for sure… you're a monster." Maeko said

Without hesitation the beast spoke again. "I swear on my soul that I will serve you, and I never break my word I can assure you that."

Maeko stood there a moment feeling a little light headed and woozy. "Eheh ha ahahaha! I guess it's better than dying in cold blood right." With the last bit of her strength she jumped about fifteen feet up in the air and on the cage where the seal was. Right as she ripped it off, she almost passed out. Losing her balance she began to fall. But right at the moment before she hit the ground she felt this surge of energy running through her body, and with the blink of an eye she was back on the ground, the man's fist up in the air about to hit her.

Maeko was now full of energy and way faster than before. She sprang up from the floor and got behind the man. Right as he figured out she was behind him he began to turn around, but it was too late. She had already punched him and he flew half a mile away.

Feeling that her opponent was now dead the power toned down by a lot. Maeko looked at her hands and realized the power that she has is a great power. She could use this power to get back at her village for what they did to her. But Maeko realized that revenge is never the way. Revenge only leads to more hatred, and anger. She was going to use this power for the good of the people.

She looked at the large gap in the ground, and she knew she couldn't control her power. "Five tails?" She called out.

"You may call me Gobi" He said, appearing in front of her in a much smaller version of what he really looked like. She began to look around making sure no one was close by.

"Don't worry no one can see me but you. I can make myself visible to others as well. But this way no one can see, hear, or feel me. Right now you have no control over the power I give you, which means I have to control it for you. Over the months and years to come I will help you obtain and control your powers." Gobi said

"My powers, don't you mean your powers?" She asked very confused.

Gobi shook his head and sat down on the floor. "You really think without me you have no powers? It is true that with me you are one hundred times stronger than any other shinobi on this earth. You are actually one of the rare Lacingan users which makes you strong enough already."

Maeko became extremely confused now, 'Lacingan? what the hell was that! And I'm supposedly a rare user. I thought I was rare enough already, I have the five tails inside of me for pete sake.' She thought.

"Yes it is true, you are rare enough with just me, but there are many others like you, eight others to be exact. People like you who carry tailed beasts are called jinchuuriki's. And are some of the most powerful kinds of people in the world." He said

Okay, now she was just freaked out. 'How did he know what I was thinking, and why is he looking at me like he's staring into my soul?' She asked herself trying to make sense of everything.

"Once you ripped the seal you have allowed me into certain areas of your mind, so of course I can hear every little thing your thinking." Gobi said staring at her like she was an idiot.

The truth was she did feel a little dumb because she had no idea what he was talking about. Gobi said he would train her to obtain and control her skills anyway, and she was sure that along the way he would teach her some things of the world so she may also become 'wise'.

"So when do we start?" Maeko nearly yelled. She could hardly wait to actually be trained for the first time in her life.

Gobi stood up. "So hasty, we'll have to work on that. We start training tomorrow at dawn, but when we do start training we will start on the small parts, like your hastiness for example."

"What are you trying to say?! The way my life's been going there's nothing wrong with a little hastiness!" Maeko yelled with a bit of frustration.

"Well there's nothing wrong with a 'little' hastiness. But if you were in a situation where you were face to face with a powerful opponent, whom you know nothing about, and you were 'hasty', you could die." Gobi said very bluntly.

"Well that's why I have you, right?" She asked very oblivious to what she was asking.

Gobi shook his head down at the ground. "I may not always be here to protect you. You have to learn how to defend yourself. Plus you already know the basics, so it won't be all that hard." He said beginning to walk away. "Come now, we must get away from here and find a place to sleep for the night."

She continued to stand in the same spot for a moment then began walking. "Basics?!" She yelled out.

Eventually they found a place to sleep, in the forest. "I'll see you in the morning." Gobi said as he disappeared back inside of her, and she fell fast into a deep sleep against a tree.

She awoke the next morning to the sun and the birds chirping. It looked pretty early, but she still hoped she hadn't overslept. Maeko popped up with a burst of excitement, and began her morning stretches.

Then Gobi appeared out of nowhere. "Good morning."

"Huh? Oh, Good morning." Maeko said as happy as a dog with a treat.

"I'm glad you're up and at it, but today's exercise won't be requiring that." He said ever so calmly.

She gave him a confused look and awkward smile at the same time. "What do you mean?"

"Well today, I will teach you to be more patient, and less hasty."

Her face immediately turned into a scowl. "Patience? I know how to be patient! I've been patient practically my whole life."

"It is true. You can have patience in certain situations, but in most situations you have absolutely no patience at all. You're a very hasty girl in most situations." He said very bluntly.

Maeko growled. "Yeah sure whatever. Let's just get this over with."

"Alright the first thing I'll have you do is sit up in that tree on a branch." He looked up toward the branch as if pointing.

Maeko looked then jumped up on the branch. "Like this?!" She called down.

"Yes. Are you comfortable?" He said appearing next to her, and by now she wasn't all that surprised.

"I guess so."

"Good. You will sit up in this tree until I say you can come down. This exercise will acquire you to sit still in the same position for many hours. This will be used in the future for surveillance, and gathering information." He said ever so calmly.

Her mouth fell agape, and eyes as wide as saucers. "You expect me to sit up in a tree, all day?!"

"Yes and I expect no complaints from you. You're the one who asked me to train you." Gobi said like a smart ass.

A devious smile spread on her face, and she lifted her hand to her chin. "If I recall you were the one who brought that up not me."

Gobi looked at her with a certain glare in his eyes that scared her, and she flinched a tiny bit. "Right, yes sir."

He jumped off the tree onto the ground and lie by a tree. About ten minutes later Maeko's stomach growled, and she sighed. "I never even got to eat." She complained a tiny, but not loud enough for anyone to hear, but for some reason she felt as if he still heard her. Then within seconds later he appeared next to her in the tree. She flinched, she was off guard and that wasn't a good thing.

"We'll have to work on your reaction time as well. I brought you some food, and for future reference remember that your teammates will always have your back." And he disappeared again. But with that remark she smiled, the thought of having a teammate made her happy.

He had brought her things like edible plants, nuts, and some water in a bottle that she had in her bag. She felt happy that she finally had someone in her life even if he didn't care that much for her.

Hours and hours passed and she still sat, with no remarks, or complaints. Eventually she fell asleep, and Gobi just let her be he knew it would be hard to train a human.

She woke up the next day startled and yet afraid because she failed but he wasn't. That day they left that place. Each day they trained hard and everyday she learned how to better control the powers within her. She learned how to use her Lacingan and the extent of its power.

The Lacingan could kill someone instantly if needed. It could control every part of someone's body, and contort, or disassemble body parts. She could make someone die by stopping their heart, making them suffocate by closing off lung function, brake bones, make their insides burst, and more.

The better parts about the Lacingan were things like being able to have all the other traits of other kekkei genkai, such as Byakugan, Sharingan, and Rinnegan.

Byakugan gives its user a three hundred and sixty degree field of vision, except for a blind spot right at the back of the neck. Upon activation the wielder is granted an automatic fifty meter field of vision around themselves which can be extended at their discretion. Another ability it has is being able to see through solid objects, as well as some degree of telescopic sight. It can also see through most barriers, and other things such as smoke screens, and differentiate between non-corporeal clones and can see through techniques that would otherwise hide an opponent from normal sight. The distance and degree of telescopic sight vary from person to person, and can be improved through training. However, the Byakugan can't see through certain barriers, such as the 'four black fog battle formation which can only be used by four attackers. And one of the last things it can do and one of the greatest uses of the Byakugan is the ability to see chakra, chakra flow, and the chakra circulation system inside the body with great detail as well as the color of chakra. Users can also cut off or stop the chakra flow to parts of the body by using the 'Gentle Fist' technique where they gather chakra to the tips of their fingers and release on impact to the body cutting off ones chakra network.

Then there's the Sharingan. The Sharingan's first power is being able to see the flow of chakra. The Sharingan itself gives color to chakra, allowing the wielder to differentiate them. They are also able to tell if a person is under a genjustu because the person's chakra flow would be irregular. The Sharingan's second- most prominent ability grants the user an incredible clarity of perception, allowing them to easily recognize genjustu and different forms of chakra, though not to the same extent as the Byakugan. This also allows the user to pick up on subtle details, enabling them to read lip movements or mimic something like pencil movements. As the Sharingan evolves, their ablity extends to being able to track fast-moving objects before finally giving some amount of predictive capabilities to the user, allowing them to see the image of an attacker's nest move from the slightest muscle tension in their body and counter- attack or dodge without any wasted movement. However even though the user may be able to see an attack or know it is coming, their body may not always have time to react. The Sharingan's third and best well- known ability is that it grants the user the ability to copy almost any technique the he or she witnesses, apart from other kekkei genkai techniques. The user can memorize ninjutsu, genjutsu, and taijutsu with near- perfect accuracy, allowing the user to use the techniques as their own, or even modify them to create their own techniques. In order to reproduce a copied technique one must have the necessary skill or ability to perform them. In addition to physical skill and kekkei genkai techniques, the Sharingan cannot reproduce techniques dependent on other factors, such as summons that the user has not signed a contract with. The Sharingan's final commonly- used ability is capable of inducing a unique brand of hypnosis that involves suggesting actions and thoughts to the opponent through genjutsu cast by simple eye contact between both parties. More advanced Sharingan users can take the hypnosis ability even further to the point where a powerful summon like a tailed beast could be controlled.

At last, there's the Rinnegan which like the Sharingan, it has shown the ability to control tailed beasts through the use of the outer paths ability with its chakra chains and receivers. The people who wield these eyes have the potential to completely master all five basic nature transformations that form a basis of ninjutsu. Wielders of the Rinnegan can share a field of vision between themselves. On its own, the Rinnegan allows the user to see chakra, including otherwise hidden barriers.

Lacingan's better traits are being able to look into someone's memory, making enemies pass out, paralyzing them, and more.

Kekkei genkai's were one of the first things she learned how to use, but she had to learn each of them individually. The Lacingan is a mixture of all three kekkei genkai's together. The Byakugan's appearance on its user makes them look like they have no pupils and their eye color so light that it also appears they don't have an iris either. The Sharingan has many appearances with many different patterns, but its main appearance makes the eye red with black tomoe's in them. The Sharingan's with different patterns in them are called Mangekyo Sharingan. The Rinnegan's appearance is a shade of gray/purple with many circles around the whole eye.

Once all of these meld together it creates the Lacingan. When the Lacingan is activated the pupil consumes the whole iris making the eye look black, and when someone looks into her eyes she can trap them in the black abyss that is her eye.

It took Maeko one year to master all of these, as for others it would have taken years and years to master just one of them. The next year she found out she was a water style and lightning style in chakra nature, so that year she trained in perfecting jutsu's in those category and also began training in medical ninjutsu.

One day when they were passing through the hidden bronze village, a wandering puppy started following them. Maeko could sense there was someone there but she couldn't tell who they were or what they wanted. She quickly turned around in a defensive stance with kunai knives in her hands, to see that it was only a puppy. The puppy was small and white with long fur and floppy ears. She put her kunai away and picked up the puppy.

"You are so cute." Maeko awed.

Then Gobi appeared. "Maeko we don't have time for this let's be on our way."

Maeko looked back at the puppy and knew he was right, so she set the puppy down on the ground. "Go on. Go home." She said as she started walking away again.

The puppy squeaked a little because it couldn't yet bark, and started running toward her again. When she turned around again, she saw the puppy fumbling over its own feet.

"Hold on Gobi." She said as she picked the puppy up again and used Lacingan on it. She did a memory sweep to see if the puppy had a home, and sure enough it didn't.

"Gobi this puppy is a stray, she doesn't have a home." She said concerned for the little pup.

"Well then we'll just have to leave her behind, or kill her if she keeps following us." He said, with every intent of doing so.

Maeko glared at him. "We most absolutely will not!" She paused. "We're taking her with us."

"Maeko she'll just get in the way…" He said trying to convince her that it was a bad idea, but now that the idea was in her head she wasn't gonna give up so easily.

"We're taking her with us and that's that. Plus I could use a dog-nin wouldn't you say?" She said with a crazy smirk on her face.

Gobi shook his head down at the ground. "Fine but I'm not helping you train her." He said with annoyance.

She smiled in glee as she put the puppy on the ground. "You're coming with us, but first you need a name." She started to think. "Well you're small and floppy… uh."

"Why don't you just call her Bitty." Gobi said just wanting to leave already.

"Bitty's the perfect name." She continued to smile as they began walking again.

Along with her Chakra nature and medical ninjutsu training, she also trained Bitty to be a dog-nin and fight alongside her in combat.

Maeko became very close with Bitty, and Bitty with her. They were best friends, and every time Maeko would feel lonely or sad, Bitty would be there for her to cheer her up. She truly felt like she found a best friend. But about a year and a half down their journey she died, and Maeko closed herself off from the world showing little emotions toward others. Of course she still went from village to village getting rid of unwanted people and people who didn't belong there, but now when villagers thanked her she simply nodded her head and kept moving on. She didn't smile much anymore like she used to.

By the fourth year she perfected all the kekkei genkai's, chakra nature jutsu's changing chakra nature form and style, medical ninjutsu creating an all powerful jutsu that can heal literally anything, sensory jutsu's, ninjutsu's, taijutsu's, and genjutsu's.

One day when she was practicing a genjutsu out in the middle of nowhere, when she saw some suspicious looking men wearing black coats with red clouds on them. She hid up in the trees using a transparency jutsu to gather information to see if they were a threat. One of them covered from head to toe in clothing only his eyes showing, and the other had white hair a little below ear length with his chest exposed because half of his shirt was ripped, and a scythe with three blades on his back. She moved where they moved unnoticed listening to their conversation.

"So do you think we'll find the next tailed beast? Deidera and Tobi got the last one." The white hair man said.

"Well maybe if you don't complain so much like you always do maybe we will, and we did catch the one before that one remember." The other said his voice was scratchy and deep.

"Yeah well three down, six to go, right." He smiled devilishly.

'Tailed beasts, like you Gobi?' She asked him in her head.

'Yes. Stop them, kill one of them, then do a memory sweep on the other.' Gobi ordered.

'Got it.' She said jumping down from the trees in front of them, paralyzing both of them with her Lacingan. She smiled in her victory.

"Now which one of you wants to tell me about this tailed beast thing you two were just talking about?" She said in a sweet voice.

"Aw isn't that cute, a paralyzation jutsu. And sweet heart that isn't any of your business." The white haired man said in a mocking voice.

"Start the memory sweep I've got them if anything happens." Gobi said as he appeared next to her.

Maeko started the memory sweep on the man covered in clothes.

"Hey Kakuzu it's our lucky day a tailed beast." But the white haired man got no answer. "Kakuzu?! Hey!"

"There's no use, he's under her trance." Gobi explained to the man.

Maeko finished and looked down towards the ground.

"Well what's the plan Maeko?" Gobbi asked.

"Kill them." She said looking up and smiling.

With her Lacingan she saw that the one covered in clothes, Kakuzu, had five hearts. She had no idea how but she definitely knew what to do. Within three seconds she crushed all five of his hearts, and he fell to the floor dead. She knew he deserved to die after everything he had done. This other guy was bothering her, through Kakuzu's memory she saw this other guy Hidan was his name, she watched him kill a man Asuma, he was a leaf shinobi. He was with a squad of three others and one of them must have been a former student of his because he did everything in his power to save him even though it was hopeless, and there was nothing he could have done to save him. She knew he must be going through a world of pain right now.

She looked at Hidan with hate in her eyes, she wanted to kill him, and she would do it. She knew he didn't have a weakness, she had seen it. When he tasted someone's blood all of his skin turns black and white and whatever pain he suffers that person suffers it as well. But he can't die, obviously if he stab's himself to kill another person but he doesn't die something is seriously wrong with this dude. She still had a plan though

She gave him one look and all of his limbs came apart from his body including his head, but he was still alive.

"Gobi, dig a hole over there about one hundred feet underground." She ordered.

"Consider it done." He said before walking away and doing what she asked.

She looked back down at Hidan. "Wow you're something. You killed my partner with one look and disassembled my body as well, what are you?" He asked.

She leaned down close to his head. "Your worst nightmare." She said quickly and stood up.

Gobi was beside her. "It's done."

"Good." She picked up his arms and legs and threw them into the pit. Next she picked up his body getting more and more blood all over her, she threw that into the pit as well. Now she walked up to his head and picked him up by his hair with one hand.

"You stained my clothes. I'll have to buy some new ones because these ones will forever remind me of you." Maeko said with no emotion.

"And you ruined my body. Now we're even. I'll get out of that hole one day and kill you." Hidan said sinisterly.

"I'd like to see that happen." She said as she dropped his head into the hole. She took five steps back and charged up her hand with lightning, one of her lightning style techniques, the 'Lightning Blade'. She jumped high up in the air and slammed her hand into the floor making the ground collapse into the hole filling it up, as dust flew high in the air.

Maeko then felt the presence of four people nearby when she turned around Gobi was gone and four leaf shinobi were coming her way. She was going to get out of there by using a genjutsu but one of the faces she saw was that boys face. The one that tried to save his sensei, so she decided to stick around and tell him what happened. They got about three yards away when they saw Kakuzu lying dead on the floor.

"They're both dead!" Maeko shouted.

They all looked around taking in the scene when a white haired man walked out. He had half of his face covered, and by the looks of him he was a jonin.

"What happened?" He asked.

"I killed them. And you with the black hair, I know what they did to your sensei, and I'm sorry for your loss."

He gave her a strange look and walked closer. "How do you know that?" He questioned.

"I looked at his memories. Hidan is not dead because he can't die but he's one hundred feet underground and his body parts are disassembled. You're probably going to take Kakuzu's body as well, so I might as well tell you he had five hearts and all of them are burst apart inside of him." She explained.

"Then my question for you is, how did one girl defeat two men in battle when four of our best shinobi couldn't?" The white haired man questioned.

Maeko tried to chose her words wisely but she knew that whatever she said it wouldn't come out completely right. "I'm a jinchuuriki, and I don't mean to gloat but I'm one of the strongest people you will ever meet."

"Oh, so you are? Well I personally know a jinchuuriki. What makes you so special?" He kept asking more questions.

Maeko thought for a moment staring down at the ground, then looked up. "I'm not sure myself, but I have some important information about the akatsuki that I would like to share with the Hokage. If you'd let me."