Author's Note: I hope you like this. I got a bad comment on one of the fics I wrote so I'm a little discouraged, but I'm slowly beginning to accept it. Heheh. Lemme know what you think by e-mailing me or by submitting a review. Thanks! Enjoy!

Chapter One

Life with a power-freak father was not pleasant, but it was what Miyari was used to. How can anyone long for a better life they never knew existed? So she stuck by her father's side. A loyal tool indeed.

"Miyari-sama, your father wishes to see you." A tall gray-haired young man stood in front of the pale girl and gave her a small bow.

"Thanks for telling me, Kabuto-san." She nodded at him and went to the direction of her father's laboratory. When she entered, the room seemed empty of people, but a few minutes later, a thin man appeared from behind a large shelf. His hair was long and black, making his extremely white skin jut out painfully. The purple shade around his snake-eyes transformed his yellow pupils into something more scary. Horrible eyes, and Miyari looked straight at them. "What have you called me for, father?"

"I want you to kill someone." Orochimaru didn't believe in indirectness when talking to his daughter. She needed no sweet words, and he wasn't one to give them. Miyari didn't answer, but she waited for him to continue. "I am planning to take over the Leaf village. The current Hokage is Tsunade, a former teammate of mine. I want you to kill her."

"It shall be done."

"Good. You're about the same level as I am now, but you still need some help in getting rid of that woman. Brink Sakon with you, you will leave tomorrow." After failing to use Sasuke, Orochimaru decided that his only daughter was more than enough to replace the Uchiha prodigy. He wouldn't take Miyari's body, but make her as his personal soldier instead.

"Hai." Miyari left the room to look for Sakon. Her emotions began to stir uncontrollably, as it always did when she thought about the whitish-violet-haired boy. Growing up without a mother, she didn't know how to deal with her feelings of attraction. She probably didn't even know she was attracted. A few seconds later, she found Sakon sitting quietly on a rock large enough to sit on. His elbow was resting sideways on one knee and he was looking down at the ground. "Sakon." Miyari stood beside his rock.

"Miyari-sama." He quickly sat straighter and bowed respectfully to the girl.

"Raise your head." Sakon did. "Tomorrow we will leave for the Leaf village. Our job is to kill the Hokage, do you understand?"

"Hai, Miyari-sama."

Miyari knew that she should be going back to the house, but something made her stay rooted to the ground. Sakon looked at her awkwardly. The silence was suffocating, so Sakon spoke.

"Is anyone else coming with us?" His voice cracked. He winced embarrassedly.

"None that I know of. It was father who chose you. Would you like to bring the others?"

"No," he said. The girl looked a little surprised by his quick answer. He was surprised himself.

"They annoy you, huh?" Miyari grinned and felt comfortable enough to sit on the hard surface beside the older ninja. Their knees touched for only a brief moment, but that moment was enough to electrify both of them. Inwardly, of course.

"Yeah. They're annoying." Sakon gulped and discreetly moved a few inches away from his master's daughter. Orochimaru-sama would kill him if he found out what his thoughts of Miyari were. He was relieved when Kabuto appeared.

"You should go to sleep now, Miyari-sama," the medical-nin said. "Orochimaru-sama expects you to leave early tomorrow morning. You too, Sakon." He looked from the girl to the boy, then back to the girl again. He wondered what was going on between the two, seeing as how their faces were clearly flushed even under the light of only the moon.

"Good night both of you." Sakon excused himself. He scurried off.

Miyari looked at Kabuto. "I'm going."

"Good night, Miyari-sama."

Leaf Village ; 8:00 AM

"There's no telling when Orochimaru will strike again," Jiraiya told Tsunade. He leaned cross-armed against the wall of the Godaime's office while the woman in pigtails rested on her big chair comfortably. She appeared not to care.

"Don't worry too much, Jiraiya! Just relax and have fun. I'll take care of Orochimaru when I need to."

"What a big talker you are, Tsunade. The two of us couldn't even handle him the last time we fought. And his arms were already bound by the Sandaime's spell that time." A loud knock interrupted their discussion which made the two members of the legendary sannin look at the door.

"Come in!" Tsunade bellowed. A breathless chuunin entered and reported that two foreign nins were seen entering the village. The names "Itachi' and 'Kisame' flowed out of the Godaime's mouth when she heard the news, but the chuunin shook his head.

"It's not them, Hokage-sama. One's a girl, and she looks awfully familiar. I just can't think of who she is."

"And the other guy?" Jiraiya asked. He motioned for the panting man to sit on one of the chairs and waited for his answer.

"He is sort of crouched and I couldn't see his face clearly because his care was hanging around it."

"Were you the one who caught sight of them?"

"Hai, Jiraiya-sama."

"What were they wearing?"

"The girl was wearing black clothes... pants, shirt and boots, I think. The boy had on a black cloak."

"Their forehead protector?"

"They wore none."

"Thanks for your help Yatare. It was a good idea to come here first before going after them. Where did you last see these persons?"

"Field 27, heading for the denser part of the forest."

"Thanks again. You may go."

Enjoy! - --- Anko-dono