Chapter 1
"That's the last of my customers," I said walking over to my boss, Mr. Williams.
"Thankyou for doing this extra shift Zevlida," Mr. Williams said gratefully.
"It's fine, besides, I have no one at home waiting for me," I said smiling, only showing the smallest amount of pain. My parents had been found dead in the park 2 months ago. Now I was alone, I was glad I was 16, meaning I could live by myself, without worrying about food.
"I still say you should've stayed at my place," Mr. Williams said.
"No, I couldn't do that to you. Besides, you're helping me enough by giving me money and this job," I said grabbing my bag and slinging it on my shoulder. It was a shoulder bag, the kind you put laptops in. It had my school books, purse and net book in it.
"OK, but if you need anything, anything at all, just give me a call," Mr. Williams said giving me a box rapped up.
"You know my birthday was 4 months ago," I said smiling.
"I know, but this is a little present for working here for a month," Mr. Williams said.
"OK," I said and opened it. Inside was an iPhone and I squealed in delight, "Arigatou gozaimasu." I gave Mr. Williams a hug.
"Now you can call whenever you need anything," Mr. Williams said hugging my back.
"I better get going, sayonara," I said leaving the café I worked at. I walked through the streets of the city. They were busy and I smiled. I've lived in the city all my life, I love it. The noise, the people and something new and strange happens all the time. It was about 8 and still quit bright seeing as the sun is just finishing setting. I turned into the park; on the other side of the big park was where my apartment was. The park still had people in it, people like me heading home from work. But quickly it became empty.
I wasn't to far from the exit when someone stepped into my way. He was about 5 metres in front of me, wearing some weird outfit. His face was covered in shadows; the only thing I saw was a glare from glasses. I decided to keep going. He was probably heading home or something as well.
As I walked passed him he grabbed my arm. I looked at him; his hair was covered by a hat, so I couldn't tell what coloured hair he had. His skin was average colour, but his eyes were black. Something about him scared me, even though he looked like a nerd or something.
"Can I help you?" I asked.
"Hai, I was wondering if you know anyone by the name of Kurami Zevlida?" the guy asked.
"Hai, but who wants to know?" I asked.
"That is going to be between me and the person," the guy replied.
"Well, I am Kurami Zevlida, so I guess you should tell me," I said, getting a bit agitated.
"You're a girl?" the guy asked, shocked.
"No duh, now who wants to know?" I asked, starting to get angry. The guy seemed about 22 and though he was youngish, he was still a creep. Why would someone be looking for me?
"My master wants you to join us," the guy said.
"I don't know who you are, why would I join you?" I asked my dark blue eye narrowing.
"Because, you're coming either way," the guy said and went to punch me. I dodged and did a swiping kick before going onto my feet and running. Shit, what have I gotten myself into? All of a sudden the guy appeared in front of me, his hat had fallen off and I saw silver hair. He also wore a headband type thing on his forehead that had a sound symbol on it. If I remember correctly, the headband thing was a forehead protector and the music symbol was a quaver.
The guy lunged out; I blocked his attack and jumped back. I stood in a defensive position, waiting for his next move. Then he disappeared. I spun around in a circle, looking for him, left, right, behind, where I stood before he disappeared. Where was he?
"Up here," the guy said and I just managed to dodge his attack from the tree. But before I had time to recover, the guy punched me in the gut. I doubled over in pain and the guy punched me in the nose, sending me flying back into a tree. How is he so fast and strong? It's not natural.
I collapsed against the tree on my side. I just managed to keep my eyes open as I watched the guy walk slowly towards me. I coughed up some a blood and saw the smirk on his face. I winced when I moved and was sure I had some broken ribs.
"Who…are…you?" I managed to say between breaths, I felt tears in my eyes.
"May name is Yakushi Kabuto and my master, Orochimaru-sama, wishes for you to join us," the guy answered, he was about 5 metres from me now. How hard did he hit me? Before Kabuto could go any further, a heap of knife looking things were thrown. Kabuto dodged them and was immediately on guard.
I watched as two guys, one with silver, spiked up hair that should be illegal and the other with blonde spiky hair, jumped between me and Kabuto.
"Ah, Naruto-kun, long time no see," Kabuto said.
"Shut up you four eyed freak," the blonde, who I assume is Naruto, yelled.
"What do you want with a human?" the silver haired guy asked.
"I don't know, Orochimaru-sama wants her," Kabuto stated.
My attention got drawn away from the fight as two more people appeared, right next to me. One was a guy with black, flat hair, black eyes and very pale skin. The other was a girl with bubblegum pink hair and green eyes. Her hands glowed blue and she brought them to where my ribs rested. Soon I couldn't feel pain and the girl stopped. I sat up and looked at her confused.
"Who are you?" I asked and noticed that she wore a forehead protector with some strange symbol on it. She wore it as a headband.
"I'm Haruno Sakura, a ninja form Konohagakure," the said, "And this is Sai."
"Hajimeashite," the guy said with a bow.
"Nice to meet you too," I said. Then a clang of metal brought me back to the fight. There the silver haired guy and Naruto were fighting with Kabuto. Kabuto had a knife in his hand. Damn, what were they called? Ah, kunai, that's it! There were 3 Naruto's and the silver haired guy was jut leaning against a tree reading some book.
Then a snake appeared and Kabuto stopped. He nodded to the snake, as if he heard it. Then he turned and faced the rest of us, a look of anger behind his glasses.
"I guess we'll have to finish this some other time," Kabuto said and poofed away.
"Are you alright Miss?" the silver haired guy asked. I blushed a little bit and nodded, even though I could barley see his face, he still seemed hot. How does that work?
"I-I'm fine…" I said trailing off.
"My name is Hatake Kakashi, I am from Konoha. This is my team, Haruno Sakura, Sai and this baka here is Uzumaki Naruto," the guy said.
"What just happened?" I asked, "And what is Konoha?"
"Konoha is a village in the fire country, it is in the ninja world," Kakashi said.
"Kakashi-sensei…why would Orochimaru want this girl? Is she important?" Sakura asked.
"That's a good question, do you know of the ninja world?" Kakashi asked me.
"No, not until this moment," I said and I realised I started to feel tied.
"If she alright Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked.
"I'm not sure," Sakura said before I fainted.