Chapter 1: Meet your new roommate

"Mama, Papa, look!"

"Yuki-chan!"

Heavy breathing and passing faces.

Her papa was shouting as her mother strapped a bag onto her. In the crock of her father's neck Yukihara watched the scene unfold. The caravan they had been living in exploded. Three men in strange looking garbs chased after her aunts and uncles.

The earth stained red.

"Protect yourself, please don't let them find you."

Don't go.

"We love you"

Please don't leave me!

"RUN YUKI!"

A throbbing sensation released her from her nightmare as here eyelids flew open revealing wide green eyes. Where am I? Staring up into the forest sky from her laying position on the grass, memories of the past month continued to haunt her. I've been crying again. She thought wiping away the slowly drying reminders of the night.

Blood rushing to her head. "I'm ok" she said using her elbows to push herself up against the nearby tree trunk. "I'm ok.." Once again, the morning has come to remind her that Yukihara Momoka was once again alone.

Doing her best to calm her heart's erratic beating, Yuki refused to cry. She was six years old now, a big girl in her world. Although, she may not have her parents anymore she still could survive.

She just had too.

If not for herself then for them.

It has been a week, or so she remembered, since Yukihara voyaged off to the nearest village from where her and her family were attacked. Legs worn from running and body feeling starved. The young girl pattered her side and searched for her yellow knapsack and found it where she had left it the night before. Reaching in she felt around. Cold metal and some fabric brushed along her skin but no plastic wrappers or anything that signaled nourishment.

What am I going to do?!

Panic was slowly seeping in. Avoiding starvation was going to be a problem, one that she is unfortunately familiar with, but not by choice. Yet, before she could assess her situation to the fullest, nor think of any real solution, two loud barks were heard from a distance. Can this day get any worse?

Quickly closing her eyes, Yuki tried to concentrate her chakra to determining where her soon to be foes were. "They're fast." She muttered. Heart racing and sweat starting to form, already adding onto the dirt that covered her once light skin.

"What would Papa do," She didn't want to get caught, but her chakra levels were still dangerously low from prior excessive use and low nourishment.

It was too late.

As she was struggling to get up and run three dogs were already surrounding her.

Large and in charge two dark grey ninkin and a black one, clearly the leader of the pack, stood in a threatening stance.

"Akimaru, Tarumaru, Kuromaru" A strong feminine voice called out as three figures dropped from the trees nearby.

A woman, a man, and a boy who looked just a little bit older then herself landed before her in a thump. With wild black hair and red marks down her face the female without a doubt looked the most frightening out of the three. Hands on her hips she sighed as the two guys behind her shook their heads. "Gah! It's only a child!" The boy moaned, as the smaller of the grey dogs barked in agreement. "What a waste of time." Ruffling up his orange hair he crouched down in a more relaxed pose. Dressed in a strange green and navy-blue outfit, the loud mouth of the group shifted his mood from- ready to fight- too- can I go home- in a matter of seconds.

Yuki felt slightly offended.

"Kyou, have you learned nothing!" She shouted, clearly disapproving of the youngster's attitude. Turning her head, she shouted "Gin!"

"Yes, Tsume-sama."

This time the oldest man in the group replied. With dark black hair and similar markings to the other two; the stranger moved from his crouching position. Clearly trying to look more relax despite his intimidating demeanor, but Yuki could see the focus still in his clear blue eyes.

They still saw her as a threat.

Truth be told, the Inuzuka forest area wasn't any place for a child, nor any non-clan member to be in. With all their ninken and wolves around the area, it was not what many people would consider a safe zone; and therefore, was typically heavily guarded. So how in the world did a little girl manage to get caught up in their neck of the woods. From the dirty clothes and slight bruises on her forearms, it would be clear to deduct that she was a runaway or orphan. Perhaps even both.

But she smelt like an outsider.

And therefore, had a higher chance of being dangerous.

"Who are you, little one?" Tsume called, motioning for her ninkin Kuromaru to take a step back, but to be on alert, after all, it wasn't uncommon to see children being used as assassination tools in this day and age.

Never speak to strangers. That's what Mama and Papa has always taught Yuki from a young age. But what if these strangers were clearly dangerous ninjas? Well she will just have to wing it.

So Yuki did what Yuki did best when she was in trouble.

She played innocent.

Tilting her head in a way so that a few strands and a lock of white hair framed her face nicely, the young girl blinked her wide green eyes and shrugged.

Jin frowned, Tsume smirked, and Kyou… well, Kyou acted like himself.

"Tsume-sama asked you a question, damn brat! Are you mute or just stupid?!" The red head called out.

Yukihara turned her angelic face toward the loud mouth and blew raspberries.

Kyou was steaming as the other two laughed. Even the dogs were laughing. Or so Yuki thinks. Do dogs even laugh?

"Why you little-" Charging at Yukihara at rapid speed Tsume and Jin shouted at him to stop.

Quickly channeling whatever chakra that has returned to her, Yukihara side stepped him while whispering "baka" into his passing ear. Skidding to the side and tumbling to a stop Yukihara tried to get back up but was forced back down.

What the-

Looking up in horror one of the large grey dogs was sitting on her. Smirking down at her face.

"Good job, Tarumaru!" His master called knowing that his ninkin could handle a fifteen-pound little girl as he and his clan leader deal with the troublesome Genin.

"You're such a pain." he grouched staring down at a pouting Kyou, sporting a new lump from a Tsume-hit.

The threat level dramatically lessening as everyone concluded the same thing Jin did earlier.

They needed answers and they needed it fast. This girl was young and knew how to use chakra. How well or how much she actually had was another mystery. But from what she could smell this girl was alone and scared. So there could only be so much they could do to the poor thing and still get some answers. Gah, where was a Yamanaka when you need one!

She looked over to her only reliable personal there. "Go see if you can get her to talk." He nodded and walked over to where his ninkin sat taunting the struggling child underneath him. Crouching down he pulled out a jar which only contained a bit of his friend's special temporary chakra blocking solvent and rub it over the growling girls face.

"Tarumaru" the ninkin nodded and got up from the strange girl. Strutting away to his master's side. Quite satisfied with himself for tormenting the child.

"w-what did you do to me!?" Yuki felt weak, weaker than before. Clawing at the dirt she tried to still herself.

"Did you poison me!?" She hissed, is this the way she was going to go out?

"poison? Who knows, but if you want to feel better again you better start giving us answers."

Her eyes dilated. Body not able to handle it anymore and collapsed.

"shit maybe I put too much on her?"

Tsume arched a brow and folded her arms. "Problem, Jin?" a smirk marred her face.

"A problem, no.. Well, maybe." He pointed to the unconscious body.

"I'm 98% sure I didn't kill her"

Tsume rolled her eyes.

"Just, take her to the Tower, in this state she's useless to use. Have a healer look at her and report the findings to Interrogation."

"But why me!?" He had better things to do then deliver the brat.

Checking her watch Tsume motioned for her Ninkin that she was done. "Shut up and just do it."

"Kyou's free."

Tsume glared,

"Never mind, yep. Got it Tsume-sama!" Jin nodded in a cold sweat.

"Good, then I'll leave the rest to you, I got to go get Kiba now, Ja!" And with that said the pair disappeared between the leaves.

Following her disappearing act was Kyou, "Later, Jin nichan! Have fun!" He laughed, leaving him with a troublesome girl.

Oh, why was it always him.

"Well," He turned to his ninken "off we go, the faster we do this the faster we can leave." Tarumaru nodded.

XxX

Jin sighed as he struggled with a noisy child who had woken up about one third of the trip in. See, he was sure he didn't accidently kill her; but now he wished he did. Running along the roof with his partner Taru, he cursed Kyou under his breath for being completely useless, he was now a Genin for kami sake! He should be able to take on a simple emergency escort order.

Taru just chuckled at his master as the pair took the screaming child kicking toward the tower.

Do not kill her, she's just a kid he caught himself chanting mentally as he talked himself out of knocking her out on multiple occasions during their little adventure. Despite the fact that he really-really wanted to kick this brats ass right about now, his better judgement side knew that interrogation would unfortunately need the suspect to be awake in order to extract any information.

She bit him again.

Maybe half-conscious would do.

The men grumbled.

"Let me go!" shouted Yukihara feeling slightly under the weather. Not being uses to all the quick movements and hopping around she couldn't help but…

"Blaugh" throw up on him.

Dropping the dirty child Jin wanted to gag. "Fucking Kami, what did you even eat!?" A large brown mess covered a whole left side of his pants and a bit made it onto his shoes.

"These were fucking new too!" He cursed.

"Jin."

He continued to curse trying to shake the yuck from his pants.

"Jin"

"Once, I got to wear these once!"

"JIN!"

"What!?"

Turning around he spotted his fury grey partner who gave him a pointing look. "Missing anyone?" He rolled his eyes.

Not even two seconds later from when Jin dropped her did Yuki take her chance to run like the wind.

Jin did a double take. "Oh my Kami, Taru! Why didn't you stop her!?" The dog gave him what looks to be a shrug. "Didn't wanna."

The girl was harmless, and his master needed to concentrate. What better lesson to teach him then with a small runaway dirty child. Plus, her scent was wretched, and he did not want that clinging on to his fur all day. It takes a lot to maintain such a fin coat such as his own.

"Fuck!" Lifang his head to the sky he sniffed and immediately caught her scent. A horrible mixture of sweat and dirt. "Ugh. Taru you brat, come on!" and with that said the irritable man and his high-maintenance ninkin leapt into action by jumped off the building and onto the civilian streets. Just how that little girl managed to get off was a surprise to him. Maybe she was far more dangerous then what he thought she was.

Finally seeing a wisp of white hair, he shouted "W-wait! Girl! Stop!" Ignoring the weird looks they were getting Jin and Tarumaru took after her. The markets were busy on a Saturday, making it that much harder to weave in and out without causing some sort of accident.

XxX

Looking back to see how far her captors where Yukihara wanted to cry in relief. They seem to have been stuck in between the foot traffic of the event that was going on. Thankfully with her small stature and prior training, she was able to hide of herself a lot easier. Weaving in and between villagers Yuki did her best to be discrete and fast. Not wanting to draw too much attention to herself but create enough distance.

She couldn't be caught, no she wouldn't be caught.

A weird cough-sniffle hybrid escaped her parted mouth as she shook her head. Not now, now was not the time to get sick!

BAM

Tumbling down she landed onto something soft.

"Well, this is interesting."

Eyes wide open; Yuki met shocked brown orbs as her lips had somehow managed to connect with another. She could feel her little heart racing as she jumped up onto her knees. "S-sorry!" she whispered getting a better look of the innocent person she had accidently kissed. A boy with dark brown hair pulled into a tight spike pony tail looked up at her. Disbelief reflected by his chocolate eyes. Snapping out of it Yukihara once again apologized before getting back on her little legs and taking off again.

Pay attention! Placing a hand on her lips she flustered. I can't believe- I- She let out a little whine. I just had my first kiss! Always the dreamer, Yukihara couldn't believe that her first kiss had been an assault based one. To make matters worse, she was the offender in this case.

Taking a left Yuki agilely dodged to avoid a cart that she almost ran into. Focus!

While back at the crime scene, Shikamaru Nara just blinked as he just laid there on the floor. Half in shock and the other half just too lazy to get back up. His father chucked and prodded his son with his foot. "Ah…. ah Shikamaru. The floors dirty. Your mothers going to nag me about your clothing."

His son glared at him as he sat up. "Aa.." A few people who recognized him quickly rushed to see if the duo were ok. Shikaku just nodded, thanked them for their concerned, and waved them off. Not one for crowds or making light conversation.

"Well, it's not every day your son gets his first kiss." He jokingly smirked, Turning his attention to his son who had managed to sneak in a few minutes of light dazing while he was busy. Cheeks automatically flared as Shikaku internally giggled. Loving the red that covered his son's cheek.

Ignoring his father's teasing Shikamaru turned back slightly to see where the girl went, "Who was that?" he asked. Only have met a few other children around his age. Shikaku shrugged as a member of the Inuzuka clan ran past him with his Ninkin as well.

"I'm not sure, Shikamru, but whoever she is, she sure seems to be gathering a fan club already."

Offering a hand and pulled his son up. Quickly checking for any injuries that would get him in trouble, Shikaku lead the journey down the street once satisfied. Making a mental note to ask Tsume about any new members to her clan.

"Let's go before your mother kills us."

The boy rolled his eyes, the girl was light and didn't do much damage. He didn't understand what all trouble was about. What's a few scratches compared to an actual broken bone? Nonetheless, what started off as his mother kicking the two out of the house to pick up a few things from the travel market turned out to be much more troublesome then he expected.

Touching his lips, he couldn't help but blush at the memory of the girls soft ones.

And her eyes. Green, but not any green. Her eyes were such a deep green that Shikamaru hasn't even seen them in any of Choji's extensive crayon collection. Oh kami he was starting to sound like one of the girls within his clan.

Shikamaru scowled, it wasn't like he was ever going to see her again, anyways. So it shouldn't matter, right?

"Alright Shika, what do you want for dinner."

He pause and thought for a moment. "Peaches."

"For dinner?" Shikaku shrugged, generally not one to argue. Chalking it up to kids just being kids. At least he wasn't asking for paste like some other kids he knew. Going to a few other vendors Shikaku picked up some real dinner for the family, the ingredients that Yoshino sent them out for, and peaches for his son; or should he consider him a man now?

Shikaku threw his head back and laughed ignoring the strange look Shikamaru shot at him.

XxX

"So let me get this straight. You-" the Hokage pointed to Jin "and her" he motioned for the little thing pouting on the floor. "-broke two vendor stalls beams, knocked over a tank of fish, and injured two civilians." He was getting too old for this job "Did I get that all right?"

Jin cringed as the Hokage finished his list with a sigh. His partner next to him whimpered as the two of them felt the fury come off in waves from Tsume. What started out as a clear, get-the-brat-over-to- the-tower, ended up being a light seek-and-destroy mission.

Kiba stood next to her as he grinned at the misfortune of his nisan. Usually it was him who would earn the wrath of his mother. But not today, today he gets to witness another one of the clan members take a lashing for once from the terrifying woman.

"I apologize for Jin and Tarumaru's behavior, Hokage-sama-" She turned and shoot a deadly look at the pair "rest assure that the Inuzuka Clan will not let this go unpunished." the two swallowed.

"We will take care of all repairs and damages done to the stalls." He nodded as she continued. "and as for the citizens, how badly were they hurt?"

"Not too badly, just a few scratches. But they filed a complaint regardless."

Perfect, nothing they couldn't heal from on their own." It was just typical of civilian to cry after a paper cut.

"But what do we about the girl?"

Unnoticed by the adult the young Inuzuka heir had marched over to the girl as the adults were talking. Bending down he plopped himself next to silver haired adolescent and sniffed. "You smell funny." Akamaru yipped in agreement snuggling himself deeper into Kiba's coat.

"So what? Yuki glared at the newcomer "You look funny."

Akamaru barked back in retaliation as Kiba frowned, how did he look funny. She was the one that looks like she's been rolling around in a trashcan all day. And although his noise was still developing he could at least guess that it's been a couple of weeks since she was last actually clean. "Well at least I take baths." he shot back as her cheeks tinted. It wasn't her fault! Yukihara loved baths, usually spending more time than necessary soaking up the water until she pruned.

"Well if I smell so bad why are you even talking to me? Why don't you go over there with the rest of the funny looking people." They were all still talking, probably about what they were going to do with her. It didn't matter anyway. She was just going to run away again the moment she got the chance.

He scrunched up his noise "Because you smell funny."

That was it "UGH!"

This caught the attention of the adults as the caught Yukihara and Kiba wrestling on the ground. Akamaru had fallen out of Kiba's coat and was now excitingly barking outside the imaginary moving circle. Kiba laughed clearly enjoying himself as a red faced Yukihara was angrily fighting him for dominance.

"Are you sure she isn't one of your own?" The Hokage jokes. Seeing the two play? Well, he thinks they're playing.

Clearly one of them was having fun.

Gin chuffed. "If that brat looked a bit different I wouldn't be surprised. She's a real handful."

Kuromaru, Tsume's ninkin walk passed the barking pup and broke the two apart. Kiba clearly out of breath and grinning as Yukihara backup a few feet away from the oversized dog.

"Child, what is your name?"

Yuki glared up to the man in the funny hat. "I'm not supposed to talk to strangers." She smartly replied. As everyone in the room looked horrified. "Damn Brat! Do you know who you're talking to! This is the Hokage! Show some respect!"

Ho-ka-ge?

Didn't ring a bell.

Turning her head Yuki smiled at Gin. Opening her mouth to apologies she instead blew raspberries at the man who carried her here.

"Why you litt-"

"Jin!" Sarutobi has never seen Jin like this before, as one of the brightest in his class and a recently promoted Jonin.

"Well, I've read the reports and it seems that we have very few options at this point."

Yukihara stiffened.

He held out two fingers and made sure that the rambunctious child was paying attention "One, you explain who you are and why you have this," he waved his hands. Jin reached into his back pocket and pulled out a scroll, adding a bit of chakra he thrusted his hand in and pulled out two foreign scrolls and her yellow backpack. "Hey!" she shouted, glad to see that her pack was still intact and wasn't forgotten in the fray.

Everyone ignored her as he continued to empty everything she was carrying in her pack. "Hey stop! That's mine!" Kuromaru growled as the Yukihara made a move, causing her to hesitate a bit. Dumping out the rest of the materials onto the Hokage's desk, the air darkened as shuriken, scrolls, kunai, and ninja wire were emptied from the little pockets. The only thing that was remotely normal was a stuff rabbit, still white and in much better condition than the child who owned it. Just how did such a little thing lug all this stuff around?

The room was quiet, each adult contemplating the situation, while Kiba looked at the girl in a more amazed light. 'cool', just didn't cut it anymore.

Tugging at her shorts Yukihara fidgeted. Her legs tired from the way she sat. Maybe she should have accepted the offer to sit in a chair when the Ho-ka-ge? Offered it.

A long sigh broke her train of thought "Or two, you get arrested on the assumption of treason and integrated by our finest men." Eyes narrowed "And trust me, that can be pretty painful."

"So cool" Kiba whispered from the other side of Kuromaru. Ignoring the side eye he was receiving from the black dog.

Yuki wasn't stupid. "Fine, but can I have my stuff back after." She paused. Her mother's voice echoing in her mind "..Please?"

Jin smirked, relishing in the fact that the young brat was now in the hot seat. So she did have some manner?

The Hokage placed his hands under his chin. Ready to finally hear some answers. "Depends on what you say." The girl huffed.

Folding her arms Yuki tried her best to remain calm. Mocking a small cough to clear her nerves she stood. "My name is Momoka, Yukihara. And I am six years old." She held out her hands, and a finger, out proudly. And I don't really know where here is." Truthfully speaking, after a month of running aimlessly out in the wild, Yukihara had almost cried in relief when she spotted the giant gray wall that may as well have shouted. 'civilization' to the lonely girl. The only thing that really kept her sane this long was Usagi-chan, the rabbit from earlier.

The adults in the room didn't know how to feel about the information, or lack of it. "And where did you come from, child?"

"My mama and papa silly, didn't you?"

Tsume didn't know whether to laugh or cry. No once has she seen anyone speak like this to the Hokage like this before.

On the other hand, the Hokage didn't know how to answer. "I meant location wise."

"Oh." Where was she from? Not even she really knew, always traveling from one place to another, the only stable thing for her was the traveling caravan that her and her parents lived in. "Outside." That seemed general enough.

"Outside?" he replied as he eyed everyone else, asking as if they would be able to take this on. Seeing as the more he asked, the vaguer their answers got. Tsume shrugged wanting to see how much further this would go. The girl didn't smell dangerous, nor did she give out any negative intents. But even Tsume wasn't foolish enough to dismiss the situation at hand.

"Outside? Well, we don't welcome outsiders very well here, so unless you can give us better answers then we will just have to send you back out." Of course the Hokage was only bluffing, knowing fully well he couldn't just send a possible informant back out so freely, especially when they had no idea of who or what village had sent her.

Yukihara sputtered. "You cant!" she had just found civilization again! "Oh, and why not?"

"because mama and papa told me you could help!"

"Help?"

Yukihara inhaled, doing her best to fight back the wave of emotions. Thinking back to her parents rushed instruction before they disappeared, leading the bad guys who attacked them away from the directions her parents had lead her on.

"And who are your mama and papa?" her face was starting to grow red as her ckeeks grew as frustration was clearly starting to effect her. Eyes glossed over and little hands turned to fist, she stomped one foot on the ground "Mama is mama and papa is papa!" she didn't understand why this old man didn't seem to get what she was trying to say!

"And the weapons." Tears would not deter Hiruzen when it came to his village's safety.

"Those are mine! Papa taught me how to protect myself from bad people!"

"Who are these bad people!"

"I don't know!"

"Then where are your parents now!"

"They're gone." Silence. Only the sounds of small sobs and hiccuping breaths could be heard from inside the room. Even Kiba and Akamaru understood the weight of the words she had said.

Hiruzen Sarutobi pinched the bridged of his noise. "Jin, escort Momoka-san and Kiba outside, I need to talk to Tsume alone."

And with that the young man snapped out of his the somber mood. Motioning for Kiba to follow him as he went and grabbed onto the little girls arm. Pulling her behind him as she went forwards easily. Feeling defeated at finally admitting that her parents were really dead.

Even though four years have passed Kohana, their large beautiful village was still pledged with hurt and loss that resulted from the effects of the war. Many families were lost and children abandoned. Leaving their orphanages full and the need to protect what little innocents their village still had left. But the Hokage sympathized with the child.

XxX

It only took Tsume and the Hokage an hour before they made their final decision. They still needed an eye on the silver haired enigma, but the only ways to do it would be when her guard was down. So for now, they sent her to live with the only other orphan that could accommodate what they needed at such short notice.

"Naruto-kun, meet your new roommate Momoka, Yukihara."

AN: Thanks for reading or getting this far, I have some big plans for this Yukihara and the gang. Sorry if this chapter was a little slow or boring, but it was mostly for introduction. In the later chapters you will get to see how Yuki will eventually effect the whole course of the Naruto-verse that we are all fond of.

Let me know what you think!

Should I keep this up or not?

Thanks guys!

Till next time.