Story Title: Until it sleeps

Full Summary: OC. Always an outsider because of the way she looks, or of who her father is, considered a freak by others because she's different. Until she is put in team seven, with her friend Naruto, a brain, an avenger and a sensei who appears bored; things appear to have changed for Arisu Hebika or so it would appear.

Rating: MA (It may change, but I think it's accurate enough)

Genres: Action, drama, humor etc

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, or anything to do with the world of Naruto, they are the created works of Masashi Kishimoto.

Author's note: Okay, I deleted this to re-post this... Weird I know, but yeah, the title of the story I think suits it, it's Metallica's 'Until it sleeps'.

Prologue:

Naruto, a small boy at the age of four sat playing in the sandpit, the sun setting in the distance. He sighed, as he watched families leave the park to go home, something he did not have, something that he wanted and wished for, a family. He knew it will never happen, but a kid can dream, right?

Picking up the sand, holding it in his hand and watching as the wind carried it away, that is what he felt like at times, flying away like a bird. Naruto opened his palm letting the rest of the sand blow away, his eyes following the bits of sand as they flew until they gradually fell to the ground metres from him.

He heard voices and turned his head in the direction where the voices were coming from. A mother, who was heavily pregnant and her daughter were walking towards him, they were laughing and talking amongst themselves. The mother was the first to notice him; she was tall, with big yellow eyes that slightly resembled a snakes', skin that was slightly pale, and long jet black her that fell past her shoulders and down to her waist, she was wearing a pink kimono and black ninja sandals. "Hey, sweetie, where's your parents?" She said softly, a smile on her lips.

Naruto looked at her with a blank look. "I haven't got any parents." He replied in a flat tone.

The woman looked at him sadly. "Oh, I'm terribly sorry. " She said.

Naruto did not answer; instead, he looked down and began to play with the sand again. By doing this, he hoped they would go away and not feel sorry for him, or pity him.

"What is your name?" The woman asked, Naruto looked up to see her now standing above him, her daughter five inches of where they had originally stopped, his eyes widened, how'd she move so quick? She must be a ninja. Naruto thought.

Naruto hesitated before he answered. "Naruto Uzumaki."

Her smile grew. "It's nice to meet you, Naruto, I'm Mai Hebika, and over there is my daughter Arisu Hebika." Naruto looked past the woman, now named Mai, over to her daughter Arisu. She was the same height as him, probably the same age, and long jet-black hair like her mothers, yet she looked nothing like her mother, her eyes were indeed yellow, but they closely resembled snakes' eyes more than her mothers did, pale skinned and wearing a black kimono with black ninja sandals, she looked at him with curiosity. He looked back up at Mai, who was still smiling at him.

He did not know what to do, he was not sure of their motives, and his guard went up instantly. Mai held out her hand to Naruto, for him to take it. "Do you want to come and have some ramen with us, Naruto?" She asked.

Naruto's face lit up at the sound of the word Ramen. "Okay!" He said cheerily, getting up out of the sand pit and stumbling over to her and taking her hand. Arisu warily joined both her mother and Naruto, taking up her mother's other hand that wasn't occupied by the stranger.

All three walked into the village, receiving strange looks from the villagers, a few middle-aged women and men muttering under their breaths, Mai was oblivious to the villagers reactions, Arisu was wondering why they were looking at them like that; Naruto kept his eyes on the ground avoiding their eyes of hatred, he knew it was him they were all looking at. Arisu glanced over at Naruto, his head was down, his expression was no longer vacant and expressionless it was genuinely sad.

"Naruto? Are you all right?" She asked softly, watching him carefully.

Naruto looked over at her, and shook his head. "No." He replied softly.

Arisu smiled, the first expression she had expressed when they had first met earlier. She realised it was the villagers that were the cause for his sadness, she didn't quite know or understand why, but she knew that he was a nice kid. "Don't worry, I like you."

Naruto smiled sadly at his newfound friend, she didn't know at that moment she was his only friend, that hasn't run away from him, picked on him, chased him away or giving him looks of hate and anger. Instead she has accepted him, smiling at him and she actually said that she likes me…

Mai looked down at that moment at the children, looking at one another smiling, she smiled. "I see the Ramen shop up ahead Naruto." She said cheerily, wondering what the children had said to one another.

Naruto looked like he had gotten a thousand presents for his birthday, his face lit up when he looked over at the Ichiraku ramen shop. "Let's go Naruto! Race you!" Arisu shouted but she had all ready run off without him.

"Cheater!" Naruto shouted back and ran off after her.

Mai just laughed as she watched them race each other to the Ramen shop, Kids will be kids. She thought cheerfully.

PS: Okay, I'll try not to make this girl too OC-ish... But I can't promise anything, but yeah... I know stories like this one have been put out there, but I'm going to make a few changes to the story line so yeah... Starting with Sasuke, he is not going dark side sorry, but I think that just ruins his character personally, uh... that is just one I can think of from the top of my head.