"I myself freaked out during the incident, but maybe it was because it had almost fallen on ME! Surely if it had narrowly missed anyone else, I would've just walked away like nothing happened…"

Call to the Great White Moon
Prologue

"So I admit, I may have been too rash to yell for Luna, but I was scared to death. That door had looked so big, and it kept growing closer and close towards me. So when Luna pulled me out of the way, I was so relieved that I fell limp on her. Of course, this sent everyone to panic.

"But in all due respect, they behaved like a pack of barbarians, running and screaming like that. You think they've never seen a wolf before! Anyways, Luna kind of freaked out and thought someone, or something, was attacking us so she got all rattled up. That's pretty much what happened before he showed up."

The pale girl with silky black locks and captivating silver eyes glared at the white-eyed Hyuuga prodigy. "He decided to butt in, and look what happened to Luna!" She motioned to the silver and white wolf lying down next to Inuzuka Hana, who was currently bandaging up Luna's front left paw.

"I see." The current Godaime Hokage, Tsunade, nodded and looked from the girl, to the wolf, and back to the girl. "You're name is Jade, correct? Hm… I've heard of a Jade before, they call her the wild one. Do you know why?" Neither Jade nor the Hyuuga moved. "It's a story that's been told recently, about a girl who can talk to animals and acts like one too."

"Hokage-sama, what's the difference between that and the Inuzuka family?" Neji asked, suddenly interested in the topic. "Good question, the Inuzuka family breed and worship dogs. They adapt their bodies, and create jutsus, to copy the abilities of a dog. However, rumor is, this girl can speak to any animal, and adapt any ability from any animal. They say it might be a Kekkei Genkai, or her own special skill."

She turned to Jade. "What I'd like to know is if you have any relations to that girl." Jade looked up at her innocently. "If I tell you, will you promise to never repeat it or use the information in any way against me or anyone I know?" Tsunade nodded and waited for her to continue.

"Then I ask for you to send the Vet out. That guy can stay if he keeps his word too." With that, Hana packed up her things and left Tsunade's office, but not before patting Luna on the head. Luna, feeling happy with her treatment, limped over to Jade and nuzzled her leg.

"Luna, are you feeling better now? Just lie down; I'll be done in a sec." She looked up to Tsunade who was still waiting.

"The girl in the rumors is… me. I only helped one town that was starving, really. It was a small town really, so I thought there would be no harm. Everything you heard is true, I travel from place to place since I have no where to stay and no where to go. It's fun though, seeing new places. I was planning to grab a bite to eat here and head off for Suna, but seeing as Luna needs to recover, I might need to stay here a bit longer and wait."

Tsunade closed her eyes for a few seconds and then opened them. "I'll provide housing for you and your wolf; just answer a few questions for me." When Jade nodded, she took out a scroll from the big pile behind her desk.

"First, have you been to any villages in the Country of Sound?" Jade shook her head no.

"Alright, do you have any ninja experience and what?" Jade's expression changed to an unreadable one, and took a longer time to answer. "I was trained in the ninja arts up to when I was about 7 or 8. Afterwards, I still practiced and learned some Ninjutsu and Genjutsu, but I survived mostly on Taijutsu to fend off freaks."

"Okay, last one. Have you heard of the organization called Akatsuki?" "You mean the one with red clouds and stuff? Yeah, I heard about them. Just last month I met one of them, they're pretty nice people actually. He had black hair that was almost as long as mine… but his eyes were always swirling red. You could tell at one glance they weren't his natural eyes, but they were always like that for some reason. It must've hurt keeping those things like that."

Tsunade and Neji tried very hard to keep from flinching or something like that. How could this girl be so stupid? Furthermore… why hadn't they killed her?

Author's Notes

Waii, Jade's so naïve but at the same time so cute I just want to hug her! Neji and the rest of them are around 16, so Itachi is 21, and Jade is like 19-ish. Doesn't she sound like she's 8 though?

The next chapter might be confusing since it jumps like 2 months ahead. Don't worry if you're confused at first, the story is supposed to unfold.

Spring break is finally here for me! Oh yeah... I'm looking for an editor/beta right now, contact and info is on my Author's Page. Please R&R and I'll love you forever!