Okay so i dont own anything naruto! except kohaku.

And ive never done a story before so dont go hunting me down or anything cause im immune to all that.

Kiba and Akamaru bounded down the old hallways of the underground base. Their mission was almost done, they just had to finish scoping this last floor. Their mission was extremely easy. Word of Orochimaru's first base had been found and was apparently abandoned. Kiba and Akamaru were assigned to scount the base throughly to make sure it really was and so far so good. Kiba was really happy about that, these ugly orange walls were starting to get on his nerves.

"Were almost done boy" Kiba stated with a grin on his face. Akamaru barked in agreement.

'Walls. Ugly.' Was the mental message that he received.

"HAHAHA" Kiba laughed at the dog statement showing that he totally agreed with him.

Suddenly Akamaru stopped in his tracks causing Kiba to stop and look at the dog in confusion. "What is it? What do you sense?" He knew it had to be important or else the dog would not have stopped at all.

'Chakra. Familiar.' Akamaru started to sniff the ground trying to see if he could catch the sent to go with the Chakra that he felt. 'Scent. None.' The canine whined in confusion.

Kiba put his hand on his hips and closed his eyes to concentrate on the Chakra that the dog could feel. He didn't feel anything. With a huff he turned down the hall that Akamaru had stopped at and started to walk down it. He wasn't going question if Akamaru was sure or not. Cause he knew he was.

"Who did it feel like boy?"

'Whirlwind.'

Kiba raised his brow. That was the word that Akamaru associated with Naruto. Why was that crazy kid in this base? Last time he checked Naruto was in Wind country.

'Cherry.'

Now Kiba was really confused. Sakura and Naruto were here? How was that even possible. With a sigh Kiba put his hand in his pockets and continued on down the halls.

"How far?"

'Close.' Akamaru answered than trotted faster to lead his partner down the right path.

Kiba followed close by, very curious now. There was no way that Naruto and Sakura were here. They just couldn't be.

It hadn't taken very long to get to the so called destination. They were on the bottom level after all, not to mention that it was just one long hallway. And a boring hallway at that, the orange was gone and replaced with regular cement.

Akamaru had come to stop at a huge metal door. No locks or anything; just a regular handle. With a few looked around Kiba had deemed it safe and firmly placed his hand on the door handle and pulled. It opened. Really easy. Weird. Usually big fancy doors like these tried to make it impossible to open. What gives? Kiba gave it two seconds to think it over, but then shrugged and went in anyway.

It wasn't that intresting really. Just one regular sized room. Four walls, the door that they came in from, no windows, a bed with a sleeping girl in it, a clipboard attached to said bed, a spiderweb in the corner…wait. Bed? Girl? There was a girl sleeping in a bed? All by herself? With no one else in this base? Well those 5 soldiers didn't really count. They went down pretty fast.

Kiba shook his head and headed to the bed cautious, so he wouldn't wake her up. Akamaru had gone to the opposite side staring at the sleeping girl.

'Chakra. Whirlwind. Cherry' Akamaru was so confused. Yes he had sensed both Chakras but they had been so far away. He thought there were two people, not one.

Kiba was equally confused. Now that he was right by her, he could also feel the Chakra going threw her, though it was pretty faint. Like something was masking it. There was probably a seal placed on her somewhere. But why is her Chakra similar to Naruto's and Sakura's. That only happened when you were related to the person. Kiba and his sister were the same way. Though they both had their own difference, the Chakra similarity was obvious. But Naruto didn't have family? And Sakura had one cousin, he was a boy.

Besides, this girl looks nothing like them. And it was true. The girl in the bed had dark brown hair that was pulled up into a high bun. Were as Naruto was blond, and Sakura had that crazy pink hair. She was wearing a white zipped up jacket that had matching white pants and white slip on shoes. Her clothes did look kind of dirty though. And he could see smudges of dirt on her face. It was weird though, Kiba didn't believe that her hair was really brown. He wasn't sure why he thought this, but that was what he thought.

'Fang. What.' Akamaru couldn't form full sentences, no dog really could, but he still knew that he was asking 'what are we going to do?'

Kiba shrugged while he looked around again. He was a very observant guy. This base was beyond abandoned. This room, while occupied, was so dusty. Like no one lived in it. And even though the girl was covered in dirt he could tell that she had been here for a very very very long time. Her scent was probably permenant. But aside from the bed, it wasn't anywhere else. Kind of like she never moved from that spot. Kiba could also smell the faint stench of sleeping drugs.

The Inuzuka looked at the giant dog catching his eye. Turned to the end of the bed and grabbed the buddle of papers that were attached to the clipboard and shoved them in his holster.

"Lets get going Akamaru, our mission is over" Gently so as not to rattle the girl so much, he slipped his arms under her legs and around her shoulders. With one last look around the room, the boy and dog left the hidden base and returned to their village.

Somewhere in a newly discovered girls mind, someone was waking up.

Whats going on? Why is it warmer all of a sudden? Confusion.

'You have been taken away.'

What? Too where? Fear.

'I am not too sure, it doesn't feel dark, but if it is you can fight your way out. You are strong.'

Yes, I am strong. I will escape. Pride.

Kiba was shocked. No, he was beyond shocked. When he got back to the village he had made his way straight to the hospital to make sure she wasn't wounded internally. And since the girl was not from the village Tsunade herself came to check her out. She listened to his detailing of the mission and how Akamaru had found her, also putting in his theory of a subduing seal. Which he had been right about, it was on her neck right behind her right ear. Just a little swirl pattern. Tsunade had broken it but there was still a mark there, a permanent mark from being on her skin from a long time. After that the Hokage had started to scan her Chakra system also taking in to account that her Chakra was indeed similar to Sakura and Naruto's. What was even weirder were the traces of sleeping drugs in the girl's body. She had a bewildered look on her face while stating it to be about 14 years of sleeping drugs all together. She had immediately ordered for a blood cleansing to wash the drugs out of her system.

"Kiba, was there anything else of importance that you found in that room?" she had asked.

The boy was so confused to as how the girl could have been abandoned with that much drugs that he wasn't even paying attention and just shook his head no.

'Fang. Papers' Akamaru barked out startling both Tsunade and Kiba. Said boy gave the dog a look before pulling a bundle of papers out of his holster

"Ohhh yea, this was on a clipboard at the end of her bed. I figured it would be important. Sorry." He stated handing it to the older woman. Tsunade took the papers and leafed through them quickly, her eyes widened a little when she finished.

"Kiba go ahead and file in your mission report, I'm going to go read these and find out who this girl really is. If you would like to know you can come by my office in

3 hours. Hopefully by then she will be about to wake up and we can question her."

Tsunade shuffled out the door and make her way back to the Hokage tower. Kiba gave one last look at the sleeping girl, then turned to the door to leave. Giving a low whistle to Akamaru, telling the dog to follow him.

Tsunade could not belive her eyes. No matter how many times she had read these papers, she still couldn't belive it. Her eyes scanned the front once more just to make sure.

Date: Oct 5, 1996

Patient: Haruno-Uzumaki Kohaku

Born: Nov 4, 1994

Parents: Father- Haruno Iyoku /Mother – Uzumaki Sango

That was the front cover. But the inside is what got her the most. Experiments. That girl, Kohaku, was one of Orochimarus experiments. And she had been so for 16 whole years. It was insane and crazy and made no since. How had that scoundrel found this girl when she was only two. Not to mention she was an Uzumaki. She might even be related to Naruto. Even Sakura could be related to this girl. Tsunade was just getting more confused by the second.

Hmm maybe it's in there. The Hokage got up from her chair and had to go down to the archives. This was going to take a while. And take a while it did, she spent an hour and a half trying to find some information on this girl, but she had finally found it.

Kiba had sent in his mission report an hour ago, since it hadn't been that difficult of a mission. He made Akamaru stay at home since the dog was very hungry and was eating when he left. He made his way down to the hospital (an anbu had come to tell him to go there) stopping to grab a quick snack. He got to the hospital in only 30 minutes since his house was only a couple blocks away. Ah he got to the room that the mystery girl was in, he noticed that the Hokage was standing outside of the door looking over a couple papers.

"Hokage-sama, why are you standing outside of the door?" Kiba asked cocking his head to the side in confusion.

Tsunade glanced up from the papers she was reading to look at the boy, "Kohaku, the girl, had woken up 30 minutes ago, the nurses are helping her get a bath. She was pretty filthy." She remarked with a slight grin. She gave Kiba a knowing look. "I heard you say something about you thinking her hair wasn't brown, at first I didn't belive you, but you were right." Tsunade gave a little chuckle at Kibas perplexed expression.

The door opened and one of the nurses had poked her head threw, "She is decent now Hokage-sama."

Tsunade nodded and walked through the door way, while the nurses filled out. Kiba had followed behind and walked around the woman to see the girl on the bed and was he ever surprised. That brown haired girl was really a red haired girl, and did it ever look better on her than the brown did, not to mention her eyes. Kiba had never seen anyone with blue/green eyes like hers before. It fits her, I don't know how I know, but it just does.

"So Haruno Kohaku, after 16 years I am proud to finally say, Welcome to Konoha, your new home." Tsunade's statement had caused a brief moment of silence from both Kiba and Kohaku. Kiba was stunned, but Kohaku was more shocked than anything else.

"K-konoha, Im actually in Konoha?" she whispered so low, that they barely heard it, Kiba had heard it very clearly thou. Kohaku couldn't belive it, after all those years of being locked up, she was finally in the place she had been trying to go to.

"Wait? Home? You mean she actually lives here?" The question had come from a very confused Kiba.

"Technically no, but she is a citizen legally. I have her documents right here." Tsunade said lifting up the papers she had been reading earlier. "But what I don't understand it how that vial snake Orochimaru was about to get his filthy hands on you, or why you were coming to the village from the Tea Village anyway. Why don't you start from the beginning, the reason you don't live in the village that your father was born and raised in." Tsunade gave the girl a questioning look. Said girl tucked a long strand of red hair behind her right ear causing a small bit of the tattoo to show.

"My father is Haruno Iyoku. He was a strong ninja from Konoha. He has a sister who lives here, Haruno Aki, and they were really close siblings. They only had each other because their parents had died in an awful attack many years ago. The village was not in war and all was peaceful, and then Mito-sama, the wife of the first Hokage had called in a favor to someone from Whirlpool. My father was 15 and my aunt was 11 when that someone walked through the gates of Konoha. She wasn't anyone special, just a little girl with bright red hair, and purple eyes, an Uzumaki. Uzumaki Kushina, an 11 year old girl had walked through the gates and had changed my father's life forever, though when he said that it was usually with a smile on his face." Kohaku had said the last part in a near whisper. "Her appearance in the village didn't change anything suddenly, it took a while. A couple months actually before the one person that meant more to my father than anything else waltzed into the Village. My mother was the older sister of Uzumaki Kushina, Uzumaki Sango. She looked nothing like Kushina, with brown hair and blue eyes, but she was sweet, and became friends with my father, and Aunty just got more jealous as the years went by. My mother would come and go, traveling between villages, year after year, and causing my father to fall more and more in love with her. Eventually they got together when they were both 19, causing my Aunt to finally blow her lid. She didn't approve of him being in any kind of relationship that lived with that thing. Lots of things happened, and my parents somehow ended up leaving the villages behind. They say they got permission, which is why they were never haunted down or anything. They got married and had me. Haruno Kohaku."

Tsunade was really stunded to say the least. This girl really was related to Naruto, and Sakura as well, which kinda technically, made Naruto and Sakura related through marriage. Wow. Just wow. Kiba… well he was too stunned to say anything.

"Okay, that tells how your family left the village, but how did you get citizenship here in Konoha if you were born in Tea Country." Tsunade questioned, she really hoped it wasn't the reason she was currently thinking about.

"My mother and Aunt Kushina exchanged lots of letters, in the years before she got pregnant. And when I was 1 and a half years old, my mother got a letter, stating that she needed a favor. A favor that only an Uzumaki could accomplish, a favor that they needed my help with. My parents tried to deny her request, making all these excuses. But in the end they knew there was no other way, so when it got close to Aunty's due date, they sent me on my way to the Village. All of my documentation had been sent weeks before hand. But… I never made it to the Village, I didn't even make it to the boarder before I was ambushed. It made no sense, no one knew that I was leaving, or where I was going; but he got me. Orochimaru had captured me and taken me to his base. I was under those sleeping drugs for 16 years. I was in that bed for 16 years. And I became an experiment for 16 years."

Damn, Tsunade cursed in her mind, her assumption had been correct. The Kyubi had ruined someone else's life.

Fan-freakin-tastic.

It had taken a week before Kohaku was good to leave the hospital, but now the question was, where she was going to live. She currently had no source of income which meant she couldn't really get her own apartment. She needs to find a roommate, and that was what Tsunade and Kohaku were doing in the Hokage Tower.

"Hokage-sama, she can stay with me, I have been looking for a roommate for a while now." That was none other than Sakura Haruno, she was called up two days after Kohaku was admitted to the hospital. At first she was a little skeptical that she had a cousin that she didn't know of, but after awhile the pink haired girl had warmed up to the idea.

Kohaku turned and gave Sakura a grateful look but was a little confused. "But Sakura, I won't be able to help pay for my expenses, are you sure you want me to stay with you?"

Sakura returned Kohakus grateful stare, "Of Course! How could I say no? Your family, you don't know anyone else, and you won't be able to buy your own apartment. And you can help pay when you start getting income, but for the time being, it is no problem at all."

The red head looked down at her hands twisting in lap. Then shyly looked up with a small grin on her face. "Thank you Sakura"

Tsunade grinned behind her folded hands at the two. "Well then, now that that's settled. Kohaku I have a question for you." The questioned girl looked up from her lap to give the Hokage her full attention "I know you had been in captivity for 16 years but do you have any ninja skills? You don't have a ninja I.D. So it would be no problem making one. Not to mention it would help your income problem."

"Oh, yes I do in fact. I believe I have plenty of skill to become a ninja. Orochimaru may have been a sick individual, but because of that I gained quite a bit of skills." The girl gave a brilliant smile.

"Well then we will have to have some kind of test later on in the week to see what rank to give you, but we can get back to that later. And for right now I can give you a small sum of money to help pay for some stuff you will need" The Hokage reached into a drawer and pulled out a small sack of money. She handed it to the bewildered girl with a small smile. "Now then, why don't you two go on home so Kohaku can settle in, and I will call you in later this week to discuss your test, okay?"

Both girls gave a nod and with a slight bow walked out of the Hokages tower.

"So Kohaku, would you like to go to the market and buy some new clothes? We can get some other necessities when we are there too?" Sakura asked when they passed out of the door.

"Oh, that would be great" Kohaku gave a small chuckle and pulled the collar of her jacket away from her, "These clothes are starting to get on my nerves, and even though they cleaned them they still smell like feet."

The pink haired girl had to put a hand to her mouth to keep from busting out laughing.

Kiba and Akamaru were taking their daily afternoon walk through the village when he heard some familiar giggling to his right. He paused in his steps as Akamaru bounded towards the noise. The wild boy put his arms behind his head as he walked up to the two girls.

"Hey Sakura, Kohaku what are you girls doing on this fine afternoon." Thou Kiba barely knew Kohaku he had spent the whole week keeping her company with Sakura. She was very interesting to be around, not like most girls that he knew thou that wasn't very many.

"Hey Kiba, Sakura just took me shopping. I got new clothes. I also got some other stuff too." Kohaku explained with a smile.

Kiba tilted his head to the side as he finally realized that she did indeed have new clothes. She was no longer wearing that white suit, but wore a loose mesh tank top over a dark green undershirt. Her over coat was light cream color with a hood and pull stings that made the sleeves stop at her elbows, and dark grey shorts. The girl was no longer wearing those ratty white slip on shoes, but dark brown boots that went 4 inches below her knee and continued with dark grey leg warmers. It was a very interesting look. Kiba approved, and he voiced it out loud.

Sakura saw Kohaku give a faint blush and looked away while Kiba grinned.

"She also got a haircut, since her hair was bugging her."

"Ohh, I thought her hair looked a little different." Kiba joked as he eyed Kohaku's short hair. Instead of the long even strands caused by no hair cuts for 16 years, she now had an uneven inverted bob. It's shortest strand being on the left side just barely passing her chin while the right side went to her color bone. "Wow, it's a very unique style. Suits you very well if I say so myself." The blush on Kohaku's face just got brighter.

Kiba ended up walking them to Sakura's apartment, throwing in a few teasing sentences Kohaku's way causing the girl to go through so many shades of red. When they got to the apartment building Kiba and Akamaru gave their farewells saying he had some more errands to run.

I don't know why, but that girl is just to fun to tease. Kiba thought as he walked down the streets, the thoughts of a blushing red head in his mind.