Anika Uzumaki laid her bed starring out the window at the stars. Tomorrow was going to be her birthday and she was only mildly excited about it. With long black hair and opaque silverfsh blue pupiless eyes, she was one of the prettiest girls in the entire village. She was also one of the strongest but she was still the loneliest.

Anika's parents had disappeared shortly after her birth and she was left to be raised by the Hokage of the village. So while all the other kids ran home after school to their parents loving arms, Ani trudged back to the office to study healing. Although she had to admit that Tusnde was a great teacher, she lacked some parenting skills. Ani's parents had been sent on a mission along with some of the other adults but had not been seen since.

"Ani, are you alright?" called Tusnde from outside the door.

"Yeah I'm fine; I just had another vision though." Ani responded rolling off her bed and unlocking the door.

"Really what was it about?" the Hokage asked sitting down on the girls' bed.

"There's a whole bunch of people heading towards the village and they look really familiar." Ani said sitting on the window sill.

"Can you describe any of them? Tusnde asked curiously.

"Yeah…one of the ladies had light pink hair, two of them had the same eyes as me, and one looked like the fourth Hokage." Ani recited pacing in front of her closet.

"Oh my, that must the team from the mission that departed Kohona exactly thirteen years ago tomorrow" Tusnde thought aloud.

Ani starred at the lady sitting on her bed. Could it all be possible that the people she had seen in her vision were possibly her parents? That seemed almost impossible but now that she thought about it, it really was going to be harder to accept because she didn't know them and even though Tusnde was old, she was Ani's only mother type figure.

Quietly Ani sat back down on her window sill and began crying. Every possible emotion known to mankind was raging wild within her and the pain, the anger, and the sorrow was almost unbearable. And as if right on cue, Ani fainted causing her to fall off the window sill and out the window to the darkened street 25 feet below.

2 days later

Everybody in the whole village was so silent as the awaited the new about Ani, who had passed out when she realized that she had had a vision about the return of her parents and the other children's parents but that was nearly two days ago and it seemed as though she had gone into a state of come from shock.

So finally Tusnde whipped up a drink with some strong alcohol to wake the girl. Ani was given the drink and she woke up so fast that she fainted again. She was out for another hour before she woke up on her own and so relived the woes of the village. To her surprise, when she awoke the room was filled with flower, gifts, and cards.

"Where am I and what happened?" she asked trying to sit up.

"You fainted from shock after seeing you parents in a vision and then you fell out of you window." Answered Shizune frowning a little.

"Oh but how did I get here" Ani said glancing around the room.

It was then that Tusnde made her entrance along with Ani's grandfather and a lady that could have passed for Ani's twin. All three of them were talking about something and they were talking about her. Finally Ani reached over and unlatched the window. She didn't like being cooped up in her room so she managed to get out of bed and jump out the window.

As she landed on the street, she heard voices at the window above her. Turning to look she saw her aunt shouting at her and all she could do was laugh at how stupid she looked and ran off. Ani hated being in crowds and being in school was hard enough, so to have nearly twenty people crowded into her tiny bedroom was unbearable. As soon as she was far enough away she stopped running and leaned against a wall to catch her breath.

Realizing she was standing across the street from her friend Suoh Uchiha's house, she decided to visit him. As she knocked on the door she realized that she was wearing almost see through pajamas in broad day light. After a few minutes Suoh answered the door and permitted her access.

"Nice outfit Animaki…" Suoh said glancing at her apparel.

"Shut up Suchi. Can I borrow some of your stuff until I get home?" Ani asked turning red at his comment.

"Yeah…you'll get sick if you run around like that." Suoh said walking into the kitchen.

"Thanks...I'm going to shower also." She added heading down the hall.

After she had showered and changed, she went to the kitchen to see what Suoh was up to but before she reached the kitchen she was hit with the rancid smell of smoke. Standing in the kitchen was Suoh trying to put out a mini fire.

"Aquinas no Jutsu" Ani muttered pointing at the fire and a small amount of water jetted out, extinguishing it.

"Hey…um…thanks I guess." Said a Suoh as a faint blush appeared across his face.

"Your welcome and next time I'll do the cooking when I'm here." Ani replied trying to suppress her laughter.

"Yeah I'll remember that…so what where you running from anyway?" Suoh asked as he began to clean up the mess.

"Tusnde had me in a room with way to many people and you know how I hate crowds?" Ani answered, helping with the cleaning.

Suoh nodded and began to help with the mess. He knew that Ani hated crowds. But as he thought about it, the only reason that Tusande would have put Ani in her room would have been because she had had another vision. He made a mental note to ask about it.

"So what happened?" Suoh asked as they finished up cleaning.

"I had another vision but this one may actually be coming true but that's what Tusande said." Ani whispered whipping her hands on a towel.

"Hey don't worry about it. I'm sure that we'll be just fine." Suoh said pulling Ani into a hug as she began to cry.

"I'm not worried I just don't want us to be apart." Ani sniffled as she pulled away.

Silently the two headed upstairs to finish getting dressed and then to find their other teammate and sensei. Suoh took his shower and dressed in a blue shirt with his family symbol on the back, black shorts and the typical ninja shoes. Ani pulled on the same type of shirt that Suoh had on, a pair of mid-calf white cargo pants and a pair of heels that she had stolen from Tusnde.