Author's Note: Well hello there everyone. This is my first story ever and it promises to be a long one. Ive come up with great ideas for this story and I promise you will enjoy it. Or mayby not.

Disclaimer: Although I wish to, I dont own Naruto, or anything of Naruto. Though one day I hope to.

Prolouge

The rain was slight, but the message was clear over The Leaf Village. It was if the sky's themselves wept in pity for this poor village. For once again, the village faced something it hadn't seen for years. The death of there Hokage.

Shizune stood alone in the wrath of the unmerciful rain. She didn't care about getting wet, or even catching a cold. All that had mattered was that Tsunade was dead. She stared at the Hero's Monument where Tsunade's name had just been inscribed.

"Tsunade…….why didn't you tell me? Why didn't you let me help you? Why didn't you tell me how much you were hurting inside?"

Muttered the medical ninja to herself. The rain continued beating against her face. Almost as if it was trying to hide the endless tears coming from her eyes. She couldn't take it anymore; she couldn't pretend to be strong about this any longer. She fell to her knees on the cold damp grass and buried her face in her hands as she wept.

As she let out all her sorrow and pain she couldn't help but remember the last time she saw Tsunade alive.

Two days ago…

Shizune waited outside of Tsunade's office, like the previous day she could hear her dear friend and mentor crying. It had been two days since they received the report from the ANBU that Jiraiya had been killed by Pain, the Akatsuki's second in command.

Tsunade at the time took the news very lightly, but Shizune knew better. She knew that a knife had just been shoved into Tsunade's heart. One of her friends……….one of the Sannin, was now dead.

Shizune slowly opened the door to her office giving Tsunade time to wipe the tears from her eyes so her assistant wouldn't see how hurt she truly was.

"Oh…….Shizune. Good morning. Do you have the documents I requested?"

Shizune nodded handing her the several files from the pile she had under her arm.

"Lady Tsunade……..I heard you didn't go home again last night. Everyone is worried about you. You have been acting……strangely since…."

Before she had a chance to finish Tsunade cut her off.

"SHUT UP! Why should I give a damn that everyone is worried about me!? I've never felt better! I don't care what happened! What's done is done!" She yelled at her assistant.

Shizune froze; she had never seen Tsunade like this. But she knew it was to conceal her pain. She knew it was all an act. She slowly bowed in apology.

"I'm sorry Lady Tsunade……..I didn't mean to upset you. I was just……."

Tsunade got up from behind her desk and walked over to her. She placed her hand on her shoulder.

"No……I'm sorry Shizune."

She pat her friends shoulder several times and smiled.

"Shizune, will you do me a favor?"

Shizune immediately stood up straight and nodded.

"I need you to cover for me today. I need to get some fresh air. Would you make sure no one knows I'm not in my office?"

Shizune smiled and sighed. It was just like Tsunade to have her cover her duties why she went out and fooled around. And normally Shizune would refuse such a request, but do to the recent trauma everyone endured she saw no problem in letting her go out for a while. She probly needed it.

"Alright Lady Tsunade, just don't be gone to long. And please stay out of trouble."

Tsunade smirked at her remark.

"You know me Shizune. I wouldn't get myself into trouble I couldn't get out of."

Shizune had to admit it but she was right. She nodded as she watched Tsunade leave her office. Once she left she sighed and looked over at Tsunade's desk. It was covered almost completely in papers Tsunade had neglected to sign or even look over. She figured she should do them before the Elder's begin to pester Tsunade for the missing paper work. Sitting herself in Tsunade's chair she grabbed the first document and went to work.

Five Hours Later…

Shizune stamped the last of Tsunade's paper work and slouched back in her chair. She looked at her hands as if they were ready to fall off. Then she looked over at the neatly fixed pile of files. And sleeping next to them was Ton-Ton. Some how the little pig had trapped itself under all of Tsunade's paper work. She smiled as she scratched the little pig's ear.

Shizune looked up at the clock hanging from the wall beside her. Her eyes widened when she saw how much time had passed.

'Five Hours!? Has it really been five hours!? This……can't be good. Lady Tsunade maybe reckless and abandon her job for a while but never this long. Not without telling me. Something must be wrong. She would have messaged me by now if she was going to be out this long.'

Shizune quickly stood up and ran towards the door to the office. She was about to run outside when the door flew open from the other side. She was greeted by Kotetsu who seemed like he had just seen a ghost.

"Kotetsu, what's wrong?!"

Kotetsu seamed at a loss for words. But slowly he caught his breath and looked very grim.

"Shizune…..its Tsunade."

Shizune felt her heart stop. Just from that sentence alone she knew what was coming wasn't going to be good. She tried to block out all the mental images as to what might have happened as she continued listening.

"What! What happened to Tsunade!? Kotetus please tell me! What happened!?"

Kotetsu looked at the ground. The spiky haired ninja couldn't even make eye contact with her. He knew how close they had been and how this news would break her heart.

"She's……..dead."

Shizune's eyes widened, she felt her throat go dry instantly and her body began to shake.

"No….. it cant be. She cant be…….NO! SHE CANT BE DEAD SHE JUST CANT BE!"

Shizune yelled as she fell to her knees and buried her face in her hands.

'This cant be happening! It just can't be true! Why!? Who!? Who could have done this!?'

Kotetsu kneeled down in front of her and wrapped his arms around her. He knew she would only cry more at what he was going to say.

"She……she went after Pain. She told me and Izumo she was going after Pain. We tried to stop her, but…….she paralyzed us both. We couldn't do anything to stop her. I-I'm sorry….."

He felt Shizune grip him tighter after he had spoken. He knew he was going to have to face this several more times when he would tell the rest of the village.

Shizune continued to cry sitting in front of the Hero's monument. She felt it was her fault for not realizing what Tsunade was going to do. And she wished that there was something she could do to undo what had happened. But she knew she couldn't.

A tall figure stood behind the weeping med ninja.

"I know how it is... I know what its like to lose someone you care deeply for."

Said the soft voice.

Shizune stood up and turned around to see non other then Kakashi himself. She didn't try to hold back her tears. What was the point? She knew he had seen her crying.

"Kakashi…….why. Why dose this have to be so hard!?"

She said moving toward him and wrapping her arms around him.

"WHY! WHY DOSE IT HAVE TO HURT SO MUCH! WHY!? TELL ME WHY!"

She screamed out as she sobbed.

Kakashi was silent as he wrapped his arms around her.

'Why indeed. That's what I asked myself every time I saw one of my friends die. Why oh why indeed.'

And its over for now. Quite a long Prolouge but this is only the start. Many twist and turns await our heros, and Im sure you will enjoy it. Oh, but while I make the next chapter give me your feedback. How did you like my story? How did you hate it? Be as harsh or as nice as you want to. And Im even open for ideas you have. Until the next chapter, see ya.