Chapter 1: A New Start
OK, so there I was all tied up, soaking wet, in a Lolita-style costume with human-sized bat wings, in abandoned part of the village on Halloween night. You see somehow Temari-senpai convinced me to wear this costume instead of just putting on a cape and being a vampire, but I'm getting ahead of myself. For you to completely get the story I'll have to start before the beginning……. About 2 Months Earlier……
I cautiously look around for any sign of the cops. They were after me because I had almost killed someone for calling me a 'weak little girl', well obviously I proved him wrong. By the way my name's Kusa Kubi and I'm 13 years old. I'm not very tall, 142 cm or 4'8" to be exact. I have short brown hair that covers my face. I have a maroon short-sleeved tunic-styled dress with a black corset on top of it, and a long-sleeved fishnet shirt and black shorts underneath it. I travel around America…okay Virginia more specifically Fairfax county. So yeah I'm pretty much homeless and it's been that way my whole life. Well at least for the past three and half years, I can't remember anything before then. I always feel like I don't belong here…in this world, like I belong in the world of shinobi…the 'Naruto' world…almost like I was born there. One of the cops chasing me spots me by the edge of a cliff.
"You've got nowhere to run. If you turn yourself in you might not get a life sentence." The cop starts coming closer to me and I start backing up to the edge of the cliff.
"D-don't come any closer!" my foot slips and I fall backwards off the cliff and into the ocean. I'm gonna drown. I hit the water and frantically try to swim up to the surface but my efforts are futile as I never learned to swim. I see my air bubbles go up to surface. Everything goes black.
"Hang in there okay?" A boy asks. Whose voice is that? Why does it sound familiar? Shouldn't I be dead?
"Huh? Where am…I?" Besides being on the boy's back.
"The Hidden Leaf Village." Wait a minute…that voice belongs to-! "I'm Naruto Uzumaki, by the way. What's your name?"
"Kusa…Kusa Kubi. You can put me down now. I'm fine." There's no freakin' way I'm in the Leaf village! I pinch myself. Owww…Okay I'm not dead and this isn't a dream. "Where did you find me?" I ask him looking through my messenger bag. The school uniform I stole and volume 20 of Naruto. Not that I let the kid himself see it.
"You were passed out on the cliff over there and almost fell off. Whachya got in there?"
"It's not really any of your business. Anyway can you show me into town? This is my first time to the Leaf so I don't which way the town part is." He shows me to town and we part ways, him going to go see a friend of his in the hospital though I didn't catch the name, there's a possibility it's Uchiha since I ended up in part one. I go wonder through the village center and come across a familiar looking bar-b-q. Ahhh…The aromas! I look in the window, believe it or not I can actually see through the mop that is my hair. Wow that food looks so good! I press my hands up against the window as if I were looking into a candy shop. My stomach rumbles and I bang my head slightly against the window. This startles the people in the booth next to the window.
"Gee, I wonder if you're hungry." Retorts an unfamiliar voice from behind. "The crest on the back of your dress…a cross…you're a blue blood aren't you?" my eyes widen, I nod. The only people who know what blue bloods are by the crest are the blue bloods themselves…a.k.a. vampires. "Heh you're drooling. I'll take you in if you want and you can meet my friends." She offers and points to the window I was looking in then waves to none other than Team 10.
"My name's Umi Kubi I was adopted by the Inuzuka clan when I was little so I use their name but seeing as you're a blue blood I can use my real name. By the way I'm violet blood, a half breed." Umi is a Waterbender - being able to bend or control one of the four elements is a normal power amongst us; we are given name that relates to the element we bend- I'm an Earthbender. She's taller than me - basically a female version of Kiba with a chuunin jacket.
"So then we're half-sisters. I'm full breed though I haven't awoken yet." We enter the restaurant and our vampire conversation ends. We approach Team 10, minus Asuma- something about Kurenai.
"Hey you guys this is my half-sister Kusa. We were separated for a long time because of family issues. Anyway she's been traveling around and hasn't eaten in a while, so do you mind?" I stand behind her. How did she…? It can't be true can it? Ah-well it's a good cover up. No wonder she's a chuunin, must've been promoted last time around. They let us eat with them since there's a free seat, I sit next to Shikamaru. "Oh yeah congrats on being promoted Shika-san."
"Thanks, I guess." Promoted? So I ended up in the middle of 'Naruto'. At least from what I heard; I've heard that there are over 200 episodes in 'Naruto' and I ended up in episode 107. I just barely ended up in the middle. I sigh to myself in my head, any actual useful information has already occurred. So I'm pretty much useless……
"You're so pale, uh…Kusa that's your name?" Ino asks, I nod. She's so annoying but I'd rather be her friend than Sakura's any day. "Umi are you sure you guys are sisters?" like I said Umi is a female version of Kiba so she's taller than me, her skin is darker than mine and I'm pretty sure our eyes are different too.
"I said half-sisters, Ino; you really need to pay attention. And besides, I can just tell." She orders more meat, just for me, it comes to the table, and Umi puts it on the grill for me. Chouji and I start salivating. "Back off Chouji-san this is all for Kusa."
"Are you really gonna eat all that?" Chouji half-whines.
"Yea I haven't eaten anything in a few days and I'm starving." I take my first piece of meat and eat it. Then I start eating the meat like it's my last meal….Technically this is my first meal; in the 'Naruto' world at least.
"Geez, slow down will ya?!? You're gonna get sick if you keep eating like that." Shikamaru warns me.
"You should listen to him. Even I don't eat like that." That coming from Chouji, I must really look like a pig. I stop stuffing my face for a minute to defend myself.
"I literally haven't eaten in a few days…at least a week I think." I go back to filling up my once empty stomach. I grab a piece of grilled carrot, at least that's what it looks like, anyway, and chow down. But it doesn't taste like a carrot at all, in fact it doesn't taste like food at all…it tastes like sand…I force myself to swallow it and I immediately stop eating. "All full."
"Thanks a lot I'm almost broke!" My new-found half sister yells at me.
"I'm right here you don't need to yell." I say covering my ears.
"Whatever…C'mon let's go wash up I want you to meet my brother!" Umi drags me to the bathroom. "Now we can talk about blue blood stuff in peace. So, start spilling what you know."
"I'm still not sure I can trust you, I've been betrayed in the past several times before. But I do know you're not lying. So, okay I'll spill. I am a full bred blue blood and for the past two years I've been traveling around looking for my half sister…you. Though what I said earlier was true, that I haven't Awoken yet, the only reason I stopped eating was because that carrot I had tasted like sand. So I'm probably starting to Awaken." I sense someone, three people actually, approaching the restrooms.
"I have to use the bucket, I'll meet you outside and then we can go meet that 'brother' of yours."
"Sounds like a plan to me." She leaves now I can sort things out in my head without distractions.
Okay so I drowned and ended up in the Leaf Village, no big deal…okie-yeah it is a big deal. But I found my sister…who probably lives with Kiba and I met Shikamaru, Chouji, Ino, and Naruto. Which is totally kick-ass, but ok I even sound crazy in my head, oh well, I'll make the most of it and go to the Sand village tonight, I've always wanted to be a shinobi and the Sand is made up of solely rock it's totally perfect for me.
"Oh Chouji!" I hear Ino start to complain to him as I walk out of the restroom. "You're so lucky that you don't have to worry about what or how much you eat. Let me tell you being on a diet can be pretty tough."
"Well then why are you on a diet Ino?"
"We diet for one very important reason Chouji: so we can look as cute as can for the boy we like."
"But what if the person that you like isn't into super-skinny girls?"
"Hmph! Well in the first place, most boys aren't as fat- I mean…Most of the boys I know like girls who look fit. And that's true the other way around as well. Hehehe, you might think about taking a little better care of your body, Chouji. Or you won't get any girls." She walks off and waves bye. Then Shikamaru pops out of the men's restroom.
"Heh, she has no clue. Despite what most women seem to believe, men don't always go for the skinny girls. Most guys I know they like girls with a little meat on their bones. It just looks healthier, oh yeah and the reverse is true too. Ya know? I'd bet anything she'd be twice as popular if she put on a few pounds instead of starving herself. She should eat." He puffs up his face like a balloon.
"Then I'm in a world of trouble, no matter how much I eat I don't gain any weight." I joke.
"You're one hilarious guy Shikamaru and you're kind of a genius too."
"Huh?"
"That's right just think about it, even I can tell you're way more amazing than Sasuke or that Neji guy could ever dream of being."
"Hm? Huh…I never really thought about it like that before, I'm just being me." I leave so I don't have to keep Umi waiting any longer.
"That Shikamaru guy…"
"Is a dork? I know…"
"No, he's really cool. He's the only one who made chuunin this time around, he cheered up that Chouji kid, and he's funny." To top it all off he's really good looking.
"Huh, girls usually go for Sasuke not Shikamaru." Umi starts walking towards her house…I think.
"Wait a minute, are you implying that I want to be in some kind of romantic relationship with this Shikamaru? Because, if you are, I have no real interest in him and besides I just met him. And Sasuke? As in that Uchiha guy? I heard he's a hottie, which means he's definitely not my type." I say following her, hands behind my head. Just then a dog that looks like an Akita pup appears in front of us.
"Maki? What're you doin' here? Don't tell me Lady Tsunade's giving me another solo C-rank, is she?" the Akita, Maki, nods. "I swear that woman trying to kill me because I have an unorthodox way of healing." She looks to the side. "Perfect timing. Hey Kiba! Come over here for a sec will ya!" the smell of gourmet food hits me. So that's why Kiba's over here, we're in front of the Shushuya, I didn't even notice that we were walking this way. (The Shushuya is Kiba's favorite restaurant.)
"So Umi what do you want?"
"This is who I was talking about earlier. Kusa, Kiba; Kiba, Kusa. Kusa is my half sister. Kiba is my 'brother'. I have to go on a mission and if I'm late again Lady Tsunade will have my hide, so will you watch her for me Kiba?"
"Sure! Anything for you!" Umi poofs away. "So are you one of them?" he asks as Akamaru sniffs me.
"Yea." Akamaru barks: 'She's a real blue blood, no scent at all.' to Kiba. "So…this is your dog…cute little pup. And smart too. So did you figure out that she was half-and-half or did she tell you?"
"Both." He rubs his neck. He's never done that, in the anime or the manga. Then realization hits me; she bit him.
"So how many know?"
"Well besides me, Shikamaru's the only one." I give him an oh-shit look. So Shikamaru's probably figured out I'm a vampire too. "What?"
"Well I've met him so he probably knows too. Oh well, could you tell Umi that I'm sorry for not sticking around longer, for me please? I wanted to make sure she was alive before I became an official shinobi."
"What do you mean you're sorry?! You just found each other today right?! You should at least wait a while before you run off!"
"Well you know what? I'm kinda late as it is becoming a shinobi and I seriously don't want to wait much longer or I'll go crazy. I just wanted to make sure she was alive that's all nothing more. I'll be in the Hidden Sand village. I'm leaving now." I leave him at the Shushuya and walk to the nearest convenience store and take a map of the world. Alright so if I'm in the Leaf then to get to the Sand I have to go southwest for…676 KILOMETERS?! That's 420 miles!!!! This is going to be a long night…