Chapter One

The young girl stared at her reflection, sadly, only seeing her bed head and tired face. She was about 20; black almost blue hair, pale white skin, cold black eyes, with lovely thick lashes and eyebrows, and full red lips. She quickly took a shower and put on her clothes and mask that covered everything below the eyes and exited from her clean apartment.

She quickly headed for her cousin's house, flinging herself off the rooftops. "You're early for once," claimed the doorman, opening the door to the traditional Japanese mansion.

"I'm never late on mission days," The slim black figure proclaimed softly following the doorman to a large bedroom.

"RAINE!!!!!!" squealed a most delighted kimono wearing redhead flinging herself at her cousin. "You're early! I just finished packing and I was about to have breakfast, not expecting you for about 2 hours," the older girl giggled joyfully. "Come on have breakfast with me."

"But, I don't have breakfast," Raine muttered pushing Suki off, after all her neck was cramping.

"Oh, well I'm sure you're at least a little hungry," Suki replied skipping towards the dining room pulling her cousin along.

Once they both sat down Raine asked, "Why are you so happy? Your about to be sent off have an arranged marriage with a Konoha idiot and never see our village again."

Suki ignored her and continued eating her toast, "Raine why aren't you eating?" she asked nonchalantly.

"Because," the younger girl retorted, "I feel sick to my stomach."

"Fine be that way, but even if you are an unhappy little brat you can't ruin my mood."

"Fine" Once breakfast was over the two girls got into a grand carriage followed by a unit of guards. Suki was busy writing formal letter while Raine sought to ignore her with her ipod. After a few hours of traveling Suki fell asleep and the carriage stopped for a rest. Raine got out for an inspection top find that her sister was the leader.

"Fancy seeing you here," Kasandra said brightly in her grey military jacket.

"I hate father now," Raine replied taking out a nail polish bottle, "Can you believe he gave you the job of leading and me babysitting?"

"Heh, body guarding is a very honorable job, Raine, not to mention it's Suki," Kasandra said maturely. "How's she doing?"

"Fine, she's angry at me because I said that she was too happy about what was happening."

"Raine, that could have been you, remember that," Kasandra replied solemnly.

"Yeah, I know, I should be happy that mother renounced her title as geisha and married father and now we could all lead honorable lives as shinobi, yeah yeah. But that didn't stop mother from making us take shinobi and geisha classes, not to mention etiquette."

"Agreed, I feel that Suki is forcing herself to feel happy, you know not to worry you."

"Probably," Raine muttered finally finishing her nails, "I think we're starting again.

"Good," Kasandra replied getting back on her horse, "guess who else is part of the guard?"

"Oh please no," Raine scoffed looking at the ninja next to Kasandra, she was the exact replica of her sisters, "not Karina, I shall now be leaving" With that Raine got back in the carriage in a worse mood than before. Suki quickly gasped from the noise of the angry slam of the door.

"Wow, what's wrong with you," Suki asked groggily yawning.

"Everything," Raine replied burying her head in her hands.

"I knew that already," Suki laughed. Raine blankly glanced at her and turned for the window. "Come on I'm joking, Raine? What's wrong?"

"When you get married in Konoha…," Raine started, "I won't see you anymore, and I realize I haven't been the best person ever. You were always happy and smiley telling me all of your thoughts when I just listened and helped with your problems. But I never actually told you anything. I never bothered to let you get to know me; I never let anyone do that. Suki, Does that make me a bad person? Will you forget about me and I about you?"

"Raine, I'll remember you forever, and all your time you wasted on me," Suki replied smiling sadly.

"What do you mean?"

"Come on, Raine, you always had to take care of me, mature faster than me and please me since I was the grand daughter of the greatest geisha and hokage of the village hidden in the rain,"

"Suki, it's no ones fault our roles could easily have been switched." Suki turned and smiled to hug Raine who surprisingly hugged back.

"Suki?"

"Hmm?"

"Have we stopped?" with that she took out her weapons and exited the carriage turning to say, "Don't get out." She turned to see two ninjas dead and her sister, Kasandra bruised circled by five land of waves shinobi. One was about to drive a sword into her sister when Raine jumped in front of the blade in order for it to hit her in her right shoulder. "Gee, Kasy," she muttered smirking with blood coming from her mouth, " They said I only had to baby sit Suki."

The other opposing ninja's laughed as the leader said, "How touching now you can all die together."

"I wouldn't be getting so cocky now if I were you," Raine spat back at him. With that she took out her two katanas and started a full on battle with the band of ninjas. After 5 minutes three ninjas were dead and the leader was left alive, seeing that he was alone he headed for the trees. "Kasy, continue on Konoha is close, I'll take care of the bastard."

"Good luck," Kasy replied, "and Raine, don't push yourself." Raine plunged into the trees feeling the scent of the other shinobi's blood in the air, until she finally found him near a bridge on the, "I can kill you now, after all you have a rather bad wound from yours truly." He quickly charged at her and sliced her down the middle only to find it was a substitution and every thing turned to black ink.

"You get more and more stupid by the minute you know that?" Raine declared loudly from the top of a tree," She jumped at him and drove her katana into his heart pulling it down only to see that he also used a substitution. She gasped and turned around only to be scratched across her back.

"I could say the same about you," the ninja cruelly replied staring down at Raine's still body. He swiftly put his katana away and turned away.

Raine got back up with red eyes and black wings, "Idiot, it's not that easy to kill me," she leaned on her scythe and mockingly sang, "You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper." The other ninja only had one look at her red eyes before he even knew he was dead. At that moment a twig snapped and Raine turned to see four very blurry figures. "I was only taking out the trash….," she almost inaudibly said with a sad smile as her eyes turned black again and blacked out over the bridge into the cold water.