Riku ran like a bat out of hell though the forest. She had ran away from Orochimaru a couple of weeks ago. She couldn't take any more experiments.

Riku had made her way across the rain village without any incident but, the grass shinobi are proving to be much more difficult. It was clear she was from the sound. She wore her headband proudly. Unfortunately, the grass village would have no hint of evil in their village at all.

"come back here!"

One of the ninja ordered.

Riku didn't give up. Setting the occasional explosives seemed to be working.

"It's not worth it! She's going to 'that' village!"

As the shinobi drew back, riku fell on her knees. Her long black hair was loose around her face as tears were streaming down. She didn't even look up when a shadow cast over her. It was probably Orochimaru coming to take her back to hell.

"Are you okay?"

A Young boy's voice asked.

Riku looked up and stared into the boys eyes. They were the most beautiful shade of pink/purple she had ever seen. And his hair was about medium length and a sort of silver-white.

"I said, Are you okay?"

The boy repeated.

Riku shook her head and looked back down. She tried to get rid of the tears. It wasn't a pretty sight when she was crying.

Her 'knight in shining armor' was looking her over. Riku ried to get rid of a sence of uneasyness but how could she when he was staring at her like that? The boy was about her own age she guessed. She half expected him to leave, but to her surprise, he held out his hand for her to take it.

"Your bleeding. Nee-San will know what to do."

Riku looked at the hand and hesitantly took it.

The Boy burst into a wide grin as he said,

"Name's Hidan."

Riku tried to stand up and shakily replied,

"I...I'm Riku."

She fell ver due to the extremely cold air. Was she sick? She wouldn't be surprised. She had been traveling across the country in the rain after all. But, it's a good this she landed on something soft...WAIT! Since when was the ground soft? Panting, she forced her eyes open to see that she landed on Hidan.

"s...Sorry..."

She choked out.

Hidan didn't reply. He just stood up with her in his arms and started walking. Looking extremely worried.