The Beginning

Her name was Zu Sora Akiko, but every one called her Sora. She was laying in bed on a dark fall night when she heard a window brake. She sat up startled by the sudden sound. Worried, she quickly jumped out of her bed and ran down stairs, only to see seven ninjas roaming the down stairs halls looking for something. As soon as she saw one look towards her figure, masked by the darkness, she knew exactly who they were looking for…her.

Quietly she returned upstairs, to wake her parents up. She opened the door to the bedroom her parents slept in, slowly and quietly. But Sora was shocked to see three ninjas had all ready beat her there, her parents were missing from their bed.

One of the ninjas saw her in the moonlight that shown through the window and made an unsuccessful attempt to grab her. Sora quickly dogged the ninja. Now hiding in a dark corner she began to feel light headed and scared she was afraid that she wasn't going to survive. It was then she passed out. In the darkness she began to grow ears and a wolf like tail and attacked the ninjas.

She woke up in what seemed like seconds later, but she knew it had to be longer than that. She opened her eyes to see two of the ninjas that had broken into her parents' room were on the floor, dead. She slowly stood up and looked out the now open window. The last ninja had escaped from whatever horror befell them. She looked around the room for a sign of her parents, but they weren't anywhere to be seen.

Scared, she left the room and ran down the stairs, searching for them. "Mom," Her desperate calls echoed in the room. "Dad," She called again. As she entered the kitchen only to see her parents' bloody bodies lying on the floor, their limbs contorted into awkward positions. She felt tears run down her face as she saw this horrible sight. No five-year-old should have to suffer this pain.

Suddenly she felt someone grab her from behind. As she felt the person pick her up off the ground she snapped back into the awful reality. She kicked as hard as she could though it seemed as if it did not even phase the person who was holding her. She began to scream, though no one heard her voice. Her whole village seemed oblivious to what was going on around them. It was then that Sora was dragged from the safety of her home, of her beloved village, and thrown into a caged like structure attached to a team of horses to pull it.

The cage seemed to have stopped before it even started to move. When she looked between the bars in the small opening on the door she saw a small camp of masked ninjas. She looked around the cage for a way out, anything to get away….

Sora woke in her bed from the awful dream of her past that seemed so far away now that she was thirteen years old. She wiped the sweat from her face and sat up. The dream had been so vivid that she remembered every detail. She let out a long sigh. Her past had been like a horror story that had left her with the markings on her back.

Sora slowly got out of bed and went to the window. She opened the heavy drapes and let the suns light fill the dark room. She put her hand over a pendent around her neck. The pendent was shaped as a quarter moon, made of white gold, with a star, made of yellow gold, lying on top of the moon, embedded in the center of the star lay a sapphire jewel. She took this from her mother's distorted body before she was taken, just like her dream.

Knock; knock "Sora time to get…Oh for Pete's sake… BOOSH" the door soared off the hinges. Sora screamed in embarrassment she was still in her silky p.j.'s and covered herself with the closest thing near her… the shades.

"LANCE I'M GOING TO KILL YOU," she shouted with anger her eyes turning red. Lance was her outgoing friend who was from the rain village.

"Sorry Sora I didn't mean it," he said blushing, do you forgive me?" he asked with puppy like eyes.

"Oh ok," she said her eyes turning their normal blue and giggling.

"What?" Lance asked.

"Well it's just your in your boxers and a T-shirt!"

"OH MY GOSH," Lance said running out the door. Sora burst out laughing when he left the room.

"Oh my gosh," she shot straight up "Today's the day we get to the leaf village!" She put her favorite outfit on and ran out the door.