Aki knew what was coming for her and she wanted out. Footsteps wildly rapped against the wooden floor. Aki swore that the door to her locked bedroom was shaking in as much fear as she was. It felt like there were ghosts in the house. She had to get out.

The footsteps stopped at a nearby room. The sound of a knife slicing through air and flesh accompanied with an ear splitting scream of a woman who Aki used to call mother. Two rose gold rings on the cartilage of her left ear and on a a stud the same color on the left lobe. Two similar lobe piercings on the other pins that held her silky black hair up in bun. Its end may have been blunt, but it was necessary and with the right velocity it would be deadly. Altogether four useful weapons and two ring piercings that she would have to think about.

But only if she could move. The forest freedom was just a few steps away but Aki was frozen. Her light pink yukata felt like heavy weights. It wouldn't be long before whoever was in the house was in her room. She had to be quick.

Aki quietly yet restlessly tore her room apart until she finally found a black hair tie. Still trembling, she knew she only had one shot at this. Aki ducked under the window sill and played around with her hair tie and kanzashi (a decorated, chopstick-like hair pin) to create the perfect makeshift bow and arrow. As soon light came through she shot up and fired the weapon lodging it deep into the throat of a man twice her size. A lucky shot.

Unfortunately there was no time to celebrate or feel proud of herself. She had to run. Aki was small and thin, but she was not fast. So any head start she could get was needed and she had already wasted too much time.

Long black hair fell into her golden eyes. Pink lips were forcing out breaths as her bare feet pathetically tried to carry her body faster. Voices behind her getting louder and catching her to her. At this rate Aki knew she wouldn't make it. A kunai knife zipped past her cutting of a few strands of hair. It almost caught her off guard when something round hit her back knocking Aki right off her feet. She plummeted to the ground and stared aghast at what had hit her.

Her mother's head. The woman's head was dripping with blood from the black sockets where her eyes should have been. It seemed like a dog had ripped her eyes out juding by the indentations on the area. A pink tongue hung loosely to the side of white lips with an unhinged jaw. It took everything in Aki's body not to scream because she knew the moment she screamed, she'd herself away. In ways more than one she would lose to the enemy.

"I'm going to get you for killing my friend," a vicious hiss emerged from behind a tree.

It was a woman with violet hair tied into a braid and matching violet eyes. Her canines were covered in blood especially sharp, too sharp to be true. It was almost as if-

"These babies?" she asked in a voice laced with fake sugar as she pointed at her pointed tooth. "I've got to keep them on point if I want bite that whore's eyes out like that.

Now... I believe it's your turn, sweetheart. Where should I start? Eyes so you match your mother? Those pretty lips? Tongue? So many choices."

Aki sat completely still eyes wide with fear. She hoped that counting her heartbeat might make the time pass a little faster. The purple woman approached her slowly baring her fangs at her. The muscles on the lady's arms were clear and evident. Strength wise, Aki stood no chance. Soon the woman was in kneeling in front of Aki's pale white face. Aki's palms grabbed the dirt of the forest floor. She did not move an inch.

"The name's Fuyu," the woman said quietly. "I want you to know that before eat your face."

"Would you eat plants if they bled?" Aki asked almost innocently.

"Don't waste my time, kid."

Fuyu's mouth open and was coming at Aki fast. But Aki quickly shoved a handful of dirt and autumn leaves into her mouth. Fuyu bit down onto Aki's hand creating a mix of dirt, leaf, and blood. The older woman released Fuyu and screamed in digust . This momentary distraction allowed Aki to drive her free palm into Fuyu's right eye causing her to scream in pain. Fuyu's tongue and eye were bleeding.

"You bitch," Fuyu could barely muster out.

One lobe piercing from Aki's left ear and one from her right were gone. Fuyu noticed this as she spit one out of her mouth which had stabbed her tongue and the other fell from her eye leaving a small whole in Fuyu's eyelid.

"You're a smart kid," Fuyu whispered to herself as Aki pathetically tried to run. "But I got you."

In the whole procress, Fuyu got the opportunity to flash a kunai out and stab Aki in the leg. Fuyu lunged herself at Aki who closed her eyes awaiting the impact. Aki's fist stretched out in defense and she touched the wet inside of Fuyu's mouth once again before full contact ever came.

Furious coughing followed. A man with an animal mask stood above Fuyu's suffering body. But before Aki could do anything, her world began to darken. She was loosing a lot of blood from her leg.

One ring from her cartilage was missing.

Fuyu punched herself in the stomach numerous times and coughed up the small, circular object. A rose gold ring that belonged around the shell of an ear. She growled towards Aki's direction who was gone. She was instead greeted by a masked man.

"Well if it isn't Konoha's ANBU," Fuyu croaked. "It's an honor, but I'm afraid this is where we part." The woman then disappeared in loud spark almost like fireworks. A lightning clone.

Aki was barely conscious. Her head rested on a patch of grass away from the scene.

"How is she?" the a masked man asked another masked woman.

"Her wound is deep, I just need to stop the bleeding for now," she replied. "What happened, I heard something like lightning."

"She made a lightning clone and got away," the man explained explained. "Inu went to go look for her with his ninken."

"I see," the girl sighed.

'Aki wanted to reply, but she was much to weak. All she wanted to do was sleep, but it was disrespectful to sleep when strangers were around. Then a gust of wind blew against Aki's face with a new presence giving her more reason to be awake. It was a boy with silver hair, a dog mask.

"Taichou," the two other masked figures saluted.

"I couldn't get her," the silver haired boy stated. "She got pretty far in a short amount of time. I also went to this girl's house, the source of the whole scene. A man was killed with a kanzashi that probably belonged to her. I also got these."

His gloved hand showed Aki's earrings most of which were covered in blood and/or saliva. They all seemed shocked.

"She must've used them as weapons," the silver haired boy added.

"I-I," Aki stutted beginning to give into the temptation of slumber. "I just wanted to live."

"Don't force yourself to talk," the masked female commanded as she continued her ministrations.

Aki didn't listen, "Hey?"

All eyes were on her as Aki smiled gently.

"If plants could bleed, how would you eat them?"