Nasari? Nasari?
Osara Nasari looked up suddenly. "Wha- Oh, I'm sorry father. What were you saying?"
Osara Kasono went back to telling his' daughter of Konohas' amazing past. Nasari tried hard to pay attention to what he was telling her, but her mind wouldn't focus. She couldn't make any sense out of what her' father was saying. Her mind felt far away, and she felt numb and cold. The past few days had come like a hurricane, shattering her peaceful, beautiful world into a million pieces.
Three days ago her' life had been the same as any other girl. Well, almost anyway. Nasari was the second child of Lord Kasono, The leader of the Osara clan, which lived in Taikovara, or Taikoa for short- the village hidden in ice-, which was located up in the mountains. Her much adored, older brother, Hikaru had been the heir of the Osara clan. Her mother, and the rest of her siblings had been killed in an incident when she was seven. Nasari was a chunin level ninja, and showed special potential for becoming a great warrior. Even though she was only fourteen, she was engaged to be marry her' lover Kusame. Then disaster had struck. Two days ago her older brother and her fiancé had gone on a hunting trip along with some of the villages other young men. During that time were attacked by they another village. Many of the men were killed, including Nasari's brother and fiancé. So with dangerous enemy powers joining forces them, the leaders of Osara needed to find a way to save their' clan. The only way that lord Kasono could see to do this was to form an alliance with another powerful clan, an alliance formed through marriage. With her' older brother dead, Nasari was the only choice Kasono had left.
Now Nasari and her' father were on their way to Konoha, The village hidden in leaves, to attempt to arrange for Nasari to wed someone of the powerful Hyuga clan. The Hyuga clan had been hoping to form such an alliance with the Osara clan for some time, and had been extremely pleased when Osara had expressed the wish to wed the clan's heiress to a Hyuga. So here she was, two days after her' fiancé died, traveling to another village to become engaged to a boy she had never met.
To make matters worse it was a regular custom in the land that once an heiress was married, she must give up her' place as a ninja in order to give her complete attention to performing her duties as a wife and mother. That is, unless her husband expresses a wish that she might remain a ninja. But, unfortunately, this rarely happened.
"Whoa!" the driver called out.
The carriage came to a sudden stop, jolting Nasari back to the present. Lord Kasono helped her out of the carriage and the two of them walked through the gates of the Hyuga compound followed by a group of their' guards.
Inside the compound there were many buildings. A Hyuga guard motioned them towards the largest of the buildings.
A young girl in a purple kimono, who appeared to be about Nasari's age, greeted them at the door.
"K-Konichi wa." she said timidly. "I am Lady Hinata, Heiress of the clan of Hyuga."
Nasari and her father recognized the title and bowed slightly. Kasono introduced himself. "Konichi wa. I am Lord Kasono Leader of the clan of Osara."
Lady Hinata bowed, saying, "It is an honor."
Allow me to introduce my daughter, Lady Nasari heiress of the clan of Osara."
Lady Hinata bowed again and said, "It is a pleasure to meet you Lady Nasari."
"Likewise, Lady Hinata." Nasari replied.
A man, probably one of the house hold servants, approached Lord Kasono and informed him that Lord Hiyashi, the leader of the Hyuga clan, was awaiting his arrival in another part of the house.
After Nasari's father had left lady Hinata spoke again, saying, "If you will follow me, I will show you to your' room."
Nasari nodded and followed the girl as she led the way down one of the many long halls. Stopping in front of the last door on the right, Lady Hinata took a key from one of the pockets of her' kimono and opened the door. The door swung open revealing a large spacious room, tastefully furnished. A large drapery covered one of the walls. Lady Hinata Pulled it back, and Nasari saw that instead of a wall the curtain concealed a full-length window over looking a beautiful garden in the distance she could see an area that she assumed was one of the villages' training grounds.
Lady Hinata cleared her' throat and said, "W-Well, um, if there is anything else you want, please let me know."
"Thank you very much Lady Hinata." Nasari replied politely.
"Oh, it's nothing, really." She smiled shyly and said, "Uh, you don't have to call me Lady all the time. I mean if you want to you can, but you can also just call me Hinata, if you like."
Nasari gave Hinata a small smile and said, "Very well Hinata, and you may call me Nasari."
"Oh, thank you!" She exclaimed. "Well I guess I'll give you some time to unpack. I'll see you at supper"
"Okay, see you." Nasari replied as Hinata closed the door. Then she lay down on the bed and closed her' eyes….
Nasari sat up, gasping for breath. Her' heart was pounding, and she was covered in a cold sweat.
She had fallen asleep and dreamed that she and Kusame had been walking in the woods together where they came upon a coiled snake. Then the snake had suddenly turned into a man holding a sword. Kusame had stepped in front of her in order to protect her. The man laughed and thrust his sword into Kusame's stomach and he fell to the ground with a thud.
Nasari had tried to scream but she had no voice. She begged him to wake up but of course he hadn't. The man kept laughing. Suddenly he grabbed her' by the wrist and began to drag her away from Kusame. She kicked and struggled but he had just laughed harder, all the while continuing to drag her farther and farther away from her' beloved Kusame.
Nasari got off of the bed and went into the bathroom to wash her' face then she put on her cloak and went outside.
A cold wind was blowing, the sky was clear and blue, not a cloud in sight. She walked around studying the village.
Without realizing it, she slowly made her way to the training grounds.
There were quite a few people training over in one corner there were three kids practicing different jutsus.
One was a dark haired boy who appeared to be pretty strong. Nasari noted that nearly every girl there was trying to get close to him, a fact that seemed to annoy him. Next to him stood a girl with short pink hair. She was trying- though not actually succeeding- to explain a rather simple jutsu to an energetic boy with blond hair dressed in an orange jumpsuit. The blond boy kept shouting things like, "Believe it!" and "Yeah! All right! " The other two kept telling him to shut up but he didn't listen.
Just then four more boys and two more girls, one with long blond hair and the other with dark blue hair, joined the group. The blond girl and the girl with pink hair began to fight over the dark haired boy. One of the new boys stood to the side talking to the blond boy and looking extremely bored. Another one was stuffing chips into his mouth so fast that Nasari was sure he would choke on them. The third boy was holding a puppy, and the last boy wore glasses and just stood there with his' hands stuffed in his pockets.
Suddenly the girl with blue hair spotted Nasari and waved at her. Nasari squinted, trying to see better. Did she know this girl? Realization suddenly struck her, Lady Hinata! She put on what she hoped would pass for a smile, for she liked something about the timid girl and thought that perhaps they might become friends if the alliance worked out.
"Hello Hinata." She greeted when the girl reached her.
"Hi Nasari." Hinata turned to the group behind her. "Uh, Guys, I'd like you to meet Nasari. Nasari these are my friends. She pointed to the dark haired boy. "This is Sasuke." She said. She pointed to the girl with pink hair. "That's Sakura, and that is Ino." She was now pointing at the blond girl. She introduced the blond boy as Naruto. "This is Kiba and his puppy, Akamaru." She pointed to the bored looking boy, "That's Shikamaru." and then to the boy with the glasses. "That's Shino." Finally she pointed to the boy with the chips saying, "And that is Chouji."
Nasari nodded to each one in turn as they were introduced to her. "It is a pleasure to meet all of you." She said when Hinata had finished.
"It's good to meet you too!" Naruto exclaimed loudly. "Hey!" He said. "I have a great idea! Lets all go get ramen together!"
Sakura rolled her eyes. "Naruto," she said, "we just left the ramen shop."
Naruto grinned "So?" he asked.
Sakura sighed and looked at the others in exasperation.
"Would you like to train with us?" Ino asked.
Nasari thought a moment. "I guess so." She replied.
"Okay." Sakura said. "We were just going to do a little bit of sparring. You can work against Shikamaru. The two of you can go first."
Nasari followed Shikamaru into the middle of the training grounds. The others sat down on the sidelines to watch.
Nasari and Shikamaru settled gracefully into fighting stances. "You can start." Nasari offered.
Shikamaru nodded, "Okay." He said.
He folded his' hands into a sign that Nasari recognized as the shadow manipulation technique- one of her old friends had possessed the same gift.
"Shadow Manipulation Technique no Jutsu!" Shikamaru shouted.
The shadow shot towards her but Nasari was ready. She quickly made a few hand signs while shouting, "Hovering Wasp no Jutsu!" she executed a back flip but instead of landing she remained hovering in the air a few feet above Shikamarus' shadow!
Everyone on the sidelines gasped in surprise.
"How did you do that?" Shikamaru demanded.
"Easy." Nasari replied. "You've all walked on water haven't you?" When they nodded she continued. "Well, walking on air is just one step up from that. Basically it involves more concentration, greater balance and it requires a little more chakura."
For a moment no one spoke. They just looked at her in amazement.
Then Naruto shouted, "Oh, man! That's totally awesome!"
With that everyone laughed and they went back to training.