Yeah.... here it is.... the story of Toshi, from the Neverending Roleplay....

Don't be too harsh on your reviews, please... I wrote most of this late at night in a notebook, and when you're hand-writing something in the middle of the night, everything makes sense...

Sound Ninja Aren't All Bad… Are They?

Chapter 1

Wantonabe Toshi staggered from the Sound Village's hospital to her home. Her acquaintances laughed at her for still choosing to live with her parents at sixteen, but she didn't care. She hardly ever saw her family, anyway.

The reason she was staggering was the large amount of blood she lost and the painkillers given to her by the medical ninja. She paused in the doorway to kick off her shoes and to regain her center of balance.

Almost immediately after Toshi set foot in the house, her younger siblings, Satoshi and Riko, came rushing into the front room. Toshi knelt to embrace her brother and sister, and then stood in order to talk with her parents.

"I need to go on missions less often," she told them, lifting up her bandaged right hand. "This is the second mission in a row that my right arm has been injured." Toshi flexed the remaining three fingers on her right hand to emphasize her point.

Her father was not impressed. "Toshi, I think that your problem is the fact that you haven't been training you taijutsu and ninjutsu enough. Your excessive genjutsu training is making you more vulnerable to a frontal attack than you normally would be."

Toshi nodded. "I understand," she said. "Tomorrow I will train only taijutsu and ninjutsu." Suddenly, all her forgotten dizziness hit her full on, and her legs crumpled beneath her before her deep blue eyes fluttered closed.

Toshi's father carried the red-haired sixteen-year-old up to her room and laid her down in her bed. "Good-night, Toshi," he whispered. It would be the last time he did so.

When Toshi came to, she was crumpled in a corner of the small living room. She shoved her hand out to the wall for support, and a red pain shot through her arm, coming from her shoulder. How did that happen? She thought. She didn't remember injuring her shoulder on her last mission. And then she saw the bodies. Her parents, their parents, and little Satoshi were all lying on the floor. Dead. Horror and sickness overcame her for an instant as she took in the ghastly sight. She looked over at her still throbbing right shoulder and yanked one of he father's kunai from it. Then the full force of what she had done hit her. Somehow, she had lost control of herself. She had often done it on missions, but never in the Sound Village. What color was left in her face drained away and was replaced by a sickly pallor. She couldn't have done this! It was impossible!

The sound of a crying child brought Toshi out of the panicked stupor. Was Riko still alive? It was possible, Toshi had to admit, but very unlikely. It was probably just her imagination. But still, the crying persisted. Toshi followed the sound of her little sister's crying into the kitchen and into the cabinet under the sink. She opened the door to find that Riko had indeed survived. She was frightened and trembling, but at least she was alive.

Toshi gently took her sister out of the cabinet and lifted the panic-stricken child to her hip. Though she was glad that at least her sister had survived the massacre, she wished that it had never happened in the first place. There was only one thing left to do, and that was to turn herself in. setting her little sister down outside the house, Toshi did her best to seek out Orochimaru.

He was exactly where she thought he'd be. In fact, by the way he smiled, Toshi almost thought that he had been expecting her. "Orochimaru-sama," she said hastily, bowing slightly in a respectful greeting. Orochimaru didn't say anything; he only smiled. He had never greeted Toshi. Her promise was not great enough for her to receive any manner of greeting or praise from Orochimaru.

"I understand, Toshi, that you have committed a terrible crime," Orochcimaru began. "You have single-handedly killed your entire immediate family but your sister. What do you have to say to these charges?" He smiled as he passed his long tongue around his lips.

"The only way I can justify what I have done is by saying that I was not aware of what I was doing. I've often lost control of myself during missions, though it has never happened in the village." Toshi reached up with her right had to run her fingers through her longish red hair, but stopped, realizing that she had not yet received the digits she\had been promised.

Kabuto, the young medical ninja who was always following Orochimaru everywhere, spoke up. "I would like to ask a question of you sister, Toshi-san. May I?"

Toshi nodded. "Hai, Kabuto-san," she said softly.

When Kabuto brought Riko to where they were rather privately meeting, he asked her a simple question. "Was it your older sister who attacked and killed your parents and brother?"

Riko only looked more scared. "Toshi-neechan? She's never hurt anybody in my house on purpose."

Kabuto pressed harder. "But was it Toshi who attacked you and your family?"

Riko looked a little bit confused. "She looked like Toshi-neechan, but scary. Her eyes were white all the way through, and Toshi-neechan's are blue." She looked up at her older sister, trying to assemble a likeness chart between Toshi and her attacker within her head. "I guess it could have been Toshi-neechan, if you change her eyes." Not wanting harm to come to her sister, Riko added, "Daddy hurt the person who attacked us. He stabbed her in the right shoulder with his kunai."

Toshi took her hand away from her right shoulder, which she had been holding, and showed it to Orochimaru and Kabuto. It was red with blood.

Riko stared at her older sister in horror, her eyes wide and beginning to well with tears.

"I didn't come to plead innocent," Toshi said angrily, glaring at Kabuto, "I came to confess. I know I've done it, so punish me already. And keep Riko out of it, will you? I found her scared half to death under the kitchen sink."

Kabuto ignored Toshi's request. "May I ask you another question, Riko-chan?" he asked with feigned kindness.

This drove Toshi over the edge. "I said to keep her out of it!" she yelled as she once more lost control of herself.

The private meeting quickly turned into a public spectacle. Only those watching closely could tell that in that instant, Wantonabe Toshi's eyes faded quickly from almost black to pure white, and her expression changed from one of remorse to one of pure malice. Those who weren't watching closely only saw a sixteen-year-old jounin attack Orochimaru for no reason at all.

Kabuto responded quickly by knocking Toshi out using the same technique he used to render Inuzuka Kiba unconscious during Konoha's chuunin exams. Toshi's eyes snapped back to blue and closed in almost the same instant as she crumpled to the ground at Kabuto's feet. Kabuto looked at Orochimaru. "She confessed, Orochimaru-sama. She needs to be punished for what she's done.

"Not yet," Orochimaru replied, smiling. "Let the other medical ninja treat her first. After all, true physical pain is known to break genjutsu, and we don't want that to happen."

End Chapter 1

So yeah, you're probably wondering why in the world Orochimaru even cares that Toshi killed her family, and I know.... he wouldn't care. In fact, he doesn't care, but it's the fact that Toshi didn't like the fact that she killed her parents that made him mad...ish...

So, first installment of story overwith... next chapter you get to see how she got so messed up in the head... visit my dA to find out what her ending personality is... if you want to...

Won't add another chapter until someone I don't know leaves a review.