A/N: This is about my OC recalling her pre-Konoha days when she's living in Konoha after 80 years and takes place after the 4th Great Shinobi War.

"..." - dialogue

...123 - thoughts

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Disclaimer: Naruto © Masashi Mishimoto

"I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future."

- Francois de La Rochefouca

*Flashback*

The autumn leaves fell one by one onto the ground, signalling that winter was near. The noises of children playing in the warm sunlight could be heard, everything was peaceful. I leaned against the exterior wall of the barn, day-dreaming. The sky was filled with a sea of baby-blue with the white cotton-like clouds hanging and moving past often. I closed my eyes and listened to the trees's whisper, the leaves's rustle. Footsteps could be heard, but the person's chakra was unusual, unlike mine. His was.. unique.. Another footstep could be heard, a faint one. Both chakras were .. weird..?

As they came closer, my defense rose. Few meters away from me, they stopped. My defense didn't falter. I had grown suspicious of who they were and had the feeling of wanting to eliminate them if they were enemies. I opened my eyes as soon as a hand was felt on my shoulder. My slightly dull colored purple eyes shifted it's gaze onto two boys, around my age and were taller than me. No taller than a meter and half.

The first boy had straight dark brown hair, almost black, that reached to his shoulders. His eyes were of the same color as his hair. Wearing a plain white top with a few dirt stains on it, a pair of black shorts that reached to his knees and a pair of black shinobi sandals, he introduced himself,"Konnichiwa.. I'm Hashirama," he looked at the second boy who was standing to his right,"This is my younger brother, Tobirama." The younger brother, who had short gray hair and dull red eyes, just nodded slightly and in response I did the same, with curiosity.

Their attention shifted back to me, "... Konnichiwa.."

"I've never seen you around here before.. Are you new to the village..?" Hashirama asked, sitting down.

I nodded.

"Not much of a talker are you.." He gave a nervous laugh.

I looked back at the sky, no clouds were in sight. "Nii-san, it's time to go.." Tobirama looked at me then to Hashirama. Hashirama looked at me for a minute and then patted my dull purple-brown hair,"Let's meet here again and I hope you'll tell me your name!" He smiled and waved while Tobirama was pulling his other hand, dragging him back, probably to a place called 'home'. I placed my right hand on where he patted me and gazed at them till they were out of my sight. I wonder what was that all about...?

The sky was about to turn dark. The colors - orange,yellow and red were mixed into a beautiful scarlet that I watched everyday. I had no 'home', no 'parents'. True, it affected me but I tried to cover up my sadness. To me, displaying my emotions would mean showing my weakness. Thus I had to keep that expression on my face, an expression of neither happiness, sadness nor anger. I sat up and dusted the dirt from my brown-black overalls and strolled along a dirt path to where a small orphanage resides.

The people there were good to me, no bullies, no trouble. Everything was peaceful. The orphanage contained no more than 20 children, with no more than 4 caretakers, who always tell us to stay away from the other clans. It was between the Uchiha compound and the Senju compound. No one disturbed us, no rogue ninjas, no bandits. It was too peaceful that something felt wrong. The Uchihas and the Senju would usually fight around the forest, few kilometers away from the orphanage and would always try not to disturb the small cottage here as they knew we were innocent people and shouldn't get us involved in their war.

(Next Day)

A small little blue bird with some yellow feathers stood at my window, chirping every 10 minutes, like an alarm clock on snooze. It pecked lightly on the window glass, telling me to wake up. I stared at the morning sky from the old frosted window glass. I yawned and sat up, folding the blanket away, I tip-toed past some children sleeping on the wooden floor with sleeping bags, and made my way to the toilet. I looked into the mirror, my short hair was messy and my eyelids were barely able to open. Splashing the cold water onto my face, I quickly washed up and strolled downstairs to help with the chores. Most care-takers were awake by now and had to wake the other children up. Sweeping the floor, cleaning the windows and tidying up the orphanage were part of my daily chores. Food for the orphanage was supplied by someone, someone who assigned the care-takers to take care of us. Loud footsteps could be heard and this means that the other children were now fully awake and ready to help with the chores.

"Kayo! Haru! Gina! Stop running down the stairs!" Care-taker Mai shouted at the three youngest and most active children in the cottage. The trio just responded by giggling. It wasn't long till Haru, a girl whose height only reached till my waist, tripped against the edge of the stairs and was about to fall on the ground, face first. I quickly ran over and hugged Haru, who was safe in my arms. I landed on the floor with quite a loud thud and suffered from only a small scratch on my left arm since the impact caused an empty glass to fall into pieces.

Haru looked at me, close to tears when she saw a small amount of blood on my wound. "Haru," I patted her head,"Don't cry, it's just a small scratch.."

"B-But.. O-Onee-san.. hurt.." Haru sobbed.

Care-taker Mai came over and carried Haru, telling her to stop crying. Mother Miki, another care-taker whom the children always call her, came over to tend to my scratch. "Onee-san, please take the children outside to play while we prepare breakfast." Miki tied a small ribbon using the bandages. I just nodded and the rest of the children followed me outside, not forgetting to bring along the title-less book Mother Miki bought for me. It had a red-brown colored hard cover with a black string for a bookmark. the words were easy to read and weren't in a small or too big font. As I opened the door, the glare of the sunlight was bright and caused me to use the book as a shade. It didn't seem to affect the other children, probably because I was the tallest. I went over to the same spot outside the barn and sat there as I watched the children run around and play with the sand. "Onee-san, do you want to join us?" A girl with brown hair which was tied in two braids and wearing a light blue yukata asked. I shook my head,"Don't worry about me." All the girl did was looked at me for less than 10 seconds and ran off. I bet it must be that I hardly spoke. The children had names, names that are used to call them. Only I was the odd one out. I didn't possess a thing called a 'name', it found it unnecessary. Thus they all called me Onee-san (Big Sister).

Few minutes had passed, it was calm. I opened my book and started reading, not caring if the two brothers from yesterday appeared again. Judging from their looks, they were probably Senjus. I flipped to the last twenty pages, blank. I took out a pen and wrote :

- Hashirama Senju, active, friendly

And left a line and wrote :

- Tobirama Senju, brother of Hashirama Senju, quiet

I placed the pen back into my pocket and closed the book, closed my eyes and listened to the surroundings. It's.. peaceful.. no war today.. It wasn't long till I saw a fast and sharp kunai coming my way. I knew I couldn't dodge in time. I had to 'sacrifice' something. The speed of the kunai was fast but my eyes kept with the speed. I raised my book to the left with my left hand, blocking the kunai's attack. I held onto the book with some force to keep up with the clashing impact. I had to say, the force was indeed strong. I then took the kunai out with little effort and threw it back from the direction it came from. I swear I heard a growl from behind the trees. I glanced at the children, they were safe, unaffected. I stood up, walked towards the forest. Another kunai came flying but it wasn't fast enough to make my eyes lose it's target. I leaned my head slightly to the right to avoid the attack. I took another step forward and before I knew it, I was pinned to the ground by a boy, almost the same height as the Senju brothers, with spiky shoulder-length dark blue hair. Both my hands were restrained by his left hand, held above my head with his right hand holding a kunai, pressing against my throat. He was wearing a short black shirt with a raised-collar, black pants with bandages at the end and dark blue shinobi shoes. The most distinctive feature about the boy who was on top of me would be his eyes. His eyes were red and had three black tomoes. Sharingan.. So this boy is an Uchiha.. Senju and then an Uchiha.. Looks like my day isn't going well..

I looked at him, trying my best to contain my curiosity to look into his eyes. I used my same old cold voice,"How long are you going to remain in that same position..?"

He loosen his grip on me and the kunai, deactivated his Sharingan and finally seemed to realise that the position we're in was indeed a little awkward. He blushed slightly and quickly got off me,"G-Gomen.." I sat up the dusted the dirt off my overalls. Not far, footsteps, fast footsteps could be heard. I wasn't surprised whether the next person who came out of the forest was either a Uchiha or a Senju. Yesterday and today was full of too many surprises.. Let's hope it doesn't continue to be the same for the rest of the week..

"Nii-san.." Another boy appeared, coming out of the forest, wearing what the previous boy wore but his hair wasn't that long. Twins..? Another thing I noticed was a fan-like print with the upper part paint red and the lower, white. Must be the Uchiha clan symbol..

"Izuna.." The brother turned to this 'Izuna' and spoke for awhile before 'Izuna' turned his head to me.

"Umm.. Konnichiwa.. I'm Uchiha Izuna," He gave a nervous smile and turned to his brother,"This is my older brother, Uchiha Madara."

"Izuna.. Why are you introducing us..?" Madara questioned his brother in a deep voice. Quite cold if I may add.

Izuna just gave a nervous laugh,"Well.. Isn't it because she dodged your fast kunais?"

"It's the opposite," I picked up my book, which now had a small crack on the front cover and traced along the edges,"His kunais are just too slow."

I felt their gazes on me, especially Madara's. He was about to say something something when I heard a cry. Gina's cry. I was afraid that they would get hurt, or bullied by other children, which wouldn't really happen. I dashed towards the direction of Gina's cry, to find the Senju brothers there treating her wound. ...This is really bad... I couldn't let the Uchihas see the Senjus and let the Senjus see the Uchihas. But I really couldn't care less. I sighed,"What's wrong, Gina?" I tried to sound concern.

"Onee-san.." the girl from before looked at me, causing everyone's attention to shift to me,"Gina accidentally fell and two Onii-sans came to help us."

More like they came to 'spy' on us.. I mentally said to myself. I walked over and bent down,"Gina, can you stand?"

She nodded, trying to keep her tears from falling. "The rest of you talk Gina back for brea-"

"Oi~" Madara's voice could be heard from behind, not far, and this raised Hashirama's and Tobirama's attention. ...This is getting worst.. But if a fight occurs, ensuring the children's safety is priority...

Izuna's and Madara's footsteps could be heard clearly from behind the bushes. ... Should I just wait for the next scene to unfold or...? "One-san, were you talking to someone just now?" A boy with light brown hair asked. I remained that same emotionless face of mine. Tobirama was getting quite suspicious of me. "Hashirama-san and Tobirama-san, you guys should return to your household." They looked at me, then Hashirama spoke,"Is there something you don't want us to see?" I was about to reply when the bushes behind me started to rustle and the Uchiha brothers stepped out.

"So you're over her-" Madara stopped when he saw the Senjus and narrowed his eyes on them but managed to mutter the words,"Sen-Senju..!"

"Hashirama.." Tobirama tapped his brother's shoulder, signalling him something.

"Nii-san.." Izuna held Madara's right arm, trying to stop him but Madara escaped from his brother's grip and the next thing he did, shocked me. He did the tiger hand sign, along with few other hand signs and whispered the words,"Katon : Gokakyu no Jutsu (Fire Release : Great Fireball Technique)" Right after he did that, a huge fireball - the size of a 2-story building appeared, aiming directly at the Senjus, including the children.

*End of Flashback*

Hope it wasn't too long Chapter 2 is coming out and I would really love to hear your opinions!

-Yuki