The Annoying Orange Jumpsuite Knuckleheaded Ninja

I groaned, waking to the sound of birds chirping as the sun had just began to rise. I sat up in my tree, the birds around me making their nests and bringing their offsprings food. It was spring after all, and I was on the border of The Land of Fire and The Land of Rivers. Sleeping in a tree isn't all it's cracked up to be but it keeps me safe throughout the night, especially when I have the animals on my side.

"Time to start moving. I've gatta reach the Land of Wind before night fall." I stretched my limbs out, wincing at the small fracture in my wrist, "blasted thing, where did this come from?" I sighed and held my other hand over the fracture and focused. A green glow of chakra appeared out of my hand and I could feel the bone mending itself and smiled at my abilities. I was pretty good for being self taught, I knew a lot of Jutsu and they aren't mere immitations, I don't have the Sharingan or anything, kinda. I have one Kekke Genkai, and no one has heard of it because all of my ancestors never used it. My family didn't make it far since Orochimaru made it and stole us, keeping us in cells and experimenting on us for our Kekke Genkai. I'm still not sure if he let me go or if I actually got away from Kabuto those few months ago, I could definitely still feel the side effects of those experiments. Luckily, for me not for Sasuke, since Sasuke was late, Orochimaru decided that he didn't need me quite yet. He wanted to get the feeling of the Sharingan down before he touched my Kekkei Genkei.

I shook my head to get those ugly thoughts out of my head, thing is, I never can. I think about all of this day and night, when you travel alone, there's nothing to distract you from your thoughts. I'm a really depressing person now because of it. I sighed as I pulled my grey hair into a long braid along my back, and after fixing my clothes I grabbed my bag and put it on my shoulders.

"Sunagakure, here I come." I don't know if looking like a normal girl is a good idea or not, but it makes my travels more interesting, especially when I pull my innocent-lost-girl-act. I don't consider it stealing if they give it to me out of their own free will, a little persuasion is a ninja's greatest tool when it comes to survival. I heard some footsteps ahead of me and some chatter, it sounds like... three? No four people in a group... and one of them is obnoxiously loud... I quickly dashed into the trees, hoping to conceal myself before the group got to where I was standing.

"What was that?" The obnoxious voice asked rather loudly, this kid is a ninja? How has he survived in stealth operations? A kunai was thrown my way, I gasped, dodging it. It skimmed across my side on my left ribcage and I grunted, grasping the new wound tightly. More footsteps, guess they're checking to see if there's anyone here. "Who are you?" I looked up to come face to face with a blonde haired brat that was the owner of the obnoxious voice.

"What the hell is wrong with you?! You just go throwin' kunai's at people!?" I yelled, standing and glaring at him, he seemed to shrink back and rub the back of his head. Hm.. his features seem familiar... I looked at the other three in his group, one of them had grey eyes and pale skin, bandages on his right arm and leg. There was one girl with them, she had pink hair and looked like a complete and total weakling when it came to actual battle, Kunoichi's these days from the Hidden Leaf weren't all that great. Wait.. They're from the Hidden Leaf.

"Hello?" His obnoxious voice broke me out of my thoughts and I realized I was staring at the group,

"Sorry about him." Said the gray haired Jonin of the group, smacking the annoying one across the head. I giggled, covering my mouth, I'm giggling? Ew. I shook my head and looked at the group,

"You're from the village Hidden in the Leaves? What are you doing coming from Sunagakure?" I asked, not wanting to be the one being interrogated. The one with the long brown hair narrowed his eyes, observing me. I felt my skin crawling under his gaze as I shifted my weight from my side to a stance I created so I could be ready for anything. Apparently the one with the staring eyes decided that I was going to attack because he activated his Byakugan to see if I was gathering up chakra.

"Neji, calm down." The grey haired one ordered and Neji tsk-ed as he turned his head away. "I'm sorry for these two, this one is our hyperactive-knuckle headed-ninja and the other is considered a genius so he lets it get to his head." The man gave me a closed eye smile, wonder what happened to his other eye. But I couldn't help but smile back, the girl with the short pink hair stepped up,

"Here, let me help you, I've been training under a master Medical Ninja." Was she bragging? I took a step back from her, my guard up and the four of them could tell I didn't trust people easily, maybe they'll just leave now. "It's okay, we aren't going to hurt you." I glared at her, did she seriously just say that? After the dumb one threw a kunai at me? I could see her glare at the blond one and she went over and boxed him in the face and started yelling at him. The blond one started tearing up and sat there, taking it, the brown haired one turned away from them with a sigh and the sensei came over to me putting a hand to his mouth.

"Hello, Kasai, long time no see." I grinned at him since the others were distracted,

"Hello, Kakashi Sensei, long time indeed. I see you've got some troublesome students." I rolled my eyes as he sighed in agreement,

"They're more trouble than you think, but they've pulled through on countless missions." He explained then pointed at the blond one getting lectured, "That one is Naruto Uzamaki, the girl is Sakura Haruno, and the one over here skulking is Neji Hyuga." Hearing his name being said, Neji made his way over to us.

"I could tell he was a Hyuga, he's got the Byakugan." To which I made a handsign and closed my eyes as I suddenly reopened them and looked at him with my own Byakugan. He looked like he would've jumped out of his skin if he didn't have such good composure,

"You have the Byakugan? But you aren't... How?" He asked, he probably thought I was using a partial transformation jutsu, but I wasn't. I laughed as I released my eyes from the jutsu and looked at him.

"I'll just let you wander that, genius." Apparently he didn't like the fact that I mocked him, so he growled lightly and turned away from me, isn't that adorable. Sakura suddenly switched her attention to us when she heard Byakugan so many times and looked at me,

"Where are you from? You're obviously a Kunoichi but you don't have a headband." I flinched lightly at her observation but made no motion to show that it affected me. She was right, I hadn't worn a headband from home because people would attack the village to find me. Like the Akatski. Naruto noticed my hesitation as I thought about how to explain it,

"Are you a rogue?" Naruto asked, leaning forward to peer at my face once again, my eye twitched in irritation. Sakura once again punched him in the face and a big bulge appeared on his jaw,

"Idiot! Of course she isn't a rogue! Rogue's attack travelers all the time-"

"He's right."

"Huh?" Naruto and Sakura both responded simultaneously as Neji looked at me surprised,

"I don't belong to a village, I'm just a wanderer. I wasn't kicked out of my village, nor have I abandoned it. I just travel a lot." I shifted my gaze to look at Kakashi again, he knew the whole story. Anyone that heard of the attack on the Land of Lightening, Kumogakure, knew of my predicament. A lot of people may know about what happened, but they don't know that it was me since I move around from place to place a lot.

"Then why don't you wear a headband?" Naruto asked, not understanding it, I sighed. This kid is dense.

"How did you ever become a ninja? Seriously, you're dense." I stated, picking my bag up again and tossing it over my shoulder, a shooting pain went up my left side and I was suddenly reminded of how we met. I looked at Sakura, who seemed to be the most upset and worried out of the bunch, I knew Kakashi was and he wouldn't show it. "Sakura, was it?"

"Yeah." She nodded, moving forward, understanding what I needed, "I need you three to move back to the trail and wait."

"What? Why?" Naruto asked and I looked at Kakashi,

"Seriously..." I mumbled, Kakashi just shrugged and grabbed Naruto, hoisting him onto his shoulder as they walked back to the trail.

"We'll stay close, just in case." Neji told Sakura and she nodded, "Just yell if you need us."

"Overprotective much? Is he your boyfriend?" That made him red in the face as he walked away, probably fuming. I sat back onto the ground, removing my bag as Sakura opened her own to grab some gauze. I whined like a dog and looked at the torn material and blood.

"I've had this shirt for almost two years and an idiot attacks me and tears it. I must be losing my touch." I sighed as she looked at me, waiting for me to remove my own clothing and I slid my arms out of the red and black over jacket I had on over my mesh-fishnet-type-shirt and lifted my arms up to take my shirt off and winced.

"Looks like we might have to cut the material all around to get to the wound, is that okay?" Sakura asked, I hung my head as I heard Naruto-

"What!? She's from Konoha?! But she doesn't wear her headband! How can she-

"Naruto, Sasuke left the village and he doesn't wear his headband, but others that have abandoned their villages do with a cut across their insignia." Kakashi explained, and apparently Sasuke was taboo to him and Sakura because Sakura got automatically depressed and tried to hide it with a smile. I've heard all about Sasuke and the Uchiha's, how Itachi killed his entire clan. The thing is, no one but a very select few know the truth behind it, and I'm one of the few.

"I'm sorry." Sakura looked up at me, her emerald eyes full of pain and confusion,

"For what? Naruto? No he's always like this and-"

"I meant about Sasuke." Her eyes seemed to soften at my words and she smiled,

"What do you know about it? Word travels fast apparently... It happened almost a year ago." She began to whisper about it, telling me everything, I guess she needed to get her emotions off her chest. Doesn't she have any friends to talk to about this? She was wrapping my stomach up with gauze and such while she spoke, then she healed the deeper part of it.

"That's fine. I don't need it healed all the way, Sakura." I couldn't meet her gaze, I had seen Sasuke a few months back, I was the only person he was himself around now and I took that away from him when I escaped. He didn't stop me, but he asked me to come and visit once a month so he could still have himself, he was afraid of losing that. I told him that it was part of what made him stronger, being yourself, it's how this Naruto kid did it. He talked a lot about Naruto and Itachi, how he wanted to fight both of them, for very different reasons. I wasn't going to tell her any of this.

"Okay. But the least we can do is have you come back with us to the village so we can replace that shirt and keep an eye on that wound." This girl is persistent. I nodded, standing and putting my jacket back on. I lifted my bag onto my good side and followed Sakura back to the trail,

"I told her that I wanted to keep an eye on her wound, Kakashi Sensei, is it okay that she comes back to the village with us?" Sakura asked, so she told me I could come but asked her Sensei afterwards... What a child.

"I'm sure Lady Hokage would love to see her face again, so I'm gonna say it's fine." Kakashi responded with a shrug and began walking, the others just stared at me with confusion. Kakashi... I swear, when we get to the village, I'm gonna burn all your books. I followed after him and stayed in step, this is going to be a long walk.