I do not own Naruto. This is my first story to ever publish, so please be gentle.

"Close your eyes. Shut your ears. Don't look outside. You will speak only when spoken to. This is how you will live for the rest of your life."

They were the mantra of her life, what she was told everyday by everyone. She lived and breathed those words, that phrase. They were carved on her skin and they swam in her blood. The monsters made sure of it. Of course she didn't know who they were, except that they were the monsters who controled every aspect of her life. The monsters, the cause of her nightmares. Strangely she enjoyed them, the nightmares, in a wierd twisted way. They brought her knowledge there was something else in the world, something other than pure bleak. But today she would be able to go outside again. Although she didn't know what for, the monsters had simply told her that she would be able to, she was bliss as she could be.

The sun hurt Sylivia's eyes and she put on her sunglasses. She wished that the monsters would've let her wear something that wasn't so heavy. She picked at the winter jacket she was wearing and tried to undo the buttons, but one of the monsters stopped her. She put her hands on her sides instantly for she knew what the punishment was for disobeying them. Trying to distract herself from them she looked around.

They had taken her to a park. It was weird and she had no idea if a normal person would be excited, nervous, or scared. But it didn't matter because she could tell she wasn't normal by simply looking at them. While she was stiff and sweaty in her jacket the rest of the people there were running and laughing. She wished that she was able to take off her jacket. She wished that she knew why she was there. Of course she wished so many things. While having the pity-party of the lifetime they lead her to a building. It was 1 story, was made out of grey bricks and it reminded her of where she had stayed her entire life.

They threw her inside where she landed ungraccefully on the floor. Before she could even blink they slammed the door in her face.

"So i-it's just another p-prison."

Her voice was hoarse from disuse and it hurt her throat to even whisper.

"Now, now that's no way to talk about you're new home."

She jumped in shock. While the monsters had talked to her it had always been without any emotion and it had always been orders. This new vioce was...something else entirely. She heard a click and suddenly the room was bursting with light. She put her hands over her eyes and waited a few minutes to adjust. When she looked up she found herself staring into a pair of bright green eyes. As she scooted back she realized that it was a male. He had shaggy blond hair and was wearing blues trousers and a jacket, though his jacket didn't look nearly as hot as hers. She fell back in embaressment.

"So little girl, how old are you?"

"U-um..."

How old was she? She had never thought about it. The months had melted to gether and she had stopped trying to figure it out by the time she had first started having the nightmares.

She stared at the ground and stayed silent.

"Don't tell me you don't know how old you are?"

She glared at the him. It wasn't her fault and it felt as though she was being insulted.

"Wait one minute."

He got up and picked up a thin piece of metal with wierd symbols on it. He pressed the symbols and held it againest his ear.

After hearing him mumble for a couple of minutes she started to relax.

Affter a while her eyes started to feel heavy and though she tryed not to she soon drifted off to sleep.

Naruto Uzumaki hung up. Frustrated he glared at the girl. She was pale as if she had never been outside and her hair was unbelievably long as if it had never been cut. Despite it being mid-summer, she was wearing a thick winter jacket and black pants. But despite her apperance, she had a quiet confidence about her that made it feel wrong for him to feel anything even remotly close to pity.

He had just got off the phone with her previous "caretakers". The girl hadn't even known how old she was and he doubted she had even been taken outside before today. Of course his father had been no help to him. Only telling him that he was to care for her now, she had an advanced education and though she was only 15 she was grade12.

He walked into the kitchen to get some food only to find all he had was rotten tomatoes.

He shook her to wake her up. She wakened immedietly. He stared at her.

"No way that you'll be able to go shopping in those clothes."

Embarressed she fiddled with her jacket.

" N-not my f-fault, It's what the-ey forced-d me to we- What are y-you doing.''

He turned around and threw some of his sister's clothes at her.

"Change."

Caught off gaurd it took him until she had completly taken off her jacket to realize that she was changing in front of yelled. She paused in the middle of taking off her blouse and raised one of her eyebrows.

"W-what?"

"You don't change in front of guys."

Oblivious, she just stared at him.

"Wh-hy n-not?"

"Because..." He struggled to come up with a reason "You just don't."

"O-oh." She didn't move and just continued to stare at him.

Now it was his turn," What?"

" I c-can't continue cha-anging until-l you l-leave." She sounded unsure, yet completely calm at the same time.

He headed back into the kitchen and waited. And waited...And waited...And waited. He looked at the clock 30 minutes. It can't take a girl that long just to change. Annoyed he burst the door open.

"Hello, Are you ok?'' Then he realized he was talking to air.

"Sasuke, What did you say to her?"

Sasuke Uchiha ran his hand through his hair. He had stayed inside the shop the entire day and hadn't even looked at a single girl. He was so sick of the girls that had been brainwashed by Lindsey.

"I didn't do anything." He snorted.

"Well it's raining and there's a girl outside asleep. Go get her."

He glared at his father. "Fine."

She was probably just acting like it. God knows it wasn't the first time, but they had never done in rain. Whatever. Still brooding as he opened the door he almost stepped on the girl and for the first time in his life his heart speed up for no reason. Her hair had fallen so that it looked like it she had black wings. Her face heart-shaped, her nose was small, and her lips were the perfect shade of pink without any make-up. He lifted her up bridal-style and her eyes fluttered open but she stayed asleep. His father whistled when he saw him.

"Well, well, well, Didn't you catch a good one?"

He glared at the man and then at the girl. What he was feelng earlier was suddenly erased by hatred. How dare she make him feel like this what gave her the right. Stupid girl. He dropped her in a chair. In an even worse mood than usual he glared at his dad and stomped upstairs.

Running to his room didn't help so he got on his computer and just started messing around.

"W-what's th-hat?"

He jumped. Irritated again he swiveled the chair around and stared at her. With the curiousity of a child her white eyes were absorbed by the screen. His mood softened almost instantly.

"You've got to be kidding me." He scoffed.

Though it left as quickly as it had come he saw a flash of sadness cross her face.

"O-oh."

Hurriedly he sputtered out,

"It's a computer. You can talk to people, play games, and write stories on it."

Her face glowed wth excitment and unlike her previous emotion she made no attempts to hide it. "Um, i-if you d-don't min-nd can I g-get on i-it?"

"Sure." He stammered even though his head said "No! She has no right! NO!"

She looked around and the excitment started to drain from her face.

"I h-have no-o place to s-sit."

He jerked up only to get his feet caught in the chair legs and fall on his face.

'You idiot.' He hounded himself. Embarressed he got up quickly and thankfully without injury. Only to find her just bending down on the computor.

"You IDIOT!" He screamed.

She looked at him calmly.

"W-what?"

She was completely different from before and it shocked the heck out of him. Nobody, nobody talked to him like that.

"You said you needed a chair so I got up and almost injured my beautiful face and then you just get on anyways? What is wrong with you? Are you insane!"

She glared at him.

"Y-you said I-i c-could g-g-get on."

It took him a minute to come up with an answer during which she turned back to the screen.

"GET OFF MY COMPUTOR!" He yelled so loud that it shook the chair, yet she didn't even flinch. Completely obedient she stood up and left, but not before giving him a good slap on the face.

"T-there n-now y-you don't h-have to w-w-worry ab-bout your-r 'p-pretty' fa-ace." She said as if she was simply discussing the weather with him.

Though he obviously hadn't realized Sylvia had started to feel frustrated. He had screamed and... called her an idiot. How dare he? She needed to relieve this stress. The monsters had scared her but they had never insulted her! She ran to where the old man had told her the tiolet was and slammed the door shut only to have her hair get caught in the door. Agg! Stupid! Suddenly she saw her answer that would relieve stress and free her (both literally and metaphorically). It took her 5 minutes and after that she was free.

The old man's mouth looked like a fish's. "Y-your-" Intterupting him she bowed a full 40 degrees and then left.

It had gotten dark of course that could've just been the rain clouds. Thankfully though it had stopped raining. After walking in no general direction for about 2 hours she decided she was utterly and completely lost. L-O-S-T. She sat on a bench and pulled her knees up to her head and for the first time that day she started crying.

"W-what a-am I supposed-d to do now?" She whispered out. "What a-am I supposed to d-do?"

"How about you come home?"

She didn't look up. The wieght of the bench shifted when he sat down and he wrapped his arms around her. It was him. The blond man. When she still refused to acknoledge his presence he lifted her up on his back.

"W-wha!" She screamed in his ear.

Even though his ears had started ringing, he was still able to walk without dropping her. "I am you're new caretaker and you are to live with me."

"O-oh."

They walked in an awkward silence for about thirty minutes. Though it didn't bother her( She was used to being alone.) but it was obviously driving him crazy.

"My name Naruto. What's your's?"

"S-sylvia."

"Hmm."

Irritated she scoffed, "W-what?"

He solemnly said, "It doesn't suit you in any way."

We had finally reached the building. Aparentally he lived in an apartment, which was different from an actual house. Once inside he dropped her on the couch. She started to get ready to run when she heard

"Don't even think about it!"

Huffy, she sat down.

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