Chapter 1

I ran as fast as I could, the fallen leaves crunching beneath my bare feet. I ran towards the direction of the leaf village, Kohona. At least the direction I hoped it was in. I couldn't bear to be wrong and have Orochimaru catch me again. I was next to be used for his body. Luckily I overheard some young boy volunteered to be his next body. My guess why Orochimaru wanted me still was because of my special jutsu. I could take the pain and wounds from someone and transfer them to myself and vise versa. Orochimaru made me take all of the pain away from the boy who he was training. Last night I was forced to take the wounds from the boy, so I was sore and had bruised ribs.

I had escaped all through luck. There were so many turns and hallways in the hideout. Kabuto tied my hands loose to the pole and I was able to wiggle out of them. And I was able to walk away from their hide out during the day. Pure luck. I just hope I'm lucky enough to make it to the village hidden in the leaves before they find out I'm gone. Maybe that was asking too much.

I was taken from my family. I do not know much about my family but I know I was from the land of wind. My chakra nature is wind, no other chakras. I believe that's how chakra natures work but I have no idea, I wasn't properly trained for being a ninja. My mother taught me all I know about chakra at a young age. She was a medical ninja that worked in the hospital and my father used was an ANBU. I am a terrible fighter, but I'm good at healing and chakra control. Kabuto did a couple of chakra tests with me seeing if I was good enough for Orochimaru. They never worked with me as far as training me went because they didn't want more of a struggle from me-at least that was my guess. I always gave them hell every time they wanted me to heal someone.

Something caught my foot making me cascade down to the ground. My heart stopped as I heard a crack and shooting pain go through my chest. I muffled my scream as best as I could through gritted teeth. I rolled onto my back with a struggle to look behind me. I thought I fell because someone grabbed me but it was just a root. I quickly got up, wincing from my ribs. I made too much noise in the leaves.

I had nothing to protect me. I should have gotten some kunai, but I guess I was lucky enough to have gotten this far. It looked like the trees were getting less dense up ahead. I moved as quickly as I could towards the clearing. It was a path. I saw a sign and walked over to it, to the right was Kohona. Exactly where I wanted to go.

I ran as fast as I could down the dirt path. All of the running made me sorer and breathing heavy hurt my ribs. The sun was starting to set turning the clouds beautiful colors of pinks and purples. I stopped to take in the lovely sight. After the sun went down I attempted to heal myself as best as I could. Failing miserably since I was so tired. I knew it would be a bad idea to light a fire so my only option was to keep going on the path. I also had a feeling I didn't remember how to start a fire. Its been 13 years since I was captured, I was 10 then. I couldn't stand to move but I knew I had to. I would probably get there soon. Maybe in the morning.

The sun was starting to rise as the birds started to sing their songs. I was so hungry, tired and sore. I thought about food for the next hour and how much I would love to cook with my mom-like I did when I was younger. I would love to make her super secret soup. It was creamy and had all sorts of vegetables in it with some bacon. I missed my parents, but I had a feeling they might be dead already, due to Orochimaru or maybe missions. I am 23 so that means they would probably be around their mid 50s.

I started to see a wall and then finally the gates of Kohona when I hear "There she is!" I turned to see 3 sound ninjas running towards me. I quickly turned back towards the gates and ran as fast as I could. I tried to force out a scream for help but it only hurt my ribs more so I put everything I could into running. I was getting close to the gates that I could see the guards sitting on top of the wall. I forced out a yell of "HELP!" The scream brought tears to my eyes, blurring my vision. One figure on the wall grew taller, probably standing up. A couple of figures appeared in front of the gate blocking my way, then they started running towards me. I wasn't sure if they were people of the leaf or if they were more ninjas to take me back. I ran towards them anyway. The footsteps behind me were getting much closer and then I heard something flying in the air. Two stabbing pains went through my back, one in my arm, and one in the back of my leg. They were throwing stars now embedded into me. My leg gave out and I fell onto the ground. I heard more things cutting though the air over top of me. Then someone was trying to get me up, shooting pains into my ribs and I pushed them off of me without looking at them. I swore it was the sound ninja. "Miss I'm trying to help you, we need to get you inside of the gates." I looked up and saw the headband. Ninja of the hidden leaf village. I let the young woman help me up and practically carry me inside the gates while I heard the others fighting behind me. Once inside I started to lose conscious. I tried to fight it, everything started to get hazy. The woman that helped me inside asked my name and before passing out I was able to say "Cheegarie Heart."