An Unexpected Daughter

Chapter One: Introductions

The young fourteen year old girl started the tiller and gripped to the handles tightly as she began driving the machine down the rows of tomatoes. She controlled it quite nicely though. She began humming as she continued her work. Shinobi jumped into the trees of her forest, but she took no notice of it. "What is it she's doing?" the blonde of the group asked.

"Who knows," the pink haired one said.

"Haven't you ever heard of tilling?" the young man with long brown hair retorted. "She's tilling. Do you want to go talk to her or should I?"

"You can, Neji," the blonde agreed, the Neji character rolling his eyes.

"Very well." Neji's other teammates followed after him. The blonde's name was Naruto Uzumaki. The pink haired one was Sakura, and the few unmentioned ones were Rock Lee and Tenten. It was an odd grouping for the teammates, but they did not argue their Hokage's orders.

The girl looked up the moment she heard the group's footsteps and her eyes narrowed at the sight of them. She instantly stopped what she was doing and leaned against the tiller, eying them closely. "What do you need?" No warm greeting; just a chilling question.

"Are you the leader of this household?" Neji asked. The girl hesitated, glaring at him.

"No, I am not. I'll get her right away."

"So what is it that you're doing?" Naruto asked before she could walk away.

"Try it out for yourself," she responded coldly. Naruto hit the bar and the thing took off, dragging him along. She quickly pulled him away and turned the machine off. "Don't touch," she hissed, hitting him on the head.

"Nightflower, what are you doing?" Instantly the girl, apparently called Nightflower, looked up and quickly bowed her head.

"I'm sorry, mother," she said softly, raising to look at the woman who raised her. The mother smiled gently.

"I am very sorry for the rudeness of my daughter," the mother said apologetically, walking down the stone stairs. "Would you like to come in?"

"Did you hire them?" Nightflower asked as she ran over to her mother.

"Yes. Why don't you get cleaned up while I talk to our guests."

"They're ninja! We can't-"

"I will decide what we can and can't do, Nightflower. Now, go get ready."

"Yes," she muttered, walking into the house. Naruto and Sakura shared a glance, but otherwise were silent as they followed the mother into the house.

"Sit please. What would you like to drink?" the mother said with a warm smile.

"We're fine at the moment," Neji said for everyone, Naruto glaring at his teammate. "We would just like to know why we were called here. And who exactly is Nightflower?" Right at this moment, Neji would have loved an answer to why this girl apparently hated them so.

"I apologize for my daughter's rudeness." The mother cleared her throat. "I am Aarayan by the way." Aarayan smiled before continuing. "I need some help around my home. We're getting more things piled up on my household by the day and my older daughter is sick momentarily so she cannot do anything."

"That's all?" Naruto and Lee asked at the same time.

"Yes."

"Wow, and you wanted five of us?" Tenten asked, amazed.

"Yes." Aarayan waited patiently for them to get over it. "Shall I tell you about Nightflower?"

"That would be nice," Neji replied.

Aarayan nodded, concentrating momentarily to think through what she would say. Just as she was, Nightflower walked back in, fully dressed and cleaned up. Naruto and the others finally got a good look at her. She had long silver hair, with deep onyx eyes. She wore short blue jeans shorts with a black top that hugged to her upper part, but didn't cover her belly. She had her arms crossed over her chest, still eying her "guests" with suspicious eyes and she had quite a thin body, one that would make Sakura and Ino jealous (if Ino was here). "Hi!" Naruto said enthusiastically, but the girl just shot him a glare.

"Mother, you know not to tell anyone my past," she said to her mother.

Aarayan sighed. "Please, child, let's discuss this with these Ninja. They are quite nice." Nightflower simply snorted.

"I don't trust Ninja! I never will!" With that, she got to the cabinets and began peeling potatoes. She did so, shooting glares at the ninjas.

"Please excuse her," Aarayan sighed, "she normally is quite nice, but when it comes to Ninja, she can't trust them."

"And why's that?" Sakura asked.

"Simple; when she was young, she was taken by ninjas from her own family." The dead silence followed Aarayan's sentence, allowing her to be able to speak some more. "It was about ten years ago when I found her trapped with a group of four men. She was only four then and quite scared. She kept asking about her father, but no one would answer. I overheard them reacting to not wanting to take care of the child until she grew up long enough to..." Aarayan paused and wrote it on a piece of paper, glancing at Nightflower. Her fingers were turning pale from gripping the peeler so hard.

"They wanted to rape her?" Lee asked softly, glancing at the girl who pretended to not have heard them.

"Yes and they were debating to do it then or later. I took her in at the time. I... I should have put up a sign for her, but I decided then I wanted to keep her. So I took her into my house and raised her. She's never trusted ninja since then."

"So then the people her kidnapped her were ninja, weren't they?" Neji said.

"Yes."

"I see..." Naruto looked over at the silver haired girl and got up and walked over to her. She noted instantly and almost jumped back, had it not been for trying to keep her pride.

"Here, let me help," he said, going to take a potato, but she hit his hand away. He looked up and noted the fear in her eyes.

"Get away," she hissed, but her eyes showed how terrified she was.

"I'm going to show you that not all ninjas are bad."

"Naruto," Tenten and Sakura warned, "you're going to listen to these people." He ignored them and began peeling potatoes. She glared at him, but began cutting them up all the same, keeping a close eye on him the whole time.

"Mother, will you make the soup portion for this?" Nightflower asked her.

"Tell me when the potatoes are done," Aarayan agreed, before they heard some coughing. "Ah, Yue's awake." Yue being the older daughter. Yue walked out a moment later, scanning over everyone.

"You're the ninja mother hired?" Yue asked with a yawn, settling down beside Tenten. "Who is everyone?" she continued, absently picking up her spoon.

"I'm Tenten," Tenten introduced, then the others followed suit.

"It's a pleasure to meet you. You must have met Nightflower. Well, I'm Yue."

"Great to meet you," Sakura and Lee said with a smile.

"Mother, potatoes are done," Nightflower interrupted, taking the boiling potatoes off.

"Well, we can begin eating in a moment."

~Author's Note~

Well, I hope you enjoyed my first Naruto story! Please tell me what you think!

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