The Mysterious Konoha Ninjas.

Introduction:

During training, Kiba finds a small group of people in the forest of Konaha. He noticed three things while watching from a distance. One, there were three of them, two girls and one boy. Two they wore Konaha leaf Hitai- ate. Three, one was badly injured. He asked himself just one Question. 'Who are they?'

Chapter one: Special Discovery.

It's a beautiful happy day in Konoha, and everyone was outside to enjoy it. Sasuke, Sakura, and Naruto were training, Rock Lee, was trying to get Neji to spar while Tenten was practicing with her weapon scrolls, Shikamaru, Ino, and Chouji were busy helping each other perfect there jutsu's, Shino was looking for bugs, Hinata was training on the lake near Shino, and Kiba was leaping from tree limb to tree limb, with Akamaru close on his heels. Akamaru yapped happily at Kiba. Together Kiba and Akamaru passed over Sasuke, Sakura, and Naruto's training ground. After jumping to a few more tree limbs, both Kiba and Akamaru smelt blood. Kiba came to a stop on a thick tree limb. "Akamaru, you smell it too?" "Yap, yap." Akamaru changed direction and jumped away heading towards the smell of blood. Kiba followed. When Akamaru stopped, Kiba landed beside him and looked down to see a strange sight. First off, there were three people on the ground. Two were crouched over the third, who was leaning on a tree, second, two of the three, were female and the third was a boy, third he noticed the hitai-ate they wore. It was the symbol of the leaf. They were from Konoha. "Akamaru, do you recognize the scents?" Kiba waited as Akamaru smelled the air. "Yap yap." Kiba shook his head. "Neither do I." Kiba decided he was going to find out who they were, "Akamaru, let's go." they jumped out of the tree and landed on the ground far enough away as to not provoke the trio. As soon as Kiba's feet touched the ground, the one leaning against the tree, shot her head up and looked right at him. One look at her and Kiba noticed the scent he'd picked up. This girl was badly injured. Her companions finally noticed the direction she was looking in and also looked towards him. The boy jumped to his feet and stood in front of his injured companion, with kunai in hand, ready to defend if necessary. Kiba slowly raised his hands in the air. "Please. There's no need for that. I'm not an enemy. I came to help." the boy was still tense but the injured girls voice got his attention. "Jake... put it away. No more fighting." the other girl got a little angry with her injured friend. "Renee, are you crazy, he's a stranger, what makes you think we can trust him?" the one named Renee began to laugh, till pain shot through her side and she hissed. "I just know. Take a closer look at his Hitai- ate."

Both the boy, named Jake and the girl named Saz, turned their attention to his forehead. Saz was shocked. "Konoha?.. But..." Jake finally lowered his Kunai and stepped back to Renee's side. Renee motioned Kiba forward. Akamaru was already at Renee's feet, by the time Kiba moved. He'd never seen a more remarkable person. Renee had long dirty blonde hair, blue streaks ran through the tresses, her eyes were a shade of blue, that if you starred into, you'd be lost. She was about maybe 110 pounds and by his calculations, she'd come up to his chin standing. She and Saz were the same age as he was, 20. The girl named Saz, had short brown hair with red streaks through the tresses, greenish hazel brown eyes, about 115-120 pounds and just an inch or two taller then Renee. What caught his attention was they both had a beauty mark in the same place. It was above their mouths on the right side about a centimetre from the top lip. The boy, Jake, was much shorter then the girls. He had short black hair, in the front, locks of hair framed his face, his eyes were silver. Something about Jake intrigued Kiba, but he didn't know why. Once he was close enough, he noticed a symbol for Tiger beside his right eye.

As Kiba approached, Jake remained tense. Kiba noticed Renee wince in pain once again, while he dropped down to his knee's asking "what happened?" after another wince and a small cry of pain, Renee answered. " we were on a mission, and we'd gotten lost, somewhere along the way, we got careless and were ambushed. We managed to fight them off, but we still had no idea where we were." that's when Jake spoke up. " Renee took most of the hits, she hadn't fully recovered from the last mission." Kiba looked from Jake, over to Saz then back to Renee. " so how'd you get here..." "I can answer that." out of the trees walked a familiar figure to Kiba "Sumaru?" Sumaru smiled. "Kiba, long time." Kiba nodded. "I found them in the woods out near hidden star village, at that point I knew the attackers weren't finished, so.. I brought them here, based on the hitai-ate's on their foreheads. I figured they came from here." Kiba looked back at Renee. "Can I check your wounds?" Renee nodded. As Kiba checked her wounds, it gave her a perfect opportunity to study the man in front of her. He had short brown hair, almost completely black eyes, he had two streaks of red down his cheeks on both sides of his face. His hitai-ate was the same as hers, but she'd never seen him before. Kiba then took that moment to look up and saw Renee starring at him intently. "Oh. The names Inuzuka Kiba, and this is Akamaru." Renee took her eyes off Kiba, to study Akamaru. He was a pretty cute dog. Very good with character. The next words Kiba spoke brought her attention back to him. " umm.. We need to get you toa hospital and fast." Renee's vision was beginning to blur. Jake took a fighting stance, Kiba once again raised his hands. "If you don't believe me, ask Sumaru. If we don't get her to a hospital, she'll die." Kiba watched Jake look quickly to Sumaru and nodded when Sumaru confirmed it. "But how can we get there fast enough, we aren't strong enough to carry her. We're still tired and beaten from our fight." Kiba looked from the sad and scared look on Jake's face to a frantic Saz. "I can carry her, we'll have to go right now."

Kiba bent and picked Renee up piggy back style, with her arms draped over his shoulders and him holding her legs. Renee hissed with pain, when the first fast movement. "Sorry, Akamaru, lead the way home." "Yap, yap." one by one, everyone jumped into the trees, and from limb to limb. While jumping, Kiba noticed Renee's head fall to his shoulder, and felt her body slump on his back. "Faster Akamaru. Sumaru go up ahead and tell Tsunade we'll need her help, then find Sakura, we'll need her too." Sumaru nodded and disappeared further in the distance. "Hold on Renee. We're almost there." Kiba couldn't understand why he felt so worried about someone he didn't know, but he didn't mind. A few minutes later Kiba noticed the gates to the village and lead the drop from the trees to the road, he passed through the gates and ran for the hospital. Inside the hospital, Tsunade and Sakura, along with Shizune were waiting in the hall, when Kiba and two others came through the door. Kiba carefully laid Renee down on the bed and quickly ushered Jake and Saz out, so Tsunade, Sakura, and Shizune could work. Kiba walked to the benches outside the room, and began the long waiting period. Akamaru joined Kiba on the bench. Kiba noticed that Saz had sat down, but Jake had begun to pace the floor. Saz watched Jake with concern and sadness and tried to calm him down. "Jake, pacing the floor isn't going to make it go faster, although I wish it did." Jake didn't want to respond. That's when Kiba realized the only time Jake spoke was when they were back in the forest and he had explained how Renee got her wounds. Kiba looked over to Saz. "Who were you fighting anyway?" Saz looked to the door before answering "we were on a recognisance mission. We were sent to a place that was said to be one of Orochimaru's many lairs." Kiba leaned forward. "Orochimaru?" Saz nodded and continued, "we'd just finished gathering our information, and had left to return home. But we were careless and got caught. We've been kept in that lair while the people there waited for Orochimaru's impending return, just as Orochimaru arrived, we'd managed to escape. We ran as fast as we could, but the carelessness was still there. Renee had had a very bad things happen to her by Orochimaru before, and she was afraid, we got worried about her and that's when we'd noticed we were lost. After travelling a bit more, that's when we were ambushed. Orochimaru was one of the ones in the ambush party. Renee was distracted enough by memories, then to have to come face to face with the one responsible, made things worse. She couldn't concentrate and that's how she got wounded." Jake had finally sat on the bench during the story. Jake looked to the floor and asked Kiba "will.. Renee survive?" Kiba looked over at Jake. "Yes she will. And you can take care of her." Jake nodded. Saz spoke softly to Jake. "Why don't you lie down here and try to get some sleep, I promise I'll wake you when they're done." Jake nodded then curled up beside Saz and fell asleep.

Ten minutes later, Kiba looked up at the sound of many footsteps, to find many of his friends starring back. Shikamaru sat beside Kiba, Naruto stood beside Shika, with his arm around Hinata's waist, Ino stood beside Chouji, Neji stood with Tenten holding hands. Shino stood on the other side of Kiba, Lee stood beside Sasuke, who was watching the ICU room door with curiosity written just barely on his face. Shikamaru was the first to ask "so, what happened?" Kiba looked at his friends before answering "I was doing what I do every day, when Akamaru and I smelled blood. So we followed the scent, and that's when I found these two and their companion in that room, she was the only one badly injured. Sumaru brought them here when he found them." Sasuke had lost interest in the door temporarily, and listened to Kiba's story. Naruto, being Naruto asked "who attacked them?" Kiba opened his mouth to speak but a voice across the hall spoke. " we were attacked by Orochimaru." All heads turned to Saz and a few gasps ricocheted off of the hallway walls, Sasuke and Naruto showed more hatred at the name. Sasuke clenched his fists and whispered the hated name. "Orochimaru." Naruto stepped forward. "Why did Orochimaru attack you?" Saz examined Naruto's angry face. "Because we're the first to escape alive from one of his lairs after being captured during our trek back here to complete our recon mission. After we'd escaped, we got ambushed. Orochimaru was one of them." Naruto felt the not- so -new anger build inside. "So why is only one of you badly injured?" Saz looked down at Jake's peacefully sleeping face. " because Renee had been with Orochimaru before our recon mission, and was beaten and tortured till she almost died. Then he'd stop so she could heal, then start all over again. After she got away from that, she's had terrible nightmares about it So when we were given the recon mission, she wasn't comfortable with it, but she stuck with it." she paused and took a beep breath.

"So when we got ambushed, those memories over took her and she lost her focus. She never wanted to see him ever again, and look what happened." tears fell from her eyes softly falling down her face. Kiba was about to get up and go comfort her, but she put her hand up and shook her head. After about a half an hour, an exhausted looking Sakura exited the room where Renee was getting fixed up. Sakura smiled at everyone. "Hey guys." she then turned to Saz and the still sleeping Jake. "She'll be fine, we'll move her to a room where you can visit her." Saz nodded, relief written on her face. Kiba lowered his head and also sighed in relief. Sasuke moved towards Sakura and was just in time to catch her before she collapsed from exhaustion. "Looks like it's time for someone to go to bed." Sasuke teased. Sakura smiled and leaned into him. " yup, so lead the way." she barely had time to raise her hand and point, so Sasuke picked her up piggyback style and took her home. As soon as they disappeared, the doors to the operating opened. "...I understand your concern Tsunade- sama, but I'd rather not stay in the hospital any longer, you should know I hate hospital's." everyone looked at Renee shocked except Saz, who was smiling. Tsunade had a very angry but concerned look on her face. "Yes Renee, but I wish you'd listen to me at least this once. At least let me have someone come check on you to see how your doing?" before Renee could say no, Tsunade raised her hand "and I won't take no for an answer." Renee frowned, but a smile broke out on her face. "Fine, Tsunade sensei." everyone looked at Tsunade and they all thought the same thing. 'Tsunade sensei?' Kiba watched Renee walk over to Jake and Saz while his friends ran off after Tsunade, bugging her about this sensei business. "Good to see you still recover fast Renee." Saz joked. "Yea well I don't want to stay here any longer. I want to go home." Saz chuckled "me too, didn't doubt you for a minute." "Sure you didn't"

"hey Baka, I didn't I swear. I swear on my life." Renee laughed carefully as not to aggravate her wounds. Renee knelt down on the floor beside the bench and looked at Jake "don't worry Saz I was joking." "Oh ...um.. Yea I knew that." Renee raised her hand and lovingly moved the strands of hair away from Jake's face. "Jake. Come on, time to wake up, we're going home." Jake slowly opened his eyes and starred at Renee. "So you really are okay?" Renee nodded and watched the happiness fill his eyes. Jake pulled Renee into a hug. "I was afraid I was going to loose you like we lost our brother Chris." Kiba looked from Renee to Jake 'our brother? Does that mean Renee is Jake's older sister?' Kiba slowly stood, that was when Renee noticed he was still there. She untangled herself from Jake. "Sorry I guess I have some explaining to do." Kiba just nodded once. Renee turned to Saz. "Take Jake home. I'll be right behind you." Jake was about to protest when Renee stopped him. "I'll be fine. Plus I got Kiba with me. I'll be home before you're asleep." Jake gave Renee a final hug before following Saz reluctantly down the hall. Renee turned to Kiba. "Let's walk." Kiba kept in step with Renee, but had to stop and pick up Akamaru. Once outside, Kiba looked over at Renee in the moonlight. "So Jake's your younger brother?" Renee nodded "yea. He's all I got left. Orochimaru killed our older brother, Chris was trying to protect me, when Orochimaru came, it was just after I finished training under Tsunade- sama. I guess he heard of my success and talents and came for me. Chris had no chance. I couldn't do a thing. One look from Orochimaru and I couldn't move. He forced me to watch my brother die." Kiba looked down at the road. "So where was Jake the whole time?" Renee stopped on the grass hill and laid down to watch the stars. Kiba sat beside her. "At the time, I found out Jake had been watching through a vent in the upstairs floor. Orochimaru never knew he was there. Thank god, or I'd have lost him too."

Kiba frowned. "So how'd you escape from Orochimaru that time?" Renee sighed. "Well, after watching my brother die, my mind suppressed those memories, he realized that and he put a lot of trust in me, cause I would always come back, not having anywhere to go. So one day he sent me on a mission here, and the memories flooded back, so I stayed." Kiba nodded. "So, who took care of Jake?" Renee turned her head and watched Kiba pet the sleeping Akamaru. "Saz and her family took him in. It was either that or child's services. So Saz looked after him till I came back." Kiba let out a breath and laid down beside Renee to study the stars. "...so what did Orochimaru do to you when he had you? Before allowing you to do missions?" Renee continued to examine Kiba's features as she told him. "At first he'd kept me locked up in a room. I was only allowed to leave it for training, and some times he'd allow me to go places with him. Which wasn't very often. I was fed on a regular basis. Which was a good thing, but it's what comes after that really surprised me." Kiba turned his head to watch her as she continued. "He'd have one of his subordinates, Kabuto, if I remember correctly, take me to a different room, where he'd hook me up to some machine and pain would course through my body. It went on for months on end, till he finally believed what I said was the truth, and allow me to train and do missions for him, then the mission came when I was to come here, was given to me." Renee paused. Kiba encouraged her to continue. "What was your mission?" Renee turned her blue eyes back to Kiba's small black ones. "My mission was to assassinate the holder of the nine tails, and keep watch over Orochimaru's precious container, Uchiha Sasuke. But once inside these walls, the memories were to great and I ended up on Saz's doorstep." Kiba turned his eyes back to the stars and thought of what he's just heard. He felt anger towards the man named Orochimaru. He was constantly trying to hurt or capture one of his friends. 'As of this day, Orochimaru will never harm a friend of mine ever again. I swear on mine, and Akamaru's lives.'

Kiba looked back at Renee. " do you suppose Orochimaru will come back for you? Or Sasuke?" Kiba saw fear enter her eyes. "I..I don't know, but I wouldn't put it past him." Kiba rolled to his side and fully faced her. "If he does, I'll make sure he never gets near you or anyone ever again." Renee smiled. "That's good." she stood and held her hand out for Kiba, who grabbed it, and helped him up off of the ground. "How 'bout you take me home now, before Jake goes insane?" Kiba laughed. "Wouldn't want that, cause he'd probably forbid me from seeing you again." Renee smiled. "No he wouldn't. That would be Saz." Kiba's smile diminished slightly. "You serious?" At Renee's nod, he grabbed her hand and Akamaru, and turned back to the village. "Well let's not let any thing like that happen." Renee silently agreed and directed Kiba to her home. At the front door, Kiba waited till she had the door open before turning to leave. "Kiba?" he stopped and turned to find her right in front of him. "Thank-you." she leaned up and kissed him on the lips. She then went inside. Dumbfounded, Kiba managed to make it inside his own home and to bed with out any injuries or mishaps.