I'm doing a rewrite of this story since I feel dissatisfied with all the grammar mistakes and lack of progress I've been making. I'll still keep the plotline, I just need to do a lot of revising.

I don't own anything.

It was a new moon, everyone in the hidden leaf village was asleep... all except one. Looking at the night lights of her home, she did the hand signs necessary for the jutsu that will protect the village, "Barrier Jutsu." She whispered as chakra floated out of her hands and over the village, thus surrounding it. Sad green eyes stared at the village one last time before turning away down the path as she pulled her hood up, hiding herself from the world with her cloak blowing in the wind.

'They will be safe from those things as long as don't come back.' She thought to herself with a soft yet sad smile as tears streamed down her face.

She suddenly stopped when she sensed those creatures coming towards her. She side stepped the creature that launched itself at her. She looked behind her as the thing was getting up off the ground, it looked kinda like a jaguar, but it had some metal on him and it had some sort of star like mark on it's forehead, "Innocence... give us the innocence that you have." It launched at her again, only this time when it reached her, her eyes started to glow a sky blue color as she transformed herself into a flurry of cherry blossom petals before surrounding the creature and sucked the life force from him, giving her more energy and thus killing it.

All that was left of the creature was a black skeletal-like remain that had a star on it's forehead. The cherry blossom petals flew back towards the same spot the woman once was before she change back into her original form. Her eyes changed back as she was back in her original form. She sighed before walking away as if nothing had happened.

Her thoughts wandered to her beloved, 'One day you will thank me for this. You'll be much happier and safer without me with you.' She cried softly as she pictured onyx eyes staring loving and longingly back as her as they held on to each other in their bed, his fingers through her long pink tresses while she played with his duck-butt hairstyle. Shaking her head in order to get the image out of her head, she continued down her path.

'It is because of what's inside me that these creatures are after me. I wish it didn't choose me to be it's vessel.' She looked above her to see the clouds covering the sky, it seemed like it was going to rain.

Biting into her thumb to draw blood, she performed hand signs before slamming her right hand into the ground said, "Summoning Jutsu." Then in a cloud of smoke, an Eastern pure white dragon, with a long serpentine body, deer-like antlers, flowing whiskers, and a lupine face. She smiled as she placed a hand on it's snout and started to pet it as it leaned into her touch. She walked around her companion until she was at its side before she hauled herself onto it's back and straddled it.

She leaned over to whisper in it's ear, "Go forth, as far away from the Hidden Leaf as possible, take to the skies, above the clouds to touch the heavens, leave behind the leaves and fly!" After hearing her command, it threw it's head back with a roar before it took off into the sky to be above the clouds as his rider held onto the reigns.

She never looked back, she just flew. Leaving behind her home, family and lover.

5 months later

The rider and her dragon flew above the clouds to keep themselves hidden from the people below as they traveled by air.

'I wonder how the village is doing, I hope they're okay, especially him.' she thought as they flew a little lower so that she could dip her hand into the clouds.

Over the past five months, she avoided going to major villages, killed those akuma as they were called, and collected Innocence along the way. She stored the Innocence inside a pouch, sealed it in a scroll and sealed said scroll in her body for safe keeping. She did her job as a reluctant exorcist and shinobi.

Sensing something familiar, she looked down into the clouds she just parted to see what is happening down below. Her heart started to hurt for some reason, as though something was stabbing and twisting it. She clutched her chest and held on tighter to her dragon.

Looking down again, she saw an old man losing a battle against two gray skinned people, one being a man well dressed for an occasion and a girl that seemed to be in her pre-teens holding an umbrella. Upon closer inspection, she sensed that this old man was carrying Innocence with him. 'They must be there for the Innocence he carries with him.' She thought as the pain finally subsided. It tends to act up whenever an Innocence is in danger. 'I can't let them have what the old man has with him, those trinkets are the only things that can put an end to the akuma'

She commanded her dragon, "Fly down from above the clouds and down to the earth and face the ones who serve the devil!" she bellowed. The dragon followed her command and shot down toward the earth, heading towards the battle.

Tyki Mikk fired a blast of one of his teezes at the exhausted general to knock him down, but a wave of cherry blossom petals shielded the general from harm.

Both the Noah and the general were surprised as they looked up to see a serpent like dragon fly down and surround the general with it's long body as a way to protect him as the said dragon hissed and roared at the two Noah.

The waves of cherry blossoms flew around the general and gathered at one spot in the middle of the dragon's protective circle to form a figure concealed in a midnight colored cloak, with the hood up, a mask on and a pair of sunglasses on his face.

The general looked at the new arrival in shock as he felt himself starting to collapse, but the cloaked figure caught him and settled him on the dragon's back, making sure that he won't fall.

The cloaked figure turned to face the Noah who were looking at him/her with interest, "Who might you be?" Tyki Mikk asked as he prepared another one of his teezes.

Instead of saying anything, the dragon rider performed a series of handsigns before slamming both of his hands into the ground, causing the earth to shake and rise up in front of him as a shield. Then his dragon opened it's mouth to the sky and shot lightning at it which then brought a barrage of lightning down on them, making the two Noah shield their eyes from the light.

Once the light subsided, they uncovered their eyes to see that they were gone. Lero started to panic, "This is bad, Lord Millennium's not gonna like this!" but Road slammed his pumpkin head into the ground to shut him up.

"So, he comes out to interfere with me again, huh?" Lord Millennium appeared making Tyki and Road turn to face him in surprise, not expecting him to appear so suddenly.

"What do you mean by 'again'?" Tyki asked wondering how the Earl knows of this mysterious person that interfered with their battle.

The Earl explained, looking at the destroyed landscape before them, "Over the past few months, this exorcist has been going from town to town killing off my akuma without so much as trying and collecting Innocence. I've been observing him and saw that he has been avoiding the Black Order as well." He walked to the spot where the exorcist last stood.

"So us attacking the general was to lure him out to see if this exorcist will come to his rescue and risk being found by the Black Order." She guessed, putting a hand on her hip as she kicked a rock.

Earl chuckled, "Well that, and the fact that the Innocence seem to glow a lot more and become stronger when he appears." He stated with a look of glee in his eyes.

Tyki smirked in satisfaction, "So instead of us looking for the Heart, the Heart comes to us." He said, feeling smug and happy at how they accomplished in finding out who has the Heart of Innocence.

Road summoned a door before all three of them went through said door, leaving the battlefield behind as they disappeared.