Blood-Related

Chapter One

Power Awakened

I was 9 when it happened. Someone broke into my house.

But before I go on with my life's story, I am Hoshiakari, technically meaning starlight. Call me Hoshi for short. At that time, I was an eager genin-ranked kunoichi, just graduated from the Konoha Ninja Academy.

Resuming where I left off, I immediately tried to incapacitate the intrudor, or intrudors as I quickly found out. But these weren't some pety theives or weaklings. These were enemy Ninja... They quickly immobilized me with senbons in certain pressure points. I literally could only breathe. I couldn't even move my eyes. The attackers weren't done though. They attacked my mother and step-father.

My mother, being a civilian was knocked out fairly easily. As I watched her fall to the ground, I felt power and chakra build up within me. I could suddenly see much clearer and could easily anticipate every move the ninjas were about to make... But do to the senbons, I still couldn't move.

My step-father was a jonin-rank Ninja and was much tougher for the enemies to bring down. But in the end, it happened. It was six-to-one. An unlucky kick to the ribs and a kunai to the throat. The man holding the kunai hesitated before killing the only father I ever knew, letting the feeling of death awaiting him sink in. My step-father looked straight at me, and his eyes widened with shock. "Hoshi..." And that was the end of the man who raised me.

Unbearable grief welled up in me along with the tears in my eyes. 'It's all my fault!' I thought to myself. The power built up even more. The snake-man that had killed my step-dad and was currently hissing laughter didn't even seem to notice. He hadn't even so much as looked at me since I was paralyzed. He looked down at me just as I thought that. A huge malicious grin stretched across his face as a long, slimy, snake-like tounge came out of his mouth and licked his lips.

"Hmm, what have we here? A cute little girl and what beautiful RED eyesss!" Red? My eyes are black! Maybe he was referring to the anger stirring in them. He bent down to where his eyes and mine met. He must have seen the split-second confusion in my eyes, because he hissed out another laugh. "Well apparently, thisss is a surprissse to you! I guess I won't tell you the sssecret... I'll leave that to your mommy! Oh, and as this may or may not be the lassst time I ssee you for a while, I'll give you a gift!"

His head made for my neck as his stretched. I could not move. I expected all sorts of different scenarioes in that split-second, but he unexpectedly bit my neck. It felt like fire was seeping into my jugular-vein from the bite. I screamed like I was dying, because well, I felt like I was. The fire spread thoughout my body not even getting less concentrated.

"Sssseek me when you want power." And his hiss echoed in my head as I passed out.


When I woke up, I was in a small room. My mother was on the floor still unconcious. I had a strange chakra in me making me feel like I could do anything. All of my pain from yesterday was gone. The power that had built up in me the night before was there along with this strange new one. My mother stirred. I looked at her. I calmed down a little and I felt the strange new powers simmer down. Not gone completely, but not to where I felt invincable anymore, either.

"Mom!" I bent down next to her, and her eyes flicked open.

"Oh, Hoshi! I had the most terrib-!" She saw we were in this small room and cut herself off mid-sentence. "Hoshiakari, where's Tonebi?" she asked urgently. I looked at my feet avoiding eye contact.

She seemed to get the message, because she began wailing.

"QUIET IN THERE!" Someone outside the door said with a harsh voice.

We didn't talk for a few minutes. I kept thinking about what that man said last night. What secret? And did my mom really know? I had to know what he was talking about. I hesitantly asked my mom about it. She tensed up. Her tear-streaked face was serious.

"Hoshi, can you call this power up? I may not be a ninja but I have certainly dated enough of them to know certain things, and I hope it isn't what I think it is." As she's rambling this, I call the power up, struggling to keep the other one down. Something about the one I felt when I woke up seemed evil. I didn't want my mother to know about it. But it hurt so much to pull one up without the other. I managed it, though, and my mom's eyes widened in shock when she saw me with this power. Was it visible? Even to civilians?

"You... You've a-awakened your... your..." She couldn't seem to get it out.

"What?" Her face was like stone."What is it Mom?" I yelled as I heard racket outside our room.

"...Sharingan..." She didn't see my reaction because right then the door burst open. And by burst, I mean the door was broken into fragments. A particularly big fragment hit me directly in the head and I lost consciousness.


I woke up on a hospital bed. I was at the Konoha hospital.

"What the..." I mumbled, only recalling yesterday as a nightmare. I rubbed my neck, feeling two simultaneous pucture wounds... A snake bite. Then it hit me.

"MOM!" A nurse ran in, thinking I was in pain or something."WHERE'S MOM?"

She looked at the ground. "I-I'm sorry.." and she choked up.

'No' I thought. I mean there was no way my mom could be dead. 'This is just some sick joke and my mom's signing me out right now!'

"Why are you lying?" I screamed. "What sick person would do that?"

"I'm a-afraid... I'm afraid I'm n-not lying." A tear rolled down the woman's face. "Hoshiakari, your mother has passed on."

Author's note: Umm.. I'm going to keep typing up The Hokage Returns, but I'm going to wrap it up soon. This is going to be my main story from now on. I've got all of the chapters except the last one for THR on paper and I'm going to pop 'em out quick so I can work on this story. Thanks!