Okay, this isn't exactly how I planned to start my story but lets just start with the introductions shall we? My name is Kimiko Nanomei and I live in the hidden sand village also known as Sunagakure. I live in the hospital, more on that later but anyway, I guess I'm starting not quit from the beginning but from the sad semi beginning. Let's just call it that.

So I was sitting in my room crying while sewing Gaara's childhood bear. The bear he carried around when he was six years old. How I got it, well I will tell you that now.

Just an hour ago, I came into Gaara's office to ask him something. I've forgotten that something but I'm sure it was important. I may lack common sense but I think I know not to disturb the kazekage for stupid reasons. But things quickly went downhill when Temari and Gaara started shouting at me, getting me nervous for reasons I didn't understand.

"Why won't you just go back to Kumogakure?! I'll say this as nicely as possible, your annoying, childish and immature. Your always bugging us and getting in our way! Go and do something else for once!" Gaara shouted at me, his eyes closed and his pen hovering above the paper he had to sign.
I know, don't be too shocked. I know Gaara seems like a robot cyborg with no personality (and no eyebrows). Well to me, he's a robot with no emotion, I can call Gaara whatever and it won't change anything. Words don't hurt him.

"Kimiko please! Just leave us alone we're busy! You're a genin level kunoichi that should be training to achieve chunin level! But you would rather waist your time stalking the kazekage and asking stupid questions! Were busy okay!"

That was Temari, it's kind of a strange that she seems nicer than her baby brother. Okay maybe she's right in some of what she said but I don't stalk anybody. I think I have better things to do then that.
"But I just..."

That's me trying to speak but I was cut off by Gaara again.

"Kimiko leave now! We don't care about what you have to say! Go and train like a proper Kunoichi! Now I'll say it again, Get out!"
That was the last straw, if I left the room then and there, I would of carried the heavy weight of not acting out to defend myself forever. You see I'm not the forgiving type, you'll be surprised at how long I can hold grudges. So long it makes me stupid almost. I didn't know how to act out properly so I stood there for a few seconds shivering. No I'm not cold I was doing my weird twitches that relax me.

Finally when a tear made it's way to my cheek, something terrible slipped my lips.

"Fuck you".

And to top off the horrible words, I did a horrible act, I swept everything off of Gaara's desk, all those hours worth of papers he was signing just went down the drain. And without another word, I grabbed his childhood teddy bear and narrowly missed a makeup and hat-free Kankuro as I fled out the door.

That's why I was sewing Gaara's bear in the first place, because I snatched it from his office and I thought it could do with some retouching since it was so old. I fell asleep after that and the levels of sleep must have been very deep because my own subconscious was talking to me.
Oh and did I mention that I have high functioning autism?

"Why? Why does the kazekage treat me so badly? Why does Temari help him with his unfairness! Is it because...I'm Well...autistic? Maybe we're not supposed to be shinobi because we have trouble with our understanding and communication which could jeopardize a mission or...hey wait...I can hear someone calling me...Temari?"

That was my subconscious mind speaking. I don't agree with some of what it said though. I personally think my autism is nothing, I am as normal as anyone else with or without it. But the levels of sleep were very deep because I heard Temari's echoing voice.

"…...ko...miko...imiko...Kimiko wake up!"

Temari shook me gently and I opened my eyes to her and Gaara looking down at me. Temari's face looked quit sad and Gaara's face looked like...well it just looked like Gaara. I slowly sat up and rubbed my eyes.

"What time is it?" I asked.

"It's five am in the morning. The suns going to rise soon." Gaara said informing me.

FIVE IN THE BLOODY MORNING?! WHAT EXCUSE DO THESE MORONS HAVE FOR WAKING ME AT THIS HOUR?!

"Kimiko listen! Where both sorry for the way we treated you yesterday" Temari said, her face still kind of sad looking. Gaara just turned his head to the side and said "I deserved to have my stuff knocked off my desk. Sorry." I swear his voice becomes more and more robotic each time I hear him. No emotion at all.

"You woke me up just to tell me that!" I said with a pissed off look on my face. And I'm so glad I said that. As I said just now. WHAT EXCUSE DO THESE MORONS HAVE FOR WAKING ME AT THIS HOUR?!

"No! We have selected you on a C-rank mission! After what happened yesterday we figured you needed some time from the village." Temari said with her hands in the air as if I was about to punch her. I pulled the blankets off of me and placed both feet on the cold tile floor.

"Okay but what is this C-rank mission?" I asked with a yawn.

"Get dressed and come to my office. I will explain everything there." Gaara said looking at me over his shoulder as he turned to leave. As soon as he and his sister were gone, I sat there on my bed for a few minutes, just trying to wake up properly. I then began to get dressed. I pulled on my gloves, and my calf-less stockings and fastened my forehead protector.

The distance between Sunagakure's hospital and the Kazekages office which is in the center of the village hasn't got that much of a different. It's only a few blocks, and there you go. I burst into Gaara's office before rubbing my eye and yawning again.

"Kimiko! Here already? You got here quick!" Temari said seeming astonished.

"Well duh! I was too pissed off the stay in bed after how you woke me up for a stupid mission!" I said pouting my lips and filling my cheeks with air. I hate being woken up from sleeping, the mornings don't agree with me, especially the early mornings before the sun has even risen.

"Alright about the mission. The leader of the hidden waterfall has gone on a tour and now he has decided to return to his village. However, he has something sacred that his village holds dear. It's your job and ensure a safe journey for him."

"Yes sir!" I said saluting Gaara before leaving his office and jumping off into the rising sun. Sunagakure was such a pretty village and I'm so happy that sunrises are just as beautiful as sunsets which are my rock.

I landed perfectly on one knee. "Hi. I'm looking for the hidden waterfalls leader." I said. "Yeah that's me and who are you?"

The hidden waterfalls leader was a young teenage boy like Gaara or maybe older. What's wrong with society if kids are running villages? "This is Kimiko, the kunoichi we have assigned to protect you." Baki said backing up the young ninja.

"No way! I expected a big muscled fellow to be my bodyguard! She's too cute and cute people are normally weak!" The boy said complaining to Baki. His comment pissed me off. I know being called cute is a compliment but hes judging me on my appearance and that's an insult.

"I assure you that your in good hands. Please don't be put off by Kimiko's weak appearance."

Why thank you Baki, what a wonderful thing to say about somebody.

"Well she better be because if not then..." The boy was going to complain again but fortunately, I cut him off.

"Oh shut up and let's go!" I said dragging him from the collar into the morning desert. I let go of his collar when he starting shouting jibber jabber and wouldn't shut up but I didn't hear what he was saying. I was too moved by the morning sun as it slowly climbed away from the horizon.

A few hours later, Me and the boy who's name is Shibuki were walking through the forest side by side quietly, until I decided to break the silence. So...what's this treasure that needs protecting so badly?" I asked, Shibuki walked quietly with his eyes closed, I actually thought he wouldn't say anything but he did open his mouth to answer my question sooner than expected.

"There's a giant tree that protects our village. Every century is produces water that can boost you're chakra levels." He explained still with his eyes closed.

"Yep, now I know that Gaara's trying to get rid of me. Sending me to another village just to protect some H2o." I said hunching my back forward.

"Listen here women! This isn't just ordinary water, it increases the users chakra by ten-fold for a short period of time in exchange of shortening your life span!" Shibuki shouted waving a fist around.

Did he just call me women? Since when was a 13 year old girl considered to be a women? But hey what can you expect from teenage boys, some of them are truly brainless.

"Wow what a rip off and to think people would actually waste their time targeting some ground water when you can just train to get your chakra levels up." I said, still hunching forward. I was annoyed that all the C-rank missions, the hardest mission a genin level shinobi can get were never really that serious.

Shibuki sighed.

"Well I guess this attitude of yours shows that the five great countries don't care which is good" he said with his eyes closed. I strengthened up and rolled my shoulders. "Anyway we're wasting time here, the hidden waterfall is just up ahead." Shibuki some pointing straight forward.

Meanwhile, unbeknownst to me in the hidden waterfall, there was a beautiful but lonely girl who would determine the rest of my future. She sat high up on the branch of a tree over the village while a tear rolled down her cheek though her face seemed emotionless.

To enter the hidden waterfall, we had to enter through an underwater passage. The village was beautiful. The houses were little but cute wooden cottages side by side with nature.

"Wow what a cute little village!" I screeched with my head pocking out the top of the water. "Just be glad I let you into my village." Shibuki muttered but loud enough for me to hear. I ignored him anyhow.

"Hey it's our leader he's returned at last!"

"Let's celebrate our masters return"!

Me and shibuki looked in the direction the shouting was coming from. There were a few men on the shore cheering and waving. They sure loved there beloved leader. Maybe Shibuki was better then I thought he was. But his village sure loved him, they held a celebration and a little festival, he must have been gone for a while. It was lunch time and they were serving free food. I picked up some noodles in a transparent plastic box and ate some.

It's about time I had something to eat. Gaara and Temari just woke me up very very early and were like "we're sorry now get your ass out of this village without breakfast". Well that's how I kind of saw it. Either way, this transparent box of noodles was my break-lunch.

As I tasted the delicious fried noodled on my chopsticks, I wondered why Sunagakure didn't do a little festival like this when Gaara came back to life after being revived by Lady Chiyo...

Flash...

Something light green...

There it was again...

In the corner of my eye...

Flash...

I turned around and looked up, it was so high up into the massive tree that protects the hidden waterfall also known as Takigakure for short, but there she was, a girl, the girl that unknown to me at the time would be apart of most of my future. I couldn't see her properly in detail because she was sitting so high up on a branch in a tree.

I grabbed another box of noodles and jumped up the tree to join her. She was quite young looking, with short mint green spiky hair and large orange pupiless eyes exactly like mine all most. She had beautiful tanned skin and a cute rounded face. To sum everything up, she was beautiful.

"Hey! Why are you avoiding the celebration?" I yelled as I jumped down next to her. She looked startled.

"Here, don't want to miss out on free food." I said handing her a box of noodles "Urm thanks..." she blushed and barely looked at me, or she did but I didn't notice.

"Delicious huh?" I asked while putting on one of my goofy smiles. She simply nodded, I think I'm scaring her. I've always had trouble reading people's emotions and facial expressions. You can frown at me and I will automatically think your angry when actually you could be stressed or nervous or even sad. As I said, I have trouble reading facial expressions.

"My names Kimiko, Kimiko Nanomei" I said smiling.

"Fu...of the hidden waterfall." She said with a frown so I think I'm annoying her. So I decided to leave her alone, but I didn't change my smiling happy face.

"Okay I've got to go now, see you Fu." I said getting up and I braced myself to for the jump. "Bye" Fu said, she seemed more happy to know I was leaving so I jumped away with a whoosh!

Later that day...

I explored the hidden waterfall village and I think I've fallen in love with this place. Takigakure was truly something, a sight to behold. I wanted to stay there on vacation for two weeks. I know I didn't bring any bags with me from Sunagakure but at that point in time, I really didn't care.

You can have a holiday with nothing. It's possible.

"Shibuki wait! I need to ask you something?" I said putting my hand on Shibuki's shoulder as I stopped him in his tracks.

"What is it Kimiko?" He asked back.

I made the cutest face I could and tried to look at Shibuki with puppy dog eyes. The type I do when I really want something. Though the technique rarely works since I don't make eye contact.

"Can I stay in the hidden waterfall for vacation for two weeks" I finally asked. I hope my eyes were all sparkly. A shinobi supposedly jonin level came and whispered something into Shibuki's right ear. Afterwards, shibuki answered my question.

"One week! And that's it, alright?" Shibuki told me with his hand on his hip.

"Yay!" I screamed jumping up and down with my hands in the air. I felt as if I could reach for the stars. Yes I wanted to stay for two weeks but one week was better than nothing.

Just then, Fu that mint headed lonely girl I met earlier was strolling by and the atmosphere of my surroundings suddenly changed. People started pointing and whispering about Fu and she looked more emotionless like Gaara.

"Crap it's Fu!"

"Isn't that the freak?"

"Monster"

"Creap"

Those were the only words I heard all around me and the people suddenly looked dark and scaring looking. I was kind of surprised at how emotionally strong Fu was because if I was in her shoes, I would be in tears right away.

"Mummy is that the monster girl?" I little girl asked her mother while pointing at Fu.

Fu looked mad but you could really see the pain in her face. That was the last straw, that kids question released the monster in me and I couldn't stay silent any longer. Before I knew what I was doing, I ran to Fu, put my arms out to defend her and began shouting mercilessly at all the villagers.

"OHY! You people are nothing but bullies so the only freaks around here are you!"

That's the first thing I shouted. At first the villagers were kind of startles by my sticking up for Fu and I was glad they were.

"Why are you sticking up for this freak outsider? She's a jinchuuriki!" One of the villagers shouted back at me.

Now that didn't surprise me at all. I know Gaara's past quit well and I'm all too familiar at how Jinchuuriki get treated. Especially after I met Naruto and he told me some of his past. Jinchuuriki everywhere in every village, even people that aren't jinchuuriki get treated this way because they had some sort of illness or powerful ability.

It happens.

"She's a jinchuuriki so what! Who gives a flapping fuck! Just shut up! Keep your inhuman opinions to your selves!" Maybe I was being too harsh but harsh things seem to be the only thing that stick to humans nowadays. I fear that if I speak normally too them, then what I say will only go through one ear and out the other.

"Hey wait outsider!"

Shouted a village women from the crowd.

"You don't know anything about these Jinchuuriki they..."

I cut her off and I'm beginning to get sick of being called outsider. I have a name and it's Kimiko. "I don't know nothing?! The kazekage of the hidden sand was a jinchuuriki you stupid cow!"

Okay. Maybe that was a bit too harsh that time because I saw that I had visibly hurt the womens feelings but the truth does hurt sometimes. If you hate or dislike someone then you shouldn't waste time of breath with them. These villagers were stooping themselves to a lower level by calling Fu names and treating her differently.

I still haven't gotten it out of my system. I still wanted to give all these villagers a piece of the mind. I still wanted to shout and scream at them. Verbally batter because I know from experience that words can hurt like a fist.

Just as I was about to open my mouth and shout again two delicate hands grabbed mine.

"Kimiko?"

It was Fu, hearing her voice and feeling her warmth in both hands made all the anger in my system melt away.

"Would you like to live at mine until you leave?" She asked me. Her short mint green spiky hair floated elegantly on both sides of her face. Looking at her made everything around me blurry. There was an instant connection between us and we only met each other that day.

How strange and of course I said yes to Fu's offer to stay at her place because it wasn't like I had anywhere else to sleep for the next week. The villagers seemed to disappear away minding their own businesses leaving me to follow Fu through Takigakure back to her place.

When we got there, I stared at the beautiful little wooden cottage that rested peacefully in the trees. The sunbeams danced through the gaps in the leaves giving the overall image more life and warmth. The plants and weeds, the bushes and the tall grass were all snuggles around the cottage making it look so cosy. It was like something out of a fantasy story book.

"Kawaii."

I said in a daze. Fu's house was my dream house. I love small cosy but breathable spaces. I hate big wide open spaces and I kind of hate big houses too. I see it as nothing more then a waste of space, money and time. The bigger your house, the bigger the cleaning and the bill. I've always wanted a small little cosy house like Fu's but somewhere high up so I can watch the sunsets from my bedroom every night.

I followed Fu across the small stone path to her front door and it creaked open.

"Sorry. I never have guests so the place is a mess." Fu said embarrassingly while scratching the back of her head. I followed her into the dining room and looked round the clean tidy room. The floor was freshly wiped. The furniture was perfectly polished and there wasn't a mark or scrap of dust anywhere.

"She calls this a mess?" I muttered to myself. Fu didn't look like it but she was actually a clean freak.

"Please, have some tea." Fu said pouring me a cup out of her blue striped tea pot. She then placed the cup on her Kotatsu which she sat down at. I sat down after her on the white pillow and took a sip of the tea, it was too hot to drink right away so I waited for it to cool down.

"There's so much I want to talk to you about." Fu said placing her hands under the white cloth of the kotatsu.

"About what exactly?" I asked her.

"Kimiko. You don't care that I'm a jinchuuriki. Is it because the Kazekage was a jinchuuriki or is it because your parents raised you to respect all people despite there differences?"

Great, I truly do hate talking about my parents.

"No I don't have parents. There not dead but I don't know them."

That's all the information I wanted to give Fu. Who ever my parents are, I hate them.

"Seriously? You've never seen your parents? You don't know what they look like or even there names? Fu was shocked about that, maybe because she thought up till now that jinchuuriki are the only ones alone in the world. Maybe she doesn't know that normal people suffer from loneliness too.

This realization caused me to open up and I gave away more information then I wanted to.

"Well I remember their names." I said scratching the back of my head. "My mums name is Mithai-Nose and my dads name is Kamijo Kutsuragi."

I can't believe I actually remember their names. Seriously? I've forgotten their faces but I remember there names?
Stupid brain!

This is what I was thinking at the time but when I snapped back to reality, I realized that the atmosphere in the room had changed. It wasn't a casual atmosphere anymore, everything seemed super serious now.

I looked at Fu's face and she looked as if she was going to shit herself. Like there was a ghost behind me or something. I looked behind me and to no surprise there was nothing. She stared at me with horror in her eyes and remained silent for several seconds. The awkward silence was beginning to make my skin crawl so I broke it.

"Fu whats wrong?"

I asked her waving a hand in front of her face. That didn't seem to snap her out of the daze she was in but what happened next did, en-fact what happened next snapped me out of something too.

SMASH!

A brick came flying through Fu's window and smashed up her tea pot causing all the tea to splatter everywhere all over her clean floor.
"What the bloody hell?!" I yelled standing up in an enraged state. but when I looked out the window, whoever through the brick was gone.
"It's the children so leave it Kimiko." Fu said finally seeming to be recovered from the horrified gaze she was in.

"I'll tell their parents. The villagers listen to me because they want me to leave them alone. That's one of the perks of being the village freak."
Fu's words made me very sad on the inside but I seemed angry on the outside. Angry because I speechless when I had so much to say about what she just said. Anyway lets skip the unimportant details and move forward with the story.

I stayed in with Fu way past my assignments deadline. We did everything together, I helped her with her bills, I defended her from the villagers hatred. She often says that I'm her only light in the darkness. I don't understand what she means but it makes me happy that I make her feel special.

Before I knew it, days had gone by and I had stayed in the hidden waterfall for a week. Well it wasn't like the Kazekage wanted me back anytime soon and Shibuki didn't mind me. Maybe because I was keeping Fu from doing tricks and playing pranks. But all good things have there limits. Our reign of true happiness was about to come to a devastating end.

One day while I was out sharing a posh chocolate, strawberry and vanilla ice cream with smooth chocolate sauce with Fu. There was a very loud banging noise. Like a bell ringing but it had a negative ring to it. It wasn't like the nice musical church bell.

"Whats that?" I asked.

"It's the alarm bell. Maybe there's an intruder coming or something." Fu said with her face half stuffed with ice cream, I was surprised she wasn't getting brain freeze. A jonin man then walked through the village calling out loud, "Emergency! Emergency!" to everyone that was around. He was then followed by another jonin who was also shouting out orders.

"All civilians to the heart of the tree! All shinobi to the river!"

Me and Fu quickly finished out ice cream then we obeyed the man who was commanding us to come to the river. Once there we all gathered round Shibuki who was our, I mean their leader.

"Everyone here?" He asked looking around.

"Lord Shibuki. They've gotten closer. They're are two of them." said a young jonin man.

"We have a visual!" Shouted a jonin women running across the river water to join us. "Their both wearing long black robes with red cloud patterns on them!"

Black robes...Red clouds...patterns...

A clear picture of that blond haired Akatsuki guy who captured Gaara appeared in my head. All the pressure overwhelmed me and my heart rapidly started beating faster. My legs suddenly felt numb so I collapsed to my knees and I couldn't stop shivering, again no I wasn't cold.

"It's them it's them!" I screamed, I was sweating like mad. Fu lowered on one knee and put her hand on my shoulder.

"Calm down. It's who?" Fu said sounding confused.

"It's the Akatsuki. They've come for the seven tails." I explained as a tiny tear fell from one of the eyes. I don't remember which one.
Fu looked up into the distance angrily, like she was mad the Akatsuki were coming after her. Shibuki closed his eyes to pray and so did several other shinobi in the crowd. The ones that didn't pray just look lifeless and scared.

Fu stood up and looked down at me who was still sitting because my legs where numb.

"Kimiko. There's something extremely important that I need to ask you."

To be continued