Prologue
The newborn baby looked up at her parents for the first time. They were shocked to see how tiny and fragile she looked. Her eyes were the same blue as her mother's and her tiny stubs of hair were the same orange as her father's. She was beautiful. Konan and Pein looked at their daughter then called the rest of the Akatsuki in to meet her.
"This is Tsukiko," Pein said (Tsukiko means moon child). Each member took turns holding her for a little while. She was so small and innocent it was impossible not to love her.
Two days later the Akatsuki were all in the living room when they heard Tsukiko begin to cry. Suddenly they heard a smash like the sound of wood braking. They all ran into the bedroom were she had been taking a nap to find she had ruined her crib. As soon as Konan picked her up she stopped crying. After that every time she started crying they rushed to get here what she wanted before she destroyed anything (she always cried first).
Soon she was nearly a month old. She was taking a nap when suddenly a loud crash came from the room but there was no crying. Kakuzu who had been walking by rushed into the bedroom to find a woman running out the broken window with a crying Tsukiko in her arms. Everyone else came in at that moment.
They jumped out the window ran after the woman. Pein was the first one to catch her. She made a kind of window in the air and without checking were it led tossed the baby inside. She didn't care whether or not Tsukiko was okay. She had planed on killing the child anyway. The strange woman closed the window as she turned to face her opponent.
As Pein attacked her she fell to the ground. Lying there she looked up at him and smiled evilly, no not at him next to him. He turned and saw the ghostly outline of the ten-tailed wolf demon, the Lenema.
"She gone now there's now way you can get her back," the woman hissed at the golden wolf spirit. "She may be in the world of light but she'll starve long before she's old enough for you to merge with." As the wolf growled a silvery mist came from her muzzle.
Suddenly the woman's eyes grew wide. "NO! DON'T!" Then she screamed and fell dead as the form of a ten-tailed black panther rose from her form. The two demons glared at each other for a minute before disappearing into thin air.
At that moment the rest of the Akatsuki caught up with their leader. They saw the dead woman but no Tsukiko.
"What happened? Where is she," asked a worried Konan.
"She's gone," was all he said.
Two wolves entered the world of light through a hidden cave entrance in their world. They heard a baby crying and when they found her they brought her back to their den. She stayed there safe and happy until a month later two children from the nearby foster home found her and brought her back to the house.
"Adam. We should call her Hope," said the three year old little girl.
"Okay, Julie. We'll call her Hope," answered Adam.
