Prologe

The time was night, a dark starless winter night. Snow was falling from the darkness of the sky, making it appear as if drops of light were escaping the shadows. Snow was on the ground, pileing in thick layers over the ground.

In the fallen snow was drops of a foreign color, it melted the now in where it dropped, the color of crimson. Blood stained the white purity. The drops were near foot prints, that lead as far as the could in the snow. They went on for miles, all though most of them had dissapeared from the snow fall.

The maker of the footprints was a man, a tired and broken man, He was around 18 mabey 20, he was tall and lean man. He had a pale complexion, his pale skin was covered in his blood. He was limping in pain and felt death linguring near. His hair which was once a long and chocolaty brown, now cut and matted from battle.

His eyes were a pearl color, his left eyelid cut and swollen shut. The other eye opened slightly and sight getting blurry, His clothing torn and stained. Battered and bloody, Neji Hyuuga, would either die from blood lose, or hypothermia.

Slowely stepping through the soft ice, all of his thoughts gone, nothing mattered. He just knew he had to keep moving. Step by step, he couldn't remember how long he's been walking, everything was just too much of a blur.

His pace was slow, and he seemed to be a dead man walking. His vision was getting blurry, and his balance was becoming uneven. It wasn't long till his body met the ice in his fall. he didn't have the chakra to keep himself warm, hell he didn't have the chakra to do anything. It was because of the red virus.

The red virus was a disease that seemed to be everywhere these days. It was created by enemy ninja to distroy any enemy, unfortunatly it would attack everything with a chakra stream. It ate at your chakra, and what was lost would never come back, you would either die in the process, or no longer posess any way to use chakra, they become normal....and there is no cure for it.

Fallen in the snow he didn't know what to do. He rolled on his back to see the sky for the final time. He just staired at the sky, everything was getting so blurry. It all looked like blacks and whites, but it wasn't long till another color came to view. There was a purple, and a blue..and then green, a green that seemed so familiar.

Before It could come to his mind he passed out. Her heard one last sound before his rest.

"What in the hell!! Neji!!?!??"

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Neji began to stir around from where he was, This wasn't where he passed out, it was warm and soft. He didn't feel any pain either, he felt a numbness. He began to move his hand on what he was, was it a bed?

Then he finally opened his eyes, his sight was blurry so he rubbed his eyes to adjust his focus. It wouldn't clear it's self up. He touched his eyelids, his left eye had cloth over it, he felt around his head some more and he felt bandages, someone bandaged his head. His right eye got adjusted enough to see on it's he finally looked up. It was a ceiling, there was little black doodles all over it. He turned his head to the left, he was on a bed. he also saw his body. It was bandaged and taped back together.

He put his arms behind him and pushed himself up to a sitting position. He looked around the room where he was in. It was clean except for the first aid kit scatered everywhere. The room wasn't painted, but it had photos in frames and drawing right on the wall. They looked profesional too.

The bedding was blue and had a few blood stains, probably from him. And he seen something by his foot. It was a mixture of colors, browns, reds, whites, and blacks. It began to move, what was it? Splotches of color adorned it's body, a body the size of a large raccoon.

It stood up and staired at him. Neji blinked....it was a cat, a really fat cat. It was a calico cat which explanes it's odd colors, but it's the other things that made him wonder.

The cat didn't have four legs that supported it, but three. The last one seemed to have never been there, or mabey removed. And it's eyes, or eye. The right one was a light blue, a very cat like blue, and the other eye was shut completely with a scar across it. Did it get in a fight or something?

It began to walk up to him, he felt very heavy and it hurt a little bit do to his wonds. The cat stopped at his waist and looked up at him and gave a very deep and lazy

"Meeeoooow."

Neji blinked a bit, as the cat jumped off of him and onto the floor, the fat thing could jump. It walked over to a door and pushed it open with it's body. Neji began to wonder, who bandaged him up?

He started to turn his body to put his feet on the floor, was he strong enough to stand. He made his way up to his standing position. Then he realized something else, he was freezing. He noticed that he was stripped of his clothing besides his boxers. A chill ran up his spine.

He was debateing on either walking out of here, or crawling back in the bed. he thought for a minute, then compromised the situation. He would leave...but he would take the comforter.

He opened the bedroom door, and walked out. He seemed to have been on a second level of a home, there were some stairs leading down. He looked around, there was a a kitchen and a living room in here. The kitchen had some trash on the counter, but was reasonably clean. It looked like a kitchen of an apartment. It connected strait to the living room. There was one big couch about 8 feet from the corner. The corner had a black entertainment center that held a T.V and a stereo. It seemed to have some kind of game system in it as well, since there were game cases and game controllers were two other couches and two armchairs on either side of the big couch.

Then there was a sliding glass door. It lead to a balcony, and he seen someone sitting in a chair. The porch light was on so he could see this person. They sat in a black camping chair. They may have had some kind of jacket on. The back of their head's hair was two different colors, blue and pink. He hesitated then began to walk to the slidder, he pulled it open, causing that person to turn around

It was a girl, she seemed to 17, maybe 19. She had bright neon green eyes with square shaped glasses over them. Her hair was cut be a little bit above her shoulder's. Her bangs covered her forehead. Her bangs were a dark sky blue. the rest of her hair had lines of pink and blue. He couldn't tell if it was blue on pink or pink on blue.

"Wow, I didn't expect you to be up this early." She said in astonishment, something about her seemed familar. Neji walked outside and closed the door. There was a chair next to this person, he decided to sit there. It was another black camping chair.

He sat there, the comforter covering him. There was snow all over the ground, even some on the balcony. Then he just staired at the girl. She had on a purple hoodie, and black sweats, no shoes.

"Who are you?" He asked looking at her, She sighed and staired back at him.

"I take it you don't reconize me Neji....i expected that though." She said straightening herself out.

"How do you know my name?" He asked hesitantly, she seemed familiar, but he couldn't place the name. She sighed then took off her glasses. Then she parted her bangs evely so they showed her forehead. She coughed a few times then began to act.

"NARUTO IF YOU DON'T STOP TRYING TO FORCE FEED HINATA THOOSE DAMNED NOODLES THEN I'LL KICK YOUR BLONDE ASS!!!!" She yelled angrily, that's when it hit him

"Haruno-san?" He asked in disbeleife, he hadn't seen her in years.

"No, I'm not Haruno-san, I'm Sakura. Just plain goddamn Sakura." She said scowling.

"Sakura." he corrected. She seemed to have changed a lot.

"What are you doing here?" He asked her. He thought she disapeared out of no where.

"I caught the red virus years ago, I was one of the first people to have survived." She said looking at the stars. When the virus first came to Konoha, he heard two very important people caught it.

" I left there a long time ago, I went to college, I'm living life like a normal person." She said proudly, she didn't moap around like some people did, she tried to pick her life up again. Neji looked at her and it hit him...he survived the red virus....he's human...just plain human.

He just sat there and let it soak in, what could he do now? The only thing he knew was ninjahood, nothing more. He felt helpless now, nothing could help him.

"I know that look, finally hit you that your no longer able to be a ninja." She said sadly to him,she had a comforting smile that took a lot of the emotion off of Neji.

"What can I do now?" He asked looking down at the balcony wood.

"...Don't know, but it's your decision." She said, and Neji looked at her oddly.

"You can either moap around and feel sorry for yourself, or you can do something about it Like me And Shikimaru did." She said leaning back...a little too far.

"Woah!" She shrieked as she fell backwards, hitting the wood with a thud.

Neji looked at her with a raised eyebrow, she was...different.

"Damnit, why is it always when I'm trying to make a point!!" She yelled angrily, Neji just wached as he wrapped the comfurter tighter around him, god he was cold. Sakura rolled out of the chair and stood up, just then there was rumble...it came from Neji. She looked at Neji, he was wrapped up like a ball. she smiled and threw her head back, letting out a laugh. Neji looked at her oddly as she laughed, what was she laughing at.

"Come on, lets get you inside and get you some food." She said as she opened the sliding glass door. They both entered her home.