It was dark and well after midnight when the party had finally finished. It was eighteenth birthday and my two best friends, which happen to both be blondes, had decided to through me a birthday party, not taking no for an answer since I had never let them through me one before. It was held at the training grounds, the one Team 7 had used since we were Genin. There had been lights everywhere and lots of food. Every ninja in Konoha had been there and almost every other friend I had ever made was there, including ones from out of Konoha. It was truly wonderful. I had received many presents. Most of them were just simple things, like kunai and other weapons like that. I had received four presents that I truly loved.
The first present was an amazing katana from Ten-Ten. It was some sort of dark metal, nearly black in color. The handle was black with red crossings. On the butt of the handle was a the kanji symbol for chakra, it would allow me to channel chakra through and around to do certain things. On the blade was a few sakura petals carved onto it and my name. The sheath was black and had red sakura flowers all over it. She knew I had been secretly training with swords and I was as good, if not better, than her.
The second present was from Ino. She gave me a black kimono with red and pink sakura petals every where, it was denser on the back as it surrounded a single white sakura flower. The sleeves were tight on the upper arm and did some major flaring out. If I held my arms out it would be long rectangles. The obi was black and had a white sakura flower on the end of each one. It was obviously not for fighting, but I loved it and vowed to wear it at impotant events or when ever I had the opportunity to.
The next present was from Naruto. He gave me a simple necklace. It was a black cord with a silver kanji symbol for sister. He had one that was exactly the same except his was for brother. We were each others heart family and this was our way of showing the world this.
My last gift was from Gaara. He gave me a beautiful black hawk that had a single white tail feather. He was a trained messanger and fighter bird and was already quite attached to me. I had decided to name him Nyx. At the moment he was resting on my shoulder as I balanced all the presents I had received in my arms as we walked home.
I lived alone in a little apartment on the outskirts of the village. My parents had died before I went to the academy, so they died when I was five and I had to live in an orphanage. It was hard, I had to learn to support myself once I decided to leave the orphanage. The people there were abusive and the night I decided to leave was the night I was nearly raped, I was seven years old. I had no money and I nearly had to go back to the orphanage, but I had found a job at the apartment building as a cleaner, along with the job the people gave me a room to live in. it was small and only had a small cot and table, I even had to share a hall bathroom with the other nine maids. I had quit the job once I had enough money to support myself, but I had kept the room. I had never made any changes to the room, it was enough to serve my needs. Besides, I wouldn't be here much longer…
I snapped myself out of my thoughts as I entered the room. I looked around to make sure nothing was out of place before I closed and locked the door. My room was completely bare, I had already packed everything up and it was all in a small pack at the end of the bed. I started unpacking my presents to see what I wanted to keep. I immediately put the kimono in it and put the extra weapons I couldn't fit inside the pack, all the others were in my weapons pouch on my left thigh. I shifted through my other presents, most of them were useless to me and I put these all on the table with a note telling who ever the next owner of the room that they could do anything with the stuff. Once I finished I put my pack on the end of the bed and put my new katana beside it. I hung the cloak I had received from Hinata on the door handle of my room. I folded the clothes I had decided would be my new outfit and put them on top of my pack. I smiled and laid on my bed, planning on taking a short nap before I left, I wouldn't be getting any decent rest for quite a while.
~~two hour time skip, around four in the morning~~
I awoke to a nearly silent tapping on my window. Naruto was standing out there and I could see his bright smile through the curtains. I gave a soft smile of my own and opened my door, taking a hold of my cloak before it fell. He walked in silently and stood before me, giving a simple turn so I could take in his appearance.
He had grown over the years. I still remembered when we were the same height, but now he towered over me, probably a foot and a half taller. His eyes were dark blue with lighter flecks throughout it. His hair was still the same length and the same blonde, his skin was tanner, but his most distinguishing feature were his whiskers. He had on black pants that tucked into his ninja boots so they wouldn't get in the way. He was wearing a black shirt with neon orange swirls along the bottom of it and ramen bowls on the ends of the sleeves, which went half way down his upper arms, which were quite muscled. His head band, which was black, was still on his forehead. It already had the slash through it. Around his neck he wore the Hokage necklace, a silver chain that had a fox charm-it was from me-, and the necklace we both had around our necks, the one he had just given me. I smiled and walked over to my clothes. Naruto turned around as I changed. I put on the clothes, excluding the cloak. When I was done I gave a littlee turn for him to observe what I had on.
I had on black pants that fit to my skin almost like a second skin. I had a mesh shirt with a built on bra, there were no sleeves and the shirt stopped at the top of the built in bra. Through it you could see a black tribal sun around my belly button. My head band, also with its brand new slash mark, was around my waist like a belt. It was also black. My sword was strapped to my left hip with a black strap. My hair, which now reached my waist, was put up in a high ponytail and braided. You could see my ANBU tattoo and the bottom of Naruto's.
We smiled at each other and grabbed our cloaks. They were exactly the same except for the clasp. Naruto's was a fox and mine was a sakura flower. I put my pack on-as did Naruto-and put my cloak on over it. You couldn't even see the bulge. I smiled and opened my door, whistling to Nyx, he flew over and landed on my shoulder. Neither me or Naruto had spoken yet, we didn't plan to until the deed sealing our fate was done. We slipped out of the apartment and sped to the Hokage's tower, Nyx flying next to me. People were already up and about, but they didn't notice us. When we finally reached our destination, we only stopped long enough to nod at each other before jumping behind our targets, the elders. We slaughtered them, making sure that our faces were seen. When we were done we ran out, hunter-nin chasing us, they must have expected us or were near by…
We ran and killed as we went. We ran all through the day, we had already lost our trackers but we wanted to get far enough away. We only stopped for three hours, enough for us to catch a little rest before we moved on again. We continued this for five days until we finally set up camp in a cave. We finally talked, we hadn't done it while running.
"Saku-chan, we did it. We finally left." he was in awe, I could tell. I was too. We were sitting beside each other against the cave wall, the fire in front of us and our packs and cloaks beside us.
"I know, I'm so happy. Imagine what would have happened if we had stayed a little longer…they would have killed me and locked you up." It still angered me. Our friends were in on it, they had amazing acting skills, I was still in awe that the village would turn on us after all we had done. Well, we showed them. The thought made me smile.
"Step one-finished. Step two-well, we don't have one. What are we gonna do now Saku-chan?" I looked at my hearts brother, worry also now setting in. we hadn't thought this through, not enough time.
"Well, we will take missions, just like we did in Konoha, but we will be able to choose and we won't be limited. Maybe soon we will find someone to work with. If not, we will establish our place in some random village. We will be fine and live out our lives as ninja." I smiled at him and we hugged each other. We stayed in this position, Naruto spoke as we broke apart a few minutes later.
"We need to make a new identity." We smiled and got to work.
A/N: ok, here it is, hope you like it!!