Rain.

It always rains here.

There's nothing we can do about it, our leader created this rain to spy on us. Of course we all agree to his idiotic rules because there is no real way out of it. If we try to escape the city he'll know and kill us but I won't stay here forever. Before he came to rule we had Hanzō but it always rained then too, the storm that resides over the village makes sure of that. I should be grateful that this is my home but I'm not. I want to find a way to leave and never come back. I have always been mistreated here. It's not my fault that I am the mistake of the Akatsuki. It's not something that is meant to be talked about but I'm sure that if I can leave the village then all the constant staring and humiliation of being affiliated with those monsters will leave.

I've hear that the Village hidden in the leaves is a beautiful place with lots of grass and minimal rain. I've also heard around the village that it's home to some of the most friendly shinobi, if I could find a way to travel there, then maybe I'd be safe from by life-time burden. However the thought is easier than action upon it as the village is guarded by Pain's rain. If he could pause it for even a minute or two then maybe I would be able to slip out without catching the eye of the Akatsuki. Considering it was the only plan I had, then I would have to go with it. Trust me, If there was another way I would of found it but with only water style and taijutsu to company me, it would be no good if they caught me.

Every moment Natsuko was on edge, waiting for Pain's shield of rain to fall. She thought maybe she could get lucky for once in her life and for once she was right. For his barrier to fall so suddenly, Pain must be in battle, although she didn't pay close attention to why it had fallen as her thoughts were on leaving the horrific wet land and finding somewhere she would be safe. Natsuko hadn't quite thought about the time it would take to cross the land and sea as it took her weeks of constant travelling to reach her destination. As she walked along the dusty path towards the village her heart filled up with hope as she saw the gates come into view. With the last of her strength from the long journey she began to run towards the gates. Within her excitement she had forgotten about the guards that were positioned at the gate and she had ran past them. However she didn't get far before she had been gripped by the collar of her chunin jacket by one of the guards.

"What do you think your doing?!" The yelling the guard was doing, created a scene and when Natsuko realized everyone was staring at her an embarrassed blush came to her cheeks.

"I was a little too excited to be here, sorry" She said with a smirk on her her feet found the ground again she straightened out her jacket and looked up at the guard and began to lie to him.

"I was sent from the village hidden in the rain, I must speak to the Hokage at once!" It was a very convincing act that she was putting on and lucky for her the guard bought her lie. As she was escorted to the Hokage's office she glanced round the village. It was more beautiful than she could of ever imagined.

The first thing that caught Natsuko's eyes was the lack of rain. In her home village, the residents would either be running around with umbrellas or using rebreathers. Usually the shinobi of the village would wear rebreathers so that they would have both hands free for battle, however Natsuko hated those things, so she would walk through the village with her black umbrella with the villages kanji characters painted on.

The sun made everything look so beautiful; the luscious grass, the training shinobi and even the architecture of the village was incredible compared to the tall buildings if the rain village. Her thoughts were cut short when the guards let her into the Hokage's office and shut the door as they left. It wasn't until Natsuko had put her hands behind her back and walked to the Hokage's desk that she realized that the Hokage wasn't alone. As she glanced round Natsuko noticed three shinobi standing behind her.

The first had a look of complete bewilderment on her face. It seemed that this pink hair shinobi wasn't quite sure on Natsuko's presence as her eyes kept flickering from the village headband tied around her head. Who could blame her? The shinobi world wasn't in the best state and suddenly a ninja from a far off land comes to their village? Of course it was suspicious but Natsuko meant no harm. However she knew that keeping her history to herself was the best option she had.

The second girl looked as if she was about to shout and lash out at the visitor at any given moment. The same was with the scruffy looking boy with fang marks on his cheeks. Natsuko did her best to ignore them but their glares burnt a hole in her head.

"I am Natsuko of the village hidden in the rain" She paused to take off her headband and put it on the desk before looking back up at the Hokage with a serious look glinting in her eyes. Before Natsuko continued, she heard the red fanged boy snicker.

"It's funny because your name means summer but all you know is rain." Natsuko's eye twitched at his comment and she yelled.

"You think it's funny that I spent my whole life in the rain?!" The glares that he was receiving from the rain shinobi could of killed, if only looks worked that way.

"I have travelled from the village hidden in the rain to request residents in your beautiful village. I was poorly treated in the rain and with the new leadership everything became much worse."

Land Tsunade's brows knitted together as she hit the desk with her fist. Everyone flinched except Natsuko who was used to the anger of the Akatsuki.

"Who do you think you are?! Coming all this way to my village for something so pathetic!"

" Pathetic?! I do not see it as pathetic. I was shunned and known as an outsider to my own village! They did not want me to be there, I was never a true shinobi of the rain. I was a mistake!" Natsuko screamed back before she back up a few steps and bowing.

"I am very sorry for yelling. As you may know my people have short tempers." It was true. The shinobi of the village hidden in the rain was known to have short tempers. Whether that was due to constantly being rained on, or the fact that most of them were forced into assassination missions. There was no way to tell.

With a slow grunt Lady Tsunade rubbed her forehead and glared back at the girl in front of her. It was clear to everyone present that the Hokage wasn't in a good mood with this sudden visitor.

" This is highly irregular but I will put you under one week of surveillance with one of jounin shinobi to check you are not dangerous. However, I warn you that if you even think of causing any trouble around here I will personally deal with you."

"Of course, thank you for your kindness but that won't be needed, I don't intend to cause any trouble"

Once she had bowed again, a silver haired shinobi entered the room to take the place of her escort and supervisor.

"This is Kakashi Hatake and he will be your escort for the next week. One toe out of line and your gone" Was all she said before ushering me and Kakashi to leave.

When they were outside the room Kakashi smiled at Natsuko and introduced himself.

"Hello, as Lady Hokage said I'm Kakashi. You'll be living with me for the next week but don't try anything"His words made Natsuko slightly angrily and she let out a deep sigh.

As I said, I don't intent to, however my past is mine and mine along got it?" She asked him with a stone cold look him his eyes and all he did was nod with a little hesitation.

She wasn't about to let her past from the the rain and the Akatsuki ruin her new chance at a peaceful shinobi life.