All her life, well up until now everything had been fine…or at least that was what she was meant to believe. How could they lie to her, she was a member of their clan. The heir to it. For it was believed that she was special. Just like the Uchiha clan, her clan had something special about them. However it could be said that what she possessed was dangerous, and this was no lie.
Everything had appeared normal in her life up until her 16 birthday. However in reality her life was in no way normal, how she was brought up was different. She had never left her village nor actually been allowed to take part in any exams to progress her ninja way, and yet she was a Chūnin. Her father was the only one that was to teach her. She had never been part of a team, and never really apart of her family… this was to change though.
One night while she was practising she heard it. It was an unusual sound that she had never heard before, but it sent shivers down her spine. She didn't know this was possible as she had been surrounded by the dead for as long as she could remember. Her father had left her An hour before hand but she was sure she could master the technique soon, she had to if she wanted to leave the village and see the world.
Her father rushed in pulling her younger sisters by the arms. She stopped in her tracks, something was defiantly up, her sisters were not allowed to enter her training area, it was known in her clan that not all members possessed the skills that she and her father had, and in her father's words she was the strongest in generations to possess this ability.
"Kaori, they found us, run. Take your sisters and run, go to the hidden leaf!" Her father shouted at her as she grabbed her sisters arms, pulling them behind her, they were not that much younger the her Haruhi was 14 and Kimi was 8.
"Father, I will fight with you!" she shouted back only to be pushed back. His actions said it all, she just need him to confirm it, "They are after you!" He whispered harshly, as fighting could now be heard in the house. She knew she had no other option. She had to get out of the village or she would be taken and experimented on. It was not the first time this had happened to her clan. People wanted what they had.
She took her sisters arms and they ran off into the night, as they jumped through the trees, about four ninjas were following behind them, and catching up quickly. They were going at a slower pace as Kimi was still in training. The Kimi tripped and it was over. Kaori stopped dead in her tracks, turning to the women that held her sister, kunai pointed at her throat.
"Come with us and we won't kill her like we did your father. You know, they talk about the mystery of your clan and the powers you possess, if I'm being honest it's not that good. Your father went down quickly enough, but then again he is not the one we want." The women sneered, pressing the blade harder onto Kimi's neck, drawing some blood. She turned on the woman as the others launched their attack, and with one touch of Kaori's fingers one of the man's flesh melted off. This was one of the things she had yet to master. It was part of her powers. She was an angel of death. She brought death and a part of her was happy about that.
The other two shinobi stopped in their tracks. They hadn't fully known what they were getting into, and now it was all becoming clear. Unexpectantly the women pushed Kimi forward, she and her sister Haruhi seeing for the first time the ability that their father had shielded them from. They were forgotten. While all eyes were on their eldest sister. Then all out fighting broke out, and Haruhi finally snapping out of her daze joined to help her sister. The fighting lasted for half an hour before Kaori had her hand clamped around the woman's neck, not melting the skin just yet. She wanted to mentally torture the woman. She was getting the reaction she had hopped. She had forgotten that her sisters were present. This was the scary thing about the ability that she possessed. If was hard for to snap out of this rampage, it was a vicious one, and the main reason her father practised with her. He could control her by burning her skin if she was falling in too deep.
As the woman screamed out in pain again and again she eventually melted the woman's skin. And the bones fell to the ground as she fell to her knees. It drained her to be in that state for long. She got to her knees looking her sisters in their eyes. She could see the fear but also the pride, it was clear their family was gone, but they had their sister and based on what they saw, they knew she would look after them and make a new home for them.
They rushed to their sister helping her up. "I'm sorry you had to see that, you can see why dad kept you away from me most of the time, it was for your own good." She told them, Haruhi used her medical Ninjutsu to help Kaori. While She was doing this Kaori went to sense whether or not there was anybody else following them. There was one other person present but they were heading back the way they came. Once Haruhi was done, Kaori got up and informed her sisters that they had to make it to the Hidden Leaf village. It would take about a week but they would get there.
Kaori remembered how often her father recounted how he met her mother, his wife in the Hidden Leaf Village. He had gone there for his Chūnin exams. She was a quiet blonde with some bite. He had been mesmerised by the way she moved, the fluidity of her movements. She was elegant and a brilliant fighter. He had been glad he didn't have to fight her, because he was not sure he would win. As well he did not want to lose control of his ability and burn her beautiful pale skin. They had both taken a liking to each other and as they got older they made more of an effort to meet with each other before he finally asked her to marry him, and she did and moved from the village she had called home to their village…or what was their village.
No. If their mother had been a leaf ninja, they were, in a sense leaf ninja too. Now they just had to hope that they would be accepted in the village. Well Kaori believed that Haruhi and Kimi would fit in and be accepted easily into the village, she was not sure whether or not they knew of her, and the ability she possessed , and if they would take her in. In her eyes it seemed that they may not want someone like her in their village. All she could do was hope, and that hope would have to get her through.
She had heard that the Leafs Hokage was her mother's teacher. Tsunade, Kaori recalled. Her mother had done nothing but gush about her great teacher, one of the legendary Sannin. That was before her mother's murder. Her mother had shown her a photo of her team. She could recall how similar she and her mother looked. She had her mother's hair and strong facial features, but she had her father's eyes. They dark brown eyes that held many secrets. She also had her father's family marking, More like a phrase burned into her arm, it was burned into her arm at the age of 4. She hoped that The Leafs Hokage would remember her mother and in turn recognise that she was one of her pupils daughters. They all looked similar to their mother. It was all the eldest sister and now head on the clan could hope for. For them to survive, they had to be accepted. It is what their father would have wanted, and their mother. All she wanted no was to get to the village as quick as possible.