So, I've been thinking of making this story for quite some time now, and since I currently am obsessed with Naruto, I thought what better time than now. Anyway, Haku is my favorite character so he is the main character here, but I never could really look at him as a guy for some reason. So Haku is a she here, and I like weird parings so I am going to pair her up with Shikamaru. Anyway, on to the prologue.

She ran as fast as she could, and she didn't look back. She didn't expect for her father to suddenly try to kill her, and she did not expect to suddenly kill him. After what happened she just sprinted of into the unknown. She ran into the forest until she could not feel her legs. She sat against a tree where she hugged her knees and began to cry, eventually falling asleep.

She woke up startled when she heard ruffling in the bushes. She tried to stand up and make a run for it, but she still couldn't feel her legs from running too much. She nervously waited when she saw a man with spiky gray hair, and a face mask and his hitai-ate covering his left eye. From what Haku could see of his face, she can tell he was shocked to find a young girl in the wilderness. Haku couldn't blame him, she was dirty with ripped clothes, her hair was a mess, and her feet were covered in mud from running too much. Then she noticed that he had a leaf hitai-ate. She knew she ran a lot but she didn't think she ran all the way to the Land of Fire, so she suspected that he was a ninja on a mission.

"W-Where am I?" Haku asked the man.

"You're far from the Village Hidden in the Mist but you're still in the Land of Water." The man answered after a minute.

"I take it you're lost" The man continued.

Haku shook her head, "I need to get out of here." She stated after a moment. The man raised his visible eyebrow. Haku managed to stand up, but after a few steps. The man seeing this helped her get up and she stood up while holding up to a tree. Her feet were still a little asleep.

"Looks like you won't be going anywhere for a while." The man said before asking, "What's your name?"

The girl looked at him, "Haku, may I ask yours?"

The man gave her an eye smile, "Kakashi."

"Where are you going to go?" The man, Kakashi, asked after a moment of silence.

Haku looked towards the ground, then she said, "I don't know but I need to leave this place."

"Why?" asked the masked ninja.

"It's a rather long story, I'm afraid." Haku answered him.

The masked ninja lowered himself to be at her level and eye smiled, "Tell you what, I'll take you with me to my village, and you tell me what happened to you."

Haku eyes lighted up at the suggestion of leaving behind her village and agreed to the deal.

Once Kakashi arrived with Haku to Konoha, he asked for an audience with the Hokage, which he was granted. While on the road Kakashi managed to find new clothes for the 8-year-old girl. The girl wore a plain blue t- shirt with long black pants and a pair of sandals. Haku was currently telling the Hokage what had happened and why she had run away.

"… and that's when I met Kakashi-sama." Haku finished explaining. The Hokage was looking at the girl with a surprised look on his face.

"To kill a wife and to try to kill a child just because of their bloodline, horrible." The Hokage said.

"Yes, but I killed my fathe-", Haku was interrupted by the Hokage, "From what you told me it was an act of self-defense, you are in no way in fault in this situation."

Haku visibly relaxed when he said that. Then Kakashi asked, "What are you going to do with her Hokage-sama?"

"Well, we can't have her living alone." The Hokage said, "Maybe someone can take her in."

The Hokage began thinking for a moment before coming to a conclusion. Then he called out his ANBU, "Get Kurenai hear immediately." After the order the ANBU left.

After a half-hour, a woman with black hair, red eyes and a strange white and red uniform entered. Haku realized that she must have been Kurenai. She bowed to the Hokage, "You sent for me, Hokage-sama?" The Hokage nodded, "I'd like you to meet Haku, she's an orphan from the Village Hidden in the Mist that Kakashi found during his mission. Kurenai looked at the young girl who was staring back at her. The Hokage continued, "We don't currently have living arrangements for her so, I thought she could live with you temporarily. At least until we find her other living arrangements. You don't have to worry much about her since we agreed that she will enter the academy. Of course, she'll stay only if you agree." The Hokage told her. Kurenai looked at the child and saw so much pain in her eyes, before she knew it she had told the Hokage that Haku could stay with her as long as she needed. Afterwards, she was happy to see Haku's eyes light up when she said that.

After getting everything ready, Kurenai took Haku to her home. She let her get settled and Haku managed to sleep without nightmares through the night. The next day they shopped for clothes for Haku and Kurenai got to now her better and prepared her for the academy.

Haku entered the academy, wearing a short blue kimono with light blue edges and a dark grey split skirt. Not knowing what to expect, since it was her first day she was quite nervous. She did not interact with kids her age when she lived with her parents so she was nervous about meeting the other kids. She entered the classroom and everyone turned their heads to look at her and she shrunk under their gazes. She looked over the students to see where there was a seat where she could sit in. She managed to find a seat next to a young boy with blond hair and blue eyes, he had three whisker-like marks on each of his cheeks and he wore a hideous orange jumpsuit. When she sat next to him, he looked at her with a smile, but before he could introduce himself, the sensei who would be teaching entered the classroom.

"Ok class before we begin, we have a new student, her name is Yuki Haku, and she just came from the Village Hidden in the Mist." The Sensei said, he wore a standard Konoha ninja outfit, he had a line that went from his right cheek over his nose and reached his left cheek, he had brown hair that he pulled up into a ponytail. "I am Iruka-Sensei and I will be helping you become a Genin."

When class was dismissed she left outside and saw the kid in the orange jumpsuit, Naruto, she heard everybody's name when Iruka-sensei roll called, sitting in the swing outside of the academy alone. She decided to approach him to formally introduce herself to him. When she got close enough for him to see her feet since he was looking down, he looked up with a face full of confusion and… terror? She was shocked when she saw this, but she hid her confusion with a gentle smile on her pretty face, "Hi I'm Yuki Haku." She extended her hand. He looked at her shocked, he didn't think anyone would want to approach him and be nice to him outside of the academy. He smiled and took her extended hand and shook it, "Uzumaki Naruto." She sat down against the tree next to the swing, "Why are you alone? Aren't you friends with our other classmates?" Naruto made a face, "They barely even talk to me, they think I'm worthless, but I'll show them how wrong they are when I become Hokage!" Haku smiled at his demeanor, but frowned when she remembered that he said they think he is worthless.

"Why wou-"Haku was interrupted by the blond girl, Ino calling her. She stood up looked at Naruto and smiled, "I would like to continue our talk another day, tomorrow perhaps." Haku said to him. His face lit up and he nodded to her.

Haku walked towards the blond girl, "How long have you been here, in the village I mean?" Ino asked her.

Haku shrugged, "Two weeks."

"Then you don't know who that loser is. We don't hang out with him." Ino stated.

Haku looked at where Naruto was, "Why?"

It was Ino's turn to shrug, "Because he's a loser, and also our parents don't want us too."

Haku looked at Ino with a confused look on her face, "Why?" she asked again.

Ino shrugged again, "They never really explain why, but we don't hang out with him anyway.

Haku made up an excuse to leave and went to her temporary home with Kurenai.

Haku arrived and saw that Kurenai was there in the kitchen. Haku approached her, and Kurenai looked at her and smiled. "How was your day, Haku-chan?" Haku smiled back at her and started telling her how her day was and what she learned.

"Kurenai, may I ask you something?" Haku asked.

Kurenai nodded, "Why does everyone hate Naruto?" Kurenai's eyes widened.

"What do you mean?" Kurenai asked.

"Well, Ino told me that parents don't want them to hang out with him for some reason." Haku stated.

Kurenai, not knowing how to respond, shrugged, "It's probably because he likes to do pranks and they think he is a bad influence on their children." Kurenai lied.

"Well, I hope you don't mind me friend with him." Haku said.

Kurenai smiled at her, before setting don the food and they both began to eat.

Ok so that was the prologue, like I said I like weird couples so for now Haku will be paired up with Shikamaru. By the way there will be NO bashing here, if you think I am bashing someone, you can tell me so I can tone it down. So far, the couples will be NaruHina, SasuSaku, ShikaFemHaku. Also, I need help with the Japanese words of you can help me out with those I'd really appreciate it. I hope you enjoyed the prologue. I'll try to post the next chapter as soon as I can. I don't know how updates will be concerning this story yet but I think It will be posted tomorrow. Also, if anyone reads this, you could tell me if you prefer Haku in a team with Kakashi or Kurenai.