On a warm fall day, many doctors and nurses run in and out of a room in the Hyuuga house hold. A light chestnut haired woman is giving birth. She hollers in pain as cayuse accurse outside. Hearing all the destruction outside as background noise wasn't helping the situation but she tries to stay strong.
'Toko, please. Please come back. Please make it to see our daughter.' The woman glances out at the full moon as she pushes once more.
"Again lady Kagome. One more should do it." A doctor calls to her.
Kagome pushes with all her might holding the sheets tightly and then… then she heard the cry of her little girl.
"You did well my lady." A nurse congratulations.
"What's this mark on her chest?" A doctor spots the odd three marks with a circle above them.
"Is it a birthmark? T-they look like… t-tails. Is she marked by the beast that had been rampaging?" the others begin to panic.
'Chihiro?' Kagome looks at her daughter tired.
Five years had passed since that night. Chihiro is now in school with her cousin Hinata and in the same class along with an interesting boy with whiskers on his face.
"Chi!" Calls a black haired man smiling at her.
"Daddy!" The five year old runs up to him.
"Ready for our trip?" Toko picks her up nuzzling her face.
Chihiro nods excitedly.
Before heading out for a family trip they stop by a cake shop. Chihiro sees the blond boy from her class eyeing the store.
'Naruto?' Chihiro looks over at him.
Chihiro pulls on her dad's arm asking him something. Toko looks over at the poor child cowering near an allies wall.
"Naruto?" Chihiro stands in front of the ally.
"W-what do you want?" Naruto looks ready for a fight yet his eyes shake.
"I just… I wanted to give you this and say Happy Birthday." Chihiro hands him the small box.
"T-thank you." Naruto takes it blushing a bit.
Chihiro then kisses his forehead. Naruto is stunned, his eyes widened looking at her long chestnut hair looking almost firey in the sunset.
"Have a happy birthday Naruto!" Chihiro smiles heading back over to her dad.
'Chi…' Naruto blushes a bit touching his forehead with one hand and hugging the cake with the other.
"That was a very sweet thing you did Chi." Toko smiles softly as his daughter rides on his back.
"I just… I think everyone needs something on their birthday." Chihiro flushes a bit snuggling her dad's back as they walk.
Meeting his wife at the gates he motions for her to be quiet. Both glancing at the asleep angle on his back.
"Sleep well Chi, we'll be there when you wake up." Kagome whispers kissing her daughter's forehead.
The small family went to a hot springs at a nearby town as a birthday treat. Chihiro simply loved having her parents to herself for a change. All enjoyed their time away from the village. Little did they know this would be the last time they would see each other.
Halfway to the village a cat strolls then sees an awful sight. Toko and Kagome are dead with cuts all over their bodies and kunai through the heart. Then over on the other side is their daughter. A few cuts on her but other than that she doesn't seem that hurt.
Manami had been doing a small recon mission in a tourist town nearby, checking on rumors about a potentially hostile group of foreign shinobi. From what she had managed to gather, the group had already moved on. Returning to give her report, she came upon a gruesome scene.
Shinobi, two familiar and the seven foreigners she had been sent to investigate, lay dead on the ground. The two Hyuuga had what she hoped had been clean kills with direct kunai hits, but the attackers… Wounds covered their bodies without pattern or reason. Frantic, panicked slashes. Except they as well were clean. Eyes wide, the nekonin scanned the surrounding area and saw the small girl. Transforming into her primary human appearance, Manami ran over to her.
"Hey!" She knelt down in front of the girl, extending her hand. "It's safe now. What's your name?"
"S-stay away!" The girl shouts, a whirl wind coming off of her.
The wind was strong yet erratic. It surrounded her like a cocoon as the frightened girl cowers inside. Yet there was another problem, all that power coming off of her was causing a strain on her small body.
Manami jumped back, keen eyes observing the child. She spoke loudly enough to be heard over the wind, but kept her tone gentle.
"It's okay, child. I'm not going to hurt you," she assured. "My name is Uchiha Manami of Konohagakure, your same village. I promise, I won't hurt you."
Chihiro looks at her through the wind and tears. She didn't understand what happened or what's going on.
"M-mommy. D-daddy… th-they…" Chihiro can't finish the words through her sobs.
'They were trying to protect me.' Chihiro remembers her parents trying to defend her.
"Tell me your name, little sister," Manami instructed, standing and stepping slowly closer to the girl.
"Ch-Chihiro H-Hyuuga." Chihiro manages to get out.
'I feel… really tired.' Chihiro's eyes grow heavy.
Soon the wind dies down and a faint glow that had been on her chest fades. Falling to the ground she feels strong yet gentle hands grab her.
Feeling the girl's cold body and hearing her heart beat stop, she rushes the child to the hospital. The doctors rush about trying to stabilize her.
"How is she?" An old man with a large hat bearing the fire symbol on it joins Manami at the observing window.
"Saru," she greeted quietly, watching the girl with weary eyes. "I can't erase that image from my mind."
"What image?" The third Hokage looks at her confused. "What happened?" he looks at her worried for the child.
"This is the second time I've seen uncontrolled wind slice a whirl so erratically." Manami closed her eyes, taking a slow breath to calm herself. "I found that same group, all seven of them, dead."
"What? Are you saying… she…?" Sarutobi almost drops his pipe turning to the child fighting for her life.
"That's exactly what I'm saying. When I found her, she was still… fighting to control it. As her awareness returned, her consciousness faded. The last time I saw something like that…" Manami saw him in her mind, the frightened and angry child surrounded by bodies and broken branches. She opened her eyes. "Something about her felt different, though."
"Different?" Sarutobi turns to her. "What do you mean?"
"It didn't feel the same as normal chakra."
'Not normal?' Sarutobi turns to the girl once more.
"What could have happened?" Sarutobi looks at the now stabilizing small girl. "Manami, will you keep an eye on her?" he turns to his old friend.
"Pat of it's clear, but I'm more confused about that strange chakra. The ANBU will put the rest together for you better than I can. That's their job, anyways." She turned to the window and nodded. "I'll do what I can, but you know where my priorities need to be. Things are starting to get to get more tense, and I'm worried about the boys more than ever."
"Keep safe my old friend." Sarutobi tilts his hat as she leaves back in cat form.
'As for you Chihiro… what is your secret?' Sarutobi looks at the poor girl.
