Alright! I've made up my mind. I'm going to rewrite EVERY CHAPTER. Yes I'm being serious. I didn't write this all too well, and the grammar makes my brain collapse on itself. So, I'm going to rewrite the story and hopefully get some ideas. Thanks!

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P.S. This story is like a Naruto x Wolf's Rain crossover, but a little different. Let me know if you like it!

I ran through the woods, with only a knife in hand, as I ran from my past. I ran through tree limbs that reached out to scratch my face. The hood over my head, protecting me from the whiplashing limbs, threatened to fall. A small bag bounced against my back, the leather hardly disturbing me as I ran. The small things I had managed to pack: money, food, rope, matches, and a book, all seemed rather useless to someone other than myself. As I passed a large oak tree, I heard someone behind me, so I ran faster. I had to run from my past. I didn't belong with them.

I was an orphan and I was given to a nice man and woman who ran a farm. At that time, I was just a baby. I grew up on their farm for 13 years until something weird happened. I was in my window, sitting and listening to the wind blow the leaves on the trees that leaned up against the side of the farm house, when I heard a beautiful sound ride on the wind. It was the howl of a wolf. My heart rate rose as my breath caught in my throat, my soul practically falling in time with the howl flowing through the air. After the howl ended, I felt such an overwhelming feeling of lonliness and despair I could hardly breathe. So I decided to ask the farmer and his wife, Brad and Julie. They said that I had waited long enough and needed to be told the truth. So they told me the story of how I really ended up on their farm, and what I really was.

The reason they had no papers of my adoption was because a wolf had dropped me onto their doorstep. The wolf, disguised as a human at the time, begged them to take care of the baby she held in her arms and to make sure that she had a normal life. The mother also told them that I would be told what I really was only when they decided that I was old enough to learn the truth. Brad and Julie agreed since they had no children of their own. As they discussed my unknown genes, they mentioneda tale they heard from a strange, traveling woman in the tavern in town. She said to them that wolves were going extinct, so they needed a camouflage to stay alive. Their camouflage allowed them to look human and they could live side by side with humans as long as they hid their true form. I was born a wolf, but my mother decided that it was best that I should live my life among humans. She made sure I would be camouflaged until I found out who I truly was. That's when she dropped me on their doorstep. Brad and Julie took care of me and never mentioned my 'wild side,' as they called it. I decided to run away only a few days after I was truly revealed, ready to do whatever it took to find my birth parents and understand who and what I was. I wanted to find my wolf mother and ask her why I couldn't live my life as a wolf and why they had trusted humans in the first place.

The person behind me was getting closer, I could smell it. Even though I was still camouflaged, I had all the senses of a wolf, even though at the time, I had no idea that I had abnormal senses until Brad and Julie decided to explain my heritage. Even so, I couldn't turn into my true form because no one told me how. My mother didn't because I was too small to understand, and Brad and Julie didn't know, so I was stuck in my human form. I could still hear the strange person behind me, but this time his scent was coming from above as well as behind. The only conclusion I could come up with was that the person was a ninja. It sounded a bit far fetched, but from a newly released book, it made some people like me think twice.

'Two worlds will clash. One will be ours; the other will be of a world of people who have a power called chakra. They can walk on water and run along the trees because of this inner power.' an excerpt from the 'Book of the Lunar Flowers.' It was a book given to me by the farmer and his wife as a present. It was written by a woman who could see into the future and I was always fascinated with her work, even though other people thought she was crazy. Yet, she was right. A few weeks ago something odd happened in the North. Then, like a virus, it spread south and eventually happened all over the world. It was like an explosion, minus all the smoke and radiation. All you could feel was a burst of chilled air before it would suddenly end. It was different from any other wind because after you felt it, the hairs on the back of your neck would stand up, and your instincts told you to run. To run where, of course, nobody knew.

I had been waiting in the trees, a silent killer in the dark and silent forest, for someone to approach. I could tell I was no longer in Kohona, so I stayed hidden in these strange woods. It wasn't long until I finally heard footsteps coming my way. In seconds, I saw a hooded figure running right underneath me. I quickly jumped up and leaped from my position to follow the stranger. He was faster than any human I had ever seen, so it had to be my brother. Who else could run that fast in a world without chakra?

After observing the figure for several moments, I quickened my pace and jumped from the trees, instantly landing on top of him. He struggled to get free and swiped at me with his knife. At that instant I backed off of him, my mind working quickly. This wasn't my brother. He quickly got up on his feet and his hood fell away. I almost gasped at what I saw in front of me. It was a girl with long, ash brown hair flowing in front of her icy blue eyes. She held her knife in front of her, ready if I was to attack again.

"Don't come any where near me!" she screamed at me.

Cautiously, I raised my hands slowly in a surrendering motion. "I won't. I thought you were someone else." I admit with a harsh undertone. I never was good at admitting I was wrong.

"Well, then why were you following me? I heard you following me ever since I passed that oak," she asked, still not letting her guard down. I was slightly impressed.

"Well, like I said, I thought you were someone else," I reply quickly, annoyance slowly seeping into my tone.

"Well listen. I can fight, so don't you get any ideas in that head of yours that you can drag me back to that farm without at least a broken arm," she growls, her teeth grinding together as her icy eyes glare at me with so much hatred, I'm almost curious about her, but enough to ask a couple of small questions.

"Farm?" I ask. "Why would I drag you to a farm?" Confusion filled my tone as I tilted my head, my dark black hair falling over my face slightly as my onyx colored eyes gazed at the strange girl.

"Aren't you here to bring me back to Brad and Julie?" she asked, her head tilted sideways opposite of mine as confusion filled her features. Her blue eyes no longer looked at me with so much hatred, but there was an underlying layer of curiosity in her eyes.

"No." I reply softly, knowing she has decided I'm no longer a threat as she slowly lowers her knife. "Now that you asked me a couple of questions, I'd like to ask you a few," I stated softly, my curiosity growing by the minute. Something about her was gnawing at me and I couldn't help but to ask.

"What's your question?" she asked easily, a small smile creeping up on her lips as she shifted her weight to one foot. She was becoming laid back. She didn't see me as an enemy or a threat. Maybe that was a mistake on her part.

"How can you run so fast without chakra?" I ask her, my onyx eyes hardening as I gaze back into her blue eyes. They widened and her entire body grew stiff and tense, almost as if she had suddenly become scared. Maybe she was smarter than I had originally taken her for.

"So you're from the other world?" she asked, trying to sound nonchalant even though her voice shook unsteadily.

"Yes, I am. But don't simply dismiss my question." I told her.

She took a deep breath before she answered, her body had lost its previous stiffness only to be replaced by a defensive stance. "I can just run fast. Why's that a big deal to you?" she asked, glaring at me. Her eyes had lost their slight warmth and had hardened like an underground rock.

"Well, I know that you don't have chakra, and nobody that I have observed so far can run like that. You may not have chakra, but you do have something else."

She raised her knife back up and her glare became even more severe as she bared her teeth. Anger and what I thought might've been sadness rolled off of her like waves.

"So what if I don't have chakra? What if I do have something else? Why do you care?" she asked, her voice defensive but bruised.

"Well if this world doesn't have chakra, then what does it have?" I could see a little pain in her eyes by my question, but she didn't let it take over completely.

"We have nothing like in your world. We have no power. I'm the only one that I know of that does." She lowered her head to look at the ground, her emotions taking over her body as she left herself unguarded. Nonetheless, I didn't have the urge to kill her, or even ignore her like I usually would in this sort of situation. Instead, a new feeling came over me, one that I didn't recognize and one that I wasn't willing to give in to.

While I was mentally straigntening my emotions, her head shot up and looked behind me. I turned and listened intently. I could barley hear footsteps on the wet leaves that laid on the forest floor. I turned back to look at the strange girl. She had fear in her eyes. She looked at me for a moment, then turned on her heel and ran deeper into the woods. I jumped up and landed on a tree branch a few feet above the ground. I crouched and waited silently, wondering who could be outside at night other than the strange girl.

Only a moment passed before a person emerged with a lantern turned down to its lowest. They were wearing a hooded jacket with blue jeans and a pair of boots. They were searching ahead of them for something. Then he, I could only guess it was male, slightly turned and waved. Then another male walked toward him and they started whispering. Slowly and quietly, I lowered myself on a lower branch so that I might hear their conversation.

"She's got to be close." The first one said.

"Remember what Brad and Julie said. She's good at hiding as well as running." replied the second one. Didn't the strange girl say something about Brad and Julie? I thought to myself.

"Why don't we go back to the farm and tell Brad and Julie that we couldn't find her? I mean, after all, they still won't tell us why she ran away in the first place," the second one told the first.

"Well if you listened, they said that they told her something about her parents. She's an orphan, so either she was shocked and ran away, or she decided to find them," the first one replied with a defensive tone.

"Either way, I'm cold and we're not going to find her. Let's just hope she gets eaten by a bear or a wolf. There aren't many wolves out there, but more than likely, they're hungry. They had to have a reason to be feeding off of the farmer's livestock. Now let's go. I want to be next to that nice warm fire," the second one said and, without waiting, headed off back the way they came.

"Fine," the first one whispered and followed the second one almost regrettingly.

So she's an orphan I thought to myself. I looked toward the way the strange girl left and followed, jumping from tree to tree.