AN: Due to some crazy medical stuff I have been going through the last few years I had to give up writing for a while but Im back now and I hope you guys enjoy my mind vomit. Also Ive been looking for all my notes on my other story Body and Soul if anyone was interested. I haven't found them yet but I kinda remember where I was going with that one so I will eventually continue it.

Disclaimer: I have no ownership of Naruto or its characters . . . But if I did . . .teehee. . . Mwahaha *cough**cough*

River of Leaves

Prologue

Iruka could only stare ahead of him in shock as his parents fell dead onto his front yard, the cold air already leaving a shining mist on the quickly freezing bodies. The shinobi that stood grinning over his parents brought his newly made ice-blade to his mouth and licked off the blood with a grin.

"Well that was just too easy!" the shinobi laughed as he started walking towards Iruka who still could not take his eyes off his fallen parents. The shinobi kneeled in front of the young child and suddenly pushed Iruka down to the ground by his throat, water splashing in all directions from the impact. The man's strength was too much for the panicking boy, so Iruka could do nothing as the stranger used his bloody dagger to carve a line on his face from cheek to cheek. Struggling to breathe and desperate from the pain, Iruka kicked and clawed at the killer, but nothing seeming to to even scratch the man through his thick gear.

"I heard that this family had a kekkei genkai, but I guess I heard wrong since all of you are so WEAK!" he yelled into Iruka's distressed face as he clutched the small neck harder. A final choked, squeak left the boy and he went limp, limbs collapsing in the rain soaked ground. Picking the boy up still grasping his throat, the shinobi threw the boy into the small house through the wide open, front door. He then dragged both the bodies of Iruka's parents into the house and dropped them on top of the motionless child. The shinobi stared at the mess of bodies in front of him and kicked harshly at the closest appendage.

"Tech! Useless. Weak and boring." He sighed as he ran a hand through his unkept silver hair and lazily formed the hand seals for a fire jutsu. His cold gaze watched the bodies begin to burn for only a second before he turned and stomped out of the burning house. The rain storm had already passed this area earlier in the evening, so he did not bother making sure the house caught flame. With no rain the house would be gone by morning. The shinobi walked down the rarely used path away from the home and disappeared into the mist.

In the center of the blazing house, underneath the two burning bodies, lay the unconscious form of Iruka Umino, whose kekkei genkai had finally activated and formed a shield of ice all around his body.