** I Do Not Own Anything that is Part of The Naruto Series; only my OCs and story plot**


The warm sun was beginning to rise up from a long nights sleep to welcome a new and beautiful day in Konoha. Kotetsu and Izumo sat at the front gates to Konoha awaiting the end of their guard shift.

Kotetsu leaned back in his chair and let out a long yawn. "Aaaaaaaaaahhh! Izumo, how did we end up with the night shift again? This is two weeks in a row now."

Izumo also let out a yawn and looked to his comrade. "Don't ask me, ask Hokage-sama."

Kotetsu leaned back in his chair a bit more and let out a light laugh. "I would rather not question the Hokage. And I would rather not get yelled at by her either for complaining about the night shifts."

Both smiled and laughed at the comment, but the laughter was cut short by a sudden knocking on the Konoha gates. "BANG! BANG! BANG!"

"hmm…? Who could be coming here this early in the morning?" said Izumo. He got up from his chair and walked towards the gate doors, curious to find out who was banging on the other side.

"Please! Anyone! Let me in!" shouted a voice from the other side of the giant doors. "Please! Someone!" said the stranger again in a more urgent tone of voice.

Izumo and Kotetsu ran to the doors and readied them selves in-case it was a trap. Both men looked to each other and nodded. They made the hand seals needed to open the gates. As the doors were slowly opening, the two shinobi peered through the doors still standing at the ready. To their surprise there lay a teenage girl collapsed on the ground in front of them. They waited a moment before walking over to the girl. Izumo walked on the right side while Kotetsu on the left side of the girl. Kotetsu looked around the surrounding area for anything suspicious but nothing was amiss. They took mental notes of the girls' appearance; her clothes were torn and tattered, and she appeared to be beaten, cut, and heavily bused all over. Izumo then noticed a small pool of fresh blood on the ground by her head, staining the long white as snow hair.

"Shit!" said Kotetsu. "What the hell happened to her?"

"I'll call to the Hospital and to Hokage-Sama" said Izumo. "You get her to the Hospital!"

Kotetsu picked up the girl and cradled her in his arms. "Right!" With that, Kotetsu disappeared in a flash.

From in the tree tops one of Danzo's Root ANBU was watching. He wrote quickly on a scroll, made some hand seals and the scroll disappeared in a small puff of smoke. He then jumped back into the forest.

At the Hospital, Kotetsu stood outside of the room that the girl was in. Two nurses were in the room tending to the girl's injuries. The girl's random appearance at the gates was strange and our of the norm; there was no knowing what may happen when she woke.

"Kotetsu!" said a stern female voice.

He looked up to see the Hokage. He stood up right away "Yes, Hokage-sama!"

"Go home and rest. I'll take it from here" said Tsunade.

"Yes." Kotetsu bowed and walked away from the room.