Hey! I'm here with another story! Don't worry, if you're reading "Is this really love?" I'm still updating! I've just had this chapter written for like 5 months now and I felt like posting it. I'm a little fonder of this story anyways and I wanted to see how many reviews I'd get. XD.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

Summary: Tsukiko is an ordinary girl with an extraordinary power that she doesn't even want. This bloodline trait can be given up if she gives away her first kiss before her 18th birthday. All that's on her mind is finding the right man that won't use her like her unknown father did to her mother. Plot is way better, just read!

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Tsukiko woke up to the sound of her alarm. The constant stream of buzzing caused a groan to escape her small, pink lips. She turned her clock off and lay in bed for a few minutes before getting up for work. Usually, a girl at the age of 17 would have woken up an hour earlier, so that they could get to school, but Tsukiko was an orphan.

Her mother, a woman that Tsukiko really didn't miss, had died two years ago by suicide at the young age of 34. Meaning that she had Tsukiko at the age of 17. She had always been bitter and ton since Tsukiko's father left her 17 years ago, so she took it all out on her own daughter. It seemed to most people that Tsukiko's mother was just some poor unfortunate teen who had gotten herself into trouble, and mostly, it was, but there was more to the story. Tsukiko was probably one of the only people who actually knew it as well.

In Tsukiko's family, the women were the fortunate ones to receive a bloodline trait. Supposedly it was a special one but Tsukiko had no idea nor a care in the world about it. But the one thing she knew, was that if she found a man before her 18th birthday and gave her first kiss to him, that he would receive her bloodline trait as well. Meaning she'd loose her 'kekai genkai'.

To a girl like Tsukiko who had spent her life dreaming of better days, it was the perfect romance story. The only problem was, she had no boyfriend, nor even an ex-boyfriend.

Tsukiko stood up and began to make her bed. Her tiny apartment was always clean and she wasn't about to start a messy habit, even if it was 9:00am. One rule that her landlord made clear was no decorating, painting or anything of the sort. This resulting in living quarters less exciting then her life. Tsukiko headed down the hall towards the tiny cold kitchen to cook up some breakfast. She couldn't count how many times she imagined what her 18th birthday would be like but it always contained romantic candles and a gorgeous boy who wouldn't leave her in the morning. Maybe she was more like her mother than she liked. Sighing as she thought of this she chewed her rice bitterly; Tsukiko ran her pink little fingers through her freakish, shoulder length, baby blue hair.

Today was a day off at the daycare where she worked but she had to go to the café for her side job where she waitresses. Saturday was actually one of her favorite days to work because her friend Kagami, the mute cook, worked on Saturdays. All the other workers at the café were extremely rude and seemed to have formed some sort of staff "clique" without her. The only decent person in the place was Kagami who had a way of expressing herself very well despite her muteness and could bring you to tears with a simple glare (but she was still nice despite her wild temper).

At the daycare the staff wasn't so cruel; they were more friendly and humble. Of course she had her friends there but they weren't a very big part of her life. Unlike most people Tsukiko wasn't very social and only focused on paying her rent and taxes than anything else. She considered her friends as strictly 'at work friends' and only rarely did she ever go to a movie or out on the town with them. But she always made room in her schedule for Kagami.

After eating the last grain of rice at the bottom of her bowl and cleaning the dishes Tsukiko headed back to her room and took out her uniform for work. She slid on the navy blue skirt and tucked in the white blouse then attached her nametag. She still had to face the staff clique even if Kagami was there.

Off to work, off to hell.

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Tsukiko looked around the quaint little restaurant and spotted a red blob in the kitchen. 'That must be Kagami,' she thought.

Tsukiko headed to the kitchens and sure enough there was the short redheaded girl scowling at a huge blotch on her pink apron. Typical. Tsukiko waved but Kagami was too distracted to notice. Kagami pulled at her thumb and Tsukiko noticed that to be the hand sign for shit. Tsukiko rolled her eyes and sweat-dropped. She then advised the manager that she had arrived. Then she set to work, taking peoples orders and delivering their food.

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"Ew! Don't let her near the customers food or they might get food poisoning," scowled Mitsu, the black haired beauty who, for some reason, hated Tsukiko's guts. Mitsu always managed to have at least twice the amount of tips as Tsukiko. Tsukiko sometimes contemplated whether or not she should shorten her skirt a little like her rival but had always decided against it.

Tsukiko avoided the cruel sting and continued cleaning up a table as if nothing happened.

"It looks like someone barfed blueberries on her head," that was the ever so annoying wannabe Mitsu, Koko. Even her name was annoying. Everything down from her short blond pixie cut, her narrow pale face to her little toes were just so annoying! Tsukiko heard the two's snobby laughter. 'What was so funny about that?' She continued placing the utensils on the table. 'Really, just ignore them. Besides, Kagami and me are going out for lunch after work. I should just look forward to that. Be positive Tsukiko.' She thought to herself.

"And seriously, has she ever heard about colored contacts, who seriously, has pink eyes?" Yelled Mitsu, obviously not trying to be subtle.

Koko agreed, "yeah! Get her outta here or she'll give us all pink eye!" Mitsu laughed.

"She's so ugly, she'll never get a boyfriend with that ugly hair, at least die it a natural color so a boy might not laugh out loud at the sight of you." Tsukiko suddenly stopped at Mitsu's cruel words. They were just a couple of words, but they stung Tsukiko anyways. Mitsu and Koko had no idea what the words meant to Tsukiko. She had been basically worried about that her whole life, that she might not be good enough to find that special someone. It looked as if Mitsu had finally found her insecurity. Tsukiko finished setting the table and headed back to the kitchen with her head bowed low.

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When she entered the kitchen, Kagami must have noticed her glumness because she immediately quit what she was doing and attended to her friend.

"What is it? What's the matter?" she indicated with her hands.

"It's nothing, I just really don't like Mitsu," Tsukiko said as she picked up one of the meals that was going to the back table.

"Well, we can talk about it when we go out later," Kagami reassured Tsukiko with a smile, "now go deliver your meal," she motioned to the back table.

Tsukiko did as she was told and headed to the table in the back. Looking at the meal though, it was obvious that these people weren't planning on staying too long. It was just two bowls of plain rice and some herbal tea.

She spotted the two figures at the shady table and put on her biggest and fakest smile.

"Hello there, here is your rice aaaaand… your tea," she said as she set down the hot beverage, "Can I get you anything else?"

"No," said one of the men, Tsukiko was a little confused which man had answered because she couldn't see their faces.

"Is this together or would you like two separate bills?" she asked, now a little less cheery due to the two figure's mysteriousness.

"They are together," said the same rough voice.

"OK then, tell me when you're ready and I'll get you your bill. Enjoy!" She then walked off, still a little confused by the two men in cloaks. 'What was up with those straw hats?' Tsukiko giggled to herself.

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She came back to the kitchen to check the in and out list, meaning the break hours list, she rolled her eyes to see that Mitsu, once again, had gotten a break twice as long as everyone else's due to her office official 'meetings' with the horny, 45 year old manager. It was almost sickening that Mitsu would sink that low for a raise and an hour-long break. She didn't even work for god's sake!

Taking another look around, she saw that Kagami wasn't in the kitchen, but she had no time to look for the overly short, mute. She had to work.

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After another hour of cleaning tables and taking orders a high-pitched scream startled Tsukiko from her concentration. The scream, Tsukiko noticed, had come from outside so Tsukiko reassured the manager, A.K.A. #1 biggest prick, that she would check what had happened.

As she stepped outside she could not see anyone so she went out back. At once she spotted Mitsu passed out on the ground, black hair sprawled around her tan face, cigarette burning in her left hand. She was obviously the one who screamed because the only other female there was Kagami who was being wrestled down by a shark. Unless a shark or a mute could utter a scream that high pitch, Mitsu who ugliness alone could offend her so much to render her unconscious definitely uttered the scream at the sight of the shark. Tsukiko guessed she was on her break and that was why she was here.

Tsukiko ran towards the odd shark man and pulled at his long cloak.

"Get off!" she cried, as she had no success in budging the man at all. He cursed as he threw Tsukiko off his back and proceeded in his hard task of stilling the fiery redhead, not an easy task. Kagami bit the man's hand and he yelled in pain. Tsukiko would almost feel bad for the guy if he weren't the one who had attacked her friend (at least that's how she assumed it happened.).

"Kisame-san," Tsukiko shivered as she heard a calm yet empty voice from behind her. She didn't dare budge as she felt even emptier eyes upon her back.

The shark, now known as Kisame, stood up with Kagami held by her neck by one of his long outstretched arms her feet not even near the ground he seemed to look at her as if she were some type of spider he didn't want to touch.

"Enough child's play," the shark's voice was deep and rough like the one from the back table. "This girl may be mute but she is still annoying," he growled. Kagami made a rude gesture with her hands that made Kisame nudge her violently.

"Kisame-san, who is she?" The voice said, sending shivers down Tsukiko's back.

Kisame glanced at Tsukiko and said gruffly, "No one of importance."

"Then let's go," that voice spoke again.

Kisame threw the ragging Kagami over his shoulder and was about to leave before Tsukiko found her voice again.

"Wait" he didn't stop nor turn, "WAIT!" she yelled again.

A wave of air passed in front of Tsukiko and the next thing she knew there was a man wearing the same cloak as Kisame in front of her. She couldn't see the man's face because the bottom half was hidden behind the collar and his eyes were hidden behind an odd straw hat. She thought she'd fall back out of surprise at how tall he was, she had to strain her neck just to look at his hidden face. The small slit of skin she could see between the cloak and hat grew larger almost as if in slow motion exposing more and more of the upper half of his face. Gradually she saw the arch of his nose, more pale skin, long eyelashes most women would envy, and then two dreadfully red spinning orbs. That was the last thing Tsukiko saw before everything went dark and she fell into a somewhat never ending sleep, a sleep with no dreams or nightmares, a sleep of darkness beyond comparison.

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Well that's it for now! Yeah, I kind of know a bit of sign language cause one of my friends parents are both deaf and I also had another friend who took me to some Christian camp where we learnt a couple of songs in sign language. But don't worry, I'll spare you the details when Kagami is talking and I'll show you what Tsukiko understands when she's talking.

P.S. please review this story so I don't feel like crap! XD jj, I just want a little more feed back than what I have on my other fic. R&R!!!!!