THIS IS NOT A SASUKE-AS-A-GIRL STORY. STOP ASKING

Hello dear people. Mmm, this isn't one of my first fic on FanFiction, my other was a Harry Potter fan fiction, but I deleted it because of how poorly it was written, besides I lost interest in this story.

Other than that, this is my first Naruto fiction ever written, and I wrote it about a year ago, so the chapters can only get better, right?

Traditionally, I'm a slash writer, but Kei is one of my favorite characters that I made, because she's such a bitch... and I'm a bitch so it matches. There are additional notes at the bottom that I ask you to read as well.

Chapter One

"A song bird?" he suddenly looked flushed, his face red with flowing blood and his lip stuck out like a child's, "I'm suppose to protect some frou frou song bird? What the hell does she do? Sit around and look perfect?" his voice was hoarse as ever, words spoken quickly while his hands fidgeted with his hair.

"Yes, that is what she was taught to do."

"With all those robes, she wont be able to walk." He commented dryly and suddenly the woman before him flushed the same color as he did, her lips drawing into a tight frown that could make any man quake in his boots. "Besides, she'll probably whine the whole way." He added, crossing his arms over his chest and standing rigidly. His lip jutted out even more, and suddenly he looked twelve years old again.

"Naruto." Tsunade warned, her tone dropping dramatically. "She is a respected Geisha."

"Which means she can't do anything but sit around and look pretty, Tsunade-baachan!" he stated stubbornly. Her eyes narrowed suddenly and she tapped her table with her finger.

"No, which means she can sing, dance and serve tea."

"Because serving tea is so difficult." He muttered through clenched teeth until jumping when Tsunade slammed her fist on the table, almost cracking it in half.

"Serving tea was considered an art."

"But she's certainly no ninja."

"No, she has not received any training. That is why your mission is to protect her while escorting her to Suna for the festival of Sand."

"Suna? Where Sabuku no Gaara is?" Naruto almost choked for a moment. He was never afraid of the redhead, in fact, they had grown fond of each other, friends.

"Yes. Now stand up strait, damnit, and quit complaining!" she finally yelled and pointed toward the door. "Hnn," was all she got out of him before he dramatically slouched and walked out of the door, dragging his feet. He suddenly felt himself run into something soft, fragile, knocking heads with someone. A soft sound escaped from the person he ran into and he was greeted with a pale face, paler than Sasuke's ever had been.

"Goman nasai." Naruto muttered dully, staring down at the little song bird that he was to take to Suna. It was a D-rank mission, she just needed to be shown the way. Easy enough…

She gave him a quizzical looking, as though he hadn't fazed her in the least. The metal of his 'forehead protector' hadn't even made a red mark appear on her impossibly white skin. He knew that the normally painted their faces, but she wasn't wearing any make-up. She was certainly not flawless, he could see a small birthmark on her left cheek, right next to her ear. It was small, barely noticeable.

Eyes were black, dark, no, they weren't black, they were blue. She had dark blue eyes that caught the light when she blinked slightly, flashing them into clear water blue, like Naruto's. She looked bored suddenly as she raised a slender eyebrow, lips drawing into a pout.

Kei.

Kei had sleek eyes that held a look of impassiveness in them. Naruto didn't understand how a songbird could be cruel, but he didn't say anything. She stepped aside rather respectfully for him, long black hair falling over her shoulders in a definite bow. She was wearing a Yukata, he had never seen a woman wear a yukata. Shaking his head, he gripped her upper arm and pulled her along with him.

Her silence was unnerving, part of him wanted to start a conversation with her, while most of him kept yelling at him to shut his trap. He doubted she would be very interesting anyway. The two passed Kiba, the dog-boy leaning back to get a better look at the girl, letting out a low whistle when he saw her face. His clawed hand reached out and gripped Naruto's wrist, pulling the blonde back, the second that Naruto was pulled, kei stopped and waited patiently, not moving from her spot.

"Oi, Naruto, who's the girl?" he asked, keeping his voice low, but she could still hear it, she was a musician, she hardly ever missed any sound.

"Some songbird I have to take to Suna." He answered drawly and kiba gave a wolfish grin. "She's odd looking."

"Kiba…" he warned, his eyes set in a cold glare. Kiba glanced at her again; he couldn't see the shape of her body in the loose robe. "What? She is, her eyes are empty, what kind of person has empty eyes…"

The both glanced to where she was, she was staring at them rudely now, her lips set into a tight frown, eyelashes curling slightly as her half-lidded eyes looked completely emotionless.

"Reminds me of Sasuke." At those words, Naruto tightened.

Naruto hadn't been able to keep his eyes off of Kei since Kiba pointed out how much she looked like Sasuke. She looked as though she didn't notice his stares and walked along side with him. Naruto was expecting her to fatigue quickly and have to carry her on his back, but it didn't happen. Kei stared forward, and kept about two steps behind Naruto, respectful distance. They had left Konoha just after she gathered up all of her things from the inn that she had been staying at. For a girl, she didn't bring much along.

'She's defiantly not like sasuke.' He continuously told himself, crossing his arms over his chest. As if on cue, Kei stepped up next to Naruto and put a hand on his upper arm, glancing up at him for a moment before letting her pale hand fall again. He knew it was suppose to be comforting since anyone could sense his unease. He missed Sasuke. And now that Kei was there, it seemed as though the Hokage was rubbing it in his face that he couldn't bring Sasuke back.

"For a song bird, you're awfully quiet." He commented dryly and she, once again, didn't answer, she didn't even seem to look as though she acknowledged his words, in some respects she didn't. Naruto was staring at her for a moment, his eyes wandering over the way her chin curved; she had the same chin as sasuke, interesting. Then to her neck before he stopped walking. Her yukata slipped off one of her shoulders and he saw it. A curse seal.

Naruto cocked his head to the side and noticed she stopped, not looking back but just stopped, waiting for him to catch up again. "K-kei? What's that." He asked, touching the place on her neck and she flinched away, her silence was starting to bother him. She almost looked sad, horridly sad. In fact, she always did. Naruto almost frowned, himself. Maybe she just didn't hear him? "What's that?" he asked again and she shrugged her shoulders, pulling up the robe and crossing her arms over her chest.

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"Naruto." He tensed, goddamn, she even sound like sasuke, though had a more feminine ring to it. Her voice trickled from her lips as though it was completely effortless to string together syllables in a way that every simple phrase could be a song. Calming, that was the only word for it. "They're going to come." She muttered simply and he tilted his head slightly, he wanted to ask 'who' but didn't want to press his luck with that. She smiled slightly; he had never really seen sasuke smile, so he couldn't compare it to her. But, simply, Kei's smile scared him.

"But it's okay, because you'll protect me." Who the fuck was she talking about? Naruto stretched out over his bedroll and buried his face in his arms; she sat erect by the fire, her hands twisted in her robes as she glanced around the trees. She didn't even know who 'they' were. She had just heard something, and tensed, straining her sensitive ears.

By morning, no one came so she passed her thoughts aside. She was just being paranoid, besides…. No one ever touched her. She had been told that there was something completely forbidding about her. Kei glanced at Naruto once and he drank in her appearance. Kei was actually rather tall, just as tall as he was at least, long legs. Ice cold eyes that literally sent shivers up his spine. Her lips were full, gently curved into a frown almost all the time. Her smiles were fake.

She had strait black hair that tumbled over her shoulders to her hips, gently tied back with a ribbon, pulling it out of her face. Naruto confirmed that she looked so completely forlorn that he wanted to weep for her.

"Your light is gone." She said slowly, smooth water again, rippling from the small vibrations in her throat. "What happened, Uzimaki Naruto." It wasn't a question, she demanded to know. Almost everyone knew Naruto as a hyperactive ninja who held so much confidence in himself that he never failed. Especially her.

"I don't understand what you mean." He said shortly, frowning. Iruka-sensei had told him the same thing. In fact, he could remember it clearing when he did tell him. It had torn him up in side to hear his sensei tell him that he thought that Naruto was better off dead than to walk around with no point. He didn't even seem keen on becoming Hokage anymore.

Shaking his head, he put his hand out for her to take, and she didn't move, didn't reach to grab it in the least. Instead, she leaned forward, pulling his leg toward her and yanking a Kunai from his pouch, glaring down at it, standing up herself. "oi, oi, what are you doing with that?" he asked, reaching forward as if to grab it from her and she sent him a cold glare. "Stay out of it, Dobe." She muttered.

He fell back onto his rump and put a hand over his face. She had to be sasuke reincarnated. He felt something sting his eyes, no, he hadn't cried since Sasuke left. He wouldn't again.

A loud thump drew him out of his stupor. He opened one eye to see Kei sitting in front of him, she wasn't holding a Kunai anymore. He glanced around their makeshift campsite and saw a man face down. "You didn't sense it." She muttered, pursing her lips. What kind of ninja was assigned to her? Even she was 'skilled' enough to throw a Kunai blindly and lodge it into her target, rather stupid target for so easily being hit, but still.

Now that she was talking, he wished she hadn't. Her voice sent sparks of electricity down his spine. He wanted to know what the curse seal was. Damn it.

The blonde hoisted himself up and walked lazily over to the man that had fallen, pulling at his shoulder and turning him over, now wasn't that a pretty sight? The small onyx knife was sunken into his forehead. His body was oddly mangled, then Naruto noticed it. There was a shattered, porcelain mask of a fox on the ground where his face was. ANBU. An assassin.

How had she managed to hit… an… ANBU?

"Kei, can you fight?" he asked suddenly and she shook her head, it wasn't right for women in her little town to know how to fight, it was like making fun of the men, that women were just as good as men… He glanced back at the ANBU member, and noticed that he had a wound in his stomach, that was why she could hit him, he was already about to die. He sighed slightly and shook his head.

"Have you ever heard of Uchiha Sasuke?" He asked, not being able to contain himself as he looked up at Kei.

"Hai."

Additional Notes

I don't know everything about Geisha, I'll be completely honest. No, I have not shown my knowlage of them yet, but if you'd like to give me tips, feel free to e-mail me or to send them to me in a review.

Mmm this is just a short introduction, even though I wrote it a bazillion years ago I haven't edited it, I'll fix it up soon enough