Kira awoke to find herself in the dorm room she had grown to hate. She, a mere thirteen year old, black hair accented her pale skin and crimson eyes that held a deep look that could represent so many more emotions than what she thought she could ever feel, alone.
"Why is life so cruel to only me?" her soft voice asked the air around her. Carefully her crimson eyes wondered to her sleeping roommate. Kira wished for one night she could have a dreamful sanctuary like the other girl, but Kira's nights were dreamless and occasionally full of nightmares.
She had only come to Dublin Girls School that morning, but she could already tell that it would be just like her home.
'If only I wasn't so meek and smart? Then maybe I wouldn't be here and I would have just maybe one friend. Mom and Dad wouldn't have hated me too?' She thought regretfully.
Two weeks ago, Kira sat, staring out the window of her room. She was thinking about her life, contemplating every move she made in the last week, wondering what she could have done different. She couldn't figure out what she had done to make her life so miserable. She couldn't understand why everyone didn't like her.
A shout from downstairs called her out of her world.
"Kira!" her mother's voice called from below.
Slowly walking down the stair case, Kira saw both her parents were seated on the couch of in the living room. They didn't seem mad, so that was a good thing.
"Kira," her father started as Kira sat down, "your mother and I have noticed that you have started to lock yourself in your room everyday. Your grades have been slipping, and we know you're a smart girl, so that shouldn't happen. So we have decided that you will be going to a boarding school called Dublin Girls School in Ireland."
Kira stood up quickly and looked at her parents, after a moment she dashed up the flight of stairs and started to pack her things.
Her father drove her to the school the next day, without a word, Kira mentally battled the turmoil that fought inside her.
When she went into the school, a woman dressing in a business looking outfit stood waiting for her.
"Are you Yuri, Kira?" her voice had a strict and unforgiving ring to it.
Slowly Kira nodded her head, is this woman really as mean as she seemed?
"I am the headmistress of this school, Miss Mira. First of all there are some ground rules that I have to lay down for you. Come, we'll talk as we walk to your dorm."
The woman started down the hall, as Kira followed behind.
"The first rule of this school is one of the most important and reinforced, no boys may be in the girl's dorm and no girls in the boy's dorm. In fact you're not allowed to even see the other gender alone."
Kira almost choked on air as she thought, 'B-but, I was sure this was an all girls school.'
"Keep up." Headmistress Mira's harsh voice called back to Kira. She realized she had stopped midway in a step.
The rest of the way Kira mentally kept track of the many rules of her new school, they were:
No meeting with the other gender unsupervised.
No disrespecting other students or teachers.
No leaving the school premises without an adult.
No being late for classes.
No rude comments or back mouthing anyone or thing.
Homework must always be on time.
The list goes on and on?
(Just so you know I put these here only because if Kira is going to hang with the Naruto gang, I wouldn't expect her to follow everyone of these rule, or even one for that matter? O.o.)
Before long Kira and the Headmistress were standing in front of the girl's dorm, producing a large ring of keys, the woman stuck one in the large door and it swung open, revealing a horde of noisy and almost annoying bunch of girls.
"Girls," Mira's voice immediately quieted and completely stopped the chaos before you eyes, "we have a new student, her name is Yuri Kira, and she will be here all year, so treat her like anyone else."
Kira watched as the girls returned to chaotic state within a second, the headmistress then turned to Kira and handed her a slip of paper with a room number on it. "This will be your room you will also have a roommate." With that she turned on her heals and left the hall.
Slowly Kira advanced down the few stone steps in front of her, a group of girl immediately came running up to her.
"So, you're the new girl huh?" One with blonde hair and blue eyes asked. She was obviously the leader of the clique. "Well, my name's Yamanaka Ino, and I'm the leader girl around here so don't mess with me or my group. That means we get all the hot boys too."
'Yamanaka Ino, where have I heard that before?' Kira thought, completely ignoring the other girl. 'Mom said something about her lots, but I can't remember what.'
After a few seconds of listening to her it hit her, "Y-you're my cousin from Ko- Korea" Kira had stopped herself from say what her parents called the forbidden word, "Konoha."
A few years back, your parents moved far away from a village named Konoha, which was when your parents were just married. You weren't supposed to even know about it, but you had over heard your parents talking about it once.
Konoha, to you, was an entirely different world where ninja's ruled. No one was quite sure if it was on this earth or another. All anyone ever knew was that those who know about it can come and go as they wish. But with only one rule, those who don't have relations to that world can never know about it. "It," as Kira's father always says, "is a secret that this world can not yet handle."
Kira was perfectly fine with this; she had nothing against keeping it a secret. Who would ever ask her "So Kira is there a secret world that no one knows about?" No Kira don't think that would ever happen so she wouldn't be lying either.
"Hey yeah! I thought I had heard your name before!" Ino exclaimed laughing, "But still cousin or not, I'm still head around here!"
Later that evening, the Headmistress came back and showed Kira to her room; the last thing she told her that night was that she had a roommate.
Currently Kira stood in front of her room, wondering who the other girl would be. Slowly Kira opened the door, silently wishing it would be someone nice. Who she found was the exact opposite.
Ino, "Why the hell are you here?" the blonde haired girl screeched.
"I-I c-could as-as-ask the same t-thing t-to y-y-you." Kira stated, wishing it had came out in a bolder way.
Ino seemed to calm down, "Okay, I can't say much, but since you already know I have to tell you. I'm on an important mission right now; I came alone first to check out the situation, in a few days everyone else will be coming to help. We all have to protect someone." She explained.
"Do you know who?" Kira whispered.
Ino's face became grim, "We don't know yet, but a very serious threat was put onto this academy a month ago. I can't tell the details because, well you just can't know okay."
"When will the others be coming?" Kira asked another question.
"Tomorrow or the day after, oh and Sasuke's mine, so don't even think about it. I can't believe I was sent here, Forehead's probably all over him right now."
That's when the conversation broke off; Kira went to bed that night feeling emptier than ever, somehow she liked it better when she could just make-believe about the complicated world her cousin came from. When she could pretend it didn't exist if she wanted, when her mind didn't now demand an answer for the things she couldn't explain.
But now her worlds changed, this won't be a good or happy time at her new academy.
'My life has changed so much I can't even understand it, perhaps it will change for the better in the future.' Kira thought as her eyes closed in sleepiness.
She was right about the changing part, but it would happen in more ways then she could imagine.