Sorry for the confusion, but I think this is the right place to put this story, if not I apologize. This is a story I first planed on making an OC Naruto story, but since I never really planed on having an actual charecter from the story in it I decided to make it it's own story. I hope you enjoy!

~RegoWolf

Masami, Become Beautiful

Key:

Masami's thoughts

Miu's thought

Prolog

I live on a small island that invisible to all but the people in it. We are a small island south of the country of Japan. We may live near an Asian country, but we have a lot of cultures and races on the island. We have been in a civil war for centuries to decide who should be leading the islands since it was founded. My village was named Kenta, meaning strong and big. We were a barbarian village, not many people there knew how to do anything besides hold and swing a huge sword. The only people in my village that could do more were the people in my clan, the Fenikkusu clan.

Though it is not much, we could set anything we want aflame by simply willing it. Everyone had his or her own color flame based on their hair and eye color. It is a tradition to wear your color flame you are, if you did not you were shamed by the rest of the clan.

There was only one person in my whole clan that can do so much more, the Phoenix. She is one person that exists once in every generation. After she dies, she is reborn. The next person has all of the past experience of their past lives, even their memories. My village is eagerly awaiting the next Phoenix.

She died a little over a decade ago, and her reincarnation period is always random. All the girls that had a red flame were suspects; my older sister, Naomi, was one of them. I on the other hand had a black flame, so I did not have a chance of having the Phoenix's cool powers. The strangest thing about our country is that there are a lot of other people like the Phoenix in some villages, called Kokoro, but most have long since stopped existing.

Our country had four villages that are trying to gain control. The other hundred were either burned down or dropped out of the war. My village had become the weakest since the Phoenix died. The strongest village is Yuzuki; it is full of very powerful people who use the moon for power, however some of the warriors are so skilled that they do not even need it.

The village that is the second strongest is the village, Katsu, they are filled with assassins. They are blood thirsty and will do anything in their power to get what they want, or kill who they want. The last village is Masuru; they had been trying to destroy our village ever since the Phoenix died.

The village used an arsenal of weapons when they attacked, but they were nowhere near as skilled at Yuzuki or Katsu and not as strong willed as my village, Kenta. There had also been rumors that they had been experimenting on other humans. Some rumors said they used the dead, others say they used their own warriors, but most said they kidnapped people from other villages.

My name is Masumi Fenikkusu I was twelve years old. I lived with my mother and sister. My dad died in a battle against the Masuru village when I was seven. After he died, our clan did not pay much attention to us since my dad already married out of the clan, so we had been struggling to get what we needed. My sister was fifteen, she was only one year away from being able to join the war, so she had been training her hardest to get onto the battlefield and provide for our family. I had just started training, so it would have been a while before I would have been able to be qualified to fight. However, that was not why I had been training. My dream was to travel the island and become the best warrior so I could protect my village from anyone who dared to harm it.

"Masumi, stop playing with your food or it will get cold," My mother stated with an all knowing smile. I did as she said and ate it. She was right, my dinner was cold, but the flavor was just the way I liked it, sweet.

My mom was a peaceful woman. Whenever you hear her yell, you know you did something horribly wrong. She, unlike my sister and I, never learned how to fight; she was a farm girl for most of her life. She raised cattle and sheep to feed and clothe the people of our village, but she left that life behind when she met and married my father. She dreamed just as much as I did about getting out of the village, but she wanted a peaceful life without fighting or war.

"Hey Masami, want to see something cool I learned?" My sister, Naomi, always liked to show off, but I never got jealous. I loved to see what she knew, because eventually she would teach me how to do it.

"Yeah, when?" A asked with anticipation.

"Right after dinner," Naomi put on a smile that showed that she knew I was going to love it. I suddenly got the inspiration to eat faster.

"Masami, be careful, you'll get sick eating that fast," My mother warned, but I could not help but ignore her. The faster we started the faster I would be able to learn a new ability. I was done in two minutes flat, and had a major chase of the hiccups. Mother just smiled.

Naomi took me to the forest in our back yard. The forest was a quiet place that was not too far from home. The sun was already beginning to set by the time we got out there, so the shadows of the trees stretched over us.

"What I'm about to show you is top secret. I learned it from a top secret source," Naomi warned with a serious expression on her face, "I'm going to show it to you, okay?"

I nodded my head and she proceeded. An excited smile crept across her face. She turned around so she was not facing me and then took a deep breath. When she let out her breath it came out as fast mumbled words that seemed to be in a language I have never heard before. When the words stopped Naomi quickly took in a deep breath and before my eyes, she breathed fire.

I was so amazed, "Naomi, are you going to teach me how to do that?"

She smiled her usual smile of excitement, "Of course. Why wouldn't I? The man that taught me said he learned it from a family member of a Kokoro called the Dragon. First, you have to take in a deep breath then speak these words."

She showed me how to pronouns every word in the outlandish language in order. Then, we tried to see if I could make flames come out of my mouth, I was very excited to see a little puff of smoke come out of my mouth. It took me five minutes just to get a little flame, but after thirty minutes I had it down. I was so excited; though I could easily set things aflame with my usual abilities it felt good to know how to know another technique.

"Wow you picked up on that fast. It took me several hours, and the man said it took him months to get it. I guess people in the Fenikkusu clan are just fast learners, or it's just us." My sister was always boosting about our clan. The only thing she did not like about it was the marriage rules. We were always hated because of it. Even though our aunt, my father's sister, was the last Phoenix, "We should get back, mom will start to worry."

When we got out of the forest what we saw scared me. Out village was being burned down. It was normal fire so we knew it was not one of our clan. Our clan's fires are just one solid color, none go from red to orange to yellow, just one single color. Naomi's and my first reaction was to check on mom.

When we got to the house she was nowhere to be found. We knew she either escaped or was kidnapped. Our first lesson in a situation like this was to escape to the boats, so that's what we did, or attempted to do.

Right when we got out of our house we were cornered. The men in front of us were covered from head to toe on a pure white jumpsuit. I tried to set them on fire with my clan flam, but for some reason it would not work. My only guess was that their outfits were made of a special material that kept our flames at bay.

Then an idea hit me, "Naomi, Dragon!" Knowing what I meant we used our new ability. To my great relief the men were set aflame. My sister and I ran as fast as we could away from the man and towards the boats. Sticking to each other like glue, we made sure neither of us got separated.

We were almost to the boats when we saw our mother. She was unconscious and as pale as a ghost, another man in a white jumpsuit had a long knife against our mother's throat. They had taken her hostage, but why?

"Come with me quietly and I'll let her go," We could tell that he was serious. If we tried anything, something horrible would defiantly happen to our mother, so we followed his orders. When we got close to him other men appeared and tied my sister's hands.

"Hey," I yelled, and then one of them pushed me away.

"This has nothing to do with you brat, now go escape to your precious boats," The man that was holding the knife to my mother said.

"Not without my mother or sister!" I yelled, "otherwise I'm-" I stopped midsentence at a horrific sight. I had finally got a good look at my mother. She had a knife already in her back along with multiple slashes across it, and I knew then that she had already bled out.

My mind was in shock. All I could think about was the slashes. Why did this happen? What did they really want? How could they? Then I saw their swords on their backs. They were from the village Masuru. The same village that killed my dad, destroyed the village, and now killed my mom and tried to kidnap my sister. My rage exploded from me, and everything turned red. The next thing I knew someone knocked me unconscious.

'Wake up, I need you awake right now or we will not be able to get out of here!' The voice that spoke seemed to be coming from my head, and it was strangely familiar, but I could not place it.

"Who?" I thought, and to my surprise I got a reply.

'I'm you, do you not remember? But that's not important right now. You need to wake up!'

Following her directions I opened my eyes to find myself in a pure white room. It reminded me of the men's suits, and anger roes in me. I tried to set it on fire, but of course it did not work.

'Calm down no one is here to hurt you and you sister was not harmed, so calm down.'

I almost busted into tears at those words, "My sister was okay." I let out a sigh of relief and went to wash my face to calm me down, but I stopped right when I saw a girl. I was not quite sure who it was. She had Red eyes with messy black hair with red streaks down the front, she looked about my age. I tried to move towards her, but she moved at the same time.

'Are you an idiot?' The voice asked.

"No! Wait who are you?"

'Again, I'm you, and so is the person in the mirror. Can you not see your own face?'

It took me a minute but I saw it, "What did they do to me?"I yelled in my head with anger coursing through me again.

'Nothing, technically speaking I did.'

"Okay then, what did you do to me?"

'It happens when I woke up; though I have never been awakened this young before, or in someone with a black flame.'

"Do you have a name?"

'Yes you can call me Miu, you usually do. I'm also considered the Phoenix to everyone else.'

"Oka- wait, what? The Phoenix, but my flame is black? I thought for sure you would be in my sister, what are you doing in me?"

'I'm not your sister, I'm you! But I'm not even sure myself, but we really shouldn't be talking about this now, someone is coming.'

Sure enough someone walks in wearing a pure white suit like all the others, but I learned. Instead of trying to use my clan ability I started to try to use the new one, but before I could get a word out I was hit by a wave of nausea. I was light headed and could not concentrate at all.

'Shit! Masami, snap out of it! Its gas, you need to move, NOW!' I tried but no matter how much effort I put into it, my body had already gone numb, and before I knew it I was unconscious.

When I woke up I was strapped to a table inside another pure white room. There were also people surrounding me, of course wearing white. I tried my best to get out, but no matter how much it tried to fight the straps they had on my hands and ankles would not budge.

'You know what they are trying to do is useless, I am not something they could copy." Miu said inside my mind, 'They are just wasting money and time.' Miu was probably right but I still do not like to be some guinea pig for a bunch of heartless murderers, 'If you keep fighting you'll be sedated again, then where will you be. I say wait until the right moment, like when they put us back into our cell. I know the perfect way out.' I could tell that she knew what she was doing, so I waited till they were done taking blood and testing my new red highlighted bangs.

Unfortunately they sedated me again and I woke up in my cell, again, "Now what?"

'You need to empty your mind; I need to use your body for a second.'

"Oh, oka- wait, what, use my body? Why, can't I just do it?"

'With your age, no, it is still a little too risky for you to use my powers. Please, if you want out let me use it. I swear it will just be for a second, and then it is all yours again.'

I did have to consider it for a second, but I knew it was the only way out of here. With a sigh I tried to empty my mind, but then an alarm went off. "Oh, Miu did you do that?"

'No, I didn't even get a chance before you took over again. If I could guess it is an invasion of another village. We need to hurry, clear your mind!' I did and in a split second I heard a crashing sound. When I was in control again the door was sliced up and red feathers were falling to the floor. I decided to ignore it for now.

I was about to turn a corner when one of the men in white came flying towards me. When I say flying I literally mean flying. Someone pushed him towards me. I barley dodged the man before he hit the wall, and it crumbled down around him. My body was shaking from the brute force that made the man fly.

'Calm down Masami, if he attacked the men in white more than likely he is an ally.'

"Or someone from another village that came to kill everyone in this one!"

'…Good point, be cautious.'

I knew that if I ran away the man would catch me in no time, going straight up to him would probably be a bad idea also; he may think I'm an enemy. The best thing to do is to stay put and hope he does not notice me. Not the best plan but it is the most reasonable. Then I saw him. He looked about my age if not older, and everything about him was either black or white.

He wore a black jacket with white pants. He had white hair with black streaks, His eyes were two different color the right one was white the left one was black, and they were staring right at me. I could tell that he was from Katsu, the Assassin village. You could always tell by their heartless eyes, but his were also filled with strong pain. I do not know why but when I saw him my mind went blank, but I was not scared.

'Masami, what the hell do you think you are doing!' It took me a moment to realize what she was saying. I was actually walking straight towards him, and he looked just as surprised as Miu was, but my mind went blank again when I saw his eyes. His pain filled eyes made me want to comfort him, 'Masami, stop!' Miu kept yelling and the man pulled out one of his swords that I did not know he had, but I was already face to face with him.

"Are you okay?" I asked, and his face was now a scowl. He suddenly grabbed my wrist and started to pull me the way he came, "You still didn't answer me." I stated, both confused and intrigued. He stayed silent but his grip on my wrist tightened.

'Masami, if you talk to him anymore, he will kill you. I'm surprised he hasn't already.' I simply nodded, I'm sure that no matter how much I talk to him he will not listen. Then out of nowhere he tossed me two yards in front of him, and my hands scraped the ground. When I looked up there were two people in front of me.

The older one looked like he was in his late teens, early twenties. He had straight long red hair with black highlights, and it reached his shoulders. He was wearing a red tank-top looking shirt that was buttoned up on his left side. It also had a cheetah running up the right of it, and his pants were black and baggy.

Then there was a boy that looked about the same age as me also. He had spiky black hair that seemed to only point to his right. His shirt was green with a black lines running down the middle, and pretty much skin tight. There was also a shield with a skull on his shirt, and a band like thing on his upper right arm. He wore baggy pants that were just plain black.

"Itzal, what is this?" The younger boy was pointing to me, but looking at the boy that just threw me, "She's not one of the Masuruians, is she? We told you too kill them not bring them to us!" He yelled, "She's just some random gothic girl."

"Gothic? Wait a minute, I'm not Goth!" I yelled in irritation.

"Then why did you dye your hair?" He questioned with a smug smile.

"I didn't! It happened when the Masuru village attacked mine!"

"Oh… you must be from that little village that burned down a week ago, what was its name?" He then put his hand on his chin like he was actually thinking about it.

"Kenta, my village's name was Kenta!" I yelled feeling the strong need to set him on fire.

"Oh, that's right, Kenta. I normally don't remember names of villages that can't put up a fight,"

"You bastard, my village was ten times the village yours will ever be. We never resorted to petty sneak attacks!" His face then turned into a deep scowl, like he wanted to fight.

'Masami I don't know if you realize yet, but you're not in the position to be intimidating your captives. I strongly suggest you stop.'

I listened, but still glared at him. His aggravated face started to get worse, and his hands started to ball up into fists. Then he raised his fist like he was about to punch me. I dared not to flinch, and he brought it down. I half expected to have my face on the pavement, but instead the other man grabbed his wrist and inch away from my face.

"Takeshe, this is not the time to let your emotions get the better of you. It may not look like it, but she is stronger than you," What he said shocked both me and the boy with the fist an inch away from my face, still. "Actually I think she may actually be our mission."

"Habiki Sensei, I highly doubt that. I mean look at her. She's just some gothic kid from a barbarian village. She couldn't even take on one of those white suited guys." The boy named Takeshi stated with a cocky look on his face.

I could have sworn one of my blood vessels popped, "I hope you know that I can, and I did, but if you doubt me so much you could try to fight me." I could sense that my anger was getting the better of me, but he was pissing me off to the point that I really do not care.

'You should listen to your senses. Nothing good will come from fighting him, but what the Sensei said was true. You can beat him, with my help.'

"Really, you want to fight me, are you really that confident?"

"Yes, I am!" A twisted smile formed on his face. Then he reached for his sword on his back that I did not even realize he had it. The sword was huge and was almost as big as he was.

"What's with the swords appearing out of nowhere?" I asked Miu.

"It's an ability most warriors learn, your father knew how to do it." Miu pointed out, "You sister will also learn when she turns sixteen."

"Takeshe, stop!" I was totally surprised of the sudden voice. It was the boy with the black and white hair, and had also tossed me a moment ago. His voice was really rough, and harsh, it also told me the pain he was in. I do not know why, but I could not help but want to comfort him. It was a strange feeling, "If what Habiki Sensei says is true than we can't risk killing or harming her." Through all that, what surprised me was that Takeshe actually listened. He was now putting his sword back on his back, and to my amazement it vanished. "Girl, don't move." The boy said.

I did not like what he called me, but I obeyed. He put something like handcuffs on my wrists. I felt like a prisoner again.

"Itzal, I'm going to leave her to you," The sensei said, "I will try to see if there is anyone else that could be the Phoenix," I almost laughed, but I held it in.

After the other two left I was left with just the silent one. Then I looked around, it surprised me that I just noticed this now, but people were fighting all around us. "Itzal was it?" I asked, but he did not even as much as flinch, "are we just going to stand here in the middle of the battle or are we going to move somewhere safer?" No answer again. I think he was ignoring me.

About twenty minutes passes and almost all the fights were won by the assassins, "Hey, who's that?" when I looked up I saw a boy with brown hair with one light blue eye and one pale green eye. He was wearing a skin tight plain green tank top that showed off his sculpted abs, and skin tight black pants. On both of his shoulders he had tattoos. The one on his right shoulder was mostly a bunch of swirls and points, which covered most of his upper arm that looked kick-ass. The one on his left shoulder was some weird letters that I could not understand.

"I never asked her name," Itzal said in a monotone.

With a disappointed look on his face, the boy sighed, "Goodness Itzal, you'll never get girls with that attitude." Then he suddenly looked at me with a newly found smile that I could tell he used often. "Hi, my name is Laërtes, what's yours?"

Just by looking at his skintight shirt and his charming smile, I could tell that he was, what most people called, a player. "I'm Masami." I answered.

"That's a nice name. It means 'become beautiful,' I believe, but I'd say you already are," he winked at me.

Every word Laërtes said made me want to puke, but I could tell from his face that when he said stupid stuff like this, most girls would melt. Seeing that I was not falling for it, his charming smile slowly started turning into a disappointed frown.

"I'm sorry, but how old did you say you are," I was tempted to laugh, but decided that would be immature.

"I didn't, and I'm twelve," Laërtes probably thought I was younger because I did not fall for his looks or cheesy pickup line.

"Really, I am too, weird?" I just sighed.

"Exactly what I thought," I thought to myself.

Laërtes then looked to Itzal, "Well Itzal, Habiki Sensei said that you and I should take Masami to our village."

"Fine, but you are taking care of the girl. I'm tired of her."

'I'm starting to hate him, and there is something about him that is bothering me, and I don't mean his personality.' Miu stated and with that, we headed to their village.

Of course there were percussions they had to go through with me along. They could not let anybody that lived outside the village know of its destination, so for the whole entire trip they had me knocked out, or at least Itzal did. Laërtes just wanted to blind fold me, but Itzal refused to listen and knocked me out anyway. Whenever they would stop to eat, Laërtes would blindfold me and then feed me. It turned out he was nicer than I first thought.

Then horrible news came. Before I was knocked out again I heard Laërtes say he just got a message that he had to go back home and see about a family matter. That meant that for the rest of the trip I would be stuck with Itzal, and knowing him I would either starve to death or be buried in some random ditch.

It did not surprise me when I woke up half starving and dehydrated but what did surprise we was that there was a girl standing over me. She had strawberry blonde hair and light grey eyes. She wore black and green Lolita clothes.

"Hi, I'm Persephone; I found you and Itzal just a while ago, are you okay?" the girl asked, her face full of true concern.

"Yes, thank you. I'm Masami, am I in Katsu?" I asked looking around the foreign room.

"Yeah, you're lucky I found you, or you would probably be in a hell right now. Itzal treats every one like his enemy except for his sister."

"Where exactly am I?"

"In the Enyo house hold, we were the main financers for the expedition to find you after your village was destroyed."

"How did you know I was there?"

"Our village had spies in almost every village in this island, except for Yuzuki; they can spot a spy a mile away." I was not sure whether to trust her or not, but the way she said everything made me think it was not so bad. "Well, I should probably leave you to your meal, call if you need anything." Then she exited the room.

I would have called her and asked more questions, but the smell of the food was too strong to resist. Before I knew it my hunger was gone and my throat parched. Then not long after I fell right to sleep.

The next time I woke up everything was different, even my clothes. Instead of my old black clothes I was wearing before, I was now wearing a dark red dress with a big black bird flying on it. My clan's necklace was also gone and replaced with a red choker that looked a lot like a dog collar. I was also strapped to a chair

But that wasn't the weird part, right in front of me were a group of people yelling at each other. 'It seems like they are fighting over us." I surprised me to hear Miu's voice. During the whole time Itzal kept knocking me out she stayed quiet.

Then after what seemed like hours a man suddenly yelled louder than all the rest, "Quiet men, have you not realized that our prisoner has awakened?" Everyone became silent in just a matter of seconds and then stared at me, nervously. "Now we can get onto the real council for tonight," The same man spoke again. He seemed a lot more mature than the rest of the men here. "The matter that is the Phoenix," Everybody else mumbled in agreement, "are you, or are you not, the holder of Miu?"

It took me and Miu by surprise that he knew her name, almost no one in my village knew that name other than the holder of her and the leaders of out clan, "Yes I am, but may I ask how you know her name?"

"No," and right when I thought he might be a good guy, "what did the village of Masaru do to you when they got a hold of you?"

"They took a few tests then sent me back to my cell; they only tested on me one time so far as I know."

He nodded then wrote something down then dropped the subject, "Will you give us your consent to conduct a few tests on you?" My opinion on him just got a little better.

"Yes, but they are useless. The Phoenix cannot be copied."

They all looked surprised and stared to mumble again. When they stopped the man spoke again. "We will conduct a few tests then see what to do with you from there."

After that they took me to a testing room and of course did a few tests, and to my great relief none of it hurt. They kept the testing up for weeks with no success. Till eventually they found out the same thing I told them, I was one of a kind. Then I found myself in the same room of yelling men.

'I really don't like the sound of what they are saying,' Miu always paid attention to everything I could not. She could hear everything each and every one of them was saying, while I just heard a bunch of voices.

"Silence," The man yelled again, "we will put it to vote, agreed?" Everyone nodded, "Okay, all in favor of killing her," I was shocked. They actually wanted to kill me? I could not even bare to look at the raised hands, "all in favor of putting her under the surveillance of a member of the Enyo clan?" I almost busted from my seat from excitement of not dying, and when I saw all the hands I was about to cry.

"Okay it is decided, she will live with anyone of the Enyo clan that is willing to take her." Then the guards took off my shackles and escorted me towards the Enyo clan's house hold.

They had me on a stage looking thing and a big crowd of people. Then one of the Guards yelled to the crowd, "This is the Phoenix of the Fenikkusu clan, if anyone is willing to adopt her into their home please speak up now?"

"I will!" a man yelled out of the middle of the crowed.

"If anybody else want to claim her please speak up now!" The Guard yelled again, but no one else spoke, "Then I ask that all of you start heading home." When everyone was gone I clearly saw my new guardian, he had brown hair and goatee. His clothes were normal and his expression showed no real emotion towards me. Like I was just some pet that his child wanted and he didn't care for. To tell the truth that did not bother me, I knew anyone holding me would not be sure if I was safe to be around. I was just happy to have a place to stay.

Please tell me what you think, oh, and if it's in the wrong place then please tell me were it might actually be in int the right place. Oh, and tell me what you think, i'm still not sure about this story so I don't know if I should keep righting it. Please tell me what you think!

~RegoWolf