Chapter 1 : Myterious Girl Part 1

First Person POV

I couldn't remember everything clearly. Everything happened so fast that it became a blur to my eyes. It was so fast to the point where I could only felt a dull pain on my chest, a throbbing on my head, and itchiness all over my body. I felt something warm on my head and some parts of my body, my limbs were useless and I could only move my eyes and turned my head a bit. I wonder what was the thing on top of me that made me unable to move.

A faint sound of siren was heard on the background. It blended with the voice of shoutings that surrounded me. Somehow, I felt really sleepy. I wanted to sleep, but the voices around me kept getting louder and louder. "That's the car! I found the car! Bring more personnel here, medics just in case! The car seemed worse, but let's hope that someone survive the car crash!" a voice, very clear and loud, shouted. And everything came back to me.

That's right. I was planning to go on a trip with my friends at the end of my highschool. I was allowed to bring my youngest sister along as long as she behave. She was so happy and almost forgot many things for the trip. My father promised to bring us to a department store when he had the time. Together with my mom, who came just to make sure we don't spend too much money on something useless, we left the house this morning.

Then it happened. The car crash. We were crossing an intersection when a truck came crashing at us. Because of the weight and size difference, our car was dented and uncontrolled. I hugged my sister tightly as I hold my ground inside the car. My mom was screaming, my father panicked, and my sister was crying. The surrounding changed fastly as our car collided with the safety fence around the valley and fell. I quickly changed my position so that I was the one under while my sister was on top of me.

I made a mistake though. The window of the car broke and the sharp pieces stabbed my sister's body and head. I tried to protect her, but in the end I made her experience a painful death. I couldn't see whether my parents survive or not, but I'm sure they're not in a good condition at all. As for me, I was laying under the corpse of my late sister and a few bags of thing we bought. The door was broken and gave my sister's body more weight and I couldn't move at all. My head was spinning, and I bet some of the broken window's pieces gave me some wound on the head and parts of my body.

My consciousness started to fade away. I guess this is the end of my life. Oh how I'd love another chance to live and be grateful for everything my families, friends, teachers, and acquaintances gave me. I slowly closed my eyes, resigning myself to the fate. That was when I heard the jingles of bells. I opened my eyes a little with every ounce of energy I had and came face to face with a weird creature sitting on top of me.

It has blue-green fur with white part surrounding it's face. The way it sat, it looked a lot like a cat with a smug smile. It's eyes were big and round, decorated by lush green orbs. It doesn't have whiskers though. It's tail was that of a fox, swinging lazily behind it. The ear was more like a wolf's and a golden ring encircled it's body. On it's neck was a red collar with white bell and on it's forehead was black crescent moon. "Chosen daughter of Eve," it spoke. I widened my eyes as much as I could, considering my weak condition. "I shall grant thee a wish. Choose wisely, young one, for it couldn't be taken back once you made the wish."

"Who…" I tried to ask but my voice was so hoarse and it pained my throat just to utter a word.

The creature widened it's eyes, if that was possible, and chuckled. "You are a strange one. No one ever cared about my identity before. They were blinded by my offer, yet you asked about my identity when you're in a pinch. When your life was in the line." It said with delight in it's voice. "Nevertheless, you should make your wish now or you won't have the chance to." It warned me with serious eyes.

My head was spinning madly now, and I couldn't keep a straight image of anything around me. "I… want… to live…"

The creature smiled smugly and the bell started to shake as light came from the golden ring. The jingling of bell came again and this time, it came with a blinding light. "You have made the wish. You shall prepare for the consequences." A voice told me as my body got lighter and lighter.

Your life was unstable, I couldn't rescue you from death, but I could prolong your life. I will made a new container for your soul. As long as you keep it safe and never part with your body, you shall live a long life. There is a catch, however, your body won't grow older than twenty and as long as the new container didn't break, you won't die, no matter what happened to your body. In other words, this is immortality. Also, your body will shrink to those of seven years old. These are the consequences of your wish. You made the wish, you must bear the consequences. So long, chosen daughter of Eve. May we meet again. Oh, and before I forget, many called me Unmei.

General POV

Tenth october, it's the time for the fox festival, a festival where the Konoha residents celebrated for the Yondaime's victory over the Kyubi no Yoko. It was a good day, but not for a certain genin. This day was also his birthday, but it also meant more beatings than usual as his present from the villagers. So here he was, sitting on a branch of a tree in the training ground. He had slept here the day before so he wouldn't meet the villager on his way to the training grounds.

Uzumaki Naruto is his name. He was waiting for the time of team's gathering at 8 A.M. but his sensei would be late as usual so there was no need to rush there. He leaned back when his stomach grumbled for the lack of food. "Damn, I ate all of my ramen cups as dinner yesterday. Now I've got nothing to eat. Maybe I could go to Ichiraku Ramen… Nah, the villagers would capture me that way. Hmm, guess there is no choice but to gather whatever food I can find in the forest outside the wall." He thought loudly before leaping down the branch and ran as fast as he could to the village wall.

He passed the guarding shinobi with ease and was finally inside the forest. He had lots of experience evading shinobis in his youth after all, so this kind of thing is a piece of cake for him. Once he was inside the forest, he leaped to the nearest branch and picked some fruit he found. He was about to eat when his acute hearing picked up coughing noise and he smelled blood. Nothing was good when blood is involved. He gathered his findings, hide it on the highest branch with some leaves, then left to search for the source of the blood.

After leaping through the branch for a while, he saw a person near the bushes. He stopped and tried to see who the person was but the leaves prevent him from doing so. With no choice, he jumped down a few branch where he could see clearer and hide his presence as much as he could.

The person was actually a girl. She had beautiful black-brown hair that reached her back tied to a ponytail. Her clothes were strange, but Naruto's attention was on the blood smeared on the girl's body. She had lots of scratches, bruises and cuts all over her body. Her head was bleeding and her breath was ragged. Bloods trickled down her slightly open mouth while she painfully shut her eyes.

Without thinking anymore, Naruto rushes to her side. He bent down and shook her slightly. The girl flinched from pain and her body was visibly shivering. "Hang in there, okay? I'll take you back to the village. They'll treat you. This will hurt, bear with it." He said as he flung one of her hand over his shoulder carefully then took her bridal style.

The girl opened her eyes slightly and Naruto saw a pair of warm chocolate brown eyes filled with pain and fear. "Who… *cough cough* are… you…?" the girl whispered.

Naruto looked at her for a moment then grinned widely. "My name's Uzumaki Naruto, 'ttebayo!" he said cheerfully. "I'm going to make sure that you're going to be okay, so just relax and let me handle things!"

The girl stared at Naruto's blue orbs for a moment before she opened her mouth again. "Can I… trust… you?" she asked with equally hoarse voice as before if not worser. Her eyes filled with hope as she looked at Naruto.

Again, Naruto gave her his biggest grin and said, "Of course!" The girl's eyes dimmed as a small smile graces her pale face. She closed her eyes and snuggled in his chest as a sign that she trust him. "Let's go!" Naruto said as he jumped to a branch and made his way back to the village. Of course, he took some ransom from the place where he left it before.

On the bridge, a boy and a girl was waiting for their sensei and teammate to come. The boy had dark blue-black hair. He had a metal plate that act as forehead protector attached to a blue cloth. The metal plate had a leaf-like insignia on it. He wore turtle neck black t-shirt with an uchiha emblem on his back and a matching black pants that reached his knees. He also wore knee protector and black combat boot. He was brooding while staring at the river.

Across him was the girl, silently watching the boy. She had short pink hair and jade green eyes. She also had the metal plate with leaf-like insignia, but she used it as a bandana instead of a forehead protector. She wore red clothes that reached her knees and tight black pants that reached her mid-thigh. She also had a combat boots but it was blue and not black like the boy.

Usually, the girl would be pestering the boy about having lunch together or inviting him for a date. Today, however, the boy emitted an aura that said 'don't come near me or I'll kill you'. Especially since her loud teammate and sensei weren't here, the atmosphere was very awkward. The boy didn't have any problem with it, but the girl did. Apparently, she was used to her teammate's loudness that she couldn't stand being there in silent.

"Ne, Sasuke-kun, do you think Kakashi-sensei and Naruto-baka will be here soon?" the girl asked as she couldn't bear the awkward atmosphere anymore.

"Hn" came the reply.

"Oh," the girl said disappointingly. "Do you think we should train while waiting for them?" she asked again as she congratulate her brain for thinking something the boy would like to do.

This time, the boy, Uchiha Sasuke, took longer time before answering. "Very well," was all he said before heading to training ground.

Meanwhile, the girl, Haruno Sakura, was doing a victory pose for being able to make her beloved Sasuke do something together with her. Chaa! One step closer to the goal! Good job, Sakura! Her inner thoughts congratulate her.

She quickly ran to her teammate as he started stretching. After some warm-up, they were about to spar when his sensei decided to come. "Yo!" he greeted his students as he suddenly pop out of nowhere.

"You're late!" came the usual reply from the pink haired girl. The man eye-smiled but quickly narrowed his eyes when the third member of the squad was not there.

"Where's Naruto?" he asked. Sakura shrugged her shoulder while Sasuke didn't answer the question. The man took an orange book from his pouch and his stance relaxed. "Well, continue your spar while I go look for him. If he still hasn't shown up when I'm gone and I can't find him anywhere, we'll take mission from lady hokage first before we searched for him." The man, Hatake Kakashi, said to his students.

Both Sasuke and Sakura nodded and he was gone with a puff of smoke. For some time, both youngster stared at the dissipating smoke in silent. "Where do you think that idiot is, Sasuke?" Sakura asked out of curiosity.

"Probably goofing off," answered Sasuke before turning his head to the pink haired girl and fell to a taijutsu stance. "Let's start," he said.

"Yes!" replied Sakura cheerfully as she too fell to a taijutsu stance.

It was harder to slip through the guards when you have an injured person with you. There's an extra weight and the smell of her blood. Thankfully, the guards were pretty light today, but it was still hard to slip through. It also took longer than usual to the point where it frustrate Naruto to no end since the girl in his arm definitely needed medical treatment immediately.

After some time, Naruto decided to change his destination to a place with lighter guard, namely his neighborhood. The place was poor and it was near neither the hospital nor the Hokage tower. He entered a deserted buildings, decent enough to have a bed, and lay her on the bed. The blood had dried and some of it was now on Naruto's jumpsuit. "Hey, are you awake?" he asked quietly.

The girl nodded slowly and cracked open her eyes a little. Now that Naruto got a closer look on the girl's eyes, he seemed to be attracted by the warm and welcoming brown orbs of her. "Wa...ter..." the girl whispered as she moved her eyes to look directly at Naruto.

Naruto nodded. "I'll take some water from a well, we also need to wash that dried blood off your body," he said before turning to leave. He believed no one would approach the building so he left with no hesitation. Meanwhile, the girl tried to move her body, but every attempt only gave her more pain. After some tries, she gave up and lay still.

As she stare at the gray ceiling full of dust and spiderweb, a silent tear made it's way down her face. "Mom... Dad... Lucy..." she whispered lowly as another tear slide down. "I'm sorry..." she cried.

She continued to murmur those three words over and over while sometimes apologizing as she cried. She was unaware of a pair of blue eyes that was watching her from outside the building. Naruto leaned at the wall as he let the girl had her privacy. After some time, the sobs subsided and Naruto decided that it was the best time for him to step in.

He walked slowly and loudly so the girl wouldn't be startled. The girl turned her head slightly then flinched visibly. Naruto raised the canteen in his hands with a smile that threaten to split his face. "Here you go! Don't drink too fast or you'll choke!" he said as he helped the girl to sit and gave the canteen to her. The girl nodded gratefully as she accepted the canteen.

She drank it in one go with Naruto's help since her body was still shivering and she couldn't control her movements very well yet. "Thank... you" said the girl with softer and smoother voice now that her throat wasn't dry. "Where... am I?" she asked as she glanced around.

"You're currently in Konoha." Naruto said as he took the canteen from the girl. "Let's wash this dried blood, shall we?" he continued as he pour some water to the girl's ankle and knees, the only part that wasn't covered by her pants. The girl bent down and scrub her skin by herself right after Naruto poured the water, indicating that she won't let Naruto touched her.

Naruto shrugged and thought that it would be easier for him like this. After her feet, it was her hand then her neck and face. When Naruto pour some water to her arms, an orb fell down. It was a beautiful icy blue orb in the shape of a heart and red strips on it. Naruto picked it up and inspect it as the girl's eye widen in horror. She snatched it quickly and hid it in her palms. "Don't... Never touch this!" she said.

Naruto was dumbstruck, but he quickly recovered. "Okay!" he cheerfully replied. After all, everyone had one or two precious things that they wanted to keep as a secret from everyone.

Meanwhile, the girl was staring at Naruto with frightened eyes. When she first saw the orb, she remembered about the mysterious voice she heard before waking up in the forest and met the blonde boy. She stole some side glances to the orb inside her palms. Is this my soul now? So the mysterious voice was speaking the truth. This body is now soulless...

"...Hey!" Naruto shouted and woke the girl up from her day dreaming. "Are you going to daydream all day or are you going to give me your arms so we can clean it?"

"O-oh, yes..." the girl stammered and gave her free hand to Naruto. They did the other parts as she held the orb close to her heart. Sometime Naruto would glance at the hand that hold the orb.

Now, the blood was only on their clothes. Though the dried blood on her skin hadn't completely disappeared, it was better than before. "Let's take you to Baa-chan so she could check you. Though it seems you're fine.." the blonde scratched his neck as he looked at the girl in front of her carefully.

The girl could sit up on her own without help anymore now. She could move her limbs a bit though she still couldn't properly control her movements just yet. She wore long-sleeved light green hoodie though her sleeves were ragged so they cut it to her shoulder length. Behind the hoodie was black short-sleeved t-shirt. Gray jeans covered her feet but the knee part was exposed and she was barefooted. Naruto was, however, concerned about the fact that a seven year-old girl was sustaining such injuries.

"Baa-chan?" the girl tilted her head in a cute way as she voiced her curiosity.

"Yeah! Baa-chan is a great medic! She could heal anything!" Naruto said with some proudness in his voice. After all, he brought her back to the village with Jiraiya.

"Really? Awesome!" the girl said with a smile on her face.

"That's right! And one day, I'm going to surpass her, believe it!" Naruto declared, giving her the nice guy pose.

He was expecting her to react like everyone did, but she only smiled sweetly at him and said, "I believe you"

His grin reduced to a smile as he offered a hand to the girl. "Shall we go?" he asked and the girl nodded as she accepted his hand. "Now that I think about it, I never know your name." Naruto mused.

The girl seemed to stop for a while before giving him a small smile. "Why don't onii-chan gave me one?" she said.

"Me?" Naruto pointed at himself with shocked expression and the girl nodded. "Alright, how about Hayashi Otome?"

"Then, nice to meet you, Naruto-niichan! My name is Hayashi Otome." the girl said as she was helped to stand by Naruto.

"Nice to meet you too, Otome-chan!" Naruto replied as he gave Otome his famous big grin.

"Naruto? What are you doing here? You're supposed to be at the bridge, you know." a voice said to Naruto, startling both Naruto and Otome. Naruto spun around and instictively put himself in front of Otome. Steps were heard in the empty buildings as a man with silver defying gravity hair appeared. He leaned on the wall as he read an orange book. His face was hidden by mask and you could only see one bored eye on his face as the other eye was behind the hitai-ae.(A/N I don't know the correct spelling, if anyone know please tell me)

"Kakashi-sensei!"

"Yo!"

Next Chapter : Mysterious Girl Part 2