Chapter One: "Protect this child, for she will..."

The wind was silent the night the sand village ninga arived at the leaf village, the small bundle the he carried squirmed a bit. He stoped to make shure that what he was carying was still safe. He gazed down at a little baby girl with crystal blue eyes. "She looks nothing like her brother," the ninja thought to him self.

He walked into the village and asked to see the hokage.

"What is it?" the 4th hokage asked him.

"The sand village asks a favor of you," the ninja replied. "We would like for the leaf village to protect this baby till she is old enough to fight."

"Why?" the hokage asked.

"This little girl has a great demon in her. Please. Protect this child, for she will be the destruction of the world if you do not!" the ninja stated, a tremor in his voice.

"Very well. We will give this child protection. But she will grow up believing that she is from the leaf village. She will not know of her real birth place!" the hokage warned the sand ninja.

"That would be for the best," the ninja replied, looking down at the little girl he had sworn to protect just a few days ago, the moment she had been born. He had grown rather attached, even though he had tried not to.

The hokage called in one of the women from the village. He gave her the duty of raising the child. He did not tell her why the baby had to be protected, and the woman did not ask.

~~13 years later~~

"Mom! Mari stole my ribon!" Sakura yelled.

"I did not!" a girl with crystal blue eyes and black hair that was short and spiky in the back and had bangs that covered her left eye, replied, with anger in her voice. She was wearing an outfit exactly like Sakura's but it was black and blood red instead of red and white.

"Calm down you two!" their mother said, coming into the room carying Sakura's hair ribon. "I had to wash it Sakura. Your sister never took it. Now, apoligise for accusing your sister of stealing."

"I'm sorry Mari," Sakura said, turning to her sister and bowing.

"What ever, just don't do it again," Mari replied, roling her eyes.