Chapter 1 – Searching

"Where is the Hokage's tower?" I shouted, "I NEED TO SEE THE HOKAGE!"

I was directed towards a large building down the road. I ran towards it at a lightning speed and followed the signs to the office. I pushed past the guards and ran into the office. There was a large breasted blond woman and a pink haired girl.

"Get back here!" A voice from outside shouted. I shut the doors and locked them. The two women looked at me.

"Which one of you is the Hokage?" I breathed heavily. The blond haired woman put her hand up slowly. "I need your help... I need a doctor... My big... My big... Bro..."

Everything went black...

Tsunade looked at the young girl who fell unconscious in her office. Short white to grey hair, a black trench coat on, black pants and a dark blue shirt, all plain and she saw her eyes were bright blue when she entered the office.

"What just happened?" Tsunade gaped.

"I don't know..." Sakura Haruno hummed as she tied her short pink hair back and checked the young girl. She opened the doors to tell the guards to stand off and it was ok. "She is unconscious... She is tired and stressed."

"When will she wake up?" Tsunade asked,

"Pretty quickly..." Sakura replied as she picked the small girl up. "She is just stressed out... I think she has been running for a while..."

Tsunade went outside her office to tell her assistant not to let anyone in until the small girl wakes up.

"BROTHER!" I shouted as I sat up and looked at where I was. I was lying on a couch and across from me were the same two women from before.

"I am the fifth Hokage, my name is Tsunade." The blond woman said straight away. "You collapsed from exhaustion after running in here... You need a doctor?"

"Yes!" I jumped up in an instant. "My brother is injured... He is hurt... It's his eyes... I need a doctor to help him."

"Where is he?"

"South... a few days..."

"The name of the place." Tsunade replied and sighed, "We need the name honey..."

"Um..."

"You don't know the name of the place...?" Sakura asked and I shook my head in response. "You know where it is though..."

"I do..." I nodded.

"Tsunade with your permission may I go... I will tell you where I am when I get there..." Sakura offered, "I would like to help this poor girl."

"I don't know..." Tsunade hummed, "I guess it will be ok... There isn't anything for you to do... I will give you two weeks... How long did it take you to get here...?"

"Um... I left... yesterday... I took a boat... then another boat... then I slept... Then I ran here..." I replied.

"We will take it a bit slower than that... if you don't mind that is...?" Sakura said to me. I nodded slowly, "Is his condition bad?"

"What do you mean?"

"Is he dying?"

"No..." I replied, "But he needs his eyes to fight and protect me..."

"And he let you come all this way on your own?" Tsunade asked in confusion, "Isn't that reckless...?"

"I know but I need someone to heal him..." I whispered, "Please help!"

"Sakura go get ready and take this girl with you... Here is your budget and get some food in this poor thing. What is your name?"

"Nai!" I cheered, "My name is Nai."

"Ok then Nai..." Tsunade nodded, "Sakura I expect message of where you are in three days... And I expect to see you in two weeks today... I trust that's enough time to fix eye sight..."

"More than." Sakura nodded,

"And if you forget to tell me where you are then you are going to get a lecture and a half when you return." Tsunade snapped. Sakura seemed afraid of her threats... A lecture scares her? I thought, she was strange.

We left the office and entered into the busy streets, they seemed different now that I wasn't rushing through them. Sakura took me to her house where she packed her bags and then took me to a Ramen Stand.

"If we are in a rush Ramen is the quickest meal to get and eat." Sakura explained and ordered us Ramen. I sat there awkwardly, I didn't like a lot of silence so I decided to start a conversation.

"Why are you scared of a lecture?" I asked Sakura. She stopped eating and choked a little while she laughed. "What's funny?"

"Nothing... It's just Lady Tsunade's version of a lecture is brutal beatings..." Sakura explained. I nodded in awe... What a bitch... I hummed to myself.

After eating Sakura and I left for the South Gate of Konoha and told me to stay close to her when we were walking through the forest. I tried to explain to her where we were going but the fact I had no idea what the name of the country we were to enter into was called it made it hard. It wasn't much help that I wasn't evem aware of what country we were in.

"There is a river and a brigde that we cross... at the end of this path." I explained but she still didnt know what I was talking about. When we finally got there she understood that I meant the border between her country and the next. The country was the Tea country and we had to go to the end of it to catch a boat.

"We can take this carriage to where we need to go." Sakura explained to me, "It will be quicker than on foot."

"Where to?" The man asked,

"She doesn't know the name of the place, just the directions." Sakura explained to the man who drove the carriage.

"Well in that case, sit up front with me and tell me where to go so I can direct the horses..." The man smiled. I jumped into the front seat and Sakura sat behind me. I directed him to where I wanted to go and we ended up in a Fishing Village.

"This is Port City." The man said to me as I jumped off the carriage. Sakura paid him and because it was dark we were forced to stay the night in a hotel.

With plans to start again the next morning, after a quick dinner we headed straight for bed to be ready for the long boat ride the next day.