Author's Note: Hey everybody…I found this old Naruto fanfic that I wrote some five or six years ago. I read through it (it took about two weeks since I am an all-grown-up college student now lol) and decided it was actually really good and should be shared with the world of Naruto. So, be sure and let me know what you think! I will try and update regularly but you may not see much of me til after Christmas. But I will get several chapters up today so you will stay occupied in my absence. Enjoy!

~LilReporterGirl

PART 1 (The Beginning)

Chapter 1 (The Mountain's Head)

Annoyed, I pushed my wispy, pale-blonde hair back behind my ears as I climbed. I would have cut all my hair off, but I never got around to it. I was climbing the face of Mt. Hokage in the Hidden leaf Village, Konohagakure. It was one of my favorite spots to go and to think. With the help of my Chakra I reached the top of the 1st Hokage's head that was carved into the mountainside. The Hokage is the leader of our village. Those whose faces were on the mountain were no longer living. Mt. Hokage made an interesting place to sit and watch the people in the village, swarming around like little bugs as they went on throughout their daily lives, unaware that they were being watched by a fifteen-year-old Chunin.

True, I should probably be out on a mission like most of the other Chunin, but today was one of those days that the hokage refused to acknowledge my existence. Her name was Lady Tsunade and I knew that she did not like me. Most of my assignments came from her, supposedly, through Kakashi Hatake, one of the many sensei in the village of Konohagakure. Whenever I tried to see Lady Tsunade, which was very rarely, her assistant would disappear into The Hokage's office only to return moments later saying that Lady Tsunade was either busy or not there. It was obvious she didn't want anything to do with me and I couldn't understand why. I'd only seen her a few times and always from a distance. I'd never even spoken to the woman!

But that was not what I had climbed the mountain to think about. It had been almost five years since Orochimaru had killed my parents. I didn't know exactly how it had happened or why. All I knew was that it must have had something to do with me because nobody wanted to talk to me about it.

"Don't worry about it, Tsukiko," they would say to me, "It didn't have anything to do with you."

Which obviously made me think it did. Adults didn't say things like that unless they were lying. Adults were always lying, trying to cover things up, and I always had my ways of finding out the truth.

I'm not exactly like normal ninja. I can sometimes see things before they happen or see things that have already happened. True, there are many ninja who can predict their opponent's moves, but this isn't like that. I see actual scenarios of things and people, sometimes they're people I know and sometimes I don't know them. My visions came in handy sometimes, like when I knew Sunagakure was going to attack. Not that anyone believed me before hand. They had dismissed it as just nightmares when I awoke from my dream vision. When the sand-ninja attacked, however, they began to believe me. All except the hokage. She still wouldn't listen to a word I said and had to be told by other people before she paid any attention at all. By then a battle was often on her own doorstep.

I had never before had a vision about my parents. That is why I had climbed onto the mountain early this morning- because last night I had dreamt about them.

Their names were Yuki and Kasumi and I had seen them in a dark room, sleeping peacefully at first. I knew that in the next room my ten-year-old self lay sleeping as well. Suddenly there was a loud crash and Yuki and Kasumi both sat up instantly. They ran into the next room to see my sleeping form in the hands of a man wearing a black cloak. Only his golden eyes shone in the darkness. My mother launched herself at my attacker while my father, Kasumi, grabbed the kunai out of my bag on the floor. Orochimaru deflected Yuki with a simple shove of his fist and deflected the kunai thrown by Kasumi using his own Chakra energy.

There was a mad scramble as my parents tried to take me back from Orochimaru and in the end they both lay dead on the floor. By then I had awakened and was screaming. I made enough noise to be heard by the neighbors, but by the time they got there Orochimaru was gone and I was alone, sitting in the middle of the floor near the bodies of Yuki and Kasumi. One of the neighbors, Kazuko, stared at me with wide eyes before turning to face the Konoha police force that had come to help.

"Alert the Hokage and assemble the ANBU Black Opps. Tell them Orochimaru is in the village," Kazuko said to them. They nodded and hurried to obey.

I wondered how Kazuko had known Orochimaru had done it. Whenever I questioned him about it he claimed he had seen Orochimaru run off. Not a chance. I hadn't even seen Orochimaru leave and I had been watching it all happen in my vision. Strange, also, that I had no recollection of any of that happening. I didn't remember anything until the next day when I awoke to find myself in the hospital. That was when Kakashi-sensei told me what had happened…

Since then I had been living with Kakashi-sensei and he took care of me like a daughter, though he was rarely home. I had my own room and pretty much free-range when it came to doing whatever I wanted. I had no curfew to be home by. I could stay out all night if I wished and Kakashi didn't ask questions.

My thoughts were interrupted by a rustling of branches behind me and I whirled around with a kunai in my hand, expecting an attack, but saw it was only Naruto Uzumaki. Naruto was a blonde-haired, blue-eyed, hyperactive ninja who was three years younger than me. He was annoying sometimes, but he was always nice and helpful.

"Hey, Kiko, what're you doing up here?" He asked with a grin. Kiko was what most everyone called me, except Kakashi who insisted on calling me Tsukiko.

"Just thinking. Hoping to get some peace and quiet for once," I said with a faint smile.

"Oh."

"What're you doing?"

"I was bored," He said with a grin, "Neji, Sakura, and I just got back from a mission and now there's nothing to do."

"Oh. How about some training?" I asked him.

"Alright!"

One thing about Naruto is that in a way he is like me. He has two different types of Chakra energy. His normal, blue Chakra, and the red Chakra that he claimed came from the nine-tailed-fox demon that had been sealed inside of him when he was a baby. It startled me when he first told me about this when I was 13 years old. I too, had often felt the presence of a red Chakra within me, though I never said anything. If what Naruto had said was true then I had a demon sealed away inside of me as well, but I didn't tell anyone. I did research, learning all I could about the 9 biju, which are tailed demons, and the Jinchuriki, who were the human hosts in which the demons resided.

Naruto and I started our false battle immediately. He took a stance and performed his shadow clone jutsu, which created multiple copies of himself. As if one Naruto wasn't bad enough. All four of the clones leapt at me and I crouched into a ball and at the exact moment they hit me I released Chakra energy from all 64 Chakra points in my body, throwing the clones backwards and disintegrating them. As soon as the clones were gone I leapt into the air as the real Naruto burst forth out of the ground. I landed gracefully on my feet a safe distance away.

"Did you really think that would work on me, Naruto?" I asked with a laugh, "I watched your battle against Neji during the Chunin exams, remember?"

"Oh yeah? Try this!" He exclaimed. He quickly cloned himself and using his clone for support, began to roll a ball of Chakra energy known as Rasengan. I could have easily dodged it, but instead as he threw it at me I held up my hand and created a shield with the Chakra emitted from the Chakra points in my arms. The Rasengan ball struck the shield with a force that would have knocked a weaker ninja backwards, before reflecting back and striking the true Naruto dead in the stomach.

I walked over to where he lay on the ground, the breath knocked out of him, and I stood over him and smiled.

"This battle…is over," I said, extending a hand to help him up.