Bright stars covered the midnight sky, a girl with red hair pulled up in a high ponytail knelt down beside the lady lying in the bed.
"Mommy don't die! Please don't leave me!" she begged.
The lady lifted her hand and ran in gently down the side of the girl's face, "Hinawari, don't worry, you have many good friends that will take care of you."
"Mother!" she screamed as the lady's hand fell to the hard ground, "Mother! Mommy!" tears rolled down Hinawari's cheeks.
Massive flames reached to the sky, screams could be heard through out the night. One girl with long just past the shoulder, pale purple hair, and blood red eyes, stood on the roof of a house laughing manically; People's bodies layed below her, on struggled looking up at her on the roof.
"Megumi why?" the man shouted, "Why would you do this to…" the girl stopped laughing and frowned, throwing a kunai at the man and killing him.
"Impressive, you did all this?" a man with slicked back silver hair smirked, his black cloak with red clouds on it swayed in the wind.
The girl named Megumi nodded with a smirk, she charged at him and he caught her fist.
"You're not that strong," he laughed, "Join us; we'll give you limitless power."
Megumi brought her fist back and rested it on her hip, "Join what?"
"The Akatsuki." He smirked.
A large smirk grew on her lips.
The door to the Raikage's office slowly creaked open and two pale indigo colored eyes peered inside.
"Onii-Chan, have you decided yet?" the young girl mumbled, stepping into the room.
"Yes," her brother sat at the desk, his hand under his chin, "You won't be able to become a shinobi, Rai"
Her alias in Kumogakure had been Shinsei Rai. Her birth name was a mystery; some rumored that she had no name, others thought she was lieing, but no one knew. The Raikage and her weren't related in any way, yet he knew everything but her name. Even secrets she didn't know, hence forth she considered him her elder brother.
Rai's eyes began to water, "But onii-chan!" her voice rang through the halls, "Just what do you think I've been doing the past five years?"
"It's for your own good Rai!"
"Right! Like I'll believe you!" the indigo eyed girl stormed out of the room in a rampage.
Hikari bent down over her comrades limp body, rain poured from the black sky. There were shouts and the other three ANBU pushed through the bush.
"What'd you do?" one growled.
She stood, afraid of being blamed for the crime that wasn't hers.
"I said, what'd you do?" they repeated.
Hikari kept quiet as she turned and ran.
End of Prologue