Warnings: May be some Yaoi in it....maybe...if I get paid...which I don't...

It was a beautiful day in the little village. The snow was sparkling white and children were running around laughing and playing. A man was sitting on the roof of his house looking up at the blue sky. He had a sorrowful aura around him that made people keep their distance. The man sighed and looked down at the happy people that were enjoying the beautiful day. He should be down there enjoying the day, he knew it but couldn't bring himself to go down there. It's been three days. Three days since his wife gave birth to a girl. A child that he loved ever since he first heard that his wife was pregnant.

Now he couldn't even think of the girl without feeling the hate rise up and take a grip around his heart. That child,,,the child that took away his wife from him. Killed her. The medics said that something had gone wrong. Something that caused his wife to bleed to death, that there had been nothing they could do. But he knew better. He knew that the child murdered her. He hadn't seen the girl since the death of his wife. Didn't want to. He thought that if he laid his eyes on the girl nothing would stop him from taking her life.

A shinobi were travelling through the country and had stopped to rest and get food in the little village when he heard screams. He walked to the source of the noise and found himself in the middle of a fight. A old woman holding a baby in her arms and a man, not older than 30, were screaming at each other.

"She's your daughter Take!" The old woman screamed. "Take your responsibility like a man!" The man, also known as Take spitted at the ground.

"My daughter you say? My daughter wouldn't have killed her mother!" Take's eyes had a dangerous glow. The ninja decided to step in before things got out of hands.

"What's happening here?" He asked with a calm voice, The old woman and Take immediately recognized his forehead protector as a sign that he was a shinobi of Konoha and not to be messed with. The old woman turned to face him.

"This man" She pointed at Take. "Refuses to take care of his own daughter saying she murdered his wife!" Her voice was full of disgust. Take glared.

"I refuse to acknowledge that monster as my child!" The shinobi looked at the angry man.

"You know...it's your child, whether you want it or not. So it is your responsibility to take care of her." This was obviously not what Take wanted to hear so he grabbed the baby from the old woman's arms and shoved her into the shinobis. "Then you take her! Do what you want with her for all I care!" Take stormed off leaving the shocked shinobi with the baby in his arms.

He looked around for the old woman only to find her gone. 'Great' He thought. 'Just great.' He heard a sound from his arms and looked down to see the baby smile up at him. She had the biggest brown eyes he'd ever seen and he couldn't help but smile back.

The baby laughed and tried to grab his hair with her tiny hands. "Well, it seems like I'm the one taking care of you now...I wonder what your name is..." The baby looked up at him. "I'll just call you Mikoto after my mother okay?" The baby smiled and the shinobi and his new found protege continued his journey back to his home, Konoha, home of the Leaf shinobis.