Tsunade and Shizune were walking through another one of the uncountable towns they passed through to a local gambling hall. Shizune sighed thinking of how Tsunade was going to lose even more money in this small town alone and increase their already massive debt. No matter how much she pleaded with Tsunade to cut back on her drinking and gambling it was no use, she may as well have been talking to brick wall.

While Shizune was wrapped up in her thoughts, Tsunade came to an abrupt halt causing Shizune to walk into her.

"I'm sorry Tsunade-sama I wasn't-" Shizune started to apologize but stopped when she realized that Tsunade wasn't listening to her. " Tsunade-sama what's wrong why did you stop," Shizune asked seeing Tsunade's focus was off in the distance.

"Do you hear that Shizune? It sounds like a mob." Tsunade asked her confused apprentice.

Just as Shizune was about to declare that she had no idea what Tsunade was talking about she realized that she could hear faint yelling and crying in the distance. But before she could say anything to Tsunade asking what they should do, Tsunade had already sprinted towards the source of the yelling.

Shizune ran after her yelling for her slow down and wait for her. Tsunade ignored her and kept running and did not slow down until the mob was in sight. Many of the people in the mob had makeshift weapons of rocks, sticks, pretty much what ever they could get their hands on. But everyone in the crowd had one thing in common they were facing into an alley and shouting some nonsense about demons and monster.

"What the hell is going on here?" Tsunade yelled at the mob she was ignored until she grabbed one of the men and directed the question at him.

She could smell the alcohol on the man as he answered her question, "We're just ridding the town of a demon that's been hanging around town scaring off everyone coming through tow-." He never finished his sentence as Tsunade threw him aside after hearing the cry of pain coming from the alley that sounded like a child in a lot of pain.

Shizune arrived just in time to see Tsunade shoving her way into the center of the mob toward the alley. She winced as she saw Tsunade using her strength to shove people aside not caring what happened to them. Shizune followed Tsunade into the crowd as she heard a child scream in pain.

As Tsunade got to the alley entrance and saw that 'demon' was nothing but a helpless little kid she completely lost it. The men that had been the beating the pathetic looking kid had turned around when they heard the commotion in the crowd could not believe that a woman had gotten through the crowd without a single scratch on her. Before they had a chance to ask anything other than "How in the world did you-." Tsunade had punched them through the nearest wall.

"Now if the rest of you know what's best for you than you better get out of my sight and not come back!" Tsunade snarled at the mob, after seeing what happened to their leaders everyone ran away from the alley as fast as their legs could carry them. Once the last of the mob disappeared into the town Tsunade turned to check on the poor kid. And noticed exactly why the people had called the child a demon, the little girl had a dragon tail. Her nails looked like claws (Think of Naruto's nails when he uses the Kyuubi's power)

Shizune and Tsunade could not believe the kid's condition she looked like she could be no older than two. She looked like she was nothing but skin and bones the shirt she was wearing was so huge it looked like a dress. They saw that that the townspeople had broken a large number of bones and that the kid was covered in filth although it probably covered up a lot of bruises. She had a few cuts that looked like they would need stitches but they did not look too deep. They had yet to check for any internal damage but it looked so far like the kid would come close but would pull through if she got help she badly needed.

"Its alright, we're not going to hurt you. We're going to help you get better." Shizune softly said to the girl while slowly approaching the girl. The girl's only response was to moan and to try and curl into a ball to shield herself from more pain.

Tsunade was rooted to the spot at the sight of the girl's blood reminding her of her lover Dan and her little brother Nawaki. But she forced herself to take a deep breath and approach the small badly injured girl knowing Shizune would need help to heal her. She did not want this child to die just because of some stupid villagers beating her when she could help her to live.

Tsunade's and Shizune's hands started to glow with as soothing green light as they checked the girl for any internal injuries. They found a fair amount of internal damage. Tsunade took in a sharp breath as she realized that one of the girl's ribs was resting just above the girl's lungs. If we were just a second longer in getting here this girl would be dead. Tsunade thought glad that they had given this girl a chance to live another day.

Shizune had used a justu to put the girl to sleep so she could avoid the pain of her injuries for a few hours. Working together Tsunade and Shizune were able to heal the girl to a point where it was safe to move the girl, without injuring her further. Shizune kept basic medical equipment with her at all times so they were able to temporarily bandage the girls wounds and splint the broken bones, until they could get her to a hospital.

Tsunade was glad that this town was large enough to have a small hospital, when most of the towns they passed through had no hospital. After only an hour in the hospital they saved the girl's life again, when one of the doctors had tried to give her a lethal injection. The doctor needless to say needed his own room once Tsunade was done with him. Shizune shuddered just thinking about it, if there was one thing Tsunade hated more than people who tried to hurt kids it would be losing, and perverts.

Only a couple of the doctors had helped Tsunade and Shizune with treating the girl. The two doctors were disgusted with their coworkers for not even bothering to help the kid, and for trying to kill her.

It had taken a couple of hours but they had managed to get the girl clean, they had to cut off most of her hair it was so badly matted and filthily. They had discovered that her hair was a sun kissed yellow color, they had originally thought her hair was dark brown (Ewww). Her tail had looked dark blue when they first saw the girl but it turned out to be sky blue. The doctors had no clue who the girl was and realized the girl must be an orphan, which had been pretty obvious from the start.

The girl was on the small side and could really use some food, they could easily see her ribs. The girl had a couple of her ribs broken along with her right arm and left leg. Many more bones had been fractured throughout her body, but they would be healed in a couple of weeks. She was also covered in bruises that were still forming and swelling.

Tsunade and Shizune took turns to sleep so that one of them would be awake when the girl woke up. They were curious to find out if the tail was caused by a new bloodline trait.

The girl didn't wake up until late the next day. Shizune was the one awake at the time and woke Tsunade as the girl started to moan and squirm in the hospital bed. As the girl opened her eyes and the two saw them for them first time they were slightly shocked by what they saw.

'Damn her eyes make me think of Orochimaru's Tsunade thought.

The girl's eyes were the same sky blue color as her tail but they had a split pupil like a snake eye. The girl blinked at them for a moment before trying to move away from the pair and only succeeded in causing herself more pain.

"Whoa its okay we're not going to hurt you. Don't move you'll only hurt yourself by moving." Shizune said to the girl hoping to calm her down. Her words however did not calm the girl down as she hoped they would they only seemed to confuse the girl further.

"Wait kid do you not know who to talk at all?" Tsunade asked the girl the confused look on her face was answer enough. "Oh Great now we have to teach the kid to talk before we can get any answers out of her."

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Tsunade had to say the girl was a fast learner she had picked up talking pretty quick she had spent a couple of weeks in the hospital before she was able to leave. The only two doctors who had helped to treat the girl had helped teach her how to talk. Once the girl was well enough to travel Tsunade and Shizune continued their travels with the girl.

The girl had over the month she knew Tsunade and Shizune slowly managed to explain her past to the pair. They found out that she remembered everything since she had hatched that's right hatched. The girl's mother was a dragon, they had not believed the girl at first because well who would believe that. But Tsunade had remembered asking Sarutobi about the different kinds of summons there were in the world. He had told her that there were hundreds of different kinds, and the dragon summons were one example. Sarutobi had told her that the dragon summons were very choosey about their summoners and had as far as he knew only had one summoner that had disappeared.

She did not know who her father was so that was a dead end. But the girl told them what her mother had said to herself after she hatched. Her mom had said something about a filthy snake summoner experimenting with her egg before she could escape with it. Tsunade knew that Orochimaru had to be the cause of the girl's condition. After some testing Tsunade had figured out the girl was half dragon half human.

The girl did not have a name so they had named her Sora because of the color of her scales and eyes (Sora means sky). They figured out that Sora was about two and a half years old, it helped that Sora could remember her entire life and that her memories did not fade like with most people.

Sora was very nervous around new people mainly because of how they reacted to her tail and her eyes if they got close enough to see them, but she was very open with Tsunade and Shizune. Once Sora found out that the pair were ninjas and saw what they could do she decided that's what she wanted to be to. Tsunade had only promised to teach Sora the transformation jutsu so that she could at least walk around town without people staring at her.

Shizune loved having Sora around it was like having a little sister. It was also nice to have her around because Tsunade could not spend as much money as before because they had a little kid to take care of.

By the time Sora was about four they had found out that most snakes loathed Sora and she hated them as well, but she liked lizards. Sora could understand what reptiles were saying to her, she told them that snakes called her a lot of really bad names and tried to bite her a lot. Sora had developed a pretty good immunity to poison because of all the snake bites she had gotten over the years.

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"Kaa-san come on you promised to teach me how to be a ninja," Sora pleaded desperately.

"For the last time I said I would only teach you how to do the transformation jutsu so that you don't have to put up with people staring." Tsunade yelled at the little girl walking next to her.

"Pretty please, you know I want to be a ninja," Sora begged her.

"Alright fine if you want to be a ninja so badly than I'll send you to the Leaf Village and you can learn there," Tsunade snapped. Sora tripped shocked that her adopted kaa-san had actually agreed. Shizune was shocked as well by the answer.

"Really you will? Oh thank you kaa-san!" Sora had jumped up and given Tsunade the strongest hug a five could give, which given she was easily twice as strong most five year olds was pretty strong.

"But Tsunade-sama you said you were never going back to the village again." Shizune hesitantly said.

"Oh I'm not going anywhere near that village again," Tsunade replied.

"But then how are we goin-?" Shizune started to say.

"I know exactly what we're going to do," Tsunade said with a smile on her face. Shizune and Sora could only exchange confused looks at her answer.