"What the hell are you doing here?" Itachi asks. He looked at his childhood friend. 'How do I tell her father that she got hurt in the battle,' he thought to himself. His childhood friend, Hyuga Hisaga was a little on the wild side. She loved to stop the fights, especially when it was about her family or Itachi's family. She really didn't care that she was the cause of all the rumors. She, even, didn't care what other people thought of her.
"I'm just here for the fight." Hisaga replies casually. She brushed her long wavy hair out of her face. Her eyes were just like the rest of the Hyuga's but it was also completely different. Her personality just scared everyone, because she does wild and crazy things. 'Why does he always worry about me?' Hisaga thinks to herself. 'Its true that, we've been best friends since we were little. But that doesn't mean he can worry about me so much,' she continued to herself.
They were in Suna to help out the Kazekage. The Hidden Sand Village was being attacked by the Hidden Rain Village. That's when they met Tobi for the very first time. Tobi was one of the people fighting for the Rain Village. But Itachi and Hisaga noticed something that was off about the man in a swirl, orange mask that only has a hole to one side. They knew he was fighting for the other side but he saved Hisaga, who should be his enemy. He looked at Itachi, first and then turned his head to Hisaga.
"Who are you, exactly?" Hisaga asked entranced by the mask Tobi was wearing. He didn't reply right away, he took his time to answer the question. Hisaga was finally able to turn her head away from the man in front of her. She looked at Itachi, her facial expression asking if he knows him. He shook his head no, that's when Tobi looked at the brilliant moon against the night sky.
"Am I not allowed to help other people. You both aren't like the other Suna and Konoha people. Besides Tobi is a good boy, he doesn't like to hurt others." Tobi replies while starring at the moon. He could feel the stare from Itachi and Hisaga, who was near him. He looks at them one more time and then leaves quickly. Once he was far away from them, they started talk out loud, Hisaga dropped to her knees. Itachi runs to make sure nothing extraordinary had happened to her.
"Who exactly is he?" Hisaga asks to nobody in particular. Itachi just then stares at the direction that the stranger went. Hisaga looks at Itachi's expression and notices something in his facial expression that says he's confused at what the stranger said. Hisaga tries to stand up, but ends up falling down onto the cool, moist grass. "Ow. Great, I think I sprained my ankle. It hurts." Hisaga replies from the pain in her right ankle. Itachi looks at her for a couple of seconds.
"Do you need help, Hisaga-chan?" Itachi says using his nickname that he came up with when they were younger. He looks at her struggling to get up. When she finally gave up, Itachi grabbed her arm and pulled it around his neck and put his left arm around her waist to help her walk all the way back to the Hidden Sand Village.
Once they got there, he took her to the medical center to make sure it wasn't sprained. The medics said it wasn't a sprain but was completely broken. That was even worse, Itachi is going to get yelled at by Hiashi, again. But the Hokage might back him up on this fight, since it wasn't exactly his fault. The medics suggested that he take her home and not let her get into any other fights or come back to fight in the war. When they got to the village, Itachi took her to her home, and woke the one person he didn't want to see, Hyuga Hiashi.
"What happened to her?" Hiashi said with complete calmness with a hint of suspicion, in his voice. He starred at the two in front of him and Hisaga looked him straight in the eye.
"I broke my ankle, and the medics told me I had to go home. Otherwise I'd get in the way of the seriously injured people. I'll tell you how it happened later. Okay Itachi-san. You can let go of me, now." Hisaga replies and looks at the two men that are with her. Hiashi moves out of the way to let her in, and she walks through the door way. Itachi waits at the door until the door was shut. Then, he walked to his home which wasn't that far. He took his time, to look at the stars and the bright moon in the sky and to think of the man who had literally saved his friend. He didn't realize that he was in front of the door, until he heard his little brother, Sasuke come screaming, to welcome home to him. As Sasuke was screaming, he jumped to give Itachi a hug.
"Little brother, you need to quiet down. Mother and father will hear you, if they aren't already awake." Itachi says hugging his little brother back. He actually hoped that they weren't awake. His hope was crushed when he saw his father and mother came out to greet him. Itachi took Sasuke to his room to go to sleep, after that he went to talk to his father.
The next morning…
Itachi went to see how Hisaga was doing but to no avail. Her mother told him that she came back and left so suddenly. When he heard this, he didn't think to much of it. That is, until he heard that some of her other friends were talking about what she was doing in a place so high. Itachi ran to the famous Hokage Rock and saw her up there. He thought about convincing her to come down, but knew it would be pointless. So he decided to join her, and talk with her. When he got there, he saw that she was troubled by something. "Hi, Hisaga-chan," he said as he got there.
"Hi," she replies that was closely followed by a yawn. She looked at the sun rising and heard the birds chirping for the coming day.
"What are you doing this high?" Itachi asks to break the unbearable silence that enveloped around them. He looks at her with a serious but concerned face. She looked back at him and showed no emotion.
"I feel safe here, more than my own home. When you left, my father scolded me for getting hurt, and coming home. He said I just made an excuse to get out of the war. I didn't like what he said so I just left and came up here. I didn't even say hi to my little sister, Hinata, or my little cousin Neji," she replies looking back out into the horizon. She stares at it for a couple of more moments, and couldn't stand the silence any longer. "Let's go eat breakfast." she replied after not hearing another word from him. He got up and helped her up. By now, she has a walking cast and it was not only protecting her ankle but it also reminded her of the mysterious boy that saved her life.
