This is the first thing I've ever written, and the idea for it kinda popped into my head while I was listening to Disturbed.

Enjoy.

Also I do not own Naruto... Otherwise I wouldn't be reliant on yall's wonderful feedback to feel good about my writing. And my OC would have kicked Madara's whiny ass about 40 chapters ago.

This story takes place after the battle with Madara/Tobi (Sorry if i spoiled anything) so most of the rookie 9 are between the ages of 18-19.

This story is rated M for language and... stuff.

And I'm Spitfire, the guest starring pre/proofreader! I'll be popping in and out and fixing all of his fuck ups and making sure it's enjoyable to read for all you guys! 3

Let's get started, shall we? :3 _

In The Village of Konoha, a somber atmosphere had overtaken the populace. The once bustling market was now closed for the night, and most of the residents of the Hidden Leaf Village had returned to their homes. All except for the Godaime Hokage who happened to be sitting on a barstool waving her glass rather drunkenly in a futile attempt to coax more sake out of the bartender.

"Yo barkeep. Gib me anudda." She managed to slur out. The Bartender, an aging man named Tenzin eyed the intoxicated Hokage warily.

"I'm sorry Hokage ma'am, but I'm closing up for the night. Would you like for me to arrange for someone to walk you back to the tower?" Around this time of every year Tsunade's drinking binges seemed to increase exponentially, and as a result most of the local bars managed to keep the Anbu Black Ops on speed Dial.

"I'm fine! I -hic- I'm fffine, I kin do it myselpf!" She stated while attempting to stumble to her feet, struggling just to steady herself. Just as Tsunade finished stumbling off of her barstool, a mysterious figure seemed to appear out of nowhere.

"Its alright Tenzin, I'll walk the princess back to the castle", replied Kakashi Hatake with a slightly amused tone from beneath the mask that covered the lower half of his face. When Tsunade turned and saw the Silver Haired Cyclops, she immediately knew that something was amiss. You see, Tsunade was many things, most of them involving rather addictive and unhealthy activities, but she was definitely not stupid. The ANBU usually watched from a distance to make sure she arrived back at the tower, so when the newly reinstated captain appears without being called to walk her home, something had to be seriously wrong. After they were out of earshot from her favorite depressed drinking spot, Tsunade turned and shot a very menacing look at Kakashi who had at this point dropped his grin and was sharing an almost equally as grim look.

"Do you mine telling me, why you had to interrupt me?" Tsunade questioned. Kakashi attempted to keep his cool and collected look, however after a stare-down that seemed to go on for ages, Kakashi shook his head with a sigh and began walking away. Tsunade, still expecting an answer began to chase after him, almost all signs of her drunkenness erased by her desire to know what was bothering Kakashi so much that he personally came to wake her out of her drunken stupor.

"Shizune me" Kakashi replied with an almost bemused tone of voice. Tsunade stopped walking and realization began to set in on what he had forgotten to do that day.

"Oh shit! I completely forgot about Shizune!" With this revelation, almost all drunkenness was forced from her, and she took off at near super human speeds in order to get home to the Hokage tower, leaving a rather startled looking Kakashi to compose his thoughts. Kakashi looked up at the sky and thought for a moment about the unfortunate cause of his leader's drinking spree.

"At least she remembered something today..." he remarked grimly before disappearing in a whirlwind of leaves.

To say that Shizune was pissed, would probably be the understatement of the century. Her mentor and friend Lady Tsunade had gone through all of the trouble to invite her brother to travel all the way from the Village Hidden in the Flames, Shizune's home village (a journey of about 8 days, with minimal breaks, no small feat), to become a Leaf Shinobi, and what does she do? She gets shit-faced drunk, completely forgets about her brother's arrival and shows up almost three hours late. Shizune's normally calm and happy persona had been completely replaced by anger, pure unadulterated anger, that made her mousey black hair stand up on all ends. She went ahead and sent her brother to find the apartment that he would be staying at, and was now waiting lividly for her sensei's return.

Tsunade came careening through the door to find a very angry Shizune and a very terrified looking Ton-Ton, Shizune's pet pig awaiting her arrival. "So... I take it that Daken is already here?" Tsunade inquired, rather sheepishly.

Shizune had to restrain the urge to throttle her friend.

"He was here. In the time it took Kakashi to find where you drinking the day away, he got here, got bored of waiting, went to his new apartment, unpacked and probably went to sleep. He got bored of waiting for you after the second hour" Shizune seethed, obviously trying very hard to control her anger.

"You set the time. I don't understand why you were the only one who couldn't make it".

Tsunade attempted to remained calm, and walked behind the desk of her rather lavish office in the Hokage building and sat down. When she looked up, Shizune almost verbally gasped at the sight before her. The fifth Hokage of the Hidden Leaf Village was almost in tears!

"I didn't completely forget Shizune... Its just that today was the day when... when..." The Godaime paused, unable to finish her sentence in fear that she would break down into tears.

Shizune understood almost immediately what was troubling her friend; she still felt the pain of loss from the incident. Looking down at the calendar on the corner of Tsunade's desk, she noted the date. It was his birthday, of course she was going to be a depressed wreck. All feelings of anger and rage died away almost instantly as Shizune moved closer in an attempt to console her friend.

"Tsunade, I understand. We all miss him. His sacrifice will not be forgotten. Without his aid, we could never have sealed away the ten tails." Tsunade thought back to that fateful day, when Madara's psychotic plan almost killed them all.

Madara Uchiha (Tobi, as he was known in the Akatsuki) had managed to succeed in where the Akatsuki had failed in bringing together all nine of the tailed beasts. The Entity that was called forth took the sacrifice of the nine spirits and one human: Madara. From this sacrifice, The Ten-Tailed Elemental Dragon was conceived, and for almost a month it rained unfathomable destruction down upon the Land of Fire. The beast almost completely destroyed the land of fire, until the Sendaime , the Sixth Hokage, used the Shinigami in order to split the dragon into its ten base elements: Fire, Lightning, Water, Ice, Earth, Steel, Air, Poison, Darkness and Light. Unfortunately, summoning the Shinigami and using its power came at a terrible cost. The Sixth Hokage willingly sacrificed himself in order to finally destroy the menace.

"I know it was necessary but still... why did he have to do it? Why couldn't he have tried to destroy the damned monster himself rather than use that accursed Death God!" Tsunade choked out in between sobs. As Shizune sat there comforting her near catatonic friend, she said a silent prayer. She prayed to Kami that The sixth Hokage find peace...Wherever he might be.

Daken managed to find his apartment no problem. It was a nice, quaint little apartment building that was sandwiched between the Inuzuka and the Yamanaka compounds. After unpacking, he took a look around his apartment and decided to stay in for the night, seeing as the town seemed to be dead for some reason upon his arrival.

"Sis wouldn't tell me why, but I bet its got something to do with why Lady Tsunade was late to our meeting," he thought to himself. "Maybe tomorrow I can get better acquainted with my surroundings, and find out who I'm gonna be teamed with." He said to himself as he walked to the bathroom to prepare for bed.

While brushing his teeth he looked into the mirror and got a good look at himself. He stood at six foot one, a good head or so taller than his older sister Shizune. He had a muscular build, with unkempt brown hair. The one trait that stood out to anybody that he met however were his eyes. His eyes were a piercing blue, however rather than having a normal pupil, his pupils were slitsāˆ’ almost like a lizards. His manipulation of flames along with eyes earned him the nickname "Black Flame Dragon" after the last Chunin exams (which he'd aced, by the way). Daken chuckled to himself and looked out his third story window at the town and admired its quiet beauty. Back in the Village Hidden in the Flames, being built into the side of a fucking volcano usually didn't raise much visual appeal for Daken. Kanoha, on the other hand, had no obstructions in the sky and nothing preventing him from watching the moon and stars as they began their evening ascension.

As he was about to cease his horizon watching, his attention was immediately drawn to a blonde girl walking down the street with a boy. As he watched her saunter over towards the Yamanaka compound, he was struck by two things: firstly and foremost how incredibly hot she looked. She looked absolutely stunning in her purple blouse/black ninja garments combo that she was working coupled with her long blonde hair, and secondly how she seemed incredibly annoyed at the boy next to her who was riding on his dog. Daken blinked as his brain attempted to comprehend the information that it was being presented with.

"Hmmm, a dog huh? Must be one of the Inuzuka's I've heard so much about from Sis." Daken remarked thinking of how her sister apparently had a rather unfortunate falling out with somebody named "Kiba". "I'll have to watch for him." He thought with an evil smirk. He usually didn't stoop to revenge, however revenge on the douche that cheated on his sister, seemed like a useful expenditure of his energies. "Hehe, I'll think of a proper punishment." He thought, as he went back to observing the rather curvaceous blonde and her flea bitten counterpart.

The blonde appeared to be ignoring what appeared to be advances by the dog boy, and continued to up until the gate to her residence very abruptly was slammed into his face. This rather subtle "fuck off" caused Daken to stifle a laugh.

"So, Blonde Girl's got spunk." Daken mused to himself as he hit the lights and climbed into bed. "I like spunk."

Five hours into his arrival and he could already tell he was gonna like it in Kanoha. "Hey, maybe if I'm lucky the Hokage will put me on a team with some actually competent ninja... or at least the blonde babe from earlier," He thought with a smirk. "Either way, things should turn out to be interesting."

Daken (My OC) is the main character of this story.

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