This picks up where my Naruto fic left off; i just posted it on this one so it would be easier to follow.

Enjoy!

Luna bit back a laugh at the stricken expression on Iruka's face as she slowly edged towards the door.

"Um...I think I'll let you explain it, Iruka. From a fellow dude's point of view."

"But-"

"Good luck!" She threw over her shoulder quickly before bolting out the door.

Luna lingered in the hallway long enough to hear Iruka let out a long sigh before clearing his throat nervously. "Well, you see, Naruto...When a girl reaches a certain age.."

She had to get going before she collapsed with giggles.

FORTY-FIVE MINUTES LATER...

After practically beating it out of the drunken Hokage ("It was Shizune's birthday!" was her excuse this time as to how she got so wasted), Luna finally found the location of Kira's mother's house.

Her grandmother's house.

Grandmother. Actually calling someone that was an entirely new concept to her; practically foreign.

Luna knocked several times, but there was no answer. Finally, she sighed and just shot the lock, beyond impatient at this point. Hungry for more information about herself.

"...Hello?"

The house was in utter disrepair. Books were scattered all over the floor, junk was overflowing out of the spare closet, and as for the sink...Well, even Naruto would've cringed at it.

She could've sworn a few of the dishes moved.

Luna was fiddling with a random knicknack when some woman in a ratty and worn nightgown came shuffling in.

If she hadn't been able to sense chakra, Luna would've been toast. She just barely dodged a high-powered ball of energy.

"Who are you, and what the hell are you doing in my house?"

"Ma'am, I mean you no harm. I'm Luna...Kira's daughter?"

The woman slowly lowered her hand, staring. Luna shivered; it was as if she could see right through her to her soul.

"Humph. You do look like her. Are you just as much of a pain in the ass?"

"Excuse me?"

"She disappeared years ago. You know that, right?"

"Yes, I do. Do you know what happened to her?"

"Nope. Don't wanna know."

Luna cocked her head with interest. "Forgive me, but I'm confused. She's your daughter."

Her grandmother whipped out a pipe and lit it with a match. How she found it amidst all the junk was beyond Luna.

"What's your point?"

"Well...Mothers and daughters are supposed to love each other, and take care of one another whenever they're needed," Luna explained slowly.

The woman nearly choked on her pipe, she laughed so hard. "That's a good one. You're funny, kid."

"But...I wasn't joking. That's what parenting's all about."

"And how would you know? Do you have a kid? Huh?"

Luna flushed. Normally she was immune to people like this, who kept making her second-guess what she was taught, but this woman...well, quite frankly scared her a little.

Her eyes were a flashing hazel, a striking contrast to her pale and wrinkled skin. Unlike Luna and Kira, her hair was a mess of blond poof flying out from her face.

She probably looked pretty at one time, but age didn't do her grandmother much good.

And that shriveled nightgown...Well, let's just say if Luna had seen her running towards her at night, she would've beat her with a pipe before she got mugged. If that's how I'm gonna look when I get old...I might have to kill myself.

"No. I don't."

"Well then, hush your mouth. When you have kids of your own you can come tell me the right and wrong methods of parenting. Now, what the hell are you doing here?"

"I was wondering what you could tell me about my family. Your family."

She stared at Luna for a long time, making smoke signals with her pipe. It took all her 15 years of interrogation training not to squirm under the old lady's hard gaze.

Finally, she spoke. "Luna, is it?" She nodded eagerly.

"Some things...Some things are better left unknown. Some things are meant to stay in the dark."

"Could you at least tell me...What happened to me after my mom disappeared?"

She stared at her some more while taking a few drags off the pipe, then finally nodded slowly. "I suppose you deserve that much. Master Jiraiya and I took you somewhere, he never told me where we went. I believe some other village. It was a strange village, with lots of odd buildings and devices of which I myself have never seen. There was a nice-looking family waiting. A woman, man, and little boy, a little older than yourself."

Luna waited anxiously for her to continue, rapt with attention, but the woman got up instead. "I believe that's all you need to know. As they say, the rest is history."

"But...Please...I don't remember-" Luna cut herself off with a yell of surprise as her grandmother threw something at her. It was a necklace; a pale sphere with lighter-colored cloud designs all over it. It hung from a simple copper cord.

She nodded at the necklace, then at Luna. "That was your mother's. Family heirloom. I dunno if you're the exact same, but in Kira's case...the necklace did odd things. Mystical things. She always knew when things were about to go wrong.."

And with that, she shuffled towards the back of the house.

"Wait!"

Silence.

Luna sighed and glanced at the necklace before leaving, slipping it around her neck carefully.

"Luna, I am so so so sorry you're a girl!" Naruto practically shouted at her as soon as she returned to the hospital.

She sweatdropped, and Iruka just laughed nervously as Naruto dragged her out. "Is it your time of the month right now? Does your stomach hurt? Should I leave you alone for a few days? You're not gonna kill me, are you? Oh, here, you can have this back."

He handed her the worn tampon, and Luna nearly gagged before throwing it behind her. It landed in some crazy old woman's lap, and she kept saying, "I remember when I needed these!" over and over as she was wheeled away.

Luna's temple throbbed as Naruto continued to bombard her with questions. "NARUTO!" He stopped mid-sentence and eyed her warily. "Oh. Crap. It IS your time of the month!"

She huffed. "No, it's not, actually. But I would love it if you would stop asking me questions involving my period. Please. Or anything that has to do with puberty in general. You do know what puberty is, don't you?"

He waved her off. "Duh. What do you take me for, a moron?"

Luna sweatdropped and opened her mouth to say something, but just shook her head. "It's too easy, I'm just gonna leave that one alone for now."

NINETEEN MINUTES LATER...

Naruto randomly pointed towards her chest. "Whoa, where'd that come from?" He asked with interest.

Luna sweatdropped. "I thought you said you knew about puberty?"

He sweatdropped as well. "Um, I was talking about your necklace."

She turned about five shades of red and swatted his hand away as he snickered. "O-Oh. Psh, I knew that! Chyeah. And...It's just a necklace," she said matter-of-factly.

"Yeah, I noticed it was 'just a necklace'. But where'd you get it?"

"Nowhere."

"So what, it just randomly showed up?"

"Yup."

"Pleeease tell me?"

"No."

"I'll tell you word-for-word what Iruka said about periods if you don't. And trust me, it was interesting," he warned.

Luna held up her hands in surrender as he opened the door. "Okay, okay, fine! My grandmother. Apparently I have one. It was my mom's, according to her."

His eyes widened with excitement. "What's she like? Your granny."

She laughed nervously. "Well...Quite frankly, she scares the crap out of me."

He sweatdropped. "You just can't catch a break, can you?"

As if on cue, her phone rang, vibrating against the kitchen counter and making them both jump.

Luna peered down at it, then jumped back as if she were burnt. "Damn, it's him again."

Naruto rolled his eyes and flipped the phone over so she couldn't see the ID. That wasn't good enough for her, so she threw it against the fridge. It stopped ringing, and she grinned at the cell phone smugly. "HA! Luna- 28, Technology-1."

"One?"

"Yeah, the first time he called, remember?"

"Oh, right, right. Well, that doesn't count."

"It does to me."

"Whatever, Luna."

This wasn't her usual dream. Luna was standing at the entrance of an old manor, and it was snowing.

Was that...tombstones to her right? And some kind of song on the wind? Creepy children voices were singing it, from what she could gather.

She shuddered and continued looking around. Her eyes landed on a door, and she gulped.

Somehow she knew that as soon as she went through that door, she would never be the same.

And not in a good sense. Not at all.

Luna shook her head quickly. "Dammit, I'm an Agent! I'm the sheer embodiment of KICK-ASS. I can DO this!" She muttered determinedly as she yanked open the giant double-doors.

Her courage quickly faded as she took in the creepiness of the place. She had barely taken two steps when she heard ragged breathing and the figure of a man appeared in the room right in front of her.

Luna bit back a gasp as she realized the figure was...transparent.

A ghost? Impossible.

Then again, she pretty much made her living off of the impossible.

Of course, she thought of all this WHILE she was running like an idiot around the room, sighing in relief when she was undetected by the ghost.

She turned into another room with a couple large kimonos on the left wall, and not much else. Although there WAS a shiny object on a narrow table.

Luna carefully picked up the object, and realized it was film. Type 14. For a...camera? "Well, what the hell am I supposed to do with THIS?" She wondered out loud.

It was then she noticed the doll.

Out of all the things in her "profession" that should scare her, the only thing she was truly afraid of was, in fact...dolls.

She stared at this one in horror as it slowly turned its head upwards to look at her. Luna then ran out of the room and into a different hallway than the one she came from. "Screw that, no creepy dolls for me, thanks!"

She stopped mid-sprint as she felt her whole body throb. There was a spirit nearby. She felt the same thing when the heavy-breathing-guy had appeared.

Luna shook her head quickly and continued walking at a brisk pace. "Nope, nope, I don't wanna know, I do NOT wanna know!"

Everything was going fine until she passed by a mirror. She practically flew past it, scared to death some kind of Grudge Girl was going to pop out at her from it.

But instead she saw a blue woman walking in the opposite direction in the other hallway, which was visible through grid-like bars to her right.

"I don't want to see...any more..." She said in a sad whisper before she disappeared.

"That makes two of us," Luna muttered to herself. She felt strong pressure from the ghost, and shuddered before walking again.

As if that blue woman hadn't been enough, a man with a sword came out of the walls, lunging for her.

Luna knew she was no match against the dead, and ran for the nearest door. Flinging it open, she saw a familiar lady on the other side.

She smiled at her, which just made Luna more confused. "Luna. It's been a long time."

Everything went white before she could even process what just happened, and suddenly she was laying on a wooden floor.

Her whole body felt heavy. Luna looked down to see herself dressed in a white kimono, and four girls were positioned at each of her hands and feet.

They were holding... "Oh my God."

Stakes and mallets.

They seemed happy, and as each stake came in contact with her skin, a strange pattern appeared and ran up her body.

It would make a cool tattoo if it weren't so cold and painful all at once.

The four girls held the stakes with steady hands, raising their mallets. Luna squeezed her eyes shut, braced for the stakes' impacts, but none came.

"Luna! Luna, it's okay, you're okay."

For the first time in her life, she had woken up from a nightmare screaming and with a cold sweat. The thunks of the mallets were still ringing in her ears, as if they had actually impaled her.

She realized she was shaking a little. No wonder Naruto looked freaked out. She had never looked scared at this degree before, not even when Alex first called. "What the hell kind of dream were you having?"

Luna checked her hands and feet; normal. Intact. Not impaled. No tattoo. She then slowly looked up at Naruto, genuine worry in her eyes.

That "dream" was way too real. The pain was way too real. Her head was still throbbing from all the spiritual pressure.

"What did you say?"

"I said, 'What the hell kind of dream were you having?'"

Luna couldn't help but laugh in a tone that suggested it was anything BUT funny.

"That, Naruto, is a very good question."