Disclaimer: I don't, or ever will, own the Naruto series

- I do, however, own this plotline

- Sorry, but I just love my OCs!!! Keiko & Leiko rule! Along with Sakura!

- Ellnidra

Half-Breeds

Prologue

Once upon a time, there was a great war between angels and demons. They had fought long and hard, but it never seemed come to a conclusion. Many had died and even more wounded, but each side still hoped that their lives were not in vain. It had been so long since the war started, decades and decades in fact, but all they knew was that they were born hating and hated by the other race.

Women feared for their mens' lives, just as mothers for their children. Only men were allowed to fight in the war, it was prohibited for women to fight at all. Both races agreed on that; women were inferior to men. The women, while the men at war, were needed back on their homeland, be it in Heaven or Hell. They taught their children and were useful as medics.

At a young age, the children were taught many things. The boys; self-defence and weaponry, while the girls; culture, etiquette and healing, they were never brought out into the war. The lives of both angel and demon children were trecherous ones. While they trained and learned, they were taught to keep aware of their surroundings at all times for stray enemies from battle. They weren't even safe in their own homes. Mothers always hated that their children would have to live in such conditions, but leaving their homeland was not an option.

Leaving their homeland without direct order from their superior, was punished by death. That was only the reason because, other than Heaven and Hell, there was only one other land, and it was called Earth. Both races were prohibited to go there because that was where humans were said to live. Along with the humans, were what they called half-breeds. Half-breeds were a mix between an angel an a demon. There were also a small amount of reports of humans and either angels or demons children, but their children would never possess either of the superior races' powers. Relashionships such as those were shuned and punished by death as well. If there was a child that they found, they would also have to be killed bacause, they were a shame to both races. All living things on Earth were seen as inferior to both angels and demons.

There were some who dared to break the laws, and live on Earth, be it for their own purpose or with one of the other race, but were claimed as traitors to their homeland nevertheless. Every once in a while, the rulers of both Heaven and Hell sent a few soldiers to Earth on a mission to try and seek out as many traitors and half-breeds as they could. They were told to bring them back and would be delt with then in their homeland. Hiding from the soldiers would prove to be a tremendously hard task, but not as hard a task as escaping their land would be.

Our story begins with a small family who wanted to live without war, fighting or hiding, but one can only wish for such things.

Chapter 1

Trees were flashing by in blurs, because their movements were too fast. They had just escaped Heaven, but were being pursued by soldiers. Even though they were well ahead and could probably fight off quite a few of them, they didn't want to take the risk.

They had a child with them.

Their child.

Their half-breed.

Snow white soft feathers bounced in the air, as the wings attatched to them flapped as hard as they could. They were the pure wings of an angel, a traitorous angel. She looked down at the bundle she held protectingly in her arms. Their little baby girl. They would do anything to keep her alive. She looked to her right, to her lover. He was right beside her, protecting her along with their child. He had tainted black wings, hard and durable

"Katsu-kun," she said. He turned to look at her and saw her worried and concerned features. He smiled reasuringly.

"Don't worry, Meiyo-chan, it's just another mile or so, then our child will be safe, but we cannot stay. The soldiers will find her if we do. We will have to leave her there," he paused seeing his lovers' sadened face,"but don't worry, she will be in good hands until we get back."

She smiled and looked down at her child. She was rapped in a black material from Hell, that Katsu had brought with him and was surprisingly soft. Their child was sleeping peacefully, unaware of the dangers that were set upon her family at the moment. They arrived at a small house hidden in the forest away from villages and prying eyes.

They landed and retreated their wings into their back. There was no evidence that wings had ever been there, except for their clothes which had two holes on each of their shoulder blades. Unfortunetly, half-breeds couldn't retreat their wings fully, but just shrink them to a slightly smaller size when traveling on foot. Another default that would be hard to hide from soldiers in the future.

They quickly walked up the front porch and knocked on the front door. A few moments later, a young lady that seemed in her early twenties came out. She looked over both of them, the bundle they were holding and then nodded at them and gestured them to come inside.

"No, we can't. We are being followed, and need you to take care of her. We hope to be back as soon as possible," Katsu said taking their daughter from Meiyo and handing it to the lady. She nodded and then asked,

"Does she have a name?" Meiyo was the first one to speak up,

"Sakura," they couldn't use their real last names in fear that the soldiers would find them faster. The lady nodded and left to go inside while the two parents bounded back the way they came off into the night. They were going to back-track then turn in a different direction to bring them away from their child.

Unfortunetly, later that night, the soldiers were faster and stronger then themselves, and Katsu and Meiyo wouldn't get to see their child again. They knew they were going to die that night, although they were dieing somewhat happy, knowing that their daughter was safe for now at least.

Back with the young lady and Sakura, the lady put her in a small crib in one of the many rooms in the house. It may have seemed quite small on the outside, but inside there was more rooms than an average sized house. That was only because they had to take care of many runaways and half-breeds that came to them.

She sighed, 'Sakura' she thought 'What a fitting name for a pink-haired girl'. She then smiled at the infant and turned away, heading to her office to place little Sakura in her record book. She knew her parents weren't going to come back for her, if they were still alive, they had loved her dearly and couldn't risk her by coming back with soldiers on their tail.

She then paused in her records, for half-breeds they were supposed to identify what shade their wings were. They were either black, if they were more demon, or white, if more angel. What she saw surprised her. Never in her twenty years or in her family at all, was there ever documented that a half-breed had equal shares from their parents. It just didn't happen. Although when she saw the bright silver wings on the childs back, she, and her family, were proven wrong. She sighed, wondering what this child would bring. She could just feel that this child was going to be different.

Latter that night, she had two more visits with parents delivering their half-breed children. Both were girls, but looked almost like the exact opposite. Leiko had snow white-hair and was mostly angel with pure white wings and Keiko, the other infant, had onyx-hair and was mostly demon with dark onyx bat wings. What surprised her the most, though, was that they both simultaniously opened their eyes, in which she found out that Leiko, the angel half-breed, had the darkest onyx eyes she had ever seen, while Keiko, the demon half-breed, had the brightest snow-white eyes she had ever seen. It almost seemed as though neither had pupils at all!

She dropped them off into their new cribs when she heard one of the other children cry. She left the room after settling them in and went to the crying baby. Surprisingly, it was little Sakura. Another little surprise for the young woman, was that this child had the brightest emerald eyes she had ever seen. She picked her up and started rocking her back and forth, whispering comforting words to her. Soon after, Sakura fell back to sleep and the woman put her back into the crib before heading back to finish her paperwork, and then planned on heading to her own bed for some much nedded sleep.

5 Years Later

"Aunty Shizune!" shouted a little five-year-old pink-haired girl. She ran up to a young woman with short black hair and hugged her left leg, hiding behind it. Running closely behind her was another boy, he was part of one of the demon families that ran away and also a full-blood meaning he wasn't a half-breed, but stopped once he saw that she was hiding behind Shizune's leg. He then proceeded to walk back over to his group of friends.

Shizune sighed, she knew it was never easy for a half-breed. They never fit in, they were neither fully angel or demon, but both. Sakura was the strangest one though. Whith silver wings, she really didn't fit in with either the demon half-breeds or the angel half-breeds that they took care of. Fortunetly for her though, there were two others that didn't care what she was, they were, of course, called Leiko and Keiko. Because they were friendly to Sakura, they too were shuned by the others, but didn't care so long as they had each other, they were inseperable.

Sakura then saw Keiko outside with Leiko looking around for something. She detached herself from Shizune's leg and proceeded to run to her friends. Once she was outside, Sakura called out to them, "Leiko-chan! Keiko-chan! What are you guys looki-" she didn't get finish her sentence because of a white-haired girl pouncing on her. They rolled for a bit until they came to a stop at the base of a small tree and Leiko stood back up.

"Sakura-chan!" she exclaimed. "Where have you been? We thought we lost you!" Sakura then got up aswell and looked behind Leiko only to find Keiko slowly making her way over. Once Sakura dusted herself off, Leiko grabbed her arm. "Come on Cherry-chan! We found a place!" she said excitedly as she pulled Sakura into the forest behind the house, with Keiko trailing behind them. They weren't necessarily allowed to travel too deep into the forest, for fear of getting lost or harmed, but it seemed that Leiko either had forgotten or ignored that concept. After fifteen minutes of continuous jogging through the foliage, they arrived at an average sized clearing. Keiko moved past the two, into the middle of the clearing. She looked around before facing her two partners, her onyx hair and bat-like wings flowing with her, with a satisfied expression on her face.

"If we are to train, then this should be well enough for now." It was true. They decided that they were going to prove everyone wrong. It was said that half-breeds were weak and pathetic compared to others, that they had little to no power at all. They were outcasted by everyone else for that reason and decided to bring it upon themselves to train and prove themselves to others. They would prove that they weren't weak and could protect themselves, and prove that they could be more powerful than full-bloods. In order to do all that, they would have to train harder than usual. They did start training before, but had to hide it from the others, women weren't supposed to fight, be it in Heaven or Hell. Heck, girls weren't even allowed to fight in the house, not like Shizune would let the boys either though.

Sakura took a few steps into the clearing and looked around. It was a fair size for the three of them to train individually and/or together. "Alright then," Leiko decided to make herself known again, "what should we start on?" she asked. Both Keiko and Leiko looked at Sakura expectantly. It was almost as if she were their leader, and them, her team. Sakura thought it out for a moment before replying.

"I think we should start with sparing with each other, find out what our defaults are, and then work on those for now," she concluded. The others nodded and started training with each other.

Back in the house, Shizune was calling for lunch, but three children were missing; Leiko, Keiko, and Sakura. She sighed before making sure everyone had something to eat and were settled before heading outside to look for the trio. Once she entered the backyard, she closed her eyes and tried to sense their chakra. It took her a couple of moments, but she found them farther into the forest then they were supposed to be. She prepared a small scolding speech about how far they were to enter the forest, away from the house. With their wings, they could be easily identified as something non-human if seen by anyone, not that anyone would or should be out in the middle of the forest.

Shizune sighed and started heading in their general direction. When she was close she heard grunts and pants. She raised and eyebrow questionably. What could three small girls be doing this deep into the forest? She hid behind a small bush and peeked over to look into the clearing. What she saw made her release a small and inaudible gasp. The three little girls were, what it seemed, fighting or training, she assumed. She knew the reasons too. Every once in a while, she would see all three of them being mistreated by the other children. Even other half-breeds didn't accept them for their relashionship with Sakura, the outcast. She also overheard some of the trios' conversations about becoming stronger and proving themselves, but thought nothing of it at the time.

They each had determined faces, even the loud-mouthed and childish girl, Leiko. They were all sweating profoundly and were sparring with each other continously, not noticing their caretakers' prying eyes. She sighed, they were taking their training quite seriously, but were not going to get too much farther into it without a proper teacher. She also knew that it was looked down upon for women to train and fight, but she knew it was what all three of them wanted the most, and she wanted them to be happy.

After awhile of watching them, she decided that she would document their training on record for a couple of days, before confronting them and getting them a proper teacher. She already had one in mind, she was tough with her training, but was probably the only one that could handle these little tykes. She sighed once more before heading back to the house, knowing that the girls were safe, and would head back too when they were done.

A few days later, at lunch time, Shizune headed for the same clearing the girls were training at. In the small amount of time, she was surprised to find that each of them were growing stronger quite quickly. She had also figured out that Sakura acted like the leader of their group, seeing as how they looked to her for answers and how she controlled their training sessions. Today was the day she would confront them and talk to them about further training with perhaps a teacher, of sorts.

She walked into the clearing and cleared her throat. The three girls simultaneously stopped their actions and turned to her with shocked, horrified and feared faces. They opened their mouths, and were about to explain their behavior with some sort of lame excuse, but Shizune raised her hand in a gesture for them to keep silent.

"I have been watching you three for the past several days," she raised her hand again when it seemed they were going to speak, "and I am very surprised with the progress you have made," she said, watching their faces twist in confusion as to why she wasn't scolding them, but instead, praising them. "I approve of your training, but I think you should get a teacher for some help for further training." They looked at each other for awhile, but in the end, it was Sakura who broke their silence.

"But isn't it looked down upon? Who would we get to teach us? You don't know much about fighting, let alone with angel and demon powers," she finished curiously and wearily at the same time. Along with physical strength, they would later have to progress with their other powers, if they were ever to have a chance at their goal. Shizune smiled at her, knowing that she was smart enough to figure out their dilemma.

"Well, I do have someone in mind that wouldn't look down upon you and who could train and teach you how to become stronger and how to control some of your demonic and angelic powers," she saw how each of their faces brightened up at these facts and continued knowing that they would agree anyways, "but rest assured that the training will be harder and tougher then you have ever experienced. It will push you to and past your limits," she concluded, waiting for the inevitable answers to come.

"I agree," agreed Sakura with a small smirk on her face. Leiko was the next one to speak up.

"I agree too! Not matter; rain or snow, I will become stronger with Cherry-chan and Keiko-chan!" exclaimed Leiko excitedly. Keiko was the last to respond not too long after Leiko.

"I too, will accept the offer, and will train hard to become as strong as I can be," she finished. Her face showed no emotion, but her eyes held an infinite amount of happiness in them. Shizune smiled warmly at them.

"I will talk to my previous sensei and ask her about taking you three in as apprentices. For now, I want each and every one of you to go back and wash up for lunch," she concluded, and watched as they all made their way out of the clearing towards the house, each with their own smile on their face. Shizune sighed once moreand decided to start making arrangements with her former sensei about the three small, yet powerful, tykes. She knew, one day, they would fufill their dream, but not without many challenges that she was sure they would pass.

'I truly hope that Tsunade-hime will see just how special these three are, just as much as I' with that last thought, she entered her house and started to make arrangements for the three half-breeds.