It was one of the coldest nights that had been seen in a long time. Everyone was bundled up or in their homes relaxing by the fire. A girl no older than seventeen years old walked the empty roads of a small village by herself. Her eyes were a dark blue and they watched as people seemed to pass her by unnoticed by any of them. They were off in their own world, conversations and such. This girl had been alone for most of her life, only few times had she let anyone into be there for her. Once a Konohagakure Kunochi, she found herself in a horrible situation where she could not face again. A few years ago on a mission as a newly chuunin; what seemed to be fine and everything was going smoothly something took a turn for the worse. This female found herself face to face with death itself. The mission turned bad and the team struggled a bit to even find a way out of it. Two of her teammates were killed by enemy ninja. This girl somehow made it out alive. No one knows what happened that day, not even her former sensei but she just vanished shortly after that. Her name was Aibori, and she was currently managing her way through the village of Kirigakure. With the event happening she knew she had to find the people responsible for her teammates death, but she didn't know where to really begin searching.

Aibori wasn't like most girls her age, she wasn't into boys, or make up or making herself look pretty. No for the longest time she had focused on fighting being better than everyone else in her class. It moved on to vengeance, and a cold dark twisted personality grew within her. The snow fell around her and painted an almost picture perfect scene, a girl walking alone while everyone around her was enjoying themselves. The girl stopped at the edge of the village knowing that she stepped out again it would be treacherous for her to attempt. A black cloak covered her body as she looked back on that painted snowy scene of the village and stepped out into the forest alone. It had been two years since she left Konohagakure, and she stayed in the hidden mist village for what seemed too long. She never talked to anyone only moved around from place to place; taking jobs that shinobi's didn't want. Ai was never accepted in their community and took jobs that were more underground than the mainstream.

The female walked further into the forest keeping an old sword covered up on her side. Her blue eyes scanned the area trying to figure out where she was going. As the wind picked up her long black hair was swept away and bangs that were once parted to the left were blown to the right covering her right eye. The snow began to pick up as she treaded through the snow. Quickly she pulled her hood over her head, and a scarf knitted for her by her grandmother covered her mouth. Aibori knew the winter's heading into another the forest was bad, but she had nothing to lose and nothing to gain staying in that village. At one point half way through the hike, her body felt like it was going to freeze up and she was going to die. That's when she saw a cave; the girl ran as fast as she could towards it knowing there was no way she would make it through this harsh climate in a storm that was picking up. The very second she stepped foot in the cave it became a blizzard outside. "I guess I am stuck her awhile…" She spoke so softly and with grace as she gathered what little branches and leaves that laid around the cave. She performed hand signs and a small fire appeared on them. Her resources were limited and she knew she'd be lucky to make it through the night.

Aibori rested herself against the wall of the cave, still close enough to the fire she had built. In her hands and between her legs was that sword, something she had stolen a long time ago. It was from an Uchiha is all she knew and it was easy because she teased him about it and he well never noticed it went missing. He was the last person to ever speak to her or even treat her with more than plenty of respect. Her eyes started closed as she started to drift off to sleep. A few hours after she had fallen asleep, she was woke up by crunching sounds, soft at first but they became louder and louder as something started to approach her. She moved taking of her cloak and throwing it over the fire to put it out. She unsheathed her sword as she felt her heart race. A figure appeared in front of the cave, and the female was ready for anything that would come her way. Crunch…crunch…crunch… the noises that rang through her ears, and echoed in the cave. Ai bit her lip cautiously stepping forward to see who it was. A man that had a shark like appearance stood only meters away from her. The dark hair female crouched down low watching him, holding her sword out to the side. That was when another man appeared along his side, a bit shorter and normal looking compared to the other. Her eyes concentrated on him who only appeared a few years older than her, he was interesting to her now. Both wore what seemed to be jackets covered with red clouds, something the female never seen before.

The men became closer to the cave stopping as the younger one started to move forward. The girl held her breath as she didn't know what was going to happen to her. Ai knew she could go out fighting if she needed but by what she could tell the two weren't to be messed with. She stepped out of the cave, wearing a black tight long sleeved shirt, the end of the sleeves were tied to her middle fingers, and a small skirt that reached her mid thigh. Two long white socks covered up to about a few centimeters away from where her skirt ended. No words were exchanged between them as the man stopped in front of her. She recognized the head band with the slash through it, being from her former village. Everything about him was familiar and she didn't know why.

"What are you doing out here?" Aibori spoke holding her sword up in defense as the man didn't seemed bothered by the idea she was there or the fact of that she had a sword. The man that looked like a shark; however, seemed to be anxious about the whole meeting. Not words were ever said but the female knew she needed to run. Her body however, wouldn't move as the man came closer to her. Her eyes closed knowing it was the end of something she had started and she didn't even know why she was being hunted from a missing ninja.

"Can we please kill her now?!" The other man spoke with anger in his voice. Aibori's eyes fluttered open when he spoke that. Adrenaline flowed through her veins as she realized they were going to kill her. She moved her legs and regained the ability of normal functions. As the girl started to run away the man who stood in front of her grabbed her arm before she could get to far away from him. She tugged and pulled but he wasn't letting go his grip was tight.

"Please excuse my partner; he hasn't learned manners very well." He spoke to her which caused her to stop moving. That voice was a soul reminder of who he was. It relaxed her a bit as it was smooth and not something she had heard in a long time. "Aibori isn't it? A missing ninja from Konohagakure, chuunin to be exact with abilities not seen in most females… You have single handily brought down many ninja's greater than you… Why are you here?" He asked her not giving his name nor anything about him.

"It is none of your business why I am here, now let go!" She yelled forcing her hand out of his grip. She stumbled backwards falling into the snow. Her blue eyes stared into his black ones and for a moment she remembered who he was. Itachi Uchiha, the only person who showed her so many things and respected her so much. When she was younger she crushed on him, as she became older she dreamed about surpassing him until he left and massacred his clan. He remembered who she was but she refused to speak his name. Ai got up quickly brushing the snow off only to find that the impatient one was flying towards her. The girl managed to dodge his sword barely as it sliced the edge of her shoulder. She moved fast away from both of them, and started heading further in. Nothing covering her or stopping her from freezing to death it was proven the fate she had.

Out of ear distance of the two men, Aibori collapsed to the ground. The coldness and near subzero temperatures were getting to her. She had nothing covering her body and exhausted a bit of chakra just trying to get away, it wasn't hard when blowing snow and iced earth was surrounding her. A few minutes after her collapsing and passing out in the snow, her body was lifted and brought back to the very cave she was in. Itachi and Kisame his partner brought her back there and started a fire to keep her warm. Kisame wanted to kill the young Kunochi but there was one thing stopping him from that and it was Itachi. He felt she had information they needed and she couldn't risk being taken back to the hideout nor could she be killed. Her body lay next to the fire not stirring once, from what was happening around her. Her mind was swirling with everything she was trying to do just to wake up and face what was happening. Itachi stared at her motionless body trying to figure her out a bit. For some reason he was drawn to her like she was to him but no reasons were there as to why. It wasn't him crushing on her, because he knew how old she was and he knew her very well from his days in Konohagakure. She was the only person he could trust on bases like his own little sister or something. For Itachi it had been two years since he left the village as well. It seemed forever ago that he was hanging around her teaching her a long with his brother things.

Aibori's eyes started to open, slowly as they looked around seeing a fire next to her and her body was warm. She sat up bringing her feet up to her chest not realizing what was going on around her. She looked over seeing Itachi and Kisame sitting there staring at her. She felt around the side of her looking for the sword she had that was her protection only to find it in the hands of Itachi. It was a stare down for about five minutes, an utter awkward few moments of silence. Ai was thinking of every way she could get out of there run far away from the two but she knew that it wouldn't work out as she had plan. She knew one of her opponents was faster than she could move. "Kisame wait outside." Itachi spoke with a smooth yet stern voice. The man like shark stood up and walked out of the cave. The black onyx colored eyes stared into her dark blue eyes before he spoke again. "Aibori, I need information from you about the Jinchuuriki… I know you know this information." He spoke to her stern. She stared at him knowing her life was probably in a bigger jeopardy than before. At least with the other one she could run away if not at least die with the secrets.

"I don't know anything about them." Aibori spoke with confidence in her voice, despite the fact she was lying about the whole thing. She learned about them and well without anyone knowing, her observations were good just she didn't know the host or where they could be found. She felt those onyx colored eyes staring at her like he was trying to read her mind. This female was a smart one she knew how to play calm and she knew how to lie her way through life. "Why do you want to know so badly?" She asked him turning the question around. She could tell he was starting to think of an answer. She didn't understand the deal with his robes or anything but she wanted to know why he wanted this information. "That's not important why I need this information… It's important you give it to me." He spoke to her. The girl's blue eyes searched for a reason of why she had to tell him this information, and why had he reached out to her. She was only a chuunin when she left and even then the bijuu's were never revealed.

"I don't know anything about them I swear on my life Itachi Uchiha I have no information for you." Aibori practically yelled at him. It was well the fact she wanted to get it through his head. The second she did that Kisame ran back into the cave. He looked between the two as if they were going to fight each other or something. The girl's hot headed attitude showed and she was waiting for either one of them to make a move. She didn't need the sword to get her way out, she was smaller her body mass allowed her to be fast and she could easily escape if she had to. "Fine but you're coming with me…" Kisame spoke grabbing her arm tightly and standing her up instantly. "Let go fish head." She spoke yanking her arm away from him. It was successful until she fell backwards near the fire. Before she knew it two arms wrapped around her body saving her from the fire. When she looked up it was Itachi and she was back to square one. This time she couldn't move as easily as she had before. Ai squirmed in his arms not wanting to give up so easily against him.