The woman in the mask looked straight at her. She was an ANBU, the girl knew that much.

She asked, "You remember nothing? Do you know who did this?"

Other ANBU had swarmed around them, entereing and exiting the house, scoping things out for themselves. "No...I...nothing..." She could remember nothing, no thoughts came to her.

"Are you s-"

The girl cut her off. "My brother. He did it. I know that."

The woman took off her mask and smiled. She put out her hand for the girl to shake. She did nothing of the sort. "My name's Karin. I'm going to take you back to ANBU headquarters, OK? Mr. Idda can do anything he needs to from there."

"Pukai. I want to get Pukai." The girl totally ignored the ANBU's protests and entered the house, something in the back of her mind leading her to her former room. Pukai sat where she had left him, up against her pillow. He looked very lonely to her. His large beads-for-eyes stared at her, needing as much comfort as she did. She reached her thin, shaky arms out toward her stuffed animal and hugged him tightly. Suddenly, she felt weak at the knees and fell. Something warm pooled in the corners of her eyes.

She felt someone lift her up and onto their back. The woman ANBU craned her head around to look at her. She smiled. "You OK?" The girl nodded and relaxed. Karin left the house and headed through the thick and tall grasses of Kusagakure. The small girl could think of nothing. Her grip didn't release her stuffed panda. Not even after she had fallen asleep.

"Hey, wake up. We're here." The girl opened her weary eyes to find herself warm, sitting on a chair, in a building with men and women wearing masks. "Are you awake? This is the ANBU headquarters. Mr. Idda's going to want to talk to us about this. You just say what you know, OK?" The girl nodded and slid off her seat to follow Karin into another room.

A man sat at a desk, two chairs in front of the desk. Karin helped the girl into one seat, but she herself stood. Karin's voice was a little louder now.

"Sir, this is the only survivor found at the suspected seven-person homicide earlier. She has no family left. If anything, I suggest that new transfer ANBU from Konoha, the Uchiha."

The man's voice was average for a man about in his thirties. "Understood, Karin. Fetch him, will you?"

"Yes, sir!"

Karin left the room, leaving the girl with the man. He smiled kindly at her, trying to comfort her.

"So, let's start off easy, shall we? What's your name?"

"I don't got one." Somehow, words came slightly easier to her. She was a little more calm.

"Would you like one?"

"Yes, sir, I would like that very much."

"Well then, how about...Senari? Do you like that name?"

"Sen. I wanna be called Sen."

"OK then, Sen, was that your family who was killed tonight?" The girl-Sen-shrugged. "Do you know who did it?"

"My brother."

"Do you remember his name?" Sen shook her head. "Too bad...Listen, Sen, you're going to be staying with a guard ninja. He just recently came here from The Village Hidden in the Leaves. His name is Kei Uchiha." She tested out the name of the guard ninja.

"When will he be here?"

"Here he is right now." Almost as if on cue, the door opened. A tall, thin man entered the room. His hair was a dark blue-ish black color and the iris of his eyes were completely black. Mr. Idda asked Sen to leave the room and she went to sit outside the room.

She heard hushed voices, and she couldn't understand what they were saying. Until one man raised his voice.

"Why are you doing this? I didn't sign up to be some kind of a baby-sitter for some two-year-old kid who's probably going to be a troublesome brat!"

"Kei," came a calmer, slightly lower voice, "I know you didn't sign up for this. But we are not about to put her in an orphanage. She came from that family, you know. And with that thing she's got inside her...I don't know if the orphanage can handle it. You know what to do. You used to work with your uh...Fourth...Hokage, right? That's who it was, wasn't it? Well, you know what to do with a Jinchuuriki. You guys handled the Kitsune. Nothing bad happened since the sealing, has it? With the emotional trauma she could be going through, I don't know if she can hold that thing back. And you know what to do. We don't. Just...do it for the better of Kusa, will you?"

She heard a sigh and the voices were hushed once more. Five minutes passed and then the door opened. The man with the black hair came out and smiled.

"Hi. You're Sen, right? I'm Kei." He stuck out his hand for her to shake and she simply stared at it. Awkwardly, Kei brought his hand back to his side and asked, "So...who's this little guy?" He pointed to Pukai.

Sen held her toy tighter and said, "He's Pukai. Don't touch him." Kei smiled at her and told her what was going on. After that Kei led her home and showed her her room. He turned the lights out for her and closed the door. Sen simply sat there, staring into the blackness of the room. She was alone, and so she would be for a long time.

She hardly slept that night.