Re- Encounter?

"Uh…." Naruto slid from his blurry view as his back was against a hard and rocky floor. "Where… are we?" His gaze cleared and tilted to direct his eyes towards his, somehow, unknown surroundings, wait, he was in Konoha, right? He rose slowly from his laid spot till standing firmly. The blonde boy found himself intrigued and somehow confused, it was then his memories somehow helped reasoning within him. Escaping, rather than fighting, from the Akatsuki, yes, three members, Sohee activating her sharingan while helping… "Sohee?" Naruto quickly shook his head, "Where is Sohee-chan?" He had forgotten. From the last moments with her, memories seem to blur and view fade, she was holding him, trying to sustain from collapsing or tremble because of no support, everything after that made no sense remembering.

"But," his eyes rose from thoughts till facing the resembling and familiar surroundings, is this… Konoha? What about the Akatsuki? He quickly jumped from the hard floor and landed on a near tall tree, Naruto devised from high.

"W-wait," he devised much from his homeland, houses and roads, between them nins and citizens. Naruto took slight attention on the certain atmosphere around.

His mind quickly pointed towards the terrorist group that had entered the village.

"That means that…"

"Akatsuki must have reached Tsunade-sama!!" The black haired girl thought nothing but run towards the hokage. Her breath somehow heavy from the dense thoughts that had passed since her awakening in a slightly different Konoha. Sohee rushed from roof to roof, her dark eyes gleaming somehow confused yet oriented. What about the Akatsuki? When opening eyes and deciphering from her past body state she knew she had something with the group, yet, where were they? Weren't they attacking her and Naruto looking for his Kyubi? How come the villagers seem so peaceful and tranquil?

"Can't believe they are still struggling in choosing who to be the fourth,"

"Yeah, isn't Arashi good enough? If I had to choose he'd be the first on the list,"

"Don't be an idiot, anbu testing is always in first hand," one of the anbu responded as he went against the wall till finding support.

"Anyways, Orochimaru-sama surely isn't thinking-" "Hey, who is that?" suddenly asked the other anbu as he raised up from his initial seated posture till looking towards the upper parts of the buildings, his eyes concentrated on the human figure jumping the roofs. The two anbus looked towards the figure that soon took shape after a short concentration of a young girl with rather unseen clothes from around.

"Never saw her before," said the other anbu as he tightened the slightly wide white mask on to his forehead.

Sohee stopped for a moment and found inner silence, was she making much of deal while everything was, in reality, peaceful? No, it couldn't be, she remembered, she had bruises and cuts, Naruto was with her too. She quickly made her mind again and changed direction; she truly didn't want to cause much of attention in something that didn't seem to have existed. Her mind found, yet again, confusion. She looked down towards the street of people, to be exact, Ino's ave. Was today Wednesday? She thought when looking at the nearby streets. Surely even though it was Wednesday there couldn't be much less people, yes, Wednesday wasn't as empty as this. "Nins are sure busy today then!" She said to herself, as her feet slightly impulses to land on an empty alley.

"Arashi-sama!" A young girl that didn't surpass the age of 10 went running towards the individual as this one turned to face the sweet and innocent voice of the short blue haired girl.

"Nina-chan! How have you been?" He crouched gently and slightly opened his arms for the girl usual greet. She landed her small body to his as her short sleeved arms warped, as much as they could, towards the blonde young man with anbu attire.

"Are you going already?" She looked upwards as her deep green eyes met the warm blue ones of the blonde.

"Yes, today I have a very important mission to do," he said as he released to girl making her take few steps behind.

"I-I want to play later," she said somehow sad. An innocent heart always seemed to resolve it all, so pure and true. The blonde smiled, as no ordinary smile, warming all aspects in his path of cold.

"What a great dress you've bought, it would a shame to just leave it without playing right?" He said warmly as the young girl blushed in pink.

"P-promise you'll come back afterwards," she stretched her hand with her pinky finger waiting for the gentleman's reply.

"Promise," he responded as his touch fell gently upon the finger, making the girl blush and smile in the cutest way.

"I'll wait for you Arashi-sama. Don't be late!" The young girl turned her back and ran from Arashi, a smile of joy marked on the lad's face. The girl suddenly turned.

"Remember you said you'd married me when I grow up!" She exclaimed exited.

"I'll wait for you to grow," he showed a warm yet funny smile as he saw the lad run again. The young man stood from his crouched position.

"Aren't you a devil Arashi," appeared an anbu companion few meters from the blonde.

"Not much," he answered leaving both of them in slight laughs.

"Kids these days, hoping to marry as soon as they can," said the anbu companion as he walked to the side of Arashi.

"So, finished daydreaming Arashi-sama?" he joked as he turned his back from Arashi.

"Yeah, let's go," Arashi said showing a small smile after the small joke. Both nins parting from land in a flash.

Sohee had decided, for now, to look for Naruto. It'd be much better to contact him first and ask him if he was as insane as she was or if the only one imagining the Akatsuki raid was her, Sohee sighed.

Walking through the streets of Konoha was somehow… different, soon, she realized the missing structures and buildings of the mid center avenue, there was no gift shops either.

"What in the world," she simply said as passing through unknown people, between them nins that used the headband as they pleased.

"Hm…" her eyes drifted from structure to structure as they fell upon a certain orange one that wasn't much of an attention seeker. "Mr Kenpo's shop," she said to herself, almost as if saying it bowed her worries and made her a bit more tranquil. With short steps, she reached to the shop up till its main door. "Ha ha it was time for him to clean the dirt on top, it looks way better like this," she said in a small tune as she made her way inside the weapon shop, wait, weapon shop? Sohee stepped to her original place and eyed the rather old fashioned kunais and other symbol tags through the thin glass. The girl did not fight curiosity and entered to the new weaponry shop.

"Excuse me," she said while pushing aside the red clothed entry. No one replied. Her gaze quickly ventured though the different looking shop, the wide desk of clothes replaced by a rather old looking wooden one that displayed different varieties to nins and such. Beside the long desk stood a little crafts engine, a spinner on the right marked much of its use for remolding hard and pointy objects, it was once a engine for texture smoothing. The difference between the past clothes shop with the weapon one sure made difference, yet… was it to be taken as lightly she was taking it now? How come the weapon shop didn't seem… right? All she could do is adapt, after all, Mr Kenpo did say that his family liked the weapon area. "Yet, their clothes were the ones that looked good on me…" she silently said in annoyance. The surprising change didn't last long though. Sohee went towards the large and wide desk. "Hello?" She called again; no one seemed to be in there after all. Her eyes savored the old fashioned kunais that displayed with their costs written on a white sheet on top of them, she suddenly widened her eyes as they had fell upon the cost of a certain kunai.

"30000 yen!?" She exclaimed with low voice as her face did not stray from the first impulse. How? That kunai didn't look much a great deal. She opened her side pocket and took out from it one of her kunais, her eyes quickly compared. "Sheesh, what has Mr Kenpo gotten?" Her kunai, which wasn't of the best of its own, did not seem to be lower looking than the one she was holding on her left hand. "Well, there must be a reason; maybe it's faster and lighter. She began to weight the two kunais, each on their corresponded hands; it didn't seem to match her quick hypothesis. The edge of it did not show much of danger either.

"How about," she began to take from place the other 'appealing' looking kunais near her soon finding her comparing two with other two.

"Well, it does have much of style for collectors, I suppose," she said as her eyes did not tire from her constant observations. Suddenly, the sound of a creaking door beyond the wide desk was heard, she quickly lifted her view to meet the owner of such drastically-changed shop.

"W-who is there?" An unfamiliar voice asked, Sohee wondering if it was an attendant of the owner.

"Excuse me, where is-" "W-what are you doing with my objects!?" A rather familiar looking man with white attire appeared exclaiming from the sight he viewed of the girl holding most of his kunais on display.

"H-Hello Mister Kenpo, em… today the shop looks kinda…different," the teen found nothing but the red angered faced of the 'familiar' Mr Kenpo.

"A thief! A thief!! She is stealing my objects!!" He exclaimed taking much of attention of the outside of the shop.

"W-wait! What are you saying!? I was just-" "Stop her!!" The man shouted as the girl found herself in confusion and surprise from his rather unlike reaction until she felt a hard impact on her left arm leaving her in pain as she released all kunais except for hers and crashed to the wall opposite of the shop, leaving Sohee against of the wall from such unexpected impact. Who did that? Three Anbus quickly appeared in front of the girl, their white blobbed masks covering their faces. The few people that walked peaceful parted quickly from the area.

"W-wait! I have no intention in stealing of … those things!" Sohee tried not to take out a joking comment. It pained her back to have received such solid impact.

"Making force before asking or trying too, stupidity," Sohee said aloud disgusted by the action yet tried to maintain her coolness.

"She doesn't seem to be a normal citizen…" One of the masked men said while checking the clothes and attire in general.

"Where do you come from? Why were you taking the objects from place?" asked one of the anbu little squad as he stepped forward.

"Sheesh… I am from this village and I swear I had no intention of taking anything from the shop, and even, it was the owner that began yelling at first sight!" Sohee reclaimed as she stood up from the impact. "You would have broken a normal citizens' back for a lifetime," she added as he eyes viewed the standing anbu squad whom seemed to have certain difficulty in knowing who the girl was.

"I've never seen her before…" said one the squad as he viewed again the intriguing girl.

"You… give us your full identification, we will send clear registry to know your whereabouts" the third anbu stepped forward. Sohee stood, with un-descript able expression on face, surely there was much of Konoha to tell while in her sleep, she didn't feel like sleeping for days either.

"Tell us your full identification," one of the anbu squad quickly stretched his arm to grab her neck; she instantly reacted and countered such simple blow by deflecting the arm and pushing him in a brink towards the wall.

"Why do you avoid peaceful talk?" She asked rather mockingly while leaving the taller man in amusement, as well as the others who quickly reacted by going towards such un-familiar teen.

"Hey!-" The rather cocky girl was now against the hard wall, a kunai slightly brushing the beginning of her neck. She didn't have chances of being released; the other two anbus were in charge of each side of her while the other was in front, rather implying fear and subdue, she had been caught. Sohee tried to be as calm as it could be; there was no reason for them to kill her after all...

The anbu squad did not feel any danger from the girl yet her short and fast sudden skills made weary for them to use such method.

"We will repeat one more time, full identification; we must inform you to the three sannins," said the anbu of the kunai. Did he just say three sannins? They are Tsunade, Jiraiya and Orochimaru aren't they? But… why they? Why not simply hokage or Tsunade-sama? They weren't including Orochimaru in there

right? At any case, Sohee decided it was better for her to tell and be free first.

"Uchiha Sohee, 16 years old," she said giving up her logical sense.

"Uchiha?" There was a sudden silence leaving everybody perplex by their own reasoning.

"Y-yes…" Sohee didn't feel surprised by their sudden confusion; she knew it was difficult to see that there was another survivor of then clan after the massacre by the bastard Itachi, yet, wasn't that pretty known by then? Much of the people knew of it, shouldn't the anbus be more aware of it?

"…I've never seen her in the Uchiha province either," said one of the anbus while holding firmly her left arm, prepared for all kind of attack. Sohee found yet again confusion.

"Uchiha province?" She asked as she suddenly felt the cold sharp kunai pressing a bit more to her lower neck.

"We will verify if it is a lie or truth," it was in brink for them to be holding her in a locked position, for her to be unable to move freely.

"H-hey! Wait! What are you thinking!? Let me go!!" Sohee struggled slightly because of the uncomfortable way she was being submitted.

"We will take you too-" "You don't have to take me anywhere! Seriously, what you are doing is plainly exaggerated!!" Sohee said out loud not thinking twice in her rather running mind.

"Why you-" "Wait," A unknown yet calm voice implied attention on the current event. Sohee, having closed her eyes, she opened them to meet who had just appeared, her view met nothing more than two other anbu, the same light white uniform on their tall build.

"Oh man…" she simply hoped for a better succession. When her eyes lifted from the view of the two new anbus that had just appeared, they widened, her dark brown eyes couldn't be deceiving her much, she was surprised, almost not believing the sight she had that moment as she raised towards the anbu's faces.

"Naruto?"

Please send a review, it will be really appreciated! For me to write the 3 chap too.