Sorry guys for changing the chapters so much... I just revised the second chapter so that the story flows more smoothly! Sorry for so many changes and please be patient with me. I'm trying to smooth out my storyline as well as and as fast as I can between my tight schedule (which is tighter now that it's summer due to all my stupid extra curricular activities). Thanks for reading my story!

- Kaerelie Cecilia

Chapter 2: Waking Up

A dark haired boy with a blackish headband that had a symbol carved on which looked like a snail like circles rotated 30 degrees and a pointy 'beak' protruding at the lower right hand corner was roaming around the woods. He had dark clothing on with a jacket that had a picture of a fan on the back. The fan was as if it was disjointed, the circle had a lower chunk separated from the crescent moon-like shape and the stick right below the disjointed section.

There was a soft crash as if someone was thrown to the ground and the boy's head snapped up, tensing immediately. His eyes turning from dark onyx to Carnelian red with two dark marks, he started searching the vicinity for the possible threat. Instead of a person or living thing, he sensed a strong chakra in the woods nearby and he approached it cautiously. Sasuke could see with his sharingan that it seemed to be crackling in the air. The boy could feel it running through his body as if a lightning had hit close by. But he knew that it wasn't a lightning for there hadn't been any rain let alone a storm this past two weeks.

'What is this chakra? This chakra is so powerful and ... wait, it must belong to a person with lightning element. This chakra is too strong and precise to be natural. If my suspicion is correct, this shinobi is probably well experienced and powerful. Also, this shinobi might be an enemy. I should explore and report back to Kakashi-sensei once I find as much as I can about this.' Sasuke paused infinitesimally to feel where the chakra was coming from and he started running toward the place.

After running for a few minutes, he reached a small clearing where he could see that woods were still sizzling from the electricity-like chakra. He scanned the area with his still-carnelian eyes and registered a slumped figure in black who seemed to be out cold. He could sense the chakra he felt just few minutes ago surrounding the figure. He approached it cautiously and found that it was a girl in complete black with white-gold hair and pale skin, her body still sizzling from the recent electricity.

She was covered with severe burns and she seemed as though she was thrown down to the ground for her body looked as though it was broken in places. When he looked around at her immediate vicinity, he could see that she was lying in the center of a small circle where all the grass was turned to ashes and small fires were smoldering here and there. Closer it went to the center, there was less grass and more dirt showed.

'Who is she and what is she doing here? Why was she attacked by such a strong shinobi, that is if she was attacked by a shinobi at all?' he wondered. 'She doesn't seem like a shinobi to me. She seem more like a nobility who was kidnapped and attacked. Wait, is she a nobility?' Sasuke asked himself.

"Sasuke, what's taking you so long? You told us that you will be just walking around the woods for few minutes! Are you trying to sneak out of our training because you are scared that you'll be humiliated compared to me?" A boy with spiky blond hair with similar headband as the black haired boy that he just called Sasuke complained as he walked toward the boy, not noticing the unconscious girl.

"Naruto, what are you talking about? As if Sasuke-kun would ever lose to you. He's much stronger and better then you. Sasuke-kun could beat you on any day." a pink haired girl with similar headband as the two defended the boy, a slight blush creeping up her face.

"Come on Sakura-chan. I can beat him too." The blond boy that was called Naruto whined toward the pink haired girl he just called Sakura.

"Yeah, keep dreaming. As if you could ever beat him. Besides, he's much much muuuccchhh better then you in ninjutsu, genjutsu, and taijutsu." Sakura told Naruto.

"That's just because he has that sharingan thing. But, I bet I can beat him someday." Naruto replied.

Sakura simply ignored him and ran up to Sasuke yelling, "Sasuke-kun, what has caught your eyes?"

Then, Sakura yelped as her eyes registered the broken form of a girl, "Who is that? Why is she covered up with so many burns and what happened to her? Is she dead?" Sakura cringed away from the girl and asked Sasuke, keeping her distance from the unconscious girl.

"Whoa, you didn't do it, did you Sasuke?" Naruto asked incredulously as he saw the girl as well.

"Of course not, dummy. I just came upon her as I was taking a nice stroll." Sasuke answered.

"I'm not a dummy! You're the one that's dumb. Besides, I'll be a Hokage someday and that means I'm not dumb!" Naruto shouted.

"Are you guys having another fight again?" A silver haired guy with a mask hiding his lower face from below his eyes and his headband hanging sloppily, covering up his left eye, stepped into the view. He, unlike others, immediately noticed the girl and asked, "What happened to her?" He quickly scanned the vicinity and focused his eyes on Sasuke once he made sure there was no shinobis hiding in the woods or something.

"I don't know Kakashi-sensei. I just found her as I was walking in the woods." Sasuke answered.

"We better take her to the hospital. She looks badly hurt." Kakashi told them.

Sasuke then noticed a black bag strewn near the girl. "Look, there's a bag. I think it belongs to her."

He opened it and started searching through it. He found saw Yura's make-up bag and when he opened it, he was struck by all those jewelries and make-ups inside. He reached inside and he saw bunch of black necklaces and earrings along with make-ups

"What the heck are those?" he muttered. "Man, she's freaking rich."

He closed up the bag and resumed searching through the bag again. He found Yura's purse and he opened it, finding her student identification card. He saw a picture of the brown haired girl he just found on the upper right corner of the card and he identified the girl as the girl he just found. He scanned the card and found her name, birthday, and other things that Sasuke didn't quite understand.

"Kakashi-sensei, the girl's name is Yura Onoko and she is only a twelve-year-old according to this identification card. I'm not sure what school is but her school is Kyoto Public High School." Sasuke spoke, capturing the attention of the three other ninjas.

"She's a year younger than you guys? I thought she looked at least fifteen and I don't think I've ever heard of something called Kyoto Public High School. I wonder what or where that is." Kakashi mused.

Sasuke rummaged through Yura's backpack once more and found the chest that Yura put in the very bottom. He took out the box and he saw the carvings on the box, recognizing one of the carvings as the same symbol on the back of his jacket. It was a symbol that he knew well for it was his family symbol. The Uchiha symbol. He gasped as the realization hit him and his eyes turned hard. "Why does she own a chest with Uchiha carving on? Why does she have my family's chest?" Sasuke muttered to himself.

"What is that Sasuke?" Kakashi asked as he noticed the small chest Sasuke was holding.

"It's just something I found in her backpack. It has Uchiha carving on it along with bunch of other carvings that I don't recognize." Sasuke answered his sensei.

Kakashi approached Sasuke and looked at the chest Sasuke was holding. He could also recognize the Uchiha fan on the chest along with some other symbols that he too didn't recognize. Actually one symbol looked a bit familiar to him. He couldn't quite remember what but he thought he learned it long time ago. The symbol that looked a bit familiar to him was the symbol that was carved right above the Uchiha fan. It was the very symbol that Yura was tracing in the morning.

Sasuke scrutinized the chest a little more and once he didn't find any more on the chest, he put the chest back into the bag. Kakashi walked toward the slumped girl that was named Yura and brushed some dirt off her hair and her clothes.

"She doesn't seem like she would pose a threat to anyone to me and she looks like she's badly hurt so lets bring her to the hospital. I think she needs some medical attention as fast as she can." Kakashi picked Yura's broken body carefully not to irritate the burns and broken bones. He carried her in his arms and Sasuke brought her bag after putting all the things back into its place.

Kakashi fully looked at Yura's pale face for the first time and was taken aback by her paleness. Her clear skin was pale to extreme that it seemed to have pearly glow and her thin lips were slightly open. Her strange brown hair hung loosely around her and her side bangs were pushed aside. Kakashi then noticed that her expression looked pained and he shifted his position in order to keep her comfortable and warm. Her outfit was damp much to his surprise for there had been no rain for a while now. Yura seemed to be shivering a bit and after he looked at her thin clothing, he took of his cloak and wrapped it around her. He then cradled her to his chest feeling her even breath on him.

As he looked at her, a strange feeling of wanting to know her surged in him. She looked so unique from other girls he met, so strong yet vulnerable at the same time. Her extremely pale skin was different for sure but it wasn't the part that intrigued him. It was how her face was set which really caught his eyes, she seemed different; stronger and self-reliant. She didn't seem at all like those girls who squealed at smallest things and only care about their hair or something. She was... tomboyish? He couldn't quite explain but he just knew that she was different from the other girls he has been around until now.

'She looks so self-reliant and independent.' he thought. 'I wonder how she ended up in this state. I wonder how she managed to anger someone enough to have them try to kill her or something. Where did she come from and who is she anyways? Is she a daughter of a rich noble? Is she just a runaway? Then why was she attacked? She might be a shinobi... she seems strong for such occupation. She looks like she could beat Sasuke with sarcasm, I mean look at that face. She looks sharp and probably is cynical as well. No, I don't think she's just any person. She must be someone important or really dangerous for why else would someone want to attack a girl like her? It's not like she's extraordinarily beautiful or anything. She's not exactly the pretty type but she's just average kind. She looks like she might have some sharp tongue though and she has well developed muscles. It might be from being trained as a ninja. It sure is a possibility. Anyways, I hope she's not too badly hurt. I wouldn't mind learning some more about her.' he mused to himself.

He absentmindedly stroked her tangled mess of hair as he thought these things and considered different possibilities. Each possibilities were just as equally likely and unlikely as others. Kakashi decided that these things didn't matter right now and what did matter was that she got better. The girl seemed too nice and delicate to be a threat or be a shinobi. He discarded these thoughts as he looked at her, smirking as he saw the mistrustful expression on her and hard set face that told him of her resilience. Her chest rose evenly and Kakashi could feel a small smile forming on his lips. He then started for Konoha along with Sasuke, Naruto, and Sakura.

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- Kaerelie Cecilia