It was the dead of winter and the forest lay covered in a veil of snow. The Village Hidden in the Leaves barely stirred as the snowstorm raged relentlessly. Those who were out were rushing to get home to their families. Families were huddled in their warm homes, some were laughing while other waited worrying for those who were not home yet. One family in particular was very worried. Or rather one sister and a very worried cousin. One small girl sat staring out a window seeing nothing, she had brown hair that went to her waist and was about fifteen now, her cousin was male and standing like a bodyguard (more like statue) behind the girl with an icy mask plastered on his face. He was not meant to be serving this girl - but rather her older sister.

"Do you think she's ok?" the girl spoke up not turning from the window.

The boy made no noise though he knew who the girl spoke of.

"Neji, please! I have to know if she is ok!" The girl whipped around to face her cousin.

"Hanabi-sama, it's been five years since she left - I can not possibly know if she survived," Neji replied in a cold manor causing Hanabi to flinch.

Yes it had been five years hadn't it, and yet it still hurt like the first day Hanabi had learned her sister had abandoned her. At the time she had been ten, her sister fifteen, and they had been each others life line. Sure Hanabi was seen as the stronger one but if it hadn't been for her sister she might have cracked long ago under the pressure of being named the heir.

"Hinata," Hanabi breathed as she turned back to the window.

Neji internally flinched from hearing her name.

Hinata Hyuga, was fifteen the last time anyone saw her. She had always been timid and weak up until a few months before she left the village. No one knew why she left the only life she'd ever known. At first it hurt. It tore people close to her to shreds - Hinabi, Neji, Naruto, Kiba, and Shino to name a few - had searched for her nonstop for months after she left. However for the past five years now those she left behind had begun to heal, and life went on for everyone in this village. Naruto was currently engaged to some fan girl who had been following him, Sasuke had returned and was currently engaged to Sakura - big shocker there - and even Neji was engaged to Tenten… time seemed to speed up over the years, leaving Hinata forgotten in the past to all but those treasured few like a lost little sister or the love of her life who had actually been killed (unknown to all that Hinata still loved him) last year.

But as time often does, it continued on flowing and people continued to age. If she was still alive out there Hinata was not a trouble maker so no one saw the need to send out search parties. Hell for all they knew she had run off with some guy she was madly in love with and was living a nice life out in another village.

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Sadly they were completely wrong. Hinata had not survived that night by the waterfall. No one had known why she had left except her father who kept it hush-hush as not to ruin the family name and who ever had ratted her out in the first place(you will find out later in the story hehehe).

Her three daughters, however, were far from dead. They would be five in about another week and were very lively.

They lived with the old woman in a small hut near an unnamed village that was hidden deep within the endless forest. They all understood that their mother was not around but being five they did not understand the concept of death.

Hinata's girls had grown - slightly - and were adorable. Harumi, the oldest, girly girl. She loved to wear shiny and pink clothing. She often wore a bright pink dress that came to her knees that was very, VERY, ruffly and had a matching frilly pink chocker. She wore her hair half up in a short stubby ponytail with the rest of it falling freely around her face including bangs that gently framed her face and made her look like a miniature angel.

Next came little Hiromi, second oldest triplet and the peacekeeper. She loved to wear easy to move around in clothing. She was wearing a rather short puffy red dress that fell around her shoulders and stopped several inches above her knee. She wore a matching green frilly choker and always seemed to be carrying her favorite doll around by it's neck. Her hair was always done up in matching buns on the side of her head with flowers usually weaved in.

And finally little Hitomi - the stubborn one. Hitomi was rather boyish in her ways even at the age of five and did her best to run around in shorts but Aunty - the elderly lady who raised them - insisted on putting her in a long sleeve ankle length dress. Her hair was short and left down but it was thick so it was always blowing into her face.

Their personalities were also starting to show more and more. Harumi was the shy, quiet, girly one who loved to be in skirts and such. She would play roughly with her sisters and argue with them but with other people she seemed to lock down. She would always hide behind Hitomi who would glare at anyone who startled Harumi. Harumi was the delicate flower of the sisters.

Hiromi would always speak her mind without thinking about what she said first. She was bluntly honest but was also very good at lying if she had to. She would roughhouse with her sisters and played peacekeeper between Hitomi and Harumi and Hitomi and strangers since Hitomi had a short temper. Hiromi was also very good at figuring puzzles and such out. Hiromi was the much needed middle ground of her sisters.

And last there was the short tempered little Hitomi. She thought that her job was to defend the shy and nervous Harumi so no one ever messed with her sisters. She could hit even as a five year old and was very boyish. She wore her hair down and it continuously blew into her face. She might be the fighter but she was also the one who would cry easily if yelled at by Hiromi. Hiromi - though being the middle child - acted sort of like a mother for the three, keeping them in line and sharing. But Hitomi was the appreciated shield for the sisters.

They were growing up so fast in their small home and were constantly getting in trouble. They grew up free and unburdened by their parents past - just as their mother wanted. Yes their life was good though they were not being trained as Shinobi which was a shame since they had the impressive blood - Uchiha and Hyuga.

Their life was sunshine and roses but that couldn't last forever now could it…..

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SIX YEARS LATER

"Harumi wait up!" cried a girl with two large pigtails falling freely on either side of her face called out.

As she turned around Harumi shoved some of her shoulder length black hair behind her ears and waved to her sister as she called, "Hurry up Hiromi!"

"Thanks for waiting," Hiromi replied when she finally caught up to her sister and they started walking again.

"Hey guys no fair! Wait up!" a girl with shoulder length messy black hair called. Unlike her sisters her bangs weren't noticeable because they had grown out with the rest of her hair.

"Hitomi," both sisters said as they rolled their eyes and their sister finally caught up.

"Took you long enough slow poke!" Harumi joked as she flicked Hitomi's' nose.

"HEY! YOU LITTLE!" Hitomi lunged for Harumi but missed as Harumi squeaked and darted off down the path laughing with a rather angry Hitomi racing after her.

Hiromi just sighed before darting after them, she had to stop it before Harumi got hurt and Hitomi felt bad and EVERYONE ended up crying. (Can you tell this happens a lot) She slowed down when she heard angry shouts coming from a near by tree. Rolling her eyes she headed over to break up her sisters.

When Hiromi walked up to the tree she could see that Harumi was jumping skillfully from branch to branch avoiding Hitomi as she lunged forward. They were twirling around form branch to branch - Harumi laughing and Hitomi growling under her breath. After a couple minutes of nothing happening Hiromi sighed and jumped up onto a branch.

Suddenly Hirumi was rounding around the trunk laughing only to be yanked back by her sister who had grabbed her arm. Turning to see which one had caught her she was not surprised to see Hiromi with one hand holding her wrist and another holding Hitomi's belt.

"Are we ready to be serious now?" Hiromi asked but both her sister replied with a humph. "Good enough." Without warning she let go and both her sisters fell forward with shocked squeaks as they fell out of the tree. Harumi saved herself by flipping but Hitomi failed to do so and fell flat on her face causing a giant cloud of dust to engulf them. Hiromi had jumped down following her sisters only to fall into the thick smog of dust - seriously did someone put all the dust/dirt in the forest conveniently in one place?

Coughing and choking the three sisters backed away from the tree and the smog like dust.

"Great going Hitomi!" Harumi choked out as she bumped into a tree blindly.

"Not my fault! Hiromi pushed me!" Hitomi whined somewhere to the right as she backed up.

"No, I merely let go," Hiromi coughed out but suddenly she felt herself bump into something… no Someone!

"Girls where are you?" Hiromi cried out as she lunged forward away from the body she bumped into.

"EEEK!" Harumi yelped as she also ran into someone, "W-who's there?"

"AHHH -"

"HITOMI!" Harumi and Hiromi shouted both yelled as their sisters scream was cut off.

The dust was settling now and the girls could make out the shapes of three large figures and one struggling one.

"LET HER GO!" Hiromi shouted and then she saw that there was someone right behind Harumi, "Rumi look out!" but it was too late someone grabbed her too.

Now both Hitomi and Harumi were struggling in their captors grasp and poor Hiromi was left standing staring wide eyes and confused.

"Hey they're just kids - do we have to -"

"Yes, we're getting paid to wipe this village of traitors off the map. Each abandoned their village long ago and must pay," one snapped as he pulled out a kunai and held it to Hitomi's throat causing her to whimper in fear.

"Yeah but these are just kids! They haven't done anything-" the one holding Harumi was interrupted again.

"They are the spawn of the traitors. Better dead then paying for their parents sin," the one holding Hitomi said but his hand shook lightly as he tried to press the kunai deeper into Hitomi's flesh drawing a small line of blood and scaring Hitomi to death.

Suddenly Hitomi gasped as she looked at Hiromi. Hiromi's eyes had red - like blood red! It had two weird dots around the pupil and her sister seemed pissed! She was glaring at the man who was holding Hitomi prisoner and he gasped. He loosened his hold for only a second - but for Hitomi all she needed was one misguided second. She thrust her shoulder upward and knocked the kunai our of her captors hand and she also kicked him at the same time making him loose his balance as she shot forward and out of harms way.

She snatched the kunai out of thin air as she reached Hiromi's side and then turned to Harumi. The man holding Harumi was also shocked and without realizing it he dropped his kunai on the ground. Man were these hired nin STUPID! Harumi quickly kicked the kunai to Hiromi and bit her captors hand drawing blood. In one amazing move Hiromi lunged to the ground and grabbed the kunai and without stopping did a front flip toward Harumi. The man moved Harumi like a shield and protected the spot Hiromi had been aiming at. Still Hiromi flew with the kunai pointed at her sisters head ready to kill. With in the last second she lunged left of her sisters head and hit the mans unprotected shoulder causing him to let Harumi go as Hiromi leapt back.

Hitomi moved like light and grabbed Harumi's wrist and yanked/threw her away from the man. After Harumi was out of the way both Hitomi and Hiromi leapt back and formed a triangle backs against each other.

The men were shocked for a moment before casting glances at each other. In a blink of an eye they began to leap upward but Hiromi somehow saw it coming before hand - this was really weird! - and warned her sisters, "Split!"

On command all three sisters leaped forward and barely missed getting hit by the men. Suddenly Harumi cried out, " Was I hit? Everything is red!"

Both sisters lurched around and looked at Harumi - Hiromi was also seeing red but that fact was at the back of her mind until that moment. Everything did have a red tint to it… What the sisters saw was shocking, Harumi's eyes were as red as Hiromi's. ( ok I question my smartness at making all of their names start with H you have no idea how many times I have to rewrite a name because my spell check thinks I'm trying to spell Harumi when I accidentally put Hirami as Hiromi *Sigh*)

Only difference was Harumi only had one weird dot where Hiromi had two. Suddenly Harumi gasped out, "Dodge left!" Both sisters did so and barely missed getting hit with another kunai. Hitomi , thinking on her feet snatched it up and tossed it toward Harumi as they regrouped with each of them having a weapon now.

They were facing down the two men who looked like they were ready to kill… well they were but that's not the point! The men were about to lunge forward when a third broke through the trees and shouted to them, "Stop playing with little girls and get over here! Some of the people in this village are seasoned Shinobi! We need back up in the village!"

A collective gasp was heard from the girls - the village was under attack! The men cast them one last glare before disappearing into the trees.

"No! We have to help them! What about Aunt-" Hitomi stopped short as her vision took on a red tint but she knew what was happening. The same thing that had happened to her sister - her eyes would be a deep red with either one or two dots around her pupil.

After a moment Hiromi nodded and shot off toward Aunties house with her sisters only steps behind. For some odd reason they were really fast.(Remember they have not trained as Shinobi - though they have always been more agile and flexible then random girl - so they are like finding a new type of strength a.k.a. CHAKRA! Ok sorry for the interruption back to the story!) They raced down the forest path but as they drew nearer to Aunties house they heard screams and shrieks followed by angry yelling and loud explosions. Harumi cringed s one blood curdling scream was cut short and left with an almost gurgling sound as the person continued to scream. The girls knew that the shadows were their friends at this moment. They zipped from tree to tree hiding behind the trunk as they made their way past the village toward Aunties house(1).

What they saw when they got there was shocking - the whole house was splattered with blood. Like someone had been attacked and killed but there was no body. All three girls paled and without thinking they darted recklessly toward the house from their cover in the trees. They thought they had gotten inside with out being realized but sadly they were wrong. A Shinobi sat in a tree and made a bird call and before long two more showed up and waited for the signal to attack.

Meanwhile the sister split and raced around the hut, searching desperately for their- "AUNTIE!"

Hitomi stood wide eyes as she stared down at Auntie and didn't even notice when her sisters joined her or hear their shocked/anguished gasps. Auntie sat up against the wall with a huge gash on her side - she had been attacked. The elderly woman looked up with dull eyes and smiled at the three girls standing before her.

"I was afraid you wouldn't make it in time," she rasped out before groaning in pain, "Girls I need to show you something…" the elderly woman pushed herself to her feet and walked/stumbled toward the dresser across from her on the other side of the room. She opened one drawer (sp?) and dumped it upside down on the floor. After it was empty the old woman took off a key she wore around her neck and felt around the bottom of the draw. Finding what she was looking for she inserted the key in a small hole and the bottom of the draw popped off.

Reaching inside the old woman pulled out three small weapon pouches full with kunai and set them down, then she pulled out a really old looking book and sat it with the pouches before pulling out three small bracelets. The bracelets were simple woven rope with a stone at the end of them, finally the woman gathered it all up and shuffled over to the three girls - who were still standing where she left them in complete shock.

"Now listen I'm sure we don't have much time left - they must know you're already here. Now you must pay close attention to what I'm telling you girls. As you know I am not your mother - obviously - nor am I related to you at all. I found your mother in the forest but I've already told you this story many times. However I did not tell you that your mother was a Shinobi or ninja. Probably the very same of those who are attacking the village as we speak. Now I don't have enough time to explain right now - we must act quickly so follow me," The old woman spoke in rushed painful breaths as she began to leave the room, but the girls were still in shock. Growling under her breath the woman marched back to them and slapped them HARD effectively bringing them back to reality.

"We don't have time for this now MOVE!" Auntie hissed as she marched into one of their rooms and grabbed a small pack from underneath the bed before doing the same to the other rooms. " Alright girls now listen, I have been preparing for something like this for a while now. Ok I collected everything you would need for a quick escape. Clothes, shoes, weapons, money, food… everything you will need to make a quick escape without me." the old woman was ticking them off on her fingers before nodding to herself and turning back to the girls.. Who were still shell shocked but finally Hiromi all but whispered, "Auntie… What do we do?"

"Wha -NO! We cant leave Auntie!" Harumi began to wail but one look from Hiromi and Auntie silenced her.

"Hiromi I need you to be in charge from now on," the elderly lady gasped out her world was blurring at the edges her life would soon be over and she knew it so she continued to use her chakra to stay on her feet, "Now listen I was once a Shinobi who abandoned her village so I deserve this fate but you girls are innocent. You might have Shinobi blood in you but you did nothing wrong. In these packs are two sets of clothes a piece, rations for about a month for each of you, and a sleeping bag. Here strap these to your legs or tie it on your waist -" the old woman paused as she tossed three small black pouches to the girls. Harumi tied it to her belt strap numbly, Hitomi strapped it around her upper calf, and Hiromi strapped it around mid thigh, and the old woman began to continue as she sat down numbly. "Here this book is.. Well it's like a diary from my past when I was a young Shinobi in training for the Sand village -Sana. It will help you, and finally here," she thrust the three small bracelet forward just as Hitomi tucked her diary safely away. Each bracelet had a smooth lavender pebble with a small whole at the end of it where the rope weaved through it.

"These pebbles are from the shore where you were born - I was going to save them until your sixteenth birthday but looks like I wont be able to see it." the woman chuckled darkly which soon changed into a coughing fit. Auntie coughed up blood on the floor and pushed the bracelets once more toward the girls. They took them, Harumi was silently crying as she watched Auntie die on the floor in front of her, Hitomi was trying to hide the fact that she was also crying but failed, and Hitomi looked at the woman with pity and grief but didn't shed a tear.

"Good girl Hitomi, take care of them, you always have." Auntie choked out as blood began to fill her lungs and her voice was gurgly and hard to understand. "Now go, but may I ask one thing of you?" the girls nodded and the woman smiled at them, "Burn the house, let this be my final resting place - don't let those men destroy out memories - bury them with me in my house." The old woman dropped to a slumped position against the wall and smiled up at "her" girls and everything seemed to snap, Harumi, Hitomi and Hiromi raced up an hugged her tightly.

"I love you girls…Now GO!" the woman pushed them away and the Hiromi nodded before pushing her sisters toward the exit.

"Rest in peace Granny," Hiromi whispered as she took a small lantern that they always had lit and smashed it against the wall setting the corner of the room on fire before she walked out without looking back.

Hitomi walked up to her sisters and sighed when she saw Hitomi was all but supporting Harumi as they cried. She set her hand on Harumi's shoulder and turned her toward the exit before grabbing Hitomi's wrist and promptly leading them out of the house… Straight into and ambush.

"YOU!" Harumi yelled in pure rage as three men dropped from the trees and began to circle them.

Instantly the girls formed a triangle keeping each others backs protected. They glared with their wide pupil less eyes at the masked men around them - who (they assumed) were glaring right back. Suddenly one of the masked men stiffened before whispering out, "No… They can't be!" He had recognized their eyes - eyes he had only seen on one group of people and since only one of those people had gone missing years earlier it only left one explanation. The other two men looked over at the one who spoke - probably in a questioning manner. And that's all it took Hiromi activated her Shiringan and saw the opening for what it was.

"Move…" she hissed to her sisters.

Harumi looked confused but Hitomi nodded and grabbed Harumi's elbow before crouching slightly and shooting into one of the near by trees. Hiromi glared at the man who spoke with blood red eyes and the man yanked off his mask to get a better look. She only got to see part of his face but he had red hair, a very thick black line around his eye, and a weird red symbol on his forehead - it meant something but she didn't get a good enough look to tell what before she too was gone.

Gaara stood there as he watched pieces of the forgotten past escape, "Those three…"

Hitomi let go of Harumi's elbow but neither faltered as they raced from tree to tree - someone was following them. Harumi squeaked in shock but soon regained her composure as she saw it was Hiromi with her blood red eyes.

"Lets move!" Hiromi hissed and shot forward with her two sisters following close behind her. They had - unintentionally - formed a triangle formation. Unknowingly to them this was one of the basic Shinobi lessons and they picked it up from the way the people attacking the village moved- Shiringan came in handy.

Silently the girls made their escape in opposite direction from the only life they had ever known. Where they were going they had no clue, why they were suddenly moving faster, felt stronger, or saw everything in slow motion they had no clue.

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A/N: Ok how was it? A bit rushed and squished but I'm trying to zip through their early years to get to the action/romance/comedy. A.K.A the story XD Oh and I know there are spelling and grammer errors but ifigured youd rather have a new chapter then me spend agonizing days fixing these right away ^_~

Oh and yes I'm giving them Sharigan, lets just say that they had the trait dormant in the Hyuga clan for years until the right genetics allowed them to control both Byakugan and Sharingan - A.K.A their mother and father both had the rare genetics to unlock their potential to be ultimately scary as hell lol. Ok don't like my explanation? You might not want to read the rest of the story and just leave it now and forever hold your peace. Ok I'm done, you may move to the next chapter if you wish ^-^