Grandfather Masanori-san glared. She could have been one of their best Kunoichi, but she had to be treated wrongly as a child. She had to be sexist- hating all men. Things weren't going as planed, but they wouldn't go out into the woods.

There were rumors of Akatsuki roaming the woods. Looking for what they had. A tailed beast. Masanori placed a hand over his eyes and debated weather or not to send more ninja after the girl runaway. Slowly he came upon a decision.

Let the Akatsuki… kill her.

Shizuko ran, and ran for all her worth. She didn't even stop when it was clearly too dark to be out in the open. There might be ninja after her. She also didn't even care that her long hair was getting tangled in the trees.

That is, until it got caught in a tree branch. It jerked her back and she fell to the ground. She looked up. She saw her blonde hair still wrapped around the bark. Had her hair gotten that long. She stood up and felt around for a found nothing.

As she looked around for a sharp object, she felt something whiz past her. She reached behind her and felt that her hair was cut. Who did it? She turned around and looked for what could have cut her.

"You missed her!" a voice yelled from the trees. It was slightly muffled, as if a cloth hung over it. "She was standing still and you missed her!"

"Will you shut up?!" Another voice intercepted. Shizuko spun looking for the source of the voices. "Look! She's spotted us!"

"Who are you!" She said standing straight up, pointing a finger in their general direction. Right then a large crimson triple-bladed scythe came from a bundle of leaves. She sidestepped and the largest blade skimmed her arm. There was almost no time to dodge it

"Ha!" A man said coming out of the bushes. He had remarkable features. For starters, his white hair was lovely, and then it was his paled skin. Finally it was his- what color were they?- magenta eyes?

"Are you albino?" Shizuko asked, her shoulders slumping. Even if this man was a man, he was albino. Shizuko always felt sorry for albinos.

"I'm not albino!" The man yelled and pulled his scythe back to him. He licked my blood off the largest blade. "Hmm, not enough." The man said.

He wore a black cloak with red clouds on them. The cloak looked vaguely familiar. What was it? Some kind of cult of something? Before Shizuko could think of anything else, the scythe came at her again. She easily dodged it by dropping. She preformed hand signs then something jutted from the ground.

The scythe thunked into it and then the block wrapped around the blades. "Now that that's out of the way." Another man walked out of the bushes. He looked rather odd. The only thing visible were his eyes. And looked inverted, where there should be a light color around the iris, was a dark red. Then where his eyes supposed to be dark they were light.

Wow. An albino and a freak. Prefect match, huh?

"So what cult are you two apart of?" She asked the masked man. With out replying he took out a book. He flipped to a page then stopped. He glanced up at me and then back down to the book. Quickly he snapped it shut, and then nodded.

"This girl, has quite some bounty on her." The man said. It was slightly muffled from the cloth he had over his mouth.

"Can you please tell me-" Shizuko shouted, feeling rather forgotten, "WHO YOU ARE?!" They stopped looking at one another and then looked at the blonde girl who was in some kind of rage.

"We're part of the Akatsuki." The White haired man said. Shizuko nodded and rubbed her chin. "Do you know who they are?"

"Nope."

They looked at each other. The men more dumbfounded then her, but looked all the same. Then slowly she remembered. Akatsuki. The S-ranked Criminals who were forming some kind of organization. They went after tailed-beasts. And there was a group of the missing-ninjas right here.

And when she realized it, it hit her like a punch to the jaw. X1,000,000. "Doh!" She said tapping her head and smiled a pain filled smile. "Akatsuki! Ha! Ha, ha, ha!… Ah!" And then she began running for dear life again.

Funny how things always seem to round back to the beginning.