Me: Yawn! Evening!

Naruto: I thought it was night...

Me: Meh, same difference.

Kakashi: Game-girl209 owns nothing of Naruto in any paticular way. Can I get them back now?!!!

Me: Good boy! Here's you Icha Icha books back

Kakashi: -eyes me- You are evil!

Me: Yeah well, you're a pirate.

Naruto: Pirate?

Me: I'm sorry for not having any Naruto characters in this chapter. There's going to be lots next chapter!

Many times, Erina has disobeyed her parents, and has gotten in trouble, they seemed always somehow finding out. But, not this time. They didn't find out. That frightened her. They always find out. Sure none of her siblings helped her before now but... Every time one of them would come into the same room she was in she would tense up. Every time one of them would call her, she would walk, like she was facing execution.

They had asked her numerous times why she does this. So, it did not go unnoticed. She would say "Nothing," then walk away. Many times, she has been called paranoid. She knew she was paranoid, but this scared her. She thought, maybe, this was a sign that the world had reached it's end, then she smacked herself in the head and mumble how stupid she was.

The brunette never returned to Konoha, after what happened to Naruto. But she did want to, though her commonly activating paranoia prevented her from doing so.

A year after the event, she realized she had a strong want to become a ninja. She was too scared to ask her parents though... until that day...

Erina turned to her mother, while she was making dinner. Her mother's long brown hair matched her's, yet the mother had green eyes, instead of her blue ones she got from her father.

"Kaa-san, what do you think about me wanting to become a ninja?" Erina asked.

She jumped when her mother turned to her, with fierce eyes. "Why do you want to become a ninja?" she asked, in a surprisingly calm tone that scared Erina.

"Because... because... I have a feeling that's what I want to become!" Erina said to her.

The mother sighed and shook her head. "You're too old."

"But-! But I can catch up! You or Tou-san can teach me! Then I could-!" she was cut off.

"Tell me, Erina, when did you go to Konoha?" her mother asked, sounding angry. Erina tried to cover up her surprise with confusion.

"What are you talking about?! I never-!"

"Then why else do you want to become a ninja? Your father and I never showed any of you our ninja skills so how did you get a reason to become one? How did you find out what they are like? Hmm...?" her mother interrogated her, but Erina stood tall.

"... I found to boys fighting and one left so I brought the other one to the village to make sure he'll be okay..." Erina nearly whispered.

"He wouldn't happen to be Uzumaki Naruto?" she asked.

"Yeah, his name was Naruto..."

"I see. You're lying," her mother stated.

"What?"

"Hatake Kakashi was with you."

"How did you know?"

"I didn't, until there now. You could have easily let him go then. And I knew it was Kakashi because he is their jounin teacher."

Erina was shocked. She guessed this was what being a ninja was all about. Her mother was always good at interrogation, and finding out she was lying.

"You see this is why I wanted to become a ninja!" Erina smiled. "Look how cool that questioning from you was. I was in a bloody interrogation!" the girl laughed.

"If you want to become a ninja, you must be seriously!" she snapped at her daughter.

Erina's face dropped. You'll let me? You'll let me become one?" she gaped

Her mother nodded. "But first we'll have to tell your father about it, and see what he says."

"What I says?" Asked a man, with dark hair and blue eyes. He faked gasped at the scene, before him. "Has one of my children finally wanted to ask the dreaded question?" he peered over to Erina. "You want to become a ninja, eh?"

"Tou-san...," Erina gaped. She was doing a lot of that. "Yeah! Please, please, please, please!!!!!!" she pleaded, if that wasn't obvious enough. While grabbing on to his arm, and jumping up and down.

Hm...," her father pretended to stroke his imaginary beard. "And what would be in it for me?!"

"Tou-san!" Erina whinned.

"Fine! But on one condition!"

Erina's eyes narrowed into slits, which wasn't really different because her eyes were so little in size anyway. "What...?" she asked gingerly.

"In two years time you will have to become a full fledged genin," he replied, smirking.

"Ha! I can make it in one!" Erina said with one finger up.

Her father laughed, and ruffled her hair. "Don't get too cocky. With your lack of balance, and lack of fitness, you are going to need all the help you can get, my little suck up!" He walked away, leaving an angry daughter.

"Hey! It's not nice to call you child names!" she shouted at him. Erina turned to her mother. "How am I going to train?"

"I'm sure we can work something out at the academy," her mother smiled. " You'd be surprise how much they are in dept to us."

"Huh? Why? Did you protect them by a giant snake or something?"

"No, that was someone else. We got the man who stole their money," the woman corrected.

Erina started doing a mixture of coughing and laughing. "Still not as cool as taking down a big gigantic snake!"

"How'd you know about the big snake?"

"I heard you and Tou-san talking about it."

"I honestly don't know why you have such a big fear of snakes, you never saw one in real life."

"But, Kaa-san, imagine, a slimey, slithery, long creature climbing slowly up your arm under your clothes. And the next thing you know, it's at your neck hissing in your ear. Wrapping it's self around you, it's grip tightening around your body. It still continues to hiss as it goes closer to your neck it's mouth widening. Ready for tasting your own flesh, and then one more movement from the head and it's bitten you, intoxicating your blood. As the poison spreads through your body, it's like a piece of it's self is left inside you-"

Alright, alight! I get the point. Just shut up," the woman sighed.

"I think I just scared myself there..." Erina whimpered. The woman sighed again. "Anyway help me bring the dinner plates."

~~****~~

During the family's dinner, with the other brother and sister being there, Erina decided to declare that she was becoming a ninja.

Guess what! Guess what! I'm gonna become a ninja!" she told them.

Suru and Sekitan both started laughing. "Haha, You're gonna die young!" Suru laughed.

"Am not! Bet you all the money I have in my pocket, that I won't die before I'm twenty of anything other than natural causes!" she had said, while hitting her pocket for them to her it's jingle sound.

"Right then!" Suru agreed.

"Suru! Erina!" their mother scolded.

"Aw, come one Kaa-san, we were only betting if she dies young or not!" Suru whined.

"Yeah!" Erina agreed.

Sekitan folded her arms and looked at them with fake disgust. "So immature. You'd never see me doing anything of that sort, wouldn't you not Kaa-san," She said.

"No, you're just as bad as them!" her mother accused her.

"Tch! I would never!" she denied in a very high pitched voice, that usually meant she was lying.

"Your voice is high," Erina pointed out.

"Yeah, well, you're going to have a short life!"

"Sekitan, that's a terrible thing to say about our mother and father's teaching abilities! After all they are the ones who are gonna teach me," Erina declared while looking at Sekitan with fake surprise.

"We are?" their father questioned.

"I think so. Kaa-san said so," Erina said.

"We might teach you a bit, you'll be taught by a chunin during the time you are academy ranked," the woman explained.

"Aw... okay...," Erina nodded slowly. She turned her head to the window. "Oooo pretty birdie!" she said as she saw a large bird with a note outside the window.

"We have to go to the village, see you later," their parents waved off.

~~ 10pm ~~

Erina's parents didn't come back yet, but she didn't worry about it. It was probably some mission they were going on, was what she always told herself, before worry came.

Erina went to her bed to sleep in the room she shared with Sekitan. You don't expect a house that's in the middle of nowhere big.

She laid done and rested. Soon she fell asleep.

~~ 3am ~~

Erina woke up with a start. It was even more startling when she saw the flames coming to her room under the door. She quickly looked to see if her sister was awake. She wasn't.

"Sekitan! Get up! Fire! Fire!" Erina cried, as she shook her sister.

Her sister woke up similar to her, but recovered from it quicker. "Where's Suru?!" she demanded to know.

"I don't know."

She quickly got out of her bed and out the window, as Erina followed her. The heat and smoke was starting to get to them.

They started to shout cries of their brother's name, but they couldn't hear him. Once they reached the front door Sekitan told her, "Stay here! I'll go in a check for Suru!"

"Wait! Take my jacket and cover your mouth!" Erina ordered. Her elder sister obeyed and went in to the blazing building.

All Erina could do was stand there. She felt useless again. Only hoping her siblings would come out alive. Hope was the only thing she hold on to. She wanted to help, but how? If she went in there, she would probably just get in the way, but... this is the kind of things ninjas face, if she wanted to become one she must face her fears.

She ran into the house and called the names of her siblings, and they answered. They were trapped in the hall. Flames separated them from their sister. Damn it! What was she supposed to do?! What the fuck could she do to save them?!

She took a deep breath, which was idiotic, while being in a place surrounded by smoke. She coughed hard a few times but soon gained control again.

'Think! Think! How can I save them?!' Yet nothing came to mind.

Their shouts were getting quieter. "DAMMIT!!!" Erina cried. Then something like a light went on in her head.

She regrettably left her siblings and went back to her room. She took two blankets and dragged them back to where here brother and sister were. She threw one over the flames on the ground and another over the first. "JUMP! She shouted at them. They did so, and the three siblings ran for their lives out of their now burning wreck they call home. Once they got away far enough, they fell on the ground to catch their breath. "Good... job..., Erina...," Sekitan complemented while coughing a bit.

"It still doesn't get our house back...," Erina whispered, but they both heard. They all looked at their red blazing home, with childhood memories, flashing before their eyes.

Another messenger bird came towards them. Suru went and grabbed it, so his sisters could still sit. He read the note quickly. During that time he glared at the sheet of information.

"What is it?" Sekitan asked, worried.

Suru put the sheet in front of both of them. "According to this, Kaa-san and Tou-san, wasn't Kaa-san and Tou-san. Apparently they were killed during the Kyuubi no Kitsune's time in attacking the village. They were killed by the Kyuubi, when trying to fight it! So, the people we knew as parents weren't really our mother and father," Suru's fists began shaking. Confusion and mistrust obviously showing in the eyes that had just felt so much loss.

"Who were they, then?!" Erina exclaimed. Also angry with the new piece of information.

"It doesn't say," Suru shook his head.

"Then, we go to Konoha to find out, who they were!" Sekitan announced. "Erina you know the way. Lead us," she demanded.

Erina only nodded. She thought how the people who probably weren't her parents, took her when she was only a few months old. She wanted to know the truth behind this mystery, and they would find in Konoha.

Me: Wow! Plot!

Naruto: Who burned down Erina's house?!!

Me: Wait, and you'll find out, my young Naruto

Naruto: You scare me!

Me: I love you too!

Sasuke: Review.

Me: SASUKE!!!

Sasuke: What?

Me: Oh nothing, I was just calling out you name, 'cause Naruto seems to like doing it a lot, for some strange reason!