Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto although Sora is totally mine.

Authors note: Okay I was so happy to finally finish the first chapter that I rushed it out and forgot to write a note. I will not update this story very often I will try to update once a month that is my new years goal. J

Chapter 2

"Kami I hate being stuck with guard duty, it's so boring," Takeshi moaned to his companion for what had to be the fifth or sixth time in just the last two hours.

"Oh just shut the hell up would you, I'm sick and tired of listening to you complain!" Riku's patience with his fellow chuunin had finally reached its limit.

"Oh come on you can't tell me you like being assigned with gate guard duty it's the worst," Takeshi asked.

"I never said I liked it, but it is an important duty that we perform for the village. So if you have nothing to say except to complain then I suggest that you shut up before I do it for you," Riku calmly stated like they were doing nothing more than discussing the weather.

Takeshi immediately gulped and shut up, Riku had a reputation of being a bad person to cross.

The silence lasted for about another hour before it was once again broken by Takeshi clearing his throat.

"What is it Takeshi?" Riku asked thinking how next he got guard duty that he was going to ask paired with someone else.

"I just wanted to say that there's a kid walking by herself up the road to the village."

Riku turned his head to look and sure enough there was the girl just reaching the gate and looking around. Once the girl spotted the two chuunin at the guard both she made her way over to them.

As the girl got closer to them the guard's couldn't help but be stunned for a moment as they took in the girl's appearance. The girl couldn't be any older than five or six and she was traveling by herself. The girl had bright yellow hair that you could have called sun-kissed. It was held in a ponytail that went just past her shoulders. The girl was wearing a pair navy of goggles (think of swimming goggles). She had on a sky blue t-shirt and navy pants that matched her goggles; she also wore a pair of navy ninja sandals.

Now none of this had shocked the chuunin pair until they noticed that the girl had a sky blue tail. Yeah that's right a tail that was the girl's t-shirt which was also sky blue. The girl's nails were more like claws than finger nails (think of Naruto's nails when he uses the Kyuubi's chakra or Kiba's nails).

The girl took a deep breath "Hello my name is Ryuu Sora, my Kaa- I mean Tsunade-sama of the Sannin sent me here when I told her I wanted to be a ninja."

Riku and Takeshi exchanged looks and got over their shock, while Takeshi burst out laughing.

"Sorry kid but you have got to work on your jokes if you want to fool anyone especially a ninja." Was all Takeshi managed to say before he burst out laughing again.

"I'm not lying she told me if I wanted to be a ninja than I would have to come to Konoha." Sora was getting angry she knew Tsunade's plan was stupid, no one would listen to her.

"Alright then if you expect us to believe you then I hope you have some kind of proof." Riku told Sora still thinking that she was doing this for a dare or something with her friends.

"Oh yeah I forgot Tsunade said to give this to the gate guards when I got here," Sora pulled off the backpack she had on and pulled out scroll sealed with the Senju symbol.

Riku took the letter from the girl and opened it so he and Takeshi could read it.

To random Chuunin gate guards,

I Senju Tsunade member of the legendary Sanin have sponsored Ryuu Sora to enter the academy for ninja training.

This is all the information you chuunin need to know. Just take the brat to talk to the Sandaime and he will take care of everything.

If you guards decide to be idiots and not believe this letter, Sora has one of my slug summons with her as further proof.

If you give her any problems at all whether its about you not believing any of this or her tail then there will hell to pay!!

Just bring Sora to the Hokage as soon as you read this letter.

Senju Tsunade of the Sannin

Takeshi and Riku exchanged looks of surprise after reading the letter. They knew this was a real letter from Tsunade but still wished to see further proof.

"Alright kid where's this slug summons your supposed to have with you?" Takeshi wasted no time trying to get a confirmation about the letter.

"She's in my backpack resting out of the sun hold on a sec." Sora opened they main section of her pack to reveal a white slug with a turquoise stripe down the center of its back.

"Greetings it is a pleasure to meet you both my name is Katsuya," The small slug said to the two guards bowing her head slightly.

Alright for the readers that realized this is the boss slug you all get a cookie.

Riku sighed. "Well alright then I guess that's proof enough. Come on Sora, one of us is supposed to bring you to see the Hokage.

"Wait your just going to bring the kid there just like that?" Takeshi asked his companion confused.

"Don't be stupid Takeshi we have more than enough proof that Sora is telling the truth. Besides Tsunade is the only one with the contract for the slugs and I don't know about you but I would rather not piss off a Sannin." For the second time that day Takeshi decided that it was in his best interests to shut the hell up.

"Follow me Sora I'll take you to talk to Hokage. Takeshi stay here and watch the gate." Riku ordered and started to walk toward the Hokage tower.

Sora snatched her pack off the ground and pulled it back on. Katsuyu climbed out of the bag and moved to sit on Sora's right shoulder. Sora had to run after Riku before she lost him in the crowds.

The walk to the Hokage tower terrified Sora, she hated being in crowds. The fact that the villagers were staring and pointing and at her tail didn't really do much to make her more comfortable.

When they finally arrived at the tower Sora was relieved and let out breath wishing that Tsunade or Shizune could be with her.

"You'll be fine Sora just relax its okay." Katsuya told Sora knowing she was terrified without her adopted family who had become her protectors.

Riku led Sora into the Hokage's office after receiving a go ahead from the secretary.

"Ah, Riku, what brings you here. I thought you had guard duty?" The Sandaime asked looking up from his mountain of paper work as he heard the door open. Sora looked at the old man sitting behind the massive pile of paper work. He was wearing a red hat that had white section surrounding the kanji for fire on the front in red. His robes were white while the shirt underneath them was red. The old man had a small white beard, he had a kind face that seemed to hold a great deal of sorrow but laughter and smiles as well.

"Yes I do I just came to drop of a girl that Tsunade-sama sent to the village to join the academy. She sent a letter with the girl telling us that we were to bring the girl right to you."

"Thank you Riku. I'm guessing the girl standing behind you was the one sent by my student then."

"Hai, Hokage-sama."

"You are dismissed Riku," Sarutobi told the chuunin.

Riku bowed to the Hokage and left through the door after giving Sora a reassuring squeeze of her shoulder.

Sarutobi took a moment to look at the girl before speaking. "What your name?"

"My name is Ryuu Sora, Hokage-sama." Sora nervously shuffled her feet hating being the center of attention.

"Sky Dragon; I have to say I can see what you got your name from." Sarutobi told the nervous girl hoping to put her at ease.

(Okay Ryuu means dragon and Sora means Sky. Okay not that creative but I thought it was fitting).

"Tsunade-sama and Shizune nee-chan named me after they saved me when I was younger." Sora thought the old man seemed nice enough and that helped to reassure her.

"Excuse me Hokage-sama but Tsunade-sama wishes for me to tell you that she wants you to read the letter that she sent with Sora first before you ask any questions." Katsuya felt that it was time to intervene and help Sora out as she was very shy and timid around new people until she got to know them. Once Sora got to know you she was a little blur of crazy energy that could be very forward and open.

"Katsuya I didn't see you its been years since I last saw you. How are you, and how is Tsunade? I'm going to guess that you split apart and part of you is with Tsunade right now correct?"

"I have been well Hokage-sama as has Tsunade-sama. Yes another part of me is with Tsunade at this moment and Tsunade asks me to tell you to just hurry up and read the scroll." Katsuyu calmly replied to the Hokage she was used to relaying messages for her summoner.

At this Sora pulled off her pack and put it on the floor and pulled out two scrolls one larger than the other. The larger scroll was marked 'Hokage' and the other 'counsel.'

Sarutobi took the proffered scrolls from Sora he told her to sit in one of the chairs on the side of the room while he read the scroll. He opened the scroll marked 'Hokage' first and began to read.

Sarutobi-sensei,

Alright as I'm sure the brat has told you her name is Ryuu Sora. Shizune and I picked her up during our travels. Sora wants to become a ninja since I don't want to teach the little brat everything from scratch, I decided to send her to the village for training and then one day when she is older I will train her myself.

Alright I'm sure you want to know all about the little brat, I just have to ask that you not ask her to many questions she does not like discussing her past and with good reason. I will write all I can in this letter all I ask is that you not share all the details with the damn council. Once you finish reading the scroll you will understand.

Sora has just turned six. We figure her birthday is on August 17th it's the best guess we have been able to make all things considering. Okay one thing you do need to now about her is that her 'traits' are caused by a I suppose you could it a bloodline if you come right down to it.

We only know so much about the brat's past because she has a photographic memory she can remember everything that has happened to her since she was born.

Alright to get right to the point, Sora is half dragon and half human. The easiest way to explain how that is possible would be Orochimaru and his twisted experiments to make the most powerful ninjas. I don't think I need to go into detail.

I believe that Orochimaru captured Sora's mother right before she laid an egg and used seals to prevent her from escaping right back home. After the egg was laid he probably injected it with human DNA to see what would happen. As you can probably guess Sora's mother escaped with the egg and when Sora hatched and her mother saw Sora she left her to die in the woods. Sora told us that she was taken in by a wolf pack who found her. She lived with them for about two years till they thought that she was old enough to return to a human village. Sora told us that she could understand the wolves language it probably has something to being raised with them from birth or its some weird summon thing.

The pack that raised Sora brought her to the closest village I guess figuring that Sora would be taken in because she was a human albeit with a tail thus a member of a human pack. Bad idea people don't react very well to a little girl with slit pupils, claws for nails, and a tail they automatically assumed that Sora was a demon. It really didn't help that Sora couldn't speak Japanese and talk to the local villagers.

The villagers attacked Sora repeatedly for about a week before they decided that they needed to get rid of the demon. Its at this time that Shizune and I found and saved the brat from the mob, it's a good thing that we were in the village at that time if we had been a second or two later Sora would have been dead. If not because of the villagers than because of the sheer number of her injuries.

Shizune and I were able to heal the brat and decided to bring her with us mostly because if we didn't the brat would be dead in a week and she needed to learn how to take care of herself.

Alright, I was able to discover that because Sora is a hybrid she has abilities that are pretty much the equivalent of a Kekkei Genkai. If you come right down to it technically it is a Kekkei Genkai What we've discovered about it so far is that it resulted in Sora's tail, eyes, claws, and teeth. It has enhanced all five of her senses although that comes with its disadvantages. She is also about twice as strong and fast as kids her age. The Kekkei Genkai also gives Sora the ability to talk to reptiles, unfortunately snakes will have nothing to do with Sora the best guess I can make as to why is because of some centuries old grudge. This has been all we have been able to discover so far mostly because Sora will not explain in more detail. I believe that Sora will develop more abilities as she gets older but until then I can only guess at what they might be.

We decided to call this Kekkei Genkai Ryuu. Yeah I know Dragon is not the most creative name but it fit's the bill. DO NOT tell the council that Sora is half dragon, you know how they would react to that, just tell them that it is a new Kekkei Genkai that I discovered in the brat.

The other scroll that I sent with Sora is for the council it should satisfy them. At the bottom of this scroll I have sealed some scrolls for Sora when she graduates from the academy.

Oh yeah one last thing I told Sora to come to you if she has a problems but until she gets to know you she won't ask for any help. So please just keep an eye out for Sora I hate to something happen to the little brat. I feel like I should warn you that I have checked Sora's chakra levels and they are insanely high for a kid her age. Ah who am I kidding they could easily be at high Chuunin level and her charka coils are still forming I have given her some scrolls about chakra control exercises. So the kid will have problems with the lower ranked jutsus until she can bring up her chakra control.

Thanks for helping Sarutobi it means a lot to me I would come to the village myself but I just can't bring myself to. Send me a message when the brat makes Chuunin rank that is when I will except her as an apprentice.

Senju Tsunade the Slug Sannin

Sarutobi finished reading the scroll and took a deep pull on his pipe thinking over its contents. Sarutobi had no doubts that the council might cause some problems but not anything he couldn't handle.

"Katsuya please tell Tsunade that I will do as she asks."

"Thank you Hokage-sama." Katsuyu paused for a moment to relay the Sandaime's answer to Tsunade. "Tsunade-sama wishes for me to thank you once more and asks that I stay with you to aid you with the council."

"Thank you Katsuya with you to support me and Tsunade's scroll the council should not pose a problem." Sarutobi was glad that boss slug was staying to help with the council it would makes things almost to easy compared to most matters involving the council.

"Sora, why don't you come with me and we can get you an apartment to live in while you are in the village." It made the Sandaime sad to know that he could easily think of an apartment building with plenty of space.

Sora nodded. Tsunade had told her that the Hokage was a kind person and that she could trust him but she was still wary of him and she hated it. Sora liked to spend time with people living with the pack had been nice but it was not the same as spending time with people. Sora wanted to be able to trust easily but because of the stupid villagers she just couldn't bring her self to trust many people. Because of this Sora had become a very good judge of people's characters and actions.

The Sandaime stood up and led the way out telling his secretary that he would be out of his office for the rest of the day. They walked through the village with the villagers bowing to the Hokage but still managing to send the pair curious looks as they walked by. Sora was glad that the villagers kept their distance it helped to calm her enough to take a better look at the village. It was a beautiful place, one that Sora hoped call home one day.

It took them about fifteen minutes to reach a small apartment complex the Sandaime led the way inside. He walked over to the counter and talked to the complex owner for a few minutes before he was handed a set of keys.

Sora followed the Sandaime up the stairs to the top floor. Sora was confused surely these were the most expensive apartments when she voiced her concerns the Sandaime told her to not worry about saying she would receive a monthly payment to help her pay for everything.

"Well this will be your apartment Sora. There is only one other person living on this floor I'm sure you will both become good friends." Sora stared at the old man confused why was he so sure that she would become good friends with her neighbor. Sarutobi chuckled at the look on the girls face "Believe me Sora you will understand what I mean when you meet your neighbor."

Sora opened the door to her apartment and spent a few minutes exploring her new home while the Hokage waited for to finish exploring so he could show her around the village.

The apartment opened onto a small kitchen on the left side of the room there was fridge, a stove and a couple of cabinets above the counter there was a sink as well. In the center of the room there was a small wooden table with two chairs. On the right side of the room there was a small navy colored couch and in the corner there was a small bookcase next to the couch there was a small end table. In the back left corner of the apartment there was a small bed with a night stand next to it. About a foot away from the night stand there was a small dresser. The apartment's bathroom was in the right corner it was small but functional with a sink, toilet, and bathtub.

Sora pulled off her pack and put it on the couch before she joined the Hokage back out in the hallway. Katsuya decided to stay in the apartment where she could rest for a couple of hours before the Sandaime called a council meeting.

The Sandaime showed Sora around the village for a couple of hours and pointed out where everything was. Sora had arrived at the village early that morning so it was now about noon. Sarutobi decided to bring Sora to the park knowing that since it was a Saturday they were likely to run into at least one of Sora's future classmates. It them about ten minutes to walk over to the park when they arrived Sora looked at the Hokage confused.

"Sora I brought you over to the park because I know that we will probably run into some of your classmates. Besides it's a good idea for you to make some friends they can help you learn your way around the village.

"Oh, ok." Sora was nervous about going to over to other kids they always picked on her and made fun of her tail and eyes.

"Its alright Sora I'm not going anywhere except to sit down on one of the benches." Sarutobi had a pretty good idea about why Sora was nervous.

Sora slowly made her way over to the group of kids that were just getting ready to play a game of ninja.

One of kids noticed her walking over to them pointed her out to the rest of the group. The kids had frozen and were staring not so much at Sora but at her tail.

"Whoa is that real?" One of the kids asked.

"Why the hell do you have a tail?" Another one of the kids blurted out.

Before Sora had a chance to answer one of kids in the group gathered up his courage and grabbed Sora's tail to see if it was real. This action of course freaked poor Sora out who was already overwhelmed by size of the group. Sora's reaction was to flick her tail out of the kid's grip but the kid had a tight grip on it and only let go when he was yanked to the ground.

"Can you guys please back off a little bit," Sora asked praying they would back off even just a little bit so she could think clearly. The kids realized they were practically on top of the girl so they stepped back a little bit.

"So what's with the tail?" A girl with blond hair asked taking charge.

"Um it's a Kekkei Genkai called Ryuu. As far I know I'm the only one who has it." Sora was praying that they would accept that and not pressure her about it to much like everyone else.

"If it's a Kekkei Genkai then why are you the only one who has it what about your family? What's your name anyway?" The blond haired girl was without a doubt the one in charge.

"Well my name is Ryuu Sora. I'm an orphan so I don't have any family left at least not that I know of anyway."

"Oh well, that's too bad. So what exactly does your Kekkei Genkai do other than give you a tail?" The girl was clearly not planning on stopping the interrogation any time soon.

"Well it improves all five of my senses and makes me stronger and faster. But that's all I know about it so far." Sora decided not tell them she could talk to reptiles it would probably get her labeled as a freak.

"Really that's it. It doesn't seem all that different than the Inuzuka clan's jutsus oh well so do you want to play ninja with us?" Sora couldn't help the grin that came onto her face at the girl's invitation she was never allowed to play with the other kids.

As the group started to organize teams Sora took a look around to find a hiding spot. But instead of finding a place to hide she saw a little boy with spiky sun kissed blonde hair the same shade as her hair. The boy was wearing a white T-shirt with a red spiral on the front and navy colored pants. He was sitting all by himself on the swing watching the group and looking downright depressed.

"Um hey you guys forgot about that kid over there did you see if he wanted to play too." The boy had looked up at Sora's question and was staring at her in shock.

"We're not allowed to play with him our parents have told all of us to stay away from him. If you don't want to get in trouble I'd stay away from him, all the villagers say he's either a monster or a demon either way all he is trouble," The girl told Sora realizing that Sora didn't know the stay away from the little boy.

Something inside of Sora snapped at the girl's words. The girl had with out any why of knowing of course that she just crossed the line. Sora couldn't stand anyone calling another person a demon or monster it was what the villagers had called her after all.

"Well then fine if you won't let him play too then I'm not playing either." Sora left the group and walked over to where the boy was sitting he had a stunned look on his face.

"Alright fine be that way Sora go play with that little freak see if we care." The girl shouted and they walked off to go play ninja away from the freak and his new friend.

"Hi my name is Ryuu Sora. What's your name?" The boy stared at her his mouth hanging open. The boy had three whisker marks on each side of his face and bright sky blue eyes.

"My name is Uzumaki Naruto. You don't have to play with you'll just get in trouble. If not with your parents, then with all the other kids." Naruto expected the girl to run off and leave him there but she surprised him again.

"Now why would I do that all the other kids were just being mean and then you wouldn't have anyone to play with," Sora told Naruto giving him one of her brightest smiles which unfortunately gave Naruto a good view of Sora's sharper than normal teeth it freaked him out a little bit but then again his canines are bigger than usual.

"But won't you get in trouble for talking to me?" This girl was confusing him the only people who were ever nice to him where jiji, the Hokage, and Ayame and Teuchi, the owners of Ichiraku's Ramen stand.

"Why should I care what anyone else says I like to judge people for myself. People call me a demon and a monster all the time because of my Kekkei Genkai but I'm not so why should I listen when they call you one." Naruto couldn't help but think that this was all to good to be true.

"But what about your family won't care at all?" Naruto asked still stunned.

"I'm an orphan. Although I guess you could say that two kunoichi who raised me sort of adopted me unofficially. But they wouldn't care they trusted me enough to let me come to the village so I could enter the ninja academy they trust me enough to make my own decisions."

"You really mean all that?" Naruto prayed to Kami that it was this would be his first chance to have a friend.

"Course I do silly come on lets go play on the playground." Sora grabbed Naruto's hand and pulled him over to the slide. Naruto couldn't help the massive grin and laugh that came out as he and Sora played together.

The Sandaime had been watching the entire time and smiled glad that Naruto finally had found a friend. He watched the two children playing together it felt like some of the burden had been taken of his shoulders. He pulled out the camera that had been sealed in the scroll and took a picture. Shizune had left him her own letter sealed in Tsunade's scroll asking the Hokage to remind Sora to take lots of pictures and make a scrap book for her to see next time they met.

Sarutobi let the two kids play for another hour or two before he decided to bring the pair out for dinner. Naruto of course insisted on Ichiraku's after he learned his new friend had never had ramen before. Ayame helped take a bunch more pictures to commemorate Sora's first friend and day in the leaf village.

Okay here's the end of chapter 2.

Sorry it took so long to come out school started and with it cross country season. Not getting off the boss until 4:30 in the afternoon doesn't help of course. You can thank a inspiring snow day for this chapter along with Christmas break.

Next chapter will be a time skip to graduation from the academy.

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