The soft blanket caressed my body as I turned over. My hair fell over my face in a small mess; I blew some strands away, opening my blind eyes. I shoved the blanket away as my feet gently slid to the cold hard floor. I stood with a sigh and gently and slowly slid my feet, detecting the things around me and my hands felt the air for something to hold. Finally my toe tapped something and I felt around, meeting a cold hard object. It was large and bulky, Im guessing a dresser. My hands slid down the sides, slowly pulling out a drawer when a door opened.

"Lady Kazuki, what are you doing?" Miyuki's voice was frantic and had a sense of panic as I heard her rush to me, hastily touching my shoulder.

"I was going to change"

"You could have hurt yourself" her voice slowly calmed as her heavy breathing depleted "Please don't scare me like that again" I nodded understanding her concern, I felt her arms wrap around me and then release as she lifted something out of my dresser, helping me change.


*Ok third person point of view would be better for now. It is easier and gives a better line of view for the story*


The two girls swiftly walked the streets of Konoha, earning stares from plenty of people.

"Why did I have to come?" The silver haired girl asked calmly, her piercings glistened from the sun, and the black blindfold she bared hid the one secret she would never tell.

"Because you're my friend and you love me" Michiko jumped up in joy as she said this, letting her black hair flop up and down.

"No sisterly love should ever have to bare this pain…" The young girls voice drifted off,

"What is that supposed to mean? You don't like me?" The feminine Michiko puckered her lip, folding her hands together she leaning in towards her friend. "Come on Mei, you HAVE to like me, I'm the best sister you ever got." Michiko crossed her arms in pride as her head tipped to the sky in victory. Mei sighed,

"First off the correct sentence is 'you've ever gotten' not 'you ever got' and secondly you are the only sister I have had." Mei let her head tip down

"Mei" a strong voice called from behind, the two girls stopped and turned. Mei's blindfold blocked her vision, yet she knew of who it was, she smiled letting her black snake bites flow with her skin.

"What is it Izumo?" she said through her smile. Izumo stopped in front of the girls, letting a few pants leave his lips.

"Where are you going?" he asked protectively.

"Oh Izumey relax. We are just going to meet a friend." Michiko waved her hand up and down in reassurance with a big grin on her face.

"Michiko please don't call me that, you didn't tell me where you were going, I got worried." The man said as he shifted his gaze to his younger sister.

"Sorry brother." Mei's voice echoed in sorrow, in which Izumo to embrace the girl tightly. She let her arms hang by her sides as she buried her face into his chest. Izumo always knew her enemy were hugs but that never stopped him.

"Just be careful." He released the girl gently and began walking off "Don't forget to come home" he yelled with a wave, Michiko laughed happily knowing the joke, but Mei simply turned and stalked off.

"Aw you and Izumo are so cute together." Michiko's eyes glittered with happiness as she danced around the emotionless Mei.

"Mi, you sound like we are a couple"

"Well, you two never knew you were related until you two became friends. Then he saw the birth mark on you when you fell and hurt your neck and when he saw your birth info he adopted you from the orph-" "MICHIKO, stop playing my life like a biography. You always do this when trying to PROVE A POINT" Mei slapped her hand over the peppy girl as she danced, clapping her hands together happily. The girl mumbled as she dropped her excited hands and sulked forward, mocking the silver's attitude.

"Mmmhmhmmh" Nothing but mumbles escaped the peppy girl as the Hitomi residence showed in view

"What?" Mei slipped her pale, fish netted hand off Michiko's rambling mouth

"That-that is where Kazuki is" Michiko ran her tan body over to the blind one's residence, and gently knocked on the big tan door hastily. It opened to reveal a dainty woman. Her blond long hair tied back revealing the soft blue eyes they looked directly into Michiko's soul.

"May I help you?" the young woman asked with a creepy smile breaking its way across her face.

"Uh, yes we would like Kazuki?" The intended statement came out into a question

"Who are you?"

"It's of Rino, let Kazuki out. They are…friends." A brave voice sounded from more in the home, the maid hesitantly stepped to the side as Kazuki was guided into the room and out the door.

"Girls I want her home before dark." The father stepped up, gently pushing Kazuki towards the young girl. Michiko nodded with a smile and once more thanking the man. Michiko locked her arm with Kazuki and guided her out of the residence with a smile.

"So this is her?" Mei nodded to the blind youngling while leaning against a post with her arms crossed.

"Yes this is Kazuki. Kazuki in front of you is my friend Mei." Kazuki put her hands out to locate Mei. Mei noticed and she stepped closer, allowing Kazuki to place her hands onto the pale Mei's shoulders. Kazuki felt her hands to Mei's face, feeling her features. Her hands roamed over the snakebites,

"What are these?" The young blind one asked as she felt the small studs in between her fingers

"Piercings, specifically snake bites." Again, the blind hands went over her face and soon reaching the bridge of her nose, she felt more studs

"These?

"Again piercings, bridge piercings." Kazuki came across the black blindfold and began to trace her fingers around it. Mei grabbed the girl's wrists and gently brought them back to her sides.

"That is a blindfold. Don't touch it please." Mei calmly said and turned to begin walking off.

"Hey, hey, where are you going?" Michiko grabbed her friends shoulder

"Walking?"

"Hah, no. Come on, how about we all go visit the lake just out of town?" Mei didn't budge as Kazuki just nodded her head hastily, looking forward to the calm waters. "Oh come on Mei, you love the lake" With a long sigh Mei started off in the direction to Konoha's gate. With a large white smile, Michiko pulled Kazuki after Mei.

"So Kazuki, what's your family like?" Michiko asked as her eyes roamed over the blue sky.

"Uh, well. I have a father, a mother, and an older brother."

"Oh yes I remember them from the dinner. You mother is quite nice and your brother is really handsome" Michiko couldn't help the strong smile creep over her face as his image fell into her mind.

"Michiko don't scare the girl with your fictional mind, please. I am already over insanity because of you, don't cause her the same fate." The harsh sarcastic words leapt out of Mei's mouth as she shoved her hands into the small packets of her black shorts.

"May I ask you two to tell me about your families'?" The small voice crept from Kazuki's mouth as she got used to the girls' presence.

"Ok, well I have an older sister who works as a medical ninja and a mother." The cheerful voice shouted, signaling the voices owner was Michiko

"Mei?" Kazuki asked, a small breeze caressed the girls' sweeping their hair in the breeze gently.

"I have a brother." She said sternly "I swear to my lord that if you dare release a word of my past I will hit you into next week and wait for you there with a kick. Got that" Mei snapped, causing the open mouthed Michiko to shut it hastily with wide eyes.

"May I ask your brother's name?" a faint whisper released from the frightened Kazuki as they inched closer to the village's gate

"Izumey" Michiko shouted loudly, making sure, everyone around them heard as well.

"Izumey?"

"Izumo. Not Izumey, not Zumo, not Zumey, not Izu. Just Izumo" Mei said sternly, Michiko frowned at statement

"Oh come on Izumey is so funny though." The black haired girl jumped at the thought happily. With a long sigh, Mei opened her mouth,

"So do you have any special jutsu or anything?" She asked not taking her eyes off the gate

"Oh, yes. A Kekkei Genkai called Kage no Kokoro."

"Really, sounds interesting" The peppy voice called out

"It is. It allows you to summon the shadows within you and they help in your aid. Your eyesight is transferred to one of the shadows at your will and…well I haven't gotten that far into training to know what it fully does." Kazuki sheepishly rubbed her arm as the words left her mouth

"Oh so your just learning?" Mei asked with the slight tilt of her head. Kazuki nodded

"What about you girls' any jutsu?"

"Well the family line jutsu is called Hanakotoba, also known as the language of flowers. It is when we release our souls to the flowers around us and our body dissolves into pollen and floats into a different flower. Then out of numerous petals, a new body is formed with our souls inside. And let's just say we cause much damage." With the last sentence said, Michiko smirked playfully. Kazuki smiled and nodded

"What about you Mei?" Mei stiffened, before her answer could be said another one spoke first

"Hey little sis, funny seeing you here" Before the 3 girls stood Izumo and his mischievous friend Kotetsu, on each side of the large Konoha gate.

"What are you doing here Izumey?" Michiko leaned forward in curiosity

"Im here to guard the gate with Kotetsu, and what did I say about the name Michiko?" Kazuki looked up with the curious blind eyes focusing on the voice

"Oh, Izumey you need to have more fun" Michiko's impatience causes her legs to push her up and down,

"Who is there?" Kazuki's question earned curious looks from the others.

"What's she talking about?" asked another unfamiliar voice to Kazuki,

"Relax Kotetsu, she is blind." Said Mei casually as she began walking further, soon beginning to pass the two men. Izumo and Kotetsu both place their arms out but that didn't stop Mei, she walked further hitting the men's' barrier, enabling her to not walk any more.

"Let me go, please" she said calmly

"Why do you need to go out of the village?" asked Izumo warily, staring at the dark blindfold over the secretive eyes of Mei.

"We are just going to the lake, just outside of here. Please?" The younger sister asked shyly with her head down.

"Out there is dangerous for you 3," exclaimed Kotetsu, the two men kept their barrier up as Michiko approach, arm still locked with the young Hitomi daughter.

Mei turned to her friend and they both nodded.

"Is it really dangerous for us…?" after Mei's soft words she suddenly launched her head to the armed barrier and sank her teeth into their hands, as she released Michiko grabbed the two girls hands and they charged out of the village. The wind swept through the kunoichi's hair, their feet drifted dust behind them, clouding the past road.

"Should we go after them?" asked a curious Kotetsu as he watched the 3 figures slowly disappear into the horizon.

Izumo smiled

"Nah, they are strong. A mere joke just to test them, ya' know?" Kotetsu smiled to his friends question and nodded.

Can-can we please- stop- n-now?" asked a panting Kazuki as they quickly stopped for a breath.

"Yeah, we are close by anyway." Mei nodded into the trees, signaling the small lake.

"Why- did you – you keep telling us to-run?" Michiko rested her fair hands on top her black legginged knees as she caught many large breaths "They- wer-werent following us…"

"Yes, but then you would have just stopped. We got here faster didn't we?"Mei pushed past a small shrub, closely followed by the two panting girls. Before them rested a small lake. Its sapphire water glistened in the noon sun, sparkling as if dusted with small specks of glitter. Mei grabbed the two girl's arms and brought them to the lakeside.

"it's in front of you." She said softly while facing the newly caught breathed Kazuki. She nodded and felt her feet slowly across the grassed ground in front of her, greeted by the cool chill of the water. As Kazuki was let go she slowly sank into the grass, letter her legs be greeted by chilled grass and water alike.

"Oh this place is so magical and peaceful," Michiko yelled as she flopped herself onto the grass, spreading her arms and legs

"It was…" Mei's mumbled slowly drifted to silence as she stepped into the water. The water just barely met the fishnet rim of her mid-thigh. Her shoes rested in between the relaxed girls upon the grass, all sighed at once from the peacefulness around them. Comforting them.

"I didn't expect it to be this peac-""-Shh…" Mei silenced Kazuki with a flat palm in front of her.

"Why did you-""-Quiet. Listen…" Mei once again silenced a girl, this time Michiko. They all listened but nothing was heard except for the trees rustling from the cool breeze sweeping by.

"I don't hear anything," exclaimed Kazuki quietly.

"You all missed it." she placed her hands against her sides once more.

"Missed what?"

"Rustling."

"There was rustling, silly" Michiko's cheerful voice lightened the atmosphere.

"That's not what I meant-"Mei cut herself off, she quickly grabbed a kunai from a black pouch on her thigh and shot it at a tree to the right of the group, without looking, not once. Michiko looked at her friend in shock, as the kunai stabbed the large tree dead in the center.

"What is it, Mei?" the seriousness in her voice alarmed Kazuki and her head shot up to the two friends next to her.

"Someone is here, over there." As Mei's words were spoken, the hand she previously used pointed over to the kunai's victim. Michiko nodded and turned her gaze to the tree.

"Show yourself." She shouted to the tree, she trusted her friend's instincts. A blindfold may be over her sight but she was a wise girl, often ever wrong.

Suddenly the shrub, just next to the stabbed tree began to rustle. Jumping up in a flash Michiko brought out the shuriken, standing up facing the rustling shrub the shuriken rested in between her fingers. Kazuki hesitantly stood and faced where Michiko's voice sounded.

Without hesitation Mei grabbed the blind one's arm and kept her frozen while, she herself stood facing the water still.

Out of the rustling bush walked 2 men. One, blonde long hair halfway tied up with a long strand covering his right eye. The other, red short hair ruffle in a mess with an emotionless face. Both wore long black cloaks printed with red clouds and high collars to shield almost half their faces.

"What do you want?" yelled Michiko loudly, she had a sense of excitement resting in her tone but covered with precaution.

"I don't think that matters to you, hm?" the blonde ones voice echoed around the girls, sending chills up their spines.

"Well spying on us? We should know why you're here" Michiko for once grew a sense of impatience and anger to others since Kazuki first saw her.

"I don't think so." The male voice rang through Michiko's ear as he suddenly flashed behind her, straight in between the blind Kazuki and the angered Michiko. Instantly Mei whipped her foot around behind her in a high kick slamming it onto the grass. She would have gotten the mischievous blonde if he hadn't dodged at the last moment. Mei currently stands with one damp leg straight, her heel against the newly dented soil, the other leg still rests in the water as her body is pivoted to face the other girls who currently rest in shock.

"Oh, silent but deadly, hm?" the similar blonde voice sounded further away. He was back next to the other one who stood watching in annoyance the whole time.

"Deidara. Let's hurry up; you know I hate to wait." The red haired one spoke, not taking his eyes away from the group of girls.

"What do you want with us?" Michiko yelled furiously as Mei rested her foot back into the water.

The blonde chuckled evilly "We just were passing by. On our way to capture a certain someone."

"Who?"

"Michiko, do you think that really matters right now?" the silent Kazuki finally spoke cautiously.

"Actually yes it does. That certain someone is you. Kazuki Hitomi." The red head took a step forward as Michiko took a step back, guarding the grey eyed blind girl.

"Wh-what do you want with me?" She yelled bringing her shaky arms up to her chest

They didn't answer; both just stifled a chuckle before lunging forward. Michiko pushed Kazuki back before launching at them with shuriken in hand.

The one so called Deidara tried to kick the girl but she easily dodged, trying to stab one of her shuriken in him but failed with a kick to the face. Mei launched at the man but was intercepted by the swift red head. Michiko shot up before Deidara could run past her and the two battled furiously but suddenly Michiko was shot into the air by an explosion right in front of her.

"Michiko" Mai yelled as she dodged a fast kunai shooting at her.

"How can you see with that blindfold?" The red head curiously asked as he regained his straight posture.

"I don't think that concerns you." She said sternly, folding her hands into many fast hand signs before mumbling a few words. Suddenly blue thin string like cords wrapped around her arms at least two for each arm, and extended down touching the crumpled grass. She pulled back sharply and launched them at the blonde haired man a couple feet from Kazuki. The struck the man sharply, whip-like but yet in a jabful strike. As the struck, him in his upper arm reaching for the blind girl on the ground, his arm suddenly dropped to his side, motionless, lifeless.

"What the hell did you do to my arm?" Deidara yelled coldly. Mei smirked, as she brought her arms back down to her side.

"Pressure point. Theses chakra strings can suck the life out of someone in an instant. But also come in handy for striking a pressure point." Her smirk grew bigger.

"That's not all there is to it." The red head exclaimed as her brought his arms and pointed one to Mei and another to Michiko who was weakly standing up. Out of his fingers came similar blue strings, in which attached to the two girl's bodies. Paralyzing their will to move.

"Deidara go." The man spoke sternly as he controlled the two girls. Deidara nodded and reached for the blind girl, helplessly on the ground in fright. As his alive hand grabbed her arm, she squealed releasing a strong blow to his cheek, causing the tan man to fall back in a stumble.

"You little…" He shot up rubbing his cheek and viciously grabbed her arm once more. Releasing a scream from her mouth, Kazuki was yanked off the ground roughly.

"Get away from her" Yelled Mei as her blue stringed arm shot to Deidara and gripped his waist pulling him back into a tree. The red heads eyes widened at her control.

"What? I knew she wasn't telling all." He mumbled with anger.

"My chakra strings are in contact with yours." The two both looked at her arm to see his strings touching against hers. "When they touch, like I said the life is sucked out at my will. Blocking your chakra control." With that said, she broke wrapped her strings around the lines reaching to her and yanked it away, breaking the control to her. As a smirk crept across her face, she snapped the lines tying him to Michiko. Immediately Michiko shot up and lunged to the shocked red head.

"Do you mind helping?" yelled Mei as she threw the blonde into a bush further away. Kazuki assumed the question was meant for her and quickly activated the Kekkei Genkai she was blessed with.

"Kage no Kokoro" she yelled at the last sign. Suddenly slithering shadows crept out of her body and across the ground, only one to take the form of a figure. Opening her shadowed eyes she saw the horrible sight she was completely oblivious to before. The figure she assumed Mei glaring at the stumbling blonde haired man come out of the bushes. The one she assumed Michiko constantly jabbing and dodging the red headed man, who repeatedly tried shooting blue strings at her. She turned to see her own body still and frozen crouched on the ground.

Just remember the training…she slowly thought to herself.

"Oh so the blind one has activated her abilities…?" the blonde one said with a smirk. He then charged for her, hastily thinking she commanded all shadows to punch…hoping it would work and only to let her hopes be fulfilled when all 5 shadows punched the blonde haired man, causing him to fly back with brute force.

"I did it" she yelled happily, as a blue string wrapped around the man's waist once more

"Damn cloaks…"mumbled Mei as she focused on the man

"Ha so these do come in handy." Also mumbled the man,

"We may beat them" She slowly said to herself as she looked at the two girls battling the men, walking closer.

"Don't think so much" The man suddenly threw a little white bird from his hand and as it landed on the ground right between the three of us he shouted 'release' with a hand sign.

Before they knew it the two girls were shot back into the shrub of the trees. The shadows didn't budge but as Kazuki's real body flew away, they began to fade as the distance increase and her mind went a blank. Before her sight was lost, she saw Mei lay motionless on the ground after smacking her back into a tree, her chakra strings slowly dissolving away. Then the shadows slowly dispersed as her consciousness went away.

"No, Kazuki, Mei" Yelled an exhausted Michiko, she ran over to her silver haired friend and shook the body, Mei's arm moved slightly and she picked herself up, shaking from the weight.

"Mei, Mei" She yelled. Mei showed no response as her body fell back into the dirt.

Michiko shot up and immediately formed the hand signs she was gladly used to. However before anything got any further a pain shot through her side, she stopped dead in track to look down only to be greeted by a bloody kunai stuck through her side. Blood trickled down the dirty yellow shirt, staining it a crimson.

"Gotta watch your back," The familiar voice of the blonde Deidara whispered in her ear as her mind slowly began to flush. No matter how hard her mind told her to stay awake the blood loss was no match and her mind was slowly captured into the dark world of unconsciousness.