"What is your name?" He asked. I just stared into his eyes for there was something about the man's eyes. I couldn't quite put my finger on it, but I knew something was off.

"My name…?" I ask confused. I started to think really hard to what my name was. My memories were still a bit fuzzy. I had a headache that was making my whole head throb. It had become hard to even concentrate.

"You have a name don't you?" He asked with a grin on his face.

"Yes…I…" I started to say, but then just looked down at the ground instead as my mind went blank. "How can I not remember my own name?" I thought to myself. We traveled for four days, and all along the way he'd buy me. I was very thankful, yet his eyes continued to bother me. He looked down at me still grinning, and must have noticed that I had been staring at his face. I felt embarrassed and stared at my feet as we continued walking. I didn't even know the man, but followed him for a piece of bread. Suddenly a pain in my neck made me fall to my knees and began to cry while gripping onto my neck.

"What's happening…?" I thought to myself. And then I remembered. "He bit me!" He stood in front of me still grinning as I continued to suffer.

"The curse mark is just adjusting to you is all," He said. I clenched my fist angry that I remember I never asked for such a thing. It had happened so suddenly that I didn't even realize it.

"You've come a long way haven't you?" He asked. The pain had stopped and I sat up and glared at him as he continued. "I can tell by your clothes that you aren't from the waterfall village." I looked down at my outfit and then thought back to the waterfall that could have been my grave. My neck started to hurt again and I let out another scream of pain. Suddenly some ninja came out from some bushes and were dressed just like the other ones from before.

"You monster! You attacked our ninja!"

He just stood there and grinned as the ninja began to walk towards us. They were all starring at me as my whole body began to hurt and I suddenly felt a strange feeling overtake me. It was a feeling that I never experienced before. I stood myself up as they all continued to look at me, wide eyed and mouths opened. A few in the back of the mob started to run away.

"These men mocked me earlier; they pushed me around when I was defenseless…." I heard my voice speak. I appeared in front of them in a flash and I grabbed a hold of one of their necks.

"No!" He begged and I started to squeeze and squeeze with both hands. It was as if I had become possessed. He looked directly into my eyes as the bloods started to come out of his mouth. He tried to pull my hands off, but it was like they were glued. I looked over at the man who took me who was now laughing. I then snapped the neck of the ninja in my hands and it caused the other ninjas to start throwing kunai knives at me. In a flash I took them all out with a single knife. I started to come back into focus and looked around seeing their bodies lying around in puddles of blood.

"Well done, I'm so impressed," He said. "Oh and my name is…Orochimaru, I thought I told you earlier, mist have forgot."

I began to shake and fell back onto my knees and placed my hands over my ears. I began to sob uncontrollably as I looked around one last time before shutting my eyes. "I did this?" I thought to myself. "What am I!" I shouted.

"You are a blessing, and a curse," He said and put his hand on my shoulder. He then started to walk away and looked back at me. It was as if he had left it up to me to follow him or not. I tried to think, but it was as if I didn't know anything else. I couldn't believe any what had happened did. I looked at him as he continued walking and felt myself stand up and run after him. I called for him to wait and he stopped. He turned around to look at me and wore an expression that said he was amused. I didn't have anywhere else to go.

"Where are you taking me?" I asked.

"The sound village, not far from here," He added. "It is your choice to follow me, or do what you will, but without me you will only kill and kill like you just did. You have no idea how to control yourself now. Your mother wouldn't be very glad to see her only daughter murdered for being reckless," He said. I stood there in shock at what he said and then my memories started to come back. Yes I remembered then, she left me, but I never told him anything.

"Please, help me. I want to become stronger," I told him. He continued walking and by instinct I followed after him. "My name is…" I paused a moment and then it came back to me. "Nayumei Akada."

~.::.::.::.::.::.~ A few days later~.::.::.::.::.::.~

We arrived to this strange looking village that looked as if not many people lived there. And then we started to go to an underground place that looked even stranger.

"This is the sound village?" I asked looking around. He closed the door behind us. The hallways were pitch dark and the only thing lighting them were the fire torches lined along the walls. I couldn't stop looking at what was my new. Orochimaru started to walk on ahead and told me to follow after him. I saw the numerous amount of doors and felt myself want to question why there were so many. I looked down at my scars on my arms from the incident before. I hoped that the place would be my final stop. We continued walking down long hallways and finally made a stop at a door. Orochimaru walked in first and I went in after. The room was dimly lit and there were few chairs. Someone was sitting in, but I could only see the figure, not the face.

"Who is that?" I asked him.

"You can come out now," He told them. A man with spiky black hair and brown eyes came out. He looked to be in his twenties and was wearing a sound ninja outfit.

"Is this her?" The man asked Orochimaru, sounding totally shocked.

I took a step back suddenly feeling out of place. The man looked angry and walked out of the room not saying anything more. I looked down at the ground and Orochimaru then placed his hand on my head once again. I jumped by surprise.

"We can begin tomorrow," He said and started to walk out. I followed after him and into the dark hallways. He then told me the man's name was Bonenji.

~.::.::.::.::.::.~ three years later~.::.::.::.::.::.~

I collapsed to the ground gasping for air. It was the tenth time I had gone over the same jutsu I had been struggling with and still couldn't master it.

"Do it again," Ordered Orochimaru. I started to run towards him and then appeared behind him and attempted to kick his face, but he easily blocked it. I attempted to do the fire jutsu again, but Orochimaru appeared and punched me slamming me into the wall. A giant puff of smoke came.

"She hasn't gotten any better," Said Bonenji. I looked over at him angrily.

"Shut up!" I yelled. I clenched my fist and prepared to go for it again.

"That's enough for today," Orochimaru said suddenly. I looked over at him surprised and dropped my knives. He stopped by Bonenji and said something very quietly. He then looked over at me with his eyes wide.

"So you still can't control your mark? It's been three years," He said while walking towards me. He then handed me a boomerang type thing that fit perfectly into my hand.

"When you use it you can channel all your chakra to it, and then watch what happens." He took it back out of my hand and threw it. As he did so, the boomerang started to become bigger and the chakra became noticeable. It caused a strong breeze and I used my arms to cover my face as rocks started to fly everywhere. I fell back stunned and then stared up at him as he grinned.

"You fell? I only threw it. You haven't even seen the best part. "He then asked me if I would like to master all the techniques that went along with it and I nodded. He helped me stand back up. I looked down at the boomerang as it was small again.

"Let's see what you got," He said and positioned himself for battle.

~.::.::.::.::.::.~ A few minutes later~.::.::.::.::.::.~

"You can never be a Shinobi like that!" Bonenji shouted angrily at my millionth failed attempt. I clenched my fist and tried again, but it didn't work. He came running at me and threw kunais at me. I dodged them and ended up falling. Then he came up and kicked me, causing me to fly back.

"You are so weak it's pathetic!" He shouted. My neck started to throb and I could tell the mark was taking over again.

"You need to control yourself Nayumei," He said while standing back up.

"You are supposed to learn how to turn it on and off. Now turn it off!" He shouted. I looked down at the black marks that were spreading all over. My fangs started to come out and I jumped in the air as my wing like things popped out and in a flash I stabbed Bonenji in the stomach and he fell to his knees.

"Nayumei!" Orochimaru shouted from behind. I collapsed to the ground and looked up at him, as my marks started to recede.

"I refuse to train with her any longer!" Shouted Bonenji as he struggled to get up.

"Silence," Orochimaru said coldly. "I have no use for a weakling like you." I covered my head as I waited for him to kill me, but when I looked up I saw him sticking one of his snakes threw Bonenji's chest and he collapsed to the ground.

"What!" I shouted shocked at the scene and saw he was grinning again. His long tongue licked his lips and he started to walk away again.

~.::.::.::.::.::.~ 1 year later~.::.::.::.::.::.~

I sat in my dark room and examined my toy squirrel. I threw it at the wall angrily as it brought back painful memories.

"Today is the day," I said confidently while staring at the squirrel. I packed my backpack and started to go to where Orochimaru usually was. I looked around and saw he was nowhere to be found. I continued going down the hallway, looking.

"It's a mystery I haven't been to all the rooms in here," I whispered to myself. I saw a door at the end of the hallway and decided to go threw it. It led to a long case of stairs that went downwards.

"That's weird," I said quietly. I saw a group of people in a jail like cell and I began to walk towards them. All of them were sleeping except for one. He was a boy that looked my age. He came up to the bars and looked like he had been starving.

"Help me!" He said quietly and sounding urgent.

"Why are you down here?" I asked totally shocked. I looked around and saw a lot of cells just like that one.

"What the?" I gasped. The boy touched my hand and I shoved it away. His eyes were puffy and it looked like he hadn't slept in awhile.

"That man, tricked us," He started to say. I heard a door being opened and jerked my head towards the direction.

"Oh no! I don't think I'm supposed to be down here," I told the boy.

"Why are you here?" I asked again.

"He told us we were his experiments," He stuttered. I heard footsteps coming towards us and I hid in one of the barrels on the side. I saw two sound Shinobi grab the boy and they started to drag him away.

"No! Please!" He yelled at the top of his lungs. The people in his cell woke up at this point and looked at them.

"Leave him be!" They shouted. The sound ninjas soon disappeared with the boy. The boys last words went through my head as I tried to regain my composure.

"Orochimaru disgusts me," I said quietly. I started to head back to the main hallway and went to the room he was usually in. This time I managed to find him. He asked me what I wanted, but I immediately asked what he did with the people in the cells. All he told me was to keep my voice down. He then asked me how I found out and I told him.

"Well I decided I won't need your curse mark anymore," I said coldly. His eyes widened and they filled with anger and disappointment.

"Very well then, you serve me no purpose," He said and then he activated it and it started to hurt me uncontrollably. I fell to the ground looking at him.

"What are you doing?" I shouted.

"Don't worry, you won't remember a thing," He said coldly and then it went dark.