Chapter 1: Violet Lopa

On a bright Friday morning, a young girl, around 12 or 13 years old with a pale skin, dark black hair and slight highlights of various shades of purple here and there, walked into a school building, holding a map that had clearly been folded over and over again and schedule tightly in her hands. She was all alone as she walked past the many marine blue metal lockers on the way to her new homeroom.

As she walked in, a male teacher welcomed her inside casually. The teacher had chocolate brown hair that was clearly not groomed recently. He wore thick black glasses that he held in his left hand as he inspected her. His single mocha brown eye and bright red eye looked at her carefully before nodding in approval. All of the other students turned around in their seats to look at her with curiosity shining brightly in their eyes, as they wanted to know more about this mysterious new student.

"Everyone, listen up. We're going to have a new student, her name is Violet Lopa." The teacher said calmly, yet no one made a sound. Violet walked towards the teacher at the front of the class shyly, afraid of all these new children. "Violet, I am Eiji, just Eiji, but you may call me Eiji-sensei."

Violet nodded and turned around, her black and purple hair flying around her, letting everyone see her soft and lovely lilac eyes. Though she may seem to be lovely day in and day out, she was still a strong and tough girl who loved animals very much. She was actually a very good fighter at martial arts, so better not make her mad.

The new girl also had a very sensitive nose and ears. Violet used that nose of her to smell everyone's scent and her ears to hear their every single movement. Just by their scent, she could tell they were curious to see what she turned out to be like. And by the noise the students were making, Violet could hear that they were shuffling around, turning around to scan the room and see where the new student would sit. Violet gave them all one of her cute little smiles and turned to the teacher.

"Eiji-sensei, where does thee recommend I sit?" She said formally in her very cute voice, as was her whole life's habit. Some girls in the class started getting jealous of her sweet voice while some boys started falling for this new girl.

"You can sit there next to Kiba Inuzuka." Eiji said as he pointed towards where Kiba sat, surprised that such a young child as Violet could have such developed vocabulary. His students' reactions were really not unusual to him but it was still funny to watch them like that.

Violet moved towards the seat next to Kiba and sat down shyly. She wasn't used to sitting next to boys. Especially not ones with red fang tattoos on their face who were taking naps in the middle of class. But as she sniffed him, she could smell that he also seemed to be around animals like she did. Violet was indeed intrigued with this boy, he seemed like a potential person to become her friend.

Kiba stared at the new girl. Using his sensitive nose, he learned that she loved to be around animals, just like he did. He also smelled something else that was worrying him. Could it be the 8-legged wolf demon that Lady Tsunade had sent him, Akamaru, Hinata, and Shino to look for? If it was, did this girl know she had a demon inside her? What would her reaction be if she found out?

As Violet sat down next to him, Kiba could feel her sniffing him too, just as he had done. It had to be the 8 legged wolf demon!

"Hey, nice to meet you." Kiba said casually, lifting up his head from his napping position as he was napping before dear Mika-sensei, note the sarcasm, had so rudely interrupted his wonderful nap. "As you might know, I'm Kiba Inuzuka."

"Hello," Violet said, holding out her hand for a handshake, which Kiba held and shook really hard, nearly shaking Violet's arm off. "Well, I am Violet Lopa." She said, smiling a little though she had started to feel pains in her arm, Kiba sure was strong.

"Cool," Kiba said, putting his arm down after his crazy handshake. "Oh sorry, did I hurt your arm? I'm sorry. By the way, do you have any pets?"

"Don't worry about my arm." Violet said, lowering to a whisper as Eiji-sensei started talking again to explain something. "I actually do have a pet, I have a wolf, her name is Lavender."

'So, it is the 8 legged wolf demon!' Kiba thought before smiling at his new friend that clearly liked animals just as much as he did.

"That's nice, I also have a pet," Kiba whispered back, thinking of Akamaru. "His name is Akamaru, he's just a dog. But a very faithful one I tell you!"

Violet smiled back at Kiba, glad to have been able to make friends, which she wasn't always lucky enough to do since many people always despised her for some various reasons that were unknown.

Violet's Flashback

"Hello little wolf," 7-year-old Violet said, crouching down and smiling at a little pitch black wolf with purple eyes, just like hers. The kind wolf seemed to be drawn to her, and it also seemed sad and lost.

"Hey everyone!" A popular girl shouted out from behind Violet, startling her and scaring the little wolf into running away, which made Violet crestfallen. "Lookie here! Our little purple flower smarty-pants is playing with a wolf! I wonder where she kidnapped that wolf. I hope it eats her."

"What a creep! Playing with wolves!" Another girl shouted, pulling Violet's hair sharply, forcing Violet to stand up. "She even dyes her hair to match her name! She's so obsessed with the color purple! No wonder that wolf had purple eyes, she probably made it wear contacts to change it's eye color!"

"T-that's n-not t-true!" Violet said, stuttering, as she was scared. She quickly broke free and hid under a tree, disappearing from view right in front of the mean girls without her knowing what she had just done.

End of Flashback

What Violet didn't know is that she could control shadows at her will. But she soon used that skill to escape bullies from various schools that she had attended.

"Pay attention everyone!" Eiji said to Kiba who started napping again. "In your table groups, you will have to write a short story about whatever you want. Any genre is fine."

"Do you know about ninjas?" Kiba asked, facing Violet. He was dying to write about ninjas, since he was one. Of course, he would have to write about the stereotypical ones, but it was till just about the same wasn't it?

"In fact, I do," Violet said, nodding. She didn't like to show it but she loved reading manga and watching anime. "I read a lot of manga and I enjoy watching anime. Shall we write about ninjas?"

"Sure!" Kiba said, glad to be able to write about something he knew much of. More than anyone would think.

~An Hour Later~

"Okay kids," Eiji said calmly, signaling the end of class. "You are dismissed, you may head home! Good bye and have a nice week end."

Violet silently packed her things and left, as she was lost in her thoughts. Doing so, she was forgetting one of her notebooks, which had drawings of Lavender all over. Seeing a good way to befriend this demon-possessed girl, Kiba quickly grabbed the notebook and followed Violet out the door.

"Hey! Violet-chan!" Violet heard from behind her. She turned around swiftly to see a running Kiba waving her notebook in his hand. "You forgot this!" He yelled, cupping his free hand around his mouth to try to make his voice louder.

"Oh, thank you Kiba-kun." Violet said, putting her things in her locker and keeping her backpack with her school supplies for homework such as notebooks. Suddenly, she got a tremendous idea.

"Hey Kiba-kun," She said, holding him back by the arm as he turned and started walking away. "Do you want to meet Lavender? You know, my wolf."

"That'll be great!" Kiba said grinning from ear to ear. "I'll introduce Akamaru to you too then. Let me introduce you to Hinata and Shino before though. They're really nice, don't worry about making friends with them."

"Okay, if you insist." Violet said, following Kiba through the hallways. She was a bit disappointed that Kiba didn't sound super excited but was still excited herself to see some new people. Kiba ran in front of her, meeting with a shy-looking girl and a weird guy with his face half hidden who was wearing sunglasses and with a beetle in his hand.

"I found the 8 legs." Kiba whispered to them before beckoning Violet over. "Violet, meet Hinata. Hinata, Violet." Kiba said, introducing the shy girl to Violet. Violet noticed her hair also had a little purple tinge to it, just like her own. How interesting.

"That dude over there is Shino." Kiba said, pointing to the guy with the hidden face who just simply nodded in their direction before returning to his examination of a beetle in his hand.

"Hello everyone." Violet shyly, wishing for Lavender's company, which had reassured her so many times before. Violet never felt comfortable around strangers. "I'll introduce you to Lavender, my wolf best friend."

"Kiba's right. It is the 8-Legged Wolf. Well, who else could become friends with wolves so easily anyways?" Hinata thought as Violet whistled a few notes. Out of the shadows sprang a big black wolf with purple eyes. It immediately scampered over towards Violet and licked her hand lovingly.

"She even already knows how to unconsciously control the shadows, just like Lady Tsunade warned us. She will be a strong opponent if we ever have to fight her!" Hinata thought using her Byakugan to look at Violet and Lavender's chakra levels. "Both Violet and Lavender seem harmless. That's good. They don't even know they're using chakra right now." She thought as she let Kiba and Shino know it was safe.

"Lavender, meet Kiba-kun, Hinata-chan, and Shino-kun. They're my new friends." Violet said, patting the wolf on the head softly. Lavender went over to sniff them and found a liking in Kiba, who seemed to know canines well.

"Hey there Lavender!" Kiba said, getting down on one knee and petting Lavender. "Meet Akamaru!" He said as he called for Akamaru. Akamaru sprang out of the bushes, he was bigger than Violet expected. Akamaru was nearly big enough to ride, but Lavender was still bigger. Akamaru barked at Lavender as a canine hello and Lavender wolf-barked back.

"Seems like they like each other," Kiba said, smiling. Being an Inuzuka, he understood canines pretty well and it was out of habit to translate for them.

"Wait, you also understand them?" Violet said, astonished. "I'm usually the only one who can understand what canines are saying!"

"Uh," Kiba said uneasily. He couldn't declare just there that he was a shinobi along with Akamaru. Neither could he say he came from Konoha looking for the 8-legged wolf.

"H-his family m-members are v-vets." Hinata said, saving Kiba a lot of explaining. "T-they're always around c-canines and other animals."

"I see," Violet said understandingly. She didn't want to have any more surprises that maybe, just maybe, meant she wasn't the only one in the world with strange powers.

Chapter 1: The Fall of The Rikkida

Yuki headed back inside to eat dinner after a few hours of practicing her jutsus with Hyozan. Both of them had recently gotten their Toketsu ninja headbands, which looked like any other except the symbol was a very intricate snowflake that had seven arms and each arm broke into three twice.

The dinner that Yuki's mother had made was some home made pork and miso ramen, which both Yuki and Hyozan found was very delicious. After eating around three bolls of ramen, Yuki got up, thanked her mother for the meal, and went outside to train again on her own. Since she felt like she would need medical ninjutsu soon, she was planning on trying to create some new kind of medical ninjutsu other than Healing Snow.

It was around 10 PM when Yuki finally headed back inside to go to bed. After doing her evening routines before going to bed, she thought she smelled something funny and weird; something that suspiciously smelled like smoke. She went to her front yard only to be blasted with blistering heat.

The instant Yuki walked near the fire, she surrounded with a protective bubble of water. Water, snow, and ice protected her, and Yuki didn't know why. In fact, no one did. Walking around to see what was happening, Yuki nearly cried out in pain and sorrow. Right in front of her, was her father with a long and thin katana through his heart.

"Otosan!" She yelled, running over towards him. "What happened to you?" She asked, her voice full of worry as she picked her father's head and rested it on her lap. "Wait a bit, let me heal you."

"No, there's no time, darling. There are Sound Ninjas attacking Ekitai, and they're lead by Orochimaru." Hisame Rikkida said slowly as he was losing his strength. "But before you leave me, there's something I need to tell you, my darling daughter."

"What is it Otosan?" Yuki asked, softening her voice, as she knew that sadly, her father's time had come. "Please don't die!"

"Orochimaru... might be... looking... for you..." Hisame said using the last of his strength to deliver this precious information to her daughter. It was the least he could do in his state to ensure his daughter's survival. "You need... go to Sunagakure... Land of the Wind... find friend of mine... the Kazekage... his son about your age... Or Konohagakure... Land of Fire... I also have some contacts there..."

"No... Don't die yet... Otosan..." Yuki said, knowing her father's life had come to an end. As she thought of her father's instructions, Yuki took the water out of the earth in one area causing the earth to collapse in itself. It formed a crater a few feet deep and a few feet wide; just about the size of a big coffin. Then, Yuki enveloped her father in an indestructible box of ice with the symbol of the Toketsu shinobi on it, and buried him in the crevice she had just created. She packed the earth back where it belonged, took a slab of rock and slowly and neatly carved out:

Hisame Rikkida

Ekitai, Toketsu

Good father to his daughter, Yuki Rikkida

When Yuki had finished mourning for her father's death and for the death of many of her family members, she left to find more survivors if there were any, always keeping herself in her bubble of water. She couldn't stand to see the death of another loved one and searched frantically for survivors. There must be someone; there simply must be someone!

Yuki walked around and scanned the area for survivors frantically with her pale blue eyes. All she saw were burned down buildings and the corpses of many of her friends and family members. Ashes were everywhere making the once green landscape turn into a dark murky black and grey. Clouds of smoke rose from many buildings that were being razed to the ground by the bright red flames that had spread quickly throughout the village.

As was said before, the Rikkida clan mostly occupied Ekitai, so Yuki knew nearly everyone who had died, even if it was just by looks. There were cousins, second cousins, third cousins, distant relatives, etc. Yuki mourned for all those who had died in her home village, including strangers. At that point though, Yuki thought she heard her name. She stopped moving moving and listened very carefully as she sharpened her hearing with chakra and paid very close attention to anything she heard. First, she only heard buildings collapse, wood burning, and people crying from the loss of loved ones. But then she heard something new.

"Yu...ki..." Came a very familiar voice calling for her. Who's voice was it? She just couldn't place her finger on it. "Yu... ki... over... here..."

"Hyozan!" Yuki exclaimed, finally grasping who it was. Her beloved cousin was alive! "Where are you? Wait, never mind, don't lose your strength calling me. Use a bit of your chakra as a signal to me so that I can pinpoint where you are." Yuki demanded. Soon after, she felt a faint bit of chakra rise north-east from her and she started racing through the streets only to find her cousin nearly buried under a pile of stones.

"Water Style: Water Prison!" Yuki said as she formed the hand signs. A bubble of water immediately encircled Hyozan, freeing him of the stones, and released him in front of Yuki as the bubble disassembled. It's true that the Water Prison was usually used for capture but Yuki liked personalizing the various jutsus she learned. She immediately started inspecting Hyozan's injuries. The majority of them were pretty severe. There were broken or cracked bones, big bruises and more, causing Hyozan to be unconscious. Having spent his energy calling for help was also a factor of his unconsciousness.

"Ninja Art: Medical Ninjutsu: Healing Snow!" Yuki whispered, forming the needed hand signs for her own ninjutsu. She touched Hyozan's injuries one by one and snow started to fall and covered Hyozan in a soft white blanket. The instant the snow touched him Hyozan opened his eyes and gasped for air. It was clear that the black smoke that had risen from many buildings in Ekitai choked him and his lungs were screaming for fresh oxygen.

"Yuki!" Hyozan said as he looked around for his savior and was astonished to see Yuki there. "How did you survive the attack? Were you even there?"

"Well, I smelled smoke so I headed out of our compound." Yuki started as she continued to take care of Hyozan's many injuries. "When I walked out of our compound, a bubble of water just surrounded me and protected me. The fire was extinguished the second it touched my bubble of water."

"That is very impressive, Yuki." Hyozan said smiling. "Thank goodness you're alive!"

"Sure, sure." Yuki said, not really listening to Hyozan's comments on her skills. "If I wasn't alive, you wouldn't be either though."

"By the way, where's Uncle Hisame?" Hyozan asked changing the subject. As soon as he saw the look on Yuki's young face, he started fearing the worst had happened. "Don't tell me that...that happened!?"

"If by that you mean death, then...yes. Dad... died." Yuki said with tears in her eyes at the thought of him. "I buried him myself in a box of indestructible ice."

"Uncle... Uncle Hisame... died?" Hyozan said, his voice full of sorrow and surprise as to how a strong shinobi as him could die. "At least you gave him the burial of a true shinobi. You're a good daughter."

"Don't worry about it now," Yuki said as she hugged her cousin's body close to hers. She felt the same pain he did, and even worse as Hisame was her father. "Why don't we just take you to a hospital or something? My snow won't heal you completely. Dad said we should go to the Land of Wind or the Land of Fire. Let's go to the land of Wind, it's more like our own style isn't it?"

"Sure is," Hyozan said as he fell into the dark world unconsciousness again.