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Chapter 3

The birds were singing their song from their hearts. Sun was rising, indicating that it was an early morning. Wild animals were wandering around in the forest, where they were born. Suddenly, the forest became very still, even the soft breeze stopped blowing. The next second, a sphere, tainted with red color, appeared in the middle of the forest. And it disappeared as fast as it appeared and the only thing left behind was a body of girl, approximately eleven or twelve years old, dressed in jet black clothes.

The forest, again, became full of life. The young girl opened her eyes and sat up with her arms holding her up. She looked around in confusion and tested if her legs could hold her, satisfied she stood up. Again, she looked around and the events of what happened dawned on her and her eyes widened.

"NARUTO!!" she called but there was no response. Her breathing became faster and irregular, when she remembered the giant shape of a fox. Her legs started to buckle under her weigh and she fell down, suddenly, too tired. There were unshed tears in her eyes and her whole body shook.

"Sakura-sama" said a very feminine voice.

Startles, Sakura looked up to see nothing. She narrowed her eyes and stood up with caution.

"I am here Sakura-sama." It was coming from behind her and she quickly turned around and her eyes widened in complete shock.

There was a slender white wolf, looking at her with eyes much like her own. The thing that shocked Sakura was that the half of the wolf's body was in the ground or more specifically it was in her shadow.

"I am so happy that I could finally talk to you Sakura-sama!" said the wolf, suddenly jumping up to her, from the girl's shadow. Sakura fell on the ground with the white wolf on top her and groaned from the impact. The wolf was sitting on her body and shaking her tail with happiness like a dog.

"C-could you get off of me!" said Sakura with anger in her voice. The wolf complied. Sakura stood up and looked at the wolf, who was hanging her head down in front of her. Sakura could see that the wolf was very big in size and more beautiful.

"Sakura-sama. I am sorry that I jumped on you. I will gladly receive your punishment for what I did" said the female wolf. Sakura was baffled at the animal.

"Wait! I won't punish you!" said Sakura holding her hands up, indicating that she won't do anything. She also noticed that she was in her true form but didn't think much of it.

"Really! Sakura-sama, you are so generous and very beautiful" said the wolf with happiness. Sakura sweatdropped. Me … generous and beautiful? "Please take good care of me. I am still an immature pup" said the wolf … er … pup.

"Wait a minute. What do you mean take good care of you?" asked Sakura, knowing that there is no way that she could raise a wolf.

"Sakura-sama, my name is Tsukiko the Child of the Moon. I will explain everything to you" said the pup, seeing her confused face "Since the Tsuki clan was created every head member owned a wolf. And by law, wolfs of the clan's prodigy always has the same name, my name. From the beginning, wolfs also represented the strength of the Tsuki clan's kekkei genkai" explained the pup "And now the prodigy of the clan is you, Sakura-sama. You were the first to activate the shineme at such a young age. And I was chosen to become your faithful companion because of my special blood trait" she finally finished and waited for Sakura to say something.

"Oh" was the only thing the girl muttered "Tsukiko right?" the pup nodded "If you are my wolf, how come I had never seen you?" asked Sakura. The pup suddenly tensed.

"The companions of the prodigy were always chosen by the elders of our kind. It was a rule to wait for a week before the heir was introduced to their companion. But the day after you activated the shineme, something went wrong in the ceremony-"

"A ceremony?" asked Sakura, already sitting on the ground, hugging her right leg and her chin on the right knee. She didn't remember any of the things the pup had said.

"Yes, a ceremony was always held. It helped the new prodigy to control their shineme. You see, shineme is a very complicated blood line to master. So the head members seal away more than half of the blood line's power. If the user was weak, they would die from their own blood very cruelly" at this the pup shuddered "But after the head members started the sealing, your chakra started to resist, the head members couldn't handle the sheer force and stopped the ceremony. And when they tried to reach you, the heir … you, suddenly, activated shineme and went rampage. And I hope you know the rest" finished the pup.

"What happened to the other wolfs?" asked Sakura with regret in her voice.

"All the others, too, were killed by you. But I survived because I was you companion. After the shineme is activated the wolfs start to mature but you, after the massacre, sealed away your kekkei genkai and I was sealed with it, thus not giving me time to mature."

"So you saying that I somehow released the seal?" asked Sakura really confused.

"Yes, it seems so. And I don't know how it happened" declared the pup. Suddenly, little drops of rain started to fall from the sky. Sakura looked up to see grey clouds, she was so into what the pup was saying to her that she didn't notice her surroundings. It was a grave mistake on her part 

as a shinoby to let her guard down. She felt something wet on her cheek, which was not the rain drop. She looked down to see the pup standing right in front of her with concerned eyes.

"Sakura-sama, if you stay in the rain long, you will get sick, let us go find shelter. I smell that the rain will worsen." As if on cue it poured even harder. Sakura nodded and started to run into one direction with Tsukiko close behind her.

"Sakura-sama, you should ride on top of me. I am faster and I smell a smoke coming from a big village" reasoned Tsukiko. Sakura agreed and hopped on the pup. True to her words, Tsukiko ran at a neck breaking speed.

Few minutes later they arrived at the village gates. Sakura instantly recognized the sign on the gates.

"Konohagakure" she whispered, barely believing what she was seeing. She got off from the pup's back and walked into the gates in a daze.

"Who's there!!" shouted somebody over the rain's sound. Three people surrounded her and her new wolf. "State your name and the reason why you are here" commanded one of them.

It seems they don't recognize me. Thought Sakura. Tsukiko started to growl dangerously at them and the three shinobys got their weapons out, ready to dispose of the wolf.

"Wait." The shinobys looked at her still with caution.

"My name is Sakura" she took a deep breath, closing her eyes "Tsuki Sakura" and she opened her eyes with determination.


End of chapter 3

Shineme means Eyes of Death

Tsuki means Moon

Tsukiko means Moon and Child

This was a very short chapter. But next time I'll try to make chapter 4 longer. Promise!! Oh and review.