A/N: This chapter gets a bit weird and is also where the story will pick up, so if you don't like this type of weird, feel free to stop reading, close your computer, gently set it aside, and run down the street screaming. Okay, it's not that weird, but I did warn you it wasn't typical of most stories. Most things will be explained at some later point, just in case there's questions. Also, this is a pretty long chapter.

A few days later, I had been taken to a dark room by Naomi, who quickly left when Kakashi showed up late. As I stood in the middle of the room, Kakashi was writing or drawing some weird characters or something on the floor in a radiating circular shape around me. By the end, I was standing in the middle of many characters that seemed like gibberish to me. It almost gave me a headache just looking at them. I could make out a couple words, but they were lost to my mind when I tried to put together a sentence.

"Are you ready?" Kakashi asked, making me refocus on what was going on.

"Ready for something I know nothing about?" I scoffed, then sighed. "Sorry. I'm nervous. I don't remember my chakra. Or what it'll do to me." I bit my lip, looking around nervously.

He gave me a weird look like I was blubbering crazy talk.

I took a deep breath and gave an awkward smile. "I'm as ready as I'll ever be."

He paused, then just nodded and put a hand on top of my head, which just emphasized how short I was compared to him and served to annoy me. He mumbled something that sounded like a chant. As he did so, I felt the ink from the floor crawl up my skin until it covered my entire body. Once the ink stopped, he took his hand away, but didn't stop mumbling the chant I couldn't understand as he charged lightning chakra into his hand. It made a chirping sound that hurt my head. I couldn't even think due to the sound being unnaturally loud inside my head, but I also had to close my eyes from the brightness. Somehow, I knew that I was close to dead when he hit me with that attack. Well, it at least knocked me out, since everything went dark and I couldn't see the light on the other side of my eyelids anymore.

That's when all the weird started. At first, everything was black. Then, it was white, then I was in a field where it was raining, but it felt odd. There was a brief moment of confusion and utter silence before the sound of the rain and grass came, accompanied by the smell. I then felt something behind me and spun around to see a wolf sitting there. It wasn't black like the one I remembered being once. It was glowing with a lot of different colours. This wolf was also about the same height as me, even on four legs. It's eyes were closed and I just stood there staring at it in wonder and awe until the eyes opened slowly. I was expecting glowing eyes to match the fur, but was surprised. They were normal eyes, the same colour as mine, just more canine-like. When it spoke, it seemed like the voice came from all directions inside my head instead of into my ears.

"Nice to finally meet my vessel. It took you long enough to figure out how to unseal me. And you got all of me, too. You must've had an impressive lightning user kill you."

"Kill me?" I asked in shock, then shook my head, trying to put my priorities in order. "What are you?"

"Your chakra."

"But…I thought you couldn't talk to your chakra?" I asked in confusion. This wasn't what Naomi told me about chakra at all.

The wolf laughed. "You don't remember, do you? Your clan has special chakra."

"Special?" I inquired skeptically, crossing my arms.

"Well, I guess it's more of a secret jutsu unique to the clan, but it isn't approved by the villages, so they got cast out and lived their own life in the forest."

"What?" I gasped in shock.

The wolf rolled its eyes. "We'll have time to talk about this later. You need to get me a rabbit, a cat, and a snake."

"Why?"

"It's what we need to feast on. Now go."

"But I don't have anything to catch them with." I said, looking down at the naked outline of my body that was glowing softly with my pale skin colour.

"Idiot!" The wolf yelled, it's body making a furious barking motion, then the expression stayed in a snarl as the voice continued. "You have claws! You have teeth! You have legs! Use them! Hunt!"

I surprisingly wasn't frightened of this. The words sounded extremely familiar. I wasn't sure how well it would work, but I ran to the small batch of trees and started to look for one of the animals I needed. After what felt like an hour, I found a sharp rock and had started to attempt to carve a sharp end to a stick I found. After many scrapes and scratches to my hands, I had managed to get the end sharp enough to stab something with. Though, you'd think after this long I would be used to being naked, but I felt pretty uncomfortable still. Even if you couldn't make out features with this soft glowing.

"Aha!" I shouted after spotting a rabbit's hole near a tree.

Unfortunately, that caught the attention of a bear nearby and soon I was on a tree branch scared for my life and nearly in tears as I waited for it to go away. Thankfully, the bear didn't seem to notice me and stopped looking for what the noise was. What seemed like a long time after it went away, a rabbit slowly came out of the hole and I tried my best to leap down onto it. Unfortunately, when I tried to grab it, the pressure made a snapping sound in it's neck and I had a limp rabbit in my hands.

"Oh my-Bunny! I'm so sorry! But I really need my chakra back!" I apologized to the rabbit with tears in my eyes, then picked it up and went to find the wolf.

When I found the wolf in the same place, it seemed delighted. I dropped the rabbit in front of it, cringing slightly. I still felt bad for killing it.

"Now we eat." The wolf said, ripping into the rabbit's stomach.

I nearly gagged and turned away. "You go ahead."

"You need to eat at least a bite."

"Why?" I asked, utterly repulsed by the idea.

The wolf sighed irritably. "You really don't remember initiation, do you? You'd think after being killed twice you'd know something." It didn't give me a chance to respond. "Eat or you will not get your chakra back and die."

I gulped. "Okay, one bite." I said, reluctantly picking off a bit of the rabbit and eating it. I had to force it down, but I really wanted to throw it back up when I swallowed the last bit. I felt sick.

"Now go get the cat."

"Do I have to eat a bite of it too?" I asked with horror.

"Yes."

I groaned and took my sharp stick, off to wander around for a long time before coming across what looked like a stray house cat. When it came up to me, I apologized profusely when I closed my eyes and stabbed it, then brought it back to the wolf. It was odd, since it seemed a bit smaller now. It was again happy when it bit into the cat and I had to force down a bite of it. It was easier this time and I didn't gag. I was surprised to find that I was hungry and actually wanted more. The wolf's laugh brought me out of the internal conflict I had while looking at the cat in a twisted type of anguish.

"If you want more, you should have it."

"I..Don't." I shook my head and turned away.

"You can't lie to me. I'm your chakra."

I bit my lip, then regretfully let the urge take over and had more of the cat. I had three more bites, then I made myself stop and wondered what was wrong with me as I went off to find a snake. I beat myself up about it, but something in me felt like it was right. How screwed up is that? It definitely wasn't right at all!

It took a long time, then I finally caught a snake by stabbing it in the head. Instead of the apology, this time, I just grinned. I felt satisfied with my successful hunt. When I brought the snake back to the now normal sized wolf, we feasted together on the snake and what was left of the other carcasses. By the time I finished eating, the wolf was gone and I was on four paws. I didn't hear a reply when I called out for it, I only heard a barking noise from my own mouth. I found a pond, seeing my reflection being a timber-coloured wolf with hazel eyes and markings like my tattoo on the fur beneath my left eye.

After I registered that I was the wolf now and the black wolf was someone else's memory, I woke up with a start and sat straight up. I was breathing heavily and when I looked at my hands, I knew I was human again. I also noticed that I was in a hospital room once again. I looked around, wondering how long I had been knocked out. The last conscious thing I remember was the pain of being hit by Kakashi's lightning chakra.

"L-Luna?" The familiar voice of Naomi brought my attention to the open hospital room's door. She seemed pale and had shock written all over her face.

"Naomi sensei." I smiled cheerfully at her. "I got it back."

"I…I know, but…" She shook her head and smiled, running over and hugging me. "I'm glad it worked. I knew you could do it. I believed in you!" She said, but it didn't seem whole-hearted and she let go of me quickly. It looked like she was quite shaken up.

"Wait, what were you saying before? What's wrong?" I asked, worry seeping into my expression and wiping the smile off my face.

She sighed and sat in the chair near my bed, looking at me as if she couldn't understand something. "Your chakra. I didn't think it would be that much. You've got just a little more than average for your age."

I grinned. "Because I'm awesome, that's why."

She laughed shallowly. "Yeah, okay. Just take it easy today and go thank Kakashi, okay?"

I nodded. "I feel different, but I should adjust soon."

"You seem different too." Naomi mumbled while leaving the room swiftly.

Brushing off Naomi's odd behaviour, I found Kakashi soon enough, assuming a bit of his chakra remained after he attacked me for the jutsu, so it was pretty easy to track the scent of it. Wait, did I just track someone by scent? Odd. I didn't know I could do that. He looked up from his book when I approached.

"You survived that?" He asked, raising an eyebrow.

I nodded. "I wanted to thank you for your help. I got my chakra back thanks to you."

"You don't owe me anything. I could've killed you, so we're even."

I blinked in shock. "Actually, I was about to ask how long I was out."

"Two months."

"Did that team pass your test?"

"Yes."

"Then, let me keep my part of the deal and train with you and them. Naomi seems…Weird. I'm not sure about tomorrow, but let me know if and when I can train with you guys."

"Fine." He sighed as if something were bothering him, but I assumed it was just his new team.

"Okay, see you later." I waved and left, going back home to eat something and clean up the place.

That night, I ran a fever and blacked out. When I woke up, I was perfectly fine, but it felt like I hadn't slept. I noticed a clump of fur on my bed and picked it up. It was a shade of brown similar to the wolf I saw in the coma dream. Odd. I disregarded it quickly though, as I was late for training. Surely Naomi would give me an earful about it since I involuntarily took off two months.