In the story there are some lines I'm using from Naruto (Shippuuden), and Tora has some characteristics from Toph (Avatar: the last airbender). But I don't own them otherwise they wouldn't be so awesome :).

Have fun reading.

Chapter 3

The next morning I woke up because someone knocked loudly on my door. Still half-asleep I fought myself out of the warm and fluffy bed, switched the light on… and still saw nothing.

Out of frustration I let out a short angered scream.

"Tora? Are you okay? It's me Kiba. What happened?"

I banged my knee on the desk, walked into the wall and found after several minutes finally the door. I was just too tired to concentrate my chakra correctly.

"Tora!" Kiba looked worried into the little apartment which the Hokage gave me for staying. "Why did you scream? Are you alright?"

Sighting, I only shrugged. "I hoped I could see again and was frustrated after finding out that I was still blind."

"Oh… eh… I'm sorry about but. But I'm sure that Lady Tsunade will find a way to heal you.

Anyway, I should bring you to the meeting place with your new team."

Yep, today was the day I would meet my new teammates. After asking and testing me about my abilities Iruka had decided yesterday that I'd fit best with team seven. Kiba had told me something about them, a stupid knucklehead in an orange jumpsuit, an emo kid with a haircut like a duck but, a screaming fan girl who likes to punch anything that touches her precious Sasuke aka emo kid, and their teacher who read in every training lesson his pervert books.

I really hoped that Kiba just dramatized and that they actually weren't so bad.

"Alright" I said wanting to leave "I'm ready. Let's go."

"Eh, Tora, don't you want to wash and dress yourself before we leave? You're a little… dirty."

After a little discussion about hygiene I gave in and walked into the bathroom – after my head came in contact with the door.

5 minutes later I was ready – more or less but I didn't want to spend more time in the bathroom than necessary – and we headed to the academy where I would meet team seven. Kiba leaded me through some hallways until he stopped in front of a door. I could hear voices from the room behind, a screaming boy and a girl yelling "Naruto!"

Sighting, I said goodbye to Kiba who had to meet his own team and I entered the room. It was silent immediately. "Hey, who are you?" the boy Naruto asked.

But before I could answer the girl – I forgot the name Kiba told me – said: "Idiot, she had to be our new team mate who Kakashi-sensei spoke of. It's nice to meet you, my name is Sakura."

"Um hi, I'm-"

"Are you really blind?" Naruto interrupted me.

"Naruto! Be polite and introduce yourself! I'm sorry Tora, he's just an idiot."

"I'm not! I'm the next Hokage, believe it!"

I really had the urge to face palm. My hopes were destroyed. They acted pretty much like Kiba described them.

Shrugging I took a seat in the nearest chair and laid my bare feet onto the desk. I didn't wear shoes because they made it difficult to see through my chakra-eyes in my feet. At the desk on my left side another person – I would guess it was emo kid – sit without saying a word while Sakura and Naruto argued loudly.

It lasted like forever until the door finally opened and hopefully the teacher came in. I couldn't see the watch ticking loudly in the room but I have already been too late because of mine and Kiba's argument, and so the teacher had to be really late.

"Oh hey, I see you're all already here. Well I'm sorry for being late, but I've got lost on the path of life."

"LIAR!" Sakura and Naruto screamed. I only grinned. This was a pretty cool excuse.

"You must be Tora" he said to me ignoring his students. "I'm Kakashi Hatake, the leader of team seven. Iruka already told me everything about you and your problems but I'm sure we'll solve this." Kakashi's voice was calm and clear, and I thought that he seemed to be a very nice person.

"Before we start our next mission, we should introduce ourselves" Kakashi suggested.

"What, again an introduction?" Sakura complained.

"Well, Tora didn't anticipate in our last one and unlike you she is new in Konoha and so she doesn't know you yet" Kakashi explained. "So say your name, things you like and dislike, your hobbies, your plans for the future and so on. You already know how it works."

"Alright" Naruto half-screamed. "I'll start! I'm Naruto Uzumaki, I like ramen, especially by Ichiraku's but I hate it to wait until they're ready. My hobbies are eating ramen and playing pranks and for the future I'll be the next Hokage, so that everyone in the village will acknowledge me, believe it!"

I grinned. "It's nice to meet you knucklehead." I didn't know why I named him like this but it kind of fit him.

"Knucklehead? I'm the future Hokage, believe it!"

I only shrugged.

"Okay, I'm next" Sakura said. "I'm Sakura Hanuro, I like *giggle*… a special person" I could have sworn she saw to emo kid, "in the future I want to be together with *another giggle* this person and I really hate Naruto."

"Sakura, why are you always so mean?"

I waited for emo to continue but he was still silent so I went next: "I'm Tora, I don't know my last name because I've got a lack of memories and in future I just want them to come back. I'm blind but I could still see somehow and still kick all of your asses."

"My name is Sasuke Uchiha" the emo kid started speaking! "I hate a lot of things and I don't really like anything. And I'm going to destroy a certain someone, so don't get in my way you blind loser."

"WHAT?!"

"Okay, that's enough I think. We should go now to ask for our next mission."

"Yes, yes, yes!" Naruto screamed. "I hope we'll get a difficult mission so they'll acknowledge me and my power."

"Easy Naruto", Kakshi tried to calm him down and lead us out of the room. I followed them but I was still fuming because of emo-Sasuke. Blind loser. Pf, I would show him who the loser was.

But first we would receive our super amazing mission, full of dangers and enemies. And of course I would beat them all.

Being ninja was so exciting.

Being ninja was so boring.

Our mission was to catch a cat. A cat! How stupid was this? Sakura told me that this wasn't the first time they had to catch that stupid thing, and as we arrived at the mission office with a furious hissing and scratching cat and as we gave it to its owner, I somehow understood why it always tried to run away. This woman nearly hugged the poor thing to death.

"Why do we have to do such boring missions?" complained Naruto. "I want to have an exciting one!"

"Naruto! Will you shut up?!" Sakura took knucklehead into a headlock.

Iruka who sat together with Tsunade and some others at the desk in front of us only sighed. "You're only genin, and those are missions for genin. Become a chuunin, and you'll get others."

"Chuunin? I'll become Hokage and then I'll change this, believe it!"

Tsunade chuckled. "Yeah, but it will take a long time for you to become Hokage and until than you'll solve the missions Iruka gives to you or I'll send you all back to the academy."

"Yes of course, I'm sorry Lady Tsunade, Naruto just doesn't know when to shut up", Sakura said quickly.

"Also" Iruka continued "the missions you're doing are very important to Konoha because blah blah blah blah…"

I didn't care why they were important; all I knew was that if it would go on like this forever, I would never become stronger. And I thought that this was exactly what Naruto and Sasuke also were thinking. I could nearly sense their frustration about catching a cat. The only happy persons in our team were Kakashi who had enough time to read his books and Sakura who was always happy as long as she was with Sasuke.

Suddenly the door to the room burst open. "Hokage! Finally I found you!" A gasping woman ran into the office, ignored us completely and headed to the desk. "This message has just arrived from near the border to Rain country. It's from the dragon village." The woman whispered the last sentence but I could still hear her.

Tsunade quickly opened the scroll or paper or whatever, read it and gasped. "How is this possible?!"

Without waiting for an answer she called: "Alright, team seven I'll give you some days off. And now leave! Kakashi, bring the other jounin to my office, fast!"

"Yes Lady Tsunade."

They walked silently through the forest near the border of fire country, heading towards Konoha. Their straw hats covered most of their faces and the bells hanging from them moved in the slight wind. The two figures were dressed in coats which they closed up to their chins. The white lined blood red clouds on the coats were proving enough that they belonged to the dangerous organization known as the Akatsuki.

The right person was very tall and had a huge bandaged sword tied on his back. His partner was smaller and as he shortly lifted up his head a bloody red eye gleamed into the dark surroundings.

"Do you also feel chakra coming closer, Itachi?" The taller one asked his partner.

"Hn" was the only reply the got but he interpreted it as a yes.

In a few minutes a person would cross their way on the path through the dark forest. The people living around this forest normally avoided it to come closer than necessary to the woods. That was the reason why the two members of the Akatsuki took this way because no one should see them.

With a grin that revealed sharp tooth the right one gripped his sword.

"The person heading towards us hasn't a lot of chakra. It might be a civilian and so a fight would be a complete waste of energy, Kisame" Itachi, the smaller one, said.

"But it had been days since we had our last fight" Kisame replied. "Samehada slowly becomes impatient and to be honest I also want to cut some bodies."

"Hn. We should avoid any attraction. Don't forget that." Itachi knew when it was meaningless to argue with his partner.

They stopped and stayed on the path. They waited four minutes in total silence until they heard footsteps and two more minutes until a small girl came round the corner.

She also stopped as she saw the two men blocking her way. She was young, not older than 16, Itachi guessed. She had red long hair and wore a loose black sleeveless shirt, wide blue pants and sandals.

Brown caramel eyes looked in Kisame's white ones and Itachi's red ones questioningly.

"What does a little girl like you doing in a dangerous forest like this all alone?" Kisame asked with a toothy grin. "Are you lost?"

"Don't worry about me please. I'm able to protect myself and I would like to continue travelling so that I'll be out of this forest before sunset. So please could you let me pass?" Her voice was high but low and a small smile was on her face.

She's in a dark forest all on her own, Itachi thought, she has not enough chakra to be a ninja but she still smiles without the slightest hint of fear to two strange dangerous-looking men who block her way. Something isn't right.

Kisame although didn't care or didn't recognise the strange behaviour of the girl because he tightened his grip on his sword, Samehada, while a wide grin showed onto his face. "I'm sorry kid, but you're very unlucky to cross our way on the wrong time." With that he swung the sword at the girl, who didn't even blink. Samehada crashed with a loud sound into the dry earth but as the smog vanished the girl was gone.

Kisame only laughed, he wasn't worried at all. "It seems like the girl has a few tricks on her sleeve, this could indeed be interesting." He pulled his sword with ease out of the crack on the earth and put it on his shoulder while his partner already scanned the area with his Sharingan.

"I found her" he said and disappeared in an instant. The chakra source of the girl was one kilometre north-east from their position. Itachi was the faster one from the duo and so he caught the child as Kisame still hopped from branch to branch.

The Uchiha appeared right in front of the girl who managed to stop before she dashed right into him. Her eyes widened slightly but before she could do anything Itachi had already pinned the girl against the trunk with his hands on her throat.

But he wouldn't kill the girl until he knew who she was and where she came from. Because Itachi didn't believe in coincidences and maybe other ninjas were nearby.

So with his Sharingan activated Itachi looked right into her eyes.

A young boy who was the proud of his clan, worked secretly as a double-agent to prevent a bloody war.

He had to make an almost impossible choice: To kill everyone and become a criminal or to let them be killed.

In a bloody night he slaughtered everyone who had the Uchiha name: His friends, his uncle and auntie, his parents. But he couldn't kill his younger brother; because he loved him.

He already had chosen his future as he left his home village: To die through the hands of his brother while taking the secret of the Uchihas into his grave.

He joined the Akatsuki to have an eye on them but his illness and the slowly fading light in his eyes exhausted him every day. He could only hope that his brother would be strong enough to face him before his heart would stop beating.

Shocked Itachi released the genjutsu and looked at the girl in front of him in disbelief. He wanted to see her past, her secrets, but instead of that he saw his own story flashing before his eyes.

What happened? Who was she?

"So you're one of the two remaining Uchiha-brothers? That's interesting."
Itachi tightened his grip around her tiny neck as he said with his usual calm voice: "In less than three minutes my partner will show up. Until then you better tell me who you are and why I just saw my past in your memories or I'll force it out of you with pain."

Once again the girl didn't show fear or worry as she smiled innocently at him.

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