Blood, that's all there was. A small young blonde haired girl ran to her house, frantically avoiding the burning buildings and the bodies stacked up in piles, scattered around the clan grounds. Her short white dress was soaked through with blood from her numerous wounds throughout her body. She rushed through the crushed elm door, and her small frail body froze in fear at the sight before her. Her gaze fell on a tall, tough man with a thick mane of black hair messily covering his face only revealing his eyes. From foot to head he was covered in pitch black as if he was a demon from the pits of hell. His eyes were bottomless pits that pulled you into his hate and greed, until it felt like you were drowning, unable to catch a single breath.

Yet it wasn't her eyes that scared her the most. No, it was the sight of her mother hanging from his hand by her neck, violet bruises already forming. Her blonde hair was dirty and matted with blood and her eyes were glazed over in pain. She knew full well that she would not survive this night. Further down, besides the wall, lay the girl's father, in a pool of his own blood. His whole front was shredded as if he was attacked by a wild animal. His eyes closed, and his long hair was out of his usual ponytail and lay scattered about his deathly pale face. He wasn't moving, not a single twitch.

Sapphire collapsed onto her knees from shock, the noise causing her mother to look over. Tears pooled from her eyes onto her pale cheeks, as she saw her beloved daughter in such a state. With her remaining strength she mouthed one word...RUN.

The girl turned around and ran from the burning village and into the dark forest. Her little heart was bleeding from the knowledge that there was nothing she could do. She was weak. Tears fell down her face and onto the shredded dress she had on, as the only sound coming from behind her was a loud snap. She ran and ran until she heard familiar voices coming her way. She stumbled into a clearing and beheld a group of jounin coming to her clan's aid. They were too late.

In the lead was a familiar silver haired ninja, her only friend and the only person who knew all her secrets and worries. The boy's eyes widened as he saw his best friend stumble before him soaked in blood, tears of pain flowing from her eyes. She started falling and he ran to catch her before she hit the ground, but a spiked black chain was faster. It wrapped around her, tearing into her skin and pulling her into the cold embrace of the killer. He smirked sadistically.

"Let her go you monster!" the boy shouted, his voice filled with worry and anger.

"Now why would I do that? She makes a fine trophy. The last of the Angel clan. Makes her kind of special don't you think?"

The boy lunged at him, only to be stopped by another ninja. The killer had Sapphire. One wrong move and she could end up in two pieces on the ground before any of them could get to her in time. They boy may have still been young at that time but he certainly wasn't stupid. he wasn't going to risk the life of his only remaining friend.

"Don't rush into this. One wrong move and she's dead." The shinobi turned to the stranger. "Hand her over. She is a part of the Village hidden in the Leaf and we protect our own. You are trespassing on our land and have committed atrocious crimes here today. We will take you into custody where you will be questioned and punished."

"Now what's this? A bunch of brats that think they can beat me? Maybe I should finish you off to just to teach you some humility."

"If you do not hand over the girl now, we will be forced to take physical action."

The girl trembled in the arms of her parent's killer, but tried to hide it, attempting to look strong in front of her friend. She looked at the silver haired ninja and slowly shook her head, to stop him. She couldn't witness the death of another person she cared for, she wasn't worth it. If she did she might just not survive anyway.

More ANBU ninjas appeared, surrounding the dark haired man weapons drawn. This just caused him to laugh maniacally and tighten his chains around the petite girl. The chains dug deep into her skin and she screamed in agony.

"Well it was lovely meeting you all but I'm afraid I must be going. I have much better things to do than to fight a bunch of brats, like taming my little pet. She needs to learn her respect." With that he flicked his hand. The young jouning raced towards his friend but shadows surrounded them making them vanish into thin air. He was too late. The last thing the boy heard was a panicked cry.

"KAKASHI!"

The silver haired jounin fell to his knees in despair, tears freely flowing out of his grief stricken eyes. The other jounin looking at him with pity, emphasising with how he must have felt. First his team, and now the only friend he had left. After a few moments of wallowing in despair, Kakashi stood up, new found determination written on his face.

"I will find you Sapphire." He murmured quietly to himself. "I will find you and save you", his first friend...his first love.

Kakashi flung himself out of the bed, kunai in hand and desperately panting for breath. His eyes were wide and panicked as her hatred around the room looking for enemies, while his heart was beating at an erratic pace. He took several deep breath as he tried to get the nightmare out of his mind though he knew well that it wasn't a nightmare at all. The vision he just saw was an old memory that had haunted him for thirteen years straight never letting him have a good night's' sleep, and always bringing back the terror he felt back then. He had hoped that now that Sapphire was back in his home the nightmare memories would let up but no such luck.

Standing up and opening the curtains in his room, Kakashi noted that the sun was slowly climbing its way up between the building to the top of the sky. It couldn't have been later than 5 am but Kakashi didn't really see the point of going back to bed. he wouldn't be able to fall asleep again anyway. A brief thought of his genin waiting for him on the field flashed through his mind but he pushed it aside wasn't going to wake up Sapphire after her ordeal yesterday since he needed her sleep, and besides the three needed to learn a little bit of patience or they would never make it as some thought Kakashi decided to check up on the guest in the other room, his mouth curling softly as he remembered her nasty habit of waking up extremely early and pulling him out into the forest before he could wake up properly himself. He found himself missing even those little things that annoyed him when he was younger, and chastised himself once again at getting mad at her. When she disappeared all he could do was go through every moment he ever shared with her and regret the words that he said or how he would just ignore her. To him every moment with her was valuable and only then did he realise how much he had taken her for granted back then. He wondered quietly whether that particular habit remained embedded in her mind before smiling slightly.

"Well, I better go check. We don't want her getting away now do we."

When feeling returned to her body Sapphire realised that she couldn't feel the hard surface of the chair beneath her anymore or a jail cell, in fact the surface she was laying on was far from hard and uncomfortable. Her eyes fluttered open slowly, drinking in the sight before her and wondering whether the executioner really did kill her. She was laying on a queen sized bed filled with pillows of all different colours, shapes and sizes surrounding her. She doubted that she had ever felt a bed this comfortable and for a moment she just closed her eyes enjoying the blissful moment. Mere moments later he eyes flung themselves open as a certain throught snuck its way into her mind. How did she get from being interrogated in an office to the most comfortable bed she felt in her entire life?

Studying the room more closely now, she noted the soft blue walls and a small desk standing directly under one of the windows looking onto the street outside. Attempting to get up she finally noticed that she was snuggled into a white bed cover, its weight preventing her from moving very far. Disentangling herself from it took her a good couple of minutes but she eventually managed to do it only to land in a painful heap on the floor. Whatever that interrogato ried to do to her yesterday really took a toll on her, causing thoughts to spin around restlessly in her mind and a numbing pain to echo through her entire body. The fall from the big bed didn't help at all either. Sapphire got up with a quiet groan before slowly making her way towards the small white desk in an attempt to discover exactly where she was. The desk itself was much too small for her to sit at, and instead looked as if it was meant to be for a child, which only confused Sapphire further. Looking out of the window she noted the hundreds of people milling around the busy street either buying things or gossiping very loudly. Several of the pointed towards her direction not seeing her, telling her that she was probably the op of the town gossip at the moment. The busy streets and the view also told her that she was probably in the middle of the village, which would make it very hard to escape if she ever had the chance to do so.

Sapphie was about to turn towards the white door but her gaze was stopped by the small pile of crudely drawn pictures of stickmen lying on the small desk. Picking a couple of the up she noted that they all showed the same scenario, or at least very similar. A little blonde girl holding the hand o a taller gray haired man, both having enormous grins on their faces only being completed by the happy scenery around them. The man in the photo looked very similar to the ninja that caught me yesterday, Kakashi Hatake, but the young girl seemed unfamiliar. Was it his daughter, or maybe even granddaughter? His hair did make it hard for her to determine his age. Sapphire found herself racing the small figure, so deep in thoughts that she didn't hear the door creak open and a tall figure enter.

"That little girl is you if you haven't figured it out yet. I thought you might want to see something familiar so I left your pictures here to see."

Sapphire twisted round in shock at the sudden voice from behind her, almost stumbling over her own feet and falling flat on her face. She calmed her heart down before finally looking up to see Kakashi smirking down at her, seeming to find her small stumble extremely amusing. He was casually leaning against one of the door frames but upon closer inspection you could see the way his body tensed, ready to react to any sudden or threatening movements. As the surprise faded away from her system, it was replaced with anger at his behaviour but also a tiny bit of curiosity at his words. looking back down at the picture she held in her hand she had to admit that the girl looked a lot like her but it couldn't be possibly be her. How could she draw a picture like this if she never met this man in her life. It just didn't add up. Sensing her confusion Kakashi made the motion to speak again but stopped when she looked back up at him.

"Look. I understand that you lost a friend a long time ago and that you miss her but you are mistaking me for someone I'm not. All I wanted in the first place was the scroll and nothing more. I haven't even met you before this!"

"So you keep saying saying but look at the facts. This is your room and everything inside belonged to you including the pictures. You are here instead of a prison cell where any other village would have placed you, and you have a certain degree of freedom. You may not recognise us but I can make a bet with you that you ask anyone in the village and they'll be able to tell you your name. Then there's your confession a minute ago. I get the feeling that under any other circumstance you would have bluffed and agreed to my claims simply to find a way out of this place, yet you did the exact opposite. Why?"

Sapphire struggled with the answer, the words of the man before her were sounding more and more likely. The look on his face was determined as if he was ready to force the truth onto her if he really had to. All of this put together only proved to confuse her more, making her unsure whether she should trust this man or whether he was just here to get her to tell them everything she knows. The thoughts swirling around her head forced her hands to hold it, trying to relieve some of the pain and confusion the only way it knew.

"No I'm not! Stop saying that!"

"And yet you don't have access to all of your memories do you?"

Her body stiffened at his argument recognising that he really did have a point. A lot of her life was shrouded in mystery only leaving a few years prior to this day with no explanation whatsoever. She had spent several years looking for the truth of her past only to come up empty handed each and every time. She didn't wasn't to be disappointed yet again but she couldn't help but feel the surge of hope within her. What if this was really where she grew up? Could she really pass up a chance like this? She turned her back towards the door, instead deciding to look out of the window before her. The finger she still had on the painting started tracing the little girl again as she built up the courage to face failure again. No matter how much the thought of disappointment again terrified again, but she couldn't just let something like this pass, not when she waited so long for the answers.

"How do you know that it's me? How can you be so sure of it?"

Soft steps echoed through the silent room as he walked closer until she could feel his muscled chest against my back again. Kakashi seemed to sense that the atmosphere in the room suddenly tensed and slowly wrapped an arm around her chest, tight enough to bring her closer but not so tight to restrict her movement like he did in the Hokage tower. His other hand reached up to her stomach and gently unwrapped the bandages covering that area, slowly revealing the jagged and rough scarring that encircled her entire waist. When the entire scar was revealed his hand went to trace it lightly, causing Sapphire to shiver in expectation.

"You gained this scar the day you were taken away from us. It happened right before my eyes and I couldn't do anything but watch you get taken away."

The pleasurable sparks that erupted at his touch were only getting worse, and Sapphire had a sudden urge to lean back into his chest and just relax. Her eyes opened when he withdrew his hand and turned her around to face him. A small smile graced his lips and he looked down at her only showing the truth that those orbs held within. It made her almost want to trust and believe him. A soft whisper left her slightly opened lips, Kakashi watching them closely.

"It's going to take much more than that to make me believe."

"I know and believe me when I say that I will do everything in my power to make you trust me again. Now a good place to start would be breakfast don't you think?"