Chapter 9

The next morning Karashii woke up with a bad headache. She looked around and saw she was in her room and there was light coming in through the window. She sat up as there was a knock at her door. The door opened and Kakashi came in with a glass of water, behind him Anko was leaning against the door frame.

"Good morning, Karashii. I hope you are ready to start your new classes?" Kakashi said sitting on the bed beside Karashii.

Karashii nodded then grabbed her head as the room began to spin. She started falling back when Kakashi's arm went behind her to support her and help her back down. He looked at her neck again and motioned for Anko to come over.

"I just don't get how her mark keeps showing up and bothering her. I did a background check on that Kabuto guy, he came back clean. Karashii, I'm going to give you some pills, I need you to just trust me and take them, okay? I promise you, they will make you feel better and you won't have to see the mark for a while." Anko said reaching into her jacket pocket.

"How do you know so much about the cursed mark?" Karashii asked eyeing the pill bottle Anko was holding out to her.

"I was one of the first to receive it," Anko sighed. "Please, just trust me and take this? You are going to be late getting to the academy."

Karashii reluctantly took the bottle and took out a pill. She put it in her mouth and took the glass of water Kakashi offered her. She drank the entire glass and gave it back to Kakashi. "Get ready and meet me in the kitchen, okay?" Kakashi said as he looked back at her from the door. She nodded as he, and Anko, left the room and closed the door.

It was time for weapons training at the academy. Karashii stood at the front of the group next to a girl with pink hair. The girl turned to Karashii, "Hey! My name is Sakura! You must be the new girl, right? What's your name?"

"Yeah, I'm new. My name is Karashii…" She said getting herself ready for the ton of questions Sakura was probably going to ask her.

Sakura just looked at her for a second, "I like that name! It's pretty!" She said. Then Iruka got everyone's attention.

"First up, Uchiha Sasuke! Please come forward," he said. A boy with black hair that was spiky in the back went over to him. He was wearing a blue outfit with a high collar, when he turned around to look back at the crowd she saw he had onyx eyes. She could also tell they were full of sorrow and frustration.

"Oh my goodness! We finally get to see his abilities first hand!" Sakura squealed next to Karashii.

"He looks sort of like Itachi, but not really. Could they really be brothers?" She said so quiet no one could hear. Then she heard all the other girls in the class squeal as he mentally measured the size of hit target and the distance he was from it then threw the shuriken all at once. They all made their target. Sasuke smirked as Naruto yelled, "Hey! I can do that too!"

As Naruto was about to throw the shuriken Karashii ran up to him and grabbed them from him. "Hey, what gives?" He said glaring at her.

"You were holding them wrong, if you were to throw them they would have gone everywhere and you could have hit someone. If you really want to throw them, I suggest you do it like this," Karashii said as she pushed Naruto out of the way and threw them all at once. They all hit the target, just like Sasuke's, only she didn't do any mental preparation. Naruto just went back into the crowd sulking as Iruka tried to get everyone's attention. Sasuke was looking at Karashii like she was crazy.

"What do you want, Uchiha?" She asked analyzing how the weapons hit the pole.

"How did you learn to throw like that?" He asked, now glaring at her.

"Why are all the girls in this village attracted to you?" She asked now looking up at him.

"You're Karashii, aren't you?" He asked with a smirk on his face, he took a step closer to her.

"I wouldn't take a step closer if you plan on rebuilding your clan." She said standing her ground looking right into his eyes. His face went from amused to completely horrified.

"Okay, how the hell do you know about that?" He asked hesitantly.

"You know, you and your brother look kind of similar. Honestly though, you are cuter than he is, I must say." She said. Karashii was now the one amused.

Sasuke gave her a look that would have scared anyone else from the group as his onyx eyes turned red. "You'd better not talk about my brother, or my family, ever. You don't know them, or me, or what I've gone through. You have no right to talk about any of that. You can just hope we don't end up on the same team. If you tell anyone about what has happened to my family, you will not wake up in the morning, I can guarantee you that." He said in a quiet voice so no one else could hear.

"Then I guess I'll just have to tell Kakashi to put up more security around the neighborhood." Karashii laughed as she started walking back inside with the rest of the group.

Sasuke grabbed her arm and she turned to bite his hand. "You're the one living with Kakashi? Please forgive me; the subject of my family makes me extremely upset. I don't like talking about it. I also don't like other people knowing what happened, mainly because of the pity factor." He said quickly moving his hand so she couldn't bite him, looking at the ground, his eyes returning to their original color.

Karashii sighed, "You don't have to worry about me telling anyone anything. If I could I would share with you how I know about all that, but I was instructed by the Hokage himself not to speak of it. You also don't have to worry about me giving you pity. If you knew about me and my life, you'd understand." She said looking at his face. She could see he was really upset. Even though he acted like a bad, tough kid around others, she could tell he was still grieving with the loss of his clan. She couldn't help but remember when Orochimaru had met Itachi and told him he wanted his body.

Karashii suddenly felt a familiar pain in her neck as she collapsed. Sasuke was by her side in an instant, "Karashii, are you alright? What's wrong?" He asked franticly.

She then heard someone running toward her, "Sasuke, what happened?" Kakashi's voice asked.

"I don't know, we were talking then she suddenly collapsed grabbing her neck. Is she okay?" Sasuke asked as Kakashi pick Karashii up.

"She will be fine. Please don't tell anyone about this, but if you would, please come with me. I need to talk to you." Kakashi said walking toward the door leading back into the academy.

Sasuke nodded and followed Kakashi. As they walked down the hall to the infirmary everyone in the hallway stopped and stared at the three of them. The same question going through their heads, and being whispered around, "Did Sasuke do that?"

A/N: I have revised most of this up to chapter 9, but more revisions are to come. Remember this was mostly written a little over 4 years ago! Yes, Sasuke will be playing a pretty big part for a little while (I think). If you really want to see how her relationship with Sasuke turns out then put me on your author alerts and read my next few stories I plan on posting! They are all complete but I need to break them into chapters... Damn I sometimes hate being lazy!