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"Talking"

Thoughts

-Flashback-

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Demons Dawn Chapter Ten: Tsubasa, The Lovely Wing

She looked around the room and found that she hated it as much as she had the night before. It was a beautiful room there was no doubt about that with beautiful painting on scrolls some done by the Third Hokage himself. What's the use of living in a room I don't like? She thought to herself evilly. Now she would take care of that soon enough...

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"Now that is much better," she said, as she looked around the room more then happy with the results. There was a knock at the door. She only looked over at it with narrow eyes and slightly hunched shoulders. There was a harsher knock. She straightened herself and put on a regal posture.

She opened the doors and stepped back lightly.

A man stepped up into the room then stopped mid stride, his mouth slightly opened. Few things could have prepared him for this, very few.

Everything that could possibly be torn into shreds was, the beautifully embroidered bedcovers were of the bed and torn into fine long strips all surprisingly even, the paintings by the Third were neatly torn diagonally and still hanging, the finely carved chairs and table were smashed to resemble common firewood, the expensive carpet had long gashes running across it to match the design, all in all it had a very calculated, almost artistic look to it. Hardly anything had survived the onslaught.

Looking closer however the man noticed that something had indeed survived. It was a medium size picture of a very pretty is not beautiful woman, she looked ready to laugh even thought trying to keep a very serious front. This had to be the girl's mother.

"What happened Tsubasa?" He asked the girl wary of her response. He studied her appearance with great scrutiny. She looked much like the woman in the picture except for a more delicate beauty. Tsubasa had soft brown-black hair that only touched the nape of her neck on the back but the hair gradually grew to her collarbone in the front, some of it curled toward her lightly tanned face, her uneven bangs covered perfectly arched eyebrows and part of her heavily lined eyes, she wasn't very tall but the way she carried herself added inches, her eyes where blank with nothing but a dark iris.

Tsubasa shrugged,"I don't know Hyuga-sama. It was like this when I got here." She could have fooled the angels themselves, but she didn't fool Hiashi.

"I see," he spoke quietly in a dangerous low level.

She narrowed her eyes in a defiance of his tone. Sparks practically flew between them. She touched her hair and looked pointedly at him, almost accusingly. He would have laughed then except for the dangerous glint in her eye.

"You made them take off the dye and my contacts, why?" she asked her voice ice cold. Her hair had been an interesting array of black, blond, and orange along with her natural hair and she had worn deep green-blue contacts lens. Tsubasa had been submissive at, but as her familiarity with all things Hyuga and Byakugan grew so did her bitterness and confidence. She showed it in the very was she dressed, a black coat too big for her, white short with a mesh underneath, but most noticeably part of the ensemble was the cut up plate of the headband of the Village Hidden in the Mist that had the worn out signs on a thick silver necklace wound around her neck, it almost resembled a snake ready to strike.

"You know very well why. Don't play the fool Tsubasa," the girl was visibly shaking with anger at his words. "Come back by sunset, well have another room ready for you."

"Thank you," Tsubasa said thru gritted teeth.

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Out of habit Tsubasa put on her dark glasses, she always had when she didn't put on her 'artificial eyes' as her mother had often referred to the contacts. But her mother had never said no to them, she had been a missing Ninja for a long while and understood caution and they would be looking for a woman with a child with white eyes, and her daughter had suffered for it. But Tsubasa never resented her mother's caution all through out the years.

She was a bit spooked by all the people and all the Ninja's she saw, her mother had breed into her a fear of Shinobi. But her mother had also taught her to be strong and she walked on with a steely resolution and buried her fear and buried it deep.

When she found that too many people searched out her eyes and looked on at her as if she was a specimen she decided that the ground, with interesting colors made by litter, made a very interesting thing to study. So when suddenly she found a totally litter free ground she was startled into looking up. She was now in a deep forest with patches of clearing here and there.

She felt tired and worn out all of a sudden. She climbed up the tree and fell asleep in such a way that she had no chance of falling, unless someone pushed her.

-Flashback-

"Hey mom look what got in the mail!" a girl said as she jumped into her mothers arms even thought she was already too big for that sort of thing, twelve in fact. Her mother smiled and patted her hair and carefully disengaging herself from her daughter.

It was a letter sealed with just more then wax. She made a couple of signs over it and then opened the letter. The frown became deep as she read the letter, but in the end it cleared.

"So what is it mom!?" The girl said excitedly.

"This is a letter that would except you into Konoha," her mother said, her voice sweet and low. The girl had always loved her mothers' voice. But now her face fell into a frown similar to her mothers.

"But mom you know I can't go. I mean who's going to take care of you? And my place is here with you," she said firmly. Her mother looked on at her with an appraising eye. She had been taking care of her mother since she had been poisoned on one of her missions, they both knew that she wouldn't last long but none dared voice it. An unspoken agreement had gone between the two not to go to the hospital for that would surely mean discovery and surely death for both. Stealing the cure was out of the question for they did not know what was killing her.

"We both know Tsubasa that...." she had trailed off deliberately.

"But mother...." she began. Her mother had opened her arms the girl looked on confused at her.

"Come here Tsubasa my lovely wing," she said. And the girl went, hesitant. She hugged her and her mother pulled her to her tight. She felt something wet fall on her head and she looked up. Her mother's tears were falling on her. It was then that she decided that she would do anything her mother asked of her, even if it meant leaving her.

As it was her mother had waited two days after she left to die from the poison, she had needed no one to tell her that. Like there was no one to tell her that Konoha would be her home.

-End Flashback-

Tsubasa irritated opened an eye as she heard an immense amount of noise. Just her luck to pick a likely spot that someone would choose to spar in! She might as well watch. She hid her chakra as best as she could, witch wasn't that great, and sat up to watch. From what she could here it was at least two people getting closer by the second.

She slipped off the glasses as two streaks burst into the clearing she was located at. She raised an eyebrow as she saw that it was only two kids about her age maybe older. One was raven-haired and the other a near golden yellow.

"Come on Sasuke you can do better then that!" the blond one said. Even from her position Tsubasa could tell that he was something of a loudmouth.

"Your right Naruto I can! Katon Goukakyuu no Jutsu! (Fire Element, Blazing Fireball)," Sasuke said. Tsubasa sat up straighter. A targeted fire stream was shot to the blond who had a rather surprised look on his face. What an idiot, Tsubasa thought as she saw that it had hit him straight on. No longer interested she got ready to leave.

"Good one!" she stopped as she heard that voice. It was the loudmouth.

He had protected himself somehow she wasn't sure how. She settled back in.

"How'd you do that?" Sasuke asked.

"Kawarimi no Jutsu (Body Swapping)," the blond said arrogantly. So he hadn't dodged after all.

"Now lets try something harder," Sasuke said.

"Hugh?" Naruto said looking at Sasuke with a puzzled expression. Suddenly he was looking at right at her, Tsubasa froze in a total panic. But Naruto had little time to spare as Sasuke came rushing at him, nearly slicing his throat off with a kunai. Naruto fell back awkwardly, he put his hand down for balance and kicked up his leg knocking the kunai out of Sasuke's hand, but it had been an illusion.

Sasuke looked down on Naruto as he offered his hand. Naruto simply sat up.

"Hey you! What the heck are you doing! Spying on us!" Naruto said pointing a very accusing finger at her. Tsubasa flushed lightly in anger.

"Hey what the hec are you doing dobe?" Sasuke said he was about to say more when he too spotted her. He had been aware of someone nearby but hadn't been sure were the person was. When the hec is Naruto going to stop being so self-conscious? Sasuke thought irritated. He looked at the girl with little interest until he saw the wound necklace and the Byakugan eyes.

She walked up to them in an unthreatening manner.

"Why do you have that Mist insignia on you?" Sasuke asked.

"My, my aren't you direct," she said not looking at him, and before Sasuke had a chance to open his mouth again she continued, "if you must know it was my mothers. She was a Chûnin of Kiri, Village Hidden in the Mist."

"And the Byakugan?" Sasuke asked once again, unbelieving.

"My fathers," she said then continued defiantly, "and don't bother to ask who because I don't know."

Why oh, why was she telling the cold heart looking guy all this?

"The Byakugan, that sounds familiar...." Naruto was speaking to himself. "Tenchi-san must have told me about something about it." Naruto got up and dusted himself off which didn't help much considering his clothes were torn and enriched with dust. The uniforms were fading fast.

Tsubasa noticed Naruto's clothes. Loose white shirt, belted black pants, and black dress shoes. Her mind worked fast as she realized who he must be.

"You must be the other guy Konoha took in. I'm Tsubasa."

"Hello Tsubasa. I'm Uzumaki Naruto," Naruto said politely, he looked oddly at her then his expression cleared, "Tenchi-san said there would be five of us, from the outside!"

"Unlikely," Tsubasa said. Naruto looked on at her puzzled.

"What do you mean?" Sasuke asked for Naruto's benefit and to take off as soon as possible.

"As far as I know they have only extracted a verbal loyalty oath of one sort or another, from you and me. And that means the others did not except to come or haven't said the oath to be properly trained," Tsubasa said in a mater of fact tone, then she looked at Naruto with more interest, "I can see why they wanted me. Because I posses the Byakugan and letting it flow in other villages would be too dangerous. But I don't see your use."

"Hu?" Naruto said, but his mind was racing with possibilities of her words.

"Don't you see? We are all chosen because we share a tie with this village. I'm more then sure that the others who did not choose to come here have nothing to do with it and were only picked for show. Who knows maybe you were even born here, and they want you back."

Naruto smiled bitterly at the possibility.

End Chapter Ten

Next Chapter:

Chapter Ten is done. Tsubasa is not Hinata in case there is any confusion, and tsubasa means wing thus the name of the chapter. Suggestions are welcome since I am starting to run out of ideas. I'll try to update as soon as possible. If anyone is reading PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!