Naru had been dreaming. Of the time after the well incident, when she had been chased out of the village and had run until she had reached the border between Fire country and Wind country. She could recall running into some strange men wearing black cloaks with scarlet clouds on them. A group of killers. The same killers that had taken her in. They only had one rule among them, You keep what you kill.

Their leader had attacked her intent on raping her and she had killed him and become their new leader despite the fact that she had been a child at the time. They had trained her to be an efficent killer. And she was. She merely chose not to use her skills unless she was backed into a corner with no hope of survival or escape.

She had the strange sense of being watched and had opened one of her eyes and found one of the men that she had been dreaming about standing at the foot of her new bed wearing a gleeful expression on his pale face. "Leader..." He reached for her and she rolled herself out of his reach and hit the floor, yelping as loud as she could despite the fact that she was'nt hurt and the man swore and vanished into thin air just as the bedroom door opened and Kakashi flipped on the lights.

She yelped again and hid her face in the blanket to block out the sudden brightness invading her dark little nest as Kakashi dropped down to one knee next to her and carefully picked her up and set her on the corner of the bed. "Naru, baby are you okay?"

She nodded when it was on the tip of her tongue to say no. She was'nt alright. They had found her. After almost six years of freedom they had finally managed to track her down. Goddamn it, was it too much to ask for everyone to fall off of the earth and leave her the fuck alone? Was it? Was it? Kakashi was quiet for a second or so before he noticed that she was shaking again, like she had earlier when she had hugged him. Not only that but she was'nt looking at him.

"Naru? Honey look at me-" He reached out to pull the blanket away from her face, but she jerked away from him and scuttled across the floor until her back hit the side of the bed and she buried her face even deeper in the blanket to hide her face. She could all but feel how pale her face was, could feel the panic lacing her blood, and her eyes...

She was sure that her sharigan had just flared up and she was scared of letting Kakashi see the real her. The darkness lurking behind her eyes, in the fore front of her mind and heart. "Naru? Naru, what's wrong? Did I scare you?" Kakashi asked worriedly as she sat there shaking with her face hidden from him.

"The light, it hurts my eyes. Turn it off." Naru muttered calmly despite the fact that she felt as if her world was ending all over again. Kakashi did as she asked and moved to sit on the floor just a few inches from her just in case she needed him to hug her or something. He leaned his head back and rested it on the mattress and nearly jumped out of hsi skin when she shifted and pressed herself against his side, burying her face against his shoulder.

"Naru?"

"It was just a really bad dream, Kakashi. I woke up but I can't stop shaking-" Her voice shook slightly as she broke down and started sobbing, no longer able to hold back her tears. She just wanted to be left alone, to be normal, happy even. Was it such a terrible thing for her to want that? Was she really so selfish that she was being punished for something that she could'nt recall doing?

Kakashi put his arm around her and turned his body a bit so that he could pull her into his lap, he settled her there across his legs and held her tightly as she cried. "Shhh. Please don't cry honey. I can't stand it when you cry." Kakashi whispered as he pressed his lips against her forehead.

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Haiden appeared in the middle of the large cave that he and the others made thier base of operations and looked at the group of men sitting at the long table that they had stolen from a family of farmers after ravishing the farmer's daughter and wife and killing him. "I love this table." Haiden said as he reached out and ran his finger tips along the cherry wood.

"Report, Haiden." Pein said warningly, he had had it with the religous fanatic's bullshit. He had been on a mission and had wasted three days wandering around the Leaf village looking for any signs of their way ward leader. He had probably put off his mission until the last second again. The bastard.

Haiden smiled coldly. "I found her. And thanks to Tobi's ability I almost had her." There were several murmers of approval while others sounded disappointed. What had stopped him from taking the little chit and bringing her back here?

"Where was she?" Itachi asked curiously, he had always wondered if she had found her way back home.

Kisame looked at his partner and raised a brow at the scarlet eyed Uchiha. Did he still harbor feelings of love for the child? "She was sleeping in a jounin's house."

"Did the Hokage assign someone to protect her?" That was'nt what that guy had meant to ask. What he really meant to ask was "Did the Hokage assign someone to protect her from us?"

"No, I don't think she ever told anyone about us. She was there because her apartment was burned down." Someone groaned and muttered as their shoulders shook with silent laughter.

"Gods, you mean that damn girl has'nt learned to cook properly yet?"

"How is she going to support her harem if she can't cook?" Tobi asked as he looked from one guy to another. Itachi flung a kunai at the masked man who quickly ducked down in his seat and narrowly missed being skewered.

"She does'nt have a harem."

"Because you'll kill them all, right Itachi?"

"Then her husband."

Another kunai was flung at another person, this time hitting one of the seven Peins sitting at the table. The man looked down at the kunai in his chest with a look of annoyance as Kisame snickered.

"She is'nt allowed to have a husband." Itachi snarled.

"Because you'll kill him and marry her yourself."

"Damn strait. That adorable little blond is mine." Itachi snapped at Tobi as he peeked over the top of the table at the Uchiha.

They had gotten just a bit off of topic here...

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They finally make an appearance.

And they just don't seem very evil at all do they?

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