Melody of Snow
Naruto

Summary: Four beasts. One Girl. One Stone. When placed together a dark secret of the past is unlocked. Will Tenten be able to face the truth?

Disclaimer: No don't own Naruto. But I do own this story . . . just not the characters . . . and the places . . . and . . . you get the point.

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Ch.6- Journal

Tsunade sighed as she collapsed on the ground, taking in deep strand of breathes as she looked around the dim room, her eyes losing it's shimmer as she saw how many more piles of papers she had to go through before she found what she wanted.

"Tsunade -sama, what're you looking for?" Shizune asked as she peered over the large mountains of reports that surrounded the Fifth. Slightly amused that she would actually look through old reports.

Tsunade sighed, wiping the sweat off her brow, "You heard the recent report, didn't you?"

Shizune nodded as she walked around the piles of papers that surrounded the Hokage, trying to find the entrance, "Yes, but what does it have to do with you looking through the old reports?"

Tsunade smiled weakly as she started flipping through a new report, scanning the titles, "The ice that was patched over the ANBU members, the ice that the weapons held" she stated slowly, placing down the package of paper as she reached over for a new one, "I was positive I heard read of something similar to this event, when I was looking back through the old reports"

Shizune mouthed formed a small 'o' as she finally found the entrance. Slipping through it slowly as to not cause the piles of reports to tumble down, she sighed in relief as she made it, walking over to fallen down Tsuande who was sitting upon her bottom in a very un-hokage way, "What was the report called?"

"It wasn't a report, it was an ancient journal that was found-" Tsuande stated slowly, "-in the ruins of an ancient village, that was destroyed by 'Ice'"

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Neji growled in annoyance as he continued to jump from soaking tree branch to soaking tree branch, holding upon the knapsack of items, which he had found not far away from the West Gate. After examining it, Neji was absolutely sure the knapsack had belonged to Tenten, yet why had she left it? He didn't know.

Trying to sense out Tenten's chakra as he continued to run/jump at a quick pace. [She shouldn't have been able to go that far] he thought as he came to a sudden halt, his Byakugan eyes scanning the area around him. Frowning, Neji sunk down onto his bottom, while his back rested upon the rough tree bark, not caring that his clothes had gotten wet because of the soaking rain.

[Tenten, where are you?]

{Wherever you are, you better be okay . . .]

[ . . . Or I'll never forgive myself . . .]

Neji shook his head ferociously, [Could I have rushed too fast and missed her presence?] Neji closed his eyes, allowing them to return back to their normal state, [No, that can't be possible]

Pause. Neji's ahir seemed to have gotten wetter by the second. It was know flat upon his head.

[She's heading towards the area between the Sand and Stone country] Neji thought as he remembered her statement that clearly she said yesterday, [If I had said yes to her, none of this would be happening, I'm such a fool] Neji scolded himself, running his right hand through his drenched hair, [If I can't find her by the time I get to that area between the Sand and the Stone, I'll just have to wait and look for her there]

Allowing a breath of newly fresh rain air to seep into is lungs, Neji looked around his surroundings one last time before starting off again, heading towards his designated location.

Little did he notice the limping, tattered, scratched up girl who stood around 10 meters away from where he once stood, her chakra well hidden.

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"Ahhh" Tenten cried out softly as she massaged her aching muscles in her arm as she continued to walk straight up ahead, hoping that her sense of direction was still correct and that was the west, towards the Sand Country area.

Having still not been able to find her knapsack of belongings, Tenten had decided to go without it. Although that did mean if she was dying of thirst, like she was now, she would not have anything to drink, but it there was a good point to it too. It meant that her journey would be much lighter.

[Rain, Rain go away, come again some other day] Tenten started singing in her head as she hummed the familiar childhood song. Usually she loved it when it rain, but today was a different story, she was drenched from head to toe with rainwater, and she was shivering cold. It was not a good thing.

[At the pace I'm going, it's going to take me forever to get to the Village of Snow . . . well, at least what's left of it] The raven-haired girl thought miserably as she sighed, picking up her pace, but her muscles refused to move any faster, [Too bad there wasn't a teleport scroll or something, it'd be very useful at this moment]

Looking up into the dark rain clouds, she groaned before continuing onwards.

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"Ah ha! I found it!" Tsunade cried out, as she took out an ancient fragile looking booklet from inside an old folder, she grinned, "I knew it was around here somewhere"

Shizune smiled in return as she placed down the pack of reports she was holding in her hands, walking over to the Hokage, "What does it say?"

Tsuande cleared her throat before starting to read out the journal, skipping out all the unnecessary points:

March 9th,

8:30 a.m

Something's can never be expected. Today was supposed to be the celebration for the creation of the Village of Snow and my birthday, but it turned out to be a disaster. A huge snowstorm had sudden hit our quiet village. Turning the weather into such coldness that no one was able to go outside. Yet, something was strange, it wasn't exactly 'snow' that fell, but instead it was 'ice' made so that they 'looked' like snowflakes. Strange . . .

Tsunade paused her forehead creasing, "Ice that was made to look like snow . . ." she repeated, feeling as the words rolled off her tongue in a funny way. Looking towards Shizune, she saw that the woman was also casting off a confused look.

"Read on"

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Hey! I never did make it to my goal for a total of 25 reviews :P Guess I shouldn't put my aims so high (But wait, I only got 2 reviews for that last chapter . . . Are my updates really that slow that I'm losing my reviews?!) This is a short chapter, but I hoped you like it. I just wanted to see how you'll like the journal thing, before I continued to . . . continue it. Please REVIEW!! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE!!

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Phoenix20043: Thanks for reviewing! You're the BEST (At least you actually reviewed, reviews make me happy!) I'll try to put some more Tenten and Neji scenes in this ficcy!

TenTen Hyuga: Does Orchimaru use Kinomaru to get rid of his arms sweatdrops ugh . . . whoops? But then I guess this fic can take place after ending of Chuunin Exams till 'before' Orchiamru uses Kinomaru as his container. Let's just say Orchimaru wanted to try using a different method instead of going to Kinomaru :P But thanks for reviewing and telling me! I appreciate it! And I also wanted to say I luv your fic!! ('Am I Hell Bound?') Thanks for reviewing!!

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