Ch. 2! Yay, I'm so happy. This story seems to be going so slow (but compared to my first one it's going a lot faster, at least I think?)

I don't own Naruto. If I did Naruto would be my cuddle bunny (…or fox whatever).

Cerise starred out the window just outside the door of where the Hokage was at. She sat there waiting for what seemed like forever as her teacher's talked to their master. She sighed looking at the city streets below. It was hard to believe that a village of this size was so well hidden.

"Well it is the hidden village of leaf, so I guess it makes sense," she thought outloud.

She saw the young children running around and soon began to wonder if these children were destined to be ninjas as well. She was never supposed to be; in fact her original home was very far removed from any sort of jutsu. She grew up farther west than Rice Villa. It was a "modern" city, or so it was called, no longer ruled by the "old ways" of life. She still remembered how terrible life was there. But her mother escaped with her, traveling from village to village. Cerise often found herself in many ninja villages, picking up bits and pieces of different jutsu from around the world. By the time her and her mother reached Rice Villa she was eleven and well versed in the arts of the ninja, while her mother's health deteriorated. It was there that she took her last breath, promising to her that everything she had was hers and that she wished she could have been a better mother. Tears rolled down Cerise's face at the sight of her dying mother. She had left her family, a place of power and nobility all to save her little daughter.

She soon pried her thoughts away from her family. She just didn't want to think about it. Instead she continued to watch the going-ons of the street, humming one of her favorite tunes. Her foot tapped to the beat of the song drowning out all the noise around her.

"Hey there."

Cerise jumped at the sound of this new voice, she couldn't believe she didn't sense anyone there. She turned around, her hair twirling along with her. She met up with a young boy of about sixteen or so, not much younger than herself; he had striking blond hair, and energetic blue eyes. 'Is he a ninja? He doesn't really look like one,' she thought looking at his bright orange clothes.

"Hi!" she answered, "You are?"

"Naruto, Uzumaki Naruto, who are you?" he asked. Naruto had been walking along on his way to see Tsunade when he stumbled upon the young girl. It was her hair that attracted him; its weird nature hypnotized him, one minute it was lighter than Kakashi's hair, the next it was a deep violet growing lighter and lighter as it moved out of the shadows.

"I'm Cerise, no last name though, just Cerise," she smiled.

"What happened?" he asked pointing to his own eye.

"Huh, oh, what's wrong?" she asked pulling out a shuriken to examine her eye. She figured he was looking at her scar, but decided she would have a little fun.

"Oh my eye, what happened to my eye!" she screamed in mock terror.

"Uh….you didn't…uh…," Naruto began to freak out. Cerise was tearing up and turned away from him. "It's okay really, maybe…"

Cerise couldn't take it; she started to bust up in laughter. Naruto looked dumbfounded; he had just been had by this girl. He smiled and started to laugh as well. Finally Cerise calmed down enough to apologize for spooking him.

"Don't worry about it. Gees I really needed that. But seriously what's up with that scare, did someone try to take out your eye?" Naruto asked breathing heavily from his little fit of giggles.

"It's a curse," she stated matter-of-factly.

Naruto starred at her, trying to figure out if she was just pulling his leg again. She saw his disbelief and took out her Maledire Specchio, a clear piece of glass with a red tint and strange fluid in the middle. She saw Naruto stare at her strangly as she placed it up to her eye.

"It's a curse finder. It illuminates hidden curses and can capture weaker ones in the liquid," she explained while placing the Maledire against her eye. Instantly a black liquid spread across her eye. Naruto recognized it as the ink that is often used on trap scrolls, except it smelled rather funny, like dried blood. The ink spread across Cerise's face in a very elaborate design. She had her eyes closed as the ink spread from one eye to the other, apparently the curse wasn't limited to just her left eye. She slowly opened her eyes which had changed colors, the left a light gray, the right a darker gray.

"A curse?" Naruto asked.

"Yep, left by someone I thought I could trust," she sighed as she removed the Maledire, the curse instantly disappeared back into the left eye.

"Wow…that was cool…" Naruto gwak.

"Hey Naruto, Jiraiya wants to see you know!" Iruka yelled, he had been calling Naruto for the past fifteen minutes when he found him with Cerise.

"I think I got you in trouble," she giggled.

"And what about you girl, shouldn't you be with your teacher right now?" he asked Cerise.

"I thank I got you in trouble," he laughed.

The two burst into a fit of giggles, while Iruka simply sighed.

"Naruto, go!"

"Yeah, yeah old man, I'm on my way to see the perverted hermit."

"Naruto show some respect to your elders," he groaned.

Naruto simply walked on waving good bye to Cerise.

"Bye Naruto it was nice to meet you!" she yelled back. She liked this Naruto, he wasn't serious and seemed to enjoy a good laugh.

"Now what about you are you going to back to class or do I have to escort you back?" Iruka asked. Cerise smiled, it had been forever since someone threatened her with class. Iruka didn't realize she wasn't a student, with no Hitai-ate he figured she was just a student who had snuck out of class.

"That's not very nice to accuse people without just cause Iruka," Mitzuki joked as he came out from the Hokage's room (I want to call it an office…).

Iruka turned around sharply to see who was talking to him and was speechless. There was Mitzuki and Ikechi, two ninjas who had renounced their loyalty to Konoha, who swore to never step foot in the villager ever again, yet they were here with their Hitai-ates and the village leaf engraved into it. He starred in disbelief at Tsunade, true they had been her students, but even she had to know about the disgrace they caused.

"Mitzuki don't start accusing him now, he just thought I was a student here," she said in mock scorn.

"Sorry, sorry. I should have known better, what she's only seventeen years old and so far behind that she's still in training for beginners. It's so easy to mistake," Mitzuki remarked sarcastically. "I mean how long did you stay in junior training Cerise?"

"You know I was too old to start junior training, and that Buio-Sama took me in from the first day."

"Kuroku, as in Bloody Buio?" Iruka asked in disbelief.

"Yes it would seem that this young girl was his first and only student. She may very well be the last person to know Kuroku's clan techniques. This is why they are here, Iruka. I would not abuse my power as Hokage, to return my favorite students back home," Tsunade said grabbing Ikechi in a tight hug.

"All because of me? But I thought that..." Ikechi quickly cupped his hand around Cerise's mouth to quite her.

"It's nothing really, she's here to further her techniques, nothing else," he said letting go of Cerise after she started to turn blue. cough cough

"Why did you do that for!" she yelled out.

"No reason, but you need to be careful about what you say, like I told you we aren't well trusted here," he whispered in her ear.

"Now then what is this?" Tsunade asked rubbing her finger along Cerise's scar.

"That's the curse her eye holds, Cerise; can you show her the curse?" Mitzuki asked.

Again Cerise pulled out the Maledire Specchio and placed it against her eye revealing the curse. Tsunade examined it with Iruka looking over her shoulder.

"Perhaps Rin should look at it. I don't know what can be done about it. It seems rather intricate, who ever placed it wanted to keep it there, maybe Jiraiya would know the design," she said.

Cerise looked away from Tsunade, she had never told Mitzuki or Ikechi who had placed it there, it was a promise that Kuroku asked her to keep. Tsunade noticed her reaction and wondered just why she turned away from her.

"Well I guess the best thing to do would be first to test her, just to see how well Kuroku and you guys taught her," Tsunade smiled.

In case you're wondering

Maledire Specchio means Cursed Mirror

Buio means Dark or Night