The girl, now eight, sits beside her sick mother. Silent tears run down her mother's face as she lies in the grass, her daughter's hands clasped in her own. "Kasumi, I love you very much, please go to the village and ask the Hokage to take you in. Go to the largest building, which is where his office is. You will survive, for you came from none other than the Fourth Hokage." Her mother whispers, pulling her daughter close to her dieing body. Calling her white wolf to her, the girl struggles to get free from the corpse's grasp. The wolf immediately began digging to the other side of the corpse, creating a grave. As the girl dug, finally free from her mother's grasp, her tears fell on her dirty hands that clutched a small rock she used as a shovel. Off in the distance was a young boy of seven, silent tears cleansing his dirty face. Beside him was a small puppy, white like snow with a small shadow on his ears. Holding his dog close to him, he watched his best friend burry her mother. Brushing the tears away from his dirty face, he ran home, running into almost every tree for he was blinded by his tears of sorrow. On the opposite side of where the first boy stood, was another of the same age. Unlike the other boy, this boy gave her no physical gift, only the gift of the Latin tongue, as hers was to him. Clutching a tree in mental pain, the boy cried over the loss of his best friend's mother, but more importantly, she was their teacher. Reaching out, grabbing the air, he knew he was too far away to reach them, but knew not how he could help. Watching his best friend bury her mother, he fell to his knees sobbing silently.
"Kasumi? A… Are you aright, Kasumi? What's the matter?" Hinata questioned as she suddenly began to hear Kasumi sobbing after a long time of silence. Not answering, Kasumi drowned herself in her sorrow. Suddenly cursing aloud in Latin, Kasumi bit her tongue so hard it bled. Silence encoumbered the room, the only thing to be heard was the whining dog who nudged at Kasumi's side. Not responding to him, Kasumi continued to lay as her mouth filled with blood.