A Moonlit Past

By: Kiara Adachi

Chapter 1: Forgotten?

"Stop right there!" A voice rang through the cold winter night. A small, 6-year-old girl ran out of a shop, carrying a box of cereal. She started running down the street, her long, black hair flowing behind her, as snow began to fall on it. A man charged out of shop and followed after her.

"Your gonna pay, you theif!" he yelled at her. She looked back at him, fear shining in her bright purple eyes.

She dashed off the sidewalk and into an alley, but soon found herself at a dead end. She looked around and ducked behind a large box. She hugged her legs against her chest as she shivered. She had nothing a short sleaved shirt on, and no shoes so she was freezing. The man stopped at the end of the alley and looked doen it.

"I know your here, you dirty child!" he yelled, it echoed down the alley.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a hand reached out and grabbed her arm. She gasped and scooted away. She looked towards where the hand had come from, there was a large hole in a wall, but it was safely hidden behind the box.

"Come in here!" The voice of a little boy said from inside the hole. The girl gasped and wiothout hessitating, crawled in, sliding a board in front of the hole, so it was completly unnoticable. She listened carefully as she heard the shop owner search for her. He tossed aside trash cans, and other rasndom items, but soon gave up.

"I'll get that little vermin!" he mumbled, as he left.

The girl let out a sigh of relief.

"That was close!" the voice said again. She heard a click, as a light turned on. She turned to see a young boy, probally a year or two older than her, sitting there. He had blonde hair, that was spiked up and bright blur eyes. He looked at her.

"My name's Uzumaki Naruto." He announced. "Who are you, and why was that big ugly guy chasing you?"

The girl looked at him, he seemed... trustable...She smiled.

"I'm Kamada Tsuki." She said. "And he was chasing me cause I took this from his store." She showed him the box of cereal. Just then her stomach growled, she tore it open and started eating it, she was starving. Naruto watched from the other side of the "hideout". He smiled as he moved the board from the opening of the hideout.

"I got to go back home now." He said. "You should go home too."

Tsuki stopped eating and dropped her head.

"I don't... have a home anymore." she said.

Naruto looked at her. "What, your folks kick you out or something?" he asked.

She shook her head. "No, my mommy and daddy were... taken away... but it was for a good reason."

"What do you mean?"

"They were killers. They used our families powers for evil."

"Powers?"

Tsuki sighed and held out her hand. Within seconds a small ball of blueish-purple light had appered in her palm. And then it was gone.

"Awsome!" Naruto said. She smiled. A cold wind blew into the small "hideout" causing Tsuki to shiver again. Naruto frowned.

"Here, come with me." he said, I have room at my place.

"But what about your parents?" Tsuki asked.

"Don't got any."

"So you live all by yourself?"

"Yup."

"Okay, I guess its OK."

Naruto smiled as he took her hand and hoisted the amall girl unto his back, as he carried her to his house in the cold. By the time he arrived, she was already asleep. He set her on the mat where he ussally slept and smiled. He then went to his bedroom closet and pulled out a spare blanket and pillow, and fell asleep pn the floor.

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As morning dawned, light shone through the window. Tsuki yawned and sat up.

"Where am I?" she asked. Then she remembered the night before... Naruto was carring her to his house but she must have fallen asleep on the way. So was thsi his house? it seemed fairly nice...

"How does he live here by himself?' she wondered.

She heard a sound from behind her and she turned around. Naruto was standing there.

"Finally awake?" he asked. She nodded. NAruto looked over at his clock.

"Good thing its Saturday." he said. "During the weekdays I have to train." he said.

"Train?" Tsuki asked, puzzled. "For what."

"I'm training to be he best Shinobi in the whole village!" Naruto announced.

"Wow." Tsuki said. :Thats so cool!"

"Yup." Naruto said prudly. "One day I'm gonna be the best, and everyone will know my name!"

Tsuki smiled.

"Come on, lets go out for some ramen." Naruto said. "I got some money." he pulled some money out of his pocket.

"Whats ramen?" Tsuki said.

Naruto flinched.

"You-haven't-had-ramen-before?" he stuttered. Tsuki shook her head.

"Kid, you don't know what you've been missing! Lets go!" He said, as he started leaving. Tsuki stood up and followed him.

When they arrived, Naruto ordered some ramen for the two of them. Tsuki noticed how the men at the counter weren't very nice to Naruto, she wondered why, but didn't say anything.

"Here kid!" Naruto said, pointing towards the bowl. "You gotta try it."

Tsuki nodded and took a bite. "Hey, this is really yummy!" she said, taking another bite. Naruto smiled.

"The best thing ever." Naruto said, as he took a bite of his.

They ate untill Naruto ran out of money, and then they had to run from another angry shop owner.

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As the days passed by, Tsuki still stayed at Naruto's house. Naruto talked Iruka into enrolling Tsuki in the academy, but in a younger class so she wouldn't have to be alone during the week. She exelled in all of the beginner classes, but kept her special powers a secret. Every once in a while her and Naruto would skip school and go out for some ramen, they beame as close as siblings. They even fought like it.

But one day, about six months after that night that she had met Naruto, she accedentally let some of her powers slip. She thought nobody had seen but some scouts from another village, from a clan that had been rivils with her parents saw. And they came the next night, trying to take her away. It was their mission to extermanate the Kamada clan. And thats what they were planning on doing.

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It was a stormy night. Wind shook the trees and made them scratch against the window of the room. Tsuki couldn't sleep, this storm frightened her, it was strange. She rolled over. She stood up and crawled over to the seperate mat where naruto slept.

"Nauto?" she whispered... "Naaaarruuuuutoooo."

"Whut?" he mumbled.

"Someone's outside, I can sense them." she said.

Naruto lifted up his head. He looked around.

"I don't sense anyone." he said. "It's probally nothing."

"But..."

"I'll go check ot put." Naruto said, stnding up.

Just then the window smashed, and Tsuki screamed and hugged Naruto. She turned around and looked towards the window. A large man stood there.

"Kamada Tsuki! You will be coming with me!" he yelled. In a flash he had dashed over and grabbed Tsuki. Naruto gasped and stood up.

"Give her back!" he said, charging towards the stranger. But the man was way faster, he knocked Naruto over the head, knocking him out.

Naruto lifted his head up, right before he passed out and saw Tsuki's purple eyes filled with fear.

"NARUTO!" she screamed. Just as the world went dark.

The man smirked and in a puff of smoke, he was gone, and so was Tsuki...

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Hours later Naruto awoke, with a very large headache. Once he had remembered what had happened he rushed to get help, but nobody would listen to him. There was never any search parties, and hardly anyone every cared that Tsuki had been taken. But Naruto always hope that he would see her again. His first real friend he ever made. Tsuki.

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The man whom had kidnapped Tsuki brought her before their clan leader, Nakimi Loki. Tsuki tried as hard as she could to get away, but when she showed her power, Loki was impressed with it. He decided that she would become his apprentace. He used the Nakimi clans power to seal all her memories away, and filled her mind with fake memories. He made Tsuki belive that he was hr master, and that he had always been. And it worked, she completly forgot Konoha...and Naruto.

Under Loki's training her skills developed. She became a powerful enemy to anyone who came before her. And many did come before her, for the Nakimi clan had many enemys. In fact, they lived in the unclaimed land, that didn't belong to any country. Which is why Loki made a desision one day, 4 years after Tsuki had been taken, Loki decided that he no longer wanted the Nakimi clan's power to be a secret. They would take control, of the greatest Shinobi village in existance; Konoha.

They began preperations for their attack...

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