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Chapter 3

A Cry in the Night

"You got her number?" Masura said to Hizume as they walked out of the restaurant.

"You bet I did! I can't wait to use it tomorrow!" Hizume said, waving a piece of paper in his hand, obviously containing the number. He was walking and talking rather…drunkishly.

"Pleeeeeease tell me she has a twin sister I can meet!"

"No, but she DOES have a little brother, think she said he was about as old as you two, Jin," Hizume said looking at the two trailing behind them. Jin cocked his head to the side,

"Really? I don't think there was anyone in our class with those markings." Rei immediately dumped the idea of being friends with this guy. If his sister was like that, then surely the brother was some real nerd that loved cats and acted very much like a girl. He'd probably be gay Rei chuckled at the thought. Of course, probably everything but the gay part was for sure right, according to her. She started tousling her raven black hair in her hands as she started thinking deeper into the topic, not noticing anything or anyone around her.

As the group of four friends walked out of the restaurant all happily talking, there stood two tall figures staring down at them….more pacifically the girl. The sky grew dark around them, shading them from sight. The wind howled and carried the early autumn leaves. The two figures standing on the near by building had wide hats with white strips dangling from them tangled in with a bell on a string.

"Is that the girl?" The taller of the two asked. The shorter one nodded and took out a little nicely folded note,

"It's time I put my brother to thinking of his past again."

The doorknob turned as the door swung open into his apartment. The window was opened, letting the drapes flow on the wind. He quietly walked over to his window and put his hands on the window sill, looking outside onto the dark deserted street apart from a cat rummaging through a trashcan.

Uchiha Sasuke closed his window and his eye caught sight of a note with the emblem of his clan on the corner of it. He picked it up from his living room table and turned on the light from his lamp. He was overcome by a wave of mixed up emotions and blasts from his past. There he sat; staring at the note, at one name, the one signature of the one man he wished had never lived.

He rushed over at the window and slammed the window open, clutching the note tightly with his fist. He did the first thing that came to his mind as he realized his brother was in his apartment. He yelled through the still night, cutting the silence,

"Itachi!"

A scream broke through the still night that awoke Rei from her sleep. She tossed over in her bed, causing her to look at the two framed photos of her mom and dad, and her brother sitting on her nightstand. Her room was drenched in total darkness, exactly as she liked it. She was now in her own realm from where anyone would stumble into, they would trip over her dirty clothes that littered her bedroom floor. She stared back at her family. Her mind immediately flashed back into her past….

A young Rei about seven lay motionless in a hospital bed in the hospital. Bandaged around her head were long white bandages with them around her arm, and neck. Next to her bed was a monitor of her life signs. The door opened as her nurse entered the room to do her round of daily check up on her. Rei started moving her head, and forced her eyes open, and stared into the sun bathed ceiling. She moved her head at the nurse writing on a clipboard.

"Where am I?" she wearily asked the nurse. The nurse looked up at her and softened her eyes as she sat down on a chair next to her, holding Rei's hand in her own.

"You'll have to listen carefully, ok," she sighed as if she was quiet sad about something, " Well, you have lost your memory from the past years of your life to when you were two months old. You've lost your memory because of an unfortunate accident. Your mom and dad, your only brother along with you went into the woods to camp. Where your family camped wasn't the best place, and so your family was ambushed by a band of recently escaped prisoners. By the time our people got there and captured the prisoners, your family had died, but one of them must've thought you died, since you were barely just holding on by a string of life. Your head was sitting next to a bloody rock, so we suppose that you were hit against it, causing your memory to wipe out," She said, taking in a breath of air. It took Rei a couple of minutes to comprehend this new information.

"Are you all right, deary?" the nurse asked, still holding her hand. Rei nodded and asked, "What were they like?"

From there she was schooled in the hospital roomed for months as she healed and was caught up with everything she was supposedly supposed to know. So then there lay Rei, thinking into her past again. She felt a little guilty that she didn't feel sad about her family dieing really. She guessed it made sense, seeing that she didn't remember anything about them personally. Rei layed there for 5 more minutes staring into the faces of her family until she felt the pull of her eye bags for her to sleep, so she put her hand to her lips and onto the two photos saying, "Good night mother, father, brother."

The following morning Rei woke up to faint sizzling from downstairs…from her kitchen. She tossed her head over and hid her face under her pillows. Deciding that it'd be better to get up and see what it was, she sat up in bed, hair flying everywhere. From there, she swung her feet over to the side of her bed. Rei stood up and started wearily walking downstairs. When she reached her kitchen, there she saw Hizume cooking and singing a merry melody. As she glanced over around the kitchen, Masura was sitting down calmly reading a book. Jin was, of course, raiding the fridge for breakfast.

No one in Konoha besides Jin, Masura, Hizume, and Rei knew that those four lived together. Rei didn't dare tell anyone. Everyone already had the impression that Rei liked Jin and him back, and if they knew they lived in the same house, than that would just confirm their theories. Jin didn't tell anyone because he'd thought his fan club would dump him and go for Sasuke. That reminded her…

"Hey! Jin! Don't you have that date with what's-her-name?" Rei said, as she skidded the chair open and sat in it. Jin popped his head from the pantry and rushed to the phone, ruffling for something in his pocket, "Oh crap! I forgot! I'm gonna hafta cancel it and tell her later!"

"Really? Why? I thought you LOVED going on dates!" Rei asked, arching an eyebrow.

"I invited Hana-chan and her brother over for some dinner!" Hizume piped, explaining the reason why he was cooking and singing too. Rei slammed her head on the table. How come she never had a say in anything? All she heard was Jin talking his mouth off so quick, it scared her. Then another topic came into mind.

"Uh, our teams are assigned to us today, right? Hope I get s-"Rei started but got cut off when Jin immediately hung the phone up and said very loud and clearly, "SASUKE!" Then he started chortling at his own joke. Rei stood up and hit him very hard off the head, her normal reaction.

"You know VERY well I HATE Uchiha!

When Rei and Jin set off toward the academy, talking about who they wanted to be on their team. Jin was mostly talking. Rei glanced over at some ally way while Jin started blabbering something about all the reasons to ignore Naruto. She disliked Jin and everyone else for hating him. He always made everyone laugh, even if it was something absurd like the Sexy no Jutsu. As she got lost in her thoughts she saw a box that seemed to be moving. It was probably rats.

When the two finally arrived at the academy and took their normal seats, Iruka came out and started announcing teams. Through out the whole thing, Rei doodled on in her notebook, thinking Nope…dunno who they are….what should I draw?...Maybe I should get a dog one day …When finally she realized she heard someone's name she DID know:

"Team 12," Iruka boomed, "Oimashita Jinsanu," Rei felt Jin stiffening and praying very badly for, it seems to be, a certain someone or maybe someone not to be on his team. " Zairyu Kako" The young boy smiled warmly at Jin. He had jet black hair with tints of a dark rosemary color that wrapped around his face, cutting off at the shoulders. He looked very mature and older than everyone else at the academy. Also tall, and had a gentleman kind of personality. "And the last remaining team member is….,"