Disclaimer:

As you may already know, I did not create Naruto. So all names, and other Naruto related material is property of its creator. So please, just remember; I'm in college I have no money for you to sue for. All original characters are my own creation, if they do happen to come along in the show I assure you; it is coincidental, thank you. Enjoy the Reading

Just to give you a bit of a heads up in the following chapter there is a bit of a "time jump". But then again you shall also read it in the story just to make you aware of this so keep this in mind.

Flashbacks shall also be noted in Italics.

Chapter 2:

Several hours after their mission the two young Genin split up to go about their own business. Renjiro heading towards a local ramen shop to catch up on a meal and Saika heading in her own direction. So the two separating going about their own way. Several hours have passed along in the day. Caught in thought Renjiro slowly made his way down the sidewalk of the Konoha streets. His hands stuffed into his pants pockets. His head looking up into the sky as the once sunny day was becoming a star-filled night. His head came back down to look ahead of him. Eyes setting on several different people and a few well-known Shinobi passing by him. This moment of looking to several of the Shinobi with their Konoha headbands on brought visions through his mind as he walked.

A boy about the age of twelve stared out towards three memorials in front of him. On one of the memorials was the Sand Village insignia symbolizing that this person was a Sand Village Ninja. Tears swelled in the eyes of this young boy staring deeply at the memorials. His eyes closed and the tears ran down his face. Falling to his knees, he placed his hands down in front of him holding himself up as the tears dropped to the ground. The long strands of hair fell before his face as he sat there.

"Mother…Father…Brother…You all left me" He softly spoke as his body quivered. "Why'd you leave me here alone?"

Blinking slightly as he stopped before he walked into someone who had stopped in the middle of the sidewalk to look inside of a store. He slowly stepped around the person and kept going about his business. He looked up to the sky once more.

"I think I'll stop by to see Saika before I go home". He softly spoke to himself as he kept walking along the sidewalk slowly.

Turning down another street he slowly walked along the sidewalk turning his head slightly looking at the buildings along the way. He slowly pressed his hands together, gathering a bit of his Chakra and the Chakra flowed down to his feet as he slowly walked up the side of a house. His hand tapped lightly against a window. Looking inside he saw Saika lying across her bed with a book in front of her. Saika was dressed in a pink pajama top as well as a pair of pink shorts.

Lifting her head up from the book Saika. Her attention turned to the window where she saw Renjiro outside of her window. Sliding off of her bed, she made her way to the window and pushed it open slowly.

Renjiro slowly moved around to sit on the edge of the window with his legs hanging out on the edge towards the outside.

Saika placed her hands on her hips and said, "You know normal people go knock on the door"

"Yeah well the only problem with that is. I am not at all normal" Renjiro responded to her quickly as he stared out of the window.

Saika grabbed her book and sat down on the bed and said, "So tell me what do you think Anko-Sensei meant today?"

Renjiro thought for a moment and shrugged his shoulders slightly and said, "Don't know. Guess we aren't meeting her expectations, but what ever. I'm know I'm doing my best"

Saika looked to him with a quirked eyebrow " You saying I'm lazy?" She stood up and walked over to him with a mad look on her face.

Renjiro turned around quickly with his hands up towards her and said, "No that's not what I'm saying. I'm just saying that I'm doing my best no matter what"

Saika shook her head slightly as she eased back to lie back on her bed. Her hands moved up so she could begin to read the book again. She was always challenging her mind as well as her body. A lot of Saika's strength was more of the Mental than Physical but don't take that the wrong way. Her physical strength is just as overwhelming. The book in front of her was entitled "Art of The Shinobi".

Renjiro slowly turned to look to her on the bed and he saw the book that she had in her hands and said "I wonder what is so important about this Scroll Anko left me with" Reaching into his pocket he held it out to look at it.

Saika looked to him and back to her book "Maybe you should read it to see what is so relevant about it".

Renjiro looked back down to the scroll and he looked up to you and said "That had come into my mind earlier but…. I decided not to. Maybe its something not meant for just anyone to see" He slowly pressed the scroll back into his back pocket. Renjiro rose to his feet and walked over to Saika and says, "I'm going to get going Saika".

Saika slowly sat up to look up to him and said "Yeah I think you should try and get some rest Renjiro. You don't seem to be acting like yourself lately." She looked up to him closed her book and set it down on the floor next to her bed.

Renjiro nodded slightly and said, "Yeah…I'm going to go now." He turned towards the window and he grabbed the top of the window and swung his legs out so he could stand on the side of the building.

After he climbed out of the window, Saika slowly moved to close the window and she closed the blinds and she turned around and walked towards the door of her bedroom and turned off the lights in her bedroom. She lay down in her bed.

Renjiro walked onto the top of her house and he sighed softly as he jumped from house to house top as he headed in the direction of his house. He jumped off of the roof of a house and landed on the sidewalk. He slowly walked forward as he stuffed his hands into his pockets. His eyes moved around as he walked. His eyes set on an apartment building. He ran forward and ran into the apartment building. Walking up several flights of stairs. He made it to the top floor and walked into the last room on the level. He opened the door slowly and stared at the empty room set in front of him. He slowly walked into the kitchen and filled up a canteen of water and placed it into the refrigerator. Taking off the belt that held his Ninja gear he set it on the handle of the bedroom door. He slowly opened the window to his bedroom. Looking outside his eyes set on a fire in the adjacent park.

Staring at the flame directly in front of him. A think piece limb of a tree in his hand he stood before his house. The flaming limb burned brightly through the darkened night of the Sand Village. With a grunt the large limb was thrown into a window of a house. After two minutes large flames could be seen growing through the house. Slowly the young boy turned his back towards the house with a backpack on his shoulders.

"It's time to move on…" the boy spoke as he walked forward exiting the village.

Setting the house a flame was the final and only step to helping him move on from his childhood. Heading towards a large gate that was surrounding the entire city. He slowly opened the village gates and walked out. He looked back once and he turned back and started running as fast as he could outside of the village.

Staring at the flame for several minutes he blinked bringing himself out of this state. He slowly moved to his bed. Pulling off the jacket and shirt he wore and dropping his pants. Sliding underneath the security of his covers. His eyes closing after looking up at the ceiling for a couple minutes. Turning over to his side, he sighed softly as he lay nuzzled in his bed peacefully.

A/N: End of the Chapter so Far