Well since i've read my reviews i've realised they are right and the first chapter was too short. So i've conbined the first and second chapters into chapter 1....woo confusing, but anyway, this fic is using the manga story line, and if they defeat ochimaru in the manga it doesn't happen in my story.... anyways on with the fic....

Chapter name

Scene change= line

Where/When scene takes place

"speaking"

Thinking

Anyways on with the fic.....


Prologue

Somewhere outside of Konoha

The girl stumbled along, covered in her own blood, barely able to walk. Her firey red hair almost the same colour as the blood. She had to get to a village soon, or she would collapse and die in the wilderness, and she couldn't die; not yet. She could remember nothing but her desire to kill someone and the name Uchiha, not her name, someone else's.

A twig snapped behind her. She turned round.

"Hey baby. What's a young beautiful thing like you doing in a place like this?" There were three men, all ninja's, all a lot bigger than she was. She considered a fight, but she was in no state at the moment, but if it came to it she would.

"Stay away from me." She said making a move to get away as fast as she could.

One of the men made an attempt to grab her. She dodged away fast.

"Oh, a fast little minx isn't she? I like a challenge."

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Yelled the Girl splitting into around a hundred clones of herself.

They all attacked the three men, knocking them all down. The clones dissolved around her, her chakra had run out. She was bleeding more heavily now, and with all her chakra out she couldn't heal herself either. She heard talking ahead and pulled herself painfully towards the sound.

"Hey Sasuke-Kun, when we get back do you want to go out with me?" Asked a girls voice.

"No thanks." Said a male voice blowing her off.

"I'll go out with you Sakura-Chan." Said another male voice.

"Go away Naruto." Said Sakura, "Hey Sasuke-kun where are you going?"

"you're annoying me Sakura." He said.

"Hey girl, you aren't getting away that easily, and I'm gonna make you pay for killing one of my comrades."

"Uh-oh," She said under her breath outta chakra, facing someone who I've pissed off totally, and can't move properly…I'm so screwed……. But I can't die, I must fight on and live. "Come on then. Try it." She took a fighting stance, ready for him to come.

"Do you really think that you can beat me in that state?" He took out multiple Kunais, and threw them at her.

She saw them travel through the air in slow motion, and she knew she wouldn't be able to dodge them. After all this she was going to die.

A shape hurtled out of the bushes to her left and knocked her out of the way of the Kunais. The girl looked with blurry vision at the boy who had saved her, a very cute boy for that matter. A Kunai had hit him on the shoulder, an he pulled it out with a grunt.

Her vision began to blur more and she could feel the darkness beckoning. The last thing she thought was that this boy looked very familiar, but like everything else, the reason for his familiarity remained locked inside her mind, waiting to be unlocked with time.


Chapter 1

Konoha Hospital

"finally awake then? You slept for two days straight."

"Two days?" the girl asked holding her head, trying to sit up. Her clothes had been taken off her and she had on the hospital night clothes.

"Yeah, you slept like a log, at one point we thought you might die."

"Where am I?" She asked Groggily, "and who are you?"

"Konoha, the hidden leaf village, and I'm Shizune. What's your name?"

"i…"she tried to think, "I don't know, I can't remember."

"Can you remember anything else? Where you're from, how you got like you were?"

"No. I only remember waking up about three days ago. Nearly dead, nearly out of chakra."

"You must have hit your head, there's no other explanation, but your wounds healed exceptionally fast when your Chakra replenished, and I found this in your pocket of your trousers." Shizune said producing a head protector that had a symbol of two waves on it. "It's a symbol that you're from the hidden wave village."

"Am I?" Said the girl taking the head band and staring at the symbol on it. "How did I get here?"

"Now that I do know, some of our Chuunin's brought you in here. Sasuke, Sakura and Naruto."

"is that boy alright who got hit by the Kunai?"

"Yes Sasuke's fine. He's shoulders still healing but he'll be alright."

"Ah so you're awake Saya?" Said another of the medical team

"Saya?" the girl repeated.

"Yes, is that not your name?"

"I don't know."

"Well I'm assuming it is, because it's carved into the back of the forehead protector we found on you." Said the person turning over the head band in her hand, showing her the name Saya Ichiro carved in Kanji.

"So my name is Saya? Why can't I remember?" She said frowning.

"Your memory will come back in time. Just wait a little while. For the moment though, our Hokage has assigned you to help with team 7."

"Team 7?" Said Saya raising one eyebrow

"Yes, a group of three Chuunins and on junin. They could do with another member, they are the only team that don't have five members."

"Great when can I get out of this bed then?" She said sliding out of bed.

"Don't think so young lady. You get right back in that bed, now. A day at the very least, although with the injuries you got you should stay in there for at least another week." Said Shizune pushing her back into bed.

"A week?" Saya protested

"Stay in bed for at least a day then we'll see how you go."

"Fine."


Later that evening

It was now towards evening and Shizune had looked in on Saya, she was sleeping peacefully in the bed. Or at least that was the impression she got. Saya was actually awake and very hungry. Hospital food is not know for filling you up. She crept out of bed, putting pillows inside the covers, making the impression that there was someone in the bed if you didn't look to closely. She got her clothes from the locker in the corner and changed out of the hospital clothes into her own, tying her forehead protector round her waist. She pulled open the window, and jumped down onto the floor. Luckily her bed room was on the ground floor. She ran down the street, keeping to the shadows and she went into the ramen restaurant. Her face lit up at the prospect of ramen. She seemed to have a craving for it.

She ordered her meal, and paid for it with the spare change from her pocket. Looking around the room for a seat, she spotted the guy who had saved her, sitting with two other people. She wandered over.

"Hey, umm excuse me. Sasuke-san?" She said timidly, tapping Sasuke on the right shouder.

Sasuke looked round wondering who had addressed him, "I just want to thank you, for saving my life the other day." She said bowing.

"No problem." He said shrugging.

"Is your shoulder alright?" Saya asked.

"It's healing."

She looked up and looked him in the eye. There was something familiar about him.

Suddenly she had vision, like a flashback. But Saya wasn't sure if it was real or not. Blood was all over the floor, six people were lying dead in front of her. Someone who looked exactly like Sasuke was standing ahead of the bodies. Holding onto another boy about the same age. Without much effort he slit his throat with a kunai.

"Hey you're that girl from the other day." Said Naruto pointing at her rather rudely, snapping her out of her reverie.

"Um, yeah I suppose I am." She said laughing, trying to forget the horrifying image.

"You wanna sit with us? 'cause it don't look like you're here with anyone." Asked Naruto

Sasuke rolled his eyes, look's like Naurto's got another crush. Over the past two years Naruto had fancied nearly every girl in the village, that was every girl except Hinata, who for some reason actually like Naruto and he hadn't noticed. But he still had a very soft spot for Saukra.

"If there's enough room." Saya said

Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura squashed round to make room, Saya sat next to Sasuke.

"I'm Naruto Uzumaki, this is Sakura-chan, and you already know Sasuke-Chan." He said laughing, then he quickly changed his mind after Sasuke gave him a glare that said 'later I'm gonna kill you.' "I mean Sasuke-kun."

"Saya Ichiro. From the hidden wave village. Hey um, Sasuke-san. Have I ever met you before, because you look very familiar."

"No. I would've remembered if I'd met you."

"Sorry, I can't actually remember anything. So if I ask weird questions, I kinda not my fault."

"You don't remember anything?" Asked Sakura.

"Well I didn't even remember my name. It was carved on the back of my forehead protector. So I think Saya's my name."

"you know you heal exceptionally fast from all your wounds. How come you're out of hospital so soon?" Said Sasuke, looking at Saya.

Inner Sakura shook a fist, then went into a blinding rampage, Pretending to kill a model doll of Saya, "He never talks this much to me! Then this girl comes along and he starts talking to her…". Outer Sakura though was as calm as anything and didn't say a word.

"Well, I'm not actually supposed to be out. Shizune said that I have to stay in bed at least a day, but I feel fine, and the hospital food is disgusting."

"Don't doubt that." Said Sakura, "Oh food."

The waitress brought the ramen over to the table. She set a small plate in front of Sakura, a massive plate in front of Naruto and a glass of water in front of Sasuke. Saya raised an eyebrow.

"You not eating?"

"Sasuke-kun doesn't like ramen." Said Sakura tucking into her food.

The waitress brought over Saya's meal a little while later. They all got on really well despite not knowing each other very well.

"So what you gonna do next if you don't remember anything?" Asked Naruto with his mouth full of food.

"Well apparently your Hokage has assigned me to team 7, because they don't have enough members. But I'm not so sure I want to because I prefer working alone."

"We're team 7." Said Sasuke

"Oh right," said Saya, feeling stupid because of what she had said, "well I suppose it's ok if it's with people I know."

"I know how you feel. I wouldn't want to work with dead last here and annoying there." Said Sasuke referring to Naruto and Sakura respectively.

Saya snorted into her food, and Sakura and Naruto looked at her.

They finished their food without any fuss and they went out of the Ramen place.

"So Saya-san, where're you going now?" Asked Naruto

"I'd better get back to the." She said starting to wobble, "hospital."

She fell forwards onto the floor and blacked out.

Saya's dream

Saya was walking along a street, she knew she was late but she dawdled anyway. Someone came up to her from the other side of the street. Someone she knew.

"Hey Saya happy sixteenth birthday." Said the old woman.

"Thanks." She smiled

"Finally an adult, you can inherit the true power of the Ichiro clan. But I think you'd probably better get going or you'll miss your own ceremony."

"Meh. They can wait. It's my birthday after all."

She said goodbye to the old lady and set off down the street. Someone was calling her name.

"Saya? Saya!"


Back at the hospital

"Saya? Saya!" Said Shizune, as Sasuke carried her into the hospital, "what is she doing here?"

"She snuck out of bed to get some food. Then collapsed on the way back." Said Sakura from behind Sasuke.

Shizune led Sasuke up to a spare bed room, and he laid Saya on the bed.

"Saya?" Said Shizune as her eyes started to flutter.

"It was my birthday two days ago." She said tiredly, waking up.

"Ah, I told you your memories would come back with time. But don't change the subject, what were you doing out of bed, young lady?" Said Shizune

"Umm, I went to get food. I was hungry."

"Well don't do it again. If I tell you that you have to stay in bed it's for good reason. I was very good that you were with people otherwise we might not have found you till morning." Shizune Tutted, "please just stay in bed until all your strength returns."

"Ok if I must." She said resignedly

Shizune ushered out Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke.

"Hey Sasuke-San." Called Saya, Sasuke turned around, "Thanks again."

"no problem." He called back.

Saya settled down into bed and fell into a deep sleep.


Well thats the end of the prologue and chapter one. hope you can find the time to review, and thanks to all those who have reviewed already. I'll reply to them all in the next chapter.

Peace out, Emma-Chan