Haku awoke to the sound of a hyper-active male voice. Her heart felt cold as she relived the events of the night before. She knew it was morning, the sun was shining brightly overhead, glaring against blinding white snow.
"Over here, Kakashi-sensei! There's a naked girl on the ground. She's bleeding kinda badly," the voice yelled.
Haku heard three sets of feet arrive beside the voice. Her head felt like someone had hit her between the eyes with a hammer.
"Move aside. We need to get her to the village. Fast," a stronger, more mature male voice spoke above her.
She felt strong arms lift her and panicked. It was too fresh a memory and she vividly recalled the last time she was carried against a heavily muscled body. Haku whimpered pitifully.
"Hush, now. I won't hurt you. I only want to help you. What's your name, little one?," the soft voice asked against her ear.
"H-Haku,"she answered, shivering.
She began to feel warm, although the air was bellow freezing. Haku borrowed closer, feeling unusually safe. Though she was aware of moving, she fell fast asleep again.

Haku woke up in a room filtered by scorching sunlight. She was covered up by a cotton blue sheet and a white wool blanket. Someone had rebandged her and dressed her wounds. They had also put her in a long black tee-shirt.
A noise by the door startled her into looking over. There, lounging on the door, was a tall, gray haired man. He was wearing a mask over his mouth and a vest.
Haku knew he was the one who had taken her to this place. She just knew it, deep inside herself. Managing a very weak smile, she gestured for him to move into the room.
And he did, uncrossing his arms, the muscles rippling in his legs as they carried him towards the bed housing her. She wished she hadn't noticed that he had a very elegant, sexy walk.
"Hello, little one. How are you?," his voice was soft and concerned.
"F-fine. W-where a-am I?," she wondered aloud, mortified that she was stammering.
He gave a tiny twitch of his mouth and said kindly," You are in Konoha, the Leaf-village. My squad found you."
"Squad?," she asked curiously.
"I am a jounin, a shinobi. My squad consists of three chounin. The number-one-hyper-active-knuckle-head-ninja, otherwise known as Uzumaki Naruto, was the one who spotted you first. I'm Hatake Kakashi," he finished up by introducing himself.
When Haku gasped and Kakashi chuckled, saying," Heard of me have you?"
"Yes. Zabuza used to speak of you. The Copy Ninja. He said how he wished he could test his strength against yours…,"she broke off hesitantly.
"Zabuza?," Kakashi prompted gently.
"He-he was my best friend. Or I thought he was. Mamochi Zabuza," Haku answered brokenly.
"Oh my God," was the stunned reply.
After an awkward silence, Haku cleared her throat and asked," How long have I been asleep?".
"Fifteen days," he answered calmly.
Haku didn't take this calmly. She shouted in bewilderment,"Fifteen days?!", and attempted to scramble out of the bed and dress herself. If it had not been for Kakashi's arm catching her, she'd have fallen in a bundle.

She hadn't been aware of it, but she'd passed out. At least, she thought she had, for when she awoke next, it was dark. She sighed, holding her pounding head.For an unknown reason, she had one hell of headache.
"So, you're up again? Good. Sasuke can watch, I need to go inform Kakashi-sensei," a girl's voice said cheerfully.
Haku looked up in time to see a pink-haired head disappear behind the door. She sighed again, then started. She'd just remember the girl saying about someone named Sasuke……
She looked around the room and her eyes finally rested on a boy, not much older than her, with spiky black hair, equally black eyes, and a black outfit.
"H-Hi," she whispered tiredly.
A corner of the boys mouth twitched and he stood up to go to the side of her bed. This boy wasn't as tall as his sensei, but he was a hell of a lot taller than her, she realized.
"I'm Uchiha Sasuke. Kakashi will be here soon. He had to stay to see Naruto, a baka teamate of mine, finish his training. Don't worry. I was one of your rescurers," he said softly.