Chapter 2

Luna fluttered her dark eyes open to be greeted with a blinding flash of white. '…so much white it's actually hurting my eyes…a hospital no doubt.' Luna took a look around and noticed that she had a drip in her right hand and bandages half way up her left arm. Her body felt like it had gotten beaten with 10 tonne mallets. She tried to sit up, but failed due to the severe pain that shot through her body. Sighing in defeat she looked for her stuff. She quickly found it and all its contents spread over a table in a far corner. 'When I find out who went through my stuff, I'll murder them.' She thought narrowing her eyes at the bag. A few seconds later an old man dressed in a red and white robe walked into the room and sat in the chair that was positioned beside the bed.

"Who are you?" she demanded, turning her glare at the old man, as soon as she could see he was comfortable.

"Ah…so you have your voice, well that's good. I am Hokage Sarutobi." Luna's eyes went wide and began stuttering.

"I-I'm s-s-sorry, I-I-I n-never m-meant d-disrespect." The Hokage smiled.

"Don't worry about it." Luna sighed. 'Thank god he is not offended; but how I could not recognise him? He's wearing his Hokage robes and I've been in other ninja villages before and yet I never thought about who he was. Oh god I'm such a fool.' The Hokage's voice brought her from her thoughts. "Child –"

"My name's Luna." She snapped her gaze to him, her voice sharp. She didn't mean to seem rude; she just hated it when people treated her like she was 5, regardless how much older they were. The Hokage blinked in surprise from her interruption. Smiling he continued.

"Luna, you stumbled upon our village in a complete mess. Since then you have been out cold for a week. Would you mind explaining to what happened before you fell into our care?"

Taking a big breath she quietly and slowly began to explain about how she has been living on her own since she was eleven and travelled most of the world, she even explained about her short time with the fire monks. Throughout the whole thing the Hokage smiled and nodded, and for some reason Luna couldn't figure out why he was so interested to know in her travels. The look he was giving her wasn't sitting right with her either.

"Um…"

"Is there something else?" The Hokage smiled gently.

"Yeah…well I was attacked before you guys found me."

"Figured as much, you had many deep wounds and bruises." Luna nodded and continued.

"Well…my arm…" she looked at her left arm. "It was really weird, at first there was a gold light then pain. What could it be?"

"I'm not quite sure, but I think a bloodline has awoken within you." Luna nodded, the feeling that he knew something she didn't getting stronger. "I think it would be best if you stayed and lived here in Konoha." The Hokage stood and turned towards the door. "I'll return later in the week and discuss with you about housing and schooling." Luna merely nodded, after the Hokage left she settled down for a long rest. 'It seems that I am going to settle down, must be fate or something.'

xXx

A few days later Luna was let out of the hospital; the Hokage had organised that she join the ninja academy and after some talk with people, he even found a place for her to stay. Her left arm was still wrapped with bandages and still hurt; she was even able to get a look at it while it was being redressed before she left. It now had smooth gold markings, like a birthmark, from about her wrist to about her elbow. She couldn't quite determine the pattern, the delicate lines curled and crossed across her arm in an intricate pattern. Looking closely she thought she saw a snake or two, or flames. She walked slowly to where she was to stay, a place owned by a guy called Uchiha Sasuke. Once there he coldly greeted her before leading her to her room.

"You will stay here." He briefly went through a few rules, but she ignored him, not really caring for him or his rules as he seemed like a cold bastard, with a ten foot pole up his ass.

xXx

The next morning the Uchiha bastard decided to wake her up by pouring icy cold water over her, this made her birthmark react and shoot severe pain through her body. Screaming and writhing in pain she tried jumping out of bed to kill him, this however didn't work as she passed out from the pain. She awoke in her room, no longer wet, cold or in lots of pain. The Hokage was beside her with a look of worry plastered on his face.

"What happened?" Luna shrugged looking at her arm, which still tingled and red was seeping through the bandages. Sasuke snuck forward.

"I poured ice cold water over her, since she wouldn't wake up and we were going to be late. She started screaming and writhing in pain. She jumped out of bed and nearly broke a leg when she fainted. Why?" he demanded. The Hokage reached over and undid the still slightly damp cloth around her left arm. When exposed everyone could see Luna's mark, it was glowing gold and bled a little; Luna hissed and glared at her raven haired housemate when he touched it. The Hokage explained that the marks appeared due to a bloodline activating so it was a little sensitive. Taking a look at Luna and Sasuke, seeing as they were fine he disappeared in a puff of smoke, leaving Sasuke to redress Luna's mark. With that done, Sasuke forced Luna to eat before leaving for class, much to her distaste, she rarely ate breakfast especially when she was just rudely awoken. Luna glared at Sasuke all the way there; by the time the two got there they were half an hour late.

"Nice of you to finally join us Sasuke." a man with a scar across his nose said sternly, his hands on his hips. 'He reminds me of a mother.' Luna thought. The man looked at Luna, who was standing behind Sasuke cautiously looking around the classroom. One would almost think she was trying to hide behind the raven haired boy, even though she was taller.

"Ah this must be the new student. My name is Iruka; I will be your teacher until your Genin exam in a few weeks." Sasuke left Luna at the door and went to sit down. Iruka turned to everyone; clapping everyone quieted down.

"Everyone pay attention." He turned back to Luna. "Introduce yourself and tell us a little about yourself." Luna walked to the front of the classroom, sighing she looked over the faces of the young ninja. Studying each one and trying to guess how well they will do compared to the few ninja she'd met on her travels. So far she didn't see anything good, but they had time.

"Name's Luna, I just moved here." She said bored out of her brains. Personally she'd rather be looking around the town, or maybe training. Her taijutsu was getting a little slow. Iruka sighed. 'Great! Another silent student.' He noticed a raised hand.

"Yes?"

"Where did you (crunch) live before here?" A boy eating a bag of chips managed out. Luna looked at the boy with a mix of disgust and fascination as he was able to eat and talk at the same time, without spilling a single crumb.

"I've travelled all over. I have been from a small monastery in the Lightning country all the way to Suna in the Wind country."

"What did you do?" a girl with red hair spoke up. Luna shrugged.

"Whatever jobs I could find, they usually included stuff like painting, finding lost pets and other stupid stuff. I also sold my paintings and woven products at markets. You might have seen some of my works; I sold some to people travelling to Konoha once." Everyone looked at her in awe. Many more questions were thrown around; one student even praised Luna on her artwork, after recognising her name from a painting in her living room. Iruka noticed that one child raised her hand instead of just speaking her mind like everyone else.

"Yes?"

"I…ah…" Luna turned her eyes to the speaker, a pink haired girl. "You never said your age or your last name. You don't look 12." Luna studied her features. 'Pink hair? Oh well, whatever floats your boat...strange it looks good on her. She looks like a teacher's pet, a little goody two shoes though.' Luna smirked and crossed her arms carefully in front of her before answering.

"I'm 15, if you really want to know. Do I look twelve to you?" Luna glanced down for a second. Not sure why that question was even asked. "And I never said my last name, because I don't have one, simple."

"That's stupid, everyone has a last name!" A loud blonde yelled. Luna smiled before disappearing, black smoke swirled where she had stood. She appeared sitting on the desk behind the blonde, one leg hooked over the other knee.

"Well not me blondie." The blonde yelped in surprise, earning giggles and chuckles from the other students

"What the –! How did you get up here so fast?" Luna shrugged.

"I wanted to sit here, applied some chakra and I just appeared here, easy." Actually it was a lot harder then it looked.

"So...sensei." Luna swung her legs. "I'm sure it's time to get back to learning the all important skills of being a ninja. Where do I sit?" she ended. Some guys gave Iruka looks pleading that she be put beside them.

"Of course! Why don't you sit….between Shino and Kiba?"

"Whatever." Luna stood on the table and back flipped of the desk, landing on her hand she pushed off and kept going until she landed near two boys. She sat between the two boys pointed out by Iruka. Everyone's eyes were wide.

"That was impressive. But don't do that again." Luna chuckled lightly. She felt like showing off, she didn't get to do it often.

"Sorry sensei."

"Now back to what we were doing. The basics of the clone jutsu are as follows…"

xXx

'Uhh, that was actually more boring than I thought it would. I know all of this already. I thought they would teach me more than the fire monks would, even though they did just teach me the basics." Luna thought to herself. She was slightly dozing under a tree, with Kiba, Shino and Hinata sitting close by; the pain from the cold wakeup call almost forgotten. Luna opened her eyes and looked around at the other students hanging around the area, either eating or just doing whatever. 'There's Shikamaru and Chouji watching clouds and eating chips, Shino is looking and/or collecting bugs as would be expected. Hmm…maybe I should show or even give him some of by insect paintings and sketches, he might warm up to me a little. Kiba's playing with Akamaru just there and Hinata's reading just to the left. Sakura and Ino are clinging to the bastard Uchiha, I guess one should feel sorry for him a little. I don't see Naruto anywhere…I wonder where he is?' Akamaru suddenly jumped into her lap; sadly her left arm was resting there. The weight of the small dog was enough to make her markings flare and shoot pain through her system. Luna screamed and hissed in pain; as red began to seep through her wrappings. Hearing Luna's screams Iruka came running.

"What happened?"

"Akamaru jumped into her lap and landed on her arm, and then she started screaming." Iruka nodded. He quickly picked the girl up and carried her back inside. 'I'm glad the Hokage mentioned this.' When everyone returned to class, Luna had new clean bandages and was sitting beside a window, her left arm closest to the window. Everyone except Hinata and Kiba stayed well clear of her, Shino was close but avoided her like most other people, as she had began to snap at anyone who tried or did manage to touch her. She actually nearly stabbed a poor boy with a pencil.

xXx

A few days later at lunch Luna was sitting high in the branches of the tree in the yard connected to the academy. Luna looked at her left arm. 'Stupid piece of shit, why must I have this thing? I've lived with pain all my life, but the pain and isolation I get because of this is worse than anything I have ever felt.' Luna shook her head. 'Why the hell do I care what other people think? As long as I have friends like Shino, Kiba and Hinata I'm fine. Yeah they can all fuck themselves, if they think I'm weird that's their problem.' Luna looked around below her. 'Hmm…Duckbutt and his harem. What to do?' Smiling evilly, Luna jumped out of the tree, to land skilfully, cat like, beside the unfortunate Uchiha.

"Yo girls!" the three girls…oops sorry two girls looked up from the thing of their affection. "A question for ya. Why do you love this angsty, silent, stuck-up and really annoying raven so much hmm? There's nothing that great about him." The two fan girls detached themselves from the dark-haired boy, much to his almost obvious relief. 'Thank god! They've finally let go!' The girls glared at Luna.

"How dare you insult Sasuke-kun! You don't know anything about him." Luna raised an eyebrow and shrugged.

"That maybe; but still all he has shown me of his personality, if you can call it that, tells me he is a crackpot, idiot, fool and a jackass. So, why do you love him so much?" Luna leaned against the tree

"He is strong, absolutely drop-dead gorgeous and is the most skilled ninja there is." They replied with a dreamy sigh.

"So you will blindly follow him to the ends of the earth, do whatever he wishes and love him until death, even though Duckbutt shows absolutely no interest?" 'Why is she giving them ideas?' Sasuke, thinking in horror, glared at her.

"Duckbutt?" He growled out. Luna chuckled slightly.

"Yeah Duckbutt; your hairstyle reminds me of a duck's butt, or would you prefer Chicken-ass or even Cockatoo head?"

"Hn." Grunting, Sasuke turned away.

"Angsty raven…hmm…" Luna thought to herself.

"Hn?" Sasuke eyed his housemate. Luna glanced at him.

"Oh nothing, I was just thinking if you started quaking, clucking or even squawking and someone hand-fed you, you would suit your hair perfectly." Sasuke glared daggers at Luna, wishing she drop dead. Luna however ignored it, getting up she dusted herself off and began walking away to find her friends. She stopped and waved over her shoulder at them.
"See-ya Duckbutt, Pinkie, Ino-pig."

xXx

That evening when Luna and Sasuke sat down for dinner, the two didn't stop glaring at each other around their bowls. Luna stared straight at Sasuke eyes watching the irises. 'Come on, come on. I put in the amount that the herbalist said to. What's taking it so long?' Luna had before coming home had bought some special herbs; they were meant to, according to the herbalist, help people with sleeping problems. Even though Sasuke had watched Luna like a hawk when she offered to make dinner, she was able to slip the required amount into his bowl. Luna thought back on it. 'Sheesh and he calls himself a ninja.' Now she was just waiting for the drugs to take effect, she had noticed that his eyes were getting a little droopy but she would wait until he was completely passed out before she went to stage two of her plan. Luna took another mouthful, taking her eyes off the Uchiha for just a moment; suddenly there was a crash and a thump. Looking over to her housemate, Luna saw Sasuke was out cold on the floor. 'Ha-ha, yes! Now for part B. Muwhahahaha.' Luna thought evilly as she dragged Sasuke to his room. 'Oh he is going to have a fit when he wakes up.' Luna giggled slightly.