disclaimer: i do not own naruto

Chapter 1

The village was gloomy. The shine of the bright moon looked down upon the hidden leaf village, as all its shinobi slept soundly in their homes. One walked through the night, her small body shivering from the icy cold air. She wore a thin, pale yellow jacket, but the front had no zipper, so she tucked the ends into her pants. She wore a plan black cropped t-shirt, while the neckline of it had netting around its v-neck. She then wore plan black pants that went just above her knees, and she had netting covering the rest of her legs, finishing off her typical ninja outfit with black sandals. Around her mid-thigh on her left leg was a wrapping, and on top of that was a small ninja bag, which carried all the ninja tools she had. Other than that bag, she had no other belongings with her. Strands of dark brown wavy hair stuck out from underneath her hood, while the rest of her hair was tied back in a low ponytail, unable to be seen because of her hood.

Suddenly, small droplets of rain feel from the dark sky. The young kunoichi glanced up at the sky, her dark blue eyes squinting as a couple of droplets landed on her forehead.

Just like the night we left... Little one..

The girl shook her head and pushed back the demon inside her, blocking out his chillingly clam voice.

Her eyes swiftly glanced around, taking in her surroundings as they all became oddly familiar to her, as if she was re-living a dream. But she knew that this wasn't a dream, she knew that her old village was finally slipping its way back into her memory. She looked down a stoney pathway, which she remembered from memory that it led down to a small wooden cabin. Her heart filled with pain, and she squeezed her eyes shut before quickly walking away from the dreaded path. She stuck her hands deep within her pants pockets and continued on through the sleeping village.

When she finally reached her destination, she glanced up towards it; the building which held the Hokage's office. The academy for young ninja students was held at the bottom of the building, she glanced at it quickly, before looking back up to her goal spot. Even though she was of age, she was never able to attend the ninja academy, for various reasons. She looked past the building, seeing the large stonewall with the past Hokage's faces carved into it.

She let out a sigh and jumped, landing on the roof of the building. She didn't just want to barge into the office, knowing that she would be stopped instantly. But this was a mission she could not just give up on. She stopped and thought for a bit, as she was trained to do from a very young age. She soon opened her eyes and pulled her hood tighter around her head. She then jumped down to the closest flight of stairs to her, laying with her stomach face down. She made her breath become slower as she crawled up the stairs. Soon the Hokage's door came into perfect view from where she was perched, but there was something odd.

No guards... This is a trap little one, and you know it.

The girl let out a sigh, shaking her head softly. Trap or not, her mission was to get into the Hokage's office. She took one deep breath and jumped up from her spot, running fast towards to the door. Her arms hung behind her as she sped, her eyes filled with determination.

"Almost there..."

She whispered quietly to herself as her hand reached out for the doorknob.

In a flash, she was stopped dead in her tracks. She let out a loud puff of air as a hard first landed directly on her stomach, while another hand held on tightly to her shoulder. She bit down hard on the inside of her cheek to distract her from the pain and glanced up at her assailant. Holding her back was an anbu blackop, the fiercest ninjas in all of Konoha. His identity was known, because of the white cat like mask that he had over his face. He easily lifted the girl from her spot, and spoke.

"Who are you to think you can just walk into the Hokage's office?"

The girl struggled a bit, letting out a small growl. So close to her goal...

The male suddenly opened up the door and threw the girl inside the Hokage's office, she landed on her hands and knees with a small "ouf". She then slowly looked up to see the Hokage looking down at her, a look of shock in his eyes. She quickly stood up, bowing in the presences of the third Hokage.

"Lord third, this brat was trying to sneak into your office, do you know her?"

The third Hokage stepped towards the girl and placed a hand on her shoulder, he than glared towards the anbu ninja.

"Please, let us be for the time being."

The ninja was confused, but he didn't go against the Hokage's orders. He quickly vanished from their presence, leaving behind only a poof of dust.

The young girl glanced up at the Hokage, a bit of fear in her eyes. He had gotten older from the last time she seen him. He looked at her still with a look of surprise, but then his look quickly faded to a look of complete seriousness.

"Uzumaki Vitalani... You do realize that you are a rouge ninja, and the fact that you have the nerve to try and break into my office at such a late hour could have you in prison. What is it that you could want, you have no business here in the leaf village."

The old man stepped away from the girl and turned his back to her, keeping his arms crossed behind his back.

Vitalani sighed softly to herself, scrunching up her fists into tight balls. She looked up at the Hokage's back with determination.

"Lord third, I have come back to this village to live out my days as a shinobi, and to serve this village to the best of my abilities."

She then got down on her knees and bowed, biting her lip to keep herself from crying.

"I know I left on a bad note lord third... But I was only a child, and seeing the bodies of my family lay before me-"

"That's enough."

The Hokage stated sternly. Vitalani bit the inside of her cheek, causing the tears to actually fall from her eyes. Her plan had to work, she could not fail.

"As the leader of this village it is my job to protect my fellow shinobi... You may have killed two of our top jouni... But you are still a ninja of this village. You are now my responsibly, and therefore I shall grant you permission to stay and live your days as a leaf ninja... But be warned Vitalani, you are on my radar, I do not forgive traitors twice."

The young who was still bowing before her lord nodded quickly, standing up and suddenly hugging the older man around his waist. She couldn't stop the tears that continued to flow from her eyes. The Hokage gave her a slight small and placed a hand on her shoulder.

"You will be living in your old home, and be training a geuni tomorrow, I except you to be just as good as all the other ninja your age, head to the academy tomorrow morning and the instructors there will tell you the rest."

The old man paused for a moment and patted the girls head.

"Welcome back to the village, young six tails."

Vitalani looked up at the Hokage and smiled, she bowed one more time and said her thanks, before walking out of his office and back into the night. A cold breeze blew over her, and her hood fell off, revealing the red tips of her hair. She looked up at the sky and wiped the tears from her face, all looks off sadness had disappeared.

Mission complete.

Light shone through a tiny crack in Naruto's window and hit his sleeping face. He made a soft groan and turned on to his side, his eyes slowly blinking open as he looked towards his clock.

"Hmm... 11:30... 11:30?!"

Suddenly Naruto shot out of his bed, half of his clothes already off as he rushed through his house trying to get ready. Iruka sensei had wanted all the geuni at the academy by ten, because apparently there was a very important meeting for all of them, and of course Naruto slept in.

"Late late late, I'm late!"

Naruto quickly grabbed his ninja took bag and ran out his front door, jumping down and running quickly through the streets of konoha. A smirk was plastered on his face as people all around him complained. He was running through footstands and bumping into bystanders. He let out a hearty laugh and continued to run fast through the streets, turning back to stick his tongue out at the people.

"Sorry suckers! But Naruto has places to be!"

Finally he reached his destination. He glanced up at the tall academy standing before him. He burst through the doors with a loud bang, causing all the young ninja in the classroom to turn and face towards him, looks of annoyance plastered on their faces. Iruka sensei was in mid-sentence when Naruto barged in, and a vein appeared on his forehead as Naruto let out a giggle.

"Hehe... Sorry guys! Kinda slept in-"

Naruto stopped talking when he realized there was a girl standing at the front of the classroom with Iruka. She as well was looking at him, but there was no look of annoyance on her face. She had deep set dark blue eyes, and a very well sculptured face for a young kunoichi. She was wearing a pale yellow jacket, with the front open, and underneath she had a plan black cropped shirt with a netted v-neck collar. She had a shiny new blue konoha headband tied around her forearm. Her tanned stomach was bare all the way down to her hips, where casual black pants came down to above her knees. She had strands of light brown hair poking out of her hood, but what Naruto noticed the most was that on a strand of hair, the end of it was darker than the rest, in fact, it had a reddish tint to it...

When Naruto realized that he had been staring at the girl for quite sometime, he started to blush, which caused the girl to quickly look away. Iruka finally broke the awkward tension and sighed, crossing his arms as he scolded Naruto.

"Naruto, this wasn't the day you should have been late. All your classmates got here on time. Now stop interrupting me and go sit down with your squad.

Naruto just nodded and walked up to the bench were his team sat. Sakura, the pink hair girl with a spicy attitude gave Naruto's arm a hard punch, which caused the blond to grumble. Sasuke sat on the opposite side of Sakura, keeping his hands crossed across his lips, not saying anything to Naruto. He just continued to stare at the front.

Iruka sighed and placed a hand on the young ninja standing beside him. She glanced back up at her classmates, her eyes showed no emotion as the sensei started to speak.

"This is Vitalani, a new ninja to this village. She's the same age as all of you, so you better treat her with the same respect you give to your other peers."

"But why is she joining now? I've never seen her around the village before?"

Ino stood up and spoke from her seat. Both her teammates sighed as she spoke out, she always had a big mouth. But she wasn't the only one with questions, other kids nodded with Ino's question, and others started to speak out as well. Vitalani kept her composure, her face stone cold as she watched the people before her start to become angry.

"She didn't even have to go through the academy training like we did!"

"I've never even seen her before in this village! Is she even from here?"

"Who's team is she joining? We're all in groups of three!"

"SILENCE!"

Iruka yelled out to the students. They all became quiet after that, but Ino stood her ground, staring daggers at the girl who stood at the front. Vitalani on the other hand paid no attention to the hotheaded blond, keeping her focus on the room in front of her.

"She has been trained and was personally requested by the Hokage to become a geuni now. I will not stand for you kids to ask any more questions about her past. If she wishes to tell you, she may."

Iruka sighed and reached back on the table to grab a scroll. He then proceeded to open it and stick it to the blackboard behind him.

"Now, as for teams. Since you are all in squads, Vitalani will mostly be on her own. She won't get the privilege you guys have when it comes to becoming close with your fellow squad. She will be switched between squads each time you guys go on missions. You can take a look at this scroll later on to see which mission she will be attending with you. Now, that's all for today. Get to training."

Iruka sensei called off the class. There were grumbles and groans flowing through the air as the kids filed out of the class. Ino was the first up at the board and snickered, looking over at Naruto and his squad.

"Hey big forehead, you get werido here first!"

Vitalani stayed silent, glancing over at the group of three still sitting, her eyes stayed locked on the Uchiha boy, his features similar to her.

"Shut up Ino pig! I'd rather have her than you!"

Sakura said with a growl, standing up to go check out the board herself. Then Sasuke proceeded to leave the classroom, not saying a word to anyone as he did so. The last kids in the room were Naruto and Vitalani. He was giving her the stink eye as he racked through his memory. He knew that he knew her from somewhere. Vitalani turned her back to him, following the blond and pink haired arguing girls out of the classroom.

"Naruto... Our classmates are leaving, and we should too."

She glanced back at him and gave him the smallest smile, before disappearing out the doors. Naruto instantly stood up, a slight blush on his face as he ran after the girl.

"H-hey there! Wait for me!"