'Hello.'

Jump.

'You may be wondering who I am.'

Step, step, step.

'First, I'll tell you what happened to me; the reason I'm running, that is.'

Stop…

While she caught her breath, and stared at her blood stained hands and clothes, she couldn't help but remember what had just happened…

~Flashback~

She was running.

'Why?!!'

"GET BACK HERE DEMON!!"

'Why do they do this?!'

"DAMN HELL SPAWN, HOLD STILL!!"

'WHY ME?!!'

She tried desperately to get away. As she ran into a back alley, the fact that this has happened, and will again, made her lose focus of the mental-map of the alleyways she had memorized and flee strait into a dead end. The villagers were a ways behind her, but by the time she would get back to the entrance it would be too late to run away again. She looked for anything to hide behind, but all that was there were a few rusted pipes from some plumbing that some one had thrown out for whatever reason, and some dull, easily-sharpened carving knives that an average villager had thrown out, recently, considering the lack of rust. She even spotted a bull-tipped cleaver with the handle poking out of the pile and the tip poking out the other side.

'No where to hide… I guess I'll-'

"HERE IT IS!! OVER HERE IN THIS DEAD END!!"

'Oh no!!'

She turned to see the villagers crowding around a shinobi at the beginning of the dead-end.

'Oh!!… that must be who gave me away… Wait! I-is that…!? I-Iruka sensei?!! B-but, why!?' she thought in distress.

"Alright DIMON!-hic-!" Iruka said, obviously drunk if the slurred words are anything to go by. "We've fin-naly cot you-u-!-hic! You got no wheres to w-run! We gots your-hic!- house sets on fire, and now we'll fin-naly kee-hic!-l you!"

'They're getting closer! What do I do!? Help me, help me! Some one HELP ME!!' she screamed in her mind as she clutched her head in a fetal position, not willing to let the assassins have the pleasure to hear her screams for mercy, or see her frightened tears.

~Use the cleaver, child.~

'W-what!?' she snapped her head up, eye's wide, causing the attackers to pause momentarily, less than three meters away from the corner with the pipes she was sitting on, before starting to walk towards her again. 'What do you mean? Who are you?!'

~Use the cleaver. Or the pipes. Or even the knives. Control what will always be yours; control destiny…~

'… the cleaver?… no, I'm too far away… but… I'm on the pipes so…' She turned around on the ground and looked for one that looked suitable.

"Trying to crawl away? Look at the little demon spawn! Sorry to say this, bitch, but there's no hole behind those pipps! The wall's made a' birck! Not wood!" An ANBU with a dog mask said.

'Too rusty, perfect but too big, that's a sink faucet… ah!' she thought as she picked up a medium sized pipe, just small enough to fit in her four year-old hands, but large and rusty enough to cause a lot of damage.

"Oh look, she's even trying to defend herself, the little whore!" one of the many Uchihas yelled. It seemed that they alone made up at least half of the mob. They were now only one meter(three feet) away from her slouched over form. "I say we take as much of her spirit as possible! Who's up for a little fun with this potential toy?" Another one yelled. It seems that the Uchiha didn't have to be drunk in order to disobey the Hokage's specific orders. "I'm gonna be the first to rape the thing! It took my wife and my children, and I got permanently injured!" A villager yelled.

'What?!!'

She froze, half turned around. At that moment, something snapped inside her soul. All she could think about was the panic coursing throughout her veins. Then, nothing but the overwhelming thirst to kill.

"I'll kill you." she said aloud, barely a whisper as she slowly stood and faced the mob, head low, eyes hidden by her sun-kissed bangs. Iruka and the dog ANBU stopped, being the only ones who heard considering they were the closest. "I'll kill you all." she said again, now in a normal voice with a dead, icy tone. They all froze, too petrified to move as her words echoed throughout the alley. "Every last one of you. I'll kill YOU!!" She shouted at the end, snapping her head up, showing her, now slitted, blood-thirsty sapphire orbs, and raising the pipe over her head, and struck with a downward swing at Iruka, hitting his leg; hard.

"AHH!!" He screamed, doubling over his now broken leg as she moved on to attack the other civilians while they were frozen, breaking either one or both of their legs to impede on they're movements so to finish them off later, the dog-masked ANBU already having fled before Iruka even went down, as well as all but one of the Uchihas; Uchiha Shisui, who only fled once the pain in his leg knocked him out of his trance. One by one, they all fell, and one by one, they all died. Only a few had managed to flee, being at the entrance of the dead end and having anough time to recover from their initiall panic. Once she had killed the last civilian, she went over to Iruka, who she had left alive to see the suffering of his fellow villagers.

"I won't kill you." she said to him, her face devoid of emotion. "You're not good enough for that." she held her pipe at the ready anyway, although in a looser stance as she slowly walked foreword, relishing in the fact that he seemed to flinch every time her foot hit the cold, damp ground of the dead end alley. Step… Step… Step… until she was right in front of him, pipe at the ready, watching with a dead-eyed grin of cruel satisfaction as he quivered under her gaze. "I won't kill you. But… I'll leave you with a parting gift, that you can keep forever." she said as she raised it above her head, and brought it down again on his broken leg.

"AHH!!!" he screamed in pain, as her eyes widened and her feral grin turned once again blood-thirsty with every sickening crack of his bone. Over and over again she hit him, until finally, a sickening crunch was heard, signifying the bone being completely shattered. "AAAAHHHHHH!!!" Iruka screamed as he fainted, the last thing he sees being her picking up the biggest serrated knife from the pile he had managed to crawl over to, and seeing her eyes return to normal, her face not letting down the hollow grin, before succumbing to darkness.

After returning to her normal state of mind and cutting off her ex-sensei's leg, she took his vest, a villager's bag and used Iruka's sealing scrolls to seal bits and pieces of the dead bodies, the pipe she'd been using, put a large cleaver in the villager's bag, sealed the bull-tip cleaver into her arm, sealed Iruka's leg into a scroll, and placed them into the bag.

She ran to where her apartment once stood, now a pile of ash where her house had been. 'So, Iruka spoke the truth. All but my special boxes are gone.' she thought as she walked through what used to be her bedroom. She moved all the singed floor boards in her three-by-four meter(12 by 15 feet) bedroom, and uncovered several cloth-covered metal boxes. In one, the biggest, she got out a travel bag, not unlike the villager's bag she carried on her shoulder, only about three times bigger. Underneath that in the same box were two blankets and a pillow, to which she sealed into an unused scroll, before opening another drawer-sized box filled with more scrolls. In the other boxes were among the fallowing: non perishable foods, water bottles, clothes, shoes, and all the money she'd managed to save from her monthly allowance that the Hokage had been giving her for the past two years, which equaled over 100,000 yen, which she sealed into scrolls. With twenty scrolls in all, and only fifteen of them full, she put the twenty into the villager's bag, sealed away her big bag, and put the other scrolls in various pockets on Iruka's, now her, old vest.

'One quick trip to the Hime-chan's compound and then another to Ita-teme and Sa-kun's compound, and I can leave.'

=Hyuuga compound: 10km from W gate=

'Alright… Hime-chan's room is right… here!' she thought as she opened the door to her best friend's room. "Hime-chan, you awake?" she asked.

"Hmm, ugh… yes, onee-sama. What is it?" the young Hyuuga heiress asked drowsily as she woke.

"I'm going to leave for a little while. I have to make sure you're well prepared for when I'm not here. Give me your arm for a second. I'm going to seal a weapon to you." she said, pulling out a large, but normal sized carving knife from a pocket on the bag on her back. Hime-chan rolled up the sleeve of her sleeping kimono and held out her arm. Hime-chan pricked her finger with the knife, and then waited while her onee-sama drew seals on her arm.

"Now, focus your chakra to the seals. When they start glowing, place the knife vertically on the seal. If you're alone and want to take the knife out to practice with, just form the rat seal and say kai or release." Hime-chan did so, and the knife was absorbed by the seal, before turning black.

"I have to go to Sa-kun's now. Swing by the second dead end in the alley between the apple cart and the Ichiraku Ramen stand for some clean-up. I'll send Sa-kun there as well. I'll see you later Hinata-chan."

"Bye, onee-sama!"(1) Hime-chan said quietly, practicing the sealing and unsealing of her weapon as her onee-sama left through the window.

=Uchiha Compound: 3km from W gate=

'Okay, just a few more doors… there!'

"Sa-kun? Wake up, Sa-kun, I have something important to tell you." she said as she closed the door and walked over to his bed.

"Hmm! Just fife moe minutes okaa-san…" he said.

"-sweat-drop-… Sa-kun, it's Na-sama! Wake up!" she said in a harsh whisper.

"Hmm… huh? Na-sama? What are you doing here this late? And why are you covered in blood?!" he asked, also whispering.

She looked down at herself. It was true. From all the killing she did, her shoes, large areas of her dress, even some of her face and hair, had blood on them.

"It's a long story. I just came by to tell you I was leaving, and that I'll need you to go to the second dead end in the alley between the apple cart and the Ichiraku Ramen stand to help Hinata-chan clean up. I want you to do something in a few years while I'm gone, though." she told him. She told him about the weapon she gave Hinata, and how she was going to give him one too. "Hold out your arm." she told him, removing a scroll from her bag.

"Alright." he held out his arm as she unsealed the pipe she had been using.

"I used this earlier to kill some villagers that were going to rape me. That's how I got all this blood on me. I want you to keep it, and use it for the future mission I'm going to give you." she said as he sealed the pipe in his arm the same way Hinata had, only with the pipe going vertically, before she told him his mission.

"… I accept the mission. It'll be easy to frame Itachi, considering that he's already showed signs of resentment towards the clan's rules." he said to her after he heard the details of the mission. "The old man would never suspect a child like myself to have done something so unsightly, let alone as 'hard' as that."

"Yeah." she agreed. "He may have been the nicest person to me, but he's still ignorant to how easy it actually is."

She kissed him on the cheek and got ready to leave.

"Bye Na-sama." he said, blushing slightly.

"Bye Sasuke-kun. I'll send you a signal when the time is right." she said back, and left, once again via window.

~End Flashback~

As she heard the ever approaching ANBU scout team behind her, she again started to run, her once more slit pupils aiding her naturally good night vision, making it easier to run as the sun slowly rose in the sky.

'Praise Oyashiro-sama for this gift. With out him, I couldn't have gotten this far.' she thought to herself as she jumped into the trees, clutching her bull-tipped cleaver in one hand and hopping from branch to branch with as little chakra as possible. 'That incident was three days ago. I can't believe how stupid they were; to only have found me two hours ago. Highly trained my ass. I'm only ten miles from the border, and as soon as I cross it, I'll be out of Land of Fire and into the Land of Wind. Then they won't be able to touch me without being caught by other ninja.' She started cackling.

Jump.

'I am a follower of Oyashiro-sama.'

Step.

'I am a demoness in human form.'

Jump.

'I am the daughter of Namikaze Minato, and Uzumaki Higurashi Kushina, originally Hinamizawa no Kushina.'

Step.

'I am Higurashi Namikaze Natsumi, container of Kyuubi no Kitsune, and great granddaughter to Higurashi Oyashiro Rena.'

"AH-HAHAHAHA, AH-HAHAHAHAHAA!!!"

'I create destiny, now, and forever. I will be known forever, as the last known survivor of the town my mother founded over a thousand years ago when she was last human. I will be known as-'

"HINAMIZAWA'S ROSE!!"