Chapter 12 of Sky Ninja is officially up and running.

After awhile of reading and watching some Naruto, as well as reading. I've noticed that I have some duplicates. Like the whole sky ninjas thing, the fifth movie has these. I made up these guys and their village all before I even knew about that. Then there are the Mitarigan/Rinnigan, Seirei's book(not yet found out, but is in this chapter), and even the Heaven Gates...I mean honestly, Lee has the celestial gates! not much of a difference huh? Oh well, just need you guys to know that none of this is duplicated on purpose, they just came up with the same ideas as I did. Meaning I'm a possible future manga writer. Huzzah!

disclaimer: don't own Naruto...that's it

Landing on the roof where the Hokage sat to watch the matches, Naruto saw a forest had grown from beneath the tiles. And in the middle of this forest, was a white blanket, covering a body.

"No..." eyes wide and sadness in his voice, Naruto slowly walked towards the covered body, "It can't be...he's... he's not supposed to die yet. Not yet..." falling to his knees right next to the dead Sarutobi, Naruto started crying. "Orochimaru, you'll pay for this. I swear.

Naruto then felt a hand on his shoulder. Looking up, it was Seirei, with his sword placed on his back. "I'm sorry for your loss." Just then, Musuko, Chichi, and the other members who went after Gaara, appeared.

"We're all very sorry." Musuko said next, "He was a great man."

"He was the greatest ninja alive in all of Konoha!" Naruto retorted, he had anger in his eyes now, as well as tears, "He should not have died to some traitor!"

Seirei spoke out, "It was his time." the black haired shinobi then felt Naruto's fist run across his face.

"You have no idea what or who he was! Do you have any idea what it's like to lose someone you love?!" at that statement, both Chichi's and Musuko's heads shot up and looked at Naruto.

Musuko, not looking at the others, said to them, "Oh crap... We should go now."

"Wha-Why?" asked Hinata.

"Just do it." Chichi said worringly. With that, the others complied and left Seirei and Naruto alone.

"You've probably not even seen someone you know die." Naruto continued to yell at Seirei, "You're probably one of those rich, stuck-up, as-ACK!" Naruto couldn't say anymore, because Seirei grabbed him by the throat and shoved him up against one of the trees from the forest.

"Do I have any idea what it's like to lose someone?" Seirei paused, pushing Naruto further up the tree, "It hurts, doesn't it? You feel like you just lost your whole world just now? You're now wishing that somehow, you could have stopped it from happening, right? But you know that you can't. You picture in your head how he could have died. You think he died in some glorious way because you didn't see how he did died. You mourn for his death for a few days, then you slowly loose that feeling and just feel sad that he died. Then in a few months, you'll almost had forgotten him, if it wasn't for the monument that they will build in his honor. Everytime you pass by that statue you will remember your thought of how glorious he did die. You'll think of the great times you had, and all the bad times. But you'll only think about it when you are at the statue, just because you didn't see him die. If you did see him die, that's another story. You would go nowhere near that statue, because it would play in your mind again and again, every day and every night. That terrible image of him dying. You'd eventually grow to love him more and more, but you would act out and attack anyone who disgraced him or even said something that wasn't nice about the Hokage position. Right now, you're probably wondering how on earth I've read you so perfectly. Then after some thinking, you'd find out that indeed I have some idea of what it's like to lose someone." With his speech almost done, he threw Naruto across the rooftop. The blonde struck a tree with so much force that the tree fell down, and yet Naruto had felt nothing.

When he lifted himself up from his throw, Naruto was once again picked up by Seirei, "Tell you what. When you see about 10,000 more deaths, then come talk to me about not knowing how you feel." Seirei dropped him where he landed, and walked away.

What was left was a stunned Naruto with some scratches on his jacket. He laid there, looking at the back of Seirei. His sword strapped tightly, and that book which he always read, secured in his pocket.

'He... he lost... ten... thousand people? How? How is he still alive?' with that in his mind, Musuko came over and Naruto was helped up to his feet.

"Well, you learned your first lesson about us. Don't accuse us of anything, especially accusing Seirei." the white haired shinobi warned his student.

"What happened to him? That he saw... 10,000 people die?" Naruto asked, still not taking his eyes off of Seirei.

Musuko looked at his partner as well, "Very, very, very touchy subject. If you want to find out, you'll have to ask him yourself."

"Do you know what happened to him?" Naruto asked, slightly suspecting that Musuko hadn't heard of it either.

"Yes, I know what happened to him far too well. Just like I know what happened to you." Musuko turned and began walking away towards Seirei's direction.

"Wait, what do you know about-"

"You'll find out all about us in time, Naruto. In time." Musuko chuckled at what he said, and continued walking after Seirei. Leaving like they always did, with a confused shinobi scrathing their own head.

The days passed after Sarutobi's death, and it had finally come to the day of the funeral. Everyone had attended and were all dressed in their mourning clothes, even though it had started to rain. The young genins all had white flowers in hand, ready to place them on the Hokage's coffin. One by one, everyone in the village placed a flower on the coffin. Everyone, except the three Sky Ninjas. They were watching the funeral from a distance on a rooftop in the rain.

"So, this is what a funeral is like?" Chichi asked his brothers.

"Yes, Brother Chichi," Seirei replied, "This is what happens when one passes away that others care about."

"This is so different. I wish we did this for when my father died."

Musuko said, "Chichi, you're father was a beast."

"I know, but I just wished my tribe had given him a burial instead of just letting him lie there."

"Look," Seirei spoke up, "I don't know much about your tribe or its culture, but what they do is what they think is right."

"Yeah, I guess." Chichi agreed with his partner, "My mother did me tell that it is because the warrior spirit must find its way into others. If the body is at all altered, it is forever lost."

The three went back to their silence as they watched some more of the funeral. Nearing the end, the raining had come to a halt, and the sun slowly came out from behind the clouds.

Seirei, looking a the beam of light coming from the clouds, "It's a sign. To remind others that no matter how cloudy something may appear, there is always a patch of sunlight somewhere within it."

"Always look on the bright side of life." Chichi smiled as he started whistling a tune on his kunai.

Musuko, "If life seems pretty rotten..."

Seirei, now smiling, "There's something that you've forgotten..."

Chichi, finishing their little rhyme, "And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing."

At that, the three started laughing out loud.

"Oh, our sensei always knew how to keep our spirits up. Even mine." Seirei leaned back on his area of rooftop.

"Yeah, it'll be good to see her again, after all of this." Musuko leaned back as well.

Chichi remained sitting up, "She might be the Kuukage when we get back."

"Maybe." Musuko closed his eyes as he spoke, as did Seirei. The two lied down, listening to their gray haired comrade play a song on his kunai.

A week had gone by, and everything was almost back to normal. That's if you don't include the rebuilding of the village that was attacked, and the interrogations of some captured ninjas. Even the villagers changed, but not for the good.

Most everyone had placed the blame of the invasion, and also the death of their beloved Hokage, upon the shoulders of the visitors from the Sky Village. Whenever Musuko, Chichi, or Seirei had walked through areas with people in them, they could feel stares from everywhere, and sometimes even a hint of killer intent. A few times, but rarely, they even had things thrown at them, with people saying things like, 'It's your fault!', 'Leave our village in peace!', 'Go back where you came from!' The three of them took all of these without showing as much of a flinch. They just went by, not caring what others thought of them.

Then one day...

"Oi!" the three turned to see Naruto's favorite ramen shop, and it's owner Teuchi, waving at them to come on in. Seeing that others were staring at them loathingly, the sky ninjas took the owners offer of entrance.

Looking over the shinobi's shoulders, Teuchi saw the glares they were getting. With a long whistle, "That's quite alot of stares they got on you."

"You could say that again." Chichi replied.

"Reminds me of Naruto when he was a kid." Teuchi spoke as he made some ramen for them.

"Yeah," Musuko answered this time, "I feel bad about the kid. He really had a rough time here."

Teuchi, continuing with the ramen, "He told you guys about it, eh?"

"No." Teuchi stopped and turned around with a question on his face. Musuko tried to explain, "I'm really good at reading people."

"Ah, I see." the owner went back to his ramen making, "Most of the villagers thought he was a demon instead of a person. But not me. Me and my daughter pretty much treated him like family whenever he came here. Best customer I ever had, still is." He handed out three bowls of steaming ramen to the boys, "If stay for awhile, it's almost his meal time."

"I'd love to," Seirei announced, wiping his mouth with a napkin, "But I got to go someplace." Seirei pushed his bowl away, showing that it was empty. Within 3 seconds.

Seirei walked out of the shop, but not before hearing Teuchi saying, "Oh, someone special?" his voice sounded like he was hinting at something specific.

"You could say that if you want." Seirei said just before walking out of sight.

Once he left, Chichi and Musuko then started to eat their own bowls of ramen, but not quite as fast as their other teammate.

"Looks like I'm gonna win my bet." Chichi bragged to Musuko.

"No your not." Musuko said, trying to deny it. Both of them continued eating, trying to think of what to do for the day.

Seirei was found sitting on top of the Hokage Monument again, this time on the third's head, reading his little book he always carried with him. Once he was done reading, he placed the book back in his pouch, and headed towards a large boulder a ways behind him. He placed his hands on the stone and pushed it aside to reveal a hole in the ground. Seirei looked around to see if the coast was clear, and then jumped into the hole.

Within the hole, torches were lit in a domed room. The room had nothing in it aside from eight red doors along the sides of the room. Seirei turned to his left, and entered the door with the number six on it.

Opening the door, Seirei faced Misumi Tsurugi, Kabuto's stretchy teammate. Misumi was latched to a wall with bricks of lead on all his limbs and forehead, so he couldn't use his jutsus. The sound ninja saw his captor and glared at him.

"So..." Seirei started their conversation, "How's it been."

"...." Misumi didn't answer.

"Are we gonna have to go through the same thing we did two days ago, or can you just give me a little bit of info?" Seirei asked the prisoner, like he was a guest in his own home.

The sound ninja chuckled, "You think I'm gonna talk to some stupid little genin who got lucky in his matches? Yeah, right."

"Oh...If only I did have luck," he reached into his pocket and pulled out his book, "Then I'd probably not be reading this." Seirei placed the book back. "So tell me... what do you know about the very fascinating subject of, Curse Marks?"

"That, I'll never say to you. Never. Wait... what are you-AHHH!" Seirei slammed his fist into Misumi's left bicep, cracking the wall behind him and breaking the arm as well.

"You know what hurts more than a broken arm?" Seirei paused to hear an answer. None came. "Well, most people would say two broken arms." Seirei punches into the right arm, hearing Misumi scream again. "However, that isn't true. The thing that is worst, is breaking the same arm. Again and again." a second punch to the left arm, and Misumi let out a louder scream than before. "See? What did I tell you?" Misumi was biting his lip so hard now that it was dripping blood.

Seirei did another three punches to the sound ninjas left arm, asking about the Curse Marks between each one, but the ninja passed out from the pain before he could spill anything. Seirei gave a sigh and left the room.

Looking at the other seven doors, Seirei went over to the door with a three on it. Upon opening it, Seirei found one of Kankuro's puppets on a table. The puppet was taken apart and strewn across the table. Seirei picked up the head, facing it at a wall. Pulling his index finger, the puppet's mouth opened and a kunai shot out, hitting the wall. With a smile, the sky ninja placed the head back down on the table, and left the room.

"And now," Seirei was talking to himself, "For you." he walked over to the door that had the number one on it. Opening the door, Seirei popped his head in to see what was inside, "Comfy?"

Sasuke had gotten out of the hospital a few days ago, and was at his full strength as he was before he faced Chichi in the finals. He may have been alright physically, but he wasn't himself since the finals. The Uchiha continually sulked about his match with Chichi. To top it all off, he heard that an invasion had occured while he was knocked out by the sand and sound ninjas. Not only did he miss a chance to show his skills, but also that the Sky Ninja had become a major ally in the invasion and saved Konoha from any more distruction. All this, with Naruto, Hinata, and Sakura by their side, the three most pathetic and weakest shinobi in their entire class, in Sasuke's mind.

The raven haired shinobi was sitting on the dock, thinking about his match with Chichi. Going through it over and over about ten or fifteen times, Sasuke grew angrier with each one.

'That Sky shinobi defeated my chidori! He didn't show any use of chakra, which meant he was just like Lee. But he was able to summon a creature from nowhere.' he picked up a stone and threw it into the water, 'How did he get that power?'

He stood up on the dock, looking into the distance.

'I need to know.' the wind blew his hair, as he remained where he stood.

Back at the Ichiraku Ramen shop, Musuko was the only one of the three still at the stand. He was almost done with his noodles, when his student came barging in with a smile on his face.

"Right on schedule." Teuchi proclaimed, "As always."

"Give me the bowl-of-the-day, please." Naruto said gladly.

"Oh-ho, it's been a good day for you?" Teuchi asked.

"Yep!" Looking away from the ramen on the other side of the counter, Naruto spotted his latest sensei, "Musuko! I haven't seen you in a long time!"

"Same here." Musuko said just before eating up a noodle. The sky ninja signalled with his hand to have Naruto sit next to him, which he did.

Teuchi came back with a steaming bowl of ramen for his best customer, and as soon as he placed it in front of Naruto, the blonde's face was lost. Musuko stopped eating his own ramen and smiled as he watched Naruto eat his like a maniac.

"Well, I see you really do live on ramen." It looked like Naruto didn't hear him, as he was still gorging himself. "So what do you want to talk about Naruto? We can talk about anything: jutsus, kunai, women, toads, the weather, a second trainer, politics..." seeing that Naruto was still eating, "TOADS." putting heavy emphasis on the word, and saying it louder than before.

Naruto stopped in mid-eating and was looking at his white haired teacher, who was now smirking. Swallowing the food in his mouth, which happened to also sound like a gulp of fear, Naruto began stuttering.

"Wh-wha-what t-toad?"

"Hmm, I don't know. I think it may have been that large one with the dagger and pipe that we were...RIDING ON IT'S HEAD AND FIGHTING A MASSIVE TANUKI." major emphasis on the last half of his sentence, Musuko saw his student stunned and speechless. He turned back to his bowl of ramen and sipped down what was left in the bowl. Placing it down, "Okay, who are they, Naruto? Who is your second trainer?"

While two of the Sky Ninja were busy with their own thing, Chichi had been heading over to the Hyuuga Compound to see Hinata. She hadn't fully recovered from the attack Gaara did to her, so she couldn't train with Chichi as usual, but she was able to walk around and be her normal self.

In his hand, Chichi was carrying some sort of sab, along with a bag holding something for Hinata; a surprise.

"This should help her out." Looking at the sab, "She'll be up and running by tomorrow." Lifting the bag to head level, Chichi then spoke to the bag, "And you, you will make everything even better." Chichi poked the bag, which the bag started wriggling in response.

Walking along an empty road towards the Compound, Chichi had stopped in his tracks for some reason. He lowered his head and shook it in disappointment. Then with a sigh, "Are you going to follow me all the way to the compound, or are you two going to come out, and show yourselves?" Chichi turned to a dark alley to his left. As he did, the two followers also came out of the alley. Uchiha Sasuke, along with Hyuuga Neji. "You two, working together? Didn't see that coming."

"We have a common goal." Neji said.

"Can this wait. I gotta meet your cousin and give her somethings." he raised the bag and sab to show them. "So if you don't mind, I-"

"Where did you get your power?" Sasuke barged in.

Chichi smiled, and said gladly, "I trained. Something you should be doing instead of asking others how they got better."

"You and your other teammates managed to beat all of us easily. There's no way you three are just genins." Neji retorted.

"Ah," Chichi kept his smile, "But we are, Neji."

"Impossible," Neji responded, "You were able to cummon a creature without using hand signs."

"That's because they live here. They don't live in another world like your summoned beasts do. I can summon them anytime I want."

Sasuke grew angry, as Chichi didn't come right out with the answer he was looking for. He rushed over to the gray-haired genin and put Chich's back against a wall. "Quit dodging our question!" Sasuke said with a hint of threat, "Tell us how you got your power?"

The Sky Ninja's bag squirmed around once again, but Neji and Sasuke didn't notice. Chichi made a quiet shushing noice towards the bag, and it stopped moving.

"Sasuke, we agreed to no violence to get the answer." Neji came over to his partner, but Sasuke shoved him aside, keeping ahold of Chichi.

The Uchiha went to even more drastic measures by pulling out a kunai of his own and holding it up to Chichi's neck. "Now, tell us how?"

A small chuckle came from Chichi, which startled both Sasuke and Neji. "Tell me Sasuke, what was your life like as a child?"

Sasuke tightened his grip on the kunai, "What's it to you?"

"Well, it's kind of everything to me." Sasuke was bewildered, but did not show it to Chichi, as he continued, "You see, Musuko doesn't tell me anything about you guys. He wants me to find out myself. I know about Naruto, I probably know too much actually. How bout you? What was your childhood like." Sasuke didn't answer, but his grip did loosen on the kunai.

Finally, Sasuke's grip was loose enough that Chichi was able to walk away, "It must be some crappy childhood then, if you want power that badly. Talk to Seirei, he might help you out." walking a bit further, "That is, if you can find him." That was the last that he said before he disappeared behind another building.

The raven haired genin started off to find Seirei, but Neji was not following. Realizing this, Sasuke stopped.

"Aren't you coming?" the Uchiha asked.

Neji stayed where he was, "No, not if we're going to keep doing it like this. You continue on your road of violence, I will pursue this in my own way." with that, Neji leapt off to the rooftops. Sasuke was left alone.

Sasuke began talking to himself, "What's happened to Neji? From the matches, he was nothing but fate this and fate that. Now he's not even resorting to violence." Sasuke grabbed at his hair, "What's happening?! And why can't it happen to me?!"

'Perfect.'

Without thought, the Uchiha pulled out a kunai and did a full 180 degree turn upon hearing the voice. But when he turned around, there was no one there. Looking around, he shouted out, "Show yourself! Fight me like a real ninja." Sasuke turned his head in every direction he could to try to see the culprit, but the source of the voice was never found, as it didn't make another noise. "Where's Neji when I need him. He could find him with his Byakugan." Upon remembering Neji, and that there seemed to be no one around, Sasuke put away his kunai and slowly walked away from the site. Sasuke was determined to find the other two Sky Ninja, and find out how they got their power.

"Comfy?" Seirei asked as he poked his head through the door with a smile. The person inside the room did not respond, so the shinobi walked in, "Oh come on, Temari. You can't tell me you're not at all comfortable." the wind mistress was on a matress at the end of the room sitting up on it.

"It could be better, if I wasn't chained down like a dog." Temari lifted her right hand to show in was incased in a metal ball and chained to the wall behind her. There was a chair sitting in front of her, whilch was where Seirei gladly took a seat while still smiling, "You could have at least made it a ring around my wrist."

"I could also take away that matress too." Seirei replied. Temari raised up her hands, signalling that how she was was fine for her. "That's good to know."

"But why do you have to lock me up in this place?" The sand kunoichi asked.

"I did it for a few reasons. One, you're an enemy of Konoha thanks to the Sand/Sound Invasion awhile back. If they found you, you would then be tortured for information, since you're the Kage's daughter and all. However, since I"m am not a member of Konoha, I don't need to turn you in or torture you."

"I heard someone screaming awhile back, Seirei." Temari argued.

"They were being tortured because they were being stubborn about spilling their guts. I just hope that you are not so stubborn in giving me want I want to know." Temari now had a smile on her face. "What's the smile for?" Seirei asked.

"Oh I'll give you what you want, but you'll have to do one thing for me." Seirei quirked an eyebrow in confusion.

"I'm not letting you out if that's what you're thinking." The wind mistress ignored his comment and instead signalled him over with her free hand. Seirei came over with and interested look on his face and was leaning towards her, Temari moved her head so that he mouth was right next to his ear.

And she whispered, "Kiss me." Seirei's face turned from interested to stone as he stood up and turned away. Temari was stunned by the sudden rejection, she understood that her request was a bit sudden, but she expected a different reaction than this.

"Please, tell me you're joking." Seirei asked with his back still turned to Temari.

"What reason do I have to joke?"

"Shinobi aren't supposed to have those feelings."

"Who said?"

"I did." Seirei was heading for the door, when he was stopped by Temari's shouting.

"Why won't you give me a chance?" Seirei stopped, "You're the only one who has even shown any respect for me. After sparing my life twice, why are you rejecting me now?"

Coldly, "Because I no longer have that emotion."

"Why? Tell me why you can't show feelings for me."

"I can't tell you." Seirei said, in a softer tone.

"Why?" Seirei ignored Temari and removed his sword from his back, "Why can't you tell me?" tears were forming in her eyes, "Please, I've already opened up to you, there's no turning back for me." She lowered her head so Seirei would see her crying. The sky ninja grabbed onto the bottom part of his shirt. Temari said in a whisper, "Why won't you return my feelings?"

"Because, Temari," she looked up at Seirei, and was shocked at whatshe saw, "I have to show you." All over his back were small scars, "I have to show you why I've lost those feelings." the scars travelled over every part of his body that had been covered by his shirt, it even looked that the scars went down to his legs and mid-section. Seirei turned around to face Temari, only to show even more scars on his body.

Temari was stuttering, she had no idea what to say, too many things were running through her head.

"10,263." Seirei stated, "There are 10,263 marks on my body. Each one to represent a resident of my village. Man, woman, and child." the scarred boy went silent, trying to let it all sink in for Temari.

Mouth gaping, Temari tried to utter some words, "B-but...wh-wha...ho-how?"

Seirei stopped her stutters, taking a seat in the chair once again. He put his hands together and let out a small sigh, both of them knew, that this was going to be a long story.

"Five years ago, I was eight. Our village was massive, filled with over ten thousand people, clearly. The village was by far the most powerful and wealthiest village in our nation, or any other for that matter. It had been years since any sort of violent thing happened to our village since the war.

"One day, I was walking with my father in the market. I saw a stand that interested me, but my father was heading the other way, so we got seperated. When I turned around after visiting the stand, he was gone. I looked around for him, but it was so crowded that I couldn't find him. Running around, I cried out for my father, and then, I ran into something. Looking up it was a figure covered in black clothing with a large hood over their head, it smelled of something strange, but I couldn't pin the scent to anything. The figure in black seemed to look down at me, it knelt down to me, and it spoke. 'You seem lost boy. Where are your parents?' I shrugged my shoulders, 'Guess you shouldn't have ventured off, huh?', I shook my head. The figure's arm stretched out towards me, and out from the sleeve came a hand covered in bandages. In the figures hand, was a book, it then said, 'Poor judgement will lead to terrible suffering. Take this book. When you're able to read it, it will give you a greater sense of judgement.' I grabbed onto the book and opened it to view the pages. All I could see were scribbles and odd markings, but when I looked into it, it gave me a strange feeling. Like, it was telling me to never let it go if I value my life. When I looked up, the figure in black was gone, and in his place, was my father. My father told me that he got scared and told me never to run off like that again. Sadly, I'd never even have that chance.

"A week later, my mother, father, three sisters, and brother, were eating our dinner. All of a sudden, the earth shook underneath us, then a giant boom was heard in the distance. My father ran up to his room and grabbed a sword hidden behind his desk. He told us to stay where we were, and he exited the house, along with other men who had weapons of their own, running towards the source of the attack. We finally got information as to what was happening a few minutes later. A group of mysterious shinobi had appeared from nowhere and began attacking the village. Little to no causualties were reported so far, and the number of enemy shinobi was about ten, so either they were terribly stupid to attack our village, or incredibly strong.

"With my family, we waited in safety. After awhile, screams could be heard, as well as the sounds of metal clashing with metal, roars, and slicing noises. The sounds became louder and louder as they neared our house. But before it could reach the house, my father came bursting through the door. He had suffered many cuts on his arms and torso, none too severe. He was heaving by the time he reached us, and when he did, a blade pierced his chest from behind. The blood from my father fell onto my clothes. My father was the first person I saw die, and he wouldn't be my last.

"As he fell to the floor, a man with silver hair, eyes, and even face markings stood erect with two swords in the shape of scythes in each hand. One was tipped with blood. He called to someone outside, I forgot their name, and they came in. It was a girl with black hair and red mixed into it. It looked like she used blood as a shampoo. Both of them had on the same clothing, a black robe with red and white bandages at the elbows and waist. They both looked at me, and they both smiled. The smile...made me relax a bit, but also, scared me to death. My mother got up to protect us, but she was easily knocked out by the hilt of the man's blade. Leaving only me, as the eldest to protect them. I failed as well and was knocked out, but while I was on the ground, before I saw blackness, I heard something about a book and that I was the boy with it.

"When I rose to. I was tied to a chair with both chains and ropes, to make sure I couldn't escape. I looked around and saw that I was in a dark room with two doors, and one opening in the floor. There was also another chair in front of me. There was nothing else, I thought I was going to be left here to die, or until I go insane. Then, someone entered into the room. It was the man who gave me the book the week before. He walked over to me, still with his hood hiding his head. Without saying a word, he walked behind me and placed his hands on my shoulders. The hands were ice cold, but somehow, I sense of warmth as well. The figure croutched down so his face was at my level, then he said, 'Now, lets give you that judgement.' The figure then waved its hand towards the door he entered from. The door opened, and a man in the same black cloak as the ones who knocked me out, appeared from the doorway, and behind him....was....my mother. My mother was writhing around, but she could not escape her bondings, and she could not scream because they had gagged her.

"They placed her in the chair infront of me, and our eyes met. We both reached for each other, both with tears in our eyes, for we could not reach the other. What happened next either happened so fast, or so terribly slow, I cannot remember, there were so many. I heard the noise of a weapon being drawn, a small blade appeared in the cloaked man's hand behind my mother, she didn't see it or hear, she was too focused on me. But she did notice it when the blade stabbed through her right arm. She screamed in pain, muffled by the gag in her mouth. I asked them to stop, to leave her alone, I screamed everything that I could to have them stop. My pleas fell on deaf ears as they continued to do the same thing over and over again to my mother, until she died in the chair. Tears were pouring from my eyes like fountains, wishing that they heard my pleas, wishing that I could have done something to stop it. I then felt a pain in my body. I turned around to see that the figure behind had stabbed me with a kunai, and then healed the wound, but only enough so that it would be a perminant scar on me. It was a small cut, and the first of many I was to recieve. After that, they cut her from the chair, and threw her into the opening in the floor, and the door once again opened, this time, it was my brother. They did the same thing to him, except he died sooner than my mother did, probably because he was much younger...too young. After him, my three sisters, I watched each one of them die right before, and for none of them could I help, just watched. I was doomed, doomed to watch them die, and to watch even more die.

"One by one, every inhabitant of my village was brought into that little room, bound and gagged, placed in the chair in front of me, some crying to me to save them. At least, that's what I thought they were saying. Each one died slowly and painfully, then placed into the opening in the floor. It must have been deep, because I never saw the level of bodies reach the top. 10,263 people were thrown into that hole. Each one died, and with each one, I recieved a scar on every part of my back, front, sides, almost my entire body.

"Finally, the last one died and was thrown into the pit. My tears were dried up from crying through the entire ordeal. Then the figure's hand touched my shoulder once more, I looked forward to see the book that the figure gave me a week ago. It was opened, and when I looked into it, I could understand what was written in the book." Seirei pulled out the book from his back pocket, the one he also read, "When they found me, the men who killed all those people were long gone. They said I, as well as the entire village, had been missing for almost two and a half weeks. That's how long it took them to kill my village, and not once did I sleep through it. All they found on me was the clothes on my back, and this book in my hands right now." He leaned back into his chair, nearing the end, "I lost everyone I knew; friends, family, loved ones, everyone that meant something to me. With them, my feelings for others had died, I wish for no one to be with me, because they will then share the same fate as my village did." With that, the shinobi stood up from his seat, all Temari did was watch him in silence as he picked his sword back up, and placed his sword on his back. "That's why I don't have that emotion, or any others relating to that. When you see me smile, that is a front, to make sure others aren't troubled when they are near me. Everyday, I remember, I can still hear the screams on thousands in pain where ever I am." He opened the door, "I'll leave you alone. To understand."

Seirei left the room. Temari was stunned to say the least. She had just heard such a painful story, that she didn't know how to even react to it. Whether to cry, feel sorrow for Seirei, thinking on his last words to her, envision what his childhood was even like, she had no idea what to do. But thoughout the remainder of the day, she did all of them.

Seirei was asked to open up, and so he did. What will happen to Temari, now that she knows of his cruel past? What will happen when Musuko and Jiriaya meet? And what will happen to Sasuke? What was the voice that he heard? Only will be found out if I keep writing, and you all keep reading.

A/N:I honestly didn't expect to end it this shortly, but after reading through Seirei's story once again, I just had to. It makes a great ending to the chapter, and hopefully make you guys think what could be the other sky ninja's past.

This chapter is done, and like that, I am out like a straight guy in a gay bar........................................................................not meant to be offensive :)