A/N: This chapter is the start of everything coming together. Just read, you'll see. that rhymed! what a crime! lmao sowwy. :p I couldn't help mehself.

Ch. 13

I was in the dark, lost, numb, and alone. I could feel myself floating into nothingness. I was just there, nothing else existed but my consciousness. That was all that existed until I saw a white light. At first I was startled because it was the first time I saw something while in this state other than the dark, but I grew curious. I willed myself to get closer to the little white speck. It was like the white light I saw before but much, much smaller. As I grew closer the light got brighter.

I felt it in my reach and I willed myself to touch the spec. As soon as I touched it the light went out. It was dark once again, I felt saddened from scaring the light away. It was after that thought that the light from my hand exploded into something, and it consumed me. I shut my eyes expecting to feel pain, or at least something. My eyelids were squeezed tight, but once I saw light through them they loosened. Then I heard noise, it was laughter. My eyes shot open, and a scene played out before me.

I was in a fairly nice sized room with traditional paper walls and there were two people sitting down at a table smiling happily together. One was an old man dressed in red and white, the other a small child with long shaggy hair that touched the floor where she sat. Her smile was so sweet and innocent it made me feel a warming feeling on the inside. They seemed to not notice my presence.

'The Third Hokage. He was a great respectable man, the only one that I approved of, he helped you when you were younger, before you left this village on your own quest. You were an orphan, you parents were brutally murdered, ke ke. You been traveling on your own since you were three years old. A capable child at that, you were smart and quick-witted. You never stayed in a town long enough for others to ask questions. That was until you reached Konohagakure. This man brought you under his wing willingly acting as your own blood and flesh. If that doesn't hit a cord in your memories I don't know what will, but in time you will learn what you TRULY ARE. '

I felt something warm fall down my cheeks. I just stared at the scene and remembering the feelings I had at the time. I felt so warm and happy on the inside. 'Where did all that go?' The old man petted my head and said something in my ear that made me jump up and run out the room. He slowly got up and followed after me and stopped at the door way and looked back. He stared at where I stood like he could see me, he wore a saddened look on his face but with held a smile. The warming liquid on my checks grew fiercer.

It was then that I knew that I must regain my memories and who I was before all of this, I wanted to be that little child that I once was. The tears that rushed down my face abruptly stopped just as they once started. I balled my hands into fists. Then I felt dizzy, the room started to spin, leaving the last image of the Third Hokage to burn in my mind forever. "I will not ever forget, again. I promise you this." And then he was gone. My head spun more and more till I couldn't stand. The colors of the room mixed with the darkness of once before and made me feel like vomiting.

I staggered on my feet then fell to the clear flooring that was nothing but black, my surrounding area began to change once again into the dark. I was lost, again. I just sat there on my knees staring at the emptiness that held me up. My head throbbed again and again, but I refused to move my hands from their current position at me sides. I clenched my teeth baring the pain and inhaled sharply.

I fought back the throbbing until it became a dull ache. Then it clicked. Memories of the past came rushing through, every single one of them were of the Third Hokage, of him smiling and his gentle way towards me. I remembered the times we laughed together, the time we played in his office, the times we were at his secret training grounds, he taught me so much. But one memory stood out more than the rest.

I froze my mind on that once exact moment. The day that I left the only home I knew. The only place that I was welcomed with open arms.

Flashback:

I was saddened but I refused to show it to anyone who bothered to say goodbye to me, which was only the Hokage. They pretty much kept my identity a secret here so I wouldn't be shunned from the village, every time someone asked about me the Third would always give them a look and they never asked about it again.

It was a rainy day and I had to be only six or seven. I had a strange feeling that I had to leave the village hidden in the leaf, and I didn't know why. I and the Third discussed it many times and he finally agreed I should follow my instincts. Though all the conversations we had he never called me by a name, he only called me 'little one'. I found that nickname strange but also comforting in a way.

I sighed traveling my life span here in Kohana. "It was fun while it lasted, but now I must take my leave." I whispered into the small closet which the Third had set up as a room for me in the Hokage's tower. He never wanted me out of his sight if he could help it, he was over-protective in a good way. I looked back one last time to my room, burning the space into my mind one last time.

I had a tied my headband around my tiny childlike waist, having completed the academy training a while ago with the Hokage; he had it specially made for me. There was a small pocket on the backside of the headband which I could put a numerous amount of small objects, but currently I had no us for it.

I stepped out of the closet, checking for anyone nearby like I did every time I left my closet, the coast was clear and out o went. Silently, like always not to make my presence known. I planned on leaving at night to conceal my departure. I headed the way opposite of the guarded gates and went into a tunnel that the Third showed me when I was younger, he told me "This is an escape route if any trouble was afoot you should never fight if possible, but make sure you are safe and head down this tunnel, little one. I would hate to see you get hurt in anyway." He smiled softly and patted my head.

I shivered at the thought. I sighed and looked upon the village I was leaving. The stars so bright shining through the soft gray clouds that had a few tears themselves, as is crying from my departure. I gazed on it few a few more seconds inhaling the scent one last time. I didn't know if I as ever going to be able to come back, but I will miss this place in the meantime

I turned around to be surprised by a shadow I tensed, until I felt a familiar presence of the Third. He stepped out of the shadows and held out his arms. I gladly walked into them, this was the first and last hug I've ever experienced. It was so gentle yet so strong at the same time. I couldn't hold back anymore and let a tear from each eye fall. I closed my eyes and breathed in the Third's scent, never forgetting his smell, never forgetting his warmth. The warmth of a respected noble, loved one, of a father figure.

He wiped away the tears that escaped, "Now, now you can't be backing out now, little one. You must follow your heart, embrace your soul and feel you destiny. Don't ever forget that this town will always be here to aid you. Even when I am gone, little one, Konoha will always be here for you. You won't know it, but when the time comes you will come back home. Goodbye my little one, make way on your journey. I wish you luck." And with that he let me go. I shivered at the cold wind that blew, I opened my eyes to see him gone. I took a step forward and felt something poke my stomach, it wasn't sharp but it wasn't there before.

I lifted my shirt and found out that it was in the pocket of my headband. I pulled the object out and it was a silver chain with a silver charm on it, a star with vines wrapped around it and in the middle of that star was a purple gem. It was beautiful. I exhaled one more time to control my emotions. I tucked the chain back into the pocket and left the village of Konohagakure. Never to look back until the time has come.

A/N: Dun Dun DUUUN: so what did you think, a little glimpse of the past as you can say. At first I wasn't planning to add such a dramatic flashback but I thought it fit in the story to add to the suspense. Tell meh what you think of this chapter, and if I should add more like it? Review plz. 3