Lady Tsunade waited 2 days for the mysterious girl to regain consciousness, and when she did…

I groaned at the bright rays of sunshine streaming through the window.
..Window?
WINDOW?

I immidiately jumped, slamming my back against the headboard of the bed, I pulled the covers tightly to my chest.
Where the fuck am I?

My eyes darted around the room, taking in my surroundings. I was instantly on edge and I felt my chakra begin to build inside of me and burn my chest, until my eyes began to focus on a rather shapely blonde woman.

I glared at her

"Man, if looks could kill.." Tsunade thought. She noticed the girl began to emulate black chakra from behind her.

The legendary black chakra…

"Calm down, I am not here to hurt you. You were found unconscious outside the gates to this village a couple days ago."

I looked down at the bandages on my arms.

"Village?" I murmured

"Konoha."

A pain shot from deep inside of my stomach and up my spine at the utterance of that name. How did I end up here? How the fuck did I end up outside of my home village… The village that disowned me after the tragedy, the village I left 10 years ago…

"I'm the Hokage here in Konoha…"

I wonder what happened to the old man…

"What is your name?" She asked

At first I hesitated to answer her. Who was this lady? Could she be trusted?

"Mei Igarashi." I spat

As Tsunade had expected. Igarashi. Mei's eyes were full of something, it wasnt rage, but hatred. True hatred and pain. Knowing the story, which until now had been "legend", Tsunade knew that this girl had been through hell and back.. the way her own clan treated her was despicable. Tsunade had only seen eyes like that on one other person in her lifetime.

For the next few days, Tsunade had everyone under the sun come into my room and try to get me to "open up" and "tell my story". She was so mistaken as to who I am that it was almost hilarious to me. I don't want or need any friends or anyones fucking charity.

The truth was, Tsunade had high hopes that Mei would befriend some of the ninjas her own age in Konoha. Tsunade knew of the power that Mei posessed and she knew that kind of power in the wrong hands combined with what she had been through, could prove to be fatal. However, her power in the right hands could mean she'd be a valuable asset to the ninja of the leaf. But she had to figure out Mei's background, to seperate legend from fact. She had to get her to open up… but who could do it? She'd sent
Sakura on Tuesday - no luck
Ino on Wednesday - no luck
Shikamaru on Thursday - nothing.
Neji on Friday - Mei wouldn't even look at him. In fact, she challenged him to a fight and landed him in the Hospital as well.

Mei, however, was almost totally unharmed. Not to mention she had tried to escape every night she spent there.

Just as Tsunade was beginning to think she was out of options.. it came to her. those eyes. Who else had those eyes?

Sabaku no Gaara.
dead, empty eyes full of hate and pain. Someone who also turned all of that pain into fuel to become one of the best Kazekage the sand has ever had. Someone with a dark past supposedly similar to Mei's. Someone who was still working on themselves to this day.

…It was also 3 AM when Tsunade formulated this little sharade and ended up waking a team of 10 Nin from different ranks up from their sleep just to escort Mei to Sunagakure. She just hoped Mei wouldn't kill them all.

The ninjas managed to restrain Mei with some difficulty but they knew the only way to transport her without risk of injury was to give her a drug to put her out for a while.

Fuck… what the..?
My eyes were clouded but as I went to rub them, I realized I was tied up, flying through the trees… with a bunch of fucking Konoha nin.

"Where the hell are you taking me?! Let me go!"

"Afraid we can't do that!"

…Whos this cheery guy? A blonde spikey haired ninja with sparkling blue eyes turned around and smiled at me. He looked really familiar to me, it was the first time that i'd seen someone that looked even remotely familiar in a long time. I couldn't put my finger on where I'd seen him before...

However just as I thought this, the boy's foot hit a branch and he fell quite a few feet, he scrambled to get back into formation. I smiled faintly.

"I'm Naruto Uzimaki!" He said with a smile "I'm in charge of this mission,"

Naruto was thinking the same thing that Mei was, ever since Tsunade assigned this mission to him. He couldn't shake the feeling that he had met her somewhere before.

"Mission..?"

"We're transporting you to Suna, sorry we had to tie you up like this… you're pretty powerful,"

"Why?! I thought-"

"Listen, I know you're confused and its been a rough week for ya. But if theres anything I know, I know Tsunade-sama knows what she's doing. she has a good reason for temporarily sending you to Suna, okay?"

He smiled again

I'm not saying I trust this kid, because I don't. But something about him comforted me, moreso than any of the other people this "Tsunade" had sent my way.

My only goal since I had woken up in Konoha was to get away from these people and back to my way of life. Not that my way of life was one of peaceful existence. But… I was used to it. It wasn't new and unfamiliar like all of this. Where is Suna? And why do I need to be there?