I awoke to a strange noise, and bolted upright. 'I'm pretty sure I was in a cave when I fell asleep.' I thought to myself as I checked my surroundings. I was in a very dark room, the only light was coming from a single candle on a table. I pulled my legs around and tried to stand up, I lost my balance and ended up back where I was. It was comfortable, which was confusing. I looked down to see myself sitting on a really spongy mattress, a thick duvet was crumpled at the end. My fingers found their way to my forehead and they rubbed the sore spot, where a headache had abandoned me. I slammed my hand down onto the mattress and looked up towards the light, there was a dark figure beside it.

The figure stepped closer to the candle and picked it up, moving towards me. His heavy plate armour indicated that he was indeed a Samurai from the land of iron. I waited for some kind of pain, being as close as I were to the upcoming kage summit was an offence worthy of death. I closed my eyes, knowing that something was about to happen, I waited and waited. I could feel his breath on my sensitive skin, as I prayed for forgiveness.

"You can open your eyes, ya know." He whispered, as his minty breath hit my nostrils. I opened my eyes slowly, letting them adjust to the light. I jumped out of my skin. His face was mere inches from mine, I noticed his brunette bangs hanging in his eyes. My hand instinctively reached up to brush the wild hair from his face. He flinched a little. Under his hair he had a faint tattoo of a tear drop on his cheek bone. I've seen this before, but where?

"Aren't you supposed to kill me?" I asked, looking up into his bright green eyes. He smiled a warm smile at me.

"What do you mean?" He asked. He stood up and walked to the table in the centre of the room, picked something up and began to stroll back.

"I'm close to the Kage summit. The meeting is today? Right?" I asked, feeling quite stunned because he seemed so nice. He passed me a bowl that he had just retrieved. I looked into it, ramen, best of all, miso ramen. I looked from the food to the mysterious guy in front of me. 'Why is he giving me food?' I thought to myself.

"Well, yea. Although, you looked like you were harmless. I mean, if you were an assassin, surely you would have woken up when I brought you here." He made a relevant point. I nodded my head and dug into the ramen.

It was delicious, so many different tastes lapping at my tongue. I slurped every last drop of ramen and soup from the bowl, then handed it back to the man. "I'll take you to use the facilities. I'll have to chain you though."

I looked at him, 'chain me?' I thought. I nodded my head, I know I have to follow rules right now. He placed the bowl on the floor and put some chains lightly around my wrists. 'That's too loose.' I thought, wondering what his game was. 'Or is it a test?'

"Come on then." He mentioned as he slid his helmet with horns on. He walked over to the door, guiding me as he walked. He opened the door and we both walked out, down a pitch black corridor to another room. "Here's the wash room. Get cleaned up." I nodded and he smiled, I walked into the windowless room and closed the door behind me. I couldn't see much, so I felt along the wall until I collided with a metallic feeling thing. The chains clanked together as they hit the object. I felt around it and found a tap, the water was already running. 'I wonder why?' My mind was racing with so many questions about this place. Like: Why was I not as guarded as I should be? Or why haven't I been punished? I looked down and splashed my face with the fresh water. I didn't trust this place enough to have a whole shower, or what ever. I walked over to the door and opened it. He was still waiting on the other side, he took a hold of my shoulder and guided me further down the corridor.

We walked through a door and the room got brighter, more lamps were plastered around the place. "Seat?" He asked as he pointed to the floor. This way we could talk. I nodded and sat down slowly, making sure I didn't squish my hands. As I tried to brush the floor before hand.

"Why?" I asked completely dumbfounded. What I wanted to know is: Why was I here?

"What?" He asked, looking just as confused as myself.

"Well, why did you bring me here? Why am I still alive?" I voiced the questions, concern lacing my voice. "And why are you being nice to me?" I just couldn't understand any of it.

"You were freezing in that small cave." He answered, as he looked down to the floor. A slight blush rose up his cheeks, his hair slid down to cover his face again. "I was... on a morning stroll, checking the area was safe. I came across you, you were shivering and blue. If I would have left you, you would have frozen to death." I looked at him, too stunned to talk. Is it possible for strangers to help people? I've always thought that they wouldn't help you, they keep themselves to themselves. I nodded my understanding, not sure if he would see it or not. He lift his head up and smiled at me. "Just waiting for the meeting to end now."

"T...the... meeting?" I asked, coming back to reality. "That reminds me, I need to talk with the Mizukage." He doubtfully looked at me.

"Why is that?" The suspicion was evident in his voice. 'He's not going to let me.' I thought.

I looked to the ground and began to speak. "I was wrongly accused of trying to assassinate her, I need to make sure she knows. If she doesn't believe me, then she can kill me herself. If she so wishes."

He lift my chin up to inspect my face, maybe to see if I was lying? Whilst he was busy looking into my eyes for any hint of a lie, I wriggled my hands slightly, loosening the chains further. I tried not to make a sound, but like my luck, they rattled. He looked down at the chains and shook his head. Before he could respond, I brought my hands up and slammed them into his temple. He collapsed on the floor, looking like he was having a peaceful snooze. I quickly pulled the chains off of my hands and made a run for it, down the balcony to find Mei.

BANG

I rushed towards the loud noise. In front of me, in a whole new room, was the Raikage and his two guards. Against a black haired kid, a weird clay looking person, and... is that Mangetsu's brother? I scurried around the edge of the room, so I wouldn't be heard or seen.

"WAIT!" I heard a yell, it sounded like the Samurai. I turned around to see what he was yelling at. Was it at me? I did just escape. Shock horror. The black haired teen was hurtling towards me at full speed. A blade of lightning waiting to pierce anything it meets. Slow motion kicked in, and there was nothing I could do. Apart from wait. Wait for it to slice open my body and expose my insides to the outside world. "NO!" He yelled again, this time he was directly in front of me. His arms were outstretched, meaning to protect me. Lightning surrounded us for a mere few seconds before it dispersed, leaving behind destruction in its wake.

I looked up, to find the Samurai laying on his back, severely wounded. I patted my body down, not sure if anything happened to me. I found a soggy patch on my abdomen. I raised my hand to my face and went severely pale as I realised my hand was stained red.

Every noise started to blur together. I fell to the floor beside the Samurai and put my head against his shoulder. I mean, if I'm going to die, then hell. I'm not dying alone. I stayed there like that for a while, I don't remember how long. Finally, my hearing started to receive sounds correctly. The first thing I heard was: "Secure the perimeter." A loud male voice shouted it, I winced as his voice went through me, like nails on a chalk board. I slowly began to open my eyes until they had fully adjusted to the lighting, which there was a lack of. I looked up and saw a brunette female looking down at me. her short curls were hanging loosely, and her blue eyes shone like the ocean.

"Stay still." She whispered to me, as I tried to sit up. I laid back down and looked towards her hands, they were glowing a light shade of green. She was healing me. I sighed, relief washing through me. No one spoke until I was pulled up by the arm. "I'll take you to the Kages." The matter of a fact girl stated as she dragged me across the huge room to another room, which was manned by three different people. One of which, was Mei Terumi.

Mei looked at me, her face not exactly upset. She was smiling, the smile had hints of regret in it. She grabbed a seat and pulled it over to me, then forced me to sit. My head was still numb and my body was still swaying, as if I'd had a bit to much alcohol.

"Mizukage-Sama... I..." I stumbled trying to think of how to explain it to her.

"No worries. I know what happened and I know it wasn't you, or anyone you graduated with." I looked at Mei as she said this, taking in an older version of the girl I once knew. The only thing that had changed, was the length of her dress. I nodded accepting her words, before realising what she had actually said.

"What? Really?" I almost shouted at the beautiful woman.

"Tsukiko?" I looked around and stopped, my gaze still on a young man with two body guards. It was the Kazekage. I followed his stare to a young woman. The same one who had healed me. 'So that's her name?' I thought to myself.

"Kazekage-Sama. I came to give you information. Sir." She paused, then kneeled down, bowing to the Sand's leader. "The Akatsuki are moving in on the Kyuubi."

Gaara looked at her in astonishment. He then stood up, strolled over to her and hugged her. Both of his guards stood, ready to fight. When they realised what had happened, both their mouths dropped open. "Ehhh?" The blonde haired guard randomly asked, still taken aback by the scene on front of her.

I looked at Mei and smiled. The feeling from before had gone, and I felt fine. "What happened to the Samurai?" I asked completely confused.

"He's fine." She replied, replicating my smile before continuing. "Shall we go for a walk and a chat?" She asked as she stood up, ready to walk off.

I followed suit and walked side by side with Mei out of the huge room, down a corridor and through a large set of double, iron doors. I started to shiver. It was absolutely freezing. "So," I paused, thinking of how to start the sentence. "How do you know?" I asked, quickly blurting the words out. "What do you know?"

She looked at me and frowned. "Well, Yagura-sama was being controlled by Madara Uchiha." She whispered, almost to silent to hear. "It was a conspiracy that you tried to kill me. It wasn't only your team, but the team that was under me that was accused as well." I stopped in my tracks, making my body resent me for stopping in the cold. 'What?' I thought. 'Madara?' My mind didn't register the rest of what she had said.

"But Madara was dead!" I turned to look at Mei for an answer.

"That's what I thought." She replied to my outburst. "You're welcome back, you know?" I started to walk slowly, making my feet dig into the snow, a little more than necessary.

"Where is everyone else?" I asked, my tone suddenly changing to one of complete confusion.

"ARRRGGGHHH!" I heard a female scream. I looked up towards the noise. A young girl, who looked so innocent wearing her Lolita dress. She was being charged at by a puppet with a sword. Before the puppet could reach her, it fell to the ground.

Suddenly, a red haired male appeared. Running towards her, weapon in hand.

I raised my hand in the air, towards the child. Willing for the man to stop. How could he hurt someone so innocent? I closed my eyes knowing that I had no power to stop him.

"YAKIKO!" Mei yelled from beside me. I opened my eyes and looked up. Yakiko, my dear friend, was standing between the girl and the guy. Seeming to rest her head upon his shoulder. I started to run, ignoring the chill, which was slapping my face. I was almost there when I noticed what had happened. A small blade was pierced through Yakiko's torso. The one who had a hold of it, seemed stunned by her actions. I continued to jog towards them. Yakiko suddenly put her hand up, urging me to stop. I stopped instantly.

"Yakiko?" I whispered. "Please, no!" I dropped to my knees, wishing that I had never seen this. I was powerless. My Jutsu's were petty. "Why the hell were you here in the first place, God damnit!" My frustration was taken out by me slamming my fists to the ground.

"Yakiko?" the male asked. "I..." He stopped, not wanting to continue. He seemed as if he was remembering something that he was forced to forget.

"Sasori-San. Please remember." She pleaded, as her eyes slowly closed. "Aishiteru."

"Huh?" The now named Sasori asked himself. "No!" He shouted as he lowered himself and Yukiko to the floor, slowly pulling the short sword from her flesh. He hugged her tightly, never once letting her go. I looked to the little girl, who as sitting down in the freezing snow.

"Gomenasai, gomenasai!" She repeated. Tears fell from her adorable little eyes as she lost control of her emotions.

"What?" I asked, barely comprehending the situation. How could this happen? Why did this happen? Everything around me went silent. Until someone put their hand on my shoulder. I turned to look, it was Mei, her once beautiful face turned sour by a grimace. That's when I knew.