Chapter 15

AN: Kishimoto owns all except my characters-Kiminari, and Kimiko, and later characters. Also I'm probably not going to follow any of the story line except a few small things. I may take the characters outside their natural personalities, but that's because it's my story, and it'll add to it. Another thing: since I'm not following the story line of the series- All main (good) characters will start out the same age as they should be, but even though the Akatsuki will be around, the war will not happen until later; if it does at all. Again this is because I'm making up my own story line; it gets kinda boring when nothing has changed and, you readers would be able to guess what was going to happen all the time. So, enjoy, and please comment, review, rate, whatever you wanna do. :D

I watched as she sounded out the name, then she turned to me and smiling brightly, said a name I thought wouldn't hear:

"Madara Uchiha."

I nearly fainted. I can't let her have that, if anyone knew about it, they'd think she was related to the Uchiha clan, or worse, related to him. I looked at her bright happy face and decided not to take it unless she didn't want it.

"Kimiko, are you sure you want to keep that headband?" I asked as nicely as possible.

"Why wouldn't I?" she asked innocently.

"Because it belonged to a man who was in the war that killed your mother and many other wars before that, as well. He was a traitor that defected from Konoha." I finished.

She just smiled sweetly and said, "Well, if that was the case, then I guess I should give this headband a better image. I'll wear it to make up for all the bad things its last owner did."

From that moment I knew I could trust her wholly, but I was still curious as to her family origins, so when I returned to my home that afternoon, I pulled up the files again. I started by pulling up all kekei genkei users who were parents, or old enough to be parents. When I'd finally searched through all the eligible shinobi and found nothing, I decided that we'd just have to wait to see what happened; perhaps it would show itself eventually. But then a though crossed my mind: We could make a record of her physical and mental characteristics along with her genetics from the blood works and compare it all to others through the computer. We'd only recently updated the files so that we could search characteristics in detail enough for this, but I thought there was enough info to help us out.

Kimiko's P.O.V.

The weeks following my acceptance into Konoha, and Lady Tsunade giving me my headband, were the hardest weeks I'd ever experienced. All we did was train; everyday Kakashi would teach me some simple jutsu and after he felt that I knew them well enough, we'd move on to sparing. Today he was teaching me proper swordplay. We'd been sparing for about fifteen minutes, when Lady Tsunade showed up at the training grounds.

We stopped and greeted her. "Hello. Kakashi. Kimiko." She said nodding to the two of us in turn. "I'd like to ask you Kimiko, if it'd be alright if I observed your characteristics for a week or so." I didn't exactly know why she'd want to do this, but figured it wouldn't hurt.

"Sure, Lady Hokage-sama. I don't mind. What exactly do you mean by that though?" I inquired.

She stole a quick glance at Kakashi. "I'm going to try to figure out exactly who your parents were." I was shocked. Why does she care? What does she need to know that for? "I realize that you already know a bit about your mother, but would you like to know more?"

"Yes." I said excitedly. "Please." I added.

We talked about my mother for about thirty or forty minutes. She had been a very good kunoichi from Kokan no Mura-the village of replacement-which was a village formed by some of the survivors of the destruction of Uzushiogakure. She was from the Uzumaki clan and had been very strong. When she got around to talking about who my mother had said my father was she explained that there was no one named Masaru in the records of that village. When I asked what that meant, she told me that my mother had probably lied about my father's true identity to protect me. She said that he was probably sought after to be killed and added that this was the case of many powerful shinobi. So my dad was probably a very powerful shinobi huh? Well, I guess I'll have to work extra hard then to make him and Mom proud.

When all the talking was finished, I asked her how studying my characteristics would help. She said, "Well, we can definitely say that you got your mother's hair, and eyes; however, we don't have any clue who your father is, so by putting detailed data on your characteristics in the computers' charts, we can find the man with the closest similarities to you. Whenever we find a match or matches, we will compare your chakra readings to that person, then your physical appearances and finally your blood samples. Whoever that person is, if your blood works match, is your father."

"So, if they're someone you know, do I get to meet them?" I asked hopefully.

"Well, depending on who that man is, we shall see."

Tsunade's P.O.V.

I had been observing Kimiko for almost a week and a half-a little more than planned-and I finally had enough information to run the tests.

• Favorite foods: Inarizushi, Ramen(the only thing she prefers to Inarizushi), Dango, crab meat, semi-sweet foods

• Least favorite foods: Anything too spicey or too sweet, caviar(specifically roe)-dislikes with a passion), oysters, etc.

• Favorite pass-time: Training, cooking, studying, eating, dancing, swimming, taking care of her pets-two cats, and a young messenger eagle.

• Least favorite pass-time: Shopping, being idle.

Well, I think you can pretty much assume what the rest is like, physical descriptions and so on.

When I'd finally put all of her everything into the computer, I waited a bit impatiently for the results for men; there were seven.

I didn't exactly like what I saw. Of the seven only two were from the Uzumaki clan; the other five were Uchihas. At first I thought that it was due to her pass-time preferences and high chakra, or due to her food choices, but then I looked at the Uzumaki results. One was her grandfather and the other was her uncle- both files showed the men's relations to her mother.

That meant her father had been an Uchiha. I was more than a little worried now; I now not only had to explain to her that her father was from the Uchiha clan-Kakashi had told her the story of their demise- but I also had to explain that he was probably one of the victims of the massacre-many were hunted down in the following years and picked off, even the clan members who had left the village years before.

I slowly put in her chakra readings; one disappeared. The four that remained were all of the clan head family. As I looked at each profile-they were listed from youngest to oldest-I logically deleted the first two by age; when I clicked on them and saw Sasuke and Itatchi's files, I immediately removed them from the draw, since they couldn't be old enough. The third was Fugaku Uchiha's, and after a careful chakra comparison, I realized that his didn't fit either.

I held my breath as I clicked the last one. I only hoped that this man was the one we were looking for, otherwise we'd never be able to find the right one. 'click'

I nearly passed out. I mentally took back wishing that this man was Kimiko's father. The profile shown, was that of the last person I would have ever thought to consider. I allowed a grim chuckle to escape my lips. Although she had not inherited her mother's headband, she had, by some cruel luck, inherited her father's; and I'd been the one to give it to her.