The girl with Pink Hair

Chapter One

The air was chilly against my exposed flesh. It wrapped its cold strands of silk around my arms trying to nip out all the warmth I had stored. Letting out an annoyed breath I looked towards the sky as a deep dread filled my soul.

The morning sun was yawning ignoring my presence as it spread its golden rays of light for us all to see. It has been five years since I had returned to the home that birthed me; the village hidden in the leafs.

It was a warm afternoon when the last day of my training with Tsunade came to pass. I can still recall the day so clearly. I remember the sun most of all, how warm and inviting it felt when it embraced me.

Tsunade was barking out orders with the faint smell of liquor lingering on her breath. She was carelessly tossing jutsu at me, that was all her training was.

An hour and a half of this repetitive session glazed by. I felt hot from the heat; my shirt clung to my skin sticky with sweat, but I knew I did not have to wait long. Once the bottle of rum in her hand was low, she would stop for the day so she could get to the store in time before they closed to restock. I was so close to being let out of my training with Tsunade then I would be able to run off and find my shinobi team who consisted of Naruto, Kakashi and sometimes Sai.

It was not until a rogue group of shinobi snuck into the leaf village and tried to strike down my mentor, was the event which permanently ended my training with Tsunade as well as ending my life inside the leaf village as I knew it... 

The shinobi were so strong, too strong for me to handle on my own and with Tsunade drunk from her day drinking we stood no chance for survival. I remember lying on my back, the dirt felt gritty against my skin. I had deep desperate breaths being pulled quickly into my lungs due to the deep gash on my side leaking out blood. All I could do in that moment was watch as they beat Tsunade, she fell from her knees onto the burnt grass unmoving. 

When I thought back to this moment in my life, I can still feel that pressure freely swirling around inside my chest. It felt so tight, like my rib cage was constantly being pumped with dry scorched air and I praying to burnt open. 

Then the heat ignited.

God it was so hot. 

It was like my skin was sizzling against my own bones, scorching the muscle and organs inside my body. The last thing I remember before blacking out was the sensation I was raising to my feet. I thought this feeling was just a mixture of hallucinations and dehydration because I was not that person, I was not the hero that rose against struggle and tipped the scales between good and evil. 

I am not strong enough to raise after being knocked down. 

My next memory was of Tsunade, she hovered over my face and she appeared to be screaming at me but her words were like bubbles, floating away as I gaze above me at the puffy white clouds in the sky as darkness reached out ripping me back down into its pool of sleep. I remember Tsunade's facial features from that day so clearly because I had never seen her look so petrified before then.

When I woke and found Tsunade, she explained to me that I had forced the strength of one hundred seals to appear on my forehead which was how I rose to my feet, it was how I took down those rogue shinobi and saved Tsunade's life. My mark was different from hers; it was blue while hers was purple. Tsunade's mark remained on her forehead while mine vanished when not in use. 

Tsunade said this could be because I forced my seal and did not truly earn it. The next day went as it normally as it could, I did my rounds at the leaf village hospital. I ate lunch alone since my team was too busy and then met up with Tsunade at the training grounds. She had her favorite bottle of rum in her hand, some things will never change. She told me to get ready and then summoned a wave of fire, little to my knowledge I could not control the forced strength of my new seal and in return I destroyed the training grounds with one wave of my hand.