"Target is 5 meters and closing"

"Roger that"

A girl of about 15 years slowly leveled her SM347 rifle. She had short black hair with two locks on either side of her face. She was wearing baggy jeans and a tank top. The most interesting aspect about her was her eyes. They were snow white and had no irises. Lying down on top of a roof, her rifle tip hanging over the edge, she was listening to a headset.

"Three feet, two feet, one. Target has entered the perimeter."

She pulled the trigger. A shot rang out. The target, a man who had just walked around the corner of a building, slumped over onto his face.

"Verifying" The girl with the rifle zoomed in on the body. "Target confirmed"

"Good work Hinata. Security personnel will arrive in one minute, tops."

The girl on the roof stood up briskly and started disassembling her rifle. Putting the parts into her backpack, she walked to the emergency staircase and stared descending. Once on the ground again, she took off her headset and put it into her backpack. Then, she exited the alley that she had ended up in and started walking down the sidewalk, completely unnoticed by the people around her.

--Flashback--

'Come on One-chan! Lets go!' her little brother shouted.

It was his first day school and he had been so excited. He was 7 at the time and she had been ten. She held his hand as they walked towards his new school. Their father had transferred here because of his job and they had joined new schools. As they neared the school she saw her father pull up by the curb in his black car. She started walking over there and she pulled her little brother with her. Her father, dressed in a black suit and sunglasses stepped out of the car. Two other men in similar suits got out with him.

'Father?' she asked, slowing her pace and stopping.

Her father said nothing but stepped towards them, the other two men flanking him.

'Unhand your brother' one of the men said. She backed up.

'Dad? What's going on?' she asked, frightened. She instinctively put her little brother behind her. Her father pulled out a gun.

'DAD!'

'It is your own fault' he said. Then he pulled the trigger.

Hinata woke up in bed sweating. Sighing she slumped back onto her futon and looked at the ceiling.

It's been five years since the incident, why am I thinking about it now?

Shaking her head she got up and went over to her kettle where she put on a pot of tea. Returning to her room she went over to her computer. Turning it on, she waited until the screen popped up then signed on AIM. She smiled as she started talking to Ino and Sakura, fellow assassins. She told them about last nights hit and they congratulated her. Getting up she went into the kitchen and turned off the stove. Pouring herself a cup of tea she went back and sat down next to the computer. Ino was talking about her date with Shikamaru. He had taken her to see a movie but fell asleep in the middle of it. Sakura was talking about her date with Sasuke as well. He had brought her to dinner and then a movie. In the middle of the movie he put his arm around her and they cuddled (Hinata had a hard time seeing Sasuke cuddling with anyone, but hey). Sasuke then drove her home and they kissed on her doorstep in a "romantic way" while her roommates (including Ino and Tenten) laughed at them from the balcony.

Hinata said goodbye to them and yawned. God, I'm bored she thought. Sighing, she grabbed her gym bag and shoved a water bottle in it. Grabbing her keys and her iPod, she walked out of the door to her apartment. Stopping on the third floor, Hinata rapped on the door of her friend's apartment.

"Temari! Lets go to the gym."

The door creaked open and Hinata saw a pair of eyes peer out at her before the door swung open. Temari was a blonde girl with two rows of three "ponytails" going down the back of her head. She was wearing a short skirt and a blouse and she had a cup of coffee in her hand. She looked tousled.

"Yeah sure. One sec."

Temari walked back into her apartment. She turned a corner and a few seconds later the blouse and skirt she had just been wearing went flying into the middle of the room landing next to the several pizza boxes and empty sushi dishes. Temari emerged from her bedroom wearing a pair of shorts, a T-Shirt and carrying an iPod.

"Ready"

They walked down the flight of stairs and into the hallway. They jogged down to the gym talking about the complications of modern day guns and the like. Entering the gym they went to the treadmills and started jogging. Hinata jogged steadily but her mind was elsewhere.

--Flashback—

She woke up in a strange room. The walls were all the same light blue color. She coughed and felt blood on her lips.

This must be some kind of hospital. What happened to aniki? With this thought she sat up. She could immediately feel a sharp pain in her abdomen. With a flash, she remembered.

Aniki!

A nurse walked over to her.

'How do you feel?'

'Fine,' she rushed 'where's the little boy I was with?'

'There was no little boy. You were alone when the ambulance came.'

She barely heard the last words before she slipped back into unconsciousness.

"Hey," said Temari "I said what do you think of the hottie over there."

"W-what?" she stammered, momentarily disoriented. Temari sighed impatiently.

"Over there," she said, looking pointedly at a young man slouched against the far wall.

He had raven black hair that was spiked back with a few locks falling down in front of his face. His eyes had a red tinge to them. Glancing up, he noticed Hinata and their eyes met.

Tell me if I should continue.