Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of its characters. I do however own any people or places not mentioned in the series. This will be the first and last disclaimer.
Chapter 1
Lord Nikamaru of the Saei Clan stomped angrily though his home, a scroll crushed in his right hand. Teria, his wife ran to catch up with her livid husband before he entered the last room on the floor at the end of a very long hall.
"Oh Nikamaru you mustn't be so angry! She is only a teenager after all." Teria said, trying to reason with her husband.
"She has a responsibility to her clan and her village, I don't give a damn about her feelings anymore, it's about time she grew up!" he pushed open the door so roughly, it came off its hinges.
"Keira get up! This has got to stop right now. You are of age to marry and you will do so and become clan leader like you are required to do." Realizing that there was no answer coming from her sheets he paled slightly. He grabbed the edge of her covers and pulled them away to reveal only pillows. A breeze swept through the room as everyone looked to the open window.
"Oh no, not again." Teria shook her head and sighed. "Kaja, please inform the Chief Guard. Lady Keira has run away again." The nanny who had just entered bowed to the Lady of the House and slowly sauntered in the direction of the guard house. It would be no used to rush her old bones, she knew that Kiera was probably miles away by now, and it was going to be a long time until she was caught up with.
"Nanny Kaja, whats going on?" a small voice stopped her desent down the great stair case.
"Don't worry about a thing Lady Kanea, you just go on to bed." The nanny said with a small smile.
The fifteen year old girl with long blue hair and bright blue eyes nodded in understanding. "Keira has run off again right?" she sighed and walked away without an answer. She knew the ritual, her sister would run away every couple months or so. She knew how she broke the chakra seals on her windows and how every time her uncle would try and lock her away even tighter, her sister would just smile and figure her way out in an hour. Kanea, on the other hand, had no desire to run all over the country like her sister. She was content to stay in her cozy home, and follow the laws of the clan. She loved her sister, with all of her heart, but didn't understand her.
"Chief Taiki, we have a code 'blue haired brat.'" Kaja said with a small laugh into the microphone that connected with the guard house.
"Again? But its been at least two weeks, Kaja, you would think that a two week stay at home would make her realize how much she loves it here." A light masculine voice rang through, with a hint of laughter. "I will be up in a minute."
The Chief Guard was a tall very largely built man with blonde hair and green eyes. He was about forty-five, but he flirted with the women like he was twenty.
"What is it this time Kaja?" he leaned against the door as he was let in.
"You know that Miki clan boy Neikin?" Kaja asked, and Taiki nodded.
"Well apparently there was a plan to have him and the little miss get married, and you know how that must of went with Kiera." Taiki nodded his head, knowing where this was going. "Well, the first clue there was something wrong came when Kiera was nice to the boy, and asked him to go to the dojo for mild training to 'let him teach her some self defense'." Taiki laughed openly at that. "The poor boy didn't have a chance, he was taken away in a stretcher and the Miki clan said no to the marriage. The Lord was so mad with her!" she laughed fondly. "That boy was a very well trained Jonin too!"
"Well serves him right, everybody knows how strong Saei women are. He must have known something was up." Taiki said shaking his head. "Ah well, I guess I should get to work trying to find the little hellion. Goodnight Kaja" he bowed and went up the stairs to find his, undoubtedly, furious master.
"I think we've been kind enough to her, its time to bring out the big guns Masaharu." Nikamaru said gravely to his son. He had sent his guard out to search for clues to where she had gone, and messengers to the neighboring ally villages to ask the Kages for help to apprehend his unruly niece.
"Last time it almost killed her." Masaharu said unconcerned, picking a piece of lint off of his robes. He had never liked his cousin, and every time she ran away, he hoped it would be for good. But his father always brought her back, kicking and screaming.
"We won't tell the others, they tend to get soft when it comes to Kiera, her parents were the same way. Its time she learned her place, even if it truly does kill her. Nikamaru went to his desk and pulled out a small square seal with a kanji on it saying 'submission' and placed it in his pocket. This time he was not going to be nice, and he was going to let everyone see it.
Three days later the Saei messenger Youta arrived in Suna, carrying a scroll marked with the Saei family emblem on it. He was taken to the Kazakage's office and made to wait for two hours in a hot, dry room with no windows. Youta had been a servant in the Saei household since he was born, his mother being Kaja, the nanny. The young man sighed as the clock on the wall ticked by. He was used to being sent on missions like this, he was a Genin, and could never pass the Chunin exams so he was stuck doing the boring messenger stuff that always seemed to place him out of any action, fighting or otherwise. He smirked at the last thought and wondered if there were any sand beauties who would be so kind as to show him around town.
Youta was also Kiera's only friend, and the only one who actually understood her. He knew that all she wanted was to be free from the stranglehold her uncle had on her, but he knew that short of killing him, it would never happen.
"Youta of Cloud, the Kazakage will see you now." A pretty young woman smiled at him and gestured for him to follow her.
"I must have done something wonderful in a past life to be granted with the presence of such a beautiful woman." He flirted shamelessly and the young woman helplessly giggled, and slipped him her number as they came to the Kazakage's door. He knocked twice out of courtesy and let himself in.
Gaara of the Sand was not a tall, nor muscular man but his presence demanded attention and respect and Youta would give him the respect he deserved. Youta had heard the stories of the demon that once resided in him and the power he had over sand.
"Can I help you?" Gaara asked with a hint of annoyance. Youta gulped and handed him the scroll.
"My Lord Nikamaru of the Saei clan has sent me because he believes his niece, Lady Kiera of the Saei clan is hiding here. He wants to bring her home but knew to ask for your permission to bring five shinobi here to reclaim her."
"You need five shinobi to catch a run away princess?" Gaara raised his brow in doubt.
"No, my lord, about twenty would probably be able to take her down, but we thought five would be pushing it with your hospitality." Youta said quickly.
"Is this girl a threat to my people?" Gaara was now intrigued.
"No my lord, she is a threat to know one. She is a kind girl who will probably be brought out of hiding to save a cat from falling out of a tree or someother random act of kindness. The problem is that she is insainly powerful. As are all women in the Saei family. It is the Saei family Kekki Genkai that makes it so hard to bring her down."
"What is their Kekki Genkai?" Gaara wrote a few notes on a blank scroll as the man spoke on about the missing girl.
"Manipulation of electricity. Lightning, static electricity, she can even glow in the dark when she needs to. They are actually a branch of…" Youta stopped, thinking that he had spoken too much. "I think that is all I have to offer, my lord. What message can I send my master?" Youta bowed deeply, not wanting to look the Kazakage in the eye for fear of being asked more questions he could not answer.
"You may search for her here, no more than five and if any of my people are injured in this 'recapture' things will not go so smoothly for your master, am I understood?" Gaara stared down the messenger until he got the message.
"Yes my lord." Youta bowed and left quickly to inform Nikamaru and the others waiting at the edge of Suna.
In the shadows, a hooded figure watched the messenger's retreat down the dark streets. The watcher jumped onto a roof and sat there watching the man move quickly through the night, to an awaiting party of five.
"So, they found me already." She sighed. "They wont get me this time." She growled and jumped down to the streets and to the hotel she was staying in. Once she was safely in her room, she removed her long black cloak and shook out her short blue hair. Carefully she removed her iron and copper weaved shirt and skirt, and her fishnet leggings and undershirt. She dressed like a ninja, even though she had never graduated academy. Her father removed her from the Academy when she was seven and taught her everything he knew in secret. It was illegal for a ninja to teach high level jutsus like the ones Kiera knew to non- ninjas.
She smiled when she remembered when the village elders had tried to arrest her father.
Masami laughed and looked at his daughter.
"Dear, these men want to take your daddy away, what do you think about that?" he smiled down to the nine year old girl who smiled back.
"They would have to go through me daddy." She said with an errie calm that unnerved the three Jonin who came to arrest him.
"You see guys, you don't want to make my little princess upset do you?" he asked. By the time Kiera was nine, her father had gone almost completely mad over the death of her mother three years earlier.
"Just come with us and no one will get hurt." One of the Jonin said slowly.
"Kiera?" Masami stepped back from the door, allowing his daughter to come in front.
"Bang." She whispered and three bolts of lighting came from nowhere nearly killing the three ninja. The stunned Jonin looked at the little girl whos eyes were nearly white with only a trace of blue. Sparks cackled all around her and she was smiling. The Jonin knew when to get the hell out of there and her father died without any convictions six months later.
She had grown up an outcast. The village knew all about the Saei family Kekki Genkai and about the two strongest women to come out of that family. Both women were strong ninja who fought to protect their village. Azusa, one of the first Saei women to come to Cloud was said to have been the strongest woman who ever lived, followed closely by her own daughter, and Kiera's grandmother Fukiyo. The thing that made Azusa so powerful was her complete mastery of the Kekki Genkai and her ancestor's Kekki Genkai as well. The Saei family was a direct descendents of both the Uchiha clan and the Hyuuga clan. There was some strange story about a Goddess or something but Kiera couldn't remember the tale. But it was said that Azusa could not only fight with her Kekki Genkai the Noxlight, but use the Sharingan and the Byakugan as well.
Kiera wanted to be as strong as her great- grandmother, and would stop at nothing to achieve her goal. She even used her great- grandmother's weapon and most of her attacks. The thin metal bull whip was place on top of her metallic clothing as she readied herself for a shower.
The light played on all the scars marring her pale skin. Her father had nearly killed her several times in their "training". She was forced to train for six hours every day, and after her father died, she had upped her training time to ten hours every day.
Tomorrow would be another day, a day she would have to fight her family once again. Tomorrow she would not fail to make them realize that all she wanted, all she needed was to be set free.
A/N: I'm trying a new approach. Please read and review.