Okay! So this is one of my newest stories: Jigokuen no Taka. There is mature content as there is in all my stories, and it can be a bit dark here and there. However as far as I remember (as I finish writing the story and then post the chapters as I please) there's not a lot of things that are too bad. Juuuuust to be safe though it'll be rated M. I'll say this once and only once: I DO NOT own Naruto or any of the cannon occurrences. The only ones I DO own are Cross, everything pertaining to her and her abilities, and the three OCs side characters that will show up later...As well as some other non-cannon nonsense. Now, with that out of the way, might I just say that you should feel free to comment as you please. Hate it, flame away, I don't care. If you love it though, spread the word! All in all, I hope you Enjoy!

Chapter 1: A True Beginning of Life

It's cold in here. Always. Always cold, and always dark. Why? Why is it always cold and always dark? I don't understand. Was I bad? I didn't mean to be bad! I'm a good girl! I want out! And yet...And yet I can't get out! No matter what I do! Every now and then I'll hear voices. Voices saying who is useless and who isn't. Voices telling other voices that I'm doing well and that though the process is slow, it's worth it. The voices haven't been around for a good while though. I wonder where they went? Last I heard them, they were hurried and the bossy one was really angry.

Every day, I look down at my hands, finding them bigger every time I look. Maybe it's not days that I look? Maybe it's years? Or months? I don't know. Today, the dark prison that I float in is fogged over. Not that I ever try to look out the glass. So...Maybe the glass has always been that way? I look down at my hands for the umpteenth time. My hands are the only thing I can really look at. On these hands of mine are claws made of bone. They can retract or grow, but they never ever go away for good. They sprout from the tops of my wrists, and each claw covers the bones of my fingers from on top of the skin like some sort of armor. They follow the bone up the finger in its entirety, and then at least double my finger's length. I don't know what the rest of me looks like, but I hope that one day I'll know, and that I'll be really pretty.

…...What was that?! My head whips to the side as fast as it can to my left. What I see is something pointy shoved through the glass of my prison and slowly letting the water out. But it's not at a pace that's too fast for me to comprehend what's going on. There's a bright flash to my right, getting rid of the darkness that I see so well in, and making me jolt back in surprise. There's another flash, and then something happens that I'm not to happy to see. The glass of my prison, that is my prison in general, begins to crack. The water now spills out at a faster pace. And soon enough, I find myself sitting at the bottom of my prison, taking in my first ever breath of air. Or...I'm pretty sure it's my first breath of air. Luckily, there's no more flashes of light. What I do see, though is the glass of my prison falling away large piece by large piece. I blink multiple times, and my eyes widen as a certain piece falls from my eye level and I see what's going on.

I feel my eyes widen as I watch what's going on. There in front of me, taking up most of the vision that widens little by little, is a giant white monster. It looks clumpy...Made of some sort of white worm. It's head has hair and looks like a giant triangle. A sharp object is thrown at the monster, but instead of hitting it, it simply goes through the monster, and hits my prison. I yelp and fall back as the pointy thing almost hits me, my back slamming into the back of my prison for a second time. I groan in pain. That really hurt! I open my eyes only for them to widen and my mouth to open up in a silent scream. The monster sees me! Oh god! I hear a whimper escape my lips as I curl in on myself, an attempt to protect myself as the monster's jaw opens nice and wide.

"Run!" I hear a voice tell me. Where am I supposed to run to?

Don't hurt me monster! Please! I can't let out more than another whimper as the monster comes at me, and next thing I know I'm in the dark again. I slide down something slimy, and then stop after a moment or two. My closed tight eyes open up, and I let out another whimper. Everything is dark here, but I can see perfectly fine, as though I were in the light. That's how it was in my prison: dark but I could see perfectly fine. Here, I don't want to see perfectly fine though. It's slimy and squishy and I don't like it. Let me out! Let me out, please! Please! I'm a good girl! I didn't do anything wrong! Out! I want …...OUT! Suddenly, there's a rush of what I figure to be power. It's something I've never felt before, and it makes me feel strong. But I don't care right now. All I want is out! I hear a quick squelching and tearing sound, and suddenly nothing is so scary any more. I look around, seeing not my prison, but the room that I saw through the cracks in my prison. For the most part, it's laced with other glass prisons, but they're all empty. There are two big prisons to my right, both of them are broken open. But I can't tell which one is my own. I look up to see nothing but wires and other stuff that I'm not sure what they are. I look down and at my hands. They're covered in red stuff that smells funny. In fact...All of me is covered in red stuff. It's kind of sticky.

"Hey," I hear a voice call to me and yelp, looking finally at the black hand before me. It's bigger than my own, but not by that much. I think. "Hey, take my hand," the voice tells me. My eyes trail up the hand that leads also to a black arm. There's a thing strapped around the arm and then by the time I make it to the top of the arm, there's no black or silver. Instead there's skin a bit paler than my own. There's two swirly marks on this arm, and I follow the top of the arm to the neck. It's covered in black too. So is the face up to the nose. There's a thing, I'm not sure what it is, around the person's forehead, holding back spiky silver hair. My eyes meet a black one, and a red one. The red one looks especially pretty, even if there is a scar over it. "Come on now, take my hand will you?"

"Kakashi, let's just go!" Another voice shouts out. "I failed my mission and yours has been put on hold. Leave her and let's go!" My head whips in the direction of this speaker, only to yelp a bit. He's in all black, and like the silver haired one he's wearing things around his arms...There's a thing over his chest too that goes over his shirt. His face though...That's what scares me. It's...It's porcelain white, its eyes aren't eyes and it has no mouth. There's markings on its white skin. I let out a whimper, and begin to try and scooch away from the weird being.

"Be quiet Kinoe," the silver one tells the blank faced monster, "You're scaring her". His pretty black and red eyes look back at me, "Please, take my hand. I'll take you somewhere safe". I do nothing. How can I know that I can trust the pretty eyed stranger? "If it helps...My name's Kakashi. I want to take you somewhere safe. Will you come with me?" This time, his voice is less harsh than the other two times. It's soothing and welcoming. I stare at his pretty eyes for a moment longer, before putting my clawed one in his. "That's a good girl". He pulls me up to my feet, and then picks me up, I snuggle to his chest. I'm a good girl! He called me a good girl! I can't help but smile. I close my eyes, and let Kakashi take me where he pleases. That is, until after we're out of the room he begins to stumble and he falls. I fall out of his arms and roll to a stop a foot or two away from him.

"Kakashi?!" The emotionless one questions worriedly, picking up Kakashi and leaning him against a wall. What's wrong with him?

"Damn," Kakashi grumbles out. "The gas that was released as we were leaving must... have been ….poisoned...," he falls silent. From my spot, I watch as he becomes more and more still. The emotionless one, Kinoe, Kakashi called him moves quickly, putting a hand into a pouch on his hip and pulling out a small glass prison, holding some sort of liquid and a point at the end. What's he doing? Are there little people in there that will fix Kakashi? I guess so, because after the pointy prison was taken away, Kinoe's body seemed to calm down. However, then he started to do something that he shouldn't of. He took up a short pointy thing, like the one that entered my prison and made the small crack. He crouches next to Kakashi, and opens the eye with the scar over it to show the pretty red one. He points the thing at the pretty eye. That doesn't look safe at all!

"Nai!" I scream, picking my body up and running at the boy, my body crashing into his and sending us sprawling. We stop with a skid, and I'm quick to get up to my feet and crouch in front of Kakashi. Time to be brave. Kakashi is nice to me! I can't just let him get hurt! Even I know what pain is. I can't talk...I think...But I'm not stupid.

"Ugh...What the hell?" Kinoe gets up shaking his head. His mask turns to me and he stands. "What was that for?!"

"Nai!" I scream again, this time more determined and less frightened. I have to be brave! "Kakashi!" I tell him. Hopefully that'll show that I don't plan on letting him hurt Kakashi.

"Move to the side, girl. I have a mission to complete," what's a mission? Why does he sound unwilling at the sound of 'have'?

"Kakashi," my body lowers itself in front of him lowly. My small fingers are splayed to make the claws more dangerous. "Nai. Kakashi".

Kinoe shakes his head, "Are you telling me to not hurt him or something? Speak properly".

If only I could. The words of 'protect' and 'kill you before you him' or something like that are on the tip of my tongue. But the only words my mouth will form are some form of 'no' and Kakashi's name. "Kakashi. Nai. Nai nai nai!"

Kinoe sighs. "That's what I thought...Fine," he sighs again before slumping. He then puts his hand in a different pouch this time, and pulls out a dark prison and a stick with a soft end. There's flat stuff too. Paper? I watch as he swiftly writes something down and then hands me the paper. "Give this to Kakashi when he wakes up. By then I'll be gone. He'll be awake in about ten minutes". Like I know what a minute is. I'm smart for not knowing basically anything, but I'm not that smart. Still, he sighs again, "Thank you...For stopping me from hurting him. He's my friend but...I'm confused. I have to go".

I listen carefully. Confused? About what? He stands, and he leaves at a swift pace, not giving me a chance to try and ask why he was confused. Still, I have no choice but to sit and wait. However as I do so, I find the ground before me rather cold. When I look down, I yelp. I have no clothing! That means that Kakashi and Kinoe saw me naked! My mind tells me that that's not right. I feel something on my back move, and wrap around me protectively. What I see are two large- compared to my body- wings. They're rough and scaly, but they're not ugly or anything. In fact, while the skin between the bones is thin, and looks kind of see through, it's hard to the touch and yet flexible as well. The skin covering the bone is even rougher, and harder, stronger. I smile. I'm familiar with these wings. I discovered them a long time ago. They're black like the darkness I can see so well in. Around my left ankle wraps something long and made of the same feeling as my tail. I look down and see my tail, smiling at it. Like my wings are big, my tail is long when compared to my body, and the tip of it is deadly like that pointy thing Kinoe had. My tail is strong too.

"Ngh," I hear a grumble, and I look up from my ankle to see Kakashi moving around, which makes me happy.

"Kakashi!" I smile out.

"Huh?" He looks to me, but only sees me, "Where's Kinoe? That other person I was with. Where is he?"

I pout. Is he not happy to see just me? Still, I look down at the paper that was given to me, and my wings open up. "Sah," I tell him, trying to get his attention. It works. He takes the paper, and I close my wings around me again so he doesn't see my naked body more than he already did. "...Kinoe...This isn't good! Come on, get up! We have to go!" We do? I don't question him, getting up and letting him pick me up. As soon as he does, we rush off at a speed I had never felt before. This I know for sure.

I don't get a chance to take in the sights and smells that amaze me as we make it into a place with many people all over the place. No. Instead, Kakashi rushes passed all the interesting stuff and takes us to a tall building. It's in front of a mountain- directly in front of it- and surrounded by a decently tall wall and that wall has something of a roof to make it harder to climb, and it has a door way too. Kakashi though, being the way he is, easily jumps over the wall and through the doors of the building. The building itself is a giant circle with what looks to be three levels. On the outside, the walls are red, and at the top there's a roof with an edge of orange on it, like with the wall around the building but no pointy top- the top of the building is fat. The inside of the building is mostly white from what I can see, the floors and walls and pillars. We run passed a woman behind a wooden table thing despite the fact that she says that we have to wait. We run up stairs, and then through another hallway. This hall's floors and walls are also white, but there's windows all over the wall to Kakashi's left. We stop at a pair of green doors.

"Senpai? What's the rush? Who's the girl?" A girl, standing guard at these green doors questions. Kakashi doesn't listen to her questions, and rushes into the room. "Wait! Senpai! You can't just barge in!" The girl tells him as Kakashi does just that.

"Hokage-sama!" Kakashi stops himself, skidding as he does so. "I have returned from my mission; which must be put on hold. It's Danzo. He sent Kinoe after me to kill me! But he didn't! He stopped himself and returned to Danzo; he's going to report that he failed! Who knows what's going to happen to him. You have to help him!"

The man before Kakashi and I is obviously aging if the lines on his face are of any sign. Though his hair is a medium brown and his skin is darkly tanned. His robes are white and red, and before him is a stick with a soft end and some paper. "Kakashi...It has been agreed that I will not interfere with Ne...However...In this situation it cannot be helped it seems". His eyes fall onto me, pausing in his writing. He puts the stick down, and hands the paper to the girl. "Yugao. Take this to Danzo; it is a summons for him to report to me immediately. Go now".

"Yes sir!" The girl nods. Now that I get a look at her, she's pretty. She wears the same thing Kakashi and Kinoe wear. And like Kinoe she has a scary face with red markings on it, which she slips in front of her real face before taking off. So...It's just a mask then? Kinoe has a real face too? I wonder what it looks like? She leaves quickly.

"Kakashi. Quickly, explain to me who this girl is. Did she come from that hide out?" The old man questions.

"Yes sir," Kakashi states, "As you can see she is most likely one of his many experiments. She also seems strong. She can't really talk, but by the way she acts I don't think she has any major issues understanding things. She just needs to learn how to talk again".

"Does she have a name?"

"No sir," Kakashi answers.

"I see...Take her and yourself and get patched up at the hospital. I will see to it that things are taken care of with the Ne situation". The old man states.

Before I know it, Kakashi is taking off again. However, he stops on a roof top and sets me down, "Give me a second," he tells me. Like the good girl he said I am, I do as I'm told. He makes some funny symbol with his hands and fingers, and then poof! There's another him in front of me. That him picks me up, and looks to the first him. How'd he do that? I can't stop staring at the Kakashi that now holds me. "Take her to the hospital and get her checked out. Stay with her as much as you can; we don't know what she's capable of and we don't want her accidentally hurting anyone". The original tells the copy.

"Yes sir!" The copy nods before looking down at me, "Now listen to me. You need to be a good girl no matter what the people I'm taking you to see do. They're good people, like I am, and they won't try to hurt you. If they do hurt you, they don't mean it. Understand?" He talks gently to me as he moves towards a large white building. Like the red one where the old man was, this one has a wall around it. But there's no roof on this wall.

"Ah!" I beam to him, happy that he's just bothering to explain things to me.

"Good girl," I see his two eyes crinkle in a smile to me, and I can't help but smile brighter. I'm a good girl! Kakashi lands in front of two glass doors that open up for him without him touching him. The inside of the building smells funny, and like the other building the floors and walls are white. But this floor is shinier than the other floor. Kakashi's shoes make a funny noise with every step. Around us are chairs and openings that lead to hallways. However, we go to a wooden table thing. "I need this girl thoroughly examined by a higher up doctor; orders from the Hokage".

The woman behind this wooden table is dressed in all white, a little hat on her head with a red cross on it. Her eyes are green and her hair is blonde. "Very well. Kyuzo-sensei is currently open; she can go to him for examination". She walks from behind the table and motions for Kakashi to follow, which he does. We walk through one of the many openings on the walls of this room, and as I thought, they lead to hallways. These hallways have rooms connected by the looks of things, doors and numbers next to these doors that are closed are all I see. We travel for a little while until there's a knock. "Sensei. You have a patient sent by Hokage-sama himself". The woman speaks through the door.

"Hokage-sama sent him? Very well, send him in," a causal voice speaks up. The woman opens the door and Kakashi walks in. The man I see is dressed in clothing of varying tints of white. His shirt looks to be long sleeved and a medium gray. His pants are light tan, and there's a long white coat covering all of this with short sleeves. His face is scruffy, and a stick that smokes is hanging from his lips. His hair is black and shaggy, his eyes are dull blue and tired looking. "What's this? Kakashi...Who do you have here?" He looks to the nurse, "Prepare examination room five".

"Hai," the woman nods and leaves.

The man stands to his feet, Kakashi, explain to me what's going on. Then we'll start the examination".

"I was sent on a mission involving a found base that once belonged to you know who," Kakashi states, "I found this girl, and after getting her to take my hand it seems she's taken a liking to me. She doesn't have a name, but as you can see she's most likely an experiment. She can't talk well, but she obviously isn't stupid. She understands what we're saying, and she seems to understand what most things are. Or at least she has the ability to see new things and relate them to things she's seen before".

"I see...And what of yourself? You look hurt," the doctor states, and we begin moving again.

"I'm just a clone, but the original is fine. He's off doing something else for Hokage-sama," Kakashi explains in short. There's another amount of traveling that we do. But when we do make it to our destination, I'm a bit frightened. There's a metal moving tray covered with pointy metal sticks and pointy glass prisons. And things I don't exactly know what they are. The room itself is very bright, and it hurts my eyes slightly, but it's nothing that I can't deal with if I must. In the middle of the room is a flat thing that looks rather soft. Attached to it are metal open loops.

"Nai," I whine to Kakashi as he moves to put me down on the squishy thing. I don't want him to let me go.

"I have to put you down. Remember, these people are nice," Kakashi tells me. "Be a good girl and let go of my neck".

I stare into black and red eyes before sighing. If it's to be a good girl for him..., "Ah...," I trial off and release the hold I had taken to when he tried to put me down the first time. This time I don't fight, and I let the doctor move me as he needs. I'm not too happy about my nakedness being shown not only to Kakashi again, but now this stranger, but I have to be a good girl or else Kakashi might get upset with me. And I don't want that. I force my wings and tail to relax as gently metal loops are closed around my limbs so that they're held down and out of the way.

"Alright," the doctor begins. His hands form funny symbols swiftly, as though fiddling with his hands or something. They begin to glow, and then run over my body. They don't touch me, which I'm happy with, but still it's odd to watch. "This process is going to take a while, Kakashi. If you want to report to your original, do so. However, simply because she likes you and I don't want to cause any trauma, please come back as soon as possible".

Watch as Kakashi, whom had moved to lean on a wall a little bit away from me, pushes off the wall with a nod. "Alright," His eyes land on me, "Be a good girl. I'll be back in a little bit". I give nothing but a small nod, and watch as he makes his way out of the room. In order to keep myself calm, I close my eyes, can clear my mind. This eventually allows me to fall into sleep.