• How this happened she did not know. Covered in blood, Shadow lay in the now crimson white snow. It flashed through her mind like a nightmare.... She'd been wandering in the cold for hours on end, searching for the nearest village to stay at an inn. Something moved behind her making her twitch and quickly turn to see what it was. Nothing had been there. She shrugged and just continued walking. Suddenly, a man in an ANBU uniform jumped out from the bushes. Shadow quickly took out a kunai and held it at the ready. "Put the weapon down, little girl. You don't want to hurt yourself." The man said, taking out a scroll. Shadow shivered from the cold and tried to keep an eye on the man's hand holding the scroll.

    The ANBU leapt at Shadow, holding the scroll out and marking it with blood from his thumb. He made a hand sign and said, "Fire Style: Fox Curse!" A flame burst from the snow under Shadow's feet and engulfed her completely. She screamed in pain and blood covered her body. Her teeth turned into razor sharp fangs and her nails turned into black claws. She grew a bushy fox tail. Fox fur covered her bleeding body as she grew a snout to hold the new fangs. Fox ears grew at the top of her head as her human ears disappeared into the bloody mess. Her bones snapped and cracked reforming into the skeleton of a human sized fox.

    The flames disappeared from around her unconscious body. The last thing she could remember was the man laughing over her before disappearing. She fell into darkness as everything went black.....