Disclaimer: I absolutely do not own Naruto the series itself or its characters. I only own the characters of my own (those whose names do not appear in the series), and my own plot of the story that doesn't exist in Naruto.

-Chapters with romance will come up later in the story and teen-rated material will come up too-

Summary: Shina Nakamura is a kunoichi who just moved into Konoha as a place to live on her own if wished, and just like others who are in the Nakamura clan. There she lives her life in Konoha, enters Ninja Academy as a pre-genin transferred, and fight to know her purpose to the Nakamura Clan and her life.


Walking On My Own Path

Shina: So Hard to Move In

Geez, here I am at Konoha yet I have so many difficulties with people. First it was a pain commanding my dog I summoned and owned to cooperate with carrying the furniture, I needed to convince the proctors at the academy to let me register in as a genin but the answer was "no", and I had to scare off a group of sleazy men/guys looking for a "date". Today is when I have to prove myself to the proctors to let me in the academy as a genin. As I walk to the academy (I'd rather check out the town) with plenty of time on my hands, I thought about which proctor am I facing…

10 minutes later…

" Cough! Cough! Ahem… okay… I, Proctor Hayate, will announce this battle. Shina Nakamura, you shall face… Ebisu," the sick-sounded proctor said. I turned around to see my opponent and there he was, in a dark, navy one-piece outfit with the official Konoha headband in a bandana version. He also had spectacles that are round and very dark, pitch dark enough that you can't see his eyes and only the glare reflecting from his glasses.

"I shall introduce myself my fair lady, I am Ebisu, also proctor of the Third Hokage's grandson, let us fight shall we?" The elaborately sounded man spoke.

"Okay, fine with me…" I said. I was wondering… is he staring down at something? He would be if he had to use his index finger to push up his glasses from falling.

" I won't be going easy on you…" Ebisu said in a hidden playful tone in his voice.

As he rushed to me unarmed at the moment, I realized something… Uggh!! Now I found out why he was smiling and talking that way, he drew his attention to my things!

" Yeah, you know what? I won't go easy on you!!" I said in a ticked-off tone. Both of my hands immediately reached behind my back to pull out my weapons. I swiftly pulled out my weapon, and at the same time use the pull of the force opening my weapons.

" Fans?! Wow my lady, you must be a bit off if you're going to enter the ranks of this academy with those weapons so ladylike," Ebisu said in an underestimating statement.

Oh yeah? Wait till you see… As he ran full speed towards me ready to elbow me in, I stood in a stance of a basic technique of my weapon. In the range of five yards away, I immediately dashed towards him using a short burst of chakra to my feet. Spun and twisted to my left side with my right arm in lead, I knocked the pervy-sounding proctor off balanced to the ground. Following with his right-sided outfit cut to ribbons, he stood up again with the following of constant chatter from the spectators of the sides.

" Not bad… for a girl…" Ebisu complimented as to also save face from the sight.

" I can't believe this…" I said in exasperation. I made several hand signs and slapped them onto the ground,' Earth shatter jutsu!' A stream of earth rose up as if pressure underneath exploded vertically towards Ebisu. Wham! The end jabbed him underneath the chin and sent him flying like a rag doll. He managed to catch himself mid-air and said," Dodge this!" while throwing several kunais towards me. Swinging the fans to throw off the kunais, I dug my fans into the ground and threw up huge chunks of it towards him. He barely dodged all of them with just a bruise from his left forearm. Then suddenly a switch of water came at him, with me manipulating it from a river nearby. When I caught him disabled, I then let go of the water and summoned up fire from the edges of my fans.

" What is this?! Some kind of magic?" Ebisu shouted in shock as he struggles to avoid the blaze. He couldn't do much while in the air and speaking of air, I spun in a circle with the beginning of jumping to gather enough force then in the end I let go of it with one of my knee touching the ground.

When I actually gave Ebisu a chance for once to land on the ground, he started getting irritated like a bull.

" Alright, enough playing around," Ebisu grunted," Substitution clone jutsu!"

Ten of him came up surrounding me and cried out as if last ditch," Try to get away if you can!" charging at me simultaneously with shurikens flying like meteor showers. I quickly gathered water from the river with my fans and work fast enough for it to succeed.

"That's not going to save you now!" Ebisu said in a cackling voice," Huh?"

Swish! Sching! Crackle! Shards and walls of ice spread around from the encirclement to the Ebisus like a tidal wave, and then it imploded into a rain of ice covering the field. When Hayate called the battle to an end saying that Ebisu and I don't want to go overboard with the battle. When Hayate was done with his comment, the only thing that was left standing was I and the one down was Ebisu pinned with ice to the ground.

" Then that settles it, Shina Nakamura you are accepted into Ninja Academy as a genin," an old, raspy-sounding voice said," This is acceptance from yours truly, the Third Hokage. And even though your skills could possibly be the level of a chunin, you have to pass the chunin exams in order to be one whether you possess skill or not. I look forward to seeing your performance here at the Village Hidden in The Leaves."

I came home happy from today's battle exhausted and hungry. What awaited me for my arrival was my summoned dog, Kizu. Even though Kizu could go back to his world of dogs originally purposed for the Inuzuka Clan, he wanted to be by my side for some reason. Kizu was a dog of 4'11'' while I, myself is 5'7'' in comparison to size. His primary color is black and secondary color is brown-tan, and with a coat that can withstand any weather condition like snow, rain, etc. Hearing and smell is his specialty like all other dogs but he excels far greater than them. His bloodline of the family has traits such as erect, pointed ears, speed, power, and ability to see well in the dark. The best of all about him is that he's soooo cuuute! He's still young like a puppy entering the winding teenage stage yet; no matter how you look at him he's so adorable with those brown, gleaming eyes of his. So after I gave Kizu his food, I began to make teppanyaki as a side and hot and sour soup with rice. After dinner, I took a quick shower and went to bed. Man, the heat from the soup and the taste still lingers with the taste of steamed fish, and the warm taste of the satay beef I added to my teppanyaki.

The first day of my life as a kunoichi has begun by meeting my group! I heard that in Konoha, usually groups are arranged as three with one girl and two boys each. That's the problem, if they're problematic guys I've met the past two years since I was thirteen, I wouldn't cooperate easily. If they were cute guys, I'd be feeling uncomfortable just by the habit of talking to people in the eye. As I waited outside the office waiting for my teacher of the group and my other teammates, I noticed a group walking up to me. There was a faded, blonde, long-haired girl in purple, a guy with a ponytail and the headband tied around his arm, and a fat guy who needs to workout more and get a better sense of dressing up.

" So I hear that you're the talk of the town," started the blonde," You creamed Ebisu, one of the proctors in your battle, and made it as a genin without having to spend years of school with the little kids. Good luck, you're gonna need it because you'd probably won't last long, and Ino's the name and the two are Shikamaru and Choji."

" Tell me about it, man this is such a pain in the butt," said the exasperated Shikamaru," What's the big deal about her? So she beat Ebisu, big deal… he probably went easy on her."

" You got that Shikamaru," said the fat, piggish, slob (yes, I'm pissed right now… 'sorry to those Choji-lovers out there') of what you call Choji," This girl probably has nothing in her…"

" Let's go boys!" Ino called out.

As they walk away past the doors leading to outside, with an anger vein popping on the top right of my forehead fuming with infuriation, I stomped my left foot onto the floor. The shock from my foot to the floor chased after the snobby team underground and encircled underneath them. In a second, the ground from the cobblestone bridge gave and the team fell in the river underneath the bridge. I can hear their yells and cries of shock past the glass doors inside, laughing to myself in satisfaction.

"So, you're my new teammate from now on eh?" came a male voice from the right. He came out and it was a guy of seemingly the same height and age of 15 as me. He had brown eyes and hair, although the eyes looked like as if it had the eyes of a fox for half the part and he had a part of hair to his right then left a gap towards the center down of his left. His body was well built and I can tell immediately that he prefers the use of his fist. Part of the reason was that the headband somehow perfectly fitted, wrapped around his left wrist. He had a sleeveless, loosely collared shirt with tan shorts.

"The name's Akushi (A-koo-she) Natsuke (Naa-tsu-kay) of the Natsuke Clan," introduced Akushi," But it is preferred that you can call me Natsuke, it's sounds more better."

" 'Kay, my name's Shina (Shee-na) Nakamura (Naa-ka-mura)," I said in response.

" So I see we can all get along?" asked out a female voice," I will be your teacher from now on, I'm Atsuki (Aa-tsu-kee) Katake (Ka-tah-kay)."

It was my new teacher as said and a guy of 16 with the height almost the same as my teacher. Atsuki-sensei looked about 5'12'' and the guy looked about 5'10'' if the two stood next to each other. Atsuki-sensei had long, dark purple hair with a bunch of it tied in a ponytail in the back. Her bangs parted from her left with her headband showing, and her eyes were the same color. She had a scarf somehow loose on the top half and the bottom tied snug and securely. No matter how you look at it in any angle you won't be able to see her mouth or the end of her nose. Dressed in a manner of a light beige vest hanging down until below slightly at the waist, dark-clothed fishnet sleeves starting half-way towards the elbow to the wrists covered with gloves, and with darker beige shorts ending at the knees.

I learned that the guy next to Atsuki-sensei was Long Shizukaze, supposedly from a clan that they fight with hand-to-hand combat but mainly use and specialize in charms and talismans. Long had raven black hair grown long to be tied into a braid almost halfway of his back, and his bangs hanged loose but not like his face was covered. Although his torso or waist may not look like it, his arms and legs looked fortified fit. He also wore a high collared, sleeveless oriental shirt of forest green and gold trim. A crimson red sash was wrapped around him figured that it was concealing his pouch full of talismans. As we all talked and discuss of things, the day would end when bits of snowflakes blew with the wind in the night of summer.