Hallo, minna-san! :D~ Right, so this is my first fanfic ever, let me explain a few things~

The character Sharne is..me. I've always wanted to be in a ficcie (with Kakashiii), so I finally wrote one! ^_^

I also started writing this fic on days before my 21st birthday...hence the title lol ^.^

argh, can't believe I've actually done it! x.x well, I enjoyed writing it, so I hope you enjoy reading it, and please review once you have and let me know about it. =D

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Disclaimer: I don't own the Naruto series or Okami! (..or Kakashi ;-;)

Also, may I add, I'm practically re-editing the whole fic atm. I DID already do this, but ff decided it actually didn't want to. rr.

Sharne sat beneath her bedroom window. She was sat on a plushy cushion, which sat upon a creaky old wooden chair, that had been sitting strong in that same room for the past 21 years.
As she gazed over the land she now would come to rule, which had toned down slightly by twilight, she found her mind wandering back to him. Again…

"It's funny, how things turn out in the end…" she sighed, mindlessly wrapping a lock of her long, dark brown hair round her finger. She took the last marshmallow out of the packet and chewed on it slowly. The first star began to peek through the evening sky quite prominently, well, this was the Village of the Stars after all…

And Sharne was, and unknowingly had been, princess of Star Village her whole life.

.~.

After almost 12 years of searching, her people finally discovered her in the war-damaged Hidden Leaf Village…Konoha.

When she was just 8 years old, Star Village was also engaged in war with the Land of the Moon Tribe. Her father - the King of Star Country - along with many, many Star citizens, were assassinated. The village was torn and blown to smithereens.

Her mother - the Queen - ran far away from the village with Sharne as a last chance of survival, but the ninja had hunted her down and killed her too, leaving Sharne alone in the world. Her mother had known they were tracking them, and ordered Sharne to hide inside a huge willow tree whilst she ran in the other direction. She curled up inside the tree, terrified, imagining the scared faces of her mother and father, and stayed in the tree for almost two days.

And that was where she was found, weak, hungry and scared, by Konoha's Yellow Flash...Namikaze Minato.

Sharne was never before trained to be a ninja, and was never going to be a great ninja, either.

However, Minato-sensei had brought it upon himself to look after her, being an orphan with no village to go back to. So she joined Team 7 - A team of three other young ninja who were being trained by Minato. But they weren't in her age group….in other circumstances, she would be put into a team of three 8 year old Genins, not three 13 year olds. However, because she didn't know of the "way of the shinobi", Minato thought she should join a stronger team. Team 7 consisted of Obito - a member of the Uchiha and Chuunin level, Rin - a medic-nin and a Chuunin, and most importantly, Hatake Kakashi - a Jonin (who would later come to be known as the "Copy Ninja"), son of the White Fang, and little Sharne's favourite ninja.

Sharne was barely even a Genin when she joined the team, only achieving that status thanks to Minato's persuasion of the Hokage. So she followed Team 7 on their missions, often riding on the back of Minato-sensei, or the shoulders of Kakashi when she just couldn't keep up anymore.

Though she was much younger and immature, she loved her team, and they treated her like their younger sister, always protecting her from any harm and teaching her some techniques.

Minato acted as a father figure to Sharne, of course, and she treated him as such. Following him around like a little duckling when she first came to the Hidden Leaf. He gave her most of the ninja training she knew now.

Obito was always so much fun to play with, it was hard to think of him as an OLDER brother. He tried to teach her the Shadow Clone Jutsu, and always laughed at her ghostly clone lying in a scrambled heap, making her pout.

Rin played the role as her older 'sister' well, having girly chats and teaching her some valuable healing methods using her chakra. Sharne didn't have much chakra, but she could still heal a wound pretty well.

Kakashi was very mature for his age, and Sharne always felt sad for him, sympathising having both lost their father. However…Kakashi was her most favourite, because he was always looking out for her, giving her piggy back rides when she was tired, shielding her from getting into battle, tapping her on the forehead if she was being childish, occasionally buying strawberry-flavoured Pocky for her…her favouritest treat!

However, Kakashi never would give her ninja training. Occasionally he would show her a kunai trick now and then…but she wondered why not? He was the strongest ninja of the 4. He was a Jonin. He was so clever. He was so skilled…

But still Kakashi would not train Sharne.

Because…

He never wanted her to engage in a battle.

.~.

"Obito-nii-chaaan!"

"Hey, brat, it's Obito-senpai to you!" Obito grinned his big smile, and poked Sharne in the centre of her forehead with two fingers.

"Ow, nya!" Sharne stuck her tongue out at him and giggled, and ran up to Kakashi, tugging on his arm, "Kaka-san is the leader. Sensei said so, so that makes him senpai! Right? Kakashi-senpai…?"

"Heh. Right," Kakashi patted her on top of her head once. Sharne smiled, pleased at herself, and skipped to the riverbank where she sat and dipped her feet in the cool river.

She looked at the other three and smiled.

Obito had given Rin a daisy as a token of his love, and Rin simply brushed him away, whilst attending to Kakashi's 'wound'…which actually, was just a scratch. It was obvious to Sharne that Obito was in love with Rin, but Rin was in love with Kakashi… During their girly chats, Rin would often (a LOT) comment on Kakashi's skill and strength, his intelligence, his mystery, how handsome he was - her "mysterious knight in shining armour" she had called him.

True, she couldn't deny he was handsome, even as a 9 year old girl. They had only once seen him without his mask on when Minato-sensei had treated the team and took them to a Ramen bar.

But to Sharne, Kakashi did not seem to show much interest in Rin, in that way that Obito did.

She smiled and frowned at the same time at the awkward love triangle in front of her. She was too young to understand this lovestuff anyways…

"Now…Minato-sensei has been ordered back to the village for some very important matter…so this means we must continue our mission and defeat the enemy by ourselves." Kakashi announced suddenly. "We have to stick together in order to keep Sharne-chan out of harm, if we move apart it could be troublesome. We have to watch each others backs. Obito, lead the way to the enemy with your Sharingan. Right, ikuze!"

And so, they pressed on…

With the last mission Team 7 would ever have together.

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A/N: May I add, I didn't know what Minato's team was called (I now know it's 'Team Minato' ¬.¬) so I just called it 'Team 7'. Cause I want it to be. :)
Aaand, I got the idea of the 'People of the Moon Tribe' from Okami, if you're interested (it's an amazing game, people, so you should play it! =D)