Chapter 1: Prologue
Hi. My name's Alina Yuan. I'm an average 16 years old teenage girl with a penchant for reading. My favorite reads are usually manga and novels. At school, I'm not exactly a popular girl, but people knew me. I have two wacky best friends. One's Dinah, a lively and sometimes bipolar girl, and the other's Fest, a great, adventurous, and a definitely not sane guy who likes horror games. I love them to bits. I have a 4 year old baby brother, a great mom, and a caring father. Overall, I had a normal, peaceful life.
That was before I got hit by a car and died.
Sigh. Pity, really. It started as a nice day too.
Flashback
Last Saturday, I, Dinah, and Vio hung out together. Vio, a friend of ours, suggested us to meet together for lunch that day. We met, ate lunch, and went shopping together until late afternoon. It was a great day.
That is, until shit hits the fan.
As we waved goodbye to each other and went our separate ways, things started to go wrong. A car zoomed towards me, the driver frantically trying to stop his car, shouting at me to move away. I didn't react fast enough.
The car hit.
I didn't scream, I was too surprised to do so.
The sheer force of the impact sent me crashing through a nearby store window. As I flew, it seemed as if time itself slowed down and I became aware of everything happening around me with startling clarity.
The floating window shards, the shouting people, droplets of my own blood, Dinah and Vio screaming my name in horror, and most noticeably, the gigantic glass shards digging into my back.
Ouch.
Then my head hit the ground with a sickening crack and I knew no more.
Flashback End
So, here I am now, floating in this expanse of darkness, doing absolutely nothing.
Wasn't dying supposed to send you to heaven or hell or something? C'mon, do something!
As I finished my thoughts, the whole place rumbled.
Damn, I shouldn't have said anything, I thought, now I've jinxed myself.
The darkness seemed to shift and twist and it felt like I was being squeezed out like leftover toothpaste. The next thing I knew, I was being lifted up by a huge black haired blob. Wait, my eyesight suddenly focused... I thought newborn babies were supposed to have bad eyesight?
Oh, it's a woman. She looks Japanese. She's really pretty. The woman smiled beatifically at me and said,"Omedeto, Minami-neesan. Sore wa kenko tekina onna no akachan desu."
Wait, what? Akachan? Doesn't that mean baby girl in Japanese? The feeling of contentedness earlier was quickly squashed down by panic.
Oh God, please let this be a joke.
I stared down in horror and burst into panicked tears. I wailed like a newborn baby I am.
I'm a freaking baby!
As soon as I calmed down from my panic attack, I started surveying my surroundings. It seems like we're inside a small house. As soon as I started crying, the black-haired lady gave me to a brunette who I presume was my mother. I stared at my new mother. Now that I think about it, she looks very young. Like, my (previous?) age young. And she's wearing a… headband?
At closer look, it's not an ordinary headband. It's a hitae-ate. An honest to god ninja hitae-ate like the ones from Naruto.
Oh, come on!
Seriously, this can't be happening. I'm reborn with the memories from my previous life intact and I'm reborn in the Naruto universe?! This sounds like one of those self-inserts in Fanfiction!
Sigh. Seems like I just have to suck it up and roll with it, eh? Well, at least my life won't be boring anymore.
Wait. A newborn baby. Can't consume anything other than milk from their own mother's breasts for a few months.
…Wonderful. Just wonderful.
So, uhm, hello to anyone reading this. I'm a newbie author and this is my first fanfiction. Because of all the Naruto OC-insert fanfictions I read, I decided to make one. I hope it's good enough.
Forgive me if there are any errors I missed, since English isn't my first language. Constructive criticisms are very welcome. ^^