Twelve year old Miyuki Terada brushed her white hair in front of her full length mirror. She was wearing her typical red shirt with black accents and black capris; her weapon's pouch was strapped to her right leg.

Today was her first day with her new team, so she wanted to make sure she looked good. When she was satisfied with her work, she grabbed her newly acquired headband and tied it around her forehead. She stood back and placed her hands on her hips as she inspected how she looked.

Once she was satisfied with how she looked, her onyx eyes went to the picture they had taken the previous day. She was so excited when she passed the exam to become a genin. Her parents had nervous kind of smiles on their faces, but that's probably because they were civilians. Her grandparents had been too. The picture also looked funny because both of her parents had dark hair, but Miyuki's was white. Her mother said that it was from her side of the family, so that made her feel better, but she still felt out of place.

She didn't understand why no one else in her family had pursued being a ninja, so perhaps that was why she wanted to do it so badly. She wanted adventure and not the boring life of a civilian.

Lord Third had always said she would make a fine shinobi due to her heritage. Miyuki never knew what he meant by that, but she figured it didn't matter. The point was that she wanted to be a ninja and today that dream was a reality.

Finally, she was ready and she headed downstairs.

"Morning mom and dad."

"Good morning, Miyuki." her father replied.

"Did you manage to get any sleep?" her mother asked as Miyuki sat down at the table.

"Surprisingly, yes. But I am so amped up for today! I can't believe I'm a genin now!"

"Just promise us you'll be careful."

"I'll do my best."

Her mother set breakfast down in front of her.

"Thanks, mom, you're the best."

"I try."

Miyuki scarfed down her breakfast then sprinted out the front door. She rounded a corner and crashed into someone, landing her on her butt. She looked and saw she had bumped into Sasuke Uchiha. They both stood up and dusted themselves off.

"Watch where you're going next time, loser."

"I could say the same to you, pretty boy."

Miyuki couldn't understand why all the girls loved him so much. He was a jerk. Her parents had told her to try and be nice to him, and they gently told her what happened to his clan. However, there were times that he just infuriated her.

"Don't call me a pretty boy."

"Then don't call me a loser."

"Whatever. I have to go."

"Fine by me."

Miyuki took off running again. She arrived at the meeting place right on time and quickly greeted her teammates; Kiba, Shino, and Hinata.

"Hi, guys! Hi, Kurenai Sensei!"

They had done introductions the day before when the teams had been made.

"Miyuki, glad you could join us."

"Are you kidding? I wouldn't miss this day for anything! So, when do we start our first mission?"

"Right now." Kurenai Sensei weaved some hand signs, but nothing seemed to change.

"What's going on, Kurenai Sensei? Are you trying to pull our leg?" Kiba asked.

Miyuki was a sensory type ninja like her teammates and she felt something was off, so she bent down to the ground and touched it with her first two fingers.

"I think she's put us in a genjutsu."

"Very good, Miyuki."

"So, what do we do now?" Hinata asked.

"Work as a team to try and break the genjutsu."

They all gathered around and started talking.

"How are we going to do this?" Kiba questioned.

"I don't know much about genjutsu." Hinata shyly informed.

"Neither do I," Shino confirmed.

"Okay… so what do we know?" Miyuki encouraged.

"We know that a genjutsu is a visual jutsu that deceives its target." Shino defined.

"And that it relies on the senses to do so," Kiba added.

They all stood there and thought long and hard.

"What if we all try to slow our chakra and cut off our senses?" Shino offered.

Miyuki felt a mass of chakra moving toward them. She turned around and saw three wolves snarling at them.

"Got a plan b, Shino?" Kiba got into position and used man-beast transformation.

"Not at the moment."

"I've got an idea! What if one of us works on waking up?" Miyuki suggested.

"What do you mean, Miyuki?" Hinata asked.

"There's only three wolves. So, if three of us fend off the wolves then the other person can focus on waking up. Once they're awake, then they can release the genjutsu on the others."

"Sounds like a plan, but how do we choose who wakes up?" Kiba asked.

"I think it should be Hinata."

"Why?"

"Because she has the best chakra control out of the four of us," Shino answered

"No way. I thought Miyuki was the best at that." Kiba argued.

The wolves lunged at the genin and they did their best to fight them off.

"Hinata! Why don't you give it a try!" Miyuki suggested.

"Okay, I'll try."

The group continued to fight off the wolves as Hinata did her best to break the genjutsu.

"I don't think I can do it." She admitted.

"Try again! Do your best to tone everything out! Think of something that's not here! I know you can do it, Hinata!" Miyuki encouraged.

Hinata tried again. After several moments, she disappeared from sight. Almost instantly after that, Miyuki found herself awake with the rest of her teammates.

"Well done, you all pass."

"Pass?" Kiba questioned.

"This was a test to make sure you could work as a team and you all performed admirably."

"So, what happens now, Kurenai Sensei?" Miyuki asked.

"Now, I'm going to give you each a piece of paper and I want you to focus some chakra into your hand that's holding the paper."

Kurenai handed them each a piece of paper and they took turns concentrating their chakra into their hand. Miyuki was the last to go. When she focused her chakra the paper quickly caught fire and burned.

"You have a fire chakra nature," Kurenai informed.

"Awesome!"

"Now that you all know what your chakra natures are, you can begin to practice with it, if you so choose."

"You bet I'm going to!" Miyuki thrilled.

"Then I would suggest you talk to your classmate, Sasuke Uchiha. His clan was very good at the fire style jutsus."

Miyuki let out a groan. She knew her sensei was right. As much as she hated it if she wanted to learn fire style jutsu, she was going to have to ask Sasuke. Ordinarily, whenever she needed help, she would ask her parents, but since they weren't shinobi, she would have to look elsewhere.

"Meet at the Hokage's office tomorrow morning. We start our first mission tomorrow."

After she had eaten lunch, Miyuki headed for the Uchiha compound at the edge of the village and waited for Sasuke to return. After about fifteen minutes, he arrived.

"What are you doing here?" he asked rudely.

"Calm down would ya? I'm not here as some weird fangirl or something."

"Then what did you want?"

"Do you know any fire style jutsu you could teach me?"

Sasuke gave her a weird look. "I thought you were a sensory type."

"I am, but I also have a fire chakra nature."

There was a silence.

"If you teach me, I'll never call you a pretty boy again." Miyuki bribed.

"Fine, you've got yourself a deal."

"Yay!"

"Don't do that."

"Do what?"

"Be annoying."

"Alright, Mr. Picky. I'll tone it down."

"Then let's get started."

Time Skip

The next few weeks were filled with missions and training with Sasuke. The more time she spent with Sasuke, the more she began to understand him. She wasn't attracted to him, though. He just wasn't her type.

Miyuki had been training like crazy and today it had finally paid off. She executed a fireball perfectly over the water.

"You picked it up fast," Sasuke said.

"Thanks."

"If you do these hand signs, then you perform the Mythical Fire Phoenix."

Miyuki watched as Sasuke showed her what he meant. She gave it a couple of tries and got the hang of it fairly quickly.

"You really have a knack for it."

"Thanks."

There was an awkward silence.

"Sasuke, why did you teach me two, instead of just the one?"

"I don't know. Maybe you're just not as annoying as everyone else."

"Okay… Well, I should go. I have to get up early tomorrow, we're going to visit my uncle on my dad's side. He lives in a village at the edge of the Land of Fire."

Sasuke was silent.

"I could ask if you could come. That is if you wanted to."

"I'm fine. Just go. I'll see you when you get back."

Miyuki didn't know what to say, so she did as he asked.

When she arrived home she was greeted by her mother.

"Welcome home, Miyuki. How did your day go?"

Miyuki sat at the table, leaned over with crossed arms, and set her forehead on the table.

"That good, huh?"

"I just don't get it. He's nice enough to teach me, but he's still so cold."

"Talking about Sasuke are we?" her father asked as he entered the room.

"Yeah."

"Do you have a crush on him?" her mother asked bluntly.

"No! Of course not! I see him more like family, like maybe a cousin or weird brother or something."

"Well, you know it's not that weird for cousins to marry." her dad added.

"Dad! Not helping even a little bit!"

Her parents chuckled together.

"Alright, Miyuki. If you say there's nothing then we believe you." her mom caved.

"Thank you!"

Her mother set dinner on the table and they all ate. When they were finished, Miyuki helped her mother with the dishes.

"Hey, mom, where does my white hair come from?"

"I've told you, it's from my side of the family."

"Yes, but who else in our family had it?"

"I believe my grandfather said that it was his dad who had it. Why the sudden interest?"

"I don't know, I guess I just always thought it was weird that you and dad had dark hair and mine was white."

"Don't worry about it too much. You're our daughter and that's what matters."

"Can I ask you something else then?"

"Sure honey."

"How come you and dad never became ninjas?"

"That's just the way we were raised. Our parents had raised us to enjoy the simplicity of civilian life and it suited us."

"Were you ever…"

"That's enough questions for tonight, Miyuki." her mother interrupted as she put the last dish away. "You need to some sleep; we've got a long day of travel tomorrow."

"But…"

"Listen to your mother, Miyuki." her dad cautioned.

"Yes, sir."

Miyuki gave her parents each a kiss then went to bed.