"KAASAN! TOUSAN! I HAVE A MISSION!" a preteen yelled. "That's wonderful Sayu-chan!" her mother cheerfully said. Her father smiled at her, and grinning ear to ear the girl bounded towards her room and threw her kunai, shuriken, and other tools in her bag when her father stepped in.
"Sayuri-chan, now that you're going on your first mission, I have something to give you" he said. She looked questioningly towards her father. "What tousan?" "You are an Uchiha, so you have special abilities. I'm giving you several scrolls... yes, I know that's a lot, but I want you to have something to study. I'm expecting you to have the first technique learned when you come back, the Grand Fireball no jutsu, a clan specialty." She grinned and took the scrolls and placed then in her bag. When the time came, she headed to the gates of Konohagakure, the village hidden in the leaves and waited for her team. Masako-sensei showed up first, then Jira-kun, and finally Sato-kun.
"C'mon, let's go!" Sayuri whined. Masako simply smiled gently. "Calm down, we don't want to rush, but we don't want to be late." They set off at a somewhat fast pace. Bouncing from branch to branch, Sayuri thought of her whatever-numbered cousins Sasuke and Itachi. Sasuke was growing up fast, soon he would graduate the academy. Itachi just got into ANBU, and he was only 2 years older than her!
She was shaken out of her daydream when her sensei told her the team would be setting up camp. She gratefully set up tents and gathered some wood for the fire. Her growling stomach reminded her she had packed one of her favorite foods- ramen! She dug in her bag and pulled out a kettle and a bowl of instant ramen. This would have to do until she got back to Ichiraku's. She started salivating as she thought of the heavenly pork miso ramen. Again, she was jerked out of la-la land by the whistling of her kettle. She grabbed it, poured the water on to her ramen and waited.
After dinner, she pulled out a scroll and started reading. She went through her lineage, and found some weird guy named Uchiha Madara. She continued reading and was horrified by the story. "Ew, how could he do that..." She muttered. "Sayuri-chan! Get to bed! We have some long days ahead of us!" Sato scolded her. She grunted in response and got into bed, snuggled into her covers, and went to sleep.
A few days later, as she was doing her morning training, a message bird arrived. She paid no attention, as she was fine tuning her jutsu. "Grand Fireball no Jutsu!" she yelled as she formed the hand seals. A large fireball shot out of her mouth and incinerated a small pile of leaves. "Crap!" she squeaked and ran to put the fire out.
Masako grabbed the message and unrolled it. She gasped and tears welled in her eyes... this couldn't be true...