Chapter One

"Midori... you weren't supposed to kill the target. You were supposed to capture him! WE were supposed to capture him!" Kurenai explained, her red eyes narrowing with frustration.
"Um, whoops?" The green-eyed kunoichi shrugged, looking at her teammates. More like "mission-mates". "He was a criminal anyway, I did the world a favour by killing him!" She tried to excuse herself.
"Yes, but we were supposed to interrogate him. Tsunade's gonna kill you for this." Asuma lit a cigarette and rolled his eyes. Unfortunately, he wasn't right. Tsunade did worse than just kill her. After bringing the dead body to Konoha (which was useless but it was better than coming back empty-handed), the team made its way to the Hokage Office. Kurenai and Asuma knew what was going to happen to the other kunoichi, but she had it coming. Every time they were supposed to capture someone, Midori somehow ended up killing said person. Accidentally or not. And now there she was, with another mission she screwed up. The blonde Hokage was obviously pissed off, and the sentence she gave didn't take anyone by surprise.
"Tougarashi, this is the fourth time you fail a mission like this. Every time I tell myself I won't give you a second chance and every time you kill the target." Tsunade spoke with a firm tone. "I'm afraid you give me no other choice-"
"Tsunade-sama, please, please give me one more chance! I promise I won't-" The kunoichi began but she was abruptly cut by the Hokage.
"No. I'm sorry. You've been very helpful to this village but your behaviour and lack of responsibility will eventually get you killed. I therefor banish you fron Konohagakure. You have until morning to gather your things and leave." The blonde carried on.
"B-but where am I supposed to go? The Leaf is my home!" Tougarashi Midori questioned the Hokage's decision. She truly was saddened by it. And she truly had nowhere to go.
"Try Iwagakure. See if they'll take you back." Tsunade replied. "After all, it's been years since you left that village. Try to find your own path, Midori, because we can't have you here anymore. You're reckless. You're disrespectful. You're only quality is you strength. Go. Now."
That was it for Tougarashi Midori, a girl who left Iwagakure back when she was 9 years old because her parents didn't let her become a ninja. For a while it seemed that Konoha was her true home but soon she will realise that she will never be accepted anywhere.
She stormed out of the office, her face reddening with anger. Upon arriving to her apartment, Midori grabbed a duffel bag and slammed into it a couple of clothes, weapons and provisions, and, before leaving, she decided to trash her own apartment, just to leave whoever came there a 'welcome' message.

The sky was clear and the full moon's light could compete with the sun itself. Her green eyes distinguished colours and figures, but that was partly due to her heritage and clan. The Tougarashi clan in Iwagakure was a powerful shinobi clan until almost 2 hundred years ago, when her ancestors decided that being a shinobi was too risky for the 'conservation' and 'preservation' of their clan. So, her ancestors abandoned the ninja way, cousis married between themselves and because of this inbreeding, their jutsus and abilities faded. But Midori's father was a feisty one, and he went against tradition, marrying a wealthy womam who wasn't part of his clan. When she became pregnant she lost the child. Miscarriage. Years later she gave birth to Midori, and through some miracle she manifested all of her clan's abilities: agility & flexibility, seeing in the dark, enhanced hearing, smell and reflexes and lastly, those bright green eyes that her great-great-grandfather used to have, the very source for her name. When her parents forbade her to join the Ninja Academy, 9-year-old Midori ran away with her (somewhat) 'governess', who loved her so much that she decided to help her. She became a Chunin easily. Becoming a Jounin was a bit tricky but she managed eventually. However, as Tsunade-sama said, her recklessness and carelessness only helped her with failing her missions. And now there she was: a kunoichi on the run, with no village and no family, no friends and nothing to live up to.
It's been hours since Midori left Konoha and wandered through the forest. Eventually she decided to remove her blue forehead protector and put it in the duffel bag.

The first village she went to was Tanigakure, but the villagers sent her away without reason (well, the reason was that she looked troublesome but to her that wasn't a good reason). Next came Sunagakure, but Gaara, the Kazekage didn't waste any time with her. He had met her years ago at the Chunin Exam and disliked her from the start. When she reached Iwagakure, however, she decided not to bother, so she walked a few miles away from the hidden village. When darkness surrounded her, Midori camped by a lake. She made a small campfire, untied her very messy and loose braid and after brushing her long, wavy, black locks she braided it again. Before it got really dark, the kunoichi put out the small fire so she wouldn't be detected and proceeded to lie next to a tree and try to get some sleep. That, of course, didn't happen for she was unable to close her eyes. The thought of being homeless saddened and troubled her. Midori sighed and daydreamed about being a great shinobi, about having a family and belonging somewhere, but her train of thoughts was rudely interrupted when she noticed a dim light and thin smoke coming from somewhere not very far from her. The first thing that came into her mind was to walk into the opposite direction. The second was to go there and see who the bloody hell was camping in a rather dangerous forest in the middle of the night. Of course she chose the latter, and she gripped her duffel bag, placed it over her shoulder, and grabbed her two kamas out of it, just in case she'd face someone dangerous. Midori cautiously and silently approached the area, but, just as she was about to jump on a branch above her, something snaked around her ankle. She felt and heard something moving behind her but she paid no attention to it. When she was ready to slash the thing with her kamas, it retreated to a large, dark figure. The brunette turned around to face whoever was out there but a mocking laugh disrupted the silence of the night.
"Who would be so stupid as to walk straight into such an obvious trap, un?" Another figure, a thinner one, spoke.
Midori watched carefully as something that looked like a bird flew towards her. Not knowing what to expect, she jumped on the branch above her and BOOM, the bird exploded.
"Ugh!" The slender figure grunted as the tiny bird failed to hit the target.

"Don't waste your clay on her." The other one spoke with a very low pitched voice, almost sounding mechanical. The snake-like thing appeared again, this time above her so Midori thought fast. She tightened the grip around her kamas, caught the serpent (which she realised was more like a mechanical tail) between her weapons and front flipped from the branch, behind the two figures.
"Not bad." The large silhouette huffed, yanking its tail from the grasp of the two kamas. "But not good either." It finally stepped out of the shadows, revealing itself to be a puppet. The other one came second, and Midori noticed a boy with blond hair tied into a ponytail and very feminine, yet handsome features.
"Can I blow her up now? She's wasting our time, hm." The blond snickered but the mechanical tail stopped him by standing between him and the kunoichi.
"Not yet, Deidara." The puppet spoke. 'He's in the Bingo Books.' Midori quickly thought. "Look at her: she belongs to no village, but she definitely has shinobi skills. Perhaps, I dare say, she is a fugitive, a missing nin? Am I right?" The puppet continued.
"As if I'd justify myself in front of you, you creeps!" The green-eyed ninja spat. "I belonged to a village!"
"But why use the past tense?" The large puppet spoke again. "Did they kick you out? Did they not want you?"
The brunette tensed. A lot. The bastard struck a chord in her, as if he read her mind.
"None of your business." Midori replied. "As if someone like you would are about my past." She frowned, her eyes starting to feel more watery than usual.
"You're absolutely correct. We don't care about your past. But maybe about your present and future?" The mechanical thing spoke again. "Maybe you can come with us and finally find a place where you can fit in."
"Wait,, Hiruko, what?" The blond-Deidara-questioned. "You want to bring her with us, un?"
"We'll see what Leader-sama has to say about her. If she proves herself useful to the organization, it doesn't hurt to have extra help." The thing-Hiruko-remarked.
"Hello, yes, I'm standing right here. Don't I get to choose what I do?" Midori quirked a brow at the two.
"No." Was all she remembered before getting hit in the head by the mechanical tail and knocked unconscious.