I decided to edit this. Note: Don't write stories at 1AM if you are sick...it usually means you have to go back and rewrite them...at least that's what happened with me. Anyways, hope you enjoy. Let me know what you think. It isn't that much different but there is more background in here. I will try to get chapter two redone as soon as possible.
Edited: Aug16/15
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto...duh...therefore I won't be putting this at the beginning of every chapter, however don't steal my oc or plot. Thanks. :P
Prologue: My Story
I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.
-Elvis Presley
My story was not spectacular, nothing interesting happened, there was no drama, it was peaceful and status quo. That was until it happened. What was it? It was the worst night of my life. A family vacation gone terribly wrong that started by journey down the path of death. Before I explain that lovely incident I guess I should give you the background information, it might be helpful.
My name was Rachel Elizabeth Dalton. I was 5'4", I had dark brown hair with auburn highlights, I had deep blue slightly green eyes. Right now I am physically 21, however this is the second time I have been 21, but I am getting ahead of myself again. When I had just turned 21, the first time, I had just graduated from university with a Degree in Science, specifically in Cellular Biology, Microbiology and Genetics, and had just received my acceptance letter to the medical genetics master's program that I had been dreaming off since I started my undergrad. My parents, John and Sherry, thought it would a great to celebrate my graduation and acceptance into graduate studies with a family vacation, unfortunately their idea of a family vacation meant a working vacation. My parents were doctors, John was a doctor of archeology and Sherry was a doctor of forensic and historical analysis. That meant the family vacation was going to be spent scouting new potential dig sites in Egypt and Lebanon. Not my idea of a vacation. My parents and I didn't see eye to eye on many things. Although they were proud of the fact that I had gotten accepted for graduate studies, their were horribly embarrassed that I had chosen to specialize in an area of science "so completely different" than their own fields. That alone was a huge source of tension in our family and it didn't ever get resolved. Needless to say the whole topic was brought up during our vacation. Arguments arose, yelling ensued and less than two days into our two week vacation I was in the airport in Cairo booking a flight home to Los Angeles. I didn't bother patching things up with my parents before leaving because I expected to see them in two weeks and I could work things out with them then. Little did I know that that would be the last time I saw John and Sherry.
About two weeks later when my parents failed to come home, there was an incident on the news about a bombing in Egypt that claimed the lives of many American tourists, including two well-known doctors, Drs. John and Sherry Dalton.
I couldn't believe it my parents gone just like that, no reconciliation, no more 'I love you', nothing. I will save you the whole sob story but suffice to say I would have shut down if it wasn't for my best friend Morgan. Morgan was a couple years older than me and was an intern that worked for my dad, but somehow we struct up a solid friendship. She introduced me to the wonders of manga, anime and fanfiction as well as introduced me to the wonderful world of Naruto. I introduced her to the world of genetics, music, art and dance. We were total opposites but for some reason we just worked.
Anyway skip forward about 10 years and Morgan has taken over my parents research completely, to the point where she was going back to Cairo to pick up where they left off. I was just finishing up medical school, not just any program but a PhD/MD combined program at John Hopkins University and was going to be going into an international internship in Japan. I was proud of my doctoral thesis it was on the relativity of mental and emotion states on measurable physical healing as seen in clinical trials. A strange and abstract study that bordered on psychology except for the fact that it was looking a measurable markers of healing and cell repair.
The week before it happened I was starting to get worried because Morgan was due to check in with me. It was my one stipulation of letting Morgan take over my parents research. She had to check in with me every two weeks, whether it was a phone call, text message or email. She missed her last check in by three days. She was never, ever late. Fast forward a week and you could find me sitting in my apartment curled up on my couch reading the latest updates of my favourite Naruto fanfictions when all of a sudden an email notification popped up. It was from Morgan but when I looked at the date, it was from 5 days ago which made me wonder why I was just getting it now. I opened to find that it only contained two words. Run. Hide. Something was wrong, terribly wrong. I sat in silence for the next 5 minutes when suddenly my doorbell rang. I made my way to the door and saw that it was my lazy, good for nothing land lord. I groaned before opening the door. When I opened it my land lord didn't say a word, he slunk to the floor dead. My eyes followed him but snapped up when I heard a voice. "Are you Rachel Dalton?"I nodded silently as the stranger whipped out a gun and pointed it at me, "You shouldn't have put your nose where it didn't belong. We thought you got the message we sent through your parents but now we had to send it again through your friend and now finally we are giving it to you in person." The stranger sneered "It is your turn," he pulled his gun and cocked it, "to die!" He fired the gun and I felt a indescribable pain in my stomach. He fired again and this time I felt the pain in my heart. The doctor in me took over and was quickly analyzing my injuries. With the blood loss common from a stomach wound and shot to the heart, there was very little chance I was going to survive the man raised the gun towards my head, but paused, "Time to join your friend." The gun aimed at my head when off and everything faded away as my body sunk to the floor.
Darkness, emptiness, loneliness, nothingness. There were no words to truly describe what death felt like. There was no life flashing before me, no light at the end of the tunnel. Nothing. Just nothing.
I don't know how long I spent in the empty void of nothingness, but gradually the darkness and silence around me began to fade.
"Girl, wake up!" A male voice demanded.
"Shh you will wake her up." A female voice admonished.
"But that is the whole point…" The first voice retorted. I tried to open my eyes, blinking them a couple of times to focus. I saw two toads sitting beside me staring at my face.
"Look what you have done, Fukasaku! You woke her up!" The female reprimanded.
"Oh shush Shima. She needed to wake up anyways to talk to the Great Toad Sage anyways." The male, Fukasaku, turned to face me and motioned for me to sit up and then follow him. Without either toad saying anything else I followed them until I was standing in front of a huge toad, who I could only assume to be this Great Toad Sage that Fukasaku had mentioned.
"Step forward." The Sage said. I quickly complied. "Do you know why you are here young one?" I shook my head unable to find my voice. The Sage smiled slightly as if to understand that I couldn't speak. "You died." My face must have had a look of shock on it for the Sage began to explain. "What I mean to say is that you died, before your time, in your own world, but the Shinigami had decided to give you a second chance here in this world." I could feel myself smiling when I heard that I was getting a second chance. The Sage continued, "Firstly, because your body died in your previous world, you cannot enter this world at the age at which you left the previous one, you must start again from the beginning. You must start as an infant." The Sage paused as if to allow me a second to digest the information before continuing again, "Secondly, although the information and knowledge from your past life will be helpful, you will have to unlock it in stages as your grow and develop. All that information is too much for such a young mind. That being said you will be allowed to retain deductive reasoning and memory skills and the like to help you acclimate faster to this world. Third, when you are of age, our contract holder will bring you back to this realm again for I have two contracts who have been looking for a summoner for quite some time and I foresee that you are the person they are looking for. Lastly, beware of men with masks; only a liar hides behind a mask and refuses to come out but the one who lays himself bare before you can be trusted for eternity."
With that the Sage nodded to Fukasaku who then did some kind of hand sign and I was left to the blackness once again. The next think I knew I was opening my eyes to bright light and some girl's voice saying, "Hello Keiko! I am your big sister Kushina!"