Summary: Dying wasn't suppose to be complex. Where she was raised, they believed you either went one place or another. There was no inbetween, dying wasn't complex. However, here she is, reincarnated. This was against everything she knew. There was only one thing she could do though, keep moving forward.

Title: 希望の年齢: Shokubai

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

Chapter 1 Introduction: Hope

She was late. Currently she felt like the sane rabbit off of Alice in Wonderland. Tsking, she picked up her pace. She could feel her Moma in her mind, "Charlotte, work them legs! No child of mine is gonna be late to an interview!" With a bit of motivation, she hurried her pace. She wouldn't disappoint her Mum.

Two days ago, an e-mail had been directed to Charlotte Green revolving around the application form she had filled out. To be honest, she really didn't think they would blink an eye at her. Why would one of the biggest asylulms in Texas want a recently graduate? It didn't make sense but she wouldn't argue. She would prove to them she was worth this intereview, even if she was maybe 5 minutes late...

With a light hop, Charlotte crossed the road unaware of her surroundings. That was strike 1. Strike 2 was that she was in a pretty populated city. Strike 3 was that with population comes traffic. With a honk, Charlotte saw red.

All she could remember was a lound sound the absolute silence. In all of her 24 years of life, Charlotte had never been anywhere this quiet. It was almost frightening. There was a flash and she was out of the silence. She heard screams and felt little pieces of something sharp poking her in the back. And then there was the pain. There was so much pain that she couldn't feel anything else. The pain was numbing her senses. With the feeling of pain, nothingless came.

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Nozomi Muryou.

She was born into a non-clan shinobi family. She would have to strive for her strength.

She was born in Konoha the hidden Village of the Leaves. She doesn't know this of course. She also doesn't know she would bring hope whever she roamed. She would be the symbol that inspired people.

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Nozomi 望美.

Nozo(Hope) Mi(Beauty).

It was her destiny to kill the darkness.

Oh how ironic fate is. First a pshycologist, now hope.

Lady Luck must have a humor.

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As the life of a ninja, there must be tradgedy. You can't have ying without yang.

Where there is hope, there is death. There will always be a force fighting against hope.

It will be a hard life but hope must overcome. It was the way of the ninja.

The will of fire.

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AN: So this has been on my mind for a while. I'm gonna try to keep it non-mary sue. If I start to slip up, slap the author upside the head, ne?

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~C.H.