I will have all my Author's notes in Bold and Italics at the top and bottom of the story portions.

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She wasn't exactly sure how everything started. Sakura had always been obsessed with anything electronic, even more so than her older brother. While other girls were playing with dolls, she was hacking minecraft and jail breaking her brother's IPAD for him.

Sakura was fairly good with computers. By the age of twelve she had her own laptop under the condition that her parents could search her internet history whenever they wanted to. So the first thing she learned was to cover her tracks, and she became very adept at it. At thirteen she was memorizing computer codes and doing minor hacking using programs downloaded on the sly. She learned to ghost through systems like a shadow, always just a touch away from capture. But of course she never was.

The papers never picked up on the forming of a master hacker. The companies that felt her wrath whispered stories of her capers but could only watch as she found ways into their systems.

At fifteen, Sakura was not only going to be the youngest junior at Konoha High, but she was also the world's most infamous hacker. She's decided on the hacker handle 'Ryuu', meaning Dragon. And from there she had hacked into supposedly impregnable systems to prove the title faulty.

And then she had that one pivotal moment that changed everything.

The summer before junior year, Sakura's family was murdered. She walked in after a day spent at Ino's and found them stabbed to death in the living room. That was the day she decided to change the horrible fate the world had scalded onto her back. The day she promised herself that she would make a difference in the world so that no one else would have to come home to their family lying in pools of blood.

That day, Sakura became the world's greatest hacker.