**Please note that this work is purely fan-fiction. I do not own the characters or setting or any part of Naruto. I only own Yazuki Ayaka, as she comes from my own imagination.**
Six-year-old Yazuki Ayaka did not come from any one of the prestigious shinobi clans. In fact, her family had barely anything to do with them at all.
Ayaka's family ran a small bookstore near the centre of the shopping district. They lived on the floors above the store. As such, Ayaka had grown up with a love of books. She was rather small and skinny, even for someone her age, but she had grown rather strong from strong from carrying around large stacks of books.
Ayaka was out on an errand for her mother when she caught her first proper glimpse of a shinobi. She was walking past one of the many training grounds in Konaha on her way home. Ayaka felt something whizzed past her face and jumped back from shock.
Ayaka had developed fast reflexes in order to dodge the constantly falling books (her family had failed to fix the shelves in a while), but it still took her some time to get over 'it' passing so close to her face. She then looked around to find the offending object, and found 'it' lying in the gutter.
Upon picking 'it' up and studying it, Ayaka realised that 'it' was a shuriken that the shinobi of the town used. Glancing around, she could spot two kunoichi sparring in the training field she was walking next to. Ayaka realised that the shuriken must have flown threw the fence when one kunoichi threw and her opponent dodged.
Ayaka continued to watch the fight; she was becoming increasingly interested in watching them spar. She found it incomprehensible that anyone could have such strength and skill.
After a while, Ayaka realised it was almost dark, and she hurried off to get home before dinner. She kept the shuriken in her pocket on the way home, then put it in her desk drawer when she got back.
Life returned, basically, to normal for Yazuki Ayaka, except for one small thing. She could not stop wondering what it would be like a kunoichi like the women she saw. When it was next announced that the Konaha Ninja Academy was admitting new students, she applied.
** This is my first attempt at writing fan fiction, so don't judge me too harshly. If anyone actually reads this story, then thank you. If any of you actually like it, thank my friend, as she was the one who told me to upload it to this website.
(If you have any suggestions that you would like to send, they would be greatly appreciated. I really don't have the best idea of where this story would actually go.)
Anyway… BYE!