I'm trying to break my cliché habit so this story is about an average girl who gets yanked into a situation way above her head as she searches for a guy that she barely remembers to give back his possession. Mmm, sounds sort of un-cliché. Hope you like it. Oh yea, and I don't own naruto of any of it's charaters, I only own my own made up charaters. Yea

When I was five a stranger randomly gave me a necklace locket. I was just going down to the shop to get some milk for my mum when a young guy wearing a Kanoha head protector with a cigarette in his mouth appeared in a puff of smoke.

"Hey kid," he whispered as he crouched in front of a very stunned me, "can you look after this for me? Don't open it."

Before I could say anything he pushed something very heavy into my hands and disappeared in another puff of smoke. I glanced around but there were no other witnesses so I opened my hand to have a look. In it was a pretty looking solid silver locket with a durable chain. The raised pattern looked abstract at first but looking closer it was actually covered in different types of binding seals. With one last look around I slipped the chain over my neck and went to get the milk.

12 years passed since that day. With every day that passed the mystery of the locket made me more curious. The Hidden Mist Village's ninja academe took up seven of those years. To strait out say it, I sucked at school. It was boring and I perplexed the teachers with my amazing reading skills yet suck-full spelling skills. My work books were full of drawings and I always got in trouble for not paying attention in class. I do listen but teachers seem to think the only way you learn is if you do the written work. At least once a week a teacher would pull me to the side and give me the same lecture.

"You are the grand-niece of The Third Tsuchikage, Onoki. Try to live up to that name!"

That always pissed me off. My name is Jikko Hakkin and I'm technically not from Onoki's family line. I have inherited the Hakkin kekkei genkai, Sosa Jutsu. It is like the puppet technique but instead of chakra threads just coming off the fingers they can be released from every chakra point in the body and are much finer. My clan don't generally use puppets. It is easier to control kunai knife, shuriken or any other object around like rocks or for advanced users, water.

I however was not advanced. I became a genin ok but my team was weird. Being a person who could create an awkward moment almost on cue made it hard to make friends. Sure my best friend Puru was with me, but then there was Takau liked to fight too much and sucked at team work. And my sensei Sorasu was way too intense and always went on and on about concentrating on the task at hand, my weak point. But it was a coulpe of years after I became a chunin that the story really begins.