Greetings everyone, this is technically my second fanfic even though the other one is . . . unfinished . . . I will finish it! eventually . . . in any case, i have no idea what to rate these things so T for safety and bump it later if needed (this story an't that serious so i shouldn't need to) also, I appologise for A) mistakes . . . i editited while writing as opposed to doing it later so i probably missed a lot of mistakes. B) the length of this first chapter . . . i needed to make you, the readers, clear on why the story is named "Akane's" story . . . specifically that name. Kudos to the people that get the references to other shows save for Psycoh-pass . . . that one is obvious. hope you all enjoy and let's hope i get more done on this story before i'm distracted by another story!.


Blackness . . . the first thing I see after I wake up is blackness. Make no mistake, I'm not dead . . . at least . . . I wasn't dead last I checked. Where are my manners, hi . . . I'm Lucy . . . or at least I was Lucy . . . not so much anymore but I'll get to that in a bit . . . okay a long bit . . . we have stuff to go through first.

So as I was saying, I went to bed last night, fell peacefully to sleep in my nice, warm bed and when I woke up an indeterminable amount of time later, the entire world was just blackness . . . the only thing I could see were my hands in front of my face and . . . a turtle . . . a three tailed turtle . . . a three tailed, talking turtle . . . I squeaked when it spoke.

"Who are you!?" the talking turtle growled (yes I know, a growling turtle) "And what have you done with me!?" the deep rumbling voice was absolutely dripping with malice and all the ways that a turtle half my size could kill me if I didn't answer

"Erm . . . I'm Lucy and I was about to ask what you did with me . . . where the hell are we?" stood up and looked down at the turtle whilst he looked back up at me, glaring holes into my head.

"Lucy . . . what an odd name" said the talking turtle and causing me to gape at him. He a freaking talking turtle, is telling me I have an odd name

"And pray tell what your name is? Mr turtle" I snapped back, letting the talking turtle fume

"I am Isobu, the three tailed beast and terror of mortals" growled the talking turtle

"Oh my, you are so fearsome Isobu, you are a whooping half my height! And you look like a sea turtle with three tails" I said, sarcasm dripping from my statement

"I have no idea why I am currently not my normal size nor shape!" growled Isobu

"So is Isobu a common name where you are from? Lucy is kinda common where I'm from . . . well, I'm the only Lucy I know but it's not a rare name" I said, sighing as I sat down in front of Isobu, tucking my knees into my chest

"No . . . I am the only one with my name" the turtle said, his eyes never having left me, at least he was now looking down at me.

"You know, you sound like one of those Japanese Yokai monsters" I said, sighing into my knees. "You know, maybe we could have had an epic battle of epic proportions as you went on a rampage in some village and i stood there to meet you with a shining katana, 'Isobu! Today is the day your rampage of evil ends!' I would say before we engage in an epic battle blade to . . . leg? Claw? Claw works, we engage in an epic battle blade to claw from dawn until dusk and dawn again and at the end, we come to and understanding, you my brother of the battlefield and I your sister . . ."

"You talk a lot . . . and you have quite the imagination" I giggled at Isobu's comment

"I was a writer before I . . . I what? Am I dead? Are we dead?" I looked at Isobu, somehow expecting the talking turtle to have the answers I want

"I refuse to be dead" the turtle said as he looked around him

"Maybe there is an exit? Maybe we can find it and get out of here?" I said, bouncing to my feet and taking off in a random direction.

I wasn't really sure what to expect but Isobu trundled along with me, managing to somehow match my stride as we travelled in the direction I had picked.

It had been an indeterminate period of time that we walked, my internal clock said I had been walking for approximately all of eternity when finally I said something

"Have we seen that patch of blackness before? I think we are walking in circles" I think I may have been starting to black out . . . pun intended

"No, we aren't walking in circles and I'm starting to think we'd likely get closer to finding an exit if we were" rumbled Isobu "Why are you being nice to me kid?" I stopped dead in my tracks and Isobu stopped a few paces in front of me so he could look into my face

"What do you mean?" I ask, and I was positively sure he was referring to the earlier mention of being a fearful beast

"I terrorised, I burnt villages to the ground and you have already proclaimed yourself the heroine . . . if this were my world, we likely would be fighting by now and since I can't be killed by mortal means . . . It would end with your death and the village's destruction" Isobu narrowed his eyes at me

"We aren't in your world . . . and I don't think you are evil, just . . . powerful? I don't know your strength . . . all I know is" I stop to gesture expansively around me "We both come from a world so much different from the one we find ourselves in but to be perfectly honest . . . if I have to spend all of eternity here in what may very well be hell . . . at least I have company and the company could be worse" I said, turning around and looking at the empty landscape. Isobu grunted in response to my little speech

"I don't want to be trapped here forever" he said, fear tinging his voice and I realised that he probably had a fear of being trapped with no way out but i had already resigned myself to my fate and was mostly just humoring the turtle.

"What about if you pick a direction and walk in a perfectly straight line and I walk in a perfectly straight line opposite to yours. That way if one of us finds the exit we can retrace our steps and keep going until we find the other and go through the exit" I said, trying to remain upbeat despite the fact I was already marking a spot of blackness to curl up and sleep for the next million centuries

"Who is to say you won't just take the exit and leave me here?" asked the turtle, suspicion showing in his adorable turtle face.

"I could say the same about you, you could just leave me to walk for all eternity here too, what about if we just keep going and I'll let you pick a direction this time" I sighed and Isobu turned around and walked in a random direction that may or may not have been the one we came from, it's all blackness to me.

We walked and walked and walked for god knows how long but this time it was slightly different. Isobu occasionally asked me things about my old life and I told him. I was a writer who had never been published, I never got to my twenty first birthday and I lived alone with barely a few online friends to keep me company . . . in essence, I was a dead girl walking but that's okay, I didn't have anything to live for. Turns out Isobu was supposed to be meters tall and towering over villages, he was supposed to be quite different in appearance too with a gray shell and an odd face with spiky coral instead of a mouth or something of the sort . . . he wasn't so good at describing his appearance to me and I kept trying to imagine him as the monster he once was but the adorable turtle that I could nearly ride was just too ingrained in my mind.

I had no need for food, sleep or anything really, I could have kept walking for the rest of eternity but eventually I got bored and plopped down and the ground with a solid "oompf!" as my poor tushy impacted with the solid darkness I was walking on.

"I could go for a soft drink about now" I said as I tucked my knees to my chest again

"Soft drink?" asked my companion

"It was a type of drink that was common in my world . . . it was fizzy and had some sweet flavours depending on the brand . . . this one brand I loved was called 'Fanta' and the makers of it added some orange flavours to it to give that fruity taste . . . I really wish i could have a bottle appear right in front of me" it was at this moment that my wish was granted . . . literally . . . a bottle of Fanta appeared right in front of me, the orange colouring of the drink almost glowing in the blackness.

Isobu and I both stared at the bottle as I gingerly picked it up, uncapped the bottle with a hiss and took a careful sip

"It's warm Fanta but Fanta . . . I wonder . . ." the thought just occured to me and since I was getting a little loopy in the blackness that I was willing to test the theory out, I did. I 'de-summoned' the bottle of fanta by imagining it simply disappearing and then I imagined an ice cold variant of fanta appearing in my hand. I of of course, took a long hearty swig and noticed the taste was exactly as I remembered it but only as I remembered it. My next thought experiment was to have the fanta taste like pepsi without changing the look of the liquid and precisely what I wanted to happen, happened.

"Isobu-kun . . . is that the proper honorific? Anyway, I think I might be in control of this world" I said, looking up at the turtle standing above me

"If that were the case we would have found an exist almost as soon as we started looking" he rumbled

"Yeah . . . unless the one person who could make it appear had already resigned to her fate and didn't expect it to appear nor especially wanted it to . . ." I said and looked down. "I don't know where we will end up but shall we leave together?" I asked, looking directly into the eyes of the turtle

"Yes . . . that would be preferable . . ." I stood up and looked around, closed my eyes and imagined a gate appearing, I imagined one of those Japanese Torii gates and that in the middle of it was a shimmering blue puddle of water.

"Through the stargate?" I said as I looked at the horizontal wall of water and then back down to my partner in crime

"I will admit . . . it has been . . . nice to have met you, Rushi-chan" I giggled at the japanese pronunciation of my name even though he had said it perfectly beforehand.

"Same to you, Isobu-kun" with that we walked, in unison, through the water and out the other side.

I gingerly opened my eyes and was immediately assaulted by whiteness so I screwed my eyes shut again but I persisted and eventually I could get a vague look around the room I found myself in . . . I was in a hospital room . . . and I was tied down . . . and I felt a lot smaller than I used to be.

Not long after my wake up, people shuffled into my room and the tubes and what not keeping me from biting my tongue and all that jazz were removed. A glass of water was pressed to my lips and I got a sip of a bit and slowly I drank the whole glass. Then I had no time to ask questions because a woman shouted at me

"My baby!" she practically screamed, tears rolling down her eyes as she moved in to glomp me with a bear hug, despite still being tied to the bed. "Honey, what's the matter?" the woman asked me again, pulling back and noticing my frown on my face

"Umm . . . w-who are you?" I asked

"An interesting question if I may say so myself" came a voice in my head that i recognised to be Isobu's. "Yes it's me and we appear to have been bound together a little closer than I previously thought"

"Dear?" the woman asked me, snapping my attention back to the long haired brunette. I was having a hard time seeing still and everything was blurry but i could feel her and I just knew I had never met the woman before in my life

"Who are you?" I asked again "And who am I?" a valid question If I dare say so myself but the woman just took a backstep like someone had just punched her. One of the doctors stepped in at this stage and I noticed he was wearing a uniform that was definitely not from my world

"I am really sorry ma'am but we did warn you this could happen . . . the treatment was always a risky chance and it's a miracle she even woke up as it is" said the doctor, trying to calm the woman who looked like she was about to burst into tears.

"Are . . . are you my mummy?" I said, figuring I was probably a young girl

"Y-yes honey . . . do . . . do you remember me?" she asked and I sadly shoot my head, I had just made a guess based on the fact she seemed to be a mother to me . . . it was pretty obvious actually.

"I guessed by the way you act" I said, I really felt bad for the woman, I had literally no idea who she was and any semblance of her daughter being me was long gone . . . because I was me.

"Y-you are . . . you are Nagisa Shikorama" the woman said shakily as she sank to her knees and held my still bound hand. "You are a bright and cheery six year old girl" she said as tears rolled down her eyes "and you are my daughter" she was barely containing herself

"Ask her to check your stomach" said my partner in crime as I gave him a quizzical thought. "Sometimes we bijuu are sealed into living people . . . I've been sealed into others before . . . the seal should be on your stomach and it would be visible" explained the turtle

"Mummy . . . can you lift my shirt and check my stomach for me? It feels odd" I didn't lie, but my whole body felt . . . odd . . . my stomach just felt spiritually heavy . . . don't ask, I don't understand it myself but I suppose living twenty years without having some massive monster sealed in you would give you an odd sensation when you finally got one.

My mother looked at me and then down to my stomach, with trepidation she reached over and slowly began pulling the hospital gown up. The men in the room quickly turned around to preserve my privacy but i'd probably have not noticed as I was also staring in trepidation at my stomach. I am not sure what i expected to see but I saw the seal that Isobu told me to find and so did my 'mother' because, as soon as she saw it, she started backing up.

"No no no no no no! This can't be happening to me! My baby! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY BABY" the woman screamed at the doctor as a wave of sheer unadulterated killing intent forced me into the mattress I was laying on

"We did not put it there ma'am! I swear it! We knew nothing!" the doctor exclaimed from a kneeling position on the floor, his arms raised in defence of the woman's lethal aura. Fortunately the doctor was spared . . . I'm not sure I would be getting that luxury as the woman turned her attention back to me . . . and my exposed stomach

"I know some people dear . . . don't worry about a thing, we can extract that monster from you and I can have my beautiful baby daughter again!" the woman said, a degree of madness in her voice as she pulled an arrow head shaped knife from seemingly nowhere and cut my restraints before grabbing my wrist and hauling me out of the hospital bed at a run . . . I struggled to stay on my feet as I was certain I would get dragged along the ground if I didn't keep up.

My legs and lungs were burning, my feet bleeding from whatever it was i was ripping them to shreds on while my 'mother' made her mad dash and we had finally stopped in front of two guys in black cloaks with red cloud on them . . . one of whom looked like he was going to kill both of us when my 'mother' called out a name.

"Akatsuki! Please! My daughter has the seal of one of them monsters and I was told you people know how to remove them, extract them! Can you extract the monster and give me back my daughter? I looked at the two people, one of them was a dark haired boy of about thirteen or whilst the other one looked like an anthropomorphic shark or something of the like, he was also toting a giant, bandaged wrapped sword over his shoulder

"Kid, the extraction process is always lethal to the host . . . and I have a bad feeling about what these people want to do with me when they have me . . . almost a, you have the better of it because you will be dead, feeling" said Isobu inside of my head

"Well then, how do you propose I escape? I'm apparently six, my feet are bleeding and I don't think I could run fast enough to escape their walking speeds even if I had shoes and spare energy" I said back

"Chakra kid, it's a mystical magical energy force that I happen to be made of, I haven't got as much as some of my brothers but I have enough to help you get away . . . focus on the energy and put it into your legs" before I had the chance to react, my whole world faded to black once more but this time it changed and soon I was lashed to a cross in a wide open clearing whilst everything was red tinged. Before me stood the dark haired boy.

"I feel sorry for you girl but I must do my job" the boy said as he stalked towards me, a sword in his hand. To say my eyes widened with absolute fear was an understatement but then I remembered how I got out of the blackness and realised, I was trapped in this world too . . . maybe I could repeat the trick? So I imagined . . . something, anything . . . at that time I was kinda hungry and wanting a banana.

"What is this?" asked the boy from the other end of my closed eyes and I distinctly heard Isobu laughing. When I opened my eyes and saw what had elicited the comment from the boy in front of my, I couldn't help but give a short giggle as well . . . I'd somehow turned his sword into a peeled banana . . . his face was priceless.

"Umm, mister murderer . . . if you . . . if you aren't going to eat that . . . could I?" I tried to stop myself, I did really! But . . . in the end I was in hysterics and the boy just looked at me, a mask of calm back in place as he regarded me.

"Head for the town of konoha . . . if you manage to make it there without me and Kisame catching you . . . I wish you good luck" the boy turned but before he could cancel whatever it was that he was doing to my head I called out

"Wait! . . . what is your name?" the boy turned to face me, his eyes were a deep read with comma marks in a circle around his pupil

"Uchiha . . . Itachi" he said and suddenly I was blinking and looking at the pair of black robes

"Now kid, it's now or never, use my chakra, feel it, guide it to your feet and I'll point you in the direction you need to go . . . I know the way . . . I'll tell you how when we aren't in danger" I listened to Isobu's directions and grabbed at a hot and fiery energy from deep inside of me, I stood up with a scowl on my face as the anger from the chakra I was using affected me too. And then, before I turned away, the lyrics to a song burst into my head and i gave a vicious grin as the shark man took his sword off his shoulder and prepared to attack

"No, not gonna die tonight i'm gonna stand and fight FOREVER!" I shouted the last word, turned me three tails around and bounced away . . . by bounced away I mean I cleared the village I was in when I landed . . . I knew I was gonna feel it eventually but right now I had to get away.

So, I bounced my way towards the place called 'Konohagakure' or so Isobu told me and in that travel time, he also told me about the girl that carried him last. Apparently her name was Rin and she was being used as a weapon against Konoha by way of Isobu being put in an easily breakable seal and given another seal to force her to travel to Konoha and one more to help destabilise the seal . . . in the end she ended up killing herself by using the teammate she loved. I remembered the story of course but at the time it was told to me, I wasn't in any condition to so much has huff in reply

It took me two days to get to the Village hidden in the leaves and it was aptly named as it was hidden in a vast expansive forest but i did point out that the leaf village would probably have been better in the land of wind or something as opposed to the land of fire which was a forest's greatest enemy but it turns out this forest is special and never used to be here . . . and it's existence is what created the village so the land could have been the land of pixies and rainbows and they'd have still named it Konohagakure. Well, by this point, the last thing I remember was walking into a clearing . . . or rather stumbling into a clearing, collapsing into the grass as pain exploded around my body so badly i could hardly breath and then a man in a flak jacket was in my field of vision.

"Men . . . won't . . . kill . . . me . . . leaf village . . . safe" I rasped out and if the man who had grabbed me said anything, I didn't hear it because I was gone after that, finally succumbing to my injuries . . . I'm actually surprised at how much I remember to be honest . . . I was not in the best of conditions.

"Welcome back to the land of the . . . blackness" said Isobu as I looked around and saw nothing but blackness

"This time I can do something about that . . . the exit won't appear right now though . . ." I said and I was a little bit worried about the inability to create an exit

"You are unconscious, your body isn't quite ready to wake up yet . . . I'm doing the best i can to mend your rather long list of injuries" As Isobu spoke, I set about making what I had recognised as my mindscape a bit more hospitable. First up I created an island in the middle of the blackness with a table and some comfy lounge chairs and a bar stocked with Fanta. Next I created calm, soothing, blue water and made it stretch into infinity all around my little island with the last addition being the Torii gate I had used to exit through, even if it didn't have a puddle of water for me to walk through at the moment, I felt better with it there.

Isobu looked around with approval and took a dip, submerging until only the top of his shell and his head were above the water.

"So you can heal me huh?" I asked as I watched the turtle paddle around my little island

"I can speed your recovery by a lot but not quite heal . . . a lot of your injuries required some outside help before I could accelerate the healing process of them" he replied as his three tails paddled up and down to propel him through the water. "So, Nagisa . . . you going to stick with that name?" I shook my head

"No, I feel like I killed Nagisa . . . killed her and stole her body . . . I don't want to steal her name too . . . I think I'll take the name Akane Tsunemori" I said and when Isobu looked at me in question, I made a folder float gently down and land on the water in front of him. The turtle magically made the pages of the folder move as he brushed up on the history of the anime character I had loved from my old life. "I feel like there was one anime that I used to really love and that it would have had information that would have been insanely useful if I still had it but for the life of me I can't remember what it was" I said as I realised that detail but Isobu only spared a glance at me as he continued reading . . . I think I accidentally gave him all of my memories.

"My guess would be that this Anime of yours held secrets about this world that you aren't supposed to know if you were actually living in it" the turtle said as is plopped into one of the cushioned lounge chairs and made a bottle of Fanta levitate over to me.

"I seriously doubt anyone could make an anime that turned out to actually be real, that would do some damage to the spiritual world or something wouldn't it?" I said, cracking the bottle open and taking a swig

"People made anime about real life events according to this . . . did that make your old life any less real?" I sighed, I was having a meta conversation with a talking turtle made of a mystical magical energy force in a land where apparently ninja used magic to do battle in a feudal japan like environment that had modern day equipment riding alongside men and women who used swords and sandals . . . literally.

"I think it's safe for you to wake up now . . . you might not even be so sore" said Isobu as he mentally flicked another page of the folder of repressed memories I had given him. "Good luck with the conversations bound to follow . . . Akane-chan" I smiled and saw the turtle give a faint smirk back as I activated my Torii stargate and walked through it.

"Welcome back to the land of the living" said a cheerful man in a cream coloured uniform that practically yelled doctor. I just looked at him and down to my bound hands. I distinctly became aware of four 'presences' hiding in the room but when I looked around I couldn't see anyone so I held that information for later.

"Would you like something to drink?" asked the man as I returned my attention to him. I nodded in response. "What would you like, I'll go get it for you" the man's smile never left his face, the guy clearly knew how to deal with children

"Fanta?" I asked and sighed when I saw the look of confusion on his face

"Not your world kid, ask for something normal" I gave the turtle, who was still happily splashing about in my mind scape, a mental glare

"Umm, water?" I said and this time the man nodded and left quickly. I also noticed that one of the four presences had disappeared so I looked around again and focused on the four corners of the room . . . well three know since one had left. I could, in fact, see that there was, indeed, three people standing in the shadows of the room. "Umm, who are you people?" I said but I received no response so I sighed and plopped my head back on the pillow.

While I waited for the doctor to bring me my water, I focused on trying to sense outside of the room. As I did, I felt another ten of those strange presences that were almost unnoticeable, outside of the room I was in. I also felt the presence that had been the doctor walk back towards the room and soon the door opened up and i got a look at him and the glass of water he was holding. On a whim, I imagined the water floating from the cup and much to my interest . . . the water did just that but i could feel a drain on that mystical chakra and I let it go, only to notice that the three, now four, presences had moved in and were very visible . . . I'm not ashamed to say I screamed at the animal masks that greeted me . . . the glass of water also shattered and the water went all over the doctor.

Just before the four masked men could attack, I felt a large presence, warm and inviting but powerful and unyielding. The presence opened the door and I saw an old man in a white robe with a square hat on his head in such a position so that one of the points was hanging over his face.

"Hokage-sama" the doctor said in mild surprise as the man entered the room. "I fear the girl may have gotten just a little excited and the Anbu decided she was a threat" The doctor said, it took me a moment to realise he was defending me rather than being afraid of me. These people clearly knew about my parter in crime but this doctor didn't react in sheer fear as the woman calling herself my 'mother' did.

"That's alright, how about you go get the poor girl some more water while we have a chat hmm?" the man said, his voice and measure all oozed kind hearted feelings of warmth and happiness . . . now this was a man who earned his seat at the head of the table and people waited for him to sit before they did. "What's your name little miss?" the old man definitely had a 'I'm everybody's grandfather and I love everybody as though that were true' personality.

"That . . . that depends on who you ask . . . and where you ask" I said while Isobu chuckled inside my mindscape, merrily splashing about.

"Does it now" chuckled the old man "I am Sarutobi Hiruzen, Third Hokage of Konohagakure" I nodded my head in what I hopped was polite reverence. "Why don't you tell me your story first then hmm? Some of my people found you in the woods near to the village and I was told you had some extensive damage"

"Try, your bones in your legs were crushed and almost lost, your ribs were webbed in factures, your collarbone had three breaks in it and your arms were broken in twelve places together" Said my helpful turtle companion

"I woke up in a hospital . . . umm . . ." I gave a mental glance at Isobu who gave his best definition of a shrug "How long have I been here for?" I said aloud

"Five days I believe" Said the Hokage

"Umm then I woke up seven days ago in a village I don't know the name of . . . I woke up without any memories of who I was but a woman who I think was my mother told me my name was Nagisa" I looked at the hokage as he studied me. And then the doctor came back in with a glass of water and I held the desire to make the water float down . . . or at least I did my damndest . . . there may have been a little levitation . . . only a little! I swear none left the cup! In any case, I practically skulled the water and happily thanked the doctor as he stood back.

"Nagisa-chan" he said and I winced at the name, a detail not lost on the old man "Might i have a look at the seal?" I suppose he was testing to see if I knew it was there but I nodded my head anyway even with Isobu's warning mental poke. I wish I had heeded that mental poke though.

As the Hokage lifted my hospital gown and looked at it, he suddenly jumped back, fear etched into his face and instantly I knew what he was going to do . . . at least, I thought it was what he was going to do . . . he was going to sell me right back to the akatsuki. With that thought in my mind, Isobu was happy to lend his chakra and I used that chakra to cut my bindings and leap out of the bed in the direction of the one window but the Anbu were much much faster than me. I was a six year old girl . . . I had the body of a six year old girl . . . but I had all my old knowledge including reflexes . . . I might be a six year old girl but I had some hand to hand combat skill so when a Kunai came barreling for my chest, I reacted. I grabbed the arm, ducked under it and struck as hard as I could into his side . . . it did absolutely nothing.

"That's enough! Nagisa . . . I'm sorry I reacted that way but why did you feel the need to run?" Old man to the rescue! I could feel a shiny pointy thing still poking into the back of my neck so I said nothing and stood stock still. "Alright, everyone other than Nagisa leave" the Hokage finally said and the old man walked over to the bed I had occupied and sat on it, patting the space next to him. Gingerly I walked over to him even though Isobu was telling me I should run. I looked up at the space that the Hokage was patting and suddenly I was staring at mount Everest but, undeterred, I began the climb. I leapt with my limited physical strength and grabbed the edge of the bed, flailing my legs helplessly as i tried to pull myself up and slowly by surely, gravity gave ground and I was sitting, panting and happy with myself for my accomplishments while the old man next to me was chuckling to himself.

"When the person who claimed to be my 'mother' saw the seal . . . she got very afraid and took me to see these two men from something called 'Akatsuki' . . . they tried to kill me . . . you had the same look she did" Any semblance of mirth that the Hokage had was gone instantly as he heard the my summary of events and I could see the thoughts going through his mind "I escaped by using Isobu-kun's chakra to bounce out and away . . . he is the sanbi bijuu . . . I thought you were going to sell me to the Akatsuki" the Hokage hung his head a little before he turned to look at me, the sun setting through the one window as we sat there.

"I would never do such a thing Nagisa" I flinched again at the name

"Last I checked, the Kyuubi was residing inside one someone here in Konoha . . . I don't know who but were you to encounter them, I will know them" said Isobu and that, I recognised, as his way of saying that he believed the old man

"Why do you flinch every time I say your name?" said the hokage

"I feel like I shouldn't have that name . . . I feel like I killed this girl or maybe she died of natural causes and I just took control of the body . . . I could feel my 'mother' and I instinctively knew she was not someone I had ever encountered before" I said, the truth wouldn't hurt so badly

"Just in case it comes up, if I wanted to, I could easily break out of the seal that's on you" said Isobu as he lounged on one of the chairs in my mindscape

"Then why haven't you? Aren't you afraid of being trapped? Didn't you want to be free?" I asked back

"I . . . Didn't want to kill you . . . If I had broken free, you would have died" I could feel Isobu's sincerity and I gave him a warm mental smile

"So what name would you prefer then hmm?" I snapped my attention back to the Hokage and I knew he had already asked me but I was busy having a heart to heart with Isobu so I didn't notice.

"Akane Tsunemori" I said without hesitation and the Hokage looked mildly surprised

"Why give yourself a family name as well?" he asked

"It's a story . . . me and Isobu-kun traded stories while I was unconscious and one of them was about a woman named Akane Tsunemori who was thrust into a job where she had to fight the monsters people became when they became too hateful . . . she never wanted to kill anyone and as a result she was the first to bring one of these monster back from the brink and made it her mission to try and do just that so that those monsters could get the help they needed rather than just being killed or locked away for all eternity" The hokage looked at me, I could only feel his gaze as I was busy studying the ground . . . the tiles were interesting. The hokage sighed in one big long breath and I looked at him

"You get along well with the Sanbi don't you?" he said and I nodded

"We talk all the time . . . he saved my life and I saved his . . . he was a monster that just needed a little bit of a pull to return . . . to stop being a monster" Isobu was staring at me mentally . . . it's an odd sensation but it was there. "He told me he could break out at any time but he doesn't want to kill me so he won't" The Hokage looked like he really wanted to do something other than what he was actually going to do.

"Alright . . . but if it even looks like you are losing control" I pointed to the wet spot on the floor and made it levitate and form a sphere. "Good point . . . but still, if it looks like you are losing control . . . I will step in and have a seal master make absolutely certain that Isobu can't escape"

"The old man has a point kid, just cause I don't want to don't mean I won't ever . . . there are ways I could be forced out . . . keep an eye on anyone with a Sharingan . . . they are the most dangerous people to you and no matter the seal you have, I could be forced out regardless" I gave Isobu a mental look that told him all he needed to know "I don't want you to die kid and I'm not the only monster in this world"

"You aren't a monster Isobu-kun" I looked up and at the Hokage suddenly realising I said that aloud "erm . . . did I say that out loud? In any case, Isobu actually agrees with you . . . he says bad people could force him out if i'm not careful . . . especially those with Sharingan" The hokage nodded\

"Well Akane-chan . . . how would you like to be a ninja?" the old man said and I brightened up, who doesn't want to be a ninja? Even when they didn't do insane things like leap half the length of a village in a single bound or cut through solid objects with spirit alone

"I would love that!" I said a bit too eagerly.

"Then I shall arrange for you to join the academy as soon as I organise some lodgings for you" the old man said and it was decided, I was going to be a freaking ninja! Life complete! Save for the fact that now i had a mission i just thought of . . . what if I could find all the other hosts for the Bijuu and get them all together and turn back this fear of monsters, make them all nice and happy people? Isobu scoffed at the idea as well but hey! I'm gonna try damnit!


Well we are at the end . . . that dragged on . . . But i like Akane and what she is going to get up to in future chapters . . . so tell me what you thought i could use improvment on, what i should change for next chapter and what you would like to see more but realistically . . . this was a prologue, next up we get to the actual story and *looks at plans for next chapter* oh good heavens . . . i need to write . . . every day life scenes . . . how does one do that? where do i slot the space battleships and the giant laser cannons while my characters are taking a noodle break? in any case, hope you enjoyed and see you next time