Prologue: Awakening

It was a very dreary day. In fact, it was bordering on dismal for one certain spiky haired blonde girl…yes girl.

Tasrem Uzumaki was your average looking 12 year old girl: short blonde hair that was naturally spiky, a figure that girls her age would kill for, and dressed in a black t-shirt with an orange jumpsuit and dark blue ninja sandals. What was different about Tasrem, or 'Tas' to her friends, was that she was smarter (intellect-wise) then Shikamaru. She also had a nervous tic of tapping her fingers in a four beat rhythm when she was thinking or nervous as well as sometimes fiddling with a gold pocket watch with strange symbols all over it.

"Tas, you ok?" Ayame, the ramen stand owner's daughter asked.

"Huh? Oh, just off in thought…you ever get a song in your head that just seems to stick with you even after you think that it's gone?" Tas asked Ayame.

"All the time…my cure is to simply find a new song and that'll drown out the old one." Ayame said with a smile.

"Right…" Tas said with a disbelieving frown.

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Tas got back to her apartment after the rain started coming down hard on her. She put her wet coat on a ramshackle coat tree and removed her wet sandals before going into the apartment proper. She put her pocket watch on a paper towel to dry as she started for the bathroom.

Getting there, she did the normal routine: Use the loo, throw her old clothes into a basket, shower, and dress in her night clothes. After all this she just couldn't get tired.

'Great…another sleepless night…maybe I should just fiddle with the watch, see if I can't get it to finally work.' Tas thought as she went to the living room/kitchen.

Tas picked up the pocket watch before settling down on the couch for another sleepless night of tinkering with a 'useless' pocket watch. It normally made her tired enough to go to bed. She also started thinking about her life.

"Stupid Forth Hokage didn't even tell Sarutobi-jiji that I'm not even his natural daughter. He found me in the woods as a baby…" Tas mumbled to herself as she kept tinkering.

Every once in a while she tapped her nervous tic while trying to make the watch work. It was almost like she had the drum melody seared into her mind. But, she started to hear things that she knew that she didn't hear.

'Ohnowicansayiwasprovokedkilledbyaninsectagirlhowinappropriatethedrumsthedrumstheneverendingdrumbeat…"I am The Master…Reborn"

Dum-dum-dum-dum…dum-dum-dum-dum…dum-dum-dum-dum…dum-dum-dum-dum…

"Now Doctor…oh, new voice hello…HELLO…hello. Anyway, why don't we stop and have a nice little chat where I tell you all my plans and you can work out a way to stop me I DON'T THINK!" Shouted the Master from the TARDIS control room.

Tas shook her head and wandered over to the sink for some water. She didn't notice (or forgot) that she still had the fob watch in her hand. It was at the sink she had another, more clear vision.

She stood inside the TARDIS control room, next to a younger man who was in loose fitting clothing.

"Use my name," The younger man said.

Outside, she heard someone's voice saying, "Master…I'm sorry…"

The man smiled and shouted, "TOUGH!!!"

He then started back to working on the controls of the TARDIS before some explosions occurred

"OH NO YOU DON'T!!!" The Master shouted before working harder at the controls to repair or override the damage.

"END OF THE UNIVERSE…HAVE FUN, BYE-BYE!!!" The Master shouted before pressing a button.

Another, larger explosion occurred behind The Master before a large piece of debris impaled the man from the back. The Master grunted and pulled the debris out, laughing all the while.

Tas shook her head before running/stumbling over to the bathroom. She looked in the mirror and saw a child version of the man in her visions. It was then that the last vision had pieced everything for her.

The Master looked around the control room, before he stumbled and broke more controls on the panel. What he didn't realize before it was too late was that there was some dried blood on the controls he broke while he was regenerating. It was very old, very dried blood from a certain blonde companion: Rose Tyler's blood from an accident long ago.

The Master's regeneration, combined with Rose's blood, created Tasrem. Tas, her body still shaky, grabbed the chameleon arch and used it to create her new identity. After that, she walked out of the box and locked it. A flash of some kind of light appeared before she dropped, with the clothing she had on. An older man with short, spiky blonde hair found her and the abandoned TARDIS half an hour earlier.

Tas looked back into the mirror and saw that it still had her male counterpart inside of it. She fully opened the fob watch, closed her eyes, and the last of The Master's identity fully re-integrated with her.

"I am The Master…Reborn…" Tas/Master said as she smiled an insane smile.

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Naruto and Doctor Who don't belong to me.

Yes, this is a 'female Naruto' fic, just with a twist. I also realize that someone has a similar idea but it's nothing like this.