4 1/2 years earlier…

The Third Hokage sat at his desk filling out his usual paperwork that laid in their neat never-ending piles that he has always stared at for so many years. Although today was going to be different because he was expecting a new student soon.

'It has been a long time since the village has had new students from a different country, hopefully she will fit right in with the others.' Now finding a distraction from the paperwork he quickly pulled out the student's file that was sent over from her village, The Hidden Mist Village.

Name: Akina Yukito

Age: 12

D.O.B: May 16

Clan: Yukito (Deceased)

Village: Hidden Mist

IQ: 116

Talents (0-10)

Ninjutsu: 8

Taijutsu: 7

Genjutsu: 7

Chakra Control: 9

Chakra Censoring: 10

'So far so good, she will make an excellent addition to the Leaf Village.' As the Third Hokage was reading the rest of her file there was a soft knock coming from his door and he almost didn't hear it.

"Yes, come in." The door opened and revealed a young girl who had long midnight black hair, caramel-like skin, and dark piercing violet eyes that looked somewhat apprehensive. She was wearing a white tank top with a black half jacket over it, black shorts that went down to her knees, and she was wearing black flip-flops that had an orange-colored thong. Just one look at her and he suddenly felt like he had déjà vu as a familiar face popped into his mind.

'She looks just like her.'

Akina's POV

I stood outside of the Hokage's office because I was slightly nervous and yet excited that I was moving to such a peaceful village, compared to how the Mist Village was. Most of the time there was only mist, tiny hints of sunshine here and there, and it was a really depressing place.

'Alright Akina enough with the past this place is going to be different.' With that thought I softly knocked on the door but still loud enough for him to hear.

"Yes, come in.", said a voice from the other side of the door. I opened the door and saw the Hokage sitting at his desk that had a lot of neat piles of paper on his desk. I closed the door behind me and walked towards the front of his desk until I was about a foot or two away from it.

"Hello, I am the Third Hokage of the Village Hidden in the Leaves. What is your name?", asked the Hokage-sama. His face showed his age and how much he has been through by the wrinkles around his eyes and his mouth but he still looked like he could take anyone down with just a flick of his hand.

"I'm Akina Yukito and I'm very thankful that you're letting me move here Hokage-sama.", I said with a small smile while giving him a respectful bow. My long midnight hair covered my face and almost touched the floor, but when I straightened myself up my hair is actually a little bit past my waist with layers higher up. I scanned the view behind the Hokage to take in the beautiful sight of the village. From what I could see there were so many people outside in the market with happy faces and they were all talking to each other as if they were one big family. I quickly took my eyes off of the sight so I could pay attention to what the Hokage-sama was going to say.

"Even though you have learned a lot from your home village, from what I read in your file, we will still need you to attend the academy. There you can make friends with the kids your age and we can better decide what team you would work best with.", he said with this grandfather-like smile.

"That's fine with me and thank you for everything Hokage-sama.", I said fully bowing.

"There is no need to thank me it's my pleasure. Before I forget here is your leaf headband and the key to your apartment, I will have someone show you how to get there and to the academy. She is also one of the Jounin who will be assigned a team from your age so she could possibly become your sensei.", he said while handing me the key and headband. I placed my new headband in my book bag that I always carry around so that I can always have a place for my sketchbook, food, and drawing utensils. Meanwhile I put my new key in my pocket so that I wouldn't lose it in my book bag. There was a knock at the door when I finished putting my stuff away; it was a woman who looked to be in her early to mid 20's. She had beautiful crimson red eyes with purple eye shadow, her hair was a lighter shade of black than mine, and she had somewhat pale skin that made her eyes pop even more. She looked at me and gave me a smile while I noticed she had red lipstick on, "Hi my name is Kurenai Yuhi."

"Akina Yukito.", I said while shaking hands with her.

"Well we better get going or else you're going to be late to school." She said before she bowed to the Hokage and walked to the door.

I bowed to him as well and followed Kurenai out the door. We went down a couple of hallways and stairs until we made it outside into the bustling street of the village. Kurenai led us down a road to the right where you could almost see the sign of the academy. We walked down the street for a couple of minutes before Kurenai asked a question.

"So what village did you come from?", asked Kurenai with curiosity in her voice.

"I came from the Village Hidden in the Mist.", I answered.

She looked at me and asked, "So what made you come here?"

I kept looking ahead but I know my eyes showed a little bit of sadness in them, "Personal reasons."

From there the rest of the walk was a little bit awkward until we reached the academy. We went up a few flights of stairs and down a couple of hallways until we stopped at a door. From the outside you could hear kids talking and yelling at each other while the teacher was trying to calm them down.

"Enjoy your class Akina and hopefully I'll see you around ok."

"Alright and thank you Kurenai-sensei for taking me here.", I said and gave her a little bow.

She smiled and walked back the way that we had just came. Until she had disappeared around the corner did I face the door and knocked. Not long after I knocked a young man opened the door, he had brown hair and eyes and he looked to be in his early 20's. On his nose there was a healed scar going horizontally across it but it looked to be old. He looked at me smiled, "Hi you must be Akina Yukito, my name is Iruka and I'll be your teacher."

"Hi Iruka-sensei," I said as I entered the room. The room suddenly became very quiet once they realized that someone new had entered. As they all looked at me I could hear people whispering things like: Who is she?, Where is she from?, Does she have a boyfriend?, and the most famous question Is she wearing contacts?.

"Alright class we have a new student today. Can you please tell us your name and something about you?", asked Iruka.

"My name is Akina Yukito and my favorite song is 'Sex on Fire' by Kings of Leon.", I said in my calm voice.

"Well Akina you can sit in the back right next to the window and next to Naruto. Naruto can you please raise your hand.", asked Iruka-sensei as a boy in an orange attire raised his hand. He had sun-blonde hair with bright sea-blue eyes that held a lot of life in them. Also it looked like he had some sort of whiskers on each side of his face.

'A little odd to have whiskers, but whatever.'

"YEAH! I get to sit next to the new girl!", he said in a very loud and excited voice. Even when I sat down next to him he still kept talking. "Hi my name is Naruto Uzumaki and one day I'm going to become Hokage and earn the respect of everyone in the village, BELIEVE IT!"

"Naruto stop pestering her. She hasn't even been here for 10 minutes and already you're talking her ear off.", said a girl on the other side of Naruto. She had long bubblegum pink hair that shined in the sunlight, which shows how much work she put in to it, but her teal eyes portrayed the intelligence she must have.

"Hi my name is Sakura Haruno, I'm sorry about Naruto he's such a blabbermouth.", she said to me with a sympathetic look.

"Oi Sak-u-ra, why do you have to call me names.", said a pouting Naruto.

"That's okay I don't mind.", I said looking at her. My attention turned to Iruka-sensei as he was about to announce something.

"Alright class in one week you will all take a test that will determine who will become your teammates in your three-man cell. So I suggest that you pay attention while we're reviewing everything that we have learned.", he said sounding very excited while Naruto on the other hand looked like he was gonna be sick.

"Oh crap I am so screwed! What am I going to do?", he whispered very loudly. In front of us I could see Sakura's vein pulsing and when she turned around her face looked like she was about to beat the daylight out of Naruto if he didn't be quiet, "Naruto will you-"

"Shut up dobe."

I looked in front of me to the seat next to Sakura and saw a boy that was leaning his head on his hands with his elbows on the desk. His eyes were a deep onyx black that barely held any emotion, but clearly showed annoyance, and he had pale skin. Although his hair is what really caught my attention, it reminded me of a cockatoo's hair style.

'Wow nice hair style.'

"Aww Sasuke-kun is so awesome," Sakura said with hearts in her eyes as she stared longingly at Sasuke. Judging by Sakura's reaction and all the girls that keep looking at him he must be the village heartthrob. Now it looked like Naruto was about to knock the daylights out of Sasuke. Instead Sasuke ignored both Sakura's gaze and Naruto's glare and turned to face me.

"The name's Sasuke, Sasuke Uchiha.", he said in a voice with hardly any emotion.

"Akina, Akina Yukito.", I said with boredom in my voice. He looked somewhat shocked that I didn't care and relieved that I wasn't all over him or bowing at his feet. Naruto looked happy and excited at my reaction as well and Sakura had shock and jealousy written all over her face because Sasuke talked to me.

"Ha looks like somebody with common sense doesn't want to become your fan girl.", Naruto whispered to Sasuke.

"Guys in the back be quiet and pay attention.", Iruka-sensei said causing some of the other kids to snicker but most of the girls looked like they wanted to kill me just because Sasuke had acknowledged me.

'Day one and already people, particularly the girls, want to kill me or date me. Oh how life is full of surprises.', I thought while sighing. For the rest of the class Iruka-sensei went over different kinds of weapons you could use, what chakra is, and all this other stuff that I had already learned. During the time that Iruka-sensei wasn't looking in my direction I mostly spent my time staring out of the window next to me. This place must have had sun all the time because there was so much life here and there was barely a cloud in the sky. This was definitely a big change in scenery compared to all of the mist you get in the Mist Village. All in all I think this place isn't that bad so far.

"Alright guys it's lunch time be back in an hour okay.", Iruka-sensei said as a lot of the kids rushed out the door. I got up and grabbed my stuff and was about to walk out the door until Naruto came up to me.

"Hey Akina I was wondering since you're new here if you wanted to eat lunch with me so that I could introduce you to everyone else.", he asked with his big smiling face. I thought about for a second and said, "Sure, why not?"