I'm trying my hardest to make Olivia realistic; she changes her mind a lot (like we all do), she's trying to be brave but can let her fears make her irrational, she's rather melodramatic, can be hypocritical and is struggling between what she thinks she should do and what she thinks is right. Even to the point where she doesn't know what she should do, and what is right.

Due to me suddenly remembering that in Japan, school starts in spring, I've had to make a slight change. Sasuke's birthday, according to Narutopedia, is the 23rd of July. This fanfic is currently set in mid to late September – so for this fanfic, let's just pretend Sasuke's birthday is now the 23rd of November. Kumiko's birthday is now the 12th of November. Okay – sorry about that, but it's only a little detail.

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Thursday's child has far to go

Thursday, 25th September

Olivia spent the rest of the Thursday's academy day torn between panicking about the Naruto-Friends-Situation and trying to maintain Kumiko's style of work. For the latter, Olivia hoped the whole Newly-Orphaned-Plus-I-Collapsed-Today-So-Give-Me-A -Break Deal would excuse any alterations from Kumiko's usual standard of work. It was the former that had the most potential to be problematic.

Naruto had made friends. While she knew, or rather was fairly certain, that Naruto had at least occasionally hung around (and ditched lessons) with Shikamaru, Chouji and Kiba whilst he attended the academy, Olivia was also pretty sure Naruto didn't make friends – real friends – until he graduated the academy and even then it had taken a while.

What could be the effects of the change?

Slightly better social skills?

Or the abandonment of his dream to become Hokage (if he'd even decided to become one yet) as he wouldn't end up being so starved of the acknowledgement that had led him to aim to become the most powerful ninja in the village.

Currently, Olivia was praying on the girls being as changeable as they seemed. That however raised another point to Olivia's attention – which should have been on the demonstration Shoumaru-sensei was giving on the various applications of the substitution jutsu – if the girls were as fickle as they seemed, and did forgo their sudden friendship with Naruto, would it change the boy? Would he become less trusting? Surely, one of Naruto's key traits was his blind willingness to trust others – even to the point of gullibility.

'So… what? What should I do? If Sango, Maka and Kaori stay friends with him, then everything might go wrong – unlikely but possible. If they turn their backs on him, then everything also might go wrong – unlikely but, again, a possibility. I mean yes – this is a fictional world… probably, but if I really am in another world, even though I won'tbe here long – (after all, I don't belong here, eventually this world will… realise this or something and, I guess, Kami-sama will send me back… unless this is a test…) Anyway, despite this, if I really am in another world, I shouldn't mess things up, right? That's like messing with, urm, fate… so… I should try to maintain how things are supposed to be… so… how do I… 'neutralise' the Naruto-Friends-Situation?'

Olivia's thoughts trailed off as she tried to understand what Shoumaru-sensei was already halfway through explaining. As such, it wouldn't be until later that day – just as she went to bed in fact – when Olivia would realise three holes in her theory of 'maintaining the future'.

Olivia was a fairly smart person – clever and relatively quick thinking when she wasn't too stressed, however, the side effect of this meant her brain found it difficult to slow down and, in a way, stop thinking. This was why, in the middle of Shoumaru-sensei explaining to the girl, Suiko, why it was important to visualise when performing the technique, everyone in the classroom looked, rather startled, to Kumiko as she executed a perfect Face-Meets-Table manoeuvre.

The reason for this was that Olivia had just remembered exactly what it was she had said that had gotten her into the mess. She was surprised at how easily they had accepted what she had said – it had sounded rather extraordinary – but children trusted easier than adults did, however that really didn't make the situation any better. She hadn't thought her little speech through – the words had just burst out of her mouth. Olivia was not even sure if she had said the truth; she had gotten so caught up in the little kid's expression, her fears of altering the timeline had temporarily left her. In addition, she was positive that the information – if what she remembered was indeed true – she had divulged so freely was not common knowledge.

'What if a ninja overheard me? An Anbu or a jōnin? What if they got suspicious? What if –'

Olivia's thoughts descended into panic as she calmly copied a paragraph on the First Shinobi War from the textbook – the class now having moved on to Shinobi History – writing as neatly as she possibly could; Kumiko had left some very big, and by that she meant immaculate and eloquent, shoes to fill. 'I mean seriously – footnotes? What kind of ten year old writes footnotes?'

"So how was your day Sakura-chan?" Olivia asked her cousin when she joined her in the playground, where all the academy students were waiting for their parents to collect them. Kaori, Sango and Maka had already been collected – leaving Olivia to stand awkwardly outside waiting for Sakura.

"It was ok… we learnt about sparring etiquette. Ooh – I also got full marks for my homework. How was your day?"

"Well… I collapsed." Olivia was thoroughly entertained by the huge range of expressions that ran across the girl's face as she took in what Olivia had just said. After that, the conservation got a lot easier.

Olivia was in the middle of explaining to Sakura why she had collapsed – adding as much detail as she could to it, turning it into a life-threatening adventure instead of the apparently life-threatening mini-incident it actually had been – when she noticed a little blond boy with a white t-shirt sat all on his own on a swing. It was of course Naruto. Only he would be the subject to such fearful glances, worried looks and heated glares. Olivia actually took a step forward, the need to comfort him welling inside her heart, when Kizashi arrived.

Olivia panicked, still so caught up in her mistake early that day that she ended up just turning her back on the boy, who had just caught her eye and had started to wave at her, and followed Kizashi and Sakura out the academy grounds.

Teatime was interesting. As soon as Olivia had gotten back to t

he Haruno's, she had gone straight upstairs to her room and laid on her bed – exhausted from the day's events, and nauseous from the guilt, remorse, disappointment and inwardly directed anger that now racked her ten year old form and seventeen year old soul for ignoring Naruto. As such it wasn't until supper that Kizashi and Mebuki got around to talking to Olivia about what Akiko had said and given Olivia the pack that they had been given.

The 'treatment' was set out, as mentioned, in a pack, which split the treatment into four main groups: Diet, Exercise, Meditation and Chakra. The first page was a typed summary, and had a few notes scribbled on it, assumedly by Akiko. It was exactly what you would expect:

Plenty of water, vegetables – especially peas and beans, and tomatoes. Fish or meat should be eaten every two days. Certain herbs and spices, listed within, should either be eaten as part of a meal or in a supplement form. Eat regularly and healthily. Remember to eat three meals every day Kumiko-chan!

Exercise: Light stretches in the morning. I hour a day of some form of physical exercise, not including academy P.E lessons. List of recommended activities within. Don't overdo it. See your academy sensei for help and try to do something different every day.

Meditation: Chakra exercises, including chakra control and boosting drills. See in pack for details. Your sensei should be able to help with this as well. Your small reserves will mean you have pretty good chakra control as it is, but as this treatment increases your total amount of chakra, it will be necessary for you to maintain and increase your chakra control as you go along.

Chakra: Your parents/guardians, with your doctor/medic, will have arranged an appointment two days from now. This will be when you get your chakra seal. It will increase the absorption of diffused chakra into the body's central chakra system, act as a backup and will increase the growth and regeneration of your natural reserves. As your chakra reserves are so small, they regenerate quickly anyway, so the seal will mostly be to increase growth than anything.

'So basically – everything a ten-year old isn't gonna wanna hear.' thought Olivia as she finished reading the summary, and took a glance through the rest of the pack, whilst Mebuki told her that on Saturday – at noon – they would go to the hospital for the seal.

There were diet suggestions, a list of the mentioned herbs and spices recommended, a list of stretches she was supposed to do daily – with little diagrams showing how to do them.

It was basically yoga, from what Olivia could see. Underneath that page were a few examples of what exercises she should do: Twenty sit-ups, push-ups and squats, twice with a five-minute break in between was just one example. Run for an hour was another. Olivia wondered how strong they thought ten-year olds were.

'Maybe they gave me one meant for an older person? I mean twenty push ups? I could barely do five when I had my old body!'

The chakra exercises, to begin with, involved a lot of visualising, pushing and pulling, putting chakra in various extremities for increasing periods of time. Then there were examples like 'stick a piece of paper to your fingertips using chakra for various lengths of time and then the same exercise but with different body parts. At the very end was the tree walking exercise. Though technically in this case, it was the wall walking, very carefully, supervised and with a mat underneath you, exercise.

The chakra seal was… interesting, though the pack did not mention many details about it, other than repeating in a longer version what was said in the summary. It would act as a chakra reserve – so if Olivia's own chakra reserves, the chakra in her central chakra system, fell to trace (that is, for all intents, nil), like today, then it would release the backup chakra to try and revive her – but still primarily acting as a catalyst. It would increase the rate at which Olivia's body took in normal chakra (not natural chakra) from the environment and diffuse it into her central chakra system – the gates – and to increase the rate at which her reserves grow and increase the renewal of her reserves, as she, herself, grows and uses chakra.

The way they put it, it sounded so boring, but Olivia was actually rather fascinated by the prospect of having a seal – even though she was also a bit afraid of it. Still curious, Olivia resolved to see if any of Kumiko's books (she had not managed to read even half of them last night) had anything on seals.

Even if they did not, it would serve as a distraction to read more books – that was Olivia's plan for the time being, whilst she found her feet – metaphorically – and before she tried figuring out a way back home – she would need to stay focused. She was getting homesick, but she could not let that control her.

As Olivia ate the delicious meal of peas, fish and rice, served with a frig load of a herb Mebuki told her was Chūō gētonegi, which gave the meal – which would have otherwise tasted fairly good – a lovely burnt undertone with a hint of sour milk, she continued to think, though her mind started straying into more depressing territory.

'For a supposed goody-goody ninja country, they sure do expect children to deal with stress easily… Like we're all little adults and are expected to get over things the same way.' That's when it clicked. 'Of course – that's exactly it! Bad things happen all the time here – and they happen to you. Ninjas go on missions and never come back. Civilians go to visit relatives and never reach their destination. Entire hidden villages could be wiped out, and no one will really blink an eye. Why?'

Mebuki glanced worriedly at Kumiko, as did the rest her small family. Even the usually jokey husband of hers was lacklustre. She hoped the little girl wasn't going to go back to how she had been for the past couple of weeks. Maybe she had made a grave error in forcing the child to go to the academy today. As Mebuki started an internal debate, Olivia's thoughts continued.

'Because no one knows any different – except for maybe the newest generation, and they're gonna need to get used to it soon, because it isn't gonna change. They all just have to get over it. Get on with it. Start getting prepared for the next hurdle, including the civilians. It's odd, my world – my home – constantly has a war going on somewhere, always has the threat of nuclear war breaking out and is where, thanks to the media – we are made well aware of all the muggings and murders (and worse) going on all over the place, and we know of them in infinite detail.

And yet despite that, I've always been so shielded – the wars don't touch me; I've never lived near a warzone nor known any soldiers. The idea of nuclear war, though it does make my palms sweat, doesn't nearly scare me as much as it would have had I lived a few decades ago; I'm fairly confident in its stalemate. I've thankfully never been mugged and obviously never been murdered, and I don't know anyone who has…'

She was completely out of her depth in Konoha, and she knew it. Here in Konoha, an assassin could quite possibly be living next door to her. Here, they were actively training children ready to fight – heck, she was one of the children they were training, though she doubted they expected much from her, given her civilian background. She knew a war of some sort was coming. Hell – even before that, there would be the chūnin exam invasion. That was only a few years away… but she would hopefully be home by then.

'But before that – very imminently – the Uchiha clan is going to be massacred by that psycho clan heir, Itachi! There's no way Sarah was telling to truth – I mean come on! This is the good nation; it doesn't go around removing clans it doesn't like. NO – Itachi is a mass murdering nutcase. And... And there is… there is nothing… I can do to stop him… I guess Tsuba… won't be annoying me much longer… Oh my God…'

Olivia lost her appetite. She felt sick, terrified, twitchy and guilty. The sour milk taste mixed with burnt-tasting rice, fish and peas didn't help.

"Kumiko, finish your dinner." Mebuki's words half broke her out of her stupor. Olivia shook herself slightly, looking rather dazed, leading Mebuki and Kizashi to exchange a worried glance, and then proceeded to eat another few mouthfuls – doing as Mebuki said without really thinking about it – before dashing to the bathroom. There, she vomited, again and again until there was nothing left but bile, and even then, the heaving wouldn't stop.

As Olivia hung her head over the toilet bowl, tears welling in her eyes as her throat burned and stomach clenched, she could honestly say she would have done anything at that moment to have her own mother be the one comforting her, instead of Mebuki. And if Olivia hadn't been feeling so awful, she probably would have – in her own over dramatic way – face palmed as Kizashi mentioned that he may have put in a bit too much of 'that herb' in her meal.

~A few hours later~

Olivia was sat in her bed, reading a scroll on the Founding Clans of Konoha. She had been reading non-stop about ninja techniques, chakra and blahblah-academy-stuff-blahblahblah since she had been put to bed after her vomit scene so she could rest, and frankly, there was only so much schoolwork a person could do before they went mental. So, she was reading the scroll of the founding clans – it was a fairly good read – it read more like a story than a textbook.

It was very interesting – not only did it talk about the treaties and arrangements that were made to form the alliances, but also about – though not in a great amount of detail – what each of the clans brought to Konoha and why they were considered powerful enough to form a hidden ninja village with the others. The overall theme of the scroll, it seemed, was either the 'power of unity' or 'smart exploitation'. She couldn't decide which one though…

'…the Uchiha clan's taijustu. Though the clan does not have a specific Clan Taijutsu, it does have a series of Kata – which are not shared with non-clan members – which incorporate their ninjutsu (Fire based), genjutsu and Sharingan. This provided a great asset to Konoha, as even young Uchihas were taught it and as Shiniobi – even at genin level – could use it and incorporate it into the taijutsu taught in the academy, it being based on quick jabs, dodging and small fire jutsu, rather than large blows and circular deflections…'

It sounded like a brilliant taijutsu style, even if it wasn't technically a taijutsu, and appeared to be the exact opposite of Naruto's initial fighting style. Before Naruto got some serious taijutsu training, he mainly – from what Olivia remembered – fought with shadow clones in what was essentially a brawl. He wasn't very fast, and had (if minimal) defensive actions, but he only needed to land a couple of true hits to cause damage.

In reverse, the style mentioned in the scroll revolved heavily around dodging – not blocking in offensive manoeuvres like the Hyūga's Taijutsu – but in calm, quick, fluid movements around attacks, followed by a quick hit to a vital region – whether that be a punch to the neck, kidneys or head, or a kunai to somewhere more specific like the jugular or spine. Whilst doing this they were be using small fire jutsu to distract and exhaust the enemy, and of course using their sharingan as often as they could.

It was a shame – minus the stuff about the sharingan and fire jutsu – it sounded perfect for Kumiko (and Sakura for that matter), but it was strictly Clan Members Only. Plus – it wasn't gonna be around for much longer - once the clan went, it went. Olivia wondered if Sasuke was taught any…

Not that it mattered…

…Though she did like the idea of Naruto learning the katas – combining it with his strength and the speed he would one day achieve, Naruto would gain a formidable Taijutsu style; balancing speed with strength, offensive with defensive and blocking with dodging. The idea of balance was mentioned in one of Kumiko's academy books. It talked about Yin and Yang, Night and Day, Moon and Sun, Winter and Summer… Personally, Olivia thought it was a shameless rip off from Mulan 2. However, she did think the concept of balancing in regards to chakra made a lot of sense.

The balancing of Physical and Spiritual energies (also known as chi, chakra) is vital for the making of the maximum amount of useable chakra it is possible for a person to make. Meditation (and the pursuit of wisdom) increases spiritual energies, whereas Exercise increases Physical energies.

Olivia, still guilty about Naruto, wondered if there was a way to… balance the effect of whichever path the Naruto-Friends-Situation took. A way to counteract the action. The dimension-travelling girl did not particularly like the idea of deliberately acting mean to Naruto if the girls stayed friends with him. That idea didn't sound like it would work anyway.

The idea of befriending Naruto if they – due to peer pressure or whatever – did not continue their new friendship was slightly better. Although, she did wonder how safe it was to become his friend when in a few short years, Naruto was going to be hunted by some rather strong people.

'But it shouldn't affect me… even if I… haven't managed to go home by then; I'm never going to be very strong. Heck – I'm gonna be weak; a weak ninja and perhaps a slightly better medic – so the chances of them bothering with me should be rather slim. However… I'm won't be very able to defend myself on the slim chance that they do attack me… UGH! Why do I even care? I'm gonna find a way home – It's a year and a half until I graduate, and after that there's still another two years before Naruto attains genin rank – I have plenty of time to figure this out. I'm seventeen! I can do this – in Naruto's words, at least in the dubbed, BELIEVE IT!'

Speaking of caring, the Uchiha clan's situation kept popping into Olivia's mind. Should she tell someone? Warn them that Itachi was, y'know, CRAZY?! But whom could she tell? They wouldn't believe her anyway – it would be her word against that of the prestigious prodigy and clan heir. Maybe she should just let it be – that was what she had decided earlier, wasn't it. To maintain the future?

She wondered if it would be so difficult if she hadn't spoken to – and thus at least acknowledged the existence of – the Tsuba kid, brat though he was. 'Damn my conscience!'

Olivia sighed, and then closed the scroll – she had read the same line twice now and it was clear she was too distracted to concentrate. Standing up, pleased she no longer felt like puking (though she did have a sore throat and uncomfortably empty stomach) she lightly stretched and then tried to touch her toes. That was a mistake. Nausea, once again, flooded her. For a moment, she was sure she was going to throw up again, but then something caught her eye. It was her reflection and she was green.

It was not a metaphor.

She was green. Like how in cartoons when a character feels nauseous, they turn a shade of green.

Startled, she stumbled towards the mirror. It was weird, like she was seeing double, similar to when you look at an optical illusion. There was a hidden… or was it superimposed… Olivia couldn't tell…. image as well as her own reflection. She scrutinised her appearance.

She looked real – she could see each of her individual eyelashes and her teeny tiny pores. She could see the little veins in her eyes and the way her lips were slightly chapped from dehydration. However, when she relaxed her sight, sort of the opposite of going cross-eyed, she saw another image. It was her –but, simply put, as if she was in an anime.

Which, if you think about it for about a second, she was.

For a moment Olivia thought how amazing it was.

Then she realised; it really wasn't.

It didn't mean anything – it wasn't useful for starters, and really, it made sense. Kumiko – Kumiko's eyes and physical brain – saw the world as real. Olivia – her soul or whatever – saw it as an anime. Which meant the world was real… but also an anime… which really. Did. Not. Matter.

She was leaving soon anyway. Olivia waited until she was no longer green – which took as long as it took for the nausea to fade – before standing.

After Olivia had removed all the scrolls and books of her bed, including her homework – a brief description of the uses of the Substitution Jutsu, which had been why she had started looking through her academy textbooks as she had no idea what they were – she changed for bed. She then looked at the stars (There was so little light pollution here!), prayed she would wake up at home and snuggled deep into her bed.

She had just – just – gotten all warm and toasty when three, for lack of a better word, plot holes, came running to her sleepy mind. They were for her – Maintain the Future – theory.

One – wouldn't the future already have changed just be Olivia existing in Kumiko's body? Assuming that Kumiko had either died with her parents or never existed in the first place in the original anime. The whole butterfly causing a tsunami thing sprung to mind as well.

Two – what if the reason she was here was to change things? As in it was her 'purpose'.

And Three – It came to her as she was just about to fall asleep. * Fate may exist, but it's what only that what you make of it. It can change, or rather none of us know for definite our fate; therefore our fate is what we make it. Any illusions of what must be fate are only made true if we follow them. The present affects the future, not the other way around. This meant that she could change the future, if she wanted to.

But did she want to? That was the question.

Friday, 26th September

After waking up again in the Narutoverse – once again disappointed – Olivia did a few of the stretches the pack had shown, eaten a breakfast of rice with beans, and a tablet supplement for a chakra spice, she and Sakura walked to school – Mebuki and Kizashi having left early to get to work.

She had been standing in the academy grounds no longer than a minute when a sudden yell over her shoulder caught her attention.

"You're such a liar Kumiko!"

Olivia, surprised at being yelled at, looked up. Kaori - the one who had yelled - was marching up to her, looking as scary as a ten-year old could. For a moment, Olivia could actually see the sparks in her eyes, which distracted her so her witty reply to the accusation was...

"Wha-? Huh?"

"I told my mummy and daddy what you said yesterday - about Naruto," She spat his name, "being part of the same clan as the woman who married the first Hokage - and they said it wasn't true and sent me to bed with no dinner!"

'Oops...'

"It's true - honest I-" She was sure it was…

"No - just because you don't have parents anymore, doesn't mean you can lie! My parents yelled at me for ages! It was horrible, and all your fault! You're not my friend anymore!" As Olivia tried to process what Kaori had yelled - she had said it all very quickly - Kaori stormed off and joined Sango and Maka, who had just arrived. All three of them proceeded to glare at Olivia.

'Well - at least things are back to normal. Sure - I have no friends now... but it doesn't matter. I'll be back home soon enough... Ooh! Ok – so the Naruto-Friends-Situation is taking that path… ok. I wonder what they're gonna say to Naruto…'

"Naruto?" Sakura's voice brought Olivia out from her thoughts. She turned to face her cousin, apparently a bit abruptly as Shy-Sakura let herself be known in a squeak. Olivia, however, didn't notice.

"Yeah – Naruto. Uzumaki Naruto – he's in your class, right?" replied Olivia, perhaps a tad confrontational – a flash of a twelve-year-old, much more confident Sakura hitting Naruto around the head appearing before her eyes.

As stupid as Naruto had acted in the anime, she had always felt so annoyed when Sakura hit him – it was hypocritical considering how annoying Sakura was prior to Tsunade's training. At least Naruto was strong, whereas Sakura wasn't really that much of anything until the second season, with exception to that moment in the Forest of Death.

However, the person she seemed to have forgotten she was talking to was not the twelve-year-old Sakura, in love with 'Sasuke-kun~' and eternal rivals with Yamananka Ino. This was little eight year old Sakura, with no friends and constantly bullied for her admittedly large forehead, which she only brought more attention to by covering it with a fringe.

As such, in response to her fervent statement, Sakura lost her ability to speak, and starting incoherently spluttering and mumbling. If it wasn't for her rather unique colourings, it could have been possible to mistake her for Hinata.

'Oops – I shouldn't have said it like that. I shouldn't judge her on what hasn't even happened yet, and it's not like I'm perfect. From what I can remember, I was an obnoxious brat as a child, a teacher's pet as a young teenager, and well – a ten-year old in my late teenage years… Ah! Nonononono – don't cry!'

As Olivia flapped around Sakura, apologising profusely and trying to prevent the waterworks, the academy grounds' usually noisy, bustling atmosphere hushed to a momentary silence, before the whisperings of the adults enveloped the area. Olivia looked around the yard for the reason behind the sudden gossiping. She found her answer walking through the entrance to the academy grounds; heads held high and child-in-tow, an Uchiha family entered the premises.

The child was unmistakably Sasuke, who she had seen just the day before, which would make the two adults Fugaku and Mikoto. Though that much was obvious if you looked at them; if she looked at them in the right way, they looked exactly as they had done in the anime.

The Clan head, his wife and his second son walked further in, all whispering ceasing once they were within fifty yards or so to the crowd of other parents. Olivia, trying to distract herself from the unease she felt at being so close to the soon-to-be-killed-by-their-psycho-first-born adults, noticed Fugaku catch the gaze of a few other Clan heads – Hyuuga, Nara, Yamananka etc…, and exchange a nod with them, which they returned.

'Clan Etiquette I guess.' Olivia thought. She looked closely at the Uchiha family, curious as to why they had caused such whispering. She hadn't able to hear what any adults were saying, but she got the feeling they hadn't been gossiping about Mikoto's choice of obi or any such frivolity.

'I thought the Uchiha clan was like – uber-respected – like the Hyuuga clan, and that that was why Sasuke was so prized after the massacre. Well – that and because he had the potential to get the sharingan… so what's up with all these looks? They're looking at them the same way they look at Naruto… ah - no. Not the same, they're disguising it more so now, but still – how odd.'

Class was, as she was finding most things, interesting.

Sango, Maka and Kaori were ignoring her presence, except on occasion where one of them would look curiously at the girl who had defended that boy, and when Olivia caught their gaze and smiled – because she was finding the whole thing hilarious – they would glare, "Hmmph!" and look determinedly at the board.

They were doing civilian subjects that day – Maths, Language and Literature, basic science, geography and so on – though everything had a ninja undertone.

'Saki ran 3 miles in one hour. Given that she runs non-stop at a constant speed, how far will she have run 35 minutes into that hour?'

'Write 1000 words on the advantages of using Ninja over Samurai.' Not advantages and disadvantages – just advantages, Olivia noticed, amused.

'Write a short story about ninja's adventure whilst on a mission using descriptive language.'

'An innocent ploy to encourage us towards a ninja career if ever I saw one.' Olivia thought bemused as she finished her story. It was a ridiculously easy day, if you didn't count the language change. The only real problem she had was trying to answer as a ten-year old would, but even that wasn't too hard as Kumiko had been a bright kid anyway.

She was, however, getting sick of having to wait for the rest of her classmates to finish. She had finished fifteen minutes ago – how long did it take to write a little short story? It had taken her ten minutes – and she had written three sides!

Though her handwriting had descended to chicken scrawl after the first half side…

'Ugh – I'll rewrite it. Stupid Kumiko with her perfect handwriting! Keh!'

Yay! You managed to finish the chapter - well done, my good sirs and ladies, good show ^_^

* Written by me when I was about 14. Cybercake for anyone who can guess what part of Naruto it is based on!

You think you know me, you think you know this world,
But fate won't protect you,
And destiny's just a joke.
This is just the beginning, of my strength revealing,
You can't even begin yet,
With your thoughts so clouded.
Your eyes might see what can't be seen,
But your mind is blind, take my word for it,
Remember destiny's got nothing on me.
I won't lose to someone like you,
Watch me, I'll take on everyone,
This village is what made me,
My faith in myself is what saved me.