I'll be honest, reading through this story half a year after starting it...it kinda sucks.

I'm not afraid to admit it, but...Hana is way too good at...well, everything. She might as well just be born a goddamn Uchiha or something, then go the way of the Hana from War Dog and getting the Nine-Tails because she could handle it. That way her age would be better off, since in this, she acts way older than everyone else, but nobody questions the fact she's like...12? 13 or whatever?

I dunno. Just warning you now, this is definitely, whilst my longest story, not my best work, by any stretch of the imagination. It'll probably be either re-written, or just capped off and forgotten.

Chapter 1

Opening her eyes to see a Kunai held above her left eye, with a drop of red liquid dangling ominously close to dropping, was not quite what Hana was expecting.

Then again, as she traced the arm back to see a swirly orange mask, she could be forgiven for not expecting anything at all. The last thing she saw was the ground coming up to meet her after her parachute had failed to open. 'Oh, come on Hana, it'll be fun!' all her friends said. And, despite her discomfort, she found herself all but dragged out to go skydiving.

Not that she didn't want to go skydiving, she just had a bad feeling. Note to self, never ignore gut feelings again. So, when the ground was but a few dozen meters away, she clenched her eyes shut in anticipation of the pain to come. And it did, like a wall of fire suddenly exploding in front of her. The feeling of opening a dozen full-strength pizza ovens in her face, magnified by a hundred.

But, just as quickly as it started, it stopped, and she opened her eyes to the aforementioned sight of a kunai, which she idly noted was covered in blood, scarily close to turning her into a cyclops. She could hear something that sounded like people talking, involving the man holding her if the vibrations going through his hand were any indication. After a few moments, she felt the hand under her tense and suddenly she was in midair, the kunai dripping the single drop of blood into her eye in the way up.

With nary a moment to even scream, she suddenly felt like she was being turned inside out whilst her eye burned like needles stabbing repeatedly, and for the first time since she arrived in the new world, Hana cried.

Minato was angry. No, scratch that, he was absolutely livid.

Not even a few minutes after his wife had given birth, his daughter had been taken from Biwako, with her getting a Kunai through the heart for her troubles. Seeing that masked man holding a Kunai less than an inch from his oddly silent daughter's eye was barely enough to hold the man back from bringing a Rasengan to bear against him. Barely, but it did stop him.

The few medic-nin in the room alongside him were deathly still, not wanting to startle the man and bring that Kunai any closer to the Hokage's child.

"Yondaime Hokage." The man called out, his voice deep and commanding. "Step away from the Kyuubi Jinchuriki or your daughter dies." He stated clearly, and Minato clenched his fists, glaring at the black hole in the mask.

"I will kill you." He replied tonelessly, his eyes fixed upon the single eyehole of the mask furiously. Without warning his daughter was in midair and he was moving instinctively, avoiding the Kunai thrown at him and leaping up to grasp his daughter. Upon laying his hand on her, he saw the tag attached to her swaddling and immediately used his Flying Thunder God technique to teleport to a safe location, immediately throwing the swaddling and teleporting again to avoid the explosion.

When he glanced around, he saw that the Kunai he travelled to was in the middle of a training ground, before he focused inwardly, his mind locked onto the seal within one of his safehouses.

Upon appearing, he laid his daughter down gently and, though it broke his heart to see his daughter crying out for him, he grit his teeth and left the room, with a scowl firmly plastered on his features. Right now, he was expecting to be hugging his wife and holding his new-born child. Instead, he was preparing for a fight. He stormed across the safehouse, finding the bedroom quickly and ripping the wardrobe open. As he slipped his arms into his familiar flame-emblazoned Haori, he allowed himself a singular moment to centre himself, even as he grabbed his signature Kunai. Picturing the Hiraishin he inscribed upon Kushina, the Yondaime Hokage used his Hiraishin to get back to his wife, just in time to stop the Kyuubi from killing her. With his arms around his beloved, he then took her back to where his daughter lay crying.

It didn't take any prompting for Kushina to hear her daughters crying and immediately snap out of her dazed state, all but leaping over to the baby and grabbing her, holding her close as though the world itself wanted to take her away. Minato only took a moment to watch before he went back out, arriving at the Hokage rock and watching the tailed beast as it began forming a Tailed Beast Ball, matching it with his own technique.

'Snake, Horse, Rat, Ram, Zai!' He flipped through his hand seals in an instant, throwing out several of his Hiraishin Kunai to anchor the technique and bracing himself for the attack, as the Bijuudama reached a massive size and the Kyuubi sent it flying towards him with a flick of its head. As it impacted the barrier, Minato felt the pressure on his Chakra network as the Ball attempted to smash through it, and he flipped through more hand signs and linked the barrier with a Hiraishin Kunai far away from the village, watching it sink away into nothingness.

Less than a moment later a massive explosion dozens of kilometres away erupted, large enough to vaporize the entire mountain if it had hit its target. Locking eyes with the Kyuubi for a second, Minato flashed a furious snarl for a moment before focusing his mind and trying to pick out the location of the Sandaime Hokage to inform him on just what had happened.

Leaping from his place atop the rocky outcropping, the blonde began charging through the forest towards where he felt Hiruzen's Chakra signature, but was forced to a stop when the same masked man interrupted his run, his hand outstretched as though to grab him, inevitably trying to activate some kind of Jutsu or Kekkai Genkai. With a little sleight of hand, Minato threw a Hiraishin Kunai to the side and avoided the grapple, preparing a Rasengan and snagging another three Hiraishin Kunai from his pouch, trapping them between his fingers, all the while the masked man observed him.

"It's too late, the Kyuubi is free, nothing you do will stop that." He intoned in his gravely voice.

"I told you,-" Minato glared at the man, his hand flicking the Kunai out in an array around the man. "I will kill you." And with that, the pair engaged in battle again, the sounds of the Rasengan tearing the area matched by the occasional thudding of Kunai hitting the floor.

"It's okay honey, shh, everything's fine."

Hearing the red-haired woman try to comfort her was extremely strange for Hana, even more so when she realized just what had happened, and it startled her right out of her childish instinct to cry, while the woman fussed about, trying to clean her blood-stained eye out.

She died.

That was the only logical explanation she could come up with, and unless she was reincarnated into a world of giants, she was just born. She was incredibly glad she didn't remember the actual moment of birth, that could have been...very uncomfortable. As it was, Hana was almost silent as she pondered this, a fact that her apparent mother picked up on, if her worried look and the constant biting of her lip was any indication. To appease her, Hana made vague grabby motions and squirmed about a bit, and it seemed like it worked, as the woman went back to generally cooing at her and adoring her, a fact that, while she found it really disconcerting, she just accepted as her new lot in life.

However, what she didn't quite accept was that, seemingly in the first minutes of her new life, she came within an inch of being blinded or killed. As it stood, she still might be blinded, considering despite her attempts, it seemed her mother wasn't quite able to actually clear her eye out. In another instance, Hana might have been worried about that, but she was far too focused on just what the hell happened to really give a damn.

Without warning, the same man who she recognised as the one to bring her here suddenly appeared, and her mother spoke with him, wrapping an arm around him and drawing him into a hug and kiss, making it clear that he was either an absurdly close friend or much more likely her father. After a moment, where the man seemingly indulged in the contact, the same gut-wrenching feeling came over Hana, but this time she managed to hold her tears at bay, despite her body seeming to want for nothing but to cry, and to be honest she felt the same way, though not from the discomfort.

Hana didn't really have much family left, her parents were already quite old when they had her, and they died when she was a teenager leaving her with no siblings or any family aside from a few cousins that she never really knew or cared about. She had friends, but she wasn't absurdly attached to her. No, Hana's real sadness was the fact that she would never again see her beloved animals. Hana owned several animals in her past life. Those precious few creatures were most of the reason why she had not left her country to go travelling. She could bear to be parted from her beautiful and exotic animals longer than a day.

Not giving her the time to do much more thinking, she felt herself be placed atop something hard and definitely not made for a baby barely out of womb, but considering the oddness of the entire situation she felt it didn't matter much, instead looking around curiously only to spot what could only be called a gigantic fox looking at her. Probably not actually looking at her specifically, but she would be damned if it didn't feel like that giant fox was staring right into her eyes with...fear.

A moment passed as she found her gaze locked to the wide eyes of the monstrously huge fox, before she saw her father lurch as though something hit him, and for a second she swore a giant outline of a demon appeared behind him, but it was gone before she could even fully process what had just happened, and instead looked at her mother, who had some kind of golden chains attached to her back, and they were waving around of their own accord.

Watching them snap out and bind the giant fox was definitely a moment that would be seared onto Hana's brain. Sure, teleporting around was a mind-spinner in its own right, but seeing this normal-sized woman binding a gigantic fox just took the cake. Knowing that it was her mother who could do such a thing definitely interested Hana, but she knew that considering how much she was struggling, Hana would be lucky to survive the next five minutes, let alone however long those chains would take to figure out, if she could even do such a thing.

So when the fox suddenly shrunk to half its original size and a black tattoo appeared on her body, just inside her peripheral vision, it was safe to say Hana was freaked out once again. When she felt something entering her body, invading through something she'd never felt before like a poisonous flame burning through her veins, she burst out crying again, this time in earnest at the searing pain. It wasn't quite as bad as the ending to her ill-fated skydive, but it was certainly more than she was ever used to feeling, and she clenched her eyes shut against the pain.

A dripping on her body and the disappearance of the pain bade Hana to open her eyes, just in time to see the fox disappear completely, and the claw that was currently impaling both her parents along with it, letting both of them drop to the ground, her father remaining still while her mother crawled closer, reaching up to her and drawing her to her chest.

She didn't say anything, just holding her as tightly as she could, and Hana couldn't bear to close her eyes as she watched the life leave her mother as she wept into her chest.

It wasn't long for the Sandaime Hokage to arrive at the scene and find a baby bawling in the arms of her dead mother, her father also dead close by, and he knew from the seal visible, yet swiftly fading, on the child's abdomen just what Minato had been forced to do. What threw the man for a loop though was when he looked upon the crying child's face and saw the tear tracks from her left eye.

They weren't tears of water, but tears of blood...

Dun dun duu!

Alright, alright, calm down! Before any of you ask, I swear I didn't plan on making Hana essentially into her Inuzuka counterpart with the whole 'loving animals' thing. I absolutely adore animals of almost any shape or size...except Sphynx Cats, they just make me uncomfortable, and since this is kind of a Self Insert story she absolutely MUST love animals.

I know it's bloody short, but I think that was a perfect place to leave it. Going further would just be a bit of a rush. And I will, in later chapters, explain just what is going on with her left eye, there's gonna be some significance there, trust me.

Fire, I swear, this is what, the 11th story you've released without finishing almost any of them. Grimm Reality was only completed because, as you've told me, you planned the whole thing out anyway.

Hana Nanashi says she's tired, so good night everyone!

I hate you.

Love you too bud.