Life was simple as a baby, I got to sleep whenever I wanted, I got fed when I cried, I got to hear a lot of gossip from adults who didn't realize I could understand them. Two women and a man take care of me, Babysitters of some kind I can only assume, They seem friendly with each other but when it comes to interacting with me they seem cold and stuck up like they had better things to be doing.

The three are ninja's judging by the little 'magic tricks' the man sometimes tries to entertain me with and the Kumogakure headbands they all wear. The man is tall and dark-skinned, he wears sunglasses' indoors and has enough scars on his left arm alone to make me curious about him many people have tried to cut off his arms. The first woman, the one who at least tried to act nice to me, was a short blonde haired woman with brown eyes, she was kind of plain-looking with a face that you would overlook in a crowd with a small scar just to the right of her mouth. The second woman was the one who never even pretended to like me, she would feed me, change me and then just sit in the corner paying no attention to me, she was a tall woman with sharp features, long brown hair and silver eyes… I like her, she's my favourite.

I was determined to get her to like me, I may not look like it but I was an adult once and you shall like me one day woman!

The routine of sleep, eat, sleep, repeat continued for months, I was about five months old when I began crawling, fast for a baby but I'm pretty sure that's just due to my High agility, my first crawl was from my position on the floor with some toys to the feet of silver eyes who was sat at a small table, I sat by her feet and then leaned against her leg, like me dammit! The woman looked at me and sighed as the man laughed from his position across from us. Suddenly I felt arms wrap around my chest as Silver eyes picked me up and set me in her lap, it seems my natural charms is taking its toll on her, soon she shall adore me!

Silver eyes is reading a book, it's in Japanese which means I can't understand it, it's strange I can hear Japanese and know what it means but I can't read it? Probably due to my high charisma skill and my pathetic intelligence. I lean into Silver eyes looking at the pages in the book, the man is cooing a bit now.

"aw it seems he likes you Aneko" oh, is that her name? It sounds nice. ()"shut up Akito, no he doesn't" hey, silver ey-Aneko, whatever your name is, I do in fact like you, you don't pretend to like me, I admire your honest enough to try and crush a child's hope of befriending you, unlikely for you I'm really persistent, take that luck that tried to saddle me with people who dislike me! I'm naturally irresistible!

My mission here is done, for now, wrapping my arms around her stomach I begin to fall asleep, let's see how Silver eyes deals with this.

"its actually quite adorable you know, "

"I already told you to shut up" even though she says that I still feel the award patting of my back that helps lull me to sleep, you can't hide it silver eyes you shall love me if it's the last thing you do!

There is one distinct advantage children have over adults, Children can solve their issues by crying which I abuse to get Silver eyes to interact with me, Crying when the man and the other woman try and pick me up, crying when they try and feed or change me, I'm only well behaved when it's Silver eyes, I'm not quite sure why I do this but it started out as me trying to prove something but now I might actually be growing attached. Silver eyes has started to play with me and read to me when she is around, though if her friends ask, she is most definitely not doing these things.

I also discovered that I have strange markings on my arm, they look kind of like seals but natural? If that makes sense when I first started trying to investigate them my status popped up so I assume they are my Pip-boy substitute.

Silver eyes has begun taking me outside into the garden, I mostly just stumble about trying to explore with my newfound ability to walk and run, thanks agility! Silver eyes enjoys sitting on a blanket reading, Kumo is a nice village and the mountains have a spectacular view. When I get tired I mostly flop down onto silver eyes who reads me to sleep, this time it's a story about a baker who finds an injured Kunoichi and nurses her back to health as they fall in love, it's a standard plot and would fit right in on a made for TV movie but Silver eyes enjoyed them and so did I.

Laying in my cot I get to hear a lot of private conversations between the three ninja, this time it's an argument between Silver eyes and the two others. "we have barely been on any missions in months Aneko, you yourself haven't been on a single one since you started spending more time with the 'client' than your own team, you have to admit this assignment is nothing more than a punishment for what you did"

"Well excuse me if I am enjoying myself in a bad situation and we all know that that wasn't my fault" it seems that I have missed something totally important between these three.

"We are your team yet you never try and talk to us, admit it, you blame us for your screw up, don't you! Admit it Aneko" the increase in volume is sudden, whilst before it was at least stage whisper levels now it's full-on yelling, any normal child would be crying by now.

"quiet, you'll wake up Yuya" Silver eyes tries to salvage the situation but it sadly doesn't work.

"oh yeah, it's always about the child, you have spent more of your free time with that child than you have with your own team in all the time we've been together"

"Well maybe if you two weren't such stuck up arrogant assholes I wouldn't prefer to spend time with an actual child" aw, thanks silver eyes.

"assholes us? Pot meet kettle, I know why you love this little freak so much, it's because you're a freak as well!"

"...What?"

"Don't act surprised, we know who your father is freak, we tried to be civil about it but it's clear that you and your kind just don't belong with us normal folk."

The two storm out of the room leaving me and silver eyes alone, I wasn't sure what to think of the flurry of reveals that just happened but I did know one thing, those sniffles I heard weren't coming from me. Feeling hands wrap around me and hold me close to the sobbing Silver eyes, I hugged her back, what startled out as simple childish pettiness turned into genuine affection and I felt horrible for her.

With a deep breath I thought of what my first word should be, I felt the answer was simple enough, "A-Aneko" my mouth felt weird and my tongue didn't move properly but I was able to say my caretakers name and her arms tightened a bit around me as the sobs were broken by the odd laugh. I was happy I got her to laugh I couldn't help the sinking feeling in my stomach that this argument was caused because of my bad luck...,