Her Ninja Way

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Tenten

Nobody knows my last name. Heck, I've nearly forgotten it myself! Nobody knows that my mother was unmarried when she had me, that my father was a drunk. As soon as she could, my mother dumped me in my father's unwilling arms and hightailed it up to the Land of the Clouds.

Not knowing any use for me, my father stuck me in a local orphanage, not leaving anything except my first name. Tenten. Giving only necessities, the orphanage granted my request of sending me to ninja school. So at the tender age of seven, I started learning how to kill people.

I wanted nothing to do with my past. I never told the teachers my last name, I would not!

No jutsu seemed to really fit my personality and when I had nearly given up hope, I discover the magic of weapons combat. I was ecstatic. I quickly became the best student of weapons the academy had seen in a long time. People even started calling me their resident "weapons master".

All my weapons didn't help me win at the Chunin exam though. But I won't give up.

Once I become the best weapons user in Konoha, I will find my parents and show them how wrong they were in leaving me, leaving me only my name, Tenten. I will make a last name for myself.

That is my ninja way.

Author Notes: This is the second in a series. Next is Temari.