I have received a few comments that were asking for longer chapters, if by longer chapters you want things to be more elaborated... well, I have a hard time with that...but I will try... if you meant that just more events occurred during a chapter... well... I can't do that too easily if I'm going to keep putting songs for each chapter, because they will go with part of it, or I have two songs that would work for different parts... well... to resolve that problem I could just post more than one chapter at a time...

I do NOT own Naruto, this is fan fiction.

Move Along: you can't fake it hard enough

Song: The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most

By: Dashboard Confessional

Ever since she found out that she was... or, well, who she wasn't, Ayako felt out of place in her own house, but then again, was it really her house?

Ayako was currently sitting under the same tree again, this time, seriously considering her options. She didn't know how she could going to continue to live in Amegakure, at first she thought that maybe she could get over the fact that practically her whole life had been a lie, yet she soon came to the conclusion that, no mater how hard she would try now, she could no longer pretend that everything would be alright...

She had to leave Amegakure, no matter how hard it would be to abandon everything she had been so sure of her whole life... By leaving, she would be saying that she no longer accepted what she had always believed to be true... She would be admiting that she had been living a lie her whole life.

She got up and began walking back to the village; the sun was setting and dark was approaching, no matter what she was going to do, she would have to go back to the village before.

She knew life in Amegakure had never been great for her, and and it wasn't about to get better simply because she had graduated... Ayako had been given a choice, and now was the time to take it; she would be leaving tonight...

As Ayako was packing, she began to have second thoughts. Was this really what she should do? What if she was making a huge mistake? ...but she knew that she wasn't, this is what she needed to do... part of her was searching for a reason to stay, but the rest of her was forcing her to leave.

She had told her 'parents' that she would be leaving; they didn't say much and had seemed to have already accepted that this might happen, that she might leave. The obvious explanation would be that she was 'running away' form her problems, but she was actually walking straight towards them, and she knew it.

Ayako finished packing her clothes and some food. She walked over to the mirror in the room, searching for the girl that she had always 'been,' all the time knowing that girl no longer existed.

She stood about 5 feet tall, with long raven hair, which was currently held up in a bun with a few lacquered chopsticks, and long heavy bangs hanging on the left side of her face. Her skin was pale and her eyes were jet-black, which she had always liked her eyes, even though they were often the cause of teasing she was surrounded by throughout her childhood.

She had on black capris that reached her mid calf, and could be tied with a pull tie to tighten them at the ends, or could be buttoned up to reach right below her knee. At the moment, she had the left leg buttoned up and the right one tied, adding to the asymmetry of her appearance. Her shirt was a black, leather like, tank top with a zipper up the front and a light cotton tank top underneath it. She also had on the standard ninja gloves that had a little metal plate on their back and didn't cover her fingers, making her black nail polish visible. Though they were covered by her black Converse high tops, here toe nails were also painted black. She had always found black to be the best color for a ninja, even though the majority of Amegakure disagreed.

She picked up a couple sets of kunai and shiruken and put her bag over her shoulder, adjusting it so that it was completely on. She grabbed her blank forehead protector off of 'her' desk and stepped out of what had once been her room.

She walked along the hall, knowing this was no longer her house. That thought was both haunting and reassuring; she tightened her grip on her forehead protector. Her 'mother' came out of one of the rooms, holding a small silk bag, about the size of a palm and had two little pull strings on it, keeping it closed.

"Ayako, your father doesn't want you to have this, but I think you should. We found it with you..." she whispered

"Thanks" Ayako whispered absentmindedly, taking the bag and putting it in her backpack. She noticed that the bag was a dark color with an odd symbol on it, and it was surprisingly heavy, much heavier than a mere silk bag was, as if it was carrying a huge burden. Yet she was not really giving much thought to what she was doing... her 'mother' quickly retreated back to the room and Ayako kept walking.

Ayako walked up to the front door and reconsidered her choice again but decided that she was making the correct one... there was no way for her to stay her any longer... she didn't belong. She slowly opened the door, took a step outside and quietly closed the door. She got to the edge of town and, standing under her tree, looked back at Amegakure, giving her past one last glance. She turned around and took the forehead protector that she was clutching and tied it around her head.

Uchiha Ayako walked straight ahead, out of Amegakure, towards her future and her past.

Well, I finally got a review, so now to reply:

SnowNeko: thanks for being the first to review, I really appreciate it... and I'm really happy to hear that someone appreciates the way I write (my English teacher hates it...) and I will try to make the chapters longer, though I don't know if I'll be too good at that... and tell me what you meant exactly...

icydragon14: you're the second person that has reviewed, you are also the second to tell me to make the chapters longer, so I'll try, but I'm going to have a hard time doing that... one thing that might happen is that, in trying to make them longer I take longer to post and then I put it off and it takes me forever... or I just stop writing it all together... and thanks for adding me to your alerts list... oh, and tell me what you meant by longer chapters...

Ashen Rose: I know that you really didn't give an official review... but you added the story to your alerts list and you replied to my message, so thanks

Midnightwolf89: you didn't give an official review either, but you added the story to your favorite's list... so thanks... (and it's nice to know that there is another person living in Florida out there, PM or E-mail me if you want)

Wow, that was alot longer than the other chapters, thanks for telling me, I may go back and add more to the others!

Ok...well... I am now having a hard time finding songs, so if you have any that you like or that might work, tell me them, and I may use them... and I am also still open to suggestions for the plot, or just suggestions in general.