Prologue

A girl sits quietly on her knees hidden in the bushes. She looks rather innocent thought the reason she's there isn't. She has a small, thin frame and is a little shorter than the average person. Her shoulder length, brown hair pulled back into pigtails only makes her look even younger than she is and her long bangs fall over her eyes nearly to her mouth. A thick black collar around her neck holds up the fabric of her shirt. The plain white material wraps around her torso leaving her shoulders and back exposed and then sewn in at her waist and hangs down to her mid-thigh. Underneath she wears black, knee length shorts and sandals.

She sits seemingly immobile, head bowed, listening to the conversation on the other side of the bushes. A long wooden Bo (wooden staff) lies across her lap, her hands gripping it tightly. Her eyebrows knit together and her hands clench the Bo causing her knuckles to become white, as she listens. But she continues to sit quietly, her mouth set in a grim expression, her eyes hidden. A dark blue headband is tied around her eyes like a blindfold, the metal plate bearing the engraving of the Hidden Leaf Village, that of a ninja. The headband hides her strange, blind eyes from the world.

The young ninja sits as quietly as possible within the shadows. As she listens she grits her teeth using much of her self control to not jump out and yell that they're wrong. She begins to tremble furiously when hearing her name and the word "failure" in the same sentence. The speakers soon turn and walk their separate ways oblivious of her presence. Once she's sure they're gone she slowly gets to her feet, her shaky hands holding the Bo. She turns to the forest behind her and sets one end of the Bo on the ground and proceeds to move it back and forth in a sweeping motion as she walks into the forest depths. As she passes a tree her fist strikes out smashing into the trunk. When she walks away thousands of leaves fall like rain and where she struck the tree is covered in deep cracks spider webbing the trunk.