I had worn my headband to sleep, I loved it so much and had been waiting for it for a long time to become a ninja. I woke up the next day at 6:00 and decided to go to the room I was supposed to meet Kakashi in. I arrived there around 6:30 and saw that Itachi was already there.

"Hey Itachi, why are you here so early?"

"I was sort of excited to become a ninja, I didn't sleep well last night"

"Me too! I even slept with my headband on all night!"

We started chatting about family and our dreams.

"That's why my main goal is to become as memorable a ninja as my father"

"What a great dream. I haven't had enough time to think about mine, my father has been working me overtime"

"That's too bad. I always love to wonder about my future. It seems like it will be here in no time"

"You never know what can happen in just a few years"

Just then Kakashi and Hiro walked into the room.

"WHERE WERE YOU TWO!?"

"Oh a black cat crossed my path so I had to go a different way, and I ran into Hiro"

"Ya and I had gotten stuck helping my mom with the groceries"

"At seven in the morning…"

"Anyway, let's go over to the training grounds so I can introduce you to our challenge for today"

We walked outside the building and off towards the training area. He stood in the middle for a few minutes until he finally said something.

"Ok so today we'll be playing a little game. It's sort of like hide-and-go-seek. I will create 2 shadow clones and we will all run in different directions. You need to find each of us and destroy the clones. When you find me, you must retrieve my headband, all of this within four hours. Everyone understand?"

"Yes we all get it"

He made us turn around so we couldn't see where he and his clones were going. When we did turn around, there was no evidence of where he was.

"So do we all want to split up?"

I said looking around for an upturned rock, a split leaf, anything.

"How about we all go after each of them like you said"

"Ya sure that works"

We all took off in different directions. I had taken the northern area of the map. I was looking around all over the place but I couldn't find Kakashi anywhere. Then all of a sudden something caught my eye. It was the gleam of a headband. I took off towards it with a fully charged rasengan. I made contact with it and it poofed away.

"Well that was easy. Just two more to go"

I ran over to the east where Itachi took off. It seems he had found the real Kakashi. I hid in a tree until I found an opening. I repelled myself off of the tree and hit Kakashi straight on with another rasengan. He just turned around and grabbed my hand, throwing me into one of the surrounding trees. I got up and was going to try rasengan again. I was charging it when Kakashi came over out of nowhere with some sort of lightning attack in his hand. I got hit in my back and I thought I was going to pass out. Because of the dragon's chakra, I was very easily susceptible to any form of lightning. I tried using the tree to support me while I tried to get up, but I just fell back to the ground. Itachi saw I was having some trouble and helped me up. The only way we were going to get this is if we distract him then hit him with something really powerful. I opted to be the distraction but Itachi said it would be better if I didn't have to outmatch the lightning. So he went on instead and was using some fire jutsus to keep Kakashi's focus on him. I finally charged another rasengan and ran straight towards him. He immediately turned around and met me with a lightning attack of equal strength. We met in the middle and I didn't know how long I could hold him off. That's when Hiro came out from the bush and hit him with what looked like nothing, not even air. I wasn't going to ask questions, at least I didn't have to keep that up. I took this opportunity to shimmer over to Kakashi and grab his headband. I went back over to Itachi and Hiro and waited to see what Kakashi was going to do.

"Well done you three. That was great teamwork. Our first mission will be tomorrow"

"So that's it? No more fighting?"

"I would stay away from lightning if I was you Mariah, my Chidori could've really done some damage"

"Don't worry, I'll help her out with that"

Itachi said looking over at my back and neck that had just a bit of red.

"Thanks for that, and Hiro, what was that you used on Kakashi?"

"It was just a jutsu, like anything else"

"Whatever it was, it was cool"

"You can all go home now, it is getting quite late"

I looked over at the clock he had brought. It was 6:30 already?

"Do you want me to walk you back?"

Itachi said looking over at the clock also.

"Sure, my dad might get worried if I don't get home soon"

Back at my house, I walked into my dimly lit room. I lay on my bed looking up at the ceiling.

"I can't believe it took all day, it seemed like 20 minutes maybe"

Then I noticed someone in my doorway, it was my father again.

"So how was your first day with Kakashi?"

"It went well, we owned Kakashi in his little training exercise"

"Very good, I'll be there for training tomorrow, do you want me to walk with you?"

"Actually…Itachi and I were going to walk over there together"

"Alright, I'll meet you there then"

I stayed on my bed and fell asleep in my normal clothes. I woke up early, threw on some clothes, and walked over to Itachi's house. He was standing in the porch and his mom was in the doorway.

"Hey Itachi, are you ready?"

"Oh Mariah, ya I'm ready"

His mom was giving me a very sweet smile when she started talking.

"Why hello, you must be Mariah Namikaze. I've heard so much about you"

"Nice to meet you "

I said as I bowed quickly to her.

"So Mariah let's go"

We headed off towards the training grounds. On our way over there, people were just staring at me while we were walking down the street. They acted like I was wearing neon or something. Itachi didn't seem to care, he seemed to be one of my only friends in the village. We got there and my dad and Hiro were there already.

"Well hello you two, I am your other sensei. I couldn't be here yesterday because of some work that had come up"

Right on cue, Kakashi came walking up to us.

"Sorry, I had gotten lost on the road of life"

I didn't fall for that, but I just let it slide. Today was the day we were actually going to have a real mission! It was something about a scroll, but it was a B ranked mission. After they had finished telling us about the mission, we all headed out to the village gates. We were headed to the Village Hidden Among the Stones. It was about a three days walk and I wasn't too happy about that. We could just shimmer over there and be done with it quickly. I was complaining to my dad about just that.

"You need bonding time with your teammates and you can learn about the country side"

Sometimes he was so annoying, couldn't we have bonding time in the village? Why did I need to see the countryside? It was all trees trees and oh guess what trees. I suppose he was right, we did need to have some experience in our own country and I like camping.

"Alright team, we'll set up camp here for the night. Don't wander out on your own, there are lots of ninja around here"

I set up camp and was getting bored, so I wandered off to look for something to do.

"Hey where did Mariah go?"

Itachi said as they all looked around for me.

"I told her this area was dangerous and filled with rouge ninja, she shouldn't be out here alone"

"Ahhhh!!"

They all jumped up and ran towards the source of the noise. I was surrounded by at least 12 mist ninja.

"What part of don't wander off did you not hear?"

"The part where I wasn't really paying attention, please help me!"

Both of the senseis just stood there, but Itachi and Hiro went over to help me. We all got into a fighting stance, Itachi activated his Sharingan and I activated my dragon's kekkei genkai, the Drakugan. It copies and stores any other kekkei genkai I see with it. My eyes turned from a deep blue to a bright blue with a black diamond inside of it. Itachi and Hiro looked at my eyes in wonderment, but I just launched myself into the midst of the enemy ninja. They used a bunch of water jutsus, which gave Itachi a weakness. I thought for a while, dodging their attacks. I finally had it, I turned my hand behind my hip and charged a rasengan. I lunged towards the ninjas and they flew in all different directions. Itachi and Hiro high fived me and we walked back over to the senseis. I walked back into my tent and fell asleep quickly. The next day, we arrived at the Stone village. We delivered the scroll and started the long trek back to the village. When I got back to my house, I went into the kitchen and started snacking on random things. My mom was in there and looked happy we were home alright.

"So how did your first mission go?"

"It went great, we beat up some mist ninja"

"Where's your father?"

"Oh he'll be here soon, he had to go to the office really quickly"

He came strolling into the kitchen and sat down next to me.

"Do you think that you're ready for the Chuunin exams?"

"Ready? We just got rid of 12 mist ninjas. I think we'll be just fine"

"Don't get too cocky, there are plenty of ninjas out there"

"Yes I know. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to get some sleep"

I walked upstairs and went to bed.

The Chuunin exams are next chapter, it will probably be up later tomorrow. I'm trying to work on all of the stories but this one in particular. It is around 70k words, but I have to edit it before I publish it. Please Review