Thinking that everything that had happened was merely a dream I had expected to be in my bed when I woke up. But I was wrong, I woke up to a white ceiling that was not my own, a ceiling I would recognize quite a lot in the future.

I remember blinking my eyes slowly being very confused as to what was happening. My side didn't hurt and for that I had been grateful, the answer as to why it didn't hurt was lost to me as I knew that a gash such as that one would take a while to heal including some stitches to help it along. I had glanced around noticing two people walking into the room.

One was the man Shikaku, and that was when I realized that it was all reality, I wasn't sleeping once again and my perception of reality changed once more. The other person was a really old man who looked like he had seen his fair share of tragedy, the old man wore a long white robe over a red outfit and a large red hat trimmed with white.

'Who was this person' I had thought in that moment, scared that I seemed to be nowhere near home. The home I so desperately wanted to leave behind.

The old man despite looking a little scary had a smile on his face that somehow had made me less skeptical of being somewhere foreign to me. "Hello dear, I'm Hiruzen Sarutobi the Kage of this village. I was told by Shikaku here that you were lost in the forest rather close to our village."

I had looked at him confused "Excuse me but where exactly am I? And what's a Kage? I vaguely remember being in a forest but this is obviously not the forest." Before realizing how dumb I really sounded once more, he had literally just said I was brought to a village. Old man Sarutobi as I had decided to call him spoke with a chuckle "For one a Kage is the leader of shinobi villages, since we are in the village hidden in the leaves I am called the Hokage. This is not a forest, you are in the land of fire Shikaku brought you here after you were hit with his kunai, now that you're all rested up and our medical ninja have taken a look at you, I would like to ask you some questions."

I had looked at him in disbelief blurting out "what the hell is a medical ninja and how can they completely fix a wound that deep in, how many days was I out?" Shikaku replied dryly with "One day" "One day" I said.

Old man Sarutobi laughed this time rather than chuckle "medical ninja are those who know medical ninjutsu the ability to help people recover from the simplest wounds to some pretty damaging wounds in a shorter time it would usually take the body to heal"

I was speechless but he had answered my question so I had said "What questions do you have for me?"

Old man Sarutobi gestured for Shikaku to take a seat in front of me then he started asking questions. "Well first what's your name?" and that was when my face had burned red with embarrassment 'wow I sure am rude' I thought I know their names but they don't know mine. "My name is Fei Yamasaki" I had said immediately waiting for more questions

"Where are you from Fei" Shikaku had asked next 'they'll think I'm crazy if I tell them where I'm really from, hmm they seem to have places named on weather and resources. That's it! I'll say I'm from the land of sand!' I had thought before saying "I'm from the land of sand."

They had looked at me oddly for a moment and I thought I was busted thinking 'Oh shit what if they don't have sand in this world' when old man Sarutobi said "do you mean the land of wind?"

Without thinking I had said "Yes! The land of wind. I'm from a non-shinobi town near there. My parents are no longer of this world and I somehow ended up in the forest near here. The last thing I really remember is that I was staying in a nearby town and these guys chased me out. I was so scared I think I passed out and that's why I wasn't in my bed."

Honestly to this day I have no idea where that lie came from, to be honest I was a horrible liar but this, this lie was something that kick started my ability to lie as a ninja.

After hearing my lie that they somehow believed old man Sarutobi had asked me a very important question "Since you have no specific place to call home, and I do not deem you a threat to the safety of my people, would you like to become a ninja of this village? The usual age of entry is about 5 or 6 and you are, wait how old are you?"

I had once again been slammed into speechlessness, 'become a ninja' I had thought 'this is the excitement I need in my life.' And that my fate was sealed once my mind was made up I would become a ninja, and I would have an amazing action packed life filled with fun and adventure.

Oh how wrong I was once again with those thoughts. Being a ninja would not only make my heart harder than it already was, it would also lead to the many sorrows I would face in the future. I guess that wasn't all living a life as a ninja had brought me. But I'll get to that at some other point.

So with those final thoughts I spoke "I'm 15 old man Sarutobi and I would love to become a ninja." And with that I was left alone as old man Sarutobi and Shikaku went to set up an apartment for me and a spot in the next graduating class at the ninja academy.

I had been released from the hospital shortly after that meeting and was given my own apartment near the outskirts of the village.

The day after that I had been appointed a Genin ninja, who would lead me to the academy, where I would spend my days for the nest four months before I would be allowed to attempt the graduation test. I remember that I was not overly nervous as I made my way to the correct room after finding myself in the wrong room three times before.

Opening the door with the eyes of many pesky 12 year olds I looked towards the teacher. Iruka Umino, the person old man Hokage had stated would be my teacher and outside tutor on all things ninja for the next 4 months. He had said a polite "Hello you must be Fei" and told me to introduce myself to everyone.

I had smiled slightly at everyone and said "Hello my name is Fei Yamasaki" and with that Iruka told me to go sit in the empty spot next to a hyper active blonde with what seemed to be whisker like scars on his cheeks. I looked at him when I had sat down and smiled asking "What's your name?"

In that moment when he replied "My name is Naruto Uzumaki and I'm going to be the future Hokage, believe it!" I had thought 'oh boy this kid is gonna be trouble' and he was, he was a pain in the ass and too hyper for his own good. But as the months went by and I realized that I seemed to be his only friend and he tried so hard to get on everyone else's level, I started to feel pity for him. I had started to see the way people would glare at him and how he would just turn away and mope in silence.

I had begun to feel anger in my heart at the thought that this boy, Naruto wanted nothing but friendship and to be accepted was hated by adults. Those who should have been mature enough to not put a 12 year old down and stomp on his happy little face. That was a time when I had no idea of what resided inside his body, a time when I had befriended what everyone else saw as a monster, what I saw as a kid who wanted to be hugged.

I had broken my vow of friendlessness and became friends with the crazy knuckle-head. Everyone thought I was crazy and my lack of abilities in ninja arts was thanks to Naruto, but in truth I was just bad at every little thing that included, what I had learned was chakra.

I remember being so fascinated by everything that Iruka taught, I had the highest scores on written papers and tests. But that was it.

I was terrible at everything ninja related, I couldn't even perform the slightest of clone jutsu that even Naruto could handle, at least he made a droopy clone, I couldn't even get the jutsu to work for me.

The months flew by and suddenly I had been in the academy for four months I had found friends in not only Naruto but a shy girl named Hinata, who I found to be absolutely adorable, a boy named Shikamaru who I found out was Shikaku's son, another boy named Choji who loved food, and finally a girl with pretty pink hair named Sakura, she was overly obsessed with another kid in class named Sasuke but eh, I found her to be nice enough.

Those four months went by so fast I had barely been able to perfect the clone jutsu, but that was all I had been able to do by that point in my life, I was a pathetic excuse for a ninja, and I knew that and so did everyone else. I had been given the lowest scores in ninjutsu just below Naruto, a higher score in taijutsu leaving me near the middle but still pretty bad and, a completely disgusting score in genjutsu, something I could not seem to pull off for the life of me.

So when I had left the testing room with a shiny new leaf village headband, I had almost died of shock, along with everyone else.

I had felt like a horrible person when Naruto left the room with nothing new or shiny. I had tried to go after him but with my lack of ninja sensing skills I couldn't seem to find him. But the day after the exams when he had shown up with that brand new headband I couldn't have been happier. That is until we got sorted onto teams.

Now back then I had expected to be put on a team that would help me progress in the way of the ninja. But that wasn't what initially happened. I had been placed on a team with two boys who I had never spoken to before. Jiro Sadao and Shin Amari, those two were incredibly quiet and seemed to be scared of being ninja. Our sensei's name had been Takata Shoji, and he wanted nothing to do with us.

We had waited a total of 10 minutes before he came in, from what I remember he was a tall man with dark purple hair and a sinister frown on his face. I had waved goodbye to Naruto and Sakura seeing as they were my only friends left in the room waiting for their sensei to arrive, and left with my new team.

We had arrived on the roof and Takata had immediately told us to forget our dreams of becoming ninja. He spoke to me first stating "You're already 15 and you just now graduated with pathetic scores at that, I don't want a shitty student on my team. There is no hope for you to become a ninja, you should quit the academy maybe someone will give you a job in the civil side of the village."

A sensei saying that to me had almost broken my will to become a ninja. But with those words he turned to Jiro and Shin and told them to quite being ninja, saying that they had no will to even be a shinobi of the hidden leaf. And that was the end of that, suddenly I was left sitting on the roof in the same position the breeze blowing my hair slightly and looking out at the birds flying by until Naruto and his team had made their way up with their sensei. I remember the look on Narutos face was very confused and he questioned me as to why I was alone "Fei what are you doing here? Where's your team?"

I had thought about leaving and not saying anything but my mouth moved before my brain had and I was blurting out "H-hey Naruto, Sakura, um we had a team meeting up here. I-I don't actually have a team anymore"

I was so close to tears when he asked what had happened. I just stood there and told them everything my sensei ehem, Takata had said. They had both looked so horrified and then their jounin sensei spoke up "That's awful, why don't you stay with us and listen to introductions and we'll go talk to Lord Hokage" Not really up for going back to an empty apartment I decided to stay. Naruto yelled out "We'll have fun, believe it!"

And with that my spirits were lifted slightly and I listened to the introductions of those around me. Sasuke the black haired Uchiha, being the one that scared me the most his dream was to kill a certain someone who I would later learn, was his very own brother.

Sakura my pink haired friend, all she cared about was Sasuke and what he was doing. But she was smart I knew she would get over her obsession and become a great kunoichi.

Naruto the blonde, hyperactive, number one knuckle-headed ninja wanted to become Hokage after rising above all the past Hokage.

Their silver haired sensei's name was Kakashi Hatake, at that moment I'm pretty sure I thought he was a lazy loser. But once again my intuition back then was complete shit and I would later learn that he was an amazing ninja capable of so many things.

And lastly there was me, I wasn't even a part of their team but Kakashi had me introduce myself anyway. Me, Fei the brown haired green eyed girl who had found her way into a world filled with killer ninja. The girl who would later turn out to be, well you'll find out later who I became.

I have to say that, that day I had been pretty upset about the idea of never being a ninja and working a mundane job until I die, I didn't even notice how much could have changed if I hadn't of been put on team Takata. I wouldn't have been on that roof at that specific moment, I wouldn't have been placed on a new team, and I would have never become as strong as I am now. So I thank you Takata, you unknowingly sent me in the direction of my destiny.