Chapter two, see I didn't lie this time about an update.

Notice: the next chapters will be in 3rd person to get a view on other characters in the story, maybe i'll see what happends, I also may introduce Alice's pairing counterpart-partner-lover-person-thing.

Disclaimer: don't own touhou project or naruto both belong to their respective owners, no profit is made, yadda yadda.

"Talking"

'thinking'

*other*

"Beast/Yokai"

Other

Naruko's p.o.v.

The first I saw the woman that would later become my mother, was when she was purchasing some groceries, she herself was carrying one bag and she had Shanghai carrying another. I noticed her, because at the time I had been looking to acquire a doll. I had been meaning to acquire one, because I had seen some other girls at the park talking about, and playing with their new dolls, so I thought that if I had one of those dolls I would maybe be able to play with them. So I started to follow her, not very well mind you.

The second time I saw her she had been setting up her store in the morning, and I was looking through the front windows trying to see where she kept her spare key, sadly though she didn't keep one so I kept to watching her from a distance.

The third time I, well I guess this time she ran into me, it was late in the evening and I was running from one of the mods that frequently chased after me and decided to take a shortcut through one of the alleyways when I found myself running into her when I got out of it. She looked very surprised when both of us fell to the ground. I thought at the time that she would be angry at me like a lot of the other people in town.

But she didn't, she just stood up gave me a look over and motioned for me to follow her, when I didn't at first she had Shanghai give me a push. She took me to her house located above her store, sat me down, and gave me some tea and cookies.

"So what are you doing out this little girl?" she asked as five dolls carried a teapot to the table.

"Oh you know, exploring." even I could tell at the time that my lie was clearly see through.

"Exploring?" she asked as her green eyes stared at me "Tell me little girl what would your parents think about your late night exploring?"

"I, uh, don't have any parents. I'm an orphan." I hung my head wait for the comments of irresponsible, unwanted children.

She set down her tea, and closed her eyes and signed. "I see, tell me where do you live and do you have an income."

I looked up at her confused, usually people just glare at me, called me mean things, and sometimes hit me but no one had ever asked that. "I live over in a apartment by the, uh, the place with a lot of girls standing on corners, and I get money every month from Jiji."

When I mentioned where I lived there was suddenly a change in the atmosphere it got a bit, sadder would be the way to call it, before it got lighter when I mentioned Jiji.

"Little girl what your name?" she asked as one of the dolls floated over with a piece of paper.

"Uzumaki Naruko. May I ask what your name is, please?"

"Margatroid Alice is my name," she handed me the paper the doll in the black and white maid dress brought over "please read over this, speak to your jiji about it and come back with your answer, okay? Oh and take this with you." she handed a doll, it was different from the over dolls that she had flying around, and was not one of the ones I had seen on any shelf coming in.

It had a full length dress on with sleeves, the top the dress started as a light blue that constantly became darker as it reach the bottom of the dress. On her sleeves it was different instead of becoming a dark blue it went to a nice seafoam green. Her hair was bobbed, and was a light green.

I stared at the doll, it was one of my first gifts by someone other than Jiji, "T-Thank you Margatroid-san i'll take real good care of it." after saying that I left her house.

I didn't stop running until I made to my apartment that night, I placed the doll carefully on my bedside stand next to my picture of the Hokage mountain. I woke up around eight-thirty the next day got dressed grabbed both the paper Margatroid-san gave me and the doll and made my way to the Hokage tower.

When I arrived there I walked up to the secretary, and asked if it was okay for me to speak to the Hokage. I had got the answer I had always gotten from her, no the Hokage will never have time for the likes of me, so I walked passed her and into Jiji's office.

He was filling out some paperwork when I came in, "Hello Naruko-chan what can I do for you today."

"Hey Hokage-jiji I ran into a nice lady last night, and she helped me and told me to give this to you," I held up the paper then "and she gave this doll too, i'm calling her Umi."

The Hokage took the paper and gave it a look over before looking back at me. "Do you know what this is Naruko?"

"I read some of it but I couldn't understand most of the words. Why?"

"This is an offer of apprenticeship."

And that's how me, and mother got really know each other, I learn how to make dolls under her and how to control them. I was only seven when I started, and when I turned eight she adopted me, that was probably the happiest moment of my life I can still remember how it happened.

It was a tuesday in fall Shanghai was manning the registrar, Hourai was acting as a security watching for thieves, and I was practising with Umi off in the corner trying to get the smooth movements that my soon to be mother had with her dolls. When she came out of her workshop in the back, she walked over to me, and tapped me on the shoulder.

"Would you please come with me Naruko-chan I have something I would like to share with you." at the time she seemed nervous and uncertain.

"Sure," I replied "what do you want to show me Margatroid-sama?"

I followed her to her workshop, and up the stairs, up into her room. I had never been in her room before, not that I wasn't allowed mind you it was more of I felt that I would be intruding on her, her room was as much of a clutter as the workshop with dolls sitting and laying around the table and floor, some plans for dolls half way in a folder and other miscellaneous things around.

She sat me down on her bed, and told me to wait there while she grabbed the thing she wanted to show me. I think I waited for like five minutes tops, but at the time if felt like hours. She came back in with a small pile of clothes and a single paper sitting on them, she handed me the pile.

I looked at the paper and tried to make sense of some of the writing there were a lot of characters I didn't know on it, but multiple times on it were Alice's signature and the Hokage stamp was on it to.

"Margatroid-sama what is this?" I asked as I handed her back the paper.

"This Naruko-chan is your adoption form signed by me and approved by the Hokage." she said with a smile

I was frozen unable to comprehend what she had just told me, adoption was something I never thought would happen to me ever so when it did I didn't know what to do, so I did the first thing that came into my mind.

I started crying, and hugged my new mother around her waist.

End of chapter 2

So what you guys and gals thing of the first two chapters?

Im taking it slower this time around and I like it.

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Chapter 3 and 4 are in the works.