After my meeting with Ino we became good friends. I would hang out with her whenever I could. When I was four and Ino five, she went to the academy. We didn't hang out as much but when we did Ino told me stories of everything she learned. Every time after we hung out, I would go straight to my mother and demand to be a ninja and every time she told me 'When you're five you can go just like Ino'.

I picked books from my father's shelf about ninjas and I would read for hours on end. Some of the things I knew from the anime in my past life, but most of it was new. It told me how to control elements, weal weapons and so much more. My mother would find me past out on the couch with a book in my hand.

It was when I turned five everything changed. Like promised I was put in the academy with other kids my age. I made friends with a quite girl named Hotaru. Unlike me she came from a civilian family but her brother was a ninja and urged her to come. Hotaru was very good in the writing and reading part of the academy but with taijutsu she failed horribly. Me? I failed everything. I was dead last. Hotaru tried to help me with the writing but it was just so boring! Reading I could handle but it wasn't as interesting as my father's books. Most of the kids teased me. Even if I was mentally 22 it still hurt when I was told I was good at nothing. Being young again is starting to get to me. One day I had enough. I came home with tears in my eyes and ran towards my mother.

"Kaasan!" I wailed "Teach me how to control water! Everyone keeps making fun of me!" I cried into my mother's shirt. When I calmed down my mother spoke, "I can try, but it won't be easy my little wave."

Every day when I came home, my mother and I would do chakra exercises. It took a long time but finally a got a leaf to stick to my head. I was so proud of myself and the next day in class we were told to do the leaf exercise. At first I thought only I would be able to do it but I was wrong. Everyone got it within a few minutes. I was so angry that day I didn't go home until very late. I was at the pond the whole day.

'I'll show them.' I thought. I gathered chakra into my palm and stuck it in the water.I lifted my hand out and nothing happened. I was mentally 22 and I was acting like a little kid. It was ridicules. I took a deep breath and dove into my mind. I followed a long staircase until I reached a door.

'My mindscape?' I thought. I opened the door to revel a field of grass and a small pond in the middle. I walked to the pond and sat next to it. I frowned to myself. 'If I can't control water out there, how would I do it here?' I stuck my hand in the pond and felt my chakra leaking out of me. I gasped and ripped my hand from the pond water following my movement. With wide eyes I moved my hand around the air as water followed behind it.

'So I have to let the water and my chakra become one huh?' I thought. I exited my mindscape and turned back to the real pond in front of me. I dipped my hand in and let my chakra flow through the water. I pulled my hand out and water followed not long after. I was so excited I lost control and the water dropped splashing me.

I ran home after that. Not two seconds after being in the house did my mother start yelling at me for being out so late. For once I couldn't care. I ran to the sink and showed her what I could do. My mother was very impressed. She told me tomorrow we would find out which of the seven seas I commanded.

I couldn't sleep that night. The excitement was too much. As soon as the sun rose I was out of bed asking my mother to see which of the seas I commanded.

"Alright Nami, calm down." My mother laughed as she patted my head. She grabbed an old vase from the living room and filled it with water.

"Nami, I want you to hold this and fuse chakra into it." She said. I grabbed the vase from her, careful not to drop it, and fused chakra into it. The water inside the vase began to boil. My mother took the vase away and father came in.

"What is she Akemi?" he asked.

"Boiling water." She replied as she drained the water from the vase. My father smiled and clapped his hands, "So she's like me huh? Well Nami I can start teaching you all about our kekkei genkai but you have to promise me one thing." My father held up a finger and looked at me expectantly.

"Anything!" I shouted waiting for him to continue.

"You have to start doing better in school. No more of this dead last, ok?" He said. A frown appeared on my face within a second. How did he expect me to do that? I was so bad at everything. I failed every test I wrote and I couldn't even throw a proper punch!

"Well Nami? What will it be?" He asked with a quirked eyebrow. I really wanted to learn more about my kekkei genkai… I guess I would just have to train every day to become better so my father will teach me!

"Ok Tousann! I'll do it!"

A/N: wow two in one day I'm on a roll. This isn't that long but they will be getting longer. Please vote on who you think Nami should be with. the poll is on my profile. R&R

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