****Winner of the Most Popular Naruto Fanfic Watty Award 2013/14**** **Currently being rewritten as the original is old and awful in this author's opinion** A coming of age story about a young Ninja, confused and hurt by the instances in her past, struggling to find her place and figure out what it all means. Can the kindness of a new Village warm a heart that time has taught to be cold and cruel? Can new friendships replace broken bonds, lost to the past? Is it safer to stay, or is it safer to run? A story not about one's physical strength, or of obtaining great power, but a story of overcoming and learning to change as old wounds heal.

Minxie Patterson lived an average life... Until the day she ended up getting sucked into the Naruto world due to a chaotic storm. Now, as a Leaf shinobi, she's on Team 7, along with Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura. They have a complicated relationship and tend to be extremely dysfunction, but they're still a great team. In the ninja world, Minxie is happier than ever, although she does meet a talking leopard and a psychopath or two, as if that's where she belongs. But what happens when she finds out that she really does belong there, since it's her birthplace? Wanting to solve the mystery of who she is, she's determined to figure out why she needs a Guardian, and why she was sent to Earth in the first place. However, as Minxie soon realizes, some secrets are better left unknown.

Alison is just a normal girl... Or as normal as you can grow up to be with a family that didn't really love you. As she discovers she is adopted, she starts to wonder where she could be from. As she wishes to be in the place she belongs in, she finds herself in none other than the Naruto world- some show about ninjas her cousin liked to watch back on Earth. Could she really be the person the scroll says? Follow Alison as she meets all of Konoha's crazy and unique ninjas, while starting to become quite a ninja herself.