**On Hiatus/Will Be Continued Until Finished** A young girl with a past she wishes to forget goes on a journey with the cast of Digimon frontier. On her journey she befriends a lone wolf and meets people she would rather see disappear into smoke. The farther she goes the more she realizes that the people she is with are not out to hurt or pity her. Can she face her past? Can she trust this group with her life? or will they abandon her at any moment? *Information has been updated on Amaya*

****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.

Two and a half years after she left the Leaf Village, we find Ashley hot on the trail of the Akatsuki. Ordered to gather as much information as she can, Ashley abandoned her training in her homeland, the Land of Ambience, to pursue the members of the criminal organization. When she finally returns home, her friends are over joyed to see her again, Kiba especially. Back together again, Ashley and Kiba are happy to continue where they left off. But what will happen when one terrible decision tears them apart again? Will they be able to make it through? Will Ashley's friends ever understand her reason for leaving them again? More importantly, is the darkness in her heart, courtesy of Hakuba the Ten Tailed Wolf, real? Does Ashley truly wish to join the other side and leave everyone she ever cared about behind? And how will she react, when the Ninja World is on the verge of the biggest War in history?

When Mustang told Ed and Al to go to an orphanage to pick up a young girl with incredible alchemic powers, they didnt realise just how important in their lives she was going to be.