[Book One] "I'm proud of who I am. A thief, a lone traveler who never stops running. Just watch me, I will fight and survive, for me and by myself." Akai is not a shinobi. She's just a travelling mercenary with no destination. Okay... 'mercenary' is just the kind way to call her... She's also a thief. Merely just for the thrill. She did everything she wants, no rules can stop her. Until she stumbled upon Konoha. A warm, peaceful place, unlike her 'home'. The people's kindness is something new for her. Will she stay? Or will she continue her old life, messing with other people and running away? | * | * | * | * | * | DISCLAIMER: We do not own Naruto. Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto ©MidnightPilots

Naruto has been alone in his whole life. Seeking out for love and care. Looking around to make someone proud. What if one day he gives up? He let the darkness to consume him and allows himself to be taken away? His friends are along trying to save him from this darkness and sorrow. Will he be saved? Or be the enemy of konoha?

Sakura wanted to die. Sasori was fine with staying dead. But it seemed fate had other plans for them, because when they both wake up younger with blood pulsing through their veins, they had to remember how to live again. Time Travel AU Rewrite of Stumble (2013) Cover by: @SkyKnight_ BETA: @OfCloves

{Book one of the Nagato's Sister Books} In the middle of no where, is one of the worst places in the world. A prison for the worst. Prisoner number 666 is planning on escaping with the ultimate power she has discovered. Her name, is Kaiya Uzumaki, and she's the only sibling of a certain red head that controls an organization that is after the jinjurikis. Nagato Uzumaki. Kaiya wanted nothing more then to live with her Six Paths, but that isn't the case when she's taken to a village. But now the pain started, and it was worse than what she's experienced in the prison. Poor Kaiya, what is the poor girl to do?

Kumiko Ikeda had never been able to live a normal life. She wanted nothing more than to become a shinobi but she was restricted by her mother and their specie's ways. Of course, being a ghoul made it hard for her to live the life she wanted. Nevertheless, she pushed through until she achieved her dream. What she had to sacrifice for that dream, is an entity on its own. A very selective few know of her true nature and her 'dietary needs' from the beginning but she is accepted by them. 'Ghouls do not belong in the human world. They don't deserve us fighting on their side' Kumi begged to differ.

"Y-you killed everyone!" she sobbed, staring at me in horror. "You're nothing but a murderer!" "No, I'm not. But even if I were, I wouldn't care."

3rd Place in General Naruto, Naruto Wattys Winner 2k18 [Cover Credits: @helloweirdstranger] Hideyoshi Aneko is the last decadent of the Hideyoshi clan, a well hidden powerful clan. They have hidden their powers in the past centuries not allowing any outsiders in. However, the infamous clan was massacred and was completely wiped out by the one and only Sannin, Orochimaru. The Hideyoshi clan was well known for their unique abilities with their kekkei genkai and the hidden powers they contain. Hideyoshi Aneko slowly travels the Great Five Nations before resulting in Konoha. She becomes shinobi there and she ends up in Team Seven. Will she allow the blood of the Hideyoshi clan be forever forgotten? • [Updates happen whenever im in the mood]

From the beginning, their fates were intertwined. No matter how long they fought, no matter how hard they struggled, it was inevitable that in the end, they would have to rely on each other. No one is without their own fear, no matter how much they might like to believe it. Kazue once believed herself to be strong. To be the sort of person that nothing could break. Experience taught her that she was more fragile than she could have ever imagined. With her sensei absent and one of her teammates on the brink of being torn away from the shinobi world, she's left with the question of how everything became so complicated- and what she can do to change it. As the stability of the shinobi world begins to crumble- however- she's thrown face-to-face with a stunning realization that perhaps she was misguided in thinking the worst thing left to fear was death. In reality, the worst fear never crossed her mind. That the one person who matters more to her than anyone in the world- perhaps even the man who's begun to break through every one of her walls- isn't permanent. No one is immortal in a world on the brink of war. Jun, he may have known that there were far too many things in this world that he feared, but he believed that if he ignored those fears perhaps they'd one day cease to exist. Or at least, he'd hoped. He'd hung everything on this dream. It's ironic how easily a dream can turn into a nightmare. Those fears became non-existent the moment that he ceased to have control over his own body. He's become trapped- his own mind the cage. There is really only one fear that matters now. The fear that before long, he'll completely disappear. Then, Miki. In the wake of the loss of something she'd once feared the existence of, she's left only with the fear a of failure. In her mind, there's only one solution and in order to bring back her daughter, she'll do anything. Three souls- intertwined by fate and circumstance. Not a single one- Fearless.

'How could I have been so blind?' That was the question that demanded attention in Asari Kazue's mind. As time passed and her surroundings continued to shift, that one thing never changed. She never saw the person that she walked outside of Konoha's protective walls to meet again- it was as if he'd become someone else entirely. She'd been too blind, too trusting, too naive- Never again. At the same time, while part of her wishes to escape, the other part is only longing to find that side of him again. Perhaps then, she'd be able to make sense of all of the confusing feelings- the ones that hurt despite the fact that she's a girl who's never known the feeling of pain. *** 'I just want to breath without someone jumping.' Jun's rapidly deteriorating control over the part of himself he once labeled Kurai Jiko has everyone who's aware of the situation leaping to their feet the second the boy does as much as form a hand-sign. It's suffocating. For the boy whose only dream was to be a normal shinobi of the village, his life has all but become a nightmare of his. He'd do anything to escape it. Anything except run from it. *** 'Just for now, let's keep it a secret. The moment everyone knows... everything will change.' The two years that her team was in splinters, Miki found refuge in the one person around her who never changed. When he was nearby, she could breath. She could think without her mind pulling up memories that as far as she knows, can never become reality again.  When he's not around, however, everything comes crashing down. In an attempt to escape this, she's taken more missions in two years than she'd done in her lifetime up till that point. At the same time, a piece of news appears that will change everything- not just her life, but the life of the one person she cares about the most as well. Sometimes, however, change is a good thing- whether one wants to accept it or not.

"You'd be better off staying away." "I said I never would." In the aftermath of a fight that left their mentor dead, a teammate blind, and their emotions scattered, Hisoka, Hikari, and Miki attempt to pick up the pieces of the lives they knew. One of them wishing to find a way to be the person they were, one attempting to stick by the person they love, and the other simply attempting to find a place to belong. There isn't time for them to waste, however. The Chuunin exams are approaching and if they can't make sense of their shattered lives, they won't be facing it together. It leaves the question: Is being together really worth fighting for? **Companion novel to the Senseless series** **Cover by Arctic_Sky**