Aspiring writer Norah Jacobs needs an escape. In the span of two weeks, her corrupt brother has been jailed for murder and his partner has been hovering on her doorstep, threatening to ruin what little peace she has left. Packing her car, Norah flees the city and goes off the grid, finding refuge in the small coastal town of Bellvale. However, Norah's newfound refuge lands her right in the middle of a power struggle between creatures she thought only existed in fairy tales, and she begins to see that no matter how hard you try to run from your troubles, they seem to have a way of catching up with you... Watty 2014 Winner Haven Copyright © Melissa Lucas 2013 All Rights Reserved. No part of this literary work may be reproduced or used without written consent from the author.

The bandages that covered his face in life have fallen away, all incinerated and hanging loosely around his neck. His face is completely destroyed. Unrecognizable. The skin covering his face is no longer there, all having melted away. His blood vessels have all burst, his nerves have fried along with the majority of his muscles. His jaw opens and closes a little bit. His eyes bore into me. They're large and round and completely accusing. His teeth are covered in bits of burnt muscle. I feel my heart thudding in my chest. He steps closer, closer. His bone gleams in the dim light. As he closes in on me, a pounding noise begins ringing through my ears. My heart beat- ba-dum. Ba-dum. Ba-dum. It looked like he had been tossed into a fryer, fried alive, and he had been. By me. I did this to someone. I killed someone's team mate, someone's son. I killed someone's important person. -- Kimiko Kioku, a memory keeper. Never forgets anything, always notices, from the exact way the wind blew her hair against her face to coloring with her brother at five to the lullaby her mother would sing to her as she rocked her when she was not even a year old. She remembers. She remembers the blood, the glassy, clouded over eyes her brother had as he said his last words. She remembers the very first person she killed. She remembers how abandoned she feels, and how everything always feels like it's falling apart at the seams. (Can you say 'worst summary ever to exist'? Okay, maybe not that bad. But still pretty bad.)

Elvira May is a foreigner in the town of Konoha. Orphaned and completely alone, she seeks out the village from a bloody note that her parents had left her before their murder. Traumatized, Elvira can't remember anything from her past except for her name and all the knowledge that she had gained from the special training program in her long forgotten village. A superhuman and incredibly beautiful, she is easily the most popular person in the village and teammate of Team Seven. Scared of revealing her own history ignorance to the crowd, she puts on a mask of cold grace and serenity but she just wants someone that can understand her and soon she gets her wish. Another foreigner, Elize Chiffon, arrives and coincidentally, her parents had been murdered by the same people. They had originated from the same village and were apparently very close before the incident. After some memories return to her, Elvira finally realizes that she had someone to share her gruesome burden with. Over time, she grows accustomed to the attention that seeks her out every day and she begins to lift off her mask and notice all the romantic attention that she is receiving, especially from the village's last Uchiha. Unsure of her own feelings, she struggles to uncover her memories with the help of her friends and discover who it was that had killed her parents. The truth can be painful but isn't it better than living in a world of lies? *No copyright infringement intended* *I just really like Naruto!*

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.

Kakashi thinks he's in for a nice break, free from students, after Naruto's recent departure with Jiraiya, but he hadn't counted on a beautiful stranger turning up in Konoha whom Tsunade thinks would become a powerful asset were she to be trained as ninja. Here begins a slow fascination Kakashi hadn't ever imagined...maybe he can forgive the loss of his extra reading time, after all... This story is dedicated to Amaterasu as she was a fan of this story way back at the time it was actually being written! Haha - thank you! I hope this story gives you as much joy to read it as it did for me to write it! ^-^