Years before Team 7 was formed, Hatake Kakashi was a member of ANBU. During this time he found it hard to find pleasure in anything, the faces of his dead friends haunting his every moment. It was this that caused him to begin to draw a line between himself and those surrounding him. Sometimes, however, lines drawn are crossed by the most unlikely of people. She has no name, nor does she have a past. She simply exists to follow what others tell her to do and to be passed from person to person under the orders of a man that she'd rather have nothing to do with. She doesn't talk- there is no need for it. It's not required for someone to speak when they follow orders. One day, however, the existance she's known is shattered as a white-haired ANBU shinobi shows up, under orders to bring her back to Konoha. For the first time in her life, she feels curious. Curiosity leads to pushing against this stranger's boundaries and seeing just how much one, small existance crossing a line can change the lives around them. **Prequel to Painless** **Cover made by Arctic_Sky**

Ayaka Hara has been on her own since her parents left her at the age of five. Being a small, quiet girl, people began to take advantage of her weakness and bully her, even Naruto Uzamaki, a boy hated by the whole village. When assigned to Team Seven, along with Naruto, the class clown, Sasuke Uchiha, the class heart-throb, Sakura Haruno, an annoying know-it-all, and their sensei, the copy-cat ninja, Kakashi Hatake, she sets out to become the greatest ninja ever and show her parents just what they left behind. I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE ORIGINAL NARUTO CHARACTERS!!!!!!!!

Tsubasa Isae was born for one reason, and one reason only: to be a sacrifice for the demon king that will descend upon the Earth and eliminate human kind. And when Isae was only just child, a curse was placed upon her so that she would die on her 30th birthday. So before she dies, she plans to spend the last days of her life with the one person she has waited to see and to be with even just for one last time after all this years. Who is this man, you ask? Hatake Kakashi. Cover by: TheInfinityOfMaybe

Cashile Kuroki is alone. No family, and no friends. Not exactly hated, just.... ignored. Just how she likes it. She's viewed as reckless and ambitious, but she's always in control. Every move is calculated, every person is observed. She controls people, her "friends", her life. Yet, there's the mystery: why does she care for her selfish ambitions alone? Why is she bent on proving that she can be the best by herself? Will she ever learn to give up her act of strength, and trust? Or will she fall, the cause of her own destruction? Genius only goes so far, and the flaws and frailties will eventually catch up to her. The act of strength is, after all, only an act.

‘This time, I won’t get hurt.’ Asari Kazue is a shinobi who doesn't know pain. It's not that she's had a soft life- no shinobi does- she's simply physically incapable of feeling it. From the day she was old enough to understand, her family has been teaching her what can hurt her the same way a normal child is taught to read and write. Her cousin, Noriaki, has watched over her the entire time, becoming the protector her blind-brother never could. As she and her teammates are entered in one of the hardest tests of their lives, however, and she meets a person who seems to be an anchor in her unpredictable world, one thing becomes frighteningly clear. Just because one can’t feel pain doesn’t mean they can’t be hurt. *** ‘I’m not going mad, not yet.’ Kurama Jun has lived his entire life aware that one day he’d probably go crazy. To those who know him, he’s just another ticking bomb. In an effort to keep his freedom he pretends to be unaware of it all, as if the world around him isn’t as fragile as cracking glass. As the darkness within him grows stronger, however, it slowly becomes impossible. He can only hope that when it shatters, he’s the only one to break. *** ‘He said I could play family- but he never said I could stay.’ Miki has been taken into the Gekko family and has done her best to put her past behind her. As a result, she puts on a carefree attitude and to most of those around her, it seems as if she’s fine. The darkness that threatens Konoha, however, starts to shatter the world she’s built around herself. When an old enemy returns, she’s forced to confront not only feelings that she’s buried deep within her regarding the past she’s left behind, but also a different set of feelings. Ones that could shatter the fragile friendship with the one person she’s not willing to lose. *Book One in the Senseless Series* *Cover by AnimeFanToTheDeath*

As she watches her sister marry the man she loves, in a fit of sorrow, she throws herself in the arms of a stranger-- who happens to be her brother-in-law. In a spiral downwards, it seems that just one wrong decision leads to a path she never expected to walk through. [Female Reader] x Modern Day!Sasuke Uchiha |Prize for edsasukeluva | Ten Part Oneshot Series | {Congrats on taking second place!}

Red is one of the youngest Anbu Black Ops having graduated the Ninja academy at 6 and becoming an Anbu at the age of 12. She is also one of the last Uchiha. The Third Hokage decides she will go undercover to watch over Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha on Kakashi's team, thinking that she is the perfect fit. But Red is far from perfect. Her past is filled with complication, guilt, and heartbreak. All things she can not get over. NO SAKURA IS NOT IN THIS STORY.

Running away from Orochimaru was the best idea that Yumi ever had. She took the chance and now she's free but it came with a price. Yumi stumbled upon the Hidden Leaf Village, believing everything will be alright. A couple of years later, Yumi believes it's her fault that her teammates died on a mission that went wrong. Running away once again, she sets off with her sensei to travel the five great nations and become stronger. Only, she returns to the Leaf Village as the missing Princess from the Land of Ice. Yumi's beginning to regret coming back to her old home to strengthen ties with for her country when she's being stuck as an assistant instructor for a troublesome squad with a certain silver-haired jonin.

A monster is always a monster, and nothing will ever change that. Her world was flipped upside down when her little village by the sea was assailed by raiders. Left as an orphan, with her beloved younger sister gone, she falls deep into the darkened abyss of insanity. She roams the Land of Iron aimlessly, killing others for the sake of killing. Mercy is not an option, and weakness is but an illusion. This is the Weeping Samurai. ★ 1st Place 2014 NWA (Itachi) ★ ★ 1st Place 2014 TheNWA (Itachi) ★ ★ 1st Place 2014 NarutoWattys (Itachi) ★

A monster is always a monster, and nothing will ever change that. She's innocent, stained by the traditions of her clan and sent into the depths of tragedy and loss. She runs and she hides, but the past can never be ignored; it will never allow itself to be ignored. A monster is always a monster, but a shred of light can do wonders for the fallen. Life goes on, but will she? ★ 1st Place 2014 NWA (Kakashi) ★ ★ 1st Place 2014 TheNWA (Kakashi) ★ ★ 1st Place 2014 NarutoWattys (Kakashi)★