The Mask That Hides the Past

Maybe at one point she did play such a game called ninja. And just like many other shinobi in Konoha, being a ninja was nothing close to the game children hailed as ninja. The game itself gave children the wrong perception of the truth.

Maybe the only way one could really understand what it meant to be a ninja was to experience it for themself.

The Kamonashi clan, a mix of Senju, Uchiha, and some parts Uzumaki, was once feared and later, hated. The fear still lingered, but the tale of the forbidden clan almost never failed to stir resentment in the hearts of all who heard it. Nomura Kamonashi is the last of that clan and carries the burden of facing such opinions, thoughts, and feelings towards them, and it's not like her childhood and private village status helped her at all-at least those who don't truly know what happened that fateful night.

Walk alongside Nomura as she fights for the many things she loves while holding onto the very little she has.

A/N: This is an old fanfic that was once posted that I'm rewriting 2 years later, but it's also a type of OC-oriented story that follows cannon that I rarely see in the Naruto fanfic universe. I haven't written in a long while and hope that you all will give me lots of feedback, suggestions, what have you (I haven't touched anything Naruto-related a very, very, very long time so there may be things I have forgotten). This story may also be more connected to Naruto than it seems in the beginning. Enjoy!

Tags and characters are subject to change through time as the story progresses

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto nor any characters or conflicts from the manga/anime.