[[[This story has been rewritten and published as "Toxicant". This is unedited and quite a mess really. Though you are welcome to read it, I personally think the rewritten version is better!]]]
Kathena Koda knows one thing for sure: she's kind of odd. Sure, her partner, which happens to be a spider, is the only thing that she can call family, and yes, her body does carry poison, but it's not like she knows anything about her clan in the first place.
Without memory of who she was before the Hidden Leaf, Kathena is determined to find her village, her mother, and more importantly - herself.
With the aid of the voice in her head that leads to something bigger and her talking companion, she might be able to accomplish her goals, but nothing is ever easy, and life sure as hell ain't fair.
"Some people get reincarnated into fairy tales. I got dropped into a war zone - screaming, blood, and a demon fox ripping the sky open."
Reincarnation wasn't supposed to be like this.
Hikari Uzumaki was a normal girl - a Naruto superfan who knew every arc, every jutsu, and every tragic backstory. But when she wakes up as a newborn in the middle of the Nine-Tails attack, she realizes this isn't a dream or a game. It's the night everything changed. The night her parents died. The night she and Naruto became jinchūriki.
Only this time, she remembers everything.
Armed with future knowledge and a soul forged in another world, Hikari is determined to rewrite destiny. But changing the story means facing powerful enemies, unraveling ancient secrets, and confronting the darkness within herself - and within the people she thought she knew.
Because in a world of shinobi, nothing is ever simple.
And even a girl who remembers everything... can still be blindsided by fate.
A Naruto fanfiction about second chances, sibling bonds, and the cost of rewriting history.