Chapter 1

I don't own Naruto; I only own my OC so please enjoy! The first few Chapters will be short, so please stay with me.

1

"I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done it—it, the physical act. I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended, and I did not know how I would get through mine." -James Baldwin

Few words could so eloquently state the thoughts that rang through her head as her world began to darken. For all her time in the navy, a bullet wasn't what did her in much to her chagrin. It was a cancerous growth behind her eyes that couldn't be removed safely. It had shown no sign of existing until she had collapsed during a routine drill to make sure the nuclear submarine was in perfect condition.

After she had been told about the cancer, she was left alone with her thoughts to try and digest the information. When the time came, she was ready for death. She had previously lied; her death had been painful, and she'd been blind weeks before her health had deteriorated to the point where she had needed hospice. What she wasn't ready for was a sudden bright light and a woman with lavender eyes looking down at her.

To say she was confused was a bit of an understatement.

Last thing she remembered was listening to her older brother reading her a story that their mother had loved. Now she was being talked to in a language that she didn't understand save for a few quick words that she could pick out. How she ended up in the arms of a Japanese woman, she would really like to know. She would have sighed if she could, but judging by the shocked and disturbed expression on the woman's face she was certainly letting her displeasure show.

She couldn't help but think that not only would this be interesting, it was going to be fun as well.