Title: Untraveled Road

Summary: Masumi just wanted to keep her head down. She had no interest in changing the story, and being a detective was her way out. But when she ended up on the case for missing kids, plus with Naruto clinging to her like a burr, she might have no other choice. SI OC

There isn't just a handful of ninja clans in Konoha. Oh sure, they're the more common ones whispered, Uchiha and Hyuuga often regarded as gods among shinobi at times. Inuzuka, Nara, Yamanaka… there are so many clans lorded above the others.

However, there are still others. Take the Haruno clan, a clan mostly made up of civilians, but a clan with a history of shinobi deep in their blood.

Then there are the civilian clans. Merchants, farmers, woodworkers. A village wasn't just ninja after all. They may have been the attackers, but the civilians were the true root of strength.

Without farmers, how would they eat? Without merchants, how would they get money? Without blacksmiths and woodworkers, where would they get their weapons? Who would build their houses?

Ninja weren't trained for that. Civilians were. Some ninja tried to learn it, to cut out the middle man, but never could keep it up to supply to demand.

After all, even the civilian clans in a ninja village had their secrets.

Take the Chano clan for instance. Once, a subordinate clan to the Uchihas, now their own free clan after Konoha was founded. One of the first three civilian clans in Konoha.

Almost every single teahouse or teashop was owned by the Chano clan. They were also the greatest producers of poison in Konoha, their skill with herbs that stem from their tea creation making them ideal for the job.

Yet still, they were a civilian clan. Or at least they were known as one. The truth was that the Chano clan was double ranked as a shinobi and civilian clan. It wasn't a secret- the files were public record after all. It was just that no one asked.

Most of the clan in the know found it hilarious.

The true history of the Chano clan was not what most assumed. Were they rather obsessed with tea?

Yes, yes they were. Ask the Iwa ninja who had insulted it upon learning his opponent in the chunnin exams was from the clan.

She broke his arm in five different places, dislocated his jaw and tore off his left toe. She also had muttered to him the entire time.

He has so far refused any mission that could put him in contact with Konoha. And he has studied every single tea ceremony possible, shuddering if anyone gets ones wrong.

Were they rather snobbish? Some of them were, but those were the ones who mostly rang the high end teahouses. They had to be. When so called noble civilians came in, it was better to be a snob then anything else.

The true history was a rather interesting one. There had been no recordings of a Chano clan during the Warring Times. There had been recordings of a Dokuwara clan, a clan that could make their own chakra into poison. They had suddenly disappeared one day.

A few days later, the Uchiha clan welcomed the Chano clan as their underlings.

But just because they changed a name, didn't mean they lost their bloodline.

They just didn't use it much. Most Chano ninjas were infiltrators and assassins. When you could change your own chakra into poison, it was easy to kill someone. A simple tap on the shoulder, and a day later, a dead body.

It was just that it wasn't worth learning the larger range abilities. They were too dangerous. So, they had joined up with a clan that were front line fighters, and slipped into shadow.

But, this story isn't about that. This story is about the second daughter to Chano Alei, head of the Chano clan.

Chano Masumi was born three minutes after Chano Hama. Their father had been listed as Chano Kuzuo. They were the grandchildren of Chano Kaede, the last Dokuon'na. Their grandfather was written as Chano Soji.

The Chano clan had a tradition of having the second daughter of a head become a ninja. The only one who had challenged this was Kaede, who had become a kunoichi instead of her younger sister to protect her. Chano Hana, later renamed to Chano Hachi to continue with naming traditions, had been a good head… but not the one needed, which was why she had named her niece heir instead of her daughter.

Not many knew about this unspoken tradition, unless part of the Chano clan. After all, the head mostly only had one daughter. But at times, it did happen.

The reason that the second daughter was to join the ninja forces was that they were to activate their bloodline and become the Dokuon'na of Konoha, a titled only the Chano clan could ever hold. It was their agreement with the Senju when they broke away from the Uchiha.

Their bloodline though was violate. Able to turn it into poison, an activated Poizunsouru could kill the user. It attacked the hosts system, wreaking havoc on their bodies.

The survivors always had issues. Kaede was unable to read or write after she activated it. Her academy sensei had been informed, and had given her the tests verbally. The Hokage knew, as did her closest comrades.

Chano Airi had lost the ability to speak. And Chano Ayame- the second daughter to the first head of the Chano clan after they settled in Konoha- had lost all feeling in her body. Her child had to be delivered by c-section.

And she had died because she hadn't realized she was bleeding out while she fought alongside the First Hokage.

When Chano Masumi was told she would activate the Poizunsouru, she had been terrified, but determined.

As she sat in the middle of the training yard, and focused, she was unaware of the change that would occur. As she felt her grandmother place her hands on her shoulders, she only felt terrified anticipation.

And then she felt pain, pain screaming through her body as her chakra was changed, the poison burning in her veins as she screamed to the heavens, her brain rattling.

And…

"Come on Tori!" laughed a young man knocking into a young woman, who was drinking a beer in the corner, dressed up as a steampunk pilot. "Live a little."

"Nice Kakashi costume." Is the only dry answer.

…the…

"No, you don't understand Jacob!" she screamed at a man a few years older then her. "I'm done. I've looked the other way, but this… this is to fucking far!"

"It's just a little-"

"A little pot you sell? Yeah, that's a two fucking years in jail dickhead. And I know about the fucking meth dipshit! Now get the fuck out of my apartment!"

…seal…

"Smile for the camera!" a blonde woman laughed as she took pictures of a tiny girl, smiling at the camera as she blew out candles on her mermaid cake.

…on her…

"Hey, Tori!" A red head smiled as she stood in front of the woman. "We've been dating a while…"

"Two years." Agreed the other woman, smiling. The redhead grinned, and dropped to one knee. Tori took a step back, eyes wide, as a ring box was pulled out.

"Then, marry me?"

…soul…

She ran down the hall of the prison, as the alarms blared. A riot was starting, and she needed to get to safety.

An offender managed to get through the security doors and she cursed, yanking out her baton and holding it in front of her. She stood there, eyes trained on him.

She didn't notice the offender behind her, moving around to wrap a cord around her neck, and yanking. She shoved her elbow back, but he dodged. She was forced to look up into eyes she remembered.

"Hey Tori, remember me?" laughed the man.

"Jacob-" she began but he jerked his grip and her neck snapped.

…broke.

Hey guys, hope you liked this intro!

The basic idea is that the poisonous chakra destroyed what was keeping her old memories locked up. When I created the Chano clan, I was messing around and wanted a clan that really liked tea. I also had half-thought out blue prints for a clan with poison chakra. So I combined them. And then, when I was making a self-insert I went: Hmmmm, why the hell not?

Dokuon'na: Poison woman. A title held by the Chano clan since the creation of Konoha.

Poizunsouru: Poison Touch. The bloodline of the Chano clan.

Any questions about the Chano clan? Ask and I will answer. Probably at the end of each chapter.

Review! And Happy Holidays!