Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of its characters (I wish). All OCs belong to me and some of the plot that I came up with also belongs to me.

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*Kabocha POV*

They told me I would know as soon as 'it' happened. I was all of a whopping three at the time and had no idea what my parents were talking about. The following year I was told that we would be visiting a clan in Konoha. I was extremely excited considering our home was two days travel outside the village gate, and I had never met anyone inside of Konoha.

Our clan was extremely new and somewhat oddly placed. Half of our little 'village' was in the forest of Konoha while the other half was in the desert of Suna. Although, our clan was new; our size was nothing to sneeze at considering we are in two great nations. We were being ignored by both Sunagakure and Konohagakure. The only reason Konoha had started to notice us was because of the construction of the many trees that had to be moved to accommodate our growing clan. The construction did lead the current Hokage to invite my father, who is our leader, to discuss the future of our clan. My oldest brother said that the only reason we were being invited was because the Hokage wanted to not only see our military power, but to also make a treaty before the Kazekage could get to us.

The first trip to Konoha was spent without me coming along. My father, Jun, had taken my oldest brother, Tsuyoi, whom was to take his place as leader someday. Traveling from our home to Konoha took two full days if no one rested. Our main base of operations was next to a volcano...literally a volcano…in Suna's desert. There was an oasis between Konoha and Suna that was in the center of our village where we drew water from. The layout of our village was even on both sides and more than prosperous especially in the military and financial stance.

The second trip to Konoha my father took my mother, Kireina, with him to introduce to the Hokage and make herself known as a powerful, prominent figure in the village hidden in the lava. My mother was not only a noble lady; she was also the general of the military. I was being trained to someday take her pace, so I became a little pouty when they told me I couldn't go yet.

The third trip to Konoha my father and mother took my second oldest brother, Shosha, and my father's brother Gorudo. Gorudo was in charge of all diplomatic matters, so he would be going back and forth from our village to Konoha a lot. Shosha was being groomed to become a diplomatic leader just like our uncle. I was now becoming increasingly irritated with how I kept being left behind so much so my father scolded me to be patient. I was left with Tsuyoi as my babysitter for the next week.

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It had been a whole year since relations with Konoha had begun and I was now five years old. My father only made three trips to Konoha, leaving the rest up to Uncle and his shadow Shosha. I was now beyond fed up...I wanted to go to Konoha so bad. I wanted to leave this hot castle and experience different weather so…

I took matters into my own tiny hands.

Maybe this was a bad idea...incredibly intelligent for a five year old, but definitely stupid. I was now closing in on Konoha since I decided to leave when my parents and siblings took a trip to the hot springs near the oasis. Their little trip would be a week and a half which gave me more than enough time to go and explore since they left three days ago giving me eight days to accomplish my mission. I pretended I was sick so I didn't have to go with them. They decided to send for my momma's younger brother, Hikari, to babysit me since uncle Gorudo was busy in Konoha. I left my goofy uncle Hikari a note on his forehead that read

"I'm hiding in the castle.

Catch me if you can!

xx"

I knew that as soon as he woke up that he'd start hunting for me. Hikari was one of the best assassins in the village from what Tsuyoi told me. However, his tracking skills left much to be desired. I frowned at the tall wall before me and glanced at the chatting guards to make sure no one has seen me yet. I willed my strong claws to make their appearance and was delighted at my success. I slipped off my sandals and began to scale the wall using only the claws on my hands and feet. I peeked over the wall to see more guards going in the opposite direction. I quickly climbed on top of the wall and began to go down the other side of the wall. I lost my footing and began to fall down, quite fast, and hitting more tree branches on the way down. When I finally hit the ground I let out several high pitch whimpers and cries at the pain I was feeling all over. I was in so much pain that the last thing I saw before passing out was a tall figure and an animal.

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I opened my eyes to a bright light that made me squint and almost close my eyes again.

"Hm. You're awake." A bored voice said to my right making me snap my head towards it. Now...at the start of my adventure I spoke of 'it' and how I didn't know what 'it' was. I definitely knew now looking at the sleepy boy next to me.

"For someone so small you're really troublesome…" he sighed out. "I'm Shikamaru Nara. My dad heard you screaming in our forest and brought you here. Who are you?" He said with half-lidded eyes which seemed to open more when he noticed my shocked and horrified expression.

"Tamer…"

"Tamer? Is that your name?" He asked me when I whispered the word that my father all too often said in reference to my mother.

"No. You're my tamer…" I said sitting my aching body up and turned to face him. All I kept thinking about was my subdued beast, thundering heart, aching body, and...how angry my father was going to be when he found out that I knew that 'it' means tamer...the calmer half to our bloodline trait. All of this new information coming from just looking at this lazy boy. Yes, father was going to really mad.

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I'm sorry this chapter was so short, it's just the intro. The chapters will get longer as we go along. Thank you so much for reading! I'll see you guys on the next update!