Chapter 1- (Kira Uzumaki: an Introduction)

At age 17, Kira lives a mundane, sheltered mountain life, training in her forbidden possession taijutsu as well as her wind style ninjutsu skills. At the compromise of her own life, Kira searches for a meaning to her life of rules, pondering why talents are smothered when they should be nurtured. In her search for a reason to live, Kira develops a passion for the arts as a way to nonviolently release the emotions she struggles to contain. It is only by her compromise that she starves her desires to break free and use the skills she so persistently hones. But more than anything, she wishes for someone who understands her. Maybe that someone would become her reason for living. She lives in a daze...these dreams will never come to pass. But everything changes when Kira is approached by the mysterious Akatsuki in search of rogue ninja to join their cause: A blonde boy the same age as her with an explosive personality and talents...and a hunchback man who may not be human. After a set of tragedies caused by the arrival of these two cloaked men, Kira recognizes the consequences of compromise. As Kira joins this Akatsuki group, she finds that maybe her dreams weren't as impossible as she had originally believed. She draws closer to her fellow artists, the two men who had originally approached her. But as such a young girl in a group of almost entirely men, Kira finds herself forming a bond with the explosive blonde artist Deidara. Two artists from completely different worlds -but...drawn to each other, both trying to understand why.