PART ONE: SCROLLS

"This is what shinobi do. They lie. They betray. They kill. Their existence has no other purpose. The will of fire is simply a façade behind which shinobi justify their cruelty."

When Tenten signed up to become a kunoichi, she did it with one goal in mind: to become strong, a powerful ninja unlike anything the world had ever seen. But all it takes is one botched mission, one false lead, to break her down and send her spiraling out of control. She abandons her village, her goals, even her comrades and her secret love for Neji, in order to escape the lie that is her shinobi title. But with the pain of a thousand other innocents all around her, will she truly be able to abandon her call to help those in need?