She opened her blue/green eyes and took in the situation. She was in some sort of lecture hall surrounded by pre-teens. She looked at herself. She was a pre-teen.

"...And Team 7 will be Uzumaki Naruto, Uchiha Sasuke, and Reese Minty." the person at the head of the room said reading off of a clipboard. He might have been Iruka but she wasn't a hundred percent certain since he looked like a real person rather than an anime character. He did have a scar across his nose however.

It suddenly hit her. She was a Mary Sue. She wasn't background that would appear maybe once or twice, she was a Mary Sue, and would therefore be around for a long while.

Two weeks later, after studying dozens of scrolls that had been rather conveniently translated into English - her skills at reading Japanese were somewhere around or below kindergarten level - she had found a totally awesome jutsu that really fit the character she was trying to project. She decided to try it out during the next team training session.

When she tried the jutsu, she was pretty certain she got it right, but she suddenly felt dizzy and passed out. She woke up in the hospital.

"What happened?" she asked.

"Chakra Exhaustion." Hatake Kakashi replied.

"So I'm not all powerful?" she mused aloud.

"Nope." Hatake-sensei said cheerfully.

"Well, crap." she said as she got up off the bed and prepared to leave.

"Where are you going?" Hatake-sensei asked.

"To find a job that's more conducive to me living to a ripe old age rather than having my teammates crying over my broken and bleeding body. Sakura can have my spot on the team, it was supposed to be hers anyway." she said.

"Sorry to tell you this, but when you agreed to be a Ninja, you signed on for a minimum of ten years of service." Hatake-sensei said.

"Well, in that case, will you allow me to reintroduce myself?" she asked.

"Sure, why not?" Hatake-sensei said shrugging.

"Hello, my name is Cannon Fodder..."