A slip off a bridge and a conversation from someone who seems to care, are sometimes all you need to make a step forward, no matter how small. TW: Depression, implied suicidal thoughts.

After Laxus is excommunicated from Fairy tail, he wonders how he can possible make up for what he has done, while he's in a mage hating town it gets attacked and he saves them, with repercussions. He finds himself saved from prison by a little girl who lives in the woods, he tells himself that in this child he might have found his redemption, but which one really needs saved?

The life of a Shinobi is amazing full of adventure, fun, and traveling to far away places. That was Umi's childish version of the life until the day she has a run in with two men. She finds out not all ninja are like the ones she held in her minds eye, they destroy her image of ninja and her innocents. Will anyone be able to change her perspective or will she forever be a tool?