Name: Steph (Short for Stefania)

Meaning: Sophisticated or pretty; crowned.

Birthday: November 8

Theme song: Papercut by Linkin Park or Happy Ending by Avril Lavigne.

Age: 18

Height: 5'5"

Weight: I'm really thin! It's not my fault! Stupid metabolism.... T__________T
But anyway, I'm 98 lbs. It scares people, it scares me. Shut up.

Location: New Jersey

Hair Color: Brown

Eye Color: Brown, but lavendar with my contacts in

Average look: My hair's ALWAYS up, no matter what. I hate it down. I usually wear black jeans and different concert shirts. People call me punk rock. Whatevs. Sometimes I wear blue jeans and shirts from Delias. At home I usually wear shorts and a tanktop. Hey, nobody's looking, right?

Favorite food: Ice cream from Roscos. That's the ice cream place around the corner. It's awesome. If you ever come to NJ, you gotta try it.

Favorite color: Black, red, purple

Sports: Dance, Soccer, Basketball, Tennis, Rugby (Don't ask, just don't. My science teacher taught me how to play.)

Relations: I'm a single child. But I created Xena and her gang to keep me company.

Loyalty to: My good friends here on TONFA. The most important one being Akira-chan.

Personality: I'm quiet most of the time. I like to think. My temper is really bad. I hate some of my teachers cause they always make my temper go off. When I'm with friends I'm pretty weird and always make people laugh. I'm not good at romance, really. Only two people have asked me out in my life. And I'm in high school. Pathetic, right?

Weaknesses: Stupid people and fanbitches. Sorry.

Quotes: "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about getting out there and dancing in the rain."
"I'm not with stupid, we broke up."
"Remember: It's mandatory to grow old, but it's optional to grow up."
"Smiles are contagious - let's start an epidemic."
And my favorite:
"Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, sing like nobody's listening, live like it's Heaven on earth."

Weapons: My nunchakus and my kicks. BEWARE.

Abilities and skills: I can speak Italian fluently. And tap dance. REALLY WELL. OOH! And I do jazz and know how to do a split and this really cool thing I can't describe =S

Likes: Akatsuki, Neji, dance, my friends, summer, being outside, thinking, laughing.

Dislikes: Stupid people who can't write. Preps. Girls who think they're the best at everything when they really aren't. Believe me, I've seen a lot of them.

Future goals: Grow up. Go to Salk University. Become a professional dancer. Maybe go to Italy and meet a nice Italian guy (Cause most of them are hot)

Past: I was a wack-job in the past. You really don't wanna know what was goin on in my childhood.

Favorite fics: Horror, Yuri and Romance (Has to be written good though), Action, Humor, AU.

Favorite authors: AkiraHatesYou, Yumi, A Vampires Butterfly, CrimsonClover, Oni_Chan, Nikki_Yaoi. I wish I was as good as they are.

And now I shall leave you with this:
Life is too short
Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness
Laugh when you can
Apologize when you should
and let go of things you can't change
Love deeply & forgive quickly
Take chances and give your all
Life is too short to be unhappy
You have to take the good with the bad
Smile when you're sad
Love what you've got
and always remember what you had
Always forgive, never forget
Learn from your mistakes
but never regret
People change and things go wrong
but always remember
LIFE GOES ON

::Updates::

Parodies, Chat, Random Conversations: Nothing humorous happening. Too much depressing crap in my life right now.

Sands of Time: Finally updated. It's probably crappy. I'm actually working on the third round as I speak.

The School of the Arts: At a dilemna over what to do with Itachi. My brain hurts thinking about that.

The Memoirs: Poetry ain't coming to me right now. It hasn't in a long time.

Our Feelings, Our Lives: Fairly updated... but I'm working on some right now, one Miss Murder, the other In Your Arms.

E Lei Danzi: Workin' on it. Although dance is the farthest thing from my mind at the moment.

Devil's Cry: Am getting more info. And Shika's driving me nuts.

I am working on a romance fic, but it's not really coming out well. I want to incorporate Deidara or Itachi into my OC's story so that they meet and my OC gets a crush on them... but it's just not happening. She has a better chance with Neji. *Sighs* Sorry Deidei. And Itchy-sama.

Adamana Xena:
I thought of her by combining all my friends and a little of me together. Her last name comes from the word "adamant" which was from when I used to play Runescape. (I was really young). Although she seems remotely new, she was created a long time ago in a script-like story that I still have saved on my computer.

Adamana Idun:
Solely based on my cousin who acts like a mother around me. She's also my best friend, like she is to Xena in the story. Her whole personality is based on my cousin (who's name is Nikkie BTW). I had to ask Nikkie what her favorite element was, and she replied ice, so that was Idun's element. The two of us are like sisters, so that's why I made Idun Xena's sister. Originally, she ran away with Itachi and was an Akatsuki member, but I decided against it once I realized Xena would be too much like Sasuke.

Irikiri Kenta:
Suggested by another good friend of mine, except she's a girl. Her favorite element was Earth, and thus, Kenta was born. His nervous behavior was adapted from a time when she had to give a report to the class and passed out in the middle of it. He's brand new!

Zephyr:
Actually, with the help of my neighbor, Kevin, we created him. Kevin was always into vampires and the likes, so we created a ninja to his liking. He doesn't like Suna, but I wanted him to be on the same team of Xena so the friends wouldn't be seperated. His favorite element was lightning and darkness, but since Xena had already had darkness covered, I gave Zephyr the lightning element. He's new as well.

Kirasuma Masaru:
Made from watching WAY too many Kakashi episodes. I wanted to make an OC that was like Kakashi, but not completely the same. Masaru is based off of the kind of person I like: stern but caring and intelligent. Hopefully we'll see some more action from him in the future. Somewhat new, there were early mentions of him in my older story.

Tsukiko:
Created from a friend who takes karate and Avatar: The Last Airbender. Tsukiko means moon in Japanese, and she's the night kind of person. She also likes Toph, which is why I gave her Earthbender moves. And she loves Shino, which is why Shino is her crush. (The orange hair was my idea, since orange was her favorite color) Brand spankin new.

Belmonte Grazia:
The first ever character completely based off of me. She only appears in the dance fic since I didn't really want her to be the ninja type. Of course she's new, I just thought of her.

Adamana Zale:
Based on my childhood crush of my neighbor, Scott. He's way too quiet and solitary, and was pretty handsome, so I created a brother character for Xena that was like him. Too bad he was killed, though. He was mentioned in my older story, but was not related to Xena. Instead, he was a snow ninja who was injured in a fight and Xena met him in the hospital.

Well that's enough info for now. The next chapter will be on the original Xena story!

At first, Xena was a mutant in the world of X-Men. She had telepathic powers much like Jean Grey's. However, she didn't last long in this fic as she was killed off quickly by Magneto. Also, her name was Myra.

The first time she was called Xena was in a Tales of Symphonia babble in which chat form was used. Her name was firedragon86 and she was the cousin of Sheena Fujibayashi. In the beginning of her debut, she was attracted to Zelos Wilder, but once she found out his real nature, she was then attracted to Lloyd Irving. In the end, however, it was found out that she was indeed a goddess, like Colette. Instead of being peaceful, she was the goddess of war and used multiple elements, as well as Psychic. She was also known as the Phoenix. (Stolen from X-Men, I know)
When she finds out that Sasuke, the last remaining "good" Uchiha died, she becomes frantic in finding a way to help him. Luckily, Sheena also knew his family and persuaded the rest of the gang to go with them to Konohagakure.

In her first Naruto debut, Xena was from a different country along with the TOS characters. In the beginning, she got Raine to revive Sasuke and asked him to introduce her to the other ninja. Most people were wary about her since she was new, but as time went on they soon adjusted. There was a lot of more "recent" culture in this story, like the ninjas hanging out at a cafe in the middle of Konoha. During this whole thing, Xena entered the exams with Team 7, fell in love with Kakashi and Sasuke, got a different curse mark from a different person, fought sound ninjas during the invasion, faced Akatsuki along with Neji and Hinata, and became a member of Team 7. She was quite a bit Mary Sue in this story, mostly because she was part goddess and would survive through things that would kill most people (okay, let's rewind a bit. First, Sasuke is slammed into a wall by Naruto during their fight in the Valley of the End, yet he lives. Naruto was hit by a lightning sword and lived. Kakashi's eye was slashed open, yet somehow it didn't bleed. Let's get real people: ninjas don't die like normal people do). This was also written during my "Sasuke, OMG!" phase, so he was pretty much centered on a lot. Neji and Shikamaru also played a pretty big part, along with Kurenai who was Xena's favorite sensei. The Third didn't die until a little while after the sound invasion, and the Orochimaru he fought was a bunshin. The Itachi that Sasuke and Xena fought was a bunshin as well. As stated, a lot more modern culture was in this story. There was a scene where all of the kunoichi went to a spa for the day, whilst the shinobi tried to sneak in. Another scene portrayed the group staying at a hotel for Xena's birthday. There was another time when Sakura and Xena went to the hot springs together. During the course of her time in Konoha, she learned of the root of her psychic abilities - from her mother "The Phoenix". She was slightly surprised, but soon embraced her psychic ancestry by using it to protect Konoha in a time of darkness. It was later released again while on a mission in Suna. This whole story was sort of a fun thing, I would write whenever I felt like it. Although it's currently still under construction, I haven't written anything in a long time. My neighbor, Kevin, helped me with some of it and we have a lot of fun. Maybe I could start it up again here on TONFA, with some of the best authors contributing their own stories as well. But that was where the original Xena was born, her presence continuing to grow in my imagination until her first real fanfiction.

This first real fanfic I wrote about her was called "The New Kunoichi" and followed the plotline of my story written about above. However, due to the boredom of rewriting it, it was deleted after only about five chapters. Nobody commented on it anyway, and I felt like I couldn't do anything.

The next fic was almost the same thing - but Xena was a jounin apprentice under Kakashi. She followed on all of their missions, and during the Wave Arc she fought off Zabuza in the first part of the mist scene. In the Chuunin exams, she was sent after Orochimaru along with Anko, but instead found her sister under the curse seal. After the Chuunin Exams, she was sent on the Sasuke Retrieval mission, in which she met up with Sasuke first and was tossed aside. Naruto found her, and she begged him to stop Sasuke for he had a very important place in her heart, after which she adds for him to be careful, as Naruto had a bigger piece. After the mission turned out to be a failure, Xena left Konoha in a state of distress, going after her sister in pure anger.
Two years later she returned, with no news on anything except that Akatsuki was surrounding the areas around here. Tsunade then threw a fit of rage and tossed her out of the office, leaving Xena wandering the city in a slump. She quickly met up with Sakura, the two having a joyous meeting in the streets. Ino soon joined the two, while Naruto introduced Sai to Xena. The two started off on the wrong foot, leaving Sai beat up in a ditch nearby.
But that was where the story ended, and started with the series that's currently running right now. Xena's undergone some major changes, and more are coming in the future. Hopefully I'll actually end this series and move on to Masaru, Idun, and Tsukiko's stories. They shall be written very well, as by then I will probably have much more experience.

::Updates::

Parodies, Chat, Random Conversations: Probably won't be updated for a long time. I'm too into writing a horror and romance fic.

Sands of Time: Working on it, but probably won't include the other fights except for team 6's, Naruto's, and Zephyr's. Eh, what the hell, I might as well write them all. Damn my laziness.

The School of the Arts: Probably going to be posted soon, there's a weird plot twist coming in.

The Memoirs: Uhhh....... yeah, I'm braindead right now.

Our Feelings, Our Lives: I just deleted Miss Murder and In Your Arms, I might actually write another one with Gone Forever. It'll probably be about Sasuke and Itachi since I'm itching to write about them. Oh, and, if you want me to write about your OC or whatever then tell me. I wrote about Akira-chan's OC and mine and it came out fairly well.

E Lei Danzi: Under major construction. Not sure if I should make it Yuri or NaruHina.

Devil's Cry: Still searching for a bit more info, as well as reports of seeing it. But don't worry, it's slowly being worked on.

Why haven't I been updating? It's because my brain has run out of ideas. Would anyone like to help, or maybe write a fic with me? It would help me out a lot.

~Previews~

Child of Light: The life and times of Kirasuma Masaru as well as his sister Natsumi. Tells about his genin, academy, chuunin, early ANBU, and some jounin times.

Crimson Eyes: The life and times of Adamana Idun, as well as her infatuation over her captain, Uchiha Itachi. Goes through the mission that changed her life and why she thought the way she did on the night Akakios came.

Monotony: Just a drabble about Xena's life in Suna. Kinda like Akira-chan's Rainy Day Women.