Chapter 1 ~Konoha~
Kaira walked towards the large gates of the Hidden Village of the Leaf. She let out a long sigh and adjusted her pouch of condensed water, which she carried everywhere with her. She didn't want to be here, she wanted to be back in her little house on the water's edge. Her parents had died about two months ago, by her own hands, but this she did not know. She was used to living and traveling on her own even though she had a ninja escort. Her parents were skilled ninja that the village sent on missions often. Whenever they came home, they would bring her a souviner from where they went. They also would teach her basic ninja skills like kunai throwing, wall climbing, and basic chakra control. She was the Mizukage's adoptive daughter; due to her recent lose of parents and the Mizukage's foundness of her.
Instead of attending school in the Hidden Village of the Mist, Kaira is attending school in the Hidden Village of the Leaf. The Mizukage sent her to the Leaf as a goodwill gesture. Kaira will now grow up as a Leaf ninja never to return to her home unless for important missions. She adjusted her water pouch and sighed again. The water ninja handed her off to two leaf ninja, who would escort her to the Hokageand around the village for awhile. The Hokage welcomed her, filled out some papers and sent her on her way. The two ninja walked her around town; she ate dinner with them, before they escorted her to the building where she was staying. Up two flights of stairs third door on the right was her two-room home. Her few belongings were already there. She hung her pouch on a hook and flopped down on her bed to fall asleep. The next day she woke before the sun was up and got dressed. She tied the strands of brown hair together with a grey ribbon; the rest of her hair was a dark turquoise blue.
"Okay class this is our new student – Kaira – thank you. Now take a seat next to Itachi. Raise your hand, Itachi," the sensei welcomed Kaira as she walked in the room. Kaira nodded and walked over to the boy to take her seat. He gave her a curt nod, acknowledging her existence, and she replied with the same gesture. The two six year olds found the lesson to be beyond basic skills, making it a useless class for them. All of Kaira's classes were complete bores; she had learned all of the basics already from her parents. She wandered around after school looking for something to do. Instead she stumbled onto her seatmate practicing some advance kunai throwing. She stood there and just watched him.
"Heh…you're pretty good…but I'm better," she stated calmly walking into the center of the trees and prepared to outdo the Uchiha prodigy.
"Let's see you try," Itachi smirked moving aside. She grinned at the challenge. Closing her eyes she took a deep breath and jumped up in the air, releasing the first five kunai. As she changed her position mid air she released the five kunai in her other hand while five more appeared in her first hand. She altered her position again and released seven kunai, five in the one hand and two in the other. As she was beginning her descent, she released three more kunai. The kunai were already bouncing off of each other and none of them had hit any of the targets yet. She released her final ten kunai before landing on the ground. As her feet touched the ground, ten kunai hit dead center on the targets. The second set of ten kunai knocked the first set off the targets while hitting dead center. The first set landed at the bases of the trees. While the two sets were hitting targets the second set broke into two groups; one group of five passing less than a millimeter away from her skin and the other passing a millimeter exact from Itachi's throat. He stood there, slightly astounded.
"Okay, I admit you're good," he praised.
"Just good, what a shame. How 'bout you show me something better than that," she taunted in a teasing manner of six year olds.
"Itachi, come on let's go," a man spoke as he walked out of the woods, "We have work to do." Itachi obliged and left with the man; leaving Kaira standing there, the winner of the challenge. She gathered her thirty kunai, placing them on a string around her neck. She walked back to her home.