Hello there! Thank you for clicking on this story! This chapter is mostly an intro, so not much will happen immediately.

So, yeah…

Summary! Pretty much, this is the "fourth genin cell' story, but it will mainly be told in the perspective of the sensei. (That's why hers is the only first person part.) I guess that's a "spoiler" for the upcoming chapters with the bell test and such, but whatever. So, our heroes are Akabara Shouki, Asatsuyu Naomi, Kohaku (yes, from the filler, let's say they're closer to Konoha) Mizumaru, and Akumu. Their background is this chapter more or less with more in the future. The next two chapters will also have a large chunk of the genins' perspective since it's the bell test and the exam but not I that order. I'm too lazy to fix the order but not to write this sentence. Well, whatever. This summary is kind of rambley right now, so I'll just end it…

T for! naughty language, slight slight slight Kiba bashing if you squint, that's about it, um, gore later, yay, gore!

Disclaimer! I own the multiple OCs. That's about it. Oh! I have a clock radio, too. Yay for convenient, confusing, little contraptions!

Chapter One!


xXxShouki POVxXx

It was just another day of getting ready for a mission: get up early, get some bread and jam, get on some clothes, get pre-packed stuff, and get going. This usually took seven minutes flat, however I got up a bit before my alarm clock went off, you know, just by about an hour.

Naturally this often happens, but today I just could not get back to sleep; Hokage-sama had been hinting about me trying on a genin team for size. Of course, I probably wouldn't keep them seeing as the passing rate was so low, but there was a chance.

And I was excited for that little chance.

Anyway, stage one of mission preparation complete... just an hour early... It was 4:20...

Time for breakfast! I trekked across my house to my little kitchen. Hey, I'm out most of the time! Anyway, the more important question: strawberry or grape jam?

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Hmm...

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Strawberry!

I ate the bread slower than I usually would. Well, a lot slower: it took me about an hour!

I had spaced out petting Seika, my orange tabby, and Seiza, my black with white speckles (weird right?) cat.

I looked in the general direction of the clock in my breakfast room. "Kami, I have to get ready!" I sprinted to my room and pulled on the usual. Well, I find appearance an important insight into one's personality, so what I usually wear out on missions is a thin-strapped dark green dress that falls to about mid-thigh but has slit on the right side that comes up to right under my hip bone (or panties...), but no need to see me as a whore because I wear black spandex shorts under it! Yay! Anyway, I usually wear matching green arm warmer thingies that go a bit past my hands with my "forehead-protector" tied on the top arm-hole of one of them. Some say the arm warmers are "inconvenient," but they really aren't. In fact, more often than not they're convenient like for those cold places I usually end up in during missions for Kami knows why. If anything is inconvenient, it would be my sandals. They're just plain black shinobi sandals, but I honestly work better in heels. I'm tall enough as it is, though. Oh and most importantly is my bright red rose, the namesake piece of my clan, that is absolutely essential for my bloodline genjutsu techniques: scent based. Well, more on that later...

Did you like the explanation of my clothing? Well, I did. I care about my appearance a bit more than any ninja really should. Well, sit tight for more! I have long deep purple hair which I almost always pin up in a bun with my red rose during missions. I'll admit that long hair is an inconvenience. Gotta make this quick! Anyways, I also have red-violet slanty eyes... Well, that's about it... Oh, I'm pretty tall, too. That's important, I guess.

Anyway, stage three of mission preparation done in record time! Now just to find my stuff...

I looked around for a couple seconds before finally spotting it on my dresser. It was a small dark green backpack, the same green as my clothes. Yes, a lot of people think I'm about as obsessed with green as Might Guy. Or that I'm trying to impress him. Or that he's cheating on his wife with me.

The last two were probably just rumors from the couple of months I did of training with him last year.

I hate rumors.

And the color green, actually. I just wear it for camouflage. Village Hidden in the Leaves, people!

Yes, Might Guy actually is married. I was one of his wife's bridesmaids, too.

Back to where I was: running to the Hokage's office. Yep, there are advantages to living far from town, but there are disadvantages, too. One of those disadvantages is it taking a good half an hour to get to the Hokage's office. My appointments were always ridiculously early too; generally, they were at six.

I sighed a bit and continued jumping over roofs.

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Fast-forward to me in the Hokage's office!

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Anyway, I got there with no hassle or anything, and at the moment Hokage-sama was finishing up with the mission briefing.

"Understand?" he finished.

I bowed, "Yes, Hokage-sama. I will leave immediately."

"Alright," The Hokage tidied some papers on his desk. "Oh, and try to get back in a week, as well."

A WEEK! inner me screamed. "Well, okay," I got up. "May I you ask why?"

"Well," the Hokage said. "I've been considering it, and I believe it's been long enough since that, and you could perhaps try on a team for size like I had been saying. If you can get back in a week, when you'd be meeting them, they're yours... or something of the sorts. Of course, you're aware of the passing rate, though."

"Yes, sir," I said. Many would have a hard time keeping the excitement from their voice, even seasoned shinobi like me, but I was one of those who practiced what I call "Pokerface no Jutsu." I was excited especially after that, but I wouldn't let anyone know how excited I was. "I'll be off then."

This mission would generally take about two weeks. It was a basic scroll theft but was far away in, of course, the bitterly cold Snow Country. I always get missions in the cold places.

I freaking hate the cold.


xXxThird Person POV: chez AcademyxXx

It was another boring day at the academy, just another review day for the upcoming genin exam, just under a week away. Naomi, the top kunoichi in the class, stretched back in her chair to glance at everyone behind her. She took one of the front seats in hopes of beating that damn Sasuke during the genin exams. She was so close to being number one: just four measly little points away (A/N: random, let's just pretend it's not that much...) from being number one, all she's ever wanted.

In the two seconds of looking at the rest of the class, Naomi saw that the usual suspects were sleeping, fawning, scribbling down notes, or just giving a blank face.

The sleeping ones were of course Nara Shikamaru and Akumu, a dark haired, pale-skinned, sickly boy. Akumu shifted a bit then went still again.

The fawning ones were... well, most of the girls in the class. The target of their giggling was of course Sasuke. Naomi would admit that Sasuke was cute and she knew she had a better chance at getting him than anyone else, them being friends and all, but she just didn't have the time or the patience for any crushes: training comes first, then family, then the horses, then the (stupid, annoying) parrot, then friends. Naomi was a girl with her priorities straight. Her priorities. Not anyone else's. Hers.

Back on track, there were about two others besides herself scribbling down notes: Hyuuga Hinata and Kohaku Mizumaru. Mizumaru was a nice guy, smarter than average, but all he really had going for him was his ninjutsu: water style, of course. He wasn't ugly, but he wasn't attractive either, well, at least not at twelve. He was more or less a natural at ninjutsu -actually, he was right behind Naomi (and Sasuke...) in that class-, but was just average everywhere else. Niceness doesn't help a ninja, thought Naomi.

Besides Choji, chowing down on chips as usual, everyone else was still or spaced out, but if Naomi had looked harder, she could probably have picked out an action from everyone.

Naomi sat back up and wrote down something about deception Iruka-sensei was saying. "Things are often covered by something more complicated than it really is, but more often than not, something very simple," he said. "So if you come across something that seems too complicated or too simple, think about it a little bit more, and you may find out that it was just… deception."

I'll remember that, thought Naomi. (A/N: Boy, will she be happy she starred that!)


The rest of the day went smoothly until Naruto came; as usual, he stirred things up. Naomi didn't really like Naruto all that much, and it wasn't just because her parents told her to stay away from him. He was a loser with an aspiration that didn't quite match his talents, Naomi thought. If he was only quieter, Naomi thought she might have been able to enjoy his company -you know, after cleaning her parrot's cage and after her dad stops telling her to stay away from "that Naruto kid." Naomi didn't care that much, anyway. Hey, Naruto was way too loud, and Naomi wasn't very friendly to begin with.

Mizumaru moved his stuff and let Naruto sit down beside him. Mizumaru and Hinata were about the only people who didn't mind the poor orange boy. Well, Choji was debatable since he didn't really dislike anyone, but…

Naomi just continued jotting down her notes like the good student she is and ignored the disturbance.

After school was done, Naomi met up with Kiba, actually one of her closest friends outside of her family. It might be due to the fact that the Inuzuka and Asatsuyu Clan were very close due to their mutual love of animals: the Inuzuka had their dogs and the Asatsuyu their horses.

Naomi preferred to think she just kept him as a friend after her mother died.

(A/N: Brace yourself for a brief background!) Naomi's mom died when she was eight, around the time Sasuke's -her only other friend outside of her family- clan was massacred. They became each other's support and training partners: Sasuke to get revenge on his older brother and Naomi to become the fabulous ninja her mother could not be. Naomi always thought that she would be the vengeful type -well, if she had someone to get revenge on. It's borderline impossible to go around slaying viruses, unless you're a nurse that is. Naomi didn't have that great of chakra control, though.

While Sasuke started to become more distant and an avenger, Naomi closed out all of her friends that didn't help with her training or weren't in her family. She put on a "fuck with me and die" sort of attitude that scared off most of the jealous Sasuke-idiots and gave her enough time to become the number two student.

Sadly, not the number one.

(A/N: Out of the background now!) Kiba and Naomi walked to their houses quietly. It might have been an easy day if there hadn't been so much jutsu review and thus chakra consumption. Both were about to fall asleep standing up.

Naomi audibly sighed, "I don't think I have that much energy left for training today."

Kiba shrugged, "Me neither. I've still gotta Akamaru on a walk, though, but I'd rather stay home."

"Me too," Naomi smiled a bit. "I'm about to finish a book."

"Nerd!" Kiba accused. Naomi stuck out her tongue at him. "Which one?"

"The Book of Modern Suna Poetry," Naomi laughed a bit. "which was published like over a hundred years ago."

"Maybe they should change the title," Kiba mused. No, no, he thought. (A/N: Mused is too big of a word XD. Sorry Kiba lovers!)

Naomi retorted, "And maybe I should move to the desert."

"Wha-why?" Kiba looked confused by the random retort.

"They make it sound quite lovely with 'its flakes of emerald oases in a gently swaying golden crib,' but I know it's waaaaaaaaay too hot for me to live there."

"I wish it was warmer here!" Kiba pouted. Akamaru yipped in agreement.

Naomi deadpanned, "Maybe you should just wear a thicker jacket."

Kiba thought for a second, tugging at his thick grey coat, then laughed, "Nah!"

Naomi laughed, "Well, whatever! See you Monday, Kiba-kun!"

"Okay. 'Bye, Naomi-chan!"

The two went their separate directions. Naomi returned to a squawking parrot and her twin step-brothers throwing a temper tantrum 'cause that's what toddlers do.

Naomi opened the door, well one of them, to her family's building of her clan's compound. The compound was nice, big, and fancy. They weren't exactly a poor clan: ranching is profitable.

Naomi's step-mother, a blonde-haired blue-eyed beauty, looked up from comforting her children, two identical boys with her eyes but her late husband's black hair. The slightly older but quieter of the pair was named Ichiro while the louder was named Jiro.

"Yo," said Naomi casually.

"Oh," her step-mother, Emi, said. "You're home early. I thought you were gonna go train with Sasuke or Kiba."

"Nah," said Naomi. "I will tomorrow, but I want to go over my notes tonight."

"Alright," said Emi. She really was a nice woman, but Naomi and she weren't all that close.

Naomi went up to her room to study. She did for a while, but the exhaustion of school got to her quickly.


Akumu returned home by himself. He was a loner by nature to begin with, but he missed about a third of school due to his terrible immune system. His mom even suggested for him to skip this test and stay an extra year to prepare. Akumu didn't want to just give up, though, and he would at least try. Anyway, the less than average amount of school he attended didn't make him making friends any easier.

Akumu looked up slowly from his dinner. The dinner table was quiet. His whole family was quiet, really. His family consisted of his mother, his half-brother, his half-sister, and his much hated step-father.

His mother, Yuzuki, was a beautiful woman. She had a veil of jet black hair with hypnotizing, beautiful blue eyes. She was, however, unfortunate in her love life. She was only 32 and already had had five husbands. Her first husband, Akumu's dad, left her and their unborn son for whatever reason. Oddly enough, he died three weeks later, and his fortune was left to his abandoned wife.

Oh well. Anyway, her three other husband, wonderful people to Akumu and his mother, met the same tragic fate, them all being shinobi. Yuzuki decided to marry a civilian, and Akumu's luck ran out. The fifth husband she got was the stereotypical step-dad: amazing to his beautiful wife but horrible to his step-children.

Poor Akumu...


Mizumaru swayed a bit from exhaustion. He had skipped dinner and it was past the normal time he went to bed. Oh, well, it was the weekend.

He steadied himself, "I will get stronger," he hissed to himself. He made the required hand seals, then whispered, the only volume he could really muster, "Water: Sparkling Nymph (A/N: of DOOM!)!"

Mizumaru nodded slightly, satisfied with correctly performing the oddly named jutsu. The Kohaku Clan had a legendary sense of humor back in the day. Too bad their jokes were lost to the ages and just made their clan members sound dorky.

"How the hell are nymphs funny?" Mizumaru sighed. "Whoever named that had something wrong with their heads!" (A/N: T.T) The boy instantly clamped a hand over his mouth. "Being a ninja-in-training does not give you an excuse to be mean, Mizumaru!" he scolded himself.

Such is the life of a nice ninja...


Poor nice ninjas! Glad I'm not one of those.

Okay, lotta line breaks. Sorry 'bout that...

So that was that. What did you think? Any Mary-Sues? Any Gary-Stus? Well, you couldn't quite say that yet since there hasn't been a fight scene, but your choice. Do you like their personalities so far? Enough depth? Enough height? Enough width? Enough girth? Enough questions? Okay…

Anyway, I tried to make Naomi less like the generic "I hate Sasuke and don't see why anyone could like such a jerk" girl you see a lot. Many of them are good charachters, but they're a bit overdone to me. Sorry but come on, Sasuke is attractive. Anyway, I barely said much about Mizumaru or Akumu *sad face*. There will be more on them a bit later on.

Up next is the graduation exam and a little fight scene for Shouki. Yes, her bloodline thingy will be expanded upon! Hooray!

Um, yeah, not much else to say. I'd love you to review and all the basic stuff like that. I'd prefer to get more than three reviews before I update. I do have half of the next chapter written. Ah, I'm so evil! XD

'Kay, I'll try to update ASAP!

-Adieu.