Yo. The name is Sora Maro, and here is a brand new story about Naruto verse. Yes this is a semi-SI OC but hopefully not as cliché as I've seen it done in the past. Not that those weren't good, but… I'm trying not to be cliché if that ends up happening.
I hope you all enjoy the story as much as I did writing it.
Yeah so those who are readers of my stuff, no I won't neglect Adopting Heroes, just putting it on temporary hiatus for now.
Just to let y'all know I won't update as much because I have a sib's wedding coming up, then junior year, and more craziness.
Warnings: Swearing (light), Weirdness (heavy), and OCs (sorry, there's no way that I could write this without OCs, so there is plenty of them.)
Disclaimer: I'm borrowing from Kishimoto-san, so they are not mine.
P.S. The song for this chapter is Brand New Day by Trevor Hall
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
― Oscar Wilde
Grinning widely, I pounced upon my older brother and tackled him to the dusty ground. The six-foot, blonde teen laughed as he grabbed me in his arms and began to squish me.
"Aniki!" I cried out in laughter.
His response came as a wild smile. And tickling can't forget the accursed tickling! I squealed and squirmed around and tried to escape my brother's snare. Finally his evil tickling came to a stop and I lay on his chest, listening to his erratic heart calm down. My honey brown eyes looked at my brother's matching ones and I glared at him as he ruffled my darker blonde hair. I groaned in annoyance as he chuckled. Sitting up, I curled into his lap and looked up at him, for some reason his face reflected something akin to alarm.
Hesitantly, I called to him inquisitively, "Aniki?"
Blinking his brown eyes, my brother looked down at me and shared a pained grin, "Come on Hana, we better head home, Kaa-san will be worried."
Slowly, he scooped me into his arms simultaneously as he got up off the dirt. I breathed in the grainy air and closed my eyes, inhaling my brother's scent of salt. For some reason my brother always smelled of salt even though we don't live near the ocean at all, we survive in a desert. The autumn sun left warmth on everything I touched, my clothes, hair, and our sandy skin. Even Aoi, my brother, felt increasingly warmer. True, it did happen to be autumn but even for us it was warmer than normal.
I can't remember what happened after closing my eyes but next thing I knew Aoi-aniki woke me up with a loud, "Ohayo!" Grumbling, I turned over only to realize I was in my bed. The morning, desert sun shone brightly in my window and that meant that I might be late for Academy. Of all the habits I had to keep in this life, I had to keep the late sleeper one.
Jumping up quickly, I panicked before my brown eyes saw my alarm clock. Okay, we're all good; I still had about an hour before I really had to hurry.
"Oi, Hana-chan?" Aniki blinked at me, "You all right?"
"Ah." I nodded in affirmation.
Aniki's pokerface faltered slightly but he kept the cheery disposition. Well, my brother had been promoted into Jounin recently, so I could see why he would still have his pokerface on. Aniki exuberantly left me alone to get dressed for the day when I suddenly remembered, today was Team Assignment! Yatta! I hope I get a team that's decent and doesn't mind my crazy behavior or clan heritage.
Yeah, I know I've got a kekkei genkai. It's kind of a lame one to which sucks. As Suna Nin, you'd think we'd have a better-suited kekkei genkai, but no. My kekkei genkai is the genetic ability to copy an animal and be able to take on it's fighting characteristics, which really stinks. I mean it's cool that you can copy an animal's fighting abilities, but you only get one shot, and as such I'm saving mine till I see a sand viper or a fox or something.
Anyway, I changed into my mesh and tossed on a hoodie-bando and a tan skirt. My dark gloves slipped on easily and my boots zipped on neatly. On my dresser rested my hitai-ate, black with the Suna symbol on it. My hands grabbed it and I tied it on to my forehead. Grinning in the mirror, I checked out my appearance. Not bad for a budding eleven-year-old kunoichi, though my messy blonde hair lazily stayed in its bed-head. My skin stood a warm tan against my clothes that would definitely help when in the desert. Nothing wrong with what I saw, so with that I headed for my door and began to walk down the stairs into the family room.
Kaa-chan stood over by the stove, heating up what smelled like something rich and grainy. My Tou-san sat at the table, sharpening his katana. As for my nii-san, he sat at the other end of the table and took account of his ninja weapons. I stepped over to my kaa-san and rubbed her shoulder.
"Ohayo Okaa-san!" I smiled cheerily.
She grinned back, "Ohayo Hana-chan, you excited for the team placements today?"
"Hai!" I enlarged my smile and closed my eyes, "I'm gonna have the best sensei ever!"
"Oh really, and who's your sensei?" She chuckled.
I shrugged, maintaining my cheery disposition, "I dunno, but he's gonna be the best."
"Ne, imouto, I know who your sensei is!" Aoi-aniki spoke up without looking up from his daily project.
"You do!" I blinked at him wide-eyed before narrowing my eyes in annoyance, "You're not gonna tell me are you?"
Aniki chuckled at me, "You know me all too well, Hana."
Childishly sticking my tongue out at him, we both laughed and I took the seat right across from him. Breakfast finished cooking and together we all ate. Once I devoured the delicious meal, I rushed out the door. Quickly, I scurried off to the Academy ready to find out team listings! I bet I was going to have a wicked cool sensei, and it'd be nice if I had a teammate like Shuuichi on my team. He's not exactly the best, but at least he doesn't mind me that much. Most of my classmates do, but meh, sucks to be them!
Dashing into the building, I huffed quietly and landed with an unceremonial thump in my chair. An annoying person, AKA Baka-Kaoru, sat next to me since that was where his seat was. We got assigned seating in our final year! They purposefully sat us next to people that we couldn't get along with for the life us! Actually Kaoru just sat there everyday without fail, the annoyance. Sue me, I'm a conspiracy theorist.
"What are you doing here, baka?" I snorted, as Kaoru nagged me, "This is the graduating class, not for low class losers like yourself!"
"Well screw you, Kaoru-baka!" I held back the burning desire to throw a fist at his face.
Kaoru scowled at me. "You haven't even unlocked your clan's kekkei genkai yet! You are such a moron!"
"We'll see who's the moron when I do unlock it!" My hand slammed down on the desktop. Brown eyes glued to Kaoru's black so I hardly noticed when the rest of the class came in along with our Sensei.
"Hah!" He smirked, "You're the worst kunoichi of the year! You should just drop-out, failure!"
Have to keep calm. Gotta stay calm. Calm. Peace. Peace is the opposite of war. War means fighting. Fighting means stupid people. Stupid people means Kaoru. And bucket head Kaoru doesn't deserve me staying calm!
"Kirisho! Kurogane! You two are shinobi not children!" Our academy sensei scolded us. I huffed and scowled, turning away from Kaoru's ugly face. I think I heard Sensei say something about teams working. As long as I'm not on the same team as that teme then I am perfectly happy with anyone!
"…Team 2 consists of…" I tuned out the teacher in denial only to feel my ears ringing when I heard my name called when Team Nine was introduced.
"…Hana, Fujiwara Kagetora," Kagetora, huh? He sat in front of me and had messy reddish hair and golden eyes. Quiet, not much of a talker, but his clan rather well renowned so I think that's a good fit. "And Kurogane Kaoru. Your sensei will be Mori Kei." Okay, what kami did I piss off this time? Seriously what the crap! I get the baka and the infamous Mori Kei as a sensei! Shoot, a former ANBU for a sensei.
Why does this sound far too familiar for my own good? Team Nine is cursed! We're almost exactly like Team Kakashi of Konohagakure! Let me see Baka and me are a lot like Naruto and Sasuke, or wait would it be Obito and Kakashi that I'm thinking of? Well at least Kagetora would have a position similar to Rin but they didn't have Mori Kei for a sensei! No, they had the Yellow Flash; I almost pity them…almost.
"Oi, sand-bucket, you even listening?" Kaoru knocked on my head for full affect.
My fist collided with his face and before we could start another fight, our new teammate, Kagetora placed his hands between us – he sat right below us, helpful, quite helpful – and narrowed his eyes.
With his quiet voice, he suggested, "Why don't you save that for what our new sensei has planned?"
Neither of us disagreed. The Fujiwara's have an affinity for being perfect for being Hunter-nin so no one messes with a Fujiwara unless their stupid or insane, brave doesn't even enter the equation
"…Fine." I relented and sat down in my seat properly before striking up conversation with the probable-future hunter-nin. "So, any idea on our sensei? Other than the fact that he used to be a taichou in ANBU, I've heard not much else that are facts."
"He's got an earth affinity and is merciless I've heard from Ren-nii. Those would count as facts due to the fact that my cousin was directly under him. In a sense he is perfect for this team. We would work well as a Intel squad and he has a few years in the I & I Corps." That has to be the most I've heard from Kagetora in my whole life. Dude, you should go join I & I, they need an intelligent soul like yourself!
Humming, I added, "Actually, intelligence wouldn't be our focus. We're much too well rounded to be Intel. The purpose of our squad would probably be infiltration or front lines. Kaoru specializes in close-range taijutsu and ninjutsu, you're a mid-range and intelligence, and I'm into ninjutsu and genjutsu at mid-range. So actually more of a front line squad than an infiltration."
"Huh, so there is a brain under all that blonde." Kaoru commented.
Now he sported a beautiful shiner while I rubbed a bruise on my arm. "Unless you can contribute intelligently, shaddup!"
"Now looks who is talking, failure!"
A cough caused us to look up before I could begin my assault on the bucket head known as Baka-Kaoru. Crap. Our sensei, a thirty-something year old man with russet hair and pupil-less teal eyes and a slim but muscular body, frowned at us.
"Team Nine," Mori-sensei spoke in a monotone voice, "Meet me on the hospital roof in ten minutes."
Well there goes the first impression. He probably hates us now. Can't say I didn't see that coming, 'cause with how Baka and I act around each other it would figure.
We got up from our seats and Kaoru led the way and it would figure he would know his way to the hospital so well, his kaa-san is a sensei there. Collecting dirt on our shinobi sandals, we race down the dusty streets towards the Suna Hospital just to find that sensei already made it there. Cheating ass. Kagetora helped us by suggesting we use the technique they taught us in Academy class. Tree climbing as it was known every where else sans Suna. In Suna, we called it foot-climbing and we practiced on tall building and sandstone poles. So we rushed up the roof with that technique and made it there in … ten minutes and fifteen seconds. Yeah I counted; he did say ten minutes after all.
"You're late." He snapped gruffly.
I shrugged, "Element of surprise."
Kaoru blinked at me baffled with my excuse. Pft, he couldn't do any better.
"Explain." Mori Kei ordered his voice really sounded rough like sandpaper.
"Think about it, when expected at a certain time, arriving earlier or later will put the other off guard slightly. If early shock takes place, if late paranoia which will give an advantage to the attacking team." I explained dutifully. Is it really that difficult to understand?
After a moment, Mori nodded and then pointed at Kagetora. "Introduce yourself, basic information included such as likes and dislikes and goals."
"Kagetora," He closed his eyes and listed off the information as if reading a book. "Knowledge, loyalty, and Suna. Dislikes, traitors, misuse, and salt, goals, to become an I & I taichou."
"Kaoru."
The black hair brat with his dark eyes nodded, "Name's Kurogane Kaoru. I like training, sand, and serving Suna. I dislike idiots such as blonde over there and know-it-alls. My dream is to become an ANBU agent."
"I'm Kirisho Hana!" I smiled, "I like math, reading, and Aniki. My dislikes include boring people, bucket-head Kaoru, and tedious lectures. One day I want to be a Jounin sensei to teach the next generation!"
"…You're all idiots." Mori deadpanned. "If this is the best the Academy has to offer than you might as well all quit being shinobi. The Fujiwara has a semi-decent chance at being a shinobi, but you two are a threat to this team."
I narrowed my eyes. This didn't seem right. Was this the Genin test for graduates, Mori-version? If so then how do I respond to this? What is he looking for? Wait! A light bulb went off in my head. He wants teamwork and by showing our dislike for eachother than he sees as unsuitable for the tortures of the shinobi life. Not that I blame him either. Our mutual 'dislike' is rather disagreeable for the team.
Kaoru growled. "I've come this far towards my goal, I'm not giving up!"
"They can learn to work together, Sensei." Kagetora added.
"'Course we can learn to work together!" I urged furiously, "I can work with Kurogane!"
Staring back into our faces, Mori Kei sighed, "Tomorrow, training grounds five, five-forty-five, don't be late."
He shun-shined away and we all blinked at eachother. Did he just…
"Yes! We're finally Genin now!" I pumped my fist into the air with pride.
Raising an eyebrow, Kaoru looked at me incredulously, "What are you talking about loser?"
"We were tested and got out hitai-ates, right?" He nodded, "Well that means we're graduates not Genin. So…that means that this was the second test! Aniki told me all about it!"
"Aoi-san did?" Kagetora mused curious.
I nodded enthusiastically. "Yeah,"
"Odd."
"Meh, not really." I shrugged, "Anyway, see y'all later!"
I jumped down and ran down the building not particularly caring to look back. Finally, I'm a Genin, and seeing as Baki-san is the same age as Aniki and he's seven years older than myself and the rest of us green Genin than that means that Team Minato should have formed. Cool, I'm in Kakashi's generation! Oh wait…that means I have to make it through two wars. The Third Great Shinobi War and eventually the Fourth Great Shinobi War against Uchiha Madara, I get to survive those two. Great, now cue internal groan. Shit, not looking forward to potentially meeting Team Minato in the field. Especially since this all is kind of happening in about a year or two. I repeat what kami did I piss off?
-POV SWITCH -
I blinked at my odd teammate. She…she would definitely be an interesting part of our team, but is she *bipolar or something? Something about her pulls you in but at the same time repels you. Her actions strange and her personality switches when convenient for her. I'll have to store this information away for later just in case. Kirisho is someone important that's for sure. Someone incredibly important with a large life ahead and with her character, I wouldn't be surprised if she went in directions no one has thought of yet.
Kirisho…just who are you?
Ending it there due to the fact that I really couldn't finish the chapter any other way. Can anyone guess whom the mystery POV guy is? You got three guesses and only one is right!
* As far as his inquiring about the whole bipolar thing, yes she is mildly bipolar, but first off who wouldn't be? Though I haven't given her true (past) age yet, Hana is a reincarnated soul in the Naruto verse so she's lived a life in our world under a different name. Her old personality and new personality are kind of battling for control, same with her age incase you can't tell.
Just so you know, I'm already starting to hint at who Hana was before. Don't worry it will be revealed, in the far future. Seriously I got 62 chapters to get ready for you guys, so here in chapter one you are just barely getting hints. Feel free to guess but I'm not saying until the big reveal.
Not really sure if I'm going to include her real name or not, but I've got a poll on my profile for y'all to vote for your favorite