Hi guys. SO I'm finally posting this. Its a pretty short prologue but the first chapter will be posted within this week. (: Please, please review.
It was early dawn in fire country and the Hidden Village of Konohagakure no Sato was about to receive a few very important visitors. At the moment however, the village, more akin to a city, was asleep and for the most part, utterly silent. Well, the civilian population, atleast. But Konoha was a shinobi village and the covert nature of the ninja profession, by definition, ensured that there was always, always something going on behind the scenes. Or underneath the underneath.
And at the grand gates of Konoha, where this story starts, two very familiar chunin standing guard.
"Kotetsu!" one snapped quietly in the dark. "Stay alert. What if missing-nin attack Konoha and you snooze away the whole thing like an academy gaki?"
His wide yawn inaudible, Kotetsu responded lazily. "Urusai, Izumo-kun missing-nin would hardly walk through the front gates now would they? Nothing quite so exciting ever happens here. Probably never wi…" He stopped short and straightend abruptly, cocking an ear towards the darkness in front of him.
"Did you hear that?" he asked, in the quietest of whispers.
"Yeah..." Both ninja were now tense, all of their senses on alert.
"And you were saying?" Izumo drawled, after a moment. Kotetsu scowled slightly, eyes still searching.
"Okay shut up now. They're almost here. I sense just two signatures. Unknown. 40 degrees east."
Moments later, with a soundless poof, two figures appeared in front of Kotetsu and Izumo. The taller of the two is a women with bright red hair peeking out of her hood. A gloved hand was extending a sheaf of papers. Kotetsu exchanged a curiously wary glance with Izumo before accepting the eyes widened comically as he scanned them quickly and passing them to Izumo, observed an identical reaction.
With a nervous lilt to his voice, Izumo speaks. "Welcome to Konoha, Kurobara-sama, Kurobara-sama." Both bowed deeply before the two figures. The woman nodded her head in acknowledgement, but the shorter figure, a young girl of 12, according to her identification, shifted and spoke up.
"Hey! There's no need to be so formal Izumo-san. I haven't earned that sort of respect quite just yet. My name is Reimei. Rei-mei. Please use it." The girl's only visible features were her bouncy brown hair and her large brown eyes. The rest of her face was obscured by the neck of her cloak. And even unseen, it was obvious she was smiling.
Izumo and Kotetsu, thoroughly stupefied, could only stutter away the moment like leaf-green academy gaki's.
"H-Hai, Rei-mei-san."
Amusement sparked on the older woman's face for a moment.
"Okay, Rei-chan, we have to go ahead. Hokage-sama is expecting us."
Reimei's eyes were sparkling. "Aww, I can't wait to see the old man! Arigato, Izumo-san, Kotetsu-san. I'm sure we'll meet again. Ja matane!"
With that, the two females flew by them, disappearing into the shadows as quickly as they had appeared. Izumo and Kotetsu watched them go, unable to do anything else.
"Kurobara?! That's the clan with the powerful blood limit that everybody knows exists, yet no one know actually what is, right?" Kotetsu questioned finally, still staring into the darkness.
"Yeah, but I thought they had all died out…"
"Well, atleast things are going to be interesting around here."
"Yeah," Izumo whispers faintly. "Such powerful signatures…"
"Yeah, scary. They weren't even trying to hide them. I understand now why they used to be called Konoha royalty. Keh, whatever." He scoffed. "I'm going back to sleep."
"Kotetsu!"
"Urusai."
Izumo suddenly stiffened. He jerked Kotetsu around by the shoulder, "Wait….h-how did she know our names!?"
Realization dawned on Kotetsu's face in slow moment of shock and he stared back at Izumo, mouth open.
"Umm…"