A/N Right okay I got really bored. So this came up. It's kind of jumpy I think :L Dedications to Heika-chan, R-chan, Rai-chan, Cazzatron, Hozza McB and Calum the sheep. They let me put them in the story. Hope you enjoy. It's in Naruto's pv. So when I say "about my height" I mean like 5"5. I'm not going to tell who each of them are. They'll know who they are. ;)
Aoi (Ah-o-ee)= Blue
Kotori= bird of luck
Himeko= princess child
Hotaru= firefly
Tsukiko= moon child
Ai= love
Ryuu= dragon
Okay why did granma Tsunade want to see me? I don't do solo missions and she knows that…
I reached the Hokage's office door and knocked twice.
"ENTER." I pushed the door open to find a whole line of shinobi. Sakura, Sai, Shikamaru, Tenten, Kiba, Lee, Neji…. Actually most of my group were there. The only exception being Choji who was in hospital for extreme indigestion. Typical of him really… Even Gai, Kakashi and Yamato were there as well. Kami what type of mission was this? My attention was snapped up by Tsunade.
"Naruto your late. Kakashi was even here before you…" I was about to argue back but Tsunade started again. " It doesn't matter now your all here. This mission isn't like any other mission you've had before." Jeez…. No-one has had it? Must be super special awesome then…. My face broke into a huge grin.
"Your going to be looking after a group of teenage ANBU recruits." My jaw hit the floor.
"YOU WANT US TO DO WHAT GRANMA?"
"Shut up Naruto!" she retaliated. "Now these girls have come from where Sai came from. You have to look after them."
"Hokage-sama? Why are they no longer in the ANBU anyways?" Shikamaru inquired.
"Good question Shikamaru." Shizune answered. "We believe they would function better as a specialist ninja squad. So we've taken them out of their ANBU squads and put them together."
"Yes that's why we need you guys. You need to teach them to function as normal humans okay?" Tsunade followed. She did the summoning hand signs and a large puff of smoke appeared. Five figures became visible through the smoke. The smoke cleared and we could get a better squint at them.
"Hokage-sama…" They all bowed towards Tsunade and then the rest of the group.
"Right, you bunch…" Tsunade strolled up to the first girl. "This is Hotaru." Hotaru was about my height, long brown hair and clear blue eyes. She was wearing the standard ninja uniform black trousers, shirt and a flak vest. Quite bland actually. Her ANBU tattoo wasn't visible.
"This is Himeko." She was substantially taller than the rest of them. She had short purple hair with a pink fringe and green eyes. She wore black leather,? trousers, black boots up to her knees, a net shirt with half of a long sleeved black t-shirt on top with a katana strapped to her back. Her ANBU tattoo was on her collar bone just poking out of her top. Next in line was a girl about my height again, with short black hair, her eyes were black as well it was kind of scary. She wore a stripy long sleeved shirt, the sleeves so long you couldn't see her hands and black trousers. Her tattoo was also not visible.
"This is Tsukiko." Granma Tsunade went on. "This is…."
"Aoi…." Yamato interrupted Tsunade on realising on what he had done he apologised. Aoi gave him a smile and a little wave. She wore short black shorts, a net shirt with a black tank top over it and an open flak vest. She had a leg holster and blue hand wraps. She carried two sai's crossed on her back. Her ANBU tattoo was just visible on her neck. It was being hidden by spikey, medium length brown hair with red streaked through the fringe. Her eyes didn't seem to have a distinguishable colour just a mix of blue and green. She was also quite tall. Taller than me but not as tall as the giant down the line.
"Hey Sai, she's got two of you on her back and she has a boy's name." I giggled down the line to an un-amused Sai. Suddenly metal was caressing my throat and a body pressed up behind me.
"Care to say that again, squirt?" she whispered in my ear.
"As much as I want you too Aoi. You can't." Tsunade said. Several people had cracked a smile if not already in a giggling fit.
"Sorry Hokage-sama" Aoi bowed and got back into line.
"I like her. She's feisty." Kiba splurted out under fits of giggles. Right it's so on now…..
"And finally this is Kotori." Okay this one was a short stack compared to everyone else. And she had the biggest boobs. She made Aoi ,standing next to her, look as flat as a ten year old boy. She might even have surpassed Tsunade. She wore black trousers, and white t-shirt with short grey sleeves. Her tattoo was clearly visible on her left upper arm. She had longish dirty blonde hair and brown sparkly eyes.
"Right I'm not going to be needing all of you at the moment. Just one per person to show them around town and what not. They have their own apartments and they know the basics and what not, but they need friend more or less…" Tsunade spoke. "Kakashi, you've got Kotori. Go!" Kakashi strolled over to Kotori and motioned his hand towards the door. "Shikamaru your on Hotaru…" Hotaru started walking towards the door, Shikamaru sighed heavily and followed after her. "Lee, Tsukiko. Go. Now."
"YES MA'AM!" Lee gave a salute and then flashed his killer smile. He went up to Tsukiko and started to pull her away while introducing himself. She was blushing and not looking happy. Poor girl stuck with that dangleberrie... Suddenly an ANBU appeared in the Hokage's office in a puff of smoke.
"Hokage-sama.." He bowed. He was wearing the normal ANBU get- up and a samurai on his back. His mask was a dragon and his hair, which was dirty blonde, was spiked out in all direction at the back.
"Ryuu, what is it?" Tsunade asked.
"He wants to speak to you…" he replied
"Alright let me finish up here first." He bowed and was gone in a puff of smoke. Aoi and Himeko were standing whispering to each other and smiling.
"Right you two." Tsunade interrupted. They immediately straightened up. "Kiba, your on Himeko and Sakura you with Aoi. Now the rest of you can go and tag along with whoever you want but you don't have too. Just make them feel at home, okay?" Everyone nodded. "Okay your all dismissed." Himeko walked up to Kiba and petted Akamaru. Kiba, Shino and Himeko all left along with everyone else apart from Sakura, myself, Sai and Aoi. Aoi walked up to Sakura and hugged her, repeated that action with Sai then me, to my disgust. She smiled and started pulling Sakura to the door.
"Hey do you know anywhere that does good ramen?" she asked Sakura. "I'm starving." She smiled and started laughing. I'm starting to like her she likes ramen…
"Well there's Ichiraku's?" I said. She turned around, smiled and motioned for me to lead the way.
"Ah that was some good ramen." Aoi sighed patting her stomach. She paid for us all as a "thank-you" for showing her where it was. She got up and started strolling away.
"Hey! Where do you think your going?" Sakura shouted after her while trying to catch up.
"Just a walk round to familiarise myself with the place." Aoi replied. Hotaru, Shikamaru and Ino were walking in the opposite direction. Aoi ran towards Hotaru and glomped her which was returned in the opposite direction.
"Hey guys.." Shikamaru waved at us. "Are we the first group you ran into? Cause we've seen everyone else. They wanna go for a meal and a drink later. You in? According to Himeko, Aoi knows a bar at the end of town that does good food?" he said. Aoi's face lit up in a big smile. We waved bye to our friends and started our tour again. We saw groups of our friends who all received a smile and a hug from Aoi. At some point in this Sakura and Aoi had left so I stuck with Kakashi, Gai and Kotori? I think her name was? She was nice to talk to. She wasn't patronising or lazy like Aoi, she put thought and interest into our conversation asking about me and what not. I found out her chakra nature was lightening. Like Kakashi. She told me everyone else's as well Aoi's was water and lightening. She was one of the rarities that had two chakra natures like Yamato. Hotaru was a wind chakra, like me and also a rare type. Himeko was earth and Tsukiko was fire. She told me that they had grown up together and they were like a group of sisters. She told what their personalities were like. She told me Himeko was rather lazy and took the back road in most things. But she was the brains of the operation, like Shikamaru. She was also very relaxed about things but fought very well. She fought at medium to long range. Kotori assured me that Tsukiko wasn't as scary as she appeared, she was very nice and cared very deeply for people. She was the long range fighter and weapons master of the team. Hotaru was the team captain because she was quite calm and collected and didn't panic in tight situations. But she had quite a bad temper. She also could cheer anyone up if they were feeling down. She also had a good sense of humour. I asked Kotori what she was. She smiled and told me she was the team medic and a medium range fighter. She liked reading and liked it when people were happy. She was also was the only one who could snap Aoi out of her change. She saw me looking very confused.
"So you haven't worked it out yet?" She laughed. "Aoi has a split personality. There's normal Aoi who is funny, patronising, lazy and happy, then if someone says something that really pisses her off she snaps. We call that part "Black Aoi" like earlier you commented on her name and made fun of her weapons. You snapped her and she nearly killed you for it."
"But it's was Granma Tsunade that told her to stop and she did?" I interrupted her a little confused.
"Well of course. She's an ANBU member you never disobey the wishes of the Hokage." Kotori went on to tell me that Aoi was the only one that fought at close range. She could do all ranges but she was just the best at Tai-jutsu and short jutsu attacks. She also played the bait most of the time, she played with the enemy until the very last minute when everyone else jumped in. She also takes risk for the team, like if Himeko had to think of another plan Aoi would go as a diversion to create time. She got banged up a lot of the time. And spent lot of time in the hospital. So she was a nicer person than I had originally thought. I felt really bad about judging her early and I told Kotori I felt like that. She just laughed and told me not to worry about because Aoi didn't really care what people thought about her and she wasn't one for holding grudges.
They were all sitting round a big table in the restaurant Aoi recommended. They were being served by a young waitress called Ai. She had bright blonde almost yellow hair and glittering blue eyes. She was cheery and bubbly when taking our orders. Ai came back and placed all our drinks on the table. Aoi was taking a sip out of her cranberry and vodka mix when Lee started up on a speech on how alcohol was very un-youthful. Aoi laughed at him and told him to piss off and that she would drink whatever she wanted. But he refused to give up and the next thing I knew Lee was yelping as two sai's were crossed on his throat and Aoi was on the table. Kotori tugged at Aoi's shoes and gave her a pleading look. The anger instantly disappeared from Aoi's eyes. I could see what Kotori was talking about when she said she could snap Aoi out of it. Ai walked over with our food on a tray.
"Aoi, sweetheart? Can you please sit back down in your seat so I can serve you your meal?" Ai asked in a sickly sweet voice. Aoi jumped down off the table hugged Ai and apologised for the scene she had caused. Ai laughed and hugged her back with one hand while skilfully holding a full tray in the other. Aoi sat back down in her seat while Ai placed various meals around the table. The rest of the night was quite enjoyable. Very funny at points like when Lee was looking very un-comfortable when Aoi had her arm around him laughing and joking, then Aoi making a joke about Lee and Tsukiko hooking up which earned her lots of laughter, Lee squirting his orange juice out his nose and a death glare from Tsukiko. I think I'm gonna like having this lot as my friends….
