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Ink and Water- Chapter 1

Chisaki wandered through the hidden leaf village. It was her day off, so she had decided that because it was a bright sunny day that she would go for a mid-afternoon wander through the village, may as well do something on my day off she thought to herself earlier that morning.

So here she was walking aimlessly though the streets of Kohona. A civilian man bumped into her almost knocking her off her feet, the man blundered on past her after muttering something to himself not even bothering to help her back to her feet. Chisaki was used to it, it happened a lot, so she just did what she always did and climbed back to her feet and carried on walking.

To be honest you wouldn't think that Chisaki Nami was an ANBU operative, In fact you probably wouldn't think that she was a shinobi of the hidden leaf at all, she was just so small and fragile, with so little presence you would barely realise her sitting next to you, but that is what made her so good at her job; mainly S-rank undercover surveillance and intelligence gathering missions.

Chisaki had waist length deep red which was slightly wavy and shined bright in the sun, she had big wide ice blue eyes with long, dark and thick lashes, and a pale, creamy complexion. She was a little less than average height, with skinny arms and legs that looked as if they had very little strength but could in fact split open a mans skull with one blow.

She wandered back to her apartment, on the west side of the hidden leaf village where the majority of the shinobi accommodation was. Climbing up the stairs she passed a few other shinobi who were off on various missions or simply just going to train. Not one of them said hello to her, after all she may as well of been practically invisible to the rest of the world, after all she did have a next to invisible presence.

Chisaki inserted her key into the door to her apartment and pushed the door open to reveal a small but not cramped living room. Swinging the door shut behind her she wandered into her kitchen to make herself some green tea.

Chisaki had lived in her apartment for almost four years, She had moved in just after she had turned thirteen. What Chisaki found strange is that she remembered very little from before her thirteenth birthday, if she was being honest with herself, she did not really mind that she knew nothing of her life before four years ago as she was happy with what others would probably call a very lonely existence.

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Time lapse six hours
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Chisaki did not like others seeing her train, in fact she hated it, that was the reason for her running along the rooftops towards the east side of the village under the cover of darkness. She was wearing her usual training attire which consisted of a black tank top with a mesh undershirt which reached to her elbows, her wrists and hands covered in black bandage wrappings, standard black shinobi pants and sandals. she was wearing her hidden leaf headband in her usual style, which was around her head and so that the shiny metal with the hidden leaf symbol was on the right side of her head, just above her ear. She was carrying two thin black swords with red wrapped handles strapped to her back. Her long deep red hair was tied in a simple ponytail at the back of her neck, opting to leave her wolf ANBU mask at home because ANBU members were forbidden to train with their masks on in case simple training between comrades was mistaken for an actual conflict.

She carefully checked the position of the moon in the sky telling her that it was about nine thirty, Chisaki quickly increased her pace as she ran so that she would be more warmed up for her night training session.

Arriving at the most eastern training field in the hidden leaf village Chisaki wasted no time in creating four water clones and three shadow clones. Chisaki and her clones quickly split into two teams, the first exercise was to be Water clones against Chisaki and the shadow clones. Chisaki told the water clones take their hair out of their pony tails so that they could all distinguish between the two teams. Seconds later all of the clones and Chisaki had scattered and gone to hide while formulating their different strategies to defeat the other team.

The water clone team made the first move, all of them silently and quickly through the undergrowth at the edges of the training field. They quickly surrounded the Three shadow clones and Chisaki. Simultaneously all four of the water clones sent water style: raging waves at the other team. There was a soft Poof as all three of the shadow clones disappeared as they were violently thrown against each other by the angry torrents of water coming towards them from four angles. Unknown to the water clones Chisaki and her shadow clones had planned on this attack coming from the water clones and formulated a plan, in which the shadow clones would let themselves get hit by the jutsu, in order to create a smoke screen that would give Chisaki a brief moment to escape and put the next phase her plan in action.

Having landed silently in a tree, a few meters behind one of the water clones. Chisaki quickly drew the swords from her back and rapidly charged them with her chakra. Having been charged with chakra the two swords had a faint red glow coming from the edge of each blade signalling that they were fully charged and ready to be used. Chisaki speedily leapt down from her tree so that she was behind the clone nearest to her, quickly stabbing the clone through the chest she killed it reducing it to a small puddle of water on the floor. By now the three other water clones had caught on to her plan and had moved with next to no noise so that they once again had Chisaki surrounded. This time the clones threw a variety of kunai and shuriken at her, blocking the flying objects coming from her left and right with her chakra swords while gracefully flipping backwards to avoid the ones coming from in front of her was an easy task for the young shinobi.

Chisaki sprinted in an arc to her left so that she could take out the clone that stood there. Swiftly reducing the water clone to a puddle with a quick swipe to the chest. Now there were only two water clones left for her to destroy.

Leaping up into a tree so she was above the two clones and masking her presence which was barely there to begin with, Chisaki crouched in wait for the two clones attack.

Seconds later the clones both leapt up so that there was one either side of her on the trees thick branch, they simultaneously began to attack her with taijutsu. With a sword in each hand Chisaki engaged with them both, artfully dodging, flipping, blocking and returning blows to both of the clones, if someone had been watching this exchange of blows they may of thought it to be a graceful dance rather than a battle of reactions and strength between Chisaki and her two water clones.

The battle was over after a few minutes with one clone being stabbed through the eye with Chisaki's sword and the other having its neck cleanly sliced open with deadly accuracy.

Panting slightly Chisaki reattached her swords to her back and jumped to the uppermost branches of a large tree to catch her breath. Gazing at the moon, something suddenly clicked in Chisaki's head; just how long her training session had actually lasted, the moon revealed to her that it was well after two in the morning, what was supposedly meant to only be a quick hour long training session had turned into something that had lasted nearly five and a half hours. As a wave of tiredness hit her, Chisaki decided that it was time for her to head home for the night. Chisaki left the training field with a small smile forming on her face.

Completely Unknown to Chisaki was the fact that her entire training session had been observed by a pale, dark haired shinobi.

Thank you for reading, reviews would be much appreciated. Have a nice day :) -Kakashi's left shoe