"-and Kou Tenebrae." He slumped further in his seat as all eyes turned towards him.
"But Iruka, why does the dead last get to be with the best of the village?" Kira Inuzuka barked before Iruka responded, "If you have a problem take it up with the Hokage." Before Kiba reluctantly sat down and glared at him.
He looked at his two new teammates and sighed 'of course, I had to get Naruko Namikaze and Sasuke Uchiha on my team. The heir to the Uchiha police force and the princess of the leaf. Mizuki must've dine this for reven .' He thought sarcastically before toying with his newest creation a Kunai bundle with modified explosive tags. He knew the dead last was put with the best two students but he was probably deserved to be in the middle of the class his two Instructors had had it out for him since the first day,.
Kou knew he looked different he had razor shark like teeth and a small nose, he was average height with deep violet eyes and brown hair. He never really noticed these differences until he became ostracized because of them.
The Hokage could've placed anyone with his daughter and her best friend why him. He had probably thought he was the dead last, he had idolized the Hokage and even if it was unintentional he felt betrayed. He watched as all kinds of sensei's came to pick up their students and the clock ticked away as they all waited for their sensei.
Sasuke sat up and began to pace while muttering darkly, before turning towards Naruko, "Bet you wouldn't have been Rookie of The Year if your dad wasna't Hokage." "Shutup, Your just mad you can't beat me even with your sharingan." She replied as she stuck her tongue out at Sasuke. They relaxed into silence as they all attempted to sit as far awa from each other as possible.
Kou sat down and fiddled with his invention and let the minutes pass into hours.
His peace was disturbed when he heard a bang before looking up and seeing a masked man with his forehead protector over his eye being torn into by Sasuke and Naruko. He observed before Naruko angrily turned to him, "It's wrong to be two hours late, right Kou?" Before they all looked at him expectantly. "If he has a reason then it's ok."
His sensei looked at him curiously before calmly responding, "meet me on the roof in one minute." Before disappearing in a swirl of leaves. Kou ran to the stairwell and began to race up three stairs at a time happily thinking, 'I can show them I'm more than a dead last,' before reaching the roof and seeing his teammates playing rock, paper, scissors while his sensei looked bored.
"Alright my cute little genin, it's time to introduce yourselves. You'll probably find a way to mess this up so I'll go first. I'm Kakashi Hatake. Things I like and things I hate … I don't feel like telling you that. My dreams for the future … never really thought about it. As for my hobbies… I have lots of hobbies." Their sensei finished as Kou sweat dropped 'but he hasn't told us anything.' Before Naruko laughed "Kakashi-Nii you're so funny." Then quickly started, "My name is Naruko Namikaze, Rookie of the year." Sasuke's eye held a small tear. "I like my precious people, pranking, and ramen. I dislike anyone who would try to hurt my precious people and duckbutt and any of his fan girls." Sasuke's eye began twitching. "-and I'll become a great ninja, master the kyuubi, and pretty soon my dad will be handing over his hat." She finished with conviction.
Kakashi gave a small eye smile before nodding to Sasuke. Sasuke straightened up before clearing his throat and beginning to talk. "My name is Sasuke Uchiha. I like my family and the dobe." Naruko bristled good naturedly. "I hate my fan girls and weaklings." Kou flinched when he heard that. "My hobbies are training and my dream not my dream a ambition is to find the truth." He finished heatedly. While Kou stared at him quizzically trying to understand his last statement.
Kakashi nodded along before pointing toward him. "My name is Kou Tenebrae. I like-" he paused for a second what did he like most of what he did he did out of necessity might as well list that, "-the forest and hunting. My dislikes are those who dislike me and those who try to harm me. My hobbies are exploring nature. My dream for the future is to be a good shinobi." He finished while for once he saw a flicker of something in Kakashi's eye before it faded away.
"I'd normally have you take the bell test but I can't fail this team so you will all be taking my personal test " Before they had a chance to complain his shadow clone appeared behind them and knocked them all out.
Kou shot up as the memories flooded back into him and he tried to find his bearings. He found himself on a training ground with trees and a small flowing stream with a scroll. Dear my cute little genin, you're probably wondering why you're here, your mission is to find and infiltrate the anbu headquarters and steal a mask as proof. You have one week not counting today. Meet me back at training seven to confirm success. This is your exam. - Kakashi
He read and reread the scroll there was a jutsu and the orders. 'Kakashi can't seriously expect me to do this.' Before he steeled himself. He didn't endure beatings and hateful glares to give up now. Memory after memory flashed by of him being abused and despised, him digging the the trash for food or him being beat up by the older students. His fists shook in anger before he stood up and walked through the streets, he refused to fail now . He ignored the whispers and hateful glances as he walked down Konoha's Main Street before he turned a corner and walked into a dingy poorly lit shop.
"What do you need?" Amai the shopkeeper asked curtly she was a slight women with dark skin, she had a metal arm and scars all across her body. "Five packs of explosive tags and six packs of smoke bombs." She wiped the look of shock off her face before slapping them down on the counter.
When she told him the price he grimaced, with his stipend as a orphan and everything he'd ever saved, he would have no money for anything else and he'd have to sleep in the apartment with no power or water. He finally put the money on the counter after deciding that one month of suffering was better than a lifetime of hatred.
He walked into his barren apartment with a groan as cockroaches skittered away from the sound before collapsing on his barren mattress,he'd have to hunt for food tomorrow. He looked at the dark clouds and let the rain lull him to sleep.
The sunlight streamed over his face before he slowly got up and pulled on his black pants and purple jacket. He walked into the kitchen and began to plan his assault on the anbu headquarters while cooking breakfast. 'I need to find the headquarters then draw them away with most of the smoke bombs and explosive tags before infiltrating the building grabbing a mask and escaping. 'I'm gonna need all the help I can get, let's see that scroll Kakashi left for me.'
He began to read the jutsu scroll Shunshin: body flicker technique. Allows user to move at extremely high speeds by pumping chakra through the muscles to avoid a hit or detection the chakra usage depends on distance and elevation. Works well with substitution and clones. Drawbacks: Moving at extremely high speeds disorients you. This technique might help in your infiltration.
Kou finished reading and started walking towards the training ground. Before trying to shunshin and slamming into a tree. His ears were ringing and his head was pounding but he slowly pushed himself up before trying again.
The crickets were chirping and the sun was setting as he tried to shunshin without a trace. 'How can I vanish and fade like a bunshin. That's it, I'll leave a bunshin behind when I shunshin.' He thought with a smirk before returning to training with renewed vigor. 'Swoosh' over and over he heard the sound as he tried to create a bunshin so quickly that he had the effect of fading away. Swoosh Swoosh Swoosh was all he heard until he felt himself create a successful bunshin he was so happy he forgot to cut the flow of chakra and slammed straight into the river. He felt the cold of the river as he pulled himself to the riverbank and passed out.
Kou woke up in the dark on the cold and muddy river bank before he pulled himself up and walked limping towards his apartment and tried to climb the stairs as he reached his bed and collapsed on his mattress.
He woke up shivering, he had left window open and it had begun to rain. He blearily opened his eyes walked out of his apartment, 'guess you can't have a hot shower if you don't have water.' He chuckled dryly before shunshining to the rooftop. He henged into a leaf and watched the patterns of the anbu as they jumped from rooftop to rooftop. He planned and prepared all day until he ran out of chakra and his henge dropped. He lay on the roof watching the stars until sleep claimed him.
He sat on the roof on the second day as he watched the anbu move until a sound next to him reached his ears and he almost fell off the roof. He whirled to face his sensei and saw him reading an orange book. "Here's a hint create a small emergency and see what direction most of them come from. Better yet I'll do it for you." Kakashi smirked as he hurled a kunai over the market and watched as it exploded right over the merchants head."
Kou seeing blurs approaching henged and as a leaf and watched the anbu arrive and calm the public down. When they saw what was probably a sick prank they began to fan out and leave the scene. Unhenging he turned towards his sensei, "Are you crazy you could've killed us." Kakashi looked at him, "Did you see which way most of them were coming from?" "West." "You have your answer." When Kou turned to look back at him he was gone with a note on the ground reading tomorrow is now the final day.
The anbu Cat and Beat sat overlooking the village, "That deadlast is lucky we owe Kakashi so many favors, I can't believe we had to create a fake base just for this." "If this doesn't give him confidence nothing will." Before their transponders beeped and they flickered away.
BOOM Kou felt the first of the explosives that had been had planted near the village explode and he watched as the anbu rushed towards the explosion and he began shunshining to the drab looking entrance that he managed to pry open with a kunai.
He shunshined through the brightly lit hallways as each room held maps or files. Kou grew frustrated as he felt the second BOOM and dust poured from the walls, he ran into room after room and felt the final and much more subdued boom which was every single modified smoke bomb Kou had planted around the village flooding it with brightly colored smoke. Kou finally ran into a bloody room recoiling in disgust Kou was about to leave before he saw it a brightly colored snake mask. With the mask hidden in his jacket Kou began to shunshin across the village while civilians moved about their face looking annoyed as shinobi raced across the rooftops trying to confirm it was just a prank.
When the training grounds coming into view Kou felt like cheering as he he was only two training grounds away now. The good mood only lasted until he saw Kakashi taking a nap on a tree branch. He shunshined up to him and shook him awake. He turned gave him a once over saw the mask grabbed it and eye smiled.
"Well that's good enough for me, you pass." Kakashi sleepily said before rolling over again and had to dodge the kunai hurled his way. Kou had to fight the urge the smile as he walked into the village.
