Title: From Our Very Beginning To Our Very End
Author: Hinata Uzumaki-sama (OR Hinatagirl410 on livejournal/youtube)
Pairing: MinatoXKushina
Fandom: Naruto
Theme: #1 Look Over Here
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, no offence but If I owned Naruto why would I be writing here?
So I've read a few stories from writers working with the 30 kisses and I've decided to try it too as inspiration to get me out of my slump I've had. Though sadly, my usual NaruHina was already taken by an amazing writer who you should all go check out. Though this is going to take a little bit more focus than my usual ones, I admit right now that for all my ongoing chapter stories, I have at the least one chapter for each story written in my notebook, just I was away for two weeks and am busy catching up on anime, manga, and most importantly, work. So I need some time but don't worry. I don't abandon my stories. So I'm trying out writing for a couple that I love with all my heart but have never fully written for. So please review and tell me what you think!
"How long till we get there, Dai-sensei? It's taking forever!" A red headed kunoichi said as she walked down the dirt road.
"It's not like Konoha is down the street you know. We're making good time so it won't be long now." Her sensei said. She moaned and her teammates joined her silently, but they were never the ones to voice their complaints. They always left it up to their only kunoichi member to do for them. Then again, she would voice anything that came to her mind, not just complaints. She was always loud and ready to tackle any problem in front of her head on. These were only a few of the qualities that made Uzumaki Kushina stand out.
Though she knew she didn't need anymore ways to stand out among the people of her village. First off she was a kunoichi, which not many girls tried out for and was mainly left up to boys. But when had she ever cared about the fact she was girl and they were all boys? She watched as other girls would fuss over looking perfect while she would just slip on her black pants, blue t-shirt and orange vest and run out the door. She would watch as the other girls brushed and then put up and redo their hair many times until they found it perfect. Kushina would brush her's slightly sure, but that was about all she could do with her short mess of red hair. Her tomboy manor left most people who met her and knew her position in the village confused. And yet, at the same time it made slight sense.
Kushina was the youngest daughter of the head of the Uzumaki clan, founders of the village she was from. As the a daughter of such an important family, she did know how to act like a proper girl with proper manors and could be ladylike if she needed to… but then again, being from the family she was from and being surrounded by three older brothers and two younger ones meant be tough or be attacked by the idiots she's always thought of them as. "Boys are just stupid, then again, it's not like all girls are much better." She would tell herself as she thought of not only her brothers but her two older sisters as well. They were twins and hadn't taken part of the tradition of becoming shinobi like the majority of her family. They were obsessed with clothes, make-up and flirting. Whenever Kushina saw them fussing over some new guy she promised herself she'd never be like that and instead would stick to her life as a shinobi just like her ancestors.
Her ancestors had passed down the Uzumaki fighting style of mixing their weapons that they would choose and begin to master at age five, and mixing their nature chakra to create devastating attacks, each would change depending on which element the persons chakra was strongest with. She had chosen a katana as her weapon, which at first surprised her family since it was usually only the head of the family and his successor who would use katanas but her father trained her anyway. Though for now she only knew about properly wielding the blade and was very strong with making her attacks quick but efficient. "Father said if I pass he'll start training me to use nature chakra! I'll be as strong- no wait, I'll be stronger than my brothers and not only master my blade but all the water jutsu I can!" She thought. She wanted more than anything to be the pride example of the Uzumaki clan, being a blade master and using her family's techniques to use nature chakra, specifically water, with her blade. She beamed at the idea. "I'll be the best! But first…"
"So are we there NOW?" She asked glared slightly and started kicking a rock in the road. Her sensei suddenly stopped and looked out. They all suddenly realized they had left the forest behind them and looked at the scene before them.
"Yep, we're here…" he said as Kushina's two teammates, Tetsuo and Shigeru quickly caught up with them. Konoha was a vast city, the biggest one Kushina had ever seen. It made her village look so small. She smiled at the thought of all the shinobi she'd be able to challenge in this village. After all, it's why her squad was here. They were all going to take the Chuunin exams and bring glory to their own village. She started laughing a little as she ran ahead of everyone else and towards the village. She was just about to go through the gates when someone grabbed her from behind. She turned around to find Dai-sensei glaring slightly at her, and her teammates running up to them too.
"Um… oops, sorry sensei." She said. Dai-sensei was tan and had dark brown hair that he kept as orderly as he could as it spiked up a bit in the front. He was normally kind except when it came to making sure his students got the rules.
"I told you we were going to stay together Kushina." He said in a stern voice. She nodded and he slowly let go of her.
"Alright, we're actually here a day earlier than we planned, I will go and sign us in. You three find us a place to stay tonight. And Kushina…"
"Yes sensei?"
"Make any trouble for anyone from this village and I will be talking to your father about how we'll have to apologize and try and be friendly again with Konoha. And he will not be happy about that idea." Dai-sensei said before he disappeared in a cloud of smoke. Tetsuo started laughing a little before Kushina shot him a death glare and silenced him.
The three silently made their way through the village. The watched in amazement as they saw all of the shinobi covering the village. It didn't take very long to find a hotel to stay in and after only a few short minutes of silence the peace was broken by Kushina jumping up and putting her shoes back on.
"Now what are you doing?" Shigeru asked. He liked silence and it was the main reason if there was ever fighting between teammates, it was usually between Kushina and Shigeru.
"You honestly expect me to just sit around here take a nap like you? No way! Don't you get it, we're here a day early, we should be training, getting info on the other teams!" She yelled as she bounced up and down with excitement. Tetsuo smiled and looked a little curious but still turned to Shigeru for his opinion.
"We don't know this village, we can't hide and spy as easily as we did back home. We know what home is like and Konoha has more shinobi if we get caught spying on their shinobi we could get in serious trouble." Shigeru explained. Tetsuo looked like he was thinking it over but Kushina was already opening the door.
"Tell sensei I just went out to find something to eat ok? Later!" She yelled as she slammed the door.
"Dai-sensei is going to be really mad if she does anything bad. M-Maybe we should go with her to make sure she's ok." Tetsuo said.
"You go if you're so worried. I don't care anymore." Shigeru said as he turned away and went to sleep. Tetsuo sighed and shook his head. "He's never going to admit that he likes her is he? Then again she's so dense for not realizing it." Tetsuo thought as he fell asleep on his own bed too.
"Those idiots! Boys are just so stupid! Our chance to check out our competition and they're just gonna sleep!" Kushina said to herself as she jumped from building to building. She looked down and saw a team of shinobi who looked around her age. She hopped down and hid in a tree to listen in better about what they were talking about.
She looked down to see one boy with long dark hair. He had weird eyes, they didn't have pupils in them. He wore simple dark colored training clothes and his face seemed emotionless.
There was a girl with long pink hair. That's what stopped Kushina for a moment. Pink hair? On a kunoichi! What was the world coming to? She had light pink top on too with a navy blue skirt. The main reason she noticed this group in the first place was because she had hear the girl's voice. It was high and annoying in Kushina's opinion. This pink haired girl had her arms wrapped around the last member of her team who looked slightly uncomfortable with the situation.
This boy was just a curious as the girl in Kushina's mind. Though it was pretty hypocritical of her, she thought this boy shouldn't be a shinobi since he stood out so much. He had the brightest blondest hair she had ever seen. And his eyes were bright blue too. It was odd because unlike the girl, besides his hair he didn't stick out that much physically, but she just felt the oddest and yet strongest connection to the boy. Leaving Kushina very confused.
She shifted slightly to jump away, too confused by this new feeling she had to the boy. But her slight movement didn't go unnoticed. The boy with the pupil-less eyes noticed her. She watched as veins started popping out around his eyes and then he turned to look right at her. She froze. She looked right into the boy's eyes and felt his gaze. No, that wasn't right. She felt him looking at her, but it was more like looking through her. She just stayed still until he threw a kunai at her and she jumped down in front of them to dodge it. The pink haired girl screamed in surprise and both boys got in fighting stances.
"What do you want? Why were you watching us?" The pupil-less boy said. Kushina just smiled a little.
"That's a pretty cool trick, noticing me like that. Don't mind me, just checking out the genin this village has. I want to make sure I'll have a good time in this competition," She told them. The pink haired girl took a step forward, trying to look brave but failing.
"S-So, you're here for the Chuunin exams?" She asked.
"Well of course. Why else would you let so many foreign shinobi hang around your village?" Kushina said which made the pink haired girl look away, slightly embarrassed. The blond haired boy hadn't said a word, but Kushina felt his eyes stare at her and his gaze seemed to have an even greater power than the pupil-less eyed boy. The pupil-less eyed boy moved closer too. Still in a fighting stance. It was odd, Kushina had never seen a stance quiet like it before. She put her hand on her katana ready to draw it if she needed to.
"Even as a guest taking the chuunin exams, you still could have a hidden mission, spying on our shinobi does make you looks extremely suspicious." He said. The pink haired girl and the blond haired boy just watched the scene. Though the pink haired girl moved back to incase it tuned to a fight. The tension was extremely thick between Kushina and the pupil-less eyed boy. And it was only broken when the blond haired boy walked up to Kushina and asked a simple question, yet it extremely insulted her.
"So wait, you're really a kunoichi?" he asked, plain and simple. But that moment, Kushina lost all focus she had on the pupil-less eyed boy and turned on the blond haired boy.
"What's that supposed to mean?! Of course I am! I the strongest kunoichi of my village!" She yelled at him. How dare this konoha jerk insult her!
"Well I mean, look at you! You're dressed in bright orange! What kind of shinobi would do that? And you're hair sticks out even more than Akane's!" he said as he pointed over to the pink haired girl who was fidgeting slightly. "In short, you're whole body is basically yelling 'look over here!' to every enemy shinobi in the area." He pointed out and smirked a little. Kushina felt the anger building up in her and her face for some reason started heating up to. She wasn't exactly sure why but she'd figure it out later.
"Well look who's talking Mr. Bright Blond Hair! You stick out just as much as you're teammate! Except for this kid," Kushina yelled as she pointed at the pupil-less eyed boy. "You're whole squad is yelling 'look over here!'" She yelled. The blond haired boy looked annoyed finally and that alone was a victory in Kushina's eyes.
"Hey! Don't you dare make fun of Minato-kun! Namikaze Minato is top genin in our year! I know he's going to be greater than any Whirlpool ninja!" the pink haired girl yelled. Kushina suddenly felt annoyed again.
"Namikaze Minato huh? Sounds lame. Doubt he'll even pass the exam." She said and watched as the blonds face turned red. Suddenly, he pulled a kunai out and started running towards her. She didn't see the need for her katana so she pulled out a kunai as well and charged at him. She was going to end this quickly, She was about to reach him, but the other two had gotten closer, she tried to move but slipped slightly, making her face, and her lips, not even an inch away. She felt the very tips of her eye lashes touch his cheek as she turned redder. Kushina's heart stopped as she realized what just happened and remembered her sisters talking about the exact expression for what happened. "A-A butterfly kiss!" Right before she made full contact she felt someone pull her back at the same moment, a white haired man with red lines running down his face pulled the blond back. The blond quickly turned around and dropped the kunai the second he made eye contact with the man, Kushina however, didn't need to turn around to know who it was.
"A-Ano… H-Hi Dai-sensei…" She said trying to ignore that fact she knew he was close to killing her for almost being in a fight.
"We'll talk later." He whispered to her as he walked up to the white haired man.
"I'm sorry my pupil caused your squad trouble. She's strong but still has to learn to not charge into fights." Dai-sensei said.
"No, it was my pupils fault, he triggered her anger while trying to show off in front of his teammates. Besides, it's there fault as well for not stopping their teammate for going into a fight. He drew his kunai first." The white haired man said.
"Now, Hiashi, Akane, apologize to these Whirlpool ninja for not stopping Minato." The white haired man said. The pink haired girl and the pupil-less eyed boy came up and said soft apologizes. Then the white haired man pushed the blond forward.
"Minato, you started the fight, apologize to this kunoichi, and her sensei." He said. The blond boy, Minato, walked forward and bowed slightly while apologizing. Kushina smirked until Dai-sensei pushed her forward.
"You must apologize to all of them Kushina. You should have stayed back with your teammates." Dai-sensei told her. She sighed and bowed as she said a quiet apology. The two sensei's nodded to each other before leading their pupils away.
Kushina stayed silent the entire time, not exactly sure what she should say. They stayed silent until they got back to the hotel room. Both Tetsuo and Shigeru jumped up when they saw their sensei and teammate enter but stayed quiet, they could tell Kushina did something wrong.
"D-Dai-sensei?" Kushina started
"You are to stay in this room until the chuunin exams start in two days. You are only allowed to leave when we go out to eat and do light training." Her sensei told her. She nodded and went and sat down on her bed look annoyed.
"By the way Kushina…" Dai-sensei said as he began to leave the room again.
"I came too late to hear what you or the boy said, but I'm curious, what did he say to you? You've been blushing ever since he started looking at you." Dai-sensei said and laughed a little as Kushina ran to a mirror and saw that her sensei was right. She was blushing very badly.
"Damn you Namikaze Minato! You are so dead! From this point on, I hate you!" She thought as she tried to ignore her teammates laughter.
Ok, was too excited and published it with a lot of spelling problems but all fixed now! tell me what you think! I know I'm bad, but reviews do make me happy and make me write faster!