The Chronicles Of A Dead Kunoichi
Chapter 1
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Kaori:Oh yeah, everyone thinks I'm dead....
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The wind blustered harshly over the training ground on a cold October day. What was left of the old Team 7 was there, along with their new member. Team 10 stood patiently beside them. Next was Team Kurenai, closer then ever and also as wise. Team Gai was next, exuberant as they were 2 and a half years ago. Lastly, stood what was left Team 5, Nagasaki Chikara, Matsuoka Hitomi, and team leader Mitarashi Anko. Although these teams were usually content with themselves, on this overcast, gloomy day, they weren't.
Today they had made a small memorial for a lost friend named Yakushi Kaori, who had been given the name "undetermined location" to her predicament. Rumors around the village had said other things. "Death" was usually the subject. Her 2 teammates, Chikara and Hitomi, friends since the Academy, refused to believe any of these rumors until a month ago, when the 5th Hokage had been sent pictures showing a dead body, brutally killed, that looked like their dear friend. On the back of one of the pictures, one with the smiling Kurokage next to the body, was a note that said "Stop your useless search" in heavy, black ink with the official seal on the Kurokage next to it. Tsunade had told her team about the pictures, but had denied their request to show them, for the sake of their already questionable sanity.
Everyone stood quiet, looking at the white gold plaque that had been made for her. It looked more like a tombstone to her heart broken team.
"Dedicated to Yakushi Kaori, a wonderful kunoichi who shall be dearly missed," the plaque had read.
"Sounds like a grave..." Hitomi had thought to herself, holding back the eager tears that welled up in her eyes to the point where her vision was deeply blurred.
The teams felt as if the plaque didn't say enough. Many more personal things could have been said about her. "Manga obsessed" or "temper mental" or even "sister" could have been added, the plaque had been brought with a combination of donations from the people that had known her. The plaque had been placed by a tree near the river at the training ground. It has been the first tree to recover from Kaori's Black Chidori "out rage" 3 and a half years before.
A light drizzle had started. Water droplets traced the engraved letters on the plaque. Everyone looked at the sky, then at each other, smiling awkwardly trying to lighten the mood. 5 still had their eyes glued to the plaque. Hitomi, Chikara, Anko, Kakashi, and Neji. Neji brusquely began to walk off, mind fixed in thought and memory. Kakashi had soon become a blur and disappeared. and with that, people began to trail off, leaving slowly so they wouldn't seem rude. Onlt 3 remained.
The team that didn't wish to believe their comrade was dead and waited patiently for her to come home like nothing had ever happened so they could go back to manga, drawing, missions, and the laid back life they had before. Kaori was their missing puzzle piece and life wasn't complete.
It hadn't been for 2 and a half years.
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The forest outside the Konoha gates stirred as the sound of raindrops fell against the leaves. The wind blew again, rocking braches back and forth. Silence overcame the area after the winds died down in what seemed an endless routine. Barren of life, the place laid quiet.
"I guess this is my welcome." a light, feminine voice said in the distance.
The young woman chuckled to herself, brushing her chestnut brown hair from her face. Her forest green eyes stared at
the gate intently although she was 40 meters away.
"Well, I hope they didn't forget about me..." the girl thought to herself.
She smiled at the thought of her teammates hugging her happily, friends greeting her, teachers welcoming her home. The girl chuckled again at looked up at the gate and great village behind it and began walking toward Konoha.
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