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Chapter 1: Kaasuten Arakaki

She woke to the sound of birds chirping in the morning. Placing her feet on the side of the bed and raising her arms above her head, stretching. After getting dressed and grabbing a bite to eat, she stepped out the door, with a book in hand, continuing her daily routine.

Kaasuten Arakaki walked down the street, opening her book to read it. She had finished it already but wanted to go over what she read. Before she could start reading she came across the bakery and stepped in. It was part of her routine to check in with the baker. He was the first to greet her every day. "Good morning Kaasuten." He stated as he took out the bread he just baked. "Good morning Mr. Jeimuzu," she replied. "Ah! Kaasuten! How many times must I tell you? It's just Jeimuzu. Mr makes me feel so old." He stated hoping that this time she would listen to his request, and as always she didn't. "Where are you off to?" asking a question he fully knew the answer to. "I'm going to the bookshop and then to the Hokage's office. I just finished the most amazing story about a bean stock and a ogre and a –". He quickly interrupted her. "That's nice. Marie! The baguettes! Hurry up!" Slightly disappointed, she sighed and continued on her way to the book shop.

Stepping out of the shop, she opened her book and started to read again. As she walked through the streets, she could slightly hear the villagers' gossip through whispers about her. "There goes Kaasuten. She's so strange. Always dazed and distracted with those books of hers," some would say. Others would comment "Her head is always in the clouds. She is indeed a strange one." She always ignored them and they would immediately go on their merry way.

Kaasuten looked up from her book and noticed she just passed the book shop. Cursing to herself, she back traced and entered the shop. "Ah! Kaasuten," the bookshop keeper stated behind the register. He always knew when it was her. "Good morning Patorikku! I came to return the book I borrowed." She smiled with much happiness on her face. "You've finished already?" He said, with not so much excitement in his voice. It was no surprise that she could read such a big book, so fast. "Oh I just couldn't put it down! Have you got anything new?" She asked while walking through the book shelves. "Not since yesterday." She sighed. "That's fine. I'll just borrow…" she started to say as she looked for a very familiar book."…this one!" She exclaimed as she found a book. "That one?! But you've read it at least a dozen times!" He stated wondering why she would read a book so many times. "But it's my favorite. Far off places, daring sword fights, magic spells, a prince in disguise –" "If you like it so much, it's yours." He interrupted her. No one else borrowed the book, so he didn't mind. "But Patorikku!" She started to object. "I insisted" He knew that she loved that book more than anything. With so much excitement, she said "Thank you! Thank you very much!"

Just as she stepped out of the store, she instantly opened her book to read. And once again the gossip and whispers would start. She strolled all the way to the Hokage's office and walked in. She didn't even take the time to put the book down before she entered, which automatically drew a glare from the elderly woman that stared at her as she walked forward. "You could learn to be on time once in a while and maybe put that book away before you enter." The Hokage stated with slight venom dripping from it. Kaasuten looked up, not the least bit phased from the comment. "Sorry Tsunade-sama. What am I to do today?" she asked, wanted to get out of the office faster than she needed to be there. "Well since your team arrived here on time, I went ahead and gave them the mission speech and sent them off packing. You aren't so lucky. Here's the scroll with the details inside. You are to go pack immediately and meet your team at the north gate. That'll be all." It was obvious that Tsunade didn't want to spend much time repeating her-self. "Thank you, Tsunade-sama."

Kaasuten left the office and opened the scroll to read the details of what lame mission she was assigned this time. Lately she hadn't been given any exciting missions. Only ones where she was to 'babysit' Genin and Chunin. It was a waste of time in her opinion. She carefully angled the scroll so only she were the one to be able to read it.

Mission Rank: A
Mission Details: Track Akatsuki. Find out what their next move is. If possible, bring back any missing nin.
Team: undisclosed information

She quickly rolled it back up, looking around to see if anyone was reading over her shoulder. She found no one was near her. He stuffed the scroll in one of her vest pockets and headed for her apartment. Just as she pulled out her book and opened it again, she heard someone address her. "Hello, Kaasuten."

There you have it. I've finally modified the chapter. Hopefully it's better than my first attempt. I am somewhat creating this from Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" if you are wondering. As the chapters go on I'll try my best to separate the story from the Disney creation. But for now, just tell me what you think. Should I make another OC for the love/lust hungry thug part (Gaston in the BATB) or should it be a Naruto character and if so which character? TELL ME!

Spanks a lot,

KirrieMB