Title: "Twenty-One Nameless Fail Outs"
Fandom: Naruto
Characters: OCs (though the physical descriptions are accurate from episode 3), mentions of Naruto/Sasuke, Hinata, Sakura, Kiba, Ibiki, Yondaime, Shino, Iruka, Shikamaru
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: episode 3 (read: none)
Disclaimer: Naruto not mine
Chapter One: Team 1
The kunoichi was a chubby girl with a motherly face and shoulder-length straight black hair. She wore a long-sleeved orange dress under a dark blue sleeveless dress. There was a loud relieved sigh when all but two people in the room realized they weren't on her team. She was a cousin of the Akimichi clan head.
The first boy's clan was originally from Wind Country. He had short dark hair under a mummy-bandage turban and wore a dark brown shirt with a high-necked light brown shirt under it.
The second boy was so effeminate it had taken years for some of his classmates to realize he was male, even with his short cropped black hair. He wore a gender-neutral light green kimono.
She was a slow taijutsu heavy hitter. He was a wind jutsu user. He was a spider summoner.
They failed.
They went back to the Academy. Two years later, their years of Academy experience finally overcame their mediocrity enough that only two other teams were better.
Everyone always took her for a civilian, him for a Sand-nin, and him for a girl.
Two of them lost older brothers to a failed mission to Sound. Before they could recover from their grief they had a failed mission of their own.
Jounin sensei dead, they called back to Leaf for relief, aid, rescue. It never came.
"Fuck them, fuck them, fuck them. We can't complete this mission."
"They've abandoned us."
"If they've left us, let's leave them."
They abandoned their mission, their village. They hadn't been seduced by the life of a missing-nin or they'd have been disappointed. Life was hard and hungry and unfulfilling and only their anger and despair kept them going.
They died of infection and starvation and cold in the barren lands of the north.