AN:() Author's Notes
Intermissions for the Narrator to do a scene change
AN: (Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, but I do own my ideas. XD P.S. It starts off in the period that Team Sarutobi was formed)
-X- Chapter 1: Beware! The Shuriken Strikes!! -X-
"Now Tsunade... Jiraiya... Orochimaru... I want you to practice on your stealth skills. Think of it as a game of 'Hide and Seek'. I will be the enemy and if I catch all of you within 30 minutes, you all fail. And if you fail, you'll be forced to eat nothing but a grain of rice for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Is that understood?" stated Sarutobi.
"But what if I win Sarutobi-san? Can I get those special magazines I've been wanting all week?" said Jiraiya.
Tsunade gave Jiraiya a "BONK!!" on the head. "YOU PERVERT!!" exclaimed Tsunade," HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT WHEN I'M RIGHT NEXT TO YOU!"
Jiraiya looked at Tsunade with a smug expression. "So... if I'm not next to you... it's ok flat-chested-Tsunade?"
With blood rushing to her face and steam puffing out of her ears, she shouted proudly: SHUUUUUUUUUUUUUT UUUUUUUUUUUUUUP!!. This was quickly followed with many brutal beatings dealt by the angry kunoichi.
"sigh Why am I even on this team...?" stated the usually calm Orochimaru.
"I HEARD THAT!!" yelled Tsunade and Jiraiya in unison.
"cough, cough I should mention that you have 15 minutes left..." Sarutobi suavely said.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...!!"
Let's fastfoward and zoom inside the Training Ground's forest. Oh lucky day! We'll follow Orochimaru!
Walking down a stray path in the forest, we find Orochimaru all by his little lonesome.
"sigh Why do we have to do this? We already have done over a 100 missions...," Orochimaru said to himself,"Why can't I just graduate and become Hokage already?"
Looking to his left, he found a ginormous Oak tree in a small clearing. Deciding this would be his choice of a hiding spot, he took it. Half-way there, he heard something faint in the forest. Judging by the sound, it was coming in his direction. Not just fast but VERY FA--!! CHING!! RIIIP!! "AAAAHHHHHHHHH!!" THUNK!!
Orochimaru had barely dodged the projectile. Everything was fine except for the cut on his upper arm, which had blood running down in streaks. After covering the wound, he looked behind him to find a small, bloody shuriken embedded into a tree. "So, it's an enemy-nin eh? I guess this training period may be more interesting than usual," he muttered. Scanning the area with only a kunai in hand, he prepared for any attack. He didn't have to wait long before he heard a rustling coming from the bushes in front of him. He didn't expect what came out of them. His "enemy-nin" turned out to be a kunoichi, a bit younger than he, wearing her reddish/brown hair up in a pony-tail with two pink, dango-shaped, beads on a stick, which pinned up her hair. Her outfit consisted of a white, short-sleeved dress with a slit on her right side. A red bow/sash was tied around her waist and under the dress was a pair of fish net shorts that stopped above the knee. Lastly donning a pair of black ninja sandals with fishnet socks. "What the...?", he silently muttered.
"OH! Um, sorry about that...hehe?" said the somewhat embarassed kunoichi," Are you ok?"
"Huh? What are yo-- Ah! Yes! I'm fine!" he replied.
"Gasp Oh no! My shuriken cut you!! Here!! Let me help!" exclaimed the worried ninja. Before Orochimaru could even stop her, she rushed to his aide by laying him down, applying some herbal medicine, a bandage, and a kiss to the covered wound. "There, a kiss from a fair maiden to heal it right up!" she giggled happily. Orochimaru just sat and stared, like a deer in the headlights, at the strange kunoichi.
"Who are you?" said Orochimaru, slowly coming back down to Earth.
"Me? Well I guess I was kind of rude. My name is Tsubame! I'm a genin. What's your name and rank?" she happily said, an arm extended to help Orochimaru up.
He took it and admired it's softness. "My name is Orochimaru, genin, and you have soft, gentle hands..." he replied, his brain still in a daze.
"Really?", she questioned with a warm smile," Why thank you Orochi-kun! Anyways, I'm guessing you want an explanation for the whole shuriken thing right?" He nodded his head. "Well it's just an accident. I was practicing my shuriken technique. Unfortunately, my aim kinda..." Putting her hand behind her head, she dropped her gaze to the ground.
"Sucks?" he asked, looking back at the shuriken.
"...Yeah... I'm so sorry about that. You think you could help me with my aim?" Tsubame asked with hope shining in her eyes and gazing into Orochimaru's.
"Sure, I've got nothing else to do." he admitted, forgetting about the game altogether.
"Hehe, thanks so much Orochi-kun!" They spent the next 30 minutes-an hour practicing on the giant oak tree.
"Orochimaru!! Orochimaru?! Where are you?!" called out Tsunade.
"Oi!! Snake-teme!! Where's your slimy ass?! I'm missing out on my peeking time!!" yelled out Jiraiya. Tsubame and Orochimaru looked in the direction of the voices.
"Is that your, ahem, teammates?" asked Tsubame.
"...If you could call them that..." Orochimaru muttered just before they came out of the bushes.
"Orochimaru, it's been 15 minutes already! You've won the gam--Oh! Who is this? Your girlfriend?" asked Tsunade, pointing at Tsubame.
"What?! Orochimaru has a girlfriend already?! How come you didn't tell me?!" questioned the pissed off Jiraiya.
Orochimaru answered back, eyebrows narrowed,"She's not my girlfriend! She's just a friend!!" Tsubame giggled, trying her best to cover her mouth.
"My name is Tsubame. Pleased to meet you all." she declared, doing a slight bow and showing her gentle smile.
"Nice to meet you Tsubame! My name is Tsunade, the little brat behind me is Jiraiya."
"What did you say 'flat-chest'?!"
"Shut up teme!!" retorted Tsunade, trying to keep a straight face.
It wasn't long before they started yet another one of their usual fights. Orochimaru decided it was time to leave. "Listen, Tsubame, I better go. When these two spat, all hell breaks loose, you know what I mean?"
"Yeah, I believe so." she nodded, scratching the back of her arm.
"I'll see you later," he stated with a twinge of sadness in his tone.
"Hold on just a minute!!" she exclaimed, trying to catch up with him, "When can we meet again?! You want to go have lunch together sometime?"
"You don't mean, you want to go on a date? With me??" he asked, heart pounding.
"Somewhat of one, yes."
"Uhhhhhh...sure, um, say tomorrow? At the Ichiraku Ramen Stand?" he quickly replied, astonished that someone actually wanted to be with him. Needless to say, it was a girl, and a pretty one at that,.
"Ok, sounds perfect! 'Til then!" she agreed, waving bye to Team Sarutobi. Tsunade and Jiraiya waved back, continuing on with their fight, Orochimaru answered back with a slight smirk and wave. On the way back to Konoha, Orochimaru mulled over what he said earlier.' '" Uhhhhhh...sure, um, say tomorrow? At the Ichiraku Ramen Stand?"' Man, could I have been anymore gosh darn stupid! I don't even like RAMEN!! The noodles and the soup... bleah I'm so stupid!! Not only did I say to meet at Ichiraku's, I even agreed to meet her!! I should be training instead of spending time with her! Gah!' Needless to say, he walked all the way home with a blush across his face.
Meanwhile, back at the training grounds, we meet with Tsubame, still practicing on her shuriken technique
"Ha! Ha! Ha!" exclaimed Tsubame, throwing three shurikens at the giant oak tree. All three made a direct hits on the tree. Walking over to the tree, she pulled out her shuriken stars and rested under the tree. She leaned her head to one side to watch the sunset and it's beautiful rainbow of colors glow around it.
She started to fall asleep, when all of a sudden--"Tsubame..." muttered a low, strict voice from the opposite direction of the sun. Her eyes moved to gaze in the voice's direction.
"Yes Sensei?" The man named, Sensei, appeared hidden behind the bushes, adorned in a Anbu uniform and animal mask.
"What have you been doing all day? I told you to practice 10 miles from here," demanded her Sensei.
"I know, I know, it's just, I made a new friend today. He taught me some neat tips for my shuriken throwing!" she replied with her trade mark smile.
"Oh really? Then how are you supposed to become an Anbu if you go showing your face and skills around the whole town?! We both know you could pass the Ninja Academy right now if you wanted to! Heck! you could even be a Chunnin right now!!--"
With her hand in the air, she stopped his rant and calmly stated, "I know I can do all of those things, but right now, let me enjoy my youth. I want to look back on these memories and have a semi-normal life before I become an Anbu. Besides, I didn't reveal to them 'all' of my skills, ok?"
Sensei mumbled behind the mask before saying, "You do know the Hokage and I can't keep covering your hide forever. If the surrounding villages, enemy ninjas, or anyone in Anbu gets a whiff of this, the consequences will be severe..."
"When I'm old enough, I'll take care of myself. Until then, there will be no 'if's' or 'but's', everything will be fine. You'll see." With that said, she got up and jumped through the trees to her lonesome home, in the forest outside Konoha's town wall.
"I hope you're right. For not just your sake...for the future of Konoha..." he replied, disappearing from the forest.
-X- End of Chapter 1 -X-
AN:(How is it so far? I hope I'm not drawing up a Mary sue character. You'll have to forgive me, I'm trying to get back into doing fanfiction after being gone for...what...3 years? XD )