I do not own Naruto, only Hima, and her parents.
Chapter. Konoha
On a sunny hot day I was born, birds flew in the sky singing with their freedom. This is how I got the name Hima Tori. This is my story of this horrible world that taught me peace, love, freedom, hate and death.
"What's keeping you Hima?" A man with white hair and red marks on his face asked me with a smirk. "I thought you wanted to get to the village today?"
That's right this man is the legendary Jiraiya sage toad/novelist and a perverted on at that.
My eight year old self sat down on the ground.
"I'm a kid, I don't have stamina like you. No you're more like a monster."
"Hey that's rude to call your uncle a monster."
"You always told me to tell the truth." I smirked.
Jiraiya is my uncle and I absolutely hate this man.
Uncle then sighed as he walked over to me. He then turned around showing his back to me with his arms out.
"Get on my back kid or we won't be in the village by sun down."
This was one of he many things I hated about him, always taking the easy way out of things if he can.
I hopped onto my uncle's back earning a grunt from him.
"You have mine and your father's looks but you have your mother's personality."
As we continued I closed my eyes knowing we would not stop for a long time.
A memory from two weeks came back into my face.
My uncle and I were sitting near a river as he wrote into a scroll.
"Hey." I questioned my uncle as he hmm at me. "Why do I have to go back to the village?"
"You need to learn how to be a shinobi." Uncle answered, his eyes never leaving the scroll.
"But why! Can't you teach me? You said you're a sage right and my uncle at that; I find that its your job to teach me!"
Uncle sighed at this and gave me a hard stare. "You can never become my student I'm sorry. My student is waiting on my somewhere I don't know how but I know it isn't you."
Anger came onto my face making me turn to uncle "SCREW YOU! YOU PERVERT!"
I ran as fast as I could away from the river.
This became the one of the many things why I hated my uncle.
_4 years later_
"Congratulations on becoming Genin! Listen as I call the teams! Usually all Genin teams are only four man but this year we will have a five man team!"My sensei or I should say was my sensei now spoke. His name is Iruka and lets say hes a nice guy. He never seemed to ignore everyone but I know his favorite was Naruto Uzumaki. Naruto is a stupid and annoying person. Really I would never be his friend, but maybe he did all the pranks for attention. Since everyone in the village seemed to hate the poor kid.
I sat in the very back of the room ignoring everyone who started whispering to each other, wondering if they're going to be on the same team as their friends.
Friends who needed them? I don't. All they ever do is lie to you; use you until you almost break.
Seems like I'm a emo right? No I'm not just the fact of being used I hate it. If you want something don't beg for it, if you want something done to it yourself. Those are my rules.
"Team Seven is Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno." Naruto jumps up as Sakura Sulks. "Sasuke Uchiha," Of course now Sakura and Naruto do the opposite. "And Hima Tori."
"What Sasuke is stuck with her!" The girls whispers came into the air.
"She is so totally going to get her butt kicked if she hurts Sasuke."
I knew who they were talking about me of course. After a month of starting the Academy and making friends at some point. I had went to the restroom and when entering the classroom I'm being told I can't be friends with them anymore; so I punched one of them. Not the best thing to do in a situation like that , usually one would be through with the friendship and never talk again.
After Iruka finished announcing the teams we were told to eat lunch and come back. During that time there had apparently been two Sasukes running about. Guessing from how I saw Naruto jump into a window he must have been the first Sasuke and the real one came on two minutes later.
I continued eating my lunch not bothering to go and see what all of the fuss was about.
After lunch everyone ended up back in the class room waiting for their Jounin to come get them.
This of course ended with Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura and I still waiting on ours.
With all this free time I knew I could read a book, something to entertain me for a while why we waited.
"He's late!" Naruto complained. "I can't stand it anymore!"
"Shut up Naruto!"
Naruto then laughed and grabbed a chalkboard eraser and putting it between the door.
"This is going to be so funny!"
"Naruto! Stop that!"
Watching them bickering it seems more interesting.
"You're going to get us in trouble Naruto!" She screeched at him.
"But Sakura!"
"Our sensei is a jounin. He won't fall for that." Sasuke told the two.
"You're right Sasuke!"
Of course a few minutes later a white head appeared in the door only to get the chalkboard eraser to drop on his head.
Naruto started laughing why Sakura why apologizing to our sensei and Sasuke looks unimpressed, disappointed really.
"My first impression," He smiled. "I hate you."
"I guess we're on the same page then." I told him.
Sakura gasps at me.
"She doesn't mean it sensei!"
"Of course I do. I mean every word I say."
He sighed. "Come on now. We're going to the roof."
Silently we followed our new sensei up to the roof, and sat down.
Of course I was near Sakura so I tried to distance myself from her.
Trust me I know everyone has some kind of strength or talent in them that will make them stronger one day, but Sakura drooling on Sasuke is not one of my favorite things.
"Now tell us about yourselves." He continued on now looking at the four of us.
"Like what?"
"You know. Your favorite things, what you dislike, hobbies, dreams, stuff like that.
"You go first Sensei." Naruto told him.
"Yeah!" Sakura nodded in agreement. "Show an example."
"My name is Kakashi Hatake. I don't want to tell my likes or dislikes, I'm just that type of guy. My dreams for the future are none of your business. Hobbies? "Kakashi hummed. "I have a lot of hobbies."
"He only told us his name!" Sakura told us.
"Now it's your turn." Kakashi continued. "Starting on the right."
"My name is Naruto Uzumaki. I like instant ramen in a cup, oh and when Iruka Sensei treats me to ramen from Ichiraku Ramen! I hate the three minute wait though.
Naruto only focused on Ramen, I smirked.
"My dream is to one day be Hokage, so I can be someone important and then everyone will have to acknowledge me! Oh and my hobbies are pranks I guess."
"Next." Kakashi's eye went to Sasuke.
"My name is Sasuke Uchiha." Sasuke had a dark shadow on his eyes. "There are plenty of things I hate, and almost nothing I do like. I can't really call this a dream. But I have an ambition, I will restore my clan and there's a certain man I will kill."
Revenge huh...I guess you can say it destroys a lot of people, but in return it makes them stronger.
"And you."
"My name is Sakura Haruno. I like…." She squealed. "My dreams for the future are…"another squeal.
I silently started to move further away.
"And your dislike?"
"I hate Naruto!"
"What!"
I sighed.
"Okay now you." Kakashi looked at me.
"My name is Hima Tori, I don't particularly like talking about myself. You don't need to know what I hate, and you don't need to know my dreams."
Kakashi gave me a blank stare as well as Sasuke. Naruto looked at me with interest and Sakura gave a pretty annoyed face.
"You just only told us your name too!" She yelled at me.
"I told you the most important thing about me then didn't I?"
"Huh?"
"A name is important to even know the person. If you don't know the person's name then you're not going to be able to look for information as well as knowing who or what the person is."
"Uhh..."
"That's enough. Kakashi clapped us back into the group.
"Now that introductions are done, we will start our duties as shinobi tomorrow. " He continued
"Oh what kind?"
"Something the five of us can do. A team survival exercise."
Sounds of Naruto and Sakura talking about about how we did that already in the academy filled my ears. Which really was all of us being stupid children at the time, the only thing we did was run around in circles and talk.
"Well I don't want you to freak out about this but out of the twenty-eight graduates only ten will be Genin and the rest will return to the academy."
My head popped up at this. Well this is new.
Seems everyone else had thought almost the same thing.
"Oi oi," Kakashi motioned his hand at us. "Don't freak out over this you still have a chance."
"But we practice so hard to graduate! No way I'm going back to the academy!" Naruto yelled as loud as he could.
"You do know we haven't failed yet right?" I told Naruto as learn on my arm.
"Anyway bring all of your shinobi tools, and meet at the training grounds." Kakashi continued.
I got up from the ground and started rubbing the dirt off of myself.
"Oh and don't eat breakfast tomorrow you might puke it up." He smiled and sent four pieces of paper towards us.
After the meeting I head toward the memorial stone. The names Gen Tori and Ryo Tori. I wonder what their last thoughts were as they died that night. I wonder how much pain they were in as the nine-tails killed them. I wonder if I was the one thing they wanted to protect the most.
Pulling out a bento I sat there until sundown, letting the breeze hit me with the smell of grass entering my nose. When you have time to lay back and have all of these thoughts enter your mind it pretty much relaxes you. Or to me it does anyway.
Looking at my hand a though came from when I was four. I had a red crystal sitting in my hand as my uncle turned to look at me in shock.
"Don't ever use that technique again!" Uncle came in front of me trying to hide me from a crowd of people.
"But why not its pretty."
"It is a very rare power that you need to never show to people or your life could be at risk."
At the time I never understood what he meant, but now I do understand. This technique I have is not as rare as my uncle said but it is powerful from my clan.
The Tori clan has the ability which they could usually master it by the time twelve years have past. People from other villages wanted this power, since if you wanted to use the crystal technique you have to start at an early age and train for twenty years before you can master it. So the Tori clan was then basically captured and massacred. The only ones who made it were a old married couple and my mom, the three Tori headed to the leaf village and where they knew it would be safe. Since I'm the only Tori left alive now this technique needs to be kept a secret from everyone. Well at least until I get a teacher.
"Ah Hima what brings you here." A voice questioned as I turned around to see it was my new sensei.
"Just here to see my parents."
"I see." Kakashi looked at the stone with his hand in his pocket.
"Who are you here for?"
"A friend."
"And who was this friend?"
Kakashi took a moment before he spoke, the wind blew around him.
"Obito Uchiha."
"A Uchiha? I'm sorry Kakashi sensei but I could never imagine you being friends with a Uchiha."
"Oh we weren't at first." Kakashi chuckled. "It took time but eventually we became friends."
We stood there for another minute before I started gathering my stuff.
"May I ask?" Kakashi spoke once more. "How did your parents die?"
I looked at the can I had picked up.
"They were killed by the nine-tails."
A silence once more until.
"Do you hate the nine-tails?"
"Hate can't even describe the word for it...but I know if I want revenge it will never happen. The nine-tails killed them and many others; how would I possibly even compare to it?" I muttered looking at the trash bag I had in my hands. "I rather not get myself killed for being stupid if I don't have to."
With that I said bye to Kakashi sensei and went home to prepare for the exercise.
If only I could know what will happen the next day.
The next morning I woke up at five in the morning...that's right five in the MORNING. I usually don't complain too much about getting up early but this-this is horrible.
Without anything to eat we all met at the training ground, where we all barely told each other morning.
Naruto had ended up leaning against the tree trying to stay up, as Sakura had sat her bags on the ground as well as Sasuke. As for me I did the same thing as Naruto and fell a sleep. It sadly got ruined when the yells of Naruto and Sakura filled my ears.
"I'm here!" I popped up from the sleeping only to see everyone looking at me. "Oh that's right we're not in the academy."
"Now since everyone is a wake, let me explain the exercise. " Kakashi then held two bells in his hand.
Bells?
"Here are two bells, your job is to try and take it away from me before the time is up. Fail to get a bell no lunch and you get sent back to the academy. Oh and plus you get tied to the tree stump."
Well this seems easy except for Sasuke getting in my way, plus I know Naruto will be trying too. As for Sakura, well I really don't know how she is going to fight. Oh well all I need is this one bell then I can finally go on missions.
"Ready set go!"
Yep this is the new rewritten series if this is any better please tell me so if not then I'll just go back to the original before and try to make it work. I don't know when the next chapter will be out but hopefully in three or four days.