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Prologue
It's been a little over a two weeks since the Chunin Exams in Konoha and the war is done between the Sound and Sand against the Leaf. Most the teams that entered have gone back or just one or two people that have left to go back to their villages. One of the team members from a Village Hidden in Mist went back to the village he lived in. Named Himotomaru Chiha, he represents the dominant clan of the village, although not many have heard of this clan outside of the Country of Water. He's sixteen and in the Chunin Exam Finals he got his rank of chunin after fighting his own teammate, Dawn Shimatya who also got chunin from the same fight. Himotomaru is laid-back, resourceful type, but in a fight he becomes serious, unmerciful, and relentless. He specializes in taijustu and is able to use ninjustu as well. Dawn has no real specialty, but is evenly good at tai, nin, and genjustu. They were friends from even before they were on the same team, but the fight proved that they were even and luck was the only thing that helped Himotomaru win that fight. Now Himotomaru has gone back to his village, but he went to the "Forbidden Peninsula" to train. This peninsula is considered forbidden for many reasons; one, being the fact that the weather there is extremely bad and usually consists of torrential downpours all day and tornadoes as well. Second, there is a supposed force that lives in the peninsula. Third, there is a lot of paranormal activity there, meaning ghosts haunt the area, but people of the village believe that when a ghost of a dead person walks through the second arch they become visible to the living and can be physically touched. Himotomaru has been training there for days with the aid of his grandfather, Brandon Chiha. Brandon appears young but truly isn't and he is considered the Hero of Mist because of defending off an army, but died only three years before Himotomaru was born. Brandon was not the only one helping him train, his dead friend from the Chunin Exam was there with his team. That person is Dosu Kinuta and his teammates Kin Tsuchi and Zaku Abumi. All four of them were helping Himotomaru train and now left to do something very important, but Himotomaru has no idea what. After a day since they left, one of Himotomaru's newer friend found his hideout and decided that she herself needed to train as well. Her name is Kino Kinuta and she's Dosu's older sister by one year. Kino and Himotomaru met after a freak run in outside of Konoha. Except she was with her special team called the "Grass Trio" and they were assigned a mission to see the structural damage and the death count of the Leaf shinobi. The Grass Trio consisted of two other people whose names were unknown, but referred to their nicknames and were people who failed to get genin in the Grass student academy. Ty was the leader of the team and he only could use taijustu because he wasn't any good at genjustu or ninjustu. The other teammate was Niner and he could only use ninjustu, but like Ty, he couldn't do any other justus at all. Kino's nickname was Genny because she was supposedly could only do genjustu, but instead could do everything else and just went along with the idea Ty came up with. Kino is a shy, quiet, but will say or do something if it has to be said or done.
Now that she has come to train with Himotomaru, but finds that he is resting, so she joins too and notices how tired she is from the trip from Konoha to the Forbidden Peninsula. Kino sat down a few feet away from Himotomaru and looked around the giant arena looking room in the cave that Himotomaru is using as his training grounds as well as a refuge.
"You leave the Leaf Village for a place like this?" Asked Kino.
"This place is a good training ground mainly because few can enter and even less make is here, but how did you get here? The guards should have stopped you." Said Himotomaru.
"Funny you should ask. There were no guards at the gates. So does this mean anything bad or is nothing to worry about?" Ask Kino.
"If I knew I would tell you, but much has changed in two months. Now that I notice there were no guards when I entered too." Answered Himotomaru.
"Okay, I know this is a random question, but can you please answer it. I usually always ask this question to people I get to be friends with." Laughed Kino.
"And what's the question?" Asked Himotomaru.
"Can you tell me your life story? I know it's random and a weird question, but there is really no easy way of asking. Also we've known each other long enough. So why not?" Asked Kino.
"We've only known each other for over a week… And my life isn't too fun to explain." Said Himotomaru.
"Still, I mean we have no other way of passing the time away." Replied Kino.
"Training can pass the time away…" Said Himotomaru.
"Yeah it is, but not when you're hurt. I mean your hands have chakra burns." Said Kino.
"Fine, get comfortable. It's going to be a long story and most likely confusing and don't even think about leaning on me…" Said Himotomaru in a really serious tone.
"Aw… Why can't I?" Asked Kino who fell back and now is lying on the ground.
"Well can you just not worry about that." Said Himotomaru in a nice tone but Kino could still see the awkward hesitations in his words.
"Why? Did Dawn use to lay on you whenever you told her stories or at least leaned on you or did she even hold on to you?" Asked Kino as she sat up and looked at Himotomaru with a curious and confident look on her face.
"No! I never did anything like that with her… We're just friends." Quickly answered Himotomaru.
"I know you like her one way or another. She's not bad looking and she's got that personality that barely anyone can't like. Also you've known her since your childhood. I'm only joking I know you two are just really good friends." Laughed Kino as Himotomaru got a little annoyed.
"Since you want to hear the story, where do you want me to start…?"
"From the first time you can remember." Said Kino interrupting Himotomaru.
"Okay I will start from there. Also since you wanted to hear it all the way up until now, when you come in I'm just going to say 'you'." Answered Himotomaru.
"Go ahead." Said Kino.
"The first time I can remember was a long time ago obviously. It was when I was half conscious and I was being pulled out the water when I was eight. I don't know how I was knocked out, but I know that I got a concussion. When I was pulled out of the water there was a girl that was unconscious too. I think we might have hit heads somehow. The girl that was knocked out was Dawn before we knew each other. She never saw me that day. It was a year later I joined the academy in this village and a few days before I got genin I went to the great lake, which is where I was knocked out. It was night and I remember my father was there and so was this vampire ghost thing that. After it attacked us, it just disappeared for some reason and then my grandfather, Brandon appeared. I got the feeling that he killed it, if it's even possible… And I don't know how, but I knew he was dead and he did some justu to just hit my soul out of my body. He wanted to fight me for some reason, but before we did he explained how I had the kekkie gankai power locked with in my soul and he wanted to unlock it for some reason. Before you ask it's the power to be able to use ice, water, and wind. During the fight he did what he wanted to and he knew if he continued to fight, he would not hold back so he surrendered and the next thing I know is that I wake up in my bed and my arms and legs are stiff from be ejected from my body and being put back in it. I have to say that's the weirdest thing to happen to me. For some reason I had this thing I kept thinking about, kind of like a voice telling me to go to my grandfather's tomb and open it. I did that and I retrieved my grandfather's prized procession, his sword the Hydra Fang. Of course the sword was as tall as I was, but it was really light for a sword. A few days pass and I get the rank of genin, which means I was put into a team. My academy teacher, Atana, assigned me with Dawn and a boy named Haku. He was pretty quiet until you got to know him and he was a lot better than I was at the whole ability to control water and ice elements. Our team was number fourteen and the team leader was Zabuza Momochi. He trained us well and hard for six years and of course we grew taller and got more mature about things. Zabuza made me a good ninjustuist, but I wasn't anything great. He knew I was even better taijustuist, but he wanted me to be older for the justus and techniques, but it all changed when Zabuza and Haku disappeared from the village. After a month Dawn and I went searching for them, which we did find them, but in a fight with Leaf shinobi. I remember the girl sitting out the battle, "protecting" an old man. I didn't know that it was Zabuza who was the actual bad guy and so I told Dawn to attack the girl and I was going to help fight with Zabuza against the Leaf jonin. It seems I just got in the way because he could easily evade my attacks and counter and Dawn wasn't going to attack at all. Zabuza told us to stop fighting and when the fight was over both Haku and Zabuza were killed. Haku died by throwing himself in front of the Leaf Jonin's attack and Zabuza died by multiple stab wounds from killing the gang leader that he was working for. After the fight we left for the village, but we were ambushed by this creepy man named… Orochimaru I think. Well anyways, in the end he gave me a curse and said something about how I wanted power and revenge on Zabuza's and Haku's death. I kept that curse a secret for a long time and Dawn said nothing about it either. When we got the village, it looked like a war happened. Buildings were burning or already burned down and people were killed. After this, our old academy teacher put me in the village's taijustu expert, Biosu and Dawn was going to be taught by Atana. Seven months later, we finished training and it was the first time being seeing each other again…"
"Well isn't that cute. I bet you two were happy to see each other and gave each other a hug." Said Kino abruptly.
"No, we… Well I honestly have to say that has no meaning unless you love them. I do see her as a sister in a way." Replied Himotomaru.
"Well I think you need one right now." Said Kino leaning over towards Himotomaru with her arms extended.
"No I don't need one, but thanks." Said Himotomaru holding Kino back with one arm.
"You really are no fun." Said Kino feeling rejected.
"Lots of people tell me that." Replied Himotomaru smiling at Kino.
"That's kind of sad if you think." Said Kino.
"I can get over it like I always do, but back to the story. After meeting up again, Atana assigned us a mission, which sent us to this very spot, but in this cave the Titan of Water use to live here. He was a giant rock golem that was filled with water and after using teamwork we killed it… By accident, we were suppose to be defeated and almost beat him. Since we did the mission he sent us to the Chunin Exams with another Mist genin who had no team and needed to do the exams too. We got into the first exam with no problems. The exam was an actual exam, a test, but people were cheating left and write some failed for this and others got away with it. My team actually could answer these questions even though I only got seven of the nine. At the end we had to answer the tenth question which if you got wrong you could never do the Chunin Exams again and failed automatically. If you quit, you failed. My team stayed with others including the same team that killed Haku, or at least their team leader. The tenth question was just a mind trick and was to fake out people and make them scared. Everyone left moved onto the second exam… The "Forest of Death" which was a contained forest that was huge. The objective was to get both the heaven scroll and the earth scroll, but each team was only given one scroll and you couldn't open it either. After it started the new person on the team showed us that he had already gotten both scrolls somehow and said that if I wanted to save a friend, I should go a certain way. I did so and it was a trap for me to be killed in. It was that Orochimaru person that attacked me, but when he used a powerful justu, I faked my own death to live. Dawn I guess figured out that this guy killed our teammate and became an imposter, but she killed him before he could get away. She took the scrolls and got me and we went to the outpost in the center of the forest with no hassle. We were the third team there too; a Sand team and a Leaf team were there already. After five days, the third round was suppose to begin, but there was too many people so we had to do preliminaries. My fight was the third and the shortest fight of all twelve of them. The curse somehow took control of my body and instead of the power to use water, I could use shadows. It took control before the fight began and when he said 'start,' I shot out shadows that at my opponent and killed him instantly and this all happened within ten seconds. After the fight, just about everyone including the Hokage, himself was shocked. Before I could leave the arena Atana stopped me and told me that we had to seal that curse or I'm going to kill even more people. Which he did, and when I arrived there was only three fights left. I started to talk to Dosu Kinuta during Gaara's and Rock Lee's fight. I really wanted to fight both of them since I could do both taijustu and defend myself from Gaara's sand attacks with my water. After that fight Kin had to fight and Shikamaru, which he beat her. Then Dosu had to fight some kid named Choji. He was done in a minute or two. In the finals were: Neji, Naruto, Sasuke, Gaara, Kankuro, Shino, Dawn, me, Shikamaru, Temari, and Dosu. We had a month to train and when that finished Dawn and I fought and I won by luck. I was completely surprised that Dawn could use such impressive taijustu. She took speed over strength while I did the opposite. After Sasuke's fight, something happened and all of a sudden things got chaotic and a war broke out. The Sound and the Sand were attacking the Leaf and we were right in the middle of it. Dawn and I had to fight off shinobi even as tired as we were. After the war, Konoha won, but Atana, the Hokage, and a lot of Leaf shinobi. A few days after this I felt like walking outside of the village and that's when I met you with your team. Also that's when Ty died of exhaustion from fighting me. I didn't notice I was missing my head band until you came to the park in the village and give to me. Then I left back for the Mist village and left Dawn behind because she wanted to be with Leaf and not the Mist. I was training and you came and that's everything from start to finish."
"Well that is interesting and confusing somewhat. So that's done with, let's see if you can train with the burns… Wait, how did you get those burns on you?" Asked Kino.
"When I was focusing my chakra in a ball between my hands, I thought I heard something and saw something on the corner of my eye and in that second I disrupted the balance and it blew up." Answered Himotomaru as they both stood up.
"That makes sense sort of." Said Kino as a figure appeared visible in the shadows. Himotomaru and Kino noticed it and the figure steps out from the shadows.
"It's been a long time since I've last seen you… Kino." Said the mysterious figure.