Author's note: Hello, people! This is my second story – the first wasn't published with this account – in English. Therefore, you may find lots of grammar mistakes in the text. I'm sorry about it. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this fanfiction as much as I do. I'm working hard on it.
'Twas brillig, but there was no sign of Wonderland nor Jabberwocky, only of a group of four ninjas gathered in a den of neutral colors at the Konoha Shinobi Academy.
"What's up with this whole fuss here, Kakashi-sensei?" Uzumaki Naruto, a blond ninja with blue eyes and whiskers tattooed across the cheeks, asked. Peering out the window, he watched a large number of young teenagers check off papers containing rooms' identification numbers. United in small groups, they tried to stay together on the school's lawn.
The fair-haired shinobi wore a predominantly orange set of slacks and jacket with a padded white collar, below which there was a blue stripe. This same pattern repeated itself with the ends of the sleeves, which carried embroidered symbols of the clan Uzumaki, and with the bar. The jacket had a zipper, and the boy was wearing sandals of the same shade of blue of the strips on his costume.
"Well, basically because of the exchange students program, there are newcomers around and the Student Committee had to divide them among the already formed teams. You came here to do a formal recognition of your new teammate. She'll be here at any minute now."
"She?" Haruno Sakura, a girl with green eyes and pink streaks, asked. She did not have a significant beauty, but it wasn't bad. A red dress with white details next to its bar, its collar and its sleeves, which were embroidered with symbols of the Haruno clan, embraced her torso. The garment had side slits, which showed off the fair and dark shorts that she was wearing.
"Yes, it's a she, Sakura. Why?" Kakashi, the trio's tutor, inquired, although he imagined the reasons behind the curiosity of his female student.
"No reason at all. I guess... everything has a bright side." The pink-haired ninja seemed baffled. "It's good to have a girl to talk to, finally."
"As long as she doesn't get between me and Sasuke-kun, it's all positive." Her straight thoughts completed her sentence silently, however.
"If she's on your level, it looks like a new loser joins the troop." Uchiha Sasuke presented them his opinion.
That boy was, by far, the most beautiful in the Academy: he had silky black hair, deep big ebony eyes, velvety skin, thin and well-designed lips, expressive eyebrows and an athletic body. He wore a blue shirt with a Japanese fan, the symbol of the Uchiha clan, embroidery on the back. His shorts were white with blue details, and he wore a pair of blue sandals, which had white strips with sapphire-colored edges. His hands and feet were delicate, perfect and unique.
"I don't know if you noticed, but you just shot yourself on the foot, dumbass."
"No, no, I didn't. You got it all wrong, as usual."
Before blond and dark-haired could continue the silly argument, someone knocked twice on the door.
"Hey, hey. Quiet. It must be her." And Kakashi tried to silence them with a gesture. The teacher, who was a man of silver hair with an eyepatch falling over one of his eyes and a mask covering the lower part of his face, flickered his eyelids.
"Come in!" He exclaimed.
The doorknob turned and the door was pushed, opening passage. A figure, riding an enormous and imposing cheetah, appeared.
She was tall, and her angelic brow was crowned by enormous and silky black tresses, which reached her waist. They were pinned in a single braid. Her eyes were large, torn, sometimes showing a deep shade of heady black, sometimes showing a placid shade of dark gray, and seemed to drag everything in front of them. The young girl had a skin as white as alabaster, velvety smooth, satiny. A thick black satin ribbon spiraled down each of her legs, attached to a cute pair of shoes in the same color. Two feet above the knee, there was a dark red skirt and, under it, dark and short shorts, which protected her turned and firm thighs. Her waist, slender and thin, was hugged by a black corset. A cleavage showed off the smooth contour of a pair of generous boobs.
"Greetings. Akira Rin."
Small detail: in her right cheek, Rin had a crosswise Tic-Tac-Toe scar.
The Haruno bit her lower lip, mentally cursing. She stuck her attention to the details of the new girl's face: she had heart-shaped red lips, and her eyes were crowned by long, thick and silky lashes.
"Rin-chan is much prettier than Sakura-chan." Naruto thought, his eyes widening. "Rin, is it?" He raised an eyebrow, trying to show naturalness.
"Indeed."
"My name is—"He would begin his introduction, but the girl interjected.
"Uzumaki Naruto. Ye, with pink streaks, goes by the name of Haruno Sakura." And she pointed at the other girl.
Although her words were nothing hostile, Rin maintained a dry, distant expression, which did not please her new companions. Well, it did not exactly bother Sasuke at all, nevertheless, for it little made any difference. But the blond, with a grumpy pout, lifted his nose; the pink-haired lowered her gaze, a certain mistrust engulfing her face.
"And ye art Uchiha Sasuke, the sole surviv'r of the Uchiha clan massacre."
Only then, the Uchiha seemed to take a party: he went on to face the girl with a little bit of resentment in his iris of ebony. In turn, Rin, realizing the strength of the boy' black eyes on her figure, released him a look of indifference.
"You seem to be good at math, because you know how to put two and two together." And Sasuke said, ironic. Sakura giggled in her palm, while Naruto widened his blue eyes. The freshman, however, did nothing but send a kind of look to the Uchiha that resonated throughout his body.
"What?", he had a start, invaded by the devilish light of the girl's dark orbs. "What the hell is up with that look?"
"Franchement, I just made an observation in order to demonstrate that 'tis not behoveful f'r thou to make an introduction." Then, the boy received his reply, which was cold as ice.
"It is not my fault that you wasted your time. I wouldn't introduce myself, anyway." He would not let it lie. So, he fought back.
"Ay, and that's due to the fact of ye being irrelevant, I fancy." The same calm and the same apathy rushed into the serious and musical voice of the freshman. However, at that time, Sasuke thought too slowly to grasp the message. When he did, though, he produced a small vibration with his throat that was well known between his former partners and that demonstrated aplomb.
"Humph, I don't have time to waste on this bullshit."
"Thou wast responsible for starting the conflict."
"I don't care one bit."
"We agree, for neither I doth care about thy tempers."
"Hey, you two! Stop it!" Naruto exclaimed. "That's nonsense."
"Naruto's right, I have an announcement to make." The tutor straightened his posture, leaning back on a table. The Uchiha and Rin stared at one another: the girl eyed him with apathy and the black-haired boy stared at her with irritation. However, it didn't take long for her gaze to leave the light of indifference and adopt a curious brilliance of debauchery.
"What are we doing today, Kakashi-sensei?" The Uzumaki asked the professor, no longer being able to contain his impulses of hyperactivity. "Hey, hey, I want you to send us on a very exciting, hot, amazing mission!" Then, he shot an aggressive and comical look at Sasuke. "And I want this noob to stay out!"
"The only noob here is you, idiot!" Sakura filled the air with her threatening tone.
"But, Sakura-chan—"
"Hey, assbite." The Uchiha defended himself. "I told you once: If you want me to stop cramping your style, man up and be stronger than me."
Despite the hint of annoyance in Sasuke's sentence either be obvious to some people, especially for the new team member, the blond wasn't able to capture it and absolve in order to compensate it. Therefore, he was fell for the Uchiha's cheap provocation and replied:
"That will happen. You can bet on me." In fact, that little provocation had become personally to the Uzumaki. "Actually, that already happened when you didn't do shit to save Sakura-chan from Gaara."
There was something that was bothering the Uchiha: the rapid growth of Naruto. During the Chuunin Shiken, a test that approved the transition from Gennin phase - ninjas of first scale – to the Chuunin phase – ninjas of second scale –, the blue-eyed boy defeated one of the strongest opponents in the region, Sabaku Gaara, as the Uchiha nothing could do but watch. That, for the dark-haired, was more than simply inadmissible; it was a matter of wounded honor.
"That was pure luck!" Sasuke roared, the big dark eyes sparking. To see the ninja known as loser acting snobby made all his calculated pose crash.
"Enough!" Fussy and irritable, Kakashi wasn't too sure about what to do to cool down the tension that hung over his head. "We have work to do, there's no time for stupid fights." He paused, runing one hand through his forehand. "Look at yourselves now. You don't even seem to be shinobis of the Leaf."
"What art we suppos'd to doth today, Hatake-sensei?" All of a sudden, the Rin's stern voice spread through the atmosphere again.
"Ah, finally, someone is more interested in working than in wasting time." The silver-haired ninja cleared his throat softly. "Since we have a new partner, since she did not carry out any tests with you, I've organized a small shiken for tomorrow."
"What?!" Naruto was outraged.
"You may remember that we conducted one a few months ago, with bells. That's when I was testing the team for the first time."
"Everybody remembers that, Kakashi-sensei. Naruto was a total idiot!" Sakura shrugged, snob. "Sasuke-kun and I were the only ones who deserved to pass for real."
"Sakura-chan!" The blond, resentful, protested.
"Ah, anyway. This shiken I planned is very similar to the last one, because you also have to catch things. Only this time, they move in the air by themselves."
"WHAT?! WHAT?! WHAT?!" The screams of the Uzumaki filled the place. "RIN-SAN?"
It was amazing how, in such a short time, the girl already inspired him respect enough to be treated by "san".
"Wasn't thy wish to get a mind-blowing, exciting mission?"
"Oh, but these practices are crap. Very boring and—"
"Silence. It is impossible to speak without being interrupted here."
"You just did it to me!" Naruto exclaimed, astonished.
"Enough!" The Haruno punched the blond's head. When this assault occurred, the freshman darted her eyes to her female partner and lifted one eyebrow.
"What are we pursuing, then?" In turn, Sasuke asked. He was bored.
"That's a surprise. I want you to be unprepared." The man looked at Rin with a gentle expression. "I want to test the real strength of your new teammate."
"Let's just say—" She started, a charming accent making her voice ten times prettier than it already was. "—thou shalt hast nay reason to bewail."*
"Hey, hey, hey, Rin-san. What is to bewail?"
"It is the same thing as to regret."
"I hope so, Rin." Kakashi enjoyed the respect that the young lady devoted him through words. "Well, I see you at the first clearing of the woods next to the market."With that, he simply vanished into thin air. The young students looked at each other; it was most likely he had fled out through the open window.
"Rin." The black-haired boy said to the Akira, a cheeky tone on his voice. "Do not get in my way, or you will regret it."
"Oh!" Rin was ironic. "Any other harsh threats left?"
"If you want, you can write this one down: If you keep trying to piss me off, you won't have a tongue to speak fancy words anymore."
"I shalt assure thou that, even before this week is over, this very tongue will be strangling thee."
The Uchiha's jaw dropped. No girl had directed herself to him with such aggressiveness and with such coldness before. It was even difficult to believe what he was hearing.
"I don't have time to your bullshit." He countered.
"Stop upsetting Sasuke-kun!" And Sakura protested, annoyed. However, the new girl only sent them a look of disdain. The, she walked to the door alongside with her cheetah and left.
What a way to start things off.
* "Let's just say you won't regret."
Author's note: Guys, if you want me to post a glossary with the things Rin says, let me know in a comment. Please, some reviews with tips and grammar insights would help me better a lot! Thanks in advance. :)