The shadows of konoha
"Grandfather? Grandfatherrrrr?" It seems he was awake. It also seemed he curious.
My senses never fail me, as they have never failed my son. "What is it?"
"Can you tell me the story?" The reply seemed a bit too anxious. Guess I was right. "Which one?"
"The one about our family and village. Please Grandfather?" As always, impatient.
That is one trait that didn't seem to exist in my son.
"So you want to learn about those years do you? Well, I will tell you after I've told you about your father. His dairy should be in the attic."
Being asleep for a week…you forget things. The pictures that painted the walls seemed a bit scary. Reviving those old demons as we reached the attic it seemed comforting as I thought about him. "Ahhh here it is." As I opened the book a strange feeling overwhelmed me as I felt an immense pain stabbing into my head. I started seeing memories about…him.
I woke up to a new day expecting today to be the day that I reach chuunin. Of course I would go into disguise and enter another country to participate in a chuunin exam. That's the what was different about our village, you were given a target, you were to study everything about it, and then switch places for their chuunin exam and give the target our countries best amnesia serum. I suppose they do this to bring out only the best in our village, or to make sure the main villages don't get too suspicious of too many amnesia cases in the village that was infiltrated. It doesn't matter much since our village is made up of masters of stealth.
"Hey boy!" of course if I don't get up within the next 10 seconds I would be withheld from the exams. "Yes father?"
"Get up and wake the Nins." If it weren't for me most of the nins in our village would stay asleep until nighttime, our favorite part of the day. "Any missions today dad?"
"Not today. Instead all the genins in the village will be given a lesson on the history of our village."
"Sounds interesting."
"Exactly what I thought when I was your age. You will learn even more once you become sannin."
If that was even possible for him or me.
"Where's the ceremonial waking bell dad?"
"In our shadow room."
Every building in the village of shadows had a door that could only be found by the owner of the building. It can store almost an infinite amount of items.
It is used to store the most precious of items. Of course there is only one door that can't be opened. The yamikage's shadow door. There are rumors that even the yamikage herself can't open it.
"I'm gone pops."
Our ceremonial waking bell was the size of a plate, but if you manipulate your charka just right you can wake an entire village at once…. but the yamikage doesn't like to be woken by anyone but her assistant, Raven. The first on my route was chiikra.
He was a very nice jounin but he seemed a bit weird at times… of course his crush on his next-door neighbor spira was cute. It was hilarious when he found out that spira wouldn't be in his team when he graduated from the academy.
"Hey chiikra. Chiikraaaa? Fine."
GOOOOOONG
"WHO! WHAT! WHERE! WHO THERE!"
"Paranoid as usual chiikra. Well my job is done here."
"Don't you want some tea Tarsha-kun?"
"Not today chiikra. I'll make it up to you by making tea when I come back."
"Bye-bye Tarsha kuuun."
Chiikra always seemed a bit childish…how he became jounin I will never know.
Next on the path was Spira.
" Spiraaaaa. It's the ghost of your long lost neglected dooog. Fuuuuu."
"Fuuu…I love you. Why did dad kill you? Why!"
Hmmmm… he's sleep talking. He will wake up later from the eventual nightmare.
It's a good thing the next house was an apartment. Saves three houses that I would have have to go to. The owner of the building was my wise and civilized teacher. Viper. She was nicknamed that because of her cunning during the chuunin exams. She has been the only ninja in our village who was able to give our their target no memory of what actually happened while they were away from the exams.
She used the most common of our abilities,Kagebunshin-no-jutsu, and used the clone to fool the target that it was in the exams using a very powerful genjutsu while the real viper entered the exams.
It was quite funny when you think about why she allowed the other 2 people in her apartment building. 1 uncivilized and quite energetic girl, em, and a schizoid of both em and viper's personalities, Ridori.
1 hit against the bell while it was pressed against the wall and…
GOOOOONG
4 hours later
sigh Now lets see who's last on the list.
Ahhhh. I get to wake the honorable sannins now. Our villages sannins are very wise, andvery stealthy. 1st is shikan, then saru, then ninjangel.
All I had to do to wake shikan was make the lightest of taps on the gong and…
Ping
And before I know it there's someone behind my back snoring with a kunai at my neck. She can kill in her sleep apparently…scary.
"Uhhh… shikan Sama?"
"Oh its you. Sorry about that I was just having a nice dream and overreacted. On your way Tarsha-kohai."
"Yes Shikan-sama." Shikan-sama was so powerful and deadly it was scary.
Next on the list is Saru. She is very nice and caring about everyone, but she can make a fool out of you with that mask. I now only had to hit the gong once and she woke up accordingly.
GOOOONG
"Hello Tarsha. How are you?" She is the only one allowed to use my name without an honorable because she saved my life once.
"Let's not talk about it. You smell nice."
"Thank you, it's the kiss of death I'm wearing."
"I'll be on my way. later alligator." She hated it when I said that.
Last on the list is ninjangel. Short for the angel of ninja's in our village. She was nicknamed this because her speed is unmatched. She is even faster than the famous hatake kakashi and Gai.
GOOOONG
"I'm already awake Tarsha-san. By the way you have new order's to visit the yamikage. seems like she has something special in store for you."
Perfect. Just perfect.
"Ok thanks for tellin' me ninjangel-sama."
Today is going to be a loooong day.