If You Push My Buttons, I will Pull Your Strings
AN: Hey, this is my first fan fiction. Please enjoy and criticize as needed. It features a character of my own design. Her name is Kita Handa. She is an earth style ninja who has a lot to learn.
Chapter 1: Just Another Day
3rd person
Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!
A young girl rolls over and fumbles while turning her alarm clock off. It is 7a.m. While every other 16 year old is waking up to get ready for school, Handa Kita is waking up to help her mother paint and repair houses. She does this to help support her family. The Handa family isn't particularly prosperous or poor. They manage at the bottom of the middle class.
"Kita! Hurry up! We are going to be late!" Makiko, the mother and leader of the Handas, yells up to her youngest daughter. "It is already 7:20!"
Kita has been putting her work clothes on and is currently brushing her teeth.
"I will be right down mother! Just give me a moment!"
Kita hurries along and rushes down the stairs past one of her older brothers. They are twins and the bane of her existence some days. Sosa and Kisho are 22. They work as a two man courier ninja team. They have weak jutsu abilities. Sosa is can create sparks, and Kisho produces weak gusts. Together they make a mean campfire! This sounds lame, but it has been useful when they are on long trips to Suna or Konoha.
The Handa family is located in Tanigakure, or the Village Hidden in the Valley. It is located directly between Suna and Konoha.
Sosa and Kisho are the only legitimate ninjas in the family. Kita always wanted to be ninja so she could defend herself, but she never made it far enough. Her family's need outweighed her goal, and she left school to join the workforce.
Kita had just pushed past Kisho, who made a weak gust of wind mess up her hair.
"Watch where you are going, or you will have to tell dear Sosa why I almost fell down the stairs". Kisho was the more aggressive of the two.
"Sosa thinks Kisho should shut up and leave Kita alone" Sosa was leaning in the door frame of the twin's room. "Why do you always have to give her a hard time? She works for this family just like us".
"Whatever, we have a request to deliver messages to Konoha and Suna. We are expected to leave immediately, Boss' orders". Kisho goes into the bathroom to gather supplies.
"Don't mind him, I heard that you are going with mother to work on the Leader's house today. Make a good impression." Sosa teases Kita and smiles his goofy lopsided grin.
"It's not like it's the first time I've been there, Mother and I have been working on it every day for the last month!"
"Kita, maybe you will catch his son's eye. He is looking for a wife".
"SOSA! He is 27! I am hardly wife material, and way to young!"
"I know, remember, boys are evil!" Sosa goes into a monster pose and chases Kita. "Now go to work, or Mother will kill you for being late".
Kita's P.O.V.
Yuck. I can't believe Sosa would even joke about marriage. I am way too young to even begin to think about it. The leader is the Tanikage, Genji Bunzo. His son is Munoto. Munoto is a war ninja. Our village was once renowned for its war ninja. Now we still have the highest rate of war nin, but we are in a state of peace. Munoto believes that war is the answer to every question. I am very glad that I am too young for him.
His father has noticed me working with my mother. He has even complimented my skill with a paint brush. I always say thank you, but I am thinking about how painting walls isn't really a skill I wish to have.
"I am sorry about taking so long mother, Kisho was being dumb, like always".
"Leave your brother out of this! This is the most important job we have ever had Kita. We cannot mess up! It could change our lives! Now, let's get moving, or we will be late" My mother scolded.
I wonder if she really believes it will change our lives. I don't. Not one bit.