Hi there! Hope you like this fic of mine. I really hope you like it, cause, well... Took me a bit of time to edit it into third person, cause I first submitted this at Quizilla, which is interactive like hell... So... yeah. Please be merciful, or if you MUST critique, please be clear in your meaning. The storyline shall follow Akiko's POV, got it? Also, I do NOT own Naruto. If I did, there would be no Orochimaru... Well, maybe slap him in there as a pedophile, and there would be much Naruhinasasu (yes, threesome. DEAL WITH IT!!!) in it.
"Wake up!!!" she heard, interrupting her dream. "Come on, Akiko!!! Wake up!!!" She felt her body being shook, so she reluctantly opened her eyes and got up. She saw a girl with fiery red eyes and orange hair that looked like she had stuck a fork in an electrical socket and suffered the shock. Her skin looked like it was burnt from the same shock, and she could smell it. She was wearing a yellow nightgown and was crouched on her knees.
"What so you want, Tsunami?" the sleepy girl asked her.
"Did you forget our hearing was today, Akiko?" she asked. The sleeper looked at her alarm clock. It read six in the morning, and a growl erupted from her throat when she saw it.
"The hearing is at two, Tsunami. Why the hell are you waking me up AT SIX IN THE MORNING!?!"
"Because you always take forever to get ready to go anywhere, plus I want to take one last romp through the gardens before our fate is decided!" Tsunami giggled and pulled her sleeping friend up out of bed.
She dusted herself off and asked, "What about Ayame?"
"She's busy meditating in the gardens," Tsunami answered. "Now hurry up and get dressed!!! I don't want to be late because of you!!!"
"Fine," Akiko grumbled. "Now where's the bathroom?"
"Silly Akiko!!! Did you forget again!??" Akiko merely shot a glare at her. "It's down the hall and to the left."
She grumbled, following her instructions into the bathroom, and locked the door shut. Akiko nearly tore off her clothes before getting into the shower and got to work cleaning herself. Once she was finished, she grabbed a light blue towel and wrapped it around her body tightly, so that it wouldn't fall off and took a good look at herself in the mirror. Her sapphire blue eyes gazed back at herself sleepily, and her long, black hair dripped like mad from the shower. There were also markings on her face that looked like a cat's whiskers. She grabbed an orange towel form the rack, leaving it empty, and put her hair in it. She brushed her teeth and went back into the room she was sleeping in and searched through the dresser.
Akiko got some undergarments on, then pulled out a dark blue shirt. Its sleeves were very short, and when she put it on, it showed her midriff. She searched through the dresser and pulled out a very short skirt that was the same shade of blue as her shirt, and when she put it on, it only covered about two inches short of showing her panties. She searched through the dresser even more and took out black socks. When she put them on, they went up so that they covered her knees, and she proceeded to return the towels to the rack in the bathroom. She picked up a hair straightener from the sink and used it on her hair, which helped to dry it off quickly.
Tsunami walked in with a piece of jellied toast in her mouth and asked, "Why do you even use that thing, Akiko? You're hair's straight enough as it is already!!!"
Akiko looked at her when she finished and said, "I use it in place of the blow-dryer of yours because unlike it, it doesn't damage my hair and make it cut itself."
Tsunami only sighed, finishing her toast and said, "Whatever. I'm going to shower, alright?" Akiko nodded and left the room, closing the door behind her. A click sounded, telling her that Tsunami had locked it, and she went back into the bedroom. She took some gloves off of the dresser and put them on. They were long enough to go to her elbows, and the fingers of them were cut so that there was only a quarter of an inch of glove covering her fingers. There was a metal plate on them where the back of her hand was, and on them were the Japanese symbol for cat, with whiskers protruding from them. She picked up a headband from the dresser, which was similar to others, only instead of the normal symbols, it had three cat symbols on them like the metal plates on her gloves. She put it around her neck, and put small pouches on both of her legs, on both sides of her waist, and one on each arm, near the shoulder. She put various ninja weapon in these pouches and put on a pair of ninja sandals, each with a metal plate with the same neko symbol as on her gloves.
Akiko walked outside, into a small garden, and saw someone meditating. She had a headband like Akiko's covering her eyes, but the symbols on it were for mole, as in the animal, and from each of them protruded a little snout, as if from a mole. She had soft brown hair that wasn't very long, and it stuck out like she had spent her whole life sitting in a chair with her legs to the sky and her back on the seat. She wore a light brown T-shirt with a cartoon mole on it, and she was wearing faded blue jeans. She had gloves and sandals like Akiko's, but with the same mole symbol as on her headband, and her pouch placement was different. She just had a large fanny pack around her waist facing to the side, and Akiko could tell it was stuffed with ninja weapons.
She gently walked up to the girl and poked her shoulder, whispering, "Ayame?"
She turned her head to look at Akiko and asked, "Yes, Akiko?"
"You ready for the hearing?" she asked in a normal tone.
She nodded and said, "Yup. I just hope Tsunami is." She paused and asked, "Why are you up so early?"
"Tsunami made me," she said as if pouting.
Ayame giggled and stated, "That's her. Always waking you up too early for things like this, huh?"
"She said she wanted to romp through the gardens before we go."
Ayame giggled and said, "Alright. It'd at least make us smell prettier, huh?"
"Yup." Suddenly, Akiko was pinned to the ground, and when she looked to see her attacker, she sighed in disgust when to see it was Tsunami. She had her headband on over her forehead, and its symbols were for monkey, and had little swirls coming off of them like monkey tails. Akiko pushed her off of herself so that she could dust herself off and see what she was wearing. She had on a yellow spaghetti string strap shirt, with the straps orange, and she was wearing a long orange skirt with red monkeys all over it. She had on the same ninja sandals and gloves as Akiko and Ayame, and the monkey symbols were on each metal plate. Her weapon pouches were on her arms by her shoulders, and she also had a couple around her waist.
"It's time! We gotta romp through the gardens, now!!!" she said, complaining like a little kid.
Akiko smirked, trying to hold back a snicker, and said, "Alright. Just be sure to stay in sight, alright?"
Tsunami giggled and squealed, "YAAAAAAAAAAAYYY!!!" She grabbed Akiko's and Ayame's arms and dragged the two of them off away from their house.
Later...
Akiko, Tsunami, and Ayame were in a dark room, and a light was focused on each of them from the ceiling. Akiko glared at the floor as she heard voices arguing from the darkness. Tsunami looked like one of her relatives had just died, and Ayame was just looking up at the light. At least that's what it looked like with that headband over her eyes. Eventually, the voices quieted down and another light went on, showing a tall woman who looked like an elite ninja. She got their attention, causing all three of them to look at her with all of their attention towards her as she cleared her throat.
"Akiko, Tsunami, and Ayame," she said with authority. "You have disobeyed our rules over and over again, and apparently, you three can live with the punishments we have dealt to you already. Because of that, we have decided on taking some extreme measures. Are you three ready to hear your punishment?"
"Yes, ma'am," Akiko, Tsunami, and Ayame said in unison.
"We have contacted some foreign ninja concerning your delinquency, and we have come to the conclusion that sending you three to Konoha would be best. Their disciplinary actions seem the best for dealing with your specific brand of delinquency, so we have you scheduled to leave on tomorrow's three in the afternoon flight. Be sure to pack well, since your time there will be undetermined. Understood?"
"Yes, ma'am." The light on her disappeared, and the way out was lit up. Akiko, Tsunami, and Ayame followed it out of the place and went back home to pack.
In Konoha...
Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura were sitting on some bench by the ninja academy waiting for Kakashi to come, and Naruto was getting impatient.
"What's taking Kakashi-sensei so long!?!" he complained. "He said to meet us here at 10 'o clock sharp, and it's three in the afternoon now!!!"
"Calm down, Naruto!" Sakura said. "His note said he wanted us to meet some delinquent ninja he was going to pick up. For all we know, they could be giving him loads of trouble right now!" In the tree above them, Akiko, Tsunami, and Ayame looked at each other and nodded. Akiko pulled out three ninja stars and attached a note to one of them. Tsunami put a note on the star closest to her, and Ayame put hers on the last free star. They took the stars they put their notes on and tossed them so that they nearly missed Sasuake and Sakura. Akiko threw hers so that it nearly missed Naruto, and it got all of their attention. They looked in the direction they threw from, but the three of them had jumped to another tree by then. They looked back at the ground where the stars were and picked them up. They took the notes off of them and saw Akiko's neko symbol, Tsunami's monkey symbol, and Ayame's mole symbol.
"What's with this?" Naruto asked. Sasuke was just looking around, trying to find the weapons' owners. Tsunami jumped out of her hiding place, giggling and tackling Naruto to the ground.
"Hello there, new friend!!!" she said, getting off of Naruto.
"What the hell was that for!?!" Naruto asked. "That's how I greet everyone I meet, silly!" Tsunami replied.
Sasuke looked at the note he picked up and asked, "Where are your two friends?"
"They're still hiding! Want me to give them the signal?" She waved her hands around like nuts, and Akiko saw it clearly. She nudged Ayame's shoulder a little and the two of them dropped down from their hiding spot.
"Hello there," Akiko said calmly.
"Are you Kakashi-sensei's students?" Ayame asked.
"Yeah," Sakura answered.
"Why do you want to know?" Naruto asked.
"We're the delinquents he's supposed to be watching!!!" Tsunami answered. She giggled and added, "We ditched him, so he might be looking around for us right now." Ayame walked up to Sasuke and reached to feel his face.
He backed away and asked, "What are you doing!?!"
"Forgive me," Ayame muttered. "I'm blind. The best way for me to get to know a person at first is to feel their faces. Would you mind?"
Sasuke calmed down and mumbled, "Alright, then." Ayame felt his face, mumbling worse like, "Interesting!" and "How sad..." every now and then. When she was finished, she walked up to Sakura to do the same thing. Sakura had gotten a few, "Wow!"'s from Ayame before she moved on to Naruto. She giggled a few times, then seemed fixated on the markings on his face. Once she was done, she walked back to Akiko and whispered, "He's like you in some way, Akiko-chan."
"How?" she whispered back.
"I can sense a second source of chakra coming from within him, and that chakra seems a little angry."
"Alright. Just assume he knows about it and say nothing, alright?"
She nodded and said, "Okay."
"So that's where you three went off to," Kakashi's voice mumbled from behind the six. Akiko turned around and saw him, jumping a bit.
Tsunami giggled and jokingly cried, "Oh no! We got caught! Run away!!!" She hid behind Sakura, still giggling, and Ayame decided to get herself acquainted with Kakashi. Once she felt what little of his face was exposed, she frowned and pouted.
"Why do you hide your face, Kakashi-sensei?" she asked.
"Why do you ask?"
"It's annoying to me that I can't feel your whole face! It's how I get myself acquainted with people!"
"So you're the one Tsukiko said was blind, huh?"
"Yeah, so?"
"Nothing. It's just interesting. Anyways, get acquainted with each other for today. Tomorrow, we'll talk about what we'll do while these three are here. Got it?"
"Yes, Kakashi-sensei," Akiko, Ayame, and Tsunami said in unison. Sakura, Naruto, and Sasuke nodded.