Ten years ago a village inhabited by ninja was attacked by the Nine Tailed Demon Fox. The great beast proved to be extremely powerful. Multitudes of ninjas were consumed by its awesome power. In the end only the most powerful ninja in their section of the world was able to stop its assualt, but to do so he was forced to sacrifice his own life. The monster was imprisoned inside of the body of a young child, who would then become the subject of ridicule and distrust. Unfortunately, no one was really quite sure which child the fox had been sealed inside of, since no one had really been able to hang around when the monstrously powerful fox and the most powerful person they had on hand had been fighting each other, destroying mountains and forests with each of their blows. But when the people who lived in the village thought about it, the answer to who contained the Demon Fox was pretty clear.
"Yo, yo!"
"Oh great, what does she want now?"
"So," said Tomo, "whatcha doin'?"
"Practicing for that exam," said Yomi, "it's tomorrow remember?"
"How are you practicing?"
"I'm busy right now okay?"
"That's not very polite," said Tomo.
"It's also not very polite to interrupt someone when they're trying to study Tomo."
"I guess you're right," said Tomo. The Wildcat walked away from her friend's house. What am I supposed to do now?
"Hey Tomo, what are you doing out and about today?"
"Yo," Tomo waved at her other friend, "Sup?"
"Shouldn't you be studying?" her buddy asked her.
"Shouldn't you?"
"Yeah you're right! Thanks for reminding me!" The girl waved goodbye.
Oh great, thought Tomo, now what am I gonna do?
"Hello Tomo."
Not her!
"I just wanted to wish you the best of luck for tomorrow's test."
"Okay thanks." Tomo watched as the girl walked away. I just can't stand her, thought Tomo, she's so sweet, polite, not to mention friendly. That's not the problem though, she's better than me at everything! Stupid Chiyo.
The day of the test came and went. Tomo was surprised to find that the only person who didn't pass was the person everyone swore was the best out of all of them. Then again he hadn't really done anything other than stand there during all of the lessons. She had just assumed that he was good enough already. Well actually she had yet to take her own test, and she was hoping not to fail.
"Okay, you didn't pass."
"Wh-why not?" asked a panicked Tomo.
"Because you're not good enough. Now get out of my sight there are a lot of tests left to do."
Tomo slunk to the door, she felt something she hadn't before, dissapointment.
"Now, now," said one of the instructors, "you shouldn't talk to her like that."
"Fine, fine," said the man, "but we need to get these tests done today you know."
"Hey Tomo," said the instructor, "Why don't you meet me here after all of the testing is over? There's something that I want to tell you."
"Oh what?" screamed a man, "How did this happen, why is it gone?"
"Who was in charge of guarding the Forbidden to Outsiders scroll?"
"Well you see the thing is, no one was assigned to look after it. I guess we kinda messed up there hu—"
"Why is that?"
"Um..."
"Dear god, who put you idiots in charge?"
"Uh, we don't remember..."
"Let's just hope that someone can find that scroll, otherwise the setting for this story could be destroyed forever!"
"Hmm," said Tomo, "isn't it strange that someone who failed the ninja graduation test could sneak in and take a scroll rumored to contain forbidden knowledge? Wait a minute doesn't that mean that I should have passed?" Tomo grumbled to herself as she arrived at a discrete hut in the middle of a dark forest.
"Excellent, you finally arrived," said the instructor, "now give me the scroll."
"I thought you said that I needed to use one of the jutsus on the scroll to graduate."
"Just give me the damn thing already." Tomo rolled her ten year old eyes as she gave the document to the man. "Heh, heh, like taking candy from a baby."
"What are you talking about?" asked Tomo, "How am I gonna graduate?"
"You idiot," said the instructor, "why would learning how to do forbidden jutsu be a way to graduate from the academy? Didn't that thought ever cross your mind?"
"But then why would you ask me to take it?"
"Can't you use your brain for just a moment? If I told you why I actually wanted the scroll you never would have got it for me. I'm still not going to tell you why I need this scroll."
"You were just trying to frame me!"
"It's not framing because you actually took it!" The former instructor shook his head in disgust. "How could you have ever hoped to become a ninja if you couldn't even see through an obvious lie?"
Tomo growled in anger as someone walked up behind her. "I'm sorry," said Tomo, "I didn't know that taking the sacred and secret scroll was wrong."
The new arrival merely facepalmed in response.
"Well, well," said the traitorus instructor, "if it isn't the person who has the closest emotional bond to Tomo. You can't make this stuff up."
"How did you find me?" asked Tomo.
"Well, I was asleep nearby and just happened to over hear you two talking."
"Now it's time for me to leave," said the traitor, "no reason to stick around and risk being captured."
"You have to tell us what's going on," said the person close to Tomo.
"You can't escape anyways, there's probably an AMBU Black Ops team coming hear right now."
"Oh please," said the traitor, "if Tomo could sneak in and steal the scroll hidden in the building that's guarded by elite ninjas, why wouldn't I be able to get away from anything this little hamlet can muster?"
"Actually no one was guarding it," said Tomo, "in fact I went in through the front door."
"Really?" The traitor was shocked. "I didn't go myself because I feared that I might be caught!"
"So you sent Tomo? Someone who failed the graduation test instead?"
The traitor realized how ridiculous his plan had been. "Who cares?" asked the traitor, "in the end my plan worked flawlessly."
"Not really," said the person with a connection to Tomo, "while we were busy talking, Tomo snuck up from behind and took the scroll from you."
"What?" The traitor looked to see Tomo holding the scroll and sticking her tongue out at him. "So what," said the traitor, "I can easily defeat a ten year old girl—"
"She also stuck a grenade in your backpack."
"What's a grenade?" Then the traitor facepalmed as he realized that a pomegranate had been placed on top of his backpack. "Why do you two mess around so much?"
"We're two of a kind," said the person, with Tomo standing nearby.
The man merely sighed as he pulled a pistol out of his belt.
"Darn it," said Tomo's friend, "I left mine back at the station!"
Whoops wrong fanfic! Just forget that last bit okay?
The traitor sighed as he threw a small, sharp, metal weapon into the stomach of the person connected to Tomo.
A hand gripped the kunai knife as the traitor ripped it out of the stomach of an injured person. "So much for the ninjas of the village which is focused on in this series."
"You mean the village of Mount Ninja!" screamed an angry Tomo. "How dare you hurt my teacher, and my friend!"
"Mount Ninja," said the traitor, "that's such a stupid name."
"Shut up!" screamed Tomo as she planted her foot in between his legs. Tomo slammed her fist into the man's face, knocking him onto the ground. "If you ever hurt my friend again, I'll—ugh!" The traitor slammed his foot into the girl's face.
"I'm a real ninja," said the traitor, "you're just a kid who uses cheap tricks. You could never hope to fight someone of my caliber."
"She doesn't have to."
"What the—huagh!" A kunai knife slammed straight into the traitor's eye. He gave a gurgling sound before falling to the ground dead. Tomo couldn't see who had killed the traitor, but whoever it was had to be pretty badass.
"Are you okay?" Tomo asked her friend.
"I'll be okay, just as long as we get some medical aid."
"Does this mean that I'm a ninja now?"
"What? Hell no!"
"But I can make shadow clones!"
"Since when?"
"I peaked at the secret scroll and mastered the art in ten seconds."
"Some secret scroll, I mean a kid who failed the basic exam figured out how to do one of the hidden techniques on it!"
"That's not very nice," said Tomo.