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'Speaking'

'Thinking'

'Saying Justu'

'Thinkin Jutsu '

Chapter 1: The monuments…art?

The sun has long since risen, shining its rays through the window of a sleepy Karina's window. She grunted and finally got out of bed yawning. Rubbing the back of her head she walked towards the window and looked out onto the village hidden in the leaves. She gazed towards the Hokage monuments and sighed. The sensible part of her brain was frowning upon the monuments which were now covered in swirls of paint. Karina ignored this and laughed out loud.

She showered and swiftly got dressed. Donning her black top and trousers and zipping up her Jonin vest. She tied the headband around her head and started wrapping the bandages around her exposed arms and feet, covering the five scars that ran down her arms legs and across her back. She didn't bother to hide the ones that grazed across her left cheek. She stepped in front of the mirror and brushed down her long white hair. She gazed into the mirror at the albino 19 year old with more bandages covering her right eye. She dragged her dark blue visible eye away and finally left her apartment heading for the village gates.

She walked through the village and stopped suddenly when she heard shouts in the distance. She turned to find Iruka a teacher at the academy chasing three young boys covered in paint. They laughed as ran off making Iruka even more mad. Karina recognised one of them instantly from his spiky yellow hair. It was Naruto Uzumaki. She sighed and continued walking knowing all to well the boy's troublesome habits. However he did not deserve to be treated how he was by the village. 'It's not his fault that he…'

Karina was broken out of her thoughts by a voice she knew well. She had finally reached the gate of the village and there was her two team mates. They both waved to her as she walked towards. 'Overslept Karina'? Kotetsu said grinning. Her chunin team mate shook his head at her. Karina responded by bonking him on the head. 'Owwwww' he faked pain rubbing his spiky hair. Karina smiled and turned to her other team mate who proceeded to jokily tell her off. 'The leader of our team should be here before us y'know' he said smiling. Izumo's one visible eye looked her over noticing that her hair was still sticking up a bit. He laughed at her and patted her head flattening her hair. 'I'm guessing you didn't get up to long ago huh'? Karina just glared at her two team mates. 'Let's just go get a mission, I'm aiming for a nice B-rank, don't wanna be away for to long'. 'And you call us slackers' Kotetsu said grinning again.

Karina huffed crossing her arms and started walking off. 'Lets just go get a damn mission' she said huffily, turning around and sticking her tongue out at them. They both laughed and caught up with her, heading to the mission briefing room. Karina told them about the defacing of the monuments on the way, getting the two to laugh again. 'I couldn't ask for better team mates'. She thought to herself smiling. Both team mates knew exactly where Karina came from and took it in their strides, accepting her as one of them.

Once they reached the mission room they spoke with Hiruzen Sarutobi, the current Hokage of the leaf village. He tilted his hat with the kanji for fire on it and looked up at them. 'We're looking for a B-rank today sir'. Karina said. Sarutobi looked at her, Karina smiled back at him, waiting patiently. 'He's always looking right through me' she thought. It reminded her of another man, one who could always seem to know what she was thinking. 'Very well' Hirozen grunted handing her a scroll 'but I expect you back here again tomorrow Karina, I have an A-rank for you to take alone. It requires your..' He paused. 'Abilities'. 'Of course sir' Karina said bowing her head and turning to leave with Izumo and Kotetsu. 'Make sure the three of you report for work when the chunin exams come around. I want you all there' The hokage said as they left.

'Working overtime again huh'? izumo grinned. Karina however was spacing out again, staring out into the distance. The two chunin smilled- used to this- and they walked on in silence. Once they reached the gates, Karina opened the scroll and briefed them with the mission. 'One of our spies has brought back the location of the assassins planning on taking out one of the feudal lord's of the land of earth. Their camped in a forest bordering the land. If we travel fast we can make it there by nightfall.' Karina sighed 'I'm not gonna have enough time to visit Rize and Minato-Sensei today' She thought. 'Our mission is to take out every assassin in the camp and scout the area for others. We leave no survivors' She finished grimly receiving nods from her team mates.

All three of them headed off to the said location. As Karina predicted they reached the location by nightfall. After scouting the area and finding the assassins asleep at the camp they doubled back and sat in a clearing. 'Izumo what do you suggest we do'? Karina said turning to him. The man was a good strategist always able to form a good plan for the situation. 'Well it seems that there's nine assassins in total, seems a lot for one feudal lord. I think that they're expecting an attack tonight.' Karina nodded. 'So do you think we should bother with stealth'? Izumo was about o continue but Kotetsu cut him off by yelling 'Duck'!

The three of them flattened to the ground as a shower of kuni knives sped overhead. 'Fuck'! Karina gritted her teath and sprung up quickly heading for a tree with Izumo and Kotetsu following. 'Izumo quick while they're on the ground'! Karina yelled out. Izumo weaved hand signs quickly. 'Water style: Syrup Snare'! Izumo sent out water which landed on the ground and thickened trapping five of the ninja while the other four dodged and fled towards another clearing. 'Kotetsu, take care of this lot, I'll go after the others' Karina shouted. 'right'! Kotetsu yelled summoning his mace and jumping towards the enemy.

Karina took off after the others, being the fastest of the bunch she quickly caught up to the four assassins that had fled. He landed in the middle of them in the second clearing. 'It's just a girl, kill her'! The leader yelled out. The other three pulled out their weapons. Karina smiled and put her kuni away settling into a tai justu stance. The three assassins ran at her brandishing their weapons. Karina dodged underneath and countered with a series of swift punches into one of the men's stomachs. He fell back coughing blood. The other two attacked again but only sliced though her after image. The real Karina was above them and quickly threw two shuriken hitting two ninja in the head and killing them instantly. 'Too slow' she said grinning.

She landed in the clearing again and pulling out a kuni she swiftly impaled the third. He was dead before he knew what hit him. She flinched as she felt a pain in her shoulder. Turning she saw the leader had threw the kuni slicing into her shoulder. She gritted her teeth as she pulled the knife out and threw it back hitting the leader square between the eyes.

Panting, she headed back to find that Izumo and Kotetsu had dealt with the others. 'Sorry I took so long'. Karina smiled at them. Kotetsu noticed the cut in her shoulder. 'Owch, that looks painful'. Karina laughed shakily. 'It is, but I've had worse'. The other two smiled as she looked them over. They looked relatively uninjured, a couple minor bruises and tiny cuts. 'One of those son's of bitches used needles' Izumo explained grinning. 'Owch' Karina grinned. 'Let's head back, I wanna get some decent sleep'. 'You get enough sleep in the day' Kotetsu said smiling. He didn't say anymore however, as both chunin knew she had serious trouble sleeping at night. The nightmares likes to visit her regularly and she was haunted by the cause of her markings.

They headed back reaching the village before the sun was on the rise. 'I might not see you guys for a few days depending on how long the A-Rank takes, so you'll be on gate keeping duty for the next few days' Karina stated receiving groans from the both of them. They were to tired to argue however and the three headed their separate ways to get some well earned rest.

Um…this was kinda short but my first crack at writing ^^. If you want to read the story through the OC Ryouske Tenno's eyes go check it our here s/11752974/1/The-Chronicles-of-Heaven

See you next chapter baaiiii ^^