DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO OR ANY OF IT'S NORMAL CHARACTERS, places or references
Chapter1
"No wait!" I yelled as my friend ran past me in a blur, charging towards the monster in the center of the torch-lit chambers. The floor was littered with the bodies of shinobi and the walls splattered with blood. My heavy breathing, was hidden by the yells of battle and the clang of kunais. My semi-gloved hands were wet with blood and sweat. My kunai, dented and coated red was clutched at my side as I struggled to rise from my crouched position. My blue chunin vest felt like dead weight against my chest. Blood was splattered all over me, adding a vibrant red to my platinum hair, usually silver in the moonlight. Legs trembling, I stood, using the wall to support me. Kunai ready, I prepared to charge towards the giant sharp-fanged creature. But I had taken barely a step when I stopped dead. Green eyes wide with horror I could only stare as fear paralyzed me. The world suddenly became slow motion, as a brown haired body flew across the room, and smashed into the wall. I screamed, but it felt like no sound came out. I stumbled forward, crawling my way over to my fallen teammate. His blue eyes growing dimmer…
"You know it's really rude to ignore people who are trying to talk to you" a high pitched snobby voice sneered, jolting me out of my daze. I side-glared up at the girl standing haughtily beside my desk. "Oh I'm sorry" I said innocently, giving her a fake smile, pretending to not have realised she was standing there. "Did you say something?"
She glared distastefully at me, "you are such a loser, it's a good thing no one expects anything from you. They would be so screwed if they did" she snapped. Flipping her hair like she was some kind of goddess, she pranced back to her desk. I think someone forgot to tell her that this is the ninja academy, not a fashion show. I thought simply. Suddenly bored with the lack of entertainment, I rested my head on my desk and closed my eyes, waiting for the sensei to come back. The light yellow walls absorb the sunlight coming in from the wall of windows to my left, and the basic chalkboard sits alone at the front of the room beside the wooden teacher's desk. Rows upon rows of desks all line up in columns toward the back of the room. My classmates were all walking around chatting with others and taking advantage of the teacher's absence.
This ninja academy is different from every other ninja academy in the world, because it goes until you become a chunin at 16. I know for a fact that most academies allow ninjas to become chunin extremely early, as young as 12. But I have to wait another year before I am considered a ninja in this village… *sigh being a rogue ninja sucks. I was already a high level jonin in my home village, now I am just a genin again. But I guess it can't be helped, there is no way I am returning to that village. I am just surprised that I haven't been caught yet. I have been here for almost a whole semester and no one has come for me. Of course, all I carry all of my things with me so I can take off at a moment's notice.
It's why I don't want to make any friends. Of course, if I didn't the staff would notice me. They would probably try to council me, saying what a joy having friends is, and basically drawing attention to me. So I blend in with a simple crowd of people my age when it suits me. I opened my eyes and looked over at the people I use for cover. A group of maybe 5 people, all 15 like me and all grouping around one of their desks. Sighing, I rise from my seat and walk over to them. I look over their shoulders, pretending to be interested in Loid's kunai helicopter jutsu so no one suspects me again.
Yes, again. There was a small matter of distrust that happened just last week when some of my classmates believed I was a spy. It wasn't a big deal, I just used a simple mind tampering justu and it was all cleared up. But still… I think it is a sign that I need to disappear, soon.
"Excuse me, Miss Tekina?" an authorities voice calls out into the room. I turn to the door inquisitively, my face neutral even though my heart pounded with panic.
"Yes?" I said coolly
"Would you please come to the office straight away?" he asked kindly, him being relaxed and not threatening
"May I ask what this is about?" I asked, not moving.
The girl from earlier, Lilia, scoffs loudly. "Oh my kage… you don't just question the teachers. Who does she think she is? What a brat…" she says to her friends. I ignore her, and focus my attention to the shinobi leaning in the doorway, who watched the conversation with mild amusement. He had simple spiky blond hair and a kind aura, radiating patience and understanding. His village of the grass headband resting on his forehead. He looked to be in his twenties, but from what I heard he is only 17. I hadn't seen him before, but I believe he was the advisor at this school. His name was Amarante Chiyo. All the girls in Lilia's group of idiots would get in trouble just so they could be with him because he is "so hot".
"You may not actually… that is, I have no idea myself" he says playfully. He stood up straight and extended his hand in a "after you" gesture.
"Shall we go?" he asks.
Face remaining passive, I weave in and out of the desks slowly and make my way to where he was waiting. Not even glancing at him, I leave the room and begin walking down the hall.
My heart beating furiously, I try to calm myself and figure out a plan. What if something goes wrong? Then the idea came to me. Or rather I came to it.
"Hey can I go to the bathroom for a sec?" I ask pointing to the ladies washroom. He looks at me strangely. "Why didn't you go when you were in the classroom?" he pointed out. "Well the teacher wasn't there so I couldn't ask and I didn't want him to think that I had run off or something." I stated reasonably. He nodded "fair enough, go ahead" he said. I smiled "be right back".
I entered the lavatory and immediately locked myself in a stall. I made a cross with two fingers over two others, and my pinkies sticking up. "Twin puppet clone jutsu" I mumbled. A poof sounded and another version of me appeared standing on the toilet behind me. "Hey what was that?" he called from outside. "Sorry I dropped my blush" I called back. I heard him mumble something I couldn't make out, but I ignored it. I turned to the other me, making sure that it looked identical to the real one.
Straight black hair was pulled back in a high ponytail, the two strands of bangs curled slightly. Striking green eyes looked like they would kill you as fast as they would hug you. I wore a long sleeved dress-like jacket, wearing a simple ribbon as a waist belt and capris. It was an exact replica.
"Ok go out and be my stunt double. I'm going to hide on the roof" I whispered to her. She grinned mischievously and walked out confidently. "Sorry for taking so long…" I heard myself say outside the room. "Yeah you certainly took your time…" his said, his voice getting quieter as the continued walking down the hall. After waiting a minute of two I peeked out, making sure no one was coming.
Feeling satisfied but still wanting to be careful, I created a thin layer of chakra surrounding my body. The point of this was to make me seem invisible, or rather, to warp light off of me making it appear as if I am not there. Running at ninja speed, I ran down two hallways, up four flights of stairs and jumped onto the roof of the entrance to the roof. I sat down and diverted my chakra to my eyes, which allowed me to see what my clone was seeing at this very moment.
"I'm sure you must be wondering why we asked you to come here" the headmaster shinobi stated. He had curly shoulder length black hair, and was about 30 years old. Beside him was another shinobi, one with messy silver hair and a ninja mask covering his nose and mouth. His right eye was covered by a leaf shinobi headband. Wait a minute… leaf shinobi….
"Yes, I am." I heard myself answer
"Well it turns out that you may not be who you said you are" he said
At that, I immediately pulled back my conscience and rose to my feet. I jumped down from my spot onto the roof of someone's house. I kept hopping from house to house as fast as I could, making my way to the nearby bamboo forest.
Silverleaf: Hey everyone! I'm Silverleaf (obviously) and I am the original author of this fanfic/story. My big sister will join us later on in the story, you'll know her when you read her posts...(she's kind of hard to miss…) and we will be ending the chapters off with some professional observations on the previous chapters. Don't forget to review! Peace out.