(A/N) Yay!! Its my first ever fanfic on yupyup this is sasuoc and my oc is blind but she's not one of those girly Mary-sue blind characters that sit in a corner all day. Yay!!
All flames will be used to roast Orochimaru!! Just because he should die!!
Disclaimer:
Me: Chibi, if you would?
Chibi Fallow: Kk, Fallow here owns nothing except her oc's and the plotline!! And me….. I DIDN'T MEAN TO SIGN THAT CONTRACT!!
Me: Ahem, on with the story…
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'Late, late, late, late!! Dammit, stupid alarm… okay calm down. Where are we meeting? Training ground 37, across Hokage tower and straight on. WHOA!! Almost hit the telephone pole… that would be stupid.'
Aya was jumping from roof to roof in an effort to make it to training on time. Her alarm clock had broken again and left her with no sense of time until she turned on the radio. Telling her that she had two minutes to get to practice, Hiro was going to kill her.
She jumped down into training ground 37 expecting to sense her teammates there but to her surprise, there was nothing but trees. Suddenly, a kunai shot past her head cutting off a strand of her hair. She turned around towards the direction that the kunai knife had come from and still sensed nothing. 'No way, there's not even a speck of chakra left.' She pulled a kunai out of the holster attached to her leg and got into a defensive stance ready to deflect any other weapons thrown at her and all the while searching the terrain for any signs of the enemies chakra.
A shuriken came out of nowhere, then a kunai from a different direction. Aya deflected them with ease and waited, back in her defensive stance. She remained like this for the next ten minutes with the occasional weapon being shot at her until, finally, she spotted it. A small burst of red light in the corner of her eye. She immediately tugged a shuriken out of the pack at her waist and threw it at the quickly retreating light. A loud "Gack!" told her that she hit her target.
"You got too cocky!!" she yelled at her teammate, Jin, who was pinned to a tree by the collar of his shirt now efficiently choking himself. "Come on you two!! I know that you're out there!" Aya yelled forcing her sensei and her other team mate, Hiro, out of the trees and allowing them to stop masking their chakra.
"You idiot." Hiro thumped Aya on the head.
"Ow! What the hell was that for?" Aya asked.
"Being late again." Oooh, the master of tact himself.
"Enough of that kiddos, we came here to train." Their sensei, Hideki, announced trying to break up the daily fight.
Team 3 glared at him, a team of genin and a love-hate family of sorts. It was a bond that occurred like a dust bunny, it took time and no one really paid attention to the random cluster of particles forming one large mass under the sofa. Yup, that was the metaphor for Team 3. Hiro could be a bit of a hardass at times but you knew he really cared about the people around him and that he had enough stability of mind to prevent him from going on random emotional rampages which made him a good shinobi and a team leader. Jin was a goofball but he was a good, loved goofball and knew when it was time to buckle down and concentrate on the battle in front of him. Aya, despite her lack of sight, could be the strongest member of the team. Upon losing her sight the rest of her senses were sharpened considerably, making it as if she could see and a few other perks. But, she could only be avoided if someone had perfect stealth they could avoid her easily. Though this was hardly done but it made for a good training exercise. Hideki-sensei was a stable headed jounin that you could tell, under his regulation appearance, was a fountain of knowledge and wisdom.
"Now that I've seen you twos progress with stealth that means that you-" Hideki turned to Aya. "-have to improve on the sharpness of your senses. At the moment a jounin could very well sneak up on you with out breaking a sweat."
"Yeah, yeah." Aya stated, bored. She knew that her team still had the inkling of worry for her that they did when the team had first been formed and she hated it. "Now, is someone going to get Jin down before he hangs?"
The trio laughed before heading over to Jin who was begging for air.
Aya was sitting behind the desk of the Yamanako flower shop twirling a pen and listening to Ino run around killing herself over something totally unreasonable. Aya liked the flower shop, it smelled nice, as flower shops do. Plus, Ino and she had been neighbours and friends forever. "But which one will impress him?!" She heard Ino yell. "Aya! You're not helping me here!"
"Hmm?" Aya asked.
"Which one is better?" She felt Ino spray two different perfumes on either side of her face. "Huh?"
"Well, if you ask me, they both say 'I'm trying way too hard – look at me, look at me!' so…" Aya got up and walked over to the flower display. Her hand hovered around in circles a few times before she grabbed some lilacs an tapped them once on Ino's forehead and then once on either side of her neck. "There you go! Much more subtle, he'll think you re and enchanting and mystical creature now!" Aya grinned goofily.
"You are awesome!" Ino jumped up and down in her girlish glee.
"People don't tell me that enough nowadays…" 'I am doing him such a favour, that Sh-' Aya's thoughts were cut off by a squeal from Ino.
"Oh, Sasuke will definitely want to date me now!!"
"Huh?" Aya face faulted.
"Yeah today's the day that I will surely capture his heart!" Ino was having one of those this-is-my-destiny moments.
"What's so special about today?"
"Team 7 and 10 are going on a mission together! I'm sooo going to show up that billboard brow!!"
"Are you two still going on about that whole fan club thing? I thought you gave it up after we graduated from the academy."
"Nope I will never give up on my Sasuke-kun!" Aya could feel the heat from the fire in Ino's eyes. "And I will never let that Sakura win! I can't believe that you couldn't see Sasuke's total perfection before!"
"Heh, a hoard of screaming girls was never really my thing back then." Aya sighed. Sure he was a good ninja, but no ones that perfect. Plus, you and that Shik-" She was cut off again.
"Ah! Look at the time! I have to pick out a dress. Watch the shop for me, kay?" Ino floated away in a dreamy state at the thought of her fan girl crush.
'A dress on a ninja mission?' Aya went back to her pen twirling and let her thoughts drift aback to the academy days. In the first year of the academy she could still see. Until her hereditary disorder kicked in, her mother and uncle had trained her and prepared her to deal with this from infancy. Her father had died in the Kyuubi no Kitsune attack 13 years ago and her mother and uncle on a later ANBU mission, leaving her all alone… practically lost in the dark. But later she started to se people and things in the form of colours. Her best friend, Ino's, colour was a voiletish sky-blue, so in contrast with her name (Ino means 'wild boar' just in case ya didn't know, I didn't!) and there was always this guy at the front of the class with a really, REALLY bright orange that gave here headaches if she stared at him for too long. Also, people had a different feel to objects as did people to kage bunshins even objects covered in genjustu chakra felt different.
The object of Ino's crush flashed into her head. She remembered Sasuke. He was best ninja in the class before she was split into a different group with her team at age 10
He was very good and you had to respect that. But the rest of the girls got so absorbed into their hormone driven fantasies of a romantic life that they went into full-blown-super-crush mode and the Uchiha Sasuke fan club was born. The most ridiculous thing about the club was that they had rules, lots of them.
She switched from pen twirling to pen tapping from the mixture of reminiscing and boredom. Until the door opened, it was Shikamaru and his usual laid back and lazy air. "Hey, Aya. I'm here to remind Ino to not be two hours late and to not bring five bags… troublesome."
"One sec," Aya opened up the door behind the counter that lead to the Yamanaka living quarters and yelled, "INO GET YOUR ASS DOWN HERE AND PUT DOWN THAT LIPGLOSS BECAUSE YOU DON'T NEED IT!!"
There was a response of, "FIVE SECONDS!" and Aya turned back to Shikamaru who was now leaning against the counter.
"So," Aya decided to start up a conversation. "How's things on your end of the Ino situation?"
"Thing aren't going so well, every time I try to say or do something, something gets in the way." He sighed
"I've tried to intervene but that girl is just too dim to take a hint. I think it's going to take a straight out, no funny stuff confession to bring her to her senses." The pen was now in the process of rolling between her thumb and index finger.
"Are you kidding? That would be far to troublesome."
"And this little game of verbal tennis that you two have going on isn't troublesome?"
"Hey, it's hard to get a word in with her and she obsesses over Uchiha too much."
"So! Redirect the obsession to you! A straight slap in the face with the facts will bring here down to earth and then send her to heaven with you. Aya, the almighty fountain of wisdom has spoken." Aya crossed her arms, pen in tow, stating that this was the end of the conversation. Shikamaru sighed. "Anyways, when life gets you down, you can always do the Shika shake!!"
Shikamaru laughed, Aya could make any situation simple with her odd sense of goofball logic. Ino chose to make her grand entrance at that moment. Shikamaru stiffened and Aya giggled at the change of atmosphere in the room. "You guys go ahead and I'll close up."
"Thanks." Ino said and chucked Aya her keys.
"No probs and remember to shake it pineapple head!" Aya laughed and shook her booty as an example before hearing the two exit and the bell on the door making its pleasant dinging sound. She decided to keep the pen that she had grown attached to and twisted her long brown hair up into a bun and shoved the pen into it to keep it up.
She remembered to turn all of the lights off and locked all of the windows and doors before stepping out into the crisp night air.
Meanwhile, Sasuke Uchiha, the man of everyone's heart, was walking to the gates trying to block out all thoughts of the fact that he'd be sharing a tent with the dobe for a week again. Plus, Sakura and the Yamanako girl were going to do nothing but cling to his arm and yell at each other for the whole mission. Why did they put these two teams together in the first place. The only people that had any sense were Shikamaru and he, since Chouji only got serious when someone insulted his weight. Dear god, that was a mess that they would no doubt have to clean up. This was only a escort mission for a trade merchant to the rice country. Hardly a C-ranked mission, Tsunade must have been drunk. Sasuke was really tiring of this village and everyday his curse mark burned with the reminder of a promise.
He could already hear Sakura yelling at Naruto for something and sighed and decided to get on with it.
Okey doke, sorry if that's a bit short but its kind of an intro to the situation and there is a reason that they're going to the rice country.. umm could someone please tell me where the valley of the end is. I need that…
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