Free Birds

By Master Solo

Summary: They are members of the Hyuuga Branch House, but they are just as free as their brethren of the Main House. These are the stories of four such people.

Notes: In case I don't get to finish this story, these are the four characters:

The Idiot, the Foreigner, the Medic, and the Little Sister

Case 1: The Idiot

"Come on, handsome, show us some real dance moves!" shouted the women of the small border town's nightclub as the ninja with the dark hair danced slowly, careful not to spill any of his sake. Flashing lights, large dancefloor, good music, and lots of women.

The pale eyed man nodded to the women around him as he finished his current cup of sake. How many had it been? Seven? Eight? He didn't know. He lost count after the first five. It was just another day of partying his way from Konoha up to the location that he was to drop off the important, rich person that he was supposed to be escorting. Just another C ranked mission. By the gods, it was good to be a ninja, always sent out to distant places for missions, which usually involved either escorting people or, in the case of his clan, finding missing people or objects, and always surrounded by gorgeous women. It was extra good when he had the most beautiful, pearly and pupilless eyes that not just attracted girls, but also allowed him to see past whatever he wanted to see past, such as clothes.

Then, there was that mark on his forehead that he's had since he was a baby. To him, it meant that he had a nice room all to himself in one of the most comfortable mansions in Konoha and delicious, warm food served three times a day during the time that he usually had in between missions. All he had to do was a few small favors for the Main family, such as give them a fraction of his income and babysit those adorable twins from time to time. In other words, more time inside the nice house with free access to their well-stocked kitchen. Then, on top of it all, it meant protection of his most gorgeous feature, his rare silver eyes, from poachers.

If the others members of his clan ever heard of his take on life, they probably would have thought him to be crazy.

"Alrighty then, ladies. Prepare to be blown away!" He grinned wildly as he focused on all of his chakra points and started spinning. "Figured this one sometime ago. I think there might be some name for it, but if there is, then I probably forgot it. Let's just call it the tornado!"

Within a few seconds, everything within a small radius of the man went flying. Unbeknownst to him, one of the beauties around him narrowed her eyes. Just as she suspected from the Hyuuga clan idiot. No special achievements on record, barely passed his classes in that ninja school, took five years to pass some Chunin Exams, was never considered for a promotion to Jonin because he never did more missions than he had do or showed up in front of the Hokage completely sober, and barely had any money left after all the sake and women, but at the same time, never had his seal activated or any important tasks from the Hyuuga elders.

A few minutes later, after the whirlwind destroyed the source of the music that the man was spinning/dancing to, the man stopped spinning. It was too late. Between his dancing and who knows how much sake, the entire club was spinning. He tried to walk, but could not sense which way the ground was and landed on something soft and warm. It was a gorgeous, darks skinned woman. Was it one or ten? And it kind of looked like the woman that he was supposed to be escorting. That did not matter when all ten of them were batting their eyelashes and buying him more sake. Getting drunk, dragged off and snogged senseless by a goddess was just another part of his free life.

Sadly for Daisuke, his freedom ended when he died of alcohol poisoning at a friend's party a few months after this mission.

Next: The Foreigner