Chapter 1: Meeting
"Onee-chan!" I could hear Itachi's voice call out.
"Yes Itachi?" Turning around I caught my brother and hugged him.
"Can I go to the academy with you?" he asked.
"Itachi! Leave your sister alone!" our dad yelled at him, "She will be late!"
I set Itachi down and sent him back to the house, promising him to take him kunai target practice after I got back. I then take off in a run and slid into a seat before the bell rings. My class's teacher walks in and holds up a chart.
"I have a seating chart for two reasons. One, so I know whose here the first few weeks of school while I get to know you. Two, I will not have our kinochi gossip amongst each other," she smiled, "By the way, I'm Sakuya-sensei."
Our class said hello back to her and she began reading off her chart.
"Beginning in the back going across: Hatake Kakashi, Uchiha Azelea, Maito Gai..."
Kakashi was a boy wearing a mask and looking bored. Gai was a boy with a bowl cut and huge eyebrows.
"Hey sexy what's up?" Gai winked at me. I flared a bright red.
"Gai, will you not fraternize with our classmate?" Kakashi glared at him, "She is a lady and should be respected as one."
"And Uchiha Obito," Sakuya-looks up, "Okay class remember your seats."
I glanced over to Kakashi again. This boy was handsome, but he felt cold. My abilities to feel others' emotions let me feel what he was feeling...including interest. Interest in me.
My class went to the weaponry to distinguish the different types of ninja weapons. Gai boasted he could lift up a shuriken that would take ten men to lift by himself. Smiling I picked up one and did some hand signs.
"Giant shuriken no jutsu!" The tiny shuriken transformed into a massive, two ton shuriken.
Gai's jaw dropped and he blushes as I offered him the shuriken, just balancing on my pinkie. He took it from me and dropped it. After several attempts to pick it up he admitted he was boasting. I then took it and flung it into the forest. It cleared a path a mile long before returning to me. Everyone, especially Gai and Kakashi, were in awe. Obito, my cousin, looked angry at me and turned away.
"Well...it seems like Azelea has an amazing amount of chakra," Sakuya -sensei turned to the class, "Class is dismissed. You may all leave, but Azelea, will you stick around?"
"Hai, Sensei," I nodded, "Let me send a message to my little brother to let him know I will be late. I promised to take him kunai target practicing when I got home."
She nodded and as soon as my message left, I followed her. She took me to a building and ushered me inside. The ninja there looked at me with curiosity.
"Sakuya, what's the meaning of this?" one asked.
"Calm down Shihiro," she pushed me behind her, "I need Taka-senpai."
"Yes child?" A forty-year-old man stepped into view.
"Can you check her chakra levels?" Sakuya-sensei showed me to him.
He looked at me for several long minutes before beckoning Sakuya-sensei and I closer.
"Her chakra levels are that of a Junchuriki," he whispered.
Jinchuriki. I've heard that before. Human hosts that hold the chakra of the tailed beasts.
"She's a Jinchuriki?" Sakuya-sensei's eyes widened.
"No child. She has immense amount of chakra," Taka-senpai smiled, "I would imagine her Sharingan awakened at an early stage."
"Age three sir," I smiled.
He nodded and dismissed us. I ran home to be glomped by Itachi.
"Kunai practice?" he beamed.
"Of course!" I tickled him.
"Can I join?" Kakashi's voice was directly above us.
Itachi and I looked up and saw Kakashi standing over our heads.
"In what? Tickling my baby brother or kunai practice?" I asked and tickled Itachi again.
"Kunai practice," Kakashi replied quickly.
Itachi jumped up and ran to the target area. Kakashi and I were not far behind. Itachi whipped out several kunai and threw them, rotating as he did so. Bullseyes on every single target. Kakashi looked surprised and turned to me.
"He's good," Kakashi breathed.
"Onee-chan is better," Itachi retrieved his kunai.
Kakashi looked at me funny as I withdrew my kunai. I lept up into the air, spun as I threw the kunai then landed on a tree. All my targets shattered, the kunai going straight through the trees and rocks. I then took out one more and threw it at the target on a boulder the size of a house. It went clean through the target and the boulder. The boulder crumbled to bits, leaving a perfectly intact target. Itachi cheered as Kakashi stood dumbfounded. Even with that mask on I could tell his jaw had dropped.
"Told you onee-chan was better!" Itachi tackled Kakashi.
Kakashi smiled behind his mask and wrestled with my brother.
"Itachi! Azelea!" I could hear our mother calling.
"We have to go now Kakashi-kun," I bowed, "Thank you for coming along and putting up with Itachi."
"No problem," he waved and watched Itachi and I run home.
Our father stood in the doorway, looking cross as ever.
"Hello oto-san," I bowed.
"Azelea Uchiha!" he thundered, "How many times have I told you not to show your strength to outsiders unless in battle?"
I looked inside and saw Obito sitting there with my mom, "Oto-san, I am now eleven. I can take care if myself."
"Itachi said something similar the other day! 'I'm four years old now! I can take care of myself!' You are hot-headed and selfish!" Oto-san all but screamed.
Obito looked guilty. I knew my father ordered him to spy on me and report to him. But Obito really loves me, and though we are rivals because he doesn't have his Sharingan yet and I do, we get along well. I guess his anger earlier was because I'm more advanced than he.
"Sir, she was putting the hothead in the class in his place," Kakashi suddenly appeared in front of me.
My father fell back by his sudden appearance, "The White Fang's son."
"Hatake Sakumo at your service," Kakashi's father also appeared, "I'm sorry for the intrusion my son had. I came to fetch him home and he heard the ruckus and jumped in here."
My father stood dumbfounded as my mother smiled gently and stood up.
"Perhaps you can stay for dinner?" she asked.
Kakashi looked at his father with begging eyes and his father agreed. Obito excused himself and left.
While our parents went to talk together in the kitchen and Itachi arranged the table, Kakashi hugged me.
"I'm glad you're alright," he whispered.
I stiffened in shock. He sat down and patted the pillow beside him. I followed suit and turned to him.
"You were worried?" I inquired.
"You're my soulmate. I need to protect you," he said casually.
"Soulmate?" I tilted my head with a shocked look.
"Before my mom died last year trying to give birth to my baby sister, she told me that when you saw your soulmate you'd know it. Some people wait years while some find theirs early," he laid back.
I looked at him and felt a flutter. The interest I felt in him was making sense now.
"You have a baby sister?" I smiled, letting him know mentally that I believed him.
He smiled back to let me know he understood my silent message and then his face dropped, "I had a baby sister. Ayame. She died two hours after my mother."
"I'm so sorry," I laid a hand on his arm and bowed my head to pray for his sister and mother.
"Kakashi! Azelea!" my mother called, "Dinner!"