"Haha, watch them run like mice!"
People of the village were running around, screaming as nine people dressed in black cloaks with a red symbol all over it were chasing them and attacking them.
"Hey, kid! Come down and join us!" one of them called up to where an orange-haired guy that looked to be 17 or 18 and a black-haired girl that looked to be about 13 were.
The young girl looked at the orange-haired guy with a pleading expression. When he nodded, the girl jumped off the rooftop. She ran over to one of her comrades that had an orange-brown mask over his face and one hole in it so he could see. She pulled out a kunai from the small pocket on her right thigh.
"Careful not to kill them all," the orange-haired guy called. "We want at least half of them to survive so they can cower in fear, waiting tensely for our return."
The girl smiled and spotted one man hiding behind a barrel. She walked over to him and picked up the barrel with her hands. "Hello little villager," she grinned.
The villager gripped something and the girl didn't have time to move when he stood up and stabbed her in the stomach with a knife. She dropped the barrel and stood there, frozen.
The villager was suddenly cut from his shoulder down to his waist and killed by a sword.
The girl looked to the corner of her eye and saw one of her comrades that had long black hair in a ponytail, he gripped his sword. "Bastard," he cursed to the dead villager.
The girl sighed and started to fall. The guy noticed and grabbed her. He put his sword away and picked her up in his arms, jumping to the rooftop where the orange-haired guy stood.
"Get her out of here, Itachi," the orange-haired guy said.
Itachi nodded. "We'll wait for you at the Waterfall Cave."
The guy nodded and Itachi ran off with the girl in his arms.
"Thanks, Itachi," the girl murmured and blood dripped from her mouth. "I didn't think my first village attack would end that way."
"Don't worry about it," Itachi smiled. "You just gotta be more careful, Kaya."
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"Get back here you five!!!!!"
A girl with black hair and blue streaks jumped out a window and onto the grass. Following her was a boy wearing a gray jacket with fur on the hood and a puppy in his shirt, a blond-haired boy that looked like he had whiskers, a boy with brownish black hair in a high ponytail and a boy with brown hair holding a bag of potato chips.
The girl cracked up laughing as their Academy teacher stood at the window, yelling at them.
"Sorry, Iruka-sensei," the girl called. "But we gotta run!"
The girl led the four boys away from the building and to the back of the Academy. They sat below a tree and laughed. The girl fell on her back. "Iruka-sensei looked so mad this time. Hahahaha!!!!!"
"What if he tells the Hokage?" the kid eating potato chips asked.
"Don't worry Choji," the guy with the ponytail assured him.
"If you say so, Shikamaru," Choji sighed.
"He's not even gonna catch us," the girl sighed and closed her eyes, putting her hands behind her head. She heard her friends get up and run off.
She sat up and watched them running away.
"Oh yeah, Katana? Never gonna catch you, eh?"
Katana gulped and got up to run after her friends but Iruka grabbed her shoulder.
"You're not going anywhere but back to the classroom," Iruka growled.
"Oh really?"
Katana disappeared and became a log. Iruka looked up and saw Katana in the tree. She jumped down, poked her tongue at Iruka and bolted off after her friends.
Iruka sighed and ran after them. "Get back here!!!"
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"Kaya, are you alright?"
Kaya opened her eyes and sat up, blinking at her comrades. "Where are we?"
"We back in the Waterfall Cave," Itachi said.
Kaya looked around and sighed. "Aw man! I really wanted my first village attack to be better than that!"
"Haha, don't worry about it, kid," the guy with the mask laughed and put a hand on her head. "You're only 13. You'll get better."
"Tobi, you're not fighting anyone so why don't you take your mask off?" Kaya asked.
Tobi sighed and took the mask off of his face. He had jet-black hair just like Kaya and his face was pale, but his left eye was covered by a patch and his other eye was red with three tiny symbols that looked like half of the Yin Yang sign. Itachi had the same eyes.
She smiled. "You look better without the mask."
"That's because the mask scares you," said a guy with long blond hair in a high ponytail and a bit of hair covering his left eye. His left eye was like a robot's eye.
"Shut up, Deidara! It does not scare me!" Kaya growled.
"Does to," Deidara teased.
"Does not!" Kaya poked her tongue out at him.
"It does to and you know it-"
Kaya stood up and tackled Deidara to the ground. She sat on his stomach. "It does not," she said in a kid's voice.
"Okay, okay. You win," Deidara said. "Now let me up."
Kaya grinned and jumped up, leaving Deidara to help himself up.
"Thanks for the help," Deidara said sarcastically.
"You're welcome," Kaya smiled.
The others laughed.
"Kaya, you're such a child!" the guy with the orange hair said.
Kaya disappeared and reappeared on his back, her arms around his neck. "I know. Can I go run around outside?"
He sighed.
"Please, Pain!" Kaya said, giving him the puppy dog eyes and puppy pout.
He laughed. "Okay."
Kaya smiled and jumped off him, walking towards the cave entrance.
"But someone goes with you," Pain finished.
Kaya stopped and sighed. "I knew he was going to say that," she murmured to herself. She turned around. "Who?"
Pain looked at his comrades. "Zetsu?"
A guy with black on the right side of his face and white on the other side and giant plant jaws over his head from his neck shrugged.
Kaya blinked. "Aw man! He's too strict!"
Pain rolled his eyes. "Fine. How about Kakuzu?"
"No," Kaya complained. "Either Deidara or Sasori."
"I have to go out on lookout duty," Sasori said. "Sorry, kid."
"Okay," Kaya said. "Then Deidara."
Deidara shrugged. "Alright."
Pain smiled. "Did you choose either of them because you can run off on them?"
Kaya looked at him innocently. "No."
"She won't run off on me," Deidara said. "I could train her a little more so she could use up her energy if you want me to, Pain."
Pain nodded. "Thank you, Deidara."
Kaya crossed her arms stubbornly. "Stupid training!" she mumbled.
"Come on, Kaya," Deidara said and put his hands on her shoulders, pushing her out of the cave. Once she was out of the cave, she stopped. "Deidara?"
Deidara took his hands off of her shoulders. "Yeah?"
"How fast are you?"
"Pretty fast. Why?"
"Because you need to be better than 'pretty fast' to catch me," Kaya grinned and bolted off.
"Damn it," Deidara sighed. "Stupid super speed inheritance." He used his Chakra to make a giant clay bird and he jumped on its back. It flew into the air and went after Kaya.
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"Okay, Katana. It's your turn for the exam."
Katana jumped up and walked out of the classroom to the one next door. She walked in and saw Iruka and Mezuki.
"Go to the middle of the room please," Iruka said. "Then perform the Clone Jutsu when you're ready."
Katana strolled to the middle to the room. She made hand-signs.
"...Katana those aren't the hand-signs for the Clone Jutsu-"
"Invisibility Jutsu!"
Katana disappeared and Iruka and Mezuki looked around the room.
"Katana, that wasn't what you were supposed to do!" Iruka sighed. "Now cut it out and do the right Jutsu!"
"Aw.. but....."
Iruka and Mezuki looked behind them and saw Katana smiling at them.
"Just do the correct Jutsu," Iruka sighed.
Katana grumbled and walked to the middle of the room again. She made one hand-sign. "Clone Jutsu!"
Smoke rose up and when it cleared, there was a second Katana. A clone.
Iruka and Mezuki nodded. "You pass."
Katana walked over to the table and she was given a bandanna. A blue material with a small bit of metal and the village symbol on it.
She put it to her forehead and tied it up behind her hair. She walked out of the room and opened the door of her classroom. Everyone waited until she jumped in. "I passed! WOO HOO!!!"
Everybody laughed and Katana sat back down next to her friend Kiba and patted his puppy Akamaru.
"Congratulations," Kiba said to Katana. Katana nodded to him with a smile.
Suddenly, the Hokage came in the room. "Katana."
Katana shrank back in her seat until her head was just peering over the desk in front of her.
The Hokage looked at her. "Katana," he said again.
"Yes?" Katana replied. "Whatever it was, it wasn't me!"
"Oh really?" he cocked an eyebrow at her. "Then who else would be as careless as to paint the Hokage faces carved out in the cliff?"
Katana exchanged a glance with Naruto. Yesterday, she and him had ditched the Academy, run away from the ninja's, 'borrowed' some paint and decorated the Hokage faces with their artistic talents. The blond-haired kid shrunk back in his seat.
"So it was the both of you?" the Hokage growled.
"No," Katana and Naruto said.
"You two will be cleaning it all off by sunset!"
Katana looked at Naruto and with one small nod from her, they got up and ran towards the window.
"No we won't!"
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"This sucks," Katana grumbled.
"Well you're the one that made us go down the dead-end alley," Naruto said.
Katana sighed. "It wasn't my fault." She grabbed a sponge and started cleaning the paint off of the Hokage faces.
"Well then next time I guess we should do something that won't get us into this much trouble," Naruto replied. "The sun will set in one hour and I'm hungry!"
"Well maybe if the two of you finish quickly, I'll take you both out for some Ramen," Iruka said and Katana looked up at him, sitting on the head of the Fourth Hokage.
"Really?!?!?!" Katana and Naruto exclaimed.
Iruka nodded. "But you have to be quick with the cleaning."
"Alright!" Katana said. "I'll have this done in no time!"
Iruka watched as Katana made a hand-sign. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
After the sudden smoke disappeared, there was 15 more Katana's cleaning the Hokage faces.
"Ramen here I come!!!" Katana said, she loved Ramen.