My first fanfic, go easy on me :)This is my OC's POV (kinda), next time it may be Kakashi's... don't know...
Black clashed with indigo. Sharp edges grappled, each trying to outlast the other, the silent battle...
….. was actually a staring match.
"Yo," Black said finally, eye crinkling in an unseen smile. The silence broke, and awkwardness came in to fill the cracks.
Indigo raised an eyebrow.
"So, Lady Hokage called for you too, am I right?' His voice was calm, with a note of cheer. She decided she liked it.
He scratched the back of his head sheepishly. " You must be my new mission partner. You have quite the reputation, Raiden Aro."
No honorifics, she thought, keeping the thought at the back of her mind. Addressing people without honorifics was often thought to be rude and insulting, and for a second, she was a bit insulted. A second later, she shook it off though. That must be his way of being friendly.
" And you must be Hatake Kakashi - san of the sharingan eye."
Black eyes nodded,extending a hand. His hair was a silver mess, falling to the side chaotically yet stylishly, as if he had just woken up from a long nap. He was tall and fit, his jounin uniform looked good on him, and suited him in every way.
Indigo eyes studied his face. A black mask covered the bottom half of his face, and his Konoha forehead protector hung down over his left eye, the one which held sharingan. Which left only his right eye to read. It was dark, yet contained some sort of light that danced within. It looked, though, bored, and gazed lazily in her direction, observing her slightest movements.
Aro took his hand, the corner of her mouth curved into a half smirk,half smile. Her hair was pure white, on the right side, long and sleek to her chin, and to her left, short and spunky in a pixie cut. Her hands were wrapped with bandages, and she wore the more form fitting, pocketless female jounin vest. Without it, she was often mistaken for a chunin, or a medical-nin, and she hated being underestimated like that.
"So, I hear you're sometimes called Raiju..." Kakashi cocked his head slightly.
"Yeah..."
She turned to face the door again, the door that led to Lady Hokage's quarters. She never tried making friends after making chunin. Every attempt at conversation she made was forced and feeble. Aro usually made her business only to answer the other person's question, then keep to herself. The awkwardness settled in again, and she stared back at her feet again.
"Not a talker, eh?"
She glanced back at Kakashi, surprised, and studied his one eye. He looked as carefree as a young child, and somehow, at the same time, almost empty, as if all emotion had been sucked away by the world. Like a void.
"Tell me about yourself," he said. She was surprised – she had never really made any friends, not even on her genin team, although, she was friendly with a lot of people. Anyway, she was usually sent on missions alone, and no one had ever made an effort to know much about her. A lot of people thought that she had friends of her age, and left her alone, thinking that she wouldn't want to be friends with older people. But she had surpassed all her academy friends, all her genin friends, and all her chunin friends, and they had never bothered to maintain contact with her.
"..like...what...?" she blinked.
"You know...your hobbies...your favorite food..." He plucked about at random, his one eye closing, his head tilting towards the ceiling. "I hear you're some kind of prodigy."
" I guess so. I graduated from the Academy at 7. I made chunin at 10, and jounin at 13."
She smiled. " I don't do much in my free time. I train, I guess. I train, I study, I eat, I sleep."
"What about your friends?" he asked, shoving his hands in his pockets, eye still closed. "You're still pretty young. Don't you ever go out or something?"
" I,uh..." She shifted uncomfortably. There was silence.
"I see," he said finally, "Don't worry about it too much... I'm sure we'll get to know each other well, anyway. We're partners now." She blinked. They haven't even talked to Lady Hokage and he already thought they were partners? Were partners supposed to know each other well? Each other's moves perhaps, but Aro never made an effort to become friends with her teammates. Her teammates never made an effort to become friends with her, either.
"What about you? What are you like?" She asked, suddenly curious.
"Well," he drawled, " My life is pretty much the same as yours. Prodigy, graduated early, going on A-rank missions pretty much alone the entire time. I used to be ANBU though... tough stuff, working for Hokage."
"So, what's ANBU like?"
"Hmm... Well, it's complicated," He said, then fell silent. She waited expectantly for him to continue, but he remained quiet. Guess he isn't much of a talker either.
"Well.. eto.. do you read?"
He looked at her out of the corner of his eye. "Yes, in fact. I do."
"What's your favorite book?"
"..."
"Hatake-san?"
"...It's an adult novel...You wouldn't be interested." He turned his head towards her. " Please, call me Kakashi-kun, or just Kakashi if you want. I don't mind."
She nodded slowly.
...You don't get a lot of company, do you?" Kakashi asked.
Aro shook her head.
"It's okay, you don't have to be so formal. Loosen up a little."
"Gomen... I don't really have a lot of friends. I'm more of a lone wolf..." Kakashi wasn't just looking at her now, she swore he was looking right into the depths of her soul. She chewed on her lip, hesitating, not wanting to seem like she wanted some pity party. She continued, converting her tone to something more casual, shrugging, despite the fact she felt like his eye burned right through her thoughts.
"When I passed my exams, I-"
"Come in!"
Kakashi cleared his throat, a shadow of a smile beneath his mask.
"Ladies first."
Aro grinned, and slid open the door, revealing Lady Hokage's quarters. Bookds and records lay stacked across the floor and across desktop. Sunlight dripped through the windows, where Konohagakure stretched out before them, the blue sky endless and far. It seemed Konoha never had a rainy day.
Lady Hokage stood behind her desk, a woman with beautiful, yet stubborn features, with blond hair and a purple mark on her forehead, delicate, yet tough as steel. She was like fire – beautiful with a temper. Aro wondered if she could looked as pretty as she did. Probably not.
"I'm sending you on an S-Rank mission. (sorry, don't know what Lady Hokage would actually say, so I'll make it up) "
Aro's blood froze in her veins, draining away from her face. "S-Rank?" She fought the panic out of her voice when she saw Kakashi gaze in her direction as if he could taste her fear.
"What's our assignment?"Kakashi asked Lady Hokage, though his eyes remained fixed to the young jounin. Aro shifted nervously, grinding her teeth together so hard she thought sparks would fly.
"A demon. It plagues villages. We barely have any intel, but it has consumed and destroyed entire villages. The surrounding forest no longer exists. We hear its chakra is nearly endless. It lies beyond Konohagakure. It must be tracked and stopped. Seal it away if you must. Refrain from using human hosts."
Kakashi and Aro nodded simultaneously. "When do we leave?" Kakashi pulled his eyes away from the girl and met Lady Hokage's gaze.
"As soon as possible." Lady Hokage said. "Do you understand what I have told you?"
"Hai," both said, inclining their heads.
"Good. You are dismissed."
Aro turned on her heel and was about to walk out the door, but Lady Hokage spoke.
"Get to know each other first. One slip up, and it could all end, there and then."