A/N: Naruto fic. Yaay!
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
The room was silent with shock, nobody moved, some people even held their breaths. Then suddenly, there was a burst of laughter coming from two people. Fuyaku Layuki was clutching her chest and laughing so hard that tears were almost spilling out of her eyes, long ebony hair fell and framed her petite figure as she leaned forward. The other person laughing, Inuzuka Kiba, was banging his fist on the desk and even Akamaru seemed to be rolling on his back in laughter. The rest of the occupants of the room were sitting and gaping at the scene that was happening. The class clown, Uzumaki Naruto, had fallen forwards and locked lips with the famous Uchiha Sasuke. The shock had passed over and the class was in an uproar. The girl, Fuyaku Layuki, stopped laughing and quickly moved away from her spot beside Sasuke to avoid being crushed by a group of crazed girls led by Haruno Sakura and Yamanaka Ino, who were blind with rage and intent on ripping Naruto to pieces.
"Nice one Shikamaru," Layuki said with a grin plastered on her face as she hopped into and empty seat to the right of her best friend, Nara Shikamaru, "you did that quite nicely." The lazy genius looked over at the girl, somewhat surprised that her usually unreadable stormy grey eyes were dancing with amusement.
"Troublesome woman," was all Shikamaru could say before the door opened and Iruka-sensei entered the room. Both Sakura and Ino sat down in the closest seats they could find by their precious Sasuke-kun.
"All of you in front of me are very close to becoming shinobi. Now, I will put you into three-man squads with a jounin leader," he paused and flipped through some papers, and read off the names of people in squads one through six. "Squad 7; Haruno Sakura, Uzumaki Naruto," at this Naruto had a triumphant expression on his face and Sakura had on a gloomy one, "and Uchiha Sasuke will be with Hatake Kakashi." Now Naruto was gloomy and Sakura was triumphant while Sasuke adopted his usual stoic face. After a short argument on why Naruto had to be on the same team as Sasuke, Iruka continued calling out the names.
"Squad 8; Hyuuga Hinata, Inuzuka Kiba, and Aburame Shino will be with Yuhi Kurenai. Squad 9; Rutake Kaoru, Rutake Karin, and Fuyaku Layuki will be with Izuku Rei" At this Layuki let out the breath she didn't know she was holding and looked at the red headed twins sitting in front of her and gave a smile, she had a great team. "Squad 10; Nara Shikamaru, Akimichi Chouji, Yamanaka Ino will be with Sarutobi Asuma." Then Iruka told them to meet their new senseis after they have eaten. Then, the thirty kids filed out of the room. Knowing full well that only half will be official shinobi at the end of the day.
Everybody had gone outside for lunch and Layuki decided to go in search of her new teammates. She moved her hand up to her neck and gripped the Konohagakure headband that she had placed there the night before. She still couldn't believe they had passed her. Sure she was a great student, second only to Uchiha Sasuke, but she skipped class so many times the past year that she was absent more times that she was there. She sighed, if she was to be a genin she would have to leave behind her childish antics and forget about the Fuyaku massacre the previous year.
Her elder sister, Fuyaku Satsuki, was, to say it bluntly, was in love with Uchiha Itachi and was devastated, not by the fact that he had slain his entire clan, but by the fact that he had left. More then a year after that she heard that he had joined the Akatsuki, an organization of S-ranked criminals. She had spent the next half-year training extra hard. Exactly two years after the slaughtering of the Uchiha clan, she had done exactly what the Uchiha had done, killed every member of her clan. All, except for her younger sister, Layuki. And then Fuyaku Satsuki left Konahagakure just like Itachi had years previously.
Layuki was extremely hurt after all this. Not because her clan had been slaughtered, but because her onee-chan had left her all on her own. For a short while, she was in denial. Saying to everyone that her sister didn't do it and would be coming home very soon. But time went on, and she gave up the charade, slowly returning to her old self. Layuki had never cared for her clan. Her mother had died giving birth to her and her father, who had hated her after that. Before she could even walk, nearly the whole clan was against her. Her mother was a medical nin for the clan alone; helping with problems in the bloodline ability. The clan made a decision and disowned her at the age of seven when she could walk and find food for herself. Her sister, twelve years old and a genin at this time, moved out of the clan households into an apartment in the middle of the village, and took care of her.
The only thing her clan had ever given her was her kekkei genkai. The Fuyaku clan was fairly well known and had a powerful bloodline limit called the Hirukagan. All members of the clan had dull and unattractive eyes, in which the pupils were always a tiny dot, in both light and dark. However, the Hirukagan could be activated at will and when it was in use the user's pupil expanded so much that none of the iris can be seen. This grants the user the ability to basically read another's mind. Layuki, for instance, when using her kekkei genkai could see a person's and memories. This was a high advantage in battle because she knew what her opponent planned to do before he actually did it. However, it required a steady stream of chakra to be used. Most of the time, it was reserved for emergencies. This was no problem though; many of the Fuyaku clan's shinobi were strong without it.
But unlike all the other shinobi who had suffered in their childhood, Layuki never showed or mentioned it. She was always smiling, laughing, talking to, yelling at, or insulting other people. It was her nature, and it was how she'd always acted. She was your average happy-go-lucky girl. Currently she was lost in thought and sitting down by a tree trunk. She was somewhat startled because she had not remembered sitting down but quickly got over it. It was then that she saw two flashes of red out of the corner of her eye. Looking up, she saw the Rutake twins, her new teammates standing in front of her with identical grins on their faces.
"We were looking for you," Karin started while pulling Layuki up to her feet.
"Yeah, we should probably go see Rei-sensei now…you're really short." Kaoru said surprised as his eyes opened wide. The surprise was unnecessary as they hadn't talked standing up face to face before this moment and Layuki barely reached his chin.
"Yes, I know I'm short, thanks for the reminder." She had tried to sound stern, but couldn't keep the corners of her lips twitching. If he said this a couple years earlier she would have began yelling, but now she knew and accepted that she had below average height. In fact, she took pride in it. Layuki gave in and gave them both a bright smile. "Well, what are we waiting for? Lets go!"
And squad 9 left for training ground number four, where they were due to meet Izuku Rei, their new sensei.
A/N: Thanks for reading!
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