LC; Chappie two from me to you.
Naruto; To show only one, we had so much fun.
Sasuke; Writing this story,
Sakura; To be very gory.
LC; Okay enough rhyming, on to the action!
Disclaimer; If I owned them I'd have something to do, wouldn't I?
Chapter 2; The past is history.
Ginka looked at his new class and sent a prayer to Kami the four years would just fly by already. Not only did he have a dozen clan heirs, but one of them was the Yondaime's!
Not to mention that class hadn't even started yet and he was desperatly eyeing each and every exit and was ready to make a dash for safety.
Clearing his throat, he prepared for the ultimate ninja academy teacher jutsu.
"Big head no jutsu." He whispered.
"GET TO YOUR SEATS!" He bellowed. Eventually it was only Kida who was standing, or really, walking to her seats. Sadly, the only availiable one was next to Tome.
She looked up from her book and stared coldly at the boy.
'This is going to be a long day.' Ginka decided.
The council had wanted to merge the Namikaze and Hatake clans, so the two eldest of each were betrothed to each other. Of course, them only being kids, they were kept in the dark.
The Yondaime made a big fuss about how it wasn't a good idea, but the council over ruled him. Kakashi and Iruka were ready to start fighting for their daughter, but that would've been treason.
"Alright class, today we'll be testing your skills to see where you are in training." He announced. "We'll go out to the dojo for a sparring tournament now."
He led them to the dojo and had them fighting two a time until only two students were left.
Kida Hatake had won against Sasuke Uchiha by taunting him until he lost his patience and attacked sloppily. Tome had won against Kiba Inuzuka, and the only reason he had won was because Kiba had sneezed, allowing him to get a lucky hit in.
Of course, if you told him that, he'd probably yell at you.
"So Whiskers, what did you do to sabotauge the Uchiha?" There was no way a girl could have defeated Sasuke after all. "What, slip something in his breakfast?"
Kida raised her brow and momentarily lowered her book.
"First off, if I was able to sneak something in his food, I would have had to break into the Uchiha compound, sneak into his kitchen, and find an oppurtune time to sneak whatever I wanted in his food, all without being seen."
Tome sweatdropped. He was fairly certain that was the most she'd ever said at one time, and it had all been stupid logic. "Point number two, I've been training since I was three, it's only logical I would be stronger than someone starting at six."
Again with her logic?
He saw red the moment he realized that the book was once again blocking her face from view, meaning she wasn't taking him seriously.
This was just a taijutsu spar, meaning weapons were forbidden, but at the moment, he just wanted her to hurt. He, being the hokage's son, had connections, so getting real kunai despite the fact he was just a brand new academy student wasn't hard at all.
So Kida wasn't the least bit surprised when she heard the clip of him unlocking his kunai pouch.
She hardly moved when the kunai flew at her. For a single moment Tome feared he would actually kill her. So it came as a shock to everyone when she merely tilted her head to one side to allow the kunai to sail by harmlessly.
"Now, now, teme," She scolded him. "this is a taijutsu match, meaning hand to hand combat. As in, weapons are a big no-no."
Tome growled before charging the imputent little girl who he secretly blamed whenever his father was dissappointed in him.
He feinted a punch and instead kicked her legs out from under her.
She used the momentum of the fall to power her back flip, putting her right at the edge of the ring.
"You gotta be faster than that Teme." She said teme like it was his name. The reason behind the name is when they had been playing together once, he'd accidently mispelled his name when they were writing their names.
Needless to say, the nickname had stuck.
The nickname was also the one thing that would drive Tome over the edge faster than any other insult. And that is percisely what it did.
No sooner had Kida closed her mouth than Tome was running at her, with his fist cocked.
Kida allowed herself an unseen smirk before deftly sidestepping the attack and pushing Tome over the edge of the circle.
"I win." She announced after he landed on the ground, with a rather nice thump might she add?
"Winner, Kida Hatake!" Ginka announced to the class. "Congratulations Kida, that was a very good example of playing on your opponent's weaknesses."
Slowly, he turned to Tome, ready to reprimand the boy with a verbal beating and a slap on the wrist.
"As for you Tome, hokage's son or not, what you did was disgraceful." He didn't yell, or raise his voice, but every student in the room took him very seriously.
"This was a taijutsu tournament, meaning no weapons." He continued coldly, eye balling the quaking child. "Yet you purposely threw a kunai at Kida, and had she not dodged, she would have been horribly scarred, or worse."
Tome could only take so much before he would start yelling again.
"She provoked and insulted me! It wasn't fair!" A small voice in his head told him he'd done the same, with far less effective results, but he chose to ignore it.
"Tome, I recall you using a very indecent word to describe Kida not half an hour ago." Ginka said coldly. "And if you listened carefully and exammined her language, you would see she wasn't really saying anything too insulting. Mostly she pointed out facts. The only insult I could find was her calling you teme."
Tome fumed for the rest of the school day. Not only did she beat him in taijutsu, but she did it in academics too! Her calm voice next to him made his anger rise even further as she answered a question on what chakra was.
But no one was perfect. Little Kida had to have a weakness, and he would find it if it was the last thing he did! He watched her the entire day but couldn't find anything that set her off.
She wasn't bothered with Shino's bugs. No insult sent her into a rage. And if someone stepped on her foot, she acted like she hadn't felt it!
Tome just knew that he was going to have his work cut out for him to find Hatake's weakness.
At the end of the day, Kida was just about at her limit. Having Tome watch her like she was some strange new toy was disturbing enough, but the fact she learned nothing new also irked her.
She thought going to the academy garunteed learning new things about being a shinobi. But all she heard was a review of the things Kaa-san had taught her for years!
The fact that Tome was now following her home made her bad mood complete.
Now, there was one thing that Kida loved to do after a bad day. And that would be to mess with someone important and test out her skills.
With the stealth of an assassin's daughter, Kida made the seals for a henge while she was walking through a young couple so she appeared to be a young blonde girl.
Tome jumped back onto the roof and searched for the distinguishable red hair before realizing that one moment he had blinked alowed her to get away.
"Damnit!" He cursed. "I'm going to find her weakness if it's the last thing I do!" He swore to the heaven's.
"With the way your yelling, it very well may be." Tome jumped about a mile and turned to see the red masked Kida smirking at him.
The fact he couldn't see the smirk, but knew it was there, didn't sit well with him.
Kida made it back to the Hatake compound and had to resist the urge to groan as she caught her parents fondling eachother in the hallway.
"Don't mind me, just a mentally scarred kid coming back from a boring day of school." She sighed, skirting around the edges while her parents merely deepened their kiss.
In her room, she lowered her mask in relief and lowered all the window blinds in the process. Once free from prying eyes she proceded to go about cooling down from her frustrating day.
She removed from her person several uncomfortable articles that she never left home without. Them being pepper spray, (Her father threatened her that if she ever got caught without it he would ground her till she made ANBU) soilder pills, (Again, her over protective father) Several rolls of bandages, (XP Dear old dad) and a small shuriken sized knife that had been strung around her neck. (You'd be amazed what a tiny little dagger could do to a man.)
As dissappointed as she was in the critia being taught, she knew being in the academy did hold an advantage. It meant she could have an alibi for when she pulled her pranks.
She had been plotting for a rather nasty one to pull on the Hokage monument for some time now. Her pranks were her idea to keep the ANBU on their toes. It was amazing how slack they could get in times of peace!
So she figured it was a win win situation. She got to practice her stealth and the ANBU got extra training and the village ended up safer.
She stretched her tired muscles before deciding to go out for some extra training. After all, if she wanted to graduate early then she had to make sure she was up to par.
Besides, there was no way she'd be able to go four years with Tome in the same building, let alone the same classroom.
She looked down at the biography lying on her bed and made a decision. She would go and buy a new book. She'd long ago memorized everything in it anyway, so she could recite the entirety of it if she wanted to.
She got some money out of her sealing scroll at the bottom of an old shoebox in her closet and left. Her thoughts wandered though, all the way back to that little shoebox.
Inside it were her most prized possessions. A blue blanket with a red swirl, a red fox plushie she used to sleep with but had never thrown away, two diaries, and a scroll.
To this day she didn't know where the scroll had come from, or what was inside it. On it, in what she used to think was pretty squiggles, was her name in kanji.
Well, it was her first name anyway. It said Kida Uzumaki. After some time, she began to wonder if maybe Uzumaki had been her parents' surname.
However, when she had researched that name two years ago, she'd found nothing on any Uzumakis. Well, except for the passage about the first hokage's wife, who was an Uzumaki.
However, she was fairly certain she was in no way related to the first's wife.
Her wonderings had brought her to the front of the book store sooner than expected and only the bell on the door could wake her from her ponderings.
She looked aroung the many aisles of books until she felt the inexplicable draw of one in particular. It had a yellow binding, reminding her of her father's book, but the title was different.
"Tales of a Gutsy Ninja?" She read, picking up the worn piece of literature. It was covering in a faint layer of dust and had obviously been there a long time. To her amazement, it seemed it had been written by the same man who wrote her father's books.
Otherwise known as Jaraiya the toad sannin.
Without a second thought she payed for the book along with a scroll with an interesting list of C-level wind jutsu. She left the store feeling slightly curious as to her new choice.
Instead of going back to her home, where she just knew her parents would be acting out one of the scenes from ICHA ICHA, she went to one of the training grounds.
It was one used by academy students, and was being used by a single boy at the time. He had long black hair that hung like silk into a low ponytail. And when he turned ever so slightly, she saw his eyes were a milky white.
The boy looked about a year older then her, and from the sweat covering the visible parts of his body, he'd been training for some time now.
"Yo, Hyuga!" She called out, leaning against a tree, tossing her bag down. "Mind if I join you?"
Neji looked up from where he was practicing against a bandage wrapped log to see a red haired and masked girl with startling blue eyes.
She was small, though he doubted she was much younger then he. Probably only a year. He'd been in the academy for a year, this was the start of his second. Already he had the reputation of a genius and as such no one wanted to challenge him for fear of being beaten.
He didn't really care until it started affected his training. Without someone to train against he couldn't accurately judge how much he'd progressed.
"Would you be willing to spar?" He asked her. It was probably only her first year in the academy, so she wouldn't know much, but it never hurt to see how he fared against other possible geniuses.
"Thought you'd never ask." Kida smirked, taking a relaxed stance.
Neji raised a brow at the stance before remembering she would only have been in the academy for about a day.
He made the first move, darting forward before quickly ducking down to kick her legs out from under her. Instead of falling victim to gravity however, Kida merely jumped at the last second before sending a roundhouse kick to Neji's head.
Neji managed to duck to dodge the kick and even got an uneven kick out in the process.
Kida had to flip backwards in order to avoid that before she took the initiative and charged forward. She cocked her fist back and feinted to the left before aiming her other hand at the right.
Caught between manuvers, Neji was unable to dodge this one and got caught just above the jaw line.
They seperated to catch their breath. Neji's eyes were shining in anticipation. It had been too long since someone had worn him out so quickly in a fight.
Kida herself was grinning behind her mask as she began getting pumped for a real fight. No holding back, this boy could handle her level of strength, unlike her peers.
"So what's your name?" She asked him, before promptly giving her own.
"Kida Hatake eh?" He repeated, raising a single brow. 'The daughter of the copy cat nin?' "I'm Neji Hyuga."
She bowed her head respectfully, which he returned, before they again clashed.
The sun was just starting to set, and it found two academy students lying, panting, on the grass in a clearing. Their feet were to eachother, as they had collapsed when facing eachother.
"Man Neji, you really put me through the ringer." Kida gasped, desperatly trying to give her lungs some much needed oxygen.
"Your strong for someone who just started at the academy." Neji in turn panted out. It was like this girl was some kind of ticking time bomb! So much destructive power in an unthreatening package!
"I've been training for a couple years now." She giggled, liking how much emotion she'd gotten out of the Hyuga. Most Hyuga, Hinata being the exception that proved the rule, were stoic and stuck up as a rule.
After making plans to meet again same time tommorrow, the two parted ways. Kida (Thankfully) remembered her bag of books and brought them back to her house, where her parents were (Again, thankfully) not acting their age.
They seemed to be laughing at a photo album.
"What'cha looking at?" Kida asked lazily, looking over one of her new books. Kakashi grinned when he saw his daughter and motioned for her to come over.
After doing so she found what was so funny. It seemed they had found a picture of Kakashi's dad as a baby, without any clothes, strutting through the living room for all to see.
At least, she hoped it was her father's dad. Otherwise she would never be able to look at him the same way again.
"Please tell me that is the White Fang of the Leaf and that no one else has ever seen this picture." She begged. She'd never live it down if Tome found it.
"It is my father, and no, no one else has seen it." Kakashi assured her.
Kida made it up to her room and began the debate to see which book she would read first. On one hand, the scroll had jutsu, something she liked and her father refused to teach her. 'Your too young, ha! He was a freakin genin at five!'
Then on the other hand, this book would probably be good. Her father clearly thought highly of this author as he was never seen without his book. She'd asked to read it once and had gotten the same answer as when she asked for jutsu training. 'Your too young.'
In the end she chose the book as it was late and would provide good bed time reading material.
She refused to put the book down even when sleep made her eyelids heavy and she started to yawn. It was better than she had expected, though she wondered as to why her father thought she was too young for this author's books.
She shrugged it off and continued reading about the hero, Naruto, who fought against evil shinobi. Personally, she pictured evil shinobi as ninja wearing long black cloaks.
That night, she dreamt she was the heroin, battling the forces of evil. All the evil guys took the face of Tome, so it was easy to beat them up and win.
The next morning she read the book again on her way to school. Sure, the academy was a waste of time and she'd much rather stay at home to help her mom, but, and she quote, 'You need to meet kids your own age.'
Of course, Tome was a year younger than her, so he didn't count, did he? If not, then she could pretend not to know him the whole day.
The more she thought about the idea, the more promising it seemed to her.
Yes, she would most likely enjoy watching him squirm as she ignored him. Cue evil laugh.
This time she was second to arrive. Apparently Shikamaru had decided it would be less troublesome to leave his house, (coughmomcough) early.
As such, since he had just woken up and walked all the way there, he wasn't able to immediatly fall back to sleep. So he was at least awake when Kida walked through the door with her nose in a book, as usual.
The other day he had watched her interaction with Tome closely. It was barely noticable, but the two did seem a lot alike. They had the same face shape, eye color, and same height.
The way they argued with eachother brought to mind a brother and sister rivalry. As far as he and anyone else knew, the Yondaime didn't have an illegitimate kid.
However, there was a small possibility. After all, thought not many knew, Kida was adopted.
He spent a few more seconds inspecting her stance as she sat next to him before his eyelids began to grow heavy. These thoughts were troublesome and tiring.
He sighed before relenting and allowing the inevitable happen. He was asleep before his head hit the desk. He would ponder more on this mystery later.
Kida would have to be blind not to notice Shikamaru's gaze, but she kept quiet about it. However, the loud thump of his head hitting the desk made her jump.
She was just glad no one had been there to see her do it. She smiled ruefully before going back to her favorite chapter. Naruto was fighting with everything he had to defeat the enemy shinobi and protect his village when-
A loud screeching suddenly registered in her mind and she looked up to an amazing sight.
Somehow, she'd been so engrossed in her book to notice the time. By now everyone had gotten to class and the screeching was two girls, Sakura and Ino, fighting over who would sit next to Sasuke and Tome.
She looked to her right, and saw Shikamaru, she looked to her left, and saw Tome and Sasuke both sitting side by side next to her.
All her previous plans to ignore them flew from her mind as she realized how close Tome was to her.
"Tome, normally I would scold you for cowering at anything at all, however I've heard lots of stories about fangirls and I shall make an exception." She told him, glad for the mask that hid her smirk.
"I'm not cowering!" He protested. "I'm..." He took a thoughtful expression. "Well, just a little."
"I'm so glad I don't have any fanboys." Kida sighed, going back to her nice safe book.
Ginka was only on day two for teaching the gaki (Future genin, future genin, kami help us all) and he had one thing to say.
"What did I do to deserve this?" Seriously, he must've pissed off some diety or another to get this fate.
He pushed those thoughts out of his head and ran a quick survey to see how much damage had been done.
Let's see, Tome and Sasuke both trying to avoid being molested, Kida reading a book, Shikamaru sleeping, Chouji eating from an endless bag of chips (Where do they come from!) Kiba yelling about how Tome and Sasuke were both temes, Sakura fighting with Ino over who would sit next to one of the previously mentioned boys, Kida smirking as she watched Tome try to hide behind her, Hinata wisely taking a seat in the far corner to avoid being hurt by the loud crowd, some kids throwing a desk, wait, a desk? Shino is playing with his bugs, no wait, he's protecting them from Akamaru who seems intent on peeing on them, Kiba isn't noticing what his dog is doing, Shikamaru just woke up and is muttering something, Chouji shrugs and pulls another bag out of nowhere! Where is he getting those!
Ginka sighed and closed his eyes, placing hands on hips. He quickly took roll before performing his quickly becoming favorite jutsu, big head no jutsu.
"SHUT YOUR YAPS AND SIT DOWN!" He ordered harshly.
Today was just another day in the Leaf. Yep, just another day in Hell.
LINEYEPLINEYEPLINELINELION'SLINELINELINELINE!
LC; Finally!
Naruto; You love torturing teachers don't you?
LC; What was your first clue?
Sasuke; Making them marry eachother, seriously?
LC;...First, no one knows their related. Second...GET YOUR MIND OUT OF THE GUTTER!
Sasuke; It wasn't there! I swear! *Looks frantically for emergency exit*
LC; Well, review soon!
