Hey this is my second chapter… trying to fit this in during exams is so much fun (sarcasm rules!). So hopefully this gets better. Just so you know the story will get quite different through the story-line and things and some of the characters will be a bit OOC sorry, I will try stick to it as much as I can. Please review so I know what is good and what is bad. etc yadda yadda.
BEGIN!
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Bang! Bang! Bang! I sat up and half choked on the wiry, silver-blue nest that was my bed hair. A man was standing at the door looking rather bored by the time I had gotten to the door. Well it did take me a while… what after getting dressed and fixing my hair back into a braid. He sighed, looked me up and down once and then motioned for me to follow him before walking off down the stairs. I quickly collected all of my homemade shuriken and the silver kunai my father had left me, with the blue diamond that belonged to my grandmother dangling from a leather cord that was tied to the handle. The diamonds blood red center glowed. I held it for a moment longer before concealing it within the folds of my clothes. I dashed after the ninja and followed him through the streets to the large building that loomed in the distance.
Lady Tsunade welcomed me as we entered her office with a slight smile in her eyes that gave me the feeling that she was being cautious of me. "This is Nara Shikamaru, one of the higher ranked of our younger ninjas," she said with an air of proudness in her deep voice. Shikamaru sighed and looked at the clouds out of the window, ignoring what slight praise the Hokage lady had bestowed on him. The vein on her forehead twitched in annoyance. She turned to me and proceeded to tell me that he would show me around etc. Why would the Hokage assign a high rank ninja to be the one who showed me around when he could be used to help on the mission? I wondered. I definitely wasn't needed because of lacking numbers then.
The travelers from the hidden villages handed out information about this place far too easily…I mean what if I was intending to attack the Hokage? Not a bad idea I considered for a minute… I mean the Hokage did seem to be a bit on the weird side and she didn't seem that strong. But I knew better than to underestimate an opponent, especially one who had been made Hokage of a village.
The next thing I knew I was standing next to a sickly smiling pink haired girl, a blonde guy and an emotional looking dark blue haired guy with pitch black eyes. We were listening to the instructions of the Hokage telling us about the details of the mission. Tsunade had shown me my team, the dark haired boy, Sasuke, the blonde one, Naruto and the pink haired girl was Sakura. I had never seen up close what happened in these ninja missons but we were getting a c rank mission and those seemed to be hard… very hard. I gulped and the girl looked at me and smiled again making my heart sink. She seemed to be a bit annoying with her attempts at an expressive conversation and I wished she would just leave me the hell alone. I turned to my other side only to see the hyperactive blonde haired kid (with… whiskers?) grinning manically at me, I groaned, this was going to be a long mission. I was surrounded by idiots on all sides, literally.
We set into a big forest with bushes and trees(stating the obvious much?) that split in half by a sandy path and was full of mini clearings of grass. I thought about the mission to come. I couldn't escape these ninja easily if this got out of hand. If I went out of control they could kill me instantly and I wouldn't be able to get away.
FLASHBACK.
I was hiding behind the large trunk of the tree, off the side of a beaten forest track, watching as the traveler passed by. I saw the food he was carrying, I was still too young to understand, only 8 at the time. My tummy made a loud growling noise at me and I shushed it, returning my gaze to the man. His ears twitched and he started to search the trees for what was watching him. I panicked and grasped the tree to my back, my chest heaving up and down with a frightened breath. My heart pounded out of my chest and I knew he would hear it as he got closer.
A twig snapped closer. I needed to get out of there, fast. I leapt upwards, aiming for the branch above my head. A hand clasped over my ankle, mid-flight and I was thrown against the tree trunk, winded. My vision blurred black at the edges and I was swimming in and out of consciousness. I shook myself awake and my arms started shaking, the man, clearly a ninja, backed away slightly, as if sensing something was wrong. My eyes changed and sharpened, my chakra started to burn down my spine, engulfing my body in a cold, white flame. I looked at him, he had light blonde hair but his eyes were black. His face however showed fear, in fact it showed only that expression.
Then as I stood up, his eyes widened at mine. They had started flaming, the blue darkened to almost black and changed to blade-like dots and the violet swirled behind the darkness and blended together, flickering. I could sense the water all around me and without meaning to I dragged it out of every living thing within a giant sphere of the forest. As a giant swirl of the crystal liquid slithered around my body the ninjas eyes sunk in and he became hollow looking to my horror. I flicked my eyes up into his and the water, with a mind of its own boiled itself and the forest became shrouded in mist.
The man's mouth opened up in a scream as the water drilled itself into his now frail body. It stained red from the force and then froze through his body for a split second before it evaporated away into nothing, leaving the empty form of the ninja's lifeless body. I slumped down to the ground as tears spilled over my cheeks. Scrambling to the bag of food he had dropped by the road, I shakily made my way back home to eat.
NOW.
I swallowed back the waterworks at the memory; I hated crying as much as I hated people who killed puppies. I laughed humorlessly and a Naruto looked at me funny, I glared at him.
*time lapse*
I took off into the treetops, followed by the other ninja who scattered off into the bushes. My team had decided to split up to look for a place to sleep. We had been traveling for hours and there were no villages nearby. We decide to split up and search for a place to sleep and then meet back at the clearing half an hour later. The mission had begun, I was screwed.
I pressed myself against the rough bark of the tree, focusing my chakra to my feet and sprinted to the top. I needed to find a vantage point, somewhere I could find a good place to sleep, I thought more about myself than the others, hoping for something cold and icy… just the way I liked it. I needed to make an area I was comfortable in or I would suffocate, I needed a snowy mountain terrain. I scaled the land and my eyes came to rest on a high, rocky cliff on the far side of the horizon.
I leapt through the treetops on my way to the rocks in search of a cave. I heard a snap alongside me as I ran so I dropped down instantly only to find a kunai knife at my throat. The red eyes that looked at me, surrounding three black dots the swirled around a black iris were terrifying. Not only because they looked scary but because they seemed familiar… I realised I was looking into the eyes of Sasuke Uchiha, I shivered. It was one of my team-mates though. He had black hair that spiked out at the back, he glared at me for a second and focused his sharingan on my ice-blue eyes and his eyebrows furrowed in an angled slope. I wondered why he was trying to attack a team member.
I pushed against the pressure he was drilling on my mind. He seemed to be… struggling? Then I remembered that I could change my eyes too, maybe that meant I was stronger than him? I morphed my eyes and recalled how they sharpened and became more defined. I felt the slight cold-fire pain as my chakra increased and flowed out to my fingertips. I kept control though, struggling not to show the ice crystals that were forming on my fingertips. The boy faltered a little and his hands started shaking. But then, so did mine but for a whole other reason. "You- You're an-" he choked out, removing the knife from my throat. He looked at me suspiciously.
He could be a useful member being the last Uchiha other than-… I shuddered; I thought that he seemed to be the only sane one in the group. I guessed he was just suspicious as to who I was. I didn't blame him, getting a new team member on the first day of missions week isn't exactly a great help. Not if they hadn't had training. However… I had taught myself a lot more than any ninja school could. With help from the scroll I found in the hut that had belonged to my father.
"Is that some type of sharingan?" He asked with an astonished look. I stared at Sasuke, it couldn't be! But really I didn't know. Damn it! This boy was confusing me! "I dunno, could be," I retorted. He glared curiously at me. Crap. It had been less than half an hour into the exams and already someone knew some of my secret. Man I wish I knew who my father was right now, however my mother was long gone, she was dead according to the scroll left for me. My father was a ninja and must have been strong if he gave me the ability to learn those complicated jutsu without hand actions. I was sure he was a great ninja, a good, strong and powerful one. I remembered him being kind to me, but then he left and didn't come back for me. I sighed out loud. Sasuke looked both ways before pulling me along after him.
