-Chapter 1: The Wandering Kunoichi Appears-
An hour before dawn….
A lone figure appeared, wearing a black, tattered cloak with its hood pulled low over their head so you couldn't see anything but a black mask that had wrinkles in it giving anyone the impression that the stranger was frowning. Exactly what the stranger was frowning about no one could conclude.
The stranger sat atop a black stallion that was built like a machine with is' black mane and black eyes as each trotting step made the stranger's presence ever so closer and closer to the gates of Konohagakure no Sato.
"Halt stranger! You must present a passport or license before entering the Village Hidden in the Leaves. If you do not have either then tell us your business for entering our village or turn around and be on your way," a gate guard appeared and said briskly when the stranger came within 10 feet from the gate.
The stranger dug into one of the many pockets on the inside of their cloak and withdrew a piece of paper and wordlessly gave it to the gate guard who read it suspiciously.
The gate guard did an intake of breath as his eyes widened when he read the contents of the letter.
"Oh, my apologies miss. I'll let you in immediately, if you continue along this path it'll lead you to a big red tower. That's the Hokage Tower where you'll find the Sandaime. Open the gate," the gate guard and called out to the shinobi who were working the gate.
The Stranger nodded and took back the note and tucked it back into her cloak before nudging the horse forward through the now open gates and within the confines of Konoha.
30 minutes later……
The Sandaime hummed after he finished the letter the same stranger gave him when he or she arrived moments before.
"I see, so you are the new student. Well before you can be put on a squad I need to teach and test you on three E-rank level jutsus. Oh, and you can take off the cloak, no need to be shy," The Sandaime said to the stranger.
The stranger nodded and undid the clasp that held the stranger's cloak around their neck and it slowly fell to reveal a girl of no more than 13 years of age. She was very beautiful and you could tell she was in the beginning-middle of her developing stages to woman hood.
She came to the height of 5'7". Long, raven black hair that was pulled back into a high, french-braided ponytail with a few bangs going down the side of her head stopping at her collar bone and a few more bangs falling dangerously into her narrowed midnight blue eyes framed by thick, long eyelashes and clean eyebrows, the braid itself went all the way to her heels. She wore a black mask over the lower half of her face covering her mouth and nose.
What was strange was the kunoichi's attire. Over the torso was a sleeveless, black, fishnet shirt and over the top of the fishnet shirt was another sleeveless shirt only this one was a see-through midnight blue material; the shirt slanted down to the left and ended at her left hip. Over the midnight blue shirt was a black, spandex, sports-bra like sleeveless shirt that ended just past her developing B-cup chest. In the middle of the black shirt on her back was a weird symbol. It was a crimson red sun inside of a silver, crescent moon. (A/N: You know where you have a crescent moon and in between the two points of the crescent moon is the sun-I'll try to draw a picture and scan it into my profile.) She wore black spandex biker shorts that ended at the mid-thigh. Over the shorts was a midnight blue see-through cloth that was tied at her right hip and draped down at an angle and stopped at a point just above the outside of her left knee.
On the kunoichi's arms were black wrappings that went from the knuckles on her hand to her elbows. Over the black wrappings she wore black fingerless gloves that had silver guards on them. Also over the black wrappings were cloth arm bands the cloth being midnight blue see-through and started at the middle of her biceps and ended at her wrists with a slit on each side going all the way up to the top of the band. (A/N: Again I'll try to draw a picture and scan it into my profile so you guys aren't confused, if any of you are an artist and can draw, and know how to use a scanner, feel free to try to draw my character and ask for my e-mail or put it in your profile so I can look at it and tell you if it's correct or not. I'm a realistic drawer and suck at anime drawing)
On the Kunoichi's legs were the same black wrappings but no midnight blue, see-through cloth band on top. The black wrappings ran from just below the knee cap to the arch of the foot and black ninja sandals on her feet. But on top of the black wrappings were two pairs of sais in sai holsters, one on the inside of her calves and the other pair on the outside. The ones on her outer calves had a regular black hilt with a blue line around the middle of the hilt; the blade of the sai was a midnight blue color with a black dragon engraved in black paint on the sides of the blade. The pair of sais on her inner calves also had a regular black hilt but had a crimson red line running down on each side of the hilt; the blade of the sais was a crimson red color with a black phoenix engraved in black paint on the blades.
In the middle of each thigh was a kunai holster each that had been bound to the thigh with regular white wrappings. On each hip was your standard shuriken holster and along the back of her shorts at the waist band were six black scroll containers. In front the shuriken holster on her right hip was a silver horn tied to the cloth; in front of the shuriken holster on her left hip was a katana in a black sheath with blue wrappings around the black hilt. Two more katanas were strapped on her back in criss cross X fashion, with red wrappings around their black hilts.
"Care to tell me who you are?" the Sandaime inquired for the Kunoichi's name wasn't written in the letter.
"Serena Drystilia (A/N: Last name pronounced-Driss-stil-ya) Sandaime-sama," a smooth voice answered from the kunoichi.
"You're thee Serena Drystilia? The Wandering Kunoichi?" the Sandaime said in awe with his eyes wide as he stared at the legendary kunoichi before him.
"Yes, Sandaime-sama. Now meaning to be disrespectful but may we please commence with the three E-rank jutsus you must teach me? I need to find a place to stay if I am going to live in the Village Hidden in the Leaves," Serena said trying to get back on track.
"Ah, yes of course. Forgive me Serena-san. Anyhow the three E-rank jutsus are the Bunshin no Jutsu, Henge no Jutsu, and Kawarimi no Jutsu," the Sandaime informed her.
Serena nodded and spoke, "I already know Kawarimi no Jutsu and Henge no Jutsu, you only have to show me the hand signs for Konoha's version of Bunshin no Jutsu."
"You do? Well that makes things a lot easier, but one question, how is it that you already know how to do the Kawarimi no Jutsu and Henge no Jutsu?" The Sandaime asked suspiciously.
"Why do you think I'm called the Wandering Kunoichi? I travel from village to village to learn new things to apply to my own skills as a kunoichi so of course I would have to learn Henge no Jutsu and Kawarimi no Jutsu," Serena explained as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
"Ah, that explains it. Anyway, let's get to work on that Bunshin no Jutsu, shall we?" the Sandaime suggested trying to change the subject.
Surprisingly, Serena was very fast learner as she only had to practice the jutsu twice to get it down.
"Alright for the test, produce 3 bunshin and then do a henge and kawarimi," the Sandaime requested.
Serena nodded and brought her hands up to do the necessary hand signs and said, "Bunshin no Jutsu." And did what the Hokage asked of her after that.
"Well you've gotten all of the jutsus down, congratulations you've passed. Here is your Hitae-ate and since class starts in 30 minutes at the Ninja Academy and you need to be there for the team placings I suggest you go there first after this. Ask for Iruka's class he's the one you need to give this note to, it explains that you are a new student and are to be placed on Team 7. Welcome to Konoha Serena-san, may your skills be a great asset to the shinobi of the Hidden Leaf Village," the Sandaime said after handing Serena a folded up, note.
"Thank you, Sandaime-sama," Serena said bowing to the Hokage and then she picked up her cloak and left the room.
35 minutes later…….
Serena finally found the Ninja academy and was now currently standing beside a man who was knocking on the door to a classroom. The instructor who was currently giving a lecture to the newly graduated genin stopped speaking at the interrupting knock cutting off his droning voice before there was a couple of footsteps and then the door slid open to reveal a chuunin instructor with his brown hair up in a ponytail and a scar across his nose.
"May I help you?" the instructor inquired after seeing the man standing out in the hall with Serena behind him, her cloak back on but with the hood down and hitae-ate tied to her forehead.
"You have an additional genin to pair up, she just arrived today," the man said as Serena handed the chuunin she assumed to be Iruka the note the Hokage gave her.
"Oh, alright. Well then if you'll come in I'll introduce you to the class and get started," Iruka said to Serena after reading the note and then turned and walked back to his desk as Serena followed in and closed the door.
Conscious of everyone's stares, Serena took her place next to Iruka and faced the class with an expressionless face.
"Class we have a new student that will be joining us. She's already passed the exam and is a genin just like the rest of you. Unfortunately since she makes the class an odd number there will be one team that consists of 4 genin instead of the usual 3," Iruka explained.
There was a unison of groaning and one genin glared daggers at Serena who threw it right back at him making the genin gulp.
"Now would you like to tell the class who you are and a little something about yourself?" Iruka directed this question at the kunoichi next to him.
"My name is Serena Drystilia and people know me by the title the Wandering Kunoichi and that's all I will tell you for now," Serena said monotonously.
There was a collective gasp as everyone stared at Serena.
"You're the Wandering Kunoichi?" the same genin that glared at her blurted out.
"Yeah, what of it?" Serena said slowly her arms now crossed as she quirked an eyebrow at the genin.
"You can't be her. I heard that the victims that survived the Wandering Kunoichi's wrath said that it was full grown woman that attacked them. You look no older than 13," a kunoichi from the back accused.
"Haven't you ever heard of the phrase 'Looks can be deceiving?'" Serena countered.
The kunoichi blushed in embarrassment and shot Serena a dirty look.
"Well Serena if you would please take a seat next to Sasuke Uchiha we can continue on with the Team placings," Iruka said to Serena.
Shrugging off the glares she just got from all of the females in the classroom, Serena spoke, "That's great and all but which one's Sasuke Uchiha?"
Now the female population looked appalled as if Serena had just committed some sort of crime and the male population looked amused well except for one boy who had raven black hair that stuck up at the back like a chicken's ass and onyx eyes. He looked slightly curious at the girl I mean it's not every day you wake up and come across a kunoichi that doesn't know who you are.
"How could you not know the hottest guy in Konoha?" a blonde with a high ponytail said dreamily obviously a fangirl.
"Squealer, I just got to this village an hour and a half ago. IT took me 15 minutes to get to the Hokage tower, 5 minutes to be taught and tested by the Hokage himself and 30 minutes to come and find this academy. Not exactly a whole lot of time to take the time to get to know the town on who is whom so forgive me if I'm not exactly jumping up and down with joy at the thought of sitting next some stranger I don't even know. I'm also taking a shot in the dark here but I'm guessing from the too much make up plastered on your face and all of the skin you're showing you probably spend al of your time and looks for this Sasuke Uchiha who's probably some arrogant, cold hearted bastard that only cares about himself. Wake up blondie (Quick note: I have nothing against blonde's I only be a bitch to them when they are a bitch to me) and stop daydreaming on cloud nine about some guy who'll never take a second glance in your direction unless you're someone he respects or you might as well stop being a kunoichi. This is the real world, as a full fledged ninja you must be prepared to make the choices your parents would never even think of considering. This is this ninja world you either must kill or be killed and in order to be the former you must train as hard as you can until you tear your muscles and break your bones so you'll be strong enough to not end up as the ladder," Serena snapped at the blonde as she glared coldly at her.
Serena didn't mean to be so rude but those types of girls really piss her off. They give kunoichis that actually work hard to be strong a bad name and that blonde really needed a slap in the face to wake up and face reality.
The blonde, everyone could tell was both embarrassed and pissed at being told off by some raven haired bitch that didn't even know her. What was funny though was those words hit more close to home than anything else.
The chicken haired onyx eyed boy didn't bother to hide his amused grin along with the rest of the male population. One less fangirl is a plus in his eyes although the arrogant, cold hearted bastard comment did piss him off a little bit.
One pink haired kunoichi did snicker at the embarrassed and angry blonde.
"And what are you laughing about pinky? I bet you do the same thing just a tad bit weaker than the blondie from the chakra levels I sense from you and her," Serena rounded on the pink unsuspecting kunoichi who immediately got red from embarrassment and anger and was about to through some form of insult back but Iruka decided to intervene before things got uglier.
"That's enough Serena-san! You may take your seat next to Sasuke-san. Sasuke-san would you please raise your hand so Serena-san will know who you are?" Iruka said sternly.
Sasuke raised his hand and Serena inwardly groaned when she saw him.
"I hate it when I'm right! And what's with the hairstyle? Does he think he'll look cool posing as a chicken's ass?" Serena thought as she walked up the stairs and squeezed past his chair and plopped down in the empty chair next to him.
"Stop staring it's annoying," Serena droned when she felt the Uchiha's onyx eyes on her.
"You know you just made enemies with all of the female population for what you just said?" Sasuke pointed out with a raised eyebrow.
"Forgive, Mr. Chicken-ass-hair if I don't give a damn," Serena drawled sarcastically as she rolled her eyes.
"Hn, don't say I didn't warn you," Sasuke said and turned and faced Iruka who had continued to speak.
"I will now call out the teams, the genin that belong to that team, and their jounin instructor. First off Team 7, this is the team that has the four shinobi in it. First there's the new student Serena Drystilia, Sakura Haruno, Naruto Uzumaki, and Sasuke Uchiha. Your Jounin instructor is Hatake Kakashi," Iruka said.
Serena didn't bother to hold back her groan as she banged her forehead down on the desk a couple of times as Naruto and Sakura both cheered wand groaned while Sasuke watched in silent amusement as Serena abused the poor desk with her forehead.
"Why does Kami have to be such a sadist?" Serena said aloud.
"Kami? Sadistic?" Sasuke asked dubiously.
"Yeah, you see I'm stuck with a team that consist of a fangirl, a loud mouth that probably couldn't find the word silence if he looked it up in the dictionary, and a cold hearted, arrogant bastard that has his hair in the shape of chicken's ass," Serena replied in annoyance.
Sasuke scowled. "Stop calling me that!" he snapped in his own annoyance.
"Which one? Cold hearted, arrogant bastard or chicken ass hair?" Serena fired back.
"Both they're annoying, " Sasuke growled with a frown and a glare.
"Fine then I'll call you Sunshine," Serena simply responded with a shrug.
Sasuke scowled that nickname was more annoying than the last two put together.
Lunch time….
Serena sat with her horse outside the ninja academy on a swing that was hooked to a tree as she ate her lunch from a bento, enjoying the sun and breeze.
When she was half way done a shadow fell over her and she turned and saw Sasuke standing there with his hands in his pockets. Serena raised an eyebrow at the Uchiha prodigy.
"Ok, what do you want?" She asked him when he didn't look like he was going to say anything anytime soon.
"All of my fangirls are trying to get me to eat lunch with them. You seem to be the only non-fangirl I have that can stand up for herself," Sasuke started saying as he looked at her.
"And? What's your point?" Serena asked before taking a bite of some rice.
"I'm staying here with you," Sasuke said as he plopped down in between the tree and the swing Serena was sitting on.
Serena started choking on the rice in her mouth and had to pound her fist on her chest to clear her throat before turning to Sasuke with an annoyed expression.
"You are not going to use me as a shield just because I'm a strong, non-fangirl! Now go away and let me finish my lunch in peace," She snapped at him as she used her hand to shoo him away.
"Make me! Besides I'm not doing anything to you. You can just sit there and finish your lunch and I'll just sit here quietly and enjoy the scenery," Sasuke said simply.
"Chicken-ass haired jerk," Serena hissed at him before she turned back to her food and resumed eating.
"Hn," was all Sasuke uttered before he started to scrutinize her as she ate.
"Why do you wear that cloak? Don't you get hot?" Sasuke couldn't help but ask.
"I thought you said you were going to be quiet while I eat?" Serena countered with a question of her own after she took a gulp of water.
"I can't ask questions?" Sasuke re-countered with his question.
"I wear this cloak because it's my travel cloak and haven't had the time to take it off and stow it away," Serena just answered with a sigh.
"Well you have time now-why not take it off now?" Sasuke pointed out.
"Because I don't want to. Now can you shut up so I can get back to eating?" Serena snapped gritting her teeth as she glared at him.
Sasuke rolled his eyes and nodded and Serena once again turned back to her food.
Once done, Serena put her bento back together and got off of the swing to take the few steps over to her horse and stowed the bento and chopsticks in her knapsack behind the saddle. Opening another bag she took out two apples to feed her horse.
"Hey, boy, got a treat for you," Serena said as she held one apple under the horse's nose and mouth.
The horse's ears perked up as he smelled the treat and ate the apple out of Serena's hand.
"What's the name of your horse?" Sasuke asked curiously.
"Drys, if you must know," Serena turned and answered.
Then Sasuke got up and walked up to Serena with one of his hands held out.
"What?" Serena asked not knowing what the chicken haired boy was after.
"May I feed that other apple to your horse?" he muttered. Secretly he liked horses all shapes and sizes.
"You want to feed Drys an apple?" Serena asked her voice full of doubt as she raised an eyebrow.
"Is it a crime?" Sasuke countered.
Serena narrowed her eyes suspiciously before surrendering the apple over to Sasuke's hand. "Just don't do anything to my horse," she said before stepping aside.
So Sasuke, under the wary gaze of Serena, fed Drys the apple while petting his nose and neck.
"I guess he's not so bad. No wait! Stop it Serena! Remember your rules," Serena thought as she mentally slapped herself in the face.
Then the bell rang telling everyone to get to class and Serena took it as a signal to walk up to Drys and lead him by the reigns over to the swing and tie the reigns on the rope of the swing before heading back inside the academy with the Uchiha trailing behind.
Ren: "That's my first chappie, hope you like it."
Sasuke: "Read and Review please."
