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KOKORO; SOUL, HEART
As Kokoro walked towards the Hokage's office with a slight smirk on her face, she sensed two more chakra signatures than normal. One was… odd. It was unusually bright and felt almost divided. It wasn't someone she knew, that's for sure, though she thought she might have sensed it somewhere before; that made sense considering the fact that they had probably lived in the same village their whole lives. An odd shiver ran up her spine, the owner of the chakra signature couldn't be- no, she refused to think about it. The other one, however, was even more familiar, though she still couldn't place it. When she finally remembered, she was right outside the Hokage's office. Growling menacingly, she flung the door open and stood in the doorway, glaring.
"You…pervert," she hissed, eyes zeroing in on the man with wild white hair, and she didn't miss where his eyes drifted before they darted to her face. "You senile old pervert,"
As if by instinct, the man replied, "Super pervert! Super, not senile!"
In harmony, two female eyes narrowed dangerously. Sensing his mistake, the man, Jiraiya, put his hands up in a placating manner and backed up slowly until he was in front of the window. In a flash, Kokoro had him pinned against the wall by his neck. "You were spying on me," she breathed.
"Ah yes," he said with a slightly dreamy expression on his face. "You had the most beautiful- face! Haha face, yes, face!"
"I'm eighteen, you senile pervert!" Kokoro exclaimed with a dangerous glint in her eyes. "Ninjas should know better than to spy on women when they could be training, not to mention how wrong and disgusting it is! I should castrate you!"
"Hehe… sorry?"
"Sorry won't cut it,"
"I'm… a Sannin! Yeah, you wouldn't do that to a-"
"Orochimaru is a Sannin. I would gladly castrate him," Kokoro growled, not noticing the second person in the room stand up a little straighter.
"I-I'm the Toad Sage!"
"Senile Sage, more like,"
Jiraiya gulped, out of excuses.
"Alright imps, as much as I'd love to see Jiraiya get what he deserves, I have a mission for you and the brat." Tsunade interrupted, glaring at Jiraiya when he looked at her gratefully.
"Oi, Granny, I'm not a brat!"
For the first time, Kokoro took note of the cause of the second chakra signature. It was a boy a couple years younger than herself with spikey, untamed blonde hair and expressive, cerulean eyes. He was wearing an orange and black jumpsuit and his headband was brown and the straps were longer than normal, going halfway down his back.
"Actually, Naruto, you are. All the time," Jiraiya chuckled, looking amused until he caught the three-way stare directed at him. "I'll just- bye!" he yelped, disappearing out the window.
"Pervy Sage!" the boy, Naruto, yelled in disgust and annoyance.
"I swear, that man… Moving on! Naruto, meet Kokoro, Kokoro, meet Naruto. You two will be doing a three week long bodyguard mission together. You are to travel to a little village called Shukuso located on the outskirts of the Fire Nation and enroll in a private civilian school they have there. Basically, the daughter of a rich man will be attending for three weeks while her daddy does business. Details will be given when you arrive. Here's a map, get to know each other on the three day journey there, and goodbye," Tsunade said quickly, obviously in a hurry to be alone so she could sneak the most sake she could while Shizune was not in the room.
"Wait a minute, Grandma Tsunade! I just got back from training with Pervy Sage! I can handle stronger missions than stupid body guarding, even if it's for a girl! Believe it!"
"Lady Hokage, I sincerely doubt my abilities to complete this mission without murdering the loudmouth blonde," Kokoro said coldly, already annoyed and attempting to hand the map back to her. "He should be removed from the mission and reassigned to something more suited to his abilities,"
"Hey! Wait a minute, Gin-me [silver eyes]! I'm not a loudmouth and what does my hair color have to do with it?" Naruto demanded before her last sentence sunk in. "Wait! More suited to my abilities? Are you saying I can't handle stupid body guarding?"
"I'm saying that you wear your heart on your sleeve and would surely crack under the pressure that would be applied if captured,"
"What are you, a robot? And heart on my sleeve? What does that even mean? Let me tell you something, Gin-me. I-"
"Both of you, shut up! You are going on this mission because I said so, no arguments! Now get ready, you leave for Shukuso in an hour. Dismissed!"
TWO AND A HALF HOURS LATER
Kokoro was leaning on a tree with a blank expression on her face when Naruto strolled up to her smiling ear to ear.
"C'mon, Gin-me! We're already late so we'll have to make it up on the way!"
"And whose fault is it that we're running behind?"
"Well I had to stop for ramen. And I'm kinda used to my sensei, Kakashi, always showing up three hours late. By the time I remembered that I wasn't going on a mission with him-"
"You stopped for ramen? Ramen? And weren't you gone for three years? You shouldn't 'be used to' anything then! How are you even a ninja?"
"Well I actually failed the initial test. I only passed because one of my instructors turned out to be a traitor and convinced me to steal a scroll from the Hokage and by the time my other instructor found us-"
"Do yourself a favor and shut up,"
"Hey! Don't tell me to shut up, Gin-me!" Naruto yelled, furious.
"Don't call me that if you don't want me to punch the shit out of you,"
"I'd like to see you try, Gin-me! I bet I could've beaten you when I was in the academy!"
"A couple things wrong with that. One- didn't you just say you failed the test? And two- I was out of the academy two years before you. And I passed the first time. You couldn't have beaten me if you tried,"
"That's beside the point! And now, thanks to you, we're even more behind schedule! So great job, Gin-me!"
The argument probably would have continued for much longer if Kokoro hadn't snapped and attempted to punch Naruto's lights out. With a manly shriek, he took off running, enraged kunoichi right behind. Luckily, before too long, she realized they didn't know where they were going and pulled out the map Tsunade had given her.
"Loudmouthed idiot! We're going the wrong way!"
"Well how was I supposed to know, you're the one with the map! And I'm not a loudmouth! Or an idiot, Koko!"
Instantly, he found himself pinned to tree with a sword pressed against his chest. Since her head was slightly bowed Naruto couldn't see her eyes, but he was pretty sure that if he could they would be full of pain. He was also pretty sure he had accidently crossed some sort of line.
"Don't you ever call me that, got it?" her voice was dangerously low. "I can take the Gin-me, though it annoys the shit out of me, but if you ever call me that again I will make it so your own mother wouldn't recognize you. Are we clear?"
"Yes. I'm sorry I upset you, it just came out. I will refrain from calling you that in the future,"
"Good. Come on, we still have a long way to go," Kokoro said as she sheathed her sword, mildly impressed at his maturity. She knew she had overreacted, but hearing Takara's favorite pet name come out of someone else's lips had caused something in her to snap.
"But for the record," Naruto continued quietly, "I don't have parents,"
The silence that fell over the two was going to last a while, leaving time for her to gather her thoughts.
It was obviously going to be difficult killing all emotions, she knew that, but what was it about the idiotic kid that made even worse? Was it because he reminded her of a much younger Takara?
Dammit, why couldn't she get away from her? Hadn't she been through enough?
No. Her opinions didn't matter. She was a ninja and she would go wherever she was told to go, do whatever she was told to do, act however she was told to act, and kill whomever she was told to kill. It didn't matter of it went against her almost non-existent moral compass, it didn't matter if it was killing someone she knew, and it didn't matter if it required her to lay down her life.
She was a ninja, a kunoichi, and she obeyed orders without question or hesitation.
She was a tool to Konoha, to Lady Tsunade, and when she was decided unfit she would allow herself to be discarded. Yes, she was a tool.
But she was already broken.
So, how was the second chappie? Any good? Awful? I, using some wonderful advice, tried to slow down a bit and describe a bit more. Speaking of advice, steeltoesandal, I thank you most humbly! And thank you for your kind words, Sora Tsukino! They touched my heart! *sniff* XD Until next time!