Chapter 2
I ran as fast as I could to the training site as I checked my watch "Irai was right I got ten minutes to get there"
You'll never make it unless you let me help you
Don't listen to that stuck up bird
Shut up you selfish cat, I am a hawk not just some random bird. Why don't you go electrocute yourself?
I will gladly, but only if you suffocate yourself
Why you…
I stopped listening to their conversation there. The two spirits got on my nerves quite a lot. I sped through the alley ways before jumping on the rooftops to save some time. I hit the forest and forced my body to go even faster.
I made it to training area 54 and skid to a stop in front of my team, team 13. We were one of the odd teams that had two girls and one boy. Since we didn't want to stand out too much I started doing a simple henge to make myself a guy, my jutsu transformed quite a lot since then. My transformation apparition jutsu takes bits and pieces from everyone in a 1 mile radius and compiles them into one being, causing me to look very normal and ordinary and almost immediately forgettable, being exactly what I liked. My teammates and sensei knew about the jutsu, and were the only ones, aside from the Odoriko clan, that saw me without the henge. The other reason behind the jutsu was to help me forget that I am related to the most horrific person on the face of the planet, Haburi Saseko. She was my elder sister, and had the Haburi clan as her pity card, like the Uchiha had his. Since our parents died in a freak accident, Saseko decided to take her life into her own hands, and since she blames me for our parent's death, which is understandable to those who know the whole story, she refuses to claim me as her sister, causing me to have to survive on my own before my mother's clan, the Odoriko clan, took me in, and showed me how to dance. They attempted to stop me from being a kunoichi, but I became one anyway. A lot of people from the Odoriko hate me, and they love my sister, even though she hates them. Talk about the dysfunctional clans of Konoha…
"I'm here" I said as I looked at my teammates Chikara Kaen, the only female visible in the training area had pretty strawberry blond hair and a hyper attitude only defeated by her anger. It was through Ibiki's teachings that calmed the attitude of the girl, but her anger was one to be trifled with. She was now in a branch laying down looking at the colors of the leaves in the tree after seeing that it was me. My team had gotten used to recognizing me by my chakra signature since my appearance constantly changed.
My other teammate was currently reading a book sitting underneath Kaen, his name was Shinku Tsuchi, and he had gone back to reading his book after looking at my new appearance. He was a very quiet individual, being naturally calm and calculating. Under Ibiki's teaching however, he became a bit more morbid, enjoying the torturing process, yet the same could be said of all of team 13, and he also had a mean temper.
"Where's Ibiki-sensei"
"He should be here soon" Tsuchi said
"He had a mission to take care of before training. The guy was probably a tough one to crack" Kaen added
"Ah, and we're missing all the fun" I said
Tsuchi, Kaen and I had a special bond, we were all orphans. The two had been adopted by their separate clans however, while my clan, which wasn't even a shinobi clan, had rejected my mother after marrying my father. My clan was a dancing clan, and tolerated my existence only when I danced. The dancing lessons from my clan were even tougher than Ibiki's training sessions but had greatly improved my fighting skills, as much as the Odoriko clan would hate to admit. After Ibiki had seen this he had team 13s extracurricular activity be dancing, my clan refused to teach outsiders, so I taught them in my spare time. After dancing our team, turned family, often found ourselves doing other activities, such as painting or reading together, lately it was becoming a band. Our group was hardly seen apart, showing a great understanding of teamwork and trust.
I still have yet to tell anyone of what resides inside of me though.
I sat down at the base of the tree opposite of my two teammates and fingered through the fruits I was able to buy before Kiba had interrupted me. Without meaning to I had let anger show on my face and Kaen quickly jumped off her branch, and Tsuchi stood up.
"What happened?" The two said together. I sighed
"I was buying groceries, and I didn't use my henge, and a boy came up to me and completely annoyed me, and stopped me from finishing my grocery shopping, and was hitting on me all for my sister's phone number" I seethed
"Who was it?" Tsuchi said instantly interested, he had studied all the clans in Konoha by order of his clan and was wondering who was stupid enough and capable enough to annoying me.
"Inuzuka Kiba"
"Ah" Tsuchi was knowingly
"I say he needs to learn a lesson" Kaen said evilly. I grinned along with her.
"Perfect, I did say I had a brother"
"Oh this is awesome" Kaen said clapping her hands excitedly "Let's go"
And with that we headed toward the marketplace, my basket long forgotten in the idea of teaching the Inuzuka a lesson he would never forget.
"Oi dog breath" I yelled my teammates right behind me after we searched for the dog boy. Kiba turned around and I proceeded to push him in the chest. "Who do you think you are bothering my sister?" I said threateningly. My teammates looked toward the boy's teammates, a silent challenge in the air.
"Hey, I didn't do anything to her" He said his annoyance clear in his voice.
"Well-"
"What's going on here?" A voice said behind me. I tilted my head to see the familiar ANBU uniform with his face covered with a cat mask.
"Ibiki sent us to find you and bring you all to the training site" Dog mask ANBU said as he jumped down from the roof of the building.
"If Ibiki-sensei knew what we were doing than he would join us" Kaen chillingly said to the ANBU.
"Really now" Ibiki said as a puff of smoke taking over the area. "What is going on here?" Ibiki added interested now seeing me looking like I wanted to strangle the Inuzuka.
"Yes what is going on here?" A female jounin said jumping off another roof, probably the sensei of the Inuzuka.
"Dog breath over there was hitting on Lani" Tsuchi said calmly to our sensei. "All for another girl's phone number" Ibiki's eyes lit up in understanding then he in turn glared at the dog boy. I instantly backed off, smirking like mad. My sensei was protective after all.
"You are lucky my team didn't catch you alone Inuzuka." Then he turned to us. "Time to get training, for ditching me you all get two extra hours"
"But sensei I have training with my clan" I whined, knowing two extra hours of training was going to exhaust my body further than it usually got hit by shinobi training, but added to my clan's training, my body was going to go through hell and back just to go back down to hell for more torture.
"Oh well, go" Ibiki-sensei said pointing to the direction of the forest. My group sagged and walked silently to the forest for our training of torture, literally. Ibiki looked back at the shinobi with the dog "And if I were you I would sleep with one eye open. Kasalani is like a daughter to me, and I will not hesitate to kill anyone dumb enough to hit on her without her permission, and all for another girl's phone number…" and with that said the jounin vanished in the classic puff of smoke as the sensei for dog breaths team shook her head and lightly glared at Kiba.
I dragged my sore, bruised, and slightly bleeding body to my clan's mansion. My chakra was nearly spent and the last of my chakra was used to keep my henge up. Kaen and Tsuchi were on either side of me, dragging me to the next part of hell. Once we reached my clan's gates I pushed the button. Almost instantly a girl with fiery red hair popped out of the mansion and came to the gate, and I let my henge drop.
"What happened to you?" She said as she looked at my bruised and bleeding body. I sighted before saying
"Two extra hours of training"
"Ah, if you had become a dancer instead of a kunoichi you wouldn't have this problem" She said as she pushed her hair off her shoulder and put up her nose before opening the gate for me. My teammates left me to the mercy of the girl, for they were not allowed on the premises.
"Oh well, too late now" I replied, though if given the chance I would still become a kunoichi. My mother's clan was brutal.
"You are late" the clan head, and my personal teacher, said as I entered the arena I would be practicing in, after I had changed into the traditional Odoriko clan uniform. It was a simple leotard with a small frill at the waist and shoulders. Black tights and black ankle warmers hiding the weights on my ankles paired with a simple black heel. On the back of the leotard was the symbol of the Odoriko clan, a silhouette of a dancer with her arms up encompassed by a white circle.
"I had two extra hours of shinobi training" I replied as I began to do the regular stretches, using the wall and the bars as support.
"You were still late, so two extra hours are your punishment." The head of the clan replied. I cringed, my prediction at the beginning of the day was right. A day of torture was expected for my poor sore, bruised, and scratched up body. (The bleeding had finally stopped) "Let's begin"
"OW" I complained as I attempted to walk towards the gate, tenderly rubbing my sore back. My stomach rumbled loudly. "I am so hungry, I am surprised I didn't pass out" I said to myself slowly limping toward the gate, my hand still on my back. At the gate Kaen and Tsuchi were waiting for me, both reading books. They most likely came two hours ago when my lessons were supposed to end, I instantly felt guilty. "Yo" I said to the two shinobi
"You look horrible" Kaen said as she looked me over
"Well thanks" I said sarcastically before adding "I feel horrible too"
"Let's go eat" Tsuchi suggested, my stomach rumbled again in agreement and my teammates laughed as I sweat dropped.
"Hehe, my stomach obviously agrees" I said to the two shinobi that were still laughing. "Give me a second though" I said as I rummaged through my bag. I had created a simple seal on a paper that did exactly what my signatures did, it just took a while longer, and I had to hide the paper from sight. However, since my chakra had barely improved during my five hour dancing lesson, I decided to use it so I could go and eat. I finally found it and applied a tiny bit of chakra before sticking it on my back. I sighed contentedly at feeling a bit safer with my henge now up. I took out my cloak; I had stuffed into my bag the night before, and gingerly put it on my sore body. "Okay, let's go eat"
