Chapter 3: A Prince and Her Princess
A far way off from Konoha. A man was sneaking into a temple. He had hidden his presence from all that was there. The night was a perfect cover. And the inferior guards didn't notice a thing. It was time to bring HIM back.
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"Hmm. Why don't we stop here tonight?" said a certain silver haired jounin from the cliff village.
"Huh? Why?" mostly all of his companions asked.
"Well, we're not really in a hurry, and the emissary's almost had too much. Besides, if we want those guys to catch up we have to slow down a bit." He said in his bishounen smile.
"Who?" Naruto asked.
"Nothing. Come on let's make camp." Kinji said as he landed on a patch of ground near a river.
"Okay then." The shinobi said as the laid down their things.
"What are you doing? Pick those up." Kinji said to them.
"Huh? I thought we'd be camping here?" asked Kiba.
"Yeah. But just step back." Said Kinji.
The young jounin touched the ground as if looking for something.
"Good enough."
He placed his hands in a Snake handseal.
"Wood Element, Wood House." He blurted out.
A large wooden house rose from the ground. It had both the Leaf and Cliff Village symbols. In a sign near the main entrance it read: "Welcome allies of the Cliff"
"Whoa!" screamed everyone.
"I-Isn't that Yamato-taichou's jutsu?" said Naruto.
"Not really… It's the Shodai Hokage's." Kinji replied.
'That's what I meant. Stupid little, self-righteous, pig-headed…' Naruto kept all his anger within him, to afraid of the cliff shinobi to speak.
"Come on in. The girls will be staying in the left wing, the boys on the right, the emissary at the central room, sound good?" Kinji said.
"Yup." The ninjas chorused.
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The girls were giggling in their room. They had been trying to pester information out of Inoue for about an hour now, but the kunoichi just won't say anything. So, the ninjas from Konoha moved on to an easier target, Misao.
"So, Misao, what's the deal with your sensei?" Ino asked. "Ain't he a bit young to be sensei?"
"Kinji-sensei?" Misao asked.
"Well maybe a jounin of his age ain't unheard of but still…"
"Kinji-sensei has been our sensei for 3 years now." Misao told the other girls.
"Three years?!" The girls blurted out, even Kurenai was surprised.
"Yeah. When we graduated, Kinji was the one assigned to teach us." She said.
"Whoa! How old was he when he became a jounin?" Kurenai asked.
"Seven-and-a-half." She replied.
"What?!" the girls shouted once again.
"Yeah. He became a jounin with his twin brother and other teammate."
"Can you tell us about them?"
"Kinji-sensei and his brother, Renji, were always top of the class when they entered the ninja academy, when they were still six. Even though Renji didn't have the bloodline limit, he was still full of potential and a genius as well." She said. "They're skills were amazing, we were their classmates truth be told. But, even if he was the son of the 4th Ryuukage and grandson of the Sandaime…"
"Son? Grandson? Ryuukage?" Ino asked.
"The Ryuukage is the Shadow Country's equivalent for the Hokage, the Star's is the Sutaryuu. There are two more leaders in the Shadow, Tsurugukage and Kamikage. The Star also has two other leaders, Sutatsurugu and Sutakami."
"Okay. So, he's kind of a prince right."
"As I said, Kinji and Renji were the Yondaime's sons and the sandaime's grandkids. They could have graduated in just about a month, since they were already better than most genin in that short time. But, they couldn't graduate because they lacked one shinobi to be their teammate. So, they trained a girl in class, Ayane-chan. It took Kinji-kun and Renji-kun a month and a half to train her, but they're efforts paid off and they were allowed to graduate.
The three of them were assigned under Hyuusen-sama, the 4th Ryuukage's former teammate and an amazing medical ninja. After one mission Hyuusen-sama allowed the three to enter the chuunin exams. All three passed flawlessly and set the record for the second exam, they finished the course in ten minutes and brought ten pairs of scrolls with them. They were the only ones that made it to the third exam.
After two months, they signed up for the jounin exams and were pronounced jounin at seven years old, the youngest jounins ever. Kinji-sensei and Renji joined the ANBU black ops. Renji became a squadron 7 captain after three months as Kinji retired after just two. He joined the medical group for five months and returned to the ANBU as squadron 10's captain. Ayane-chan became an ANBU but wasn't assigned to Renji or Kinji's squadrons.
Kinji retired as an ANBU after a few years and the King of the Shadow Country requested him to be our team captain."
"King?"
"Yeah. That's why the Shadow Country is still one even though it has three leaders." Misao said.
"Why would he request Kinji to be your team captain?" Kurenai asked.
"Because he knew his daughter was safest with Kinji-sensei." She said.
"You're the King's daughter?!" the girls shouted in excitement.
"NO way! Inoue's his daughter!" Misao said pointing to Inoue.
"Ahh!" the girls shouted circling Inoue. "Is that true?"
Inoue was silent but gave a small nod to respond.
"Yey! A real princess! Maybe we should start calling you Inoue-hime from now on!" Ino said. The girls kept on asking Inoue questions about her princess life.
"So you're the princess and your sensei's a prince! The universe sure can go with the flow!" Ino said as a final statement before going under the sheets in a deep sleep.
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