"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."
- Plato
3: Welcome
"-I'm going to skelp yer wee behind-!"
"-Leame 'lone-!"
"Haud yer wheesht!"
"Haud yer arse!"
"Oh ye gannae haver now, ar'ye!?" The black panther snarled, holding the protesting boy in his paws, the nurse now hiding behind the ANBU Fish, food on her hands.
The ANBU sweatdropped, this... is the most heaviest accent he ever heard during an argument, he heard the boy say 'Naw' and calmed down. The panther huffed before glancing at them.
"The boy's calm now. Give him the food." Before puffing away. The ANBU looked over the nurse, the nurse looked back at him pleadingly.
He sighed and grabbed the tray of food, the boy huffed and accepted it. He nodded over the nurse before vanishing again from the walls.
He didn't sign up for this.
...
Inoichi didn't sign up for this.
Shikaku snorted behind him, he scowled then lightly coughed.
"Okay, kid. I'm just gonna ask you some questions and you will answer them, okay?"
"Dare to hurt the cub, I'll maul you."
Inoichi's smile twitched, "Don't worry hyou-san, I will not." He glanced at the resting panther on the floor, one sharp aquatic blue eye watches every move he makes, the boy kicked the beast lightly.
"'Kay." The boy answered. Then looked at him. Inoichi smiled again.
"Name?"
"... Mitsuhide."
"Last name?"
"None that I've known of."
"Age?"
"Eight. Birthday's Tenth of March."
Inoichi hummed, taking down the answers with his paper, "Parents?"
"Mother's a ninja, father's a... rounin."
"Isn't that allowed?"
The panther growled at him, Mitsuhide nudges it, "Calm down Yuugure, he's just asking." The boy whispered then looked back at him, "I know. But they don't care, mother's a missing-nin, by the way."
Inoichi paused, Yuugure growled again.
"... Their names?"
"Dunno."
"Their looks, do you remember them?"
Mitsuhide hummed, shuffling quietly from his position, "Mother has black eyes and spiky brown hair, father has grey eyes and wavy black hair, he had a scar on his left eye. I saw it on a picture."
"Do you have the picture then?"
"No, its Shishou's."
Inoichi nodded, "Shishou, who might that be?"
"Nobunaga-shishou, taught me kenjutsu and some samurai-techniques, some chakra-techniques too, considering of my mother's heritage. Shishou's dead."
"Affiliation?"
"Land of Iron. I guess Konohagakure now?"
He chuckled, "Uh-huh. Alright then, do you consider yourself as a shinobi?"
Mitsuhide grimaced, "No. But I know their few techniques, though I only use them to aid me out, not to kill."
"You're a samurai then?"
Mitsuhide's grimace deepens, "... Rounin."
"I see, do you want to live here?"
"I guess? I left Land of Iron now."
"Do you want to be a shinobi?"
The answer is so quick and flat, Shikaku barked a laugh, "No."
Mitsuhide added, "Though if the village treated me right, I guess I'll protect it too, as a Samurai, of course. But, I'm not gonna bow down to all shinobi, even the Kage, but I will respect the all of you. I prefer ninshu over ninjutsu as I also prefer Code of the Samurai over Code of the Ninja."
Inoichi smiled, "Alright. That's into it. Though, may I ask, who's your companion?"
The panther snarled, Mitsuhide grinned. "This is Yuugure! A panther-summon. Mother's contracted with him and only him, and that's a special case, I can't exactly unsummon him, but he will be if the contractor died. I'm contracted with him too, before mother died. And that's why he's still here with me."
Inoichi nodded, then gestured Shikaku to come over, Shikaku pulled a scroll then unruffled it, a puff was heard and in Shikaku's grasp is a sword.
Mitsuhide gasped, visibly brightened, "Kaname-ishi!"
Shikaku gave the sword to the boy before speaking, "You'll get discharged after three days. I will accompany you to your assigned house for now."
The boy grinned up at him, "Thanks a lot, sir."
"Don't trouble about it, kid."
...
"The boy's adorable." Inoichi muttered, Shikaku looked at him, "What, gonna adopt him now?"
Inoichi looked back, "No way. I got Ino already. Maybe you will adopt him?"
"Nah. Boy's too sunny. He might overthrow the clan's shadows-" Inoichi laughed, "-and I don't want to see dead carcasses of the clan's deers lying down the grass courtesy of his grumpy companion."
"Troublesome for you?"
"Too troublesome."
...
Hiruzen looked over the files submitted by Inoichi, "Samurai among the Shinobi, huh? Interesting." Hiruzen hummed, then he grabbed a certain file about a scarecrow.
"ANBU Dog!" He yelled out before a swirl of leaves accompanied by a masked ANBU appeared.
"You are now officially off-duty to your ANBU ranks. You are now taking missions as a Jounin, not as an ANBU captain."
Hiruzen told the masked ANBU, and felt satisfied when he saw a small twitch of the said masked man's body. The man slowly pulled his porcelain mask off, revealing heterochromatic eyes, being dark grey and red and defying-gravity silver hair. He placed his mask on the table, Hiruzen nodded.
"I will assign you to a mission- to be the temporary guardian of this boy." The old man handed the file to the other's hand, the man scans the file, staring at the face of pale skin boy with grey eyes and spiky long black hair that is styled in a high pony tail. "The mission will be done when someone decided to be the kid's official guardian. Or you will be the willing parent of this orphan."
The silver haired man twitched again. Hiruzen smiled.
"That is all. You are dismissed."
Under the clothed mask, Kakashi huffed before vanishing.
He will stalk his client first.
Translations:
"I'm going to skelp yer wee behind-!" : I'm going to smack your little bottom-!
"-Leame 'lone-!" : Leave me alone!
"Haud yer wheesht!" : Hold your tongue!
"Haud yer arse!" : Hold your ass!
"Oh ye gannae haver now, ar'ye!?" : Oh you gonna talk rubbish now, are you!?
'Naw' : No
Hyou : Panther; Leopard
Rounin : Lord-less/Masterless Samurai; Wanderer
