Disclaimer: Only the girls are mine, products of my brainstorming.
Edited as of 10.12.14
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Summary: Character killed? Check. Reincarnated in the ninja world? Check. Mind of a fully conscious girl? Check. Born as an Uzumaki, Uchiha, Hyuga or such fan-favored clan? Wait, what? Born in the same or earlier generation as the Rookie Nine? Oops. Character a Naruturd? Nooo. Ready? NO! Semi-serious parody of self-inserts, crack-ish.
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FlufflyDragonsLiveInMyHouse: Well, I uploaded TODAY! I'm glad to see that this is somewhat funny. Personally, I cannot tell. I don't think I can have "cutie" as her first word when we have an over-enthusiastic mother. Buuuut! We'll see, hehe.
Nyphn: Trauma, BAAM! And I've heard of those games, heard they are excellent. I wanna try :D
hermonine: Thank you! I hope I'm keeping up with the writing phase.
Guest: I'LL MAKE MORE FLUFF BECAUSE I ADORE IT. WAIT TILL SHE GETS TO TALK
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My name is Torune Aburame.
I got a sister yesterday.
I had been waiting all day in my room since they told me that Shibi-san's family was coming back to the Aburame mansion. Chie-san had been staying in the hospital because apparently, the-earlier-than-expected labor gave her a hard time and she needed to recover. Throughout the rest, Shibi-san went to visit her and the newborn every day. Shino tried the same but he had training to do with me and kept staying in his room for long hours, making his trips about 4 times per week.
Me? I wasn't allowed nor did I volunteer.
Chie-san doesn't want me near her, after all.
It's been years already since Father had died, leaving me as an orphan. Shibi-san had picked me up and brought me to his home to live with him and Chie-san, his wife. Chie-san was a retired special jounin who had married with Shibi-san, the Clan Head of the Aburame.
I knew that she loved him as a man, not as a leader.
I knew that she truly loved him.
I could tell with the difference in her attitude towards him and me.
Her softening eyes, her gentle smile, her intimate choice of words, her smooth body movement, the jerking twitches of her lips.
It was clear.
She didn't love me.
I reasoned with myself that it was because Chie-san loved Shibi-san as her husband, her lover. I was a child and she looked after me. She didn't mistreat me, she never preferred Shibi-san over me - she would give me the bigger plate of food actually, telling me to grow up and kick her stupid husband -, she gave me allowance, she bought me clothes. I had all an orphan could wish for, especially in times of war.
It wasn't because of my relationship with my adoptive mother.
It was me.
Me.
Me, Torune Aburame, son of Shikuro Aburame.
Chie-san, being a kunoichi teacher and former shinobi who worked on coding, knew more than enough about me. I had inherited Father's nano-sized hive, a breed considered rare even in our clan and nevertheless dangerous. I could eat up people's lives in seconds. I had been practicing and training because of them.
I had no control over them.
Aburame people already had trouble in having control of the kikaichu, which were harmless in comparison, inside them, requiring to be accepted as the leader of the colony. My bugs were more obedient in that matter. Perhaps witnessing the war results made me more mature, I'm not sure.
Because I was a red alert to anyone, I had been exempted from the Academy. Gloves helped, my mask helped, my clothes helped. They helped me cover myself from skin. Still, it wasn't enough as I could still have someone die from my swarm.
That was why Chie-san didn't love me. She was afraid of me and my bugs.
One touch, one minute, one life. That's all it would take.
I lived with her. I lived with her husband. I lived with her son, Shino. I lived with all she loved.
Well, except me.
Ever since that realization, I had observed her behavior around me. Chie-san wasn't a cold-hearted woman. In fact, she was a compassionate one. She tried to treat me as a son of her own, keep it fair between her real one and me. Her efforts were still not enough to move her to the next step, though.
She was still afraid of me.
Unconsciously or not, Chie-san couldn't be brave enough to touch me. That would be the final sign that she loved me. I was still a danger factor of her life since one outbreak and her loved ones would have the cells in their bodies destroyed in time, dying a painful end.
That's why I kept training, meditating and practicing. I had to get stronger for my bugs' acceptance, my self-control and her recognition, her love.
She was practically a mother to me, since I didn't have one before. Father would sadly tell me how she had given her life for me.
A reason for my panicked state on that day when Chie-san had screamed in pain.
Another reason I was so excited for her return with her child.
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It was a rather nice day, the sun hiding behind the pristine clouds in the blue sky that seemed to be colored by crayons. I was repeating my taijutsu stances in the yard, the wind blowing to my face. Shino was beside me, observing the positions my limbs took.
"Now," I had ordered with a smile, "feel the earth under your feet and try to find the perfect balance of your body."
Shino was just like Shibi-san. Silent and analytic. Having seen how Shibi-san had been unnoticed by others because of those traits, I knew that he would be similar. I told him to play outside with the other kids to make friends. One, I had learned, could not survive on their own. We, the Aburame clan, were epitomes with our relationship with our colonies. Shino would shake his head twice, saying that they didn't like his collection. They were too loud, too.
"How will I recognize it?" He asked in his flat voice. I oppressed the urge to sigh at the doubt he had. Ah Shino.
"Your bugs will tell you." I closed my eyes and dragged my feet closer to myself. I heard him huff once but ignored him. I hadn't been trying to actually just practice fighting stances. I was trying to distract myself.
After watching Shino stumble a bit and manage to perfectly follow me, I nudged him in the side with my garbed elbow, earning a stare in return. I recognized the concern it was emitting.
"Hurry in your way back, okay?" I smiled at him who nodded.
I watched him climb onto the wooden floors of our home and stride off with his shoes dangling in his hands. Shino was going to arrive at the hospital and escort Chie-san and her new daughter.
I forced myself to start all of my stances all over again as I tried to assemble all of what Shino had told me of his sister.
'She has Mother's hair color.'
Foot jab.
'But it's shaped like mine and Father's.'
Stomp and arm.
'She's small.'
Extract and swing.
'Tiny.'
Knee kick.
'Her eyes are green.'
Twist leg for acceleration.
'She's odd and easy to laugh.'
Stomp and jump.
'She's like Mother, smiling at us.'
Defensive-fall.
'She has the kikaichu and they already like her.'
Inhale. Deep.
'You were right, I like her.'
Exhale. Softly.
'She likes me.'
I let myself drop to the ground, ending up with my legs sprawled about and supporting my upper body upwards with my two gloved hands firmly against the rough ground. I stared at the sky.
Blue and a little cloudy. Clear as water.
I smiled as I tried to keep my breath steady. I was somewhat certain that the baby would be just as soothing.
'I think she'll like you, too.'
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When I heard Shino's declaring voice, I almost dropped my tea. Realizing what the voice implied, I quickly set it on the table and began to run towards the door.
I felt my heart thumping in anxiety. I felt my feet creating a ruckus as I raced. I felt my teeth sink into my lower lip to relief my nervousness.
I took the last turn and stopped myself automatically. As habit, I always stopped a few meters before approaching someone. I had a killer hive inside me that I had to be careful with.
Or so I thought.
Was it because the weather was so perfect?
The sunlight was so luminescent and bright that it almost blinded me behind my mask. I blinked a few times to adjust to the fazing scenery before me.
So much light.
Then I was able to see the family.
Shibi-san was in front, standing firm like an oak tree. His shadow covered his son who was beside him, making me think that he had to have great branches to create such shade. What really got my attention was the woman I had been waiting for months.
Chie-san.
She was looking straight at me and I thought I had a heart attack.
Ah.
She isn't scared of me.
It's worse.
She's terrified.
I gulped in disappointment as well as I felt something like a knot in my stomach.
Dread. Such an awful turn of events.
Is it because my hive is growing, Chie-san? Is it because I'm the only one to have the possibility to govern over these? Because I'm the unstable one? Chie-san, won't you trust me? Can't you risk the possibility that I can change for once?
I just want to-
"It's alright."
I blinked as I aroused from my self-questioning of sorrow.
Oops, I must have gotten myself into the self-pity mood.
I shifted my cautious gaze at my adoptive father.
Shibi-san had an understanding look.
'I trust you.'
I inhaled a breath, taking the final steps towards the family. My tensed body seemed to relax as it received the sunlight that had been previously dazing me off. However, I felt panic color my face the closer I got to them.
Three meters.
I observed the look of her eyes. She was in conflict, to trust her daughter to be near me or tell me to take a step back. However, my curiosity led my gaze to the new object at hand.
Two meters.
The bundle of clothes was held firmly by Chie-san, as if it were the most valuable treasure in the world. I saw thick and short strokes of dark hair streak out of the small face that was wrapped around with blankets, round with baby fat. The lips were round and pushed firmly into a pout. The eyes, an odd green that looked like glass against light, blinked at me. I could swear that I saw a raise of brows.
One meter.
I stopped and bowed instantly. I stared at the Head family of the Aburame clan.
"Is that..?" I unintentionally trembled as I gasped inwardly. She was so small. I calculated that if even I held her, the newborn would fit around my undeveloped arms. For a moment I was certain that she would fit in my drawer.
"Ganki." Shino shook his head up and down, confirming the identity of the tiny creature. I stared as he smiled, which was becoming common these days. "Ganki Aburame." Then Shibi-san gently lifted the blanket packet from Chie-san's hesitant arms. With her single nod, I knew that they had shared a silent conversation.
Why would he...?
"Torune," Shibi-san climbed onto the wooden floor, just like Shino had done to go to his mother, "you can come closer."
Oh my God.
Shocked at the permission to be near his newborn daughter, I feebly approached him with the most inefficient way possible. I thought I would faint with my heart resuming its panic attack as the pair of green eyes stared at, no, through me.
I wanted to slap myself for squirming at the gaze of a month old baby.
Half a meter.
"Here, this is Ganki." Shibi-san altered the angle he was holding her, letting me see her in a better view. I awed at how small yet lively she looked. Her expressions were different from what I've been told about babies. She had a knowing yet confused glint.
Then, she made a small noise.
I instantly gaped at her. The sound had been a gurgle, an effect from the lack of vocal activity of the baby. I knew that yet I believed that she was expressing emotions. I knew that she would grow into a child like Shino, then me and continue to be like Muta. She would afterwards age and develop into a woman like Chie-san.
This blob of flesh will be a ninja of our clan, wow.
As I mentally narrated to myself all of these, Shino enthusiastically advanced to Shibi-san's side and smoothed the blanket's wrinkles with his small pats.
"Look," He sent me a smile. "This is our little sister." I gasped after I managed to process at the words.
Not little for it was so obvious.
But at our.
What?
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I love to try new things in narration, story-flow, storyboard, perspectives and that sort of things. Read this and the previous chapter as well for better contrast. Another thing I love is to make links in between stories that I usually do for snippets of comics and doodles I draw. I should draw a cover for this story, too.
Moving on for now, here is my take on Torune and his thoughts.
Having been raised by Shibi's family, he grew up with the couple and watched Shino grow too. He's perceptive and he's well aware of how Chie looks at him. Chie cares for him, looking after him like a great step-mother. That doesn't mean that she isn't careful or wary of him. Torune should be at the Academy already but he isn't and the sole reason is because of his lack of control over his deadly hive. He's like some kind of potential radioactive bomb except with bugs; imagine having him in your house, interacting with your loving family every single day.
Shino and Shibi trust him because they know how the boy's improving as a fellow insect user but Chie can't fully empathize with him. She goes through tough labor to have Ganki and she's really, really small. She gets home and the first one she is greeted by is BAAM!
Bomb! She's just worried about her family, that's all.
I had to watch the episode with Shino and Torune's relationship and I never watch Naruto as anime. …I got Torune feels, seriously. Because I can't change his fate that he'll go into Root!
Here's the age difference between the Aburame siblings, this is pretty important too.
Ganki: 0 years
Shino: 4 years
Torune: 7 years
Shino is 4 years old because he's born in January, meaning that he's older in average of the Rookie 9. This won't change that Ganki will be in Konohamaru's generation that will be fresh genin in Shippuden. I don't know Torune's age so I made him 3 years older than Shino. This makes him 19-20 in Shippuden.
DID YOU CATCH THE REFERENCE OF A NEW ABURAME? He'll come much later.
EDIT: Here's some dialgue of my Akatsuki fic.
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-"Lollipop," I chanted as I clapped with my baby hands again, "lollipop, lollipop!"
-"And the hell is this, un?!" He had been obviously expecting Tobi to be chanting, not me, the blob of flesh.
-Oh. My. God.
Fuck me but this is sooo not good. Akatsuki, cool and awesome, except that they're fucking terrorists. I wanted to be left alive, not taken!
-"The fuck is that?!" Of course, the zealot. A bad mouthed one at that.
Please don't let him kill me.
-"This thing," Deidara sneered haughtily, "annoys Tobi." At that, every single shinobi stared or glared at me.
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What do you think? Are you interested?
The start would be a late teen girl (actual Naruturd) waking up in a random clearing of some forest and finding herself as a two-year old toddler. Tobit says hi and the girl calls him Lollipop, thinking he's a cosplayer. Of course, he's the real deal and because Tobi gets hurt for not being called Tobi but Lollipop. Deidara sees that and snatches her to show "it" off to the rest of the Akatsuki at the reunion he had been heading to. The girl praises them as an admiring child in order to survive. Turns out that flattery works and she's allowed to live...for the moment.
Would you read it? Honest answer please. If you want to know just the plot outline, I have it ready in form of dialogues and I can send it to you :3 Once again, you have to tell me (preferably PM) if you are interested. I need a reader.
A: Nintendo DS forever. It was my second game device, the first being the GBA. I was never allowed consoles like the XBOX and the PS3. The reason was because I played day and night games like Professor Layton, Ace Attorney, Pokemon, Magical Starsign, Elite Beat Agents, Megaman series, Chibi-Robo, Shin Megami Tensei (Devil Survivor, Strange Journey), Chocobo series, Mario series, Final Fantasy, Hotel Dusk… I don't know how many times I was scolded by Mom. In the end, my teenage self got addicted and I was forbidden from any gaming. ..But I have the emulator in my laptop. The DS still released awesome games such as 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors (hidden gem, seriously), Ghost Trick and Pokemon Conquest (surprisingly addictive). There are a lot that I haven't tried like Okamiden, Fire Emblem, Golden Sun and plenty of others.
Q: Favorite Akatsuki member(s)? And do you want them to survive in this fic?