"Kina the door is for you!" Mom called. "It's two boys" she dragged out the o in boys, teasingly. I only knew three boys, two of which would not come over to my house uninvited, so I could safely assume one was Shisui. I quickly went into the mind zone to feel chakras, I felt three standing by the door, oh who am I kidding I cant tell people just by their chakra yet, I giggled to myself.
"I'll be right down!" I threw on my clothes quickly, I had just come from a bath, so my hair was still wet and my pants were a fight to get on due to my sticky skin. I fell over, while trying to fight with my pants. "oof" the floor connected with my forehead, but good news, I got my pants on.
"Kina-chan?" I heard mom ask, oh good they all heard my fall, I was worried that would be a secret, what sarcasm? Noooooo.
"coming!" I walked to the door way where my two guests were, rubbing my forehead.
"have some trouble?" teased Shisui. HAH I knew he was one of my guests, though the other one was a bit of a surprise, standing (awkwardly) beside Shisui was Kakashi, it looked like he was trying to avoid any and all eye contact with everyone.
"Pants are troublesome things." I joked. "Itachi has already left to school." It was a little strange for Shisui to visit our house for me, sure we were friends too but he was mostly Itachi's friend. His best friend but Itachi would never admit that.
"I'm here to see you!" Shisui announced, Mom giggled.
"I'll leave you two alone, come on Kakashi let me make you some tea." he followed my mom to the kitchen awkwardly.
"Oh mom it's not like that! Mom!" I tried to explain but she just laughed as she walked away. I turned to Shisui. "my dads going to kill you when she tell him about this." I saw a bit of fear slip into his eyes, but it was quickly gone.
"you wouldn't let him do that! Not after I gave you this awesome gift!" he popped a small box seemingly out of no where, it was black with a teal ribbon holding the box closed. I loved the box as is never mind what was inside. Shisui scratched the back of his neck nervously. "I just thought I should get you a graduation gift, its not every day some one breaks the youngest graduate record." he said sheepishly.
"thanks Shisui!" I grabbed the little box, and admired it, it was so pretty.
"you know the present is inside, and I didn't just get you a box." I stuck my tongue out at him making him laugh. Hey technically I'm four I can still act childish. I undid the ribbon and opened the box, inside was two small fingerless leather gloves with extra cushioning on the knuckles. "well since your only going to get stronger, I'm assuming there will be more exploding dummy's so this is just a bit of protection, I figured you could put it over your bandages and make it a fashion statement, but I mean you could probably stick them on your ears and make THAT a fashion statement because your so pretty." he snapped his mouth closed and blushed brightly, starring at the ground with wide eyes.
"well I think it would be hard to hear that way." I said jokingly placing them to my ears. He laughed, and I scrunched my face up as though I was having troubles hearing, "what was that?! I cant hear!" I spoke loudly making him laugh harder. I slipped the gloves onto my hands, they looked pretty cool, even over my bandage, maybe I would make it a fashion statement.
"well I have to get going, some of us still have school" he grumbled. We both knew he could probably pass from the academy but I think he was waiting for Itachi.
"thanks Shisui!" I gave him a hug and a kiss on the cheek, than quickly stepped back. Oh shit, that was a force of habit from my old life. I kept my face neutral but Shisui left the house with wide eyes. Crap. I'll apologize latter. I ran to the kitchen to see what Kakashi wanted, though what I walk in on was bizarre, my mom was standing at the wall next to, the walk way with a glass pressed to the wall and her ear to the bottom of the glass. Her eyes went wide when she saw me than hid the cup behind her back.
"Kakashi made me." she said with wide eyes, than giggled, as Kakashi tried to deny it. I rolled my eyes than sat at the table across from Kakashi. "Shisui gave you a graduation present?"
"Yeah gloves so next time I punch a wooden dummy and it explodes I'll be safe." I looked to Kakashi. "so wha-"
"Shisui called you pretty?" interrupted mom.
"Yes mom" I said in that annoyed voice you only use with you mom when she is embarrassing you. "I think Kakashi was coming to get me for training, come on Kakashi, I'll see you later mom! Love you bye!" I dragged Kakashi out of the house barely giving him time to get his shoes on. I continued to drag him a safe distance away from my house, until I finally stopped. "okay, so what did you need?" I asked Kakashi.
"I was supposed to bring you to the hokage's office like you guessed." I nodded and we began to walk to the hokage tower. "This morning was eventful. I wasn't really expecting your mom to be like that."
"you should just be happy my dad wasn't home." I laughed thinking about how my dad would have reacted with two boys at the door for me. "or if Itachi was there." an image of me standing with them behind me glaring at everyone arms crossed popped into my head.
"I expected your family to be formal, I know every time I see your dad in the village he looks all stiff."
"well his job doesn't let him act the way he does at home with us, but he is really nice." Though even when it's just Kushina and Minato he acts like his out of home self, so maybe we are the only one's who get to see that part of him. The rest of the walk to the hokage tower was spent in comfortable silence, well for me it was comfortable, in my old life i had a tendency to think the silence was comfortable while the other person was slowly dying of awkwardness. When I looked at Kakashi he didn't look anymore awkward than usual, though he was always pretty awkward looking.
We were let into Minato's office immediately. Minato stood up from his desk, seemingly relieved to have an excuse to step away from his paper work.
"You two are very late." Minato stated.
"Well there was a line up of boys waiting to talk to Kina." Kakashi spoke lazily.
"There was only one other boy, don't be dramatic. Sorry Lord Hokage, had I known sooner he was sent by you, I would have left immediately." The Uchiha manner drilled into me came out suddenly even though it was strange to be so formal with the blond man who I had considered my friend, him and Kushina being the only ones who would come over for my birthday party's.
"Call me Sensei, you don't have to be so formal Kina-chan, we've been friends long before I was hokage." I'm four, I don't think its common for adults to have four year old friends.
"yes Sensei." I said monotone. He shrugged knowing that was the best he was going to get.
"okay so today we will be testing your stamina, ninjutsu, and speed, so we can tell exactly where your at. Lets head to the training ground, we will test stamina and speed in one go!" did he sound to excited? He sounded to excited.
They led me to a training ground I was unfamiliar with, Minato turned to Kakashi, "did you bring the timer?" Kakashi revealed a little clock and passed it to sensei. "okay Kina, you have two hours, until 12 o' clock, ready?"
"ready for what?! I don't even know what we're doing" all of a sudden he threw a kunai at me, I dodged effortlessly "HEY!" he threw another, I brought out two of my own kunai one in each hand, that's when its started raining kunai, I couldn't stand still for a second I had to keep dancing around weaving out of the way of the kunai I don't know how long it was before Kakashi joined in, but after a while it took all my attention just to keep away from the Kunai flying at me, after a while I wondered where the hell they where getting all of them, but I couldn't focus on that thought I needed to completely focus on the sharp pointing killing object flying at me. It was getting hard to pull enough air into my lungs to satisfy them, and my muscles where begging me to stop, three knives where coming and I tried to turn in time to dodge but my muscles where to sluggish to move fast enough, one grazed my right shoulder, one cut into my ear as it flew past the last one I was able to block with my kunai, I fell to my knee's crying out in pain holding my cut arm.
"Kina are you okay?" Sensei asked rushing to my side with Kakashi two steps behind. Sensei tried to bend down to look at my injury's but I slapped his hand away.
"NO! WHAT THE HELL! HALF OF THOSE WHERE KILL SHOTS! IF I DIDN'T DODGE I WOULD HAVE DIED!" behind Sensei Kakashi pointed to the man, which translated to; those were his kunai. "just go away while I clean my cuts up from your barbaric test!" I stood up and walked away from them not even looking at their expressions. Okay I know I was over reacting but honestly I didn't care, I was bleeding my ear was split and my arm hurt and I was tired, and I didn't even have Itachi here with me, also I had a large tear in my shirt that I would have to sew up later, and I hated sewing. I sat on a stone with my back to Sensei and Kakashi, using bandages from my kunai pouch to wrap up my arm, though I didn't really know what to do about my ear. The cut in my arm was pretty deep, but I didn't think it needed medical attention, though with no water I had no way of cleaning the blood off of my arm or side of my face from my ear. I heard some one hesitantly approaching me from behind. I quickly turned around, my best glare positioned at them.
"uh sensei sent me to give you these." He held out a box lunch and a water canteen. "you know you almost made the whole two hours, just ten more minuets and you would have made it." I squinted my eyes intensifying my glare. Did he expect me to be happy that I did well at their stupid test.
"tell sensei I said thank you for the food" I replied with venom in my voice, than motioned with my eyes for him to put the items on the ground. Once he was a safe distance I grabbed both of them. I ripped my right sleeve using the tear as a started point completely off, I soaked it with water and did my best to rub the blood off my arm and face, though it didn't do that great of a job. Deciding not to waste all my water on cleaning up I left the half assed cleaning job as is and started munching on my food. I walked over to where sensei and Kakashi where sitting.
"So now you would like to see my ninjutsu?" they both looked at me hesitantly.
"That was the plan." sensei said sounding unsure.
"Was their some barbaric method you would like to use?" I asked monotony.
"Uh no, if you could just show me that would be fine." he said sheepishly.
"well I know substitution, clone, and transformation jutsu. As for big jutsu's. Fire release: great fireball jutsu and Wind release: wind cutter jutsu, gale palm, and Vacuum wave. I am able to use Fire ball and wind cutter fast enough one after the other that it's like a combination jutsu. My chakra stores are still small, so I can only use two large jutsu's a day or else I cut into my stores, and break my seal" I spoke without emotion to him. He nervously scratched behind his head.
"could you show me the combo?" I nodded, and turned away from them, I did the hand seals quickly, channeling the necessary chakra for the attack than extra for the wind release right after.
"Fire release: great fireball jutsu" I cupped one of my hands to my mouth and a grand fireball spewed out, with my one free hand I did the signs for the wind release. Dad told me one handed jutsu's aren't normal because they are usually very hard to master and control, but to me it felt no different from the two handed ones. With out speaking a word I threw the Wind release: wind cutter jutsu, it amplified the fires heat and range adding fast blades of fire. It was a hard Jutsu to master, I had gotten burned so many times, because I would get scared by the heat and loose control of it, now it was just a matter of the chakra it took up. Two big jutsu's put together like this took nearly half of my chakra stores, if it wasn't for my stores of chakra I could use to replenish, I wouldn't even think about using it in a fight. Especially a solo fight. "It takes up to much Chakra to be logical in a solo fight" I turned around to look at Sensei and Kakashi. They starred at with wide eye's (well eye, in Kakashi's case) The blond man kept opening and closing his mouth as if trying and failing to figure out what to say. At first I learnt that combo with Itachi, but while i was training by myself I fooled around just to see if I could. I failed ALOT before I mastered it, and boy was it a painful road, to mastery of that jutsu.
"That was amazing Kina-chan! Who taught you this? One handed seals, how long have you been doing that?" Minato sounded more like Kushina right now.
"I was just fooling around one day and thought I'd give it a try, dad made that move to be a combo with Itachi. The one handed seals come very easily to me, it feels no different than the two handed seals. I've had very good control of my chakra ever since I was little, dad says that's why I'm able do pick up jutsu's so quick." I looked down at my feet feeling embarrassed by the looks they where giving me.
"That remarkable!" Sensei exclaimed. "with your speed, stamina, taijutsu, and ninjutsu where it's at I don't know how much I'm able to teach you." He thought for a second. "I could teach you some more wind jutsu's" He thought for a second. "how about for now you head home Kakashi will walk you." Kakashi looked betrayed by his Sensei, but didn't protest.
"very well, sensei." I bowed than started to head towards home. I was not in a good mood. Kakashi ran to my side, and together we headed to the Uchiha district. "you don't have to walk me." I said coldly to the boy beside me. He just stayed silent and continued walking beside me. God damn didn't he know when to give a girl space! I was so done with this day, and done with his company.
"Sensei was just trying to test you, he would have stopped any kunai that you couldn't dodge." I gave him the meanest glare I could muster, he shifted his eyes away uncomfortably. That's right you feel my wrath.
"I didn't see him stopping the two kunai I couldn't dodge, so that's a bunch of crap. If I hadn't moved those would have killed me." I said angrily. "just because they didn't doesn't make me any less mad. I don't care if you think I'm over reacting. My father and I made it clear that I didn't want to graduate, so I'm only here because you can't turn down a mentorship from the hokage. So I don't want to be here, and I don't like being separated from my brother, and if he just respected my wishes instead, I would be at the academy with my brother not dodging kunai's being thrown by psycho's who thinks it's okay to try to kill a four year old for a "test". So I don't want to hear your guy's crap excuses." I jumped onto the nearest roof, planning to take the roof route home. "and I definitely don't need you walking me home." I ran full force away, but I could hear him following. I turned around sharply to him landing gracefully on the roof I was on. "What don't you understand!" I yelled at him. Oh god. I was crying. God damn body we are mad not sad! Kakashi stood up, not making eye contact with me at all.
"you didn't want to be a ninja?" he asked quietly.
"of course I did you idiot! I wanted to be a ninja alongside my brother, but first I wanted to be a kid!" I cried out to him. He turned his head sharply towards me at my words. Even I was a little surprised by them, and even more surprised about the truth behind them. "Just never mind, leave me alone." Kakashi walked towards me suddenly, and reached for my face than stopped, at when I flashed a glare.
"Kina, look at your tears!" I brought a hand to my face to wipe my tears, they where cold, which was weird because they felt so hot against my face. I pulled my hand away, they where little pieces of ice. I stared at the in wonder. "Is that normal for you?"
"yes I cry crystals all the time." I replied sarcastically. "no this is not normal." I grabbed another that was slipping down my face, it was strange that they acted like normal tears sliding down my face, but they where tear shaped ice crystals.
"come one we should go show sensei." he said jumping to the next rooftop this time in the direction of the hokage tower.
"no I need to go show my dad." I said back defiantly.
"you need to tell your sensei first now, that's how these things work." I jumped defiantly to the next rooftop, heading full speed ahead to my house, I heard Kakashi growl than run after me, I channeled chakra to my feet to ensure i could stay ahead of him, suddenly I saw a weird three prong kunai fly past me, than Minato sensei popped out of no where right in front of me, i channeled more chakra into my feet and hands using all four limbs to stop before crashing into the blond man. I cartwheeled sideways, channeling chakra to push off hard on my hands landing to the roofs on the other side of the street.
"Kina-chan! Why are you running?" Minato yelled after me.
"I have to go to my dad!" I ran faster pushing my legs to their limit, another Kunai flew past me, though this time knowing what it was, I did a baseball slid through Minato's legs using wind chakra to propel me. I summersaulted than kicked off the edge of the roof, I was on to the next one, and kept running, another kunai flew past, I jumped to the roofs on the other side of the road again, though Kakashi was on this side. I was a mere ten roofs from the Uchiha district when another Kunai flew past me, I couldn't go forwards, or back because Kakashi was there. So I went down. I dropped into and ally between two buildings and ran I made it several steps before Minato and Kakashi were in front of me, Sensei grabbed hold of me, than before I knew it we where all back in the training yard we were an hour ago. No way I could run and hope to get away now, my chakra was three quarters of the way gone, I took a moment to summon chakra from inner me, with little protest from her.
"That was one hell of a chase!" Sensei said cheerfully. "now why were we chasing you?" He asked looking from Kakashi to me.
"she was crying Ice and wasn't going to tell you." Kakashi reported. Why that snot nosed brat.
"I didn't say I wasn't going to tell him you dick! I said I wanted to tell my dad!" I replied with venom in my voice. "It's my own business who I tell, I don't need you telling me who I can and can't tell!"
"whoa wait. Kina you where crying ice?" Minato sensei asked sounding a bit alarmed. I opened my hand to reveal the two little ice crystals in my hand, he went to pick one up but it instantly turned to water at his touch. "well lets go talk to your father."
