A Kunoichi And Her Digital Dragon
Chapter One: Leaving The Elemental Nations

Jungetsu

Gai-sensei, my teammates and I were on a mission to the Land of Spring. It was pretty much like every other mission: boring. Okay, so this was a C-rank, but I still hated going on missions. It was mostly because of Gai-sensei that I hated missions and being a Genin in general.

You see, after Rock Lee, one of Gai-sensei's first Genin and his favorite student who wasn't a Genin, because a Jonin, my teammate Tokugi, who was blind, found the courage to enter the Academy himself. To the surprise of many, he graduated and did so well that he was the Rookie of the Year of his class. He was placed on Gai-sensei's team, because Gai-sensei had trained a disabled student who had done well before.

Unlike most Rookies of the Year, Tokugi wasn't cocky or arrogant. He wasn't one who believed that life had no more lessons to teach him. He worked hard, and most of all, he never gave up. Gai-sensei took a liking to his attitude and so Tokugi became the only student my teacher had eyes for, the apple of Hokage-sama's eye, an example of what Shinobi should be. He was perfect in every way. I'd heard people call him 'perfection incarnate' and other names like that.

His accuracy was perfect, despite being blind. It was said that he could pin a fly to the wall with a Kunai and it would still be alive. He had a Nara-level IQ and none of their laziness. He was very strong and could almost do one of Tsunade-sama's mountain levelers without chakra. His control was so perfect that he mastered the exercises to be a fully fledged medic-nin in a month, which was faster than even Sakura-sama, the head of the hospital. He was very stealthy, so much so that he had managed to sneak up on nearly everyone in the village. And, most importantly, he was very good at finding traps and loopholes, and in general, looking 'underneath the underneath,' to use Yondaime-sama's favorite phrase when he was alive.

I, on the other hand, was not perfect. I was everything Tokugi wasn't— in a bad way. I stuck out with my pale blond hair and pool-like blue eyes I was told people could get lost in. I had a lot of chakra but no control, so I couldn't even do the simplest Clone Jutsu. I couldn't sit still. I had enough book knowledge, because of a medical condition I had, but the stuff I did know did me little good. My body was built more for speed than brute force, so I had little physical strength. I was only average in intelligence and wasn't very stealthy. I was the dead last in my class. I had been told numerous times by my teachers to just give up, because I couldn't match Tokugi. I used a sword as my weapon of choice rather than Kunai or shuriken, or even senbon needles. Most of all, I had one thing that only the strongest Genjutsu could hide: huge dragon wings.

How is this possible?

Well, when I was very young, I was experimented on by Orochimaru. I don't know where he got dragon DNA and I don't care, but he somehow grafted it into my own DNA, giving me dragon wings. I don't mean the petite, gently fluttering dragon wings you sometimes see in fairytales. No, I mean huge wings that together are longer than I am tall.

Anyway, I was on a mission with my team to the Land of Spring, and as usual, Gai-sensei didn't really care about where I went. There were times when I wondered if he even knew I existed. After completing my part of the mission, I used my cell phone (cell phones were now standard issue to all Konoha Shinobi thanks to the alliance we'd had with Spring Country ever since Hokage-sama saved their previous Daimiyo) to report in to Gai-sensei.

However, then I got a very strange text: do you want to start?

Below it were yes and no options. For the hell of it, I hit yes. It wasn't like I had anything better to do. Would Konoha even miss me if I disappeared?

Probably not.

A woman's voice came from my phone. "Take the three forty five outbound train and ride it to the end of the line. Then take the elevator to the ground floor and transfer to a train."

I shrugged. "Can't be any worse than being stuck here." Noticing that, as usual, neither Tokugi, Takrara, nor Gai-sensei was paying any attention to me, I bolted for the nearest train station.

It wasn't like they would notice I was gone for a while, or even miss me. And frankly, I wouldn't really miss Konoha either. The only thing that kept me from defecting was the fact that I didn't want Hunter-nin after me and what respectable Hidden Village would take a missing nin who was only a Genin? Certainly not one of the Five Great Villages, and probably not the minor villages either. Maybe Iron would let me be a samurai, but that was a pretty damn big maybe, and I didn't even want to be a samurai anyway because I was a Shinobi— I always had been.

I got on the train and rode it to the end of the line. It was nearly six o clock by the time I got there. I followed a boy wearing a bandanna and a boy wearing goggles and a cap to the elevator, but then I noticed a boy wearing an olive green jacket thing over a long sleeved dark red shirt and a blue baseball cap chasing after them. He looked remarkably like the bandanna boy. Could they be brothers? If that were true, then why was the baseball cap boy chasing after them? Why weren't they going together? And then it hit me: bandanna boy didn't know the cap boy was his brother. Their parents probably separated when they were young, too young to remember, each taking one twin so that they never had to see eachother again, telling their respective child that their mother/father was dead if they told the twins anything at all.

The elevator doors shut. Cap boy started down the stairs and was about to fall before I grabbed him and yanked him upright, making sure he didn't fall.

He looked at me. "Thanks."

I nodded. "No problem. Were you chasing after the boy with the bandanna? It's obvious that you're twins. I'm guessing he doesn't know."

Cap boy sighed. "Our parents divorced when we were very young. Our mother took me and our father took Koji, the boy with the bandanna. I suppose they did it so that they never had to see eachother again." He added bitterly, making me nod. I suspected as much. "I only found out about having a brother, a twin no less, when my grandmother was dying. I've been trying to work up the courage to talk to him and tell him that we're twin brothers ever since then."

I smiled. "Would you like me to help? I got a hint of his chakra signature earlier when I followed him and another boy to the elevator so I could teleport to wherever he is."

"How?"

I grinned, taking his hand. "Prepare to be amazed." I closed my eyes and focused on the cold but light signature I sensed earlier. We both vanished in a flash of light.

We reappeared in the basement of the train station, near one of the interestingly colored trains. Seeing bandanna-boy, Koji, about to board one of the trains, we rushed after him.

When Koji saw us boarding the train, the first thing out of his mouth was "Who are you and why do you look so much like me?"

"Kimura Koichi." Koichi took a breath. "I'm your twin brother."