Thank you Mrs. Ukki, LeUndeadRabidChipmunk and Miserei Yayasuchi for making my 50th drabble so colourful with your reviews!
I thought it was about time I revealed Aoi's powers and past. I completed writing it, but it became too long so I had to split it into two drabbles. This is the first one. More will be revealed in the second drabble!
Enjoy! =D
Fire
'Sensei!' Guy was running with all his might to the training field. 'Three to four houses at the edge of the village caught fire! No one's there yet! I couldn't do anything! Sensei, help them! There are people stuck inside!'
Nara Shikaku opened one eye to look at his pupil in the green jumpsuit who had just disturbed his afternoon nap.
'Fire huh?' he said closing his eye right back and sighing. 'Troublesome.'
'But-but Sensei!' Guy protested. 'You can't not help them! You aren't going to help them because it troublesome?! Sensei I thought you-.'
'Pause kid!' Shikaku said. 'I never said anything about not helping them.' He sighed again. 'Guess there's no way.'
'Aoi, you were listening right?' Shikaku asked.
'Yes, sensei!' Aoi said jumping down from the same tree Shikaku was napping under.
'I'm leaving it to you,' Shikaku said turning over on his shoulder to a more comfortable sleeping position.
'Roger!' Aoi did a salute.
'Guy take her there,' Shikaku said. 'And don't get in her way.'
'Aoi-chan?' Guy was very shocked. 'Sensei aren't you-?'
Aoi caught hold of Guy's jumpsuit. 'Lead the way, bowlcut! We're running out of time.'
'Yes, ma'am!'
Once on the scene, Aoi rushed inside the burning buildings without a second thought.
'Aoi-chan! Stop! It's dangerous to just barge in!' Guy shouted.
'Stay where you are!' Aoi shouted before she disappeared inside one of the burning houses.
Guy thought that was the end of Arisawa Aoi. There was no way she could survive after running inside a house on fire like that. What was sensei thinking? It was his fault that Aoi died. And it had been only a month Guy and gotten to know Aoi after their genin team was formed. And now he had already lost a teammate!
Shikaku sensei was a murde-
Before he could finished the sentence, Aoi came out of the house hauling along with her a teenage girl. The girl was blackened at places from the soot and coughing vigorously.
Aoi didn't have a single scratch on her.
'H-how-?'
'Oi, you bowl cut!' Aoi snapped. 'Don't just stand there spacing out! Take her away! I'll go get the rest out!'
That was the first time Guy saw Aoi's kekkei genkai.
'Total immunity to fire?' Guy marveled later as Aoi dragged her lazy sensei to treat her to dango since she had successfully completed her mission.
'I completed the mission sensei!' she said smiling. 'With no thanks to you of course!'
The sugarcoated words were blackmail enough for Shikaku get his ass up and treat his student to dango.
'Sweet!' Guy said marveling at Aoi's power.
Aoi shrugged as she popped a dango in her mouth. 'No' rea'y,' she said with her mouthful.
'What are you talking about?' Guy protested. 'It's awesome!'
Aoi sighed. 'Oi Guy,' she said. 'Don't spread it around too much, okay?'
Guy was again a little taken aback but he complied with her request anyway.
'Whenever there's a fire in anywhere in the village and Aoi gets to know about it, I have always noticed that she always runs towards it than away from it. What's up with that?' Kakashi asked Guy.
'I made a promise of youth!'
'You did what now?'
'I made a promise of youth to Aoi chan that I would always keep her secret!'
'So there is something behind her running towards fire all the time,' Kakashi said. 'Don't worry you said more than enough.'
'Huh?'
Kakashi just sighed and left. It bothered him a little that Guy knew something so important about her and he didn't when he had known her since they were kids.
It wasn't long before Kakashi was in on it too. Infact because he saw it, he had lived to tell the tale.
'What's the matter with you?' Aoi demanded. 'Are you having a brain freeze?!' The blast of fire from the enemy that was about to hit him hit Aoi instead who ran in front of him in the last second and shielded him. The fire had whatsoever no effect on Aoi whose back was turned to it and she was glowering at Kakashi for freezing like that in enemy territory.
'This is war, mask-face,' Aoi said. 'Get a hold of yourself.'
'Che!' Kakashi turned his head slightly embarrassed. 'You don't have to tell me that!'
He asked the questions later.
'Okay so even if fire catches you of guard, you would be immune to it?' he asked after they returned to Konoha from the battlefield. The Third Shinobi World War was going on. Chunins weren't usually sent into the frontlines so all they had to do was infiltrate smaller areas.
'I don't know,' Aoi said. 'It probably would burn me but I was never caught off guard by fire. I was trained that way. To be able to tell that fire is coming.'
'So you're dad has the ability too, since it's a kekkei genkai,' Kakashi guessed.
Aoi nodded. Her dad was fighting in the frontlines with most of the other jounins of Konoha. He had not even told her anything about going. Far from saying farewell, he hadn't even come to see her.
'Anything else other than being immune to fire?' Kakashi asked changing the subject from her father as fast as he could. He wanted to kick himself for bringing it up in the first place.
Aoi shook her head. Then she said. 'We are usually fire natured if that counts.'
'Does Kushina sensei know about this?' Kakashi asked.
Aoi nodded.
'Why did you hide it from everyone else?'
Aoi shrugged.
Kakashi sighed. 'Well, whatever,' he said. 'I'll go train. Unlike you lazy guys I'm actually training to be a jounin.'
While he was walking away, a sandal flew and hit him squarely on the head.
So this is for this drabble. More to come out next drabble.
Miserei Yayasuchi : I will most definitely think up on a drabble that you suggested and post it as soon as possible! Thank you! :D
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