Aburame fem Izuku, with partial crossover with Bleach!
A small child was slowly crawling on the ground to try and find something. Their father had been very clear what to look for and what sort of 'bait' to set to lure the target in.
The girl's eyes lit up when she spotted it. She carefully captured the target and brought it to her father.
She felt a gentle hand on her head, and the familiar 'buzz' that she always associated with her parent.
"Good job," her father said. In her hands was a small beetle.
Suzume smiled happily, as her father loved bugs and made sure to share it with her.
Suzume took the beetle home and put it in the small terrarium her father had given her when she was old enough to know how to care for small bugs.
She already had a bit of a collection, not much but still more than most children would at her age.
That night, she heard her parents talking. Something about how her father's family was recalling him and that he would return as soon as he was able.
The next week, her father was gone. Suzume tried to keep a brave face, but it still hurt because she loved her dad. Two months went by and she was hit with another blow...her mother, concerned that she hadn't shown any sort of ability, took her to the doctor.
She was quirkless.
Suzume wanted her father to return so badly. He didn't care a wit about quirks or special abilities. He cared more about his insects.
Down in the dumps, Suzume defaulted back into one of the things that made her happy because it was something her father shared. He had been teaching her how to do special movements since she was three, and had left a few books to keep her busy once she had mastered the basics.
So she practiced. She practice the forms, added to her collection of bugs, did her origami and kept up her observations on the pro heroes trying to break down their fighting style and where they went wrong.
It had been a really fun game for her and her dad, breaking down the latest hero/villain fights and her dad giving her brutally honest opinions of how they did and what they could do to improve.
Which lead to this incident when she was five, and quietly watching the heroes take down the random villains.
Suzume watched with rapt attention as the lead hero "Kamui Wood" tried to use his wood elemental powers against the villain who had a lesser ability to use metal. While Kamui would undoubtedly win as he had better training, his skills were still rather sloppy and she could help but comment to herself while she wrote down her observations about how he could have been so much better.
Suzume only looked up after a few moments to register the slightly older girl leaning against the bench she was sitting on to watch the free show, well outside the accepted bored of the fight.
"What you doing, chibi?" asked the girl.
"Watching," said Suzume.
The girl discreetly looked at the small child's writing. While crude and childish, her observations were brutally honest. The older girl had a rather odd, feral grin.
"Hey chibi...would you like some company while you 'watch'?"
The girl turned to proper face her. The older girl had dark black hair, amber colored eyes, and felt a lot like her father.
"Hey Nee-san, do you know how to play the Watching Game too?" she asked cheerfully.
"How do you play it?" asked the older girl, playing along.
Suzume told her the basic details, and within minutes made a new friend.
Soi Fon didn't know what clan the kid was from, as she had active chakra coils and was clearly practicing what looked like a clan taijutsu style.
It took her a few months before she narrowed it down to Konoha. Not exactly bad, but not good either. From what she could tell, the shinobi parent that sired the little queen had to return for family reasons. Considering what little she heard about Konoha of late, it was likely he had been recalled by the clan due to the recent Kyuubi attack on the village.
Not that she particularly cared. Just because she was still loyal to her village didn't mean she gave a damn about the internal or external politics. And outside of a few issues, her village wasn't technically against Konoha outside general rivalry as one of the Big Five.
Seeing the little girl loo at her with hopeful eyes, and knowing she hadn't been raised with any actual loyalty to her father's home village, Soi Fon made the decision to train her. Either until she was old enough to defend herself or when the inevitable happened and her father's clan showed up to reclaim her.
Suzume was too damn adorable...it was almost impossible to take. The way she would stare at Soi Fon with such an innocent expression that had never known the horrors of shinobi life... it was hard not to coo at the kid.
Seeing the way Suzume would follow her dutifully without complaint in basic taijutsu drills was too cute. Soi Fon found herself eagerly awaiting their next lesson.
Just the way Suzume called her "nee-san" and actually meant it made it very hard for her to maintain her badass exterior.
So when the baby queen came to her hiding tears and signs of being too close to an explosion, Soi Fon investigated...and what she found had her pissed.
Some arrogant civilian brat with an explosive quirk was using her little queen as a punching bag.
"Little bee, why didn't you just kick his ass?"
"The teachers wouldn't let me. They said since I'm quirkless that I shouldn't ruin his chances at being a pro hero later," said Suzume bitterly. Her teary eyes firmed as a pissed expression crossed her face. "It's not my fault I was born with some cheap ability!"
Soi Fon had always mistaken the slight buzzing as the inevitable hum of the electrical wiring. The 'hero' side of the world seemed to rely on it. With her little bee so agitated though, she realized what she had taken to be electricity to be something else. Something potentially far more dangerous.
And then...she saw it. An absolutely massive Japanese Giant Wasp hovering over her little bee's shoulder.
Most people would have panicked, as Giant Wasps were notoriously agreesive and their stings incredibly deadly. A child would never survive it.
Except Soi Fon wasn't most people, and a lot of little things that she hadn't been able to fully add up finally made sense. The little queen bee...was an Aburame.
"Little bee, when I'm through with you that little shit won't know what hit him."
"But I'm quirkless," said Suzume.
Which really only highlighted how warped this particular society was that it only treated those with a one-time kekkei genkai that didn't have a decent chance of passing to their children with any consistency with high regard.
Soi Fon openly spat to the side, hearing that.
"Bah. You know the statistics as well as I do. There's a reason there are still a high percentage of quirkless in the world, and the majority of them don't tend to live in the hero-side of things."
"What?" said Suzume, not daring to hope.
"Little bee, the reason you don't have a quirk is because your dad is a shinobi...like me," said Soi Fon.
"But he could breath fire. He often did that to light the barbeque."
"He must have learned a few fire-style jutsu then, and used that to hide the truth," said Soi Fon dismissively. "It'll be a pain to test your chakra affinity, but not impossible."
The real headache was figuring out how to call upon the swarm Soi Fon was dead certain was inside the little bee...and how to add to it. Considering that wasp was calmly sitting on her shoulder without showing any aggression, it was pretty obvious she had at least a small hive of them inside her. It certainly explained why her chakra coils were so well maintained, despite the fact Suzume didn't have any proper shinobi training.
Soi Fon paused, before face-palming.
"Is your name short for Suzumebachi?"
She blinked.
"How did you know nee-san?" asked Suzume.
Because if she had a somewhat tame Japanese Giant Wasp that close to her, then odds were her initial hive was full of the things. And Suzumebachi was the Japanese word for 'wasp'. Made sense for an Aburame to name their kid something insect related. It certainly explained why Suzume gave off a 'virgin queen' vibe the second Soi Fon met her.
Though really, giving a kid that kind of a hive right off the bat...odds were her father was attempting to crossbreed the local species to add to the clan's stock of insects, but hadn't had time to do more than basic training.
Though the real question was why her father or his clan hadn't tried to reclaim her yet. Most shinobi clans didn't like having clan kids outside their territory for multiple reasons.
Oh well, at least her boredom was gone.
In Konoha, one year later...
Shibi had a headache. His cousin had returned, but there was a substantial decrease in his hive. Considering the area he had been living in, it was unlikely a chunin of his caliber had broken protocol and shown off the family's specialty around the heroes.
They got bitchy enough because shinobi were allowed to operate with impunity (within reason of course) so long as they were under contract, despite not having a 'license' and quite literally encouraging child soldiers.
The reason Shibi had a headache was simple. There were only two reasons Hisashi would have such a dramatic loss in the hive.
One was he face an unknown opponent that devastated his hive, which was unlikely as he had been sent on a rather discreet mission to add fresh bloodlines to the clan's stock of insects. In particular he had brought some intriguing samples of a breed known as "Japanese Giant Wasps" that sadly did not survive as long as they hoped. The few larvae he had been able to add to his own hive had not adapted so easily to chakra use.
The other possibility, which was far more likely considering he had been gone for close to five years...was that Hisashi had a child. And since he was loyal to the clan, it was only natural he would have donated a good percentage of his hive as was demanded by the clan.
Which meant there was a strong possibility Hisashi had left an heir behind in the civilian world, hence Shibi's headache. If there truly was a child, they would have to be retrieved... however there was no telling if they would be suitable to shinobi life. At the very least, part of the hive would have to be collected.
The issue was getting permission to leave the 'safety' of the Elemental Continent to visit Japan long enough to track down where Hisashi stayed.
The annoying thing was that the heroes usually imposed far too many restrictions on shinobi, regardless of their mission. They viewed them as bloodthirsty mercenaries that would kill anyone for a profit. Admittedly that was the case, but most shinobi permitted outside the continent at least had the sense to be discreet about it. It wasn't like they killed everyone in their way just because they could!
Shibi sighed, and mentally went through what he'd need to do to investigate Hisashi's possible child from the outside.
Two months later, Shibi and a member of the Inuzuka clan armed with a piece of Hisashi's old clothing that hadn't been washed (for reasons exactly like this) made their way to the outside world.
This was going to be a major headache, he just knew it.
One month later...
It took them some time to track down Hisashi's wife. She took the news of his death rather well, even if she was somewhat confused as to why his family was contacting her now.
Then the girl he had seen in the photos arrives...and with her a potential complication.
The older girl was clearly a shinobi, possibly chunin. She was also very close to Hisashi's child.
Hiroshi made pleasant small talk with Inko, who was promptly placed under a mild genjutsu so that she wouldn't hear anything too sensitive.
"What's a Cloud chunin doing all the way outside?" asked Shibi sternly.
The older chunin, who barely appeared to be in her twenties or so, promptly put the child between her and the two Konoha shinobi.
"None of your damn business," hissed Soi Fon.
"Nee-san, who are these people? And what did they do to Kaa-san?" said the girl.
Shibi wasn't the only one to notice the slow, subtle presence of massive wasps behind the girl. Hisashi had likely intended to return to his family, but the failed mission and the suicidal effort he made to save the life of a comrade had ended that.
Unlike the small hive he had brought back to the village, this one seemed to be healthy and thriving, if she could produce this many so easily.
"Little bee, they are making sure your Okaa-chan doesn't hear anything too sensitive. As for who they are... I'm guess the one with glasses is your clan head," said Soi Fon carefully.
Shibi cautiously put Inko to sleep. He could deal with her later, the kunoichi in front of him was the more dangerous threat. The girl became very obviously distressed, but understood it couldn't be helped.
To say the conversation they had was awkward would be an incredible understatement.