Quick summary: I actually think this chapter was very interesting, because
you find out many clues as to who Rena's father is. It isn't too obvious,
and it isn't too difficult, but that is the excitement of the story, to
figure out things. This chapter has vital information to lend to the story
itself. You wouldn't want to skip it!!!
Rena's door swung open. That same redheaded woman with the spiky hair burst in. "Ha! Look who it is, it's the bookworm... No, Bookworm-sama." The woman laughed. She sat down in front of Rena.
"You are obnoxious, Arika. So... sigh what's up?" Rena asked in a normal tone. She didn't sound so Ms. Polite anymore. She was just... normal.
"The ceiling is up. You know, for heaven's sake, will you take the damn things out?" Arika asked.
"No, I like them in. The others frighten me." Rena excused.
"You are so complicated. If you love your old man so much, you'd be proud of those gems, but you insist to cover them up. You know, if you didn't have boobs, you'd be your dad, I swear. You are the spitting image of him. Are you sure you even had a mother?" Arika joked. Rena looked up from her paperwork and glared at Arika.
"This is such a shame. A horrible, terrible shame. You sit night after night in a little office, looking at people's shit, and their bitchings, when you could kill them all in the blink of an eye. Why don't you just let it all go? All your pent up emotions, everything, release your demon." Arika insisted.
"I want my father to be proud, not ashamed!" Rena exclaimed. (I know it rhymes... get over it.)
"What are you talking about?! Just kill everyone here, and your bastard of a murderous father would be the most proud damn parent in the whole fucking world. DO you know how many people that monster has killed?!" Arika stood up. So did Rena. She slapped Arika.
"I realize that, but he is my father, and I love him to pieces, no matter how many he slaughters..." Rena sat down.
"If you love the bastard so much, why don't you marry him?" Arika slammed her hand on the table.
"You wish to see me angry. Are you asking for a death wish? Like you said, I could kill you in the blink of an eye." Rena's eyes were on fire and she was calm and sinister.
"Neat! Do some more cool stuff! Get someone and rip the flesh off them with your teeth!" Arika was excited. She loved to see Rena angry. She sat down.
"You are insane. I am not going to kill an innocent person." Rena explained.
"Anyway, let's hang out tomorrow, I came here to give you this letter from the Hokage. I don't see how you can be best friends with a really, really old guy, but whatever." Arika got up. Her hand was on the doorframe.
"If you were the owner of the new sound village, would you let someone as dangerous as me in? I could be a spy. And especially if I decided to use my real name. Master Hokage only saw my name and was deathly afraid of me, but he knew to give me a chance once I told him my story, and for that I am eternally grateful. That's all we need is another one of my fathers running around. Can you imagine the confusion of the people? It is almost amusing."
Arika nodded. "The Jounin exams will be held fairly soon. Think about your priorities. Do you want to be a ninja? Make daddy proud. Or be a librarian and make a certain other someone happy?"
"How do you know about that?" Rena questioned.
"I saw you two walking together." Arika replied.
"He was just helping me carry papers1" Rena insisted.
"Mhmmm. Suuuuuuure he was. You keeping thinking that!" Arika teased and pulled her eyelid down and stuck her tongue out. "Well, I gotta get. I'll see you tomorrow." Arika threw her hand and waved. She walked out.
Rena opened the letter from the Hokage. It read,
Dear Rena,
Please come see me tomorrow. We need to talk.
Sincerely,
The third Hokage
Rena felt worried. The Hokage was her friend, but the letter sounded like she was in trouble... Ooooh... (What am I, six?)
She looked at her piles of papers. "I hate to say it, but Arika is right. Why am I in a stuffy old library? Why do I care about all these letters? I don't. It's just a courtesy! Fine..." Rena said. She stared at the papers until they were ablaze.
She smothered out the flame with her hand. The poor papers were reduced to a pile of smoldering ashes. She sighed. "I feel bad, but it will come to pass."
She walked home. Home was a small apartment, on the third floor. When she walked in, she set her purse down on a table, and she walked into the tiny bedroom. All there was, was a full-sized bed... And two boxes... They were covered with a black sheet.
She ripped off the black sheet to the smaller box. It was a cage full of white mice! She reached inside and carefully extracted a white rodent by it's tail.
With her left hand she whipped off the bigger box's cloth and inside was a green snake! The impatient creature was already trying to climb out.
"Ah. Maru, my dear, always so impatient. Did you think I wasn't coming home?" Rena asked, lovingly. She let the animal slither up her left arm and it poked it's malicious forked tongue out at the rodent, who was squealing and squirming for it's life.
The snake wanted no part in the live moving animal. Rena smiled and set the rodent in the palm of her left hand. She pushed on its neck until it snapped, and she fed the limp white mammal to the sinister reptilian. It poked it's tongue out another time.
Rena kissed it's head and sat it on her bed, and it slithered away to do anything snakes do... on their free time...
Anyway, Rena pulled out a pack of cigarettes from her drawer. "I mustn't... They'll kill me someday... I promised myself to only have one in a while and I had one last week... I can't afford to be sick around Master Hokage." Rena assured herself and put them back. What other secrets did she hide?
She put on a pink silk gown, and she let down her hair. She walked to the bathroom, and put her fingers in her eye, and pulled out a contact...
She picked up her snake friend that sat on the counter. It hung around her neck, and shut it's cold eyes, like it was comforted.
The next morning, she put her blue contacts back in after washing her face and taking a shower. She dressed herself in her finest silk kimono. It was fuchsia with sakura blossoms embroidered onto it. She placed her hair into a bun, and her bangs hung down like blades of long fresh grass.
Rena kissed her snake and she put it into its tank. She walked all the way to the Hokage's place. When he admitted her in, she stood in front of him. He smiled at her.
"Ah. Rena... I have a proposal for you. Your obnoxious friend Arika informed me of how badly you wanted to be a ninja, and I had to sit and listen to your entire past life with your father and how he trained you. I would expect no less of that man. Since you carry his blood and he has trained you rigorously, I want to offer you a choice." The old man proposed.
Rena nodded "You are too kind, Master Hokage. What is my choice?"
"Hmm... Puff's on pipe well... We have never done this before, but for you my good friend I will make an exception. I am offering you to take a test. If you pass, you are admitted to take the Jounin level exam. Yes, I want you to go straight to there. We need the best we can get. You have read every book on every aspect of ninja. You can create your own scrolls, and you tell me you have created your own seals. Which is fine. You even know Kinjutsu, but I trust you not to use it. Smile Well, my young friend, will you try to pass the first test?" The ugly old bag of wrinkles asked.
"Master... Hokage... I do, yes, thank you... But what about my library?" Rena asked.
"It will be run by chosen Chuninns. So you want to earn the headband, eh?" The Hokage laughed.
Rena was so happy. "Y-... Yes I do! I will pass all of the exams! I want to be a Jounin! I want to make my father proud! I want to prove to him that I am not worthless! Thank you Master Hokage!" Rena ran up to him and hugged him gently. God forbid the old bag of bones' snaps in half.
"I seriously hope you don't know where that man is, do you? If you became a Jounin you must solemnly swear to not ever see that man, if you find him. Do you understand Rena?" The Hokage was serious. sarcasm Ooooh! shakes hands.
Rena was too happy to care what the Hokage was yapping about. "Yes I agree!" Rena exclaimed.
The Hokage handed her a test. It was a wad of 20 pages! She had to get no less than 5 wrong.
She would try her best. So she went to the library and sat at her desk, looking at the test. The questions were easy in the beginning, but they had gotten a lot harder. 'If a ninja throws a shuirken at an opponent at 44.679 degrees, and he misses, because the opponent substituted a log for himself, at 100 degrees above sea level, and charges down at the ninja at a rate of 25 miles per hour, but he was actually a stand-in, at what rate and what degree does the ninja throw a kunai at the opponent from a bush 6 feet away from his stand in?' The questions were insane.
But Rena knew the answer to the question. Unfortunately I don't. Anyway, that is besides the point. The point is, is that that little test was actually seeing if she wanted to be a ninja bad enough to answer the 500 or so questions.
But you see, if she could answer those questions, she was automatically qualified to be a Jounin. But lets not tell her that, all right? Moving on.
She worked until noon. Then she was hungry, but she wanted to put some books back a kid had just returned. So she moved the ladder quietly around, until she found the section in which it belonged. Little did she notice that Kakashi was right below her.
She had to climb ALL the way to the top, about 20 feet or so. She reached the third to last step and slipped. The raven-haired librarian couldn't help but screaming. Kakashi turned his head.
Rena had decided at the last moment to do a back flip off of the ladder. Her foot just barely pushed off the ladder, but she gained enough momentum to back flip and do a 10-point land on the table in front of Kakashi. It happened so fast; Kakashi didn't have time to do anything.
Kakashi smiled and helped her get down. 'She looks so pretty today...' Kakashi thought.
"I apologize if I startled you." Rena brushed off her dress. 'I still got it!' She thought. She assumed her psychic ability, intensive training, and her blood, she inherited from her father, was enough to surpass any wanna- be Jounin.
"Ms. Sakuna, will you come to lunch with me? I suppose you are hungry." Kakashi offered. Rena nodded her head quickly and looked down. She put her hand to her mouth and she blushed like Iruka. (Does anybody else besides me think that Iruka looks like a bottle-nosed dolphin? Kakashi throws him in the ocean SWIM IRUKA SWIM WITH YOUR FAMILY!)
Rena left with Kakashi and she felt bad about leaving without Gai, because she had said she would go with HIM and not Kakashi. But if there is ANYONE that would rather go to lunch with Gai than Kakashi, please let me know. We'll be laughing with you not at you. (I am a liar).
She wrote a note on her door. 'Gai, I apologize. I went out to lunch, but if you'd be still interested, I could go tomorrow.'
Kakashi ordered nothing (HE DOESN'T WANT TO TAKE OFF HIS MASK) and Rena had Sushi DROOL (And I don't even like seafood, but sushi is awesome!) with white rice and bean pods and steamed carrots... I am hungry now, thanks a lot, imagination! You bastard, if I you were a person, I'd shoot you.)
"That was pretty impressive, I've never seen someone (a normal stupid non- ninja loser . ) react so fast. Where'd you learn that?" Kakashi asked. Rena decided to be a showoff.
"The same place I learned this," Rena smiled. She did a 4-step seal, pointing at the soy sauce bottle. It floated to her as she stared at it, and it floated and it dribbled some on her rice, and she set it back... Lets sing our own praises now!
For a moment Kakashi had felt her chakra, but strangely, after she set it down it almost 'turned off'.
Meanwhile, Gai happily strut to the library with flowers in hand. When he saw the sign 'Out to lunch' He just about died. He read the note that was addressed to him. "LEE!" He shouted. Lee came out of the bushes.
"Gai-sensei, this sign says out-to-lunch! You lost! No Gai-sensei!" Lee cried.
"No, Lee! I have another chance! I still got the charm! Don't ever doubt me, Lee!" Gai merrily instructed.
"YES GAI-SENSEI!" Lee stood in soldier-saluting formation... Gai gave Lee the thumbs up and smiled.
Kakashi was utterly amazed. For a moment he speculated she was part of the advanced bloodline, but alas, she explained it to him. "You see, you use your chakra and feed it into your mind and you can move buildings. It is a hard technique to master, and you need a lot of creative visualization, and nothing can get in your line of sight. Because the invisible silver cord that connects my mind to the object and melds with my chakra so I can control it will. The object will once again become just that. An object. The hardest part has to be judging how much chakra to use. For the soy sauce I would feel like a person normally holding something. If I gave too much chakra, it would bust."
Our silver haired sensei had mixed feelings. He was impressed but he was also bewildered and intrigued. They ate and talked about little things. Kakashi didn't want to milk the subject too much.
He offered to walk her home. Mainly so he could see it. She agreed and they walked to her house. When they arrived and Kakashi saw a snake slithering around on the ground he pointed it out. He expected her to scream, but she picked it up and kissed its scaly head. Kakashi was a bit scared of this woman. He had never seen a girl so fond of reptiles, especially snakes.
She set the creature on her counter, and it slithered to the floor. Kakashi saw a familiar test in Rena's purse when she sat it down. She saw him looking at it and she took it out and gave it to him. He wasn't going to go through her purse!
She offered him a cup of coffee, so they sat and had coffee. Kakashi told her she had 'pretty eyes'. She got that a lot. Her eyes were cat-like in shape, and from what her contacts were she had blue eyes.
Rena blushed at Kakashi's flattering comment. He looked at the test
"You want to be a ninja? This test looks very difficult. Is it a special one?" Kakashi asked casually.
"Yes... Master Hokage gave it to me and told me if I pass, I can go to the Jounin level, which I believe you are at, right Mr. Kakashi?" She replied.
Kakashi smiled and put his hand behind his head, "Yeah, I guess it is. Nikko-nikko" Kakashi laughed. Kakashi had to think about THIS new development. The only possibilities he could think of were: 1. She was actually a VERY proficient ninja that Master Hokage knew about, and gave her a chance. 2. She had proved her worth. 3. She was part of a special bloodline or clan such as Hyuuga or Uchiha. But she didn't have blank eyes or the trait of an Uchiha. Maybe a new clan? 4. Something else he didn't think of.
But then he remembered about her magnificent powers. And how her father had trained her... something told Kakashi that he should find out who her father was, and it would explain everything.
But he didn't want to ask her. She was really uncomfortable with that question. He had asked her before, and she sort of avoided it. So Kakashi figured he couldn't hurt anyone if he saw her personal information, without anybody knowing. It wasn't like her old man was a serial killer or something.
So it got late and Kakashi went home. They had become really good friends. They talked, laughed and shared storied, they got along like pizza and cheese. Or Fruit and vegetables. Unless the fruit wages war on the vegetables, then they aren't friends... Oh well...
Rena's door swung open. That same redheaded woman with the spiky hair burst in. "Ha! Look who it is, it's the bookworm... No, Bookworm-sama." The woman laughed. She sat down in front of Rena.
"You are obnoxious, Arika. So... sigh what's up?" Rena asked in a normal tone. She didn't sound so Ms. Polite anymore. She was just... normal.
"The ceiling is up. You know, for heaven's sake, will you take the damn things out?" Arika asked.
"No, I like them in. The others frighten me." Rena excused.
"You are so complicated. If you love your old man so much, you'd be proud of those gems, but you insist to cover them up. You know, if you didn't have boobs, you'd be your dad, I swear. You are the spitting image of him. Are you sure you even had a mother?" Arika joked. Rena looked up from her paperwork and glared at Arika.
"This is such a shame. A horrible, terrible shame. You sit night after night in a little office, looking at people's shit, and their bitchings, when you could kill them all in the blink of an eye. Why don't you just let it all go? All your pent up emotions, everything, release your demon." Arika insisted.
"I want my father to be proud, not ashamed!" Rena exclaimed. (I know it rhymes... get over it.)
"What are you talking about?! Just kill everyone here, and your bastard of a murderous father would be the most proud damn parent in the whole fucking world. DO you know how many people that monster has killed?!" Arika stood up. So did Rena. She slapped Arika.
"I realize that, but he is my father, and I love him to pieces, no matter how many he slaughters..." Rena sat down.
"If you love the bastard so much, why don't you marry him?" Arika slammed her hand on the table.
"You wish to see me angry. Are you asking for a death wish? Like you said, I could kill you in the blink of an eye." Rena's eyes were on fire and she was calm and sinister.
"Neat! Do some more cool stuff! Get someone and rip the flesh off them with your teeth!" Arika was excited. She loved to see Rena angry. She sat down.
"You are insane. I am not going to kill an innocent person." Rena explained.
"Anyway, let's hang out tomorrow, I came here to give you this letter from the Hokage. I don't see how you can be best friends with a really, really old guy, but whatever." Arika got up. Her hand was on the doorframe.
"If you were the owner of the new sound village, would you let someone as dangerous as me in? I could be a spy. And especially if I decided to use my real name. Master Hokage only saw my name and was deathly afraid of me, but he knew to give me a chance once I told him my story, and for that I am eternally grateful. That's all we need is another one of my fathers running around. Can you imagine the confusion of the people? It is almost amusing."
Arika nodded. "The Jounin exams will be held fairly soon. Think about your priorities. Do you want to be a ninja? Make daddy proud. Or be a librarian and make a certain other someone happy?"
"How do you know about that?" Rena questioned.
"I saw you two walking together." Arika replied.
"He was just helping me carry papers1" Rena insisted.
"Mhmmm. Suuuuuuure he was. You keeping thinking that!" Arika teased and pulled her eyelid down and stuck her tongue out. "Well, I gotta get. I'll see you tomorrow." Arika threw her hand and waved. She walked out.
Rena opened the letter from the Hokage. It read,
Dear Rena,
Please come see me tomorrow. We need to talk.
Sincerely,
The third Hokage
Rena felt worried. The Hokage was her friend, but the letter sounded like she was in trouble... Ooooh... (What am I, six?)
She looked at her piles of papers. "I hate to say it, but Arika is right. Why am I in a stuffy old library? Why do I care about all these letters? I don't. It's just a courtesy! Fine..." Rena said. She stared at the papers until they were ablaze.
She smothered out the flame with her hand. The poor papers were reduced to a pile of smoldering ashes. She sighed. "I feel bad, but it will come to pass."
She walked home. Home was a small apartment, on the third floor. When she walked in, she set her purse down on a table, and she walked into the tiny bedroom. All there was, was a full-sized bed... And two boxes... They were covered with a black sheet.
She ripped off the black sheet to the smaller box. It was a cage full of white mice! She reached inside and carefully extracted a white rodent by it's tail.
With her left hand she whipped off the bigger box's cloth and inside was a green snake! The impatient creature was already trying to climb out.
"Ah. Maru, my dear, always so impatient. Did you think I wasn't coming home?" Rena asked, lovingly. She let the animal slither up her left arm and it poked it's malicious forked tongue out at the rodent, who was squealing and squirming for it's life.
The snake wanted no part in the live moving animal. Rena smiled and set the rodent in the palm of her left hand. She pushed on its neck until it snapped, and she fed the limp white mammal to the sinister reptilian. It poked it's tongue out another time.
Rena kissed it's head and sat it on her bed, and it slithered away to do anything snakes do... on their free time...
Anyway, Rena pulled out a pack of cigarettes from her drawer. "I mustn't... They'll kill me someday... I promised myself to only have one in a while and I had one last week... I can't afford to be sick around Master Hokage." Rena assured herself and put them back. What other secrets did she hide?
She put on a pink silk gown, and she let down her hair. She walked to the bathroom, and put her fingers in her eye, and pulled out a contact...
She picked up her snake friend that sat on the counter. It hung around her neck, and shut it's cold eyes, like it was comforted.
The next morning, she put her blue contacts back in after washing her face and taking a shower. She dressed herself in her finest silk kimono. It was fuchsia with sakura blossoms embroidered onto it. She placed her hair into a bun, and her bangs hung down like blades of long fresh grass.
Rena kissed her snake and she put it into its tank. She walked all the way to the Hokage's place. When he admitted her in, she stood in front of him. He smiled at her.
"Ah. Rena... I have a proposal for you. Your obnoxious friend Arika informed me of how badly you wanted to be a ninja, and I had to sit and listen to your entire past life with your father and how he trained you. I would expect no less of that man. Since you carry his blood and he has trained you rigorously, I want to offer you a choice." The old man proposed.
Rena nodded "You are too kind, Master Hokage. What is my choice?"
"Hmm... Puff's on pipe well... We have never done this before, but for you my good friend I will make an exception. I am offering you to take a test. If you pass, you are admitted to take the Jounin level exam. Yes, I want you to go straight to there. We need the best we can get. You have read every book on every aspect of ninja. You can create your own scrolls, and you tell me you have created your own seals. Which is fine. You even know Kinjutsu, but I trust you not to use it. Smile Well, my young friend, will you try to pass the first test?" The ugly old bag of wrinkles asked.
"Master... Hokage... I do, yes, thank you... But what about my library?" Rena asked.
"It will be run by chosen Chuninns. So you want to earn the headband, eh?" The Hokage laughed.
Rena was so happy. "Y-... Yes I do! I will pass all of the exams! I want to be a Jounin! I want to make my father proud! I want to prove to him that I am not worthless! Thank you Master Hokage!" Rena ran up to him and hugged him gently. God forbid the old bag of bones' snaps in half.
"I seriously hope you don't know where that man is, do you? If you became a Jounin you must solemnly swear to not ever see that man, if you find him. Do you understand Rena?" The Hokage was serious. sarcasm Ooooh! shakes hands.
Rena was too happy to care what the Hokage was yapping about. "Yes I agree!" Rena exclaimed.
The Hokage handed her a test. It was a wad of 20 pages! She had to get no less than 5 wrong.
She would try her best. So she went to the library and sat at her desk, looking at the test. The questions were easy in the beginning, but they had gotten a lot harder. 'If a ninja throws a shuirken at an opponent at 44.679 degrees, and he misses, because the opponent substituted a log for himself, at 100 degrees above sea level, and charges down at the ninja at a rate of 25 miles per hour, but he was actually a stand-in, at what rate and what degree does the ninja throw a kunai at the opponent from a bush 6 feet away from his stand in?' The questions were insane.
But Rena knew the answer to the question. Unfortunately I don't. Anyway, that is besides the point. The point is, is that that little test was actually seeing if she wanted to be a ninja bad enough to answer the 500 or so questions.
But you see, if she could answer those questions, she was automatically qualified to be a Jounin. But lets not tell her that, all right? Moving on.
She worked until noon. Then she was hungry, but she wanted to put some books back a kid had just returned. So she moved the ladder quietly around, until she found the section in which it belonged. Little did she notice that Kakashi was right below her.
She had to climb ALL the way to the top, about 20 feet or so. She reached the third to last step and slipped. The raven-haired librarian couldn't help but screaming. Kakashi turned his head.
Rena had decided at the last moment to do a back flip off of the ladder. Her foot just barely pushed off the ladder, but she gained enough momentum to back flip and do a 10-point land on the table in front of Kakashi. It happened so fast; Kakashi didn't have time to do anything.
Kakashi smiled and helped her get down. 'She looks so pretty today...' Kakashi thought.
"I apologize if I startled you." Rena brushed off her dress. 'I still got it!' She thought. She assumed her psychic ability, intensive training, and her blood, she inherited from her father, was enough to surpass any wanna- be Jounin.
"Ms. Sakuna, will you come to lunch with me? I suppose you are hungry." Kakashi offered. Rena nodded her head quickly and looked down. She put her hand to her mouth and she blushed like Iruka. (Does anybody else besides me think that Iruka looks like a bottle-nosed dolphin? Kakashi throws him in the ocean SWIM IRUKA SWIM WITH YOUR FAMILY!)
Rena left with Kakashi and she felt bad about leaving without Gai, because she had said she would go with HIM and not Kakashi. But if there is ANYONE that would rather go to lunch with Gai than Kakashi, please let me know. We'll be laughing with you not at you. (I am a liar).
She wrote a note on her door. 'Gai, I apologize. I went out to lunch, but if you'd be still interested, I could go tomorrow.'
Kakashi ordered nothing (HE DOESN'T WANT TO TAKE OFF HIS MASK) and Rena had Sushi DROOL (And I don't even like seafood, but sushi is awesome!) with white rice and bean pods and steamed carrots... I am hungry now, thanks a lot, imagination! You bastard, if I you were a person, I'd shoot you.)
"That was pretty impressive, I've never seen someone (a normal stupid non- ninja loser . ) react so fast. Where'd you learn that?" Kakashi asked. Rena decided to be a showoff.
"The same place I learned this," Rena smiled. She did a 4-step seal, pointing at the soy sauce bottle. It floated to her as she stared at it, and it floated and it dribbled some on her rice, and she set it back... Lets sing our own praises now!
For a moment Kakashi had felt her chakra, but strangely, after she set it down it almost 'turned off'.
Meanwhile, Gai happily strut to the library with flowers in hand. When he saw the sign 'Out to lunch' He just about died. He read the note that was addressed to him. "LEE!" He shouted. Lee came out of the bushes.
"Gai-sensei, this sign says out-to-lunch! You lost! No Gai-sensei!" Lee cried.
"No, Lee! I have another chance! I still got the charm! Don't ever doubt me, Lee!" Gai merrily instructed.
"YES GAI-SENSEI!" Lee stood in soldier-saluting formation... Gai gave Lee the thumbs up and smiled.
Kakashi was utterly amazed. For a moment he speculated she was part of the advanced bloodline, but alas, she explained it to him. "You see, you use your chakra and feed it into your mind and you can move buildings. It is a hard technique to master, and you need a lot of creative visualization, and nothing can get in your line of sight. Because the invisible silver cord that connects my mind to the object and melds with my chakra so I can control it will. The object will once again become just that. An object. The hardest part has to be judging how much chakra to use. For the soy sauce I would feel like a person normally holding something. If I gave too much chakra, it would bust."
Our silver haired sensei had mixed feelings. He was impressed but he was also bewildered and intrigued. They ate and talked about little things. Kakashi didn't want to milk the subject too much.
He offered to walk her home. Mainly so he could see it. She agreed and they walked to her house. When they arrived and Kakashi saw a snake slithering around on the ground he pointed it out. He expected her to scream, but she picked it up and kissed its scaly head. Kakashi was a bit scared of this woman. He had never seen a girl so fond of reptiles, especially snakes.
She set the creature on her counter, and it slithered to the floor. Kakashi saw a familiar test in Rena's purse when she sat it down. She saw him looking at it and she took it out and gave it to him. He wasn't going to go through her purse!
She offered him a cup of coffee, so they sat and had coffee. Kakashi told her she had 'pretty eyes'. She got that a lot. Her eyes were cat-like in shape, and from what her contacts were she had blue eyes.
Rena blushed at Kakashi's flattering comment. He looked at the test
"You want to be a ninja? This test looks very difficult. Is it a special one?" Kakashi asked casually.
"Yes... Master Hokage gave it to me and told me if I pass, I can go to the Jounin level, which I believe you are at, right Mr. Kakashi?" She replied.
Kakashi smiled and put his hand behind his head, "Yeah, I guess it is. Nikko-nikko" Kakashi laughed. Kakashi had to think about THIS new development. The only possibilities he could think of were: 1. She was actually a VERY proficient ninja that Master Hokage knew about, and gave her a chance. 2. She had proved her worth. 3. She was part of a special bloodline or clan such as Hyuuga or Uchiha. But she didn't have blank eyes or the trait of an Uchiha. Maybe a new clan? 4. Something else he didn't think of.
But then he remembered about her magnificent powers. And how her father had trained her... something told Kakashi that he should find out who her father was, and it would explain everything.
But he didn't want to ask her. She was really uncomfortable with that question. He had asked her before, and she sort of avoided it. So Kakashi figured he couldn't hurt anyone if he saw her personal information, without anybody knowing. It wasn't like her old man was a serial killer or something.
So it got late and Kakashi went home. They had become really good friends. They talked, laughed and shared storied, they got along like pizza and cheese. Or Fruit and vegetables. Unless the fruit wages war on the vegetables, then they aren't friends... Oh well...