Metsuki paused at the edge of Konoha, hiding in the cover of the trees and looking up. She needed a good act to make it look like something horrible had happened or that she had lost her memory in order for them to find her and take her in. She sat down, considering how to go about this and replacing her bandana. The branches behind her had already snapped back into place.
Within a minute she had come up with an easy way to do this. Pain meant nothing to her, although she had a horrible fear of her own blood. She tightened the bandana around her head before lifting it slightly, revealing her left eye. Concentrating on her arms, there was a moment of hesitation before she forced them to spontaneasly combust, both arms bursting into flames. She almost immediately put them out.
Now for the second part of the act. Using her scorched and blistered hands, she brought down the bandana over her eye. She needed only a small amount of effort for what she was about to do. Taking a deep breath, she charged into the open, pretending to collapse and gasp for air. Using only a little chakra and a trace of concentration, she forced the air from her lungs, cutting off her supply of oxygen.
Before she fell unconcious, she saw two forms on the wall looking down at her. Idiots, she thought before blacking out.
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Metsuki awoke in a hospital bed, both arms bandaged and stinging, but luckily no tubes or blood transfusions going into her body. She hated hospitals and needles and blood and anything else in those categories. The black bandage still covered her eyes, luckily. She was amazed at how easy it had been to get into Konoha.
In about half an hour, just as she was going to go back to sleep, the door to her room creaked open and the blue outline of the nurse's form as she entered the room. There was a moment's silence as they eyed eachother.
"Oh, good, you're awake now. The Hokage-sama wished to see you, but she is quite busy right now, so I'll find someone else to see you."
The nurse bustled out, closing the door partially behind her. Through the gap, Metsuki saw an Anbu standing guard. Feh, so they aren't so stupid, she thought.
While she waited alone in the blank white room, she decided to look at her arms. But when she moved them to lift the bandages she realized there were two problems. One, she couldnt use her fingers because they were bandaged together, and two, she could barely mover her arms at all. But she wanted to see what kind of condition they were in, so she bent forward and used her teeth to loosen the edge of the bandages.
Peeking under them, she gasped, Oops, I think I overdid it. Again. the burns were horrible, red and pale white with blisters all over and cracked skin. At least there's no blood...
The door creaked open again. Time to play stupid, she thought. The nurse walked in again, followed by two people. The first was a blonde-haired woman with pigtails, and the second was a dark-haired woman carrying a pig. It was Tsunade and Shizune.
"The Hokage-sama took time off to see you. I'll leave you here," said the nurse, leaving and closing the door. And cue stupidity and cluelessness...
"Where am I? Where's father? Wh-who are you?"
"It's okay. I'm The Hokage, the Godaime, and leader of this village, the Hidden Leaf. Do you remember who you are? What's your name?"
Idiots. "Ah... Hidden Leaf? Oh... My name is Metsuki. I'm a... (hmmm... what should I choose...)... Gennin from... I can't remember. What happened, Godaime-sama?" Metsuki looked down at her arms. "It hurts..."
"You don't remember anything? Hmm... How old are you?"
Just stupid idiots. "I'm thirteen. He-he killed them..."
"Hmm... I see. I suppose you'll have to stay here until you remember, if you remember at all..." Tsunade turned towards the door. "Just wait until you recover. I'll most likely see you again in a week or so."
Bitch. Tsunade left the room without a goodbye, hurrying down the hall. I guess I'm stuck in this stupid hospital for a whole week... what am I gonna do during that time? And of all the things I could have chosen, why did I choose to be a Gennin? This means I'll be put on one of those stupid, three-cell teams. Just great.
Shikon landed on the frame of the open window, hanging upsidedown and looking over at Metsuki.
"Just wait, Shikon. One week. Just wait outside. I'll heal these arms myself in a few days anyways."
As Shikon flew off, Metsuki ran cool chakra over the burns, cooling the pain and numbing the burning. Through her bandana, she could make out the blue outline of the Anbu guard still standing at the entrance. Blue meant alive, and red meant not. Lets start the fun.
Hunching her shoulders, she rubbed them against her head, catching the left side of her bandana and lifting it away from her eyes. She concentrated on the presence of the Anbu's chakra, the blue outline still visible through her other eye. 3, 2, 1... She watched as the Anbu's arms exploded in flames, and she pushed her bandana back over her eye again, not even putting out the fire. She heard screams as the Anbu's arms slowly turned red as she saw through the cloth. That should get it started.
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Metsuki yaawned and stared up at the ceiling through the cloth. The Hokage had come and questioned her yesterday about what had happened to the Anbu, and she had acted like someone was after her. An easy show to put on, since people had been after her all her life.
Her arms were almost completely healed, and the Hokage had explained everything to her. Tomorrow she would be assigned to one of the Leaf's gennin teams. Apperently, she was to be assigned to team ten, because one of the team members had recently been promoted to chuunin level.
Every day, Shikon had brought her news about what went on in the village. She had told her about the gennin and about her own team, giving her names and intrests. She was stuck on a team with a girl obsessed with some guy name Sasuke and a big guy obsessed with eating. Oh well, I came here to make friends, so I guess it'll be interesting to be friends with these people. I just hope father doesn't kill them all like last time...
Metsuki sighed, but stopped as a sharp pain exploded throughout her body, especially her head. She hunched over, holding her head with her bandaged arms and coughing as the pain entered her lungs. She felt a hot liquid boil into her mouth, blood. Damnit, I used my bloodline too much. At least it's only a small attack. Ugh... I don't wanna see my blood...
Swallowing hard, she remained hunched over for a few more seconds before relaxing. At least that was over with. Flopping back on the large pillows, she decided to sleep away the rest of the day. Tomorrow would start it all.
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Metsuki sat alone in a meeting room, waiting for her new sensei to show up. He wasn't actually late, but she had come earlier out of boredom. Shikon was hanging from the ceiling in a corner of the room. As she heard three sets of footsteps approaching, she tightened her bandana around her head.
The door opened slowly, followed by a small cloud of smoke, and then by a large man. Behind him was a pretty blonde haired girl followed by a red or brown haired boy eating a bag of chips. It was hard to read the colours through the bandana, as eveything appeared in shades of red or blue, but Metsuki had been used to this her whole life.
"Hey, you must be Metsuki. Welcome to team ten," said the smoking man as he leaned against a wall. "I'm your new sensei, Asuma, and these are Ino," he incicated the blonde, who waved and smiled, "and Chouji." The large boy paused for only a second to wave before going back to eating his chips.
"Why don't you tell us a bit about yourself. You know, dreams or goals or anything you want. When you're done, we can continue with training."
Metsuki paused, before replying. "Uhh... Well, I'm Metsuki. I don't really have any goals or dreams, but I'd like to make friends with everyone here. I specialize in elemental attacks, you know like wind, fire, water and earth. I don't really remember where I'm from, and I only got here a week ago, but I'll enjoy working with you guys. Uhh... is that okay, Asuma-sensei?"
"That's great Metsuki. Let's head out to the training fields. We're working on chakra control this weekend, and you might get a few missions next week due to lack of shinobi," said Asuma, turning and leaving. Metsuki fell into step beside Ino.
"I'm horrible at controlling chakra," she said to Ino as they shuffled outside towards the edge of the village.
"Oh? Well I'm pretty good. I'll help you with it, it's not that difficult once you get it," said Ino, smiling.
When they reached the field, Asuma gave them instructions on tree climbing, promising all-you-can-eat to Chouji if he could reach ten feet. Metsuki almost laughed at how easy it was to convince him to do something. At lunch they were going to meet up with a chuunin, the one who used to be on this team, named Shikamaru.
Metsuki watched as Asuma demonstrated walking up a tree with no hands. These Leaf nins... they have odd ways of training. Oh well, looks like fun!
Metsuki watched as Ino and Chouji took a running start towards each of their trees, Ino making it a bit further up and marking where she stopped with a kunai. Picking up her kunai, Metsuki tightened her bandana and ran at the tree, forcing chakra to her feet. She only made it as far as Chouji had before she fell back down.
"Ugh... this is gonna take a long time..."
Metsuki tried a few more times, failing miserably each try, before deciding to test something else. Even Chouji had made it further than her, but she wasn't going to give up.
She walked up to her tree, feeling the eyes of her sensei on her back as her teammates kept on trying. Stopping at the base of the tree and looking up to where her kunai marks were about seven feet up, she lifted her left foot. Placing her foot on the tree, she forced her chakra through it, noticing the contrast of the blue of her foot and the red of the tree as she found the right amount of chakra needed to hold her up. She had large amounts of chakra, but she couldn't control it very well, and she spent another minute testing the tree.
When she took her foot away, she noticed Chouji and Ino, having already reached the ten foot markers (or past in Ino's case), watching her also. Good, she thought, now I can show off.
Going back to the starting point, she tightened her headband and gripped her kunai, grinning. She ran towards the tree, recalling the amount of chakra used before while testing and this time, when she jumped up the tree, she actually stuck to the surface and easily passed the ten foot mark, heading about fifteen feet up before stopping beside Ino's marker. She slid expertly back down the trunk, landing in a crouch beside her teammates, hair falling into her face.
"Wow, that was pretty good, Metsuki. I thought you were horrible at chakra control," said Ino, smiling. Metsuki flashed a smile back at her, before looking up. It was noon.
"That was good for today, but Chouji's getting hungry so we should take a break and get some lunch," said Asuma, glancing at Metsuki and smiling.
They headed back into town, Metsuki walking in silence beside Ino again, watching the hypnotizing red shaped of rocks and dirt pass below her, being crushed by her blue feet.
"Hey, Metsuki?" asked Ino, turning towards her.
"Yeah?" she replied, not taking her eyes off the ground.
"Why do you wear that bandana over your eyes?"
There was a moment's silence as Metsuki noticed that everyone was listening to their conversation, including her sensei who was walking ahead of them. She almost laughed.
"It's for controlling chakra," she replied simply.
"Controlling chakra?"
"Yeah. If I take it off for too long, I would end up accidently destroying everything. I already told you I have no chakra control," said Metsuki, grinning as they approached the restaurant. Lifting her head, she noticed a chuunin leaning against the wall of the building looking out at them with half-closed eyes.
"Hey Shikamaru! How'd the mission go?" asked Chouji, speeding up a bit. Metsuki remained beside Ino as they entered the restaurant.
"It was... such a hassle," replied Shikamaru, sitting down and grabbing one of the menus.
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Metsuki stepped out of her temporary apartment which had been provided by the Hokage. It was small and now it was messy, full of weapons that had also been provided. It was friday and her day off from training, but she was going to train anyways. She was bored.
It was pouring rain, but she didn't mind. When she came to the training field, she found two people already there. One was a boy with strange eyes, around him were hundreds of weapons lying on the ground. Off to the side was a tired looking girl in purple or pink. Metsuki paused.
"Who are you?" asked the girl in pink, dropping a kunai and sitting down on a stump, still panting. The boy turned slightly and looked at her also.
"Uh... I'm Metsuki. I just came here to train," she said, smiling and waving as she stepped forward.
"In the rain?" This time it was the strange boy. "I've never seen you before."
"The rain is nothing to stop my training. And I just came to Konoha two weeks ago, so I don't really know anybody except for my teammates." Maybe I should get rid of the rain...
"Oh. I'm Tenten and this is Neji. We were just training his-"
"Tenten," said Neji, cutting her off.
"His Byakugan, right? I can see, even though my eyes are covered. I have my own bloodline," she said, grinning and sitting down beside Tenten.
"Bloodline?" asked Neji, turning around fully.
"I don't really like the rain anyways, so I'll show you," she replied standing and walking over towards Neji. I hope father won't mind, he didn't mind that much last time...
Metsuki undid the bandana, letting her black hair fall forward over her face, before brushing it aside. She lifted her eyes towards Neji, reveling in his expression which she could now see in full colour. She lifted her pink and blue eyes towards the sky.
Neji and Tenten watched intently as her pinkish eye turned blood red and her crystal blue eye turned stormy grey-blue. And then the rain suddenly stopped. The clouds remained for a moment, before rolling away and revealing the sunlight. There was silence, and Metsuki grinned.
"See?" she said, moving to replace her bandana. But she was stopped by Neji.
"Fight me," he said simply. Metsuki laughed inwardly. Finally a challenge!
She dropped her hands, and tied her bandana around her neck instead, turning her gaze towards the dark-haired gennin. This is going to be fun.