Hullloooooo! It's me Kinnara again, and I have been soooo busy preparing my costume for SugoiCON that happened last weekend…I had no time for any other work but school…Anyway! I got my costume finished I went with my boyfriend who dressed as Itachi and we got 35 photos taken of us, 15 hugs and 4 glomps, and I got duck taped to a Katamari for about an hour then I escaped and was chased around for 15 minutes.…XD I dressed as Kinnara…ha-ha! It was fun. Anyway, I am back now suuuuu…here's chapter 2 of The Beginning of Time! R & R and please don't flame…or at least try not to.
Chapter 2-Fly High
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"Itachi-kun! Ohayou gozaimasu!" Kinnara called from her window high above, her misty blue eyes shining as she waved to the boy down below who looked up to her.
"Kin-chan! Ohayou!" Itachi called back up to her with a wave. Kinnara smiled and pulled her head back into her room then tied her straight black hair into a small pony tail. Smiling she looked at herself in the mirror. Two months ago she had come to Konoha looking like she had just been tossed out of the sky. Her hair had been mused and tangled, her clothes torn and cuts all over her. Now, her black hair was brushed and sleek, her clothes brand new, bought for her by her adopted father the Yondaime she adoringly calls Otou, and the cuts healed all for a few on her neck and back that had turned to permanent scars.
Kinnara opened her sliding door and walked out only to bump into a person whom had been standing directly at her door. Not realizing she waved and walked past the figure saying, "Sorry Otou!" only to open her eyes to see a male with silver hair, not blond like her fathers.
"Otou…I don't think so." The silver hair male said rolling his eyes, but she could only see one. The other was covered by his leaf headband.
"Ahhh! I'm sorry, Goman nasai!" Kinnara bowed and looked up, "I though you were my father and I'm really sorry. Do you need to see him?" Kinnara asked taking a few steps towards the man.
"Morning Kin-chan!" a cheerful voice said from behind Kinnara as she was lifted onto a pair of shoulders.
"Hi Otou!" Kinnara said resting her head on her fathers' mop of messy blond hair smiling.
"Oh, Kakashi, I see you have met my daughter Kin-chan. Kinnara this is one of my students, Hatake Kakashi." The Yondaime said glancing up to see Kinnara's smiling face. Kakashi stared at Kinnara then at Yondaime then back to the little girl and shrugged.
"You two look nothing alike…." Kakashi commented with a shake of his head and a shrug.
"I have his eyes! She has my eyes!" Kinnara and the Yondaime said as the same time and Kakashi did see that both bright blue eyes, but Kinnara's seemed…mistier.
"Don't you have Itachi waiting outside for you?" Yondaime asked and Kinnara gasped and jumped off her fathers head and ran down the hall. Kakashi watched as she rushed down the stairs then turned to the Yondaime.
"Itachi? As in…."
"Yes…Uchiha Itachi."
"Nice choice of a friend for your daughter."
"She is happy…and he at least now smiles…that's a good enough sign…"
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"What took so long baka!" Itachi asked hitting Kinnara on the head.
"Neeee! Itachi-kun, Otou wanted me to meet one of his former students, and we started just talking." Kinnara explained simply and hit her friend back in the head.
"So, you ready to go to class?" Itachi asked and the girl shook her head and looked up at the clear sky.
"Nope! We gotta go anyway." Kinnara laughed and prodded Itachi in the arm before running away, and Itachi grinned and chased after her.
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"Uchiha! Kinnara! This is the third time this week!" Zimi snapped and glared at both Kinnara and Itachi as they slipped into their seats smiling as if nothing happened. Zimi sighed and shook her head then turned back to the board, "Now…as I was saying we will be studying Bunshin no Jutsu's. Can anyone other than Itachi and Kinnara tell me what Bunshin means?" Zimi-sensei asked knowing that Itachi and Kinnara were watching her hands waving the air. Sighing she turned around and pointed at Kinnara.
"Bunshins are clones made from our own chakra that have many uses!"
"Now…can you tell me any uses for a Bunshin?" Zimi asked with a shake of her head as she pointed to Itachi.
"Kage Bunshins can be used for distractions, spying and-"
"They can assist in performing a tactical assault!" Kinnara added leaned back in her chair.
Zimi nodded and sighed then leaned against her desk and smirked, "Now that we know a little more about a Bunshin, you are now going to learn to how to perform it!" The class then groaned but Itachi and Kinnara raised their hands and cheered happily. Zimi slapped her forehead as she watched them, a smile on her face.
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"That was boring; don't you agree Kin-chan?" Itachi asked from where he sat above Kinnara in the large tree right outside the academy. Kinnara shrugged her shoulders as she swung back and forth on the swing.
"I dunno, I thought I learnt a lot." Kinnara said. Itachi rolled his eyes and tossed an onigiri (A/N: Rice ball!) at Kinnara who caught it in her mouth before flying backwards. Itachi watched as the girl swung while chewing then he peered towards the door seeming Zimi walk out, but he stopped trying to hop out of the thick tree when she walked away. Kinnara opened her mouth as Itachi tossed another onigiri into it then she turned her head to see Zimi talking to a silver headed male. Kinnara skid to a stop and started coughing as she swallowed then looked up. She had not imagined it. Kinnara took in a breath of air as Itachi jumped down next to her.
"Inside now!" Zimi called and everyone ran back into the academy, but Kinnara and Itachi trailed behind. Kinnara glanced nervous at Kakashi, but when he met her eye she turned away and ran off to class Itachi following obviously confused. Once everyone; including Zimi and Kakashi, arrive back into class Zimi cleared her throat.
"This is Hatake Kakashi; he will be your new sensei for the rest of the year." Everyone erupted in shouts and gasps as Zimi clapped him on the shoulder, muttered her good lucks and left. Kakashi stood there in obvious joy, his unhidden eye scanned the room. Kinnara had hidden her face from him and Itachi was looking back forth between them oblivious and confused as ever. "You there! What's you name?"
Not me…not me…Not me…Kinnara thought pleading to herself in her mind, then she felt a poke in her back and knew she had been called on. …He's just picking on me cause…well…I don't know why…Hmmmm…Kinnara lifted her head and stood up. Kakashi smiled behind his mask and watched Kinnara.
"Konichiwa, My name is Kinnara." The girl started to sit down but Kakashi made her stop.
"No last name?" Kakashi asked
"Iie…." She muttered shaking her head.
"You do have-"
"Parents? Yeah!"
"Well…."
"Why does it matter?"
"It matters to a sensei….now lets just see here on this list. Kin-chan was it?"
Kinnara's misty eyes flashed and she hopped on the desk and bounced over them to a front, jaw locked, eyes narrowed.
"You…can't…call…me…Kin-chan!" Kinnara shouted at a calm Kakashi.
"Why not…I heard Itachi calling you it before."
"YOU CANT CALL ME KIN-CHAN BECAUSE YOUR NOT ITACHI AND YOUR NOT MY OTOU YOUNDAIME-SAMA!" she screamed then she opened her eyes, covered her mouth and ran out of the room. Itachi jumped up and followed her, glaring venomously at Kakashi. Kakashi seemed to laugh at the two but he never made a sound or a move to follow either of the two.
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"Kin-chan? Kin-chan where are you?" Itachi called once he got outside. The Uchiha looked around scratching his head in confusion. He had seen the girl run outside, but where she had gone was a mystery to him now. He sighed and went over to the swing she had been sitting in before and looked up into the branches of the trees his eyes closed. When he opened there he saw huddled shape. The huddled shape of Kinnara.
Itachi stood up and climbed up so he sat in front of the girl. Her head was behind her knees that were curled to her chest, and she made no noise. She just sat there quietly as if her best friend was not even there. Itachi reached out a hand to touch the girls hand and only then did she look up, tears falling silently down her cheeks.
"Kinnara…what's wrong? Why did you run out of there?" Itachi asked her eyes calming and he put his other hand into hers. Kinnara pulled her hands and held them by her chest and she looked into her lap her silent tears still falling.
"No…reason…" she hiccupped after some time.
"Kin-chan…" Itachi said giving her a hard stare.
Kinnara looked up at him closed her misty sad eyes then she looked up and sighed. She uncurled her legs and gave her hands to Itachi and sniffled softly.
"I ran…because I was afraid….afraid that everyone would treat me differently if they knew…that my father was the Yondaime…" the girl said softly and then she felt Itachi put his arms around her gently in a hug.
"Kinnara….have I treated you any differently since I found out about your father?" Itachi asked with a smile.
"…….Iie…."
"So then why should you care what other people think, when you have one of the best friends who will never ever judge you on who your family is?"
"'cause….'cause that's what people do?" Kinnara said with a soft smile and a laugh.
"Yep….'cause that's what people do." Itachi said and smiled, then blinked as Kinnara wrapped her arms around him. Itachi looked up and wrapped his arms around his friend and smiled as the two sat there until the kids from the academy left the building, but by that time, the two had left hand in hand walking away from everyone. Then from that day on…something between the two changed, and they never were the same again.