Chapter #03: The Book of Information
Sparks flew against the small square in the grass village, two egos going against each other at once. Red and orange hair rustled in the air, fists and kicks flying with the hair as well. The spectators weren't paying attention anymore, after the ten minute mark it got pretty boring. Ringo and Sume talked to each other on the side, the two boys had gotten away from them and they were too wild to catch twice.
"I'm killin' you now, loser!" screamed Gin, smashing his fists into Takeshi's body. Takeshi responded with punches to Gin's face. Stupid fighting all around, if they ever got to their real fighting play it would of been interesting. Now though? Nah, just two teens mugging each other on the street for pride. Straight punches with no feeling of blocking or dodging them.
"You gonna die, loser!" yelled back Takeshi. The two girls glanced at them for a second and then turned back to their personal talkings. The two boys, after ten more minutes of useless fighting, ended it, both falling to the wayside. The two laid on the ground, the dirt now on their 'spiffy' clothes. "Ugh..." came from the orange-haired boy's lips, the two girls sighing and walking to his side.
"Why do we put up with you," they recited together, pulling him up by his shirt. The other boy, his glasses tipped over his nose, sighed heavily. He grasped the dirt with his hands and pulled himself up.
"Do you need help to, leaf guy?" Sume said, Ringo paying attention to Takeshi.
"Nah, I'm fine..." he said sharply, putting on a frustrated face. Gin had a stupid sense of pride. A code to speak. No help from a girl after a battle; even if it was a stupid battle and the girl was really cute. No way he would ask for help. "I'm too proud for that.." Gin puffed out his chest, walking passed her long brunette hair over to Takeshi.
"Okay...", Sume whispered to herself, feeling totally rejected by the cute freaky dude from the leaf. "Stupid bastard, has worse style sense than anyone...ever. Who wears pink sunglasses anyway..." Sume continued to assault Gin on his clothing and hair, walking over to the group of three.
"What you want, leaf idiot?" asked Takeshi, pushing Ringo softly aside and standing up-right on his two feet to reach Gin. "You want to end the battle - if you want I'll kick your ass in a matter of seconds? Me and the girls got things to do - relaxin' the biggest one, idiot." He smirked slyly at Gin who threw a punch at Takeshi the next second, missing by an inch when Takeshi actually decided to dodge.
Fast, Gin thought, smiling at him as well. "Nah, that's cool. No ending the fight today, I guess. I have to get back to my important mission..."
"Import mission, I heard when I came in it was a C-rank mission." smiled the orange-haired rock ninja. "Or did my ears play tricks on me?"
"Ergh..." growled the teenager from the leaf, his eyes bulging at the second. "I only have a C-rank mission because my teacher wants me to have an easy one..."
"Uh, Mr. - Red-head?" questioned Sume, still a pissed at Gin for his rudeness, but she needed to tell him something. Kinda funny actually.
"WHAT!"
Sume made a grunting noise, pointing at an empty area where the people Gin was supposed to protect once stood. "Your C-rank mission ran out while you were fighting. I bet they already started hiding from your rudeness..." She twisted her body not to face him and crossed her arms, grunting once more. Takeshi chuckled with laughter. So did Ringo.
"AH!" the boy yelled, looking around to see where the old man and children went. Nowhere to be found. Nowhere. He couldn't find them...too big. And he had been fighting for a long time, they would of gotten too far. Dammit, his mission was a failure..."Eh, well - no biggie. I screwed up a crappy mission. They'll be safe, no one's going to attack him. He's a nothing.
And if someone did attack them, it's their own fault. They ran away. Their fault." Gin crossed his arms, turning around from the two chuckling, crossing his arms, a mirror of Sume. The two laughing continued.
"Yeah, leaf idiot." Takeshi laughed, putting his head on Ringo, now seeming energized. "Ah, thanks, man, you helped me get back to full health. Hilarious!"
"Ugh, Takeshi, that's not right." commented Ringo.
"Wha'? I shouldn't be mean? You are laughing too!"
"No, not that. It is funny. But instead of using 'idiot', you should use 'baka'. It's the right term - not your 'slang' words all your lil' gang use." she scoffed, laughing after a few second - she was obviously laughing at Gin. The pink-sunglassed teen's eyes grew bigger and bigger, wanting to kill all at the minute.
"Oh, right...but still, leaf idiot is a nice nickname...Leaf baka? Doesn't have that tone I'm going for. You know what I'm saying, leaf idiot?" Takeshi asked Gin, snickering still. Ringo bursted into laughing. Sume did as well, turning around, getting off her mad mood at the ass who was being rude and getting into her laughing mood.
"DAMN YOU, ROCK BASTARDS!" he yelled at all three, turning around, unsheathing his blade, he had put away during his petty battle against Takeshi. He swung it around crazily, missing all three by large margins. They didn't back up, just continued to laugh. "DON'T LAUGH AT ME! NOT MY FAULT! A SPECIAL CHUNIN LIKE ME CAN MAKE MISTAKES!"
"You're a chunin...?" Ringo asked, stopping her laughing for a second. "I thought you were a genin? Didn't you, Takeshi?"
"Yeah, really, Ringo - This leaf idiot just reeked of genin. His shots were weak. If I actually tried I could of blocked them all, but there was no use. After two-hundred of them, yeah, they were going to hurt a little, but one at a time? Super weak."
"EGH, I AM A CHUNIN! I'M GOING TO BE A JOUNIN IN A FEW DAYS! JOUNIN EXAMS, ROCK BASTARDS!"
The three rock ninja turned to him, their faces now serious. A switch had been turned on. They glared at him, Takeshi having a laugh on the tip of his lips. "Jounin exams? Really?"
"Yeah, really. Why?"
"Heh, sad, the leaf have to get low as you," said Takeshi, getting closer to Gin and giving a huge grin. "We'll be there too - your little village is going to be bowing down to me soon." He smiled larger and larger, almost demon like.
"Hah, good for me. I'll be able to kick all your asses together in one fight and send you home. Back to rock land where you belong." Gin got even closer to Takeshi's face, matching the evil grin. Huge smile battle. They tried to out-match each other with their evil smiles, finally stopping when their faces were about to break.
"Ringo..." Takeshi asked, his face still having his evil smile on while looking at Gin.
"Yeah, Takeshi?"
"Can you and Sume check your bookie dealie?"
"Sure..." Ringo said, Sume walking over to her. Sume put her hands in her vest and took out a small black book.
"I think I have the leaf guys, Ringo...I think. We don't usually research them..." She opened the book, flipping through the perfect looking pages. She checked each one, fast, doing it three times over to make sure. "Nope, not here..." Gin watched, confused, why did they need books? This wasn't time for reading, he was about to chop all their heads off, Gin said to himself in his mind, sword in his right hand.
"Oh, must be in my then..." Ringo sighed, going into her vest pocket, taking out a small white booklet. Very similar to Sume's black book. She flipped it open, going through it as fast as Sume. "Ah, got it. A 'Gin Bashi', correct, leaf baka?" She smirked at him, taking up Takeshi's nickname for him except replacing idiot with baka.
"Yeah," he said, looking at her. "AND STOP CALLING ME LEAF IDIOT!"
"She didn't, she called you a 'leaf baka', leaf idiot." chuckled Takeshi. Gin swung his blade once more, Takeshi ducking the sword, his rollerblades still tightly on his feet. He did a small circle twirl with them, about to flip Gin off before Sume slapped his arm away. Takeshi groaned, "Ah, Sume, stop being nice to him. Just because you think he's cute doesn't mean you have to be my Mom."
"Eh -" said Sume, Gin still going crazy with his blade, flinging it in the air at open space. Before anyone could notice Sume blushing Ringo made a remark.
"Egh, anyways, Gin Bashi. Last time we updated you was a few years back when we started this. You are ranked 'C'," she giggled, the irony of his C-rank mission and all. "Your strengths it says is your strength. Good with a sword? Really, you seem sucky. Well, heh, you must of gotten horrible or something.
Your weaknesses mainly are that you are not the best thinker...Duh, we can see that. Right on that point. Also, it says you aren't the best with your genjutsu...Ah, that sucks, doesn't it?"
"Ha, I knew it, ranked 'C' here as well. He must be a 'D' now, his skills with the blade are weak." said Takeshi, still doing his small circles, now doing them around Gin. The boy with the sunglasses tried to chop of his head, but Takeshi just ducked over and over.
"LIES! THAT BOOKS SUCKS! IF THAT IS YOUR STUPID 'RESEARCH' BOOK, IT LIES! LIES! I AM AN 'A'! TOTALLY!" Gin screamed his head off, stopping with his blade, seeing he couldn't hit Takeshi in his angry state.
"Uhm, the book doesn't lie, leaf idiot. Sume and Ringo compile all the chunin in basically all the villages. From past experiences, word around village, from our teacher, anywhere they can usually find info. Their research hasn't been wrong yet, really. The people we never meet and have info on, when we meet, are always like the description in the book.
And this time isn't different." Takeshi gave his devilish grin; big and huge, kinda creepy.
"Eh, I don't care! I am not like that books says! I will be the exception to that rule, I'll show you at the ex -"
"So anyways, leaf baka, you must have two teammates...let's see them while we're at it. They must be pretty good to carry your 'D' ass around and actually let your instructor let you participate." said Ringo, flipping through her book, trying to find some more leaf, smiling like Takeshi.
"I don't need to tell you the names!" Gin crossed his arms, not wanting to look at the three.
Silence. All three just didn't talk; Takeshi and Ringo knew he would talk and say their names when they didn't say anything. This guy was one of those. One of those that cracks when there is no talking back to him. Sume, on the other hand, didn't talked, still blushing slightly at Takeshi's remark a few minutes ago. The long-haired brunette put her fingers together, tapping them, in her own little world.
"Their names are Risa Yaku and Akira! No last name with Akira! Risa's a chick, super cute! Akira's an idiot and should die! DIE! DIE, AKIRA!" blurted Gin, not able to take the silence. Takeshi made his evil grin bigger, their plan working to perfection. Ringo flipped through the book, checking for those names. "AH, DAMMIT! YOU - YOU, ROCK BASTARDS!"
"Leaf idiot, couldn't even take a lil' silence? Stupid." Takeshi inspected Ringo, waiting to hear news on the two. Although, he thought he already heard of one...'Akira'...one name? No last name? Maybe it was just the weird thing that caught him off guard, but he thought he hard something about that guy...Something...
"Hmmm, okay...Risa Yaku, 'B -', pretty good. Smart as a whip. Reflexes are good. Her genjutsu is pretty good..." She looked over at Gin, smiling, wanting to get under his skin with one his weakness being that he was bad at it. Gin still was, even after years that research was taken. "Oh, and her weakness is she isn't that good at endurance and isn't the best with ninjutsu attacks.
Now...Akira..." She flipped through the pages at lighting speed again.
"Hah, so Gin, even the chick on your team is stronger than you! WEAK!"
"Weak! ARE YOU SAYING KUNOICHI ARE BAD, TAKESHI! BECAUSE IF YOU ARE - !" Ringo yelled, her fingers still doing her trick of finding the right page. So many times going through the book. Almost every day.
"No. No. No...I didn't mean that, just - the leaf idiot sucks." Takeshi said this laughingly, wanting Ringo to laugh with him to get her anger off. It did. She laughed with him, Gin still stomping around, pissed at the annoying attacks on him personally. Sume looked at the sky, dreamingly, still thinking about the rude boy with the cute little green eyes.
"Akira...here we - Wha..."
"Huh? What, Ringo?" asked Takeshi. Gin stopped stomping, wanting to hear this perfectly. What was going on?
"Akira...'A' rank...This leaf baka's teammate...has a bloodline!"
- - - - -
"Yeah, the third person...the prodigy from our group. The quiet one. The one with no parents. No family. Nothing really to his name except his small hut at the end of the village that the elders let him be in." said Kenpai, walking around the academy floor, wanting to get away from the sitting down jitters. Annoyed as hell at the time talking to this old guy. This was taking forever for him to process names and then file them...there was only two squads from the leaf going to the exams...
"Prodigy, heh? Oh, yes - I think I've heard of him. The kid with one name right? Without knowing his last name?" questioned the old man, opening some cabinets, putting in useless files, just as bored as the young instructor with him.
"Ah, yeah, that's him..."
"I know if it isn't to forward, but - isn't that kid an outsider? I am a top organizer here for events and such, and I have alot of elders, guards and such around me everyday. I've heard of his story...the boy with one name, wandering into Konoha at the age of six, a special bloodline running through his veins. Amazing, really, he's the tops here in the leaf for chunins, the people say.
And if he wasn't so secretive and not doing big missions like others, other villages would of heard of him too."
"First, again - I feel like I want to kill you, stop acting gracious. You are older than me, dumbass, you don't have to respect me. I should respect you, but since you aren't taking over the right role, I'm taking it for you. Secondly, yes, what you have heard is true. Blah, blah, blah, the kid isn't legally from Konoha. We don't know where he came from, and he doesn't either. But from my standpoint, he's a leaf. Always will be a leaf. When he put on that head band he swore his life to this village.And that's all I have to know.
Lastly, and most importantly, who says he doesn't go on big missions...why do you think he isn't here?" said and asked Kenpai, looking over the older ninja's shoulder, seeing what he was putting in. Useless documents, ugh. He flipped his head back, his intrigue at this guy's doing going way down.
"What do you mean?"
"Student #3 of Team #5. Name - Akira. Age - 16, or from the look of it, not really knowing his real age. At the moment, like many times, he's on a special mission. Sad you haven't heard of it, I mean, ANBU do visit you right?"
"ANBU!"
"Eh, yeah - he's a junior ANBU, kinda like an intern. But really, the ANBU leader just doesn't wan to give into the fact that he's one of the best they have. Ah, Akira...
Wonder how many people he has killed on this mission, that crazy boy." said Kenpai, grinning at the old man, loving the surprise on his face. Kenpai could resist having fun pushing his talented student on the man. Made him happy to know that he groomed the prodigy of the...whatever the hell clan the boy came from.
Ahhhh, Akira.