O-kay here we go! Chapter 1..or two...depending on if you view the prologue as a chapter or not.
I do not own Naruto, the Sound Five/Four/Six (counting Ukon and Sakon astwo people) or whatever. I own my own OC Hoshiwa, and thats it. Man, I don't own jack...
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"Everyone up! Wake up and get your lazy asses out of bed!" Tayuya screamed as she banged on the doors in the hallway. She was required to do this often, but this morning she was more frantic.
"Ow...Tayuya, why are you always so mean?" Kidoumaru asked through his door. Tayuya opened it and sceamed at him "Hey shit-face, Lord Orochimaru wants us all to come immediatley! He's got something important to tell us! So shut the hell up!" she slammed the door shut on his face, and proceeded to knock loudly on Sakon and Ukon's door.
"Hey! Faerie! Wake up, dumbass gay faerie!" she continued to yell obscenities at him until he opened the door. "I did not enjoy the 'gay-ass lipstick-wearing blue faerie comment." he said angrily. "What do you want?"
"Lord Orochimaru wants to see all of us, so get your ass out ofbed!" she slammed the door shut on his face as well.
After delivering a rather rude wake-up call to Jiroubou ("Get your fat ass out of bed or you're going on a diet, FOREVER!") Tayuya was tired of being the wake-up person. Still, she came to Hoshiwa's room at the end off the hall and banged on it.
"Hey poinsettia-head! Lazy-ass poinsettia-headed Kimimaro wannabee!" she screamed at her, mocking the girl's strangely coloured hair and pale skin. She flopped out of bed and mumbled something along the lines of, "Stupid...bastard...inhuman...goddamn...Tayuya." She reached the door and opened it to see a girl with hair as flaming as her temper.
"Lord Orochimaru wants to-" Hoshiwa cut Tayuya off.
"Yes, I know, Lord Orochimaru wants to see us because of some shit or whatever...I'll be out in a sec." she muttered, and this time SHE slammed the door in Tayuya's face. Tayuya was fuming by the time she got back down the hallway.
After the four had finally gotten up and dressed, they followed the still-pissed Tayuya down the hallway into Orochimaru's lair. They came into a cold, windowless room where, by the dim light of a candle, they could see their master sitting on a throne-like chair in the centre of the room. Tayuya cleared her throat and spoke to him, "My Lord, I have brought the other four, as you requested." she said in a tone of respectfulness.
"Excellent. All of you, I have an important announcement to make." he said, clearing his throat. "I will be going away for a little while now. I'm going to go convince Sunagakure to be our ally, and after that, Kabuto will be coming to meet me in Konohagakure."
"Lord Orochimaru, does this mean our plan is finally being put into action?" Sakon asked. Orochimaru smiled acidicly. "Yes, it does. After I enlist Sunagakure, we will be unstoppable in our quest to destroy the Leaf." he snickered evilly. "So, for the time being, Kabuto will be watching over you. After he comes to assist me in Konoha, you are on your own for a little while. Understood?"
"Yes, Lord Orochimaru." the five bowed down, honouring their master. He stood up and walked towards the door. "Farewell for now, my children."Kabuto escorted him to the main gate, and Orochimaru bounded off into the perpetual darkness of the forest.
The five young men and women walked back out into the light, towards the kitchen, and sat down.
"So...I guess were on our own, eh?" Jiroubou asked. "Does that mean we can do whatever we want to do?"
"No, it means you aren't required to be as stoic and poised as you are when serving Lord Orochimaru" Hoshiwa said as she poured herself a cup of tea. "We still have to keep our strengths in tact, so we must train and spar sometimes." The others nodded in agreement and they all walked out to the cleared grounds near Sound base.
"Well, lets see. There's five right now, which means..." Ukon said as he split from his brother's body. He stood there and cracked his knuckles with the same miscevious grin as Sakon. "Which means that with six people, we can have three two-on-two sparring matches."
"Alright then, gay-ass faerie, if you're so smart then who's gonna fight who?" Tayuya spat.
"Lets see...you can go against Kidoumaru, I'll go against Jiroubou, and-"
"And I'll get my ass kicked by Hoshiwa." Sakon shrugged. "Whatever lets just get this over with so we can all enjoy our time during Lord Orochimaru's leave."
So the groups split into pairs. Tayuya vs Kidoumaru, Jiroubou vs Ukon and Hoshiwa vs Sakon.
Thirty minutes or so later, Tayuya and Kidoumaru came limping back to the porch where Sakon and Hoshiwa sat. Tayuya spoke first.
"Well, this dumbass here let himself get stabbed in the stomach with a kunai, and I got a broken ankle or some shit like that. How'd you two fare?" Sakon stared at her.
"You know who won so just shut your little gender-confused face up." Sakon mumbled. Tayuya punched him in the face.
"You're the gender-confused one here, you lipstick-wearing transvestite gay-ass faerie!" she screamed
"Tayuya, for once, could you please try to act like a lady? That sort of speech isn't very flattering for a girl." Jiroubou and Ukon appeared from the dense foliage.
"Yeah, Tayuya-kun, you should act more like a lady, and maybe you won't seem so gender-confused." Sakon sneered. Tayuya muttered something under her breath along the lines of 'Stupid gay-ass lipstick faerie'.
"Well, if we're all done fighting, can we go inside now?" Hoshiwa said, a shiver going through her small frame as a cool late-October breeze blew through the forest. The others nodded, favouring the warm Sound compound instead of the cold evening air.
After going inside, the group seemed to have, once again, congregated in the kitchen. Jiroubou's stomach growled and they all looked at Hoshiwa.
"What, do you expect me to cook something?" she asked.
"Aw come on, we're all hungry, and you're the only one who can cook worth a shit." Tayuya said in response. Sakon agreed. "Yeah, would you rather me cook? You remember what happened last time I did that, right?" he said.
Tayuya shivered from the memory "Ugh...I swear I didn't even know my stomach could hold so much shit." she said, gagging.
"O-kay, whatever, I'll cook." Hoshiwa said annoyedly as she took looked in the fridge. "Hey is fish o-kay?" she asked. Everyone else gave a 'Yes' and she set the fish filets on the table. 'Note to self: Buy groceries' she mentally added, running a finger over the bareness of the refrigerator. She got out a frying pan and started cooking the fish. Meanwhile, the four other Sounds were chatting about the days events.
"...and so then Kidoumaru tries to sling me off the tree by grabbing my hair, but it was really just a kage bunshin of me, and so I come around from the back and BAM! Stabbed through the gut!" Tayuya cackled as she relayed to them the details of her match against Kidoumaru.
"Well, its better than trying to make a tree fall on your enemy and then having it fall on both of us!" Ukon said. Jiroubou laughed. "That was funny. Painful, yet funny."
"So, Sakon, what was your battle li-" she stopped as she looked over at the young man. His gaze was fixed on the young woman at the stove; he hadn't heard a word of what they'd been saying. Tayuya smirked as she watched her teammate stare transfixed at Hoshiwa.
"Ooh, Sakon, I didn't know you liked Hoshiwa..." she taunted. Hoshiwa nearly dropped the plate of fish she was setting on the table, and Sakon snapped forward, his face gaining a slight pink tinge. "I-I don't! What the hell gave you that idea?" he stuttered. Tayuya laughed. "Haha, the faerie's got a crush on poinsettia-head!" Sakon insisted that he didn't like her, once again. "I swear! I don't like her like that, I mean...uh.." his eyes darted around the room, finally stopping on the pale young woman setting out serving plates on the table. She glanced up at him, and then affixed her gaze on the work she was doing. He instantly saw the badly-covered look of hurt on her face as her eyes stayed fixated on the table. "Oops..." he thought. "Wrong thing to say..."
Suddenly, Hoshiwa clanged a spoon on the bottom of a pan. "Dinner's ready!" she said. The Sound ninjas nearly flooded the world with drool as they glanced toward sthe food-laden table.
"GOMENASAI! LETS EAT!" they all said enthusiastically as they clambered to the table and started shoving food in their mouths.
The rest of the meal was eaten with few commens by Sakon or Hoshiwa. Tayuya blabbered about how she 'totally 0wnz0red Spiderman's ass' earlier, Jiroubou kept muttering things like 'Please pass the ponzu sauce' etc, and everyone seemed to have a nice time. After they were all done eating, they each left, going towards their own rooms. Hoshiwa stayed behind in the kitchen, washing the dishes and utensils from the meal. A pair of dark eyes stayed behind, watching the girl as she did her duty. Ukon walked up to his brother and asked, "Are you gonna just stay here all night?" Sakon shushed his older brother, who in turn walked away, mumbling something about putting scorpions in his brother's bed.
"Sakon, I know you're there." Hoshiwa said, pausing from her work. He stepped forward and looked at her.
"Sorry 'bout earlier y'know..." he mumbled.
"It doesn't matter." she sighed, scrubbing at the dished covered in caked-on grime. She looked up at the young man, grinning evilly. "I still kicked your ass in the sparring matches today." she said. He glared at her, then wlaked away.
"By the way..." he said, pausing. "Thanks for the meal." Hoshiwa nodded, and he resumed his walk and headed into his room.
Ooh...fear my chapter-ness of doom...
Oh, and 'poinsettia-head' is a nickname I made for Kimimaro, but I decided to use it for my character. Since Kimimaro has white hair and red markings (and seems to be a bit of an androgenous little Haku-like person) I refer to him as the 'poinsettia' of the Sound ninja. Since the OC has short white hair with red streaks and tips, I refer to her as the 'poinsettia' in this story.
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