Title: First Meetings
Fandom: Naruto
Characters: Kakashi and Rin
Phrase: #10 You have some skill.
Ratings: PG
Synopsis: Love at first sight? No.
As always, the first meeting is usually fairly awkward, especially when one person is an antisocial prodigy to begin with, and the other two are slightly in awe and fear of the antisocial prodigy.
Konoha's Yellow Flash looked at his team. "Kakashi, meet Obito," he gestured toward the raven haired boy who stared defiant, "and Rin" to the chestnut haired girl who blushed slightly.
Kakashi made a "hmph."
Obito did not like that. A pattern which would continue for a long, long while.
"Hey! You don't have to be a jerk, you know!" Obito snarled, pointing and gesturing angrily at the other boy.
"It's rude to point." Kakashi said caustically, staring back with a lazy glare.
"Ah, ah... hold on there." Their sensei looked mildly nervous as he stepped between the Uchiha and the genius, hands raised and a disarming grin on his face. "Let's not be too hasty here. Save the energy boys, you'll need it.
"Now, normally... I'd perform a test to see if you three pass." The blonde explained, "However, since Kakashi has been my student for a while now, I've decided to change the rules a little." He pulled two bells from his pack and tossed them to Kakashi, who caught them idly, without looking.
"You two," the Yellow Flash pointed toward Obito and Rin, "Will have to take those bells from Kakashi in order to pass."
Obito looked absolutely delighted.
Rin looked cautious.
Kakashi looked bored.
The Yellow Flash grinned. This was beginning to look pretty interesting...
Obito moved first, hands flashing through seals, ending in the tiger seal. A massive burst of fire, a signature of an Uchiha, tore out towards Kakashi, who watched the flames with a mild amount of interest.
In a blur, Kakashi was gone, and Obito was suddenly eating dirt, kicked rather roughly by his prospective teammate, straight into the ground.
Rin moved then, a blur of movement and thrown kunai whistling through the air. Kakashi and their sensei both noted the accuracy of the thrown weapons.
She's definitely got a medic's eye, the Yellow Flash noted, smiling.
Kakashi hurled a brace of shuriken in response, knocking the kunai away with ease. Despite himself, his lip curled.
These two were definitely more interesting than the last batch.
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Obito toppled to the ground with a groan, finally succumbing after a nasty kick to the head.
Rin panted, suppressing the urge to panic. Obito was the better fighter of the two of them- she was a medic, god damn it, not a combat expert!
Kakashi was good- no, better than good.
He was a genius.
And she had no way of measuring up one on one- not like this.
But her chance at being taught by the up and coming "Yellow Flash" and working alongside the already infamous Hatake Kakashi was slipping away right before her eyes...
And Obito's as well.
Rin gritted her teeth. Not without a fight.
Kakashi's leg flashed into view, coming fast and hard from the left. She pulled back rapidly, kicking off backwards. Kakashi used the momentum from his first kick to spin and strike again, lashing out with a crescent kick.
Rin parried the blow with some effort, then, using her opening, struck fast with a series of basic taijutsu movements.
Kakashi was like flowing quicksilver- there one moment, gone the next, a blur of silver hair.
He struck once, knocking her backwards with an open palm to the stomach, winding her.
Before Rin could recover, she felt the cold steel of a kunai against her neck; Kakashi's arm wound itself around her neck, ready to slit her throat.
"Yield." Kakashi's voice was cold and flat, like an arctic plain.
Rin gritted her teeth again. Sweat mixed with the dirt on her face, turning into a grimy, sticky mess that she desperately wanted to clean off.
In a sudden burst of inspiration, she swung her elbow backwards, hard. A risky gamble, considering the blade at her throat, but she was desperate.
Kakashi gasped hard, the kunai falling from his hand. Rin turned around, panic and desperation setting in. She shut her eyes hard and did the first thing that came to mind- she kicked out, hard.
There was nothing but silence for a moment.
Rin opened her eyes. A second later those eyes widened, and she placed her hands over her mouth. "Oh! Kakashi! I'm sorry!"
Kakashi toppled to the floor, face burning red as he struggled for words, twitching slightly.
In the background, Konoha's Yellow Flash was struggling not to laugh and failing miserably.
Obito wasn't even trying, laughing as he rolled about in the dirt, despite the nasty kick to the head from earlier.
"Well... you have some skill..." Kakashi breathed, groaning as he rolled over, panting and still twitching.
Rin plucked the bells from the prone genius' side, smiling timidly as she turned to the highly amused sensei.
"Um... so do we pass?"
The Yellow Flash laughed again.
"Yeah, I think you do."
