Chapter 2: New Old friend
She focused chackra to her hands, a quick seals and her hand had claws, she slashed through the first beast, she felt the bones shards cutting her skin, their dark red blood was spilling out to the floor, the first body collapsed, the second beast looked at Karen with awe, but she was too thrilled from the excitement to notice his expression, she punched him, her fist connected with the beasts' skull, she felt a slight pain as her claws pierced the bone, the holed that she made were spitting blood like steam, she heard another voice
"that was too messy even for you, did you lose the small muscle in side your head which you humans call brain?"
"where are you?" Karen looked around in surprise, only shu-al and the bodies were there, "what happened to your voice? Someone sterilized you, Nartuo? It makes sense, I was asleep and you can't handle yourself without me…" the voice said in a humorous tune, "who are you?!" Karen shouted, none was around her, and shu-al was looking at her in a curios stare, the blood of the two beasts started to vaporize, but Karen didn't mind it, it only meant she won't have any cleaning to do.
"Wow, luckily for you, Naruto, demons can't keep a body without chackra, so Hinata won't know about the two Inu-injiyuu's" (AN\\:based on Inu-yasha and Hunter X Hunter, it means dog shadow beasts, or something like that)
"but why did you use Henge, are you and her trying some new bed play? Got bored already… you humans just can't appreciate mating…" the voice was amused now.
"Where are you? Who are you? What are you talking about? What do you mean by Naruto and Hinata!" Karen cried, the only thing she was told about her parents were their names, Hyuga Hinata and Uzumaki Naruto, she preformed some seals and looked around, other than shu-al, nobody was close to her. Her Byakugan should have revealed anyone around her, she was sure of it .
"that's a bloodline ability… I think I'm going crazy, who are you?!" the dark voice was now confused, he asked in somewhat scared tune.
"I'm Karen Uzumaki, and once I find you you'll be a dead as anything can get" she growled with a smirk, she was a bit more secure now that the voice reveled some confusion himself, "you're Karen Uzumaki you say?… now that's bad, really bad, from the our height compared to the fox's height and the pressure on our forehead, I can guess we are above 12 years old, damn, it's going to be embracing, go get Naruto now, he'll explain everything to you" the voice said, now it was plainly worried, "father is dead, and so is mother…"
Karen tried to say, but she couldn't finish the sentence, tears started to flow down her face, she always tried to avoid thinking about them, she wanted to forget about them, about the way they smiled at her, about the way they took her everywhere.
"Now that's bad… we used to be fri… never mind that, I knew them, how did it happen?" he asked, she could have sworn he was crying as well, whoever he was, and wherever he was. "8 years ago, when the leaf was destroyed by the demon fox, they both died… or so I'm told" she tried to get her tough act on, she whipped her tears away, but then the doorbell rang.
"Listen to me, I'm not sure what happened, so I'll take a day or so to get my mind clear on some things, wash your face, get your cold act back on, I'll watch and try to learn the situation, tomorrow I'll try directing you to someone who can explain everything, and for next time, I can read your thoughts, so if you have a question, just think it, no need to say it loud" the voice said, he sounded almost… comforting.
"are you inside? Karen? It's me, Doro, I thought we should go to the mission together; we need to be there in twenty minutes" she heard the familiar voice, "sure, just give me time to get ready" she responded, she threw some stuff into her backpack, she changed into her nin suit and walked out the door.
"wow, she changed inside and she was exited,,, man I'm hot!" Doro said to himself, his advanced hearing had other than shinobi mission uses, such as hearing the delicate sound of clothes falling to the floor, "anything wrong?" Karen asked him, "oh, no, nothing lets go, I don't want to be late, Hob is probably already there, and Shally must have been spying that place all afternoon" he said quickly, trying to hide his blush, "oh, sure" Karen said, even with a more non-interested voice than usual, her thoughts were still about the voice who talked to her.
They got to the meeting place soon, Hon and Shally were there as they expected, but Ealla was nowhere in sight, "it's about time for her to come, isn't it?" Hob asked, he looked at his clock, 10 minutes after the due to arrive time, the only thing besides them was a box sitting on the table.
10 more minutes passed,
and another 10, and soon they realized that their jounin
instructor was late by two hours, "I'm getting really bored, I wonder
what's in the box" Doro said, he picked the box up, for his much surprise,
it didn't explode, he shrugged for a few seconds and listened, the sound of
light paper was in that box, he quickly opened it and read the note loudly:
"Dear Team 13, as your jounin instructor, I have
to test you, so the first mission is the following: you are to find me and
attach one of the charms to my body, the charms inside an envelope on the other
side of the table, in order to help you get started, I'm wearing a bell, if you
mange to get a charm on me then you keep the rank of genin,
otherwise it's back to the academy."
As he finished reading the letter, a shadowy figure jumped through the window, breaking it to pieces. "did anyone notice she was here?' Hob asked, he didn't like the fact that his strong sense of smell was taken away from him, "no, but there are quite a lot charms here, at least that" Doro said.
"That's' because she wasn't here, idiots,,, that was genjutsu, she broke the window with a needle to make it seem like the illusion was real, and plus that, the needle's shadow fell over a shadowy area, so we won't notice it, she's really smart, but it means she's somewhere around" Shally said in self importance, she liked pulling those speeches, it impressed everyone she knew.
The four genins jumped out the window, Hob was trying to catch her smell, Doro tried to hear the bell she wore, Shally looked at the window, she had a feeling she missed something important, but she didn't know what, Karen was puzzled, she didn't know many jutsus other than the ones they learned in the academy, and she had no talent in tracking, she was at the mercy of luck.
"you're so evil… leaving the kids to look for you all around, while your husband takes you out to dinner" Konhamaru said to Ealla, "oh, don't be like that, I'll go check once a while on them, and in about two hours I'll go back and play a bit with them, besides, it's not like they'll get bored, I left them quite enough of traps to keep them company" she said in somewhat laughter. Konhamaru changed his tune "on serious matters, Karen is at your team, isn't she?"
Ealla nodded, her husband was also an ex-leaf, "yes, why do you ask?" she didn't know what he knew about the situation, and she didn't want to scare him with any new information "don't worry about it, every adult who came here knows about it, even if they aren't sure about Karen, they all know what happened with her father, and they suspect she might be the same, just keep it in mind" he said and then started with his cheerful tune again.
"did you notice how every year the main theme of the survival exam stays the same and yet no one figures it out?" he asked, "yep, like what's so hard understanding that the main thing about a TEAM is TEAMwork?" she said in humor, she hoped she left enough clues to get them to see it, she guessed that the two girls will be the first to team up, as non of them had tracking skills, the boys would have troubles, as they will probably fall into each and each one of her traps…
"Damn, another rat with a bell attached to him, I'm getting nowhere, and I thought that I had something, stupid falsified traps…" Doro complained to himself, it was the fifth animal he caught and the third shurikan which was aimed at him, he dodged it easily, but only to meet another of her traps, a simple leg catcher, the most embracing trap ever invented.
"did she just dump her entire closet here?" Hob asked in frustration, his nose lead him to another sock, and this one was set on a trap hole "is she trying to make me look stupid? Only amateur leveled traps, and somehow I keep falling into them" he rumbled to himself, "yes, I know I'm getting nowhere, but I have no other idea" he growled in response to his dog stare.
"aren't you going after her as well?" Shally asked, seeing the two boys leave in two opposite directions, "no need to rush it, unlike those two, I don't have a way to find her fast, so I need to take my time, what about you?" Karen responded, it would be quite a disappointment to her if she got thrown back to the academy, not that being a shinobi was her dream, but it was a rule for her never to fall back.
"Same thing, I have the feeling I missed something, good luck any way" Shally said, "yeah, you too" Karen tried to smile, she entered the forest, after 300 meters she decided she was far enough to use her ability "Byakugen!" she looked around, she saw Shally at the start point, Doro and Hob were running like crazy people, probably following fake clues that were planted for them, "you here?" she whispered, "yes, I'm always around, and you don't need to talk loud, I'm a part of you, do you want something?" the voice asked.
"you never told me who you are, or why can I talk to you" she said, "it's for a reason, we better wait until this training is over, it won't be easy, and I still have some things to figure out for myself, things have changed since the last time " the voice responded, more in a sad tune than his normal all knowing voice, "that's no fair, a voice that only I can hear, isn't it the mark of the insane?" she thought to herself silently.
"don't worry, you aren't going crazy, but I do have a question, why is your byakugan ability so weak? Your mother was able to do even 4 times the distance at this age, and she was considered a disgrace to her clan…" the voice asked in curiosity, "it's not my fault, Sasuke-sama knew only a part of the seals, and there wasn't anyone else to teach me" she twitched as she remembered the time that Sasuke has shown her the seals, he said that he just happened to pick them up once, they weren't of any use to him, it was just another part of the mystery which clouded her origin.
"Sasuke-SAMA? Uchiha Sasuke? Isn't that asshole dead? For like almost 20 years?" the voice pronounced the name coldly, "Uchiha Sama is alive and well, and is performing his duties as the Kage's first officer" she responded, even if she thought Sasuke was an arrogant basterd, the Uchihas were the closest thing to a family she had, and from what Gray once said, it was because Sasuke insisted on it, "Sasuke is the first officer? So who's the kage? Itachi?" the voice asked with a laughter.
"Ita-who? The current Kage is the Tsubakerou" she responded, wondering what made the voice ask all the questions, "oh, that guy, I can bet he's drowning himself with work, he probably works twenty hours a day on the smallest things" he said, amused from the twist of fate, "you know him? Who the hell are you?" Karen almost screamed, "oh, never mind me now, this talk has been going for too long, you have this test to pass, have fun" the voice said, returning to his slumber of thoughts.
Shally looked at the ground, trying for the third time to see the trap which flanged the needle into the room, it was either a trap or that Ealla was outside as well, and if that was the case then Hob would have smelled her when they left the room, she got into the shadowy part of the garden, with no light she had to feel the ground with her hands "ooch!" she hissed as she was stabbed by a glass shard.
"glass shard? Stupid, Stupid, Stupid me! How could I miss it?" she was hitting herself mentally for the failure to notice the important fact that the glass was broken to the outside, and that meant that the needle was just to confuse them, the real trap mechanism was in the room, she climbed back to the window and looked outside, trying to calculate where could Ealla hide the needle that really broke the window. She sidestepped the wall.
in front of her was an electricity pole, something shined suddenly on the pole, she jumped down and walked towards the pole, she climbed it easily and counted the number of power lines, 6 on the left, to the next pole, and 7 lines were in the direction of the building, "so that's how she done it,,, sneaky bitch, this much fuss about nothing" she pulled the extra line, a needle flew to her hand, she grasped the needle and saw it wasn't an ordinary needle, it was made of a different metal and it had magnetic qualities.
Well, review and tell me what you think, o.k?