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Made a ninja info card for Rin by using a template on deviantart Add this to url of DA - (/art/Ninja-Info-Card-Template-83023770) You can find the link to the blog where Rin's card is on my profile. It's the blog link.
easilyaddictedgirl: It's implied her mother gave it to her. I didn't think I needed to say that she had it too.
Yuki-Kawashima: Thanks!
I know Rin's weapons are never mentioned but she does have one (well two) and they're stated in this chapter. And if anyone has questions about missions (Which are also stated) D are like errands she's done for people by herself and any Cs are ones she's gone on with the sand sibs when Baki would let her.
Yeah song below is country but I just like the lyrics I used. Not saying I don't like country music but eh this song's okay. I had no idea what song to use for this chapter.
Enjoy ^_^
We fall down and we get up
We walk proud and we talk tough
We got heart and we got nerve
Even if we are a bit disturbed
- These Are My People -Rodney Atkins
Rin was walking through the village holding Ai when suddenly the young feline jumped out of her arms and sprinted away. She gasped and ran after him.
"Ai!" Rin called. "Come back!" She turned a corner but didn't see the cat anywhere. "Ai! Where did you go?" Rin jogged along-side a fence and around a few corners before she heard a meow. "Ai!" Rin went on her toes to look over the fence and saw the black cat along with a black haired boy in a green jumpsuit. "There you are!" The boy, who'd been crouched and petting Ai, looked up.
"Huh?" He stood as Rin vaulted over the fence.
"Why'd you run away like that?" Rin asked as she picked Ai up.
"So this is your cat?" The boy asked with a smile. Rin blinked at him as if just noticing him.
"Yeah." she said with a nod.
"You are from the sand village." he said nodding to the hitai-ate around her waist.
"Yeah, I'm Rin." she said with a smile. The boy smiled back.
"My name is Rock Lee." Lee said with a smile.
"It's nice to meet you." Rin said.
"And you as well." Lee said with a nod.
"Thanks for finding my cat. I don't know why he just ran off like that."
"What is his name?"
"Ai?"
"Love?" Lee tilted his head. Rin nodded.
"Mhm." Rin hummed. "It's a thing between me and my friend." she said.
"You are here for the chunin exams; I too am going to participate." Lee said. Rin shook her head.
"I'm actually not taking the exam." Rin said shaking her head. Lee frowned. "I'm here supporting my friend and his team."
"Oh, I see." Lee said nodding.
"I should probably go… uh… do you know where the first exam is being held?" Rin asked with a sheepish smile. Lee nodded.
"Yes, I will take you there if you wish."
"That'd be great!"
…
"You're not going right to the exam?" Rin asked when Lee told her the room number from outside. Lee shook his head.
"There is someone I wish to meet first."
"Oh okay." Rin said with a nod.
"I hope to see you again." Lee said with a smile. Rin smiled back.
"Me too!"
…
Rin pushed open the door to the exam room and gulped when she saw all the ninja inside. She quickly scanned the room for Gaara and the others, spotting his red hair almost immediately. She went to head over when Naruto was suddenly in her face.
"Hey Rin!" he shouted.
"Whoa!" Rin jumped back.
"I thought you said you weren't taking the exams." Naruto asked with a frown as he leaned forward.
"I'm not." Rin said leaning back as she shook her head.
"You're only allowed in here if you're taking the exam." Sakura pointed out.
"Shh! I know." Rin said. "I just wanted to wish them luck." she said nodding over to the sand sibs. The two let her go past them and to the three siblings.
"You got past the fake door." Kankurō said.
"It's not that impressive." Rin said. "I can count the number of floors."
"Wonder what they're doing." Temari mused. Rin looked back at the leaf genin to see another boy with them with cards.
"Are they playing cards?" Rin asked.
"What the heck are those?" Sakura asked Kabuto, looking at his cards.
"It's hard to explain but these cards have been chakra encoded with everything I've learned over the past four years." Kabuto placed the cards on the ground and crouched in front of them. "I've got more than 200 of them. So you see I haven't been completely wasting my time. They made not look like much to the naked eye, in fact," He flipped over the first card, it was blank. "They appear blank. Don't want just anyone seeing this stuff." He spun the card around with one finger.
"What are you doing?" Sakura asked.
"You see I'm using my chakra to reveal their secrets, like this for example." He brought his other hand up and the card suddenly changed to reveal a picture with the nations and their hidden village symbols. On each was a green bar.
"Awesome, a map." Sakura said "Of what?"
"It shows the geographical distribution of all the candidates who have come to take the chunin exam, what villages they come from and how many from each village. Why do you guys think they all come here to take the exam together at the same time?" He looked around but no one answered. "It's to foster friendship between nations of course. International brotherhood and all that, and it's true enough as far as it goes."
"But there's another reason." Sasuke said.
"Yeah, you see the important thing is that this way they can carefully regulate the total number of shinobi that end up in each village, thereby maintaining the balance of power."
"Oh yeah, balance of power," Naruto said.
"Balance of power, big deal, it's all a drag." Shikamaru said. Kabuto made the card blank again.
"If the balance isn't maintained one nation could wind up with many more shinobi than its neighbors and it might be tempted to attack them." Kabuto said. "So they try to maintain the status quo. Makes sense I suppose.
"Do those cards of yours have any info on the other candidates, individually?" Sasuke asked.
"They might." Kabuto said. "You have someone special in mind?"
"I might."
"Well I can't promise my information is complete or perfect." Kabuto put the one card back and straightened the deck. "But I've got something on just about everyone. Including you guys of course, so which one is it? Tell me anything you know about them, a description, where they're from, whatever." He held up a card. "Anything at all."
"He's Gaara of the desert and there's Rock Lee of the Leaf Village while you're at it."
"Man that's no fun, you even know their names, that makes it easy." Kabuto said. He swiped his hand over the cards and held up two. "Here they are."
"Show'em to me."
"Okay, first up is Rock Lee." Kabuto said as he spun the first card. It revealed Lee's card. "Looks like he's about a year older than you guys. Mission experience, 11 C ranks and 20 D ranks. His squad leader is Gai. In the last twelve months his Taijutsu has radically improved but his other skills are pretty shaky. Last year he got a lot of attention as a genin but for some reason he chose not to participate in the chunin exam. This will be his first time as a candidate same as you guys. His team mates are Tenten and Neji Hyuga."
"Huh? Hyuga?" Naruto asked. Kabuto put the second card down.
"Okay, now for Gaara of the desert. Mission experience eight C rank and get this one B rank as a genin. There's not a lot more information on this guy. He was a rookie from another land originally but there is this: he survived every mission without getting a scratch on him."
"The dude's done a B rank as a genin and has never even been injured?" Shikamaru asked.
"What's the deal with this guy?" Naruto asked. "Um…What about the blue haired girl?" Naruto asked with a small smile. "What's her card look like?"
"She's not even competing." Sakura said. "Why do you wanna know about her?"
"No reason." Naruto said.
"Do you know her name too?" Kabuto asked.
"Rin Hayashi." Naruto said. Kabuto nodded and took a card before waving his hand over it. "She specializes in medicine like me but she also specializes in the summoning technique."
"Wow, that sounds cool." Naruto said.
"She doesn't have a team but she's been on 12 D missions and two C missions." Kabuto read.
"Doesn't have a team?" Shikamaru asked.
"How's that possible?" Kiba asked. Kabuto shrugged.
"She was never assigned to one."
"What's that claw picture?" Naruto asked pointing.
"That's the weapon she uses, they're called tekagi shuko."
"You should know that Naruto." Shikamaru said. "We learned about all ninja weapons." Naruto smiled sheepishly and scratched the back of his head. Shikamaru sighed and shook his head.
"Other than that she's normal." Kabuto said.
"Meow."
"Huh?" Everyone turned to see Ai looking up at them.
"Who brought a cat?" Ino asked.
"It's so cute." Hinata said with a small smile. Kiba made a face and took a step back. Akamaru suddenly jumped down from his head and approached Ai.
"Akamaru, no!" Kiba said as the small dog began to chase the cat around the group.
"Ai!" The group looked to see Rin jogging over.
"Is that thing yours?" Kiba asked.
"Yeah and your dog is chasing him! Make it stop!" Rin said. Kiba turned to the two animals.
"Akamaru!" The dog stopped chasing Ai and looked up at Kiba with sad whimper.
"Ai!" Rin went to pick the cat up but it ran over to Akamaru and rubbed against him. Akamaru barked and Ai started chasing him.
"Huh?" The two pet owners looked on in shock.
"They're playing." Ino said with a laugh.
"Ai." Rin said. "We're not here to play." The cat stopped and trotted over to Rin and rubbed against her leg before jumping into her arms. Akamaru walked up to Kiba who put him back on his head. "Sorry about that." Rin said with a sheepish smile. "Um I'm Rin." She said when she noticed there were a lot of people she didn't know. They all introduced themselves, except for Sakura and Sasuke, even Naruto. Rin giggled.
"I know your name already, Naruto, we meet yesterday." Rin said. He chuckled.
"Heh, I know."
"You're not participating?" Kabuto asked.
"Hm? Oh no, I'm just here to cheer on my friends." She turned and pointed over to the sand sibs. Gaara was looking at her in a silent 'come back here'. "I should get back to them." She said turning to smile at the group. "It was nice meeting you all. Good luck in the exams!" She said before jogging back over to the sand sibs.
"She's wishing us luck? She doesn't even know us." Ino said.
"She's really nice." Hinata said quietly.
"You're going to have to leave soon." Kankurō said to Rin.
"I know but I wanna hang out as long as I can." Rin said.
"I'm not gunna be the one getting in trouble." Kankurō said.
"Kankurō's right." Temari said.
"Is the world ending?" Rin asked with wide eyes.
"Ch- hey!" Kankurō growled crossing his arms. The two girls chuckled.
"Seriously, Rin," Temari said. "You should get back to the inn. We'll be done in no time."
"Okay." Rin said with a sigh. She went up to Gaara and cupped her hand around his ear. "I know it would embarrass you if I gave you a good luck kiss on the cheek so I'll give you one after you pass, cause I know you will." She whispered before leaning back to smile at him. His expression didn't change but it didn't need to. Rin looked at Kankurō and winked before leaving the room.
Rin walked down the hall, stood outside the bathrooms and looked around before slipping into the males. She entered a stall and locked it before letting Ai off her shoulder. She bit her thumb and made the hand signs for the summoning jutsu before slamming her hand on the floor. There was a puff of smoke before it cleared to reveal a brown cat about half the size of Ai.
"Yes?" A deep male voice asked.
"You know what to do?" Rin asked with a small smile. The cat seemed to smile back before nodding and giving a small salute.
"Of course. Do you want me to take the… recruit along again?"
"His name is Ai and no. This is a one ma- one cat job." Rin said. The cat nodded and Ai laid down with his head on his paws. The cat looked at him and patted him on the head lightly.
"Next time, champ." The brown cat said before running out from under the stall. Ai stood up and narrowed his eyes after the cat as if to say 'I'm twice your size, champ!' Rin chuckled.
"Relax." Rin said petting Ai. "He means well." Ai jumped into Rin's arms.
…
A few minutes later the brown cat returned with a piece of paper in its mouth. He put it down in front of Rin who picked it up.
"Great work, Hayate." Rin said. Hayate bowed his head.
"Of course, mistress."
"That was fast."
"It was not easy. It was heavily guarded and I had to fight off-"
"It was unguarded in a desk wasn't it?" Rin asked with a smirk. Hayate sighed.
"Yes." Rin pet his head. "I wish you would give me more challenging missions."
"You're a scout, Hayate."
"I know." Hayate groaned. "Is that all you need me for?" Rin shook her head as she took out a pen and a piece of paper. She started copying what was on the paper Hayate brought.
"I'm going to need you to put this back. Then you can go back." She finished copying the paper and put the paper back in Hayate's mouth. He turned to leave but stopped.
"Hum…"
"I have treats back at the inn." Rin said with a smile. Hayate grinned around the paper before running away.
Rin sighed for the fifteenth time before she heard someone enter the bathroom. She jumped up onto the seat with Ai on her shoulder.
"Rin?" Kankurō asked in a whisper. Rin hopped down and opened the stall door. "You got it?" Kankurō asked when he saw her. She looked at Crow, dressed up as one of the sentinels, and poked it. "Rin."
"Hm? Oh sorry!" She took the paper she copied out of her pocket and handed it to him. "Are you sure trying to memorize it is the best idea?"
"Yeah. Now shush I need to concentrate." he said holding up a hand. Rin rolled her eyes.
"I'm done now right, I can leave?"
"Yeah yeah whatever." Kankurō said waving his hand.
"Good luck." Rin said. Kankurō made a face and waved his hand again. Rin shook her head and left the bathroom.
I always wondered how Kankurō leaving with crow helped him and I remembered how he came back late so I figured this is what would've happened just with Rin added. Again she's never been shown using her weapons but she has them, they're just in a pouch on her hip. They're retractable. If anyone doesn't know what they look like already just think cat claws that go out about a foot or so.
ALSO BEFORE ANYONE ASKS/ complains: I know she hasn't mastered the summoning technique yet but it is what she does most of the time(and she has been training for a month). Since she doesn't have a team when she does fight/train she calls two cats to help her. I know there have been no fights so far but this isn't an action story. When there is an action scene I will do my best.
Also I know I should have mentioned her weapons in the story beforehand but I hadn't thought of them until last night when I made the card.