I stand fully dressed in front of the academy, arms crossed guardedly in front of me. Kai standing next to me in the same position, both of us also sporting blank faces. I sense a movement behind us and feel my fists clench as well as my teeth, as I felt the presence get closer I also felt multiple presences. I realize quickly it's just a bunch of academy students as their voices finally register in my ears. I sigh quietly, I have a paranoia problem, I've had it ever since I was 7. When I was 7 our village was attacked but specifically my house, where me, my older siblings, and parents lay sleeping. Earlier that night I thought I heard something creak in the house but I was already in trouble for getting out of the bed for water and I was extremely, and currently, spiteful and thought 'fine if I'm in trouble for getting water then you can find out what that noise was for yourself', carelessly. Of course I didn't think that for long as I heard the blood curdling scream of my mom, I jumped out of my bed and grabbed my newly acquired black bladed katana, it was wobbly and uncomfortably heavy in my hand as I slid my door opened to see only my parents door opened and noises were coming from there. So I shakily walked out to the hallway and into their room to see my mother ripped in half her blood splattered across the wall in a brutal art piece, her father gone and a snake in his place. My eyes widen in horror as I feel my heart beat kick up from grief and fear. I let out my own, much louder, blood curdling scream. Which happened to be the reason the village woke up. And ran like hell from it, I ended up slipping open my older siblings room, the one that they shared since it was a master like my parents room. I see them both sitting up in bed and I immediately jump in bed with my twin brother who is older than me by a minute. But we weren't allowed to share a room because we fought too much and also because at night we would make too much noise wiggling and goofing around o they decided to separate us. As I do this I hear my sister scream and I look over at her to see her bed empty and the snake coming towards us now. I felt my grief and rage envelope me as I-
I quickly shake my head and blink a few times as I feel my eyes start burning some. I take a deep calming breath, "God what do you think they want with us?" I ask opening my eyes and glancing at him, his cold, stoic face breaks into a large grin, "Maybe they'll put us in teams" he says, I quickly shake my head in disagreement, "They wouldn't, not without knowing the extent of our strength and definitely not in the same team" I said closing my eyes again. He chuckles, "Yeah yeah, whatever" he says dismissively. Suddenly two different groups walk over to us, one containing a guy with black, shaggy, wild hair, red markings on his cheeks, and a white dog with him. the next member being a guy with a large open collar circling around his neck covering his mouth, black goggle looking glasses sit on his nose, with brown spiky hair. the last member being a shy looking girl with cropped dark purple hair longer bangs hanging beside her eyes, she has pupil less purple tinted eyes, shes also shorter than the others on her team. the other team being the kids we met yesterday, Naruto, Sauske, and Sakura. "We call the boy" is the first thing I hear out of the boy with the red cheeks, I tilt my chin forward letting my bangs shadow my eyes as my eyebrow ticked in annoyance. "I'm Kai and this is Rin" he introduces us politely, I don't even bother saying anything. "I'm Kiba, that's Hinata, and that's Shino." The boy, Kiba, introduces. I look up at him and lean back lining my shoulder up with Kai's (even though hes taller than me) examining the kids in front of me, pulling many different things about them from their stances. I take a deep breath out of annoyance and shake my head a little bit not feeling in a social mood.
'I'm hungry,' I think to myself with a quiet sigh, everyone else talking while me and Sasuke sit and watch them. Well Sauske watches them, my attention span is too short to be sitting on one thing at a time for long periods of time, especially in new places where I don't fell safe. My eyes flick to something new every few seconds, soaking in as much of my surroundings as possible for future reference. I felt the presence of a brand new Chakra my eyes moving faster than my brain as they flick to the place the Jounin exits from. I feel my jaw tense as I watched her, the way she grinned showed she really was friendly but I don't trust anyone other than Kai and Rei. I stay in my spot as she comes up to the group and starts speaking to them, it seems she really chums up with Kai as the other kids start whispering excitedly and worriedly, "Alright, we will be choosing when Kakashi shows up since he gets to choose first." She says, glancing over at me, at first I couldn't believe how harsh her eyes looked but I quickly washed that out of my mind as my eyes have been described as 'harsh' more than they have 'pretty'. I grunt slightly as i realize this 'Kakashi' guy is gonna end up choosing Kai, not that it really matters but it still bothers me I'm always the last one to get picked for everything. Even though I was the youngest, I didn't get pampered as often as the other two. Not like I was beaten everyday or anything, I just felt like i was always more looked over than my siblings. My sister always called me Kabe, which is Japanese for wall, because apparently trying to talk to me is like trying to talk to a wall. I always hated getting called Kabe, I hated her every time she called me Kabe, it made me an Rei call her Yariman behind her back.
They were already separating and trying to figure out who was going to stay with who when they died. My mom and dad were in their room talking that night when they died, I heard them before I fell asleep that night. I sigh quietly as I realize I'm thinking about my mom again and decide to stand up, "Who're you?" I ask rudely , I could tell it ticked her off a little bit at the tight lipped smile she gave me "I'm Kurenai Yūhi, but you will address me as Kurenai Sensei" She states, I sigh and let my head drop some, as to show my respect for her as a sensei, just wanting to go back to my village and get into my team there, the Jounins in my Village and not to mention clan are way more scary than this girl, way more strict, and waaaaay more powerful, or at least they seemed to be weaker. I was a little more than annoyed as we decided to wait for this 'Kakashi' guy, not like we had to wait earlier or anything. I bite back snide comments as they started a conversation about something I don't care about or already know about, some kids seemed to be almost used to this, others didn't care. I noticed quickly that Sakura couldn't keep her Light green eyes off of Sasuke, it was gross to watch a girl probably a year or so older than me ogle some boy the same age. It just seemed weird, almost stalker-ish. I guess Sasuke felt the pair of eyes burning holes into his body because he turned his head, catching Sakura staring at him and me staring at both of them. I felt my face flush some as his Onyx eyes switch to me, not really noticeable under my naturally tan skin, I could feel his eyes analyze me for seconds before he scoffed and turned his head back to its original position. I felt my hands twitch with anger, the kind that makes me lose control and do something stupid, I feel my hands start to shake at the fact I was so angry. I wasn't angry because he scoffed or whatever I'm pissed because he has a fucking god complex and doesn't realize hes not the strongest person in the world, something I know just from watching him for a few seconds. I feel a warm hand envelope my wrist, it makes me let out a pent up breath and my shoulders to relax.
"How much longer you think you wanna wait here before we just ditch them?" the familiar voice of Kai bleeds into my ears. I let my head drop some as I clench my jaw trying to let go of my anger, "Mmm, how about 10 minutes?" I ask realizing we've been sitting here for 3 hours and I was starting to get restless. He chuckles a little bit and sighs almost out of relief, swinging his arm around my shoulders, "How about five?" he asks, his whole body relaxed as if some huge weight had been lifted off of his chest, I brushed that fact off quickly and pulled my head back up, "Deal" I answer. As we continue to stand there, we start inching away from the group, of course as soon as we turned around we heard, "Yah, Kakashi-sensei you're late!" Yelled by Sakura and Naruto. Quickly I glance at Kai and he just starts giggling, I roll my eyes and turn back around clasping my hands behind my back in a very innocent manner and widened my already wide eyes. I notice the Kakashi guy immediately as I walk to the group, he was tall, and he had white or maybe grey hair but not from old age. His forehead protector covers left eye and a mask covers from that and under, meaning the middle of the bridge of his nose and down. I felt my eyes narrow as i stared at him, he screamed silent and dangerous, it made my skin crawl to see the almost haunting look in his eyes.
"Sorry, I got lost on the path of life." Kakashi excuses himself lamely, the excuse still managed to make me smile a little bit. I just shake my head as Kai comes up beside me, he looks Kakashi up and down, analyzing him how we were taught in our academy. Kakashi glances at us, his eyes stay on Kai for a few seconds before they land on me, his eyes widen a little bit as he continues to stare at me, I stare back at him with a facade of innocence. We continue watching each other for maybe thirty seconds before Kakashi finally speaks, "I want the girl." he says. My mouth pops open from shock, Sakura makes a whining noise and stomps the ground, Naruto just grins widely, Sasuke doesn't react at all. I felt excitement flutter in my belly as i glance at Kai and give him a two-finger salute as a goodbye, which he returns, Kai, Rei, and I have been using that as a secret signal for ages. I smile a little bit as Kurenai's team and Kai walk away, Kiba talking loudly to Kai. I let out a mall sigh and glance into the woods where the most shadow is and close my eyes whispering a good luck to Rei, one that he would never be able to hear since we don't have mind reading abilities. I re-open my eyes and feel everyone eyes on me, I turn my head to them and tilt it, dropping my innocent facade, knowing he can see through it anyway. "Why'd you want me?" I ask, feeling brave.
A/N: So I have a general idea about where i want this story to go