Kori walked into the classroom with a spring in her step, happy with the knowledge that today would be the last day she would ever have to wake up and sit in one of the dreadful seats that were housed in it. After all, when she stepped out of this room for the last time she would have a team. With teammates! She adjusted her forehead protector slightly, wanting to look perfect and dependable for the first time her comrades -her precious people- looked upon her as their teammate.
She sat on the edge of her seat fidgeting, anxious to hear her name called by the teacher as he assigned the teams. Then –miracle of miracles- she heard it and nearly jumped out of her seat with joy.
"Uzumaki Kori with… Mako Sora and… Tsubaki Mio." Smiling like a child at Christmas Kori turned, searching the rows of students for her teammates so that she could beam at them with undiluted joy.
After the teams were called most of the students were whispering about who the teachers would be but Kori didn't bother, already knowing hers since he had been training her during the past years, and she was more than happy to have him. Though when he showed up the entire class sighed in relief at the fact that they wouldn't have to have him as their teacher.
"Lee-sensei!" She cried out when he leaped into the room in his usually horrid green spandex outfit and astonishingly bright smile. She bounded down the stairs and threw her arms around his waist, forgoing any sense of decorum in face of just how happy the day was making her, and it didn't bother Lee in the least as he hugged his student back exuberantly.
"Where are my other cute students?" He asked, grinning as he looked over the crowd expectantly, making the children flinch back at just how white his teeth were.
Two of the newly made genin trudged down the stairs and to their new teacher, sadly following him and their new teammate out of the classroom and out to one of the training grounds.
"Alright!" Lee shouted, startling the two children who weren't use to the sheer amount energy that the man seemed to have. "I'll get started with the introductions! I am Rock Lee and I'll be your teacher from here on out! I cannot use chakra so I am a taijutsu master, and I strive to show everyone that ninjas can be great even without ninjutsus! I am married to a beautiful young lotus blossom and one day you will get to meet her! Now, tell me about yourselves and your dreams!"
The two blinked at him, trying to figure out what nutcase would ever marry this man.
Kori stood up proudly, putting her hands on her hips. "I am Uzumaki Kori and even though my parents have great chakra I have terrible control of it so I mainly focus on taijutsu. I have four younger brothers and sisters and my father is the Hokage, but you probably already knew that. I want to prove myself as a ninja and make all of my family and friends proud. My hobbies are training and my nindo is that I'll never give up and that I'll always protect my precious people, just like my parents."
She smiled, waiting for the next person to go, white eyes flickering back and forth between them. "I suppose I'll go next." Sighed the slim girl tucking a strand of her short black hair behind her ear.
"My name is Tsubaki Mio. My family owns a acupuncture spa which I one day hope to run, and I take advantage of the training on pressure points and chakra flow to use it for fighting." She twisted her legs beneath her, her short skirt hiking up her fishnet clad legs. "My hobbies are making myself beautiful and shopping. I also like-"
"Stop it!" Shouted the person sitting beside her, glaring at her.
"What's got you upset?" She asked sweetly and the other person growled.
"You're a boy! Stop acting like a girl, I mean, you even dress like one!" Kori blinked at the two of them, watching as Mio took a slim fan from the sleeve of her jacket and flicked it open, stirring the air idly.
"But isn't it nice to have people thinking that we're a team of just girls?" The person who had been yelling turned slowly, amethyst eyes burning with fury.
"I. Am. A. Boy." He growled.
Kori looked him over, taking in the golden red braid that brushed his waist, the elegant and smooth unmarred features of his face, the clear and creamy complexion that many women would kill for and the slim waist that they would gladly die for. There was absolutely nothing remotely masculine looking about the boy, but she wouldn't be telling him that.
Of course, Mio was doing that perfectly fine by herself. Or himself.
"Really Sora-chan, what's got you all riled up?"
"Chan? Chan? Why I-"
"Ah! Sora, you are going next?!" Lee exclaimed, grinning broadly at the boy, though he only glared glared back.
"No! What I'm going to do is-"
"Oh, but Sora-kun! I really want to get to know you better so we can become close as teammates!" Kori exclaimed, clearly seeing where this was going and not wanting her poor sensei being hurt when he had been so excited about having a happy little team of his own.
Pausing the boy blinked, straightening up and puffing out his chest, deepening his voice at the girl's use of "kun".
"Well, I suppose if you ask like that. My name is Mako Sora and I come from a small clan that has recently moved to the village when our old one was destroyed in a hurricane. Our greatest weapon is our hair, which is why we never cut it. I am a boy, and my clan is actually mainly male based, even if we take better care of our hair instead of our kunai. My hobbies are working out so that I can become more masculine and also origami -which is manly, goddamn it Mio! And my dream... it would be to continue on with my family traditions." He paused. "And I don't feel comfortable disclosing what those are."
Lee grinned proudly at them all. "Right! Well, my precious students, I have seen the youthful energy between you and have decided that it is time to train! We'll start off easy with a mere fifty laps around the village!" He shouted, pumping his fist into the air grandly, his two new students blinking at him.
"You can't be serious." Mio declared.
Kori sent them a sympathetic look. "He is, but you don't need to worry. You'll get used to it. We'll be doing a lot worse here soon."
"Worse?"
"Wait until he gives you the weighed clothes."
"No." Mio said, putting her/his hands on her/his hips and glaring at Lee, the midriff bearing shirt she/he was wearing riding up slightly. "I am wearing heeled boots and I refuse to run in them. It wouldruin them, and can you imagine how much that will mess with my calves?" Sora snorted, not really liking the idea either but way too happy with how this was affecting Mio to care.
"Maybe if you wore clothes that were more suited for training, like boy's clothes since you're a boy, you wouldn't have this problem." Mio's eyes flared.
"You know what, I'll get used to it." She/he hissed, getting up to angrily stride away, determined to beat Sora no matter what, even if she/he had to do it in heels.
This introduces Kori's teammates and I just want to say that I absolutely love Sora and Mio.
And no, they will never get together. Sora likes girls and even though Mio is a girl in every aspect but her body, she's also into girls. (And I will be referring to Mio as a girl from now on, because that is what she is)
There will be more about these three later. You have been warned.
Prosper my precious darlings! I adore you!