Naruto: Children of the Ninja
By Hikari Dohjutsu
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, however I do own the o.c's and I guess I own the plot
Hotaka, Ichie, and Sakurako, approach Haku in the schoolyard before the genin orientation.
Haku eyes them wearily.
"Yes?" he asks them cautiously, not in a cold manner.
The three kids let their breath out in a sigh of relief.
"Listen, Haku," Hotaka starts awkwardly, "I think we should explain what happened, yesterday," he shrugs.
Haku inclines his head toward his sister. "Shouldn't Haruka hear this too?"
Sakurako glances sadly at Haruka and then lowers her voice. "She refuses to listen to us," Sakurakoexplains sadly.
"Can you blame her?" Haku asks.
"No," Ichie says close to tears, "It was a horrible thing for us to do."
Haku gazes at them intently then plops down on the ground. "Just tell me what happened." Haku asks calmly.
"And that is the whole story," Hotaka says at the end of the story.
Sakurako looks pleadingly "It was really low of us and we're really sorry."
"To you and Haruka," Ichie added.
"Yeah could you let Haruka know what we said," Hotaka mumbles. Yesterday he had been completely and utterly shaken. The great and tough Haruka Uzumaki had cried. He felt sick, disgusted with himself. She had looked so small and fragile. She actually had feelings!
Haku stays silent for a minute. "I don't think you two are nasty people; just don't be too quick to judge." Both girls nod vigorously and run off.
Haku turns to Hotaka "Thanks for trying to stand up for my sister, but next time try and come up with a better method." Hotaka nods slowly and walks away.
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Today was the orientation for newly promoted genin. Shikamaru studied the list of newly graduated students. They included Kei, the orphan, Sasuke Uchiha Jr., Haku Uzumaki, Ichie Nara, Daichi Aburame, Hotaka Inuzuka, Sakurako Lee, and Nobu Akimichi.
Haruka was seated next to Haku. "What did they want?" she asks referring to Hotaka, Sakurako, and Ichie.
"They said they were really sorry, they wanted to tell you themselves but you refuse to speak with them," Haku says raising an eyebrow
Haruka shrugs. "I'm never going to look in their direction again, they're lucky that I've decided to spare their lives." Haruka glares at her desk.
Haku decides not to press the subject.
"Okay class," Shikamaru starts in his customarily bored voice. "You are as of now genin, the lowest rank of ninja which are separated into groups of three under a Jonin leader."
Whispers echo and flutter through the classroom as questions of teammates resound around the class.
"Alright," Shikamaru starts looking as his list. He starts to call teams as he goes down the list.
"Team 6, Sakurako Lee," Sakurako perks up "Ichie Nara," Both Sakurako and Ichie squeal, "And Nobu Akimichi."
Sakurako looks distastefully at Nobu. The Fat Boy was on her team.
Ichie doesn't seem to mind and she smiles at Nobu.
"Team 9," Shikamaru calls out "Kei, Sasuke Uchiha Jr., and Haku Uzumaki."
Kei glares at Haku. That noisy baka (A/N: baka means idiot in Japanese.) was going to be on her team.
"Team 15," Shikamaru calls out, "Daichi Aburame, Hotaka Inuzuka, and Haruka Uzumaki."
Haruka's mouth drops open in horror. Haku gapes at his sister shocked. Daichi is muttering under his breath "No no no no no no anyone but Haruka!" Hotaka moans and slaps his hand to his forehead. She was going to murder him. He was too young to die!
"Oh dude, how unlucky is that," Sakurako mutters to Ichie. Ichie nods looking sympathetically at the members of Team 15.
After Shikamaru sensei finishes his list he tells his students what to do next. "After lunch you will meet your sensei's here, I suggest you get to know your teammates during this time, dismissed!" Shikamaru dismisses his no longer pupils.
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Sakurako, Ichie, and Nobu were sitting on a balcony, overlooking Konoha.
Nobu licked his lips and pulled out an EXTREMELY LARGE lunchbox.
Ichie smiles happily. Her two best friends, on the same team, how lucky could she get!
Unfortunately Sakurako does not think so. She eyes Nobu with a slight hostility in her eyes.
Ichie sighs as Nobu looks at Sakurako uncomfortably. Everyone always looks at him like that, just because he's a tad bit chubby. At least Ichie's on his team. Ichie is his friend so it's not too bad.
Ichie walks up to Sakurako and starts whispering. Nobu sighs. Whispering girls meant trouble.
"Saki, give Nobu a chance he's a really nice guy."
Sakurako looks at Ichie skeptically than smiles. "Alright Ichie."
Ichie smiles, Sakurako really is a good person, deep down.
Nobu looks up startled as Sakurako sits down next to him and chats to Ichie on her other side.
Nobu smiles, this team was going to be alright.
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Haku meets up with Sasuke outside the school building.
"Let's find Kei and have lunch together," Sasuke suggests. Still being the newbie he didn't really know everyone that well and it was probably important to know your teammates.
Haku nods, "Yeah she's over there," he points to Kei sitting alone by a newly dug up stream across from the school, eating an apple.
"Why is Kei always alone?" Sasuke asks walking beside Haku.
Haku shrugs, "Kei isn't exactly a socialite, she likes being alone. Sasuke looks over at the small, lonely figure of Kei.
Kei chews her apple slowly, savoring the crisp flavor. Suddenly 2 dark shadows block the rays of warm sun.
"Hey Kei!" Haku yells in a loud, hyper voice, reminiscent of his father.
Kei winces at the sudden noise.
Sasuke smiles down at the girl. "Hey Kei, since we're on the same team do you want to have lunch with us?"
Kei shrugs and continues to eat her apple. She didn't really care.
"Is that all you have?" Haku asks surprised.
Kei nods. She obviously was a girl of few words, if any at all.
"Well geez, have some of mine, you can't go on just that!" Haku throws her a bag of chips.
"Yeah I have a lot too," Sasuke throws her a banana.
She looks up and to Sasuke and Haku's surprise she looks furious.
"I don't need your pity!" shespits outharshly trying to shove the food back at the two boys.
"Keep it." Haku orders firmly getting over his shock at Kei's reaction.
Kei continues to glare at him.
Haku's forceful expression falters.
"Look my aunt Hanabi always packs me a huge lunch," Haku holds up three bulging bags, "It'll go to waste."
"Sakura-san always packs me a lot too," Sasuke holds up his lunch.
"Tch," is all Kei says. She starts eating the banana ravenously, a sign of two things. 1.) She had given up trying to persuade the boys she didn't need the food. 2.) She was very hungry.
"So what do you think of Konoha, Sasuke?" Haku asks his mouth full of food.
"It's okay," Sasuke starts thoughtfully, "It's just that sometimes I think this village is a bit….how can I say this...um, insane."
Haku nods thoughtfully. Kei smiles ever so slightly.
Haku notices. "Why don't you smile more often, you're really pretty when you smile."
Kei frowns and blushes at the same time. She would never smile again.
"You seem to be in the Lee household a lot, why is that?" Haku asks Sasuke.
Sasuke shrugs. "I don't know, they're always inviting me over for dinner and Sakura-san always packs me lunch, I guess it's because she doesn't think guys can cook." The two boys start a conversation, Kei refusing to comment.
Kei looks at the two smiling boys. Being on a team with these two was going to be different.
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Hotaka and Daichi meet nervously outside the school building.
"Should we ask Haruka if she wants to have lunch with us?" Hotaka says looking at the slowly receding back of Haruka.
"I guess we should try," Daichi mutters.
"You ask her," Hotaka says nervously," She'll slit my throat if I say a word to her."
Daichi and Hotaka walk up to Haruka who is eating lunch alone.
"Umm, Haruka," Daichi says quietly.
Haruka looks up at him, her face expressionless.
"Would you like to have lunch with us, since we're on the same team?"
Haruka doesn't even blink.
"No," she says bluntly.
"Look, Haruka," Hotaka starts.
Haruka glares at him and for some reason his usually firm nerves fail him. He motions for Daichi to leave Haruka alone.
The two boys walk away.
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The Jounins who were to be assigned genin teams were waiting in the meeting hall.
Tsunade stood, the last of the previous Sannin still living, with a list of the genin teams in hand. She waited until the last of the stragglers entered the large room.
Her eye scanned down the list and stopped at Team 6.
"Rock Lee," Tsunade calls out. Lee jumps to attention. "You have Team 6 made up of Nobu Akimichi, Ichie Nara, and your daughter."
Lee jumps around smiling and crying anime style. "My little flower of youth is so grown up," Lee says exuberantly. "I shall teach her, Akimichi, and Nara to appreciate the power of youth!"
Tenten sweat drops, He was exactly like Gai-sensei.
"Tenten Hyuuga," Tenten looks up. "You have team 9 composed of Kei, Sasuke Uchirawa (Tsunade had changed Sasuke's name so that the other villager didn't get too suspicious of his heritage), and Haku Uzumaki."
Tenten smiles, this was going to be an interesting team. Haku, Kei, and Sasuke, they're very likely to pass.
"Neji Hyuuga," Tenten looks over at her husband. "You're team is compromised of Daichi Aburame, Hotaka Inuzuka, and Haruka Uzumaki."
Neji frowned. The Uzumaki girl, Inuzuka, and Aburame, this was not going to be easy.
Tenten sighs; Neji was very hard on Haruka, always training her. He never went easy on her and always made sure she gave her all. That's a team who might have some problems.
A/N: Another Chapter done! People have probably noticed that I have been updating like a mad person, well the reason for that is in a week or two I will be gone for two weeks, That means no updates for two weeks. Now I want to get into the story before I go so before I leave I will leave you with a bunch of chapters! Now that doesn't mean slack off on the reviews! PLEASE REVIEW!
Would anyone like to read more stories related to this one? I have some other ideas, related to this one. I might post some of them later on.