Naruto: Children of the Ninja
By Hikari Dohjutsu
A/N: Sorry for the long wait. Here's the next chapter.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. All I own is the o.c's and the plot of this story.
Kei stood in the kitchenette of her small two-room apartment, trying to decide what to make for dinner when she heard a rather loud and incessant knocking at her door.
Kei stared at the door in confusion until she heard an annoyingly familiar voice.
"Hey Kei- chan!"
Kei's left eye twitched. She could either ignore him and he would keep banging on her door and leave her no peace or she could let him in and kick him out in person. She took a deep breath and reached for the door knob, seriously hoping it was not who she thought it was. She tentatively opened the door and her face fell. Haku poked his shining face through the door and barged in.
"Hey Kei-chan I brought you some ramen!" Haku blathered dropping a pot and a bagged dinner on the small wooden table. "Hey Kei-chan , How do you keep this place so clean?"
Because you're not in it
Kei twitched harder. "Haku leave now" her voice was dangerously quiet.
Haku than did what was probably the stupidest thing of his young life. He flatly refused sat on the couch and started flipping through the channels.
Kei twitched violently and proceeded to beat the crud out of Haku.
A few minutes later Kei smirked triumphantly and wiped the dust from her hands. Haku lay in a bruised up jumble on the floor.
Kei eyed the ramen. "I thought you hated ramen," she said calmly, sat at the table, and started to eat some ramen.
Haku rubbed the bump on his head. "I know, the ramen is for you I brought my self dumplings," Suddenly Haku's eyes widened, he jumped up triumphantly. "Ha! You're eating my ramen, that means you don't hate me as much as you claim!"
Kei smiled up at Haku, her voice came out buttery-sweet.
"Why Haku-kun…."
Haku's heart sped up.
"I don't hate you,"
Haku blushed a shade of red reminiscent of his mother. He smiled sheepishly, here it comes
"I despise you with every fiber of my being!" she spat out venomously.
Haku started crying anime-style and sat down to eat his dumplings.
The two ate their dinners in silence (Haku would have rather not faced Kei's wrath again,) Kei daintily wiped at her mouth with a napkin, Haku had finished his dumplings a while ago. Kei looked at Haku her eyes narrowing.
"I ate your ramen, now leave," Kei demanded in her customary cold tone of voice.
Haku crossed his arms over his chest stubbornly, "I'm not leaving until you tell me why you hate me so much,"
Kei twitched once again, and was about to beat Haku up when Haku suddenly perked up and ran to the window. Kei looked surprised for a moment and than followed Haku to the window, grumbling to herself.
"Wait I haven't beaten you up yet,"
Kei poked her head out of the window. There was her other team-mate strolling down the wide path.
"Hey Sasuke!" Haku yelled waving wildly.
Sasuke looked up to the window and grinned. "Hey you two, are you guys on a date?"
Kei twitched (A/N: Kei's doing a lot of twitching today), Haku put his arm around Kei's shoulder. "I know it's obvious, she's crazy about me but you know since we're teammates I thought maybe we'd take things a little slow…"
Sasuke sniggered. Kei than gave Haku his delayed beating.
Kei narrowed her eyes at Sasuke, "It would be wise to disregard everything Haku just said," she warned him with a touch of threat in her voice.
Sasuke's eyes widened and he nodded slowly. Kei was very scary.
"So you two are neighbors?" Haku asked rubbing the second lump on his head.
Sasuke nodded and pointed to the apartment complex across the street, "I live over there,"
"Come on in let's celebrate, we're ninja now," Haku gestured for Sasuke to come in.
Kei frowned, "Oh sure Haku, invite people over to my apartment without my permission, I don't mind,"
Haku grinned, "Thanks Kei-chan!" Kei sweat dropped. Sasuke jumped up to the window sill and hopped into the tiny room.
Kei's alert eyes ran over Sasuke for a second, he was covered in bruises, his hair was disheveled and his clothes were covered in food. She than rolled her eyes, "You've been over there again!" Kei asked in exasperation.
Sasuke shrugged, Haku's face perked up in interest. "Where has he been again?"
"The Lee household," Kei informed the blond boy. Haku's jaw dropped. "He's been going over there for dinner at least three times a week," Kei said, a touch of awe in her voice.
"Has he met Gai?" Haku asked, obviously confused.
Kei rolled her eyes. "Look at him, does it look like he's met Gai."
Haku gaped obviously shocked, "Sasuke I thought you were smart!"
Sasuke shrugged, "I honestly don't see what's so bad about it, they're really nice," Sasuke plopped down on the couch, "So Gai is a bit hyper, I don't see what the big deal is."
Haku muttered darkly, and pulled up the sleeve of his orange sweatshirt to reveal stitches, "This is where Gai stabbed me with a chopstick the last time I had dinner over at their house,"
Kei appeared slightly amused and Sasuke snickered.
"I like it there and they're nice to me, Sakura-san is a good cook," Sasuke shrugged, "Besides," he added, "I can deal with Gai he's going to be an energetic but good kid, they have a really nice family,"
He looked outside, the full moon was starting to rise up and stars were just starting to twinkle in the sky, "I've got to go guys, I'll see you at training tomorrow," and with that Sasuke jumped out the window and into his apartment complex.
Kei turned her attention to her unwanted house-guest to find him snoring, fast asleep on her couch.
Kei rolled her eyes and crouched down nest to Haku. She placed her lips close to his ear and…"HAKU! WAAAAAAAAAKKKKKKEEEEEEE UUPPPPPPP!"
Haku jumped up as though he were being attacked, and rubbed his eyes tiredly.
Kei pointed at her door, "Now leave,"
Haku complied, too exhausted to argue and walked sleepily to his house.
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Haku ended up in his warm bed safely, tiptoeing carefully to his room so as not to wake Haruka up.
Now contrary to popular belief Haku was a very light sleeper so when he heard the rustling outside his bedroom window he awoke immediately. He gazed out the window to see a shadowy blur rush by his room. Now as some people might have guessed Haku was a very curious person by nature, and his curious nature told him he should follow the blur and that's just what he did. He jumped out of the window anti-ramen p.j's and all.
He did his best to keep up with the blur. It was an extremely fast blur and by the time the blur paused Haku was panting.
The shadowy figure crept toward the stream by the school, and slowly started to walk down it.
Haku followed, doing his best to stay quiet (If you can imagine that).The stream grew larger and larger. It was shallow and flowed smoothly. The river led to a pool, moss creeping down the bowl, a high rock wall rose behind the pool and a waterfall crashed down over the jagged rocks.
The shadowy figure had its back turned, Haku hid behind a bush to spy. To his surprise the figure slipped off the robe it was wearing to reveal a one piece lilac swimsuit (Remember people this story shall remain clean). Haku finally realized the figure was a girl. The female turned to reveal she was Kei.
Haku gaped.
Kei carefully untied her fore-head protector and placed it gently on her kimono. She than gathered chakra to her feet and stepped confidently onto the water. She did a few hand signals, muttered something that Haku couldn't hear and began to maneuver the water with her hands. She formed the water into a tiny lily and quickly froze it turning it into ice. She than brought up some more water and turned it into an ice bow and arrow set.
She used these for target practice barely missing Haku's head. She did some more hand signals and raised the entire pool turning into a water tornado, but it quickly returned to the pool. She cursed under her breath but proceeded to try a different jutsu. This one turned out to be more successful. She raised the entire pool into a giant wave and pushed it over to the area where Haku was.
Haku stifled a yell as the wave came crashing down over his head. Kei finally stepped out of the pool, wringing her hair dry, a small smile resting on her lips. She gazed at her wet clothes grudgingly for a second, and quickly picked them up. Then shivering slightly she walked home. Haku saw that the show was over and trudged home now even more curious about Kei.
A/N: Well another chapter done. Polls are still open! Details in chapter 16. I know the waterfall scene was similar to that scene with Hinata in the Bikouchou arc ( Remember I do not own the Bikouchou arc or Naruto!) , but I wanted to show that Kei's element was water. This also leads to an important scene later in the story. In the next chapter we start missions! Woot! Thank you to all who reviewed!
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