Kaji
Inside the gates was a large town about the same size as Suna, but one thing is different... well besides the buildings... every thing's alive! There's grass on the ground, gardens in yards, flowers in vases. It is so beautiful, well was until a man wobbles up to me and Gaara. He gets really close and shoves his face close to mine. His breath smells of old alcohol and rotten teeth and it takes all my will not to make a face. He's obviously drunk, but that isn't what changed my view on things. The crowds around us suddenly stops and stares at the spectacle as if this was a show to them. Like a battle of wills. I stare emotionlessly into his drunken half closed ones and for a moment that's all that happens. Then suddenly from out of no were the ass goes and grabs my chest and clumsily slurs out
"So ye rrr a girrrly. Couldn tell from the distan cas of ur baggy clothins..."
By now I'm peeved not only has this man grabbed my chest, but he dares accuse me of being a guy. But of course he's not finished yet
"Kiinda small rnt ye? hick ye shr ye not jst a prtty boy? Why dun we check ke?"
He then goes to move his hand towards my pants, likely to undo them but when his hand gets to were they were it hits air. The man then realizes his other hand is also griping air.
"eh? wer'd ye go?"
I tap him on the shoulder from my new position. He spins around clumsily to face me and is surprised to come face to face with a VERY pissed looking me. My eyes are wide and glowing angrily. While a homicidal grin slowly creeps across my face my body tenses and my aura starts to grow, making my clothing and hair float lightly upwards. Just as the aura is about to be released though a heavy blanket of sand hits me hard and I skid backwards. Already pissed I savagely jerk my head around to face the one who had hit me. Standing there is a VERY pissed Gaara. He's holding the man in his sand but is staring at me with angry eyes. Confusion breaks out and shows on my face as I stare back at him. What happened next actually startled me.
"KAJI! YOU DON'T JUST GO TO A TOWN AND KILL SOMEONE! ESPECIALLY IF YOU WERE INVITED!"
His yelling cuts at my mind. He had never yelled at me before and as far as I know he had never yelled at someone before. Gaara calms himself down enough to stop yelling then says
" I can understand why you'd want to kill him but you can't do that. I'll turn him in to the Hokage but as long as your here no killing. That is unless the person is threatening my life but that is the ONLY excepti..."
Gaara was suddenly cut off by a semi-high pitched scream of joy then a
"PANDA-CHAN!"
Out of no were Gaara is tackled to the ground. Shocked pretty much out of my mind I just stand there starring for a second. On top of Gaara is a girl about an inch shorter than Gaara. She has longish orange hair pulled back into a low pony tail and has a blood-red kimono top over long black shorts. Her top is tied closed with a black obi, it's has a strangely familiar cloud pattern all over it (like the Akatsuki cloaks, except the clouds are blue). On her arm is a head band bearing the symbol of Konoha. It seems that she knows him so I snap out of the shock and look around. Around us is a large circle of people starring at the scene... and the Hokage. I'm not very good with being the center of attention unless it's because I'm killing the thing focused on me, so I instantly freeze and my eyes widen.
Gaara noticing how uncomfortable I was says
"Uh Saiyo I think it would be better if this was continued in a more private place"
He gets up off the ground and takes the girl up with him. He then turns to the Hokage and asks
"Hokage-sama would you care to join us?"
She nods and follows him as he grabs me by the arm and pulls me along. Once out of the sight of the circle of people I start to calm down and walk by myself. Everything goes silent for a while and I let my senses wander, taking in my surroundings as we walk. I had finally calmed down but noticing the man who started this all in front of the group, some of the anger comes back. The man looks back at me and I give him an icy glare. His eyes widen, shivers in fright, then looks away. I concentrate on the man for a while imaging what I would do to him if I could get my hands on him.
I continue to do so until my thoughts are interrupted suddenly by the girl who if I remember correctly is called Saiyo. Out of no were she pops up beside me and looks up. Earlier I had only seen her back because she was kinda tackling Gaara but now that I could see her face I noticed that she is of fair skin and dark eyes, a dark teal to be exact. She looked innocent... too innocent...but I'm likely just over reacting... I look down at her suspiciously and raise one eyebrow in question. She smiles brightly and says happily
"Hi! you must Kaji-chan! I'm Saiyo! Gaara told me lots about you! but he seemed to forget to mention that you are a kitty..."
Gaara seemed to have over heard his name because he suddenly comes into the conversation
"I didn't mention that because at the time, my memory of her was of a human girl"
Saiyo looks slightly shocked than asks
"Oh? What made you into a cat?"
Once again Gaara buts in before I could gesture my answer and say
"She's not really talking right now and I doubt you'll be able to figure out what she means with her gestures... gives me a hard enough time... and I don't know either"
Curiosity crosses her face as she thinks for a moment.
"oh... well it was nice meeting you Kaji. I hope you start talking again soon so our conversations aren't all one-sided"
She then smiles sweetly and leaves me to my thoughts again, dragging Gaara with her. The Hokage seemed to have other things to do because I see her out of the corner of my eye making a quick excuse then heading off down another road.
Sai
Ah another normal... boring day, and another, possibly boring mission. The Hokage had asked to see me this afternoon to talk about something mission related. When I finally arrive at her office and get in she starts explaining right away
"Hello Sai. Your new mission is acting as a body guard. With all the strange occurrences lately we've made it a rule that each Kage that attends the Chunin exams needs at the least two ANBU as body guards. Everyone seemed to be able to get the required two except Suna's Kazekage. He said that he only really trusted one of his ANBU with his life. I don't doubt the ANBU's ability to protect him, a while ago a crowd that I was in almost got a demonstration of her power when a drunkard tried sexually harassing her. I left the guy with Gaara to take care of the punishment but man if it wasn't for him interrupting her she probably would have torn up the guy and a couple of blocks with one move... just thinking of the malice in her aura sends shivers up my spine."
She shivers
" But on to your mission. As you've likely guessed your mission is to help protect the Kazekage. His ANBU and your temporary team mate is Kaji Hametsu or Cat, you'll see soon enough why they call her that. A little bit about her, thanks to Jiraiya, that you should know before hand is that... well lets see here..."
Tsunade rifles through some papers, then pics up one that looks like it's been torn from a note book.
"Ah here it is. Oh Gawd Jiraiya you even got her measurements?... wonder how he got those... anyways from what it says here she's 17, about 5 foot 5 inches... hm... ANBU level already now that... Doesn't show emotion and doesn't seem to be able to actually smile... sounds like someone I know..."
she looks up at me meaningfully then continues to look for relevant information on the paper
"hm... when in battle becomes extremely blood thirsty... tends to kill for no reason... hope that's kept in check while she's here... hm... there seems to be a sketch of her here... wait no that's just Jiraiya... ok that seems to be all I can get out of this, that's important unless your interested in the fact she's a virgin... but I'm not getting into that..."
She looks up from the paper at me her expression a little disturbed... likely from Jiraiya's notes. She then sighs and hands me a piece of paper
"that's were you'll be staying. I got them a three bedroom suit so there'll be space for you there too. Now, any questions? and before you ask no you may not have the paper. If you want to know you'll have to ask her. It seems he just walked up to her and asked her a bunch of questions cause the note keeps saying 'she said'. Though you'll have your work cut out for you getting anything out of her cause last time I saw her she seemed to be under a vow of silence."
I openly sigh. She got me. Damn now i'd have to ask... eh. She looks at me expectantly. I just shake my head telling I had no questions then walk out the door. Outside the building I look at the piece of paper and head off to the location.