Another looong chapter!
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Team Shino
Hatake Rin was up just before the sun, and was at her team's training field when it rose.
She viciously kicked at tree. Twenty-five green leaves fell. Rin put her hand on her long sword, and waited until every leaf was eye level before whipping it soundlessly out of it's sheath and slicing the air, her katana making small whistling noises as they sliced each leaf neatly in half. Twenty- four leaves she had eliminated, the final leaf was dangerously near the ground. Putting her sword away and grabbing her smaller sword took the same amount of time as it would have for her brother to move his hand.
The last leaf she sliced in half mere inches from the ground.
She straightened and sighed, she allowed the total focus she had to waver, and she looked around at the new sunrise as it illuminated the grounds in a light golden glow. She looked down at her short sword. It had belonged to her grandfather, given to her by her father. She was told about the "White Fang of Konoha" by her father in slow, halting tones.
Rin, like her twin brother, had short silver hair and wore Jonin vests with black pants (despite the fact that Obito wasn't a Jonin), both had startling blue eyes they got from their mother that their father rarely spoke about, they both had their fathers face, though nobody but their family knew that because both wore masks much like their father did.
That was how they were alike, physically, they looked like male/female versions of one another. You couldn't tell them apart at first glance, but it's easy to knew who is who once you realize that Rin has a slightly curvy figure, and Obito, her brother, obviously didn't.
Their incredible differences came sharply to light, though, when you got to know them. Rin was upright and a rigid follower of rules and regulations. Obito was lazy, late for everything, and was a pervert through and through. Though she wouldn't expect anything else considering the people, or rather person, he hung out with.
"Prince Nawaki" was a year older then they were, and Rin can't say that she liked him very much. Sure he was very good looking and undeniably powerful (he and his team were dubbed the honorary "Prodigal Three") as well as wealthy and whatever other things shallow girls like to go for. But she knew him as someone that encouraged her brother's pervyness, and who joined him in teasing her about her rigidness.
What annoyed her most about her brother was that people referred to him as the "Oracle" which was ridiculous. Yes, every now and then he would have visions, and his accuracy with his tarot cards were seconded to none in Konoha, but he has yet to make any prophecy of any kind.
"Up early as always" Rin jumped and turned around to face her sensei, the owner of the calm, even voice. "Good morning Shino-sensei" She said, bowing respectfully. Shino gave a tiny smile, "Such formalities as unnecessary, we've known each other for the past four years," he said, walking up to her with his hands in his pockets, "Forgive me sensei," Rin said, resisting the urge to bow again.
Rin liked how her sensei was always calm and in control of himself, she also liked how he was rather handsome without his glasses and his vest covering the bottom half of his face. It always amazed her that his son, Shiko, was the complete opposite of his father. She disapproved of his outrageous actions and that ridiculous jumpsuit he chose to wear. Rin had met Maito Gai and actually went on a mission with him. She could not help but admire his skills in taijutsu, even if he was far past his prime. Though she found it odd that his three students would strive hard to be just like him. What brainwashing methods did he use?
The young swords mistress turned her attention back to her sensei, "I have just completed the warm up stage of my training, would you join me in a spar?" He didn't say anything, he took a step back and resumed a battle pose. Rin took a deep breath and smoothly gathered her razor sharp focus she had learned after years of kenjutsu.
Rin suspected that she was Shino's favorite student, Kita was hot headed and sometimes hard to handle, Obito was often an hour late for training, if he ever came at all, and always came up with half baked excuses on why. Honestly, if you believed everything he said, you'd think that there was a old hag lurking around every corner of Konoha. Helping an old lady cross the street what kind of morons did he think they were?
The two of them sparred for about ten minutes before the other kunoichi of their team appeared. It was rare for two kunoichi to be on a team with one male, it is far more commonly the opposite.
"'Morning," She said, leaping down from the tree she and her large nin-dog Amaterasu was in and landed about ten feet away from Rin. Kita was pretty in her own right, with her almost golden eyes, elegant face, and wild black hair that suited her very well, but because of her overpowering personality, most males of Konoha usually avoided her. The few brave ones that think they can handle her are quite often rebuked by none other then Kita's father, Inuzuka Kiba. Dates were non-existent for her, and she had expressed once or twice that she would like to know what one was like.
There were probably only three males in Konoha that Rin knew that were almost unaffected by her fierceness, their sensei, her lackadaisical brother, and Prince Nawaki. Surprisingly, Nawaki, being a "ladies man" showed absolutely no interest in Kita, and often avoided flirting with her. This actually confused Rin, she knew that he often considered getting difficult girls to go out with him a challenge, and Kita most definitely was considered "difficult."
As suspicious as this sounded, Rin wasn't about to go through the effort of solving this particular mystery.
"So how is our future Hokage this morning?" Rin asked, her voice dripping in sarcasm. Kita scowled, "You make it sound like my goal in unattainable," She growled, walking forwards till there was only three feet separating them, her gold eyes challenging her.
Inner Rin: Glad to.
"I don't know how you got it in your head that you can become Hokage," Rin said disdainfully, "it is very admirable that you want to put another women's face on that mountain, It's sad that the Kage's are woefully lacking in our own sex, but you do not have the right pedigree, in case you haven't noticed, only women with the right bloodline have a chance of becoming a Lady Kage. The Inuzuka clan, admirable as they are in the art of tracking, are not of a "Royal" line. I believe that our well-bred Prince Nawaki is being considered most likely to be future Hokage, being... talented... and the decendant of both the first and second Hokage."
Rin watched as Kita's eyes narrow in determination, she doubted very much that any of her words would be able to sway her in any way. She hoped that the Dog-nin would listen to reason, because, despite the differences in their personalities, they were good friends and Rin only wanted Kita to stop persueing a hopeless dream. She feared the pain her friend would feel if she never reached her goal.
Kita was about to snarl at Rin when their sensei, who saw a long and fierce debate (fight) if he didn't put an end to it.
"That's enough you to," he said, he voice sharp, "We will continue our training. I somehow doubt that Obito will be joining us today." Rin scowled. Her lazy, good-for-nothing, over-lucky perverted brother sometimes didn't even make it to practice, even when they were genin.
"He'll probably still be sleeping when I get home," she sighed, Shino nodded, "In the meantime, I'd like to see you two spar using taijutsu, there are always some improvements that could be made..."
"By the way sensei, Rin," Kita said casually, "Have you noticed that the mountainside happen to be a bit more... colorful... then it usually is?"
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Around seven the Rin and her Sensei (Kita stalked off with Amaterasu to do some more training of her own) made their was towards their favorite restaurant. The workers there knew them very well and had their favorites ready for them when they entered.
"Thank you," Rin said, as formal as ever, when they retrieved their food. She and her sensei walked over to their table in the corner (conveniently in the shadows) to eat. Rin pulled down her mask and began to eat quickly, in case there was any sudden arrivals. Shino ate considerably slower, but still faster then others. After all, he covered half of his face too.
When she was done, Rin glanced at her sensei. He had pulled his high collar to eat his rice.
Inner Rin: I wish he would take off his glasses too, he is sooo h-
Rin coughed suddenly and took a deep drink of her green tea, using her hand to cover the faint blush marks on both her cheeks. "Are you alright?" Shino asked, she lowered the cup slightly to see her sensei looking at her with some concern (at least she thought it was concern, she couldn't tell with those glasses.) "No sensei, I just choked a little, that's all," She said, keeping her voice completely stotic.
Inner Rin: Liar
When her tea was drunk, she quickly covered her face with her mask, and allowed her blue eyes to travel over Aburame Shino's face once more before he pulled his collar up, also covering his face.
Inner Rin: How can he still be single?
Rin angrily squashed her inner voice. Honestly, what was the point of it? She wished it would stay quiet. It would make life would be so much easier.
"I have to go Shino-sensei," Rin said bowing, "I must go home and wake my brother, I doubt he has even considered joining the land of the living yet." Shino chuckled, making her traitoress heart skip slightly, "Yes, go do that, when you get him up tell him I'll be at the Hokage's office, there's some business I want to talk to with Naruto." Rin nodded, "Yes sir," She bowed again and then left.
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Rin entered her home and was on her way of marching up the stairs when she came face to face with her father. "Well, hey there Minime number two," He said in the same lazy drawl that Obito spoke in, "What are you doing?" Rin sighed. She hated being referred to as "minime number two."
"Father, how many times have I told you not to call me that?" She asked irratably. He shrugged, "Hmm... this month?" He asked, pretending to think, "One hundred and fifty two I believe." He gave her a smirk behind his mask, "By the way, Minime number one hasn't quite woken up yet." Kakashi then pulled out his perverted book (a new Itcha Itcha series) and began to wonder off.
"Shouldn't you be somewhere right now?" Rin asked, looking at the clock with a sigh. It was a little past eight right now, and her father was suppose to be discussing some business with the Hokage.
He shrugged, "If I go now, I'd be on time, and if that were to happen we would be without a Hokage as he might die of a heart attack." Rin only snorted and crossed her arms. He decided to change the subject. "So, what were you up to before you entered?" He asked.
Inner Rin: Admiring my sensei
"Training," she said curtly, turning towards the stairs.
When she reached the door that lead to the room that belonged to her perverted brother, reached up and knocked hard on the door.
"Obito. Up. Now." She yelled, continued to beat the door with her fist.
"Alright, don't break the fucking door." Came a reply. Rin winced at his course language. "Language Obito!" She snarled, giving the door a final knock before turning and heading down the hall to the bathroom. When she came back, she found him gone. Big surprise.
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All Rin wanted was to go to the market so that she could run some errands for her household (both male occupents where far to lazy to consider going out for grocieries). She didn't expect to see her best friend flying past her with an angry Inuzuka Tsume hot on her tail, she didn't expect to have a genin fly into her and toss her into the mud, and she didn't expect to be nearly trampled by six rampaging bulls.
She went home, took a shower, then decided to go to the hotspring for a little bit.
She didn't expect a Hyuuga, an Uchiha and a Uzumaki to be there.
Luckily, she was only on the verge of entering the changing rooms when she saw Hyuuga Nayane, a fairly even tempered girl, storm past with Uchiha Shou and Uzumaki Ichiro in tow. They looked afraid.
And as it turned out, they had a right to be. Rin watched in facination as the Hyuuga kicked open the doors to the womens bath, and actually threw the two fools into the room. She could not help but wonder what they did to piss her off like that.
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Obito liked to sleep. It was unfortunate for him that he had two teammates that didn't.
"Obito. Up. Now" His sisters irritated voice called through the locked door as she pounded hard on it.
I hate life, especially in the morning, he thought, sitting up slowly, yawning and stretching.
"Alright, don't break the fucking door," He called back to his twin with his usual drawl.
"Language Obito!"
"Whatever"
He didn't bother with the clothes in his closet, the ones on the floor were still perfectly clean. He just didn't bother to put them away.
He heard his sister, Rin, walk down the hall, away from his room. This was key.
Fully dressed in his chunnin clothes (Rin was a Jonin, Shino-sensei was far more keen on recomending her then Kita or Obito), he unlocked his door, (he didn't want his sister to break it down.) and walked over to the window, not before grabbing his bag though. Unlocking it, he leapt out onto the next rooftop and ran full speed towards the house that belongs to his best friend. Which happen to be in the wealthier parts of Konoha.
Stopping outside the large and expensive looking mansion, he strolled over to the door and knocked. Almost immediately the door opened and a busty blond women who looked to be in her forties (though Obito knew that she was considerably older.) answered.
"Is the revered Prince up yet" He asked mildly, casually walking past the sannin as though he lived there. Tsunade sighed, this wasn't unexpected. "Not quite, why are you here so early? It's only eight." Obito shrugged, "Nawaki and I have some plans for today, and I wanted to get away from my bossy sister" Tsunade looked for a moment like she wanted to ask what their plans were. Then decided, upon reflection, that she was better off not knowing.
"Anyway, I should be off, I have a surgery to complete today," The medic-nin said, sweeping past Obito she closed the door, leaving Obito alone in the hallway. The silver haired ninja had been here so many times that he knew this house better then his own. He actually spent a considerable amount of time here, though he always thought it benefited his sister more if he didn't explain to her what he was doing.
He ambled towards the stairs and began the climb to Nawaki's third floor room. When he got there he strolled in without knocking and stopped at the foot of the older ninja's bed. He had his mask pulled down as he usually did at this point.
Sun shone weakly through the window, it's golden rays landing on the white-haired figure that lay sleeping peacefully in his bed.
Nawaki was considered very handsome by just about every girl in Konoha. With his white hair and tanned skin, he was almost an exact replica of his father. Nawaki used his good looks and charm to enchant as many women (some younger, some older) as he could. Sometimes Obito couldn't help but feel jealous when he saw Toad ninja flirting with a good looking girl. He made it look so easy. Though sometimes the jealousy wasn't always for Nawaki.
"Oink?"
Obito gave a soft laugh as Nawaki's pet pig Tai-Tai jumped off his bed and waddled over to him. Kneeling down on one knee, Obito scooped the little pink pig up and held him in his arms. Tai-Tai didn't wear beads around his neck like Ton-Ton, instead he wore a dark leather collar and a black T-shirt. Though right now he was wearing a longer pinestriped nightshirt that was specially designed not to hinder him when he walked. Not only that, but a night cap too. Few people knew that Nawaki liked to dress up his pig. Though everyone knew that Tai-Tai had a suit for formal occasions.
Grinning, Obito walked over to the sleeping boy's bed, and leaned over, and after a moment of thinking, slobbered on his finger and stuck it right in Nawaki's ear.
"AWWWW FUUUUUUUUCKKK!!"
"Time to get up Nawaki," Obito said mildly, still with Tai-Tai in his arms, though he put him down before he continued. "We have a big day ah-" He wasn't able to finish seeing as he was tackled full on by the much larger boy and flattened into the ground.
"Why the hell did you do that you son of a bitch?!" Nawaki snarled, using his hands to pin Obito's arms above his head. Obito managed to keep his voice steady despite being very aware of Nawaki's body heat...
"I wouldn't be able to get you up otherwise, we were up till dawn remember." The Toad Ninja growled, but got off (to Obito's slight disappointment) and walked over to his closet and pulled out his Jonin uniform. Despite being recommended more then once for the ANBU, he and his two kunoichi teamates Keiko and Kusanada, stubbornly wanted to remain at Jonin level. "Too much work" Nawaki had said, "I'll have time for the ANBU black ops. when I'm older."
Nawaki stalked into the bathroom, and Obito turned to amble towards the kitchen, Tai-Tai followed him.
When he got the the very large kitchen, he set about making an omlette. And fed the pig while he was at it.
"Ready for what I've got planned for you today?" Obito looked around to see Lord Jiraiya standing there with a small smirk on his face. "I'm always ready Lord Jiraiya," Obito said with a grin, "No challenge you put to me is too great." Lord Jiraiya laughed again. The much older man was obviously no longer on ninja duty, due to his missing left arm and gash across his throat that made his voice deep and hoarse.
The doorbell rang, and Jiraiya got up to go answer it. A few seconds later, Nawaki's teamates, red-headed Keiko and golden eyed Kusanada entered, both completely unsurprised at seeing Obito preparing himself a meal in a house that was not his.
Obito nodded at them (his mask in place at this point). Then as he set his finished omlette down and was getting a fork, he suddenly felt a little woozy.
"You ok Obito?" Keiko's soft concerned voice asked. Obito managed to nod, holding on to the counter for support. When the feeling passed, he looked up at Keiko, "Around ten thirty today, make sure your in the market ok?" Keiko looked startled, "You'll be needed. Trust me." Although used to these unexplained predictions, Keiko still looked uneasy. "Ok, fine," she said finally.
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"OBITO!"
"Aw shit"
Obito swung around to see Kita storming towards him with the promise of great pain in her eyes. Why couldn't his visions show him useful stuff? Like when his friend or sister are going to catch him doing something that would put him in prison if he was older? Glancing at Nawaki, Obito realized suddenly that he wasn't there anymore.
That bastard! He ran off! Coward. Now he had to face his temperamental teammate all by his lonesome.
"Hey, what's up Kita?" He asked casually, covering his face with his mask.
She seemed to almost swell with fury; "What's up? WHAT'S UP?! IS THAT ALL YOU CAN FUCKING SAY?! YOU WERE PEEPING AGAIN WEREN'T YOU YOU PERVERT!!"
Obito coughed, "I was merely helping someone out with some research Kita, there's no need to get your fangs in a twist." Kita was practically snarling in rage, while she was continuing her rant, Obito reached into his bag and pulled out a round object.
"Hey, Kita, look." She stopped for a moment and made the fatal mistake of looking where Obito was indicating. Three seconds later, she collapsed. Obito shook his head, she fell for it everytime.
Obito was holding a small crystal ball, this was given to him by Nawaki, who said that it belonged to the Third Hokage. Whether this was true or not, it always worked well for Obito, he could use it to see what others are doing (though he refrained from using it for perverted means, he did have some sense of decency) or to make others forget, like he was doing now with Kita. She'll wake up wondering what she was doing. Obito now just had to make Amaterasu swear to be silent.
Nawaki appeared just as Obito was finishing bribing the nin-dog.
"Yo," he said casually, the silver haired boy gave him a huffy look, "You ran off on me!" He said in a wounded voice. Nawaki shrugged, "What good would having her yell at me do? Y'know, it's too bad you won't let me flirt with her..." Obito shook his head, "We had a deal. Besides, you have all the other girls in the village, I'm sure you can survive without this one."
Nawaki shrugged again, "I also wanted to see what happened to the two poor souls." Obito looked at him with interest, "I'm willing to forgive you if you tell me what happened."
"Well, after they were thrown in, there was a lot of screeching, and the two were chased down the street by fifteen women, ten of them kunoichi. Their mothers are not going to be happy with them tonight. My mother threatened me with severe bodily harm if something like that were to ever happen to me again."
"My dad was too lazy to punish me for that time, he told me never to do it again, and that was it. Though Shino-sensei more then made up for it..."
"Pah, some bastards have all the luck. Dad laughed his ass off, Lee-sensei gave me three hundred pushups and three hundred laps around Konoha, and mom... well... never mind."
"By the way, aren't you three heading out tomorrow?"
"Yeah, Wind country, Keiko is excited, we're gonna be spending a couple months there, plenty of time for her to visit her family,"
"..."
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Kita's morning started out like it always did. She got up early to walk Amaterasu, she went home for breakfast. She was lectured by her father about boys and why she wasn't allowed dating until she was twenty one, she had her aunt Hana walk in and tell her dad that he was being overprotective. She went to go train with her sensei and her best, if very much uptight, friend. And so on and so forth.
Though today was slightly different. Seeing as Kita got her first shock when she looked at the mountain, all six Hokage's faces were colorfully painted. The Dog-nin was very much impressed. How do you pull a stunt like this off and get away with it?
Kita noticed that the Sixth Hokage's face was the most graffitied. This was probably the result of the Hokage's trouble making son. Kita couldn't honestly remember what his name was. Itchigo or something...?
Heh, whatever. After she finished her training, she went out and did stuff. Then she decided to look for her two friends. Running into that Uchiha kid, who's name she also couldn't remember, she asked him if he knew where her friends were. He said no, and got a little cheeky. Then paid for it immedietly. Kita just didn't take crap from anyone.
A little while later, she and Amaterasu was chased down the street by her scary grandmother Tsume. Which somehow resulted in a bunch of bulls been let loose, mud... and other things.
Kita was a champion tracker, but all Inuzuka's were well known for their tracking abilities. She wanted to break tradition, she wanted to become Hokage. She would sometimes daydream about becoming the first Inuzuka to become Hokage, the second Kunoichi to have her face on that mountain. That miffed her, women ninja's were every bit as good as male ones, why was there only one Kunoichi face on that mountain, and five male? Kita strove hard to master every Jutsu that she could. And not just the Inuzuka ones, Fang over Fang and such, but some elemental jutsu's, such as the groundhound jutsu. Kita wanted to one day learn the Rasengan, but Nawaki refused to teach her, and she had yet to ask Lord Jiraiya.
It was a little disheartening that her best friend, Hatake Rin, didn't have any faith in her, and she doubted the Obito really cared one way or another.
When night came around, Kita was sitting on top of a roof top staring thoughtfully at the mountain. "One day Amaterasu," Kita said dreamily, stroking her nin-dog's soft, silky back. There was a sudden swishing sound, followed by a couple a loud yelps and a thud. Kita leapt up in surprise and saw that the Hokage's son (Irichi...?) had tripped over her dog and had slammed his chin against a corner of the roof.
Inner Kita: A 9.5 for an excellent chin dive! Though I'm going to take off two seeing as your diving board was my dog...
"Watch where your going loser!" Kita snarled, grabbing the blong haired boy by the back of his collar and hauling him to his feet. He gave her a hurt look, but muttered an apology. The Dog-nin blinked, she didn't know the kid all that well, but she was pretty sure that he would have snapped back.
Inner Kita: I wonder what's eating him?
"What's eating you?" She asked bluntly, he blinked stupidly at her and shuffled his feet uncomfortably. "Nothing," He muttered, turning to leave. "Nothing my ass," Kita snorted, getting up to block his way, "You either tell me, or I'm going to punch you for kicking my dog." It took a while, but she managed to get the whole story out of him.
And while she was at it, she finally learned his name. Ichiro. Hmm, she was very close all the other times...
"Parents argue all the time," Kita said dismissivily, "You shouldn't take any of it seriously."
Inner Kita: This coming from someone who only has a father...
"And besides-"
"But they were arguing really badly, and-"
"DON'T INTERUPPT ME WHEN I'M FUCKING TALKING!!"
"... meep..."
I'm gonna end it here, I don't want this chapter to be too long. And besides, if I want to push on with the plot, I have to get to the next chapter. Which won't be a repeat of the same day like the others have been. And Team Lee will be going to Suna! And there you'll meet the Sand Cousins (oh I'm sooo original XD)
I think I could have been more passionate on Kita's part, I wanted a girl (for once) to want to become Hokage, I considered Yumi, but then realized that Kita would have no important part of my story otherwise. And Rin is my least favorite OC I've made so far (like I said before, I should be shot) because she's so uptight, people like that make me nervous. I like to use the inner voices of the Kunoichi to outline the girl's personality, Rin is constantly battling hers, and Kita is more agreeable about it.