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OC's =] (I know I haven't been doing disclaimers)
So, I had gone to sleep thinking about the next day and what was to come. Well, here I am, it's a new day and I'm going to find out what's gonna happen. I slowly rose from my bed and put on some cargo jeans, a green shirt, and my blue sandals.
Walking out of my room I just grabbed an apple from the counter and ate it as I walked towards the park. I wasn't sure if Daichi had already left but, he wasn't one to forget things easily. With that in mind I forgot about it and continued my trek. From the position of the sun, I figured that I was a good half hour early. Sitting on a bench I ate my apple, throwing the core off behind me as I finished.
"Ow." I heard somebody yelp, just as I threw it away. Turning, I smiled, Shikamaru had obviously been wandering around. I waved to him as he walked towards me, I was giggling from the thought of hitting his head.
"Whacha doing here Shika? Are you just aimlessly wandering, as usual?" He nodded and came to sit beside me.
"I'm guessing you're here to meet you're team?" He questioned, yawning. Smiling I nodded. "Who's on it?"
"Me, Daichi, a girl named Aya and the sensei is a lady that's filling in for her husband." I heard something make a crackling sound and turned towards it to find Aya walking towards us.
"Hello, who's he?" She nodded towards Shikamaru as she spoke.
"He's the Shikamaru dude I was talking about yesterday." Shika gave me a questioning look and I blushed a light red tint. "I told them I wanted to become smarter than you, even though it's very unlikely." Shikamaru rolled his eyes and turned to Aya.
"It's nice to meet you, Aya? I presume." Aya blinked and nodded.
"Yeah, so, where's your brother and that Mana lady?" I shrugged, I was surprised Daichi wasn't here already, he was always on time or early. The latter being the outcome more often. I sighed and turned in the opposite direction. Shikamaru poked me and stuck his thumb out in the direction behind us.
"Hey guys. Am I late? I hope not." Mana walked towards us from the direction Shikamaru had pointed. As she walked towards us he stood and waved. I waved too as he walked away with his hands in his pockets.
"No, you aren't late, Daichi is... and that's odd." Mana let out a relieved breath.
"That's good and, I think I sense your brothers chakra coming this way so, he's fine."
"Oh, alright well, umm, what are we doing today?" I asked as Daichi walked up to the little group. He just continued standing, Aya looked at him and shrugged, deciding to come and sit next to me.
"Well, this is the last test and will determine if you go on or go back to the academy." We all nodded, looking at her as we waited for her to continue. "Now, what you all have to do is, you must find the specified items and bring them back to me but, in order to do that, you have to also get past a certain person or people. I will not specify who the person or people may be though. Here is the list of items." We all took a sheet of paper that had about five things listed on it. We just looked at each other, they were everyday items, we didn't even need to search for them, couldn't we just go get them from our houses?
"You may notice how common these items are." I gave her a confused nod, Daichi still had a blank face and Aya snorted.
"This is too easy, how does this determine whether or not we fail?" Mana smiled.
"Well, these items aren't as easily to find as you may think. Ninjas look at every side of something, in a case like this, a ninja would be suspicious. I'll leave you with this note, sometimes, the answer isn't visible." She jumped in one of the trees and made her way away from us.
"Ok, I'm lost." Aya stated simply, looking at the two of us.
"Well, she said the answer isn't always visible so, maybe what we're looking for is invisible." Daichi logically stated. I thought and nodded slowly.
"Maybe it's written in invisible ink! I think you have to heat the paper to make it show so, maybe we should heat it?" Aya shrugged and started walking away. I looked at Daichi and we followed after her.
"Why're you following me?"
"Because teamwork is key. That's why we're put in teams. Plus, we've helped you this far, so you can't just use us and leave. I mean, who knows, something could happen where we need you and something might happen where you need us." Aya rolled her eyes but nodded in agreement.
"You're probably right." She stopped in front of an apartment and she climbed up to a window on the second story, thrusting it open, she climbed in. Smiling, I followed her lead, as did Daichi.
We ended up inside of a bedroom, seeing as the door was open we guessed that's where Aya had gone so we both entered through that door as well. As we walked out I turned to see Aya placing the paper in the microwave, setting it on high and timing it for five minutes.
"I don't know how long it will take so, I'll just put it in that long and take it out if it works and add some more time if it doesn't." Daichi looked around the apartment curiously. I smiled at him then nodded to Aya.
"Good idea." Walking to the microwave I looked in it and smiled.
"Sure enough, it's showing some letters now." Aya nodded, she sat on the counter and watched Daichi as he walked over to some pictures on a table.
"That was my mom, my dad was on a mission when we took the picture so, he's not in it but, he has some pictures of himself and mom in his room." Daichi nodded and walked over to us. The microwave beeped and our trio looked at the microwave. Aya jumped up and grabbed the paper out. She looked at us.
"We need a lighter pen.. which I'm guessing is a pen that also has a lighter, a bladed hairbrush, I guess a brush that either has a blade, or shoots one out, a containment scroll, I believe that's one of those scrolls that you can lock things in with like a seal. Um, either this didn't heat up or, she has a sweet tooth because, cake is still on here, without any additions." I laughed at that, it was probably the latter because, everything else was changed.
"The last thing is a chakra blade. What's that?" I shrugged and looked at Daichi. He blinked.
"A chakra blade is a blade that can be infused with a persons chakra so as to make them stronger... we should go now." He added this to the end making us nod and begin walking towards the window which we promptly exited and made our way to find these items.
"We could go ask somebody where we can find those things." I wasn't sure if that would work but, we could try. I thought about it, trying to think of somebody who would know.
"Let's go ask Shika's team leader, Asuma. He might know plus, he's one of the few Jounins I know." Aya blinked, thinking, then nodded.
"Ok, we could try that." I started walking then stopped.
"On second thought, I have no clue where he is so, let's just go ask Shika if he knows." Aya rolled her eyes and followed my lead. Daichi smiled and did so as well. I walked up to Shika's door and knocked. His father came to the door.
"Hello Kibo-san, what can I do for you today?"
"Hello Shikaku-sama, I was wondering if Shika was here, I need to ask him something." Shikaku smiled and held up a finger, walking away to find him. They both walked back, his father just continued walking to another room.
"Shika, you know where we can find any of these things?" I handed the piece of paper to him and stood waiting for him to answer. He cocked an eyebrow but shrugged.
"You could ask Choji for the cake, Asuma has chakra blades, you have to ask the Hokage for containment scrolls, my dad has a lighter pen and, what's with that bladed hairbrush thing? I don't know what that is, you could ask the Hokage about that too." I sighed and nodded. This was going to be troublesome, I smirked as I used his line. Pulling out my pen I wrote down where to get it next to it all. Shika laughed and looked at my pen.
"You already have a lighter pen, where did you get that?" I burrowed my eyebrows and looked at the pen in my hand. It had been my fathers. I always had it with me.
"It was my dads and it doesn't light, whacha mean?" He stuck his hand out and I handed him the pen. He spun the clip around twice and pulled the pen apart, he clicked it and all of a sudden it was on fire. I stared at in amazement then he stuck the other half back on and it was extinguished. Handing it back to me he smirked at the excited look on my face. I put a line through lighter pen and stuck the paper and pen in my pocket. "Where can I find Asuma-sensei?" Shikamaru shrugged.
"I dunno. Probably just wandering around or something." I sighed and nodded.
"Bye." He nodded and turned around, closing the door as I jumped off his porch and walked over to Daichi and Aya. I handed them the list and showed them my pen and what it did. Aya smirked and Daichi just nodded. I stood a second trying to think of who to try first, well we could kill two birds with one stone if we went to see the Hokage. Maybe even three if he knew where to find some chakra blades or where Asuma-sensei was.
"Let's go see the Hokage."
They both nodded and we walked in the direction towards the monument and the tall building where the Hokage was. As we appeared in front of it I took a deep breath and walked in, then went in the direction of his office. I had only been there once and it had been a few years prior so, I had to take in my surroundings and attempt to remember back then. Thankfully, we made it there without any assistance. I knocked on the door to his office and heard a sound, taking that as a sign to come in I opened the doors and stepped inside the large office. Aya and Daichi followed behind me and the three of us bowed as he looked at us in surprise, obviously not expecting three kids to be the one to have come in. He just shrugged and smiled at us.
"Now, what brings the three of you to me?" His tone was kind and encouraging. I smiled and walked closer to him.
"I would like to request a containment scroll, I was also wondering where we could find a bladed hairbrush and, do you know where we can either find Asuma-sensei or some chakra blades?" Hokage-sama chuckled and smiled at me.
"Why do you need any of those things?" I sighed. How was I supposed to explain that?
"Well, technically, I don't, my team leader, Mana does." He smiled and nodded.
"So, you're on your last test then, aren't you?" I nodded and he opened a drawer in his desk. "This is a containment scroll, but, you don't get it unless you can show me how you use it." My eyes grew but then went back to normal. I turned around and looked at Aya who nodded and walked over to him and took it. I smirked.
"You could let us put a bladed hairbrush in there to show you." The Hokage chuckled and stood, walking over to a self that contained miscellanious items he picked up a hairbrush and handed it to me.
"Now, show me how to make that work." I looked at it a second and thought about it. I pushed the little label on the tip in and pushed the bristles on the brush down. I dropped it as a blade came out. Picking it up I pressed the label again and it went back in. Tossing it to Aya she opened the scrolland sat the hairbrush on top, making several seals the hairbrush disappeared and Aya closed the scroll as she picked it up. The Hokage nodded and turned looking us over.
"I am not sure where Asuma could be but, you can try at his apartment." He explained how to get there and then waved to us as we departed from his office and in the direction of where he told them Asuma's apartment was. Aya walked ahead of them and knocked on the door. They heard footsteps as the twins caught up and stood in front of the door. It opened and a head popped through. A confused expression flashed across Asuma's face then he stepped out and stood in front of them.
"Is there something I can do for you?" I opened my mouth to speak but Aya beat me to it.
"Do you have chakra blades? If so, we need to borrow them." She was blunt enough and this got her a little smile in return.
"I do have chakra blades but, why would you need them?" Aya rolled her eyes.
"Everybody has to ask why, they can't just give them to us. We need them for our... mission." She looked at me and I looked at Asuma, nodding in agreeance.
"Well, as long as I get them back. I guess you can borrow them." He walked away and came back with them in his hand. "First, you have to tell me how to use them."
"You have to focus your chakra into them." Daichi stated, sticking his hand out, motioning for Asuma to hand it to him. Asuma did so and as he did Daichi held it in his hand and focused his chakra in it. The blade was infused with his lightning chakra and was giving of small sparks. Asuma nodded appreciatively .
"Well, you can use them, obviously. So, just bring them back to me sometime soon." Daichi nodded. I turned to Asuma and bowed.
"Thank you." Turning to the other two I looked at the list and smiled. "Now we can go see Choji. Let's go." Asuma cocked his eyebrow then shrugged and closed the door. I headed outside and looked around. Turning I made my way in the direction of Choji's house.
"Why do we have to go to his house? Why can't we just stop at a bakery and buy cake, who's to say this Choji dude has cake?" I laughed.
"You wanna pay for a cake then you do so but, otherwise I'm pretty sure that Choji will have some, plus, it'll be free." Aya rolled her eyes then just nodded. I pointed to his house as we got there. I just walked up to his house and knocked on the door. Standing there I thought I heard something behind me, turning around, I saw nothing. Then I looked back at the door to see Choji standing there with some chips. I smiled.
"Hey Choji, how's it going?"
"Fine I guess, what's up?"
"Well, I'm on my last test thingy with my team. That's Aya," I pointed at her "and Daichi you obviously already know." He nodded and waved to them both. Aya smiled and Daichi just nodded.
"If you're on your last test, why're you here?"
"Well, I was wondering, do you have any cake?" He furrowed his brows and nodded.
"Yeah, but, why do you need cake?" I handed him the list and stood there twiddling with my fingers. He smiled. "Wow, that's weird." I shrugged.
"A lil bit, the cakes the last thing we need, I just haven't checked anything off except the pen." He nodded and stuck up a finger, putting some chips in his mouth as he walked away. I nodded and turned towards the other two.
"See, I told you he'd have some." Aya shrugged. Then I turned around as Choji came back.
"Here ya go. So, what do y'all have to do now?" I took the cake from him.
"We have to get this to our team leader but in order to do that we must get past somebody, not sure who though. Anyways, thanks Choji." I smiled and waved as he nodded and waved as I walked down the steps.
"How do we find her?" Aya shrugged and I looked at Daichi. "You think you van pick out her chakra?" He thought then, after a few seconds nodded.
"It might take me a while though so, let's walk around." I nodded and looked at Aya who shrugged. We began wandering around Konoha, I looked at the sun, it was close to the center of the sky but not quite there so, it must be around 11. That meant it had taken us about 2 hours to acquire all of the items. Well, she didn't give us a time we had to be done so, we were fine. After about ten minutes, Daichi sighed.
"I think she might be hiding her chakra so we have to find her the hard way." I groaned, Aya cursed.
"So, do we split up?" Aya questioned looking between the two of us. I shrugged, note really caring. Daichi decidedto answer.
"I think we should stay together." Aya and I nodded to each other then to him. We continued on looking here and there as we made our way through the streets, about seven minutes into it Daichi spoke up.
"I caught a bit of her chakra, only a little but, enough to tell she's that way."
He pointed to the northwest of where we were currently standing. We all made our way in that direction, we found ourselves headed towards the woods. As we stepped in I looked around. Tugging on my shirt I turned to the other two. Aya blinked and kept walking Daichi smiled to me then followed Aya as well. I stood a moment longer than turned to cath up to the other two. I had gotten a strange feeling from being inside this forest and didn't know why and I didn't like it either. Shrugging to myself I shook my head, trying to forget it. As we kept up our search about six minutes past my little pause we came across something surprising. Standing directly in front of us were three people, but, these people were not just random people. In fact, they were us. Aya gasped and looked at me and Daichi.
"How do we fight ourselves? This won't turn out well, we can't trick ourselves or anything." I bit my lip and looked at Daichi who had his face scruched up and you could tell he was chewing on the inside of his cheek. I smirked, this is what he did when he was really thinking. He smiled suddenly and nodded.
"No, but maybe we can outsmart each other. The clones didn't seem to speak or really think either, they just sorta stared at us and mimicked what we did. I shrugged, willing to try anything. Aya cocked an eyebrow.
"But, how do we know which one is the real one?" I nodded. Then pulled the pen out of my pocket.
"I'll mark everyones hand, Mana obviously made these and she doesn't know everything about us so, these cheap imitatios won't be terribly hard to beat plus, she doesn't know who has the pen and such so, they obviously can't mark each other. Gimme your hands." I marked mine and the other two as they offered them to me. Finally done, I asked one more question. "Who's fighting who?"
"I guess we fight whoever we end up in front of when we move maybe we can all attack one of them at once. They'll do the same so..." He turned to me and I nodded.
We had a kekkei genkai that most people didn't know of. In most cases, you can turn into several of the five elements. Usually you only had one or two but, we both had three which, wasn't completely rare. Our mother only controlled earth, which is what you do. You can both turn your anatomy into that or, you could control them also ending up in them being your chakra element. Of course, usually only one of them was really powerful. My most powerful is water and Daichi's is lightning. The three had were lightning, water, and fire.
We also had another thing which wasn't that much, it happened every few generations in our fathers lineage. If you had twins they would be able to do any of the jutsus the other learned. Also, a negative being, if your twin died, you felt like a piece of your being was gone. But, also, being twins, something odd had happened. The ability to manipulate the elements and the ability to change your anatomy into them, was spilt between us. I could change my anatomy leaving Daichi with the ability of controlling them. Though, as long as we stood within a two yard area of each other, we could use both. So, now we're done with those explainations, on with the story.
Aya looked at me curiously. Wondering what she was missing, I smiled.
"Just go along with it." She shrugged and nodded. They both threw several shuriken each in my direction while thier copies did so as well to my copy. The difference being, my clone actually got stabbed while they just went straight through me like I was a liquid, which, I was. Aya blinked as they went through me and she saw a few droplets of water fly off me. I laughed at her expression then, I noticed Daichi slash through my throat. My clone was attacked by his and therefore had it's downfall.
Aya gasped and I smirked at Daichi who smiled back. I decided that it was time to finish this. Changing into fire I jumped onto Aya's clone, burning her up. This didn't totally kill her off so I stabbed her with my kunai and it disappeared. Finally, Aya got over her little confusion and with my help we finished off Daichi's copy. Smiling happily we looked at Daichi who was concentrating, he began walking and we just followed. Finally we ended up near a little building. Walking over to it and opening the door we found Mana sitting there, dozing off. She smiled as we walked in, opening her eyes and standing.
"Well, it seems you got past yourselves." Mana smirked as she looked at us. I nodded and looked at Aya and Daichi who smiled and nodded. I saw no reason in pointing put her flaw so I handed her the pen and the cake. Aya took out the scroll and unsealed the brush then, finally, Daichi handed her the chakra blades after Aya had given her the items she was holding. "Good job, I'm guessing you know how to use these items since you have them?" We nodded and she smiled. "You are now officially genin." I pumped my hand in the air and smiled.
"Yesh, can we go now?" Mana smiled and nodded but spike up as I turned around to leave.
"We meet same time same place tomorrow, alright?" We all just nodded and I zoomed away, not paying attention to what the other two were doing, I wanted to go see Sasuke and tell him about today.
A/N: Sooooo? Whacha think? Any good? I didn't get my wanted reviews, didn't get any actually but, oh well. I was bored, finished this chapter, got impatient, and decided to post it. I know this story isn't going to get many people because it's an if story so, I'll stop setting my reviewing hopes so high. =[ I'd live more reviews though =]. Well, thanks for reading it anyways. Constructive criticism, please, oh and... I know, those items were weird, lame, and cheesy don't flame me for them, please? Also, please don't flame my characters... it would be nice if you didn't. Byeee I really would like at least two reviews.... I mean you can just put, I liked it... Or something but, it's nice to know people read this. I will offer review cookies to people maybe I can snatch Mana's cake moohaha. (long enough?)