Chapter 1~~ The Forgotten Daughter
(A/N: So gosh darn sorry for the long update! My heart wasn't into writing due to stress from school and junk. I was also very stuck with this story and no one would help me :P. Anywho, I shall update this story once a week from now on. IF I know what I wanna do with it. I really like writing this story, It's my first serious-ish and non-comedic/crack one. I'm sorry to you guys that had to wait and thank you for reading this, I had to make sure this was good cuz I don't want to disappoint anyone!)
Kurenai was excited. She had just become a jonin and was about to meet her squad for the first time. While she was waiting for them to get out of school, she chatted with the other two jonin, Kakashi and Asuma.
"So Kurenai, what brings you to the Hidden Leaf?" Kakashi asked, while reading Icha Icha Paradise.
"Well, my family moved here a few years ago, but I was in Suna doing some training these past few years." Kurenai said, brushing her unruly hair out of her face. "How can you read that book?" She asked Kakashi.
"It's entertaining." Kakashi shrugged.
"You can never stop him from reading that book," Asuma chuckled. "He's read it at least 30 times now.
Iruka came into the room then.
"It's time to meet your teams." He told the jonin.
Kurenai took her team to the training field to get to know each other better.
"Okay guys, let's tell a little bit about ourselves to get to know one another." Kurenai said. " Who wants to start?" She looked at the three teenagers.
Shino and Kiba stared back at her, while Hinata stared at her hands.
"Come on guys, I won't bite." Kurenai coaxed.
"Akamaru might." Kiba said grinning. " So I'll go first."
Kurenai's first impression of Kiba Inuzuka was that he looked like a wild animal.
As he talked excitedly about various things about himself, Kurenai looked at the nervous girl that was HInata.
Wanting to help Hinata gain some confidence, Kurenai decided to get her to go next.
Fortunately for Hinata, Kiba talked for 10 minutes straight.
When Kiba was finished talking finally finished with his mini-speed, Kurenai said, "Why don't you go next Hinata?"
The lavender-eyed girl looked around nervously.
"Oh, ah. Um, c-could I go last?"
Before Kurenai could reply, Shino spoke up. "I'll go." He volunteered.
Hinata sighed in relief
Kurenai decided to walk Hinata home since she'd been unsuccessful in making her talk. For some strange reason, she felt very motherly towards the girl.
"So Hinata, do you have any siblings?"
Hinata looked down at her feet and talked quietly. "Y-yes. A younger sister, Hanabi. My father likes her better." She said the last statement with a half-hearted shrug.
Kurenai frowned at this. "Why does he like her better? Parents should love their children equally."
"He's given up on training me, he's practically disowned me."
Kurenai pondered this for a moment and decided to lighten the mood by asking Hinata other questions, like her favorite color and favorite food.
"I'll see you later, Kurenai-sensei." Hinata said when they reached the Hyuga compound.
Kurenai walked home, feeling sorry for her student. She wanted to help her out as much as possible, seeing as her father had all but abandoned her.
Feeling melancholy about Hinata's situation, the red-eyed jonin decided to go to Ichiraku ramen for something to eat. Besides, she hadn't been there in years.
Asuma was there with his team. Kurenai thought they were a funny group of kids.
The kid with the swirlies on his face was gobbling down a bowl of ramen while a girl with long blonde hair was screaming at him to stop eating her ramen. The kid with the pineapple-shaped ponytail just looked tired and irritated.
Asuma sat back smoking a cigarette, looking amused at the scene going on before him.
"Those three must be a handful." Kurenai said, coming up behind him.
"They definitely are so far. But I'll get used to it, I'm sure. My nephew, Konohamaru acts like them sometimes."
Kurenai laughed. She liked Asuma, he was a cool guy.
"Mind if I join you guys? I don't feel like going home just yet."
"Sure, go ahead." Asuma said, gesturing to a the seat next to him.
The blonde-haired girl stopped yelling for a while and acknowledged Kurenai.
"Hi, I'm Ino! Who are you? Are you Asuma-sensei's girlfriend? Sensei, why didn't you tell me you had a girlfriend?" The girl talked a mile a minute.
"Ino, don't ask personal questions. This is why people don't tell you stuff. Troublesome woman…" The spiky-haired kid sighed.
"No one asked you, Shikamaru!" Ino yelled at him. Turning back to Kurenai and Asuma, Ino asked, "Well are you?"
"She's not. Now eat Ino." Asuma said, lighting another cigarette.
"But Choji ate it!" Ino whined, before turning back to her empty ramen bowl.
"Sorry about her." Asuma told Kurenai.
"It's fine. She's funny."
The two jonin were quiet for a moment.
"You know, you shouldn't smoke so much. It's bad for your health." Kurenai said, breaking the silence.
"You can't tell me what to do." Asuma grinned, playfully blowing smoke into Kurenai's face.
"That's disgusting." Kurenai said, waving the smoke out of her face. "Well, I'd better get home now. I'm training my team in the morning."
"Alright, see you later."Asuma said, a little sad that she had to leave.
"Bye. Kurenai-sensei!" Ino waved. "I'm sure we'll be seeing you a lot." Ino winked.
Kurenai laughed then started on her way home.
At home, Kurenai couldn't sleep. The house was too quiet, seeing as it was well-past midnight.
On nights like these, she would sit on the roof of the house and look at pictures of her family.
Both of her parents were dead and her younger brother had moved back to Suna, so she didn't see him too much.
Getting out of bed, Kurenai walked over to her bookshelf and took out the book that the pictures were in. She went to the attic and up to the roof.
The night was warm and virtually cloudless, it reminded Kurenai of her early childhood in Suna.
After settling down on the roof, Kurenai started flipping through the photos.
The first was a picture of her as a baby, with her father. He was very young in the picture, smiling down at a laughing baby Kurenai.
The next picture was her parents wedding. Kurenai was five years old and had a few teeth missing when she smiled.
One of the last pictures was Kurenai's favorite. It was a picture of Torao the night he went to help fight the Nine-Tails. He looked proud in his ninja gear, going to fight for his village. Kurenai had wanted to help him and her mother, but they wouldn't let her. It had been the last time she ever saw her parents.
She smiled at the sight of him. He was the closest-looking relative she had, and even he didn't look much like her.
When Kurenai closed the photo album, a wrinkled picture fell out. In the picture was a woman staring lovingly down at a baby, while the baby slept silently.
Kurenai figured that the baby couldn't be her brother, Shinji, because the woman had black hair and their mother's hair was dark brown. Who was the baby then? Her? And why was Kurenai just now seeing this picture?
Kurenai silently put the picture but into the album then went back into the house and put the album away. She was afraid she would never get her answers. Unless she asked her aunt, but there was no guarantee should would know, since she was only a few years older than Kurenai.
She had always known there was something weird about her family. She always wondered why her parents had gotten married when she was five years old. She figured they ought to have been married already. Also, whenever she asked where she was born, her father always changed the subject. And why didn't she look like her brother, who had completely different features from her, and brown hair like their mother.
The last strange thing happened when Kurenai was 14. She discovered she could use activate the Sharingan, a kekkei genkai exclusive to the Uchiha clan. As far as Kurenai knew, no one else in her family had this ability, nor was she related to an Uchiha. But then again, Kakashi could use the Sharingan and he wasn't an Uchiha.
Tired from all the thinking she had done, Kurenai drifted off to sleep. She could figure it out later.
(Ok, so that's all for now. I need some more ideas, so PM me if you have any. Also, how was it? It seemed like it would be a little confusing to me but idk. Just tell me what you thought!)