"Ok everything is placed right?...
NO! Don't set that there, move it over there!...
Ok buddy move it or lose it my father isn't paying you to sit on your fat butt!"
Nema was on a rampage with the final touches of the graduate banquet her father let her hold. She had taken control of the whole ordeal with her older brother gave up on her because of her bossiness. Her little sister was too worried about practicing for her next year in the academy that was starting next week. It had been a month since they had graduated and pasted there jounin sensei test. Lee sensei was a rough teacher but Nema loved a good challenge.
One of her teammates was the oldest Nara, Maru. He was two years older than the rest of his teammates. He had decided to live in Suna when he was ten being curious about his mother's past there. He stayed with his uncle Gaara and Kankuro learning the ways of Suna including governmental issues. The family as a whole decided to let him stay for a while also training him to be the ambassador between the sand and leaf. When he returned to Konoha, he was three years late for the academy. Due to his high intelligence he was about to skip a year and a half's worth of school even though he was still the older of his group being fourteen while everyone else was twelve and thirteen.
Maru was and average height of 5'9. His hair was blond and kept in a low spiked ponytail and his eyes were a simple black like his fathers. He also picked up easily on his family's shadow possession jutsu. His chakra potential was higher than his father's thanks to his mother's decent amount, also like his mother he picked up the wind jutsu's from her. Unlike his sibling he only used it to manipulate and object to extend the reach of his shadows.
He was the brains of this perfect cell called a team and there main long range fighter. He guided his teammates to a decent record of successful missions. Thankfully even with his mass genius he was a pure hard worker like his mother Temari. Yes it was easy to enjoy cloud watching or sleeping in a tree but he actually trained hard and fought harder to protect his teammates.
He was the only guy on the team and the only team this generation with two girls. It was rare that teams where placed this way, they only became an exception because everyone in the team balance each other out so well. The other teams made fun of it every once in a while but Maru never minded it much. Comically he was always stuck around women. Whether it is family, friends, or even opponents. At that they all had one thing in common.
They all had a bossy attitude.
"You know Nema, we are not really helping out with the decorations, we are just shouting orders, and well you are just shooting orders." He was leaning up against the band stand while the band was setting it up.
"Oh just shut it Maru!" like he said…bossy.
"You know you should start to get ready Nema. We are only two hours out until guess start arriving." It was Nema's other teammate, Karr. She was an orphan. When her parents where murder, Sasuke had her pardoned as a citizen of Konoha when she was six. She was tall and lanky with long white hair that hung to her hips. Her black glasses hung loosely on her nose hiding her red eyes.
Their team was often called the perfect scouting based team. Nema had the Byakugan and was on point with a bow from long distanced. Also when they had to encounter enemy's she was able to quickly change to a close range fighter and main healer. She had developed gloves with the help of her mother to inflict more damage to someone on a chakra based level. They were her weapon gloves and she only took them out for a kill strike because when she hit your chakra points with the 8 trigrams she was also stabbing them with the needle that was hiding inside the gloves resulting in three very painful side effects. The least of the three was temporary to permanent paralysis in the area where that chakra point was. The second sliced away at the muscle fibers in the area of the charka point and the third and most sever was the complete destruction of the chakra point it comes in contact with.
Nema was able to create it from her weapon training with her mother and her medical training with the great Sakura Uchiha. Sakura was a family friend and personally trained a few skilled genin in her likeness. She believed every ninja should know the basic healing routines and one in a group should master it. Nema believed the very same and took it to heart when it came to her studies scoring highest (besides Maru) in the academy and second among Sakura's chosen few.
Karr was the muscle/sensor of the group. She also had a great upper hand in water based jutsu including the fact she could liquefy on point, the downfall to that was trying to keep hydrated. You could only store so much water on a light long trip. With many water jutsu at hand she was the mid-close range fighter of the group.
Her sensor abilities were superb. Yes Nema my see that target but Karr could feel it including the depth of its chakra. Also being the power house of the squad she was the most underestimated. She never carried the sword her father gave her around in public; instead she kept it locked away in a summoning scroll that Nema's mother taught her to use. The underestimation came from her skinny figure she had, you would never expect her to wielding a sword that was closing in on her own height of 5'8 and effortlessly at that.
She wasn't the main healer of the group but she had a secret only her teammates and sensei new about. For a quick fix take a bite…literally. Her chakra would heal a diminished shinobi by at least half on just a few sucks. It wasn't like she had a huge about of chakra it was the regeneration that kept her going.
She was striating out a table cloth on the other side of the room when she suggested Nema to go and get ready. She knew Nema was a perfectionist which included a full on scale of random OCD. She tried to keep her close friend from panicking all the time but it never seemed to work.
"Crap your right, I still have my hair to do and get my clothes together and bathe and oh my crap I'm freaking out!" she ran out of the humongous room as Maru and Karr stared off in their friend's direction.
"She can be so weird sometimes. It only takes me 30min to get ready, I mean I really don't understand why it takes you troublesome women so long to get ready for these things." He got up to walk out and almost made it if it wasn't for that chair hitting him in the back of his head…he was out cold.
"Yes, yes I do think this is the perfect place for this chair." Karr walk over the motionless body and out the door.
*2 hours later*
They had gotten out of the hospital about 10 hours ago. She would have been upset if she missed Nema's party. Yes she was jealous of her perfect cousin but she was family none the less and she still loved her. Her father, mother and younger brothers had left earlier to go to the party and Hiro was arriving with his team just as she was.
She was on her way to pick up Itachi and Twig. They unlike her still had minor injuries and she wanted to make sure she could help them with everything while there were at the banquet. She was dressed in a long sky blue kimono with lilac flowers tracing the borders. Her hair was up in the traditional bun, hers being very big because of the length of her hair. Her bangs where flat on her forehead and her signature clip was placed neatly in the huge bun atop her head.
Twig had finished dressing, it was hard not being able to use his hands much and being able to tie his obi was a bit difficult. He slipped out of the empty two bedroom apartment he shared with his mother taking a last glance at a picture of his father on the side table.
Twig had what you would call a difficult life style. Yes he was the great Tenzo Yamato son but his father had been dead years before he was born thanks to Madara. Chi, his mother was the bar maid Tenzo had always gone to to drink and spill out his frustration about anbu. She would listen and tell him everything will be alright and to be thankful to live another day. He expressed his longing for never having a family of his own. He had told Chi before about being created in the forbidden labs with no real lineage.
When he didn't show up in about two weeks she found that Madara murder him and marched up to Tsunade demanding his DNA knowing all about the forbidden labs. Chi didn't do it out of love but more of sympathy for this poor man that had never had a family of his own. She was just a civilian who worked at a local bar that had no family of her own. She knew how it felt, the pain of never having anyone to turn too. She was going to give that man a legacy.
She was artificially inseminated a few years later and had Twig. The baby was strong and had the same features and hair as his father. The one thing he did carry that was hers was her dark blue eyes. They were wide and always curious. The baby grew into a silly kid always trying to make his mother laugh. Before he started the academy she told him the truth about how he came about. He didn't wavier when told he only wanted to know more of his father. She went to Tsunade asking for every document and journal log Tenzo Yamato had ever been writing in, giving it to her son so he could learn everything about his father. During the academy he was giving the ancient fox sealing scrolls, the same his father looked over and figuring that he would do the same as his father becoming his legacy and relighting his will of fire.
Chi never loved Yamato but her son was her world. She was giving Tenzo Yamato's small fortune and last name when she became pregnant to keep her name clean and also not having to work in the smokey environment made her happy while she was pregnant. It made her focus on staying healthy and strong for the baby she was carrying. She worked her butt off after the pregnancy though. Making sure Twig had everything he needed for every occasion. She bought a comfortable two bedroom apartment that was close to the tavern so she wouldn't be far from her boy.
Twig walked down the street and entered the all into familiar tavern. He looked around to fine a lean solid woman with blonde hair and dark blue eyes giving two bottles of sake to a table of six men. One decided to grab her and try to pull her on top of him. Twig was about to make a move but his mother had already elbowed the man in the face than made sure to step on his nuts as she got off of him. She looked at her son and winked. Walking over to him looking up at his face she whispered in his ear over all the noise…
"I know you got my back but momma can handle this, you look very nice tonight, the green looks really good."
They walked outside the bar giving her manager a hand sign saying she was taking a break.
"I can go back in there and get him if you want mom." He was trying to fix his mother's hair that had fallen out of place of its simple ponytail.
"Don't worry baby, he'll think twice before pulling that again. Thanks for the lessons by the way. You taught me the elbow move. Is there something you needed before you go off…let me retie that obi for you it looks retarded." She was retying it was he spoke up to her.
"I have something for you; it's from my last three missions. It's so you don't have to work so hard anymore. With two incomes you could be home more and we could go more places together." She was finish tying and walked back in front of him looking at the small pouch of ryo in her only child's hand. He was giving her his money. She started to shake her head refusing the money before she was interrupted by a massive huge.
"It's not for you it's for me. I'm being selfish. I barely see you. I want you around more. You have worked hard for me for a long time and it's time for you to rest. Don't pick up a lot of shifts anymore please, there's no need to. This right here is two months' worth of rent and some. Be a mom for once and make a dinner for me." He slipped the money into her apron and ran off to a waiting Hina down the street.
"My baby isn't a baby anymore, he's paying my bills, and so he's a man..." she giggle to herself and walked back into the tavern. She yelled to her boss… "I'm taking tomorrow off!"