Hoshi found herself at one of the training grounds that was rarely used. It was one of those training grounds assigned to a Jonin- teacher, that's students didn't pass. She saw Yondime-san standing by the K. I. A. stone with another boy, whom she assumed was also a ghost. As they got close enough to see the boy properly, Hoshi almost screamed. He looked like Sasuke without the duck-ass hair.
"OH MAI GAWDS! HELL NAW!" She yelled running behind Obito! "No, no, no, nO, No, NO, no NOOOO! I am not gonna hang out with a Sasuke clone! Nope! Forget it! No way! The ONE Uchiha already gives me ENOUGH crap! I don't need TWO ruining my life." She proclaimed and started walking back toward her house.
Obito of course had to ruin it for her. He grabbed her arm and started pulling her back. "Nuuuuuu! You cant make me!" she yelled swinging her arms around, while whining and trying to escape his grip.
Somehow through out a series of events she ended up tied to a tree...
The fourth looked down at her hands on hips. "Hoshi, this is Shisui, he politely came by to offer you assistance."
Hoshi decided to be stubborn and pretend to be guiltless as she refused to look at him. The girl was WAY too prideful for her own good.
"Hey! I'm an Uchiha you know!" Obito said seemingly irked that she was insulting his family.
Hoshi rose an eyebrow. "No way." She said not believing it. "But, but, but your not a total jackass to normal people." she said with an unbelieving face.
"I'll prove it." he said plainly and closed his eyes. When he opened them one of his eyes changed to a crimson color with comma looking things in it, his other eye stayed the deep onyx color though. Wasn't sharingan supposed to be in both eyes? Hoshi dismissed the thought as she sighed and submitted.
"Great they're everywhere." she muttered to herself like they were a disease and let her head fall forward. "Damn Uchihas."
What happened next definitely surprised the girl though. Shisui knelt down before her and picked up her chin in his hand. "I know your lying." he said staring right into her eyes.
She glared "I am not, you know how annoying it is to put up with the Uchiha kid? My ears bleed each time the fan-girls scream." she grunted.
"Hai, I can imagine as much, but if I recall, you used to follow Itachi around like a lost puppy." He stated.
Hoshi glared at him keeping her mind blank to prevent the flashback that all you readers are expecting. (HAHA! Access DENIED! w) Obito and the fourth Hokage looked at her confused, she knew Itachi?
Hoshi rolled her eyes. "That was a long time ago." She said glaring at him. "So you can drop it and untie me, or you can keep talking and I can blatantly ignore you for eternity." She stated CLEARLY pissed off. They were digging old skeletons out of the closet.
Yondime-san put a hand over Shisui's mouth as he was about to retort. "What Shisui means is we need your help." He said to her sincerely, even pleadingly.
Hoshi's whole demeanor changed from irked to blank to wondering to confused. "uh... how can I possibly help you?" She asked. "I'm just a ten year old. I'm not even a ninja yet." She said with an eyebrow raised at the man in a condescending and doubtful manner.
"Are you kidding me?" Obito asked "You can talk to the DEAD! Your the only one who can help us!" He exclaimed shaking her shoulders through the ropes causing her to get dizzy and possible whiplash.
"Ahhhh! Okay okay okay! I'll help! I just don't know how!" She said trying to get him to stop.
Yondime stood in a thinking pose. "She's right, before she can help us we have to help her."
Shisui stood listening and Obito looked up confused. "How we going to do that?" The orange and black wonder asked.
"Yeah, how we gonna do that?" Hoshi repeated in a bit more worried voice.
"Well first things first, we need to make her into a strong and trust worthy ninja of the village before anyone would bother listening to her." Yondime explained knowing most people would just pass them off as imaginary friends for the moment.
Both teenage boys looked down at her with a glint in their eyes.
"G-guys?" Hoshi asked officially scared. She let out a high pitched "EEP!" as they grabbed her.
...Hours had passed and Hoshi was laying on the grass of the training grounds beaten broken and sore. Her clothes had cuts and rips all over them and her long purple hair was flailed everywhere. Her eyes were spiny and she was WORN OUT.
"Eh not bad for some light training huh?" Obito asked with a big grin as for some odd reason he was rubbing under his nose. What was up with that?
"L-LIGHT TRAINING? You have GOT to be kidding me!" She exclaimed. "You KNOW how many times I fell from that tree?" She asked REALLY irked.
"Two hundred and thirty six." Shisui stated leaning against a tree with his arms crossed.
"Thank you SMARTASS! That was a RHETORICAL question!" Hoshi exclaimed ready to beat him up if only she had the energy. Why did she agree to help them again? "I didn't even make it to the top yet!" She anime cried.
Yondime bent down next to her and started rubbing her shoulder. "Yes, but you were improving." He said with a soft smile. "You'll get there, we just have to keep at it, but for now rest and get your energy back."
Hoshi felt warm and happy. For once, she actually believed in herself. Was this what people caring felt like? I mean, of course she had her family and all, but it seemed a bit hollow sometimes. Her dad always paid more attention to Sakura. She loved him and all, but she knew very well she would never get the same kinda love that she did. Her mom she knew cared, but they could never really relate to. No matter how supportive she was, they were nothing alike. Her mother was soft spirited and gentle almost like a porcelain doll. Hoshi knew very well they weren't her real parents, she looked nothing like her family. Her father had short orange, thin spiky hair and was fair skinned with bright blue eyes. Hoshi knows Sakura got her pink hair from her dads side because they all seem to have different colors of red and orange for their hair. Her mom had long snow white hair with emerald green eyes and snow white skin. There was no question this was where Sakura got her eyes.
Hoshi shared no such traits with her family. Her hair was long and thick with body that no one in her family had. Her locks were a deep, almost plum purple, but almost a neon bright version of that color. Her eyes were a deep green, that could be argued that she got it from her mom, but she knew it wasn't true. Hoshi's eyes were deep forest green with streaks of bright orange that led out from the pupil. She knew no one in her family had eyes like her's. Her skin was dark a kind of oaky color, but not quite chocolate dark. She was easy to spot out of a crowd considering she was the only one with skin like that.
Obito walked on to the scene with a shopping bag in his hand. "Hey sensei I did what you asked, she had pocky boxes all over her room so I pinched some from the store-" He started pulling out a box from the bag to show, but the moment that box appeared, Hoshi some how emerged right next to him with starry eyes staring at it.
She had a big puppy face on as she started at it almost drooling. "Mine?" She asked in a cute voice. Shisui obviously amused walked over and took the box from Obito and started moving it back and forth, watching her eyes follow it almost hypnotized.
Obito's jaw dropped "Let me try!" He said taking it back and running around with it to have Hoshi run after in want. "WAAAANNNNTT" She yelled running after him, too bad she wasn't quite ninja fast yet.
Yondime smiled at the two running. The girl got her energy back, they could continue. "Obito, stop torturing the girl and let her have it." He stated, causing Obito to stop in his tracks with a disappointed pout as he gave it to her.
"But I was having fun~" Obito whined as he lost his "toy".
Shisui shook his head. "That's a terrible way to treat a women." he said simply leaning back against a tree.
"Hey! You started it!" Obito declared glaring at Shisui.
Hoshi paid NO attention to them at all as she indulged herself in the chocolaty goodness.
Yondime shook his head at the two boys. "That's enough you two. Shisui put the bag that Obito got at the highest branch of the tree okay?"
Shisui nodded and took the shopping bag that's content was unnamed for obvious reasons. They didn't want Hoshi to wake up from her little world til they got her stimulator at the top of that tree. Shisui ran up the tree effortlessly and hung it about a hundred and twenty feet in the air.
Hoshi hadn't noticed a thing as she om nomed on her delights. It wasn't long though before the package was gone though. Obito had at some point sat next to her when she was eating, when exactly she couldn't tell you though. Though she thought Shisui had been in the same spot since she started eating.
Obito gave a toothy grin when he noticed she was done and poked her tummy. Her jaw dropped at him and she gave out a loud "NUUUUUUU!" and curled up in a ball rolling around and clawing at the air with loud cat-like hisses, though she bit her nails so short that her strikes would have no effect on anyone.
Obito's eyes widened and he backed up a few feet as she spazzed about. "I didn't do it." He said simply and walked away whistling with hands in pocket. Shisui on the other hand went closer to her after he grabbed a random stick and started to poke her with it as she lashed out.
Yondime face palmed, it was going to be a WHILE before she could really help them. The fourth hokage just hoped they had the time for it all. But he knew very well pressuring the girl at such a young age would do nothing good. Yondime looked up at the scene before him to see Hoshi on Shisui's back, noming on his arm with an iron grip as Shisui tried to push her off and Obito standing a few feet away pointing and laughing. Yondime just face palmed once again. This really WAS going to be difficult. "Hoshi, pocky." Yondime said simply and in not even a millisecond Hoshi was standing in front of him with big, innocent, puppy eyes with her arms crossed politely in front of her and a cute pouty smile. All traces of her former lashing absent. Hell Yondime would have thought the previous event was a genjutsu or something if not for the disheveled and torn up Shisui laying awkwardly on the grass a few yards away. What was with this girl?
"nom noms?" She asked in a cute almost innocent voice.
Yondime smiled back at her and pointed up. "If you want it, you have to use your chakra and climb up the tree." He said in a sugary sweet tone.
Hoshi glared at him with a 'I hate you' glare. "Your a sick, sick person, you know that?" She asked. He was using her obsession against her. That was a terrible thing to do to a person! Why couldn't have he put Sakura up there instead? Hoshi could be home sleeping by now. If it was Sakura up there she would have laughed in his face and walked away. ...Okay so she was a terrible person too, but STILL! Hoshi groaned and got back to work, she HAD to get up that tree and rescue the pocky!
Hours had passed, the three ghosts had watched as Hoshi slowly got further and further up. Her best attempt so far had been about ninety feet up, but she still wasn't really keeping control as much as running up as fast as she could as her chakra remained unsteady. If chakra was like a balance beam what they hoped was that it would remain still so the objects on it stayed on it, what they got from her was more of that it moved so quickly back and forth that the objects stayed on but barely, at least until she fell. She really wasn't learning control as well as they had hoped.
Shisui was laying on the grass with his arms behind him keeping his torso up at about a seventy degree angle. He looked over at Yondime-sama who was seemingly not paying attention at all to the girl as he was sitting in a smaller tree laying against the trunk. Obito was watching her too, he was standing at the base cheering her on and whenever she fell or was out of energy he helped her back up and gave her words of encouragement. In return she would always smile at him and hug him briskly before trying again. It irked him a little how well they seemed to get along. He wasn't really sure why though, it just did. She was a very strange person he mused. For one, she was insane. Of course he knew all women were insane, but she was in a different sort of way. Maybe she's bipolar?
He looked up as she advanced. Up the tree once again. She'd been at it for hours now. He had a feeling this stopped being about the pocky though, she had that look. He had seen it many times on the faces of ninjas who really accomplished something. Determination. It's what separated a coward from a hero. He smiled slightly at the thought. Her candy may have been the spark, but it was definitely her determination that keep her going. If it was really only about the candy, she could easily just go to the store and buy some.
Shisui frowned as she fell once again, she wasn't getting past that ninety mark, it was like she completely lost control at the same place. She was going no where fast. Shisui pushed himself up and and walked toward Hoshi after she had collapsed to the ground. Obito was kneeling in front of her with a bright smile giving words of encouragement, she looked dead tired to the point not even her pocky could fix.
Hoshi's chest heaved up and down as she tried to force air into her lungs, she felt so drained. It was hard to even move. It was weird though, no matter how tired she got, after a few minutes she was generally okay to start again. Maybe she just had a high chakra restoration rate.
She closed her eyes, her whole body ached and she felt dizzy. She laid there knowing people could probably hear her wheezing from the rock village. It was so hard to breathe Her whole air canal felt restricted and her lungs felt ready to burst. Obito sat next to her stroking her hair softly cooing sweetly in her ear about how well she was doing. It was hard for her to process exactly what he was saying in this state, but she was thankful anyway. He cared for her. She didn't know about the other two, but the fact that he cared for her was enough for her to keep going. She wanted to help him. She was GOING to do this.
As her body's strength restored some she opened her eyes to see those same friendly eyes staring down at her, there was something different this time though. After a moment she noticed Shisui was staring down at her as well with a hand outstretched down to her. She was hesitant a moment, but slowly put up her own aching arm to entwine hands with him as he pulled her up. He was slow and careful giving her a lot of support, which she was thankful for, otherwise she would have probably fallen over again. He kept his form stiff and his grip solid as she steadied herself. Even as she pulled away some, he kept an arm out for her to hold onto if she needed it and another behind her to catch her just in case.
"I've got you." He said as she almost slipped while steadying herself. She smiled and nodded. At him as she tried to get her balance back. He noticed like this she was actually kind of pretty, like this being too tired to lash out with an attitude or try and bite his arm off. In her dizzy exhaustion she was nicer, or at least he thought that was the reason. She wasn't yelling and she smiled. She had a pretty smile he thought to himself. His eyes widened and he shook his head after that thought. She had a pretty smile? What was he thinking? This was the girl that almost bit his arm off! He inwardly sighed, but turned to Hoshi now that she was standing on her own. She had gotten in pose to run up it again, but Shisui had put a hand on her shoulder to stop her. She looked up at him confused.
"Watch." He said simply as he put his foot against the tree and started to walk up it effortlessly, then returned to the ground next to her. "It's better to walk, then it's easier to concentrate on getting your chakra steady. When you run up like that without knowing if it's steady or not, your already setting yourself up to fail."
Hoshi blinked realizing what he was saying made sense and nodded a bit dumbly at him. It was still a bit of a shock to her that he was actually helping her. He was acting kind of like... Hoshi shook the thought out of her head. She needed to concentrate on the task on hand.
Shisui took her hand in his, he was worried about her fainting while running up there. "Here we'll do it together okay?" He asked slowly.
Hoshi took a moment and processed what he was saying then nodded slowly and turned toward the tree. They two simultaneously put a foot up against the tree, Shisui was instantly connected and ready to walk up, but he waited patiently for Hoshi to be ready to walk up. It took a moment but she slowly started to put her other foot against the tree as well. She was a bit wobbly, but whether that was from her exhaustion or her chakra being unsteady, he wasn't completely sure. What he did know though was that she was improving. In fact, she was actually getting steadier as they got further up.
It was slow, the way a baby was slow walking down the hall when first learning to walk. But they got to the top. Hoshi didn't even bother grabbing the bag at the top before letting her chakra fade enough to let herself slide down. Shisui grabbed it though, he would let her have it after she's rested. When she got to the bottom she was wobbly standing, Obito was at her side though trying to help her.
Despite her almost dead feeling she smiled weakly and squeaked out "I did it.." before she literally collapsed in Obito's arms. The boy was going to lay her in the grass, but she wouldn't let go of him. So instead he held her in his arms with an almost prideful glace toward Shisui. He couldn't let him win could he?
Yondime walked toward them chuckling slightly at her. She had certainly done it. He never expected her to actually get it in one night. He would have stepped in a while ago, but she just kept going. He wanted to see how long she could do it before collapsing. She seemed to be at her limit for the past two hours and yet, she still pumped out more. She was like the little engine that could.
Shisui stood with his arms crossed over his chest and Obito held Hoshi bridal style in his arms. "Boss? What are we going to do with her? She's out like a light and it's a school day." Obito stated.
Yondime smiled at him like it was the most obvious thing in the world. "Take her to school of course." he said walking away.
Both Uchihas gave a shocked look, Obito more so then Shisui of course. How the hell would she do anything at school like this?
Yes i knows she seemed OOC! But shes not i swear! She wasn't always a smartass raving lunatic. She got to the point that she was too tired to have an attitude and for the moment converted back to her child like charm. Don't worry there's plenty of bitch to come! :D Read, review! I live off reviews! They fuel me! OH! and i no own Naruto...so yea ja ne!