It's Saturday once more~ I'm pretty saddened by the lack of reviews; but I'm not going to beg for them or demand them like other Authors. Though it would be nice to even get a small reassurance that my story is readable c: And of course questions - I'd be delighted to answer any questions that anyone has. I also apologize in advance for some unskilled guessing - you'll see what I'm getting at (Psst. Hint hint, the test Ame had when she graduated!)
Title: Sparks Will Fly
Summary: Ame Chii is a simple ninja who wants to make it big in life. But before she can do that, can she over come the obstacles placed in front of her?
Pairings: Hinted Ame(oc)/Kiba and Yuichi(oc)/Ino
Chapter Rating: T for fighting!
Warnings: Ame being a hooligan, fighting, and Kenta being a sourpuss.
Disclamer: I do not own any of the characters stated below, except for Ame and Kenta. They're all mine, fufufufufu!
"I wanted to come here and tell you I'm skipping." Ame's voice rings out in the forest, and Kenta laughs softly.
Today is the day Ame's friends would take the final exam to see if they're skilled enough to rank as a Genin; boy did she not want to miss this. She had planned this out the night before. She would skip training, sneak over to the academy and find out what room they'll be doing the exam in. She then will watch and hopefully not be found out by Iruka Sensei.
"If you're skipping, why are you here to tell me? Isn't it a rule in skipping to not go to your predestined place at all?" Kenta laughs again. Ame scowls and tosses her half-eaten apple at the blond, but he catches it in his hand and lets it drop.
"Perhaps I could let you go. On one condition." he grins, and Ame doesn't like the look of this.
"…What?" she says hesitantly, eyeing her Sensei.
"I want you to show up after your friends graduate, so we can work on your skills with Misao." he says, and waves to her before promptly disappearing.
She laughs triumphantly, before realizing Kenta knew where she was planning on going. Cursing her sensei lightly, she jogs out of the training grounds and walks briskly to the Academy.
They'll surely begin almost immediately, and the Academy started a few minutes ago. I don't want to miss anything. She rubs her hands together in a slightly evil manner.
The year she graduated, the final exam was kunai aim. If you could get the bulls-eye three times, in a row, you graduate. Almost by pure luck Ame got all three of them, as her friends maybe got one and missed the other two. The target was, after all, quite small in size.
A slight boost of motivation and Ame starts jogging and ends up running towards the Academy, only slightly out of breath. Soon she is moving around the building, peeking through windows. She comes to a darkened room, but with the door open. Across the hall is another open door, and inside is her friends lined up.
Bingo! She says in her head, jogging towards the side of the school that they were entering in. She skids on the grass when Iruka almost spots her, and after a few moments she peeks back around the corner. Ame kneels on the ground, perfect height to watch her friends try and graduate. Hidden by foliage, she believes that no one can see her.
But of course, this is false. Being a Chunin, Iruka had spotted her almost instantly. I'll see where this goes, for now. He thinks, smirking to himself. He congratulates a student on their performance and hands them a forehead protector.
Bunshin no Jutsu? Ame almost tears through the window when she realizes what they're being tested on. Had the Academy suddenly gone soft? Man, did Ame want to strangle her previous teacher so badly right now!
She breaks a twig in her hands to try and calm down, and watches as her three best friends go one after another. Kiba even managed to replicate Akamaru with him, shouldn't that tell them it's way too damn easy?
Sighing, she rests her head on the concrete wall, trying her hardest to calm down. She completely misses Naruto's pathetic performance. Ame looks up again, expecting to see some random student doing the exam, but instead is met face to face with Iruka.
"Fucking - " she says after doing an uppercut, reflexes kicking in. After realizing what she had just done, she stands up, laughing a bit.
"That's what you get for scaring me." She says, sticking her tongue out at Iruka who is currently rubbing his sore jaw.
"I should be the one punishing you, Ame. Trying to be sneaky and watching in on the exams, that should be some sort of violation of privacy!" Ame simply laughs at his words, placing a hand on the window sill and vaulting in through the open window.
"But you love me, and that's why you aren't punishing me." she says, dancing in a taunting circle around Iruka. He sighs and pushes her towards the door, giving her permission to go talk to her friends.
She pumps her fist in victory and bolts through the door, quickly finding her friends conversing on one of the higher levels. Some of the now-Genin give curious looks towards Ame, but she completely ignores them. It'd be kind of hard to pay attention to other people when she's jumping onto Kiba, making him eat the wooden floor beneath them.
She hears Shikamaru click his tongue against his teeth and say something along the lines of "How troublesome." and she pulls him down too. Soon Ame and Kiba are gaining up on Shikamaru, and Choji gets into the fight, trying to back up Shikamaru. They end up calming down after a while in a heap of people, laughing and creating a ruckus.
"Oi, why are you here?" Kiba asks finally after their laughter died down. Ame gives a thoughtful look and shrugs.
"I felt like it." She says, knowing they'll take it as an acceptable answer. And they do, soon bringing up more ideal conversation topics.
o.O.o
"Wouldn't it be so cool if you guys were all in one team?" Ame says, spreading her arms out as if she can see it before her, in the air. "You could all go on missions together, man I'd be so jealous!" she snickers and leans against the wall. With Kiba next to her on her left; Shikamaru laying on her legs, and Choji against a desk with his feet to the right of her. It reminds Ame of the good old days.
Kiba nods in agreement at her idea, telling her she'd be more than welcome on those missions. Akamaru pops out of Kiba's coat randomly, soaring through the air and ambushing Ame. She immediately takes the pup up into her arms and laughs, petting the dog and letting him lick her. Kiba gives her a disgusted look, and Ame snickers.
"I'm well aware what he licks during the day. I don't mind; you do it too and I put up with your dog breath, don't I?" she only laughs harder when Kiba hits her on the head for the joke, and takes his dog back, mumbling things to him.
Ame sighs contentedly, before remembering she was going to meet Kenta soon. "Oh crap." she mumbles softly, swiftly standing up. Shikamaru groans when he hits his head on the ground, looking up at Ame with one eye open.
"Troublesome woman." he says as if he was cursing her. Ame simply rolls her eyes, "You love me, don't deny." she says, walking backwards up onto a table.
"I forgot I have to meet Kenta, you guys. I'm super happy all of you graduated, and I hope to whoop your asses very, very soon." she smiles and gives the 'peace' sign, hopping off the table she was previously standing on and jumping across a few more and out a window.
The three stare at the window she jumped out of, then at each other.
"I don't want to fight her." Kiba says softly.
"She'd probably kills us. With one finger." Shikamaru says, sitting up.
"At least she'd do it out of love." Choji offers as an optimistic view, and the three laugh together.
o.O.o
"I'm here!" Ame shouts, opening her arms wide open while standing in the middle of Kenta and Ame's clearing. She looks around and frowns, wondering where her sensei is.
"Damn stupid Kenta. Oh, Ame, come here to train with me and find out that I'm not actually here!" she mocks his voice, biting her thumb and wetting her palm with her blood.
Doing the hand seals and saying the correct words, Ame slams the ground a bit too roughly. The smoke fades away and Misao has appeared, laying on the ground and sleeping.
"Only you would sleep through a summoning." Ame says and his eyes crack open. Misao jumps up and looks around, eyes stopping when he spots Ame.
"I thought I was being ambushed!" He says, giving an excuse to why he was sleeping, and Ame laughs at him. She sits cross legged before the dog and soothingly massages his large ears.
"Don't worry, the only person that would ever ambush you would be me." she reassures him.
"So, why am I here?" Misao asks after a few minutes of silent petting. Ame sighs and looks around again after brushing her bangs out of her face.
"Kenta told me to meet up here so you and me could work on our team skills, but he isn't here yet. He's either wooing women or bleeding. I hope for the latter." She winks at Misao, but thinks what would happen if she found her Sensei dead somewhere. The thought creates a shudder to run up her back, and Ame breathes deeply.
Soon enough, the bushes shake a bit and out comes Kenta with a book in his hands.
"I was talking with an old friend and he recommended this excellent book to me." Kenta says, grinning at the duo. He pockets the book before Ame could get a glimpse of it, and she scowls.
"Ah! Nice, I see you've already gotten Misao here." Kenta claps his hands together in a very feminine way, gesturing to the Wild Dog.
"Old news. What have you prepared for us?" Ame says, standing up. Misao gets on all fours, excited for his first training lesson with a human.
"Nothing fancy I assure you, just try and find a balance between your fighting styles and bring them together and create teamwork!" his voice had gotten more excited by the time he was done talking, and the duo looks at Kenta oddly.
"You've got a strange Sensei." Misao says, and Ame nods.
"You could say that again." she mumbles almost inaudibly. She however does what her teacher asks of her, getting into position.
"Remember Ame, fight with the intent to kill." Kenta's mocking voice was making it pretty damn easy for Ame to run at him with the intent to kill.
She leans down and whispers something to Misao, standing up straight and arming herself with a kunai once she has told him what she wants him to do.
Ame runs towards her sensei, knowing full well she won't be able to hit him with a flimsy weapon. Still, it's part of the diversion. She aims for his head and when he dodges, Misao comes kicks him from under his feet. He falls to the ground like predicted and Ame lands three shuriken in his back. A cloud of smoke, and a log appears. Ame swiftly turns around and does a high cut with her right leg, landing a solid strike on the side of Kenta's head.
Once again, another log. She smirks and makes a waving motion. Misao immediately scopes him out, jumping into a tree and knocking her Sensei down. She leaps over to where he was dropped and finds nothing. Ame stares at the spot for one moment too long and feels someone jump on her back, cold metal under her chin.
Kenta, prepared to scold her for letting her guard down, lets out a surprised gasp when Ame turns into a log. With his own guard down for a split second, Misao gets him from the right and Ame jumps down on top of him from the tree when he's down, placing a kunai where Kenta had done with her substitution.
"Who's laughing now?" she says, letting out a small giggle. He taps the ground and Ame gets off him, pocketing the knife back into her holster, going around and gathering her thrown weapons.
"That was pretty good for a first time. I'm giving you and Misao a bit of homework I'm afraid. I'm going on a mission for a two weeks; my Mitoshigan is needed elsewhere." Kenta looks sadly at his student and Ame whines softly.
"Can't your brother or dad go? Seriously Kenta, unfair." she pouts lightly and Kenta laughs.
"I'm sorry, but it has to be done. It's what Ninja are for, and you know it. As for your homework, I want you two to train like this for the next few weeks and show me how well you can fight. If I somehow am impressed, I'll give you a treat!" Kenta claps his hands, and before Ame can retaliate, he's gone.
"I hate it when he does that, you know." the young teen says to Misao, and the dog grins.
"I can see why." he says, nudging his snout into Ame's open palm. She pets Misao for a while and sighs, standing up straighter.
"Let's see what you can do with that chakra of yours…" she says, smirking. Ame has an idea already of what she and Misao can do to 'wow' Kenta when he returns.