Well, I have finished my first chapter of my story, and it is quite long. (I hope) It's long for me to type, ten written pages in my tiny handwriting, so I hope you all enjoy, and it's long enough for you to enjoy and get hooked, but not enough to be bored. Again, I DO NOT OWN NARUTO. Now, onto the story. ^-^
Brushing my raven-colored hair from my face, I sat up, trying to get out of my sleepy daze and remember what day it was. Finally it dawned on me, my first day of the academy! I almost fell flat on my face when I jumped out of my small, very cushiony bed, which then gave me the message to calm down. As I felt my hyper level lower, my bright smile stayed on my face.
I walked over to my dresser and picked up my brush. I just did a quick brush over, since I had to use my left hand. And by judging by how hard and how terrible I was at doing things with it, I guessed I was right handed.
I guess I should expand more on this, shouldn't I? Well, eight-almost-nine years ago, when I was born, my right hand was born crippled. No, it wasn't deformed or anything, the muscle in it is not quite right, making it unable to move properly. My parents tried all the medical ninja, but with no prevail. It was incurable. I don't mind though.
Looking back into the mirror, I looked deep into my dark grey eyes. "You do your best at school, and don't let what anyone says bother you." I smiled at my reflection once again and giggled.
"If anyone says anything about you, just tell me and I'll deal with them." I spun completely around.
"Sasuke-oniisan!" I ran into him, hugging him (well, as well as I could with one arm) "Why are you still here? Shouldn't you be at the bridge with your team?"
My brother, Uchiha Sasuke, was officially a genin. He passed his test with flying colors, top of his grade. (not surprisingly, of course, I mean, he is the best!) He also passed the his sensi's test, becoming the first team to be with Hatake Kakashi, copy cat ninja. I can't explain how proud I was of him.
He smirked at me. "You got one heck of a memory." I beamed at him and giggled.
"One of the best!"
"Well," he started, "I got Sakura to cover for me. It wasn't that hard."
"Let me guess, another fangirl?" He looked at me again.
"I swear, you're too smart for your own good.." He shook his head. "Also, Kakahsi is always about four to five hours late, so I have about one to two hours left." I suddenly became curious.
"But why would you go to all that trouble? I mean you may get in trouble, and you're starting your missions today. I don't want to be a bother." Sasuke looked at me surprised.
Uchiha Cho Rei, now why would you be bothersome?" I looked up to him. "I'm doing this because it's your first day at the academy. It's important to you, so it's important to me. Besides," he started, kneeling down to my height. "I doubt Kakashi will find out. Even if I do get in trouble, you have to make sacrifices for the people you love." He gave me a very genuine, and very rare, smile.
I kissed him on the cheek and semi-hugged him. He hugged me back. "I love you oniisan."
"I love you too, Rei." He unwrapped his arms from around me, and stood up. "Now, I do think we should be off." Grabbing my left hand, he led me out the door.
AS long as I had Sasuke loving me, I didn't care how any people despised my existence. As long as Sasuke loved me, I would always be okay.
"Look at her."
"I can't believe he's actually holding her hand!"
"I bet he's just doing it out of pity. He's too nice to reject that disgrace."
As women continued their gossip session about me, I gripped my brother's hand tighter. He couldn't hear them. Even though my eyes were bad and I was crippled, my hearing was my best skill. I remember when I used to think that about myself.
No, not that part about me being a disgrace. I knew that I was, there was no doubt in my mind, and there was no changing the facts. But the part about Sasuke just pitying me. For a long time, I used to think my whole family hated me. Then Itachi-nii taught me to ignore the stone-hearted citizens, and that he and Sasuke would always love me.
Itachi-nii. Even after the tragedy, I couldn't find it in myself to hate him. Not a bit. I still love him with all my heart. I know deep down that he also didn't really want to kill the family. There must have been some alternative reason. As much as I try to convince Sasuke, he won't buy it. He has his "eye on the prize". I just pray that they never meet again if that is how Sasuke wants it to end.
"Rei, you okay?" Sasuke Asked. I didn't even realize I had stopped walking. I nodded my head, and dared to look back to the gossiping ladies. They were still muttering incoherently about me, glaring at me, and glancing at Sasuke once and a while. One look from Sasuke shut them up real quick.
"Don't listen to them. They're just jealous that you're an Uchiha." Yeah right. How gullible does he think I am?! But, I still nodded my head to a yes, not daring to say what my mind really thought.
Once my mind corresponded with my eyes once again, I realized we were in front of a huge building. The academy. I bid my farewells to Sasuke, and then turned back to the building. I started towards it. 'No turning back now….'
Walking into the academy, I nervously searched for my room. I started getting more tense and nervous after each room I passed. Each had a grade level in it with a teacher. Some grades had to be slip into two classes since there were so many.
Finally, I came to my room. How did I know? No, I didn't know the room number, I had forgotten to get that piece of information. (Which would have saved a lot of time) The door with a huge sign saying "Welcome New Students!" was a small hint. So, taking the hint, I walked in.
No one was there yet. I chuckled to myself. Sasuke probably wanted me to keep the Uchiha-gets-to-the-academy-even-before-the-teacher reputation.
About fifteen minutes later, our teacher walked in the door. Sasuke told me his name was Iruka, making him Iruka-sensei to me.
"Good morning Iruka-sensei!" I said brightly. He nearly jumped out of his skin. I grinned my crooked grin. He must not have seen me.
"Ah! H-h-hello. Welcome to my class! I'm Iru- well, I guess you already know my name. And you are?"
"Oh sorry!" I replied very embarrassed, as I scratched the back of my head. "Rei, Uchiha Rei." His smile broke off his face and his eyes widened, but only for a split second. Soon he had recovered and was smiling once again.
"Welcome, Rei! I hope you have a fun time in my class!"
"I'm sure I will." I replied politely. A little while later, more kids came in with their parents. Fathers would tell their sons to make them proud, and their daughters how proud they were of them. The children's mothers mostly wept and hugged them filling them with kisses. My heart leapt in my chest and I averted my eyes down to my desk.
Oh well, I told myself, it's not like they'd do that to me even if they were still around. It still hurt, though…
"Good morning class!" Iruka-sensei greeted us.
Everyone replied with a 'good morning.'
"My name is Iruka, but you will address me as Iruka-sensei. As some of you may know, most of my class just graduated and become the newest genin. So I'm now officially your sensei for your academy years. I want you all to address yourselves and tell us a little about yourselves. We will start with furthest to all of your rights and then work our way to the left. We will start at the bottom and go on up. After that you can ask question. Starting…now."
I listened to a few people talking. Thank goodness I was last. Most people would be bored by then, so maybe they wouldn't pay much attention to me.
Most people that were telling their dreams were just saying stupid stuff like 'kill the most bad ninja!' and 'marry a super-good looking wife' and 'be the prettiest kunoichi to have ever lived!' It was coming closer and closer to being my turn.
"Rei? How about you?" Everyone turned to face me. Great. Whispers spread around the room, obviously about me. I guess I'm famously known around by people my age too. Just great.
"It's the Uchiha disgrace!"
"They let that thing in here!?" The whispers grew louder and louder. Iruka cleared his throat. They all hushed.
"Okay Rei, We're ready." Everyone turned to me again. Should I say what's on my mind?
"I want to become to great ninja, and make my clan proud." Well, I was already goin', might as well finish. "I would also like to be at least half as good as my brother, and make him proud of me."
"No way you could do that!"
"Yeah! You probably can't even throw a kunai!"
"Or defend yourself!"
"Face it, you're gonna suck as a ninja! Just give up, don't kid yourself! You'll n ever make it!" More insults spewed at me from the cruel mouths of my peers. Iruka-sensei tried to hush them all.
"Okay, class dismissed early. See you all tomorrow, same time." My head sunk into my hands as the other children departed out the room as if the last on was going to get killed. I heard the door click.
Iruka sighed. "Rei?" he questioned. I lifted my head out of my hands, and began walking down the stairs, not daring to take my eyes away from the floor.
As I reached the bottom, I stood in front of Iruka-sensei, my eyes still glued to the floor. He put a hand on my shoulder and kneeled down to my level.
"Rei…" he began. I didn't let him finish, because I ran out the door, as fast as I could with my right arm in a sling.
"Rei!" He called after me. "Rei! Come back!" But I didn't. I didn't want to listen. I didn't want to hear his lies, about what the kids said wasn't true. Because everything they said was true. Absolutely 100% true. And I knew it.