The proprietor the Flying Blackbird, Oribanda Mina was as strange as her name. She wore what seemed to be a formalized night gown (The kind that grandmothers wear, complete with the frilly cuffs) under a short black cloak with a yellow badger pin. Her hair was usually wrapped up in a towel or stuffed into a hat. Sometimes she when she was in the middle of brewing volatile potions, she could be seen in rather ridiculous goggles.
She spent her days in the shop greeting customers in broken japanese (it had improved quite a bit though she still occasionally misspoke.) and if nobody was in the shop, studying her arse off.
She spent her nights practicing her spells, brewing potions, and managing her death garden.
She had no knowledge about the noble clans and thought of them as she would an old civilian clan. (In her defense, there is very little difference between the noble wizard houses and the regular folk aside from a prestigious name. Magical prowess was only partially hereditary.)
When it was explained to her what the ninja clans were she shrugged and asked if they would be preordering essence of dittany if they fought so much.
Then she went right back to studying the process of animal transfiguration.
Civilians have gone from regarding her with fear and suspicion to unease.
Not with out reason, they were much more susceptible to the problems the magic posed. But as they did with the jinchuriki, they would change their attitude.
It seemed that with the ninja clans adapting and accepting the witch the civilians were following.
Oribanda Mina seemed to constantly shift in and out of favor with the pale eyed clan.
When the shop opened they were unnerved with her lack of chakra.
Then they were glad for her speedy repair charms. (The reparo charm was a god send amongst the parents)
The Hyuuga twins had had a very strange relationship with her every since the peace conference.
Hiashi was more than a little irritated at the woman and with good reason. He had, after all, been accused of robbery, chewed up by a semi sentient plant, covered in foul smelling goo that gave him a number of extremely painful boils (In very uncomfortable places.), and had his daughter mistaken for a pile of hostile bouncing plants in a sack (He refused to admit that the bouncing bulbs in a sack would certainly look like someone was struggling inside).
Hizashi on the other hand, had his nose broken by said bouncing bulbs, his eardrums popped by the shouting letter (The letter landed in his direction and he had been pinned to the ground by a Kumo nin.) and about a dozen spikes lodged in his rump (it meant hours on his stomach while the clan medic removed the spikes with a tweezer).
But while the twins had merely underestimated the growth of the witch's garden (They knew to avoid the tentacula), the Kumo nin were completely caught off guard.
Hiashi Hyuuga had watched the plants tear into the Kumo nin with savage satisfaction (He was only slightly disappointed that none of the kidnappers had died. Honestly, if they couldn't die by his hand they should've died at the hands of a plant).
He would continue to grin like that whenever the day is brought up.
If pressed a great deal, they would say that she is worth associating with for her power if not her common sense.
Still the accusation of trespass and robbery ruffled their feathers a good deal and caused some friction.
When she arrived at the office for her statement (Properly dressed and dry this time) she was barely recognizable as the girl in the bath towel from the week before.
Then she gave the Hyuuga princess a drought to calm her down (Hinata had remained a nervous wreck long after the paralysis tag was removed.) and gave her another one for later so she wouldn't get nightmares, with out realizing who she was or what she was doing there.
An act that once again put her back in their good graces.
If pressed the twins would agree that she had good character and her power was to be respected. They would also profess that she seemed to be rather oblivious at times.
Then they would begin bickering in dignified tones about her mental capacities.
Hizashi would insist that she possessed sharp wit and good instincts. She caught the fight and stopped it in a timely manner. She even froze the entire scene and summoned ANBU to investigate the mess. It was better for the Hyuuga clan to take a hit in the financial department (to repair the damaged section of her garden and pay for the medical bills) then for them to cause an international incident (Clan heads attacking foreign ninja is not a good thing), lose their heiress, or their clan head. Even if the two of them ended up in great pain after wards (She had refused to treat the magical injuries until the Hokage clarified that they were not trying to rob her garden). She also gave Hinata-hime several potions to help her calm herself and not have nightmares later with out knowing who she was.
Hiashi would say that she was rude, dense, and clearly mad. What kind of idiot would investigate violence with nothing but a towel and a stick(Granted it was a magic stick but it was the principle)? She had the gall to accuse them of grand larceny. The Hyuuga clan would never stoop to petty crimes like unsanctioned theft plant life (Missions were another story). He was obviously trying to stop his daughter from being taken and made into a brood mare that much was obvious. Also, why does she grow those god awful plants outside?! Why can't she grow them in a green house like a normal person?
The two of them would go at it for hours until they were redirected by what ever duties they had to finish.
Orimanda Mina was one of the few people in Konoha who did not find the Aburame clan unsettling.
She even shared their fashion sense.
She was also amongst the population who did not fear the Yamanakas reading their thoughts (She practiced occlumency religiously) or manipulating her in someway (Alley politics are much tougher).
Both parties shared an interest in her plant stocks after looking at her encyclopedia of magical plants and fungi (she had to do some translating).
The Aburame were mostly interested in the umbrella plants. Why? Because they were both visually appealing and effective at keeping kikaichu hives in shade. They sought to make themselves less intimidating by making their clan grounds look less like something out of a horror movie. How? Because according to what could be translated from the book, the flowers contain large amounts of sweet smelling nectar which was apparently good for the health. They desired the insect attracting variety.
They also noted that the devil's snare would made excellent guards and assassination weapons if the chance of friendly fire wasn't so high.
Contrary to popular belief, the process of having kikaichu nest in the bodies of their young was neither painful, nor cruel. They had no intention of cultivating a plant that could strangle unwitting visitors and children with out warning.
After the Hyuuga affair, they struck up a bargain. She would give them the seeds and the care instructions. In return, when they are able to harvest the plants she would get a percentage (Or further in the future, a heavy discount) for her shop.
Aburame Shibi and his elders watch R&D and the Yamanaka clan struggle with they're new aquisitions, and agree that they seemed to have gotten the better end of the deal regarding the oversized nonsentient blooms.
The Yamanakas, on the other hand were more interested in the semi sentient varieties of everyday plants. Especially after the semipermanent nature of the plant related injuries got back to them (Hiashi becomes insufferable for several months when it became clear that the medic-nin could not remove the boils and was too embarrassed to ask the witch for a cure).
After the Hyuuga incident they spent a substancial amount on packages of fanged geranium seeds and oriental chomping cabbage.
Yamanaka Ino grew to have a love hate relationship with them. She loved how her geraniums guarded her windows but they looked a little bit disturbing (Flowers with mouths!). She didn't like how the chomping cabbages tasted (Like soap and plastic) or how they kept ruining her shoes. But she read that cabbages were healthy and good for weight loss, so she ate them anyway (They also gave her a cute set of super sharp fangs).
Inoichi had inquired about the tentacula and if he could get a cutting of it for his own home. Partly because it could guard the most important green houses and partly because they also wanted to look at the properties (One of the Kumo nin had to retire from the infiltration division due to every part of him, chakra included, turning into a most vivid shade of purple.)
He was politely but firmly declined.
Apparently she only had One tentacula and they took a long time to grow. He managed to extract a few spores and the promise of a sucker when it finally appeared (He would have to send someone else over with protective gear and a hazmat suit to retrieve it. The witch had refused to deal with it. Said she wasn't a professional herbologist.)
Inoichi firmly felt that the witch was an impressive example of her kind, regardless of her penchant for making erroneous though logical judgements (Ignorance could be cured if it was not willfull). From what he had seen in her head most of them lack common sense, or worse, logic. He cringes and hopes that magic was not the cause of the idiocy in that other society.
The trial of the dog man was clearly a farce. They had spells for pain, mind penetration, and truth serums and their method of interrogation was shouting at him? Even rookie ninjas knew better then that and they were teenagers.
He had been the one to extract the memory of the Hyuuga-Kumo altercation from her mind and got a rather nasty headache from the whole thing. Watching the scene was mortifying (Not just from embarrassment). Especially because he knew there were definitely more effective ways to summon help then deafening them. There are also better ways of dealing high profile figures on one's property then to allow them to become victims of deadly plants and filing a report with the police (He hopes that the absturdity of the attack will help get the stick out of the collective Uchiha clan's ass.)
(It was almost a right of passage to deal with absurd cases in the Military police.)
The vast majority of the cases involve the witch somehow.
Usually over property damage or noise control.
Of course the clan elders took offense at their military force handling what they thought to be trivial problems.
They weren't.
Uchiha Fugaku could attest to that since he had dealt with the plants himself (They belonged in the forest of death not in a back yard.) Seeing an opportunity he immediately sought to find out if magic was teachable (It was.) and if any of his clan were capable of it (They had Uchiha Shisui take a wand to repeat what happened in the intelligence department.)
Only young Sasuke got sparks to fly out of it and only a few at that.
It was hard to tell if the sparks were made by him or if they were a signal that the wand was about to electrify him.
When they realized that sasuke was Not merely knocked out and would not wake to standard medical ninjutsu, Fugaku had had enough and sent for assistance.
While the Uchiha clan elders were wise individually, their collective intelligence and maturity was about the same as that of children. They would complain that the noble Uchiha clan should not bow to commoners. But the witch was not exactly common now was she?
Fugaku and Mikoto both explained this to the witch when she was summoned to the hospital. They hoped that she could understand their clan's tenuous position in Konoha and over look the slight.
She did.
She nodded and woke the boy with a wave of her wand and a word in her language.
Then she turned to his parents and demanded that the either the one who stole the wand be punished or the ones who ordered the thief to be punished. If they were unable to do so due to filial piety then they were to send someone to her shop so that she may use them as a test subject.
Seeing that the alternative would include being brought before the Hokage to settle charges of robbery and humiliated (They were guilty. No questioning it and he had no illusions that there wouldn't be and eavesdroppers.) he agreed.
Shisui would be sent over shortly once everything got sorted out.
Of course the incident wouldn't be kept under wraps.
Though the circumstances remained secret, the fact that Uchiha Shisui was being ordered to go to the Flying Blackbird, was not.
Plenty of rumors came from that one.
The rest of the clans don't have much to do with the witch beyond actual merchandise.
The Naras were smart enough to save themselves the head ache. She showed no interest in gaining power politically had no ulterior motives for moving into Konoha. Her success was from the novelty and usefulness of her spells. There were a few of them who would hang around her and discreetly gather information on how magic worked (IE, philosophical discussions over games of shogi, wizard's chess, and tea time), but other then that their interactions mostly involved some kind of transaction occurring between them.
The Inuzuka clan avoided her like the plague and ordered products from the Blackbird via a mail catologue. The smell of the shop being a very powerful repellant. To be precise it was more the smell of the plants she grew then the actual shop itself (Though an improperly brewed potion would ruin just about anyone's day). On the days where she has not tended to them she was often approached for various reasons, usually to chatter about various creatures from her home. They were curious about the werewolves and the cerberus as well as the group of people who could change into animals at will. And of course the occasional protective charm for the children who fear the monsters under the bed.
The only thing the Akimichi had to say about the witch was that she had extremely strange taste in food and drink. Black pudding for breakfast, bubble and squeak for dinner, and bread pudding for dessert. Each meal accompanied by pumpkin juice of all things.
Kumo had little to say regarding the woman who ruined their plans.
They did how ever have something to write in the pages of a bingo book.
Konoha Witch
B-rank
Motion controlling Kekkei genkai
Possible support nin
Approach with extreme caution
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