Shooting Stars
Now for the story to begin, I hope that the beginning was good enough. Here is the link to my boyfriends fanfic of these two characters: /s/6143405/1/ - I honestly think that his writing skills are way better than mine so I recommend reading it ;]
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10 years later~
Hitomi stood up from her perch on a tree overlooking a campsite she was supposed to look after. She jumped down and strode over to a nearby tent where her teammates were. They acknowledge her presence and went back to work with setting up camp. The sun was about to set so everyone had a job to do. Hitomi was in charge to keep watch over the whole site while everyone else had to set up camp and search for food.
The seventeen year old sighed, her memories of the past haunted her and distracted her from doing her mission properly. Brown eyes appeared behind her eyelids, a childish grin, and a night under the stars. A a brief encounter of this one person changed her whole life around, and he was never too far away from her mind because of that. Hitomi sighed and pretended to keep watch again as another memory slowly fazed back into the forefront of her mind.
"What are you doing?" Hitomi's mother screeched at the sight of her daughter throwing kunai and shuriken at a tree.
"Training Mama." She huffed and continued to throw the weapons at the at bulls eye almost perfectly.
"A young lady such as you should not be doing such disgusting things like that!" Hitomi couldn't train anymore for her mother snatched all of her items away.
"But-" Hitomi plead but was quickly cutoff by her mother.
"NO! YOU ARE GOING TO YOUR ROOM NOW!" With that she was forced to climb the high staircase to her bedroom. Shortly after she sat on her bed, her father entered the room also.
He immediately backhanded her again, this time with a repulsed look on his face. Hitomi crouched on her bed, holding the tears back and tried to keep silent. She knew that her father was preparing to say more than a few nasty things.
"You have disgraced our clan. Your a worthless excuse of a person. I should have had a boy- no just an abortion. I don't want to see you anymore, I disown you now. Filthy little bitch- LEAVE RIGHT NOW!" Hitomi was again hit, this time in the back of the head. She quickly gathered as many of her possessions without her father maiming her more than he already was-physically and emotionally. She didn't understand it then, but her father hated ninja of all kinds and it was forbidden to be one in their clan-especially a girl.
The seven year old Hitomi eventually found a place to stay and work for her dream to become a ninja. When she turned nine, she had graduated from the academy and did as many missions as she could possibly have done. With her determination, Hitomi quickly rose through the ranks to an ANBU at seventeen. There were rumors of her becoming a captain but she didn't care, she only worried about her worth in herself. Her worth to a person in her memory,
Hitomi blinked, it was dusk and her comrades had already gone to bed. So she was stuck with night watch tonight. Great...just what she needed, more time to reminisce about her life. She wondered though... what did Mishiro accomplish in ten years? Would he even be alive?- A ninja's life was so hectic and dangerous that he could have died the day after they met. Of course she never wished that it happened to him, but the possibility of it worried her more.
Where are you Mishiro?
She looked up into the sky, watching the stars- waiting for one of them to fly across the sky. None of them ever did though, ever. Only on that one night, with the fireworks did she see shooting stars. Hitomi often wondered if she would ever see any ever again, and if she would see Mishiro.
"Maybe one day..." Hitomi sighed and stopped her thinking, she had a job to do.
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"I'm WHAT now?" Mishiro yelled out in surprise at the Kazekage.
"Captain." Gaara repeated slowly.
"No...way...HELL YES!" Mishiro shouted again and threw his arms into the air laughing.
"Congratulations. But I have a mission for you already." Gaara gave Mishiro a folder.
"Awwwr and I thought that I could have a break or a day to celebrate. So whats the mission about?"
"You and your squad will be protecting a close friend of mine for the time being. Another squad from Konoha will have the same mission. His safety is top priority, no one else should matter and take every precaution. If you fail your mission, your ninja status will be stripped from you. Is that clear?"
"Yes Kazekage-Sama." Mishiro bowed and left the room. He opened the folder.
Mission: Protect Naruto Uzamaki
Squad 13- Mishiro Okazaki, Rin Takahashi, Ryu Taisho, Miro Higu.
Date of Mission: Three days after notified of assigned mission.
Details: A squad from Konoha will be also assigned the same mission in order to help the Sand squad. Naruto Uzamaki's health and well being is top priority. The mission will last as long as the subjects health is in possible danger. Weekly updates on progress are required.
Signed- Gaara The Kazekage Of The Sand.
Mishiro blinked at the scroll, as if Gaara couldn't stress enough that his buddy's health was 'top priority' he had to do it again in the scroll. He must be a pretty important guy- having the Hokage give him four body guards and then the Kazekage giving him four more. Why was this Naruto Uzamaki so important? It wasn't as if he held a Jinchuuriki or was the son of a Hokage...
"Eh I'm still getting paid for this so it doesn't matter much to me." Mishiro sighed and went to find his teammates.
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"Hiiiittttoooommmiiiii!" A boy by the name of Hayate called over to the sleeping Hitomi in the tree. "Wake up! Its time to head home!" He threw a kunai her way and she caught it easily-but still asleep.
"Are you ever going to learn that throwing things at her while she is asleep never wakes her up?" A girl the same age as them rubbed her eyes while she packed her bedroll.
"Leilei..." Hayate whined. "I can always hope!"
"Well its a pipe dream. Here let me show you how to wake her up quickly- but get ready for her wrath."
"Her wrath?" Hayate seemed to be unsure.
"MISHIRO YOUR HERE!" Leilei screamed at the top her lungs. Hitomi's eyes snapped open and she accidentally fell out of the tree.
"You bitch!" Hitomi lunged for the two, knowing that they had done it.
"Hahahaha feel the wrath of the one called 'Tomi!" Leilei preformed a Justu that let her sink into the ground, leaving Hayate the only one around.
"I hate you Leilei!" Hayate yelled as he ran from Hitomi that was quickly catching up to him.
"Stop it you two." A stern voice ordered. Hayate and Hitomi stopped dead in their tracks.
"Yes Sensei." The two turned and bowed to the oldest member of their squad.
"Good. Now lets head off to home, it looks like you all need some alone time." Their leader started to walk ahead of them, a sign to get into their formation. Leilei walked behind their Sensei, Hayate behind Leilei and Hitomi behind Hayate.
"Hey Leilei!" Hayate whispered.
"Yeeeeaaaahhh?" She turned her head back a bit.
"Why does saying that...name piss Hitomi off so much?"
"Well...I don't know. I heard her mumble it a few years back and asked her about it- she freaked out and ever since then I use it as a way to wake her up and bug her." Leilei turned her head back to the front.
"Oh. Thanks I guess." Hayate still felt confused.
"No problem." After that the group became completely silent until they arrived at the gates of Konoha.
"We will meet in the Hokage's office in one hour, use that time to eat and bathe. Dismissed." Ordered their Sensei, he looked especially tired. He was only in his late twenties but in ninja years he was an old man. The stress of his life style aged him ten years, but to most women he was attractive. Medium length spikes covered his head, a scar on his cheek and tired wise eyes on his angel sculpted face made women of all ages turn their heads. It was amazing that he was still single, but he kept on saying that him being an ANBU made him stay away from relationships.
"If I were a Chunin, I'd settle down and make a family." He always said.
"Why don't you ask the Hokage to demote you?" Hitomi would ask frequently.
"I...haven't found the right woman to do that for."
"You'll never find her because you refuse to look!" Leilei poked him at times.
"Maybe he did find her, but something happened..." Hayate looked at their Sensei.
"..." Their Sensei said nothing and walked away from his subordinates.
Hitomi always wondered who took her Sensei's heart and kept it greedily, never giving it back for a chance of him falling in love again. But he never seemed to be too bothered by it so she usually kept quiet about it most of the time.
Their squad disappeared at the gates as they all went their separate ways. Hitomi went home, immediately stripping off her worn ANBU uniform and walking into her standup showers. She sighed as the hot water cascaded over her body. Her mind roamed again, as it usually did when there was silence of any kind. This time her mind reminded her of the first day she met her ANBU squad.
Hitomi entered a training ground she had been ordered to go to, she assumed that her new partners had the same letter. No one had been there yet so she sat down underneath a tree, her mind drifting off. A young guy looking a little bit older than her approached the day dreaming Kunoichi. He sat down next to her and began to hum a tune- a very cheery one. Hitomi was almost immediately pulled from her thoughts at hearing it. She cracked one angry eye open and smacked the brunette behind his head.
"Hey ow ow ow! What did I do?" The boy whined, tears pricked from his topaz colored eyes.
"Your annoying." Hitomi growled and smacked him again to make sure.
"Your hurting meeee!" Hayate ran out of her close range attacks and glared at her. "Your mean."
"No. Just easily irritable. I'll warn you before I hit you next time okay?" Hitomi fake smiled and then closed her eyes again.
"Your...kinda cute." Hayate blushed.
"I'm going to hit you." Hitomi smiled sweetly.
"What? But-but I didn't do anything wrong!" He couldn't argue anymore for a kunai was thrown at his head. He easily caught it, but he got tackled by another person he didn't notice that arrived.
"Hi! I'm Leilei!" The girl named Leilei gave a bone crushing hug to Hayate. "Whats your name?"
"H-hi-hiya-ahhhhh! Hayate!" The boy screamed. Leilei laughed and let him go.
"Whats your name?" She ran up on Hitomi and touched their noses together.
"Hitomi." She opened one of her eyes and fought the urge to smile, she just knew that with Leilei things would be fun. Her look of pure happiness seemed that it wouldn't leave her face. Leilei liked to smile wide so her white teeth blinded Hitomi for a second. Her long black hair had been braided into pig tails and her clothing looked similar to a girl named Sakura. She wore the dress in dynasty blue and her puffy pants were ivory white. Her shoes were dynasty blue flats, it confused her as to why she didn't wear ninja garb.
"Oh- I don't like to wear the ANBU outfit unless I'm on a mission." Leilei smiled and stepped back.
"Well now where is our captain?" Hayate asked, he finally caught his breath. Hayate had worn the ANBU uniform but with his own added clothing. A black leather jacket with a high collar and a chained necklace. His mask was attached to the back of his head.
"Right here." A man older than them said walking up to them. He wore his ANBU uniform, the only difference between him and the others was his vest. It was black to signify that he was the captain. Every captain had the option to wear the white or black vest, he chose to wear black most of the time.
"So... What do we do now?" Hitomi asked, already starting to like this team. It felt like the family that she never had.
"We introduce ourselves, hang out, and then get assigned a mission." Their leader explained.
"So just like genin year?" Hayate perked up.
"Yes. You get to go first then." Their Sensei smiled.
"Oh uh okay then. My name is Hayate Mugen. I like to have all kinds of fun. I hate...Mean people. My goal is to get enough money saved up to buy a house and then start a family." Hayate nodded and sat back down on the grass.
"My name is Hitomi Makoto. I like having adventures and exploring places. I hate...Liars and traitors. My main goal is to be an ANBU captain someday." Hitomi stared at their Sensei for a moment.
"My name is Quan, Leilei...well its short for Leilani...wait no it's a nickname. Sorry I forget sometimes, haha. I like playing all kinds of games and playing pranks on people. I hate when I have to do boring stuff. My main goal is to find true love one day! And then be a Jonin teacher." Leilei smiled bright and laid down on the grass next to Hayate who was blushing madly.
"Thank you all for sharing. My name is Nagato, but you all can call me Sensei. I like doing my job and getting paid for it. I dislike when missions go wrong. And my goal is to make sure that Konoha is always safe from danger." Nagato nodded his head. "Your all allowed to talk to each other now. I will be back with our mission."
Hitomi smiled at the memory. That was when she first opened up to anyone after that one fateful night. She and Leilei had became best of friends and Hayate her own personal punching bag. Those two had some sort of romance between them, and she had no want to ask about it but was fine seeing them want to run off at random times and come back looking like hot messes. From them doing that so many times she had a lot of time spending with Nagato that he became a replacement for her as a father figure. And she was sure that out of all of them he felt like she was his unofficial daughter.
Hitomi stepped out of her shower and toweled off in her room. She quickly looked for a clean ANBU uniform in the closet filled with kimonos of all shapes and sizes. She had very little regular clothing for she liked to wear traditional clothing, it was beautiful and comfortable, and it served her needs as a Kunoichi- hiding many weapons and alluring men with the exotic patterns and colors. Not that she wanted men's attention, she usually didn't and never understood why for she was never attracted to the same sex either. A little thought always entered her mind after that though. She would quickly dismiss it and go about her day.
After she put on her clean uniform and dried her hair, Hitomi grabbed a few fruit and her pack of kunai , shuriken, and katana. She had no use for her backpack yet, not knowing of what kind of mission she would be already sent on. Hitomi placed her cat-like ANBU mask and left her apartment. As she ran on top of the buildings, Hitomi snacked on her fruit and viewed the town. It was bustling as always with all kinds of people from foreign lands. The marketplace boomed in the day and the casino's at night. Konoha thrived even when the destruction of Konoha was attempted by Orochimaru a few years back. She remembered that time well, she was assigned to protect clansmen of all kinds from the enemy. One of them was her father, he had a guilty face on for the few days she was assigned to him. She only glared and sharpened her tools with her mask on. She wouldn't let him see the tears that threatened to spill, just the bright blue eyes that held an angry glare to them. Eventually he tried to beg for forgiveness but all she gave him was a carved scar on the side of his face that read: Traitor in kanji form. He had to live with that for the rest of his life, until he committed suicide a year ago. It was said that his shame was too much for him to bear so after he impregnated his wife for the last time, he had about four children after he disowned Hitomi, he took a sword to the side of his head-his scar facing up for everyone to see. In honesty Hitomi didn't care, her father and mother were dead to her the moment they disowned her. She only wished that after her mother gave birth that she would be drowned in guilt too and do the same, but she knew her mother well- she would rather suck up and coddle her own children than feign guilt and kill herself. She never cared for her from the beginning so it was no surprise that she was busy having more children and training them to be good wives and greedy husbands.
'Karma will get to her in time, just like father.' Hitomi thought as she saw the Hokage's office in view.
Hitomi stood on the ledge, contemplating to enter through the window or not until she heard the Hokage shout: "GET IN HERE." Then Hitomi slid the window open and climbed in. She besides her Sensei Nagato who always seemed to be there before her was early.
"Where is Leilei and Hayate?" Hitomi asked Nagato.
"What do you think that they may be doing with one hour of free time?" Nagato asked, now that he mentioned it- they both ran off in the same direction...
"Sorry Sensei, that was a stupid question to ask." Hitomi blushed and stared at her sandals.
"Its fine, they should be here in a few minutes anyways." Nagato looked out another window.
"So Hitomi how have you been? Its been three months since I last saw you both. Your hair looks to have grown longer, how do you fight with that length? You can nearly step on it."
"Its not that long Hokage-Sama. It only reaches to my thighs now, I will be trimming it shortly." Hitomi fidgeted, she always felt nervous around her elders- something she had to deal with since she was little.
"Oh Hitomi you call call me Tsunade, or even Okaasan!" Tsunade had little hearts appear around her.
"I uh...uhmn...-" Hitomi was thankfully cut off by Hayate bursting through the door, panting.
"Hey sorry we are late- we were a little caught up because there was a pink cat stuck-"
"Your not late." Nagato glared at him for his poor excuse.
"No I'm serious! Leilei saw it around Ichiraku and then it ran up a tree, we tried to get it down but-"
"Thats enough of your silly lies Hayate. Lets get to business now." Tsunade pulled out a few folders.
"No one believes me." Hayate sniffled but grinned wide when he felt Leilei's lips on his neck.
"Ok I have an assignment for you all. It is relatively easy depending on the circumstances. You four are assigned to protect one of our most valuable ninja. His name is Naruto Uzumaki and he is technically a genin but he has the power and experience of an ANBU. His life is in serious danger now more than ever and he needs some of the best ANBU to protect him, and that means you four and another squad coming here soon. You are going to protect him with your life and nothing less. If he dies then we are all doomed. You are having backup from the sand. You are to communicate with them and figure out a way to keep Naruto safe. Do you all understand? Your mission starts immediately, but you will have a day to pack and get to his house. The sand ANBU will be arriving in two days- meet me with Naruto when I send you the message." Tsunade passed out the folder with Naruto's information and location. Everyone read them over and memorized it all. Once Tsunade felt that everyone was ready, she dismissed them.
"Does anyone know about this Naruto guy?" Hayate asked the squad.
"He contains the nine tailed Jinchuuriki within him. If he were to die then the fox would either die too or be released and cause mass chaos and destruction throughout the land. No one is sure yet but also no one is willing to find out what will happen. The boy is loyal to the village so that is good, his power can protect and destroy a village like ours easily. It is best for us to have him and protect him from death or corruption by the enemy. He is highly important and we should be honored to accept this mission." Nagato explained with deep wisdom, from that explanation everyone knew how important this was.
"Okay, I'm going to go pack and get some rest. Come on Hayate-Kun!" Leilei grabbed Hayate by the jacket and led him off to another unknown area.
"Will they ever give each other a rest?" Hitomi asked Nagato, a little irritated at their shows of affection.
"Jealous are you? Hitomi you will find someone to love one day, and then you will see how much you wont be able to stop yourself from showing as much affection as possible to them. They become like a drug that you want to overdose on, a sanctuary, an amazing thing." Nagato's eyes followed the direction of where Leilei and Hayate ran off to.
"I'm not jealous! I just...think that I am incapable to love is all. Are you speaking from experience Sensei?" Hitomi tried to prod into his life again.
"Yes I am, and loosing the one you love is one of the hardest things that can happen to you-whether it be from break up or death. Love is an amazing thing and a horrible thing at the same time. Hitomi I believe it is possible for you to find someone, just open up but be careful with who it is though."
"I thought you cant choose who you fall in love with..." Hitomi was getting a but confused.
"That's right but you can guide your heart. Your heart will choose for you. Just be careful where you lead it." Nagato kept walking while Hitomi stayed still. "I'll see you in a day."
"Yeah Bye Otousan..." Hitomi didn't notice her slip up but Nagato did, he turned around and smiled before he left out of site. Hitomi was still too deep in thought, her mind trying to grasp the concept of love but was failing miserably at it.
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Mishiro stood at the top of a sand dune. His thick brown hair swayed in the breeze and his toothy grin widened when he felt his teammates behind him panting from exhaustion. He himself rarely was ever tired, he had all kinds of energy people would tell him. He would smile bright and say "Thanks!" and run off to some other place that peaked his interest. Mishiro readjusted his chocolate brown trench coat and fixed his belt of massive belts that hung around his slender hips. Mishiro had changed a lot in over the past ten years. He had recently become a sand ANBU captain and had mastered fighting with his favorite weapon of choice a few years back. An ivory marble Bo Staff made to endure all kinds of heat, ice, and attacks of any kind. He had worked himself to the bone at most times, always trying to prove himself and his worth. Many had doubted him and he had always proved them wrong. Now that he was on top he had no idea what to do besides go on epic missions like the one he was on now. He always wondered what he would exactly do but it never really sunk in until now where the only rank higher than him was Kazekage. Mishiro looked himself over one more time before he set off on the rest of the journey, he was half way to Konoha. His teammates were begging for a break so he finally gave in this time.
His oak colored ANBU pants stuck tightly to him and his assortment of scrolls loosely clung to him so whenever he moved he heard the small clanks and chimes of them, his light brown colored armored vest clung to him also while his long sleeve shirt with a high collar the color of chocolate brown shown underneath stuck to him also. People wondered how he could wear such warm clothing in the Sand villages heat. He would only reply "It makes me look cool though huh?" And then he would laugh at the face they made. In honesty the heat never bothered him at all. In fact having that extra layer of clothing made him feel a bit more protected, from the sun and enemies. To them he wouldn't be so easy to kill because of it. His long trench coat hid most of his weapons and the long sleeves of his shirt and pants kept him protected from most oncoming attacks. So in his point of view, Mishiro was the smart one.
Mishiro scratched his itchy light brown skin and then turned to his exhausted teammates. "Hey come on lets go! We have a day to get there." He smiled bright, his cheeriness made them glare and throw a bag at him.
"Hey! Don't be like that! We are almost done- this is my order so you got to follow them." Mishiro crossed his arms and smiled when he heard them groan.
"Your gonna kill us Sensei!" Ryu whined.
"You must be really weak if your gonna die from a little running..." Mishiro poked the now angry Ryu.
"I'll show you who's weak!" Ryu lunged at Mishiro who easily dodged and laughed.
"Can't get meeeeeee!" The ANBU captain ran across the sand dunes into a growing forest area, with Ryu quickly following. Rin and Miro sighed as they tried to keep up with the two.
"Why do they do this to us?" Rin asked Miro.
"Because we are ANBU and can apparently take it..." Miro sighed and continued on their journey.
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Well there is chapter two!
Naruto will be in the next chapter.
Mishiro and Hitomi meet again.
Explosions!
Ok so here is the link to the other story
Fanfiction dot net /s/6143405/1/
Its really good so you all should take a peek.
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Much Love~ LadyMarrowind.