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Chapter two

Genin at last

"Congratulations, you have passed the bell test. You are all now a part of team 7." Kakashi Hatake said, his one visible eye lighting up with a smile. Rini Nara and Yugana Aburame let out a squeal of delight, both about to explode from happiness while their only male teammate, Shurui Hyuuga, just smiled gleefully.

"This is so awesome!" Yugana cried out as she ran a hand through her pixie cut brown hair, knocking out some of the leaves and twigs that had worked their way into her head during the numerous times that she had been knocked over during the bell test.

"Agreed, although the test was a little more bothersome than I would have liked." Rini said with an excited smile as she playfully high fived Yugana, who's happiness radiated off of her in waves. Shurui walked towards the two girls, ready to join the conversation, his pale eyes glittering with excitement that matched his comrades.

Rini quickly turned to high five Shurui, an audible 'bang' heard when their two hands connected. If possible, their smiles widened and before they could continue their celebrations, Kakashi cleared his throat, effectively ruining the moment and causing his new students to glare at him in annoyance.

"You can all celebrate later, after I talk to you guys" Kakashi said, pulling out the inappropriate orange book that he has read one too many times, "Be here tomorrow at nine A.M. sharp, and make sure you are ready to train and get your first mission. Eat breakfast, unlike today, and I suggest making sure that all of your supplies are in order for training. Other than that, don't go killing yourselves before you even get your first mission. G'bye." Before any of the new Genin could act, Kakashi Shunshined away, leaving a puff of smoke behind.

Awkwardly and slowly, the three thirteen year olds turned to face each other, looks of confusion on all of their faces. Rini's black eyes, Yugana's grey eyes, and Shurui's pale, non-pupil eyes all met each other and waited for someone to speak first.

"WHOOOOO!" Yugana screamed suddenly, the full effect of everything coming back to her as she jumped in the air, waving her arms wildly, "I'm a Genin, I'm a Genin! YES! HAHA! WHOOHOO!"

Rini and Shurui looked on, both of their eyebrows raised in a confused gesture, before Rini shrugged her shoulders as if saying 'what the heck' and joined Yugana in her ridiculous screaming and jumping, effectively making herself look equally ridiculous.

"We are Genin! We are Genin!" Rini and Yugana chanted, both of them now dancing in a very strange and almost gruesome manner. In any other case, Rini would have deemed this too troublesome but it was too happy of an occasion to be her normal, lazy self.

"Come on Shurui, try it, it's fun!" Yugana called out, tugging lightly on the pale boys brown shirt that flowed in the wind. Shurui quickly came to the conclusion that 'if you can't beat them, you join them,' and began to dance happily in a very un-Hyuuga like manner, but, if you think about it, Shurui is un-Hyuuga like most of the time.

It was a sight to behold, but everything comes to an end and the three of them slowly stopped their celebrations as they noticed how the sun was beginning to set (Kakashi came SUPER late this time).

"I guess we better get going," Shurui said, blowing some of his brown hair out of his face and slowly calming himself down.

Rini and Yugana nodded in agreement, and the three of them said their goodbyes and went their separate ways.

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Rini POV

I walked down the slowly darkening streets of Konoha at a leisurely pace, not really in a hurry to hear my mom gush in her extremely loud voice about how I became a Genin. Really, I loved the women, but she can screech like a banshee.

Looking into the windows of the various shops on my way home, I tried to walk as slow as possible and got easily distracted by many of the shiny objects, I trait I think I inherited from my mother. Sometimes, it amazes me how people like mom, hot tempered and strong, are so easily distracted and transport into their own little world.

I continued to walk, still slightly swelled with pride from passing my Genin test, until I heard the vague sound of footsteps behind me. They were light at first, and I quickly concluded that I was being followed. I kept my same pace, not wanting to alert my followers that I had caught onto them.

Suddenly, the footsteps became louder, and closer and it sounded like a stampede of cows. I struggled to keep my same pace, all my instincts fighting against it, until I began to hear people yelling obscenities behind me. I instantly knew what was going on and a wave of pain and despair rolled over me, crushing my earlier happiness and pride.

"Two tailed demon!" A villager yelled from behind me, causing me to quickly turn and observe what was going on. There was a crowd of villagers, about twenty, and more than half were drunk men with beer bottles in hand or some other sort of sharp/glass object. A few ninja were scattered with them too, which are the people I feared the most.

I was about to start running but two particularly burly men came up to me and sent punches to my gut, causing me to double over in pain. I closed my eyes momentarily, trying to ignore the pain, and when I opened them, the villagers had surrounded me. I looked around desperately for a way out, but my searches stopped when the villagers closed in, beginning to kick me and throw their bottles at me, sending me withering in pain to the ground.

Pain exploded in my body and I struggled to stay awake, even when a villager kicked me in the ribs, sending another explosion of pain into my body, and I groaned in agony. Tears welled up in the corners of my eyes and even as I struggled against them, they fell down my cheeks, leaving a wet, salty trail. I gasped for breath and shook uncontrollably, causing me to cry even harder, tears wracking my whole body, making it even harder to breath.

More people threw things at me and kicked me, but my body had begun to go numb. The glass from someone's beer bottle was now wedged into my arm, but I barely felt it, even as the red blood dripped down my arm in alarming amounts. My eyes had begun to blur from the shaking and the tears, causing me to get a slight rise of anxiety, making me wish that I could muster up my normal hot headed temper but something about the villagers always made me feel helpless.

"Die!" Punch.

"Demon!" kick.

"Monster!" Beer bottle.

"Killer!" A kunai from a ninja, I actually felt this one because it was embedded in my leg, the searing pain from it causing me to scream out in a horrid, near-death way. I barely registered it as my scream, the pitch of it so high and plain old painful.

"Murdered!" Another kick.

The villagers screamed in my ear, and it hurt me more than the physical pain did. Having the two tails sealed inside of me was a totally different thing than being the two tails but the villagers were so ignorant,….so in the dark that I just couldn't fight back. Why fight when they will just never understand? I am not stupid; I know they only accepted Naruto because he saved them. I haven't done anything for them to accept me.

I let out a ragged breath and almost didn't realize that the villagers had begun to leave. My strength was zapped, and the fan on the back that was so much like my mothers felt like it weighed 300 pounds. I knew I had to stand though, it was either stand or I would probably die here on the streets. The kunai in my leg made me think standing would be impossible, but ninja just did things like this, it was part of the job, and I was a ninja now. I had to work past it.

I struggled to my feet, putting my weight on my left leg, which didn't have the kunai embedded in it. I limped cautiously a few steps, quickly sucking in a gasp at each step, before determination overcame me. I needed to move. I had to make it to the one and only person who would understand.

Our Hokage, Naruto Uzumaki.

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I sucked in another breath, a sob wracking my body. I felt so weary, so hopeless, and utterly defeated. I limped another step and reached out my right hand towards the door knob to the Hokage's office, my hand shaking weakly and barely able to grasp the handle, so it took my last amount of strength to open the door.

I took what I promised myself to be the last few steps into the Hokage office and was almost immediately met with the familiar blue eyes of Naruto. I looked back into his eyes and he instantly knew what was going on and his normally carefree face set into a determined and serious expression before he moved into action, quickly placing me on the black couch located in the corner of the room.

Naruto was familiar with this routine, he fixes me up, we talk, I go home. The only reason I don't go to the hospital is because they refuse to treat me unless Sakura is there, Plus, it's nice to talk to someone like me.

I felt Naruto pull out the piece of glass, and sucked in a sharp breath before Naruto began to bandage it, blood quickly soaking through the band aids and quickly making me suppress the surge to vomit. Soothingly, Naruto muttered 'keep holding on' to me as he continued to work.

When Naruto began to work on the kunai, I began to go completely numb and my mind just wasn't attached to me body. I felt like I wasn't really there, like none of this was really real.

Slowly, I was being sucked into my own mind where I couldn't even tell if I had a body and I was unsure if it was good or bad. It seemed to me like all of the blood I was losing? Was not mine. That gross looking kunai? Wasn't in my body. All of this pain? Not from my body, at least that's what it felt like.

The rational part of me was screaming at the unrational part of me to get back into my sane mind before something bad happened. Sadly, my unrational part of me was stronger, and I drifted into the strange, almost nothingness.

I wished I had at least.

I was jolted back into my body when Naruto jerked out the kunai from my body and I let out a blood curling scream. The wish that I could just curl up and die sounded very good right now.

Naruto quickly handed me two pills and I swallowed them without question, and than my pain instantly faded. My body didn't feel numb, but it didn't feel pain, so I inwardly rejoiced, but my mind knew that it was temporary. Pills only lasted so long.

Naruto sat down next to me on the couch and I knew what came next, it was the only bright spot at times like this. The Talking.

"It's hard, isn't it?" Naruto said gently, meeting my eyes.

"Yea, sometimes you just want to….give up." I admitted, looking away from Naruto and changing my position on the couch so that I could lay down more comfortably with the fan on my back. "Giving up seems so much easier."

"Life wouldn't be fun if it was easy, Rini,." Naruto said, giving me a small smile, although he quickly turned somber, "but, even though it seems impossible, there are people that care about you, and when you give up, they feel like they have failed."

"People besides my parents?" I asked with a tiny smile, already almost feeling better but it quickly faded. Naruto nodded, also smiling, causing his eyes to light up in a way that made me just want to laugh. Well, it would have if I wasn't feeling like I got hit by a Rasengan.

"But they wouldn't have done anything!" I exclaimed, sitting up a little too quickly, which made me wince in pain, but I kept my position anyway.

"People just do things like that," Naruto said, shrugging, "and, if we didn't have pain, we wouldn't have moments that were painless. Sometimes, things like pain make you stronger, if you don't scum to the pain."

I looked at Naruto and wiped a stray tear out of my eye while I pondered on Naruto's words. They were indeed true, and it hit something deep in my heart that was hidden deep in the depths. I quickly understood what Naruto was talking about.

"I get it, Naruto." I said, staring into his eyes and noticing how, if you looked closely, you could tell that Naruto cared about me in an uncle-like way. "If you think about it, you have to have the bad to get the good." Naruto nodded, signaling for me to go on, and defiantly liking how I understood what he was saying, "Without hurt, there is no happiness, and you can't have things like peace without going through some type of hardship."

Naruto smiled, and I couldn't help but smile back. I had learned a long time ago that Nartuo's smiles were infectious. When I was really little, I used to think Naruto had some weird smile disease, and would always run to my mom or dad when he would smile and than cause everyone else in the room would smile.

Naruto glanced up at the clock and his eyebrows quickly shot up in surprise. Me, being ever curious, couldn't help but look also and quickly saw why he was so surprised. It was eleven at night, and my mom and dad were probably worried beyond belief.

"Time for you to get going, Fanini." Naruto said, using an old nickname that I hadn't heard in a while and causing my smile to widen further. I had earned the nickname when I had first gotten my fan, the same one that is on my back now, and refused to let go of it even when I slept. People came up with the nickname by combining my name and the word fan and used it all the time until I began to smack them in the head every time they called me Fanini, causing them to get many headaches and stop calling me Fanini.

"I'll see you later, bothersome 'Ruko." I said, using the nickname I had some up with as a child when he was still the only one calling me Fanini.

I moved to get off the couch but Naruto lifted me off instead and placed me on my feet, saving me the trouble of having to get up and hurt myself even more. I nodded in thanks and waved goodbye before walking out of his office, trying to get home before the pills wore off.

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"Rini, What were you doi- Oh my god." Temari said, starting to scold her daughter before noticing how beaten up and bruised she was. "They did it again, Didn't they? I have to go and kill some people, bring them back to life and tell them that if they touch my daughter again that I will kill them in unimaginable ways, and then kill them anyway just for fun." Temari said, getting angry instantly at the villagers, but it quickly wore off after her rant and her eyes misted over as she held back tears and hugged her daughter tenderly, being careful of her injuries and the large fan on her back.

"Its okay mom, Naruto helped me." I said, trying to comfort her. I knew that my mother worried about me, probably more than she should, and every time I came home after I got beaten up by the villagers, I knew my mom wanted to break down so badly and cry but she tried to stay strong, just for me.

"oh, honey," mom said, hugging me just a little tighter before looking at my injuries and gasping when she sees the kunai wound. She quickly takes a calming breath and I can tell it is taking all of her self control to not hug me until I suffocated. "SHIKAMARU, Get your lazy A- I mean Butt, OVER HERE!" My mom called out before rubbing my back soothingly.

"What is it, Temari, you t- oh god." Dad said as he walked into the room, startled when he saw me. He slowly walked over towards me and hugged me tenderly. When I hugged him back, my mom joined our hug, effectively making it a group hug and making me feel like a huge weight was lifted off of my shoulders.

When we broke apart, my mom was on the verge of tears and I was pretty close too. My dad had a look of deep concern on his face even though he looked no where near close to tears but then again, it was my dad. Tears were probably too troublesome for him.

"Rini," my dad said suddenly, "Go eat some of the dinner that is still on the table, than go to bed. Don't go hurting yourself." I nodded, smiling slightly, before walking into the kitchen, and bringing to my attention my growling stomach.

I slowly walked into my bed, tenderly as to not hurt myself even more and careful not to open up any of the already closing up wounds. By tomorrow, I hope that they are pretty much healed (Thank you, two tails).

Slowly snuggling into my sheets, I welcomed the safe and warm feeling of my bed. Today had just taken a lot out of me, and I almost fell asleep when my head hit the pillow until I heard a strange gasping sound. It took me a second to realize what it was and who it was coming from.

It was my mom crying in the room next door. She was trying to conceal her sobs, I could tell, and if I listened even more I could tell that my dad was comforting her quietly. Whispering words that I assumed were words of comfort, since I couldn't make the words out.

I didn't realize that I too had begun to cry until I reached up to remove s strand of blond hair from my face a felt the wetness on my face.

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