Three is on its way and, again, HUGE THANKS TO WOLF MASTER UCHIHA. You rock my socks

This chapter had quite a few timeskips, even though they are short periods of time.

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Okay, so In this story, Rini is a weapons specialist, like Tenten, but also wishes to be an interrogation and Torture specialist when she grows up. Strange combination, but remember this.

The beginning of this chapter is….eh.

Disclaimer- I do not own Naruto

And now…..for the third chapter….

Chapter 3

Meet Kashi

A lot of D rank mission's later

"That, my students, is how you climb a tree with no hands." Kakashi said as he finished his demonstration and pulled out his familiar orange book. "Now, you guys try, don't forget to mark your progress, and I'll be back in about an hour."

With that, Kakashi walked away, leaving us three Genin standing there with awestruck expressions on our faces and a small amount of 'this can't be that hard' rolling off of us. It was quiet for a few seconds as we all stood there; digesting what Kakashi just said and did.

"At least it is a good change of pace from the D rank missions." Shurui said, breaking the silence and pulling out a kunai from the kunai pouch so that he could mark his progress on the tree he was going to attempt to climb.

Yugana and I followed suit, becoming determined to reach the top. The three of us took a few steps back and looked around the training ground for a tree to climb. I picked out one that was right in front of me and began to run, concentrating on the chakra in my feet.

My right foot connected with the bottom of the tree, then my left, right, left, and then, as I placed down my right foot again, the tree cracked and I quickly marked the tree with my kunai before flipping off of it and landing with a small thud onto the ground.

I looked around to see Shurui, who had gotten about as far as me and had just flipped off of the tree, and Yugana who had gotten more than a half of the way up and was attempting again.

With the grace of a gazelle, Yugana ran up the tree, concentration clear on her face. She quickly made it past the halfway point, than to about 75% of the way there, until she reached the top of the tree and sat down on a nearby, sturdy branch.

Shurui and I stared on in awe at how quickly she did that. I honestly couldn't believe that she had gotten it so quickly, but my determination came into play now, and I am going to reach the top. No matter how lazy I am, determination always won out.

I looked over at Shurui, and he met my eyes. We gave each other small nods, as if acknowledging that now; we had to get this tree walking thing down. I held Shurui's gaze for a few more seconds before I turned to face the tree again, pulling my kunai into a sort of 'ready position'.

Sucking in a quick breath, I prepared myself to try again, and than I ran towards the tree, again concentrating chakra, and quickly beginning to climb the tree, reaching only four or five steps higher than my last try before I slipped off of the tree, quickly marking my progress before I landing on the ground with another thud.

I looked to see Yugana getting down from the tree she was in and sitting in front of it, looking ready to offer me and Shurui helpful 'tips' for the tree climbing. I chuckled silently, this girl was something else.

Next to me, A small thud was heard and I turned to see Shurui landing on the ground next to me. Gazing towards Shurui's tree, I saw that he had made as much progress as me, again, and I couldn't help but sigh.

"Dang it, this is going to be harder than I thought." I complained, pursuing my lips in annoyance. Shurui nodded before looking again at his tree, a strange sense of 'readiness' coming into the air around us. I, too, looked at my tree and got into my ready position again, ready to do this.

Then, I ran.

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Few days later

Mission room

"For your next D rank, would you rather walk Mr. Kenshu's dogs or Help out Hana Inuzuka at the veterinarian office." Naruto said as he looked through a stack of D rank papers, a bored look on his face.

I looked over at my teammates who looked like they wanted to kill Naruto for trying to assign us another D rank mission. Yugana suddenly met my eyes and I saw a strange glint in the Aburame's eyes, a glint that I had quickly figured out that usually leads to something bothersome. I silently pleaded for Yugana not to do anything, but my plea's weren't answered as Yugana stepped forward, a look on her face that meant she was either going to do something extremely stupid or extremely helpful.

"Hokage-sama," Yugana began, drawing the eyes of every person in the room. "We, my team and I, are tired of these D rank Missions, like, really tired of them, and would like to request a C rank. Something more exciting and….just not a D rank. Uh….please?"

Shurui was currently staring at Yugana like he was deciding if he wanted to kill her or hug her, and I was probably looking the same way. The room we were in felt unusually stuffy right now, and I couldn't help but fiddle with my blonde hair to try and distract myself from the people that were staring at my team. I sincerely hoped no one would yell at Yugana for disrespecting the Hokage, even though Naruto never cared about stuff like that.

Naruto looked at us thoughtfully before a smile spread across his face and some sort of knowing look appeared in his eyes. A small chuckle escaped his lips before he looked at our sensei.

"Isn't this familiar, Kakashi?" Naruto asked our sensei, defiantly reminiscing about some old memories that my team and I didn't know anything about.

Kakashi just nodded, a smile seen from behind his mask and a reminiscing look in his one visible eye. I stared at him for a second, wondering what they were talking about, before classifying it as too bothersome to worry about.

"Well, Kakashi, it's up to you. Do you think that your team is ready?" Naruto asked, shuffling a few of the papers in front of him and waiting for Kakashi's response.

"Hm," Kakashi said, looking over me, Shurui and Yugana, and trying to decide if he should let us take a C rank. "I guess they are ready, as long as this C rank doesn't turn out like your first C rank, Naruto."

Naruto laughed even though the rest of us were confused. What could have happen on Naruto's first C rank mission that Kakashi didn't want to happen with us? Maybe someone died, but probably not or else Naruto wouldn't laugh about it.

"Let me see," Naruto said, looking through a stack of papers before pulling one out and examining it before nodding in approval, "here it is, you are going on a delivery mission. You are to deliver this scroll," Naruto waved a scroll that was on his desk in the air, showing us what it looked like, "to a man named Ryuu Ash in the Tea Country as soon as possible. It is going to a three to four days mission, including the travel there and back, so be prepared."

As Naruto finished talking, me and my team nodded in confirmation and Naruto tossed the scroll to Kakashi. I and my teammates were getting ready to leave, but Kakashi cleared his throat, calling our attention, and my team turned towards him, ready to hear what he had to say as our excitement and anticipation grew in all of us.

"You guys should go home and pack, and then meet me at the front gate in half an hour, got it?" Kakashi stated, meeting each of our eyes as he talked.

"Hai." We all answered, smiles present on our faces.

Before we broke apart to go pack, I turned towards my two team members and my smile widened further, as did theirs.

"This is going to be pretty awesome," I said, seeing the surprised faces of my teammates because I didn't call the mission bothersome. I couldn't be too predictable, now could I?

"I'm just glad that there are no more D rank missions," Shurui exclaimed happily, giving Yugana a happy look and me a look that seemed really foreign. It was a mix of happiness and something else that I couldn't quite place. Way to be confusing Shurui. "Although, Yugana, you could have gotten yelled at for talking like that to the Hokage."

Yugana shrugged her shoulders and I couldn't help but shake my head, denying that Yugana would have gotten in trouble. "Naruto doesn't care about stuff like that, Shurui."

Shurui shrugged his shoulders before Yugana's excitement overwhelmed her at an extremely random moment, causing her to let out a small squeal and pull me and Shurui into a group hug with her.

"Bug girl, please get off me." Shurui groaned, not liking how he was squished next to Yugana. I chuckled lightly, not really caring, before Shurui continued, "We better get going, we have been wasting a lot of time."

Even Yugana had to agree that Shurui was right, and we all left the mission room, ready to go prepare for our mission.

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Rini's house

"I can't believe my daughter is going on her first C rank!" My mom practically screamed, causing my dad to give her an annoyed look.

"Temari, don't break her ear drums!" Dad said, shaking his head. My mom pointedly ignored him and pulled me into a tight embrace. I embraced her back but pulled away quickly, noticing the clock in the corner of the room that said I only had five minutes before I had to be at the gate.

My mom noticed the clock too, and quickly let me get to business. I strapped my newly stocked kunai pouch to my arm, made sure it had quite a few ration bars in it, and quickly checked to make sure that my fan was on my back. Being the weapons specialist that I was, I couldn't go out without my weapons, especially my prime weapons: my fan.

"I'll miss you guys but I have to go, even if this mission is awesome, it is still going to be both-" I started, only to get cut off by my mom.

"Don't you dare say bothersome!" My mom said, glaring at me.

"You told me not to say troublesome, like dad, you never told me not to say bothersome before now." I told her and I knew I was right.

"Why did you have to inherit your father's brains? Although, you haven't mastered tree walking yet, so maybe you didn't inherit enough." My mother said, patting my head in a typical motherly fashion. I shook off her hand, slightly peeved that she had to bring up how I still couldn't tree climb, before hugging her again and than turning towards my dad, whom I also hugged.

My dad quickly ruffled my hair and I couldn't help but mentally groan. What was with parents and touching your head? I quickly fixed my hair, using the white flower clip that is normally in it, and then I re-tied my forehead protector around my head, making sure that it wasn't going to fall off.

"Bye guys! Miss you!" I said quickly once I was done fixing my forehead protector. I waved one last goodbye to my parents before walking out the door and towards my first C rank.

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The front gate.

"Everyone is packed and ready to go?" Kakashi asked us three Genin. We nodded, excited to get moving, and wishing that Kakashi would let us just start already. "Let's get moving then."

"C-rank mission, here I come!" Yugana cried out, pumping her fist in the air as we walked out of the gates and into the forest surrounding Konoha.

"Here we come," Shurui corrected Yugana, "if you were on this mission alone, who knows what would happen?" I chuckled as Yugana gave Shurui an annoyed glare. Sometimes I wondered how we became good friends so quickly, but I think it all happened on the day of our introductions.

"Since I don't know any of you guys, you are going to introduce yourselves to me. Tell me your names, likes, dislikes, hobbies, and dreams." Our new sensei, Kakashi, told us. I was barely listening because I was wondering how you could understand him so clearly with that mask over his mouth. "You first, Hyuuga."

Shurui glanced at Kakashi with a raised eyebrow before starting, "I am Shurui Hyuuga, I like writing, reading, running, cracking jokes, and just hanging out. I dislike people that are always quite and serious. My hobbies are pretty much all of my likes and my dream is to become an elite Jounin and write a book. Don't get too excited Kakashi, the book I want to write is going to be nothing like the pervy stuff you usually read. " Kakashi nodded, not bad although he made fun of my book, he thought.

"Your turn," Kakashi said, motioning towards Yugana who was fiddling with her forehead protector in a slightly distracted manner.

"Hey-a, I am Yugana Aburame. I like bugs, flowers, jokes, and just having fun. I dislike people that squash my bugs and people that are boring. My hobbies are collecting bugs and flowers, and my dream is to join the ANBU but not become all dull and serious like everyone else in the ANBU."

Kakashi looked at Yugana strangely before speaking, "O-Okay, Girl with the fan, it's your turn." I frowned slightly at the nickname he used to address me. I know that he already knows that I am a Nara, so why not just 'Nara', or 'blondie', but girl with the fan was almost rudely generic.

"I am Rini Nara and I like to watch stars, play Shogi, hang out with friends, and using my fan to randomly knock over things with a gust of wind when I don't deem it too bothersome, so not often. I strongly dislike anything bothersome and cloud watching, it just doesn't compare to star watching! My goal is to become a weapons specialist, like the famous Tenten, and my dream is to keep the weapons specialist title while becoming an Interrogation and Torture specialist." When I finished, everyone was staring at me with wide eyes.

"That's quite a dream you got there." Kakashi told me, staring at me a little strangely. "You won't be able to achieve it, though, unless you pass this test."

"WHAT?"

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Farther in the forest, numerous hours later.

The sun was so far past the horizon that it was hard to believe it would rise tomorrow, and the rest of my team was fast asleep while I stayed awake, taking first watch. I would have normally never agree to take watch at all, but sleep seemed so far away, even now, because of one thought that kept nagging at me.

Tree walking.

I can't do it yet and it's so hard to believe. I know the Nara clan jutsu, elemental jutsu, and some other jutsu's that my mom and dad have taught me, but just not the bothersome tree walking which isn't even a jutsu, just an exercise. In a spur of the moment idea that banished all of my laziness, I jumped up from my spot on the ground and pulled out a kunai. Quickly picking out a random, nearby, tree, I turned to it and ran, pushing chakra into my feet.

My feet connected with the tree about three feet up until I suddenly slipped off of the tree, leaving a mark with the kunai on the bark. I stumbled onto the grass forest floor and grumbled in annoyance. This was already bothersome.

I had an inner debate going on, deciding if I should keep going or if I should stop. My will to keep going beat out my laziness and I tried again, running at the tree with full force.

Just to fall.

I ran again.

I fell.

Run.

Fall.

Run.

Fall.

Run.

Crash. Ow.

Run.

Fall.

"This is so hopeless," I huffed out, looking up into the sky that was barely seen through the dense foliage. Suddenly and truly unexpectedly, I felt a Chakra signature that was oddly familiar yet I couldn't quite place it.

"Hn, this is sad." A male voice said from the forest right in front of me. I glared in the general direction of the voice until a boy, about thirteen, stepped out from the trees. The male's dark black hair framed his face and seemed to be so dark that it blended in with the nighttime. His eyes were such a dark blue that it almost resembled black and had the same effect his hair had, while also drawing your attention to his well built body, medium height, and a scar from the left side of his jaw to his left eye.

"It isn't nice to revel in others failures." I shot at him, strengthening my glare and putting my hands on my hips for effect. I know that I should probably be more on guard but if this boy was going to cause me any harm, then he wouldn't have given away his presence and started a conversation with me.

"I never said I was nice." Unknown boy told me, stepping a little closer towards me.

"Ug, you're just another one of those bothersome boys that I just want to kill. If you aren't going to help me, please leave." I said, noticing that I just left him the offer to stay and help me tree climb even though I didn't know him. Oh well, if a fight began, Kakashi sensei is in the tent not ten feet away. How he hasn't woken up yet is almost beyond me, but then again, he is sleeping in the same tent as Shurui and I can hear Shurui's snoring from here.

"Then I guess I am going to help you master tree climbing." He said, stepping closer. A small smirk was apparent on his face and I couldn't help but smirk also.

"If you wish." I shrugged before putting away the previous kunai I was using and taking out a new, sharper one. "Now, what am I doing wrong?"

"The chakra you emit is too much, and when you realize that, you cut off the supply almost completely." Unnamed boy told me, an almost teacher-like tone in his voice.

"Okay," I said, thinking this through and connecting the dots, "So I don't send out a steady stream of Chakra. Is that all?" I raised and eyebrow and unnamed boy nodded and gestured for me to try the tree climbing again.

I took a small breath before getting into a ready stance, gripping my kunai tightly. I ran towards the tree and began to concentrate my chakra. I imagined myself drawing a straight line, if you put too much pressure into it, you ripped the paper and if you put in too little, the writing was faint and hard to see.

I quickly climbed higher and higher up the tree, a smile finding its way onto my face as I shot past all my past attempts.

I reached the halfway point of the tree and knew that I couldn't revel in my victory, I had to keep concentration or else I would fall.

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I let out a gleeful laugh, so happy that I had reached the top of the tree. I had finally done it and it was all thanks to… to…I really need to find out that boy's name. Sooner than I would have liked, I jumped down from the tree and approached the boy, smiling like a maniac.

"Can I know my new hero's name?" I said, joking about the new hero thing. The boy smirked and shrugged his shoulders.

"Kashi. May I know your name?" The boy, now known as Kashi, said to me, his dark blue eyes staring into my black ones.

"Hey Kashi, I'm Rini." I told him, holding out my hand for him to shake. Tentatively, Kashi reached out and shook it, giving me strange look that I couldn't quite decipher. It seemed to be one of those expressions where someone thought that someone/thing was familiar but couldn't quite place. I quickly filed it away to analyze later.

"So, what'cha doing out here, Kashi?" I asked him as I sat down on the forest floor.

"I was training," Kashi told me, giving me a look that said 'I was until you came around.' I had to huff at that, he was the one that came to me.

"That's, bothersome," I said, Kashi's face flashed into one of those 'familiar but not' expressions before turning into a plain slate that is present a lot on Kashi's face. I raised an eyebrow, showing him that I noticed the expression. Kashi showed no recognition of my action and I decided to just keep a watch on him.

"You know you are going to have to keep tree climbing right? You can't only do something once and say you mastered it." Kashi told me, breaking out of our nonchalant conversation and sadly steering it towards training.

"Yea, I'm going." I said, standing up and stretching out my arms. I realized I was still holding my kunai and that I could have seriously hurt myself. I shrugged it off and prepared to tree climb again.

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3rd person POV

Well into the night, Rini continued her tree climbing with Kashi watching. The two thirteen year olds talked and laughed, which was an unusual feat for Kashi. The boy found that he enjoyed this familiar girl's company, but he would never admit it.

Even though most of their conversations involved them teasing each other, the two teens enjoyed each others company.

The night dragged on and Rini grew tired, even with her enormous chakra reserves. It amazed Kashi that she could go on for so long, but he was oblivious to the fact that she was a jinchuriki so it explained a lot. Eventually, Rini grew a little too tired, and fainted from exhaustion, falling into Kashi's arms.

Kashi placed her in front of her team's tent, realizing that no one came out to relieve her of her watch. Deciding that it was probably one of her teammates that forgot to wake up, Kashi shrugged it off and left Rini, leaving her with a silent goodbye.

Rini woke up last the next day, the rest of her team finished packing up the campsite. They moved on quickly, no one questioning her exhaustion, all connecting it to some all night training session, but none suspecting her visitor. Rini was slightly suspicious of her team but shrugged it off as she walked, her wind wandering.

Wandering onto what exactly?

Well, Kashi of course. Who/what else?

R&R

-Rini1Nara1