Chapter 1: Starting at Konoha

In a large classroom, there stood a hundred people clad in black kimonos behind their desks and chairs awaiting for their instructor to enter the room. Kagome has finally graduated and awaited for the assigned realm she must take care of for the rest of eternity. It was exciting for her because she gets to learn about the realm and how their world works. Perhaps even to fall in love with one of the humans there, except it was forbidden to.

Even for a hundred students in a classroom, the class remained deadly silent to wait for their instructor. They knew if they made a peep, they would not only enrage him, but also lowering their rank, which would give them the job they did not want for, for the rest of their eternity. Although the latter was just an exaggeration, they did want to be lectured for another hour about not talking when they are told to. But that's not the story that is being told today.

The instructor finally steps into the classroom in a formal black kimono for the graduating class.

"Congratulations class of the 10,000,000,000th generation. You all have achieved to the King Rank of Shi-no-Shisai. As you know, you have the ability to decide the fate of new souls, but you must choose wisely or else you will be stripped from your rank and be sent to execution. In another 100 years, your rank will be lowered to Queen's rank before you retake the exam for King's rank again. The list of targets are handed to you now. Remember, you can take as long as you need to get to your targets, but numbers will increase indefinitely as long as humans curse the other humans. As for your assigned realms, I will read the list now so listen carefully," the instructor explained.

"Sakana, Realm 1"

"Sesshomaru, Realm 6"

…

"Kagome, Realm 7"

She heard her name and her assigned realm. Realm 7 is the Era of Shinobi, the farthest and last realm from Tamashi no Ie. It's harder for Lord Death to govern the souls in Realm 7 due to the distance from each other so if some humans had tried, they can succeed in reviving by themselves, which is a non-spoken crime. Either way, she was excited for the adventure in Realm 7 and how it is like, not from books.

She pulled the list of her accursed targets from Realm 7 and read the names. The list consisted of:

1. Wanted: Sasuke Uchiha

Client: Itachi Uchiha

2. Wanted: Zabuza Momochi

Client: Jirou Murasaki

3. Wanted: Shin Kurosaki

Client: Zurou Kikuchi

4. Wanted: Sen Muruchi

Client: Kuroka Heien

5. Wanted: Itachi Uchiha

Client: Sasuke Uchiha

6. Wanted: Gaara

Client: Jin Kurosaki

7. Wanted: Naruto Uzumaki

Client: Sora Tsukigami

The list wasn't long but Kagome noticed that two of the wanted and clients were inverted. It seems as though the two brothers hated each other that much to kill one another. That fact made her somehow saddened in her heart a little. The list would increase as she entered their world. The targets will be fully executed by the Shi-no-Shisai by the vengeance and curse from the client. It was her job and she will complete it at the best of abilities.

"Alright class, now it's time to go to the Gigai room."

The class trotted along behind the instructor the Gigai room. (Bleach reference) The room was for artificial bodies that can be possessed by them so they can physically contact the world. Even though they can move freely as a soul in the worlds, they cannot make contact anything physically and only spiritual. The Gigais are also assigned so they can match they looked.

The instructor called out the names for each of their Gigai. Until it got to Kagome, she walked to the table where her Gigai laid upon. She looked at it, and it looked exactly like her. She felt its human skin on the tips of fingers. It was weird because it is human even though it was fake. Her heart felt odd; it was full of nostalgia, but she cannot remember what made her feel like so. Although due to the fact she is dead, she cannot remember her past life as it was taken from her by Lord Death itself. She smiled and took the body to bridal-style carried it and waited with the other Shi no Shisai that got their human bodies.

After about an hour or so, all the Shi-no-Shisai had retrieved their Gigais. It was about time. The time where they will live in their assigned realms to do their job day in and day out. Kagome reflected upon the memories of the first time meeting Lord Death and the training for this moment. She remembered and still felt the same urge for revenge of a certain being she could not remember. On the contrary, she also felt the need to protect humans from evil. She did not know why; they would end up going to heaven or hell or Shi-no-Shisai path for all eternity, so why bother to care? She assumed it was from her past life that was affecting how she felt now.

"Remember he first thing you have to do is find your Soul Weapon. It is the only power you can rely on to exterminate damaged spirits. Now Shi-no-Shisai, use what you learned and onward with your eternal mission. I will miss you all, but we shall meet again some day," the instructor began to add emotion into his voice.

"Yes!" all the Shi-no-Shisai said in unison.

The instructor smiled and everyone headed out. Kagome began to chant under her breath and bamboo sliding doors appeared and slid open for her. The portal spiraled in purple. She stepped inside and closed her eyes.

Kagome had appeared before the world of Shinobi and lived for 12 years of time in exterminating the damaged spirits from the living bodies. She had gotten her first Soul Weapon, his name was Inuyasha, but he decided to move on to the next life. Her Gigai was damaged as she forgot that Gigai can die from too much physically damage. Her replacement was of a 12-year-old that looked like her but younger. The replacement was special, it could grow until a certain point and keeps living as long as the she lived inside it, otherwise it would never die from physical damage. It was almost like a real human.

Since Kagome had no deadline to execute her targets, she decided to learn the ways of the shinobi to better her fighting style by encountering other shinobi and fighting them. She even encountered one of her targets along the way, but she failed. Her second weapon, Miroku, also decided to move on to the next life.

Kagome decided it was time to learn more about the shinobi way by joining a genin team and grow to understand more of how they work. It was fun for her to know new people, learn their culture, and made some decent friends, so it wasn't simply just her job. Although she liked to learn the ways of the people here, she was always slow on their current disastrous events that were going because she was so busy exterminating damaged spirits.

Of all the villages she liked the most, she loved Konoha. It was peaceful, and it reminded of her the feeling she had of home. It was mildly windy and had many greenery she loved. People were nice and social, just the way loved it. She knew the Hokage, so she should have no problem becoming the Academy's student.

And she didn't, so she made it to their graduating class of Iruka's. In current time, right now she was standing outside the door before being called in by her instructor.

"Congratulations on graduating Academy and becoming Genin. This is the first step in becoming a strong shinobi. Work hard and you will make it. Today I will assign you your teams, but first I need to inform you all that there is one extra person in a team that will be introduced today. And that'll be the first thing I am going to do right now."

The genin whispered with one another on who it may be. They guessed and hoped for someone attractive.

"Oh I hope it's a guy!" One of the kunoichi exclaimed.

"Yeah!" Another responded.

"You may come in now!" Iruka shouted at the door.

Kagome slid the door open and walked in silent as a cat. Her attire was consisted of a simple black kimono top with the hems colored gray and blue shorts that went above her knees. The kunai holster was attached on her left leg and her small beige pack was on her lower back. Her sandals were just like everybody else's, blue. Her side bangs were pulled back and tied with a red bow to the back of her head, leaving most of her hair down.

The most girls were disappointed, but the most boys looked excited. She was cute and gorgeous. They hoped to have her on their team.

"Hello. My name is Kagome Higurashi. It is nice to meet you all." She smiled slightly to be polite.

Most of the guys had hearts in their eyes toward her, and again got excited but from the sound of her voice.

"Please welcome her warmly as a tradition from Konoha."

"Welcome Kagome!" Most genins said in unison.

"Okay Kagome, I would like you to just stand here as I call out teams. You will go to your team once I call yours. I will point out who's who in your team."

"Okay."

…

"Team 7, Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno."

Sakura pounced up and shouted in glee, "Yes, yes!" And Naruto drooped in disappointment.

"Naruto Uzumaki."

"Yes!" This time it was Naruto's turn to jump up in glee and Sakura in disappointment. And Sasuke, next to them, was annoyed as usual.

'I don't need a team. I'm stronger than them. They will drag me down.' He thought.

"And lastly, Kagome Higurashi."

Naruto and Sasuke perked up in interest. They never have seen this girl, so they don't know how she might be. All the class had a taste of how each other are in person, but since they don't know her and was probably from outside the village, they do not know if they can trust her yet.

"Kagome, those are Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura. Please go sit near them." Iruka pointed to them.

Kagome walked up the stairs and sat next to Sakura only because she was the only girl that would be on her team. She noticed that all of the teams had consisted of one girl and two guys, how mean.

As time went by, senseis took their teams out all except Team 7's. Their sensei did not get here.

'As I feared, it could be the ever so late Kakashi who supposedly be lost in the path of life that will be our sensei. I guess I should at least try to make friends with my team, I hope.' Kagome thought.

Naruto was currently putting the eraser between the door in an attempt to prank their very late sensei. As for Sakura, she was too busy admiring Sasuke and scolding Naruto a couple times.

'This is gonna be hard.' Kagome thought defeatedly. 'But I gotta do this. Gosh this is so awkward. Ima try with Sakura first since she's a girl, might be easier to talk to.'

"Hey Sakura…" Kagome called out.

"What?" Sakura replied to her with a little defense in her voice.

Kagome sweat dropped at the awkwardness at the beginning of the potential conversation.

"Um, it's nice to meet you. Let's be close friends, shall we?" Kagome suggested as she smiled.

"Yeah, sure." Sakura hesitated while dragging out the second word, while giving her a disapproving look.

"We should all be close friends!" Naruto suggested as he ran back towards them.

"Yeah! And we would be the perfect team!" Kagome replied with more eagerness.

"Hn." Sasuke made out a noise.

"What?" Kagome asked, a little shocked he can actually make noise.

"Teams are useless since they will only drag you down. You can't even act on your own accord." Sasuke grimly opposed.

Before Kagome got to reply, their sensei slid open the door and let the eraser call upon his head. He was not amused.

"HAHAHA! HE TOTALLY FELL FOR THAT!" Naruto laughed loudly, almost obnoxiously while holding his stomach and pointing at him.

"Shut up Naruto! I'm so sorry sensei, I tried to stop him but he wouldn't listen," Sakura fake apologized. 'Yes!' Inner Sakura chanted while pumping her fist up.

As for Sasuke, he was also not amused, and was disappointed that his sensei fell for an old, overused trick like that.

Kagome just facepalmed at the entire situation while thinking, 'Idiots…'

"My first impression on you all, I hate you." He said indifferently. "Now follow me to the roof."

He disappeared almost an instant and the genin followed more slowly. All of them were amazed how fast he was into getting there, except Kagome since she saw him before 4 years ago. Even till this day, everything a shinobi does amazed her. Everyone sat at a step of a small case of stairs up, looking at their sensei who was leaning against the rail.

"Okay… Let's introduce ourselves. Say your name, what you like, what you dislike, and your goals. I'll start with myself as an example. My name is Kakashi Hatake. My likes, dislikes, and goals are none of your business."

"That's not a very good example Kakashi…" Kagome slowly commented while eye twitching at her difficult sensei.

"I know, Kagome, I know." Kakashi replied boringly.

The others looked at her in bewilderment on how they knew each other. It was as if they had seen each other before. Even though she might have seen him when she registered as a citizen, she shouldn't know someone they wouldn't know. She's an outsider after all.

"Orange kid, you go first."

"Okay. My name is Naruto Uzumaki. I love ramen, especially the ones in Ichiraku's. I also really like to train everyday. I dislike Sasuke cuz he's always so arrogant. But that doesn't matter cuz ramen overpowers my dislikes. My goal is to become the Hokage!" Naruto shifted his hitai-ite and grinned with pride.

'That escalated quickly. I thought he was gonna be a ramen cook.' Kakashi remarked in his mind.

"Pinky, go."

"My name is Sakura Haruno. I like…" Sakura looked at Sasuke almost creepily. "And I dislike Naruto because he is annoying. My goal is to become a medic-nin."

'Teenage girl who's interested in boys. Why am I stuck with the worst students ever? Brooding kid over there should at least be normal as Kagome.' Kakashi thought defeatedly.

"My name is Sasuke Uchiha. I don't have any likes, but I have many dislikes. My goal is to kill a certain someone…"

'Yup. Not normal at all. It's Itachi he's after,' Kakashi concluded.

"Damn you're scary. Don't kill me!" Naruto shivered.

"Awww~" Sakura cooed at his mysterious awesomeness.

'Oh yeah, Sasuke, I have to kill him later. And his brother. Including Naruto. How pitiful.' Kagome thought sadly about having to kill her teammate when she just met him. They were a team, and it seemed wrong to kill your own ally. 'Remember Kagome, it's your job, don't let your emotions get in the way. Ugh.' Enforced herself.

"You, blacky, go."

"My name is Kagome Higurashi. I like oden and helping people. I dislike people who hurt others intentionally and evil in general. My goal is to be the best I can be." She answered as honestly as she could. As a Shi-no-Shisai, there wasn't much of a goal you can hope for.

'Well I know that. She is still in a mystery though. There's not much background about her at all. Not even the Hokage knows very much. I have to keep an eye on her even if I had seen her before.' Kakashi thought.

"Alright. We will meet up at the training grounds at 5 in the morning. You all will be having a survival test." He announced.

"But we already had back in the Academy." Sakura remarked.

"I know that but this is a different and harder one. Only 16% of my past students ever passed the test the other 84% all went back to Academy to start over. I suggest you come early at 5 AM sharp and also, do not eat breakfast unless you want to throw up. This meeting is over. Goodbye." Kakashi warned in a scary tone.

He disappeared leaving the genin in shock. They all looked at each other in worry. What if they don't pass? They'll be sent back to the Academy and become students again. That would suck!

'Don't eat breakfast? What a liar. I know how this goes. I just hope my team can pull it off.'

Okay that was Chapter 1! I know it was longer than how I usually write my chapters but there was so much going on that had to be this chapter made it seem so…maybe too much? I will usually asap because high school made me busier than in middle school. I will try to update more often and write every week. Hopefully this fic won't turn like my other ones where I gave up because I wasn't interested at the plots anymore. Please review for constructive criticism and comments. Thank you for reading.

-iluvsoul12.