I woke up to a knock at the door and cracked my eyes open. I wasn't a morning person, nor was I cranky when I woke up. When I woke up I was just tired for a bit until I was awake and my day started from there. I got up and opened the door while rubbing my eyes and saw one of the servants with a tray of food. I motioned her in while yawning and once the food was put down she left and I sat down and ate in silence until I heard the door open.
I knew it wasn't a servant since they seemed terrified to act out of line. Instead my small, silver haired friend was in here. She walked over with her tray of food and ate with me. "This place is so weird…" She mumbled beneath her breath while taking a bite of French toast. "I wonder what we'll be doing today?" I asked her and she shrugged. "Who knows…did you also sleep in those clothes?" Echo asked and I nodded. "I was too tired to change out of them." I admitted and she nodded in response.
"So…where did you sleep?" She asked and I shrugged. "I slept in my barrow." I said, pointing to my little cave and she nodded. "I think they made our rooms based on the animal we are related to. I mean, if I knew what a Genet was I'd probably be able to confirm that. I think foxes live in barrows though so that mch is good." She said and I nodded.
I heard footsteps coming close and stopped eating to look at the door. "What is it?" She asked me and I shrugged. "Someone is coming." I whispered and she looked at the door as well. A minute later someone knocked and I gave the command to come in. A large man, probably a guard, came in and looked at us. "I've been told to make sure you get dressed properly and escort you to the training rooms." He said and we nodded.
"I'll see you in a minute." Echo said while putting her food to the side and I did the same. The man left and settled himself near the closed door as I got into some clothes for training, whatever training they wanted us to do. The training clothes consisted of a white t-shirt and a baby brown jacket on top of it along with a pair of black shorts and some strange sandals thing.
I finished and walked out of the room. The man nodded and I saw Echo wearing a long sleeved grey shirt that had its collar up to the neck, hiding it. She wore long back pants and the same sandals I wore along with her now long hair up in a ponytail. She waved at me with a small smile and I returned it. "Follow us if you don't know where the training room is." The guard said and we nodded.
We walked through two hallways before we came to a rather large room. The ceiling was high up and there were trees and other things in it. The place was still in whatever we were living at, but it looked like it was outside. "This is the free for all training grounds. You'll be tested in here." The guard said and Echo and I looked at him in a confused manner.
"I thought we were already tested." I stated and he nodded. "This is for what place you'll be living in, your clan. We test you to see how strong you are and place you accordingly and move your room to the correct hall. The ranks from highest to lowest it Fire, Shadow, Cloud, and Tear. Depending on where you end up is depending whom you'll associate with along with the missions you'll be assigned once you're strong enough. The higher up you are the more superior you are to others. You are now part of Namida Village, or the Tear village." He explained and we nodded.
"If the Tear clan is at the bottom of the list, why is the village the tear village?" I asked him and he looked down at us. "It was the first formed clan that the Father made. This is a very new village that others don't know about yet. Our goal is to take over the place." The guard said and we nodded. "Who's father?" I asked him. "You've met him before, the man with the scar. You are to refer to him as Father while you're here." The guard said and we nodded again.
"Off to testing, Father will be here shortl…" he was saying before Father came in and looked at us. "I'm already here so you're dismissed. Echo and Sage, it's good to see you. You'll be training with Kunai throwing, sneaking, and taijutsu today." Father explained to us and we nodded. "First off, to the throwing fields." He said while having us follow him. We got to a place with several throwing boards and he gave us each five knife like things. "Try to hit the center from that tape right there." He said and we nodded.
I threw the five of mine and only one hit the board itself. Echo hit the target with all five kunai and one got the middle. "Good." He said and marked it off on a clipboard before we were told to sneak past a guard and get a shuriken from his pocket. I failed and Echo won. The last test was a spar with the two of us. I got into a stance as did Echo and when he said to go we both staled for a moment. Neither of us wanted to hurt the other, so when Echo ran to me first I was caught off guard.
She landed a kick to my side before I even noticed she moved then she hit the back of my head and I fell. Before I could get up she put her shoe on my neck, stopping my movement. "Echo is the winner. Depending on the results I know which clans you'll be apart of. Your bedrooms with be placed elsewhere, but everything in them will be the same, I assure you." Father told us and we nodded while sitting down. Echo shot an apologetic look and I just nodded sadly. I was always weaker than people, just never thought Echo knew how to fight at all.
"Echo, you'll be placed in the Fire Clan." Father said while shooting her a warm smile before frowning and turning to me. "You however are in the Tear. The guards will escort you to your rooms. Sage, I hope you try to get better if you wish to stay living in a room and not a cell." Father said before walking out. "Your bedrooms will be on opposite sections and Sage won't be allowed into the Fire section of the village." The man said and we nodded.
"However since Echo is in the fire she has free rein over the whole place and can visit if she wishes." He finished and we lightened up a bit. I mean I was placed into the weakest clan, but it would always be worse. We were taken to the place and the hall that I lived in was a huge diamond shape place with doors in them. I was brought to a door with my name and noticed nothing about it changed, despite the location. "I'll be leaving now, ask the people here if you need to know where things are." The guard said before disappearing. He literally vanished.
Once he left a couple people came out of rooms and looked at me. They all had abnormalities like mine, although I have yet to see what they look like. "You got assigned here?" A boy who looked a couple years older than me asked. "Obviously…" I mumbled while looking down. "Let me guess, your best friend showed you up?" He asked with a grin and I glared at him before turning my head. "Maybe…" I spat out and he frowned.
"Well whether you like it or not, we're now your family and allies. You best know that. I've been here for four years and Amy here has been here for five." He said while motioning to a girl who looked eighteen and she twirled a piece of hair between her fingers. She looked like a rabbit girl, so that's what I assumed she was. As for the boy who looked fifteen/sixteen appeared to be a dog.
"So what animal were you fused with, a Chihuahua?" He snickered and I shook my head. "A fox, you?" I asked him and he shrugged. "Great Dane, although I guess I wasn't great enough or I wouldn't be a dead last." He said and turned to the girl. "I'm just a plain rabbit…" She whispered and I nodded. "Let me show you around, here's the doors to rooms and if you go to the west and down the hallway you'll come to the dead last training room and go directly east you'll find yourself in the food hall. Go north and you have the library and go south you will come to a wall saying you can't cross it since you suck ass. Unless it's a Friday then you're allowed to go to the free for all training grounds which I'm sure you've already seen." He said while placing a hand on my shoulder.
"My names' Eric and as you might've figured out this is Amy. That room over there with the slightly fancier door is the so-called leader, Blake. He was fused with a bear yet is still a dead last, which makes us believe no matter what animal you have you're still capable of being pathetic." Eric said and I nodded. Wasn't he a ray of sunshine?
"We train in the mornings until the afternoon so we'll wake you up then. The library has various scrolls for jutsu that we're allowed to do and then there are some mangas in there from Naruto in case you wanted to study on the world through those." Eric explained and I nodded before they left me alone. I looked around and saw a clock saying it was about one in the afternoon so I decided to grab some lunch.
The place didn't have many people in there so I just went to my bedroom afterwards and fell asleep. I didn't wake up until I was woken for morning training.
Yay an update. Not many people have read this story, but who cares? I certainly don't *goes into corner and cries* oh well. For those who are reading I hope you found this to be interesting in a slightly weird way. I love you all goodbye~