Wind and Sand: Journal of Lord and Lady Kazekage
By TwilightAnimeLover21
Hikaru Journal Entry #7: Setting plans into action (It worked!), some duties, and something unexpected falls on me.
So it has been a while since I wrote in this thing, so let me tell you the details. I wasn't able to watch the Sand Cat, due to my 'duties' as Kazekage in training. Tetsu was showing me the scrolls of the history of Suna, how to work out politics with other villages, yadda, yadda, yadda. Then it was the Annual Jounin exams he wanted to talk about.
Like usual, I was half-listening and half thinking about which girl I should take out tonight to the Wind Dragon, a dance club, until I heard Tetsu say, "-I am thinking about snubbing the third exam. I figured that seeing that I'm getting a bit older, I'd rather not have myself go against the younger chunins that want to pass the exam. I need to focus on the village a bit more. Maybe I should change the third exam to another written exam." That was when I gave my full attention to him and spoke out. "Tetsu-sama. What if I take your place in the third exam? I have trained enough to be at your level." I said to him. This was my chance to set my plans into action.
He gave me a look of skepticism. He hummed a little and tilted his head in contemplation. Then I saw him smile a little. Then he chuckled at me.
"You think you can handle this? You may be fighting about five people every ten minutes. Think you can keep up, Hikaru?" He said with a smile. I smiled back and told him, "Of course! I am the next Kazekage after all."
Tetsu looked me over. "All right. If you think you can handle this…" And I interrupted him.
Pretty smoothly if I may add, and spoke, "I can take it, besides, you trained me. Not only that, I mean really, I'm sure I can take on a chunin." I told him with a smile…and he looked like he was holding in a laugh.
Tetsu doesn't laugh… he can chuckle, he can smile, but he doesn't laugh. But sure enough, he laughed. "You are doing this to ask out Karura Kusabana, right?" I have never been so dumbfounded in my entire life.
Hikaru relished at the fury of Karura as she glared at him when he told her the deal. There was no way she could pass this up. Besides, she doesn't want him around her anymore so this was her chance.
"If I do take the deal, and if I win, which I know I will, you will leave me alone for good?" She said as her teal eyes sparked with rebellion and glee.
Hikaru grinned like a Cheshire cat. "Cross my heart and hope to die." He said as he made the gesture.
"You are so on, Sabuku. I'll take you down. Even if it's the last thing I do." She said defiantly.
"And I'm looking foreword to it, Kusabana. I'm looking foreword to it." He said amused.
It has been two weeks since the deal he made with Karura. He hasn't seen her since then and has been busy working with the council to get the jounin exams up and running. This is one of the rare times when he was actually serious about his work. He was laying down ground rules and telling his fellow jounins -Did he neglect to say that he somehow managed to become Jounin Commander? He couldn't believe it himself - And was being strict about the regimen of the Exams.
He went to the ANBU headquarters to drop off papers for Denari. An older shinobi who has been serving Suna for more than 40 years, and he was proud of it. Denari was an old man, around his height and thinning brown hair trimmed with silver. He had a thick scar from the left side of his eye to the right side of his chin. Many believed that he received it during the wars, but he claimed it was from other causes. Causes that he will never tell you. He was a bit on the thin side, but one can tell that he was very skilled.
Skilled enough that he heard Hikaru coming up to the door while working on a document.
"Come in, I can hear you from a mile away, you still need to work on your stealth. Don't even think about using your third eye justu either. I'll stab that thing until it's gone." His rolling voice said. The door opened reveling a smirking Hikaru.
"Dang, old man, nothing get's past you huh?" Hikaru said as he sat down across from the older man and leaned back into his chair. Denari looked up from his documents and leaned back himself.
"I assume that this is about the Second exam for the upcoming Jounins. Correct?" He said as he eyed the papers in Hikaru's arms.
He nodded. "Yup. It looked like you guys changed up on that exam." Hikaru said setting into official mode as he handed the papers to him.
Denari nodded. "Yes, it would appear that there is a high possibility of a three day sandstorm during the second exam. For the participants, it will be more about survival than evasion." He said as he looked through the papers.
Hikaru's head shot up at the mention of sandstorms. It's quite common in the desert to have sandstorms, but if there is a mission that needs to be done, it is generally held back until it passes. Sure there are some safe points in the desert to wait it out, but these are the exams! Some of the chunins are bound to die in the sandstorm. He felt a lick of concern in the back of his mind but quickly shoved it down.
"So it's both evasion and survival? What if we lose our Chunin?" Hikaru asked with a slight hint of worry. He may be a playboy, but he does care about the well being of the village and it's people.
The older man shrugged. "We have Sensory ANBU at hand to make sure that the chunins safety is insured. Don't worry; they will keep watch over them. It'll only make more pressure on the chunins to hide more efficiently. Stealth is key in the ninja world. If you can't master it even in the worst of storms, you will die. That is what the chunins will learn in the second exam." Denari said wisely.
Then he smiled as the facial expression on the future Kazekage's face. "Do you know someone who is going into the exams?" Denari smiled.
He noticed that Hikaru gave him frown. "No. I don't. Have a good day Denari." He huffed as he stood up and left.
Denari smiled and chuckled to himself. "It's a girl. Defiantly a girl."
Hikaru was walking down an alleyway. His mind was lost in thought as he was planning some things about the final test. He should probably train a little more before the time comes. He can't wait to face the little Sand Cat.
"The question is: How am I gonna take her down?" He mumbled to himself.
He turned another corner and he felt like he was being followed. He turned around and looked down the empty alleyway. Nothing was there. He extended his chakra senses to see if there was anyone there. He didn't realize it, before it was too late.
A shadow descended on him with and unearthly squeal of "HIKARU-KUN! ~"
He didn't stand a chance as a girl with short feathery neon pink pixie hair* with a wide childish expression crashed on him and falling to the ground. She was on his back and he was face down in the ground. The girl looked around in confusion.
"Hika-kun? Where'd you go?" She asked in a high soprano voice. "Chiyako, get the hell off of me." Hikaru groaned as he bucked her off his back. She fell in a wave a giggles.
"Sorry Hika-kun! Torao and I were looking for you! We haven't seen our teammate in like, EVER! We were trying to find you and you disappeared from out sights and then we found you again!" She gestured loudly. She was flailing her arms in excitement, smiling like a maniac and jumping like a jackrabbit.
That was when he heard another voice. "Yo! Hikaru! I see that Chiyako found you again. What she do this time? Glomp you to death?" Hikaru turned his head back and saw a brown haired man walking toward him. Both people were his old teammates.
Chiyako Koyūbi was around average height with green eyes with childish features with a little pink star was by her right eye, her skin was a light bronze. She was on her tiptoes with her hands behind her back and smiling widely. She was wearing short ninja shorts with knee-high brown boots laced up tightly and her ninja pouch was wrapped around her left leg. She was also wearing a mesh elbow length shirt underneath her tight pink tank top, and fingerless gloves. Her Suna headband was wrapped like a choker around her neck. Her personality was like a child hyped up on sugar. She was strange, yes (Maybe dropped on her head when she was a kid), but she had a good heart. Though Hikaru wondered if she was a psychic with a brain problem.
The brown haired man, Torao Kaijiyama, was his height and tanned. His hair was ruffled in a bad boy cut, and he had brown eyes that held a slight bit of mischievousness in them with a little bit of rebel in them. He was wearing the standard male shinobi outfit, brown flak jacket and a Suna headband on his forehead. He had a scar across the front of his neck from when they were young genin and he received a quick slice across the neck. He was lucky to be alive and even luckier that he still has his voice. His personality was like a gangster, but he has a soft side that he doesn't show often.
Torao smirked at Hikaru. Hikaru got up and punched him in the arm.
"You Jack ass. You knew Chiyako found me and you didn't do anything to stop her." Hikaru frowned. Torao laughed at him.
"Yeah, I just had to you know? It's been a while since we saw each other and we figured that you need a pick me up." He said as he placed his hands in his pockets.
Chiyako giggled madly. "You have been cooped up in the council room with those stiffs and you haven't been around. We were lonely. Also, I see that people are watching us as if we were a movie too! You have to do something to move this plot along!" She said in a childish voice, looking around smiling as if someone was watching them.
Hikaru rolled his eyes as he ignored the last comment Chiyako spurted.
"Unlike you guys, I actually have things to do. Besides I'm next in line-" Hikaru started. "For Kazekage." Both of his teammates said finishing his sentence.
"Pft. Kazekage, schmashebaze, who gives a crap? We need to spar! The people need ACTION!" Chiyako said with gusto.
Torao smiled along with her. "Yeah, and you know the rules. Loser has to pay for dinner. I'm sure you have the budget to feed Chiyako and myself." He grinned slinging an arm around Hikaru's shoulders. "You know how Chiyako eats." He said slyly.
"Yup! I eat and eat and don't gain a pound!" She said wrapping and arm around Hikaru's waist.
He sighed. "There's no getting out of this huh?" He said trying to keep a straight face.
Torao pushed him. "Hell naw! I know you have been seeing some girls at night, so you must have time to spar with us. Now get your ass moving and lets go to ground 8 and spar!" Torao shouted and walked in the opposite direction.
Chiyako turned back to Hikaru and said, "You better spar with us! Readers will be sad if you don't!" She waved over to him. Hikaru wondered how he ended up strange teammates.
TAL21:Yeash, i think i'm on a roll here! :) So you get to see a bit of a serious side of Hikaru in the politic world of Suna, and you may be seeing more along the way! And you got to meet his teammates! YEA! I figured that he must have some crazy teammates to get to where he is now in the story. and breaking the fourth wall is fun sometimes. XD And a fight scene is coming up! So what do you think? What will go on in the next chapter that you think will happen? Will he win a spar with his teammates and save money? Or will something else happen entirely? Bwhaha! YOu have to wait! Also, * -this means additional information. Chiyako's hair is similar to Sui-fon's hair in Bleach plus the braids and gold hoops at the end of them. As for her personality, I sort of went Pinkie Pie on this, because Hikaru needs an extra dose of insanity! And Torao is a bit of a mystery, but i can say this, He and Hikaru will be facing off in the next chapter. YEA! :D
Anyway, i hope you enjoyed this chapter and REVIEW AND FEEDBACK! It keeps this story going!Remember to keep reading and imagining! :D