Chapter 3 [The mission]

'Wow, it's already getting late…' Rin said trying to break the silence.

'Time past really fast…' Kakashi replied with his head still buried in his little orange book.

'Is that your house right here?' Rin asked as she pointed to an apartment right next to her.

'Yep.' Kakashi said finally looking up from the book, 'but how did you know?'

'I read your mind… and I appears this is the image of your house… the second floor…' Rin explained as she admired the small but comfortable apartment before her, ' and mine's right above yours right?'

'Yeah.' Kakashi replied, 'come on, we have a whole day ahead of us tomorrow.'

'True…' Rin said and followed him up the stairs.

'Here it is,' Kakashi said as he handed over the keys after he helped unlock the door, 'home sweet home… call me if you need anything, I'll be right downstairs.' And turned towards the stairs again and headed for his apartment.

Rin watched as Kakashi headed down then turned towards her new home, went in and closed the door. She then admired the scene before her; the apartment was reflecting the rays of the setting sun, the sofas, coffee table, an empty shelf, a kitchen, and a bedroom. She sighed to herself; it's been awhile since she is this relaxed. She went over to the sofa and slowly sat on it and lay down; then a flashback occurred.

'This apartment is from Tokai. He left most of his things in the apartment and left it to Kakashi to take care and wait to see if anyone was interested.' Tsunade explained, 'and I am sure that you would take it yes?'

'Yes, I'll take it.' Rin replied without hesitation.

'Good, the payment of the apartment, and other necessary needs will be paid by me for a year… after you have been familiarized with missions and have a steady income, you will have to pay for everything on your own… do you understand?'

'Yes, Hokage-sama, thank you very much.'

'Good, and also, you are now under the care of Hatake Kakashi, our best Jounin in the village. He will also be your caretaker for a year. After that you will be an independent ninja living under my, the Hokage's, orders and serve the village with your live just like any other shinobi. Is that clear? Both of you.'

'Yes. 'Rin and Kakashi replied at the same time.

'Good, you are now dismissed. Kakashi! I want you to make sure she knows her way around the village and...' Tsunade sighed, ' Naruto! See if your group will allow another new friend.'

'Roger baa-chan! She'll be our friend in no time! Believe it!' Naruto chanted.

'Good…' Tsunade said as she leaned back heavily on her chair, 'you are all dismissed.'

After we all walked out of the room Naruto turned around to face Rin

'Hey! Meet me downstairs at Kakashi sensei's apartment in an hour! I'll meet you there and we'll go meet some friends! And maybe some ramen!'

'O…Ok….sure…' Rin said and watched Naruto take off.

Rin heaved a sigh from the memory; but she was going to meet the in-famous friends of Konoha! She'd be more than happy to see them.

There is still half an hour till he'd ask her to meet him; she had plenty of time to get ready. Rin looked down at her attire and remembered. She still had not check out her new outfit! But her body was also different… one way or another.

Rin ran to the bathroom and looked at herself in the mirror; her hair was still maroon from the change in the Hokage's office, her eyes were mainly grey, but the closer she looked at them the more she could see, her eyes were both a different colour. One was a little red grey while the other was blue grey. She then looked further down on her body gained a few curves and she was extremely fit. She had the perfect legs, the perfect waist and so many other things a girl would want. And furthermore, her cloths fit so perfectly.

It took quite a while starring at the mirror, because she heard a voice scream her name.

'Rin! I know I'm a bit early but are you free to hang out now? I've brought some friends!' Naruto screamed.

'Naruto! You'll wake up the whole neighborhood!' a girl screamed, but those two people are none other than Naruto and Sakura.

Rin quickly went out the bathroom and ran towards her balcony. She looked out to see Naruto in his typical orange jumpsuit waving with his signature grin, standing next to Sakura with her pink vest and hair and green emerald eyes, and Team Guy who look worn out, as they are fresh back from training.

'I'll be down in a minute!' Rin screamed in reply and wanted to just jump straight from the roof. But wait! She had time before, why didn't she try out what she can do? Stupid! But hey she was a ninja; she could jump down from high buildings anytime.

Rin readied herself and jumped out the window and landed with grace right in front of her guest.

'So this is the family you talked about.' Lee said as he approached Rin and eyed her, as he zoomed in and out of view around her.

'Lee! Don't be so rude! Introduce yourself first!' Tenten yelled at him and looked towards Rin and said, 'Sorry, he is a bit …active at times…'

'Oh… it's okay…' Rin said giving her best smile.

'Everybody! This is Uzumaki Rin!' Naruto began as he took his place next to Rin, '…this here is Haruno Sakura! My teammate.' He pointed towards Sakura and she smiled.

'Nice to meet you Rin!' Sakura said.

'Nice to meet you too!' Rin said and tried giving her best real smile this time.

'And then there is Hyuuga Neji with the white eyes and long hair, 'Naruto pointed towards Neji and he gave a small nod in acknowledgement, 'There is Tenten, the weapons expert,' as he pointed towards Tenten, she gave a slight nod and a smile, 'and then there is…'

'Rock Lee! Lee if you must.' He quickly said, 'I've never yet met such a beautiful women like you with pretty eyes.'

'Lee! Back off you're scaring her.' Sakura said as she pulled Lee by the collar of his jumpsuit.

'No, it's ok…' Rin said once again. But Sakura and Lee were having some sort of a fight verbal fight right now, the were too busy to reply her.

'Hello fellow new comrade! My name is Might Guy! The Blue Beast of Konoha!' Guy interrupted Rin's train of thoughts and gave her a huge smile.

'Hi…' Rin said and gave a little wave.

'Well, I guess that's it for today! Tomorrow you'll meet more of them!' Naruto said as he gave me a pat on the back as if hurrying off to somewhere important.

'Sure.' Rin said trying to evade his mind. But she couldn't concentrate due to the noise, another thought that's evading her mind.

'Tsk, this girl… she is not fit to be a proper ninja, it's just her looks and her last name. She might be here to spy and go off her merry way.'

Rin was stunned, she thought Hyuuga Neji was a much more better person! How could he?

'Come on guys let's get going… I don't want to be late for my clan meeting.' The Hyuuga said as he turned away and started walking.

'That guy… he's always like that…' Naruto mumbled to himself.

'He's just suspicious of me… he thinks I'm here as an assassin or something…' Rin said louder on purpose.

Neji turned around and looked at me then said: 'I am merely just… being aware…'

'Then why do you think I'll run away in the middle of the night and slitting your throats on the way? Thinking that you'll beat me in a second judging by my body size?' Rin yelled. She didn't mean to be angry and sure as hell did not mean to yell, but Neji is really pissing her off with that attitude… and thoughts. But temper was getting the better of her. She's even a tinny bit taller than Sakura! Sure, if she wasn't able to read his mind then this would not happen, but knowing what he said inside that prodigy head of his? No, she could not stand people that looked down on her like some kind of lower class person...

'How would you know what I say?' Neji asked.

'I'm part of the Yamanaka clan… I can read your mind like I read a book, and what you just thought is plain rude…. Looking down on people…'

'Are you asking for a fight?' Neji said with that cool challenge voice of his.

'Neji! Don't do this! She's new and you're already acting like that.' Tenten said, very sincerely worried about the situation. And by the looks of it, Rin knows Tenten had taken a liking to her as well as Lee.

'Neji, you mustn't be like this to a girl, that is just rude.' Lee said.

Rin was fuming, she can sense Sakura and Naruto nearby, Sakura was trying to solve this situation and trying to clam Rin down but also putting herself in this situation. I could even hear her thoughts saying if she were I then she would sure as hell do the same thing. As for Naruto, he has absolutely no idea what is going on.

'Yes.' Rin answered coldly.

'Very well, we'll deal with this right here and right now and get this over with. Leet's see what your worth.' Neji said and got into his stance not bothering to remove his bag pack because he thinks this is going to end in a second.

I could already sensed Kakashi's chakra; he was up there watching the whole time waiting for his move to stop the fight and eager too.

'Do I honestly look so weak and fragile to you?' Rin asked in her last attempt to change his thinking about her… through words… but on the other hand she knows it wouldn't work.

'Are you backing out now?' Neji asked tauntingly.

'No… I'm merely trying to change your mind about me…' Rin said repeating the tone he used on her. Rin lifted her hand and held it signaling Kakashi to not jump down and stop the fight.

'Hatake-san, I can deal with this. Please clam down, I will not hurt a comrade.' Rin said calmly. I could feel his chakra relax a bit but he is still ready to jump down, but also confused in how I could have sensed his chakra even after he tried his best covering it with his Anbu skills.

Neji and all the others looked up in shock and were confused in not knowing one of their sensei spying on them.

'Kakashi sensei?' Naruto said as he looked up to his assigned teacher since Genin.

'Let's just get this over with.' Neji said again finally looking away from Kakashi and focused his attention on me.

I was still angry at his attitude, and I even thought he changed! But I ignored that thought for a while and tried confidently, and not knowing why but it was automatic, my first and most confident element: Lightning. I don't even have any idea about my powers but these thoughts come automatically.

I focused chakra into my hands and lightning slowly appeared in beautiful blue flashing electrical stems as they shoot out of my palm. I didn't realize I just created Chidori, a signature move from Kakashi himself, but I ignored it and looked up at the Hyuuga already in his stance.

Without waiting for a signal I started the fight and with that enlarging my Chidori and shaping it into a dragon with just my one hand. I positioned my hand straight in front of me and allowed the dragon to slowly moved forward. It halted right in front of Neji's face.

'Am I weak now?' Rin growled in a threatening voice.

Neji remained silent and transfixed to the floating blue dragon in front of his face just like all the others. But out of all Kakashi was the most shocked. It took him years to prefect it and yet here I am, creating it out of nowhere.

'If I let this dragon fly through you at a high speed, you with have been dead on the spot. If you asked me to fight you kunai to kunai I would have already slit your throat in a second, if you asked me to just fight you bear handedly you will be dead in a minute.' Rin warned. She felt the people around her tense. The atmosphere she created is not a good first impression and it just brought out the monster inside of her. Knowing that she let go of the chakra in her hand and the blue dragon slowly disappeared into thin air.

Rin bowed down her head and heaved a small sigh which was barely audible and looked up at the shocked Neji.

'I'm sorry... I got too carried away…' Rin sighed and looked at Naruto and Sakura, 'I guess I have a lot of explaining to do…'

'Rin' Kakashi said, and jumped down from his apartment window and landed right in front of Rin.

'Meet you at the training grounds tomorrow.' Kakashi said to Naruto and Sakura and turned towards Guy, 'and sorry for the trouble…'

'No I am…. For once my eternal rival! I have been wrong about my student. I'll see you around.' Guy said in a sad tone and signaled his students to walk away.

Rin didn't even bother to read the guys mind.

'Rin…' Naruto began, 'where did you learn that?'

'I… just created it I guess…. I didn't know I had powers like that before…I'm sorry… I was too harsh.' Rin said still staring after Team Guy.

'It's ok Rin! If I were you I would have beaten the hell outa him! No worries.' Sakura said with a smile and a pat on the back.

'Well… I guess your temper kinda matches Sakura's…' Naruto said.

'Come on kids. Go home… it's getting late.' Kakashi said and jumped up towards his window again.

'Well… see you guys tomorrow!' Sakura said and ran off.

'I guess I'll see you tomorrow then… ' sensing Naruto's depression Rin turned towards him, 'don't be disappointed…. I'm alone at home too ya' know…' Rin said and patted Naruto's shoulder.

'Nah, that's ok. I'll see you tomorrow then…' Naruto said in a rather forced cheerful voice and started his journey back home.

'Bye…' Rin said.

She then stared up at the clouds that were slowly getting darker and darker by the minute. It was dark orange by now… and some stars appeared behind the clouds.

Rin sighed and relaxed her tensed body. She looked around for a bit of inspiration on what do next, and a thought suddenly occurred.

'Stupid!' Rin shouted at herself and hit her own forehead. Hard.

She started with her newly thought star bolts. She closed her eyes as she concentrated on her hands and focused some chakra onto it, but it didn't work, nothing came out. So this time she just tried focusing on the natural energy around her and she felt a reaction. Rin opened her eyes to see the most beautiful glowing orange-red orb in front of her in the palm of her hands. It must be from the sunlight around her. She admired it for a while and tried throwing it to test whether it was solid or not. Rin aimed at the ground and threw the orb like a baseball and it landed on the ground hard enough that it formed a tiny dome on the ground. Rin smiled in satisfaction and created another orb to get use to the feel. This time she threw with more force and a bigger dome was formed on the ground.

'Rin…' she looked up to see Kakashi sitting at the edge of his window looking down, 'enough with the blasting, you'll do plenty tomorrow at the training grounds … can you come to my apartment for a while…'

'Yeah sure, one sec.' I said and placed both palms and my hands fingers outstretched on the earth and concentrated on the natural energy again. She mentally pictured the earth fixing the damage she just created and fill in the gaps. After she was done she stood up and admired her work; it was as good as new.

Now she found out she didn't need any chakra to work the elements, they are already around her waited for her command. Rin then looked back up and eyeing a wide-eyed Kakashi staring down at her trying to figure out how she did all this without even a little ounce of chakra. Rin smiled to herself, satisfied with her powers. She looked up and jumped high towards his window and landed gracefully on his balcony.

'Did you request for me?' Rin asked.

'Come in.' Kakashi said and walked towards his living room.