Detail Heavy chapter ahead, big descriptions of characters and clans. Be warned
"BIG SISTER!" Was screamed across the warm house, "Where the fuck is my headband, I can't find it!"
"Check under your fucking bed" the older woman yelled back from the kitchen.
"FOUND IT!"
Leo had recently graduated at the age of thirteen and like all graduates of the academy he had received his headband, a metal plate with the emblem of a flower with five petals blooming from a star. There was no fabric as the students were expected to make their own unique headband. As Nadeshiko focused on specializations rather than creating a balanced ninja the headband was a way of creating personality to identify the ninja.
Today Leo would get assigned to a team and would meet his sensei for the rest of his training. Leo had chosen to specialize in stealth/infiltration and sealing Justus so he knew, after Jessica explained the system to him, that he would be put with a frontline/heavy hitter and an illusion expert as his fellow students. The teacher would be chosen to cover whatever specialization the team did not have, most likely a medic for Leo's team, as to create a balanced team.
Running down the halls with a large Miso on his heels Leo came skidding into the kitchen. Tumbling head over ankles he came to a halt in front of his sister, who was glaring at him with a smirk on her face.
"What did I tell you about fucking running in the damn house?" She snarled out
"But I am late." The hyper blonde whined out as his sister smacked his head.
"Well I woke you up early, it is your own damn fault," she sneered out while she finished packing his lunch, "Maybe if you hadn't ignored my fucking yelling you would be on time you idiot."
"But big sister" he pouted.
"No buts, now come on, or you really will be late." The woman sighed out as she pushed the boy out of the house and locked the door behind her.
Heading towards the school, Jessica walking and Leo ridding on Miso's impressive back, the two talked about who Leo wanted on his team. The graduating class was somewhat large this year, with fifteen students being split into five teams and six boys this year including Leo. This meant that the chances of Leo getting the team he wanted were higher; the class had a variety of specializations.
Leo's chosen specialization; Assassination and Reconnaissance, truly suited him well, with his natural talent for writing and using seals, his ability to almost melt into the shadows, and his amazing trapping skills. Whenever the students had done practice or simulations, Leo's team would always 'capture the flag' the fastest; whether the 'flag' was supposed to be a princess or a scroll did not matter, Leo would trap the enemies and create openings for his fellow teammates to capture the goal.
Shortly after Leo's third year of school, when he was eight, Miso had been taken to the local animal medic to be neutered. There they had found out he was half wolf, half nin-dog of some sort. This lead to Leo begging for Miso to be trained as a nin-dog, as the pup would live as long as Leo was alive anyway. Miso had bonded with Leo and absorbed enough of his chakra that he was a true nin-dog and would live as long as his partner was alive to give him a chakra bond.
The large wolf mix started training, with Leo being taught along-side the dog, by someone of the Okami Clan. The Okami Clan raised wolves to be nin-dogs, and would help others train nin-animals. They had no special clan Justus or powers, not even any distinguishable markings, other than that they were very good with animals.
After the years of training together Miso and Leo were nigh inseparable, and the large grey and brown nin-dog was by proxy protective of Jessica. Not that the protection was needed, as over the years Jessica had picked up on quite a few ninja tricks that did not require chakra. She was quite a Taijustu expert now, with her Yaw-Yan style mixed with many others she had studied, many who sparred with her could not predict her movements. Teaching this deadly style to the next generation of Nadeshiko kunoichi had just been a plus.
Reaching the school building after the conversation had lulled, Jessica walked Leo to the classroom he was to meet in and she then left to the teachers' lounge, hoping to get some coffee before classes started.
Leo walked into the classroom and sat down in the back next to his friend. Kiko had gotten held back a year, after she failed her seventh year, unable to create elemental Justus of pick a specialization.
The two talked while the last of the stragglers came to class, with the head academy teacher coming in last and closing the door behind her.
After the door was shut and all the students were in their seats the woman began to talk.
"Today I look at you all as equals," the tall woman began, "And as such, you are to treat each other as equals, team mates, and most importantly family. We are all part of the village, flowers in a field of war, the poison upon the blade of death, and we must trust each other to protect our family. Today you will all be placed into teams based on your chosen fields, and you will train under your team sensei and a master of your specializations. These two people will help mold and shape you into the best ninja you can be, but you must trust them for that to happen."
After a tense silence while the imposing woman shuffled through some paper in the break of her speech, she began to speak again in her gravelly voice.
"I cannot say who your master will be, for it is your place to find one, but I can give you a team, and a leader to guide you. This paper I have," she gestured to the list, "holds your futures, and what the village hopes for you to become, do not disappoint us."
With that the woman began to read of the list of team make ups, all of them balanced with unique talents to create the best teams possible. When the woman called out for team three made of Leo, Kiko, and Meigestu the three stood and went to room 107 to meet with their sensei as the woman told them.
Once the three young teens entered the room they stood around awkwardly for a few minutes, before Leo broke the silence.
"I am Leo, and that loser," he said as he pointed to Kiko, "is Kiko, and I hope we can be friends." He beamed at the other girl.
The girl, Meigestu, just stood silently and looked at the two for a moment. Meigestu was a lovely young girl, with long dark blue hair and bright purple eyes. Her hair split into a low ponytail and a traditional Nadeshiko maiden braid with straight swooping bangs. She was dressed in a deep red polo neck shirt and faded green combat pants. On her waist was her village plate on a black band that doubled as a supply pouch and was holding up a crimson half skirt that was split up to her hips. She had black leather arm guards with small bells hanging off of red ribbons. Her shoes were standard closed-toe shinobi shoes in black that came up to her knees.
Her eyes were large with a slant to them and framed by long black lashes. They were colored in violet but if one looked closely they would see her eyes were not normal. Meigestu was born in the Hanami Clan, who were one of the founding clans of Nadeshiko. The Hanami clan possessed a powerful Dojustu that was illusion based, and created a unique pupil for the owner of said eyes. The wielder of this dojustu would have pupils shaped like a small flower, but when activated the pupil would bloom outward, resembling that of the village insignia. The dojustu user can create a powerful genjustu or illusion when the eye is activated and eye contact is made. These illusions are deadly as they cannot be broken like normal genjustu, and instead eye contact must be broken. The Hanami Clan made wonderful assassins and seduction specialists, and Meigestu was no exception.
"I am Hanami, Meigestu, third daughter of Hanami, Choko. Who are you? " She asked on a lilting voice.
Kiko was the first to reply, in an equally formal, if not more rough voice, "I am Kosshi, Kiko, only daughter of Kosshi, Aoi."
Kiko had grown from the young child she once was, and now at fourteen one could see the beautiful woman she would grow to be. With shoulder length, wild copper hair with a maiden braid and steel, blue eyes that were always smiling and filled with mischief, Kiko was the epitome of wild-child. Already at an impressive five foot eight inches Kiko towered over her team mates, and was expecting to grow another foot taller before she was done. She was dressed in a grey chain-mesh body suit that stopped at her knees and elbows. Teal ribbons wrapped around her wrists, left knee, and right elbow; the one on her knee holding the village plate. This was covered by a tan, short yukata that stopped above her knees, with a teal obi wrapping it closed over her generous curve already developing. On her feet were a pair of tan combat shoes that stopped below her ankles.
The Kosshi Clan was an old clan, and was also a founding clan, made by a woman escaping an abusive husband who enjoyed trying to break her unbreakable bones. The women and men born into the clan had large chakra reserves with precise control and with their already strong bodies they were very powerful frontline fighters. The excess chakra in their systems is pumped into their bones and muscles creating unbreakable bones and powerful muscles, their skin become hard and elastic, making cutting people from the Kosshi clan a task. They also have a tendency to grow bigger than others outside the clan, and are the reason people consider their village filled with amazon like women.
Both girls turned to Leo and Kiko poked him hard in his side.
"Introduce yourself idiot!" She growled at the boy.
"Fine," he grumbled back, "I am Gomez, Leonidas, first brother of Gomez, Jessica, First daughter Attar, Titrit."
"Why do you not share your mother's name?" Meigestu wondered aloud.
"Cause Big Sister said that she was kicked out of her family, and had to take her grandmothers name instead." The boy replied.
With that said the children sat in silence as they waited for their sensei. Leo played with the blonde ends of his maiden braid as they waited, his bright blue eyes darting around in excitement. He had dressed his best today, in his new ninja gear: a black chain-mesh full shirt, grey combat pant, and black combat boots that ended at his knees. Around his hip was a tan utility belt full of ninja tools, as well as matching ones on his wrists and upper legs. Seals were placed inside the containers as well, to make them as Jessica called it 'Mary-Poppins Bags'. The only color on the boy aside from his hair was a heavy-duty, burnt orange scarf wrapped around his neck and shoulders with the village plate on the hanging end.
As the children sat in wait, Jessica ran into their future teacher on her way to the work yard. They talked for a short time, mostly about innocuous things such as the weather or the prices of fish. After a few minutes of small talk and trading invites to visit soon they said their good-byes and went on their ways.
"Sorry I am a little late," team three's teacher said as she entered the classroom, "I ran into a fellow teacher and we talked for a bit."
"Yes, Teacher." The three said in unison.
"Care to introduce yourselves then." The woman waved at them nonchalantly.
"We have already introduced ourselves to each other," Kiko stated in a bored tone, "and you should already know who we are, so the only introduction left is yours teach."
"That is acceptable," The woman began, "I am Kurokizu, Hoshiko, Second daughter of Kurokizu, Utsu, and your Jounin-Sensei."
With that the woman turned and started to walk out, all the while calming giving instructions to the genin.
"Follow me to training ground A3, this is where we will meet at seven hundred sharp every day for team training."
As the woman walked with a brisk pace, the students were able to observe her and memorize her looks and voice, as any good shinobi would do.
The woman, Hoshiko-sensei, was very short, barely pushing five foot two, but she held an intimidating personality that screams 'no non-sense'. Her hair was the color of dried blood and rust, and cut short to her scalp except for her bangs, which ended in medium sized braids, and a short braid in back, similar to a rats-tail. The cropped hair meant her husband had recently passed, but the braids meant she had three children, two girls and a son. She was covered in bandage tape, including the lower half of her face and her hands, and wore an uncolored chain-mesh shirt and shorts over that. The only other clothes she wore was a black wrap skirt that held two swords to her hips, and had the village emblem sown onto the hanging cloth. Her village plate was attached to the straps across her chest that held two swords to her back and a medium scroll hung from her hip by a dark purple ribbon. Her feet were covered in heavy duty black bandages instead of shoes.
Her eyes were a bright gold color with raised scar like markings going down both of them. The black scars started at her hair line and ended past her cheeks; her entire body was covered in these markings. The scar like markings were actually seals, activated as she grew older as was Clan tradition. The Kurokizu Clan had a natural talent for sealing and were born with the ability to create chakra seals on their bodies. They would absorb the chakra from an enemy or their surroundings and put them into the seals in their bodies, darkening the seal and causing it to rise. As time went by the body would alter the chakra to match the bodies so that it could be used when the original became low. The seals were genetically passed onto daughters, but the ability to absorb chakra went to both genders.
Once the teams reached the training area Hoshiko stopped and turned to look at her charges. With a sinister look in her eyes she put a hand in her leg pouch and pulled out a small alarm.
"When this timer goes off the battle is over, and not a moment sooner. You three are to spare while I monitor and after I will give a training regimen tomorrow." As she set the clock for two hours and placed it in a small rock she continued. "No lethal force, and do not permanently cripple your teammates, now BEGIN!"
Things are moving, and yes there was a very big time skip, but squishy family stuff is easy enough to get across with small parts. I am wanting to get to the action soon. Comments are loved and so are people pointing out flaws, cause I do not proof.