"Ok, pop quiz on the transformation jutsu, Reiko you're up next." The proctor said. "POOF" "Impressive." He commented it was then when Kotetsu came in "Reiko you've been moved to a higher class, come with me." Of course I had, I grabbed all my stuff and left, this was a pain this would be the third class that I'd gotten moved to. But I had to have some fun. I tripped myself over my feet. "OW!" Kotetsu turned to see me on the ground. "Are you ok?" "Do I look ok?" I said sarcastically. I had to bite my lip to keep myself from laughing. Kotetsu sighed and said "What now?" apparently he hadn't had such a good day either but still I was bored. "I'll just stay here 'til school ends." I scooted towards the wall and called for Sarae by whistling. She ran to me and sat on my lap. "Huh." "You know what dude you really suck." Kotetsu had me over his shoulder and was carrying me to somewhere. He jumped in mid step making me go up as well, I wasn't expecting that. "DAMN IT YOU REALLY SUCK!" I yelled. He did it again. "DAMMIT STOP IT!" He did it yet again I was getting really pissed. "DAMMIT STOP IT!" "STOP YOU YELLING IT IS DISTRACTING ALL THE CLASSES!" he yelled towards me. "LIKE YOUR ONE TO TALK BUB YOU'RE YELLING JUST AS LOUD!" "DAMMIT QUIT JUMPING" "FINE I WILL BUT IF YOU STOP CURSING!" "GAH!" At this point I had pulled the same act by getting my footing on his shoulder and getting free, only this time, I landed wrong and really injured my ankle. "DAMMIT" I yelled from the pain. Kotetsu was surprise and turned and walked towards me. "GO AWAY DAMMIT!" By now most of the chunin and jounin had come out of the classroom to see what all the noise was coming from. "Just get me some water." He was confused by my odd request but returned with a bottle of it. I used my special abilities and moved the water to my ankle where it glowed for a minute the disappeared. I jumped up and grabbed my stuff and put Sarae back on my shoulder. "Come on." I said. I turned around to see him some what dazed. Most likely from my ability. Once he delivered me to my class I bowed to him and told him that I didn't really hut my ankle until I tried to get away I then closed the door before he could do anything about it. I had been upgraded to the highest class, most of the kids there were my age. Which wasn't bad today was the graduation test so I might get out of this place soon. I gave my note to the current instructor and took my place in line. Once it was my turn I passed and received my head band. I think that's a first though. I don't know any other ninja that went into a school a normal kid and came out a ninja in one day. When the bell rang I ran outside but I bumped into someone. It was my little brother.
He tried to pull some move and he pinned me to the wall but I slid down the wall and came back up, and I then had him face down on the ground facing the dirt as I sat on his back keeping him down I said. "This is why you don't challenge your elders." I could see that I was making him mad so I got up off of him and said sorry. "Either way what do you want Sasuke?" "You are my sister." He said this as if he was still in denial. "Yes, it's about time you figured it out Sas— I mean little brother." He looked up at me again he seemed mad. "What's up with the name?" "We are on equal terms now, as comrades. He zoned out for a minute remembering this morning. "Plus I am your elder sister so Ill call you whatever you want." A sad fact he remembered. "So let's go." And with that we walked to see the Hokage where we were meeting everyone.
Once I was in the Hokage's office alone I was on my knees as I said "I have successfully passed in one day?" I said a little suspicious "Yes, well for the time being you will be part of team seven." Said the Hokage referring not only to me but to Kakashi, Sakura, Naruto, and Sasuke. I agreed to this and Kakashi said. "Well I suppose we could do the bell exercise again" it was then when all of team seven groaned and complained. But none the less Kakashi had decided and we went outside except for Kakashi he stopped to chat with the Hokage again. But I over heard them "You know putting five people is fatally dangerous as far as stealth and teamwork goes" "Ah yes but take a look at Reiko's stealth skill results." There was a brief pause, then "This is after one day of training?" Kakashi said. "Yes and the fact that she and Naruto are the same after all." I heard the Hokage say, this meant something. "Yes but as you said, Reiko doesn't know about the spirit," "wait, what spirit?" I thought. "Yet she has the skill of a jounin." Said Kakashi. "Yes and in a couple of weeks she will be thirteen and when that opportunity shows itself I will present a new position to reiko." I heard the Hokage and that was it. We were on the way to the training course.
Once we got to the training course Kakashi explained the rules we all went into hiding. I was in a tree branch thinking of not putting weight on my ankle. It was then when I had a strategy. I used my sharingan on Naruto as I observed one of his jutsu's as he performed it. I copied that jutsu and used it, it was the shadow clone jutsu. I looked around there was a bell on the ground, obviously a trap I sent a clone to get the bell. I looked around every one was surprised when I fell for the trap. The trap caught the clone and it went out in a poof. So another one gets the bell and as it disappears it throws it to another clone and so on and so on. While doing this it seemed to surprise Kakashi as I though it would. I threw a kunai and it pierced the two strings that the bells were attached to. I pulled back the wire that was attached to the kunai. And almost at the same time I pull the bells off the kunai and the third bell comes towards me from the other bell from the clones came at me. Ok so now what do I do with them. I had no clue and I didn't like the bells. They weren't shiny, they were ugly. So I attached three pieces of paper to them and threw them down to my other ninja companions each bell with a piece of paper with their name on it. I swung down off the branch. I leaned against the tree resting my ankle as Kakashi says "Welcome to Team Seven."
For a while we went on these D-ranked missions that were assigned to us. I was normally the fall back or back up. I didn't like to shine. I like to stay in the shadows please. Then came time to take the chunin exam.
"Reiko I pulled some strings and you can take the chunin exam." "Why do I get all the special treatment? ...Lord Hokage." It was such a pain being nice to the leader of our village. "Does it matter?" he said with a smile. "I guess not." I said ending the conversation. I finished the test I knew some of the answers and others I guessed on they weren't that hard. And then came the damn forest. Once I got in it didn't take much time especially since I had Sarae with me. We easily got our scroll and got to the center building. Though there were guys trying to get them from me but me and Sarae I took them out fairly easily. They all smelled the same except for one which I took out with my nose, and Sarae's. I released the scrolls once solving the riddle and guess who shows up. "Damn it, its you, I just can't get away can I?" I said in a dull tone. "Oh you're sad to see me Reiko?" Kotetsu said. I sighed "Maybe." "None the less congratulations." He told me what to do next so I went to the next room and waited. There was one other group there. It was sand ninja, what ever they didn't concern me. So I waited. Luckily my brother's team made it. It wasn't long until the preliminaries and I easily took out the opponent. I don't even know who it was all I know is that he was weak, or he was to me. So I went to rest for awhile and so did Sarae. Finally the damn preliminaries were over. I went to my room to sleep which I did, immediately. It was the next day and it was Kotetsu's job to wake me up without even looking he said "Hey Reiko get up or I'm carrying you over my back." He turned to see me I was wearing my pajamas with Sarae in my lap and my hair was fixed. I didn't bother making a comeback so I just got out of bed and walked past him. It was then when it hit him it was my birthday, e celebration for the Uchiha clan's annihilation.
I put Sarae down to let her eat as well as I, it was then when the Hokage came out and decided to open a conversation of course there was the "happy birthday" but then he opened a conversation about a ninja position that, I was to take today. Head of ANBU Blacks Ops. I inhaled the drink I was drinking. After several minutes of coughing all I was able to say was "WHAT?! I can't have that position I-I mean, I uh, well? Uh?" "Well do you accept?" I - I - I guess. But I'm only a genin." "Who knows Reiko you haven't finished the chunin exam you may become one, you may not. Either way you are now Head of ANBU Black Ops. Congratulations." After breakfast I went back to my room and changed and packed my stuff one of the things the Hokage had talked about was that I had an apartment up for rent and I decided to take it, Kotetsu and his comrades were going to take my stuff to the place. I decided to take a walk and some how rumor had spread that I was now had that title, just like my elder. But now I had a little nickname "Princess of the Leaf Village." It didn't bother me at all really. Finally the exams came I had a "special" opponent, not that anyone seemed to care they probably all though that I was just an Uchiha imposter or that I was mixed up and my name "might" be something close to that but its not their fault I was kept from the world and that they didn't know I existed none the less I defeated my opponent relatively easy mostly because of my water ability. I didn't win intentionally my opponent passed out after a while I'm not sure what of though. But none the less the great fight came and I stayed there doing what my orders were and that was to take out sound ninja which I did. But still, the Hokage died. But what really got me was that he had done so much for me and I could never repay him now. I was one of the first to send my regards at the funeral then I went to my new home. But there was one thing that I liked seeing while I was there and that was that my little brother was wearing the locket that belonged to our parents.
Of course as Head of the ANBU I was going to get called one day on a mission I wouldn't like, well there would be many of those either way one day I was minding my own business when I got an order to meet the village elders. And I did as I was told.
Once I got there they wanted to talk because with the title of Head of ANBU Black Ops I had a mission already. Also that I had made the rank of Chunin. Like it mattered now. I had the rank of Chunin like Shikamaru but I would never use it I knew if I were ever addressed by rank they would just say ANBU Captain. So I was leaving for a while. Well the conversation between us was supposed to be private but there was a snoop which I later learned was Konoharmaru.
Gramps is dead and now Reiko is leaving, this cant be! He thought
It was the night before I would leave and one would think that at a late hour everyone would be asleep as I stared at the moon out my window I heard a small knock on my door I opened it to see Konoharmaru. "What are you doing here at this hour?!" "Can I visit you for a while?" I didn't really have a response for that. "Uh sure." I let him in and as he walked past me he said "Why do you have to leave? Gramps is gone and now you're leaving too." "Well jeez Konoharmaru I have a mission I can't help that, what do you think your doing? Trying to give me a guilty conscious?" "Sorry." That night Konoharmaru or Kono I liked to call him that. He fell asleep at my home while I was singing a lullaby that my mother used to sing when I was little. I realized that he needed to be at home I was sure that he didn't say where he was going. "Man that's right he lives far away," I sighed. "Oh well." So I gritted my teeth and I took him home I knocked on his door and handed him to his parents. "Oh, I'm sorry Reiko was he bothering you at this hour?" "No its ok I wasn't asleep or anything. He is a good kid and I enjoyed the company."
And after I said my goodbyes I began to walk home I couldn't sleep plus it wouldn't be long before I would have to report to the elders anyway so I just made something to eat and got ready. As I was walking down a barren street I saw Sarae. "Took you long enough to get back Sarae. I thought you were dead. Do you know how much I worried?" She put her head down and I laughed "Well come on, ill fill you in on what we're doing later." She began to walk besides me and I examined her quickly. "Ok looks like you didn't get hurt. That's good it was such a simple mission." As I was walking we passed the memorial stone I remembered what the Hokage had never told me the information I wanted to know. I grabbed my chest for a minute. "Looks like I'll never know." I looked at the sky. "Jerk, you had information on me old man." I kept walking after I did a quick prayer, but all the prayer did was bring up memories. I didn't bother looking at the stone though I didn't need to remember the names. "Bastard, it wasn't for him to decide, but what could I have done? I was eight at the time, oh well." I just forgot about it everyone has their reasons and for what they do it for is not my concern, let them regret if they regret let them rejoice if they feel rejoice. I don't know how it was that I was able to forgive so easily. And I continued my journey to the elders.
"Ah, so you arrive at last Reiko, before we begin I thought you would like to have this," it was a scroll addressed to me but before I could ask what it was they answered. "It is from the Third Hokage and it is addressed to you, don't worry no one has read it, it was discovered in the Third's study. I read it and though "I can thank you for this." "So a dog spirit attacked a village located on an island, in order to stop it my father was currently at the village as was I, in order to stop the demon it had to be sealed, and I am the capsule. Well, that's nice." They handed me another scroll and it was my mission scroll I read it quickly. "When do I leave?" "Soon." "Well if that's the case ill leave now, ill send my report every five days." "Later." And so I got on the boat to go to the foreign land to search for rouges that could be a threat. I would be there for one hundred and eighty days. While I was gone a new Hokage had been assigned to the village.
"Huh? What the hell is this?" "I told you it's a new phone so that I don't have to travel every other day, I can just call you." "Well what ever, so tell me, any ninja's?" "Other than myself, and anyone wearing a ninja shirt no, damn it we're on a wild goose chase Tsunade." "Well how are you doing and how is Sarae?" "Were both fine the only problem is that I am a total outcast and Sarae doesn't like it. But she is ok otherwise." "Ya know kid you should be happy its almost time for you to come home and you haven't had to fight any ninjas be happy. Are you looking forward to returning?" "Some what, I know Kono is mad at me I haven't seen him for a while." "Well we need you out of there by summer." "Why?" I asked. "It's nothing. Forget about it, we're just locating something." that pissed me off "hey Reiko I have a question what grade are you in?" "Can't you do the damn math?" "No." I sighed. "I am in eighth grade." It was then when the bell rang. "Oh that was the bell I got to go I will see you in a few hours I suppose and I'll do the report on the boat. OK?" "Ok." Tsunade replied and I went home and packed some stuff and got on a boat to go home while wondering why I had to be out of this town by the beginning of summer. I fell asleep in my cabin but I may have overlooked something for when I woke up and got off the boat my back hurt a little but I ignored it and went to Konoha. Once there I went to Tsunade's office but as soon as I opened the door a shoot of pain went through me it hurt so much I couldn't say anything I just fell to the ground from the pain. It must have looked different to Tsunade. I later found out that it was because I had been stabbed in the back, literally a long scar trailing down my spine.
I awoke and I didn't know how long it had been I looked around, I was wearing black robes, was I dead? I continued to look around, no I was in a hospital, there wasn't anyone here but there was a small card on the bed stand. It was from Konoharmaru. "I'll have to thank him." I thought. I tried to move but when I did a sharp pain went through my body. I didn't move for a minute then I lay back down. It wasn't long until some nurse came in. "Oh, your awake." She said, of course not I am asleep with my eyes moving. "Yea, where am I? What am I wearing? And why?" "Yes you are in a hospital you received a serious wound on your spine and we didn't expect you to wake up for a while so you were put in those clothes." "Oh, well thank you but I need to see the Hokage. I grabbed the over shirt and I tried to get up but when I did the wound opened again. "Ow…" I said. The nurse somewhat freaked out. "Oh my, get back in bed M' lady will be in soon!" I didn't like being treated like a kid but I obeyed the stupid orders. It wasn't five minutes and Tsunade came in. "Well I didn't expect this when you came back Reiko." "Spare me the lecture, cant I just attempt to heal myself I am a medic ninja too." "I already did heal you it will just take a few days for it to heal completely, but now you'll have another scar to show off. That makes what? Six?" "Close, four." I replied. "Ah well, they make you look tougher." This annoyed me. "Ok, one, its not like I'm going to start showing off, and two, I never asked for these damn marks." "Yea well I can let your report go this once but what of the outcome?" "Failure, no ninja, and no threat." "Tell me did you like that school?" "Not really why?" I said now getting suspicious." "Heh, well it seems that now that you've attended your required to go on at that school unless you get a mission." "WHAT!? Do I really have to?" I complained. "Afraid so, sorry." "Great." I said. And so I really didn't do anything I waited and healed, though I would sneak out occasionally to go meditate and the local bath house when it wasn't too busy. I didn't do much that summer I went on missions and did as I was told just like the little mind puppet I was supposed to be. Although I did nothing on the day of my fourteenth year of birth, no need to remember what happened on that night or on that night or to remember the night I was born. However one day I was hospitalized again because while I was training the poison in that cut had come back. But who ever said I was an angel was wrong. I snuck out again and decided to have tea with one of my old team mates, Sakura. But for some reason while I was in public I was considered a threat, probably because the dumbasses at the hospital though that if I was forced to go back they thought I might snap and start taking out innocent by standers. Now I would only do that if I snapped, escorting me back to a damned hospital would only irritate me. So some dumb ass decides to come up and try to tranquilize me the only it was really a mind enhancer. Suddenly I was surrounded by black, visible chakra and then I blacked out I suddenly flashed back, and I remembered it all, everything, the loneliness, I was alone, I was in a mental panic It was like I was a little girl lost in darkness, like a nightmare only suddenly a monstrous dog came to me and it seemed, hungry, and there was no one to save me. Yet at the same time I could feel someone trying to make their way to me I felt someone protruding the darkness and all of a sudden it stopped. Sakura had come to me and her contact had made me snap out of it I was in the light again. I was escorted to the hospital again by an ANBU member.
Once I had recovered from my "episode" it was almost august and I was about to return I rode on the boat again but this time I made sure no one was near me. Once I reached America again I took my spot in my home that was there, it was big, too big for me and Sarae. It felt lonely. But none the less school started again and this pissed me off, I was an outcast, and it wasn't that, that bothered me it was the fact that everyone knew I was the strongest one so I often got challenged to fight plus even though I knew everything they still held me back a grade because I was absent too much, what ever. So I was walking down the hallway one day and a group of kids guys, and girls were standing behind one of the guys a girl said something. And I wasn't in the mood so in a murderous tone I said "Just shut up." The girl tried to reply in a cool tone "Why don't you make me?" I knew she was afraid like she should be. I cracked my knuckles and the guys of the group attempted to gang up on me, again. But like I said I wasn't in the mod. They boys didn't see what hit them all they knew was that they were going to hit me then they were up against the wall in a dent, not a dangerous one though. I looked at the girls my eyes red with the sharingan. It was then when the dean came around and saw what happened, I pulled the boys out of the dent and again every one was amazed I went off to the dean's room while the nurse was treating the boys. "Reiko we didn't have trouble with you last year, did something come up?" as if she knew. I looked at her and she flinched, I realized that I still had the sharingan active so I turned it off and she resumed her "Dean mode" "it doesn't concern you." I replied. "It does when you are putting students in the wall." I sat there "Listen I know you don't want to be here but I made a deal and I can't break it. However if you insist on going to ninja power then I will go to the extremes as well." And so I left in an even worse mood. Once I got home I realized again, the house was empty. "Well Sarae. What now." She barked and I began channel surfing and nothing was on so I decided to go to bed. Today was a bad day.
I awoke that day and I realized that I was the only human in the house and even Sarae who was lying down on my chest was lonely. I got up and went to the kitchen I made Sarae breakfast and I ate some toast or something. I would have to go to the store after school again today I was running low on food. So I went to school and I decided to cut the baseball field today. But there was something there, three thousand kids waiting, looked like the high school kids had drug the middle school kids into this. "THERE SHE IS!" one kid called. Oh boy by now I was at the edge of the field and they surrounded me. I began to fight just hitting them on the neck making them unconscious. All except one I noticed just watched for a few minutes then walked away. It was an easy thing to do. But the wound on my back opened and the pain was barely bearable. I hit the guy's neck again and I knew that the whit shirt I was wearing was ruined. Once I was done I used my ability to pour water on everyone, they were all unconscious so it didn't matter. I was walking down road to my house before they were awake. I changed and went to school. I spent most of the day on the ceiling I went to every other class. I didn't feel like doing anything. So the day went by. And once school was over I went to the shop and came out with several bags in my arms and of course I drop one. "Damn it." I said. I went to pick it up but someone had bent over and got it. It was the boy from this morning, the one that didn't do anything. "What do you want?" I asked. "Nothing, you're good at fighting." I thanked him. "Can I help carry some of this stuff?" he asked me. "Its ok, you don't have to I live a ways away." I replied. "That's ok I live a while away too." "Suit yourself." I replied again. So we walked to my house again. I realized something. This boy was cute. The first time I had met someone that actually appealed to me. "So what is your name?" he asked "Reiko, what is yours?" I asked in return. "Well most of the people call me Derek." "Ok, so Derek are you, like most other boys going to fight me when I drop my guard?" He looked at me for a minute then said. "No, you seem like a nice girl, plus I could never hit a girl." I thanked him again. But it seemed we arrived to my house too soon. I opened the door and let him in I put my bags down and so did he, Sarae began to sniff him then she leaned against him. I laughed as I put the groceries away. He looked around my house. "This is a big house, do you live with anyone?" "No." I replied he looked me like I was crazy. "I'm not from around here and personally I don't like it here. Especially this house it's too big, it gets lonely even with Sarae." I told him. "What about your parents?" "They were killed when I was eight." I told him. "Oh man its getting late, he looked around the house again. "Reiko can I ask a favor?" "Uh, sure what is it?" He stood there for a minute then said. "Can I stay here?" I noticed that his face was flushed. "Sure." I said. He seemed shocked for a minute. Then I said "as long as you don't try to attack me tonight. But I'm sure you couldn't do that even if you tried. I'm sure you don't know my weak spot." "Your back." He said I gasped. "How?" I asked. "I observed you this morning and I figured it out." "Oh, well, uh." "Don't worry Reiko I won't attack you." "So what's your story? Why aren't your parents freaking out that your not home." It was then when he told me on how all he remembered is t hat he was an orphan and that he didn't own anything really, except his clothes but he kept them in his locker at school so they didn't get damaged. I believed him and that night all we did was talk. And tell each others life stories. And for once I was happy that I was in America for I had met a boy that I truly appreciated. It was the next day and Derek had gotten all his stuff and had brought it to my house. We decided we were going to live with each other. So I was fourteen and Derek was thirteen. This did not bother me one bit. It was the following night I showed him my ninja moves. And I was going to train him to be a shinobi as well for the village hidden in the leaves had allowed him to be a ninja if I taught him which pleased him. I received some teaching scrolls and it all worked out Derek was a natural at this odd ninja art like he finally found somewhere he belonged and I was happy. And the following night I showed him my other side I showed him my dog ears and my fangs and Derek did nothing. It didn't bother him all he said was "cool." And I cried. Someone accepted me. Once I finally shook it off after five minutes of Derek stroking my back. I began teaching again. And he was finally ready to be a ninja and when summer came I would take him to take the exam.
The night he perfected the last jutsu I taught him I leaned to kiss him and he leaned too. But an ANBU member showed up before I even got to kiss him. "Miss Reiko, here is your uniform you need to wear this." My face was red and Derek hid his face behind his bangs. I changed back into my custom metal breast plate armor as well as my black drape coat but I never wore it I tied it around my waist, I wore my green cargo pants and equipped my ninja items I put my mask on its string and put it on behind my head the only problem with this was that my scars showed, my seal mark that was above my breast that ran down to my navel, my ANBU tattoo, the stab mark, and a small star shaped scar. The Anbu fell to the ground as two rouge ninja showed up. "DEREK CAN YOU TAKE ONE OF THEM?!" I yelled. "I COULD IF I HAD A WEAPON OR SOMETHING!" He yelled. I was in such a hurry I just turned some water into an ice sword and I threw it to him he caught it and the battle commenced. The rouge I got was easily defeated as I took him out but Derek had the tougher one. The second rouge sent a kunai flying towards him but I countered it and Derek took him out. I went to the fallen Anbu and healed him I then ordered him to take the rouges to Konoha. "How often does that happen to you Reiko?" "Being head of the ANBU Black Ops plus being one of the last links of the Uchiha's quite often since I became thirteen. So about a year now." "Wow." "What?" "Uh, nothing." He blushed again and I rolled my eyes. Together we went home to get some sleep. When Derek was awake I wasn't and he left me to sleep.
I was fourteen at the time and Derek was thirteen but he was incredibly tall he was as tall as a sixteen year old at least. But I didn't mind seeming incredibly short when I was with him and so I dealt with the damned school only because Derek was with me.
Through that year the same things happened. Some kid smarts off to me or Derek, I get mad, some kid goes to the infirmary, then Derek somehow talks the dean from giving me detention. Whatever as long as Derek was with I didn't care if I was given detention for the rest of the year. And so summer was coming soon and we decided that Derek, me, and Sarae were going to go back to the leaf village where Derek could be a ninja and stay with me. And so we left America hopefully for the last time. Along with the damned middle school.