I’m Ino Yamanaka. Nice to meet you Aohokiba” Ino Yamanaka had said when introducing herself. “Okay i’m first! I’m Ino Yamanaka, My father runs a flower shop and i help out sometimes so i know alot about different flowers. I guess that could be my favorite hobbie. I like a lot of things to and my current goal is to get noticed by a certain someone at the Academy”. “The blades of grass aren’t what supports the flower. The soil and roots are what gives it the nutrients so it can grow dummy. Everybody knows that”. Aohokiba remembered how outraged Ino was with her after the incident with Kuromaru when she kicked him to a tree when she blacked out. “If you ever hurt Kuromaru like that again, i swear i’ll-” the way her father sternly interrupted her. “Ino!. Leave her alone and come on” he had said. “You don’t understand Daddy!” Ino had protested only to get a stern demand from her father. “Ino Yamanaka! Get over here this instant!”. Her words “You’re lucky my daddy's here this time but i’m gonna get you back for this and i won’t go easy on you!” rang in Aohokiba’s ears. Ichigo’s father, Rieju’s voice entered Aohokiba’s thoughts. “Ichigo! Why are you out of bed?!...Leave her alone and come on!”. “Don’t worry Uzumaki, i wouldn’t do what you’d think i’d like to, to this jinchuuriki!” he had spat at Minato before calling him a coward just a little less than an hour ago. “It changes her chakra?!...Ichigo!, come on son, we’re leaving!...I said come on!...I won’t accept this. Ichigo, we’re going home now, come on-!”. “I need to talk to my son about how he chooses his friends” he had said to Sarada. “You dare question the way i raise my son!”. Aohokiba remembered everyone who opened up to her and the people who she thought made her not feel alone since being adopted into the village. She remembered when she was taken into the village first by Minato Namikaze and Iruka. “Shhh… it’s okay” Minato Namikaze. “Sir! Is she alright?” Iruka Umino. “Iruka! She needs to be taken to the Medical Corps ASAP! Those were rogue cloud ninja one of them by the looks of it, it was a medical ninja, this girls life’s on the line!”. “The village isn’t that far from here. Don’t waste any more of your chakra, i’ll take her”. “Alright. It doesn’t look like she’s from the ‘Village Hidden In The Leaves’ (Konohagakure). It looks like she may be an orphan. I can tell she’s half starved, Iruka you’ve got to hurry”. “Right”. (To Aohokiba) “Try to relax, it’s alright”. “My name is Iruka, Iruka Umino. I’m a ‘Jonin’ (High-Ranked Ninja) of Konoha (Leaf Village). That man back there was Minato, he’s also a Jonin. Do you have a name miss?” he had said to her when he carried her to the village. “I see, well don’t worry kid we’re almost to the village. We’ll get you patched up. Just try to stay away a little longer okay”. Aohokiba still had her regrets about not thanking him, and Minato for that night. She remembered her sensei, Kakashi Hatake and how she tried to run from him, thinking he was the Kakashi who attacked her. He tried to calm her saying “Whoa, whoa, whoa, hey it’s okay, it’s okay!...No, i would never do that type of thing to a little kid for no reason, unless of course it’s an enemy using a transformation jutsu...Nevermind that now. You don’t look like you’re from this village are you?”. Aohokiba remembered how shocked she was that he would be her sensei when she went to her first day at the academy. The way he warmly said “Sorry i didn’t mean to scare you. Remember me?...Good to know you have a sharp memory...Alright, let’s head in shall we...You’re shy and that’s okay. Well here’s your first lesson:Make friends in there. Two of them are bound to like you and you know why?...When you graduate, you’ll be put on a squad with two others that you’ll have to carry out missions with, so you’ll have to get along with each other. Understand?”. “Passing notes in class are we?...Aohokiba Uzumaki! Don’t tell me you’re hoping to cheat on your first day at this academy!...Give me it...Now...I’d like you to stay after class, i need to speak with you about a few things”. She remembered the things he tried to teach her. “Alright i’ll take it. I’ve been watching you and it seems you get along pretty well with your partners...He’ll come around, he and Ichigo are always fighting. I think you handled it pretty well actually” he had praised her after class. “I can see why you’d think that. Yes Ichigo and i are blood related but no i’m not his uncle...We’re cousins...Yes, my father's youngest brother is Ichigo’s father. Now, i can probably guess you’re next question: What about the cloud ninja who attacked you when you came here? Well that's normal for someone to look like someone else from another village and even have the same name. First or last but rarely ever both and if that’s the case then it’s likely they share more of a common ‘Original Ancestor’ with each other. Now, with that being said if the Kakashi you saw had the same last name as me
you have to keep in mind we aren’t related because he is from another village and there are hundreds of branches in multiple clans spread throughout the ninja world. Does this make sense?...I understand what you’re trying to ask. For example in my case: Is there an original Kakashi Hatake…Like i said before it’s likely they share more of a common ‘Original Ancestor’ with each other if they have the same exact name…look Aohokiba...all these answers will come to you in time. The thing is, this isn’t a topic most people in the ninja world talk about lightly. In fact some people fear it while others think it’s highly unfair. Do you understand what i’m trying to say?...Now, most people in the Ninja World know that, but it does cause problems so i wouldn’t talk about it with your classmates. I encourage you to talk to your family about it if you must, okay?...Alright, go play”. Kakashi-sensei had taught Aohokiba all of this on her first day at the academy. “He’s absolutely right. No amount of discrimination will be tolerated. If you want to take the finals and graduate to become the ninja that you want to be i suggest you shape up your acts. This is a no joking matter here kids. None of you will become shinobi if this keeps up” Kakashi had said sternly, addressing the entire class at Itachi’s lesson. “If you ask me Shirokarasu, i think it’s very generous of them to share their food with you. It’s a very good quality to have so you should accept it” he told Shirokarasu, Ichigo and Aohokiba during one of their lunches. “Glad to see that you three are getting along. You just might end up in a squad together” he had commented truthfully. “See? Now, didn’t that work out nicely” he would grin. “...Aohokiba...do you think i know everything? I don’t and in all truth that’s why. like Shiro wondering how he unlocked his Byakugan i wonder the same things too. For example:Your brother when he dropped you off today. He told me what happened, It's the same thing. I’m not mad or suspicious of you i just have a lot on my mind is all. Speaking of which i can tell your kekkei genkai is active but you don’t control it and you didn’t even realize you just used it on all three of us...Hyuuga, Hatake. Don’t worry i don’t think she has the power to physically hurt you yet with just this one aspect. Aohokiba ever since you came to this village, probably your whole life, you’ve been able to read others emotions or feel them directly as well as copy kekkei genkai. You might not just be able to copy kekkei genkai but you do have some chakra control to retract it. Itachi’s fine now. That string you saw can you tell me what it is?...Exactly. If it’s made into a string like that then its impenetrable. However, since you can control your own chakra to a high extent apparently you were allowed to retract that string. Do you understand?”. Aohokiba remembered the time Kakashi tried to stop Orochimaru-sensei whom had tricked her into stealing top secret files, calling the event “De’ja vu”. “Aohokiba. What are you doing out here. Don’t you know what you’ve-”. The way he got pinned to that tree and told her to stay back even though he was coughing up blood. “Orochimaru. You’re with the Tenseinora aren't you. You planned this from the very beginning didn’t you!!...Don’t give him the files-Ngh! Their forbidden to anyone but the Five Kage and a few very trusted jonin-...Shut up Orochimaru you damn fool!!! Your mad to say such a thing!...Shut up she doesn’t need to hear it-!...Y-Yes Aohokiba...To an extent, what he is saying is true but-...Shut up!...Shut up, you bastard shut up!!!...Shut up!!!” Aohokiba remembered her Kunoichi instructor, Hinata-sensei. “Good morning...I’ll assume this is Aohokiba Uzumaki then?...Greetings...Come join us Aohokiba”. “Alright girls. Let’s start by introducing ourselves. I’ll go first. My name is Hinata Hyuuga. Some of my hobbies include knitting, training with my older cousin Neji and younger brother Shirokarasu and teaching my younger cousin Hinabi. I like a lot of things, including the hobbies i just said but the things i like most are connecting to my family and going on missions with my two squadmates Gaara Hatake and Itachi Uchiha. My current goal is to teach you three to be the best kunoichi you can be. Okay, now your turn from left to right”. “Good, good. Okay so, for our first lesson i want us to work on observation. Your first task is to name a difference and similarity between the three of you from introducing yourselves...Good, any differences?...Exactly! Each and every kunoichi is different in their own unique style. This is exactly why i picked this place to meet...Because, your first task is to pick a flower for each of your classmates that you think best represents them”. Aohokiba remembered when she had used her Hyuugan along with her little brothers Byakugan. “He can see enough to know if anything in Aohokiba’s chakra or chakra network changes” she had said. “Right...Hyuugan!”. (Not done pastin
