Naruto: A New Leaf
((Ah, and so, it begins.))
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Manuhie Hong
Training Ground 7
The sun slowly waltzed with the hours; light just barely beginning to spread above the tree’s canopies, invading shadow’s territory and sending the moon away. With the crescent’s retreat, Konoha’s residency, at least those forged with responsibility of managing businesses, began to swarm the streets, livening the desolate streets with the first sign of life. True shinobi, however, were already awake. Such a statement was true for Manuhie Hong, who sat in the lush setting of Training Ground Seven, waiting for the moment the sun peeked towards the top of the sky, with a harmonious flute as his companion, mesmerizing birds to settle the stillness in the passing time.
“Hong! That’s actually very beautiful!” Hong stopped his playing, amber eyes gazing at the black-and-white speck that was Seikyo Aoi, quite a distance away from him. With a sight, he set his flute aside, knowing Aoi to be… a tad unpredictable, but never asking to be ignored. She was angered the first time his flute playing interrupted her long-winded speech. He still had bruises. She had no reserve using her blade, Eimin, as a whacking stick.
“’Morning, Seikyo-san.” He greeted with a lazy wave of his free hand.
“Good morning!” Aoi replied, cheery as ever. “I was going to Training Ground 11. My team’s meeting there.” The girl nodded cheerfully, and by the looks of her beginning to tie Eimin’s black sheath, she’d woken up just recently. “I heard your music even at the Academy Ground! Your playing is marvelous, I guess that’s why you’re nicknamed Hyuu!”
She was alarmed at the sight of Hong beginning to disassemble his flute, the case whipped out with a simple summoning scroll. “What are you doing?!” She asked, surprised.
“I was disturbing the peace.” He muttered nonchalantly.
“That’s not what I meant!” Aoi protested, trying to stop him from closing the case. From a distance, the sight might’ve seemed a bit scandalous, despite Hong’s half-lidded disinterest. But Hieru was always one to misunderstand.
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO AOI-CHAN?!” The black haired, handsome jounin with the one goal of winning Aoi’s heart (despite all the bruises he got from Eimin), Fuugetsu Hieru, dramatically jumped out of a bush, a finger pointed accusingly at Hong. To his credit, the musician kept his bored discomposure (and only wondered how he was granted the permission to wear the Jounin uniform he had on currently), a complete opposite to Aoi’s reaction. She furrowed her brows at the man, giving quite a menacing glare, and made a motion to untie Eimin…
But was beaten to the punch line as proud Koushoku Irashi knocked the man upside his head, a deep frown that described her normal morning mood carved upon her lips. “You’re too loud.” She deadpanned at the questioning stares she received.
“Ohayo!” Another two voices and bodies joined Training Ground 7, forcing Hong to twitch a little. Another two Jounin joined the Peanut Gallery, one, Taira Houka and another, Manuhie Kik. Houka’s right maroon eye, the one not covered by her cascading obsidian hair, was shining bright as usual. She was always this optimistic, at least, in the morning. Kik also had a fairly active expression, though nowhere near Houka’s gleam.
“Kik, what are you doing here? You’re not even going to man a Genin Cell?” Hyuu demanded with a frown. The addressed looked momentarily wounded, honey eyes shaking with the pain, before he swept his hazel hair back and smiled at Hong.
“You just don’t like me here, Nii-san,” Kik muttered; chin up in a defiant manner. “But… If you must know, Houka-san passed by our house as I was leaving. I heard your flute and just had to come visit my favorite brother.” Houka nodded in agreement, forcing Hyuu to sigh in defeat.
The original occupant of Training Ground 7 closed his eyes simultaneously as he also lidded his flute case, a tired expression permeating his face. “ I knew I shouldn’t have played the flute this morning,” Shaking his head, he said, in a much louder baritone, “Since everyone’s here, there’s no reason to hide, Ryoku-san.”
Obligingly, a man with tied black hair jumped down from a tree, leaning against it despite the questioning eyes from his colleagues. Ryoku Fushinbi looked as mysterious as ever with that set expression of his viridian eyes shut and the shadows of the trees and light working cooperatively to gain a fantastic lighting. Fushinbi seemed to be the only one who could manage such a task without the need of charka or anything.
“Fantastic,” Hyuu muttered under his breath, frowning, “Everyone called to the Hokage’s council in consideration for the Genin Cells are here, all by my flute playing. Geez, I didn’t even want to be a squad leader anyways.” He also couldn’t shake the intense stare from Fushinbi after he’d uttered that sentence…
((These are the jounin, all together in one bout. Admirable, aren't they? ))
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Ofu Tsuairi
Ofu Residence to Academy Ground
Ofu had that large, lop-sided grin on with her signature expression of one eye shut from the beginning of the morning, full of glee with the sun’s rising. As usual, she proceeded with her morning routine, putting on her black-and-white gi, accessorizing her white belt with assortments of pouches and gorges, combing her chestnut hair, and other such tedious task, as she always did. The twelve-year-old bade a short greeting to her mother before setting her eyes on the balcony, sweeping the plastic door aside for better access to the sun. As per usual, she’d soak the rays of life into her, watching the streets with peaceful expression, usually eating some strange looking fruit. Today’s just happened to be violet with red, circular patterns running along it from its juicy center.
But at the same time, Ofu had to mock anyone who described this day as ordinary. For today, and onwards, as long as her violet eyes shine bright with energy, the sun would glint off her headband, tied around her neck, blinding some of the poor marketers, another treat they had to add to the liquid dripping from the edge of the fruit… the corrosive food eating away at their signs and reinforcing that fact that she was just a little- What was the word? Odd? It made a few people question her eligibility to be a Genin, a low-level ninja. Being a shinobi at all entailed that the balance of the village be laid among his or her hand… Ah, but most Genin didn’t know that. Ofu, simply put, was under that category, having her wooden puppet, Mr. Gato or Gato-kun, dance around the thick railing of the balcony, manipulated by her charka strings.
As the bright orb of light burned just above the spaces of the tree, estimating around nine AM, the kunoichi decided to leave immediately. With her right eye closed and her left violet iris viewing the world, she meticulously smirked and jumped off the railing, gravity pulling her to what was sure to be a rough landing, by the looks of the lightly jagged concrete, probably having endured some memories during the Uzumaki Era. There were a few eyes clearly set on her and even one scream, however, many simply continued their day. After all, such daredevil attempts were elementary for the average ninja. Ofu was no exception, catching the ground with her palm, impeccable balance keeping her steady, and began to shift her weight into the air again, doing a few back flips to solidly land on her feet. Mr. Gato followed soon after, cutely landing on her head.
The girl blankly looked around the streets for a while, before… consulting with her wooden puppet. “Which direction was the academy again?” She questioned, patiently waiting for the puppet to respond. By five minutes time, more eyes were glued to her than when she’d fearlessly jumped from her balcony just minutes ago. Her violet iris lit up suddenly, pointing to one direction of the street. “THAT WAY!” She exclaimed cheerfully, petting the wooden cat’s baldhead. “Thank you, Mr. Gato!” The brunette shouted with much conviction, setting the cat snuggly on the nook of her shoulder. And than she was off.
“Ah!” Halfway down the road, Ofu realized she hadn’t bid her mother good-bye yet, having been so eager to rush to the academy and meet her new cell. Despite that, she just smiled and effortlessly formed a hand seal, a cross-made out of her forefinger and middle from both hands. She shouted, “Bunshin no Jutsu (Clone Technique)!” In a puff of smoke, a second Ofu was created, a useful illusion that could transfer her message to her mother as she continued to the school. Both girls ran the opposite direction, the real one heading towards the academy and the clone going back from whence she came, her home.
“Ah… My mom cried,” Ofu mumbled guiltily when she stood at the academy door, the clone having dispersed and their conversation having automatically transferred into her own memories. “I hope she doesn’t do that every time I leave on a mission,” She commented blankly, looking at the paper glued to the wall. On it was a poster, the title Team Hyuu scrawled brightly among the top. “Eh?” Curious, Ofu looked down the list and was first attracted by the crude drawings atop the paper; a silly stick figure probably meant to represent the name next to it.
“Hong-sensei… cannot… draw.” The girl muttered, one eye twitching. Quickly, she dismissed the thought and actually concentrated on the names.
Team 2
Led by Manuhie Hong (~Hyuu)
Kinuten Sagi (Demise)
Wasuremono Aiko (Jellybeans)
Shesu Missiro (Lemurian)
~Meet at Training Ground 7!~
Shaking her head, Ofu smiled brightly and pushed the door aside, careful not to defile the poster. She saw a few more of Hong and other teams, though she hadn’t seen one with her name printed just yet. Some of them, well, mainly Hong’s, had doodles beside them that, most likely, was suppose to resemble a person more than a noodle (they’re actually Kik’s), while others had flashy decorations colored on them (that had, thankfully, a much nicer effects than Kik’s doodles.) More still were simply plain, with clean print bolded black on white paper. Though on all of them, an odd note was added. Training Grounds 1-5 are undergoing repairs.
Team 1
Led by Koushoku Irashi (Demise)
Takahashi Kisara (Mimori Kiryu)
Ketsueki Keibatsu (/Exiled/)
Mizuhana Toraburu (Adzieboy)
Destination: Training Ground 9
Time: 2:00 PM
Team 3
Led by Seikyo Aoi (Literate)
Hakumei Karai (Rmelody_009)
Teikonki Kai (enflamedsteelix)
Shirosaki Kari (Argent)
Please go to Training Ground 11! <3
Team 4
Led by Taira Houka (enflamedsteelix)
(At Training Ground 8!)
Koori Satoshi (Literate)
Gotsume Rakuren (cdra1617)
Tsuairi Ofu (~Hyuu)
”Taira Houka…” Ofu pondered lightly at the name, wondering if she’d at all heard about her jounin. Turning to her wooden puppet, she frowned at Gato-kun, asking the cat if he had heard anything about Houka. “Well… Have you?” She demanded impatiently, making her way to Training Ground 8. After receiving Mr. Gato’s message, Ofu’s eyes widened.
“DOES SHE?!"
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Manuhie Hong
Training Ground 7
The sun slowly waltzed with the hours; light just barely beginning to spread above the tree’s canopies, invading shadow’s territory and sending the moon away. With the crescent’s retreat, Konoha’s residency, at least those forged with responsibility of managing businesses, began to swarm the streets, livening the desolate streets with the first sign of life. True shinobi, however, were already awake. Such a statement was true for Manuhie Hong, who sat in the lush setting of Training Ground Seven, waiting for the moment the sun peeked towards the top of the sky, with a harmonious flute as his companion, mesmerizing birds to settle the stillness in the passing time.
“Hong! That’s actually very beautiful!” Hong stopped his playing, amber eyes gazing at the black-and-white speck that was Seikyo Aoi, quite a distance away from him. With a sight, he set his flute aside, knowing Aoi to be… a tad unpredictable, but never asking to be ignored. She was angered the first time his flute playing interrupted her long-winded speech. He still had bruises. She had no reserve using her blade, Eimin, as a whacking stick.
“’Morning, Seikyo-san.” He greeted with a lazy wave of his free hand.
“Good morning!” Aoi replied, cheery as ever. “I was going to Training Ground 11. My team’s meeting there.” The girl nodded cheerfully, and by the looks of her beginning to tie Eimin’s black sheath, she’d woken up just recently. “I heard your music even at the Academy Ground! Your playing is marvelous, I guess that’s why you’re nicknamed Hyuu!”
She was alarmed at the sight of Hong beginning to disassemble his flute, the case whipped out with a simple summoning scroll. “What are you doing?!” She asked, surprised.
“I was disturbing the peace.” He muttered nonchalantly.
“That’s not what I meant!” Aoi protested, trying to stop him from closing the case. From a distance, the sight might’ve seemed a bit scandalous, despite Hong’s half-lidded disinterest. But Hieru was always one to misunderstand.
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO AOI-CHAN?!” The black haired, handsome jounin with the one goal of winning Aoi’s heart (despite all the bruises he got from Eimin), Fuugetsu Hieru, dramatically jumped out of a bush, a finger pointed accusingly at Hong. To his credit, the musician kept his bored discomposure (and only wondered how he was granted the permission to wear the Jounin uniform he had on currently), a complete opposite to Aoi’s reaction. She furrowed her brows at the man, giving quite a menacing glare, and made a motion to untie Eimin…
But was beaten to the punch line as proud Koushoku Irashi knocked the man upside his head, a deep frown that described her normal morning mood carved upon her lips. “You’re too loud.” She deadpanned at the questioning stares she received.
“Ohayo!” Another two voices and bodies joined Training Ground 7, forcing Hong to twitch a little. Another two Jounin joined the Peanut Gallery, one, Taira Houka and another, Manuhie Kik. Houka’s right maroon eye, the one not covered by her cascading obsidian hair, was shining bright as usual. She was always this optimistic, at least, in the morning. Kik also had a fairly active expression, though nowhere near Houka’s gleam.
“Kik, what are you doing here? You’re not even going to man a Genin Cell?” Hyuu demanded with a frown. The addressed looked momentarily wounded, honey eyes shaking with the pain, before he swept his hazel hair back and smiled at Hong.
“You just don’t like me here, Nii-san,” Kik muttered; chin up in a defiant manner. “But… If you must know, Houka-san passed by our house as I was leaving. I heard your flute and just had to come visit my favorite brother.” Houka nodded in agreement, forcing Hyuu to sigh in defeat.
The original occupant of Training Ground 7 closed his eyes simultaneously as he also lidded his flute case, a tired expression permeating his face. “ I knew I shouldn’t have played the flute this morning,” Shaking his head, he said, in a much louder baritone, “Since everyone’s here, there’s no reason to hide, Ryoku-san.”
Obligingly, a man with tied black hair jumped down from a tree, leaning against it despite the questioning eyes from his colleagues. Ryoku Fushinbi looked as mysterious as ever with that set expression of his viridian eyes shut and the shadows of the trees and light working cooperatively to gain a fantastic lighting. Fushinbi seemed to be the only one who could manage such a task without the need of charka or anything.
“Fantastic,” Hyuu muttered under his breath, frowning, “Everyone called to the Hokage’s council in consideration for the Genin Cells are here, all by my flute playing. Geez, I didn’t even want to be a squad leader anyways.” He also couldn’t shake the intense stare from Fushinbi after he’d uttered that sentence…
((These are the jounin, all together in one bout. Admirable, aren't they? ))
+++++
Ofu Tsuairi
Ofu Residence to Academy Ground
Ofu had that large, lop-sided grin on with her signature expression of one eye shut from the beginning of the morning, full of glee with the sun’s rising. As usual, she proceeded with her morning routine, putting on her black-and-white gi, accessorizing her white belt with assortments of pouches and gorges, combing her chestnut hair, and other such tedious task, as she always did. The twelve-year-old bade a short greeting to her mother before setting her eyes on the balcony, sweeping the plastic door aside for better access to the sun. As per usual, she’d soak the rays of life into her, watching the streets with peaceful expression, usually eating some strange looking fruit. Today’s just happened to be violet with red, circular patterns running along it from its juicy center.
But at the same time, Ofu had to mock anyone who described this day as ordinary. For today, and onwards, as long as her violet eyes shine bright with energy, the sun would glint off her headband, tied around her neck, blinding some of the poor marketers, another treat they had to add to the liquid dripping from the edge of the fruit… the corrosive food eating away at their signs and reinforcing that fact that she was just a little- What was the word? Odd? It made a few people question her eligibility to be a Genin, a low-level ninja. Being a shinobi at all entailed that the balance of the village be laid among his or her hand… Ah, but most Genin didn’t know that. Ofu, simply put, was under that category, having her wooden puppet, Mr. Gato or Gato-kun, dance around the thick railing of the balcony, manipulated by her charka strings.
As the bright orb of light burned just above the spaces of the tree, estimating around nine AM, the kunoichi decided to leave immediately. With her right eye closed and her left violet iris viewing the world, she meticulously smirked and jumped off the railing, gravity pulling her to what was sure to be a rough landing, by the looks of the lightly jagged concrete, probably having endured some memories during the Uzumaki Era. There were a few eyes clearly set on her and even one scream, however, many simply continued their day. After all, such daredevil attempts were elementary for the average ninja. Ofu was no exception, catching the ground with her palm, impeccable balance keeping her steady, and began to shift her weight into the air again, doing a few back flips to solidly land on her feet. Mr. Gato followed soon after, cutely landing on her head.
The girl blankly looked around the streets for a while, before… consulting with her wooden puppet. “Which direction was the academy again?” She questioned, patiently waiting for the puppet to respond. By five minutes time, more eyes were glued to her than when she’d fearlessly jumped from her balcony just minutes ago. Her violet iris lit up suddenly, pointing to one direction of the street. “THAT WAY!” She exclaimed cheerfully, petting the wooden cat’s baldhead. “Thank you, Mr. Gato!” The brunette shouted with much conviction, setting the cat snuggly on the nook of her shoulder. And than she was off.
“Ah!” Halfway down the road, Ofu realized she hadn’t bid her mother good-bye yet, having been so eager to rush to the academy and meet her new cell. Despite that, she just smiled and effortlessly formed a hand seal, a cross-made out of her forefinger and middle from both hands. She shouted, “Bunshin no Jutsu (Clone Technique)!” In a puff of smoke, a second Ofu was created, a useful illusion that could transfer her message to her mother as she continued to the school. Both girls ran the opposite direction, the real one heading towards the academy and the clone going back from whence she came, her home.
“Ah… My mom cried,” Ofu mumbled guiltily when she stood at the academy door, the clone having dispersed and their conversation having automatically transferred into her own memories. “I hope she doesn’t do that every time I leave on a mission,” She commented blankly, looking at the paper glued to the wall. On it was a poster, the title Team Hyuu scrawled brightly among the top. “Eh?” Curious, Ofu looked down the list and was first attracted by the crude drawings atop the paper; a silly stick figure probably meant to represent the name next to it.
“Hong-sensei… cannot… draw.” The girl muttered, one eye twitching. Quickly, she dismissed the thought and actually concentrated on the names.
Team 2
Led by Manuhie Hong (~Hyuu)
Kinuten Sagi (Demise)
Wasuremono Aiko (Jellybeans)
Shesu Missiro (Lemurian)
~Meet at Training Ground 7!~
Shaking her head, Ofu smiled brightly and pushed the door aside, careful not to defile the poster. She saw a few more of Hong and other teams, though she hadn’t seen one with her name printed just yet. Some of them, well, mainly Hong’s, had doodles beside them that, most likely, was suppose to resemble a person more than a noodle (they’re actually Kik’s), while others had flashy decorations colored on them (that had, thankfully, a much nicer effects than Kik’s doodles.) More still were simply plain, with clean print bolded black on white paper. Though on all of them, an odd note was added. Training Grounds 1-5 are undergoing repairs.
Team 1
Led by Koushoku Irashi (Demise)
Takahashi Kisara (Mimori Kiryu)
Ketsueki Keibatsu (/Exiled/)
Mizuhana Toraburu (Adzieboy)
Destination: Training Ground 9
Time: 2:00 PM
Team 3
Led by Seikyo Aoi (Literate)
Hakumei Karai (Rmelody_009)
Teikonki Kai (enflamedsteelix)
Shirosaki Kari (Argent)
Please go to Training Ground 11! <3
Team 4
Led by Taira Houka (enflamedsteelix)
(At Training Ground 8!)
Koori Satoshi (Literate)
Gotsume Rakuren (cdra1617)
Tsuairi Ofu (~Hyuu)
”Taira Houka…” Ofu pondered lightly at the name, wondering if she’d at all heard about her jounin. Turning to her wooden puppet, she frowned at Gato-kun, asking the cat if he had heard anything about Houka. “Well… Have you?” She demanded impatiently, making her way to Training Ground 8. After receiving Mr. Gato’s message, Ofu’s eyes widened.
“DOES SHE?!"
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Have Fun!))
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