Ten years ago.
13th Training grounds.
Outskirts Second Ring, Iwagakure.
"Hyah"
I punch, I kick, dodge, Midsection kick, uppercut. I keep punching and kicking the log in front of me as if he's an enemy ninja. The ninja who killed my parents.
'Those Kirigakure fish-fu-'
"Yawn"
'Huh?' I looked behind me and it was that I saw him, Dark Red Hair, around 3' 8'', sitting under the protruding rock and resting his head in his hand.
"Huh, who are you? Are you lost?"
"Nah, I just take a walk when I see a brat beating up a dead log," he said with a wave of his hand.
"You're younger than me kid, you a brat," I said with a little edge.
"Huh? Well, that's true" he said with a surprised face, what a weird brat.
"Anyway, wanna spar?" He asks me at the same time he gets up and takes a kata.
"Huh?" It's my time to be surprised, who is this kid?
"Well?" He raises one of his eyebrows.
"Yosh, let's spar, you can go fir-" I haven't finished my word when I feel my body weightless.
'huh, why the sky below me?' and then I fell my body hitting the training grounds and getting dragged for a few steps, 'Did he just throw me?'
My shock was gone the moment I saw black first coming to my fac-
Guard
Bam, the first hit my arm and stopped.
'It hurts, dammit'
Before I get ready to counterattack, I feel my feet get swiped, and again, I'm lying back on the Training grounds. And then he hit my Head.
"You block it, good job kid" and just like that he left.
I saw dark spots when I hear him leave and then I get knock up.
I was still in my back when I wake up and the realization hit me, I had just gotten beaten by a kid, and based on his appearance, he couldn't be older than seven years old. Although I'm still in second grade at Academy a seven-year-old shouldn't be able to beat an Academy Student.
"damit, I hope someone didn't see that."
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Evening, the same day.
Red Stone Orphanage.
After training for the whole afternoon plus getting beaten up, I decided that today was enough and got ready to go back to the Red Stone Orphanage.
After a good wash, me and my roommates started going to the Dining room. Here in the Red Stone Orphanage. We have this tradition of starting the day by having breakfast together and then at the end of the day, having dinner together. But at this dinner, when everyone start eating corn and carrot soup, I saw a familiar face.
"Attention please" Dadan, 19 years old, she's the youngest caretaker in here, also she's the granddaughter of Grandma Mei, the matron in this Orphanage.
"Today we have a new brother, please, Sugito get up and let them see you" Dadan smiled and asked Sugito, the weird kid, to stand up.
"Yo," that is what he said.
"Starting today, Sugito will join us, please be nice ok? Alright, that's it. Continue"
The dinner continues and the sound of forks and plates clashing each other becomes a background noise for us.
"Why are you here? Are you don't have parents like us?" Shoji, 4 years old, asked the important question, and just like someone casting mass effect genjutsu, the room became silent.
"SHOJI!" Dadan tried to hide her grimace after hearing that question.
"What? I just want to know?" Shoji tried to defend himself. Tough luck, kid.
"But that's not-, I'm sorry Sugito, he doesn't mean it" Dadan tried to defuse the awkward silence, only to hear Sugito chuckling.
"It's Fine, Dadan-san. Shoji is a curious child" Sugito calmly responds to Dadan.
"But again, we need to know when to ask such a question. Understand, Shoji" he continues
"Hehe, sorry" Shoji meekly answered with looking around.
"Well, because the bandage is already off, let's answer that. My Parents were dead, they got killed on the Great Five road, the Main road where we use, the merchant, to go to other big Nations.
We were ambushed by a group of bandits, they came and started slaughtering our guards and mercenaries. Of 44 people in the caravan, only 14 survived. We tried to run. But we can't lose their tail, so 6 people chose to stay and tried to buy us time, saying that they needed to protect the children, one of them was my dad. Me and my mother run like the Shinigami is in our tail. But out of nowhere, one of the bandits, dropped in front of us, my mother and other parents begged him to spare the children and they would come with him, do you know what he chose?"
Gulp
"Wh-what?" Shoji answered.
"He killed the children, it was so fast, one moment he was in front of you, and the next he was behind you. The children get their throats sliced, I was One of them" he said in a calm tone, eerily, and showed us his bandaged neck.
"What?!"
"Scary!"
"How did you stay alive?"
The other kid starts asking their questions.
"Perhaps, I did died" he said it with a smile and faraway look, his left hand touching his neck.
"Alright, enough for the story, finish your soup and get ready to bed" Dadan said with giving Sugito pointed look.
"What? The kid asked for it" Sugito said
After that things get calm, just like usual. Sugito helping in the Orphanage, and going to public library and a check up in one of the public clinic. Just the same as usual. Well thing don't always the same.
"Wanna spar?"
Sometimes when Sugito isn't in public library, he would go to 13th Training grounds just to get beaten up. Well, not now. But later, yes. I will beat him later. I never win.
"You know if you're fast enough, you could kick your feet in the air and you could fly" Sugito said to me, who laying in my back, full on bruise.
"Horse-shit, nobody could fly except Tsuchikage" I retort, I mean kicking air and you could fly? how could you do that?
"No, it's true. I have seen it. It's one of the six technique"
'Well, if he's already seen it, perhaps it's true?'
"W-well, let's just say, hypothetically, that I believe you, what's the name of the Technique?"
"Rokushiki : Geppo"
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Present
I lost myself at grumbling away my resentment for Konoha until I was close enough to the Outer Ring of Iwa, where there was a flat land and some Ice-glass buildings in it. And the center of it, a Shrine. Honest to Sage, a Shrine.
A big structure, full of holy vibe (Sugito taught me that word), well a little small from a Shrine in Earth Capital but still, it's a magnificent sight. I bet my next salary he uses some atmospheric seal or whatever to create this.
"F-ng Uzumaki and their bullshit seals,-"
When I'm grumbling away, an 8-year-old boy, with a white hakama and dark blue bottom, exits from one of the Ice-glass buildings.
"Hmmm? I know the chakra is quite familiar, Good afternoon, Tetsu-san" he said with a shallow bow, without losing his eye on me.
'Heh, good '
"Yo, Uraume-boy, is Sugito in? Or is he doing his weird ritual thing?"
"Sugito-sama fuinjutsu research is not weird, you are the weird one, who would use all-black in mid-day sun? You even paint your vest black, Yo-You edgy freak, Emo!" The scrunch-up face kid tells me with full passion. Honestly, Uraume-boy was a good polite one, well until you mock Sugito in his face.
"I don't know what Emo is, but that sounds horrible with how you said it." I pinch my nose in frustration and then lift my arm in a surrendering pose "Hah. Look, is Sugito in? I have an important letter from Tsuchikage-sama and he said it's urgent." I wave the Letter in his face, with his eyes following it as if he could read the content. 'You're a Yuki kid, not a Hyuuga'
"Tsk, Fine. Sugito sama is in his study, I lead you there" he said turning his body and starting to march to the temple.
"Haahh"
I bet this day couldn't be more troublesome.
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Sugito Gu, Office Shrine
Outskirts Third Ring, Iwagakure.
"Oh, c'mon. All you need is to take this letter from me and I would go in a poof, Literally!" I shout to my brother's face, and he just rolls his eyes with his pinky in his ear. 'This mother-'
"Nah, Let's Spar, 'Black fist' Tetsu," Sugito said to me with a simple smile.
F- you Tsuchikage!