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"Ugh... Where are they at?" The Genin growled annoyingly. His team was supposed to meet at the library just over twenty minutes ago, yet there he was, sitting alone. The boy stood outside, his back resting up against the outer wall of The Hidden Leaf Library. One thing he truly hated was waiting on other people, and being waited on. Being on time was just a small pet peeve of his. He felt like it was a small indicator of how people were. People who showed up late normally were normally lazy, imbeciles. While people who were on time and early normally seemed to be the ones who accelerated in life. At least that was something his father taught him during his younger days. His dad wasn't exactly the nicest guy, but he didn't treat him badly or anything of that sort. Just a type of tough love that set Kaito down the right path in life. The Genin was rather smart, and hardworking, which helped him conquer some of his goals rather easily. Though meeting the one known as Jin had, slightly altered his goals. The man saved his life, and began teaching the boy in... Strange ninja arts to say the least. This being the reason Kaito wasn't already assigned a team. He'd disappeared from the village for a short time, only to return and lie to his parents and village official saying he had been kidnapped by a group of rogue ninja. Obviously that wasn't the true story, but who would expect a Genin to make a lie of that sort?

"Thirty minutes..." A sigh escaped his mouth, as his irritation level slowly grew higher and higher. It wasn't just the fact that they were late that was bothering him either. The heat was slowly pissing him off too. It was rather warm out, and Kaito was the kind of person who was always warm anyways. Warm blooded some people called it, though that obviously wasn't a true statement, the Genin always did seem to be fairly hot. A lot of time he wore his heat gear in cold weather. Otherwise if he wore warm clothing, he would get too hot and sweat profusely. It was strange, but he learned to deal with it. Though, as of his return to the village, he began to wear long sleeves all the time. Obviously it wasn't his style, but Jin's training left massive scars all throughout his body. Not exactly something he wanted to show the public. His body was rather devastated to say the least, but the power that came along with it was phenomenal. Though, mastery of these arts were extremely difficult. Slowly but surely though, he was conquering this style. It just took tons of hard work and repetition.

"Forty minutes...." By this point he was about to head back to his house and say screw it. But knowing his luck he would leave and his teammates would show up. "Okay, giving them fifteen minutes then I'm out. Where are these idiots?" Angry words ran through his head, as his head began to slowly create small beads of sweat. Hopefully, his new team would find there way to him shortly. And hopefully they wouldn't leave him waiting like this again.

A sigh came from his mouth, as he walked over to a massive book shelf. It was filled with a multitude different colored books, each having tons of useful information inside. Kaito enjoyed reading, knowledge was power in his eyes. Though most books did bore him, he forced himself to read them. If he were smarter than you, and knew more than you, that was an edge in his favor. One by one, Kaito flipped through the books, trying to find something that would tickle his fancy. He made his way down the line, and eventually came across a red book about Genjutsu. Genjutsu was probably his weak point between the three ninja styles, meaning he needed some information to catch up on that subject. Opening the book, he read the first few subjects of the table of contents, then flipped the page. The first part of the book was about what Genjutsu exactly was, and how to trap opponents in it. Though, sadly the book was pretty dry and boring. The boy read for probably no more than ten minutes, before putting the book back on it's shelf. After making his way through a few pages, he closed the book, returning it to it's space on the shelf. Reading wasn't exactly easy when one was irritated.

Kaito himself now returned to his spot on the wall, wondering if his team would ever actually show. Questions ran through his mind, keeping him curious. "I wonder which of the ninja arts they specialize in? Are they members of a bloodline or something like that? I wonder if their actually going to be strong ally's instead of some worthless turds. If they are weaklings, I'm definitely going to be fixing that. Can't have weaklings watching my back!," The real question was this: Where where they, and would they ever show up?

The Genin was now on his last nerve, and his facial expression clearly showed it. "Alright, tired of waiting. Time to get going." Pushing himself off the wall, he took just a single step towards the door, when suddenly the door opened. A cute young girl who seemed to be in a rush made her way into the library. She quickly hustled to a bookshelf, grabbing a book straight off the shelf as though she knew exactly what she was looking for, and where it was sitting. She then hustled over to Kaito, simply giving him a hello, then introduced herself. "Is she... My teammate?" the boy wondered, leaving a small pause inbetween his reply. "Curious, but are you by chance... Apart of the new Genin Squad?" He'd completely forgotten to introduce himself, but he had some questions that needed some answering. Kaito wasn't sure what to think about the girl. She was obviously late, which was a big no no so far. Then she kind of just hustled over and grabbed what he thought was a random book, though he couldn't be too sure on that. Really, he wasn't sure if she was even reading the book. But ont he plus side, she didn't seem too weird. And she beat the other guy, or girl maybe here. Second was at least better than third. Now, where was the third?

Lerry was walking randomly. There was a small stench in the air. He could smell it. He paused an began to sniff. He had a disgusted look on his face. What was that smell? he wondered. His eyes traveled upward to the companion that was sitting on his head. "Chairo! Is that you smelling like a**?" Lerry asked but all he got in response was an ear lift of confusion. "I know I gave you a bath last night. You better not be climbing up on top of my head smelling like donkey butt." Chairo replied with a bark and Lerry raised his eyebrow. "Well if it is not you then where is the smell coming from?" Lerry asked as he looked around. Nothing could be seen but if for sure could be smelled. Being a member of the Inuzuka clan Lerry had a very keen sense of smell. It was a gift but also a curse. One he had to live with. Lerry covered his noes with the sleeve of his shirt. But the smell was still seeping through. It was truly horrible. Chario barked again and motioned his body toward a nearby building. "Yeah, your right. Lets go in there for now. This Stench is unbearable." Lerry quickly held his breath as he made a run for the door. He made his way in building and slowly began to regain his breathe. Lerry looked around and all he saw were books, books and scrolls. Lerry frowned up. It appeared he had stumbled up on the Library. "Well I guess it's better than staying out there huh Chario?" Lerry asked with a chuckle. All Lerry got was a bark as usual. "Duh, this is a public library of course there will be people here. But I can smell them too." Lerry began to walk and Chario made his way into his vest and made himself comfortable. It was his favorite spot other than the top of Lerry's head.

Lerry saw two people a girl and a boy. Lerry thought he would say hello. No sense in being a stranger but Chario beat it to him with a bark of his own. "Hey! What are yo guys doing in the Library?" Was really a stupid question to ask? It was more just a comment to let them know he was there. "I am Lerry by the way." He added with a scratch of his head. He felt a nudge in his chest that came from Chario. "Oh and this is Chario."

INDENT “Chario…” Arina trailed off while a huge smile began to grow on her face. She had caught Lerry’s name, but she wasn’t as interested in him as she was his puppy. “You are so cute!” There seemed to be a heavy emphasis on so, even though her entire voice was overflowing with excitement. She even squealed slightly walking closer and rubbing behind his ear. “Do you like belly rubs, neh?” Arina questioned tilting her head slightly to look down at the cute little guy who nuzzled into his owner‘s chest. “Oh wait,” Arina fussed looking around in the bag she had brought with her. She pulled out a piece of venison jerky and offered it to the puppy looking at Lerry, “That is if it is okay with you?” The girl began to grow a slight shade of red as she realized that as of right now she was a complete stranger to this boy. “I am Arina, by the way.” The girl stated firmly smiling.
INDENT A look of surprise covered Arina’s face as the other boy had finally introduced himself. ‘Kaito,’ the young girl mused. Lerry was obviously a sensory type being of the Inuzuka Clan. Arina, herself, was a medical ninja. She wondered what Kaito’s specialties were. Hopefully, he was a combat type. That would make for the ideal team, would it not? “Yes,” Arina agreed as Kato suggested that they pick up a few low level missions to accomplish together. This would be a good chance for all of them to get to know each other. Most of the missions for their level were ridiculously stupid, but it was always more fun when you had someone to accomplish those things with together. She hoped that they were both at least a little bit social. It would be kind of awkward to attempt missions together but make no effort to get to know each other better. Perhaps, she could even make a game of it. “Hmm,” Arina trailed off with a mischievous look in her eyes.
INDENT

"Well I guess that would explain why he was so late." The Genin couldn't help but to chuckle at the fact that his canine ally had actually led him to this place. Those Inuzukan dogs weren't dumb though, that was for sure. This actually just a demonstration of how intelligent they really were. Though Kaito was rather happy to have Lerry and Chario along side of him. Their bloodline was a rather useful one. Both of his fellow squad members seemed to be useful, which was great. They now had two combat ninja, a medic nin, and Chario as their sensory ninja. A small grin was on his face now. It seemed like things were slowly falling into place now. The group was getting along, and warming up to one another rather quickly. Even Kaito himself was slowly warming to the group, and he was a socially awkward person for the most part. Normally he would feel shy in this sort of situation, just something seemed.. Right. The boy moved closer to the group, watching as Arina was all over the puppy, feeding him, petting him, and just making him a happy puppy for that matter. "Whelp, I'm glad to meet you two." Kaito said, unsure of what to say.

Though they were enjoying themselves in the library, Kaito felt it was time to get to work. "Well anyways, we need to make our way up town and pick up a mission from the kages office. They usually have some Genin missions posted up on the board up there, we might as well take one... Even though the mission are pretty useless anyway..." Which was a completely true statement. Genin missions usually were just odd jobs around town. Stuff like painting fences, watering plants, walking dogs, or even doing house chores for the elderly. Pretty much pointless tuff to do, but when your just fresh from the academy you don't have a multitude of choices. They would have to take what they could get, and be happy with it. "Anyways, let's get going. We have a ten minute walk to the Hokage's office, then we got to pick out a mission." The boy tried to sound cheerful, but his monotone voice sort of ruined that effect for him.

They now exited the library, and were en route for the Hokage's office. Many people roamed the street, some carrying things around, some being ninja probably heading off to do something more important than whatever mission they were about to get, and others just heading around shopping, maybe heading to work, who knew. Konoha was a rather huge village, thus having a ton of villagers. "So anyways.." Kaito started to try and conversate with the group. "You guys excited to finally be done with the academy? We're actual shinobi now. We get to start our own stories!" Kaito couldn't wait to go out and do real missions. Or even the Chuunin exams for that matter, getting to show the village how powerful you actually were. That stuff seemed so exciting. They would come from being just an academy student, to someone big and famous in Konoha, and all the land for that matter. Hopefully that day would be sooner than later.

After their solid ten to fifteen minute walk and discussion, they had finally made it to their destination. Kaito stood outside of the doors, looking up at the large building. The genin hadn't ever been inside before, and almost felt wrong about to walk into the door. Though he hadn't anything to worry about, walking into a building with as much importance as this one just give him a weird feeling. "Well... here we go." His voice seemed a bit different than before, his voice was filled with uncertainty. Slowly the boy opened the door, and entered the large building. As he walked through the front door, he took a look around. There was an older lady behind the desk, some stairs to the left, books all over the place, and a wooden board with letters staples all over it. There were only a few papers on the board, three to be exact. The Genin made his way over to the board, and began to read the three missions. The first was about some painting that needed done to a building. The next was about a missing cat named Tora, and the third was just simply walking dogs. All, of which sucked pretty badly. Now the question was, which one sucked least? "Which to pick, which to pick... Might as well try the cat one, least we would be looking for something rather than painting some old building or cleaning dog poop everywhere..." Kaito ripped the mission from the board, and began to read the mission to the others.

"Dear youngins that take this mission. My poor cat, Tora had escaped from my house the other day, and I am unable to find her. She is black and white, and a very lovable animal. Sadly I am much too old to be running around and chasing my kitty, so i'd really appreciate if someone could find her for me! Thank you!"

Kaito finished reading, then looked back at the group. "And the name was signed, Mrs.... Jeebus." He stopped, and folded the letter up, noticing an adress on the back of the letter. "Must be where she lives I guess." Kaito then tucked the letter into his pocket. "Well, I know it isn't exactly the most exciting mission.. But we gotta do what we gotta do." The boy made his way to the door, the group behind him. "Well, I say we go find us a cat, don't you guys think?" He was ready to go find this cat, and get this mission over with. The sooner the better in his eyes.

"Alright then, we can go ahead and head to the Hokage's office then." Lerry said as he followed after them. Chario made his way out of Lerry's jacket and onto his head. "I will warn you guys that it stinks something terrible out there." Lerry warned with a laugh.

They were walking though the village. On their way to the Hokages office to pick up a mission. It was a pretty normal day. Seeing the same old sight's that held the same people. Kaito was trying to make conversation and asked if they were happy to no longer academy students. Lerry was truly happy. He could now go in the field and do actual things. "Yep. I am tired of the boring life. I am ready to do something great." Chario barked in agreement. The ten minute walk went by swiftly.

They arrived at the hokage's office. Lerry listened as Kaito read off the mission he chose. Chario growled and Lerry looked up at him. "Haha Tora is out and about again. You ready to face your rival?" Lerry asked him with a smile. Chario responded with a bark of determination. Lerry laughed at him but saw that Arina was having a panic attack. He stared at her strangely. He then whispered up to Chario. "Maybe you shouldn't have eaten that Jerky." Chario began to whimper.

Lerry was ready to begin the mission. "Yeah I guess we can start of doing petty choirs and make our way up." Lerry said in response to Arina. "Do your stuff Chario and track him down." His companion began to sniff out their target.

INDENT Arina turned on her heels making her way out of the Hokage’s office now that they had decided on a simplistic but easily adaptable plan of action. Once outside, she skipped through the streets allowing her hair to dance being tugged to-and-fro in response to the light breeze that was beginning to pick up. She watched the communication between Lerry and Chario, as they attempted to pick up Tora’s scent. Chario looked to be getting frustrated. The young girl assumed that had something to do with the nemesis type relationship that he seemed to share with Tora. The trio hadn’t even come close to the agreed upon area that they would begin their search and those two were already getting flustered. She wasn’t for sure whether or not it was at Tora or towards each other. It did almost seem like an old married couple bickering back and forth. The girl laughed lightly highly concentrated on the road ahead of her when her eyes suddenly reacted following the image of someone or something darting through the brush and forest to her left where many Shinobi were known to train in their free time.
INDENT That was when it happened. She came face to face with that demon feline that was addressed by the name of Tora. Tora’s fur glistened from the light that shone upon his back and with the black and white patches randomly strewn across the entirety of his feline body, he looked like an odd mixture between that of a demon and of an angel. The cat’s body was agile and his mind was a tenacious one. The semi-large feline body bared his fangs and made a hissing sound in the direction of the trio as if he knew what was going on. It was either that, or he was deciding to be extremely cautious just in the event that someone decided to come and relinquish his freedom once more. It was hard too think that he was capable of such intelligent decisive actions but hey, look at Chario. The Inuzuka Clan was proof of that theory as a whole with their high reliance on their canines whom ranked as some of the most intelligent animals that Arina had ever come into contact with.
INDENT Tora quickly stopped and turned to face the trio with his fangs bared, his claws digging small openings into the ground below him, and his back arched with ferocity while they stood motionlessly in a stupor of sorts. Once the cat hard concluded that those three were indeed after himself, he quickly turned and darted away as fast as his small, stumpy body could carry him while the band were still attempting to gather their thoughts and react.
INDENT “We have to hurry!” Arina shouted shaking Kaito violently before sprinting off on her own and motioning for the others. The feline demon, formally known as Tora, was escaping into the distance. If they allowed him even a moment more, they would lose their lead and have to spend the rest of the day hunting for him using Chario. ‘It is too bad I haven’t really studied up on some basic jutsu that would have come in handy for such a mission,’ Arina grimaced while tailing after the feline. Tora abruptly made a turn down one of the alleyways trying to shake Arina off his tail. “I do not think so,” The young girl muttered quickly shifting her weight to make the turn which she would have missed only a moment sooner. It was then that Arina noticed that this alleyway was blocked off by a large wooden make-shift fence. “Got you,” The girl jumped forward to grab the cat between both of her hands. Tora was easily able to read the young girl’s moves. He jumped onto the top of her head using her as a prop to push himself across the wooden fence but not before, he gave Arina a goodbye present of several scratches across her face. “Owiee,” The girl pouted while tears collected around her eyelids. ‘My face,’ She had wanted to scream out loud but was unable due to embarrassment of even being put in such a position.
INDENT Arina jumped up using her hands to grab the top of the fence and was able to pull herself up just in time to notice what direction Tora was traveling in. She quickly jumped down on the other side and began darting after the feline once again, though she seemed to be losing her speed considerably. Tora had decided that this time he would travel through the main pathway of the marketplace, so the Shinobi would have to not only avoid stalls, among other immobile objects, but they would also have to avoid the commoners who were going about their normal routines. They were keeping the streets crowded, per usual. It wasn’t the people that worried Arina itself, it was the individual. The trio could find themselves bumping into the wrong individual who would undoubtedly have a violent temper and not be taken so lightly.
INDENT “Be careful,” Arina announced as she began to make her way through the streets. She resembled the video game frogger to an unbelievable extent. She showed prowess and was easily able to adapt to her surroundings. The young girl dodged, ducked, rolled, and jumped through the streets and upon reaching the other side which was subsequently cleared out, she collapsed to her knees momentarily trying to catch her breath. Still breathing heavily, the young girl was ready to pick herself back up and begin tailing the cat once more. A snowy-colored, small, female cat began rubbing against Arina’s leg and purring before she had been able to stand. “What a cute kitty,” Arina stated smiling widely. Then, an ideal dawned upon her. Her eyes widened with shock and the smile upon her face began to sport a mischievous grin. Arina retrieved a piece of venison jerky from her lunch giving it to the small kitten. While the kitten very gladly ate, the young girl awaited for her comrades to catch up. She was going to propose a change of strategy.

Lerry, Chario, and Kaito trailed behind Arina. She was in hot pursuit, chasing the the feline down. Though, obviously she was having trouble actually capturing the devil kitty. Even though she had the target cornered, she had still managed to claw the hell out of Arina, and escape from over a fence. Though Kaito hadn't exactly saw any of this happen, he would soon find out by the look of her face when they would catch up to her. They now were directly behind her, cutting through the crowded streets of Konoha. These streets were always flooded with merchants, and people trying to buy things, along with others who were just passing by and making their way through. The group weaved through people, only to find Arina on the other end holding a different cat. The cat was chewing on something, so Arina had probably just fed it something similar like what she fed Chario.

This cat looked... slightly different. It obviously wasn't the cat they had pursued this entire time. Lerry also noticed this, but that was probably because he knew the scent of the other feline. Then made this comment: "Did the real one get away? Cause it looks like he gave you a beating." Which made Kaito give out a small chuckle. Her face was scratched up fairly bad, but she didn't look to be in too much pain from it at least. "Sorry about that.." He were speaking about the rude laugh he gave when Lerry had made his comment. "Anyways, why exactly do you have.. that cat?" He had a feeling she was going to answer with a strange reply of some sort. Not sure why he had that feeling, he just did.

Kaito then walked over to the cat that Arina was holding, and began to pet her head. She purred, and Kaito smiled. The cat was rather cute, and unlike the one they had been in pursuit of, this one wasn't an a*****e. Cat's weren't bad when they weren't clawing you up, or pooping all over the place. Chario on the other hand probably wasn't a huge fan of cats, but for now he couldn't terrorize this cute little thing. "So what's our plan here?.. Shouldn't we be chasing Tora down right now?" The longer they stood there, the further away that cat had gotten. Soon enough, Chario and Lerry probably wouldn't be able to track her scent anymore, and that would make this mission plenty more difficult... Unless of course, Arina had a plan of sorts.