Who: Kabuto and Kin

Where: Sound Castle

When: Before heading out to Fire Country

What: A walk in the garden

Warnings: Kin has been hanging around Tayuya too much (bad language)

( Patience, as much as Kin liked to brag that she had plenty of, was something she had in very small amounts. )

Characters: Zaku and Kin (go figure!)
Time/Place: Mid-day, Oto camp (after "Do You Believe In Magic" and before "Food, Glorious Food".)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Zaku found Kin's otherwise lost ribbon, antics ensue! (And there is some worry about Kin's mission.)

Black hair fell over the girls face as she leaned forward on the shore of the river, sun ( Read more... )

Who: Chouji, Kin
When: Lunch time
Where: The Blue Butterfly
Rating: PG
Summary: Kin stopped in at The Blue Butterfly to try and pick up information from the locals, but things to terribly wrong.

Another lunchtime at The Blue Butterfly. The inn was almost deserted this time of day. Business would pick up when night fell, Chouji hoped. It usually had ( Read more... )

Who:
    Orochimaru, Kin
What:
    Magic lessons
When:
    The trip to Konoha (before Tayu and Kin Get Rough)
Where:
    Foresty places

Kin groaned softly to herself, tossing down her small travel bag before sitting on her knees with a small thud in the dirt. Trees sat nestled all around the party, their massive branches extending high into the air and ( Read more... )

Hanabi nodded, and did not smile back.  She was used to strangers bowing before her father; why hadn’t this girl?

“Thank you,” she said, looking fully into Kin's eyes.  She wasn’t glaring; she was just… looking, with the expressionless, polite face she had learned to put on whenever visitors called.  Hanabi could sense discomfort and displeasure ( Read more... )

Characters: Tayuya and Kin
Time: Late afternoon
Setting: The forest between Sound and Konoha
Rating: R. Because it's Tayuya.  Really.
Summary: Tayuya and Kin are on their way to Konoha.  Wacky hijinks ensue.  No, really.

Tayuya paused to brush the hair from her face, clinging sweaty from hours of walking under the sun that grew progressively warmer as ( Read more... )

Kimimaro let his bone-sword slip from his hand as he sank onto one of the wooden benches in the training hall. It dropped to the stone floor with a clatter, covering the young man’s sigh of discontent. He’d only been working for less than an hour- forty-five minutes- and already he was winded. He slumped down, disappointed.

Of course, the ( Read more... )

Characters: Orochimaru, Kin
Setting: Training space behind the Sound Castle
Rating: PG
Warning: N/A
Summary: Kin read "the letter" earlier in the day and decided to head out for practice. It doesn't go well, and when Orochimaru notices he just has to ask...

Thud, thud, thud. There was a swoosh in the air prior to the resounding sound as three arrows ( Read more... )