Division

Being a lieutenant in Starfleet wasn’t much of an accomplishment. Not everyone could do it, but a large enough percentage passed the tests and had the proper attitude that the rank meant next to nothing. “You’re a lieutenant? That’s nice. I know this admiral, and she’s got the nicest legs you ever did see…”

Second Lieutenant Shane ( Read more... )

[Memories]

There had been an explosion ten miles south during the night, a mission assigned to jounin who shouldn’t have received it for too many reasons, and it had gone exactly as anticipated. A special thing to impress and frighten the clientele, earning the payment and creating a reason never to stray from Kumogakure all in the two hours of ( Read more... )

Luck

Higa Naomi was born in the slums of Kirigakure no Sato to a whore and a bored shinobi. Nine months after their initial meeting, he consented to let Naomi take his name after her babbling mother tracked him down. Thirty years and ninety days later she will be strangled to death a few meters away from the ramshackle house she was born in. She ( Read more... )

The mission summons had come and Yamagata Hiromi had gone. She stood tall and straight-backed in her new vest, the lines still crisp and sharp to the touch, and tried hard not to squirm under Noboru-sensei’s dark eyes, narrowed and fitting perfectly with his tight scowl. For the moment, she was succeeding. The briefing was done, had been done ( Read more... )