Title: Hidden in Fire
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Various
Length: Chaptered but...no main plot?
Archive: Here, occasionally
jaeho_detox and at
hug______ Genre: Gen / drama / crack
Author's Disclaimer: This fanfic is done solely for entertainment, with no profits derived.
Summary: I love Naruto and I love the boys so my mind decided, "Hey, why not combine the two?" Plus, the dongbang in ANBU armour is just too effing hot. Yeah. Sometimes serious, sometimes cracky, sometimes sad. No main plot but mainly a way to let me play around in the Naruto!verse. You don't really need to know Naruto to enjoy this (but it does help).
A/N: As a basic premise - character introduction:
Jaejoong: ANBU
Yunho: Former ANBU / Currently Jounin
Yoochun: Special Jounin / Academy sensei
Changmin: ANBU / Secretary to the Hokage
Junsu: Jounin
Timeline: Between right after the Second Great Shinobi War to the current Naruto series. Am not an expert in Naruto facts so I might get some things wrong. Feel free to correct me.
First Leaf - The First Time
The first time Jaejoong killed, he was eleven, fresh out of the Academy and his hitai-ate still so new, it was spotless and scar-free (that changed after his first kill of course - Jaejoong learned then that when he aimed for the jugular, he should angle himself away from the expected spurt of arterial blood). His first kill was a bandit, nothing more than a thug who couldn't tell one end of a kunai from the other and whose last wash was sometime during the rainy season a summer ago.
He could have aimed for a debilitating strike instead of a fatal one. He was slender and small enough at that age that he could have twisted out of the headlock the nameless thug had wrestled him into and instead, jam his kunai into the back of a knee or hell, even stab the bastard through the foot.
But Jaejoong didn't.
He calculated, weighed, and judged, and decided to go for a quick slash across the throat, opening a macabre grin of red that stretched ear to ear.
Matsumada-sensei had praised him for a job well-done, if not too enthusiastically done. Most genins after all, went through at least a year of apprenticeship before even having to consider murder, but this was just after the Cloud-Leaf war and Konoha was desperate to appear strong before its enemies and had sent out genins, ninjas just graduated from the Academy into minimum C-rank missions. Jaejoong knew what he wanted out of his ninja career, and that was a place on the ANBU corps. Exposing himself to death as soon as possible was the best choice, acclimatise himself to killing, in a way.
Jaejoong was practical like that.
-------------------
The first time Yunho killed, he was thirteen, on a mission that went so wrong, it was kind of funny in hindsight. A wrongly-ranked mission (a B-rank classified as a D, for fuck's sake, the lengths a client would go to, trying to minimise the cost of hiring shinobi) and Yunho found himself facing Suna's missing-nin, two out of three who were notorious enough to be featured in the Bingo book. It was a fuck-up and Yunho fully expected to die and that was fucking unfair.
He worked his ass off to graduate, had put in thousands of hours in the training fields and the Forest of Death, to prove that someone who wasn't clan-born could rise through the ranks, could be as good as an Uchiha or a Nara and he was damned if he was going to get killed on a mission just because some goddamn stingy miser refused to cough up the ryo for a B-rank.
Yunho's hands flew through the seals of a fire jutsu, its name a whisper on his lips that turned into hundreds of marble-sized flames that burned blue and through sheer, dumb luck, the missing-nin was distracted by the shadow shuriken storm Yamada-kun was famous for, and the napalm Yunho had managed to smash on the missing-nin's leg armour caught fire. The man went up in a fiery agony of blue and white and the surprise was enough to convince the other two to cut their losses and leave, and only then did Yunho allow the shaking to creep into his limbs, for his knees to weaken.
His first kill and Yunho wanted to throw up and he did.
But he was shinobi, a Leaf ninja and shinobi were expected to kill in their line of duty, but that didn't mean he had to like it. Yunho doubted he ever would and he prayed to any entity that listened that he wouldn't.
Yunho was naive like that.
-------------------
TBC...
-------------------
Hah, nothing too heavy/serious/insane yet. Just getting a feel for everyone first. I actually already know what Junsu's ultimate jutsu will be *snicker*. I take prompts, if you want to give me one (~_^)
Glossary of terms: (all info from Wikipedia XD)
ANBU: (literally "Dark Side", Viz manga "Black Ops", English TV "ANBU Black Ops") is actually short for Ansatsu Senjutsu Tokushu Butai (暗殺戦術特殊部隊) literally Special Assassination and Tactical Squad)
Genin: Lowest level ninja, recently graduated and formed into three-man cells led by a jounin-sensei
Kunai: Typical weapon for a shinobi, shaped like the head of an arrow with a handgrip.
Shuriken: Throwing stars.
Any other info you want to find out, go here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Naruto