Chapter 10: Friend = pawn

"I want you to work for me"

She looked at me and started laughing, it was pretty predictable, she then looked at me, "Oh wait you were serious?"

"Yes."

"The old hag told you am older than you, that means I m stronger"

"Let's verify that", I m not over confident, I have somewhat trained myself, and she is probably not that much older than me, I could probably take on this kid.

"Are you sure about that?", she raised her fist as she was about to hit me, too bad for her I read her mind, and knew she was going for my chin, I took a defensive position to prepare for protecting my chin, but suddenly from thin air, another girl showed up, she just appeared out of nowhere, I jumped back, while Kuroki just looked happy?.

"Please Kuroki stop, don't hurt her"

"I wasn't going to hit her it was just a joke", she said it with a seemingly angelic smile on her face, permit me to doubt it, you were clearly gonna attack me, but I m a keep this for me.

"You should try to be her friends, you are older so you need to control yourself", she then looked at me, "I am sorry, if we frightened you, I am Irubi, I am in the room next to yours, I heard you were new, and I wanted to meet you"

"Ni-nice to meet you", I couldn't help but ask her, "how did you appear out of nowhere?"

"I have a special power, I can transform into mist, but it is difficult to stay like that for long"

Her power is way more useful than to talk to pets, I told you this place was gonna be useful, maybe I should have my own laboratory to find a way to steal powers(kekkei genkai), I meant to study, yes to study her special power. I should get her to work for me, since the hierarchy would take time to set up, I should use the same thing as my previous life, I shall befriend her.

"Wooooow, you are amazing, I m sure no one can beat you", flattery check.

"That's not true, Kiroki is waaaay more powerful than me"

"I m sure she is just stupid muscle head", I then looked at Kuroki and took my tongue out toward her.

She got angry and was heading my way, "I m gonna show you, you cheeky brat who's a muscle head, and what were you saying about fighting me?"

"Bring it on, I m waiting for you", this is gonna be easy, I just need to counter her hit, it won't be difficult, will it?

"STOP IT YOU TWO", it was Irubi on the verge of crying, at my surprise only some kids appeared to see what was happening, when they looked at us, they said in light voices, "Mad dog Kuroki is fighting again, let's go before she catches us *hihi* ", now I understand where her bad temper comes from, those kids talked loud enough for me to hear them, so she heard too them too, in a brief second second she looked down then happy again.

"Alright, alright, you didn't need to cry, I m not gonna hit her, if she answers my question...", A billion dollar she's gonna ask about my skin color, "why is your skin so different?"

"That's because mom is from kumogakure, my turn why were you talking to that bird?"

"Because he is my friend, and I can understand him, go on you can laugh"

"Not at all, Irubi can turn into mist, but you can't talk to animals?", we all started laughing

I was about to ask them to show me around the orphanage but the receptionist came, this time with a new book, "new kid if you are hungry go to the cafeteria you'll find food there, your roommate will show you" then she went in the corridor, "EVERY ONE BACK TO YOUR ROOMS, IT S TIME TO SLEEP", she then went away, she is on top of my blacklist,

"Good night you two, be good to each other, I need to go Yamato will be worried", did she just talk about THE Yamato the one who gets wood release, if my calculations are correct we should be both the same age, I need to find a way to make 'befriend' him.

I am not hungry, so I just say "Good night", and go to a the free bed, where there was a blanket and a pillow.

I pull the blanket and sleep, tomorrow will be my first official day of training, so I'll need energy.