Rukia In 3k words
I won't bother everyone with OC stuff so don't worry the 3k words are under the cut. @mal-the-konohoe @therantingfangirl @mortyvongola2-0 @nightingaleflow
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Rukia Hatake, formerly known as Rukia Sarutobi is a member of Team 7 alongside Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura. Due to Kakashi losing Rukia’s mother during childbirth and then his sensei only three days later, he sees himself as a curse and asks Hiruzen to take care of her instead. The two of them came to an agreement that, once Rukia becomes strong enough to handle the people that would come after her when her Hatake bloodline was revealed, she can know who her father is.
Had super long hair as a kid but burned a lot of it off after she failed at controlling her fire release, so she keeps it short until she masters fire.
Being the granddaughter of Hiruzen Sarutobi, excellence was expected but it was never easy, despite being born with all five natures. She had them, she knew she had them, everyone reminded her that she had them, but could she use them well? Could she control her chakra enough to switch interchangeably? Absolutely not, so from the ages 2-4 she primarily only used her strongest nature - water - because she ended up hurting herself when she used the others.
Once she enters the Academy, Kakashi does start to worry that she’ll be noticed by rogue ninja’s hidden in the Leaf, by traitors, by Danzo. So everyday when Kakashi is not on a mission, he dawns a new disguise be it - his old anbu outfit, Sukea, or some poor civilian he copies from the street - and picks her up from the academy, training all day with her after. He’s the first one to teach her how to actually use her lightning release. She can’t do chidori by any means, but the first one she can control is a little spark. That little spark is enough to make the both of them proud.
During her time at the Academy, she sticks to Shikamaru due to their families being close. She stops Naruto from being bullied because similar to Konohamaru, no one wants to be the one that hit the Hokage's granddaughter. It angers her that no one sees her, they just see the man whose face is carved on the mountain.
After the Uchiha massacre, she watches over Sasuke who immediately notices her. For a while they both accept that she just wants to make sure he’s okay but one day he burns himself and Rukia walks over with ointment, the two of them not speaking about it and the two of them start training with each other, her water being the perfect opponent for his fire. Who better to help her achieve the excellence her grandfather expects of her than an Uchiha?
She’s friendly with Shino in the Academy, Shibi is one of her favorite people to see during the clan meetings. To Rukia, she thinks it’s impressive that Shino has the ability to control insects like that. Which means Shino has a very hidden soft spot for Rukia. Rukia the kid who always smiled at him, who always involved him in group play activities, who would always make sure to find him a partner since she was always paired up with Naruto or Sasuke.
When Rukia is placed on Team 7, Sakura is immediately questioning things because Rukia looks too similar to the sensei in front of them and looks nothing like the sensei to Team 10. She gets a little peeved that Sakura seems to be solely focused on Sasuke at first so there is quite a division between the group because Rukia doesn’t want Naruto to feel like he’s alone despite her friendship with Sasuke. Kakashi explains to them that every year there is always a four man squad due to the number of children allowed in the academy. The Great Shinin (legendary four ninja), Kakashi’s team 7 (where Rukia’s mom was placed), etc.
During the Bells exercise, Rukia exhausts herself trying to help each of her teammates. Which, despite that being the whole purpose of this exercise, angers Kakashi as a father, because he knew if he couldn’t drill into the other three the importance of teamwork that Rukia was going to get herself killed one of these days. This leads to Kakashi and Rukia sparring as she tries to steal the bells while he tries explaining to her that she can’t help anyone if she’s dead. She doesn’t listen, she's too focused on getting all the bells for her teammates.
During the chunin exams, she ends up fighting Zaku, Rukia has already used up a lot of chakra at this point protecting her other three teammates. She has a defense for most ninjutsu, at least one solid jutsu for each nature to be used as a counter- but sound? She has no idea how to protect herself from it so he really does damage to her.
Shino overhears that Zaku is the reason Rukia is all cut up and bloody. Kakashi did have to hold out his hand and physically stop Rukia from jumping over the rail to protect him after Shino got punched by Zaku . She says thank you to Shino after he wins, asks him if he’s okay and he just nods telling her not to worry about him because she’s up next.
There’s a fourth sand sibling, Iya, whose speciality is medical ninjutsu and sealing as well as an earth release. After Kankuro, and Temari have already fought and won their battles, Rukia's name is called up. Automatically people really don’t know how this is going to go. Rukia is the second strongest of their year but the Sand Siblings have proven to be ruthless.
With water being Rukia’s strongest nature, having someone who’s only nature is Earth causes for a very intense battle, all of Rukia’s favorite jutsus get used against her or have no effect, and when she does land a hit on Iya, Iya just heals herself. This leads her to using her lightning release for the first time in front of everyone- besides Kakashi. She does end up winning, but passes out immediately after. Kakashi catches her and picks her up, him and Hiruzen making eye contact knowing Rukia is getting strong enough to know about him.
Before the arena chunin exams, Kakashi introduces Rukia to the Dragon Sage Hidora, the fire Nature Ninja and one of the Shinin, and has them train together. Rukia fought just a normal added character who was truly no match for her after training with Hidora since she can now use all five of her natures interchangeably but still primarily focusing on water and lightning- they’re her comfort natures.
When the Konoha crush happens Rukia immediately runs up to Hiruzen to no avail because she can’t do anything against that barrier. Anbu members try to pull her away once Hiruzen sacrifices himself which makes Rukia pull in her first storm from her emotions, she’s kicking and screaming and crying because she wants to see her grandfather. Kakashi goes up to her and he’s all like, I know it hurts, but Naruto needs you. So Rukia pushes down her emotions and goes to help Naruto and them.
Jiraiya brings Rukia along with Naruto to recruit Tsunade knowing that Rukia is also a Senju, knowing that Tsunade knows she’s a Senju and hoping it encourages Tsunade. It doesn’t. The two of them don’t really have any relationship at all however when Rukia mentions training with Hidora, Tsunade does become slightly intrigued. Rukia is a Senju and a Nature Ninja and is on the path to become a dragon sage? Tsunade can see very quickly that Rukia will be powerful and with the Leaf without a Hokage, they might be at risk. It’s during this time that we learn Rukia is very susceptible to genjutsu. When Rukia gets back she is still very much depressed especially after seeing and fighting Orochimaru and Kabuto.
Tsunade promotes Rukia to chunin along with Shikamaru because Rukia was able to push her emotions aside and focus on the mission at hand. With her new chunin status and with Rukia losing her grandfather, Kakashi tells her the truth about her lineage.
Injures her hand after she and Kakashi deflect Naruto’s/Sasuke’s rasengan/chidori. Kakashi deflects their jutsu’s while Rukia pushes Sakura out of the way. Shikamaru doesn’t pick her to go on the mission which really pisses her off because she feels like she’s the strongest one out of Konoha 12 even with her injury. She finds Shino who is also a little upset about not going on the recovery mission and the two of them joke about how it’s like Shikamaru wants the mission to fail by not picking the two of them but Rukia tells Shino she doesn’t care if she gets in trouble, she’s going to go help them.
It’s Rukia and Lee vs Kimimaru, the both of them ultimately end up being saved by Gaara thankfully. However it’s because of that fight that Rukia becomes adamant about learning how to create a forcefield/shield of some sort to be able to defend against attacks like his.
Once Gaara comes to save Lee, Rukia runs off to follow Naruto and catches up with him just in time after his fight with Sasuke. Right there, she has to choose between helping Naruto or fighting Sasuke and trying to bring him back but she chooses to help Naruto. She tries to carry him back to the village but exhausted all of her chakra during her fight with Kimimaro so she passes out fairly quickly. Kakashi, Shino and Pakun arrive to pick up the two of them.
After she realizes that Sasuke fought Naruto meaning he was choosing to follow Orochimaru,
Orochimaru- the man who killed her grandfather in front of her. After she actually has time to grieve the death of her grandfather. After she realizes that Kakashi has known her for 13 years and waited THIS long to tell her- Rukia kinda falls down a spiral.
Danzo sees her training in a field. He’s always wanted Rukia to be in ROOT knowing he could never have her in ROOT because of Hiruzen. He basically kind of gaslights her into joining the ANBU. Danzo knows if he can break her down enough in the ANBU that he can slowly get her to join ROOT. She joins the ANBU secretly without Tsunade or Kakashi knowing with the help of Danzo. She jumps between regular missions and ANBU missions. When she gets placed on Tenzo’s team, he knows she’s Kakashi's daughter but doesn’t say anything until he sees Rukia get a little too dark on a mission. Killing a family that could be a potential threat? Anyone would’ve thought twice about it, would’ve had doubts but 13 year-old Rukia just went straight in as she was told. Rukia kinda goes a bit stoic, spaces out when she sees all the blood on her.
When her and Tenzo get back to the village she just walks around like a zombie leading to Tenzo finding Kakashi and being like “yeah your daughter is a little fucked up right now.” Kakashi gets pissed because he had no idea Rukia was in the ANBU and never ever wanted her to ever be in the ANBU. Kakashi convinces her to leave the ANBU and train between him and Hidora instead.
Training with Hidora is rough to say the least. To become a Dragon Sage which is something only Nature Ninja’s have the ability to become (it’s the only humans the dragons trust and even that is rare because they’ve been betrayed by some of the Nature Ninja’s in the past which is why the path to becoming a dragon sage is so gruesome), you have to be one with the elements meaning; to master the elements you have to withstand the elements. Burning, drowning, electrocuting herself, etc. she has to go through it all. It’s a bloody, brutal, and deadly training but it’s worth it especially to Rukia who needs to be the strongest.
Through her training with Hidora, she was only able to master lightning, wind, and earth before returning to the village. Fire was too painful and despite water being her strongest, she had an odd mental block on it. She did however manage to create a jutsu, combining the 5 natures into her hand and disintegrating whatever she touched. For her opponent, they go through the 5 natures one by one before their body turns into dust and gets blown away. For Rukia it uses nearly all of her chakra, because of her creation of a new jutsu and her new skills, Hidora recommends Rukia to Tsunade to be promoted to Jonin.
Comes back to the village with Hidora just minutes after Naruto and Jiraiya come back from the village, though Rukia isn’t a sage yet her ability to sense chakra and use her natures have greatly increased. She leaves Hidora at the gate when she senses Naruto leading to a cute runion between Naruto, Sakura and Rukia all who haven’t seen each other in years. Jokes about how Rukia is still the shortest however her two teammates can clearly see that she’s changed. She’s still bubbly, still touchy and overall still puts on a happy appearance but there's a sort of silence that hovers over each word. Her teammates don’t know about her ANBU days or the fact that her training was essentially torture. When Tsunade has them spar with Kakashi, her teamwork is even better than it was originally but she’s still willing to sacrifice herself which angers Kakashi.
She really beats herself up over Gaara being kidnapped. How was she supposed to know? No clue, but she still beats herself up over it because Gaara is important to Naruto and even to Rukia. There’s a third Akatsuki member named Chikyu who is a rogue Nature Ninja from the Hidden Cloud and her primary jutsu is lightning. Though Rukia has mastered lightning and lightning is one of her strongest , Chikyu is stronger. Chikyu is more relentless unlike Hidora who would hold back. Rukia barely has time to use hand signs to put up defensive measures. Their battle is long and drawn out, the two of them being dark enough to want to kill each other. Rukia summons a thunderstorm so she could use the natural elements rather than her own because her chakra is plummeting during this fight however it backfires because Chikyu can use it as well. Which leaves Rukia her only option and it’s her disintegration jutsu, which wipes her out after and she passes out being picked up by Neji and Gai shortly after.
During the Tenchi bridge arc, Rukia runs into Shino with Naruto when they both try to find a new teammate which leads to lots of blushed faces and longing stares after she sees Shino again for the first time in a couple of years. Rukia is called to Tsunade’s office when Tenzo becomes Yamato to make sure that Rukia doesn’t slip up. She doesn’t know Sai but she does sympathize with him, if being in ANBU was rough, being in the Foundation was rougher. The first time she figures out that flying is a possibility is when Sakura falls off the bridge. Anyways lots of angst from Rukia here because she hates Orochimaru and Kabuto and right now she does hold resentment towards Sasuke.
Rukia chooses to help Naruto with training rather than missions for a bit, she sees Shikamaru and Asuma at the gate while she’s on her way to the field where Yamato and Kakashi are and gives them a smile and waves goodbye, wishing them luck on their mission. A couple hours go by and Rukia starts to feel physically sick, her gut telling her that something is wrong so she sends Raiku out to Shikamaru and Asuma to provide backup but Raiku doesn’t get there in time and links with Rukia- letting her see Asuma’s last moments.
Causes her second emotional outburst storm when she watches Asuma’s death and immediately she wants revenge so she joins Ino, Shikamaru and Choji on their mission which is ultimately why Kakashi joins the mission because he knows, at least for Rukia, this is a suicide mission. Just imagine the best father daughter fight scenes for this arc because they’re soooo pretty in my head.
During the Three Tails Appearance filler arc, she stays behind with Shino, wanting to protect him when he is focused on his bugs, which leads to awkward cuddles when it rains and they have to take shelter under one of her makeshift caves. She becomes a part of the sealing team except she has to go underwater for it and Isobu ends up knocking her out rendering her unconscious as she sinks to the bottom of the lake, she wakes up as her back hits the bottom, she realizes that she’s completely alone, no one is able to come save her and she has to save herself and she finally masters the water nature.
The Pain Arc is brutal for her. She starts it off by gathering people in the cemetery as she sets up a very large force field surrounding the cemetery top and bottom because based on what she can see in the sky, something is about to destroy the village and she can’t lose her family members that lay six feet under. After that she fights an added Pain, who midfight, she feels Kakashi die causing her to freeze and Pain nearly kills her then cute Rukia and Shino stuff happens but that will be posted sooooon. Then she goes where the huge crater is and fights all the Pain again, nearly dying again, just before Naruto comes in.
Danzo brings her to the Five Kage Summit because he knows the Kage and the Samurai respect her bloodline more than they do him. He also is bitter she left the Anbu so he does plan for Torune to kill her after the Summit is over. Rukia goes but rightfully keeps her distance which causes Danzo to have Torune poison her, only to heal her so she knows how easily they can kill her if she steps out of line. Everything goes with canon besides her and Sasuke having an angsty fight; however, once he mentions he’s after Danzo, Rukia lets him through- telling him not to hurt the other two because they’re just following orders. After Danzo is gone, Rukia is the one who ends up finalizing the Leaf will join the war and goes with the Sand Siblings to tell Kakashi.
She’s originally with Kakashi on his battalion only she’s called to Gaara’s battalion after half of them are sent to assist Darui’s. Kakashi stumbles upon a reincarnated Rumi on the battlefield after Rukia destroys 1,000 Zetsu with the help of her dragons with Gaara.
Kabuto hates her with a passion so he moves Rumi (her mom) from battling with Kakashi to now battling with Rukia, her mom who specialized in fire release and medical ninjutsu coaches Rukia on how to deal with the burns while Kabuto is forcing Rumi to use every deadly fire jutsu against her and Rukia finally masters her fire nature, only realizing that when her burns slowly start to heal. Lots of stuff happens in the war with her but the war arc is so long I’m not going to make you guys read everything. Essentially she gets to meet Tobirama which is fun, gets closure with Hiruzen, kicks ass, and helps kill Kaguya ya know.
During the blank period Rukia spends the first couple of months Rukia searches for all of the shinobi that have been KIA because she wants to bring them back to their villages where they can rest in peace, she wants to get something to the people who have lost their loved ones. Then after lots of longing stares, a rescue mission and lots of late night talks, Rukia and Shino finally get together. Rukia takes a lot of the missions (with Shino now), and spends a lot of time going between each village as Kakashi’s second hand.
During the Boruto era (which is vastly different in my world) she’s one of Naruto’s many hands but mainly spends her time ensuring smaller villages have what they need and giving them support. Kinda in a selfish way, she wants the smaller villages to be grateful for the Leaf so they never rise up against the Leaf but she does care about all of them just cares more about the Leaf. She takes her kids with her to other villages when she can so they learn that there is a bigger world than just the Leaf, that peace for the Leaf can only be peaceful if peace is everywhere else as well.