Kao quickly ran along the streets of Konoha. She was in fact going so fast, she almost collided with a shop keeper that suddenly popped up. Luckily, her ninja skills saved her from the fall.
"You again!" The shopkeeper yelled. "How many times do I have to tell you to slow down, you might give me a heart attack."
Kao momentarily slowed down and looked over her shoulder. "Sorry, ojii-san. Oh, and please make sure you save some melons for me, will you? Yours are the best of whole Konoha!"
"Eh, why would I save some for someone like you." he complained, but Kao was quite sure there would be some melons waiting for her at the end of the day, like there always would.
"I'm sure he secretly likes me..." she whispered to her canines who were running along side her, when they were around the corner.
"If he does, he sure has a weird way of showing it." the biggest one, named Shiromaru, barked.
His brother, Kuromaru, just raised his ears the slightest bit, his equivalent of raising his eyebrows.
"Ah, shut up you grump and run faster." Kao said and she immediately doubled her pace.
Now running even faster then before, and thus more dangerously, it was almost inevitable that she now did in fact collide with someone when he popped up.
"Ouch!" she yelled, landing on her butt.
"There she goes again..." Shiromaru sighed.
"She really is a disgrace to all ninja's." Kuromaru agreed.
"Oh shut up already!" Kao yelled frustrated.
"Ah, I take it they are insulting you again. No wonder, really. Here, let me help you up." The person she had bumped into said. She looked up to see an outstretched hand belonging to none other then here teammate, Nakai.
The force with which he pulled her upright was overwhelming. With wobbly legs, she only just managed to stay upright.
''Its not nice of you to just bump into people without greeting them, you know.'' Nakai said while leisurely putting his hands in his pockets and slowly taking in her appearance. From the messy state her hair was in, he concluded she must have woken up late and had forgotten to do her hair. Not that there was much that could be done with it. Her white manes were almost untameable, and he could only imagine the drag it was to properly take care of it.
"You where just in the way. Like you always are." Kao interrupted his train of thought while dusting of her pants.
Nakai sighed and shook his head. ''You were never reasonable to begin with, huh..."
''I can reasonable if I want to. But right now? I don't think so, this is your fault mister not so smarty pants." huffed Kao.
''There they go again...'' Shiromaru sighed and he briefly sat down on the ground, waiting for this everyday exchange to end.
''Kao, aren't you supposed to be somewhere right now?'' said Kuromaru.
"Ah!" Kao yelled startled. ''She going to kill me." and gone was the wild girl, leaving behind a trail of dust.
Nakai exchanged a look with the canines still fixed on the same spot. Even though he couldn't understand them like the Inuzuka clan could, he was pretty sure he guessed what they had just said.
The three sighed in union.
After not even a minute, Kao appeared again, panting from the running trip she had done.
"Where were we supposed to be again?" she asked in between gasps for air.
Nakai just shrugged, and when even her loyal dogs remained silent she groaned and flopped down onto the ground.
"She's going to kill me." she whined.
'''Killing you? What do you think about me? I just hope she chose to be late today.'' Nakai said while looking at the position of the sun. Ah man, they were late alright.
''She is never late, dummy. We're done for. If only you could have remembered the place.'' Kao continued whining.
''This is such a drag...'' Nakai scratched his head, "Hadn't you made sure you wouldn't forget? You said so last week. You know I always forget it and Jun always comes from the opposite direction..." he said, referring to their other teammate. "So you're on your own with this one."
"Geez... Do you really don't know either, Kuromaru, Shiromaru?"
"It was by those three trees, wasn't it? That triangle spot where she always wants you to meditate." Kuromaru said, scratching behind his ear with this foot.
"Oh that's right!" Kao exclaimed, jumping up again. Nakai quickly stepped away to avoid her. "Waaaaait a minute, you knew all along?" she then yelled, when realization had finally dawned upon her.
"You should have asked us directly to begin with." Shiromaru simply said.
"Gah, I can't believe you two!" she screamed and off she went again.
"Wait, wait, where are we supposed to be?" Nakai sheepishly asked. But Kao couldn't hear him anymore and he had no other choice then to quickly follow the girl with her two dogs in the distance.
A shadow in a tree smiled wickedly. "Lets see what's the punishment for those who are late." he mused. After the figure was sure that no one had see him he put his hands in the ram seal and shunshined away.
Jun was known to be a pretty solid guy, but now even he was getting nervous. His teammates where no where to be seen, and that didn't mean anything good. Jun was leaning against a tree, trying to hide his unease, but his sensei that was stomping towards him wasn't helping his situation.
''Where are those to lazy, freaking teammates of you?'' she yelled while lifting Jun off the ground by his collar.
''I told them to meet up here at ten o'clock, ma'am.'' he tried to say with his limited access to oxygen due to her grip.
"Well, you may have done that mister all-" but before their sensei could continue in her charade, she was interrupted by a yell in the distance.
"Anko-sensei! We're here!" Kao said, closing in on them with high speed, her two companions close behind.
Anko dropped Jun on the ground and whipped around. When Kao saw the face of Anko-sensei she wished she could just turn around too and run away, but she was already too close to change direction. Her only chance was to run past her sensei and teammate. But when she was in reach of Anko-sensei she was yanked off her path by a tug on her arm, lifted of the ground and thrown away. While flying through the air she couldn't help the fleeting thought that, man, even after all these years she just couldn't match the speed of her sensei.
When Kao had unceremoniously landed on her butt and Nakai had sneakily joined Jun's side, Anko crossed her arms and took a deep breath.
"You all are getting the training of a lifetime. I want to see you all at training ground twenty two in exactly ten seconds and if you are the tiniest bit late you can say goodbye to the sleep you were planning on tonight. "she yelled, before jumping to the trees and launching herself to the training grounds.
The three teammates looked at each other, Jun slightly nodding his head in greeting, Kao looking at the boys with a horror-stricken face and Nakai just shrugging. Then, they quickly headed out to the training ground, because they knew their sensei wasn't lying when she was threatening them.