Fifteen Accidental Life Lessons

Notes: Or, more accurately, fifteen things Team Two, aka Kotetsu and Izumo, learned that their sensei hadn't meant for them to learn, either at the time or at all. Some from team experience, some from Kyouji-sensei's mistakes. Expect humor, angst, and that Kyouji, I think, is not an OC who is just going to disappear, no matter how much I'd like him to do just that sometimes.
It's fifteen because twenty is too many, five is too easy, ten is cliché, and twelve is a biblical number. There is nothing remotely biblical about the shinobi lifestyle.
Kyouji will often be compared with Orochimaru for the simple fact that Orochimaru was his jounin mentor and they worked together through a war and far longer than can be considered healthy. He is an ass. Yondaime, too, is an ass. This will not change.

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Ages in this chapter

Kotetsu and Izumo: 8

Kyouji and the soon-to-be Yondaime: swinging twenty thensome

Kakashi: 10

Lesson # 1: It is perfectly acceptable to train in snow, sleet, and hail; even though it's high enough to the point where even the likes of Team Yellow Flash are not.

"He's going to end up killing his students one of these days," Kakashi announces to his sensei. Team Yellow Flash has taken refuge in Sandaime's office from the growing snowstorm, and the young Chuunin is watching the year's early graduate team braving the weather. Izumo and Kotetsu spar in waist-deep snow while Kyouji corrects their form and has them go back over particular moves.

"It's just the way Kyouji-san is, Kakashi," the Yellow Flash responds with a shrug. In fact, these three would be training out there right now, if only Sandaime had asked him to please, please, stop baiting the Uchiha clan. The Hokage would be hearing enough from the Kamizuki clan as it is; another-in the blonde's opinion- puffed up clan on his case was not how the man wanted to end his time as Hokage. "He knows their limits."

The four can hear Izumo cursing a blue streak over the wind, and Kotetsu has finally snapped and is chucking blast notes at both his teammate and sensei. The Yellow Flash doesn't need to be able to hear the ash blonde's response to know that the boys have earned themselves a couple of laps around the village.

Team Two takes a ridiculous number of outdoor missions this winter, and has better luck than most of the other gennin teams because of their proficiency in fighting in impossible weather conditions.

//One down, fourteen to go.