Disclaimer: I don't own anything except for Mayu. And for those who have read this story on my other user, I have changed it a bit so it's more like the series. Ok? Ok. On with the story! :D
The Task
The day, on which Team 7 was going to meet their teacher, only one thing pissed them off; he was late. Sasuke was sitting down at a desk which Sakura was leaning on while Naruto paced around the classroom, and quite frankly it was pissing Sakura off.
"Naruto, sit down! Your pacing isn't going to make him arrive any faster!" yelled Sakura.
"I can't! Why is he taking so long? I can't stand waiting around! I'm ready to go, believe it!"
Sasuke sighed in boredom. He thought Naruto's pacing was irritating but it wasn't enough to get worked up over. His attention was switched to Naruto standing on a chair, putting a board duster in the door.
"Naruto, stop that! We'll get into trouble!" yelled Sakura, while Inner Sakura yelled, "Yeah, I love this kind of stuff!"
Sasuke slapped his forehead. "Damn, what a loser!" were his thoughts. He heard footsteps and looked up to see a man with silver side-spiked hair, a mask that covered the lower half of his face, his ninja headband covering his left eye and wearing a jounin uniform. As he opened the door completely, the board duster fell, but he stood back and caught it. He looked around and saw a boy wearing orange with blond hair and blue eyes that would put the bluest oceans to shame, a girl with long rose coloured hair and emerald eyes and another boy with black spiked hair and obsidian eyes that were full of hate. He looked at the boy with blond hair who was looking disappointed.
"Aw, that sucks, it missed!"
The man with silver hair glared at him.
"My first impressions of this group... idiots."
Later on the rooftop...
The jounin sat down on the edge of the roof while the three genin sat down in front of him.
"Alright, why don't you introduce yourselves?"
"Why don't you first sensei?" said Naruto.
"OK, my name is Kakashi Hatake, my likes and dislikes; I don't feel like telling you that, hobbies, I have many and dreams for the future; never really thought about it. You on the right you go first."
The three genin were very dissatisfied; all they really knew about him was his name. Naruto walked up to the plate.
"I'm Naruto Uzumaki! I love ramen in a cup, and I hate Sasuke and I want to be Hokage!"
"Alright, you next pinkie," Said Kakashi
"My name is Sakura Haruno my likes are...," she looked at Sasuke," my dislikes are Naruto!" Naruto growled," my plans for the future are..." looks at Sasuke.
"O...K... Anyway, how about you?"
"My name is Sasuke Uchiha, I hate a lot of things and I don't particularly like anything. What I have is not a dream, because I will make it reality, I'm going to restore my clan and destroy a certain someone."
Naruto thought, "Damn I hope he's not talking about me!"
Sakura thought, "Sasuke, you're so hot!"
Kakashi looked at his watch and stood up.
"Well, she's not going to show up today, so come tomorrow morning to the team 7 training ground and don't eat any breakfast."
"Who's not coming?" asked Naruto.
"My assistant, but she'll be teaching you mostly. So I'll see you tomorrow morning and remember no breakfast."
"WHAT?" yelled Naruto and Sakura. Sasuke was being his emo self as he turned around and walked away.
The next morning...
Sakura and Sasuke arrived at 7am just like they were told to but Naruto was nowhere to be found. They sighed as their stomachs growled. They were starving. An hour later, Naruto arrived, starving as well. He complained and then he and Sakura started the argument of the morning. Sasuke thought, "Its way too early in the morning for this." Hours later, at 11 o'clock, Kakashi showed up on 1 of the arches of the bridge. Sakura and Naruto were furious.
"Good morning team, sorry I'm late. I got lost on the path of life," Said Kakashi.
"What!" yelled Sakura and Naruto.
Sasuke was also angry, it just wasn't enough to get worked up over.
Kakashi looked his watch.
"Ok, let's go to the training grounds, my assistant will meet us there."
They followed him to the training grounds and they laid down their bags. They looked around, but saw no one else there. Naruto looked at Kakashi who was casually reading his book. Sasuke and Sakura were also confused.
"Uh, sensei, where exactly is your assistant? There's no one else here."
Their sensei looked up.
"She'll be here," he said while looking back at his book.
"Looking for me?" came a voice from one of the trees.
"Oh she's here," said Kakashi.
She moved so fast, even Sasuke couldn't keep up. The next time they looked she was next to Kakashi and both Sasuke's and Naruto's jaws dropped. She was beautiful; more beautiful than any goddess. Her long raven hair that went down to her knees, was tied with bandages into a low ponytail, her fringe were 2 long side bangs that shaped her face, and her eyes; obsidian. To team 7, as they looked in her ever black eyes, they could have sworn they could've seen into the deep caverns of her heart. She had a soft jaw-line and a kind face. She was wearing a shirt exactly like Sasuke's, except that it was cropped and it showed her midriff. She seemed to have bandages underneath her top as well. She was also wearing motorcycle boots and black stonewashed shorts. She wore arm accessories that are identical to Sasuke's. She also had bandages just above her shorts, as if she wanted to hide something. But what was shocking to Sasuke, he could've sworn that he knew her from somewhere. What was more shocking was that she had 3 ninja headbands; one on her leg and the other 2 around her waist to make her belt. Kakashi noticed them staring at her headbands.
"Team 7, this is Mayu. As you may have noticed she has three ninja headbands. She is a qualified ninja, a jounin, who trained and graduated each academy in the Village Hidden in the Clouds, Village Hidden in the Mist and, of course, and the Village Hidden in the Leaves."
They all gasped.
"Whoa..." they all said in unison. She had to be really strong.
"Anyway, Mayu would you explain their task for today?" asked Kakashi.
"I would be happy to," she turned to them. "Ok listen up! Today your task is simple," she reached into her weapon pouch and brought out 2 bells," all you have to do is take these bells from me, ok?"
Kakashi brought out a timer.
"It's set for noon. If you don't get the bells by then, you don't eat lunch," she pointed to 3 tree stumps," You will be tied to those posts and watch as Kakashi and I eat our lunches in front of you."
"So that's why..." thought Sasuke. "They told us not to eat breakfast so it would be harder on us," thought Sakura. Naruto groaned.
Mayu attached the bells to her belt and turned to team 7.
"Ok guys, bring it!"
Naruto was the first to step up. Mayu got out a book and started writing in it. She was trying to come up with a formula to combine lighting with water to make the enemy go bang. As she contemplated, Naruto threw punches and kicks at her, while she dodged gracefully. Sasuke and Sakura were hidden and Sasuke was quite shocked at how gracefully she moved. He thought, "Your times almost up, Mayu..." she dodged again and her foot hit a string. Sasuke smirked. His kunai all met their mark but the substitution went poof.
Sasuke's eyes widened,"What?"
"Hey there Sasuke," came a voice from behind him. He jumped and turned around. Mayu was standing right behind him. Ok, it was official; he was shit-scared of her. She grabbed him by his collar chucked him upwards and jumped up. His eyes widened when he saw her ice-cold stare. She kicked him in the gut and he went flying headfirst into the ground and he was stuck. Mayu landed gently, grabbed his foot and pulled him out of the ground. His eyes were swirly (you know when in anime, a character is dizzy and their eyes are swirly? Yeah like that). Mayu sighed.
"Is that all you can do Sasuke? Snap out of it!"
She slapped him and he woke up.
"Uhhh..."
She reached in her weapons pouch and pulled out a rope. She quickly tied it to Sasuke's wrists and tied him to a tree.
Ok seriously I can't be bothered to write the rest so here is how it went.
Naruto hanging from a tree.
Sasuke frees himself.
Naruto tries to eat lunches but caught by Kakashi.
Naruto tied to pole.
Mayu and Kakashi walked up to the posts and gave Sasuke and Sakura a very serious look.
"Ok, this is ridiculous. Not one of you can get a bell?" Sakura looked down while Naruto looked determined and Sasuke looked fierce. Mayu glared back with an icy look that almost chilled his bones.
"What do you guys think you're NOT getting?" asked Kakashi.
"Traps? Strategy?"asked Sakura. Mayu slapped her forehead.
"No! It's probably never crossed your mind. In fact, you probably never knew it existed considering your attitude." Mayu said looking at Sasuke particularly. He glared back at her.
"What is it?"Yelled Sakura. Mayu growled. She flashed stepped and ended up behind Sakura and held a kunai to her neck. Sakura flinched and moved her eyes to see Mayu's cold onyx eyes glaring back at her.
"I don't appreciate being yelled at Sakura. Especially when I know your older sister who can wipe you out with a flash." Mayu flash stepped back to where she was.
"Seriously? You can't figure it out?"
"NO we can't, tell us!" yelled Naruto from the pole.
"Teamwork! Hel-loh! Easiest thing in the world. Sasuke, you acted alone and refused any help from your team-mates. You thought they were below you and therefore refused to let them help you and you refused to help them all because you're an arrogant fool and only think for yourself." Sasuke growled. Mayu ignored him and continued," Sakura, because you were fawning over Sasuke, you couldn't see that Naruto was in need of help and right in front of you and you ignored him to go find Sasuke, thinking that Naruto is annoying. And as for you Naruto, how do you expect to become a ninja when you can't even follow simple instructions and follow what you need to know? Think people! You are not here to play games you are here because you want to become ninja. Well, that's not going to happen unless you change your attitude." Sasuke heard enough and he launched himself at the supposedly guard-down Mayu. As he got close enough Mayu grabbed his arm, twisted it around his back, laid one foot his head and smoshed him into the ground. She then sat on him while keeping his arm in place. Sakura screamed. Kakashi glared at her.
"Ahhh! Mayu get off of him! You can't sit on Sasuke like he's some BUG!"
Mayu glared.
"On the contrary Sakura, I can. This is real life people not game where you can play the hero. In real life on real missions, sometimes the enemy will take a hostage and you're left with an impossible decision. For example," she reached into her weapon pouch and grabbed a kunai. She twirled it around her index finger and then placed it at Sasuke's neck," Sakura, kill Naruto or Sasuke dies." Sakura eeped. Mayu sighed and put her kunai away. She then got off of Sasuke and glared at them all.
"Ok, you'll get one more chance. If any of you can't get a bell in three hours, you will be dropped from the program and will never become ninja!"
And with that she walked away. While Sasuke and Sakura ate their lunch, Naruto looked longingly at them as they ate. Frequently they were disturbed by the growling of Naruto's stomach. Sasuke looked at him after a particularly loud one.
"This is nothing! I could go without eating for days, for weeks believe it!" but his stomach said otherwise. Sasuke sighed.
"Here," he said as he held out his food in front of Naruto, who looked totally confused. Sakura looked at him shocked.
"No Sasuke, you can't do that! You heard what Mayu said!"
"We need to get those bells at a team. If Naruto is hungry he'll be weak and ineffective."
He made a valid point. Sakura sighed and held out her food in front of Naruto.
"No Sakura you don't have to give me your food to me!"
"Its fine I'm on a diet anyway."
Naruto smiled at her. He tried to reach the food but he couldn't being tied up and all.
"Sorry Sakura I can't move! You're going to have to feed me!"
Inner Sakura vomited. She sighed and obliged. She was just about to give Naruto some food when Kakashi and Mayu appeared out of thin air and with them they brought a gust of strong wind that was so strong they had to look away. When they looked back up, Kakashi was standing in front of them and Mayu was standing on top of the pole Naruto was tied to. Naruto and Sakura looked scared while Sasuke looked determined. Mayu looked down on them with fire in her eyes.
"You broke the rules now you have to pay the price!" she nodded to Kakashi and they did unison hand-signs for a lighting jutsu. A huge storm rode overhead.
"Any last words?" asked Kakashi.
Mayu smirked. If they said the right thing then she and Kakashi would pass them but if they said they wrong they would either die from too much electricity or they would be sent back to the academy seriously wounded. That was the punishment if they didn't say the thing Kakashi wanted to hear.
"We fed Naruto because we are a team!"
Sakura and Naruto looked at Sasuke. Mayu looked stunned. If this went on, they would pass and they would be the first students to as well. Then Sakura joined in.
"Yeah we fed him because the 3 of us are one!"
"You're one? That's your excuse?"
They looked fierce. Mayu smiled.
"You pass," Kakashi and Mayu said together.
They looked confused.
"W-what?"
"You pass. Mayu would you explain?" She nodded.
"All the other teams never passed because they did everything we said and fell into all the traps. Ninjas who disobey the rules are scum, that's true. But ninja who abandon their friends and teammates just for the rules are considered even worse."
Team 7 nodded. They understood. They let out a sigh of relief. Mayu laughed at them and jumped down in front of them.
"Alright guys food time! And it's on me!" yelled Mayu.
Sakura and Naruto yelled happily while Sasuke looked slightly solemn. He was happy but he couldn't be bothered to show it. He felt a hand on his head and looked up to see the smiling and gentle face of Mayu. He blushed at her beauty. She knelt down next to time and whispered in his ear.
"I'm so proud of you. More than you'll ever know." And with that she stood up and ruffled his hair. She did a graceful back-flip and landed on a pole.
"OK, it's Sasuke's choice where we eat but Kakashi's paying!"
"What? I paid the last time!"
"Deal with it!"
They all laughed.
Afterwards they talked and laughed over dinner. Kakashi, of course, was stuck paying but he didn't mind. It was a night to remember.
To be continued...
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