Revise 1-10-10
Chapter 2
Looking at my teams files I just can't help but sigh. Earlier today I went to talk to her to see if she could let me have a new team and she had the audacity to say no. I really don't need to go on a mission have them not listen to me. Besides if something were to happen to Mr. Fuckin Icicle the whole village would somehow find out and the next day my head would be on a pike. Looking at the clock on my dresser it read five after ten. And was going to be late. Damnit. Oh well there's no better time than now. After looking at the teams' folders I could tell what they would be able to do. Sasuke was good at ninjutus. Neji was good at and torture. That'll be good in the future actually. Sakura was extremely good at medical ninjutus seeing as her sensei is Tsunade. Ironically enough the only team member not trained by a sannin was Neji. But none the less he's a good soldier. I had managed to get a few formations ready that would help with the team. Except for one. I was a little lost when it came to where to put Neji while we are on the move. The front or the back?
My wanderings left me to realize that I was half way to field 5. I could sense that Sasuke too was late, as he was coming from the richer district where all the clans were located. Violently I could hear him muttering to himself.
"Can't believe I got stuck on a team with the fucking Dobe as my captain. Not only that I have to listen to him. Damnit. I can't believe I wanted to come back to this miserable village! And on top of that I'm late. Fuck it all!"
Arriving to the field just to see Sasuke attempt to glare a hole in my head I flipped him off. His face was beyond hilarious. Sakura didn't even know what to do. Hit me or stay in her place. Neji, I'd say he was a stick in the mud but there was something about him, which I couldn't really say anything about. His face was a little strained in places where he tried not to laugh. I didn't try so hard.
"Now…giggle... That we are done, playing around how about we go around a do strengths and weakness. Then we'll test them after. Then after that I'll assign places in the team. Although I'm sure a couple of you know what you're going to do already. "
Sakura started by saying, "My strength is my medical jutsu and my chakra reserves. My weakness is I lose my temper when I fight sometimes."
Second was Sasuke, "My strength is my sharingan and my weakness is weak teammates."
Third was Itachi, "Sharingan and lack of information. "
And finally it's me. Jeesh I have to get the team of few words and cynical bitches. I think the only one I'm going to like this time is Sakura, even though the lack of information is a weakness, it can get a person killed.
"My specialty in endless amount of chakra and my weakness is when I lose control. Now that we got that over with I'm going to point out something's that were said. Sakura thank you for telling me about your weakness hopefully we'll be able to fix that before our next mission. Sasuke your being a rude arrogant son of a bitch and you know what I highly doubt your teammates here like you calling them weak. Itachi you bring up a good point. Not only is the lack of information dangerous for you, it's dangerous for everyone. The lack of information can get you killed in a heartbeat. In fact it could kill the whole team. I'm going to now assign team positions. Sakura you know your spot as a medic nin will never change. Sasuke against my better judgment I will make you second in command, if you go against my word and do something I don't like then you will be demoted and I will make sure you never get to be an ANBU ever again. Itachi the position will go to you if that were to happen. Your spot is Special Tactics with me. We will be the front of most attacks with Sakura behind us and then Sasuke in the back. Any objections? If not we'll practice the formations and then train with each other to get used to each other's attacks. The day went pretty well I guess you could say. Besides a few bruises and yelling fests I'd say we're getting used to each other. I have a pretty good idea of what the team's weakness and strengths will be in the future. There are just a few things that I think we should cover. Based on the entire team, majority of us have a summoning that we use mainly for battle and then the boss summing. Sakura had the boss summoning Katsuyu and her fighting summon Amaya (night rain), Sasuke had Madara and Junichi, and I have Gamabunta and Gamakachi. And then Itachi, do you have anything?"
" …………..other then the crows, no."
"Ok, I'll see if I can find someone with another contract for you. If your going to be on my team then we need to all be in sync. And that includes summoning. When and if we do, we'll have to get the warrior animals and get them to train together. We'll meet back up here next week, same day same time. If you need to talk you know where I live I'm pretty sure."
Walking back to my apartment I think about what I could do for Itachi. IF everyone else on the team has a summon then he should be able to too. I make a detour and jump to the roofs and headed to the Hokages office. I really don't feel like people right now so she hopefully won't mind if I just use the window, right? I lightly tap hoping she isn't asleep and it seems like I'm in luck as she seems to be grumbling about the crazy amount of paperwork sitting on the table. It seems to me that every time I'm in here, the pile just continues to grow like a monster. She turns and looks in surprise at me crouching there waiting for her permission to enter. At a slight nod of her head I jump through and land on the balls of my feet and wait for her to look at me so that she knows I'm serious.
"Well gaki what do you want. As shocking as it may seem I don't have all day as you can clearly see."
"Well it's kind of a weird question if I may say so myself. The thing is I was wondering if it would be possible to get Itachi a summoning. If not it's okay I'm not too worried. I'm sure we can somehow fit that into………..somewhere."
" As you can tell there are a few summoning in the village. There's the one you have, the one Sasuke has, Sakura, the Naras, and the Sarutobi do. But the clan ones are hard to give up. They're mainly used for just the clan alone. The ones that your team has are the ones that were passed down from the Sannins. Unless you willing to give up the Toad summoning and can find another one, then there's nothing I can do for you. And even then you have to talk to Jiraiya and Gamabunta."
"Oh…well thanks for the help anyway baa-san. I'll probably go tell him that. I'm sure I can hopefully find something for that before our next mission. "
"Well, I'm not too sure you'll be able to hold that end of the bargain up. I've got a mission ready for you guys already. Some strange old man. He sent me this letter by a damn bird of all things. But not a regular bird an owl. I understand ravens, or hawks, or falcons but a bird that does better at night. Too bizarre. I think that this mission will do well for you guys. This will be a test I guess you can say. I want your team in here by fourteen hundred hours. Since it's already thirteen hundred hours that gives you one hour. So hurry up and find them. I want everyone in full gear masks included. I take it you already have your new outfit or will it be the same from when you were a Jounin? Or will you go as a regular captain?"
"I'll probably wear a regular ANBU outfit along with my team most of the time and just switch it up with whatever I feel the next. I'll see you in an hour Hokage-sama." I replied over my shoulder before jumping out of the window.
Thirty minutes later I was standing outside of the hospital with Sasuke waiting on Sakura to come down so that we could go and get Itachi from his apartment. While waiting I was thinking about what Tsunade was saying earlier today. If I somehow convince certain people about some stuff then I could make this work for my team. Sadly enough I really wish that I could somehow talk to Kyuubi right now. For some reason he likes to come and go at will and he lives in my freaking stomach and I have no idea how to talk to him. Even though I doubt that he could somehow create a summoning for me. And I highly doubt Gamabunta would allow me to change the contract to someone else. It would seem that after 6 years of summoning him that I have finally rubbed off on him. Sakura finally came running out trying to tie her arm braces on and somehow still not drop the porcelain mask.
"Hey, Sakura. We'll meet you at the tower so that you can get ready. If your done in five minutes you can meet us at the Itachi's place."
With those departing words we left to go see Itachi walking down the stairs, taking his slow time. While there I had no idea what to talk to Sasuke about. So, I decided to ask a question that I would probably regret in the future.
"Hey, Sasuke, how has training been these last few years?"
And there it was the ice cold glare that was so usual on his face.
"It's done pretty well considering I managed to regain the trust of the villiage no thanks to you. Unfortunately there isn't really anyone that is worth of training me, so I've only practiced with myself. Don't give me that patronizing look. Just because you rose in the ranks before me bastard doesn't mean you get to look down on me. Shit I'm surprised that you made it this far with the shitty training you received. Maybe they just wanted to get you out of their hair and keep raising you higher and higher so that you could get out of their sight."
"Then, bastard, if I was so terrible then why am I now your captain? And trust me I will use the power to make your life a living hell. So step wrong and you will regret it. Besides (mental sigh) you might as well loosen up. But hey there's a saying out there. I'm not sure if you heard it yet, but it goes whatever floats your boat'. So go right ahead and be a pain in the ass. Just know this if you undermine my decision even once I will make sure you are off this force so fast your get whiplash. Understand?" One thought on my mind right now and it's to see what power I have as a captain. This is going to be fun. Especially with this guy.
"……" Oh he's just asking for it isn't he. Now insert the serious face. Think unpleasant thoughts to get the right reaction. And boy was there plenty of that in my head.
"I said are we clear soldier?!"
"Sir Yes sir!" oh this was so much fun
"Stand down soldier. We're almost there. Sakura-san," an unidentifiable emotion flashed across her eyes before they were hidden behind her raven mask. Sasuke too hid his anger behind his mask and turned to glare at me as I walked forward to talk to one of the guards on duty at the time. "What's wrong with you captain?" Deep obsidian eyes staring through the snarling mask stared in slight concern.
I had not realized that I was standing there not saying a word to the man that I had called. And he was waiting very patiently surprisingly.
"Sorry. Blanked out there for a minute. Where's your ponytail holder Itachi?"
"The neighbors needed someone to watch the girls. Akane and Akira wouldn't leave me alone. I mean damn. I take a nap for five fucking minutes. I wake up and there's all this god damn glop on my fucking face. Then I wake up and my hair ties are cut into fucking pieces. They are not good children at all. They're freaking demon children."
"………"
"Sorry Fox-taisho"
"Its fine."
And this is why I think falling in love with a woman is too hard. Personally I think it's easier being gay or bi because then you don't have to worry with all these problems. I really don't know why I used to like Sakura. Boy was that a major waste of my time. Looking at the clock in a passing building I realized that we had five minutes to get across away the village or we were going late.
"Okay team if we don't want to be yelled at we're going to have to somehow make it across town in now approximately three minutes. So let's go!"
It was fun to run across the roofs. TO see people look up at the grey streaks across the blue sky. To know that they were safe from something. And looking down I can't help but sneer at how naïve they are to believe shit like that. But that is why they were never going to be ninjas and there were reasons why. And this was one of them. From a young age some of us knew what to do in a life and death situation. Some of us learned from our family who were ninjas to those of us like me who grew up on the streets and had the third Hokage help us learn how to defend ourselves. But they just couldn't picture killing at all. Neither could the parents. They were horrified to be parents of killers. Except for a few like Sakura. Her parents had listened to her when she said she wanted to be a ninja. And she's one of the best.
"Captain!"
The warning coming almost too late, I dodged to the left to avoid the sudden chimney that came out of nowhere. Damn maybe I should try focusing on what's going on at the moment instead of stuff that I can't help.
Thirty seconds later, we had reached the window's ledge and we all balanced there with chakra while Sakura tapped on the window.
"Come in. It's about damn time that you all got here. As you know I have a mission for you guys. This mission's ranking is S (highest level a mission can be I think). You're to tell no one where you are going. Does your team accept Uzumaki," Tsunade stated in a serious voice that raised the air on my arms. For her to put a rookie team on this was dangerous. But she must believe we could do it. Turning my head I could see a slight nod from Team Kitsune.
"Yes. We do."
"Good here is the scroll that I received twelve hundred hours ago."
Thanks for those of you who have taken the time to read this far. If you could leave a comment then I'll know how I'm doing so far. -Wugglez
