Thank you everyone for your awesome reviews! I got so inspired and excited that I couldn't start writing! I knew I probably bored you out of your minds with the first chapter since it was so long and dragged on and on. But I HAD to get all those things in there! So I am sorry if you felt like you were going to fall asleep. I hope other chapters don't come out like that one. I think this chapter will be more entertaining and I hope it makes you laugh! Enjoy! =^_^=
Yoshirou walked with his arms behind his head with a huge grin on his face.
He glanced at his sister. She had a calm and composed expression on her face as always. Her posture straight and her head raised up. He frowned slightly. "Nee, Onii-san?" "Hmm?" she answered. "Are you excited?" "Hai." she answered. "I am so excited! We'll beat those weaklings." he shouted as he pumped his fist in the air making by passers look at him. "We don't want all the attention on us. Do we?" she asked as she glanced at him with a strict expression. "G-Gomen, onii-san." he answered. He got slightly scared when she looked at him like that. But this look was nothing compared to what he had seen before. Some of her looks could kill.
"Yoshirou, never underestimate your opponent. I thought Shishou and I taught you better than that." she said as she looked ahead seeing the gates of the Uchiha compound. "Hai, but-" he was cut off by her. "There are no buts Yoshirou. When they choose their soldiers they choose the best and most skilled ones. They are going to give you a strong opponent to test your skills." she lectured. "Hai." he answered as he also saw the gates and his eyes lit up with excitement.
The gates were very tall and connected to the wall that was built around the whole complex. The Uchiha's were the second leaders of Konoha after the Hokage. Konoha was one of the safest villages but that didn't mean that there was no crime. It was prevented most of the time because of the Uchiha's skilled police force. They are well known for their strict teachings that made them have incredible and strong soldiers. The Uchiha compound was humongous. At least, that's what she her from her mentor when she came back from the gatherings that were held at the compound. Some people from different clans also lived in the compound since they were an important to the Uchiha clan's leaders or they were simply the most skilled soldiers. Which earned them the life with the Uchiha's.
As they came to the gates one guard was positioned on each side of the gate. They were tall compared to Sakura and Yoshirou. Making them look like little kids.
"What do we have here?" one of the guards asked as he gave his parter a glance.
"We are here to fight to be selected into the police force." Sakura answered as she looked up at the guards.
The guards looked at each other and bursted out laughing.
Yoshirou growled as he clenched his fists.
"N-Nice one. Haven't laughed so much in a while. The fights are for men not for little kids." one of the guards answered while trying to contain his laughter.
Yoshirou gritted his teeth as he looked at his sister. She looked at him and nodded her head. He grinned as he reached for the sword at his side. As he took it out of its holster he firmly held it with both hands as he brought it up in front of him.
"Be careful, kid. You might hurt yourself. Where did you get that sword. You should be playing with wooden swords instead." the other guard said as he bursted out laughing.
"Or better go help your mother with the groceries." the other answered.
Yoshirou was shaking at this point.
Sakura gently put her hand on his shoulder making him look at her.
"Calm down, Yoshirou. It's okay." she said. Her voice sounded much deeper than usual. He hadn't heard her gentle voice in so long. He missed it a lot.
He stopped shaking and he dashed towards the guards. He moved fast as noises of a sword slicing through cloth was heard. He stopped and grinned at the guards. The next thing they knew their uniforms fell to the ground in shreds. Their faces got very red as they tried to cover themselves.
"Who is the man now?" Yoshirou asked with a smirk.
Sakura sweat dropped as she closed her eyes. So much for the guards being skilled. More like two baboons with sticks.
They heard a whistle from behind them.
"Nice one, kiddo." a man from behind them said.
Sakura turned her head as she observed him. The man was tall with white hair that almost reached his shoulders. He had a toothy grin in his face and his teeth looked very sharp. His eyes were purple which was very uncommon. He wore a purple yukata and a white hakama. A big object which looked like a sword was on his back.
"You are here for the fights?" he asked as he looked at Sakura. She nodded as she turned back to look at the gates. The guards had disappeared.
"I guess we are free to go in." the white haired man said with a grin. "I am Suigetsu by the way." he said as he looked at Sakura with questioning eyes.
"Tadashi." she answered as she entered the gates. "I am Yoshirou. Nice to meet you." Yoshirou answered with a smile.
"I see your friend isn't much of a talker." Sugetsu commented as he looked at the back of Sakura's head.
"Yeah, onii-san usually keeps to himself." Yoshirou answered.
"You're siblings?" Suigetsu questioned in disbelief.
"Hai." Yoshirou answered.
"You don't look anything alike." he said as he looked over Yoshirou.
"You're pretty small for a guy. You almost look like a girl to me." he said quickened his pace and walked next to Sakura. She didn't even look at him.
"Fine, be that way." he answered with a huff.
As they walked in through the second gates they saw a big space to the left which was surrounded by at least thirty men.
A guard came up to them. "Are you here to fight?" he asked skeptically as he looked at Sakura and Yoshirou. As they both nodded. "He is supposed to enter the younger section." Sakura answered. The guard nodded as he called for another one telling him to take Yoshirou to the other section. "Good luck, Yoshirou-kun." she said with warmth in her voice that went unnoticed by the others as she placed her hand on his shoulder. "Good luck to you too! Show them what you got!" he said with a grin. She nodded her head as the guard lead him away.
The other guard motioned for them to follow they reached the place where all the other men were standing they heard shouts. As they turned their heads to the left they saw a tall man with dark hair standing on the porch of the compound with two guards that were at the gate shouting and pointing at her.
The other guards surrounding the tall man motioned for them to come. Suigetsu looked at her as she started walking and he followed her. As she saw the man's face up close she almost gasped. He looked so much like him. She knew it was not him because he looked much older than he should and she noticed that his eyes were more distant and colder.
She slightly shook her head as she stopped in front of the man. She felt slightly uncomfortable under his gaze but her face showed no emotion. One of the guards shouted as he pointed at her "It's him! The little brat that was with him did this to us." "And you called me because?" the tall man questioned. "W-Well they look like kids. They shouldn't be here." the other guard answered as he looked at his superior.
"How old are you?" he asked looking at Sakura. "I am 18." she answered as she evenly looked back at him. Any uneasiness that was present leaving her immediately. "I don't see a problem here then." the man answered as he turned to leave. "B-But he-" one of the guards was cut off. "You shouldn't judge a book by its cover. I thought you two knew better than to do that." he said with a cold voice as he looked at the guards and left.
Sakura just blinked as she looked at the space where the man was standing. She turned around and headed back to the crowd of men as she heard the guards cursing at her. 'Fools.' she thought.
She looked at the porch of the house once she noticed that everyone had quieted down and were looking in that direction. She saw the same tall man from before clearing his throat. "It's nice seeing so many brave volunteers. You should do your best at the match and show us what talents you have. I, Itachi Uchiha and my brother, Sasuke Uchiha, will be announcing the volunteers that passed the match and will be trained to become one of the soldiers of the police army. Please, do your best." he said. He then turned around and sat down on a mat that was placed on the wooden porch of the compound.
Everyone quickly lined up as a soldiers ordered to get in the line. Suigetsu was oddly quiet. She turned to look at him and he grinned in return. She focused her attention on the figure that stepped onto the empty ground. "My name is Sai and I will be your opponent." he said. Sakura carefully looked at him. He had very pale skin and short black hair with black eyes. He wore an all black attire and had a sword strapped to his waist. He had a calm and unreadable expression on his face.
The soldier at the beginning of the line motioned for the first man to go in front of his opponent. As the fight began she took notice of every movement Sai made. She looked for his weaknesses and for his strength. His speed was fast but much slower than she was she noted. He had a great control of his sword and beat each opponent with ease.
So far he had beat 15 volunteers and the first match had began only 10 minutes ago. He was strong as she had anticipated but the opponents that he was fighting with were much weaker and badly skilled. Her turn would soon come. She had a few more people before her. She was not nervous at all. She was excited. She hadn't had any fighting partners except her mentor, Yoshirou, and Jiraya-sama who was her mentor's childhood friend and a huge pervert.
She heard a shout and she quickly came back to her senses. The man that had been standing at the beginning of the line and telling the volunteers to go had called her. She looked at Suigetsu.
"Good luck, girly." he said with a grin.
She scowled slightly as she turned and walked to face her opponent. She stopped a few yards away from him and observed him. His composer was very calm and he stood there like he hadn't just fought with 20 men. Well, they barely had any skill but you still would have been panting if you raised the sword as many times as he did.
"Too scared, ugly?" he said with a smile. A fake one she noted. So that's how he did it. He insulted his opponents and they launched at him with anger. A person's attacks are usually predictable when they are angry. She blinked and waited. Her composure calm which surprised her opponent.
"Interesting." he murmured as he observed her. The young boy before him was much smaller than him. In height and in size. This one was different. He was either a better fighter than the others or was just plain stupid. He didn't react to his rude comment though which did surprise him. Sai glanced over his shoulder as his eyes met with Itachi's and then traveled to the figure that was sitting next to him. He afterwards looked back at the boy before him and smiled one of his fake and fooling smiles.
He quickly dashed towards the boy while unsheathing his sword. As he neared the boy and was less than a meter away he raised the sword to hit the boy on the side. The boy's eyes met his and he was shocked when there wasn't even a hint of worry or fear in his eyes. Before he could blink the boy disappeared. Everyone gasped at how fast the boy was. Plus, no one could ever avoid Sai's attacks except a few people.
As Sai swiftly turned around to attack again the boy dodged again. As Sai kept trying to land a hit on the boy he didn't realize that the boy was trying to exhaust him. He even tried making him lose his footing but that only resulted in the boy jumping on his shoulder and landing a few feet behind him. He was slightly frustrated now. He lunged at the boy faster than he had during the whole fight and got ready to plunge the sword into the boy's stomach.
What happened next shocked him. The boy avoided his attack without a sweat but he was now calmly standing on Sai's sword. Sai looked up at the boy as he glanced back at him. "Gomen." the boy murmured. Sai blinked and the next thing he knew the boy had kicked him in the face with his foot and Sai flew a few a few meters away. He heard gasps as he landed on the ground. He felt a sharp object touching his neck and opened his eyes. The boy was pointing his own sword at him. Sai closed his eyes and smiled. There is a first to everything. The man at the beginning of the line shouted that the fight was over and Sakura plunged the sword into the ground. She stretched her hand out to Sai and he took it with a small and sincere lifted him up effortlessly and bowed in respect showing her gratitude for the fight. He also bowed.
She heard a low whistle and looked back. Suigetsu stood behind her with slightly wide eyes and a grin. "That was something, girly." he said with awe. She heard slight commotion and the next thing she knew she was almost swept off her feet. She felt arms wrap around her as she looked down at the blob of brown messy hair.
"That was amazing, onii-san!" Yoshirou shouted as he looked up at Sakura.
Sakura looked into his eyes that sparkled with excitement. "Arigatou, Yoshirou-kun." she said with a sincere smile.
"You!" she heard an angry shout. As she looked up she met a pair of angry dark eyes with very bushy eyebrows and very weird hair.
"Eeeh..." Yoshirou said as he glanced between the teacher and his sister.
"How dare you skip out on the first day of training! If you passed doesn't mean that you an just leave and go walk around the compound!" the young man said. He looked a few years older than Sakura.
She glanced at Yoshirou as he covered in fear and quickly let go of her and moved a few feet away from her. He never wanted to be the object of her wrath. He had seen her angry and it wasn't a pretty sight. Even her glance when she was angry would make you have nightmares for weeks. Since she was so composed and calm all the time when her angry side showed it showed to it's full capability.
"Please excuse my brother. He is very curious. But I promise you that he is a very obedient student. I deeply apologize." she said as she bowed. Yoshirou followed praying to every god that the teacher would accept the apology and he wouldn't get it from his sister.
"OOOOOH, MY YOUTHFUL COMRADE! HOW WONDERFUL IT IS TO HAVE SOMEONE SO KIND AND RESPECTFUL!" the man shouted as he grabbed Sakura and brought his arm around her shoulder making her almost lose her breathing ability and hearing too.
"Hey! What are-" Yoshirou yelled before being interrupted.
"Hey! Keep your hands off of girly." Suigetsu said as he pried the man's arm off of Sakura.
"G-Girly?" the man asked with a confused expression.
"My nickname for him. He does look like a girl doesn't he?" Suigetsu said as he grinned.
"Lame." Yoshirou muttered.
"What was that, kid?" Suigetsu asked with a slight glare.
"What you heard." Yoshirou replied.
Suigetsu almost launched at him but was stopped by Sakura grabbing him by the collar from behind and swinging him away from Yoshirou.
"Don't you lay a finger on him." she muttered with a glint in her eyes.
Suigetsu shuddered and backed away afterwards glaring at Yoshirou who was showing him his tongue like a little kid.
"OH MY! You really do look like a girl. A beautiful one at that. Like a blooming cherry blossom and those eyes oooooh...if only you were a female I would make you mine." the man exclaimed as he clutched his heart.
Sakura sweat dropped.
"Kami-sama, why me?" she muttered as Suigetsu and Yoshirou laughed their hearts out while clutching their stomaches. The earlier 'fight' forgotten.
"Oh! Let me introduce myself. I am Rock Lee. You can call me Lee. I am a sensei at day time and a warrior at night." he said as he grinned. His smile almost blinding Sakura.
"Nice to meet you, Lee-san." she answered.
"OOOOH, NO NEED TO BE SO FORMAL!" he exclaimed.
Suigetsu and Yoshirou bursted out laughing again.
They didn't notice dark eyes watching them.
"I see we got a keeper." Itachi said with a smirk.
The person next to him huffed as he observed the pink haired male. He was very impressed. It was hard to dodge Sai's attacks let alone land a hit on him and catch him off guard. He smirked. A nice addition to the police force.
A man shouted at them to get in the line. Sakura bid goodbye to her brother and ruffled his hair wishing him good luck. The man with bushy eyebrows bid her goodbye while shouting "See you soon, youthful flower!". Sakura observed the few man that were picked. There was a tall man with orange hair who was surrounded by birds, a tall man with short black hair, a shorter man with brown hair in a low ponytail, Suigetsu, and herself.
She was beyond excited even though she didn't show it.
They walked in a line to the place where Itachi was sitting.
They stopped and watched as the man stood up.
"You did well. We found skilled warriors that we haven't found in a while." Itachi said with a smile.
When Sakura heard another voice her breath hitched.
"I will be your captain. My name is Uchiha Sasuke and welcome to the police force." he said as his eyes met Sakura's. Everyone in the line bowed. As she raised her head his gaze was still on her and he was looking right at her eyes.
She felt as if her knees would buckle at any second. Her heart beat faster than it has ever had. She wanted to cry from happiness.
She had finally met him again after so many years. He slightly smiled at her as he continued to speak. He broke off his gaze from her and looked at the others. She let out a breath she didn't know she was holding. She inhaled as she closed her eyes. A tear escaped her eye as she smiled a happy and sincere smile.
Pheeeew. I am glad I am done with this chapter. I have kept you waiting for a while. Thank you for your wonderful reviews. I started writing the second chapter on the same day as I posted the first one. I had it half completed for a week or so because I was busy with school. The story might not be update until June since a bunch of exams are coming up and I have to prepare for those. Gomen. Also, I am sorry if the fighting scene sucked. I know, I know, I am making Sakura all high and mighty. Kinda..lol Well this is her character in this story. Please review! Ja ne! =^_^=
