Shattered Dreams

Shattered Dreams

Disclaimer - Naruto (The Manga and Anime) are copy righted to Masashi Kishimoto, not me. However, the following story is copy righted to me

Notes: Again this is a revised and better edited chapter. Enjoy.

Chapter 2: Kumo's Brutal Ways

Himiloh Izur had awoken at five am that day in order to get to Kumogakure River Number Three Training Grounds, commonly called KRNTTG when referred to in a conversation.

It was the training ground not only farthest from the village but also the one that most commonly resembled a Swamp. It had enough river qualities that it wasn't numbered as one of the Swamp grounds but it was a pain in the ass to get to.

And of all the training grounds this one was commonly filled with the most mist. As he left his house knowing he had to be there at seven in the morning to meet the man who would test them he felt more like just not showing up.

Feeling that it was more then a waste to go all the way out there in order to be tested again. Shrugging that thought off he jumped onto a building looking around quietly for a moment. Shrugging the next following thought away he set off towards the gates of Kumogakure.

It would take him almost ten minuets to get there anyways and then almost an hour just to get to the Training grounds. Since he didn't intend to run the whole way he'd go at a far more leisurely pace.

It was possible to get from the gates to the training grounds in fewer than thirty minuets at a Genin's speed, if they ran the entire length. However, there was no point in exhausting himself before the actual test.

Time Skip - One Hour Forty-Five Minuets

Izur had been sitting around for Thirty-five minuets, already having warmed up and seeing no reason to do anything else he was lounging against a tree. His eyes closed, and as he looked up Masaru jumped down from a branch.

A rather annoyed looked crossed over Izur's face before he banished it as quickly as possible. "Again... That's the second time he snuck up on... What's he doing here so early, anyways?"

Masaru looked at the kid almost wanting to sigh. He didn't know exactly how long he'd been here but he knew the kid had been here longer then himself. He'd been around for about twenty minuets setting up traps of Exploding Tag arrays, Kunai's, Shurikens, and a couple of other things that these Genins would have to watch out for during the test.

He crossed his arm looking at the young Himiloh. "This is the kid that... eh well it's interesting if I had been anyone else he'd have caught onto my presences a lot sooner..." He unfolded his arms and wanted to grin devilishly.

If the other two kids weren't here in the next three minuets they would be late. In very, very, very fine print at the bottom of that page he had given them all it said if they were not ten minuets early then they were late.

And it also explicitly said some bad things would happen if they did end up being late to any meeting. He wondered briefly if the Himiloh had managed to see the fine print or if he was always insanely early.

He was more likely to think of the former considering that he'd been here over forty minuets early. Shrugging the thought he kept track of time in his head.

The time passed and it ticked away slowly in the almost peacefully awkward silence that had settled between the Jounin-Sensei and the Genin Student who wasn't quite a Genin yet.

At six fifty four the Kunoichi could be heard coming through the forest. Izur looked up sighing, as he finally stood up. "She sounds like a bumbling rhinoceros." He shook his head in almost-saddened way as Masaru looked at him, in what might have been called annoyed surprise.

The girl was in fact hiding her presences well and she was making almost no noise at all, in fact she might not even be making any noise at all. He knew that the arrogant kid had sensed her by his words, but before he could comment on it she was in hearing distance.

He turned and watched as the young Kunoichi jumped down from the trees to land only twenty feet away from him, but on the opposite side of Izur, where it would have been a lot easier to land. He started to speak but was interrupted by a loud crash his head snapped in the direction to see the flaming red hair that marked the third member.

"I didn't even sense him approach..." Both Izur and Masaru had the same thoughts as they look at Hachiro who had oddly enough managed to sneak up on the two quietly, without even alerting the Jounin.

However he had tripped and given himself away by falling out of the tree. Masaru shook his head and suddenly there was one of him behind both Hachiro and Leiko.

"You're both five minuets late. According to Kumogakure rules not only do I get ten hits on each of you but you also have to do fifty push ups and fifty sit ups." As he had been talking he had walked over towards Izur grinning as he indicated the kid.

Now however as he continued speaking his voice was twice as venomous. "And you scion of Himiloh will get twice as worse for not making sure your teammates were on time. You were here over a half an hour too early, you could easily have gotten the other two here earlier."

He grinned at the look of shock that had come over all their faces. The other two had it pretty easy while Izur had a little bit of horror added onto his face. Finally Hachiro stammered out, the one question Masaru had been expecting. "B...b.. b...but Masaru-Sensei it said to be here at seven..."

Masaru nodded rubbing his chin as though he was really thinking about it seriously and then he grinned again. "You missed to fine print on the bottom that says if your not ten minuets early your late. Now... prepare for the consequences of your actions."

Each of the three Genins took a gulp as the clones standing next to them wheeled to face them. It hadn't even crossed through any of their minds that it was odd how their Sensei could make solid clones. As soon as each was facing his respective target the man administered lowered strength blows onto the kids, but making sure that it was still something to be expected from a Jounin.

Stronger then blows from the Academy Teachers... a lot stronger.

By the end of the administering blows, all the kids were bleeding from mouth or nose Izur from both as he dropped and started his push-ups. Masaru spoke as they were working, having purposely waited while they were half way through it before saying anything.

"Remember Izur if you're not done at the same time it starts all over for you." Izur gasped at this new realization as he started to push himself even harder Hachiro slowed down slightly with his own not wanting to get the third member of their team in trouble even if he had acted like an ass on their first meeting.

However Leiko shook her head at him and continued at the same pace, Hachiro looked a question at her and she spoke under her breath. "If you slow down... we'll all get in trouble." Hachiro nodded and resumed at the same pace.

By the time the other two had gotten to ten on sit-ups Izur was just starting. Masaru looked between the three with slightly raised eyebrows. The two clones he had created already having disappeared. "Impressive. I give him that; I didn't even think he'd make it out of push ups."

Shaking his head though he grinned the boy wouldn't make it to a hundred before the other two made it to fifty. When they stood up he bent down grabbing Izur by the back of his neck and started to speak to the group. Izur had made it to Eighty-three.

"Now for an example of what happens to weaklings that hold up our testing time. Your punishment is ten additional hits and you still have to finish your sit ups and you have to restart with fifty more push ups and sit ups." without further ado the man smashed his fist first into the kids stomach and then his face proceeding to deliver eight more similar hits before dropping him.

The kid lay there for a moment and Masaru feared he might have knocked him out when he started back up on his sit-ups. "Strong kid... but sometimes I regret what we have to do here." He shook his head, couldn't let them know he was human.

Izur finished his last remaining sit ups and then start on the newly appointed fifty push ups, the boys arms seemed to quake slightly from all the work but he finished in record time, only to flop onto his back and do the last fifty sit ups.

As Izur stood back up Masaru grinned. Finally they could start the darned test, as soon as he explained. "Took you long enough, I'm seriously considering assigning more for how slow you went but alas, we don't have time, so without further ado the test."

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