Chapter 2. Hehe… I'm starting the second chapter and I haven't even put my first chapter online yet… hehe… I can NOT think of a name for this story! I keep getting new chapters, but NO NAME!!! Well, let's begin anyway.
Sigh. It's been a few days and I'm walking to meet this 'Kakashi' person to start… or I guess continue my training. Tsunade said that he would train me further, until she figured out what to do with me. I had told her I wanted to be trained as a Genin, so I hope he's not as annoying as Naruto or Sakura. I might just have to kill them all.
"Hello! Who are you? I haven't seen you before!" Great. By the sound of this kid's voice, he's worse than Naruto…
"I'm Mika, I would like to say it's nice to meet you, but I don't find meeting people nice." I turned. He had really creepy eyes, a terrible haircut and was wearing some sort of green… suit thing, which appears to be made of rubber. He had a crutch, too. 'Hmm… I wonder what happened to him.'
"Haha! You are very funny! In the peak of your youth! My name is Lee! It is nice to meet you, Mika!"
'Does this guy ever just talk normally, or does every sentence end with an exclamation point?'
"Well, uh, that's great… I have to go meet some Kakashi person, so I'll be going." I quickly sped off; glad he couldn't follow me fast enough. I reached the fields where I was told to come. Tsunade said I would be training with Kakashi's team. 'I never found out who's in team 7… Please not Sakura, Naruto or that Ino person…' No such luck.
"What!?!? She's Mika!! She's a JERK!"
"Shut it, Sakura! No one wants to hear you whine." I yelled, already aggravated with her. Lucky for me, Naruto was ALSO there, and the third person was Sasuke. There was a tall person with white hair and a mask over his face. His headband covered one eye. This must be Kakashi… He was reading some book that read 'Icha Icha Paradise' on the front. 'Please no…' I mumbled in my head.
"Hello, Mika. Before we start training, I need to evaluate what you already know. Whenever your ready…" He put his book into his pocket. "attack me."
"Well if you say so…" I slowly walked over and readied my arm for a punch. Kakashi looked at me quizzically, but put his arm in front of his body to defend himself. I stopped directly in front of Kakashi, and didn't bother to try and avoid his arm.
"Take this!!" I punched his arm and he was thrown backwards, but he kept his balance.
"Whoa!!! That was amazing!" Naruto yelled. Sasuke just ignored it, and Sakura looked away, annoyed. 'Well, at least Sasuke's on this team, maybe it won't be too bad.' I prepared my next move.
Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!
"She knows Shadow Clone Jutsu!?!? But... how?" Naruto looked stupefied. I snickered.
"That's thanks to my teacher and mother, Naruto. She was quite sneaky in her days…" I turned back to Kakashi. "Try this on for size!" I yelled. My shadow clone took out a Kunai, as did I. 'Concentrate, Mika, concentrate!' I brought in a huge gust of wind, which I disappeared with. 'My Gentjutsu is working!' I snuck up behind Kakashi, while my clone jumped in front of him and tried to stab him, but he blocked and my clone vanished. I had already jumped from my position and was about to stab him from behind, but then I quickly jumped past him and into a tree nearby.
"You can't trick me like that, Kakashi!" I yelled as I punched him in the face, or well… he blocked with his hand, but you understand. He had to jump onto another tree to keep from falling off.
"Very good! You noticed my Substitution Jutsu almost immediately. Very keen eye, Kyoko Mika. One question, why didn't you throw that Kunai at me? You would have been better off that way." I smiled and closed my eyes.
"That tree." I pointed. I threw my Kunai and it hit the tree… that was two feet away from my target.
"Ahh, so you need help with your aim, huh? Good! That was today's lesson!"
"Kakashi, we already have good aim. Why would you plan a lesson we already knew?" Sakura asked.
"To make sure your aim is really at its best, Sakura. Alright. You see those targets? Way over there?" We all turned.
"No, I don't see any targets!! Where are the targets!?!?" Naruto shouted.
"That's precisely it. You have to aim for the target and hit it with a Kunai, but you don't know where the target is… oh, and by the way, it's always moving." Naruto and Sakura's eyes went huge in disbelief. "How are we gonna hit it, then?" Naruto complained. Sasuke went over to investigate. I followed behind, happy to leave those two idiots.
"Sharingan!" Sasuke said. He looked around in the trees.
"Sharingan?" I muttered quietly, wondering. "Sasuke, what is 'Sharingan?'" He turned and I saw his eyes. They were blood red with two swirls surrounding the pupil of his eye. I stared, shocked.
"You don't know what Sharingan is?" he seemed surprised. "Everyone knows the Sharingan." I shook my head no, feeling really dumb.
"It's a Kekkai Genkai of the Uchiha clan, Mika."
"Kekkai Genkai?" Now I felt really stupid. Great.
"Kekkai Genkai! Don't tell me you don't know what a Kekkai Genkai is?" He looked at me as if I had two… no, four heads. I shook my head slowly, getting annoyed at my lack of knowledge.
"Okay, it's a special technique that one person or a few select people, like those of a clan, have. Mine is the Sharingan, and there's also the Hyuuga clan, which have the Byakuugan. Get it, now?"
'Not really…' I nodded anyway. That's enough of my looking retarded for one day. I looked for the targets again. 'How would I find and then hit a target? A moving target, no less.' I sat. "This is ridiculous. I can't possibly think I can do this, can I?" I asked myself aloud, but not quite loud enough for anyone to hear. The other two had come over by now. I just sat there, looking around trying to fine some sign of movement. Nothing. How could I do this? I needed to think.
'Okay. So we obviously can't see them. Smell, unlikely. Hearing? Was that it?' I stood. After yelling "Shut it!" at the two people I hated most in the world, I concentrated all of my chakra on my ears. 'Listen… I thought… Come on, something!' A rustle! I grabbed a Kunai and threw it quickly. Lucky me, it missed completely the spot I was aiming at. "Stupid aim! That was so perfect!!!" I growled angrily. "I might be able to actually do this if I had one ounce of aiming skills in my entire body!!"
"Calm down, Mika! We'll help you! Believe it!" Naruto spoke up.
"Why would you help me?" Naruto looked shocked.
"Because you're my teammate and my friend. Isn't that obvious?"
"Friend? Since when were we friends? I treated you like crap, and you think that means you're my friend?" I scoffed. "And I'm not your teammate. I'm only being trained with you for now."
"Yeah, but that doesn't really matter, and I'm used to being treated like crap from Sakura!" Sakura looked at him, pissed "I know you both really mean well in the end, though!" Okay, now he's being annoying again. He walked over. I narrowed my eyes at him.
"Here, I'll help you! Get another Kunai." I was tempted to say 'Hey, don't boss me around, punk!' but I didn't. I know, my obedience surprised even me! Anyway, I grabbed the Kunai in my right hand.
"Now, you have to hold it right!" I turned to him.
"I am holding it right, what are you talking about?"
"No you're not. Look, your pointer finger shouldn't be going through the hole, that'll just throw everything off!" He gently moved my fingers into place. "That's better! Next, hold it right by your ear for a standard throw. Try to hit that tree right there." I tried. It missed, but it wasn't as inaccurate as it was before. Naruto had been watching me, examining my throw.
"I figured it out! You throw it too hard! If you concentrated less on how strong your throw is, you'll have better aim!" I frowned and let my hand drop to my side. I suddenly was filled with rage.
"If I could do that do you think I would be missing so badly?" I shouted before wrenching myself away from him and charging into the forest. I ran away from them all, but even through my blind rage I had enough sense to realize he was following me.
"Go away!" I shouted back. "Just leave me alone!!" I ran faster. I had never been this fast or agile before. It was really strange. Just as I realized that, I slowed and began to trip on things. 'Well, that settles that matter…' I stopped and sat down next to a tree. Leaning against it, I stroked my arm that now hurt.
"Finally, I caught up to you!" Naruto came over.
"Leave." I said simply.
"No. I won't just forget about you, Mika. You're a part of my team, at least for now, and you're my friend, whether you like and accept that or not." He sat down next to me. The orange ninja looked at me stroking my sore arm. "Is your arm alright?" He asked. I looked at his face. His eyes were filled with worry… could he really care? 'No…' I thought as I looked away. 'He only cares because I'm "on his team" now, and he doesn't want me to bring them all down with me.'
"I'm fine."
"You sure? You look pretty upset. What's wrong?"
'Damn it! Just leave me alone, will you?'
"No… I said I was fine." It sounded more like a plea than a reassuring response. I couldn't tell if he bought it or not. Either way he put his arm around my shoulder.
"Get off me…" I struggled a little, then gave up. I couldn't feel any hate or any strength. It was weird… I've always felt hate at all times before…
"I'm here for you, Mika." Naruto said kindly. "If you ever want to tell me what's wrong, just come by and I'll listen. I promise." I swear I could've cried right there. But I couldn't gain total control of my emotions. My arm began to sting more. I winced and held it tighter.
"I'm going home…" It was supposed to be a command to get off of me, but it sounded more like I was begging him to.
"Okay. See you tomorrow, then." He stood and I slowly headed towards the town. When I reached the Ichiraku Ramen bar, it was about noon. Well, not quite… maybe Eleven o' clock. I was feeling dismal as I walked along the road towards the hotel, but then suddenly I was filled with my usual hate. 'Well, that didn't last long, I should've known…' I turned the corner to the hotel and almost ran into someone who was coming the other way. I held my tongue and looked up the person's face. It was like I was looking into a mirror. Cold, mean, harsh eyes stared back at me, and above those, there was a seal. It read 'love.' Well, some have all of the luck, don't they?
"Move it, girl." He said.
"You move first." He glared at me through narrowed eyes. The girl to his right stepped forward.
"Kid, I really suggest that you just move, you don't know who you're dealing with, here!" It sounded like she was trying to warn me in a rude kind of way. I turned my glare of hate to her for a moment. She flinched, shocked for some reason.
"Really kid, you should run along now, listen to Temari and I."
"Quiet, Kankuro!" the first person said. He didn't even turn to look at them, but they shut up fast. "Move or you die."
Bwahaha!! That was fun! I'm not telling you if that was MikaNaru, though!! That's for me to know and for you to find out… but only if you keep reading!! Tee hee hee!! –Reindeer come in. I jump in the sleigh and fly away- "Merry X-mas to all and to all a good night!" (Hehe… quotes…)
-Kelsmur
