So where do we start?
No where.
Because that makes a lot of sense.
To find nobody, you must start no where, with nothing, and no one.
We can do it, just me and I. We'll find myself soon enough.
"Itoh!!! You're late."
Violently shaken, Itoh woke from an action pack dream of his days as a ninja, but not fully. He rose from his rest bed and stiffly made his way to his closet. Kat, standing at the entrance, watched his friend and waited for him to get dressed into his green shirt, black sweatpants, a gray colored vest, then finally his red headband.
Nat was sitting on his bed, sighed, and picked something up. "I think you meant to put this on," she said. Itoh turned around and saw a different red headband. IT was maroon for some reason. Then it dawned on him.
"We're late!" He exclaimed, snatched his forehead protector, grabbed his friend Kat and ran faster than lightning.
"GOO BYE NAT!" Kat called just before they left the door. The whole run Itoh chanted the same words over and over again, leading his dear friend along. Kat tore from his gasp and challenged him to a race. They had to hurry, just three minutes and they would be late.
"Left!" Kat said when his friend turned right. Itoh swore and turned around and followed. He was loosing. "There's the academy! Go faster, Itoh!"
"Trying, trying!" Itoh replied. Practically smashing the door down as they entered, then nosily flew down the halls. Students gasped in their way, stumbled, or where flat out run over. Itoh was just and inch behind his friend when he saw the door.
Uzumaki Naruto happened to be walking down the halls then and heard the ruckus. He was a shinobi of high ranking. He liked to wander the academy for reasons nobody quiet understood, and he enjoyed spending time with the kunoichi Sakura Haruno, but not know among the younger students it was because they were once team mates. More students said aloud that Naruto had the hots for Sakura, but inwardly and to the boys regrettably they all knew it was the other way around. Naruto floated however.
Like I mentioned, Uzumaki Naruto happened to be walking down the halls when he hears the ruckus and quickened his pace. Down the halls approaching like a speeding train, was his least favorite student and his side kick. I think you know who was his least favorite. Naruto could pick him out of a million children by his light green hair.
So, like there was a million children around him, Naruto grabbed Itoh by the hair and stopped him dead in his tracks. "Ye-owch!" Itoh screamed. Kat kept running and dove into the room they were assigning teams in just as it shut. Partially crying because he nearly had his hair ripped out, and the other part crying because he missed team assignments, Itoh burst into a fit at Naruto.
"Relax," Naruto sighed. "As a figure of athority, I only exercised my rights to abuse a stupid-ass child."
"Me a stupid-ass! Look at you, Mr. Sexy-no-jutsu!"
Naruto got very angry and red. "Who told you about that?"
"I don't know, maybe you should ask Konohamaru."
Naruto resisted slamming the punk in the face, he turned him violently aroudn and pushed him. "Walk, I'm your pass to team assignments."
In there, as Naruto talked to Iruka-sensei, Itoh tip-toed away to sit beside Kat. "What'd I miss?"
"Everything, but you and I are on the same team!"
"Yes!!"
"Oh, don't celebrate just yet. We got Haruno Sakura for our sensei."
Completely overjoyed, he jumped form his seat and hooted. The whole class stopped and burst into laughter.
"Gosh, grassy, why don't you settle down?"
"I think he ate too much plant food."
"What a freak."
"Coudl everybody please settle down," Iruka said blandly. Years of trying to get the hooligans trained has given him a number of gray hairs. He tried again and finally got the class to settle. "Itoh, please don't be a disturbance in the class room. I know it's your last day, and I know you've worked your butt off to actually be sitting there, but i can kick out out of the room and take that headband of yours back."
Completely flushed, Itoh apologized and sat. A small whisper slipped across the students as Iruka continued to talk with Naruto. On the other end of the room a blonde girl leaned over to one of her friends and whispered "He looks a lot like a cherry when he blushes, doesn't he, Suzu?" she laughed spitefully. The brown haired laugh laughed quietly with her.
"He's probably excited to be on the same team as his friend, Naoki."
"I suppose. That's okay, because you and I got Naruto-sensei." They butted fists and smiled.
"I suppose I can do that," Iruka muttered. "Its not like I had anything in mind when I assigned the groups. Sakura will be okay with it, right?"
"Probably. She would have much fun with an all guy team knowing her."
"Why'd Iruka-sensei and Naruto-sensei just look at us?" asked Naoki indifferently. Suzu raised her head from a paper and shrugged. Naruto bid Iruka farewell and left.
"Excuse me, class, I had a minor switch up due to a team design difficulty. If the following teams could stay, that would be great: Teams 2, 7, and 9. The rest of you are free to go."
"That's us," Kat said. Itoh tipped his head stupidly. They joined the gathering at the front of the class room.
"It can't be good, whatever it is," Suzu said in reply to Naoki when they got up there.
"Unfortunately, Team seven's leader hasn't returned from his mission to investigate a far off village. Though the both of his team mates are safe here, there's no word on his whereabouts. I would like to ask that you three still preform missions, but keep them in the lowest rank until further notice. As for teams two, Haruto Sakura, and nine,Uzumaki Naruto, there was a mistake when building your teams. The new teams are as follows: On team two the members are Hirate Naoki, Hyuuga Katsui, and Tatakai Issou. The remaining three are team nine."
"There must be a mistake!" Itou jumped in.
"The teams before were perfect!" Naoki blurted.
The two were in union, and loud.
"What's done is done. Good luck as a ninja!" Iruka smiled at them all and left.
"I want Naruto-sensei back," Naoki sobbed.
"I don't," Itoh blubbered. Nothing could be done, though, they were stuck.