The next morning the four girls walked into their training grounds, to see a lady sitting in the middle.
"Miss?" Ino asked.
She looked up. "Alright you maggots! Let's get training! Im Anko, your teacher. So get ready for some hard training. Im going to teach you to kick serious ass."
The four girls nodded. "Now, you will begin the morning by stretching." The four nodded and sat down, touching their toes.
"Not like that!" She yelled. They looked up. "What?"
Anko walked up the tree and stood on it upside down, her hands on her hips. "Stand up here till you're sure you can stretch up here!"
The four groaned and began trying to climb it. They fell lots of times, but got up just as fast as they hit the ground. By lunch, they had gotten half-way to their mark.
"Improvement! Im happy with that! Keep me happy for the rest of the day and you can leave at 5!"
"What about lunch?"
Anko gave a cold laugh. "A ninja should be able to go days with just water. So, till you can go only on water for a few weeks during training you don't get lunch breaks like those wimpy boys."
They sighed and took out the water they had brought, now thankful for it.
With only a five minute break, they drank lots of water and quickly jumped in the lake to cool off.
"Alright ladies! Out! Back to training!"
They ran up the tree's with energy bursting from them. Anko watched as they stood on the bottom side of the branches.
"Anko-sensei! Look at us!" Ino yelled, waving. "Very good girls!" She yelled.
Anko smirked as they touched their toes. Fighting gravity was worse then bending over. It hurt way worse.
She touched the scar on her neck. She would make these girls strong. They will defeat him. He will not win. Not again.
She yelled at them to work harder.
The four girls gasped in agony. The pain hurt so much!
"Come on! Hold it!" She had them holding 70 pound boulders. Above their heads. It hurt.
"Anko-sensei! It hurts!"
"One more minute!"
They harnessed all the energy they had, and held it longer.
"Alright! Drop it!"
They threw the rocks down and groaned. "Be here at 7 tomorrow morning! Don't be late!" She yelled, before disappearing.
The four went their separate ways, to tired to say anything.
Sakura stumbled on her way home when she heard footsteps. "Sakura!" She groaned and turned around. Sasuke and Naruto were running towards her.
She turned back around and kept walking. A body landed on top of her and she flopped to the ground. She groaned. "Naruto, get off me, my body hurts, my head is pounding and I will punch you in the face if you don't get off."
"Sorry Sakura-Chan." He mumbled. "Its just, things haven't been the same with out you on the team! Who are you on a team with now? Are they nice to you? Who are they?"
She groaned. "Im on an all girls team."
"Really?" Sasuke asked, some what interested. "Yea, and its Ino, Tenten, and Hinata! We kick ass."
"Che. You wish. We already have your replacement. Remember Ami?"
Sakura cringed, then straightened. "Yea, im sure she can do half of what I do."
Sasuke stayed silent. She turned. "Im leaving now, my training starts early."
"Who's your teacher?"
"Anko." She hissed.
"I heard she's mean!"
"Yea? Well at least were learning something, good bye Naruto. Good bye Sasuke." She began walking away.
"Wait! Like forever?" Naruto called. She turned her head and gave him a cold smile. "Yes Naruto. Forever."
"Hinata-Chan!" Hinata turned and groaned. Kiba and Shino were there. Following her.
"What?" Hanging around with the girls changed her attitude. She wasn't gonna take crap anymore.
"Well. We just wanted to say hi…"
"There, you said it. Now I have to go."
"Hinata-san!" Shino said.
"Kiba. Shino. I have a new team now. I don't need you to look after me."
"A new team?"
"Me, Sakura, Ino, and Tenten."
"…"
"Who is teaching you?"
"Anko-sensei."
"Really?"
"Yea, and were gonna train harder than you, and were gonna be great ninjas! So why don't you guys leave me alone? My training starts early."
She turned and walked away. She stopped and turned, just enough to see them.
"Good-bye guys. Forever." She said, it catching the wind and carrying it to them.
"Hinata-Chan…" The mumbled.
Tenten was trudging home after the long workout from the day.
"TENTEN!" She heard that unmistakable sound. Lee.
"She groaned and turned. Wishing she hadn't. She was tackled to the ground by the spandex wearing boy.
"Oi! Get off me!" She cried, throwing him off. He hit the ground and she sat up. Neji was staring at her. "I see your still a ninja."
"Damn right I am! Me, Ino, Sakura, and Hinata are all still ninjas!"
He frowned. "Im leaving." She said, standing up.
"Wait! Who is your youthful teacher?" Lee asked.
"Anko."
"Oh!" He said. Everyone knew Anko was a mean teacher. "At least she doesn't talk about youth all the time and we do some extreme training."
"Really? What did you do today?" Neji asked.
"We each held 70 pound boulders for half an hour."
Neji twitched. That must've hurt.
She spun around. "Good-bye boys. I hope I never have to look at you again." Even though she had a huge crush on Neji, she will get over it and move on, with her new team, her new friends, her new family.
They watched her leave. "Tenten…" Neji whispered watching her back.
Ino dragged her legs to her house when she saw Shikamaru and Choji up ahead. Choji turned to say something when he caught sight of the platinum blonde. "Ino-san!" He said cheerfully.
"What is it?" She groaned. He smiled and patted her on the head. "How are you?" She smiled at him slightly. He could be really nice. Then she remember why they weren't on a team.
She brushed his hand off and stood straight up. "Im fine." "That's good! We miss you on our team. We had to get a replacement… She is mean! She stomped on my chip bag! At least you never did that!"
She smiled gently. "She sounds mean."
He nodded vigorously.
Shikamaru spoke, "So, who's on your team? Are you still a ninja?" He inquired.
She nodded. "Yea I am, but my training is ten times harder. Anko wants us to be the best. We wont let her down." Ino said.
"Anko? Man. I feel bad for you."
"She's really nice, well, not really, she's just looking out for us, pushing us to do our best."
Ino stepped back. "Well, its been nice talking to you, but I don't think we should talk to much anymore."
"Why?" Choji asked. She sighed. "I have no need, yes were friends, but I feel it will be better if we aren't so, good-bye." She said, pushing past them and walking around the corner, towards her house.
That night, the four girls slept soundly.
"Tsunade-sama, I would like permission to take my team and train outside of the village."
"Why?"
"They don't have the proper training area's here."
"Well… I want them back for the exams…"
"That's months away. I want them ready."
"Alright then. Permission granted. Leave two days from now. Take them with you."
"Arigato Hokae-sama."
