Sorry that I'm a little late on the weekly up date. But I hope you like it, its my longest chapter at 3,299 words long. As you can tell I'm a little proud of my little achievement. Thanks for being patient with me. - rissalissa
If comrades that you trust gather around you, hope can take physical form and become visible. That`s what I believe...- Hatake Kakashi
You know those days when you just don't want to get up in the morning. Yeah well I was having one of those days. It wasn't that I didn't want to meet my new teammates. It was more like I didn't want to get emotionally involved.
Being emotionally involved seems like such a small thing, but really it's not. From the beginning of my life people have left me starting with my father. The only person who stuck by me was my mother. But she left to even if it was involuntary. So you can see my dilemma.
But sometimes you just have to suck it up, because its life and only I can say how I'm going to live it. And I will deal with it because like my mother I want to believe that my team will become my family. And I never want to let down my family. Grabbing all my gear I go to leave my house, but before I do I look over at my mother's picture that hung on the wall. Looking at it I promised myself that I would give my team a chance.
Walking to training ground four which is on the other side of the village gave me time to think. I thought mostly about the test our sensei would give us, and what it would entail, because by the sound of it the test was serious. The reason why I thought this was because of what he said to me yesterday. If you don't show up your teammates will automatically fail, which leads me to believe that the test will concentrate on teamwork. The problem with that though are my teammates in general. Back in the academy we really didn't run in the same circles. But hopefully we'll pull together during the test.
Seeing as I was coming up on the training grounds. I stopped thinking about the test, and more about how I was going to introduce myself to my teammates. In my time in the academy I was never really a social butterfly. Most of the students were intimidated by my age. Entering the training grounds I noticed I was the only person there. Which I couldn't decide if it was a good thing, or a bad thing. On the downside I could have gotten the introduction out of the way. On the upside I get to see my teammates I action without them knowing.
Now the question is where the best advantage point. There's three options I could choose from, but I also want to hear what their saying. So my best advantage point would be the closest one to the entrance of the training ground. Were they would most likely be waiting for the rest of the team to show up. Getting into position and hiding my chakra took a while. But just as I got done hiding myself Kazuki showed up. Now let's hope that he doesn't notice me. As a Hyuga, especially one that specialized in tracking Kazuki would be the most likely to notice me out of him and Aiko. Well actually sensei would be the one to most likely be the one to notice me first, but he's a jonin enough said.
Not long after Kazuki showed up Akio did as well. Not long after Aiko showed up they started talking, and guess who they were talking about. That's right me.
"So do you think she's going to show up?" Aiko glanced over to Kazuki with a worried expression. Well now I feel bad.
"She'll show up she worked just as hard as us to graduate. Maybe even harder because of her age, she wouldn't just give that up." Aki still looked worried though.
"Yeah, but still it was her mom who had just died. If it was my mom I don't know if I would honestly." Kazuki sighed finally looking over at Aiko with an expression I couldn't name.
"I probably wouldn't either. We just have to hope sensei got to her." Well he was right sensei did get to me. I should probably show myself. It wouldn't be fair just to make them sit their wondering if their teammate will show up or not. Jumping down form my hiding spot probably wasn't the best idea of showing myself, as both my teammates threw shuriken at me.
"I'm Saku Mikazuki your third teammate it's nice to meet you." Well it might not have been the best way to introduce myself, but seeing their expressions was totally worth it. Poor Aiko looked as if he was about to kneel over.
"Well it looked like you were wrong about her, she did show up." I looked over at Kazuki whose expression changed back into the Hyugas' usual stoic expression.
"Yeah you're right I was wrong about you not showing up. Now my question is why did you? We wouldn't have blamed you if you hadn't." I looked over at Aiko whose eyes show understanding. Then I looked over at my other teammate to see if he agreed. Then I looked up at the sky thinking about how I should word my answer.
"Well to be honest I wasn't not until sensei showed up, and he reminded me about something my mother once said. She said that in Kahona your teammates are like your family. And well I don't really have a family have a family anymore. Since you two were chosen as my teammates that means you guys might become my family. Because even if it's just the idea of a family. I would never let them down." I looked over at the boys when I finished my speech. To see them smiling at me, and I just don't think it's just because I showed up. Behind us we herd clapping starting. We turned around and saw sensei there. The weird thing though was that I didn't even fell him on my radar. I guess I must have been so concentrated on my little speech that I just didn't feel him. Smiling at us sensei said something that would change our lives for years to come.
"She's right your teammates are your family. From now on your family and you have each other's backs. From hell to high water, but before that can happen you have to pass my test. Do you think you can handle that Team Four?" Yes sensei echoed across the training field. And for the first time in a long time I felt that I belonged.
"Well ok! Your test today is one of teamwork I will tell you that now. What you have to do is find one of the villages' shinobi, and help him safely complete his mission. Think you guys can handle that?" Looking back at this I would probably know what he was setting us up for. But in this moment I have no clue what he was up to.
"But sensei who exactly who is it that we are looking for?" Kazuki makes another good point. Who we are looking for? If we don't know who we are looking for we'll never find the right person.
"Good question this is who you're going to be looking for." He pulled out a picture of a non-descriptive chunin with brown hair and eyes. Which are the most common features in Kahona.
"Now that not all I'm going to tell you, I'm going to give you his mission information. His mission is to locate some shinobi that have been giving the civilians some trouble." While he was saying this he was looking at each of us like he was looking for something in us. The question of if he found it in us or not. I couldn't answer. Not with those heavy eyes on me that almost seemed to see my soul.
"You'll probably find him in the west district were the discrepancies were made. So team fur this is your mission if you chose to accept it." Man did that sound familiar, but hell yeah we'll accept it. And by the nodding that my teammates were doing that they agreed with me.
"Well ok I'll leave you to it." Then he left like he was never there in the first place again.
"Well he said we might find our shinobi in the west district. That's where we should start." Aiko looked over at us to see if we agreed. Which he shouldn't have to confirm with us because it was unneeded he was right. We do need to go to the west district.
"Then we should probably get moving before our target isn't there." I said as I looked over at Kazuki whom still hasn't said anything yet.
"Hey Kazuki you have really good distance with your byakugan right?" He looked at me like I had grown another head.
"Yes I do, but how do you know that?" I shrugged my shoulders seeing as how I knew wasn't such a big deal.
"Well back in the academy you were the first in our tracking unit to find the objective every time. Even before your cousin in our class." Now even Aiko was looking at me weird.
"Anyway when we get close to the west district do you think that you can use you byakugan to try to find our target?" He nodded at my plan which was surprising because I half expecting him not to agree.
"Great, but we should really need to get going." Running through the forest was easy for me since all of us have been doing it since the beginning of the academy. And looking behind me it was the same for the boys. While doing so I notice the lineup that we unconsciously made. First there was me the Kazuki, and lastly Aiko. Which made sense heavy hitter/sensor in front, tracker/medium to long range in the middle, and last in line medic/taijutsu user, for all round movability in a combat situation. The good news was that there were no chakra signatures yet, which was not unusual for this time of day. Especially in the direction we were going.
"Kazuki see anything yet?" Good question Aiko did he see anything yet.
"Not yet, but we just got here we need to get to the center of the district so I can get a central view of the area." Well I guess it can't be too easy now can it.
"Ok we'll go to the center of the district. You still have his face memorized though right?" Which he should because any shinobi worth his salt can memorize a face.
"Of course I still have it memorized. Any Hyuga can recall faces if they specialize in tracking." I could just feel him rolling his eyes at me.
"Well that tat should come in handy because we're coming up to the center." Aiko spoke up for the first time in a while.
"Where do you want us to stop?" I looked back at him because ultimately it was him finding our target.
"There." He pointed at the tallest building in the district.
"Ok, we'll go there." Running to the building was short, but the climb was a little longer. Even longer than that was the wait for Kazuki to find our target. After a wait Kazuki found him.
"Found him he's five clicks to the left, but that's not all. He's being attacked, and it looks like he's not going to last long." Kazuki and Aiko looked at me, and all I can think is why the hell they are looking at me.
"Ok when we get their Aiko secures and heal our target. Kazuki guard Aiko and back me up, and I'll go in. Are you guys ok with this plan?" I looked at the both of them wondering if they're going to listen to the words of an eight year old.
"Yeah were ok with that." Aiko said while looking at Kazuki while Kazuki just nodded.
"Ok then let's get to it." Running to our destination I could finally feel what Kazuki was talking about. I could feel chakra signatures fluctuating meaning that there was a fight going on. The sight we saw when we got there was bad. Well it was bad for a genin who has never seen combat. The good thing was that all the civilians had scattered. It was one less thing to worry about. Then just as we got there our target fell down and didn't get up.
"Aiko go help him, Kazuki with me." Ok Mikazuki there are three guys you and Kazuki can take them. Just remember your training. And there I got to the first guy before he went for the kill strike. Hitting the butt of a kunai over the guy's head nocking the guy unconscious. It was unlikely that that would work on his friends though. I guess I have to take it out then.
"Kazuki you think you can hold them for a while." Instead of an answer I saw Kazuki go into the throw of things. Stepping back I take out a scroll holding my spear. Rolling it out, and swiping my blood on it my spear came out in all its glory. Now it was time to rock and roll. Following my Chakra into the spear to inforce it I charged back into the fight.
"Kazuki now!" Kazuki knelt while I leaped over his head. I started to fight the last two assailants left. Knocking my spear into assailant number ones stomach knocking the wind out of him giving me enough time to deal with number two. Then kicking assailant number two with both of my feet in the head knocking him out. While using the middle of my spear to lock it around assailant number ones neck to bring him to the ground hitting his head on the road knocking him unconscious. You got to love head shots the most effective way to knock someone out.
Turning around to check on my teammates to see if they were ok I saw Aiko kneeling over our target healing him. While Kazuki was guarding him with his byakugan active probably scanning for more threats.
"Akio how's he doing?" He looked up to me then looked around for probably the first time since he started on his patient.
"He's doing fine, but we'll need to get him to a hospital for a full examination." I looked at him then his patient then the assailants on the ground.
"Ok here's what we're going to do. Aiko go to the hospital with him. Kazuki I want you to go to the tower and get some back up while I stay here and guard these guys. Alright let's get going." I turned around getting the standardized paralyzing seal, and put one on each of the assailants. Now all I have to do now is waiting for back up to arrive. And it didn't take very long for them and Kazuki to show up. It wasn't even ten minutes tops. Ok I smell a set up. As I was about to tell the situation to the chunin squad that showed up instead they say.
"We got this; go to the hospital to your teammate to wait for further orders." Yep defiantly a set up because first of all they wouldn't have got here this fast, and secondly they wouldn't have just brushed me off like that. I looked over at Kazuki noticing his expression. I bet he didn't even them that Aiko was at the hospital. Oh he defiantly knew something was going on.
"Well I guess we'll just leave you to it. Come on Kazuki lets go." Walking next to him he didn't say anything until we get a distance away from the chunins.
"Something is going on right. Or was that just me?" He looked at me from the corner of his eye. Trying to making it seem like he wasn't talking to me.
"Oh, it wasn't just you I'll bet you anything that this whole thing was a set up." Then we just stopped talking too caught up in our thoughts at least I was. When we got to the hospital, and found Aiko he wasn't alone either. With him was sensei which almost confirms my suspicions.
"Good job team four on saving your target." I almost laughed from the thought of our target actually needing saved.
"Sensei you know full well that our target didn't need saving. And if I had to guess you were the one that put him in that position in the first place." I looked at him trying to imitate one of my mother's looks. You know the one where it says you did something stupid look.
"Ok I will admit I did set all this up, but there was a reason for this." I was totally right. Not that it's important at this moment, but it's a nice feeling all the same.
"Wait a minute you mean to tell me that you made people fight just for a test?" Oh no Aikos' medic side is coming out. Telling him that people getting injured for no reason wasn't the smartest thing to do.
"Yes essentially I did, but don't worry they all volunteered for it. You know how in the beginning when I told you all the information about who you were looking for did you notice that I never told you his name?" Yeah I noticed that was one of the first things that set me off to know that something was going on.
"Well one of the reasons for that was because your target works in I.T. so he does alt of undercover work. He didn't want his name getting around." Ok that one mystery solved, which made sense with that guys looks. But that still doesn't explain the test in general which was very strange for a genin test. Sensei was a mind reader because the next thing out of his mouth answered all my questions.
"Now you may be wondering about why I did this test the way I did. You all must have thought as a team that you all will be a tracking unit. That's not exactly what I have in mind for you. No what I have in mind for you is much different. I want you all to be a First Response Team." What he wants us to be a F.R. team? That never happens to genin teams. Only the best of the best are on a First Response team. What the hell is sensei thinking?
"I chose this specialization because I truly believe that you three can do it. The reason is that all three of you have the one thing that all First Response teams have. And do you know what that is?" We all just shaked are heads. Because honestly I have no clue what he was talking about.
"Being fast First Response teams are the fastest teams in Kahona. And you three are the fastest in you class. Actually not just in your class. But from your generation to graduate from the academy." Glancing at my teammates they seemed as bewildered by this as I am. I mean I knew I was the fastest in my class, but I never knew to this extent.
"Now that you all passed your test you guys are officially team four. It's also means speed training time. Just as our specialization says we need to be first to on the scene to respond."
Well this day has been big for me. I got a new family; beat up some undercover shinobi, then got told I'm going to be training to become one of the best. Hopefully I don't die before that happens with sensei and his training regimen.
Hatake- field
Kakashi- scarecrow
First Response team are real things and I thought why not make it a naruto team? I also got the definition of a first response team for you guys. An incident response team or emergency response team (ERT) is a group of people who prepare for and respond to any emergency incident, such as a natural disaster or an interruption of business operations. Incident response teams are common in corporations as well as in public service organizations.
So if you guys have any ideas or questions for me please tell me. I am totally up to suggestions. Thanks guys!
