Chapter three
"Sasori-sensei, you could have killed us with that thing!" Temari was the first to break out of her shock as scolded at her sensei, unlike Kankuro who seemed to be frozen with shock, and might have peed his pants.
"One of the main rules of the shinobi is to be alert of everything around you at all times." Sasori pulled his tail back from the ground. "For you will never know when the enemy will make his move for the kill. Even if you lower your guard for slightest second you will be dead. Remember that."
"Hai sensei." Temari said with a bit of a shameful look.
"H-Hai… sensei." Kankuro finally spoke once that shock was over.
"Also, remember to keep your arguments to yourself. For it is both immature and not the way of a shinobi either, and besides you two look like complete idiots to." said Sasori.
Both Kankuro and Temari glared at him for the idiot comment.
"You two should also take notes from Gaara," their sensei gestured to Gaara, who now slowly rejoined his siblings. "He wasn't bickering among you idiots like an immature child that you two clearly are and saw the danger coming as well. Now how does that make you." They couldn't see it but they could defiantly tell that Sasori was smirking.
Temari crossed her arms looked away while mumbling something under her breath, while Kankuro glared at Gaara that said you-couldn't-have-warned-us-about-him. While Gaara stared at everyone with an innocent look like he never did a bad thing in his life, yeah right.
"Anyways, where have you three been?" Sasori suddenly growled in anger. "You are ten minutes late for meeting me here, where were you?" he shot each other with a nasty glare.
"W-Well sensei, you we kind of… got lost. Yeah, we got lost looking around the Leaf Village like you advised us to and we lost our way. Right Temari." Kankuro lied while looking at his sister to back the story up.
"Umm, yeah we got lost. We just don't know this village that well since it is our first trip here." The blonde lied to.
"Really?" the puppet master said in a voice that was clearly unconvinced. So he turned to look at Gaara.
"Kankuro ran into some Leaf Genin here and was about to fight them and hit a defenseless little kid." Gaara said innocently.
"What? Sasori shouted.
"While you little..!" Kankuro shouted.
"Kankuro!" The said boy turn to face his sensei to only received a very angry gaze from him, which made him shrink back in fear. "I thought I told you to keep a low profile and not to cause problems."
"You did sensei, but Kankuro refused to listen to reason and had to act like the big macho man he was." said Temari with a slight smirk.
"Temari!" her brother shouted as he glared at her now.
"Temari was right there with Kankuro and didn't even try to stop him from hitting the kid or facing the Leaf nin either. I was the only one that stopped everything so it wouldn't get to far out of hand." Gaara added in for his sensei.
"Gaara!" Temari shouted in shock at what he did.
Though this was no real surprise that the red head would tell on them, for he was the 'good student' out of the trio. Sasori could always count on Gaara to tell the truth of what was really happening with the siblings for he never told a single lie in life, there was no need to. And Gaara always did as what Sasori told him to do without any question; you could almost say he was the teacher's pet, but not really.
"I see." came their sensei response.
The tone in his voice was enough to send both cold and frightening chills down Temari and Kankuro's back as they recognized that tone of his. It was the same tone that promises for a world of hurt, which for them and not for the two red heads.
"You two know what this means for your lies and disobedience, don't you?" Sasori said calmly with an evil chakra around him.
Both of the older siblings gulped as they turn white as a ghost. "T-Training from hell?"
At that Sasori smirked evilly. "Training from hell."
"You can't be serious Lord Hokage!"
"Have you gone blind!"
"How could let Rock nins in our village!"
"We can't trust them for what they've done!"
"How could you do this?"
"They will plot against us and destroy the village!"
Third stayed silent as he heard most of the Jonins and Chuunins shout their complaints of the fact of letting those of Iwa here in their village. This was expected, there was no way to avoid it. There are many here in this room that the Hokage can name off the top of his head that had many grudges with the Rock nins in the past. It's true that they faced them as enemies in the past from the Great Second Ninja War to the Great Third Ninja War. Even now after the wars are over they were still enemies.
But that was about to change.
For a very long time, both villages have been trying to find peace with each other but could never put their difference aside it seems. That was until Tsuchikage propose an alliance with the Leaf Village. It seems that there had been some strange activity happening in the Land of Earth, such as a few disappearances of members of the shinobi clans within their village as well as just ordinary villagers. But most of the disappearances were taken near or in the Land of Rice Fields (I'm not really sure where the land of rice fields is, I do know it's on the border of the land of fire so I'm going to say it's on the border of the land of earth to. You'll know why soon, maybe.) as well as some strange happenings in that land. So in order to avoid any possible attacks on the Land of Earth, the Tsuchikage as offered a long awaited peace with the Hokage in hope to become alliances in case of an attack. Of course after considering of the matter of peace and forming an alliance with Iwa, the Hokage agreed to the offer hand of friendship. And to begin this new found alliance, Hokage as invited those of Iwa to come and participate in the Chuunin Exams, but only a select few.
Letting out a puff of smoke and a slight headache forming, the Third looked up to his shinbois who were still arguing over the matter.
"Silence!" The Hokage shouted.
Soon the room fell silent as neither Jonin nor Chuunin dared to speak a word.
"I understand that all of you hold some sort of resentment to those of Iwa, but please remember that this is our opportunity to form peace with them. In fact if I do recall it wasn't that long, during the Third Geart Ninja War that we had form an alliance with those from the Sand Village, and back then we had some strong grudges as will. This situation with the Rock Village in no different from those of the Sand Village, so please welcome those of Iwa into our village for we can for a stronger bond of friendship with them. I have already alerted the Kazekage of the Sand Village of this alliance and he has informed their shinobi of this a week before today." He let out a puff of smoke of his pipe. "Now that is all behind us, you are all dismissed, and please remember to welcome our guest."
After that, no one dared to argue against the Hokage and simply bowed before him and left. Itachi was one of the few shinobi that didn't argue about the fact that Rock nins were let into the village. Truth be told, he had bigger things to worry about and knew that the Hokage knew what he was doing and was thinking very clearly of the bigger picture then most.
Giving his bow, Itachi headed to the door to see that someone was lining back against the doorframe with a familiar orange book in his hand.
"Sounds like the Hokage has his hands full for some time, wouldn't you say Itachi." said the older shinobi.
"Indeed he has." said Itachi. "By the way, I wanted to thank you for taking over my team while I was away on an important mission. I'm just sorry you've had so much trouble at the Land of Wave, Kakashi."
Kakashi closed his book and pushed off against the wall. "It was no trouble at all in fact, it was the first time in a long time since I face an opponent as tough as Zabuza, it was almost a good workout for me really. And I have to say that they've come to like those brats."
Itachi smiled a bit. "They seem to take a strong liking to you as well." He then sobered up. "Do you think that it's too soon to enter them in the exams?"
"Well… it's not really my place to say, since you are their sensei and make all the calls. But I believe their ready for the Chuunin Exams from what I've wittiness at the Land of Waves."
"I hope so."
"Don't worry they'll do just fine. And if you need help, just give me a hauler." and this that, the silver haired Jonin walked off.
Losing sight of Kakashi, Itachi walked out of the meeting room and followed the crowd out of the Hokage Tower and onto the main street with front doors behind him. But before Itachi could take a step forward, a pair of soft hands suddenly covered his vision as a voice came from behind him.
"Guess who," said a female voice. "It's someone you've known during the academy days, she loves getting dirty, and she's going to be real pissed if you get it wrong."
At this Itachi couldn't help but smile faintly at the recognizing of the voice. Not even bothering to answer her, the Uchiha gently grabbed both of her wrists and pulled her hands away to turn and face none other than Hana Inuzuka.
"Hi Hana." Itachi said with a bit more of a smile this time.
Hana looked slightly grumpy and narrowed her eyes. "You're no fun, you know that Itachi."
But he simply brushed off her grump mood and still smiled at her. "But if I don't guess at all it ruins the whole fun anyway."
"Yeah, yeah." She said, waving a hand a bit. "So you're entering your team into the Chuunin Exams I hear."
He nodded. "I have, and it sounds like Kiba will be taking them as well."
"Yeah, the squirt is about to get a reality check. I swear that ever since he started taking missions with his team he's been complaining at home how lame they are. Maybe the exams will knock some sense into him."
"Maybe, are you worried though."
She snorted. "What kind of question is that, of course I'm worried about the stupid brat, he is my baby brother after all. So what about you, are you a little worried about Sasuke?"
"I'll admit I am a bit worried for him but I believe he and his teammates will do just fine."
"Yeah, I'm sure Kiba and his team will do fine just as well."
Soon the two moved down the street.
"To think that one day, the way they've been going, these two are going to be at our level before we know it." said Itachi.
Hana cringed at the thought. "Ugh, don't remind me. It's bad enough that my mother decided to drag me to more of our clan meetings a week ago, I don't need the thought of my bratty brother at my level."
"Yeah…" Itachi expression seemed to suddenly drop at the mention of clan meetings, of course this didn't go by unnoticed by Hana.
"Is something the matter Itachi?"
The raven haired boy looked up to the brunette with a tiny smile. "It's nothing Hana, I'm just a bit tired is all with everything."
"I see. Well I know what will cheer you up. How does tea and dango sound to you?"
Now that, Itachi couldn't help but smirk at. "Now that's appetizing."
For the pass three hours, Gaara sat quietly under the shadow of the tree, with his back to the tree's body, while watching his brother and sister being put through Sasori 'special' training, known as the 'training from hell'. He got out of the torture for he didn't disobey his sensei's orders and got to watch his siblings being tortured instead. In the back of his mind he could hear Shukaku giggling at the joyous sight of torture taking place before them. Normal the demon only takes pleasure of torturing of others if he is doing torturing, but. He liked Sasori's way of torturing the brats by doing it in the form of training.
Soon both Temari and Kankuro dropped to the ground by their sensei's feet and looked as if they truly have been through hell. Their clothes were torn, each covered in a bucket of sweat, scratches covering every inch of their skin, and a daze look on both of them.
"Alright, you both get a ten minute break before we start up again." said Sasori.
"Ten minutes!" Kankuro shouted in shock.
"We need a little longer then that sensei; I can't even move my body!" Temari complained.
"So, should I care? There is a reason while I call this the training from hell. Now both of you stop your yakking and get some water into you." Sasori said before he moved away from them.
Sensei is evil! Both Temari and Kankuro thought.
Seeing Sasori moving away from his siblings, Gaara chose that moment to leave the comfort of the shadowy tree head towards his sensei. Sensing his youngest student's approach, Sasori looked up to greet Gaara in front of him.
"Yes Gaara?" he asked.
"Sensei, I was wondering if I could be allowed to explore more of the village."
Sasori eyed him a bit. "Why the sudden curiosity of the Leaf?"
"I found something that's… intriguing here is all."
"I see… Then I suppose you may leave, but" Sasori then narrowed his eyes at the boy. "No killing, understand."
The red head nodded.
"Good, we must remember that we can't afford to draw any attention to us."
"Hey, what's that?" Kankuro suddenly asked as he looked to the sky and pointed up.
Soon everyone followed his gaze up to the clear cloudy free sky to see something indeed above them. It was quite large and seemed to be white, or at least a faded white. It wasn't floating but seems to be flying in circles up in the sky.
"It looks like a bird." Temari voiced out her thoughts.
Their sensei narrowed his eyes up at it. "There is no bird like that around this land."
"Its coming." said Gaara.
And it did.
Suddenly the bird stopped flying in circles and started flying down to the ground so fast that it almost seems that it's dropping to the earth. And it was heading straight for them!
"Ahhh!" both Kankuro and Temari screamed and jumped up and moved out of the way.
Sasori and Gaara followed their example, except for the screaming part.
Just as they were out of the way, the thing finally landed on the ground but, gentle with both feet. Once the smoke of the impact was gone, Sasori looked up to see that the thing was indeed a very large bird, but a very strange one at that. Its body stretcher seemed to be wrong for any bird around here, and its appearance seems to be wrong to. Now that he got a closer look at it, Sasori was shocked to see that it wasn't a bird at all but a lifeless imitation of one.
Sudden four figures jumped off the bird's back and gently landed on the ground next to it, three of them seem to be children while last seemed to be an adult.
The first kid was a boy that seemed to be almost a man then a kid. He looked to be fifteen, the oldest of the kids it seems. He had short black hair, dark blue eyes, and slightly pale skin that remind Sasori's of his own. He wore a black un-zipped coat and a dark blue shirt under, black pants and black
ninja sandals. For his headband he wore it on his forehead that was black and had very long straps. (Think of Naruto's headband in shippuden but only longer)
The next one was another boy, only this one seemed slightly younger than the other, he looked to be fourteen. He was a bit shorter than the older boy but taller than third member of the three. He has ice blue eyes, left eye has an upside down diamond tattoo, black shoulder length hair that covers his right eye, and he wore a dark blue tank top with a black elbow length mesh top underneath, and black cargo pants. While his headband tied around his neck.
The last one was a girl and seemed to be the youngest, about thirteen, Gaara's age he believed. She has iliac colored mid back length hair that's kept in a low ponytail and amethyst eyes with a slight red tint. Her outfit is a red tank top with a silver leafless tree on the back and black caprice, with her headband tied on her forehead and a katana tied to her back.
The last of the four was their sensei he believed. It was a tall blonde woman with long hair, part of it covered her left eye, while some of it was tied to a ponytail. The blonde had ocean blue eyes with olive tone skin. The blonde's outfit is fishnet t-shirt underneath a dark blue tank top the showed the stomach off, and a pair of black caprice with two large pouches strap to the hips.
"Man that ride was killing my butt, un." said the blonde while rubbing the said butt.
"At least we got here on time." said the younger boy.
"Hey!" came a yell behind them.
All four turn to see a very angry Temari with a somewhat equaled angry Kankuro.
"You almost land on us!" yelled Temari.
"Yea, watch where you are going next time." said Kankuro.
Ignoring his students for the moment, Sasori's gaze remained focused on the headbands, but mostly the blonde's headband tied around her forehead.
Rock shinobis, huh. He thought.
"Temari! Kankuro! Hold your tongues!" their sensei suddenly barked out.
At the sound of their sensei harsh tone, both of the siblings shut their mouth tight.
"Now, who the hell are you? I'm not to please myself of becoming your personal landing pad, and judging by your headbands you all hail from Iwa, the Village Hidden Among the Rocks, correct." said Sasori.
Both Temari and Kankuro gasped at this news while Gaara remain passive as he started at the event before him with a blank face.
"Oh, well sorry then, un. My name is Deidara (Yes, I know he is boy but in this he is a girl. SO if you no likey then go away. Plus I thought it would be more fun to mess with Sasori if he has to deal with a woman during this whole thing. Does he even know how to handle woman? Probably not so much, tee hee… Also I can't write yaoi, I just can't. I don't mind it, I really don't but I'm just not comfortable enough to write it) and you are right, we hail from Iwa, un." said the blonde with a big stupid grin. "And if I may ask," she eyed the hunch back old man in black. "Who am I speaking to old geezer, un."
Sasori felt his eyebrow start twitching from inside Hiruke. "I'm Sasori no Akasuna, and you should learn to respect both your elders and superiors, brat."
"Brat? I'm not a brat, un!"
"You are to me. After all only a brat is irresponsible to be flying that" Sasori gestured his he towards her bird, "thing around and has no clue what they are doing!""
"That's Deidara-sensei's art, show some respect for it!" said the girl behind Deidara.
"Aika, I appreciate your help but I can handle this geezer, un." said their sensei without turning to look at her.
"Stop calling me that!" Sasori yelled.
"But…" Aika started.
"You do well to listen to sensei, Aika." said the oldest of the three.
She glared at him a bit before she looked away with her arms crossed. "Whatever, Loki."
Their last teammate sighed and shook his head.
"I'll stop calling you that if you stop call me a brat, un!" she yelled.
But Sasori wasn't paying attention to her for he was too busy looking at the clay bird with a dull look.
"You call this art?" he asked.
At this the blonde grinned. "But of course, un."
With a snap of her fingers, the bird suddenly shrunk down to the size of a plum and jumped into Deidara's waiting hand. Placing the bird back in her bag, she pulled something else out from the same bag that looked like a spider and showed it to Sasori. Then with a toss in the air, the little clay spider exploded.
"That is true art right there, for art is fleeting, un." She grinned.
The Sand nin could stare at horror of the explosion before he soon became annoyed and slightly ticked off as he looked at Deidara.
"That's not art you stupid brat, I don't even know what to call that. But true art is something that lasts forever and is preserved, not to be destroyed like that!" Sasori shouted angrily.
Now it was Deidara's turn to look ticked off. "What kind of crap have you been on, un. True art is a fleeting moment, not something that lasts forever, un!"
"Eternal!"
"Fleeting!"
"Eternal!"
"Fleeting!"
"Eternal!"
"Fleeting!"
As the two older shinbois argued away, their students stood on the sidelines as they sweat dropped at the scene before them. For neither team was brave enough to go and try to break up the argument.
"Man, I haven't seen sensei get this so work up before." Kankuro whispered to Temari.
"Neither have I, no one is stupid enough to go disagree with sensei's art before and lived." She whispered back.
Gaara remained silent as he just stared at Sasori and Deidara.
"We need to get going and enter for the exams." The younger boy whispered to Aika.
"Yeah, but… I'm kind of a little scared of sensei at the moment." said Aike for she was starting to quiver at Deidara's growing anger.
"Yuuen has a point; we can't afford to waste time with sand rats like these." Loki said coolly.
"Well then Mister I'm-so-cool-I-don't-have-to-do-what-anyone-says, why don't you go and tell Deidara-sensei we are wasting time because of her argument of art that you find pointless." Aika said sweetly to Loki.
"I didn't say it was pointless." said the colder boy, slightly glaring down at his teammate.
"But that's what you were implying." She pointed out.
"Aika has a point, it did sound like it." Yuuen said but slightly drew back a bit when Loki sent him a look that said you-aren't-helping.
"So anyway if you find this pointless and stupid, go up and tell that to sensei so we can be on our way then." Aika grinned at him that had a slight hit of mischief.
The older boy said nothing and looked back over to their sensei and the Sand nin, still fighting over about art. But nothing has really changed in their argument, other than the fact that both ninjas now grew a little scarier somewhere during that argument. And the three Rock Genin quickly learned that an angry Deidara was indeed not a pleasant thing to have, especially during training.
"O-On second thought, we have plenty of time before we have to register," Loki quickly covered his slightly uneasiness at the sight of their sensei with his normal cool and cold manor. "After all we have three days before they begin and the entry days will be open all through then.
Yeah right, coward. Both Aika and Yuuen thought together.
"I don't need to take this, un! I'll prove to you that my art is the true form of art then yours, un!" Deidara suddenly yelled.
"Tch, I like to see you try!" was Sasori reply.
The blonde growled dangerously low at him before she turned to face her students. "Loki, Yuuen, Aika we're leaving for the Hokage tower, now un!" she yelled before she turned towards the tower and started storming out of the training grounds of the Leaf Village.
Not wishing to be on the other end of their sensei's lingering wrath, all three of her Genin quickly followed.
Sasori was still steaming at the argument he got into with the Rock shinobi. How dare she even question his art like that and claim that her form of art was the true form of art, and to top it off she was going to prove it to him as well. Oh never in his life as he ever hated a female such as her, they were always so troublesome to his option, and it didn't help that he had to live with his crazy grandmother either. To him the whole female species are nothing but troublesome creatures that gave him nothing but headaches. That's why he always tried to stay away from them and never get involve with them either.
That is until this blonde artist want be showed up.
"Temari! Kankuro! Break times over, get back to work!" Sasori yelled to his students.
"But we barely had ten minutes to…" Temari trailed of as she quivered at the look her sensei was giving. The one that said do-as-I-say-or-else, it was a look that the Sand Siblings try to avoid.
"B-But what about Gaara!" Kankuro pointed to the now retreating back of their baby brother who was heading for the village. "How come he gets to skip the training and not us?"
"Because his the smartest out of you three idiots that didn't disobey my orders, now move!" Sasori roared.
At this time, only thing that Temari and Kankuro could do was cry at how mean their sensei was.
Team Deidara has appreared.
Poisoned Blossom owns Loki.
Reimei Uzumaki owns Aika.
Kuromi-Tenshi owns Yuuen.
Haha! Sasori is indeed EVIL.
