Ws: Hello all! This chapter starts the actual meat and Potatoes, raw if you please, of the story. I know I kinda glazed over the academy and the training program of the last chapter but I will go into more detail later. Before anybody asks, Teams are cannon. Yeah yeah I know 'so unoriginal' but there will be differences. Any way here we go.
Chapter Start!
Hiashi was sparing with his youngest daughter, Hanabi, after breakfast. She would be starting at the academy soon and had asked him to help her prepare. She was quite good in the jyuken arts, for her age and height. She wasn't a prodigy though, which made the clan elders madder then all else. Despite their animosity, Hanabi and her self dubbed 'bigger me' got along well. She was a little sensitive as to her height.
Their 'spar' was cut short however when a side branch member walked in, bowed and said, "Hiashi-sama, Ryu-san wishes to speak to you in private."
Twenty minutes later in Hiashi's study, after a silence and barrier spell was put up Ryu started the discussion. "Sir Hiashi, your clan elders who are authorizing these, 'sneak attacks' are really starting to bug me."
Hiashi sighed. "I assume another happened last night. How many does that make Ryu-san?"
"About nine hundred too many Sir Hiashi. You've handled them admirably so far, but mark my words, one more attempt inside or outside of this village and then I take matters into my own hands, savy?"Answered Ryu
After several conversations with the man, Hiashi had figured out most of his sayings. So he sighed and nodded sadly. All Ryu needed to legally start a massacre against most of the main branch and the clan elders was solid proof. "I regret not taking you up on your offer, but if we kill all the idiots, there won't be enough people left in the village in a time of crisis."
Ryu shrugged and bowed. "If that isn't God's own truth." He snapped his fingers and the spells unraveled. "By the way, the key to the cage is almost finished." He left afterwards.
Scene change: Sarutobi's office
All the Jonin in the village were in the office looking at those they would teach. Sarutobi lit his pipe and asked, "Are there any questions?"
Everyone shook their heads.
Meanwhile, in the classroom Sasuke felt his 'the-fangirls-are-going-to-get-and-rape-me' senses going off. Even though he had forsaken the Uchiha name, lost access to the sharingan, begged Sarutobi-sama to let him have a small family instead of a clan, he couldn't get rid of them! Hell, he would've given some of them to Choji, Shino, or maybe Kiba if he could.
Seeing the state their fellow future leaf nin was in, Hinata and Trinity sighed and sat with Sasuke. Naruto sighed and said, "You owe me, Lupis."
Gyoro, Sasuke's favorite by the way, made an awww and said, "It's not Sasuke's fault you and Hinata can't cuddle and have adult thoughts about each other noodle brain!" To which Naruto blushed like a tomato and Hinata developed a slight nosebleed. This caused Ururun to spray him with cold water... again.
Choji, still in the illusion sighed and opened a bag of chips. The bag said BBQ but they were really vegetable chips. He turned to his closest friend, Shikamaru, and said, "We have our own three man comedy routine."
Shikamaru smirked and looked up from his notes on a glove that emitted a burst of flame on contact. He and Ten-Ten had a deal of sorts. He came up with new ideas for weapons, seals, and armor and she'd make and put it on sale at her dad's shop. They split the price 80-20 with Ten-ten getting the majority of the profits. "She'll come around Cho, just give it time."
Choji shrugged and ate another chip. The one they were talking about was one Ino Yamanaka. Who was the co-president of the Ookami Sasuke fan club.
Kiba grinned as he showed Shino his new sword he received. "It's name is Inu no Shikon. It belonged to my father."
Shino looked at his feral friend and said, "Ten-ten will want to see it. Will you ask her to add to it?"
Kiba thought a moment. Then shrugged and went to petting Akamaru.
Everybody turned as they heard footsteps to see Ino and Sakura Haruno stand in the doorway at the exact same time. Their conversation went like this.
"I was here first Ino-pig!"
"No your forehead was Billboard brow!"
"Ino pig!"
"Billboard brow!"
Choji was about to stand up and help when Shikamaru grabbed his arm and shook his head.
Ino saw that Hinata and Naruto were on either side of Sasuke so she huffed and sat on the other side of Shikamaru.
Sakura wasn't as deterred by this barrier. She walked up to Trinity and said, "Move Naruto."
Naruto turned his head and said, "You do realize that if you were here earlier this wouldn't be an issue? You and the rest of his fan club care about your looks and this is good in moderation. But to catch Lupis' here eye, you need to be skilled and strong so he doesn't loose whoever it is he'll care for. Since brother Rock likes you even a little I'll help you become stronger if you want but it's you're call." He rubbed the back of his neck. "Honestly, I'd rather be cuddling with my Princess Hinata but meh." he mentally sighed. He hopped for Lee's sake at least that she'd consider it. He couldn't see what his brother saw in the pink haired one especially since it was obvious Ten-Ten was crushing on him.
After a few minutes, Ryu walked in the door. One kid asked, "Where's Iruka-sensei?"
Ryu grinned and said, "Sick leave. Lord Sarutobi asked him to help with paperwork last night which cut into 'Anko time' and so he took her to dango. Anyway." Sadly this happened a lot.
He sighed and said, "Alright, here are your teams. Remember, your team is as your family, victory or defeat depends on how well you work together. Anyway: team 1" He read off the teams till he got to seven. "Alright. Team seven: Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno, and Sasuke Ookami under Kakashi Hatake, hope you're a patient bunch." He was met with a loud squeee from the pink one.
"Owie. Team eight: Hinata Hyuga, Shino Aburame, Kiba Inuzuka, and Akamaru under Kurenai Yuuhi. Good luck and remember absence makes the heart grow fonder."
All three nodded at this. Though Hinata was slightly disappointed she wouldn't be with Trinity.
"Alright team nine is still in circulation from last year. Team Ten: Shikamaru Nara in the black robe, Choji Akimichi, and Ino Yamanaka under Asuma Sarutobi. Have fun. Alright everybody, after lunch come back and meet your Jonin teachers, eventually."
Naruto motioned to Kiba and Shino and walked over to them. He looked at them and said, "Watch over her, got it?" both nodded. They knew of her 'troubles' with the Hyuga clan and knew if anything within reason hurt her he would hurt them. Shino wasn't to worried about that though. He had Naruto with one victory. It's what Ryu would do by proxy that worried Shino.
Scene change back to the Hokage's office
Asuma asked, "Why's the Aikimichi kid hiding under a genjutsu?"
Sarutobi smirked. "The same reason you went to the fire temple." What few knew was, it wasn't a disagreement with his father that had sent Asuma away. They were actually close knit. Due to his linage and the fact he was dating one shy Yuuhi girl he had more fan girls than Kakashi had, had. To protect her and his own virginity he had left to train with the guardians, something Kakashi wished he had thought of.
Ryu popped in and laid an envelope on the Hokage's desk. He gave a wave to the other's gathered there. Sarutobi opened the file and looked at it. "You're serious?"
"Yes. This will make the bearer able to see long distances, and be able to examine wounds close up or otherwise. And increase their accuracy by at least point thirty five percent. Maybe even their intelligence and logical processing ability." said Ryu
"Chances of death in the operation?" asked Sarutobi.
Ryu grinned. "For the regular medics in this village, 10 percent. With your blonde student I've heard about point 2 percent. With me none. However the materials are rather hard to acquire. But I have enough for one, maybe two. But it should pass down the gene pool, in theory."
Kakashi spoke up. "Excuse me but with the way the two of you are talking it sounds like you discovered a new bloodline."
"Not discovered Kakashi, created." said Ryu. "Lord Sarutobi brought the notion to me several years ago and I started thinking. From what I've heard Konaha has the best medical training in the elemental countries. What if I could make it better for at least one family and added to it. It's not as powerful as say your Sharingan which hopefully is the last in the village nor is it multidirectional like the Byakugan. But it's not designed for pure power and given it's limitations it's pretty good."
Kuranai asked, "Limitations?"
Ryu nodded slightly. "Well, cosmetically and through my own research, the most opportune place to put the thing is in the middle of the forehead. Which might or might not cause psychological trauma in itself. It would take getting used to, and I have no idea whatsoever how chakra would effect it or vis versa. It might help might hinder I don't know at this point because no one has had it yet."
Kuranai asked, "And the reason for the surgery?"
"It's an eyeball. An artificial eyeball/information storage bank to be exact. A seal wouldn't be able to do what it's designed for without being severely over complicated. And it couldn't be used as a replacement eye without frying the brain completely. The surgery has to be done on someone young, no older than fourteen."
Sarutobi asked, "How long would it take them to get used to the change?"
Ryu sighed and tapped his fingers to his forehead. "Two months give or take a week. However there's a small chance that the eye won't take at all, which might cause death."
Sarutobi took a puff or two from his pipe and asked, "Do you have anybody in mind?"
Ryu sighed and said, "You're not going to like this. If she accepts, not her mother or father but her, then I'd like Sakura Haruno to be the one to receive the peregrine falcon eye, or Hayabusa-gan in your tongue."
They all looked at him shocked. He was suggesting the daughter of the vainest merchant in the village's daughter get a third eye put in her forehead. Was he really this crazy?
"Why do you complicate my life?" asked Sarutobi with a wry grin.
Ryu shrugged. "Consider this payment for telling you how to conquer the 'dragon'."
Sarutobi sighed and lay down his pipe. "Very well. If she agrees with it I'll give you clearance." Ryu bowed to the man and popped back out.
Scene switch: Classroom thirty minutes later.
After the other teams had left, Trinity, Sasuke, and Sakura were starting to get mad. Well, Gyoro and Sakura were getting mad. The rest were thinking. when they heard footsteps they all perked their heads. The door opened reveling... ... ... Ryu. "Might as well get comfy. He won't be here for awhile." He took out a flute and twirled it between his fingers. "Lady Sakura, I have something to discuss with you." He saw he had her attention. "What would you say if I told you I could give you a bloodline ability that doesn't exist anywhere else in the world which would raise your abilities and give you a better chance of winning the heart of the man you love?" He saw he had her undivided attention.
After hearing all the details, pro and con, She whispered, "Would it really get Sasuke-kun to like me?"
Ryu shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know honestly. However if he only cares about looks he isn't worth it hm. Besides, it might help your chances if you save him in the future wouldn't it?" At this inner Sakura was acting out one such scenario which you really don't want to hear about. Let's just say it involved whip creme, bandages and a rubber duck. "So, what's it to be?"
"Yes, yes, yes!" Sakura whisper shouted.
"Alright then. You know where Ichiraku's is correct?" asked Ryu. After she nodded he continued. "Meet me there tomorrow at three sharp." Afterwards he went back to twirling.
Two hours, and several temporary symbols later, Kakashi finally walked into the room. He leapt to the side when the symbol he was about to step on emitted a pillar of fire up to his thigh, rolled when the spot he landed shot several spikes out of the ground, and finally back flipped to avoid the bo shuriken a third symbol shot out only to be hit with an eraser. He heard clapping and looked to see Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke and Ryu clapping like he was a street performer.
"My first impression of you is... you lot have way to much free time. Meet me on the roof in five." said Kakashi before he shunshined (sp?) away.
Three minutes and a slight climb later the three plus sat across from their sensei. "Alright tell me a bit about yourselves."
Sakura asked, "What do you mean?"
"Things you like, things you dislike hobbies dream for the future... things like that." answered Kakashi.
Naruto asked, "Why don't you go first?"
Kakashi shrugged and said, "All right. Hatake Kakashi. I like a lot of things and dislike a few things. Dreams for the future haven't really thought about it. And hobbies... I have a lot of hobbies."
Each one blinked thinking, 'All we got was his name.'
Kakashi pointed at Sakura and said, "You first pinky and the brain."
Sakura sent him a tiny death glare. "Haruno Sakura. I like," She took a glance at Sasuke. "My hobbies are archery and reading. My dream for the future." Another glance at Sasuke. "And I dislike being referred to as a fan girl. I am a kunoichi SHANARO!!!"
'A fan girl in remission?' thought Kakashi. He pointed to Trinity. "You next Goldilocks."
Naruto smirked. "Funny. Naruto Uzumaki. This is Gyoro and Lady Ururun. I like my angel Hinata, ramen and training. I dislike the time it takes to cook ramen, idiots who can't tell the difference between water and the glass it's in, and the Hyuga clan elders except for lord Hitoshi, he's cool. My hobbies are gardening, jutsu creation, forging, making stuff, training and reading. And dream for the future, becoming the best hokage." he finished with a blush.
'A three headed hokage candidate in the making.' Kakashi pointed to Sasuke. "Alright, your turn duck ass."
Sasuke sighed. "Ookami Sasuke. I like my free time, the time I spent with Tesujin-sensei, practicing my kendo: souryoreiken (sword of the monk's spirit), and my friends. I dislike shallow fan girls, arrogance and cats. My hobbies include training, gardening, stealth training, and drawing. My dream for the future, putting my brother's anguished spirit to rest and settling down."
Kakashi eye smiled and said, "Great! Meet me at training ground seven for a little post grad training. I suggest you don't eat breakfast it could be bad for you." He shunshined away before they could ask questions.
Scene change: next day
After a quick bye to her mom Sakura made her way to the meeting place with her bow and quiver. She figured she could get in some practice while she was waiting. Yes she had spent most of her time in and a little of it out of the academy trying to get Sasuke to acknowledge her and go out with her. That didn't mean she didn't train. However this meant that she had to a point mastered the academy jutsu and was decent with a bow and arrow. Unfortunately a bow isn't a common ninja weapon and arrows were harder to replace during a fight than say a kunai.
When she arrived at training area seven, she found Ryu twirling his flute playing with a bird on his shoulder on occasion. She turned to a tree, strung her bow, and nocked an arrow. "Draw, aim release." She repeated this mantra for each arrow. Pretty soon she had a nice circular design.
"You're quite good lady Haruno." said Ryu casually.
"Only with a bow though. With kunai and shuriken my accuracy goes out the window." said Sakura.
"May I make a sugestion? For up close use sai or a spear. Use your bow when distance and accuracy are key." said Ryu before disappearing.
Sakura thought about it for a moment then went back to her design.
About an hour later Sasuke showed up and greeted her with a nod. He drew his sword and practiced his kata's. It was a long-ish sword with a rectangular cross guard. (Yoshiyuki from ff7)
About thirty minutes later Trinity arrived. He looked at Sasuke's sword and let out a whistle. Sasuke and Sakura both turned their heads to them so he explained. "Yoshiyuki, the great sword smith Masamune created several swords. At the end of his life he created one final sword the sword he put his heart and soul into would be his greatest work not even his long sword of the heavens would compare. When he was finished, he held it high as if offering it to the Kami and said, 'I name you Yoshiyuki my child I am proud!' and then he died." He took out three apples from his sleeves and threw two to his two teammates. "Legend says the reason it doesn't nick crack or break is because the spirit of the sword smith sage lives within the blade." He took a bite out of his apple.
"Naruto, Kakashi-sensei told us not to eat breakfast." said Sakura looking at her apple hungrily.
Trinity smirked and said, "I know, that's why I'm eating brunch, which is a different meal entirely. Besides, we're teammates yeah? I was taught teammate is equivalent to family. Now I don't know how they do things in the Haruno household or the old Uchiha clan, but me, I look after family." He took another bite out of his apple. "Sides, the cores will be good to throw at Sir Kakashi when he finally gets here." At this each nodded and started eating the apples.
Unknown to the three humans, Ryu and Kakashi were listening within distance. "Seems they get the point before the test." mused Kakashi.
Ryu smirked. He had befriended the cyclopean Jonin and his eternal rival over the years. "Still going to give them the test then?" at Kakashi's nod Ryu took out a ninjato blade and handed it to Kakashi. "Not rusty I hope?"
"Is this...?" Kakashi asked slowly reaching for the blade like it was Kami him/her self handing him the entire icha icha paradise series and the key to a harem full of Jaraya's inspiration.
"One family heirloom reworked better than ever. In your tongue it's name is Shikon no Garou, fang of the hungry wolf I believe. I suggest you use it when sparing with either boy." Ryu explained as he handed the ninjato to Kakashi. "A word of warning though, Ten-ten relays that even she is unsure of what that sword can do or how it will react with you're pinwheel eye as it was not yours naturally."
Kakashi nodded and held the blade reverently. He knew of the kunoichi on Gai's team. Hell, the girl and her silent partner had already become small legends in Konaha. "What do I owe you?"
Ryu shrugged. "Hmm, me not a thing. However I do have a request of sorts." Kakashi raised an eyebrow. To which Ryu simply smirked. "Train with the blade, got it? My student's don't make things to put on shelves. If it's a weapon anyway." Kakashi nodded and Ryu walked off to find a seat with a good view.
'I wonder what cousin taught the boy. And it'll be a good thing to have a before and after analysis for young Miss Haruno. Of course Triangle will probably surprise both of them.' thought Ryu taking out a notebook.
After thirty minutes or so, Kakashi appeared and dodged the thrown apple cores. He gave a brief eye smile and said, "It's good to see you three are full of energy. You'll need it." He took out an alarm clock and continued talking. "Since I really have no idea what your currant skills are, we're going to spar. One on one for thirty minutes each. If you manage to impress me, you get lunch. If you don't you watch the rest of us eat. Sound good?" As each nodded he pointed to Trinity. Then he pointed to the three stumps to the side. "Alright. Sasuke and Sakura, sit down by those stumps alright?"
Naruto nodded slightly. He 'threw' his arms to his sides and twin swords slid into his hands. Afterwards he gave a little bow and asked, "Do you mind if I make the first move sir Kakashi?" At Kakashi's hesitant nod, Naruto grinned. "Gyoro, Ryuuza Ibuki Dangan!" (Dragon breath bullet) Gyoro took a deep breath and blew out a ball of fire as big as Choji in his illusion. It seemed to increase in size as it traveled.
The size and intensity of the flames caused Kakashi to dodge. As soon as he stood up again he looked at the brunette blond in thought. 'Interesting. The dragon breathes a fireball and Naruto uses his wind affinity to enlarge and add to it.' "Not bad. I assume blue can do something similar?"
Naruto nodded and started mumbling something under his breath. Suddenly he vanished much to Kakashi's, Sakura's and to a lesser extent Sasuke's surprise. Kakashi, due to his experience, noticed faint chakra lines circling him and performed a quick kawari replacing himself with a log a split second before Trinity attacked from several angles, seemingly at the same time. Afterwards, Trinity reappeared where he started breathing slightly heavily.
Kakashi asked, "Okay I'm stumped. What the hell was that?"
Naruto smirked and said, "Tsuin Ryuuza: Konaha Kiritateru." (Twin dragon style: leaf slash) "still needs a lot of work though. Unfortunatly, that is all the time our spar has." He walked to the stumps as the alarm clock rain out one chime.
Kakashi sighed and pointed to Sakura. "You next pinkie." 'Better go easy on her. She is still kind of a fangirl.' He looked at her waiting for her to start. (Going to just skip this one for now. Needless to say, she doesn't impress him in a good way but they will have another spar as soon as she is used to her new eye.)
After a disappointing spar with Sakura, according to Kakashi anyway, it was Sasuke's turn. He walked forward and got into a basic Iaido stance with Yoshiyuki. "Katsu." Kakashi blinked and used a kawari to switch with another log which was sliced down the middle near perfectly.
Kakashi thought, 'Why do I have to teach the bloodthirsty ones? Maybe I could switch with Anko.' out loud he examined the log and gave a slight whistle. "Not bad."
Sasuke smirked and kept his sword out and concentrated his senses. "Ranmyaku Aranami! (Chaos raging waves) he swung at the ground and a wave of purplish fire sped towards the log, leaving a gash in it. He heard the alarm give three chimes and sighed.
Both Ururun and Gyoro raised their nonexistent eyebrows at this. They had seen this technique before, millennia ago.
Kakashi took out three lunches and gave them to his students. Afterwards he left saying he had to get to a meeting. Meanwhile in his tree Ryu was looking at his before data on the pink one. Honestly, he saw she had potential. He just really no idea if he could teach her anything. He noticed the time and started walking to Ichiraku.
Scene change
That night, in Sarutobi's office all the Jonin had gathered to give a report, after calming down the hokage's chunin assistant for the day by telling him that just because Kakashi was on time didn't mean the world was going to end. The tea shops were still open after all.
"Team one fail"
"Team two fail"
"Team three sucked entirely."
On it went before team seven. "Team seven consisting of Uzumaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura, and Ookami Sasuke passed." said Kakashi. Afterwards forcing Gai to hit a pressure point to knock out the poor chunin.
The would be sensei of team one said, "You let the demon kid pass?" He felt a mass of killing intent coming from the man Ryu had nicknamed the green hurricane.
Maito Gai looked at the jonin and asked Sarutobi, "Would you excuse us for the remainder of the meeting? My unyouthful colleague needs a refresher course on why that boy is a hero." Then he punched the would be sensei through the wall and followed shortly afterward.
Kuranai spoke up. "Team eight consisting of Aburame Shino, Inuzuka Kiba and Akamaru, and Yuhi Hinata pass with flying colors." She shuddered as the idiot was being reeducated by Gai screamed.
Asuma took another drag of his cigarette. "He shows no mercy when it comes to people insulting the kid. Team ten consisting of Akimichi Choji, Nara Shikamaru, and Yamanaka Ino pass." He nodded to himself and said, "Hokage-sama, if I may make a recommendation. Let the three passing teams and Gai's team train together as well as separately." At the questioning looks he continued. "If I'm correct, Ryu-san has taught Naruto and the others, with exceptions, on the side. And they have learned arts no one else could teach. I believe with the addition of jonin sensei, each team could become as strong as the sanin."
They heard clapping and saw Ryu in a medical smock in the corner. "A nice speech and good reasoning, son of Lord Sarutobi. However my training was by volunteer basis only. I will not teach someone who doesn't want to be taught. If you can convince young miss Yamanaka and if Kakashi can convince young miss Haruno that under no circumstances are they to faun or argue over the Wolf boy while they are to be training then I have no problem with it. However if one Neji Hyuga cannot get a new more family friendly attitude about him, then there isn't a match's chance in the ninth circle of hell of me teaching him. Also, due to who taught young wolf boy, I might not be able to teach him. Our teachings differ slightly but importantly." He smiled and continued. "The operation was a success. The eye has accepted the girl and she should sleep soundly tonight. She is staying at my humble abode as is Sasuke. The one because I didn't think it was okay for her to move after the operation. The other because none of his fan girls ever come to my house and Naruto's are scared of one Miss Hinata."
After dismissing the rest and waiting for Gai to show back up, Sarutobi said, "She's going to cause havoc you know."
"I've never really understood why she hates the boy when her bed mate wants him under his control." mused Ryu. He had met the... woman was the politists word for her. She cared for two things. Money and her image everything else be damned.
Sarutobi shruged tiredly. "Why do humans hate that which we can't understand?"
Ryu shrugged and walked out the door. 'She's going to complain and fuss at the council meeting next week. I'd bet my supply of tea on it.'
Next Day
Sakura woke up with a start. She opened her eyes slowly, first her regular ones then her new one. It was odd. (Okay I don't know how to explain it in story. Think of it like watching an old movie and it's remastered high definition clone right next to each other.) She could see everything in a higher quality and with more focus. She looked to the side and saw a mirror next to her bed. She saw her hair was cut shorter then she usually liked it but otherwise was acceptable. And there it was. In the middle of her above average forehead was a eye. Thankfully, Ryu had the foresight to change the pupil color to match her own. She blinked a few times and saw it worked like her natural eyes. She grinned at this and looked out the window to see the sunrise. What she saw with it made her gasp slightly.
There was a black haired boy practicing with a sword bigger than he was, without a shirt. Thanks to her improved eyesight she could see scars on his body but also four different colored pictures on his chest. One of a red bird, one green tiger, one blue dragon, and one brown turtle.
"Suzaku, Byaku, Seiryu, and Genbu." She looked towards the door and saw Ryu leaning against it. "Due to a contract with the four sacred beasts he has overcome his condition and has thrived." He turned and said, "Breakfast will be ready in a few minutes, get dressed and meet with us if you like."
After dressing, Sakura walked out of the room and followed the scent of food. When she got there, she saw the rest of the teams, their sensei, one kid she had never seen before and what she guessed was her sensei. Ino was the first one to notice her. "Sakura, you okay?"
Sakura nodded and looked at Ryu. "Ah yes. I took the liberty of explaining your recent addition, it's pros and it's slight con as it were. No one seems to care one way or the other."
"You guys don't think I'm a freak?" asked Sakura quietly.
"No we think you're a freak." said Shikamaru. "We just find you're a freak among other freaks. The only one normal here is Ino but considering Ryu-sensei, who knows how long that will last." Sadly he was met with a bonk on the head by said blonde.
Sakura giggled and looked at Choji who seemed subdued. For some reason when she looked at him, Sakura saw a wavy outline around the plump boy. "Um Choji, are you using henge?"
Ryu wrote in his notebook out loud. "Can notice when person is using illusions to hide features." At Choji's look Ryu sighed. "It was a valiant try Sir Aikimichi, and considering how long you've had it on not to shabby. But it really is time to show how you really are to those assembled."
Choji sighed and muttered the de-incantation to the illusion symbol. A poof of smoke enveloped him for a good minute, while Ten-Ten scribbled in her own notebook. When it cleared in the plump boy's place stood a tall athletically muscled teenager wearing a brown leather shirt and black jeans. (Clif Fitter from SO3 with brown hair, or if you rather, Shipuden Choji mixed with Buterfly Choji) he rubbed the back of his head sheepishly.
Ino, to her credit looked at him a minute before she fainted with a blush. Shikamaru knelt down and poked his blonde teammate. "I think the shock was to great for her Cho."
While the others were busy with this, Ryu walked over to Gai and his two students. "He wouldn't acquiesce I take it?"
Gai sighed and said, "I have no idea how to get through to him. He trains by himself for the most part but won't train with Ten-Ten or Lee. he's gotten even worse from the Elder's removing his curse seal and put it on another." He saw Ryu raise an eyebrow and reach for his sword. "It wasn't Hanabi." At Ryu's questioning look he continued. "He told me the edited details shortly afterwards."
Ryu sighed and rubbed his head. "So instead of a fate obsessed long haired side branch member, he's now a fate obsessed long haired angsty emo wannabe main branch member with access to the training there in. While my student has a hard time getting to see her kith and kin because of several manipulative old bastards and," He bit his tongue before he continued. "Women whose day was fifty years ago and can't see how she could help the clan." His arm punched the wall slightly causing said wall to bend inwards a little.
Lee, knowing of his little brother's relationship with the girl clenched his fist. "Another attack?"
"Hold yourself. It was a couple of days ago. Hiashi has all but given me the go ahead if one more happens. And when that happens, pray for the survivors." said Ryu as he sniffed the air and skipped, I'm not kidding here, skipped to the kitchen.
Lee and Ten-Ten shared a look. "Tea." they said in unison. Apparently, tea was the only thing that kept the man from razing the village several times due to the hyuuga elders stupidity.
Gai said a silent prayer for his absent student. 'Please for the love of all things youth filled and pleasant, please keep Neji from being around Hinata-san till he sees the light.' He fingered the green vest Ten-Ten had given him as a gift. He had no illusions on the matter. He knew that if his student so much as said the wrong thing to or about the hyuuga girl that Ryu would be the least of the boy's problems.
Ten-Ten sighed as she looked over her note book. "This is going to come back and bite Hinata in her cute little ass." The two 'beasts' paid more attention to the ominous warning in her words more than on Hinata's derriere. Considering she openly claimed she leaned both ways on the subject during their first genin meeting after claiming her heroine was Tsunade the sanin, and while looking at Lee. So, they weren't really shocked.
Lee did however have a small blush at the prospect but quickly hid it behind his collar. 'If brother Naruto could see inside my head right now... he'd kill me first and revive me as a warning.'
Ryu clapped his hands once and every head turned towards him. "Alright people. Since our meetings here will consist of training, we'll start with a tournament of spars with everybody minus the blissfully unconscious Miss Yamanaka, and the recently... initiated Miss Haruno." he tapped the space behind his foot twice and the room started moving down. When it stopped they saw a door which Ryu opened for them. Those used to this walked freely. Choji ended up carrying Ino while Ten-Ten carried the shaken Sakura... reflexively copping a feel which was cleverly disguised as her picking up the pink one.
'Not bad. Given a few months to a year under the training of Ryu-sensei and...' Ten-Ten's subconscious licked her lips.
When they all entered the room they saw it was a large dojo designed building. There were mats for sit ups, a mini waterfall for meditation, weapon racks, and incense. Not to mention a rocking stereo system which was currently off. Ryu snapped the fingers and they heard the living room rise to it's usual place. "There are stairs through the door to the left. I just honestly like using that method more." He smirked and said, "Alright here's some ground rules for you lads and Ladies. The circle is your boundary. You may use anything that is not a killing move. I will call the match if I see a clear winner. If you somehow, unlikely as it might be, destroy anything in this room, you will have to spar with me. Understand?" At everybody's nod he grinned and took out a pair of dice and rolled them.
There landed a six and a four. "Alright, First match is..."
End of Chapter
WO: hey everybody. About the won't write a lemon deal... I actually might in fact wright one in this story, it will probably suck but hey. Then again if you guys tell me not to enough times I won't. Anyway, Yes I made Ten-Ten into some mixed personality of Jiraya and Tsunade while keeping her Ten-Ten I believe. Okay next chapter, which will be after I post a new chapter of Kage Shinobi I hope, will feature actual spars, not the sped up version of last chapter. Okay as for the Sakura vs Kakashi spar... well what did you honestly expect? Pre Tsunade Sakura couldn't fight her way out of a paper bag. Yes I know I'm laying on the foreshadowing of Neji quite a bit, but before the Sasuke retrieval which will be done My way, he was a jerk and an ass. He might, stressing the might, become a better person if I don't decide the story works better if I kill him off. I apologize to any and all Neji fans who read my stories. For those who don't already know the final pairings for Sasuke, Lee, and Neji, please feel free to guess. I won't give a clear yes or no answer but there it is. What else...
oh yeah! If anybody who has favorite Heir to the dragon, or any of my other stories beside this one and Taskforce Titans... I need ideas for the other stories badly! They are on Hiatus until I can think of good ideas. For anybody who sends me a good idea I will credit you, give you full props, ask if you won't mind co authoring it with me and send you a psycic cookie!
Other than that, I'm out.
