I am on a ROLE here. I published a new story, updated a kinda dead story, and here I am. Updating another kinda dead story. Oh well.
I'm hoping this chapter will be longer, but no guarantees. It should be though, since I'm uncertain, and last time that happened I had a fairly decent sized chapter. Of course, that was a couple of hours ago.
Claimer: I own Sam Umino, Rin Hiragana, and their sensei. NO ONE ELSE.
Team 5,612 met on a tree next to a random building.
"Why are we meeting our sensei HERE?" Rin asked out of nowhere.
"Anywhere else is too crowded," Sam explained. "Plus, he doesn't like buildings. Apparently he lives in a cave."
"What a strange person," Rin commented.
"I heard that," a voice commented. Someone jumped up the trees to reveal...
"Who are you?" Sam asked.
"Who are YOU?" this person asked.
"Sam Umino, random ninja. Now tell me who you are," Sam replied.
"Hmm...you can call me Miki," this person replied.
"...You're a tree?" Rin asked.
"You're a cold winter," 'Miki' pointed out.
"So you're our sensei?" Sam inquired.
"Sure. Want to go train?" Miki (hm...)wondered.
"Why not?" Sam muttered.
Random field of randomness...
In a random field somewhere, Miki stood in front of Sam and Rin.
"In front of me I'm holding two pens," Miki announced as he held two pens in front of him. "Take them."
Rin immediately grabbed a pen and held it in front of her. "Why?"
"I honestly thought this would be some kind of trick," Sam added as she grabbed her pen.
"Now light it on fire," Miki commanded.
Out of nowhere, Sam grabbed a match a lit it on fire. "What's the point of this?"
Rin, concentrating on her pen, made it freeze instead.
"Okay, now that we've got random pointless stuff out of the way..." Miki poked Sam and Rin. "Tag. You're both it."
"Huh?" Rin asked, but Miki was already gone.
"Now we both have to tag him, I suppose." Sam shrugged. "Come on." In a flash, Sam was gone. Rin followed.
No matter where they looked, they couldn't find Miki. For some reason, he couldn't be found. They double checked and triple checked everywhere until finally Sam had an idea.
"Can you make the field turn into ice?" Sam asked.
"Can I?" Rin repeated, and just then the field turned into ice. "I guess I can."
"WHOA!" Out of nowhere, Miki slid out from behind a tree on his back.
Rin and Sam carefully walked over to him and tagged him. "Tag. You're it."
I had no idea what to do with the training exercise, which I suppose explains the pointless stuff. I tried to build off of it but couldn't find anything except tag, so the pens were never mentioned again.
Miki means tree. Miki is not a tree. They met Miki on a tree, which I didn't think of when I picked that. But Miki is not Miki's name. You know who Miki is, you've met him before. Guess. If you want.