Sayaka Akira – Naruto OC Insert :D
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Chapter 4:
"Hello, I'm Izumo Kamizuki and I'll be your squad leader over the next 5 days. Our mission will be to retrieve a hidden scroll from Mt. Hakobe and return here. Here are our maps. When the teachers launch a mock ambush go into the defense position you were taught, i.e. the no-blindspot formation. Got that!"
"Yup!" "Understood." "Yahoo!"
"Oh and we absolutely must get the scroll before Kotetsu's group," Izumo whispers whilst pointing at another group a couple of metres away. A tall guy with spiky hair and a bandage running across his nose was trying to explain something to Naruto. Hinata turns red every time Naruto says something and Sasuke stands with his back turned to the group. "Although," Izumo continues, "I don't think we have to worry all too much about their team bringing anything to the table at all…" We all sweatdrop in unison (yes even Akamaru) and look at our assigned route.
"Oh we got the river path!" Kiba points out. "I know that area really well due to my walks with Akamaru!"
"That's good. Such assets will get us the scroll in no time! Iruka says that we have to leave the village by this morning, but he didn't specify when. If we leave now we might get a head start on the other teams seeing as their still discussing their routes. I trust you know what to pack for such a survival exercise so I want you guys to meet me at the village gate in 30 minutes."
Kiba and I head to our houses, whereas Sakura and Izumo head towards the central part of the village. I start packing a small grey backpack with things I will need. A thin rain jacket, a bundle of rope, my sleeping bag (These are not your ordinary sleeping bags which take a lot of perseverance and strength to fold together and take up a lot of space in your bag. This is a "shinobi sleeping bag", which is fine water proof material that can be folded nicely into a thin rectangular shape.), matchsticks, bandages, 2 water bottles, protein bars and some chocolate chip biscuits. I sling my bag over my shoulder and wait for Kiba. He and Akamaru join me as we run for the village gates as fast as we could, seeing as we only had 10 minutes left.
We saw Izumo already waiting there. We wait for Sakura (who would have guessed she would be last) and immediately set out to find the beginning of our given route. We spot the dirt trail leading across a narrow river and walk along following in a line behind Izumo. I was stuck at the end, meaning that in a real mission I would have to be constantly checking behind me.
*Long Walks and a couple of nights later.*
We trudge along the path still following that same river. However the river was now at the bottom of a ravine as we were slowly gaining altitude.
"We'll have to cross over that bridge over there!" Izumo calls out too us. I poked my head from behind the line and see a narrow wooden bridge, the kind you see in movies and that always seem to fall about as soon as someone touches it. I ain't going over that thing!
We walk up to it. "Seems safe," Kiba says gingerly putting a foot on the first plank of wood. Akamaru hops onto it and "arfs" in agreement.
"Since, I'm heaviest and will save myself from the fall regardless, I'll go over first. Then you Kiba. Then Sakura. Then Sayaka."
"Are you sure this is safe?" Sakura asks still uncertain of the creaking line of wood and rope.
Izumo walks down the bridge and stands in the middle. "Perfectly safe! Come on!"
I was still skittish about it. There is no way I'm going over that thing. Kiba, Akamaru and Sakura all make it over. I'm the only one left over.
"Get over here Saya! Or are you too scared!?" Kiba taunts, trying to motivate me across by making me angry. I'm afraid that won't work Kiba, because, I'll admit it, I am scared.
Wait. I want to become a ninja. This is nothing. Ninjas laugh at the site of bridges! Come on Saya, you can do it. I fist pump and shout, "YES, I CAN DO THIS!" A flock of birds leave the nearby tree. Oh no that was supposed to be in my head… I see my teammates on the other side sweat dropping.
I put one foot on the bridge and hear a loud creek. I quickly withdraw my foot as the entire bridge starts tumbling down. My heart races as I imagine what could have happened if I had fallen down with it. I guess I really wasn't going to cross this bridge huh?
"Wait there! I'll just get you over!" Izumo calls from the other side. Then I realize this is a brilliant opportunity to practice my chakra manipulation skills.
"No. I want to try crossing myself! Don't worry!" I shout back over. I take out two kunai and my rope. I tie one end to the kunai and force some chakra into it. Again weird wisps of white light started appearing along with my normal chakra. I ignore it for now and throw my kunai with full force into the cliff face on the other side, just below the edge. I then tie my end to my other kunai and jam it into the ground with full force. I test the rope to see that it had good leeway as well as tightness. I gather a thin layer of chakra at my feet like I would with tree climbing and standing on water and place on foot on the rope. I let out a sigh of relief to see my foot was adhesive to the rope. Imagine like walking on a metal bar with magnet shoes. Once again I notice little wisps of white emerging along with the chakra on my feet.
Setting one foot after another I make it across.
"Wow, you must have amazing chakra control!" Sakura squealed. I blush slightly at the compliment.
"Yeah that was amazing!" Kiba agrees.
"Your chakra control is way above that of an academy student. Normally you don't learn maneuvers like these until you meet your Genin sensei."
"Ok, enough with the compliments. We have other teams to beat," I say.
*Time skip… A lot of walking, sweating (yukk? Tmy?) and cookie crunching later*
We were half-way up Mt. Hakobe. It's called a mountain, but it isn't really. It has around 550 metres altitude above sea level. A giant hill? Whilst I was pondering on what makes a mountain a mountain Akamaru perks up from Kiba's hoody and starts barking.
"The teachers are going to do their ambush now!" Kiba says. "I can smell them." Yeah, Inuzuka's and their enhance sense of smell. Then he continues, "I think they're only clones though!" What? They can even sniff out if the person is a clone or not. Unfair. Just you wait until I get my kekkei genkei, albeit still unknowing of what it actually is.
"Get into formation!" Izumo calls out and we move into a rectangular shape with our backs turned to each other, kunai knives drawn at the ready. This formation has no blind spots as we are all facing in separate directions. Well, except one, in the middle, but when I mentioned it in class Iruka sensei claims that only highly experienced shinobi could pull that off and we wouldn't have to worry about it.
Ninja in stereotypical ninja attire start crashing through the trees, wielding large clubs made out of wood. It's kind of pathetic really now that I think about it. Even though I was pretty confident, I felt my adrenalin rising. Why must I be so scared about everything!? I run some chakra through my kunai, and once again white wisps of energy started clouding around the kunai as well. This is becoming routine now. I toss my kunai at one of the ninjas and they explode in a cloud of white smoke. One of the ninjas, judging by his voice it was Iruka sensei, retreats whilst shouting:
"Well done! You are the first at this point!"
"Thank You, Mr. Ambush Ninja!" I call out behind him just to be a little cheeky.
*Time skip…Climbing Mt. Hakobe*
You have now reached your final destination. We stood in front of a wooden chest.
"This is it, "I say, "We win!"
"Go on Sakura, open it!"
Sakura attempts to open it but fails at undoing the clasp. I hand her a kunai knife. She smiles thankfully but her red cheeks show that she might also feel embarrassed. She snaps the clasp and opens the chest to reveal a single plain boring old scroll.
"I thought it would be a bit fancier than this," I comment dryly.
"Yeah, but it is the scroll we were supposed to get. Here I'll open it," Izumo says.
He takes the scroll and opens it and suddenly a puff of white smoke envelopes all of us.
