Okay, first of all, KinnoxMiku might be a couple, depends on how many people actually like it. About the exsphere thing, make sure to remember that in later chapters!
Zeni: I kind of like it, and if you want to know what an exsphere is, look up 'exsphere' and 'Tales of Symphonia'.
Uh-huh, if you readers would like that, tell me. I own nothing except Miku, Ryu, and Hiro, Zeni own Kinno, and yoyshaia-chan owns Tsugami.
First Things First!
"That would be us…" I answered back painfully, "Satomi-sensei."
"Great! Meet me on the roof you three!" Satomi-sensei told us, rather loudly in fact and maybe louder than me. He poofed off somewhere and I attempted to take off like I did before lunch. Instead, I found myself being tripped by the midget! I'm so-o going to get him!
"You should watch where you're going, Miku." Tsugami said lazily, Must…stop self…from murdering…the midget! I gritted my teeth and ran faster than the two boys to the roof. I stumbled on the last step, and put my hands forward to a front flip.
There was clapping, "Nice, looks like you three are goin' to be quite an interesting group!" Satomi cheered to himself, I took a seat farthest from Hiro in fear of being glared to death. Tsugami was still nowhere to be seen, I sighed angrily and so did the rest of my new teammates.
"TSUGAMI! GET YOUR MIDGET SELF OVER HERE!" I yelled, birds flew out of trees and the green haired Genin appeared between Hiro and me. Tsugami yawned with little tired tears from his eyes, then stretched and rested on my shoulder, "Wake up!" I pushed him off onto Hiro, who pushed him back onto me.
"Oi! Tsugami! Get up!" Satomi-sensei pulled out something that resembled a fire cracker and dynamite mixed together, it was lit too. The lazy ninja continued to sleep on me, "Sorry to do this to ya kid," I braced myself as it exploded right in front of us.
Oh fuck.
I jumped onto the next house, taking Tsugami with me and for a midget he's much heavier than he looks. Or maybe it's the weights I got under my clothes, and they're twenty pounds but…Geez. The next thing I know is that I'm holding a huge log, that little… he was lazy enough to use a substitution, but where is he then?
"Miku, hurry up!" Tsugami called impatiently, I jumped back to the school roof angry. There was a small crater now, but it stunk so bad that I was happy that I had a mask while the boys suffered. Satomi-sensei released some chakra to get rid of the stench and began to talk again.
"Now, let's introduce ourselves!" our sensei said rather too happily for me, it was silent though, "Shy, huh? Well, I'll go first then, you all now my name of course, but call me Ryu-sensei, Satomi-sensei is too formal!" he laughed, still silent but he kept going, "I like, well I'm not sure what I like, and what I dislike is too much silence!" I laughed quietly just to not make him feel bad, "There ya' go! My dreams for the future is to…uh, I'll get back to you on that, and my hobbies are reading and cooking." all three of us cocked our heads, "Now that you all know me better, it's your turn mask girl."
"Oh, well my name's Miku Nakamura, I like to train, and try to invent jutsu. Um, what I dislike is hypocrites, lazy people, and coconuts. My dream for the future is to be a medic or hunter nin," I took a breath, "and my hobbies are what I like, and I also read sometimes if I'm bored."
"Alright, oh lazy one, you're next!"
"Hm, Tsugami Agama, I like my little sister, there are plenty of things that I don't like but I don't want to name them all. My dreams and hobbies aren't worth telling really." Tsugami explained in a positive tone, not very sociable is he?
"Glare boy, you go."
"My name is Hiro Amarante!" wow, so much more up beat than before, "I like my family, and I dislike the person who killed my uncle," Satomi-sensei- I mean Ryu-sensei's eyebrows narrowed a bit as well as mine went up, not that you could tell beneath my bangs. "My dream for the future is to become ANBU captain like my uncle did, or at least in ANBU."
"ANBU, medic, eh? Well, now we have our first team mission tomorrow!" I raised my arms in the air and gave a cheer.
"Yes!"
"A survival exercise," oh, I totally forgot about that, crap. "Meet me at training ground 17 at nine tomorrow morning! You can spend the rest of the day freely, bye ya'll!" Ryu-sensei poofed off, I have got to learn how to do that! It's so freaking trippy! Running to my regular training spot, I found a certain blond ninja throwing kunai at the targets I had made.
"Well, hello there!" I greeted from inside the foliage, Naruto jumped and threw a kunai in my direction, I blocked it with my own. I threw it quick and fast into the bulls eye, "You almost got me! Nice."
"Who are you?" Naruto pouted angrily, I giggled and stepped onto the field.
"A ninja, don't worry you'll figure out who I am…" I paused for effect, "eventually!" I broke into a giggling fit, Naruto stared at me like I was crazy.
"You are a crazy ninja! Why aren't you as serious like all the others?" this boy is full of questions.
"Well, if I were as serious as the others, I'd look like I'm constantly constipated but not that you can see my face," I laughed some more, Naruto looked like he was suppressing one, "It's okay, you can laugh it's like a stress reliever. Anyways, enjoy the targets!" even I was surprised at my advice, I felt less down and more cheery already. I began to walk to the nearest tree to meditate to see if I could clear my mind.
I heard the occasional sounds of Naruto training, but tried to rid myself of all distractions. Alright, mana is like chakra and according to most fan fiction, it's like natural chakra. I search around for the natural chakra with my mind and draw it near me. I tried doing this, and you know what? It's hard! Calm down, maybe I'll put some chakra around me to see it better! the air around me was becoming thicker with something, like cream and I moved my hand through it like a blind person, nothing. But it was there, I know it! Open my mind, open it Miku!I pushed more and more chakra out of me, it was like a building pressure in the air. It felt like it was ready to explode, but I could feel something other than my chakra it was much stronger too. This is it! I drew it in while taking deep breaths, and focused on healing so much it started to give me a headache.
"I got it!" my voice was muffled by a loud crack of thunder, the sound of it made my head throb and I snapped my eyes open to see dark grey clouds. The pressure in the air was astounding, it was pressing hard against my skin and there was another loud boom of thunder, I could see the faint redness of what would be the sunset behind the thinnest clouds. The chakra I had just used to see was taking its toll as I found it hard to get up and I leaned against the tree for support.
Stumbling half the way to the Hokage's Office, I saw Kinno walking not far ahead and stumbled even faster to catch up, "Kinno!" I grabbed his arm and it was surprisingly feminine like. His arm was really girl like, but strong, I never noticed that.
"Huh, oh you, are you okay?" I looked up at him, there was something off about him but I couldn't tell what it was.
"Yeah…I'm fine, can you help me get back home?" my eyes continued to look at his face, it was something about his face and Kinno just let me hang on his arm to the new apartment. Something's off… but I was too tired to care, I grabbed my pajamas and went to bed on the couch.
~444~
"Hm…"the Shinigami hummed deeply, it echoed as she went higher in pitch and it was nearly hypnotizing. The sound didn't ever stop, it just kept going and going in harmony. "This is getting rather boring,"Shin sighed to herself after about an hour, the sound stopped and came out of the shadowy corner. Most Shinigami are known for their frightening appearance, and Shin was no exception even in the older form of her host.
Especially the eyes.
They were always a faded yellow for the iris and it seemed whenever you saw them, you'd see your death in their glassy pupils. A smirk crept onto the Shinigami's lips as it started to walk towards her host's medium sized flame of chakra and threw up on it. A disgusting sight really, dark liquids mixed inside of the flames and turned it to an indigo color. Shin drooled and picked up the flame with the tip of her finger.
"This will be fun, heh…"
~444~(8:30 A.M. Status: Awake and at directed location)
"Miku, what's with you?" Tsugami asked, I felt really horrible, there was this cramp in my stomach, my chest hurt and everything is just…UGH! I tried to pass it off as bad nerves, but something told me that wasn't it.
"I'm fine! Just nerves, that's all." I answered back, sitting on the tree stump. Hiro was throwing the same shuriken at the same target, and Tsugami was napping. My pouch had the familiar orange book, my hands twitched as I resisted the urge to pull it out and let's face it, I'm weak.
"Heh!" I giggled and flipped the page, my unseen cheeks blushing. My pain went down a bit as I read, but something heavy fell on me, like a net. Snapping the book shut, I stuffed it back in my hip pouch and exchanged for a kunai to cut the net that had fallen on top of me.
"Survival training has begun!" Ryu-sensei's voice rang out, we all looked around for the source of his voice, "The objective is…to get out of those nets before they get too small and find me!" there was lots of clicking noises before the three of us found out what was going on. The nets had dug themselves into the ground with a thick film of chakra lining the strings and they were lifted to make a half sphere.
"Chakra enforcement! There's no way a kunai can cut through this!" I exclaimed, what could I do? I gripped it tightly and it shocked me. Then I started to see a dark blue line surrounding the net, Tsugami's and Hiro's did the same and their's turn a slightly darker color but not like mine. I sat Indian style and began to push out my chakra like yesterday, Tsugami took on a thinking position like L from Death Note, while Hiro seemed to be confused and began trying to cut the net with a chakra enforced kunai.
The effects were the nets getting extremely small, "Dang it!" Hiro shouted in frustration as he got shocked multiple times, I curled up as small as I could and Tsugami's net had barely decreased from just a couple minutes ago, "How come your net didn't get smaller?"
"I think it has something to do with chakra, our chakra." Tsugami said, I didn't get it, what the hell was he talking about? We both gave the green haired Genin a questioning look. He sighed, "When we touched our nets, they copied our chakra and the more chakra we use the nets are attracted to us."
"Then why doesn't one of us throw a chakra enforced kunai at someone else's net?" I suggested loudly, getting shocked by the net, "Ouch, damn it!" my arms were burnt slightly. There was a whizzing sound of a weapon being thrown and I saw the two boys standing over me, "Help?"
Hiro just stood there narrowing his eyes at me while Tsugami cut the net, it didn't work and it flew onto him making him actually yell in pain. Soon, the other two nets flew on top of the other, both Hiro and I gasped. Tsugami was struggling to release the nets, I charged a shuriken with the spirit energy and aimed carefully at the nets. Strings were now after all three of us, and Tsugami was still on the ground. I began to run towards him to pick him up, and was whipped by the cut strings.
It doesn't hurt! It doesn't hurt! I kept thinking as I took one of Tsugami's arms, my mask was beginning to slip and I used my free hand to pull it back up. A string whipped the back of my half, and another smacked the side of my face.
Hard, and at the same time. Damn, Ryu-sensei was harsh! I nearly dropped my teammate while Hiro fended off the strings, with an earth box surrounding us I began to try and use First Aid ASAP. The natural chakra came a little quicker when I tried to heal, but I never had the chance to even open my mouth when the strings erupted from the ground.
Hiro canceled his jutsu, and grabbed my wrist, "Grab Tsugami's wrist too!" wow, first time he spoke nicely to me in a long time, I grabbed Tsugami's upper arm instead of his wrist and was yanked out of the way of the huge rope of chakra that tried to smash us down into the mantle. The strings had morphed all together into this giant worm-looking…thing.
"Holy mo-" I swore between breaths, we had lost it for now, but by now Tsugami had woken up from his shocking experience! Get it? 'Shocking' experience because he got shocked, yeah I'll stop trying to be funny now and that was a bad pun.
"We better focus on trying to find Ryu-sensei instead of fighting that thing," Tsugami summed up while applying some mint scented ointment to his burns, "and Miku, mask your chakra." I pulled my chakra down to a dangerous level, like it wasn't even there, "Okay, when Ryu-sensei spoke where did his voice project from?"
"There, the worm." Hiro pointed to the worm.
"Awesome! You've gotten the hang of this!" the voice had moved to a different source, Tsugami? There was a small strand of blue chakra on his shirt, and we all jumped as it got larger and formed our sensei. Dude, how did he do that?I'm pretty sure that was the basic thought of all three of us, "I'm so taking you three out for ramen later, since you didn't…" Ryu-sensei paused seeing our eager faces, "pass."
We all blanched, that bastard! How did we not pass? "..out from my chakra nets."
It took a moment for it to register, Hiro began to smile so wide that his face would have split in two, I jumped up and down, and Tsugami was smiling too. In just two hours with this sensei we all became a team? Ryu-sensei should really set up a friendship service.
"Now, Miku stand over there and cover your ears, you boys stay here." the brunette pointed to the farthest tree in the area, I ran over and covered my ears. Not very good though, I could hear them talking about me and a book, checked my pouch if Make Out Paradise was still there.
It was gone. It wasn't there anymore and I was pissed because no one takes my Icha Icha! I whirled around and saw the boys reading it, they'll pay for that!Removing the weights, I felt so much lighter once they hit the ground and the boys seemed taken aback that I wore weights for a kunoichi, "Hunh? Oh crap…" the sensei sweat dropped and poofed away.
"Sensei?" the two boys were in for a good beat down by yours truly, "I have to get home soon, good bye Hiro." Tsugami left Hiro to be beaten to a pulp, oh the wonder of having great muscles!
"You!"
Poor boy never had a chance against a woman's fury.
~444~(Hokage's Office 9:00 AM Status: Prepared for a mission)
"Well, the assignments available for Team 4, are catching Tora," hell no, I am not going near that cat! "Picking herbs for the Apothecary, baby sitting Konohamaru, helping at the Academy…" the Third kept naming off D-rank missions, and the only one that seemed to interest me was helping at the Academy.
"Hm," our sensei rubbed his neck trying to decide on one, "the Academy seems good, don't cha' think so you three?"
"Yup!" I was the only one who actually said anything, the boys groaned while Ryu-sensei just laughed. The Hokage sighed heavily before sending us off to the Academy, "Geez, what's so bad about helping out?" maybe it was because I actually wanted to see the Rookie 9 in their Academy days.
"We just left and now we have to go back, to help?" Hiro complained, hunching over and Tsugami still said nothing but he nodded in agreement, "Thanks for agreeing with me, Tsugami." it was my turn to breathe heavily, boys were so helpless.
"Say," Ryu-sensei stopped jumping from roof to roof and turned to us, then mostly me, "we never saw your face!" I backed up warily, "It was slipping off during the exam, and your hair barely moved." yeah, maybe it's an anime thing… I thought, after we started going again.
"So…" I trailed, "What are we helping with?"
"Teach, clean, you name it." Ryu-sensei read from the scroll, we were at the doors of the Academy and the woman in the office was handed the scroll that held the details of the mission. She seemed very pleased that we were going to help, could some of the classes be that bad?
"First, we need your help to clean the storage rooms, apparently someone had gotten into them." the woman told us, this is so not what I was looking forward to! I berated myself on thinking this would be fun as we cleaned for about an hour, the cramps were getting worse in my sides, and I know this is not PMS pain.
"Man…" I groaned as we finished up, and slid down against the wall, I wasn't tired but I felt like crap from the pains, "What now?"
"Well," the woman said, looking outside where students were struggling with shuriken practice, "You can help the youngest students with shuriken practice, come with me."
"Finally! Some action!" Hiro exclaimed, relieved of cleaning duties we followed her outside. If I could teach Konohamaru how to at least hold a kunai, I could teach these other kids how to throw shuriken!
"Ah! Aim for the target, not me!" I shouted dodging the barrage of weapons coming my way, some of the kids were snickering, "Oi!" I threw a shuriken that narrowly missed their neck, the snickering stopped, "How about instead of giggling, you train?"
"That could have killed us!" one of the boys argued, if you haven't noticed this an ALL boys class today, "Plus, guys don't giggle."
"Of course they do, even my teammates did when they read my book, didn't you boys?" I whipped my head in my teammates direction where they looked away and sweat dropped, "Now are you ready to start again?"
"Hmph!" the boys grunted, I crossed my arms and watched as the boys of Rookie 9 trained. Ryu-sensei was helping Naruto, they have so much in common!Tsugami was being a lazy instructor and taught his rival, Shikamaru, uh…Hiro was trying to teach Kiba, Shino, Choji and was currently fighting with Kiba, I swear to Gosh, that boy just seems to pick a fight with everyone doesn't he?I was teaching the rest since I was the most 'commanding' according to Ryu-sensei.
A few more shuriken came whizzing my way, I jumped on top of a training post, "Hey, who threw that?" I scanned over to see one of the brunette boys cowering in fear and guilt, "Was it you?" I zeroed in on him like a target, the wind blowing my hair to show my face and it seemed that looked pretty damn scary from the reaction of the boy, I softened my expression, "Just don't do it again, okay?" and messed his hair.
"Okay…" he trembled, I bent a little to make level and gave him an eye smile, with both eyes.
"Don't be scared of me, just be scared of a very PO'd female."
"Okay."
"Oh, and were you really aiming at me?"
"No."
"Good, then I'd have to come back from the dead and haunt you." the training session continued with only Hiro sporting a few bruises, and Kiba with surprisingly few injuries besides some small cuts. The worst that came from that was that our pay was deducted because of it, yeah rule numbah 1, don't injure your clients!
~444~(5 months later; September 20, 10:00 AM Status: Regular, still cramps and chest pains)
"God, I hate these cramps!" I hunched over as we met on a red bridge, I remember starting at 10, not 9, but ugh! Why did Ryu-sensei call us this late? Where's Tsugami and Hiro?There was no one at the bridge, except me and it was completely silent besides of me tapping my fingers on the rail. I yawned, sitting down and mucking around with my chakra when a square piece of paper came blowing my way.
Reaching out for it, it turned a nasty black color while crumpling, "The hell? Chakra paper?" more flew past me and stuck to my right side with the same result as the first, "Gah, for love of-!" I was cut off by the incoming of a huge flame, and let out an 'ohshit' very loudly.
"What a foul mouth, it isn't very ladylike you know." a male voice came from a close distance, I recognized the disguise barely from one of the earlier episodes, past the Wave Arc though.
"No shit Sherlock, I'm no doll and," I clapped my hands together for Lightning, "Lightning!" a purple flash went in the direction of the voice, and Lightning was a no miss. Jumping on top of the Rain nin, it disappeared in a puff of smoke, a clone, "Crap," I sensed something on the left and threw senbon at it.
"Still, you are…" there was a loud cough/laugh sound, "attractive!" there was a choking noise while I made a disgusted face.
"Pedophile! Someone, there's a pedo on the loose!" I shouted as loudly as I could, creating twenty clones to distract the pedo nin, all of them and me running in a different direction. All of us were laughing madly, creating a reverb all around and it was almost impossible to tell where it was coming from.
Even I scared myself.
The village was coming up ahead and I didn't want to lead him into there, I turned on heel to the right. The pedo ninja followed close behind me, the silence as it ran gave it the impression of a clone, I stopped and slugged it in the face. I felt my other clones disappear, very fast. I flinched as they were being destroyed, and felt a kunai being put against my neck.
You want to know what I did? I smirked, and threw my head back, "You are too close for comfort!" As you all know, when you throw your head back, your neck moves slightly outward and the kunai made a very shallow cut as my head collided with the Rain ninja's.
"So, hard headed ninjas do exist," the Rain shinobi said while rubbing his head, I gave him all the Taijutsu I had, "and a kunoichi that specializes in Taijutsu rather than Gen or Ninjutsu." I drop-kicked him, he dodged and then grabbed my leg. The cramps started to really distract me now, the pain in my chest was also increasing and unfortunately, the ninja noticed.
I gathered up a nice thick mucus ball of spit and launched it right into the ninja's face. No stopping there, I continued with a lightning charged fist, followed up by a good ol' kick in the privates, and finally a leg lock and a few added in bitch slappings.
"Do not tell me who you are, or I will not take your life, bastard pedo." I growled, giving him another slap with some added salt in the eyes, "Don't hesitate, or this salt will be added with my spit slap."
"Disgusting too, aren't you?" I always go through with my threats, I slapped him again, blood was coming from his mouth and there was a large poof of smoke.
"What the-? Why the hell are you here?"
I know, late, again but I think my chapters to get at least 5 pages on size 9 font take about 6-10 days. So… how'd you like it?
Zeni: At the end, it seemed similar to what happened when Kakashi nominated his team for the Chu-
Don't spoil it! -shushes Zeni- FRI!