Chapter 4, hopefully I can move on from the academy days to fully start in Kenji's Ninja era now. Soon the chapters will get longer and more characters will be introduced. I've sort of only referenced them lately haven't I…? Oh well.
I do not own the right's to Naruto or make out paradise.
'Beep, beep, beep.' The sound of Kenji's alarm rang through the morning air.
He slowly woke up, shut off his alarm and checked the time 7:00 am… 7:00 AM!
"Why'd I set my alarm for seven?" he wailed while sprinting over to his calendar.
Frantically searching for the date he quickly calmed himself down, realizing his error. The date was July 2nd and in big letters under the date was the words 'Genin Exam!' and as quickly as he calmed down he became excited, on a whole new level and now dancing around his apartment.
He bound from one wall to another, slowly picking up clothes and getting dressed at the same time. Once he was calm, again, he began to stack the books and scrolls he had borrowed from the academy's library on his dining table, carefully going through the list of books he had.
Clone jutsu for beginners, what is substitution, general duties for Genin… "Ah, ha!" he cried "Make out paradise isn't in on the list!."
"Then how'd it get here?" he wondered. Placing the book aside, he noticed that there was a book missing from the list, basic shinobi tactics.
He trotted over to his bedside table in search of the book. "Here we are, basic shinobi tactics."
Kenji had spent most of the previous day reading the book; it was written by a leaf shinobi and was full of really basic things like 'don't let your opponent get behind you' and 'teamwork within a group is key to success.'
All these things Kenji knew of course and he'd almost given up on it but the second half of the book was full of handy little battle strategies that really seemed simple but were almost always neglected so maybe the reminder of not letting your opponents get behind you and use teamwork really were things to read up on.
But what really made Kenji think that the book really was worth while was on the very last page. It was a signed edition and under the authors signature was a small quote. 'Those who disobey the rules are trash but those who abandon their comrades are worse then trash.'
Those words really stuck with him… Well so far they had, it's only been a day after all.
He placed the book on the top of the pile, left to quickly grab a glass of water and then he headed out the door. I gotta return those before I go for the test he thought but now some light cardio should help me get my blood and brain working. And with that he began to stretch and then took off on a 15km jog.
As he ran, he couldn't help but notice his surroundings; he was now at the entrance of his village and on his way out. He looked towards the sky, seeing the newly risen sun behind the tree tops. Birds fluttered and began to fly.
His gaze then drifted lower and to the right. He saw the river he was so fond of during his youth. The river he was still fond of now. Across the river were a father and son. The father was teaching his son how to fish and was having some mild success.
Refocusing to what was in front of him, he continued running. Keeping his thoughts occupied by thinking of his exam today and what he'd learnt from the book he was reading. Then his mind began to wander towards the girl that had bumped into him while he was reading said book and accidentally knocking it from his grasp.
'My name's Misato.' That was her name. Kenji grunted, "Come on man focus!"
"You're about to have the most important test of your life and your thinking about a girl!" he remembered something else the girl, Misato, had said 'I'm a third year student.'
That meant that she would be taking the same test as he would be.
"Aha! That's it Kenji, if you really want to see that girl again you have to pass that test!"
If you can't stop the thoughts, redirect them he thought to himself with a smirk across his face.
His pace had quickened, though he didn't realize it, the extra drive of adrenaline that pumped into his veins fuelling his excitement.
He sped off to his destination and began to think about the tests again.
Kenji swallowed a lump in his throat, nerves getting the better of him. The butterflies in his stomach now flying out of his mouth as their quantity kept increasing.
"Alright" he heard Seito-Sensei's voice fill the room and quickly stood at attention.
"Let's see your clone jutsu, it's the final test." Seito exhaled and inhaled again just as deeply "and if you pass this test, you'll be a Genin Kenji-kun."
The statement gave Kenji an immense feeling of happiness. "Does that mean…?" Kenji asked.
Seito smirked "yes Kenji-kun, you passed the other tests and this is the last one."
Kenji reminisced about the previous events of the day.
He returned the books and scrolls he had borrowed to the library and was immediately whisked away by Seito-sensei to complete the written portion of the exam. He was alone in a classroom with only a chuunin-sensei to monitor him.
It was probably for the best he thought as a first year student being seen taking the test the third years were doing it could very well distract them from the test.
Next he had to demonstrate his substitution skills, Seito threw a kunai towards he boy, striking him in the chest. He then disappeared in a puff of smoke and reappeared behind Seito.
"Very good ken-"
"Hey!" Seito was cut short mid sentence.
Kenji had substituted with a bag which belonged to a chuunin-sensei and the bag was now leaking onto the floor as a water bottle had been punctured.
"Heh, funny kid but not to smart" Seito laughed as he spoke "I mean he's marking you remember."
After the water was mopped up, Kenji was asked to display his transformation skills. Fixing his hands in the tiger seal hand sign, he began to build Chakra and shouted "transformation jutsu!" A puff of smoke surrounded him and then emerged a replica of Seito-sensei.
"Very good Kenji-kun."
'Poof' another cloud of smoke surrounded Kenji and then he emerged from the cloud.
Seito-sensei then began to write on his clip board.
Warping back to the here and now Kenji's nerves found him again.
"Kenji-kun, you've come this, you don't want to blow it now do ya?" Seito cracked a sly smirk.
"No way am I gonna mess this up!" he hollered.
He's right though, it would be really embarrassing if I came this far and then bombed out he thought. Oh why did Seito-sensei have to tell me that!
"Alright, when your ready" Seito announced. "Make as many as you can."
With that Kenji took a deep breath, performed the hand signs and then shouted "clone jutsu."
A large puff of smoke filled the room and suddenly there were 5 Kenji's.
"Hmm very good Kenji-kun" Seito told him and then turned towards the other exam proctors.
Kenji dispelled the clones and waited patiently for them to turn their attention towards him again.
"Ok Kenji-kun" Seito spoke in a very serious voice. Kenji began to feel nervous.
He quickly began to smile "it looks like you've passed, but only barely."
Stunned for a moment, Kenji tried to take in the words Seito had just spoke, then he quickly began to beam with happiness. "Really, are you serious Seito-sensei!" he quickly ran over to hug the man. "Woo hoo; this is great, by far the greatest day of my life."
"Alright, alright, stop bouncing around for a minute" said Seito as tried to clam down the boy. "Here, your headband and certificate to say you've passed."
Kenji shook the mans hand "Thanks so such Seito sensei."
"No problem squirt, you've worked really hard, you deserve this."
The occupants of the room all began to clap and show their congratulations. They were all very impressed by and proud of the boy.
"Ok, we still have students to test, Kenji-kun" Seito spoke up "You have to come by tomorrow and then we'll assign you your three man squad."
"Got'cha Seito-sensei, you won't be disappointed that you gave me this headband I swear" Kenji then ran out the room and headed for home.
Halfway there he stopped, why was he running home? He wondered. There wasn't anyone there that could be proud of him, he just ran away from the people that were. So why was he running home?
He decided not to dwell on the thought; it was supposed to be a happy day. He got home; changed into some clothes he could exercise in and not be worried about getting the dirty or ripped, headed outside and started training.
Kenji chuckled as he sat in a large classroom, now sporting a brand new headband across his forehead. He noticed the eyes of students watching him and then heard their whispers in the background. He ignored them; focusing only on the fact that he was a Genin now.
"Hey wait a minute" he heard a girl speak behind him. He turned around to meet her gaze and then paused.
The two eyed each other in silence for a moment and simultaneously they both pointed towards each other and cried: "YOU!"
Golden sunlight flooded the room, waking the female occupant from her slumber.
Misato sat up and stared around her room, it was large but almost bare. Her family was wealthy and very well respected but she had no taste for the way the rich showed off there wealth to those of a lesser fortune.
There was a large closet at the foot of her bed, which had been an antique of another family who had to sell it as they fell onto hard times, which was full of fabulous clothing such as kimono's and other formal wear which she never wore.
A cabinet to the left of her bed was the only other piece of furniture within the room, another antique which belonged to another family who needed a 'donation' as her parents would call them.
Half asleep, she wandered around her room towards the cabinet, opened a draw and removed a black tee-shirt and then closed the draw. Opening another she removed some black shorts and again closed the door.
She changed from her pyjamas into the shirt and shorts and then made her way to her closet and removed a red jacket which bore her clans symbol on the back, an image of a cross.
'Knock, knock' she heard someone knock and then enter the room.
"Ah, Misato-sama, I see once again you have awoken before I even arrived."
She turned to see a woman clad in Katsuragi robes. She had long bronze hair tied back in a pony tail.
"Yes, the sun woke me up this morning once again Michiko-san"
"Hiroshi-sama wishes your presence in the dining room my lady" the woman spoke.
"Very well, I'll go meet with Otou-san now."
She always spoke formally with her family; lack of respect would do that. Her mother and father lived too cushy a life, at the expense of others. She was disgusted by this and had plans to take the position of head of the clan, away from her mother and father and do something about it.
Although that meant she would have to become a stronger shinobi and she would also have to win the favour of the members of the clan.
She exited her room and made her way through the hallway too the dining area.
As she entered the room she was greeted by her father "ah, Misato-Chan, good morning."
The dining room was full of lash, expensive things which almost bragged riches.
"Otou-san good morning" replied Misato as she took a seat next to her father, opposite her mother, Leiko.
"You wanted to speak with me father?" Misato asked.
"Yes but it wasn't really that important." answered her father. "I was just curious as to how you believe you'd fare with the Genin exams today."
Misato closed her eye's and said "my exams aren't important" her voice devoid of emotion.
"No, no that's not what I meant Misato-Chan" said Hiroshi nervously "I… Uh… I meant…"
"It's okay father, I understand what you meant 'Misato paused' I believe I will pass these exams."
"Excellent" her father exclaimed looking rather proud.
Her mother chimed into the conversation "It's not like it matters though, you don't have to become a shinobi Misato-Chan 'Leiko spoke with a tone of superiority' you'll be well cared for here for the rest of you life."
"Becoming a shinobi is a right of passage for this clan Leiko" Misato's tone was clearly agitated. "Just because you've left behind the shinobi way and taken up the life of a spoilt child does not mean I have to disgrace myself as well."
"Why yo…" her mother started but was cut off by Hiroshi mid-sentence.
"Misato-san do not speak to your mother like that" he demanded.
Misato rose to her feet "I'd best be off, I don't want to be late for my exams" she said simply and walked away.
"You come back here right now young lady" her father roared but she just closed the door, put on her boots and made her way out of the house towards the academy.
She was almost halfway there when she heard someone shouting here name from behind her "Misato-san!"
She turned around to see her childhood friend Atsuko.
Atsuko had brown skin and is a bit taller then Misato. She wore a dull yellow sleeveless shirt, dark blue pants and a dark blue scarf around her neck. She had blue eyes, was a brunette and wore her hair in two large buns.
"You're up early Atsuko-san" she stated.
"Yeah well I was excited for the exams so I decided to be at the academy earlier then I had to, so I wouldn't be late."
"But the academy doesn't even open for another half-hour" pointed out the young Katsuragi.
"Yeah so now I won't be late" Atsuko cheekily replied.
"Yeah well we can study together before the test then"
"Aw, study" Atsuko complained. "Come one Misato."
"No complaints now come on lets go to the academy."
Atsuko left out a reluctant sign but "Hahn" then quickly followed Misato who had already began to walk towards the academy.
"You know you gotta lighten up and have some fun once and a while Misato."
"We'll hang out after the tests today Atsuko-san I promise" the young girl insisted. "Until then, we study."
"Okay Misato but remember you promised" Atsuko said, finally giving in to her friend.
"Yeah, yeah I know… I don't exactly want to go home anytime soon anyway."
Atsuko noticed that Misato was frowning as she spoke but didn't push the subject 'best to let this slide for now' the young brunette thought."
Misato stood confident as she awaited the exam proctors to finish grading her previous tests.
She breezed through the written test only using 35 minutes of the allowed 2 hours, actually managing to take a nap while waiting for the time to run out.
Next was the substitution jutsu and when Seito-sensei through the kunai towards her it pierced though a log from outside.
He then tested transformation; Misato transformed into a replica of Seito and aced the transformation technique.
"Okay, sorry for the wait Misato-san" said Seito turning his attention to the young girl. "When you're ready you can perform the clone jutsu, make as many clones as you can."
"Hn" was the girl's only reply as she went on to perform the hand seals for the jutsu and easily created ten clones of herself.
"Very good" Seito then turned his attention back to the other proctors and then almost instantly he returned his attention to Misato.
"Congratulations Misato-san, you pass."
Misato closed her eyes and cracked a slight smile and said "You expected anything less?" She then turned and left the room without another word.
Misato laughed at the words of her friend Atsuko, she was fawning over the academy's heart throb of the year, Kobayashi Matsu.
Matsu had blue eyes, very long blond hair put into a half ponytail with bangs over his left eye and wore a blue robe with grey pants and an eye patch over his left eye.
She always wondered why he wore the eye patch, she had asked him about on one occasion but he never really answered her.
"Oh, he's so dreamy!" Atsuko remarked about the young man.
"So you've told me" snicked Misato.
She had to agree with her though, she herself sometimes caught herself staring at him and thinking lustful thoughts. 'Hormones' was her excuse for these instances.
"So you never told me Atsuko-san, did you pass the exams?"
"Yeah, it was pretty easy but that's generally because of you and your 'tutoring' sessions Misato-Chan."
Misato had been using Atsuko as a training partner to help prepare her for being a Genin and Atsuko began to call them tutoring sessions as a joke. In return she promised her friend that she'd teach her the fireball jutsu.
"Please Atsuko-san, it's all just incredibly basic stuff" Misato rationalized. "I'm sure you would have thought it easy even without the 'tutoring' sessions."
"Yeah maybe, hey you want to go practice the fireball jutsu for a while?"
"Sure why not, I'm not exactly looking forward to going home anytime soon."
The two 'shinobi' then made there way over too the training fields, after Atsuko gave Misato a worried look.
The sun gleamed in through the window once again waking Misato from her sleep.
She immediately got changed from her pyjamas into her training gear, now sporting a Kusa headband on her forehead and then left the house. She was in no mood this morning to speak with her family, they were on rocky ground after her little spat the day before.
She opted to buy breakfast from a small bakery that opened early instead of make her own. The store was owned by two cheerful old times that in there youth were once shinobi of the leaf village but after a tragedy of some sort had fled to Kusa.
After eating some small buns she had bought she headed down to the training grounds for some early morning training.
She stood next to a river bordering the training grounds, took stance and performed the hand signs for the fireball jutsu. 'Horse – Tiger.'
"Fire style: Fireball jutsu!" she cried and then inhaled deeply. She than spat out a large fireball that engulfed a large portion of the river, causing steam to rise.
Pleased with herself, she began to perform the jutsu again, each time the fireball becoming larger and hotter.
Misato entered the classroom of the academy, she had gone overtime with her training this morning and classes were already supposed to have begun but she found that the teachers had yet to arrive.
'Probably dealing with some of the new Jounin sensei' she thought and then turned her attention to see who had passed the exams. It looks as though a lot of the students had passed the exams.
She paced through the room, looking at all the new Genin.
Let's see… Atsuko and Nariko are fighting over who sits next to Matsu as usual, so they've passed…Kana and Yuji are hanging out down the front of the class room, so they've passed as well… Ryu's picking a fight again, god how'd he pass… and there's that kid I accidentally bumped into the other day…
Something about that last sentence didn't quite fit right with her.
"Hey wait a minute!" she cried and the boy turned around.
The two eyed each other in silence for a moment and simultaneously they both pointed towards each other and cried: "YOU!"
Yuji wiped the sweat off his forehead as he continued to grind the edges of a giant sword. It was taking
It was late and he had been working on the giant clever for hours now. The annealing process took longer then he had wanted it to, taking more then 27 hours to get to the point where he was comfortable to keep working with it.
His eyes were burning with fatigue and his hair was drenched in sweat. He had dark grey eyes and black hair that hung near his cheeks to frame his face and a long ponytail in the back of his hair.
He wore a large apron and black boots to protect him from sparks and heat from the furnace.
After a quick, but artistic, engravement he then began the hardening process. Heating the blade in his forge and then placing it in a quenching tank.
After a quick examination of the blade Yuji began the tempering process. Heating the blade at a lower temperature now and then quenching the blade. He repeated this over and over again until he was satisfied that the blade was strong enough.
He placed the sword on his work bench and then collapsed. The sword was incredibly heavy and he had to direct chakra to his arms just to lift it.
"God that's heavy but at least I can call it training" he joked to himself.
Standing up, he went over to a desk in the corner of the room and began to look over some sketches for some designs for the pommel, hilt and guard. Trying to figure out which would be best for the design while still managing to suit the shoulder and fit the tang of the massive blade.
He selected a few that would suit the design and put them to the side deciding that he should ask Kana which of the few he would prefer, after all this sword was for him after all.
After leaving his smithy, his basement he'd converted into a smithy with the help of his parents, he entered his bedroom and checked his bedside clock. 5:45 am.
Kana should be here soon, I should probably get some sleep even if it is just 20 minutes he thought to himself as he fell onto his bed and immediately fell asleep.
'Knock, knock' it felt as if he only just fell asleep and already someone was knocking on his door. Maybe they'll just go away if I just ignore them his half-asleep mind rationed. 'Knock, Knock' the sound was once again heard and once again he didn't move.
The sound wasn't heard again, good there gone back to sl- 'Thud.' He was stopped mid thought as something slammed into him and knocked him off his bed.
"Time to wake up Yuji" a familiar but rude voice spoke.
Yuji looked towards the individual responsible for shoving him off his bed.
"Dammit Kana, I just fell asleep!" Yuji barked at his friend.
Kana wore bandages like a mask covering his nose, mouth and ears, a black sleeveless shirt and blue pinstriped pants. He also has short black hair and brown eyes.
"Really? What were you doing up so late?" he asked.
"It's a surprise Kana my dear old friend" replied Yuji as he glanced at the clock again. 6:32 am. Well at least its longer then 20 minutes… Still sucks though.
"Surprise" Kana raised an inquisitive eyebrow.
"Yep and you'll only find out what it is if you pass the exams today. And I worked really hard on this so you better pass the damn thing!"
"Oh so you made me something huh? In that little forge of yours"
"It's not little!" snapped Yuji.
"Yeah okay, okay I'm sorry and don't worry I'll pass these little Genin exams Yuji, no contest."
"Well that's good; my work won't be for nothing then."
"I'm more worried about you Yuji" Kana said "I mean if you didn't get enough sleep you just might bomb out of these exams."
"Don't worry about me, give me a good breakfast and I'm ready to go" Yuji held up a fist as he spoke.
"Speaking of which…" Kana trailed off.
"Right lets go."
"To the bakery!" shouted Kana as he sped off down the hallway.
"Wait up, I still need to get changed" Yuji was still wearing his blacksmith's apron and boots; he hadn't been bothered to change before falling asleep. He walked towards his closet and picked out some clothes for him to wear.
He removed the apron and boots and put on a black shirt and black pants. Making his way quickly out of the room to catch up to his friend, Yuji found his friend at the front door, adjusting his knee-high boots.
Yuji slide on his sandals and then the two made there way out of the house and towards a bakery owned by two old timers who came from the leaf village.
When they arrived they were greeted by an old lady "Hey you two, back again eh?"
"Yes obaa-san" the two young boys replied in unison.
As Kana began ordering for them Yuji noticed a girl wearing a red jacket. "Who's that" he asked no one in particular.
Kana answered "You don't know? That's Katsuragi Misato; she's like the most popular girl in our school man. Everyone wants a piece of her."
"Never seen her before" said Yuji dopily. He was met with a fist to the back of his head for the statement"Oww!"
"How can you not know about her?" Kana demanded "She's been in our class for three years!"
"I never paid attention I guess" Yuji was staring at Misato again; he noticed that a girl wearing yellow had joined her now. "I know who Atsuko is if that's any consolation."
"Yeah I guess she's cute but still, you know you really should pay more attention to people Yuji. I mean you are going to be a ninja after all" said Kana as he handed Yuji a bun.
"Yeah I guess" Yuji said as he took a bite of his bun. "Oh well lets get down to the academy now, they'll be opening in an hour so I might as well get some sleep before we go in."
"Yeah, alright then."
Yuji yawned as he stood waiting for the examine proctors to turn their attention to him for his next exam.
He had already completed his written exam, in 30 minutes, following Misato's example and taking a nap while waiting for the next exam.
He then performed the substitution jutsu, substituting with a log provided by the proctors. When they asked him to perform the transformation jutsu he transformed into a replica of Seito-sensei.
"Okay Yuji-san when you're ready you can perform the clone jutsu" Said Seito.
"Yes sir, Seito-Sensei" replied Yuji and he yawned again as he made the hand seals for the jutsu.
"Clone jutsu" shouted Yuji and suddenly there were 10 Yuji's in the room.
"Very good Yuji-san, you can dispel the jutsu now."
Once again Yuji yawned and the clones all disappeared in a cloud of smoke. He was way too tired now and exhausted too. After using almost all his chakra the night before and then having to use more of it during the tests, he was just glad that he was able to have the nap before the academy opened and then again after the written exam.
He wasn't sure if he could have performed the jutsu if he didn't get that much needed rest.
"Good work Yuji, it looks like you've passed these Genin exams" Seito informed the young man.
Yuji bowed his head "thank you Seito-sensei."
"Now go home and get some sleep, you look like a zombie."
"Yes, thank you again Seito-sensei. I will."
"What were you doing last night? I mean you know you had an exam on right?" Seito asked. "You should have gotten sleep the night before such an important exam."
"Sorry sensei, I was planning to but unfortunately a project of mine went a lot longer then I thought it would have" answered Yuji.
"Project?" Seito cocked his to the side inquisitively.
"I was forging a sword as a gift for someone and unfortunately the annealing process took longer then I expected and if I didn't get to it at the right time it would have been useless to work with."
Seito, having now knowledge of forging weapons, was stumped. He didn't know what the devil Yuji was talking about and didn't even know that he knew how to forge swords.
"Right, well I won't keep you any longer 'Seito handed Yuji a sheet of paper' see you tomorrow Yuji-san."
Yuji examined the paper; it was to inform him that the teams would be announced the next day in room 34. He quickly pocketed the piece of paper.
"Yes see you tomorrow Seito-sensei" he bowed his head and then left the room.
As soon as he exited the room he was met with Kana's fist to the back of the head, this time for no other reason then being him.
"Oww, what was that for?" demanded Yuji.
A shrug was the only reply he got from the youth.
"So did you pass Naka?" asked Kana.
"Yeah, did you?" he asked in return.
"Hells yeah I passed, now time for that surprise you promised me."
"Actually…" Yuji began. "Can we put that off until tomorrow morning, I'm pretty exhausted after today."
"What do you mean? The tests weren't that draining."
"The tests weren't but the surprise was, you'll find out tomorrow why but I really just want to go home and go to bed."
"Well… Ok but I just want you to know that you're torturing me with this, you know" Kana reluctantly agreed.
"Thanks man, appreciate it."
No problem I mean hey you're the one giving me the present, you know."
The two of them then began the 'long' walk home and said their goodbyes at Yuji's front door.
Yuji kicked off his sandals and quickly made his way up the stairs and to his bedroom, flopped onto the bed and began dreaming.
The next day he woke up early and went down to his to double check that his work was not hampered by his fatigued state. A quick examination of the blade and he was satisfied that it was not the case and that the blade was definitely up to scratch.
He took out a tape measure and began taking measurements in preparation for making the hilt, guard and pommel.
From tip to shoulder the blade was 173 cm, edge to back was 52 cm, the tang was 45 cm long and 20 cm wide. The blade was 2.5 inches thick and the fuller was inclined 1.5 inches.
Making estimation on how long the blade after the pommel was added he surmised it's would be between 225 cm and 235 cm.
He weighed the blade at a set of scales he kept to the left of the room: 125 kg.
"Wow I'm surprised I held it up as long as I did" Yuji spoke aloud to himself.
"Help what up as long as you did?" a familiar voice asked.
"Your surprise Kana!" said Yuji in a tone so cheerful puppies and kittens almost rained from the sky as he directed Kana towards the blade, which was now resting back on the bench.
"Whoa! Yuji this is incredible!" exclaimed Kana.
"Thanks, it's always nice to hear good praise about my work."
Kana tried to lift the blade but quickly realized the weight of the blade. "Whoa seriously Yuji, this is heavy."
"Yeah I was pretty much drained of chakra after lifting it for as long as I did."
"I can see why' Kana focused chakra to his arms and lifted the blade easily but still hindered' now I understand why you were so worn out yesterday."
"How long did you have to have to hold it?" asked Kana. "Two, three hours?"
"Try seven hours" corrected Yuji.
"Seven hours! Man that's hectic, how'd you even manage to move yesterday?"
"Very difficultly, granted It would have only taken me 5 hours but it was just so heavy that I kept making mistakes and had to fix 'em up" said Yuji. "All in all though I think I did a fairly good job though."
"Yeah it's top notch man, but the things way to heavy and its bigger then me. How am I supposed to use it?"
"Well I am gonna carve a semi circle out towards the top in an attempt to cut down the weight about 40-50 pounds hopefully and you could always use a transformation jutsu to compensate for the fact your not tall enough to use it yet" Yuji explained.
"Yeah but how am I supposed to carry it around?" Kana contested.
"I've learnt a sealing jutsu that I can teach you to use that should be ok to use" Yuji reverberated. "I've sealed smaller blades using it and also I sealed the iron I used to make the blade using it so it should be sufficient."
"Yeah so it should be cool, man you're so awesome making this for me."
"Yeah well come over here it's not finished yet, here looks over these designs for me and pick out the ones you like."
"What are they" Kana asked.
"These ones are designs for the hilt, these ones are designs for the guard and these ones are designs for the pommel" Yuji explained. "Pick the ones out you like and I'll add them to the sword."
Kana was really eager to choose and quickly picked out the designs for the guard and the pommel but had trouble deciding on the hilt.
"I like the guard and the pommel I picked out but I don't like any of the hilt designs you have… No offence."
"That's ok; I'm not exactly good at designing the handle, if you want I know someone who can show you some more designs."
"Actually…" Kana began "Can I draw a diagram of what I'd like? I sort of already have something in mind."
"Sure I guess but I'm not sure I'd be able to make it for you so we're going to have to go to a pro to get it done if it's too intricate."
"Cool, thanks. Man I already have it all planned out" Kana beamed and Yuji could see the large smile behind his mask.
"Well come on, we gotta be at the academy in thirty minutes so we can be divided into our teams" Yuji pointed out. "You can draw up the designs while we're there."
Yuji reached into his desk pulled out a few sheets of paper and some pencils and gave them to Kana.
"Alright let's go!" Kana shouted and then sped off out the door.
"God Kana, would it kill you to wait up" said Yuji as he walked up the stairs and out of the house.
Yuji yawned in his seat at the academy as he waiting for Seito-sensei to show up.
"Man Yuji, you still tired?" asked Kana.
"Yeah, I must still be a little chakra depleted" Yuji answered.
Kana was too engulfed in his work to hear Yuji's reply. Man I've never seen him concentrating so hard before he thought to himself.
"Finished!" shouted Kana, pleased with his work.
"Let me see."
"Sure" said Kana as he handed over the sketch to Yuji.
The sketch was incredibly detailed; Yuji was actually shocked to see his friend had such incredible artistic talent. The design of the hilt was a pattern of vines flowing up the grip in a way that allowed the fingers better traction and had blooming flowers along the vine for some extra decoration.
"Looks good, I'm surprised you drew it" teased Yuji.
"Yeah, yeah whatever' Kana pouted 'so will your guy be able to make it or what?"
"Yeah, 'she' should be able to make it just fine" Yuji said.
"Brilliant!" exclaimed Kana. "You know I've even the sword a name."
"Really? What?"
"The Blade of Wisteria!" Kana radiated with pride as he spoke.
"Nice" complimented Yuji.
"Yeah, I know isn't it"
"Yeah now if you don't mind, I'm having a nap while we wait for Seito-sensei to get here."
"Whatever."
Yuji closed his eyes and began to nod off. He was stirred before he could fully nod off though, as he heard two voices scream in unison "You!"
"Ah, so noisy" Yuji complained.
To Be Continued
Sorry this post was a bit late but this was a longer chapter and I was suffering from a severe case of writers block when it came to writing about Misato and Yuji.
I feel as though I didn't really elaborate enough about Misato but I think I pulled off Yuji rather well. Review.