Ninja of the Stars
I don't own Naruto.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Talking"
"Galactic Common"
(Another Language all together)
'Thoughts'
(Telepathy)
!x-x! Scene change
-?- Different point of view
V-V Flash back
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Chapter 4
Sasuke's currently tied to a large log that's acting like a post, he's sitting at the top of the log to the west of Sasuke's log while Sakura's sitting to the one east of Sasuke's log, she's settled in front of the log. He notes that she has a downtrodden look on her face, most likely feeling the idiot for falling for such an obvious trap, he didn't really care since he didn't really blame her. It's Sasuke he curses and silently blames for the whole event that lead up to that trap after he managed to talk Sakura into working with him. Sure he lied to Sakura, but so far, she didn't know that and he doubts she'll discovers it unless she asks Sasuke about it, which he doubts she'll do.
He sighs as he reviews what happened while they wait for Kakashi to finish staring at the stone with names on it.
V-V
He had managed to talk Sakura into helping him with the plan, though he had to lie by saying it's a plan that Sasuke came up with in order to get her to cooperate. The plan was simple; Sakura will do the basic clone jutsu on some kunai while he engages Kakashi in hand to hand combat. Since he thinks he knows the true reason for the test and that if Kakashi sees Sakura and him teaming up then it should allow the team to pass.
They were searching for their Jonin instructor when Sakura spots Sasuke up to his neck in trouble, literarily since the rest of his body is in the ground. He becomes alert, since as he watches, Sakura races right to where Sasuke is. A lump weights down in his middle as he suddenly gets this feeling of impending doom. He's right as he notices a flash of silver hair in a tree not that far away.
He manages to grab Sakura before the jutsu hits her, he might not know what kind of jutsu it was but he's not about to risk it, even though it means that Kakashi now knows that he's around. Sakura wiggles out of his grasp as he glances around with alert. "What's gotten into you? We have to get Sasuke out of there!" The pink haired girl pretty much shouts. "Kakashi's here." He hisses softly at her, Sakura looks startled about that.
"But Sasuke…" He cuts her off by saying, "Our instructor almost hit you with a jutsu, for now, we need to be careful since he knows we'll return to where Sasuke is. We need to think this out carefully, Sakura. We need to pass this and that it means that Sasuke's on his own for now. Think about it, Sakura, he's the bait to lure us out." Sakura looks undecided, but nods all the same.
They were silent for a while, it wasn't until the bushes moved and 'Sasuke' steps out of them. Sakura didn't heed his warning look and charged straight towards 'Sasuke.' It's not long before 'Sasuke' puffs out of existence to reveal Kakashi. The man the holds a kunai at Sakura's throat, he surrenders without the man saying anything. He noted the defeated look on Sakura's face, it's clear that she's feeling depressed about getting caught.
Just then the alarm goes off and Kakashi lets go of Sakura, turning his back on them, the one eyed man heads to grab Sasuke. He snorts slightly as he hears Sasuke's shout of protest. They head off to the three posts, Sakura's expression hadn't chanced at all.
V-V
"Do you know what the purpose of this exercise? The real reason why I set this test up?" Kakashi asks them, turning away from the stone to look at them. "Team work." He answers; this causes the other two to look his way. Kakashi nods slightly, confirming his suspicions. "But there was only two bells…" Sakura says and seeing as Kakashi wasn't going to answer her, he does. "One of the oldest sayings goes, divide and conquer."
He swears that Kakashi smiles slightly at his answer, Sakura's eyes widen, for the first time she's using her brain for something other then dwelling on what happened just a few minutes ago. "That is correct. This test was set up to test how well you work together as a team. To see if one of you were willing to sacrifice themselves in order to let the other two pass. In this test, I witnessed Cyrus's concern for one of his team-mates. On seeing that I had targeted her, instead of sitting back and keeping himself concealed in order to attempt an ambush on his own, he willingly exposited himself in order to save his team-mate. He surrendered when that same team-mate fell for an obvious trap, concerned for her safety instead of gambling her life away." Kakashi informs them, he sighs, uncomfortable by the fact that he had been spotted, despite his thoughts to the contrary.
"Then he's a fool! The objective was to get a bell!" Sasuke says scratching tone, filled with scorn. "So what if this was about team work, you haven't said anything yet about passing anyone just because they 'worked' together." Sasuke adds, from what he can gather from this, Sasuke's just looking for a way to vent his frustrations at being tied to the post, which means that this was only said in anger and in the hopes of making someone miserable. "This coming from the one tied to that post. I wonder how reliable your statement is, after all, out of the three of us, you're the one that's all tied up." He says dryly, he had noticed the hurt look on Sakura's face.
"Agreed, perhaps I should have gagged you as well." Kakashi says thoughtfully as their teacher glances at Sasuke. Sasuke only scowls, the annoyed look in his eyes spoke volumes of just how much Sasuke wishes to attack the one eyed man. "The moral of this exercise is simple, if the three of you had worked together, you might have gotten a bell, but that hadn't happened. Sasuke, you thought the other two were burdens and that they'd get in your way. Sakura, you were more worried about Sasuke then for Cyrus." Kakashi says and that causes Sakura to looks away in shamed.
"But what about Cyrus? You haven't mentioned him." Sasuke asks. "Cyrus did what he could in the situation presented to him. He saved the team-mate that was in the position of needing to be saved, demonstrating a leader's decisiveness. All in all, Cyrus did what he could when it appears that the mission goal couldn't be reached to salvage the situation. Out of the three of you, Cyrus is the only one ready to become a Genin, who deserves to be called a ninja." Kakashi says, he looks down at the log, uncomfortable with the praise the man was giving him. In some ways, it reminded him of his father praising him on a job well done; he feels an ache deep inside of him at the thought of his family.
Soon enough Kakashi explains that he's going to give them a second chance and that Sakura and him weren't allowed to feed Sasuke anything, this causes Sakura and Sasuke's stomach to growl. Unlike the other two, he had eaten breakfast since he's been lectured tons of time whenever he missed a meal. He leaps off the top of the log to get his lunch, he already knows the point of this, he just wonders if the other two know as well.
!x-x!
He's lounging around the kitchen area of his ship, working on his homework. It's been about a month since team seven officially became a team and so far, they've been doing a series of D ranked missions and mostly just been sparring. After he managed to bruise most of Sasuke's ribs and when Sasuke's wrist became sprained when the brooding human managed to hit him squarely in the check, Kakashi decided that he gets to spar with him, seeing that Sasuke can't seem to come out of their spars without some kind of bodily injury that needed to be attended right away.
He had tried to go easy on Sasuke, but he can't always remember to slow it down, to pull his punches when he's sparring. Mostly he's just glad that it's Sasuke he use to spar with, since he doubts that Sakura would fair half as well as the prick. Though Kakashi seems to be nursing quite a few buries from their fights, there were times when he even sent the man flying into a tree that's behind him, and this usually happens when Kakashi wasn't quick enough to dodge the punch or when in his excitement, he forgets to hold back in both speed and strength. He always feels sheepish when that happens, though Kakashi tries to assure him otherwise…
His money problem also almost vanished with his first pay cheque, though the landlord had attempted to try and get him to pay rent and the companies for water and electricity tried to do the same. He didn't pay any of them, even when they threatened to take their complains to the Hokage. While the landlord can't evict him, the companies did shut off their serves to his apartment. Since he doesn't live in said apartment, he didn't care about the fact that it's no longer supplied with water or electricity. By stardust, he only uses the place as a secure place for a light gate, nothing more.
He glances sharply up as somebody opens up an open channel. "Hello, baby brother! We've come baring gifts of arms!" He hears Presta's voice over the intercom. "Presta?" He says dumbly and as a screen pops down from the ceiling, he stares at the screen that shows his eldest sister's face, complete with two sets of two pronged antlers with silvery white hair and pale red skin. Presta's emerald eyes sparkling with mischief, soon enough he hears a chorus of voices saying, "We're here too, you know." He notices that all of his sisters were on the ship; he does think he sees at least two of his brothers, most likely Edgar and Burian. He smiles warmly into the screen, glad that they were here on a visit even though he does find it crowded when he's dealing with all of his sisters all at once.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Children of Ja Nectic and Zanthe Nectic are listed in the order from eldest to youngest: Burke, Presta, and Glen are the first set of triplets. Two years after that the first set of twins: Fedella and Isai. Three years after that a second set of twins: Hadria and Kacia. Year later second set of triplets: Urbano, Quade, and Vangie. Two years later a third set of triplets: Edgar, Burian, and Kaira. Three years later a third set of twins: Latona and Naiara. Two years later a fourth set of triplets: Mabel, Oihane, and Javier. Three years later a set of quintuplets: Yagmur, Ramon, Thanos, and Gavril. Four years later Ciro and Cyrus were born and three months later Cyrus is adopted by Ja and Zanthe Nectic. All together there are 24 children that are listed under Ja and Zanthe Nectic's name.
Cyrus sisters are: Presta, Fedella, Hadria, Kacia, Vangie, Kaira, Latona, Naiara, Mabel, and Oihane. While his brothers are: Burke, Glen, Isai, Urbano, Quade, Edgar, Burian, Javier, Yagmur, Ramon, Thanos, Gavril, and Ciro.
I hope that clears it up!