Aishiteru
A/N: Hello again my readers! Here is another chapter of Aishiteru!!!
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Chapter 7: Another Test?
"Hello again kids," greeted a familiar purple haired figure.
Naruto walked side by side with Ino, Shino walking behind them. Naruto smirked at his new sensei and Ino waved politely. Shino remained silent, before trailing his eyes over to Anko he coughed slightly. Anko scanned her new genin students, then held up three wind chimes. A purple one, an orange one and a grey one. The three stared at them and listened carefully as the breeze allowed them to make noise. Anko smirked as she held up her other hand and formed a gesture.
"I want you to...Bring these back to me within 3 hours," she said as they disappeared, "Naruto, you get the orange one, Ino you get the purple one, and Shino, the grey one."
"Wait, no introductions?" He tilted his head in confusion and continued, "No preperation?" Naruto began questioning, waving his arms around.
"Wait what is this supposed to do for us?" Ino asked, scanning the area. 'Shit, is this some sort of test?'
Shino nodded at Ino, "Yes," He couldn't seem to find it's connection, "How is this beneficial?"
"Well kids..." Anko began, "You'll have to see for yourselves."
"Wait!" Naruto yelled, but Anko disappeared, and so did the rest of his fellow genin. He took in his surroundings, he swore he was in a different area. Sniffing the air, he bit his lip for he didn't recognize the scent at all. "Where the hell am I?"
The area started to enclose on him. His breathing quickened, his hair blew with the wind. He began to scream as he was unable to see.
"Kai!" he finally yelled, and the area vanished. He panted, holding his throat with one hand and his other hand holding his heart. Looking around, he was in the training area once more. His ears began to twitch as well, "The chime!" he yelled and dashed towards the correct area. He ran and ran until he finally spotted it, but it disappeared.
"Shit. Not again!" he formed the tiger seal once more, but a kick flew from out of no where. "What the?!" With his eyes slightly hazed, he looked ahead of him, there was a familiar green spandex wearing, fish eyed genin.
"Naruto-kun," Lee muttered, his hair somehow falling to his face. Naruto looked above to see rain pouring down. But looking at himself, he felt it was impossible, he wasn't getting wet.
Ino bit her lip, she couldn't find the wind chime. She jumped from tree to tree looking for the correct colour. All she saw was green. She decided to stop, hearing but only her own heartbeat along with the slight wind. Looking around, she decided that there was no traps, so she began to focus. Closing her eyes she took in her surroundings. It was at this time that she wished her hearing was as good as Naruto's.
"There..." she muttered to herself, before continuing on. 'Damnit, one hour has already passed...' She kept on jumping, tree branch to tree branch until the trees disappeared and she met with a large snake. Instead of screaming, like she wanted to, she pulled out a kunai and threw it at the snake. It exploded to her surprise and she fell to the floor. Looking above her she spotted a familiar cloaked genin. Shino, surrounded by his bugs picked her up from the ground.
"You okay?" He asked as he searched the grounds. 'She doesn't seem to have found her own chime as well,' he thought to himself. She nodded and looked around as well. The area seemed calm again and the wind blew slightly. Shino turned to his new teammate and asked, "You okay enough to finish looking for your chime?" Ino looked at him, his sunglasses blocking his eyes, and his large hair blew in the wind. You couldn't really see his face but his eyebros and sunglasses seemed to be enough.
Finally Ino answered, "Yes, thanks a lot Shino." She smiled at him and he waved before continuing off. 'He hasn't found his own chime either...' She thought to herself. Turning she spotted her chime once more, and in delight she grabbed it. With it Ino began to walk, until she spotted her best friend Naruto. Finding nothing strange with the chime she placed it inside her kunai pouch and ran to him to see if he needed help.
Naruto stared at Lee, he hadn't moved at all since he made his appearance. 'Thirty damn minutes of staring at him...' Naruto thought as he felt sweat drip down his forehead. Carefully, he pulled out a kunai and flung it at Lee purposely missing and making it pass by his cheek. The rain seized and Lee looked directly at Naruto again. naruto flinched a bit feeling some sort of a strange aura.
"Naruto-kun," he muttered, "You don't trust that I have the ability to dodge that kunai of yours?" His face semed like it was under stress, it wasn't an expression Naruto normally saw on him.
Naruto flinched fully at the sharpness in Lee's voice. He backed up a bit as Lee's expression changed. His fuzzy eyebrows burried themselves deeper and anger was expressed through his eyes.
"Don't you trust in the strength of your friend?!" He questioned moving closer and closer to Naruto. With this Lee pulled out the orange chime that Naruto had to obtain. Dangling it from his fingers he looked at Naruto, waiting for an answer.
"I trust your strength Lee, I just don't want to accidently hurt you..." Naruto spoke the truth. 'What is he getting at?' Naruto wondered. He was concerned that he might accidently poke Lee's eyes out, "I know you're powerful, and probably stronger than me but-"
"Stop it Naruto-kun," Lee intruded, "If you trust me, you must know that I will not let an attack from my own team mate come into contact with me." He seemed to have calmed down a bit as he continued staring into naruto's eyes. "If we are truly friends, we must trust in each other's abilities and in each other's movement." He moved closer and closer before being only but a meter before Naruto. "When you work as a team you formulate plans and depend on each other's abilities, if you doubt them and take their capabilities under concern, things will fall apart. You understand?" Naruto was still slighlty scared, but with a determined look on his face he tried to understand.
Naruto looked at Lee intensly, he swore that he knew these things already, but then again...This whole time he was concerned about hitting Lee. Rock lee was stronger than him, that's for sure but...
CRASH
Shino looked up from the spot he was on. He had finally found his grey chime. He remembered seeing Naruto fighting with a tree, but that was a genjutsu which Naruto should be able to dispell. He also helped out Ino earlier from a kunai with an explosive tag which she set up to explode. So far his troubles were two genjutsu which he dispelled with kai the first time and somehow escaped the second time. He promised to himself from that genjutsu to be more open to his team mates. Turning around he heard a crash noise. A bug of his flew over to his hand and he simply nodded his head.
"Ninpou: Shuiro Kouchuu," he muttered. It was a secret technique that tracks down his scarlett beetles. Within his arsenal of insects are 15 scarlett beetles. They have a special chakra flow that, with this techinique, only he can see. At the beginning of this operation he had planted it on Naruto and Ino in case. Now with his new vision he looked at his surroundings and found two scarlett beetles outside of the ones in his own body. With this he began to run towards them, just to check out the situation.
The illusion of Rock Lee had disappeared, Naruto swiped the orange chime and thought about the words he spoke. He, Ino and Shino were going to be a team, and in their more dangerous missions they'll have to depend on each other's capabilities, and there is no room for doubt.
"Naruto-kun!" Ino shouted from the side. Naruto turned to her with a smile and walked to her slowly. But then the ground cracked and the exact same snake that Ino saw earlier appeared. Shino appeared from amongst the trees and gazed at the giant snake as well. Ino, biting her lip pulled out a shuriken and yelled for them to back away. As soon as the shuriken came into contact with the snake, it stayed there. They looked up as it hissed in slight pain. naruto, Ino ans Shino looked at each other and nodded, all of them jumping onto the same tree branch.
"Naruto-kun, do you hear anything else that's near?" Ino asked. Shino looked as Naruto's ear twitch and he himself concentrated as well.
"All I hear is what I believe is Anko-sensei eating dango," Naruto replied sniffling a little bit of laughter. Shino opened his eyes and complimented Naruto on his good hearing.
"Incoming!" Ino yelled as the snake's tail crashed into the tree, splitting it into pieces. The genin looked at each other for a plan and Shino simply let his bugs out.
"Guy, I need for you to trust me. Just keep an eye out and keep this snake busy," Shino yelled among the hissing. Naruto and Ino looked at each other and nodded. Shino hid himself among the trees and started forming numerous hand symbols, "Nin...pou...Ki...ba..ku..."
Naruto jumped up high as well as Ino, not yet reaching eye level with the snake. With his right arm Naruto pulled Ino upwards and launched her at the snake's head. Once she landed she pulled out two kunai, one for each hand. Jumping up once more she dodged the snakes tongue and she smirked when she saw naruto launch two shuriken at it's tongue. As it hissed in pain she launched her two kunai into each of the snakes eyes and jumped down to where Naruto was. With this, the snake started moving around randomly. Ino handled the front making sure the snake didn't take down a lot of nature and Naruto controlled the tail side.
Shino finished off his sequence of hand signs and his bugs exited his sleeves, "Kouchuu..."
Ino and Naruto saw all the bugs surround the snake. In unison Naruto and Ino jumped to the tree where Shino was and watched as the bugs, loaded with chakra, exploded once in contact with the snake. Ino was slightly concerned about her clothing, and Naruto craved to see the snake's inards. But Shino made his wall of bugs to protect his team mates.
Where the snake was, Anko appeared. Her smirk was wider than usual, and from the corner of her mouth was a stick that probably held what used to be dango. "Congratualtions guys," she signaled them to come closer, "You are now OFFICIALLY genin."
Ino and Naruto's mouth hung over their chin. Shino simply nodded and Naruto wanted to yell, "What!? You mean if we didn't get these chimes we would have to have gone back to the academy?!"
"Wow, I'm glad I made it..." Ino muttered leting out a sigh of relief.
"Naruto, Ino, and Shino, you have all proved to me that you can work together, and that you have acceptable abilities. under me, your sensei Anko,you will become excellent genin," Naruto and Ino's expressions turned back to normal and Shino nodded once more, "Now...Let's introduce oursel ves!"
Anko had made them walk over to a public park in Konoha. they sat on the grass and Anko stood before them, "Now, use this as an example," with this she cleared her throat, "I am Mitarashi Anko, sensei of Team 6. My students are Aburame Shino, Uzumaki Naruto and Yamanaka Ino. My favourite food is dango, my hobbies are disciplining misbehaved children, training with my genin students and fooling around when I'm not working. My dream is to be an amazing shinobi to represent our village and to keep my team safe. I dislike a certain man and as extra, I don't remember much of my childhood."
Naruto, Ino and Shino blinked once, and then twice in unison. 'Well she's quite the interesting person,' Ino thought. 'I wonder how she'll train us,' thought Naruto. 'Who is this certain man? Did he have a connection with her childhood?' Shino thought.
"Now you three go," Anko announced.
"Erm..." Ino muttered.
"I'll go first!" Naruto shouted. Ino sunk in her spot and let out a sigh. "I am Uzumaki Naruto, genin student of Anko of team 6. My favourite food is ramen, and my hobbies are, training, hanging out with my friends, hanging out at the Ichiraku Ramen stand, and sleeping. My dream is to become Hokage and be acknowledged of my potential. I dislike people who think they're too good just because the are geniuses coughSasukecough, and as extra...Well Ino lread knows, and you Anko-sensei probably but...I hae the kyuubi sealed within me."
Anko paused and looked over at Naruto, "Yes I already knew that," she then turned to Shino who turned to Naruto.
"My parents always told me to stay away from you when I was a child, and I never knew why. I'm sorry that so many people probably neglected you just because of the Kyuubi..." Shino spoke and Naruto wanted to cry. Shino was very understanding, "You hold the Kyuubi within you right? That means that you truly are a hero. I hope that you become Hokage one day."
"Thanks Shino," Naruto muttered wiping away some of his tears.
"Aww Shino you are so understanding," Ino said, "Most people would've just gotten scared or began to hate Naruto."
"But I guess Shino isn't most people eh Ino?" Anko asked with a smirk.
"Now it's my turn," Ino said. "My name is Yamanaka Ino, genin student of Anko of Team 6. My favourite food is ramen now as well, and my hobbies are training my clan's special techniques, hanging out with my friends, and spending time on my flower garden. My dream is to become the top kunoichi of the village and to learn some medical jutsu to help my team mates. I dislike people who hate Naruto just because of the Kyuubi and as extra, I'm not one of Sasuke's fangirls."
"The Uchiha? Oh yes, you weren't all over him at the mission," Anko muttered remembering the wave country mission.
"Now, it's my turn," Shino began, "My name is Aburame Shino, genin student of Anko of Team 6. My favourite food is rice, and my hobbies are training with my insects, sitting in a tree and listening to music. My dream is to master my clan's techiniques and to become an amazing shinobi. I dislike those who don't treat insects right and those that judge people by their appearance, and as extra, I usually randomly walk around when I don't feel like training."
Anko stared at her three genin students, and the genin students stared at their sensei, "Tomorrow is our first training session then a mission. Be prepared," and with that she disappeared.
"Want to come with Naruto and I to get ramen Shino?" Ino asked.
Shino simply nodded and the three walked over to Ichiraku.
A/N: I kind of redid Shino so he's more of my own character, but his essense is still there right? Techniques made up by me just for this fanfiction. Review please!
Translation:
Ninpou: Shuiro Kouchuu - Ninja Arts: Scarlett Beetle
Ninpou: Kibaku Kouchuu - Ninja Arts: Exploding Beetle
