Kakashi was immensely curious as to what was in the box and was struggling between respecting his student's privacy and wanting to know what was in the box that could bring Konoha's number one knuckle-headed ninja to tears.
Eventually Kakashi's own curiosity and Karu's struggle to remove an object from the box drove him into the room. Karu looked straight at him and his normally bright blue eyes were grey, devoid of life. Any pretence Kakashi had, left. He sat on the couch and pulled Karu and the box into the couch next to him, He took the first item out of the box. Kakashi was shocked that a photograph would warrant a place in a blood seal box. The photo was of the team, each member wore a smile, well apart from Sasuke, who was smirking. While Karu gazed at the photo Kakashi checked out the other contents of the box. There wasn't much. Apart from the photo the box contained a tiny amount of cash, ramen packets and a small leather bound book.
"If this is all the money he has no wonder he lives where he does. Even with the low wages we get from missions at the moment and rent he should have more money than this." Thought Kakashi, ignoring the ramen packets and reaching for the journal wondering what it would contain.
"I can't believe he heard me knock the knife of the table." Karu thought while wondering, "Why didn't he just go back to bed when he saw it was me? Why did he help me get the photo...? What's he looking at? Aghh, my journal!" Karu's musings were cut short when he saw Kakashi picking up is journal out of his box. Lunging onto Kakashi's lap Karu grabbed the book in his mouth, tearing it from Kakashi's grasp.
"Oops, guess I'm not allowed to look at that." Though Kakashi now more determined than ever to look at it. But before he could even plot to get it Karu had placed both the book and the photograph back in the box and resealed it.
"You've definitely gotten quicker Karu." Karu ignored him and pulled the blanket to one side of the couch. Burrowing under it Karu went back to sleep. Kakashi decided to let the matter drop and went back to his own bed. He still had to train Sakura and Sasuke tomorrow. Before he drifted off Kakashi wondered what Karu would do. How do you train a fox?
"Sasuke-kun!"
"Oh great, she's here early." Thought Sasuke with an inward sig. He was slightly surprised, though he didn't show it, when she made no further attempt to start as conversation. He actually found it quite disconcerting. The silence reminded him that he wouldn't be hearing from Karu today. Speaking of Karu...
"Do you think Karu will turn up today?" he asked causing Sakura to jump.
"He actually started a conversation, wow." Out loud Sakura said "I don't know, he might but what's he going to do, I mean can he even use chakra? Does he have chakra?" Sakura had used up all her air and stopped her barrage of questions. Sasuke was truly amazed at the amount of questions she could raise.
Karu was far too comfortable to even contemplate crawling out of his burrow of blankets but it seemed his sensei had other plans. Kakashi tipped the couch over slightly causing Karu and the blankets to fall onto the floor. Karu chose to just leave at that and headed to the training ground.
"Guess it would be pointless to try to get some ramen, they're not going to sell it to a fox."
"Would you stop complaining about being a fox! Being a fox means you get a heightened sense of smell and speed and I'll think find a few more surprises as well." Kyuubi said coyly.
"What do you mean by that?" Karu asked but Kyuubi remained stubbornly silent. "Stupid fox!" he grumbled. Seeing Sasuke and Sakura on the bridge he crept up on them. Meaning to surprise them he jumped when he was close, landing on Sakura's head. Thinking they knew he was there he was not expecting Sakura to scream and jump ten feet in the air. Karu landed squarely on all four legs and grinned as best he could as Sakura and Sasuke spun round to face him. Karu's grin broadened when he realized that hadn't known he was there.
"Dobe that was stupid." Sasuke said scowling at him.
Karu we could have hurt you." Sakura looked worried.
Karu was getting rather angry now, "How dare they think I'm defenceless!" Karu was snarling now.
"Karu? What's wrong?" Sakura realized as soon as she asked how stupid she was. "You idiot Sakura, Karu can't answer you because he is a fox and you just have to remind him of it." Before she could apologise though Kakashi made his appearance.
"Yo." Came Kakashi's customary greeting which was not greeted by its customary response. "Ok, what a cheery bunch you guys are this morning." Kakashi again got no response. "This is weird." He thought, "Alrighty then, let's start with target practice for you two." He gestures to Sasuke and Sakura. "Karu, the Hokage said that I must devise a way to train you but I have not had any ideas so far. So I want you to watch and join in where you think you can." Karu's ears slumped at this and his tail curled dejectedly. He moved over to the tree line and curled at the base of a tree watching as Sasuke and Sakura threw kunai and shurikein at the practice dummies.
"Hey Kyuubi how come I can see the kunai and shurikein so clearly?" Karu was clearly confused at what he was seeing.
"Your eyesight has also been improved kit." Kyuubi appeared to be in deep thought. Karu was about to ask what was wrong when Kyuubi began talking again, "Hey I've got an idea for your training." Kyuubi sounded as though she had just thought of a great joke. Karu eagerly asked Kyuubi to explain.
"Ok the next time one of them throws their weapon, grab it with your teeth." In their mind Kyuubi showed him how to do it without hurting himself. By now Karu was grinning madly and his eyes flicked back and forth following the movements of his friends.
Kakashi watched his team train, disappointed in himself for not thinking of a way to train Karu. "Maybe I should talk to Kiba."
A loud 'hey' caused him to look at his team again. Hey eyed the practice dummies. Both Sasuke and Sakura were out of weapons but Sasuke's dummy was short one weapon.
"Did you miss?" Kakashi asked, disappointed that Sasuke would miss a stationary target. Sasuke frowned.
"It was a perfect shot." Kakashi frowned as well. Then turning he hurled a kunai at the dummy. Halfway there the kunai vanished with a flash of blonde. "What's going on...? Oh." Kakashi glanced at the tree Karu had been sitting under. He was no longer there.
"Karu, bring them here." Kakashi called.
"Sensei what are you talking about" Sakura asked confused. Before Kakashi could reply Karu walked out of the trees. He had Sasuke's and Kakashi's kunai in his mouth.
"How did he get them?" Sasuke asked. He refused to believe that Karu was fast enough to grab them mid air. Karu wandered up to Sasuke and dropped his kunai at his feet before doing the same with Kakashi's kunai. Sakura collected the other weapon's they had used and returned Sasuke's to him.
Karu moved off to the side waiting for them to continue throwing. Sakura looked at him before throwing her own kunai at the target. The team watched as Karu jumped, caught the kunai and landed in seconds. All three sweatdropped as he walked up to Sakura, got onto her shoulder and dropped the kunai into her hand. He grinned and moved back into his original position, obviously waiting for them to continue with their practice.
"How are we supposed to train if he's grabbing our kunai?" sakura asked. Kakashi thought for a second. "Take turns to try and get your kunai past him." He finally suggested. After trying this a few times both Sasuke and Sakura were throwing at the same time. Karu would manage to catch both. After ten minutes Kakashi joined in. Karu was still able to catch the kunai. Getting slightly annoyed all three threw multiple kunai. Amazingly Karu caught most of them. The last few thudded harmlessly into the practice targets. Kakashi then declared that training was over for the day.
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