Chapter 10: Sparing Session.

Lmao, yeah, I'm just playing pokemon while on msn while typing up this next chapter. It's `cause I'm awesome like that xD

Ok, I lie. It ain't really working for me. I'll stop now...

Disclaimer: Sure I own Naruto *gets stabbed in the back by copy right people* Okay, I lied agian. I don't really. T_T

Back to the normal Point of View (your POV). I find it difficult enough getting Gaara's character right, let alone getting inside his head =S

"Alright everybody gather round" Temari shouted at the students and the circled round the six of you genin/chunin, "Now, as you probably already know we're going to have 3 more people helping teach here so here's how it's going to work."

She turned to Kankuro "How're we going to do this?" she whispered.

"I thought you had a plan!" he whispered back. Clearly they weren't that organised.

"First, we're going to get you to re-choose your sensei. This time you can choose one of these three who'll be the ones that are working with us for a week or so." Temari announced.

The students lined up in front of the sensei they wished to work with. You had quite a few students-14 in total. There were around 8 girls and group of 6 male students who you weren't that too sure about. Great, you were landed with the trouble students. Most of the female students had went to work under Sora (surprise, surprise) but seeming as he had too many a few of them had been shipped off to Yuki, who had mainly boys who were enthusiastic about being a ninja. Kankuro had just about the same type of students and Temari had a group of girls. One of the girls in your group you recognised as the girl Sora was at the cafe with this morning. As you looked right at her in the eye she turned away blushing bright red- almost the same colour as her eyes.

Gaara's group was as non-group like as ever; consisting of only that Matsuri girl you still hadn't had the chance to speak with yet. You kind of wondered why she had chosen to work with Gaara; what had given her the courage.

"Hey, Temari-chan." You whispered, "Why don't we put the separate groups into pairs?"

"But that would mean someone would have to work with Gaara and these kids don't really-"

"I know, I know. I'll work with him. There are a few boys in my group who I don't like the look of. They look at me in a weird way." You explained.

"Ah them, I had to deal with them too. They're perverts, just give them a good beating or yelling at and they'll leave you alone- trust me." Temari whispered to you an evil look on her face, "But I guess a good scaring from Gaara wouldn't be so bad for them."

"Exactly what I was thinking, plus it'll even things out a bit. My groups a bit big and his is... well it's more of a duet or private training thing. You know what I mean."

"Yeah I know, but that couldn't really be helped... until now I guess. Well if that's what you want to do." Temari smiled at you.

"Thanks Temari-chan! You can tell the others, I don't do speaking to really large groups of people," you said grinning.

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"Alright everyone!" Temari shouted getting everybody's attention, "we're going to have the leaders pair up their groups so it's easier for the newbies to teach"

She looked at you from the corner of her eye when she said this- just as a tease, you gave her the 'evil eye' back before grinning. You turned to look at Gaara- he was looking straight at you so you gave him a quick smile.

"work with me." You asked him. He looked stunned for a moment but nodded gratefully anyway.

"Great" you grinned.

"Hey, Cami-chan, do you want to pair up with me?" Sora called, asking cheerfully, "Just `cause I was with some girl this morning doesn't mean I don't really like you."

"Sorry, Sora-kun" you turned him down gently, "me and Gaara-kun have already teamed up. Plus I've got a few students I think are going to... err.... be difficult."

"Oh.... ok. That's cool" Sora muttered disappointedly, before shaking it off and asking Temari to be his partner.

You gave a sigh.

What a total womanizer. You thought as you walked over to where Gaara and the group were. Gaara and Matsuri where standing a small distance from the group talking quietly while the group of kids were chatting loudly and bubbly amongst themselves.

"OK EVERYONE, LISTEN UP!" you shouted to get them to quieten down. As soon as silence was obtained you continued, addressing not just your group but Gaara and Matsuri as well, "My name's Uzumaki Camika and- obviously as you've chosen me- I'm going to be your sensei for a while. We'll be working with errr... well I would call you Gaara's group but there's only you so yeah. We'll be working together for now"

Matsuri blushed bit, as whispers started to circulate round your class.

"Come on Gaara, lighten my load a bit- I'm not the only teacher here, am I? Say something, they're your class too now and you'll never improve your social skills if you stay quiet like this. Tell `em we're going to be doing target practice or something." You whispered to Gaara.

"Okay," Gaara mumbled before addressing the crowd of students who immediately went silent, "You're going to be sparing together to practice you're taijutsu skills. You need to get into pairs so do that now."

"Wow, pretty good for off the top of your head." You said to him as the students got into their pairs, "just one problem; there's an odd number of students. What are we going to do with the one left over?"

"Well, it's probably going to be Matsuri-chan so... well, I don't do taijutsu so you'll have to work with her."

"But I'm a chunin?! She's not even a genin yet!" you thought for a moment, "although I used to spar with Naruto when I just became a chunin and he was still in the academy... Alright, fine I guess."

"Um, excuse me?" the girl who was with Sora at the cafe this morning came up to the two of you, "I-I don't have a partner."

"Wow... I guess you were wrong," you grinned at Gaara, "Ok, don't worry about it. You'll have to work with me. Sorry about that."

"I-it's ok" she mumbled.

"So what's your name?" you asked her.

"Tsukimi Chiaki" she introduced herself nervously.

"Nice to meet you, Chiaki-san." You said politely and then turned to the large group, "Now everyone's got their partners can you label yourselves 1 and 2. Number two's stand behind number one's and line up over here."

They did as you said- except for you and Chiaki- and you selected about half of the pairs.

"You lot are going to be sparing first, I'm sure you all know how to spar; it's basically just fighting only not without the intention of hospitalising the other person or killing them. Me and Chiaki-san will give you a demonstration. " you turned to Chiaki and whispered to her, "are you ok with that?"

"Err, sure I guess."

You smiled reassuringly at her, "Great, just stand over there and when Gaara-kun says for us to start you can try to hit me." You weren't going to lie to her, she could try all she wanted but it was highly unlikely that she would be able to touch you; you taijutsu-sparred with Rock Lee, "Gaara, when she's either been pinned for 3 seconds or cries uncle, you give the word that it's the end of the match"

They both nodded and Chiaki went and stood were you had pointed. You stood a few meters away facing her. The two of you got into battle stance.

"Begin." Gaara said bluntly and to the point. He sounded quite bored.

Chiaki came running at you and swung her fist. If it had hit you it probably would have hurt, but it didn't as you dodged it with ease. You could have buckled her or counter attacked but she was just a student so you didn't. She spun round and this time tried to kick you in the stomach. You blocked the kick- pushing her leg away from your body before it hit you. This time Chiaki was a bit quicker in her response and as soon as her foot hit the floor her fist was flying towards your face. You caught it quickly, not letting go when she pulled back. She pulled back again, harder and you let go so she fell backwards almost losing her footing. She regained her stance and tried to kick you again. Again you blocked and this time she spun round and tried to kick you. Once more you blocked so she jumped back before charging, jumping and swung her foot down. You stepped out of the way and her foot smacked the floor. It didn't hurt her, but she still stumbled away from you. That was your opening; you came flying at her, knocking her to the ground and pinning her there. 3... 2... 1...

"The winner is Cami-chan" Gaara said in a bored tone although you couldn't help but notice he watched the fight with enough interest. Maybe he was just doing his job.

"Don't feel bad about it," you said helping the stunned girl up, "I'm a chunin anyway, you didn't really stand a chance- but did real good, no worries!"

"Ok, thanks" she muttered still partially in shock.

"Those who are going first, space yourselves out round this area, the rest of you sit back and watch; try to learn some techniques from those who are currently fighting," Gaara ordered, and they did so.

Chiaki went and sat down with those who weren't fighting and started to chat. You went up and sat next to him on the small wall he was leaning against.

"You're doing good."

"They don't like me"

"So? They're listening to you and eventually they'll get used to you. I mean, it's not as if you've done anything that would be considered 'monster activity', so at least some of the more smart ones will be suspecting that you're not all that the rumours say."

"Hn..." Gaara looked at the floor sheepishly, "Temari found out."

"About what?" You asked confused.

"That I was out last night."

"Ohhh... What did she say? What did you say?"

"I told her the truth, except the sleeping part, because I'm not exactly sure what happened so I wouldn't be able to explain it to her. She said... uh..." you could have sworn Gaara was blushing slightly; it was hard to tell as he had his head down, "she said I should spend more time getting to know you..."

"Cool," you said casually, watching as the academy students went back and forth fighting. They weren't that very good, you'd have to teach them some blocks and how to kick and punch properly; some of them were really clueless. No one had anyone pinned to the ground and their attacks were not strong enough to do any real damage. Never mind. You looked over to where the other kids were sitting and watching. Most of them were actually chatting, Chiaki was chatting to Matsuri- they seemed to be getting along pretty well.

"OUCH!" you looked over to see who had gotten hurt.

"I'm so sorry!" a girl squealed, her partner was holding her cheek.

"That hurt! What the hell?!" her friend shouted at her.

"Let's see?" you asked steeping over to them. The fighting around them had stopped, the students taking the opportunity to catch their breath and take a small break. The black haired girl who was holding her face took her had away, "That's not so bad, it's not even going to bruise. I've had worse from just sparing."

"Sorry," the blond haired girl apologised again.

"Whatever, just be more careful next time," the darker haired girl mumbled.

"Well, she kind of was supposed to do that. That's what you do in a sparring match; you're practicing physical offence and defence, don't snap at her just `cause you couldn't defend yourself." You said calmly and casually.

She folded her arms and sulked. "But there's no need to hit so hard"

"Yeah there is, it'll get you to want to defend more. If you want to learn something it'll be easier for you to actually learn if you want to learn it. Plus an enemy in battle won't go so easy on you. It's good experience!"

The girl sulked, folding her arms and pouting. It wasn't a cute kind of pout either- more of a 'spoiled brat' sort of pout.

"Whatever, can I switch partners?"

You looked at the blond haired girl who just sighed, "Fine, fine. Who wants to work with her?" you asked the group.

"I want to spar with Matsuri-chan!" the dark hair girl said. She was really starting to get on your nerves, you weren't asking her.

"Matsuri-san? Are you ok with that?" you asked her.

Matsuri looked at Chiaki who said something to her before she got up and walked over to her.

"Sure,"

"Ok," you sighed, "you two swap partners then."

The blond haired girl went and sat with Matsuri's partner and they began to talk. The group slowly began to continue what they were doing before. After a while some of the pairs finished up their matches and you and Gaara had to switch them with a different pair who were sitting down. About half of them had been switched; surprisingly Matsuri and her partner weren't done yet. You figured Matsuri wasn't a good fighter, so a good partner for the weak brat, even if you felt that Matsuri didn't want to work with her. You went and sat with Chiaki.

"Sooo... Saw you with my teammate this morning." You commented conversationally, sitting next to her as you continued to watch the matches. She blushed an incredibly bright shade of red which you were sure would glow in the dark

"Er... um... yes, we're... uh, friends," she stuttered embarrassed.

"Really now?" you questioned sarcastically, giving her a sly smile before grinning, "I kid, I kid. We can change topic if that'll make you feel less awkward."

She nodded, "Yeah, please."

"Um... You and Matsuri-san get along well?"

"Yeah, I guess. We're not close friends but I think we could be." Chiaki replied shyly.

"So who are your friends? I mean, you weren't really talking to anyone before I came here, so are they sparing at the moment?"

Chiaki sighed, "We had a fall out earlier and they're not talking to me- well to be honest, I fell out with Saki-chan and she's kicked me out of the group and is making everyone else not talk to me."

"Ah! You dared disagree with the ring-leader and were no longer allowed to be part of her flock of sheep." You said in a mocking voice joking around. It made her giggle a bit and you grinned continuing the conversation, "I hate groups like that, always have. I think it's a good thing that you're not in a group like that- you're a nice person. If only the rest of your mates followed you. So who's this... Saki person?"

"The girl with black hair you spoke to earlier that Matsuri-chan's now sparring with," she answered sadly, "The only reason that she's with them is cause they asked her to so they didn't have to be with me."

"Ah, I see. Sulky-brat girl" So Gaara would have been right if it weren't for this mishap, "maybe tomorrow Matsuri-chan'll work with you. I don't think they're her kind of crowd."

Chiaki giggled.

"AHH! Ow!" you looked up to see that Matsuri was down and out.

You stood up to see if she was going to cry uncle or be pinned- but instead of being pinning her opponent to the floor the bratty Saki kept kicking her in the stomach and Matsuri began to cough up blood

"STOP THAT! You've done enough already" You shouted as you rushed over to help Matsuri, Chiaki following close behind. The brat didn't stop and so sand began wrapping itself around her waist and her mouth, pulling her away and shutting her up as she was lifted up off the ground.

"Matsuri-chan are you alright?" you asked bending down to her level, helping her to sit up.

"F-fine." She muttered, wiping the blood away from her mouth.

"What happened?" asked the blond haired girl who was Saki's previous partner. She had just arrived along with a group of other girls who you presumed were her friends, "Oh my God, someone help Saki-chan!"

You looked at Saki who was kicking and screaming in mid air, still suspended by the sand, "She's fine where she is."

"But Saki-chan is-"

"Matsuri-san was coughing up blood for pity's sake- and you're worrying about Saki- the one who done that to her- because she's hanging in mid air by sand? You're unbelievable," You shook your head sighing. "Gaara-kun, let her down please."

Gaara didn't look happy about your decision, but did as you asked. Saki hit the floor with a thud. As there was no longer sand covering her mouth muffling her screams you could hear what she was all upset about.

"HOW DARE SHE, HOW DARE SHE STICK UP FOR THAT COW?!" She screamed, you stared hard at her with an expressionless face as she continued, "we're her friends now; she's part of our group! We took her in when she was all alone and had no one else to work with! And now she betrays us by hanging out with that-!"

"WOAH, CALM DOWN" you shouted at the screeching banshee, holding her back as she re-launched herself at Matsuri who had managed to stand up now thanks to Chiaki, "What the hell is your problem? What gives?"

You dragged her off, asking two of her friends to follow. It took a full 4 more hours to get the whole story completely straight as the girls kept giving you different stories each time you asked them. This is basically what happened:

Chiaki liked this guy very much and only her best mate- Michi- knew about it. Chiaki started to talk to him and has become a close friend with this guy. Saki liked this guy too, but hadn't gotten that close to him and just liked him from a distance. Saki got jealous because they were becoming close friends and rumour has it went on a date. (Michi had told Saki- without knowing that Saki would end up kicking Chiaki out of the group and ordering everyone else to not be her friend). During the sparing session Matsuri and Saki were talking about this. Matsuri sided with Chiaki as Chiaki didn't know that Saki liked this guy and had made the effort to get to know him better- which Saki had never been that bothered about doing and had only just started to make a fuss of him recently. Saki was furious that Matsuri wasn't on her side and began taking out her anger on her. Matsuri was caught off guard by her sudden outburst of rage and couldn't defend herself before Saki started beating her.

You could just about guess who this boy was that they liked.

Sora.

Yeah~! That's the end.

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