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Chapter 10: Training part 1 .
"Speaking/thinking inside flashback"
"Thinking/small flashback"
"Jutsus/abilities"
'Actions'
Recap:
Sasuke stared at kagome a bit before he replied "Hn…" kagome gave him a glare "why that…..now I know why Naruto calls him a jerk…." "Hn isn't a reply…you came out here and asked me what I was doing out here and I answered your question the least you could do is answer mine."
Sasuke sighed inwardly and put his hands in his pocket still glaring at kagome but not as much. "I heard something downstairs and decided to check it out then I saw you leaving out the door so I decided to follow."
Kagome looked at Sasuke with a blank expression on her face "what you think I'm going to go and murder someone undercover or something."
"I don't trust you….for all I know you could have been lying about your clan and the way you have been acting for the last couple of days could have all been an act." replied Sasuke.
Kagome smiled faintly before shrugging "I guess your right……." Sasuke raised an eyebrow at kagome. Kagome stood up and looked out at the ocean again "you have the right not to trust me…I mean I appear one day….I would probably be the same way……" facing Sasuke kagome smiled sadly "I'm not asking you to trust me or anything but what I said and how I have been acting is not an act." Frowning a bit kagome continued "and I would appreciate it if you would stop glaring at me it's not like I am going to attack you or anything." he continued to glare at kagome causing her to glare back before smirking. "If you continue to glare at me your face will get stuck like that and it would be your own fault." Sasuke said nothing and kagome sighed. "Fine whatever I warned you…" walking past Sasuke and back into the house kagome ignored the glare aimed at her the whole time "Sheesh I try to be nice and he glares at me." Walking up the stairs kagome made it to her and sakura's room and went back to her bed lying down and going back to sleep
Now:
The sun showed through the window its light causing kagome to roll over and groan. "I don't want to get up……"sighing under the covers kagome opened an eye "but I have to…." Slowly getting up and taking the covers off of her kagome yawned and wiped her eyes. Stretching kagome groggily got out of the bed but noticed that sakura was gone and her bed was folded "she must already be up…." putting on her equipment and her sandals kagome wiped her eyes again and walked out the door going down the stairs.
Making her way to the kitchen kagome saw that sakura, Kakashi, and Sasuke were already there "hmmm naruto must still be-."
"Morning kagome." kagome blinked when she saw Naruto appear in front of her. Smiling back a bit kagome nodded. "Morning Naruto…." Naruto looked a bit concerned. "You alright?" kagome nodded and took a seat while Naruto sat next to her. "Yeah…I'm fine…a bit tired is all?"
An uncomfortable silence came over the group while they waited for there food till Kakashi coughed to gain his team's attention. When they turned towards him Kakashi looked at kagome. "Kagome about yesterday… when-."
Kagome smiled and shook her head. "it's no problem sensei…I understand why…you all just met me so it's alright…..I would just like it if you could over look that fact and act as though you did when we were on our way here…like a team…" kagome grinned suddenly. "Besides I want to earn your trust! So if we have to start over I'm kagome and I hope as a team we can get along!" kagome held out her hand still grinning ear to ear.
The others were silent before Naruto grinned and lunged at kagome giving her a bone crushing hug. "nice to meet you too kagome I'm Naruto!" kagome and Naruto started laughing before they were joined by sakura who nodded towards the still being crushed kagome and introduced herself. "I'm sakura nice to make your acquaintance."
Kakashi watched with a small smile as all sakura, Naruto, and kagome turned towards the silent Sasuke and started bugging him. Naruto grinned at Sasuke and pointed down at kagome's head. "Okay teme we've re-introduced ourselves so you need to too!"
Sasuke glared at them making them laugh before kagome grinned at the Uchiha. "ah come on I know you don't trust me but still at least reintroduce yourself that way soon hopefully you'll start to trust me in do time!"
Sasuke continued to be silent and glare at them making kagome and Naruto frown before sigh and give up. Kagome suddenly grinned and a mischievous look appeared in her eyes. "Fine...if you are not going to introduce yourself I'll refer to you as teme….since you didn't reintroduce yourself and I don't know your name I'll have to call you by what Naruto calls you.." kagome turned towards Naruto with her grin increasing. "What do you think Naruto….referring teme to teme…I have no other name to refer him by..."
Naruto grinned back and nodded making sakura sigh. "Great it's a start of re-friendship." Sakura blinked before smiling inwardly. "But I new we could trust kagome…even if we just met her."
Naruto nodded. "I think that's a good idea kagome! Since teme didn't reintroduce himself you have to call teme, teme." Naruto turned towards the silently fuming Sasuke and they had to bit their lips from laughing. Sasuke's right eyebrow was twitching in annoyance and he seemed like he wanted to kill them. Naruto turned back towards kagome. "Kagome I think teme's mad..."
Kagome nodded. "It's possible Naruto; teme does look mad for teme looks like he wants to kill someone..." sakura sighed and placed a hand on her forehead. "Just lovely..." Kakashi looked to his two laughing students and sighed.
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"Fun time's over now…it's time to train." Kakashi looked at his team and inwardly smiled seeing that they all became serious and nodded. Kakashi nodded back before grabbing his book. "Okay first off we will need to review about chakra."
"But we already know about cha-cha-."
"Chakra Naruto." Naruto turned towards kagome and nodded before turning back towards Kakashi. "Right what she said we already know about it…and anyways isn't learning the jutsu the only important thing….we already use chakra."
Sasuke crossed his arms over his chest. "Naruto's right for once." Sasuke stared at Kakashi bored completely ignoring the glare Naruto sent his way.
Kakashi stared at his two male students for a second before sighing and shaking his head. "No. you have only begun to learn about chakra. If you use a lot of chakra but don't know how to properly control it all that chakra becomes useless and you just end up as a target fro your enemy."
Naruto stopped glaring at Sasuke and turned towards him curiously. "Then what do we do?" Kakashi closed his book before putting it back in its pouch. "Simple….you train so hard that controlling your chakra becomes like a second nature to you and your willing to put your life on the line to accomplish this."
The others were silent before sakura blinked. "Well how do we do this?"
Kakashi smiled lightly under his mask before motioning around him. "Simple. You climb trees."
"Climb trees?" Kakashi nodded at his confused students. "Yes but without hands."
"No hands?" sakura furrowed her eyebrows confused. Kakashi nodded and she and the others eyes widened a fraction. "But how do we do that? Is it even possible?"
Kakashi continued to smile before he made a hand sign. "Hmm…well let's see." After a few seconds Kakashi turned away from his team and headed towards the closest tree to him. Once he was there he paused for a few seconds before placing his foot on the tree and making the genin eye widen for his foot stuck to it like glue. Kakashi then placed his other foot on the tree before he started to head up the tree like he was walking on regular ground.
Kagome and the others were shocked into silence and they continued to stare at their sensei as he walked up the tree and even walked onto a branch upside down. Kagome blinked and stared at their upside down teacher. "He walked up the tree as though he was just walking...even upside down." Kagome recalled he hand sign Kakashi made and blinked. "He summoned chakra before he went up…." Realization shown through kagome's eyes and she snapped her figures. "The chakra he summoned...it must act like suction cups or something…that must be how he's able to walk up…because his chakra's keepi-."
Kagome's thoughts were interrupted when four kunai placed themselves in front of her and the others. They all looked up to see Kakashi staring down at them. "By doing this exercise you gain better control over your chakra for two reasons. The first because you need to focus your chakra down to your feet which is the hardest place to focus it. The second is because you need to maintain the chakra flow in order to do this properly." Kakashi was silent for a few minutes to let what he said sink into his student's minds before he smiled down at them even though they couldn't see it. "Do you all understand?"
They all nodded and Kakashi nodded once before continuing. "good, in order to do this you need to first focus your chakra down to the bottom of your feet, then you need to run up the tree to get the momentum to help you up easier…" they nodded again and Kakashi grabbed his book. "Okay then…start."
Sasuke, sakura, naruto, and kagome all grabbed their kunai before they made the hand sign and started to focus their chakra. When they were done they all opened their eyes and started to run towards their own individual trees.
Sasuke ran up the tree and got about to the middle of the tree before he stopped, marked the tree with the kunai, and jumped down
Naruto ran up the tree but fell down on his head. Grabbing his head he winced and stated yelling ow over and over again while a giant bump started to form on his head.
Looking over to naruto before his own tree Sasuke furrowed his eyebrows in thought. "This is harder than I thought…the amount of chakra needs to be precise." Sasuke looked over to his own tree to see the large hole he made. "Too much chakra and it pushes you back…" he looked back towards the still yelling Naruto. "But too little you fall down and end up like naruto."
"Hey guys!" everyone stopped what they were doing hearing sakura's voice and looked up where it came from to see sakura waving down at them as she smiled. She got 2/3 of the way up the tree and was sitting on a tree branch.
"Wow! Good job sakura I knew you could do it!!" Grinning Naruto waved back "even though I am kind of mad she could do it and I couldn't."
"Tch. Whatever" frustrated Sasuke looked away and crossed his arms over his chest.
Sakura seeing this became discouraged and put her head down "I thought Sasuke would like me more……..but he's just mad at me now……."
Remembering something Naruto looked around "um…hey where's kagome?"
"Up here guys!!" Looking up in the direction where kagome's voice came from they all saw that kagome had made it up all the way to the top of the tree and was balancing on it with her feet. Waving down to them with a smile on her face kagome looked up and around her surroundings "wow it looks so peaceful….." kagome looked down back at her teammates hearing Kakashi's voice.
"Well……it looks like the female members of the team know how to use their chakra efficiently Well done sakura, kagome." Kakashi looked up from his book towards everyone till his gaze landed on kagome. "That's as much I expected from everyone but kagome…..I did not know she had so much chakra…..it most likely levels up with Sasuke's and naruto's."
Kagome jumped down from her position on the tree and jumped down from tree to tree until she was on the ground with the others.
"Wow! Kagome how did you do that you were at the very top of the tree and at one try!"
Kagome turned around to see Naruto running towards her with a huge grin on his face. Kagome blushed and scratched the back of her head in embarrassment "um…well I have an okay control over my chakra from my clan's jutsu…they require a pretty good control over chakra in order to perform properly…so that could be it."
"Oh…but still that was cool!!" Naruto continued to grin at her making kagome smile back.
"Anyway come on get back to your training no time for breaks" everyone turned to see Kakashi was back on the ground and leaning against a tree while reading his book. Both kagome and Naruto nodded before going back to their trees and training.
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"H-how can they keep going like that?" Panted sakura watching her teammates train while she lay on her back against her tree. "Even kagome….is still going and she doesn't need to practice this anymore." Kagome was walking up and around on the tree going upside down on braches, circling the tree, going backwards ect. "And she doesn't even look that exhausted." Looking over to Sasuke and naruto she saw them running up their trees "they both are getting higher." Thought sakura looking at the marks they made in their trees.
Kakashi closed his book and got up from his sitting position against the tree "okay that's good for now. Sakura, kagome tomorrow you can both guard Tazuna while he works at the bridge."
Both kagome and sakura nodded at Kakashi. Sakura got up and stared to follow after Kakashi but noticed none of her teammates were following "um…guys?"
Kagome jumped down and walked up to sakura. "Go on ahead" turning to Sasuke and naruto kagome continued "I think they both are going to stay and continue to train."
Sakura looked at kagome curiously "but what about you aren't you going to come. I mean you don't need to train anymore……"
Kagome smiled a bit "I'm going to stay too because I have a jutsu I have been working on and I need to practice with it so…."
"Oh" sakura nodded understanding what she meant. "Okay then well I'm going to go" waving good bye sakura took off to catch up with Kakashi who was still reading his book
"Sakura? Where's the others…"
Sakura turned and faced Kakashi "the boys are still climbing the trees and kagome said she is going to practicing her new jutsu..."
Kakashi nodded "okay then…" before he went back to reading his book
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Naruto looked down momentarily and noticed that kagome didn't go with Kakashi or sakura. Confused Naruto jumped down from his tree next to kagome making her stop curious. "Hey kagome why didn't you go with sakura or Kakashi-sensei?"
"I am staying to practice my new jutsu I haven't perfected it yet so I need to work out the kinks. I'm going to be over in that direction if you need me for anything" kagome pointed to an area not to far away from where she and naruto stood.
Naruto blinked. "Oh okay then" kagome smiled at him lightly before walking past him and heading in the direction she pointed to not to long ago.
"I wonder what her jutsu is." Naruto shook his head lightly before looking back at his tree and grinning. Grabbing the kunai in his hand tighter Naruto focused his chakra before running up the tree continuing his own training.
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Kagome found another clearing and stopped in the middle looking around. "This looks big enough for me to train with it." Kagome did a hand sign and summoned her chakra before whispering "shadow clone jutsu" seconds later 7 clones of herself appeared in poofs all around her all facing her.
One clone spoke up "you're practicing the jutsu again?"
Real kagome nodded and started to do another set of hand signs with her right hand while she held out her left hand palm up and flat. She furrowed her eyebrows a bit as she focused her chakra into her left hand. Seconds later blue chakra began to swirl in her hand wildly looking like a circular blue tornado. "Okay step one done now to shape it" thought kagome. Kagome stopped doing hand signs with her right hand and focused chakra to the top of her index and middle finger causing the tips to glow in a small blue circle. Bringing her glowing fingers to the chakra ball in her left hand kagome started to shape it by fastly moving her fingers over different sections of the ball slowly changing its shape until it slowly started to look like a small sword about 8 inches long and 1 inch wide. Grinning kagome looked at her new sword inspecting her work. The sword was made completely out of her chakra and was blue. The sword glowed a bit making a faint light and was shaped as a katana, the edge was sharp. "I think I'm getting better at shaping it…..every time it looks more like a katana than the last…"moving it to the side kagome smiled before she frowned "at least I got this down now I just need to keep the shape while I fight and keep the flow of chakra going…..that's the hard part…"
"Okay then are you guys ready?" kagome looked around at all of her clones that grinned back and nodded. "Yep!!" kagome smiled back at them before looking serious. "Okay then. Remember it's like last time, when my sword runs out we'll stop. And come at me with all you got okay?"
They nodded drawing out their own kunai before they all headed toward her to attack kagome at once. Kagome grabbed her sword with both hands to try to help it going.
"Focus kagome don't let it run out of chakra." Kagome blocked against a kunai before using her sword to cut through the clone making it poof before she repeated the same thing with another clone leaving 5 clones surrounding her.
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"Ah!" yelled Naruto collapsing on his butt and looking up at his tree "why does it have to be so hard??"
"Heh dope" thought Sasuke watching from his spot on the tree as naruto had a small temper tantrum
Naruto stopped his tantrum and put his hand to his chin thinking "hmmm…….what to do what to do……OH! I know I'll ask kagome she'll help me" naruto grinned at how smart he is. Getting up from the ground naruto looked around a bit before he started walking to the area kagome left to leaving a curious Sasuke who watched him leave.
"Is he going to ask kagome?" Sasuke looked at the spot Naruto resided in for a few more seconds before he jumped down and walked in the direction where naruto went.
When he saw naruto he noticed that naruto had stopped walking and was watching something. "What's he watching?" Sasuke walked closer to naruto "what-." started Sasuke but was stopped by naruto who shushed him and pointed ahead of him.
Looking over to where naruto was pointing Sasuke saw kagome fighting 5 clones of herself but what surprised him was what she was holding. It was a sword but it was made up completely of chakra and glowing blue. "How's she doing that?" Sasuke watched silently as she took out another clone leaving only 4 left.
"Cool…….." Naruto watched kagome silently awed by her jutsu.
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"4 more to go…but my sword is going to go out" kagome looked down at her sword momentarily and noticed that her sword was beginning to flicker every so often and loosing its shape slowly. "I have to try to end this quickly."
Grabbing her sword tightly in her hands kagome put more chakra into her sword causing it to flare up and stop flickering. Not wasting any time Kagome moved her sword in front of herself and ran at two of her clones to attack them. Her clones dodged and used their kunai to cut kagome on her arms causing two lines of blood to appear on her arms. Quickly spinning around on the heel of her foot kagome used her sword and swung it down in a diagonal position cutting one of the clones that attacked her in half. Using the smoke the clone made as a distraction kagome ran threw it and went after the other clone that attack her and stabbed it in the stomach making that one poof. Facing the last 2 clones kagome panted "just...2 left….."
Kagome ran at one clone and dodged the attack before throwing a roundhouse kick to the clone's right side making it fly back. Hearing a poof kagome collapsed on her knees panting. The last clone smiled at kagome before poofing away. Kagome let her chakra sword vanish and smirked a bit. "I'm…getting better last time 2 clones remained…..I almost can keep it going I just need to practice more on how not to use up all my chakra and keeping it's form…."
"Kagome!!"
"Huh?" Kagome looked up and turned her head to see naruto coming towards her
"That was so cool kagome!! You need to teach me that" Naruto stopped and sat down besides a surprised and still panting kagome.
Kagome blushed a bit embarrassed and starched the back of her head. "You saw that Naruto-?" kagome stopped talking hearing a rustle in the bushes and drew a kunai but put it back when she saw it was only Sasuke. "What was that?"
Kagome looked up at Sasuke before grinning lightly. "That? Oh that was my new jutsu I have been working on for a while now…it's called chakra sword because well it's a sword completely made up of chakra."
Naruto turned towards her bright eyed and grinning ear to ear. "You have to teach me that kagome."
Kagome shook her head and grinned at the blond. "sorry Naruto but I can't I'm not done perfecting it yet I still have to work out the problems." kagome let herself fall back onto her back and looked out at the sky with her arms behind her head as a pillow.
"Problems?" Naruto looked confused while Sasuke moved closer to hear what kagome was going to say.
"Yeah…for example I need to find a way to keep the sword going without using up a lot of my chakra and getting tired like I am now. Then I have to figure out how to keep its shape so I won't be able to teach you until then." kagome continued to look out at the sky while Naruto nodded a bit disappointed. "Oh…"
After a few minutes of silence kagome sat up and faced Naruto and Sasuke. "Did you guys need something?"
"Huh?" Naruto looked confused before he remembered and nodded. "Oh! Yeah... I wanted to ask if you could give me any hints on how to climb the trees easier since you're good at it..."
"Oh…." facing Sasuke kagome asked "you too?" Sasuke glared at her, said nothing, and turned away from kagome and naruto before he started to walk back to where he and naruto came from.
"Okay…… I'll take that as a no" kagome sweat dropped. Facing Naruto again she smiled "okay anyway naruto you need to relax and focus. If you get mad or frustrated then you won't be able to do it perfectly. Then you need to make sure you have an equal amount of physical and spiritual balance in your chakra. Once the two chakras are equal you should be able to go up all the way to the top."
Naruto was silent for a few minutes thinking over what kagome said before he grinned and nodded. "Okay…I get it…….thanks kagome!" Naruto got up from his seat next to kagome before holding a hand out to kagome to help her up. Grabbing naruto's hand kagome got up and dusted off the dirt on her legs before walking back with naruto to where Sasuke was.
"Glad to be of some help Naruto" both kagome and Naruto stopped walking in the next clearing while Sasuke continued his training. Looking up and stretching kagome faced naruto. "I'm going to go back to the house; I hope what I told you helped and don't over do it." Naruto gave her a grin and kagome sighed before smiling and walking away after throwing a wave over her shoulder.
"Okay kagome!" Naruto waved back at kagome's disappearing figure before grinning brightly and turning back towards his training.
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"Okay let's hope I don't get lost this time" kagome looked around while she walked threw the forest. A couple minutes later kagome saw a clearing and walked out it to see the huge hill and ocean in front of her a bit away. Grinning kagome looked back at the forest. "Ha! I did it! Take that forest!!" Hearing a grumbling kagome blushed and laughed a little "I guess I'm hungry……" shaking her head kagome continued on her way to Tazuna's house.
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Arriving at tazuna's house kagome opened the door to walk in but stopped seeing sakura in front of her also looking surprised. "Sakura?"
"Oh kagome you scared me." Sakura's surprise disappeared and she looked behind kagome before frowning and returning her gaze back at kagome. "Where's Naruto and Sasuke?"
"They are still training…why?" Replied kagome.
"Well tsunami said that dinner will be ready soon so I was going to go get you guys."
Kagome nodded. "Oh! Well its okay I'll go get them I just came from there so it's no problem." kagome gave a short wave towards sakura before turning around and heading back out the door leaving sakura at the door who shrugged and closed the door.
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"Hey Naruto"
Naruto stopped running suddenly and fell flat on his face. "Huh….what?!" Naruto looked up towards the Uchiha. "He's never really spoken to me before so what does he want?"
"You…know…when you asked kagome earlier" Sasuke looked away from Naruto with his eyebrow twitching in annoyance "…..what…did she tell you?"
Naruto looked at Sasuke for a bit a blank expression on his face making Sasuke's eyebrow twitch even more at the silence. Suddenly naruto grinned and started laughing. "I'm not going to tell you if you wanted to know what she said then you should have stayed and listened to kagome."
Sasuke was surprised until he started to glare at naruto making naruto glare back. You could see electricity appearing in their eyes as they continued to glare at each other.
A couple minutes later kagome came into view "yo guys!!" They didn't answer her so kagome started to walking closer to them.
"Hey! I came to tell you guys that dinner's about to be done so come on before it… gets...even……..darker………." "Okay weird….why are they glaring at each other?" kagome sweat dropped while staring at her two glaring teammates.
They didn't answer and continued to glare at each other as they walked past kagome and headed back to Tazuna's house leaving kagome behind still sweat dropping. "Um okay then" deciding not to interfere kagome walked behind the two a safe distance away incase they started attacking one another.
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The trio arrived at Tazuna's house and kagome walked in followed by Sasuke and naruto still having their glaring match. Sakura came into the room but stopped when she saw her team mates
"I was about to go get you guys" said sakura looking towards kagome before looking at Sasuke and naruto for a bit before looking back at kagome with a confused expression on her face "um…..what's with those two?"
Kagome shrugged and shook her head "truthfully I have no idea when I went to get them they already were glaring at each other like that."
"Well how do we get them to stop?" asked sakura looking at kagome
"Hmm….I'm not to sure….what to do…what to do…."said kagome. Getting an idea kagome snapped her fingers and grinned causing sakura to sigh knowing something weird is going to happen. Looking back at Sasuke and naruto with a mischievous look in her eye kagome smirked "maybe they aren't mad or glaring at each other, maybe….. They just fell madly in love with each other and are just staring very intently at one another with love in their eyes." kagome smirked and dramatically covered her eyes with her arm for effect.
Silence befell the four Genin after kagome spoke. Putting her arm down kagome looked at her teammates and started laughing. Sakura's face turned very pale and she had a surprised and WTF?! Look on her face, while Sasuke and naruto stopped their glaring match and both looked at kagome with their own pale and WTF looks before their faces went back to normal and they both started to glare at kagome causing her to smile nervously.
Feeling uncomfortable with the glares she was getting kagome laughed nervously and scratched the side of her head "um…..hehehe…I was joking….." They ignored her apology and continued to glare at her "……um you know I did it so you guys would stop glaring at each other right…" they still glared at her "um...and see it worked!!" Kagome quickly stood up straight before running to the kitchen leaving the other three Genin standing by the door.
Sakura's face went back to normal and she sighed "should have expected something like that would happen." Standing up straight sakura headed towards the kitchen leaving Sasuke and naruto alone. Sasuke and naruto faces went back to normal and they looked at each other before they started to glare at one another again forgetting the joke kagome made earlier as they headed to the kitchen.
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Once everyone was sitting at the table and tsunami placed their food in front of them both Sasuke and naruto immediately started to dig into their food while everyone else watched and sweat dropping before they started to eat their own food at a slower pace. "At least they stopped glaring at me for the joke" kagome took a bite out of the fish on her plate silently thankful they stopped glaring at her-even though they resumed their earlier glaring match.
"I want some more!!" both Sasuke and naruto got up from their seats at the same time before they glared at one another again before they both turned a slight green and turned their heads to the side and puked making everyone sweat dropped.
"Don't eat so much if you are just going to puke it up!!" sakura sat up from her own seat and slammed her fists onto the table with an annoyed look on her face.
"I…..have to eat" Sasuke wiped his face with his hand and looked back up at the others.
"And I…. have to eat more than him" replied Naruto doing the same as Sasuke. "…it's the only way I will get stronger."
Kakashi sighed and looked up from his book already done with his food. "Yes but….puking doesn't help."
"If anything it probably makes you sicker" kagome finished her food and placed her chopsticks atop her plate before standing. "Thank you for the food" kagome smiled and bowed to tsunami who nodded back with her own smile. After standing up straight kagome looked outside before facing her teammates grinning. "Well it's late so I'm going to go to bed."
"Alright kagome" Kakashi nodded while still reading his book
Kagome said goodnight and waved slightly before leaving and walking up the stairs to get to her and sakura's room.
Sakura curiously watched as kagome left. "Late...it's not that late right?" sakura looked at her teammates
"Maybe kagome's tired she was practicing this cool jutsu earlier so she might just want to rest." Naruto sat down and continued to eat his food but this time much slower.
"Oh…what kind of jutsu was it naruto" asked sakura looking interested.
Naruto looked up from his food and grinned. "You should have seen it; it was so cool it was shaped like a katana and was completely made out of her chakra."
Sasuke closed his eyes and continued to eat his food ignoring naruto as he spoke.
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Kagome slowly opened her eyes and quietly got out of her bed. Momentarily looking over to sakura she saw that sakura was asleep. "Good…she's asleep." Putting on her sandals and equipment kagome stood up from her bed and quietly walked to the door. Opening it kagome walked out the door and closed it slowly not to wake up anybody up.
Going down the stairs and heading to the door kagome opened the door and walked out and into the cold. Closing the door behind her kagome looked up and smiled. "It's so clear….you can see the stars…." Stretching kagome headed down to the small bridge by the ocean. Once there kagome took off her sandals and equipment and placed them on the edge of the bridge before facing the ocean.
"Time to train." Thought kagome looking down at the ocean and the small waves hitting the bridge. "Okay this should be easy…..it's like the tree climbing…except this time I need to release the right amount chakra constantly into the water to help me float…" Kagome started to focus her chakra to her feet making them glow a light blue before she opened her eyes and slowly put her right foot onto the water. Seeing it on the water and not sinking kagome slowly put her left foot on the water and stood still for a bit to make sure she wasn't sinking.
Kagome smiled and started to walk around on top of the water. "I think I go-ah!"
Kagome seemed to speak to soon because she suddenly fell into the water and sank down to the bottom. After a few minutes kagome resurfaced and gasped for breath before slowly swimming back towards the small bridge. Once there kagome pushed herself up and sat down on her knees panting while dripping wet and cursed slightly. "Okay then…it's not as easy…."
Kagome heard foot steps and she tensed before looking up slightly top frown at who she saw. Kagome slowly sat up before getting up and shivered lightly when a cool breeze blew by to stare at the person in front of her.
Seeing the person smirk at her misfortune kagome crossed her arms over her chest and glared at them even though wasn't really threatening since she was soaked and shivering slightly. "What do you want now?"
Her answer was another smirk and kagome's glare increased before she grinned mischievously. "I said what is you want teme?" sasuke's smirk turned into a glare and kagome grinned in triumph before she started laughing. Once she calmed down kagome stared at Sasuke for a moment with a serious expression on her face. "No seriously are you just here to ruin my peace or what?" "How did he know I was out here…I made sure I was quiet."
"Hn."
Kagome sighed at the unresponsive Uchiha before glaring at him and placing her hands on her hips frustrated ignoring as the cold breeze washed over her making her shiver slightly. "Like I've said before Hn is not an answer. If you haven't noticed I'm not doing anything but training….well trying to so you can't try to say you thing I was planning something."
Sasuke sighed inwardly before he smirked again. "I came out here when I saw you fall into the water….you call that training?"
Kagome blushed lightly and crossed her arms over her chest again frustrated. "Like I said I was training...and it's harder than it looks." Kagome looked back at Sasuke and frowned seeing him still smirking at her failing attempt before she grinned and her eyes flashed. "Fine if you think it's so easy why don't you try it?"
Sasuke seemed a bit surprised before he stared at kagome making kagome grin innocently. "Unless you know you can't do it…you can't smirk at me unless you can do it...but since your not going to you can't do anything…at least I'm trying."
Sasuke glared at her making kagome's grin increase before he seemed to look frustrated and walked passed her to the edge of the bridge. Kagome turned around and watched amused as Sasuke focused his chakra before he took a step out and into the water. "He's actually going to attempt to do it."
Kagome continued to watch amused as Sasuke started to walk out and into the water. He almost made to about ½ the way where she fell when kagome saw a blue flicker come from sasuke's feet and he stopped suddenly before his feet started to sink a small bit. "Sasuke your-!" kagome's warning came too late because Sasuke suddenly fell into the water with a splash.
Kagome blinked seeing the Uchiha gone and stared down at the bubbles that appeared for a few moments before she burst into laughter and fell to her knees gripping her stomach. "Haha I can't believe he did it…" kagome wiped her eyes as she continued to laugh. "And it-it's all because of that pride of his."
After a few minutes Sasuke resurfaced before he too swam towards the bridge with a frustrated look on his face. Once he arrived at the bridge he looked up and glared at the still laughing kagome who was rolling on the floor.
Feeling a heated glare on her person kagome stopped laughing and looked down to see Sasuke glaring at her with hate clear in his eyes making her giggling time to time before holding out a hand for him to take.
Sasuke stared her hand before brushing it off and getting up on the bridge next to kagome also soaking wet. Kagome turned towards the Uchiha and continued to giggle. "S-see I told y-you…it-it's not that easy…..personally I think its way harder than the tree climbing exercise."
Sasuke silently turned towards her still glaring and kagome sighed before glaring back and shrugging. " you're the one who decided to try and show off…I didn't force you to go...if you just swallowed some of that pride right now you wouldn't be soaking wet."
Sasuke didn't answer her and his glare increased making kagome sigh. "Look teme you know what I said was true and you glaring at me like that isn't going to fix anything."
"Stop. Calling. Me. Teme." Kagome blinked at the annoyed Sasuke before shrugging. "Hey it's not my fault you didn't re-introduce yourself…so now you're stuck with the name 'teme'."
Sasuke stared at kagome annoyed making kagome smile innocently before he sighed. "You're worse than Naruto." Kagome blinked before she gave him a peace sign. "Don't place Naruto into this…it's your fault for not being a good teammate and introducing yourself tem-."
"Sasuke."
Kagome stopped surprised and blinked at the still annoyed Sasuke. "What?" Sasuke glared at her and started rubbing his forehead knowing a headache was forming. "I said Sasuke, I'm Sasuke."
Kagome blinked before she grinned. "Well Sasuke nice to meet ya I'm kagome!" kagome was silent before she broke down laughing much to sasuke's annoyance. Once kagome calmed down she sat up and wiped her eyes grinning ear to ear. "See that wasn't so hard was it...you just had to introduce yourself."
Kagome stood up and stretched before looking down at the still soaked Uchiha. "Anyway since it seems like my laughing fit and your embarrassment is over." Kagome ignored the glare sent her way. "I'm going to continue my training now."
Kagome turned back towards the ocean and shivered slightly before remembering and facing the still sitting Sasuke. "Oh right why did you come out here you never answered my question."
Kagome got no answer and sighed. "Look if the reason you came out here is because you are still mad about that joke I said earlier then I'm sorry." She still got no answer.
Getting annoyed since she is still soaked to the bone and wants to train kagome turned around and once again placed her hands on her hips while glaring down at the emotionless Sasuke. "I'm not trying to be rude but what-."
"Fight me"
Kagome blinked a few times and let her arms drop to her sides a bit confused. "What?"
Sasuke looked annoyed before he stood up with his hands in his pockets. "I said fight me."
Kagome blinked some more processing Sasuke's words in her head "fight him…where did that come from….why does he want to fight me."
After a few moments of silence Sasuke's eyebrow started to twitch "ar-
He was interrupted by kagome who suddenly pointed at him. "Is this the whole reason why you came out here?" Her answer was Sasuke looking away his eyebrow still twitching. Kagome stared at Sasuke for a few seconds before she blinked. "You know you could hav-."
"Are you going to fight me or not?" Sasuke looked back at kagome causing her to go silent again and blink.
"Should I….fighting someone besides my clones would be good for training….." kagome sighed before stretching again and facing Sasuke. "Fine I'll fight you it will be good for training." Putting on her sandals and equipment kagome faced Sasuke again before walking past him and going back to solid land leaving Sasuke there watching her curiously.
Turning around kagome sighed. "I don't think you want to fight on a small bridge right? That's why I am walking back to solid ground with more space…I also don't feel like falling back into the water." Turning forward again kagome continued to walk until she was in the middle of a clearing with Sasuke a few feet behind her.
Facing Sasuke kagome got in a taijutsu stance and smirked "okay what are the rules?"
Sasuke smirked and got in his own fighting stance "taijutsu and weapons only and first one to give up loses."
Kagome nodded before she ran at Sasuke in a zig zag motion trying to confuse him. "She's fast." Sasuke dodged a punch to his face before counter attacking with his own punch to her stomach. Kagome grabbed his fist and smirked at his surprised expression before he smirked causing kagome's eyebrows to furrow in confusion. Sensing something to her right kagome let go of Sasuke's fist and jumped back dodging the kick that was aimed at her side. Running at Sasuke again she did a roundhouse kick to his side but he blocked it and grabbed her leg throwing her back to the side.
Landing on her feet and sliding back kagome frowned a bit "hmm….he's faster than I thought-." her thoughts were interrupted when Sasuke ran at her and aimed a punch to her face. Ducking down kagome took this as her chance and punched Sasuke in the stomach causing him to lean forward out of breath before she did another roundhouse kick to his side sending him flying back a bit before he landed on his feet his knees bent. Kagome smirked at Sasuke causing him to frown and run at her again. Sasuke aimed another punch to her stomach but was blocked by kagome's arm. Quickly withdrawing his hand he moved to the side and kicked kagome's side making her fly back and hit the ground. Getting up kagome frowned rubbing her side "that hurt."
Looking back at Sasuke kagome frowned "he blocks my attacks and can easily counter attack hmm…." Kagome ran at Sasuke again in a zig zag motion with her fist raised causing Sasuke to smirk "does she think I'm going to fall for that" he prepared to block her attack but his eyes widened when kagome disappeared from his view and appeared behind him aiming a kick to his back. Sasuke jumped forward and turned to face kagome but noticed she was gone "where did she-."
Three shuriken headed straight for him. Grabbing his own shuriken Sasuke threw them at the ones heading for him causing them to fall to the floor. Kagome appeared in front of him with a kunai in her hand. Grabbing a kunai from his weapon's pouch Sasuke defended against kagome's kunai but got a small cut on his arm.
Jumping back Sasuke threw his kunai at kagome who dodged but got cut on her cheek. Kagome grabbed more shuriken and threw them at Sasuke who dodged and disappeared. While looking for Sasuke kagome suddenly tensed and quickly moved her kunai behind her while at the same time feeling something cold and sharp aimed at her throat. Moving her head to the side kagome saw Sasuke holding the kunai currently aimed at her throat while at the same time her kunai was also aimed at his throat.
Kagome was silent and panted slightly while she looked around for a way to get free. She looked behind her to see Sasuke to was panting slightly and looked down before smirking. Quickly moving to the side lightly kagome caught Sasuke off guard by kicking under his feet making him fall slightly. Kagome quickly turned on her heel and kicked Sasuke sending him back a few feet before he landed on his knees.
Silence passed between the both of them as they stared one another down waiting for the other to make a move. After a few minutes of neither moving kagome sighed and relaxed before rubbing her side. "You know what I don't want to stand out here all night...draw?"
Sasuke seemed to consider her sentence before he too relaxed and nodded. Kagome smiled and sat down before wiping the blood that formed on her cheek. "I'm going to have to heal it later." Hearing a small thump a few feet away kagome looked up from her hand to see that Sasuke too had also sat down. Deciding to be nice kagome grinned. "Any wounds you need healing?"
Sasuke turned towards her before crossing his arms over his chest and glaring at her slightly. Moving her hands up in defense kagome sighed. "Fine, fine I'm just trying to be nice but if you want to be stubborn and act all mighty then never mind."
Silence passed between the two and kagome let herself fall onto her back while staring up at the night sky. Still gazing up at the sky kagome grinned. "You know you're not bad of a fighter...that hit to my side hurt."
Sasuke looked over to the still laying kagome before nodding. "Same to you." Kagome grinned. "Ha I knew you weren't all stuck up." Kagome felt a glare aimed at her head but ignored it to gaze up at the bright stars getting lost in her thoughts. A shooting star passed over her view and kagome blinked as a sword suddenly came to mind. "The fight with Zabuza…and that masked boy it might be soo-."
"Why were you training out here at night?"
Kagome blinked before moving her head up to stare at Sasuke who still had his arms crossed over his chest. Sitting up and shrugging kagome closed her eyes. "Might as well……the fight with Zabuza and that boy might be soon so I should get as much training as I can before it and…." Kagome grinned. "I like to train at night…it's peaceful and I'm used to it."
"Used to it?" Sasuke looked at her funny with an eyebrow raised and kagome grinned before her face turned into sadness and she looked down. "Yeah….during the day I was always traveling and looking for anything that could tell me why my clan was killed...so my only real time to train was at night."
Looking up at Sasuke again kagome grinned "what about you…do you make it a habit of following people you don't trust around, making sure that they aren't masked murders in disguise?"
Sasuke glared at her making her laugh. Another cold breeze blew by making kagome wrap her arms around herself as she shivered remembering that she still was soaked to the bone. Standing up and dusting off the dirt on her pants kagome faced Sasuke again.
"Sheesh no sense of humor" kagome got another glare from Sasuke making her sigh. "Well anyway I'm going in I don't really appreciate freezing to death." Kagome stood up straight before stretching and turning to leave before she stopped in mid-step and turned her head slightly to face Sasuke. "Anyway, I hope that since we are teammates you will at least try to trust me even it's just for the mission's sake, but if you still don't then there's nothing I can do." With one last grin and a small wave kagome turned back forward and started her way back towards tazuna's leaving Sasuke alone.
Once kagome was out of sight Sasuke stood up with his hands in his pockets and had to fight down a shiver that appeared down his spine as another breeze blew by. Looking once out at the ocean Sasuke inwardly sighed.
Another breeze blew by and Sasuke turned on his heel before turning around and heading back towards tazuna's house.
"Anyway, I hope that since we are teammates you will at least try to trust me even it's just for the mission's sake, but if you still don't then there's nothing I can do."
Sasuke stopped suddenly in mid-step rethinking what kagome said. After a few seconds Sasuke shook his head before continuing on his way.
"Tch."
I hope you guys liked the chapter. And I hope the fighting scenes were okay. Sorry if they were to short or not good. I'm still getting used to fighting scenes so yeah if they're bad then sorry. And yes I know Sasuke is OOC...please excuse that….
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