LMD is a little preoccupied at the moment, she went on ebay and got herself a Gaara plushie and it came earlier on today so….

Gaara-kun!!! (cuddles plushie) He's mine!!!

(rolls eyes) Any way here's the next chapter for you, also LMD noticed something yesterday as she was reviewing her stories, since she started with 'Extended Training of Hyuuga Hinata' no one noticed that 'extended' in the title was spelt wrong the whole time…. It was extanded whoops, its been fixed since though heehee. Anyway enough rambleing, you wanna say something?

Gaara-kun!!!

Okay that's a no then… enjoy!

Team Three's New Sensei

In the morning it took a few minutes to remember where she was, but she stretched and rolled out of the bed, being sure to make it again. She got washed and dressed in the clean clothes she'd brought and left the bag in the living room again, she'd pick it up later on. In the small kitchen she made herself a cup of tea.

Items like tea bags, milk and toilet roll where all brought by the group, each week they would each contribute a set amount of cash that was kept in a cookie jar in the kitchen, the left over cash paid the rent, electric and water, but since there was so many of them putting into it they never had to worry about those. Most of the cash was spent on munchies or soft drinks. At the start of each week someone, usually Ino, would take some cash and get the necessities so everyone got to use what they wanted because they had all paid for it. But there where a few labelled cupboards, filled with stuff that one had brought on their own, the main offender of this was Chouji but no one complained.

Hinata helped herself to some cereal and got ready to go, after she cleaned the bowl and spoon. She left the flat with the usual struggle with the dodgy door and made her way towards the hokage tower. On the way she met up with Ginger and they waked together chatting on what mission they where likely to get. They met up with the other two outside the tower, Bap looked wide awake whereas Flick looked like she just rolled out of bed with the ultimate case of bed head.

"morning." Ginger greeted the other two,

"Hey" Bap offered back, and Flick said something along the lines of,

"Meumm mey blaaa"

"Flicks not conscious yet is she?" Hinata waved a hand in front of the jounin's face and got a small reaction, along the lines of a few blinks, a screwed up face and a weak attempted to bat her hand away.

"Nope… looks like she was out last night…" Bap said.

"Hung over again eh?" Ginger asked playfully, Flick just scowled at him and took a large gulp from a water bottle in her hand. Hinata chuckled at the team captain and the headed on into the tower to the briefing rooms.

The mission that was given was another A ranked mission, hostage retrieval, a lords young son had been kidnapped by bandits that were demanding a ransom.

"That's for the senior jounin, Hyuuga Hinata, you have another mission, and you're to report to briefing room 3 after this." Hinata nodded, and waited while the others where told the details of their mission, it sounded like a fun one, they had to find the bandits hideout, retrieve the boy and eliminate the bandit leader. The senior jounin were to leave right away, so when the team was dismissed they said a quick bye to Hinata and jogged off leaving her in the hallway to trot the other way to the other briefing room. She knocked on the door because it sounded like there was already a briefing in session.

"Come in" came the call from in the room, and she stepped in the room.

"Well today's the day we find out…" Said Shin, he and Aiko where waiting outside the hokage tower for Megumi to appear.

"What time did you tell her?" Aiko asked.

"9:30, so she outta be on time if we're meant to meet at ten" at least that was their theory, a few times they had told her they where meant to meet half an hour before the real time, and had found that she would come nearer the right time, so they kept doing it.

"Where's Kuro-sensei?" Aiko asked.

"Oh he got here a few minutes before you, he went on in, I forgot to tell you." Shin answered. Aiko nodded and returned to looking up and down the street for the red head.

"There she is, Megumi hurry up! We're late!" Aiko called, they weren't really, they where on time but they still acted like she was late, it meant she didn't catch on that they where tricking her.

"Yeah, Yeah, I'm here." They headed up into the briefing room where Kuro was waiting and talking to one of the administrative staff who was in charge of genin team assignment. Aiko had told him of her and Shin's idea and he had agreed he was getting sick of Megumi as well and wanted to return to full time mission duty, where risk of injury was less likely. The genin lined up as always with Kuro on the end to listen to the outcome of their request. Aiko looked over at the table next to the woman was a pile of personnel folders, possible replacements as their team leader.

"Well, I've looked over this matter and considering your records, and request," she indicated another file to her left, their team stats, "I have come to a conclusion on the best choice of team leader for you. Tsunade-sama agrees that this would be a preferred course of action as well." There was a knock at the door.

"Ah, that will be your new sensei now… Come in" Aiko craned her neck to look around Kuro, Shin crossed his fingers and chanted 'please, please, please', Megumi was also a little worried about this, although she didn't want to show it.

A large man stepped into the room, he was dressed in a shinobi uniform complete with flank jacket and had a file tucked under his arm.

Aiko's face dropped, their request he been denied, next to her Shin cursed silently. Megumi said nothing. The man strode on into the room over to the desk and gave the woman the file. She thanked him and he spun on his heel and left.

"Wait, wasn't he…" Shin pointed after the man.

"hummm, oh no, he was just leaving in a recommendation for chuunin team selection, your new sensei should be along soon enough…" the woman said then flicked the file open to scan the lists. The genin stood awkwardly and waited, Kuro fiddled with the bandage on his forehead. Finally another knock came.

"Come in" the woman called without looking up.

"You wanted to see me?" came a familiar voice.

"YES!" Shin couldn't help himself and let the shout escape. Hinata looked over at the genin, to Kuro, to the team planner.

"Did I miss something?" Hinata asked, Aiko was looking rather chuffed with herself and Shin was barely containing a dance, Megumi just looked bored.

"Ah, Hinata-san. I was a little wary when the genin team put in a request to have you take over their training again, But after speaking to Tsunade and Kuro, it seems team three made significant progress under you."

"Hang on, What?" Hinata had walked up to the table to take a file that the team planner was holding out to her, team three's stats.

"So it has been decided that you should take over jounin duty for team three, permanently"

"I only subbed them for two months…"

"Yes but you taught us how to control our chakra sensei" Aiko piped.

"So you're seriously gonna trust me with three genin?" The woman nodded and returned to the chuunin team lists. She gave a shooing gesture to dismiss them. Out in the hall Kuro put a hand on Hinata's shoulder.

"Well good luck, they're all yours now." With that he made a hasty exit.

"You requested me?" Hinata said to the genin,

"Don't look at me…" Megumi said, Aiko nodded and Shin stopped trying to contain his little dance. "Please stop that…" the red head said to him. The boy stopped but continued to tap out a beat on the hilt of his tiny sword.

"Hai, you said yourself we needed a new sensei." Aiko said.

"Well yeah but…me?" Hinata opened the file, just to give her hands something to do and noticed the changes had already been made to it listing her as team three's jounin.

"What's wrong sensei? Don't you want to be our jounin?" Shin piped and stopped tapping out his tune. Hinata pondered for a second.

"Well it does get me outta A missions…" she mused aloud. "Well since you aren't gonna give me a choice in the matter…" Hinata gave a teasing grin, Shin whooped again.

"Gah, give over already snake boy." Megumi shoved him, he staggered away and stuck his tongue out at her.

"Come on then, to think I was all set for a mission today…" Hinata said, she spun around and started down the hall the gennin trotted behind. "Thing is now, I don't know where to start with you again, what did Kuro-san do with you?"

"Nothing as usual." Aiko told her, "He didn't even let us continue the tree climbing exercises"

"Why not?"

"He said it was too advanced for a team of our level" snorted Megumi. "He underestimated us a lot"

"Huh… right, well did you reach the top yet?" the three nodded. "Without a running start?" only Shin nodded.

"Okay then… good enough" Hinata tucked the file into her jacket and led the genin down to the training fields, to their usual ground 13. Hinata perched on the usual rock, crossing her legs.

"Right, how about your close combat did you practice that?"

"Only a little."

"Alright, then how about we start there for today, so that's Megumi and Aiko." the girls nodded. They worked in pairs, same as they did that last time, the two girls would spar and Hinata would train Shin with his blade because his tai-jutsu skills exceeded the other two but his swordsmanship needed work. The girls went a little way from the other two and began slowly, Hinata watched for a second while she waited for Shin to draw his little sword and warm up a bit.

"Ready?" she asked, once the girls got into the swing of things. The Royki gave a sharp nod and held his little sword in front of him. Hinata put one hand behind her back and the other clasping the handle of one of her short swords. The boy charged forward and slashed, Hinata hopped backwards out of his reach then spun around behind him as he swiped again. He twisted around aiming low Hinata drew her blade and caught his deflecting his blow downwards, Shin charged in again swiping at her, all his strikes where deflected.

"Stop trying to overpower me, aim your strikes." she told him, as she once again knocked his blade away, "you're only tiring yourself out and the time it takes you to recover leaves you wide open." she pushed forward, Shin brought his blade up to block the strike, Hinata pushed against his blade and swirled it around, the sharp movement of his blade dislodged his grip on the handle and his little blade was flung from his hand. With a dull thump it landed nearby on the grass, he scurried off to collect it and Hinata checked on the two girls.

"Megumi, your stance is too relaxed, you're giving Aiko and opening" as she called Aiko ducked under Megumi's arm and aimed a kick at the back of Megumi's knees. The red head buckled, but managed to roll out of the way before Aiko could attack again. "Good!" Hinata called to both of them, Aiko for her attack and Megumi for correcting her stance. While she was distracted Shin tried to be sneaky and attack while she was watching the girls, but Hinata caught him and knocked him aside, he lost his balance and nearly fell on his face but Hinata grabbed the back of his jacket.

"Nice try kid, good strategy" He found his feet and she let him go and they started again. Hinata kept one hand behind her back and fought with one blade, just to give the genin a chance.

"You're still trying to overpower me…" she warned, he furrowed his brow in concentration, his little eyes swirled to amber as he activated his Serpents gaze. Hinata smiled at least he could do that now while focusing on something else.

"Huh?" she heard something behind her, glancing over her shoulder she spotted a fireball coming through the trees, "Shin, Down!" Both on them hit the dirt as the massive ball flew over head, "You okay?" she asked quickly the boy nodded and Hinata shot off the ground running after the ball, it was heading towards the girls. Aiko saw the ball first and shouted to Megumi, but both girls froze as the ball barrelled down on them. Hinata tackled them both from the side, just managing to get them out of the way.

"You two okay?" Megumi nodded roughly digging her chin into the ground. Aiko's eye widened.

"Sensei!"

"WHOA!" Hinata rolled off the girls and rubbed her back on the ground to smother the flames that had sparked up on the back of her flack jacket. "Everyone okay?" Hinata asked sitting up, the two girls still lay on the ground beside her both said yes. "Shin?"

"I'm okay…" He said coming over, Hinata glanced over at the girls, Aiko's hair had been singed and her sandal blackened but she was okay. She was close to the ball as Hinata managed to get them out of the way.

"Where did that come from?" asked Megumi getting off the ground and brushing dirt off her t-shirt, her chin was grazed from when she hit the ground.

"I dunno, but I'm gonna find out, stay here" Hinata glared in the direction that the fireball had come from, with one final glance at the genin to check they where okay she disappeared to find the source of the attack.

"There, told you I could do it!" the genin declared proudly.

"No one said you couldn't…" Chouji said quietly, the boy was the third genin to make up their team for the chuunin exams.

"You just wanted to show off didn't you" Ino scolded from nearby, she was sitting with Shikamaru. The team was waiting for Asuma to show up when the new kid got bored and decided to show off, and since juggling kunai didn't get him any attention he decided to shoot off one of his mothers fire ball techniques.

"Ah be quiet twiggy" the boy snapped.

"Twiggy!?" Ino started to get up to pummel him but Shikamaru held her back.

"Ino, relax" he said, he didn't like the boy much either boy he wasn't about to set an angry Ino on him.

"Yeah, listen to the pineapple" Then again, Shikamaru let go and Ino stomped over to him.

"OI!" the shout stopped Ino mid swing. Hinata was stalking over to them.

"Hinata? I thought you had a mission today…" Shikamaru said.

"Anyone smell burning?" Chouji muttered.

"Who's the smart ass with the fireball?" Hinata demanded as she stopped in front of them. Ino pointed at the cocky genin. Hinata turned her glare on him.

"Do you know why you not allowed to fire long range attacks like that in these open training grounds?" she hissed at him. He looked at her with a bored expression.

"No" he shrugged.

"Its in case there are other teams training in the surrounding grounds. Baka!" Hinata spat at him bringing herself up to her full height to stand over the genin, even though it was only a few inches of a difference angry Hinata was scaring Ino. Chouji had walked over to them located the burning smell.

"Whoa! Hinata are you okay?" the material of the flack jack had been burned away to reveal the armoured core.

"I'm fine." she said through gritted teeth to Chouji.

"Well if you couldn't dodge that slow moving attack then you mustn't be much of a Chuunin."

"Oohhhh he dead…." Ino muttered and stepped back as the prominent vein on Hinata's forehead began to throb.

"Okay, one, I'm a jounin, and two, you nearly toasted my genin!" She shouted at him.

"You're a team leader, I find that hard to believe." he said back, before the others could blink Hinata and the cocky genin disappeared.

Team ten spun around to find the source of a strangled 'Gerk' from behind them, Hinata had pinned the boy against a nearby tree. Needless to say the quick scenery change scared the genin.

"What's going on?" Asuma asked coming up to the group. "Hinata, why are you manhandling my genin?" he asked calmly, he could probably guess by the looks of the back of Hinata's jacket.

"He's on your team?" Asuma nodded and Hinata let the boy go, he stumbled out of Hinata's reach and muttered 'crazy bitch'. "Well this genus decided to shoot off a fire ball into another training ground, he nearly toasted my genin, I only just got them out of the way." Asuma shot a scowl in the boys direction, them turned back to Hinata.

"Your genin?" he asked, changing the topic as he dug his cigarette pack out of his pocket and tapped one out.

"Remember that team I was subbing awhile ago?"

"team three?" she nodded, "I heard Kuro got injured on their last mission, are you subbing them again?" He held his lighter up to the end of the ciggy and took a deep drag.

"No, I've been assigned the team now." she said relaxing her stance, Asuma was just trying to calm her down and it would be a good thing if she did. He let out a puff of smoke before speaking again.

"Congrats on that, are they all okay?"

"They're okay, just a few singes." Asuma nodded as he took another drag.

"So, is it true?" he turned to the genin.

"Hey I didn't know they where there." shot back defensively.

"Which is exactly why it's not allowed to fire off long range attacks in these small training grounds." Hinata said again, she took on Asuma's calm tone, which seemed even more dangerous than the shouting, Ino thought to herself.

"To be honest, if we didn't need you to make a complete team for the exams I wouldn't stand to have you on my team." Asuma said brushing his hand through his hair.

"The exams are in the spring, so we only have to live with him for another couple of months" Added Shikamaru.

"True…" Asuma sighed, releasing another cloud of smoke. "Anyway that aside you have work to do as Shikamaru pointed out there isn't much time left." Asuma let them go about their own training.

"Where are your genin anyway?" Asuma asked.

"In ground 13, I should get back over to them. I still want to hurt him…" She pointed to the cocky genin,

"Yeah… but you can't … at least until after the exams." Hinata just gave him a look. "Why don't you bring your genin here, I'm sure the teams could use the experience of fighting an unknown opponent."

"maybe, but team three are… well, not the most experienced team there is…"

"it would be better for them then…"

"You think?" Asuma nodded as he was mid-drag.

"You're the senior jounin…" Hinata nipped her thumb and drew it across the fox on her arm, the branded summon jumped off and ran off to fetch the genin.

"What was that?" Asuma watched the twitching bushes that the fox had just disappeared through.

"It's a branded summon… you know Takara has them too" Asuma stared at her blankly, Hinata explained the technique while they waited for team three.

"There they are" Hinata spotted her genin coming over, Feisu the fox trotted back over to Hinata and lay down next to her feet.

"Asuma would like to run an exercise to help his genin prepare for the exams, and it would be a good way to see how well you are doing as well." Her genin looked a little worried as she told them about it.

"What kind of exercise do you think we can do?" Asuma rolled his ciggy to the side of his mouth to talk again.

"Dunno, something simple, Kuro wasn't exactly rigorous with their training, how about 'capture the sash'?" Hinata suggested Asuma agreed and called his genin over and explained the rules or the exercise, Hinata's team got red sashes and Asuma got yellow, they each got ten minutes to plan and hide themselves and then the training would begin. First team to lose all three sashes loses.

"Alright then, lets see what you guys can do." Hinata smiled at her genin, Aiko nodded.

"We won't let you down sensei!" With that her team ran off to start the exercise, Shikamaru came up to Hinata, who was stroking the little fox.

"They're gonna lose aren't they?" he asked her,

"Big time…." Hinata sighed, Team three needed a lot of help.

End chapter 9

Aw come on, how many people were expecting it to be Hinata? (still holding Gaara plushie in death grip)

Here's a fun fact, Team Three where originally meant for one appearance, but because LMD loved the characters she came up for with for them they're are becoming main characters

Well I like Aiko and Shin more than Meg really…I dunno why I just don't like her….

Well read and review please and thank you (the other way doesn't rhyme…)