Disclaimer: Nope. I don't own Naruto. But who says I wanna? I can make just as much dinero as those people who own Naruto by selling my fanfics on e-bay to some hopeless geek! What? I would buy them. And I do admit a bit on the proud side to being a Naruto geek. And also a Code Lyoko geek. And a regular ol' geek! gasp I'm multi-tasking!
Chijin- Has two meanings. First meaning- Friend, companion, acquaintance. Second meaning: Dunce, blockhead, idiot. In this fanfic, idiotic friend. Not quite a compliment.
Shunshuu-Prodigy, genius, talented.
Ahou- Idiot.
What the Future Holds
Kuyuu stood in a ready stance.
"Aw, damn, I'm gonna lose," Kitami muttered to herself. "All right, teme's weak point is genjutsu… It would help a lot if that wasn't also mine… So next weakest point taijutsu… After that, ninjutsu… The same as most people… and I happen to fall into that category! He's a step ahead of me in everything!" Kitami was getting frustrated. She was running out of time and ideas. "Ah, well, just give it my all and hope I don't lose too bad. Besides, it's not like Kuyuu has a life or anything… But then again, I don't have too much of a life so why don't I stop talking to myself and fight, neh?"
"Anytime you're ready, chijin!" Kuyuu smirked at her.
Kitami's turned around and folded her arms. "Shunshuu, you're conceited."
"You would be, too, if you were as good as me. Or rather, if everyone around you was as bad as you!" Kuyuu told her.
"You're still conceited, yup yup," Kitami said.
Kuyuu was suddenly attacked from a lot of shadow clones. "What the…?"
Kitami clapped her hands. "Yay! It worked." She flipped back as to let her clones do the fighting.
Kuyuu kicked, tripped, and punched his way through the clones. There were three or four that wouldn't poof.
"C'mon, chijin, you're clones won't hold out much longer!" Kuyuu teased.
"Okay!" The Kitami charged at him willingly, which surprised him.
Why would she attack me with such willingness? Kuyuu was surprise. The shadow clone technique was usually a ploy to keep the user from fighting and having the chance of getting harmed.
Kuyuu kicked her in the stomach and she flew into a tree. And she poofed! "What the-?"
"Miss me?" Kitami smiled with her eyes closed and stuck out her tongue and held her fingers in a peace sign.
"What the- What are you doing…?" Kuyuu muttered.
"You're an ahou. When I flipped out of the fight? That wasn't me. I flipped forward and a Shadow Clone went back. Get it?" Kitami explained impatiently.
Kuyuu grabbed her wrist and twisted her arm back bringing her toward him.
"Ow…" She whispered so that Kuyuu couldn't hear it. Daddy, please stop, you're hurting me!
He used a sweep kick to trip her and before she hit the ground he kicked her stomach and sent her flying into a tree. She coughed and blood came out of her mouth.
"You're a retard. Letting your guard down in the middle of a fight?" Kuyuu told her.
She's nothing compared to her brother, she must be mentally deficient.
You're a retard!
Her father's voice rang through her head.
Kuyuu looked at her weirdly. Kitami's eyes were glazed… With anger.
"You are going to hell!" Kitami screamed.
Kuyuu was alarmed. Kitami wasn't looking at him, and he hadn't done anything particularly wrong… She wasn't talking to him, so who the hell was she talking to?
She looked up at Kuyuu, her usually kind eyes were nothing but angry. She smiled.
"Um, Kitami? It's… just a spar, you know…" Kuyuu said quietly.
"Yeah, and guess who's gonna lose?" Kitami smiled innocently.
"Um, you?" Kuyuu tried.
"Wrong!" Kitami advanced on him, pulling out shuriken and kunai. She threw them at him, many missing but more hitting their target.
"Oooooh, what's going on? I can't see them; the trees are in the way!" Ran said. She wanted to see how Kuyuu was doing.
As soon as the sentence came out of Ran's mouth, Kitami came flying toward them. Kitami got up and wind started swirling around her. "Obviously Kuyuu-shunshuu is too good for fire, so let's try wind!" She sent the wind that was swirling around her towards Kuyuu. He blocked his face by crossing his arms in front of his face. His arms started bleeding a bit from the cutting wind.
"Kuyuu!" Ran shrieked.
Kuyuu yelled, "Katon Goukakyuu no Jutsu!" and a large amount of fire went towards Kitami.
"You forget fire is my best element, also, Kuyuu-shunshuu!" Kitami put her hands in the air to redirect the fire ball back to Kuyuu.
"Crap!" Kuyuu dodged the thing barely escaping.
Think… Aha! Kuyuu took out shuriken and threw them up in the air. Then he yelled, "Katon Housenka no Jutsu!" The shuriken got covered in flames and went towards Kitami.
"Again with the fire? I'll just-" Kitami redirected the fire, but wasn't ready for the shuriken that went flying toward her.
"Ahhhhhhhhh!" Kitami screamed as the shuriken went into her.
"Alright, stop. Kuyuu wins this match. Are you okay, Kitami?" Nobu asked.
"Physically, yeah. I'm fine," Kitami answered, pulling a shuriken out of her arm.
Kuyuu turned to her. "Ehehehehe, sorry, I guess I got carried away."
Kitami shrugged. "S'okay, I did too. I would say I don't know what came over me, but I would be lying. So… Ja."
"Alright, you guys have your lunch. Here." Nobu held out four boxes of food to the kids.
Keitaro, Kuyuu, and Ran hungrily took their boxes. Kitami took hers and examined it.
"Kita, aren't you going to eat?" Keitaro asked.
"Naw, I have a stomach ache. I'm not very hungry," Kitami lied. In truth she was lying. She was actually starving.
Later
"So we're going to do some accuracy exercises. Please take out a Fuuma Shuriken," Nobu instructed.
The children all obeyed.
Kitami now had a stomachache for real. She was feeling a bit sick, even weak.
"Before we start, any questions?" Nobu examined his students.
Kitami raised her hand.
"Yeah?" Nobu asked.
"How do you get your hair to stay like that? You know your hair reminds me of this song from a musical I've seen, Defying Gravity. Can you sing?"
Nobu sweatdropped. "Ehm, no…"
"Oh," Kitami answered.
"Does anyone have any other questions?" Nobu asked.
Kitami put her hand back in the air.
"That has to do with the art of throwing weapons?"
Kitami's hand went down.
"Okay then, we-"
"Ooh wait, I thought of something!" Kitami interrupted.
"A question that has to do with the art of throwing weapons?"
Kitami nodded.
"One that doesn't have to do with my hair?"
"Oh, never mind," Kitami said.
"Now, I chose Fuuma Shuriken because they are very useful during a battle, although they are a bit heavy. You'll learn the proper way, and it will be tiring. Because you'll be doing it the right way. After we perfect the Fuuma Shuriken here, we'll practice over a river on a log. I've got the perfect place," Nobu told his students.
Hours later
"Okay, now we will be going in turns. First Keitaro, then Kuyuu, then Ran, then Kitami," Nobu instructed. They were at a very pretty spot in a secluded valley with a river running through it.
Kitami was feeling weaker than before. Two and a half hours of throwing a Fuuma Shuriken was very tiring. And now they had to do it on a stupid log.
Keitaro went first. He had the right form, but he was focusing on that too much and he lost his balance. Ran laughed at him when he fell in the water.
Kuyuu went and threw his shuriken, and he also lost his balance, but he grabbed onto the log and swung himself over it.
"Ooh, Kuyuu-kun, you're so cool!" Ran said.
"Hn," He replied.
"Show off…" Keitaro muttered.
"Aw, he didn't get wet, Ran, he still didn't do it right… Kuyuu-shunshuu… stupid conceited boy…" Kitami said to no one in particular.
"Are you watching, Kuyuu-kun?" Ran asked before she threw her shuriken.
Ran threw her Fuuma shuriken and wobbled a bit, but she didn't fall off.
"Very good, Ran!" Nobu encouraged her.
"Kuyuu-kun! Did you see me?" Ran asked.
"Uh… yeah… good job?" Kuyuu said, mostly to get her to leave him alone.
"Okay, Kitami, your turn," Nobu instructed her.
Kitami slowly stepped up onto the log. She was so weak and tired. Maybe she should've had lunch…
Kitami threw her shuriken the complete wrong way and lost her balance. She didn't have enough energy to try to stop herself from falling, and she thought to herself just before she fell, the water looks kinda deep… No damage will be done.
Kitami closed her eyes and felt herself hit the cool water. She was moving quite quickly away from the rest of her team. "Uh oh… Really fast current… Loud rumbling noises… Sensei coulda told us there was a waterfall!" Kitami desperately tried to swim back to the river bank, but to no avail. She felt so helpless. Tears stung at her eyes as she approached her doom. So this is how it's gonna end… Because I was so stupid to be An-
Kitami was interrupted from her thought by a large shuriken being thrown over her head. At closer observation there was a rope attached to the shuriken and there was someone attached to the rope. Kitami tried to grab the rope but it was amazingly hard to grab onto a thin and stringy piece of rope when you're about to go headfirst down a fifty foot waterfall and even harder to keep your hold on it. So she couldn't.
She saw a dark purple blob coming up toward her and registered that Kuyuu-shunshuu is coming to save me, wow does that crush every bit of my pride… She was rudely interrupted (again) by a surge of water that took her underneath and she may have hit her head on something, because she blacked out.
Okay, that's the end. That was hard to stop writing. I had to cut this chapter in half, so I killed two chapters with one… uh…. Stone? Ehehehe, don't mess with sayings, you'll look like an idiot in the end. Trust me, I should know.