Akira's POV
'Did he just say that we have a 65% chance of failing! You have got to be kidding me. I kinda wished we hadn't asked in the first place.' I glanced over towards Naruto and the others, each one had a unique expression of despair.
Naruto looked like he was going crazy, Sakura looked plain depressed and Sasuke…well…I think he's glaring more than before. Of course I'm not sure about that. Stupid emotionless idiot.
"See, Didn't I tell you, you wouldn't like it." Kakashi said in that weird ominous voice that is really beginning to creep me out.
"That's crazy! We worked hard to get here. Believe it! What was that graduation test for anyway." Naruto started to argue.
"I have to agree with Naruto. It does seem kinda pointless." I said.
"Well it wasn't pointless. It was just to select the candidates who might become genin. Or not."
'Thanks just add that line onto the end. No need to freak us out more.'
"Are you trying to scare us?" I asked.
"No I'm just saying the truth of what might be."
"So…trying to scare us." I stated.
"No. Now can I explain the rest or do I have to fail you before you get the chance to try? Not that it'll make much difference."
"No, No. I'm good. Carry on oh wise and fearless leader." Naruto tried to cover up his laugh beside me.
Kakashi glared at me."Alright, moving on. I decide whether you pass or fail. Be at the designated training spot at 5am and bring your ninja gear."
'I can do this; all I need is some ninja gear. I will make sure to pass.' I look at Naruto who seems to be really tense.
He's shaking; I reach out and grab his shoulder. He looks towards me before nodding his head and turning back to glare at Kakashi. I look around me, everyone seems to be determined in one way or another. I'm not sure how far Sakura's determination will go considering she's probably thinking about Sasuke, but I guess we'll see. Sasuke just looks like he always does. Mad, angry, spiteful, arrogant, vain, egotistical and…did I mention mad? I shook my head, he needs to get over whatever it is and live for once.
"That's it. Dismissed. Oh tomorrow you better skip breakfast or else you'll puke." Kakashi pretty much threatened.
All our eyes went wide, well Sasuke being Sasuke his didn't. It was then that Kakashi took his leave. I stood up and turned to the group.
"Well that was dramatic don't you think?" I turned to them.
"Yeah, what was with him and his stupid 'better skip breakfast or else you'll puke' thing. I'm not a little kid I can handle it." Naruto mocked.
"You're skipping breakfast tomorrow aren't you?" I said with a you're-so-obvious-look.
"How'd you guess?" He laughed while scratching the back of his head.
I just shook my head and smiled. That is until Sasuke started to leave which broke Sakura's quiet thinking time as she ran after him asking for a date. I raised one eye brow.
'How I wish she would just stay in her quiet thinking time. Well, I have more than enough hours to kill before I go home. Maybe me and Naruto can grab some ramen.'
I looked over to notice that Naruto too had left me. I watched as he tried to get the rejected Sakura to go on a date with him. I sighed and rolled my eyes.
'That's just perfect now because of this love triangle there is going to be non-stop fighting. Why did Sakura just have to like Sasuke and why did Naruto just have to like Sakura, it just causes problems.'
I looked at the sky, and judging from where the sun is I have enough time to visit Gramps and maybe Izumo and Kotetsu. I started to walk down the path to lead downstairs to the streets but decided it would be easier to just jump down from the railing. I turned back, ran at the rail and jumped over it to the street below. I landed perfectly…sort of. So, I fell slightly backwards but I caught myself before I actually fell so it counts. I looked around and noticed that a lot of people were staring at me in shock. I guess they don't get many kids falling from the sky. Weird, seeing as it's a ninja town, you'd expect this to be normal. Now, I don't know if I've mentioned this before but I hate when people stare at me. So, me being the awesome person I am, smiled nervously before ducking my head and rushing on to my next destination, the Hokage's tower.
A short 5 minute run later and I was running up the stairs and through the curved hallway, only to be told by the secretary that I wouldn't be able to see Gramps today because he was in a meeting with the council. I nodded and thanked her politely before leaving.
'Well, that was a waste of time.' I began kicking a pebble down the street thinking of other possible things I could do to pass the time. 'I don't think Kakashi will be home just yet. Maybe I should visit Izumo and Kotetsu. I did promise them after all. Also they might know where Ibiki is. I still haven't told him I've passed and I'm sure that he'd want to know if I wasted his time or not. Yeah why not? I'll go visit the idiots.'
I ran off to the main Konoha gate to find the two idiots. When I finally reached the gate, I saw exactly how boring their job was. I didn't think that guarding the gate could possibly be so boring but seeing as they're both completely out of it I guess I was wrong.
Izumo was staring off into space thinking about who knows what and Kotetsu had his head down and was snoring lightly. I smiled and walked over to them. Neither noticed me as I walked up and even after I said hey they still didn't respond. I figured that the only way to get their attention was to startle them even if just a bit. So, I walked backwards a bit before running at the des. I jumped up when I reached it and landed right in front of them creating quite a loud noise in my opinion. Izumo freaked out and started to wave his hands about, that was until his chair tipped backwards knocking him to the ground of the little booth.
Kotetsu woke up with a start yelling, "Where are they? Where's the enemy? I'll get 'em."
I just stared at them both in amusement before saying plainly, "Hey."
"Argh, what's the matter with you? That is not how you greet a person after you wake them up so…so rudely!" Kotetsu yelled while grabbing the front collar of my shirt.
I raised my hands defensively but did nothing about the satisfied smirk that stuck on my face.
"Akira, you do realize that you could have just said something and we would have noticed right?" Izumo said from the ground as he put a hand to his head.
"I did you guys didn't respond so I had to get a little drastic." I replied while still in Kotetsu's grip.
"You call this a little drastic? What would you classify as something actually drastic?" Kotetsu still yelled in my face. 'Man his grip wasn't gonna let go.'
"Not sure, never had to use anything drastic before. It always works out at a little drastic." I said calmly.
They both just stared at me like I had just given them the most confusing equation on earth. I began to work on getting Kotetsu's hands to let go of my collar. Which is a lot harder to do then I thought. Finally though he let go and they both sat back down again. I sat on the desk facing them to make it easier to talk and there were only two chairs.
"So, aside from wanting to disturb our work, what brings you here?" Izumo asked while repositioning his chair.
"Got bored, said I would visit and I also wanted to ask if either of you know where Morino Ibiki is?"
"Morino Ibiki? Why do you need him?" Kotetsu asked shocked that I even knew the name.
"How do you even know him?" Izumo glanced at me suspiciously from behind his side-bangs.
"Yeah well my sensei wants me to find him and deliver something." I lied to them.
'They don't need to know besides they probably wouldn't believe me that the scary Ibiki would train a kid. I think Gramps is still having difficulties believing it too.'
"Oh well in that case just give it to us we'll deliver it to him." Izumo offered. More like ordered.
"I dunno, my sensei gave it to me directly and it wasn't a written message."
Kotetsu having just caught on to Izumo's suspicions jumped in, "That's alright I'm sure they won't mind. How hard of a message is it? I mean they sent it with a pretty green genin so they shouldn't mind."
"It's not a very hard message but I'd rather deliver it myself so I know it gets to him."
Izumo rolls his eyes, "Akira, just give it up alright? We know your sensei didn't ask you to deliver a message. We are jounin, don't think you can fool us. So, what do you want with Ibiki and how do you, of all people know him?"
I sighed inwardly, let's see how they handle the truth then. "Fine, you caught me. He was my teacher the night before the genin test. I think he should know that the training wasn't-" Izumo cut me off by raising his hand in front of my face.
"Okay, Akira your last lie was better than this one so if anyone asks stick to the first one." Kotetsu said in replace of Izumo who did nothing but shake his head.
"But-" I started, 'Oh what the hey. Might as well fake it. I already knew they weren't going to believe me.' "Forget it, do you two know where he is?"
"Yeah, he went on a mission yesterday, he should be back soon though." Kotetsu said.
Izumo just stared at him like he was an idiot. "You weren't supposed to tell him that, idiot."
"Alright, well then I'll hang out with you guys until he gets back." I said.
"Fine by me. Just don't wake me up again." Kotetsu yawned before going back to sleep.
Izumo on the other hand wasn't trusting my words just yet. I couldn't blame him though. I had only been in the village what, 3 days? Not to mention I all of a sudden know a very important person who I'm not supposed to know and now I'm looking for him.
'He probably thinks I'm an assassin or something. Funny how he thinks I'm an assassin looking for someone, when really an assassin is looking for me. Well, numerous assassins. It makes me wonder if they changed the whole dead or alive thing to just dead. No I shouldn't think about it, it'll just make me depressed.' I shook my head and in doing so got a confused expression from Izumo.
Eventually Izumo lost interest in keeping a watch on me and went back to zoning out and thinking about whatever it is he thinks about. So, I stayed there thinking about everything that's happened since I got here and before I knew it a full hour had passed.
I heard the crunch of gravel beneath people's feet and looked to see about 4 people enter through the gates. Of course the two idiots didn't notice so I being the 'helpful' kid I am decided to 'help'.
Izumo was perched precariously on his chairs two back legs and Kotetsu was close enough for Izumo to grab him. So, I put my foot under a front leg of Izumo's chair and pulled my leg up. His chair fell back pulling him from his thoughts with a start and he trying to keep his balance grabbed Kotetsu's shoulder. This made Kotetsu freak out and he too fell back with a thud. I couldn't help but laugh at the brilliance of my plan.
From the panic situation I just caused, the four ninja looked over to see what the commotion was about. What they saw must have confused them. Here was a kid sitting in the gates booth laughing while the actual gate keepers slowly made their way up from the ground, complaining and yelling loudly. I saw Ibiki's face as soon as he saw me it was like he realized everything. He seemed to understand that I was the cause and that he should have expected it to be me. He and the others walked over to us. They asked Izumo and Kotetsu what happened and if they were alright. I on the other hand was talking to Ibiki.
"Hey, Ibiki."
"I told you not to act so familiarly with me." He replied gruffly with his hands in his pockets.
"And I told you my reasoning for doing so. So, I just thought you'd want to know I passed the test and am on team 7."
"Is that all you wanted to tell me? Or do you want more training?" He carefully eyed me.
"Yes, and No. I can't train with you tonight the real test is in the morning and I need to go buy my ninja gear. Also you are an incredibly hard person to find. I had to wait here for a good hour and Izumo thinks I'm trying to kill you. Well, I have nothing else to really tell you so I will see you around." I waved bye as I ran off to find Kakashi who needed to help with getting me ninja gear.
I passed the shocked group of Jounins who were looking to Ibiki for an answer on why he was being nice all of a sudden especially to a random kid he supposedly just met.
Kakashi's POV
After meeting my team I had the rest of the day off, giving me time to look for Ibiki. I needed to talk to him about his training methods and, of course, get a heads up on what Akira learned. I wouldn't want to be caught without prior knowledge.
'Let's see I know most of the facts on Naruto and Sakura, Sasuke's strengths are more difficult seeing as he never needed to use his full strength in the academy and Akira well he was only in the academy for a few days so not much is known on him but at home he isn't too bad except when waking him up. Hmm...'
I was pushed from my thoughts when I saw Ibiki walking out of the Hokage main building. I walked up to him and he stopped when he saw me.
"Good day Ibiki." I said.
He just nodded, "Kakashi. You need something." It was more of a statement then a question.
"Yes actually, I heard you trained Akira and I wanted to know how it went, what worked and what he learned."
"I see, you must be his new sensei."
I nodded to show him he was right.
"Well then, I will tell you what happened and you can take from it what you will. I told him to meet me on training ground 66-"
"That would be practically impossible for an academy student. Why'd you pick there of all places?"
"I was hoping he would quit. I had a bad first impression so I didn't want him to make the test. I gave him a few hours and surprisingly the kid was already at the top when I got there. So, I fought with him a bit. He mainly dodged, he got hit a few times, but he managed to get a few good hits in." Ibiki rubbed his slightly bruised cheek. "His back was right up against the edge and he knew it. He started to look scared and the one last swing sent him down."
"You threw him off training ground 66. That could have killed him, even a trained genin could have died!"
'He actually did throw him off a cliff, I can't believe it. I heard he could be a little cold but this is just ridiculous.'
"Yeah, well I figured that the best way to train him in using chakra is to make the need greater, so I sent him down. And I didn't throw him off I kicked him off. I wasn't going to let him die so I placed a jutsu on the ground so he could live. He would need hospital treatment but he'd be able to walk away if he wanted. I was hoping he would leave after he made it to the bottom, but the kid came right back up. He then jumped on my back. Heh…that was a shocker."
'Sounds like something he'd do.' I thought back to when he did that to me.
"I asked him if he used chakra at all and he said no. He seemed pretty cut up so I had a hard time not believing him. Kid, had a nice batch of cuts on his hands and forearms not to mention a dislocated shoulder and the bruises from our earlier fight. After that I trained him in chakra and taught him the basics. We trained until about 5am in the morning or so and the kid fell asleep. He slept for about an hour before I woke him up. At first I thought he wouldn't be able to move seeing as he forced himself to not take breaks. We ran down the cliff using chakra and then I sent him off to his exam."
"Ibiki, I don't think I like your training method but thank you for telling me. This will be an interesting day tomorrow."
We both nodded at each other and went our separate ways. On the route home I thought about what Ibiki said. 'Ibiki really did all that? That's worse than how we train a chunin. Akira could have died up there. Maybe I should take Akira to the hospital tonight just in case.'