Ch. 21 Another Assignment
"So do you understand what I need you to do Don?" Tsunade asked. Don looked straightforward at her with a serious face. "Yes I do." Tsunade stood up, "You are one of our finest ninja," she paused "funny, I still call you ours, you live in Suna now." Don looked up at her, "Don't worry about it, I'm here to help either village, after all this is my home village and I do have some obligations to it."
Tsunade smiled, "Like I was saying, you are one of our finest ninja; I have total confidence in you." Don smiled and got up leaving the office. He headed back home where he walked into his father's master bedroom. He walked up to his father's trunk and opened it and pulled out some more scrolls.
"I have been waiting to use you guys for quite some time." He said pulling out the scrolls. He returned to his room where all of his friends were. He went to his room and grabbed his gear and walked toward the door. "Where are you going?" Temari asked. Don turned to his friends.
"Oh right, yeah, Tsunade already has me on a mission, she's giving me a month to train for it so you guys can do whatever, I have to remain here and start my training." Temari looked a bit sad. "You've been alive for two nights now and she already has you doing her bidding?" Rain asked. Don nodded, "the world doesn't rest just because a guy comes back to life."
They all shrugged. "You know where to find me incase an emergency occurs." Don said waving goodbye to his friends. Don returned to his house, locked all the doors, took a hot bath and went to bed. The next day he would begin his training for his next mission.
The next morning Don woke up, ate breakfast and headed to his back yard to dig through his family's scrolls to see what he could learn next. He opened up the first scroll. "Wow, this looks interesting, a wooden imprisonment jutsu, that might just come in handy." He made a hand sign and summoned his bear companion Bernatello.
Bernatello shook himself off. "I was in the middle of a nap, thank you very much." He said. "You're getting bigger by the day still I see, eh Bernatello?" Don said happily. Bernatello looked up at him. "Don, long time no see, how are things?" Don smiled at him, "Fine, just fine, I got my next assignment and I only have a month to train for it, I need your help with this."
Bernatello nodded, "Sure thing." Don showed him the first jutsu. "I want to see if I can imprison you." Don said pointing down at the scroll. "Are you freaking crazy? You're using me as a test subject? Don't you know that's animal abuse?" Bernatello started to complain. "Would you rather me send you to Temari since you don't want to help?" Don glared at him. The fur on Bernatello's face went pale, "Uh, no, no that won't be necessary." He said getting a good distance from Don.
Don made the hand signs and performed the jutsu. He only managed to make a half of a cage around Bernatello. Bernatello curled into a ball in fear, when he peeked up at the half made prison, he sighed in relief. After about an hour of trying, Don finally got it down, being able to make any sized prison that he wanted and making the walls pretty thick and strong.
Bernatello walked up to Don as he sat on the ground and laid his head in Don's lap and read along with Don the next jutsu. Don pet Bernatello's head while he read. "Wood armor?" Bernatello asked. "Yeah, looks interesting. Let's give it a shot." Don said.
Don made a hand motion and wooden armor appeared around his body. "Wow, looks cool, move around a bit, and make sure it's flexible." Bernatello said. Don moved around, doing jumps, flips, kicks, punches and all sorts of motions to make sure he could maintain high mobility. "This feels great, it doesn't add any weight, I feel as light as a feather." Don said looking at his armor.
Don then looked at Bernatello, "Give me your best shot." He said. Bernatello charged at full speed and slammed into Don. Don was sent flying back. "Wow, not a scratch on the armor. This is pretty durable stuff." He said as he got up.
"Yeah, but keep in mind that you won't be so hot if someone uses a fire element jutsu on you, no pun intended." Don looked at him, "True. I'll have to keep that in mind…. I wonder?" Bernatello tilted his head in curiosity, "What?" Don smiled at him, "I'm going to experiment on you." He said darkly.
Bernatello looked at him scared, "ok, now can I go to Temari's now?" he said looking at him whimpering. "Oh, don't be such a cry baby, I'm not going to hurt you, and I'm just going to see if this jutsu will work on you, but if you really want to go to Temari's…" "No! I'm fine, see look I'm fine, big grin on my face." He said smiling showing his bear teeth.
"Let's get to work then." Don said. Over the next course of the month, Don and Bernatello worked together and trained and developed new jutsu and team strategies.