Our training has been non stop for the past couple weeks. Kurama is a real slave driver. So much so that my stamina increased big time thanks to his training. After our first day, Kurama made us all go to the library after our d-rank mission with Kakashi.
He made us all pick subjects to focus on. Surprisingly or unsurprisingly we all had similar choices. Sasuke wanted to learn medical ninjutsu, fuinjutsu, ninjutsu and kenjutsu. Naruto chose ninjutsu, medical jutsu, fuinjutsu and taijutsu. I picked pretty much the same except instead of kenjutsu or taijutsu. I wanted to focus more on my bōjutsu skills. It was agreed between the three of us after training that we all should learn healing and sealing jutsu. Especially since everyone wanted to learn the flying thunder god technique. Ninjutsu was obviously an obvious choice between us three. I was more grateful for my new body being able to use all five chakra natures. Add my newly huge reserves to that equation. You can bet I was more than determined to make the Sakura way more badass than she was in the story. I didn't care if it was going to be Mary Sue-ish. Considering how godly strong Sasuke and Naruto get. I'll be damned if I'm not considered in that equation.
Kurama explained to me how I potentially had the ability to combine multiple elements. Which I already knew about. First thing I had to do in order to even attempt that is to master the elements well enough. Kurama said if I learned four or five jutsu's of any one element and practiced with them enough. It should provide me with enough control over the element. Honestly I'm hoping this is really some sort of bloodline. It would make my life easier if it was. Otherwise I will have to focus on using both elements simultaneously.
Can't say I don't like that challenge. Because I really do. However I would prefer it just came to me naturally.
Anyways so for the pass couple weeks. We've been training our speed, taijutsu, stamina, chakra control, studying and practicing fuinjutsu and medical ninjutsu. He really ran us into the ground making us use shadow clones too. He made Naruto make as many clones as he can while still having more than enough chakra to participate. That was something that really burned out the blonde bundle of energy. Thankfully with the guidance of Kurama. Me and Sasuke learned how to replenish chakra with medical ninjutsu in a short amount of time. We could heal flesh wounds and basic first aid injuries too. That wouldn't have been possible without shadow clones. But we were happy with the progress.
Fuinjutsu was really coming along too. Naruto was the one who had the talent for that. Considering it runs in his blood and all. Me and Sasuke were learning at a fair pace. We both knew that Naruto would reach the intermediate level before either of them. That was ok though.
Ninjutsu came easier for me and Sasuke than it did for Naruto. Naruto still wasn't able to get his wind style great breakthrough down. Sasuke already knew a couple fire style jutsu's. So Kurama explained the theory behind the lightning ball jutsu. Once Sasuke memorized the hand seals. He imagined how Kurama described it was supposed to look. A ball of pure lightning. For a week in a half he practiced it ending with no results. One day he finally had a breakthrough and was able to perform the jutsu.
I was able to master the fire ball jutsu finally. While also learning water style wild water wave. It was an offensive c-rank water release jutsu. Kurama informed me that the main two elements he wanted me to focus on is water and earth. If I was able to use wood release. That would definitely make people wary of me. Not that I care. My family will always watch out for each other.
Now all three of us were finished training. We had each cleaned ourselves and ate dinner. Now we were playing cards again. Talking about our scarecrow sensei.
"Hey guys it's been about a month since we formed team 7. Kakashi-sensei still barely interacts with us. Why is that?" Naruto asked.
"Hn who knows dobe. It's obvious Kakashi is dealing with something. He's still always late showing up. He thinks we don't know that we know he's at the memorial stone. I think it's best to let him come to terms on his own. Everybody deals with their demons differently. Kakashi will decide when he wants to open up to us. It's no way he doesn't notice how advanced we are compared to the other teams. Hell your taijutsu is miles better than what is was when we started. All of our speed has increased. It's no way in hell he doesn't noticed the increase in Sakura's reserves. I mean for Kami's sake they are larger than mine. No offense to you Sakura. That was meant as a compliment. I was only trying to make a point." Sasuke said.
I smiled at his words. "Don't worry about it Sasuke-kun. I know how you meant it. But I know what mean about Kakashi-sensei. It's clear he's afraid to get close to us. Remember how I explained how his team used to be? That's probably how he envisioned us being since it's highly likely he's known about us before any of us met him. The problem is he refuses to see the differences that are right in front of his face. We aren't like his old team. So until he chooses to realize that. Then I'm fine about not telling him anything. We just need to wait for Jiraiya-sama to arrive in the village. I'm sure if we all show him that we know the rasengan. He'll be undoubtedly trains us."
"When were we gonna start learning that? I mean it is supposed to be a difficult jutsu. Wouldn't it be smart to start now rather than later? It's no guarantee that we will all master it at the same time." Sasuke brought up.
"Yeah I mean sure you explained to us the three ways we are supposed to learn it without a demonstration?" Naruto asked.
"The first two steps I know you guys will learn. The last step is the most difficult however Naruto if you use shadow clones. You should be able to do it. The same could be said for me and Sasuke. If you guys want to get started as soon as possible then we have to go get a shit load of water balloons and rubber balls." I said.
"Alright! Let head out!" Naruto yelled in his normal hyper manner.
"Must you always be so loud dobe?" Sasuke sighed.
"Of course! I wouldn't be me if I wasn't loud teme!" Naruto grinned.
"That's is true Sasuke-kun, Naruto-kun would definitely not be himself if he wasn't loud." I laughed.
Sasuke smirked. "That is true. You know what they say dobes are always the loudest ones."
"Screw you Sasuke-teme!" Naruto retorted.
We all made our way a store to get the materials we need. Once that was done, we went back to our house to fill up the some water balloons.
Kurama helped me developed my sensor skills a bit. Naruto also had the ability to sense chakra signatures. So we practiced it. So far I'm the one who can sense the farthest out of us two. I normally check to see if there are anybody who could potentially be spying on us. Sasuke checks for spies by using his sharingan. Kurama helped him reawakened it. So far his instruction was for Sasuke to get as much experience using his sharingan as he can. Sasuke also practices his kenjutsu with his chokuto he bought about a week ago. He said he wanted to be able to coat his sword in chakra by the time they get their first real mission.
Naruto said once he gets good enough with his wind manipulation. He'll make a wind sword for himself.
For the rest of that week we all were practicing the first stage. Sasuke was the one who got it down first. Following me being second and Naruto being third only taking another day. The second step took 2 weeks for just one of us to actually get it to pop the right way. That someone was Naruto. Sasuke being second and me being last.
During the month though we didn't only focus on the rasengan. Naruto finally got down his great breakthrough jutsu. He also mastered the fire ball jutsu since his chakra control was just like Kurama said it would be. A whole lot better than it originally started out. We always sparred with each other. Pointing out each other's flaws while giving each other tips. Truly we were a real family. We spent every day of the last two months together. I also spent some time with Hinata and Ino. Me and Hinata still sparred with each other at least once or twice a week. Ino was still not taking her shinobi career seriously. Just how it was in the show. But hey that wasn't my problem. Ino will realize it soon enough. She didn't need the confidence boost like Hinata did. In fact it helped her so much that she told me she was able to beat her sister in a sparring match with ease now.
If I had to be honest, Hinata was more like my best friend than Ino. Which I did not mind one bit. Hinata was such a kind hearted soul. It was also so cute to tease her about how big her boobs were. My next goal was to get her to stop wearing her jacket so much so she can show off her body more.
Thanks to the amount of training and eating I've been doing. Even my body is more filled out. Hell my 13 year old breast grew a size up. My muscles were more defined than before.
Same could be said for the boys who I consider my younger brothers now. I'll admit that I have thought about dating one of them in the future. Maybe even both if things play out a certain way. But that was far from important right now. As I'm sure I'll gather some boys attention. I wasn't interested in dating at the moment. My team had more important tasks at hand. But I did wonder if Hinata would be able to steal Naruto away from me. I won't be mad if she does since it's her. But any other bitch can back the fuck off. Same could be said for Sasuke and any of his remaining annoying fan girls.
I had to admit that it was fair that Sasuke and Naruto also said they are going to keep boys away from me. I couldn't help but feel warm at their protectiveness of me.
I hadn't seen any of the other rookies as of yet. Which was kinda sad since I wanted to play shogi against Shikamaru to test my strategy skills. Kurama played with me instead. Man is he ever the tactician. Every time we play he makes me look like a child who doesn't know what she's doing. But he always teaches me something new about strategies. It made me think differently on certain games we played. It's been a month and a half since we started and I still haven't came close to a win. But that's to be expected. A 13 year old girl playing against a 1000 year old chakra beast isn't really fair. Sasuke and Naruto also learned about strategizing.
I learned earth wall and headhunter justu. Sasuke learned lightning style earth flash. I remember seeing that Fuka character from the Sora arc doing that jutsu before. It wasn't no point in asking Kurama how did he know about it.
Everyone had increased their weight two times during this month. Seriously I'm not lying when I say we are really pushing ourselves. Our fuinjutsu was coming along with Naruto being ahead. Sasuke was ahead in medical ninjutsu. Naruto could now produce healing chakra at the least. I on the other hand decided to focus my chakra control into strengthening my attacks. Right now I could only make the ground slightly shake. But I can break tree's if I really focus hard enough. Meaning it was enough to at least break bones.
That little known fact made sure Naruto and Sasuke avoiding getting hit by me by any means necessary. Unfortunately for them, they still took some hits but obviously I didn't put that much chakra into them. Just enough to let the get message. Man I can be evil sometimes.
Oh yeah Naruto learned exploding shadow clones while Sasuke and I learned how to channel chakra to our weapons. I was happily the one who mastered the rasengan first. With Naruto being two days behind and Sasuke being 3 days behind that.
Now the three of us were in the hokage's office. It was easy to tell that Sarutobi noticed our improvements. He even complimented us saying he could feel our strength radiating. Obviously not to his level. But more advanced than he assumed we would be at around this time.
Kakashi seemed to not really realized yet just how good we are. Kurama knew a technique that allow him to turn turn him and anyone he chooses invisible. To the point where sensors can't even sense our chakra signatures as we leave or enter the village. But of course we left shadow clones in our place. So he took us out the village to gain some experience fighting. We fought against mainly bandits from two bandit camps. Only one of those times we hand to encounter a missing nin. Thankfully we had Kurama to back us up in case we couldn't handle it yet. The missing nin was a B-rank from kumo. He was pretty tough since this was our real first encounter with a enemy ninja. We took him down with our combined efforts. That's was our first taste of the shinobi world. Even though I already knew how it was like. It was still very eye opening.
Oh yeah but anyways enough about us being badasses. The wave arc was finally happening. Once we were dismissed by the hokage. Me and the boys met Kakashi and Tazuna at the gate within an hour. Obviously Naruto and Sasuke already knew the details of this mission courteous of yours truly. But Kakashi is left out of the loop. So it's best for us just to go with the flow once he finds out the truth from Tazuna.
For the past two months, Kakashi hasn't taught us shit. It was really pissing all three of us off. We have literally been under his tutelage for two months and yet he's chooses to not get to know us. It's like he's still in denial of how much we really aren't like his team. So we came to an agreement. If Kakashi doesn't give us a reason as to why we should accept him as our jounin instructor. We are going to the hokage and demand a new sensei.
I really really loved Kakashi. We all did but we need a teacher who actually wants to spend the with us as a team besides when he's forced too. Obviously we knew we would have to still work with Kakashi on future missions as we rise up in the ranks. That didn't mean we didn't have to respect him as a sensei.
"Hey old man Tazuna, do you guys have any shinobi in your village?" Naruto asked.
"No we don't, our village is more of a village know for trades." He answered while looking around. The way he was checking his surrounding was really giving him away.
As we kept walking, I saw the puddle in the middle of a sunny day. I glanced at Sasuke and Naruto. Both were fully aware of the genjutsu. Genjutsu wasn't for Naruto. But he at least learned how to spot obvious ones and knew how to dispel them.
We walked passed the puddle. 10 seconds later, they made their move. They caught Kakashi in their shuriken chain. They pulled their chain thinking they killed Kakashi. When he actually just substituted himself with a log. They demon brothers tried to attack us. But we were already ahead of them. Sasuke used his chokuto to catch the chain Gōzu swung in his direction. He pulled the chain from Gōzu. But said nin tried to attack with his metal claws. Sakura has already warned him and Naruto about their poisoned claws. Sasuke dodged his swipe attempt and kicked him hard in the gut. Sending him flying. The Uchiha didn't waste any time as he stabbed Gozu in the shoulder while the missing nin wa leaning on the tree with his chokuto. He channeled lightning chakra through his blade to paralyze him. Then pulled out a paralysis seal from his pouch and placed it on Gōzu. Sasuke was proud that he didn't even use his sharingan to help him.
Me and Naruto were making it hard on Meizu. I used my bo staff to snack away his chain. I'm surprised he wasn't using any of his ninjutsu on us. Charging in trying to use his poisonous claws was a foolish tactic. He didn't know what we were capable of. Decided to end this quick, Naruto made a shadow clone. He charged in straight ahead. As soon as he got close to Meizu he substituted himself just as Meizu tried to strike him. Unfortunately for Meizu, that clone was an exploding clone. So we he landed his strike. The clone exploded right in his face. Sending him flying, he hit his hand on a tree. I quickly made my move and placed a paralysis tag on him.
"We that was disappointing." Sasuke said as he dragged Gōzu over by me.
"Don't be like that Sasuke-kun. You know better than that. We are still just rookie genin until we get more experience under our belt." I replied to him.
"Yeah teme, don't underestimate any of your opponents. Remember how we were taught that can get you killed?" Naruto chimed in.
"I know, I know but you guys have to admit that was disappointing. Shouldn't b-rank ninja be stronger than they were?" Sasuke wondered.
"Maybe but you never know. Any other genin team probably would have been killed by them." I shrugged.
Tazuna was looking at the group of three in awe. At first he thought he was going to get these kids killed. Especially when he seen that jounin who got ripped to shreds. But to his surprise they are all stronger than he assumed. Maybe he thought..just maybe they could be the ones to save his home.
"Come on out Kakashi-sensei. It's obvious you aren't dead. I can sense your chakra signature." I called out.
Kakashi made his presence known by hopping out of the trees. "Since we can you sense chakra signatures?" He asked me.
...Seriously is that all he has to ask? He's not going to question us on how we got this strong without his help. Honestly now it feels like he's insulting us.
"Aren't you going to praise us for defending the client sensei?" Naruto asked with a small frown.
"Huh? Oh yeah good job. You guys did alright for rookies." He waved us off as he went to go question the missing nins.
"I can't believe he just disregarded our strength like that." Sasuke voiced in an pissed off tone.
"I agree with you there teme. Kakashi-sensei still only goes over teamwork exercises with us. Yet he refuses to attempt to truly acknowledge us. It's getting real old." Naruto said.
I sighed. "Just let it go boys. We will deal with it later. Right now we have a mission to focus on."
After Kakashi questioned the demon brothers. He questioned Tazuna next. Tazuna admitted he lied and you know all about Gatō and that mess.
"You lies to the hokage. This mission has gone from a simply c-rank to an A-rank. My team is nearly minted genins. They aren't ready for this yet. I'm afraid we will have to call off the mission." Kakashi said.
"Please I beg of you! I need your assistance. If I go back now I'm sure I'll be killed before I can make it home! Gatō took all of our lands money. A c-rank was all that we could afford with our combined left over money. My grandson will be crushed if he found out I died." Tazuna begged.
Kakashi sighed. "Well what do you guys think we should do?" He asked us.
"We are finishing the mission. It'll make us look good if we have an A-rank on our records." Sasuke said.
"I'm not turning my back on old man Tazuna. So I want to finish the mission." Naruto agreed.
"Definitely want to finish the mission." I said.
"Well alright then, let continue on." Kakashi shrugged.
We camped out for the night then made our way to the boat the next day. We took the boat across the river. After that ride was done with. We were making our way to Tazuna's house. I was excited because Zabuza was about to show up. My boys were already on alert as they kept checking their surroundings.
As we kept walking, I finally picked up on Zabuza's chakra signature. Haku's as well. I could see Naruto did too. Sasuke had his sharingan activated. Kakashi seemed a bit wary.
It was agreed between the me and my boys that we would leave Haku alone. He wasn't a threat until later on. While I don't want either of them to die. Zabuza probably won't want to join Konoha. Haku will follow Zabuza wherever he goes. Kakashi I wasn't too sure about. Plus I rather not risk Sarutobi trying to spy on us using his anbu if he accepts Zabuza into the village. So it was agreed that whatever happens just happens.
Naruto felt Zabuza's chakra signature behind a bush. As expected he threw a kunai at it. Also as expected Zabuza substituted himself with a snow bunny.
It didn't take long for Kakashi to figure out what was going on. I heard the famous 'GET DOWN!' and dropped to the ground.
Looking up I saw Zabuza standing on top of the hilt to his sword. Just looking at it, I knew I was taking it back as a souvenir.
"Well if it isn't the copy ninja Kakashi of the sharingan." Zabuza spoke up.
'You know I would've been real confused right now if Sakura never explained how Kakashi got his sharingan.' Sasuke thought in slight amusement.
Well well if it isn't the demon of the mist, Momochi Zabuza." Kakashi replied.
"Sorry but I got orders to kill that bridge builders." Zabuza voiced.
"And we have orders to protect him. So it's not an easy situation for any of the parties involved." Kakashi began to lift his headband covering his left eye.
Zabuza began producing mist, he grabbed his sword and landed on the ground to finish his hidden mist jutsu.
He disappeared into the mist. Kakashi quickly used his chakra to blow away the mist. Me, Naruto and Sasuke already had made our move away since it was easy to tell where Zabuza would try to strike. I already had explained to the boys who it was pointless trying to offer Kakashi our help. He won't accept it since he thinks we aren't able to help.
So we stood in manji formation. I liked Zabuza's character but he wasn't really none of my favorites. Kisame-sama is way better than him. But I did like Zabuza's sword a lot. Same could be said for Haku.
So we waited and watched Kakashi fight against Zabuza. Just like I expected he ended up getting caught in the water prison jutsu.
"Take the bridge builder and get out of here. Run he's out of your league!" Kakashi ordered.
"I don't know what you are thinking Kakashi-sensei. But running is not an option. He won't give us that option. All he will do is end up killing us." Sasuke told our sensei.
"Well you are right about that brat. Your generation is soft. Back in my day, it was much harder to graduate to become a genin." Zabuza taunted us.
I raised my eyebrow. "Let me guess, you had to kill your whole graduating class in order to graduate?"
Zabuza looked surprised before he went back to his usual look. "You're well informed girly. And yes I did. It felt so good! Taking down my opposition one by one." He had a bloodlust aura around him.
"Ok guys you know the plan?" I deactivated my chakra weights.
"Yep." Naruto grinned as he and Sasuke released their weights. Zabuza made a water clone infront of them.
Zabuza looked at us with a raised eyebrow. "Whatever you are planning won't work brats."
"Get out of here! Go now!" Kakashi yelled.
"Shut up sensei and let us handle this." Naruto told him.
All three of us charged at Zabuza with speed he wasn't expecting regular genin to have.
The plan was simple. Sasuke deals with the clone while me and Naruto deal with the real one.
Sasuke channeled his chakra not lightning chakra just regular chakra into his chokuto and got a quick and clean cut right through the clone.
Naruto threw 5 wind chakra enhanced shuriken at Zabuza. Who had no choice but to use his sword to block the shuriken's. That gave me enough time to channel chakra into my fist and slammed it dead in his solar plexus. "Cha!" I roared with a smirk.
My punch sent Zabuza flying, making him release his jutsu holding Kakashi. Zambia fell into the water. Kakashi was trying to catch his breath slightly.
"Are you ok sensei?" I asked.
"Yeah I'll take care of the rest." Kakashi replied.
I just rolled my eyes and walked away. Naruto following right behind me.
"Not even a thanks for saving his ass? Man he's really pushing it." Naruto voiced with a frown.
"Tell me about it." I agreed as we stood next to Sasuke and Tazuna again.
We all watched Zabuza and Kakashi battle. Tazuna decided to say something to us.
"Man you kids are amazing! I was a fool to think you weren't strong enough to protect me. Especially the blond one here." Tazuna said.
"Hey! Lay off old man!" Naruto pouted.
The fight ending with Zabuza being caught in Kakashi's water dragon justu. I could see Sasuke using his sharingan. I smirked knowing he was copying this jutsu just for me. Man I was grateful to have such thoughtful little brothers in my life.
Haku decided to make his move. Gave his fake introduction as a hunter nin. Then disappeared with the body instead of cutting off the head. Very un-hunter nin like if you ask me.
"Ok team, let's head ou-" And Kakashi passed out from chakra exhaustion.
Sasuke sighed. "He wouldn't have had to go through this if he actually let us help him. He refuses to acknowledge us."
Sasuke and Naruto lifted up Kakashi. Each carrying one of his arms on their shoulders.
"At this point who cares? It's clear that he doesn't." Naruto said.
"Can you please lead us to your home Tazuna-san?" I asked.
"Sure it's right up ahead." Tazuna led the way.
