A Path to a Shinobi's Ambition
Chapter 04: The Training Written by: Koizumi TsukiyoA/N: Again, sorry for the long delay. ^-^*...I was busy drawing the characters (Not really a good artist, but I was bored!) And thanxs to Medjke, I was able to upload it in the site! Not only is my art included, but most of the upcoming characters [Spoiler for some, most likely], requested by their own owners, are in the site. So far, I only had Team Seven and Eight drawn, more coming soon I hope, whenever I had the mood. Feel free to draw anything you like that's related to this story, I'll be SO happy!
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Oh yeah, before I forgot, I must apologize to the creator of Yagami Tenko. Because I accidentally got her name BACKWARDS so I went back and changed everything. REMEMBER! Her name is now TENKO! Not Yagami, that's her surname! Arigatou! Read and Review!
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"I see you're all here on time," Naruto said to the Genins, a large smile on his fox-like face just as the sun rises beautifully over the horizon, "Any questions before we could start?"
"One," Taitan spoke up, his arm raised, "What's with the 'no eating' policy for today?"
"Ah! So you'd done what I told you, ne?"
"Actually, I had a very good breakfast," Taitan replied with a toothy smile, "And quite full."
Both Ikazuchi and Sakura laughed as Naruto grabbed Taitan by the shoulders and shook the poor boy roughly while hollering in his face, "WHY DID YOU NOT LISTEN TO ME?! I'M THE SENSEI HERE!!"
"But you're not really our Sensei," Kometto spoke up, watching Taitan going cross-eye under Naruto's grip.
"Please, Naruto-sensei," Junpaku begged from behind Kometto, giving a worried look once Taitan was released.
"So who's the smart one to actually listen to me?" Naruto enquired, clearly pissed off, hands on his hips.
No one raised their hands but a soft cough interrupted the silences before Naruto's booming voice was heard next.
"ARG?! THAT'S IT! NONE OF YOU WILL HAVE LUNCH RIGHT AFTER THE TRAINING!!"
"Ummm…that's not fair at all!" Ohito declared in his sickly state, revealing himself to be the one who had cough earlier, standing in front of the group with dark bags under his tried emerald eyes while speaking in a weak slow tone, "I don't know who would want to listen after that look you'd gave us yesterday. Otherwise, that person is not even normal."
Naruto raised an eyebrow at the coughing boy, "Not feeling well?"
"You look deathly pale," Taitan spoken after recovering from the rough shaking, "You okay?"
"Better then I can ever be, to tell you the truth."
"…for real? It looks like you'll be dropping dead any minute now."
"Normal temperature and everything," Sakura whispered, a hand on Ohito's blushing cheeks, "Should we cancel the training today?"
"I don't think you should be worried about him that much, Sakura-sensei," Hoshi replied with a grin, explaining for his friend, "Every time Ohito forced himself to wake up in the morning, he'll be like that for the whole day. It's normal for him actually and kinda runs in the family."
Hearing a low snicker, Ohito managed to glare as hard as he could with weary eyes at Kometto.
Naruto nodded in understanding, If I remember right, Hayata-san acted the same too except he's like that permanently, sick or not. Odd family...
"That explains everything then," Ikazuchi said with a smile, "Go on and start the introduction of their training, Sakura."
"If you're sure, Ohito-kun," Sakura said worriedly, lowering her hand onto his shoulder as Ohito's blushed deepen with a stiff nod, "Alright, to make things clear up a bit, I'll be explaining the purpose of your training until the end. But to let you know, I'm going to be your judge for today and see how well you can do."
"Taitan," Ikazuchi called him in a firm tone, "Pay attention."
Taitan gave a crooked smile, "Sorry…got a little distracted."
"Here are three bells," Sakura began, holding them up by the strings in front of them, "Naruto, Ikazuchi-kun, and Kama-kun would each hold them where you will have to take by either force or trickery. Whichever you choose but the teams that holds the most bells win."
"Sakura-sensei," Junpaku gently interrupted shyly, "What are the rules for this?"
"There are no rules, you can use whatever you want from either weapons or Jutsu, it doesn't matter," Sakura replied, giving Kama a look while passing the bells, "As for the Jounins here, they are not allow to attack but to defend. And using their weapons is out of the question while simple defensive Jutsus are okay."
Kama silently faced her.
"Yes, Kama-kun, it means you're leaving that cleaver with me. Just seeing that, I doubt any of them will want to go near you."
"Fine," He reprimanded, slowly taking the cleaver from behind his back and implanted it deep into the earth beside him.
"Since I'll be timing you, you'll have to stop at once when hearing the bell. And I'm going to start now from the press of this button," Sakura finished, giving an encouraging smile while holding out the alarm, "Ready…"
Ikazuchi sighed, "Taitan…"
Taitan blinked, moving his gaze from the forest to the others, who are all in a ready stance, "Oh? We're starting already?"
"Go!" Sakura shouted as the clock began ticking, watching in satisfaction when the kids jumped away in great speed, hiding themselves into the forest. The three Jounins gave each other nods as they too, disappeared from view, leaving Sakura behind while she looked up towards the sky, "Not bad at all…"
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"This is getting kind of boring," Naruto said insipidly to himself in the middle of the deserted clearing, hands behind his head, "One of them got to be stubborn enough and confronted me by now. What's the use of waiting?"
With a loud cough, three figures of Ohito suddenly charged in circles around Naruto, their sword raised while attacking simultaneously. They each gave a slash with their sword from different directions but Naruto immediately crouched to the ground and swung his leg, knocking over the three as the clones disappeared while Ohito drops to the ground with a loud yelp.
Before Naruto could give out a single complaint, he moved to the side when a number of long metal needles flew past him, missing his ear by a mere inch. With a blink, he looked ahead to see Hoshi, many needles between his fingers like claws as he charges, sending more needles towards him. Just when Naruto dodged them as he leap high in the air, his azure eyes suddenly widen from the sound of more coughing and look behind him to see Ohito, who gave a hard strike with his sword.
Grabbing his hand to stop the attack, he gave a twist through the side as the bell jingles from his pants. Hoshi gave a triumph smile once grabbing the bell with his two fingers when he jumps from underneath his teacher, trying to tug them free.
But unfortunately, Naruto surprised the boys when he snake one hand around Ohito's arm to only gripped onto his collar while grabbing Hoshi in the same position roughly with the other, releasing the bell from the boy's fingers. With an expert and powerful whoosh, he had sent the two boys flying through the air just as he landed to the ground, smirking in satisfaction at their surprised cry while watching them falling into the bushes some distances away.
"They're better than I can give them credit for, that's the teamwork Sakura-chan wanted! Maybe I shouldn't loosen up so much…they almost got the bell," Naruto grinned, swinging the bell around his finger before he frowned, "That Ohito...where could he'd learn such an advance Jutsu? Though it's completely weak but the kid got far enough to be able to hold his chakra well."
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"I'M GOING TO KILL HIM!" Ohito bellowed with a pause to cough, finally got himself untangled from the thick bushes, "He just flung us aside like we were nothing!"
"It only proves that he's pretty strong," Hoshi said, dusting his clothes while looking in the distance for Naruto, "Very strong…we're like miles apart."
"But you almost had the bell!" Ohito cried, covering his mouth from the upcoming cough. But instead of a cough, Ohito goes dot-eyed when a loud rumble echoes through their ears from a certain hungry stomach that's demanding for food.
Hoshi held back a smirk, "You didn't eat anything this morning, did you?"
"…"
"And weren't you the one who said the person that listened to Naruto-sensei's orders yesterday is definitely not normal?"
"…Shut up, Hoshi." Another loud rumble. "You don't happen to carry any snacks, do you?"
"Sorry."
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"So what are we suppose to do again?" Taitan asked sheepishly to Kometto, scratching behind his head with a nervous laugh where they both are hiding in the trees near the lake.
Kometto looked at him in annoyances, "Didn't you listen to what Sakura-sensei was saying?"
"No…it was kind of long and I got sidetracked."
"The bells," Kometto mumbles, "The others except Sakura-sensei had at least one bell. If we get the most bells, then we'll automatically win."
"What would happen if we win? Or lose?"
"No clue, Sakura-sensei didn't say."
"I see," Taitan nodded in understanding, before spotting Kama standing alone near the shores, "Hey! There's Kama-sensei!"
"Let's go," Kometto muttered, jumping down for another hiding spot.
"But..." he trailed off, giving a small shrug while following after him, He's near the shores…it's not going to be good at all if the rumor of him controlling Water Jutsus is true.
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"Are you sure it's alright for me to join you, Tenko?" Junpaku asked bashfully to the silent girl.
Tenko nodded, never moving her attention away from behind the tree where they both are hiding, "You can do whatever you want but I'm telling you, if you're the one that got the bell then I'll have no other choice but to get it from you."
"I know, we are in different teams," Junpaku replied, hearing Naryu, Tenko's snow leopard, hissing in agreement. "But I appreciate it."
Hearing a twig snap from the tree near Tenko, both girls quickly backed away, kunai ready in their hands.
"Eh? Tenko-chan? Junpaku-chan?" Hoshi called curiously, walking around from the tree, "I didn't even know you guys were hiding here."
"We could have attack you," Ohito coughs, rubbing his eyes, "Lucky, ne?"
Tenko sighed, giving them a quiet look, "You two didn't get a chance stealing the bells, ne?"
"....No, we failed. Are you alright, Junpaku-chan?"
Tenko blinked, looking at the silent girl in confusion, who stood there squinting her eyes in concentration, "Junpaku?"
"It's...very difficult for me but..." Junpaku trails off as her eyes widen in realization, "Tenko! They're-"
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They're here, Kama thought, eyeing in every corner when hearing nothing but silences of the small waves that fills the air. Kama looked around and, a split second later, dived away when many kunais came flying and rooted themselves onto the ground, exactly where he had stood seconds before. Facing around, Kama immediately blocked a kick easily from Kometto, who had jumped in from the side.
His hands still held onto the boy's leg, Kama hold him out in arm-length and glare down at the struggling boy. Predicting the next move, the man dropped him before a shuriken could connect to his face while watching him doing a flip and jumped out of his reach, standing in a stance to perform a Jutsu. Already figuring out the Jutsu, he felt a sudden heavy weight on his back and looked at the corner of his eyes, seeing a grinning Taitan.
"Surprised?" Taitan asked him, wrapping his arms around his neck, blue eyes widen in concentration, Ninpou! Senei Jashuu!
Many snakes started to appear from his sleeves as they wrapped around Kama quickly, tying him from neck to knees as tightly as possible and secure it by biting onto Taitan's arms. Sweat in his face, Taitan turned to glare at Kometto, "How much longer do you need?!"
"Ninpou! Shintenshin no Jutsu!" Kometto exclaimed, black eyes rolled behind his head as his empty body fell to the ground. Kama gave a smirk, giving a simple bow low enough for the attack to hit Taitan instead. No other way to move, Taitan cried out, hoping to stop Kometto from continuing the jutsu but was too late when the dark boy had controlled his mind while losing his concentration as the snakes vanish back into his sleeves.
"Damn!" Kometto cursed from inside Taitan's body and immediately shouted a cancel, "Kai!"
He releases himself quickly when Kama flung Taitan into the waters. Just as Kometto was back to his original body, Kama had already grabbed him and dropping him with a loud splash beside the waking Taitan in the lake.
"Out of the water! Hurry!" Taitan shouted but was too late when both boys froze, looking up at the frowning Kama who stood tall above the water, with wide eyes.
"Suirou no Jutsu," Kama said calmly, raising his right arm as the water began rising, forming a large bubble around the two boys and trapped them within it, no way to either move or escape.
Kometto gritted his teeth, "How long are you going to keep us here?"
"Until the time ends for your failure of this training."
We had failed from the beginning anyway, Taitan thought dully to himself, rubbing his itching biting wounds on his arms, looking around his prison interestedly, This is the kind of Jutsu I'll like to learn…I wonder if he'll ever teach this to us…
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Ohito charged, grabbing Junpaku by the throat gently and pinned her against the tree before she could finish her warning. Tenko stared at them in alert, turning to the smiling Hoshi with a silent question. He nodded, "We're just checking to see if she has any bells. You never know, Tenko-chan."
Junpaku tries to claw Ohito's hand away from her throat, giving a begging look at Naryu, who seem to understand her situation. With a growl, the snow leopard had leaped and bit deeply on Ohito's hand as he jumps away with a loud yelp.
"Naryu!" cried Tenko.
"Tenko!" Junpaku shouted, light-brown eyes glittered in shyness anger, "Get away quickly! It's not really them! It's an illusion!"
Tenko cursed, lowering herself with both hands on the ground and gave a high kick at Ohito's jaws, sending the boy flying while she stood in front of Junpaku. Though she's starting to have doubts when Ohito picked himself up with a cough, "Junpaku...are you sure? I thought you said they were only an illusion."
"An illusion, yes, but not like clones," Junpaku replied with a frown, "Both bodies are real...but from what I can tell, they're not them."
"What?" Tenko paused, looking over at the hissing Naryu, "Ikazuchi-sensei?"
"Very good, Junpaku-chan," Hoshi said proudly with a clap before in a puff of smoke, the two boys disappeared in replace of a smiling mention sensei. "Your ability by seeing through the flaws of certain illusions can be really handy."
Tenko eyed the dancing bell around his wrist, "Got me fooled."
"Of course," Ikazuchi said with a smirk, flicking the bell, "Why don't you get this from me? You seem almost anxious."
As Tenko lifts one of her legs to run at the Sensei, something snapped underneath and she later find herself pulled upwards upside down by the rope that had wrapped around her ankle, dangling in the air.
"Tenko!" Junpaku cried worriedly as Naryu stared after her master.
"Ikazuchi-sensei! What's the meaning of this?" Tenko shouted in a sing-song voice that sent shivers down his spine.
Junpaku gave a crook smile, She's mad...too obvious by that scary tone of hers.
"Better than attacking, Naruto had given me some advice for these tricks, knowing I'll be the one who will go against you girls," Ikazuchi explained with a smile, "I wonder if he had ever been caught in this kind of trap. It's really effective."
Junpaku twirled a kunai around her finger and releases it, cutting the rope as Tenko lands on her feet. Before any attacks were made, both girls began to scream when the ground underneath them suddenly gave away while they both fall unexpectedly.
"Another effective trick, Naruto is definitely good," Ikazuchi commented, looking down at the dirt-covered girls.
"IKAZUCHI-SENSEI!!" They chores, only to hear more screams when they begin dropping farther into the earth.
Ikazuchi sat down at the edge of the pit, petting the amusing Naryu beside him, "Take your time, girls. The more you struggle, the deeper you'll go." He stopped, checking himself before giving a sheepish grin, "Never mind, it had taken me a long time to dig this that I went a little overboard. So correction: if you stood up to bring all your weight to your legs, you'll immediately drop. Simple as that."
More screaming and loud crashing was soon heard afterward as he laughs, looking up with a frown though the humor still shone in his eyes when hearing the loud ring, indicating the end of training. "Already? But I haven't even started!"
Naryu, enjoying the petting he gave her, silently stare at the bell as she slowly inches her way and open her mouth to catch it.
"Don't even think about it, Naryu," Ikazuchi said knowingly, looking down the pit to check and sweat-drops when seeing nothing but blackness, "Have they really gone that far?"
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Sensei Jashuu: Shadow Snake Hand
Shintenshin no Jutsu: Mind Body Switch Skill
Suirou no Jutsu: Water Prison Skill
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