Disclaimer: I won't waste words, don't own this…

Notes: Thanks for all the constructive criticism, seriously. Um, let's see, I know that I don't keep the senseis in character sometimes, I'm sorry, going to try harder from now. And I promise this chapter would be more interesting, since I actually do have a double storyline… once again, the people mentioned in the chap are the following: Sephiroth Sekimb, Sao Brad, Azuki Riku, Hyuga Rain, and Kai.

One last thing, I feel like I can't characterize the people properly without the answers to these questions. So would you guys send the answers to my email: ilasianviolinistyahoo.com and be sure to say which character. Thanks a lot.

What's your biggest fear?

What is your reaction to pressure?

What would you do when your friend is dying?

Something that you find funny. (To put more humor in it)

To Crimson Sound and anyone else interested: Yeah, I can add pairings in it, you guys just have to tell me who, and it'd probably be a lot longer if I did do pairings so be patient.

Here goes then…

Riku sighed, the day's training had drained a lot out of her, and she still hadn't won that sparring match with Akiko. At least her parents had no notion of where she'd gone off to this late at night, meaning she had done one smart thing today.

"Hey, Riku-chan, what're you doing out so late, hm?"

"Oh, it's you, Rain, what's up?" Riku turned and spotted the Hyuga girl around the corner, "What are you doing out?"

"Thought I'd wander around, you know, I can't sleep very easy these days." Rain grinned, "Wanna come?"

"You're being nice, that's scary." Riku gave her teammate a hard look, "What do you want?"

"Nothing, do you have to be so suspicious all the time, Riku-chan?" Rain returned her piercing gaze, "It's not like I'd beat you up or something. After what happened today with Akiko, I figured you'd suffered enough anyway."

"What the hell is that suppose to mean?" Riku's violet eyes flared violently, "You'll be sorry you said that, Hyuga Rain, someday…"

"Damn, I'm just kidding," Rain said quickly, "But now that you said that, I gather you are sneaking out to train, right?"

"Your Byakugan's hard at work, I see." Riku commented dryly, "What about your parents, won't they be worried that their darling heir is gone?"

"They know where I am." Rain glared at her, "I'll warn you, you're pissing me off."

"That's very kind of you." Riku scoffed, "You're pissing me off too, for that matter."

"Good, then get the hell outta my way." Shoving the girl aside roughly, Rain turned away, "And don't interfere again with my shit."

"Baka, it's not like I want to."

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Sekimb hurled his five feet long katana toward the target for the 300th time. "300!" he cried triumphantly and sank to his knees, breathing hard.

"Somebody's happy I see."

"What do you want?" Sekimb demanded without turning, if anything, having his training session interrupted by someone really annoyed him, "Make it quick."

"I thought you would've had more respect for me after trying to run me through with that big-ass sword of yours." The speaker was Sao Brad. "Remember? This morning?"

"Sao-kun, was that suppose to be funny? Oh, oops." Once again without warning, the big sword spun out of his control again.

"Next time, remind me to stand 50 feet away from you when I'm speaking to you." Brad jumped to the right to avoid being sliced in half. "And what's with that belt?"

"What belt?" Sekimb looked blank, "Oh, you mean my materia?" he gestured down at the 'gemstones' that hung at his waist, "What about it?"

"What the heck are those?"

"Stones, literally." Sekimb unfastened a greenish-colored one, "Elemental effects, kinda like."

"Don't you use Ninjutsus or Ginjutsus?" Brad asked.

"Why else do you think I carry around this big-ass sword and 6 pounds worth of materia?" Sekimb snapped, this guy was really trying his patience, "Can I get back to training now? I promised my brother that I would beat his record of 578."

"That'll be the day." Brad smirked. "What's with you people, are you trying to work till you collapse or something?"

"You got a problem with that?" Sekimb sneered back.

"No, it's just interesting." Brad shrugged, "That's all."

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Kai liked pain, he welcomed it, and he liked blood. And death. At age 13, he had killed many of his rivals. Yet his greatest ambition was to die himself. There had been many times when he had almost completed suicide, but always something or someone had to get in his way. Two weeks ago it was Akiko, then Iruka, then hokage had to interfere, giving him a lecture on The Goodness of the Road of Life.

But it had been done, and now no one could stop him. The kunai was pierced through his right palm, and surely enough he would bleed to death and no one would stop him. After all, he was Kai, the orphan, and the bad boy…

He heard voices, he recognized them as Azuki-san and that Souke girl. "Damn." Soon enough they would find him and then persuade him to live a little longer.

And of course, he was always right…

Riku discovered him first, "Kai-san." She studied him warily, "What are you doing here."

"That would be none of your concern," he replied curtly, with a glance at Rain added, "None of yours either, Hyuga-san."

"What the hell did you do to your hand?" Rain's eyes trailed over to his wound, "I hope you haven't being in a fight and got whipped."

"Shut up, I have never gotten whipped and you're not going to witness it." Kai glared at them spitefully, "Get out of here."

"It just happens to be public property." Riku knelt down next to him," But, no, I don't think he got whipped."

"So, what if I didn't?" Kai pulled out the kunai and fainted from the pain. "Shit."

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"So why are you just standing there?" Sekimb looked at Brad, "I have 278 strikes to do before I go home."

Brad grinned, "So you're serious about it then, huh?" he got to his feet, still grinning, "Fine, I'll help you." He pulled out his own two swords, "Let's say, if I do a hundred strikes, and you do 178, you'll be done, right?"

"That's cheating." Sekimb scoffed and turned away from Brad.

"Well, yeah, depends on how you look at it. But really, we still have training tomorrow and it's already—" Brad paused to check his watch, thank goodness it was digital and glow in the dark, "Eleven o clock. You're gonna be tired tomorrow and you got Sasuke-san as your sensei, he's one of the tougher ones."

"Whatever, why are you being nice to me anyway?" Sekimb glowered at him, "If I do work myself to death, it doesn't matter to you."

"Geesh, nobody'll notice, and I'm helping you cause I'm a nice guy and you're too young to die." Brad smiled, "So yeah, or no."

"Fine, nobody knows you're here, you have never been here, agreed?" Sekimb said after a long pause. "You go first then."

"Agreed." Brad nodded, "301!" he hurled one of his swords toward the target, it missed by only an inch or so.

"You're not bad, you know." Sekimb approved, "302!" it hit below Brad's shot.

"And who are you to criticize me?" Brad pulled out his other sword, "You missed the mark too. 303! Hey, I hit!"

"I hit the target more times than you." Sekimb gnashed his teeth and tasted the grit from biting his nails. "304!" he was glad to hear his shot strike the target with a satisfying clang, "But since I got this one too, Sao-kun, l think we are even."

"No, not if I best you again." Brad stepped forward confidently, he was starting to really think that this was fun, training had never been his strong point but now, he was starting to enjoy it.

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If there was anything that Kai hated after being alive after a suicide attempt, it was pity. "I'm fine!" he struggled uselessly against his invisible bonds. The girls seem to have tied him down with strands of chakra or something, "Goddamn you two, let go!"

"Kai-san, when the hell are you going to come to your senses and be normal?" Riku slapped him on the face. "What's the point of killing yourself?"

"Azuki-san, if you were me, you would do the same thing." Kai winced, the chakra cut into his wrists, "If you had no parents and the whole shit of a village viewed you as a freak of nature?"

"I don't think you're a freak, Kai-san." Rain pulled the chakra bindings tighter, "You have an attitude problem, but otherwise, you're okay."

"If you think that way, why don't you let go of me, dammit!" Kai glared at the Hyuga girl, "You guys don't know, so stop trying to restrain me."

"What do we don't know?" Riku demanded.

"You really wanna know?"

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"575!"

"576!"

"577!"

Brad felt numb, it was like having his throwing arm permanently glued to his sword, like he was a robot or something, that Sekimb kid must have a stamina gauge matching Naruto-sensei's.

"578!" Sekimb, too, was getting very tired, but he did it! "Oh, yeah!" he punched the air, "I did it!"

"Huh, and don't give me any credit." Brad groaned and stretched out on the grass.

"Nobody saw you, and you were never here." Sekimb looked at him jokingly, "Just kidding, thanks, Sao-kun, I guess."

"No need, next time, don't try to kill me with that big-ass sword." Brad limped away, "Gotta hand it to you though, dude, you have some helluva stamina."

"And you have a pea brain in your head, for trying to help me." Sekimb returned with a lopsided smile, "Just one more, though, then I'll really beat my brother's record."

"Oh, crap." Brad groaned, "You have issues."

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"Yeah, I mean, if you have some horrible birthmark or something, that's nothing to be ashamed of, you know?" Rain finally released the strands and helped him up, "The Hyuga bunke all have that cursed seal."

"Mine's worse." Kai sighed, "Do you truly wanna know?"

Both girls nodded somewhat excitedly.

Kai swept back his hair and revealed his left eye, "Byakugan!" and then his right, "Sharingan!"

Riku flinched ever so slightly, "What the hell is that?"

"I told you I was a freak." Kai deactivated his eyes and sank back onto the grass.

"Riku-chan, I think we'd better get Kai-san home." Rain said after a minute.

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Note: Okay, this is really hard and thanks for bearing with me. Mentioned in the next chapter the following: Ketsueki Shinri, Uchiha Fei, Yamamoto Akiko, and Ryuuchi Shikari.And yeah, nothing else I guess, later.