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Chapter 4: Meeting the Villagers Part 2

When Kakashi and Nyoko reached the top of the stairs, another group of four were standing there, presumably waiting for Kakashi to arrive. This time, there were three boys and only one girl. One boy had very long hair, and white eyes that looked like they could stare into one's soul. Nyoko recognised them as the Byakugan of the Hyuuga clan and remembered Hinata had them too, though Hinata's didn't seem so cold. The girl wore oriental clothing and her hair was tied up into two buns. She didn't look as strong as the others, but strong none the less. The other two boys looked almost identical. They both wore green tights, large orange sweat bands on their legs and an orange forehead protector around their waist. The taller one had a Jounin vest on though, so he would be the sensei.

It wasn't just that these two dressed alike though, they both had a bowl cut that shown the word 'nin' over and over (A/N: True fact! The white shine in their hair says 'nin'). They both had the thickest eyebrows Nyoko had ever seen in her life.

"Kakashi!" The taller man with thick eyebrows said angrily. "You are 32 minutes and 27 seconds late!"

"He counted?" Whispered the girl to the Hyuuga boy.

The man that spoke before looked at Nyoko and blushed. "Oh!! Who is this cute little newcomer?"

"My name is Kashito Nyoko." Nyoko said, putting her hand forward.

"Ooo, a beautiful name for such a treasure. I am Maito Gai, Konoha's Sublime Green Beast of Prey." Gai said, kissing Nyoko's hand. Nyoko sweat dropped, she had intended on simply shaking the strange man's hand (Nyoko means treasure).

"P-pleasure to meet you, Gai-san." Nyoko replied in a kind voice.

The smaller version of Gai held up a fist and his eyes filled with a burning flame. "Oh!! Gai-sensei is making a move!" He shouted.

"Get over it Lee." Neji said coldly.

"Gai…" Kakashi said.

"Ah yes!" Gai shouted, jumping up. "Now, it is your turn to choose I believe?"

Nyoko walked over to the three others as Kakashi and Gai talked.

"Hello everyone." She said with a smile.

"My name is Rock Lee!" Lee, the smaller Gai, said, bowing down very low. "It is a pleasure to meet you!"

"I'm Tenten," the girl said with a smile. "That's Neji." She added.

"Neji-san, may I ask if you are related to Hinata of Team 8?"

Neji looked up and nodded. "Hinata-sama and I are cousins."

"I thought so," Nyoko smiled. "I just met her, she's a very nice girl and has a lot of potential, but she's very shy."

"Yes, but she will never give up if there is a job to be done." Neji said.

"So what are Kakashi-kun and Gai-san doing exactly?"

"They are what Gai-sensei calls eternal rivals. Every so often they have little competitions." Tenten said with a sigh.

"Kakashi-sensei is very strong, but Gai-sensei is the best! Woo!!!" Lee said, his eyes flaming up again.

"He's like that." Tenten said with a large sweat drop. She looked at her two team mates, the one that got over excited at everything, and the one that wouldn't get excited for anything.

Nyoko laughed at Lee's behaviour, he obviously greatly admired his sensei. Neji's character seemed cold, and that's what showed in his Byakugan, while Hinata's had shown much love and care. Tenten looked to be the glue holding the team together, yet also the wall preventing her team mates from killing each other.

"WHAT?!" Gai suddenly shouted. "Janken again?!" (Rock, paper, scissors)

Kakashi shrugged with a very bored and lazy look on his face.

"Fine, if I cannot beat you, I will walk upside down, up and down the stairs behind you 200 times!"

Kakashi rolled his one visible eye and sighed. "You and you're stupid rules."

"Is…is he really going to do that?" Nyoko half smiled in disbelief.

"It's a promise!!" Gai thrust forward his hand, forming a thumbs up. He grinned, the shine from his teeth giving off a loud 'ting'.

"He is now…" Neji sighed.

"That's Gai-sensei's 'nice guy pose'. He never breaks a promise after that." Tenten continued.

"THAT IS THE NINJA WAY!" Lee shouted, using the same nice guy pose. The 'ting' his teeth let off was a lot smaller than Gai's.

"He's been practising that smile for ages." Tenten laughed.

Now both Kakashi and Gai got ready to throw rock, paper or scissors. Neji looked off in another direction, Tenten rolled her eyes and Lee watched in anticipation. Nyoko simply laughed.

"Janken!"

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"Does Korean BBQ sound good for lunch?" Kakashi asked.

"Mmm!" Nyoko nodded.

"I'll…beat…you…next …time…KAKASHI!" Gai half shouted as he began his second lap up the stairs. Lee had begun copying his sensei for training; while Tenten and Neji watched and sighed.

"Do these little uh… competitions between you and Gai-san happen often?" Nyoko asked, half chuckling.

Kakashi gave a small shrug with one shoulder as he had started once again reading his book. The two of them walked over to a popular Korean BBQ restaurant that was already quite crowded. One table in particular was making a lot of noise above all the rest. Kakashi smiled and lead Nyoko over to a two person table next to the one that was causing all the ruckus.

"Why are we sitting over here Kakashi-kun?" Nyoko asked, feeling some what uncomfortable.

"I have a few more friends for you to meet." Kakashi said simply.

As they neared the table, they saw a blonde girl standing up on her chair, looking quite angry. A man that was smoking (from his clothes, he must have been the sensei) looked rather horrified. A chubby boy sat there eating, though the girl was yelling at him, and another boy staring and mumbling to himself.

"Yo, Asuma." Kakashi said happily.

"Oh, Kakashi." Asuma, the man that was smoking, looked up and greeted his friend.

"This is Nyoko-sama and this is Sarutobi Asuma, a close friend of mine." Kakashi explained. "And these are his students."

"Pleasure to meet you." Nyoko said, shaking Asuma's hand.

"Pleasure." Asuma said with a smile. "Hey guys, introduce yourselves."

The girl had stopped yelling and then turned around, blushing. "Oh hello! My name is Yamanka Ino, nice to meet you."

The two other boys gave no sign of introducing themselves, one kept eating and the other one rested his head on his palm, elbow leaning on the table. His eyes were closed and he looked slightly annoyed. Ino gave them both a cold glare, "Oi! Shikamaru! Chouji! Don't be so rude! Introduce yourselves!"

"Aii," the annoyed boy let out a sigh and rolled his eyes. He had a top knot much like Iruka's. "I'm Nara Shikamaru, number 1 coward of all time."

"(munch) Chouji, (munchmunch) Akimichi Chouji." The chubby boy said between bites.

"This is troublesome..." Shikamaru muttered.

Ino sighed and looked at her team mates, "boys." She said, rolling her eyes.

Kakashi and Nyoko took a seat at the table next to Team 10's so that they could all chat and get to know each other. Shikamaru looked really bored and just didn't want to have anything to do with anything else. Chouji never stopped eating, but Ino and Nyoko got along well and they chatted while they ate.

"My family runs the Yamanka flower shop down the road," Ino said cheerfully.

"I'll have to come visit some time." Nyoko smiled.

"That would be great! Nyoko nee-chan!" Ino replied enthusiastically.

"So, what about your team? What are they like?" Nyoko asked.

Ino gave out a groan, "Shikamaru's the laziest bum I've ever seen in my life; he finds everything too troublesome. And Chouji will eat anything and everything in sight. sigh"

Nyoko laughed and looked at the others. Chouji was still eating, at an alarming speed too. Shikamaru couldn't look more bored, he was just looking out the window and staring at the clouds.

"I see."

"So are you new here to village right nee-chan?" Ino asked with a smile. "I haven't seen you around before."

"Um, yeah." Nyoko replied uncomfortably. "I came to the village yesterday and met Kakashi-kun."

Ino looked at her new friend with a confused look, but could see that she was feeling uncomfortable so didn't ask any more questions.

"Nyoko-sama, could you swap seats with Asuma please?" Kakashi suddenly asked.

"Hmm? Oh, ok." Nyoko replied, she then got up from her seat.

Shikamaru gave a groan and got up as well to let his sensei out and then Nyoko in. Asuma sat down across from Kakashi at the two man table and Nyoko sat in the corner next to Shikamaru.

"What is it Kakashi?" Asuma asked with a serious tone.

Kakashi bent down close and started explaining Nyoko's situation and how she had ended up in the village in the first place. None of the others paid any attention to the two talking Jounins and went into their own conversations.

"Shikamaru-san, tell me a little bit about yourself." Nyoko said, smiling.

"Urgh, I like to play shougi and that's about it. Everything else is too troublesome." He groaned.

"Um…ok then." Nyoko said with a sweat drop.

Ino let out a sigh, still rather upset she had been teamed up with Chouji and Shikamaru. Though she did not get to team up with her beloved Sasuke-kun, she had formed a life long friendship with the two. They all knew each other rather well, even if Shikamaru complained that he never understood what was going through a woman's mind. They knew each others strengths and weaknesses, and even though they were not as strong as some of the other rookie teams, they still always had their Ino-Shika-Cho formations.

"I see," Asuma said softly.

"I haven't told anyone else apart from Kurenai. So with you that makes 5 people in the village that know including Iruka, I will be telling Gai later but that's it. That will make 6, and I want to leave it that way." Kakashi said, using a serious tone that no body heard very often. (A/N: Yuki, the doctor, only treated her, she doesn't know what happened but the Hokage was informed.)

"Of course," Asuma nodded.

"Just warn your team to keep their eyes out for trouble."

Asuma nodded again and looked over to Nyoko who was staring at the rapid speed that Chouji was eating.

"He landed in hospital once because he ate too much of this." Ino laughed.

"Really?"

"Yeah."

"Well we better be off then, Nyoko-sama." Kakashi said, standing up.

"Alright." She said happily.

Again Shikamaru got up and moaned softly to himself.

"It was a pleasure to meet you all," Nyoko said, bowing slightly.

"See you later, Nyoko-nee-chan." Ino waved happily.

"Bye,"

Kakashi was in the lead again, and they exited the restaurant. He then pulled out his book and began reading.

"Everyone in this village is so nice, so welcoming to a stranger." Nyoko said with a soft voice.

"They were not like this back in the Thunder Country?"

"No, though there were the few kind people, most of my villagers were aggressive and rather dangerous too. No one really treated my family with any kind of respect, just respect that they had to show. No one would ever just say hi with a smile, they just greeted us highly and bowed in the street."

Kakashi was silent, and he had stopped reading his book, though he was still holding it.

"I did not have any friends because I was escorted pretty much everywhere I went, and no one wanted to befriend me."

"You have many friends now though." Kakashi said with a smile.

"Yes," Nyoko smiled. "I have been here only a day and have already made so many friends."

Kakashi now put away his book as they neared a bridge with three people standing on it.

"Thank you, Kakashi-kun."

Kakashi made his trade mark happy face () and waved at the people on the bridge.

"Gooood morning." He said cheerfully and innocently.

"Kakashi-sensei!! You're late! It's not even morning any more!!" A blonde boy yelled. He was wearing orange clothes and had what looked like cat whiskers on his cheeks.

"Aah, my bad, my bad. There was a large hole in the street and I had to fix it up." Kakashi said scratching the back of his head.

"When did that happen?" Nyoko thought.

"LIAR!" The blonde boy and a long pink haired girl both yelled.

There was one more boy with cold eyes and dark coloured clothes and hair. He was leaning on the rail of the bridge and gave a cold stare at Nyoko. The boys eyes were frightening, and Nyoko took a small step towards Kakashi.

"Eh, who's this?" Sakura asked.

"Oh, this is Nyoko-sama." Kakashi said, happy his students had stopped yelling at him. "Nyoko-sama. This is my Genin-team."

"Um, h-hello." Nyoko stuttered, looking away from the other boy.

"Hmm, you seem almost as shy as Hinata." Naruto said. "Oh! My name is Uzumaki Naruto! I enjoy cup ramen and … I am going to be the next Hokage! That is my dream!"

Nyoko looked at the laughing boy and thought of what Kakashi had told her earlier. So this was the boy that had the Kyuubi sealed inside him.

"My name is Haruno Sakura."

Kakashi looked over to the other boy and signalled him to come over and introduce himself.

"Uchiha Sasuke." He said, his voice as cold as his appearance.

"Sasuke? The boy that Ino likes?"

"Y-you've met Ino?" Sakura said, twitching. "AHH! THAT INO-PIG!" Inner Sakura yelled.

"Mm, yes." Nyoko replied with a confused look on her face as Sakura's eyes darkened and Naruto backed way in fear.

"Ok, shall we get started with the training then?" Kakashi said before things got any worse.

Ceestar: Yeah!! Chapter 4!! Only one chapter to go!!! Allow me to take this time to wish everybody a happy new year and welcome to 2006!