Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto and/or Tales of Symphonia.
For those who haven't played Tales Of Symphonia, no worries. Just think of the Tales Of Symphonia characters as a bunch of OC(s).
Me: I've got one vote for GaaraxMithos. If you want a specific pairing (oh, let's say SasukexMithos or something) please review. And Uchiha? I need to borrow Volume 3 from you… I only have 1 and 2, though I've read 'em all…
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"Good morning, class!" said Kakashi, merrily.
"YOU'RE LATE!" yelled Sakura, Naruto, and Mithos. Sasuke stood there, arms crossed. Kakashi sweatdropped.
When they got to the 'training area', Kakashi set the timer.
"I've set this alarm to go off at noon. I have here two small bells… Your challenge is to steal these from me before the timer sounds."
"Awright!" said Mithos, pumping a fist in the air.
"Anyone who fails… Doesn't get any lunch. Instead, you will be tied to that tree stump, so I can eat your lunch in front of you.
Mithos shrugged. "I ate breakfast… I'd rather have a full stomach and throw up than have an empty one and fail…" Kakashi sweatdropped, and the other three's stomach's rumbled.
"Now all you need is just one bell… apiece. But since there aren't enough to go around, two of you are definitely headed for that stump… And whoever those are will be the first of you to fail. Two of you are on your way back to school… And disgrace," Kakashi finished.
In the mind of Mithos, who had shed her helmet for today, opting for only her headband, had a plan in mind.
When she was younger, she had been trained and trained by her mother, Sheena Fujibayashi, who was regarded as a hero among many. As Mithos got older, Sheena attempted to have her make pacts with the summon spirits of their world, which only scholars from around there and Mizuhoians knew about.
Former chief Igaguri and Lloyd Irving, her husband, dissuaded the idea from her mind. Though at the age of nine, Mithos had shown promise. Unlike small, seven-year-old Sheena, who had failed to make her first pact, Volt, the summon spirit of Lightning, along with the translating help of Yuan Bryant, a half-elf boy, son of Raine Sage and Regal Bryant, and fighting assistance from the following…
Kuchinawa Wilder, son of Colette Brunel and Zelos Wilder, (sorry for those who hate the pairing), Mithos' now dead little sister, Anna Irving, and Martel Sage, daughter of Genis Sage and Presea Combatir.
"I ask that thy annulst thy pact with Sheena and establish a new pact with me." After fighting, she pledged…
"I wish to keep a world where everyone can live freely, a world without pain, remorse, or discrimination, a world where no life is born for the sole purpose of dying." She had been raised up on her idealist fathers' ideas, and knew they were true.
For if it was not for her father, what would this world be? Two worlds, one in decline, one flourishing.
My vow has been made, she thought, and I intend to keep it.
To keep it in this activity, she thought, I might as well help my teammates.
The other three had other things in mind, but it was not her place to ask.
"You may, if you choose, use shuriken. Attack as though you mean to kill or you'll never stand a chance.
"But that's so dangerous!" cried Sakura.
"You couldn't even dodge an eraser… You're gonna get yourself killed!" laughed Naruto.
Mithos glared at Kakashi.
"Don't you make any cracks at Naruto, Sensei…"
"Only the weak speak loudly… Now, forgetting the dunce, start on my signal-" Naruto snapped. He charged at Kakashi, kunai in hand.
Before anyone could say a word, he was held by Kakashi from behind.
'Interesting…' thought Mithos.
"At least you struck to kill. So, it seems like you've begun to respect me. Heheheh, maybe, just maybe, I'm starting to like you four. Now… Ready… Steady… GO!" The four were off.
Behind the bushes, Kakashi heard something- something almost like singing. Chanting.. he thought.
"I summon thee, thy assailant from thy dark abyss! I summon, come, Shadow!" He froze as a cold chill swept over him.
'A ninja attack!' he thought, for he couldn't speak. Dark tendrils were winding up his legs, and squeezing. As he was frozen, Mithos crept over and snatched a bell.
(I know you're thinking this is too easy for her, readers. Don't worry, it'll get harder.)
"What th-" he started as he looked at the runes surrounding her feet. Summoning? Yeah, right…
"That's enough, Shadow…"
'VERRRYYYY WELLLL…' Boomed an invisible voice. The darkness crept away with Mithos, who disappeared.
That shouldn't be possible- she took a bell! he checked his hip. No, both bells were still there… But so was something blinking.
'A tracking seal. She did all that to put a tracking seal on me--!' He looked up as Naruto stood there, grinning.
"Let us have a battle worthy of the mightiest warriors!"
"I think you're thinking of the wrong battle."
"The only thing wrong here is your hairstyle!" yelled Naruto as he charged.
Kakashi dug in his bag. Naruto skidded to a halt.
Kakashi pulled out Make-Out (Icha Icha or Come Come Paradise) Paradise. Mithos, who was hiding behind Naruto's place, widened her eyes. She took out a shuriken that went whizzing past him, hitting the book and scratching the cover severely.
"HENTAI!" she yelled. Kakashi looked livid as he looked at his book.
"My uncle, Zelos reads that, and he's a hentai! Hentai should NOT be teachers!"
(As you can see, she has much influence by her mother.)
Naruto ignored the shuriken.
"I-it's a book!"
"I've been dying to find out how the story ends… Carry on, it shouldn't make a difference, considering who I'm up against…"
Naruto growled, before yelling "I'M GONNA FLATTEN YOU!" and charging. After attacking and missing several times, he found Kakashi directly behind him.
"Showing your back so many times is very poor ninjutsu… DUNCE." said Kakashi, forming his hands into the sign of the tiger. In the bushes, Sakura and Sasuke's eyes widened. In a tree, Mithos almost yelled "Life Seal".
She took two pieces of paper out.
As Kakashi used "One Thousand Years of Death", Mithos jumped out of the tree.
"NARUTO! Flip in the air! Hurry!" Naruto did as she told him and landed on the ground, skidding to a halt before the lake. Mithos connected her heel with Kakashi's back.
"Acalantha- LIFE SEAL!" she yelled, and a green glow surrounded her. It had healed her, and Kakashi seemed weakened.
'Life seal?' thought Kakashi, spinning around.
As thoughts of failure rushed through Naruto's mind, he almost cried as he yelled.
"HAH-HA! MY SPECIALTY- THE ART OF THE DOPPELGANGER! NOW YOU FACE A LOT MORE THAN JUST ONE OF ME!" he multiplied into several flesh-and-blood copies, not mere illusions. After being assaulted by doppelgangers, as Naruto prepared to give a final blow to Kakashi's head, he ended up punching… Himself- a doppelganger.
The doppelgangers began fighting, to see who was Kakashi, but in the end, only Naruto stood, battered.
"Art of substitution… Naruto- c'mere…" said Mithos, who was playing with the Card of Acalantha- a spell card.
"Yeah?"
"Okay, I got a plan. You use your doppelgangers to attack Kakashi."
"I just did that!"
"No, you don't get it! I put a tracker on him so I can tell which is really him even if he transforms."
"A tracker?" Mithos leaned down to Naruto's height, her face inches away from his.
"Okay, so anyway… See that bell? There's gotta be a trap… So- multiply, and have each doppelganger try to get it, then make them give it to you. Simple, see?"
"Y-yeah." Naruto multiplied. Mithos watched as each doppelganger went for the bell in turn, one finally succeeding to grasp it and give it to the original, who was still on the ground, thanks to the luck of being "last in line".
"Protect it with your life, Naruto," Mithos warned as she followed the tracker to a surprised Kakashi.
"Silly girl," said Kakashi, who was reading.
"It was a fake!" she almost yelled.
"Right on the money."
She looked around to see Naruto, now hanging from the branch.
"Hoo boy."
When Kakashi jumped down, he seemed off guard.
"To be caught in such an obvious trap…"
He waltzed around the tree.
Sasuke jumped out from his hiding place and flung weapon after weapon at Kakashi.
"Wha- overkill, Sasuke! Plus- he wasn't even real…" said Mithos, patting her thigh where the tracker detector was hidden.
"Dammit…" mumbled Sasuke. 'I gave away my hiding place!'
Sakura was already fooled by the substitution/transformation art.
She was lying on the ground, frothy-mouthed and tear stained.
"I'm not like them…" said Sasuke to a reading Kakashi.
"Save your boasts 'til you've got a bell, Uchiha."
…
As Naruto prepared to eat the other's lunches, Kakashi sparred with Sasuke.
'Fire Style! Fireball technique!'
As Mithos watched, she yelled.
'EFREET!'
She had summoned. A great muscled, ghostly red demon was hovering in front of her.
"Yes?"
"Gatherest before me and unleash thine power!" she said, commanding the Fire spirit. She swore as Kakashi was already underground.
"Never mind! GNOME!"
The earth spirit, a fat, rotund raccoon-type-thing with a red bow on his head came.
"Whaddaya want!"
"Attack the silver-haired guy!"
"Fine, glad to see you've dropped the stuffy language!" said Gnome, half affectionately and half sarcastically. He'd always been Mithos' favorite summon spirit.
Kakashi, underground, was being squished by rocks and dirt.
"Wha-" he saw a faint outline of Mithos, who pulled him out of the ground.
"That's enough, Gnome!" The little Raccoon-Type-Thing nodded and disappeared, just as the fire spirit had.
"Who are you?..." he asked.
"Daughter of the Chief of Mizuho."
"Mizuho! That's just a legend…" said Kakashi.
"Or is it?"
Kakashi was now off to find Naruto, and to stop him.
When the exercise stopped, Mithos and Naruto were tied to stumps.
"Not fair! How come they're not tied!" said Mithos, whining. She was just itching to call upon Udine and drown him in some remote lake then have Efreet burn his body.
"Oh my," said Kakashi, "Listen to the little stomachs growl!" Speaking of growling, a certain brunette and Naruto were certainly doing their share of it.
"By the way, you three," Kakashi started again, "I have an announcement to make about this exercise. None of you have to worry about being sent back to the ninja academy." The livelier of the four cheered, and Sasuke and Mithos looked suspicious.
"This rocks! That means all three of us…" began Naruto…
He was shot down by Kakashi.
"Are hopeless. More schooling would be pointless. None of you will ever become Shinobi!" Mithos and Sasuke glared, while the other two looked bewildered.
"Give it up. Not one of the four of you… Will ever be a ninja!"
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, GIVE UP, YOU PATHETIC EXCUSE FOR A TEACHER!" Sakura expected it was Naruto to yell, as did Sasuke. No, Naruto was silent.
It was Mithos, whose knuckles were white, her face enraged. An aura of anger floated aboveher.
"No one GOT THE FREAKING BELLS, BUT WE TRIED, YOU… YOU… You're acting like a freaking Desian!" she mumbled, trailing off.
"What's a Desian?" asked Naruto, though he was ignored.
"Because not one of you… Has what it takes! Except for…" he glanced at Mithos. Sasuke charged.
"Hm?"
"What you are is a quad of spoiled brats…" said Kakashi, now on top of Sasuke, "Are you trying to make fun of Shinobi with your behavior? Well, are you? Did you even stop to wonder for one minute… why you were divided into teams?"
"Teamwork… the only reason I was ever able to form pacts was Yuan, Kuchinawa, Anna, Martel…" came an unusually small voice… No one heard it.
"This had a point, you know…" said Kakashi. Naruto and Sakura sked repeatedly what it is.
"TEAMWORK." said Mithos and Kakashi in unison.
"If we'd come at him together, we woulda got the bells," said Mithos, arms folded.
"If that was it, why'd you have only 2 bells! You forced us against each other…"
"That was the challenge," said Kakashi, "The only attempt even close I saw was Mithos giving Naruto a plan, and maybe Sakura looking for Sasuke, but still- she focused on him instead of going to Naruto, who was right in front of her. Mithos planted tracking devices, probably trying to eliminate the need for a team, Naruto tried to do the work of all three and Sasuke decided the other three were in the way."
As he ordered them not to share any with the other two on the logs, he disappeared.
Mithos sighed as her stomach rumbled. 'I should've listened to Yuan and stayed in Mizuho...' she thought, thinking of her 'suitor' (as Uncle Zelos called him) with blue hair who was so sweet… I should've listened to Auntie Presea…' she sighed again.
Naruto's stomach sounded like a lion.
Mithos gasped as Sasuke held his bento box up near her.
"Here."
Mithos, who had never felt any affection for any man other than her father and Yuan, though only in friendly means, turned red.
"Wh-"
Sakura spazzed out.
"But Sasuke, master Kakashi said-"
"He's probably miles away by now…" Sakura blushed and shoved her Bento box up to Naruto, who blushed.
"Thanks, Sasuke, Sakura…" Mithos then almost screamed as Kakashi appeared.
"YOU…" the group was wide-eyed. "Pass! " (I doubt that showed up as a heart, but just pretend it did, okay?)
"P-pass!" yelped Sakura, "But why!"
"You've all taken a big step forward. IN the world of Shinobi, those who ignore orders are lower than dirt… But those who disregard the safety and health of their fellow Ninja are even lower than that."
Kakashi unleashed Mithos, and the group celebrated and headed home (except for Naruto, who was tied to a stump.)
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