It had been a few minutes since their Sensei left the room. Tapion and
Saitou just looked at each other.
"Hey that means we got the whole day to ourselves. Sweet." Tapion grinned. "Hey Saitou ya want to..."
He ran his hand through his hair and smirked. "Only if you ready to get beat." Tapion ran out the door with Saitou chasing after him. All the while Hikari sat there just staring at the wall. She brought her hand up and looked at it in the light for a while.
Tapion ran through the streets passed the market, passed the houses, passed the noodle shop and into the forest. He stopped in a clearing panting heavily. He could hear his buddy a few yards away. He got down on one knee and smiled with mischievous eyes. He started to do a series of hand seals. "Hidden leaf no Jutsu" Around his body a swirl of leaves covered him and then scattered leaving nothing where he was standing.
Saitou landed in the clearing at that moment. He looked around and noticed the movement of the leaves and quickly scanned the area. He took two steps forward into a crouching stance. "Where are you..." He then heard a noise and looked up but it was too late Tapion was overhead and was about to land on him.
"Gotcha!" He yelled but at that moment Saitou grabbed his leg and countered slamming him to the ground. Saitou smirked.
"Almost had me hehe," He dusted his shirt off, "oh by the way you're it!" He tapped Tapion's head and then took off deeper in the forest. Tapion shook the dirt off and smiled as he took off toward his over confident friend.
For the rest of the afternoon the two took turns tagging, nailing, and down right hitting each other. Each would claim dominance over the other just to have their title taken away the very next moment. The sun was setting as the two walked out of the forest, they stopped at the bridge.
"Hey what do you think Hinata-sensei will make us do?" Saitou asked as he leaned against the rail of the bridge. He was completely covered from head to toe in mud, leaves and dirt.
"I don't know," Tapion who was equally as dirty joined him, "She said we couldn't prepare for it. It could be anything, I just hope we pass, you know. Come on we're missin' dinner." He stepped back from the rail and ran toward town, Saitou smiled and walked back home.
Toward the center of town on a dark roof, stood a tall figure watching the streets. He lifted up his mask that covered from his neck to his nose. He then vanished into the night.
Tapion returned home to get scolded by his mother about staying clean and got yelled upstairs to the bathroom. The rest of the night was uneventful for the boy. He lay in bed thinking about the exam tomorrow, hopping they could pull it off and pass. It would be the only way he'd get to go out and see the world just like his father before him.
The next day in the forest
The three stood at the bridge awaiting their new sensei. Saitou wore a T- shirt and Tapion wore similar clothes, Hikari took off her jacket and had on a long sleeved thin black shirt with only one sleeve. Her left sleeve was only half there, her left hand all the way up to her elbow was wrapped in bandages. After a few minutes they saw her down the road walking toward them. She smiled and greeted them all.
"Hello, hope you had a good nights sleep." Hinata waved her hand. "Now if you'd follow me I will show you the task I have in store for you. They followed her into the forest into the clearing where the memorial rock stood. "Okay today's exam is simply. See these," She took out two rubber balls, "Over there by the rock there are two lunches, your task is to retrieve these, one ball equals one lunch." And with a decent amount of strength and chakra threw the balls into the forest. "Your mission," she pointed to all three of them, "is to retrieve and hold onto the balls till noon. If you succeed then you pass and become my students"
"Wait there are only two balls, there's three of us." Saitou pointed out. He stood in confusion over the test.
"What's your point Saitou," Hinata smiled at the three. She remembered Naruto telling her about his trail with Kakashi and through her own experiences thought it would suit them but she decided to add her own twist. "Oh one more thing, after two hours I will join you and hunt for the balls but if I get them both no one eats. Now enough talk the test has begun." She turned her back and took out a watch.
"Wait, this doesn't make sense," Tapion yelled but she didn't answer back, she only continued toward the rock. Hikari started walking toward the direction Hinata threw it. Saitou and Tapion looked at each other and followed her. "Hey Saitou I'm going to get a ball before you!" He smiled and started running faster.
"Not on your life." Saitou shot back and matched his friend's speed. The two looked everywhere. Hikari was the first to find a ball; she smiled and held it tight in her hand. Saitou landed in a patch of dirt and saw the second one. He reached down to pick it up but before he could touch it, Tapion ran by and snatched it. He turned around to face Saitou smiled, did several hand seals and disappeared under the veil of leaves.
Back at the rock
Hinata was enjoying the fresh air. It was nice to just sit, and given her profession she didn't get this opportunity often. She thought back to her days as a Genin, she was quiet, shy and had a tough time accepting who she was, but all that changed as time went on. Now she was an elite shinobi of the hidden leaf village. She was able to get past all her obstacles thanks to him. She looked up at the sky and wondered what he was doing now. "Oh Naruto where are you?" She looked down at her watch. Two hours had passed. She got up wondering how her three students were doing. She quickly made her way through the forest and found the two boys first. They were fighting over one of the balls. She shook her head and decided to watch for now.
Tapion and Saitou were battling each other. Tapion tried but missed every blow he aimed at Saitou. Saitou quickly countered by kicking him in the gut. Tapion kneeled over dropping the ball. Saitou smiled.
"You know better to go hand to hand with me," He picked up the ball, "you could never match me in Taijutsu just as I could never beat you in Genjutsu." He suddenly stopped when he heard something. Maybe its Hikari he thought but then again maybe the two hours are up. Suddenly a figure dropped down from the trees. It was Hinata-sensei. Saitou immediately went back into stance. She smiled at him. Saitou saw no point in running so he charged her fist first. She easily dodged it and opened her palm and hit him in the chest sending him flying back.
Saitou never felt such pain. He clutched his chest and got back up. He did several hand seals and yelled out "seven blades no Jutsu!" Suddenly the wind around them started to whirl around Hinata picking up stray dirt, leaves and rocks. She looked around and just stood there. Saitou opened his hands palm up and pressed forward. All the objects picked up by the wind spun faster and tighter until closing in on Hinata. He finally released the jutsu letting the dust settle. Thinking he won he relaxed and fell down on one knee. He used up almost all of his chakra with that move. As the dust settled down he looked on in shock. At the center of the whirlwind laid a block of wood that was shredded. He quickly got up only to be hit back down by Hinata's palm again. She smiled, she was impressed with that jutsu and wasn't expecting her subordinate to pull it off. He wasn't even considered to be the number one rookie. Sasuke had that one.
She picked up the ball and jumped up to the nearest tree. After searching for twenty minutes she finally found Hikari. She had been tricky to locate; her genjutsu was good. Hinata jumped down facing the tree in front of her. She pulled out a shuriken and threw it at the trunk. "I know you're there, come on out." Hikari stepped out of the shadow of the tree and faced her sensei. She took her arm and unwrapped the bandages. Hinata was surprised of what lay underneath; instead of scars of nothing at all she saw tattoos. They covered her arm and had designs resembling stars, sun and the moon.
Hikari held her arm close and raised it in front of her face. Hinata was definitely not expecting what came next. Her arm started to glow a fluorescent bright white light. "Prism Flare no jutsu!" She yelled out, Hinata quickly turned away so not to be blinded and jumped back. Hikari charged forward and kicked, but Hinata managed to block still keeping her eyes shut. Hikari threw another punch but she missed. She looked around while her arm had subsided and began to dim. Hinata appeared behind her and hit her in the back of the neck knocking her out cold. Hinata lowered herself and caught the ball just as Hikari let go of it.
A couple of hours later the three of them woke up tied to tree stumps. Tapion was the first to wake up he tried to get free but was extremely tired and almost completely out of Chakra. The same went for Saitou and Hikari. They sat there basking in the sun until Hinata appeared again.
"That wasn't fair, you are stronger than us how were we supposed to beat you?" Saitou said in anger.
"We weren't," Hikari looked over to Saitou, "there was no way to stop you from getting the balls were there?" She stared at her Sensei. As soon as she said that it dawned on Tapion.
"She's right, this test was unfair." Hinata bent over and looked her subordinate in the eyes.
"This test was fair, however it really wasn't about these," She held up the balls, "This was a test of teamwork. I wanted to see how well you worked as a team. You guys would have had a better chance working together against me then fighting among yourselves." She looked over to Tapion and Saitou.
"But there were only two balls and three of us. You said you only had two lunches." Tapion stated.
"In order to be a shinobi, you have to work together and accomplish the mission regardless of your own safety and desire, if you work for your own benefit it endangers the team and the mission." She tapped Tapion's head. "Tell you what I give you guys one more chance after lunch. She untied Tapion and Hikari and gave them the lunches.
"What about me?" Saitou yelled. "Let me go." Hinata turned to face him.
"This is your punishment for fighting with your own teammate. You guys are not to feed him; if you do you all will fail the test. I will return in one hour after you had eaten and rested." And with that she left.
Tapion and Hikari sat there eating in front of Saitou. Saitou just looked on in a hungry gaze. Then Suddenly Hikari placed a piece of bread in front of his mouth.
"Here eat this." Saitou looked on in awe.
"Wait if I eat this we all fail." Tapion dropped his chopstick and looked at his teammate's actions.
"If you don't eat then you won't be able to fight and we will definitely fail the test." She pushed the piece of bread forcefully into his mouth. Tapion did the same with his food.
"Yeah she's got a point, besides it was my fault, I was the one who snatched the ball away from you and started the fight." Saitou just shrugged at least the three were in agreement. In the middle of eating and feeding Saitou Hinata appeared looking very angry.
"What did I tell you about feeding him. Do you know the consequences of going against what I said?" The three simply nodded.
Tapion spoke up. "We understand and are prepared." Hinata looked them all in the eyes and then smiled.
"Good you all passed." She turned and faced the memorial rock. "The most important thing needed to be a good Shinobi is to protect those precious to them regardless of rules and missions. "Welcome to team 6, we start training tomorrow. Meet at the bridge." She said as she waved goodbye. Tapion and Hikari couldn't believe it; they passed. Tapion was jumping for joy and Hikari smiled. Saitou just kept yelling until Tapion ran over and untied him.
TBC....
A/n: yay the beginnings almost done and then I get to move on to the more interesting parts that I had planned from the start and from this point on its not going to look familiar as I put it. I just needed a template to help get the ball rolling hehe....
"Hey that means we got the whole day to ourselves. Sweet." Tapion grinned. "Hey Saitou ya want to..."
He ran his hand through his hair and smirked. "Only if you ready to get beat." Tapion ran out the door with Saitou chasing after him. All the while Hikari sat there just staring at the wall. She brought her hand up and looked at it in the light for a while.
Tapion ran through the streets passed the market, passed the houses, passed the noodle shop and into the forest. He stopped in a clearing panting heavily. He could hear his buddy a few yards away. He got down on one knee and smiled with mischievous eyes. He started to do a series of hand seals. "Hidden leaf no Jutsu" Around his body a swirl of leaves covered him and then scattered leaving nothing where he was standing.
Saitou landed in the clearing at that moment. He looked around and noticed the movement of the leaves and quickly scanned the area. He took two steps forward into a crouching stance. "Where are you..." He then heard a noise and looked up but it was too late Tapion was overhead and was about to land on him.
"Gotcha!" He yelled but at that moment Saitou grabbed his leg and countered slamming him to the ground. Saitou smirked.
"Almost had me hehe," He dusted his shirt off, "oh by the way you're it!" He tapped Tapion's head and then took off deeper in the forest. Tapion shook the dirt off and smiled as he took off toward his over confident friend.
For the rest of the afternoon the two took turns tagging, nailing, and down right hitting each other. Each would claim dominance over the other just to have their title taken away the very next moment. The sun was setting as the two walked out of the forest, they stopped at the bridge.
"Hey what do you think Hinata-sensei will make us do?" Saitou asked as he leaned against the rail of the bridge. He was completely covered from head to toe in mud, leaves and dirt.
"I don't know," Tapion who was equally as dirty joined him, "She said we couldn't prepare for it. It could be anything, I just hope we pass, you know. Come on we're missin' dinner." He stepped back from the rail and ran toward town, Saitou smiled and walked back home.
Toward the center of town on a dark roof, stood a tall figure watching the streets. He lifted up his mask that covered from his neck to his nose. He then vanished into the night.
Tapion returned home to get scolded by his mother about staying clean and got yelled upstairs to the bathroom. The rest of the night was uneventful for the boy. He lay in bed thinking about the exam tomorrow, hopping they could pull it off and pass. It would be the only way he'd get to go out and see the world just like his father before him.
The next day in the forest
The three stood at the bridge awaiting their new sensei. Saitou wore a T- shirt and Tapion wore similar clothes, Hikari took off her jacket and had on a long sleeved thin black shirt with only one sleeve. Her left sleeve was only half there, her left hand all the way up to her elbow was wrapped in bandages. After a few minutes they saw her down the road walking toward them. She smiled and greeted them all.
"Hello, hope you had a good nights sleep." Hinata waved her hand. "Now if you'd follow me I will show you the task I have in store for you. They followed her into the forest into the clearing where the memorial rock stood. "Okay today's exam is simply. See these," She took out two rubber balls, "Over there by the rock there are two lunches, your task is to retrieve these, one ball equals one lunch." And with a decent amount of strength and chakra threw the balls into the forest. "Your mission," she pointed to all three of them, "is to retrieve and hold onto the balls till noon. If you succeed then you pass and become my students"
"Wait there are only two balls, there's three of us." Saitou pointed out. He stood in confusion over the test.
"What's your point Saitou," Hinata smiled at the three. She remembered Naruto telling her about his trail with Kakashi and through her own experiences thought it would suit them but she decided to add her own twist. "Oh one more thing, after two hours I will join you and hunt for the balls but if I get them both no one eats. Now enough talk the test has begun." She turned her back and took out a watch.
"Wait, this doesn't make sense," Tapion yelled but she didn't answer back, she only continued toward the rock. Hikari started walking toward the direction Hinata threw it. Saitou and Tapion looked at each other and followed her. "Hey Saitou I'm going to get a ball before you!" He smiled and started running faster.
"Not on your life." Saitou shot back and matched his friend's speed. The two looked everywhere. Hikari was the first to find a ball; she smiled and held it tight in her hand. Saitou landed in a patch of dirt and saw the second one. He reached down to pick it up but before he could touch it, Tapion ran by and snatched it. He turned around to face Saitou smiled, did several hand seals and disappeared under the veil of leaves.
Back at the rock
Hinata was enjoying the fresh air. It was nice to just sit, and given her profession she didn't get this opportunity often. She thought back to her days as a Genin, she was quiet, shy and had a tough time accepting who she was, but all that changed as time went on. Now she was an elite shinobi of the hidden leaf village. She was able to get past all her obstacles thanks to him. She looked up at the sky and wondered what he was doing now. "Oh Naruto where are you?" She looked down at her watch. Two hours had passed. She got up wondering how her three students were doing. She quickly made her way through the forest and found the two boys first. They were fighting over one of the balls. She shook her head and decided to watch for now.
Tapion and Saitou were battling each other. Tapion tried but missed every blow he aimed at Saitou. Saitou quickly countered by kicking him in the gut. Tapion kneeled over dropping the ball. Saitou smiled.
"You know better to go hand to hand with me," He picked up the ball, "you could never match me in Taijutsu just as I could never beat you in Genjutsu." He suddenly stopped when he heard something. Maybe its Hikari he thought but then again maybe the two hours are up. Suddenly a figure dropped down from the trees. It was Hinata-sensei. Saitou immediately went back into stance. She smiled at him. Saitou saw no point in running so he charged her fist first. She easily dodged it and opened her palm and hit him in the chest sending him flying back.
Saitou never felt such pain. He clutched his chest and got back up. He did several hand seals and yelled out "seven blades no Jutsu!" Suddenly the wind around them started to whirl around Hinata picking up stray dirt, leaves and rocks. She looked around and just stood there. Saitou opened his hands palm up and pressed forward. All the objects picked up by the wind spun faster and tighter until closing in on Hinata. He finally released the jutsu letting the dust settle. Thinking he won he relaxed and fell down on one knee. He used up almost all of his chakra with that move. As the dust settled down he looked on in shock. At the center of the whirlwind laid a block of wood that was shredded. He quickly got up only to be hit back down by Hinata's palm again. She smiled, she was impressed with that jutsu and wasn't expecting her subordinate to pull it off. He wasn't even considered to be the number one rookie. Sasuke had that one.
She picked up the ball and jumped up to the nearest tree. After searching for twenty minutes she finally found Hikari. She had been tricky to locate; her genjutsu was good. Hinata jumped down facing the tree in front of her. She pulled out a shuriken and threw it at the trunk. "I know you're there, come on out." Hikari stepped out of the shadow of the tree and faced her sensei. She took her arm and unwrapped the bandages. Hinata was surprised of what lay underneath; instead of scars of nothing at all she saw tattoos. They covered her arm and had designs resembling stars, sun and the moon.
Hikari held her arm close and raised it in front of her face. Hinata was definitely not expecting what came next. Her arm started to glow a fluorescent bright white light. "Prism Flare no jutsu!" She yelled out, Hinata quickly turned away so not to be blinded and jumped back. Hikari charged forward and kicked, but Hinata managed to block still keeping her eyes shut. Hikari threw another punch but she missed. She looked around while her arm had subsided and began to dim. Hinata appeared behind her and hit her in the back of the neck knocking her out cold. Hinata lowered herself and caught the ball just as Hikari let go of it.
A couple of hours later the three of them woke up tied to tree stumps. Tapion was the first to wake up he tried to get free but was extremely tired and almost completely out of Chakra. The same went for Saitou and Hikari. They sat there basking in the sun until Hinata appeared again.
"That wasn't fair, you are stronger than us how were we supposed to beat you?" Saitou said in anger.
"We weren't," Hikari looked over to Saitou, "there was no way to stop you from getting the balls were there?" She stared at her Sensei. As soon as she said that it dawned on Tapion.
"She's right, this test was unfair." Hinata bent over and looked her subordinate in the eyes.
"This test was fair, however it really wasn't about these," She held up the balls, "This was a test of teamwork. I wanted to see how well you worked as a team. You guys would have had a better chance working together against me then fighting among yourselves." She looked over to Tapion and Saitou.
"But there were only two balls and three of us. You said you only had two lunches." Tapion stated.
"In order to be a shinobi, you have to work together and accomplish the mission regardless of your own safety and desire, if you work for your own benefit it endangers the team and the mission." She tapped Tapion's head. "Tell you what I give you guys one more chance after lunch. She untied Tapion and Hikari and gave them the lunches.
"What about me?" Saitou yelled. "Let me go." Hinata turned to face him.
"This is your punishment for fighting with your own teammate. You guys are not to feed him; if you do you all will fail the test. I will return in one hour after you had eaten and rested." And with that she left.
Tapion and Hikari sat there eating in front of Saitou. Saitou just looked on in a hungry gaze. Then Suddenly Hikari placed a piece of bread in front of his mouth.
"Here eat this." Saitou looked on in awe.
"Wait if I eat this we all fail." Tapion dropped his chopstick and looked at his teammate's actions.
"If you don't eat then you won't be able to fight and we will definitely fail the test." She pushed the piece of bread forcefully into his mouth. Tapion did the same with his food.
"Yeah she's got a point, besides it was my fault, I was the one who snatched the ball away from you and started the fight." Saitou just shrugged at least the three were in agreement. In the middle of eating and feeding Saitou Hinata appeared looking very angry.
"What did I tell you about feeding him. Do you know the consequences of going against what I said?" The three simply nodded.
Tapion spoke up. "We understand and are prepared." Hinata looked them all in the eyes and then smiled.
"Good you all passed." She turned and faced the memorial rock. "The most important thing needed to be a good Shinobi is to protect those precious to them regardless of rules and missions. "Welcome to team 6, we start training tomorrow. Meet at the bridge." She said as she waved goodbye. Tapion and Hikari couldn't believe it; they passed. Tapion was jumping for joy and Hikari smiled. Saitou just kept yelling until Tapion ran over and untied him.
TBC....
A/n: yay the beginnings almost done and then I get to move on to the more interesting parts that I had planned from the start and from this point on its not going to look familiar as I put it. I just needed a template to help get the ball rolling hehe....