Chapter three: Graduation and my first day as a Genin.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or his world, but I do own… um… my hair!
Note: This chapter is dedicated to everyone whom has reviewed and whom are about to review. Oh yeah, and what you should get used to is the fact that I ALWAYS when I write about an Japanese manga I introduce characters LAST NAME FIRST.
Kasumi woke up on the morning of the day she had been waiting for. The day she would (hopefully) turn into a Genin, thus a REAL Kunoichi.
She rolled around and landed on the floor. A habit that just wouldn't stop, something her tailbone constantly reminded her. With the years that had passed, Tsunade's and Shizune's salaries had allowed them to move into a slightly larger house, so they all had their own rooms.
Kasumi's room wasn't what one would expect in a girls room. On the floor books with description of various basic ninjutsu, and few complex healing jutsu were thrown here and there, on her bedside table a bag containing weapons such a shurikens and kunai was laying with it's contents spilling out, (she had improved unrecognizably in both chakra practice and target practice.) her closet was almost empty, having only three different outfits, and one of them was too small anyway, and on the desk which was supposed to be used as a storing place for jewelry several boxes of instant noodles were settled.
As Kasumi was treading lightly over a book describing how to fix a broken wrist with chakra, a jutsu she still wasn't able to do satisfactorily.
Kasumi got dressed in a pair of black pants and a white t-shirt. Then she threw a jacket over, and ran out the door. She skidded to a halt in front of Shizune and did the henge of her in case that was the test, ran out of the door, an old lady asked for help to cross the road and Kasumi made quickly made a clone and ran on. About halfway she saw Sakura jog along whistling something under her breath looking extremely nervous.
"Sakura!" Kasumi shouted cutting out the –chan, now that they both where an hour away from (hopefully) becoming official Kunoichi. Without a word more they walked the rest of the way constantly exchanging henge's along the way so people got confused seeing themselves turn into a kid then turn into someone else.
At one point they had as much as four bunshin's (clones) walk behind them. Kasumi laughed suddenly, and turned back into herself the clones behind her poofed. (Literally.)
"Sakura, we really should stop this, or we'll run out of chakra!" Sakura stopped short in one of her henge's, and nodded, and her clones went poof also.
Once they reached the classroom, that over the years had become so familiar, Kasumi and Sakura sat on the first row. Behind them were Yamanaka Ino, Hyuuga Hinata, and Minori Aimi, three other girls from their class.
Iruka told them the exam would be Bunshin no Jutsu and Kasumi sighed with relief. She was quite good at that. They would be called in one at the time. Having used so much chakra on the way to the school, neither Sakura nor Kasumi practiced but many other class members were making as many clones as possible.
Kasumi was doodling with a kunai, writing 'Kazumi waz here.' With the classic replacing S with Z. Sakura was focusing on taking even breaths and not flipping out of nervousness. Sakura was called in first, and of course passed.
The Kasumi was called. Iruka sensei was sitting with a table full of headbands with the Konoha symbol on it. A swirl with a sort of beak on.
"Kasumi, do a clone for us then." Iruka Sensei said with a smile. Kasumi concentrated, and suddenly there were five Kasumi's. Two were standing on either side of Kasumi, and the two others were making rabbit ears on the other clones.
"Very good! You pass!" Iruka said happily. Mizuki sensei however was standing staring at the wall looking bored.
As Kasumi passed she distinctly heard "…why did his name have to start with a U?" but she didn't take any notice. She received her first forehead protector and she smiled happily. Then walked out of the room.
Iruka frowned slightly. That girl really was a puzzle. Not that she was really that much different from the others, but she always seemed much more mature than the other children. Her vocabulary and knowledge was great even when she was young. But then again, she was the daughter of the only female sannin.
"I did it! I'm a Kunoichi!" Kasumi shouted happily running towards the hospital to inform her mother.
"Mom! Mom! I did it I finally became a ninja! Moooom!" Kasumi skidded to a halt outside her mother's office where Tsunade was sleeping peacefully with her cheek against a report. Kasumi sighed. This was happening more and more often now. Her mother was getting tired. Going in Kasumi placed her mothers coat over her and replaced the report with her own. Then she wrote a note beside Tsunade that she had graduated just fine, and that dinner would be at five. Then she walked home.
Now it was time for the meeting where we were going to get the information she would need as a Kunoichi.
When she had come home it turned out in her anxiety Shizune had baked two cakes one with 'Better luck next time!" and one with "We're so proud of our Kunoichi!" and tried to hide it but by mistake gave her the wrong one. Kasumi found it all just hilarious now that she really had graduated. Tsunade showed up at around four thirty not looking a bit better.
"Mom you really should take a vacation soon…" Kasumi said worrying over the deep bags under her mother's eyes. "What? Oh no sweetie I can't do that, it'll just come up another crisis and I have to go to the hospital anyway. But don't worry today, today is your big day!"
Now Kasumi was sure Tsunade was tired. First, her mother never called her little nicknames like sweetie, she despised it. Second, her mother most usually wasn't that pessimistic.
Kasumi got up. They had finished the cake anyway.
"Go to bed mom and I'll come up with something to make you sleep. I need practice as a medic ninja anyway." Kasumi said smiling. Shizune helped her practically shoving Tsunade into bed and forcefully shoving the pill into her mouth. Two minutes later Tsunade was fast asleep, and Kasumi closed the door, and went into her room.
She went over to her mirror and fastened her new forehead protector around her forehead and nodded. But then she took it of and fastened it to her arm. This seemed quite practical, while when it was on her forehead it slid down. Then she went out to try and practice her stamina by running around in the forest a little.
Btu as stated today was the day for the meeting and Kasumi was practically shaking with excitement for her first mission. This was probably going to be soon.
When she arrived she saw that Uzumaki Naruto was sitting with a large grin. So he had passed? She hadn't waited long enough there to find out she sat on the row in front of him, so she turned around and was about to congratulate him but he looked disgusted and angry for something so she dropped the idea and turned again to face the front. It turned out they would be in a team of three with one sensei until they graduated as chuunins.
Kasumi wasn't thrilled about having to work with two guys who were bound to either be rivals, or despising each other. (A/N well think about it! Neji and Lee are rivals, Naruto and Sasuke are rivals, and Shino and Kiba despise each other, the only ones being okay to each other all of the time is Choji and Shikamaru…)
It turned out she would be in team with Naoko Nori which was a mild quiet boy with slightly long reddish hair, he would be a good team member, but if he was going to be any good in real combat was left to see. Then there was Taro Ryo who was loud and tending to be slightly violent during arguments. His hair was brown- at some point in time. Now he had dyed it a sharp tone of green. He would most definitely be troublesome.
But she didn't envy Sakura her team, sure she got Sasuke all girls hero, but he was going to majorly suck at team work, the same for Naruto whom would just want to show of how strong he was.
Then they went out to eat. Kasumi with Sakura, since she had failed to go with Sasuke and because she had refused Naruto. Poor thing. Then they went back to go with their sensei. They were the second last to leave. While Nori and Kasumi had no problem sitting still waiting for their sensei but Ryo constantly had to get up to do something.
Then their sensei arrived. A female actually. She pointed towards us.
"Come on! This way!" She said happily. Then she turned around and frowned at Sakura's team. I got up waved good bye to Sakura and walked out with my new sensei.
"Now!" she said once we were sitting comfortably dangling our legs out over the cliff with the Hokage's. We were above the second Hokage's now.
"How about some introductions? I'll go first. My name is Kimiko Natsumi, I just turned nineteen, and you are to be my very first Genin team! So you three are for always to be my favorites of course. I like to train and read about ninjutsu and such. I dislike to be called normal or being underestimated. My hobbies include training Taijutsu, mostly stamina, ninjutsu and genjutsu. Ryo will you go next?" Ryo nodded he was hyperactively slamming his heels against the top of the cliff.
"To you three I suppose I'll be Ryo, but I prefer most people to call me Taro. I like to run around making people think I'm one of those noise and no action people, and then surprising them. I rarely get serious. I dislike people who want to play the main part of a drama performance. My hobbies include pranks, training, reading about training, and skipping class."
"Okay Ryo! Well done. Nori, will you go next?" Nori nodded.
"My name is Naoko Nori, I dislike many things, but if I should point out one thing it would be female shinobi. I like and aim for Anbu. My hobbies include writing down all the reasons females should still be staying in the home."
This caused Kasumi to growl slightly and they're sensei to lift an eyebrow while Ryo shrugged, like either way sat fine with him. Kasumi didn't need to be called on as she immidiatley started having really fired up under what Nori had said.
"My new major dislike is Nori's attitude. My biggest ambition is to become the leader of the shinobi medic team. My biggest hobby from now on will be to prove Nori wrong about his sick theories." Kasumi said all the while grinning at Nori.
"Well you are all certainly… interesting. Now get some sleep. We will start our training tomorrow and the day after that we will start our real missions!"
'So it turned out I was wrong. It will be a pleasure to be around Ryo compared to being around Nori. Thank god Natsumi-sensei will be there.
When she got home she told her mother all about her team, and she reacted the same way about Nori's theories, and told her daughter to hit him extra hard on the training.
Later Sakura called and told her all about her team, and that Kakashi sensei had told them not to eat breakfast as they were probably going to throw up.
Worried for her friend she advised her not to eat that night either.
Well! Sorry for the long chapter and late update, but hey, there was really a lot of things that needed to go into this really, really, important chapter!
And hey, I just love Nori, he's the character who is going to get the most ass-kicking and is going to be by far the weakest. He's also got a connection to Kasumi's past! Dun-dun-dun! And by past I mean her father- Ooh exciting!
And I'm soon making my own plot so complicated I can't follow it .;
Well, I hope you enjoyed and that you will review if you have time or at least something to say.
Oh yeah and really, I've got visitors so I got up at five this morning to have time to write this . so I REALLY hope its okay, and if not, I don't have a beta okay!
Beta wanted. Scratch that. Beta BADLY needed.
Nat-tia
