Chapter four: Getting to know my team! Training and missions!
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto; I however do own the fascinating aspect of my own dislikes!
AN: I am sorry I have not updated before, but my little brother went rollerblading and fell nastily on his arm, it shattered, and now he has four huge screws in his arm x.x terrible times of chaos… because this is written in a hurry, between making sure my brother doesn't move his arm, shopping for my mom whom broke her wrist three weeks ago, and waiting for dad to come home (sometime tonight thank god) and phone calls from different hospitals checking up on my brother's situation.
Nori is actually based on my brother. I wonder if he got his bad attitude from his name..? My mother decided to call my BROTHER Kim. Not that it's bad, it's just that he got teased a lot being called a girl- poor thing.
IMPORTANT: From this chapter on it will be first person: KASUMI that speaks. It just grew too difficult writing it third person .; I will rewrite the chapters before this one when I finish the story. For now I want to look forewords to new chapters instead of pausing and going back in past chapters.
When I woke up I quickly realized I was about to get late and dressed high speed, took the toast between my teeth and ran out the door trying to tie the Konoha headband around my arm as I ran at top speed towards the top of the Hokage faces.
"SAFE!" I yelled and slid to a stop right in front of my sensei just as my digital watch beeped signalizing that it was exactly 7:00 am.
"Sorry!" I laughed and finally managed to tie the headband around my arm.
"Don't worry you were on time so I won't complain" Natsumi-Sensei said kindly.
"Hmph." Nori was sitting in a tree his legs hanging down. "That's another reason. They never manage to do anything in a short amount of time. They always need hours." Nori was holding a small notebook which he now took down notes in. Then he shoved it into his pocket and jumped down. His knees wiggled slightly but he managed to keep standing thus keeping his pride. For now.
"Well, even if that is true, which it isn't, keep in your little count that Ryo is later than me. And he is male." It was true Ryo was very late. First half an hour after the time he showed up, having mistaken the time, and had thought he had showed up early. Oh joy.
"Well!" Natsumi Sensei said. "Now that we are all here we can start training. Oh yes, and Ryo you might want to color your hair. It would bring attention to you, which won't be good once we start difficult missions." Ryo shrugged. Today his hair was a screaming shade of red.
"Well! For training today I will mostly be testing your abilities. This means your stamina, control, and techniques. Do any of you know any abilities you were NOT taught in the academy?"
It turned out all of us did. Nori had Kaze no jutsu, or wind technique that would send a strong wind towards the opponent forcing them to cover their eyes, thus creating an excellent cover for escape. Ryo had a technique that if he 'marked' us he could immediately tell where we were and if we were hurt. I of course had my healing jutsu. Natsumi sensei nodded. She didn't make a move to tell her what jutsu she was expert over; in fact she wouldn't tell us even when Nori asked.
"Let's just say with that at your age I was five times as powerful as you are now." Natsumi sensei smiled slightly. "In fact when I was twelve I was already chuunin." This information seemed to unnerve Nori. Ryo just shrugged like he already knew. I however had met a six year old hunter Nin; at the time I wasn't more than five myself and asked if I could become a hunter Nin too. He laughed- I don't remember if it was kindly or mocking.
As training that day we were matched up against each other. Natsumi Sensei, Sensing the danger, paired me up with Ryo first so I could blow of some steam, so I wouldn't hurt Nori too much. Ryo was a decent fighter, but he went too much on the offensive, never on the defensive, thus allowing me to make some good hits and knocking him out. Then it was Nori against Ryo. Now there was a fun fight. While Ryo was offensive, Nori was almost only defensive. Nori lost after one direct hit from Ryo. As it turned out I was the best Taijutsu user. For now.
However when we started to practice stamina by running around in a set route, I was much earlier blown than Ryo. While Ryo managed to get in 52 turns around, I was completely exhausted after 46 turns. Nori managed 20. And he was still breathing heavily when Ryo was on his 52nd turn. However it seemed that Ryo had the least control, while Nori exceeded him (barely). However years with medical jutsu had taught me much control of my chakra.
Natsumi sensei seemed pleased when she sent us home. We decided to walk together. Ryo turned out to be quite hilarious when he wanted. Even Nori seemed funnier than annoying now. Nori left first, his family being quite high in the system, thus him living closer to the Hokage quarters.
Mom, Shizune, and me preferred a cute little house more along the edge. Ryo didn't want to tell me where he lived, but he followed me all the way to my house before he turned and went towards a part of the city my mom told me never to go. The 'less rich' parts of the city; the part with the most violence and the least money. For a moment I was worried, but put it at the back of my mind. He probably just turned of on a street before he reached the bad parts.
The next day we had our first mission. It was babysitting twins. It was a nightmare. Nori refused to do any work at all because 'children are women's work.' Ryo tried to help but he held them too hard and in the end I had to do everything myself. Next was dishwashing, where Ryo broke more than washed, and Nori said that washing up was women's work. In the end I was so annoyed with them I sat out during the next mission, walking dogs. Mysteriously Nori ended up with two large ones while I didn't have any and Ryo had a teeny well-behaved one.
For the next months mostly everything ended up like that. Of course I had lots of fun; Ryo, Nori, and I ended somewhat like friends, Nori had almost stopped commenting about female's and then he always ended with '…excluding Kasumi and Natsumi-sensei." And then we couldn't complain so much could we?
Oh and my worries for Ryo was nothing. Ryo is an orphan, but he lives in a small apartment ever since he started at the academy. He also had a small amount of money for food and clothes given to him every month. The way I found this out wasn't exactly fun.
I had seen him go in the same direction every day when we came home from training and missions, and one day I decided to follow. He of course noticed my presence and decided to joke a little with me and went deeper and deeper into the dark streets. Then we were ambushed by a group of men whose goal was to kill us and take whatever amount we had on us. Not that we couldn't handle normal people in a fight; but together we couldn't take more than ten each at the time and here there were at least fifty for each of us.
If Sakura's sensei, what was his name again? Katashi? No Kakashi! Hadn't come, we would be laying dead there. If my mother had found out however the poor men who dared attack me would be lying with their neck snapped.
When we told Natsumi sensei she completely blew up on us. She could rival my mother anytime. Then she went and thanked Kakashi for protecting her 'hopeless' Genin.
Well, lets say they have been 'friends' ever since. No, they are just friends but me and Ryo wanted to get them together- Nori stopped us however. Party pooper. Killjoy.
After what seemed as an eternity of E rank missions Hokage-Sama deemed us ready for our first D-rank mission. D rank missions were mostly missions that are quite easy but go on for a longer amount of time, outside of your own country.
Our mission was simple enough. Lately mist village had sustained some damage under an attack; we were going to help them rebuild the outer parts of their walls and defence works.
As it turns out, Sakura was going on a mission around there too, to watch over a person building a bridge apparently. Fun.
We followed a way from Konoha, but after a few hours we headed toward Mist village while the others continued towards their goal which was about a day running away from our destination.
The building went well enough, and apart from the heavy mist everywhere it was quite fun too. Natsumi sensei even said she was proud of us. We also got a lot of training done, including an exercise of walking on water, which we found fun since Ryo kept falling under. Twice however I had to let myself fall to help him out because he was exhausted, and not the best swimmer around.
When we met up with Sakura's team, team 7 I think, she could tell of an exciting mission with ninja fights, Sasuke and Naruto fighting someone quite above their level, and a little boy named Inari regaining bravery, a little village and a mafia boss. And here I was coming from a fun mission!
When we came home however another surprise was awaiting. The chuunin exam. And I don't think Natsumi sensei is going to recommend us!
A/N: There. I know this chapter was loosely detailed and rushed, but the Chuunin exam and what follows is going to be several chapters.
Nat-tia
