Please make us stronger, sensei!
Disclaimer: This belongs to the series, Naruto. None of these parts are mine and are only written for entertainment purposes.
Hinata exited the medical store, watching another pair enter the same door, conversing in low tones. She turned around and saw that it was Sakura and the Hokage. She blinked and realized that the pair was becoming a common sight in the village and she frowned at the thoughts.
'Why do I get the feeling that I'm jealous? I shouldn't even be jealous! My father is like the Hokage, only tougher,' she thought as she carried her bag of supplies to her home.
She sighed and looked back, studying the store sign and thought about Sakura.
'She is so lucky to be on Naruto's team, how is it that I, a quiet girl, end up with Shino and Kiba?'
She shook her head to shake the thoughts, 'No, I shouldn't be ungrateful! Those two are the best thing that has ever happened to me. Even Kurenai-sensei has helped me tremendously in my endeavors. If only Naruto pay attention to me.'
She paused alongside the river, glancing at the leaves, 'But Sakura pays attention to me more than Naruto. She is everything I want to become as. I can see why Naruto would have a crush on her. She's a nice girl.'
She clenched her fist, 'I'll stop being the quiet girl! I need to become stronger so Naruto-kun… so Naruto-kun can see more of me.'
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"Akamaru! Go!" yelled Kiba, running ahead of his dog as they began their exercises of leaving marks behind.
"Arf, arf, arf!" responded Akamaru as he left his marks behind.
Once Akamaru's marks were made, the dog turned into Kiba using henge and began spinning to attack each of the marks with his sensitive nose. After the pair hit each and every markings for half an hour, they stopped as Akamaru changed back.
A distinct background noise reached their ears, Kiba frowned at the unnatural sound and looked at Akamaru, barking in confirmation that he was hearing things too. Kiba paused a moment and he heard noises nearby were sounds of crashing and shouts. Alarmed that someone might be in danger; he leaped up into the trees and ran towards the sounds. He stopped suddenly, causing Akamaru crash into him with a yelp.
"Shh," said Kiba, panicking that Akamaru might announce their presence.
He sighed of relief when the two people on the ground didn't pay notice to the yelps. Kiba blinked, realizing just who it was on the forest floor.
'Naruto? Jiraiya? Oh, this should be good,' he thought, smirking, 'At last, I can witness of their much talked about training!'
"Mass Shadow Clone Technique!" yelled Naruto with the jutsu hand sign, creating what seemed like millions of Naruto clones.
Kiba's eyes grew big as saucers as Akamaru whined in shock.
"I know, I never expect Naruto to produce that many… just what kind of chakra…?" he muttered to himself.
He watched Naruto master a jutsu he never saw before.
'What's that? It looks like a combination of Rasengan and some kind of black material,' he wondered and his questions were answered when one Naruto near Kiba shouted the technique.
"Art of Illusionary Shadow Ball!" he threw the ball into the air, changing the sun into moon and the sky grew dark and filled with stars.
'…And just what would he use this for? I thought he sucked at genjutsu!' he thought, 'Well damn, I'm nowhere near his level anymore. I don't like that feeling,' Kiba frowned, his chest filled with jealousy and constricted his airways. 'I have to get away from here.'
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Shino stood on a tree branch, calling his insects back to him. A bug alerted him of two people nearby. Shino pushed up his glasses up his nose bridge, thanking the bugs as he leaped from tree to tree to see who were here in these parts. It wasn't very common for people to come here to train, Shino knew that. He stopped and spotted Sasuke and Kakashi.
Quirking an eyebrow, he studied the pair and added chakra to his ears to see what they were talking about.
"Do you understand?" asked Kakashi, his right hand on his hips.
"Yeah, I do, let's do this," Sasuke replied, spreading his leg apart and both of his hands began charging up with chakra that seemed to create electricity.
Shino blinked, a sense of awe rising up in himself as the electricity soon spread to other parts of the body. The energy spread from his hands to the elbows, then the shoulders, his torso, but once it got past the neck, aiming for his head, Sasuke fell to the ground, energy dissipated as he panted.
"I can't do it," he muttered, "not yet at least."
"You know, even I can't do it," Kakashi said quietly.
Sasuke's face snapped up, staring with disbelief, Shino sharing the same sentiments.
"But… how do you know about this jutsu, then?" asked Sasuke.
"Because I tried to create the jutsu myself. It was never completed," he replied.
Shino shook his head, taking two steps away from the scene, 'unbelievable, Kakashi has that much trust? It's not very common for ninjas to share a jutsu they never completed in the first place. Especially the ones they tried to create. Damn, this makes me want to hone my own skills even more. What's more, Kakashi trusts him, even after his attempt at deserting the village.'
He turned and sped away from the pair, 'I wonder if Hinata and Kiba wants to train harsher than ever? Will Kurenai permit that?'
He closed his eyes, hoping for the best.
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Kurenai sat in her living room, watching the clock tick by slowly. She sighed, stretching her back.
'I need something to do, I wonder if I can call the students in and train them some more,' she thought.
Before she stood up, Kurenai heard a knock on the door as one of her students entered through the window. Quirking an eyebrow at the sudden activity, she nodded to Kiba in greeting as she stood and walked to the door.
She found Shino standing there and heard a voice in the hallway. She stuck her head out of the door and found Hinata walking to her apartment.
Something was up and she knew it, and she wanted to know what is going on with her students. It was rare that all three students cam to her apartment of their accord, and when that happened, it meant something big was coming.
"Well, that was sudden," Kurenai said, her hands on the hips. "What's up?"
"Kurenai-san, I was wondering if you could train us harder than ever," said Hinata.
"Oh?"
"That's what I came here to discuss about," Shino said.
"Hey, me too!" Kiba exclaimed as Akamaru barked in agreement.
"I see," she muttered, nodding, "and what brought this on?"
"I saw Sakura-chan, and… um… and I got inspired," she replied, a blush rose to her cheeks.
"I saw Naruto training with Jiraiya," Kiba said, "So I can you say it was an inspiration for me too.
"And I saw Sasuke with Kakashi, also training," Shino said.
"Interesting, all the genin teams in this village feel the same way. They wanted to train harder when they saw team seven's progress. Very interesting," she said. "Of course I'll train you harder than ever! I had planned to call you three to come down here and train, so this works out perfectly. Let's do one right now."
"Yes, sensei!" the three said, grinning.
