Disclaimer: Ah, we do not own Naruto, although if we did, Hayate would never have died.
A/N: Sorry if this chapter took so long to get up. Brain block. Not writers block any more XD
And now I'm writing this on my own, and I'm the one who wrote like 30 words on the last chapter, so this was so hard for me!
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Chapter 3: Learning, Ninja Style
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"Where are we supposed to stay, if we're staying here for the rest of our lives then?" Jamie asked, finally speaking up, not wanting to get slapped around the head, or worse. The two other boys agreed with him, thinking that trying to make a life here by themselves would be to hard, especially after just appearing, in bathtubs and through ceilings.
"Well, there are odd numbers of male and female here," Tsunade started, a few people started to groan about this, knowing what would be said next couldn't be very good. They received a hard stare, from the Hokage, as she carried on talking, "So, I'm leaving you under the care of the person who found you." She finished.
"What? You mean, I have to stay with Tarzan, over there?" ask Sian, not looking to happy with that arrangement.
"Troublesome,"muttered Shikamaru.
"At least you don't smell like eggs,"
"That was my breakfast"
"Who's bed did you wake up in, Rachael?" Sian asked sarcastically, crossing her arms.
"Roses," Chris said, as if the question had been relevant to him as well.
"Who's she?" questioned Josh, looking at Chris, who rolled his eyes.
"The flowers, you light bulb. A bed of roses" Chris explained to Josh, whom hadn't gotten the lame joke.
"Will you all just shut up?" Hoi interrupted them, in a flat tone.
"As I was saying, I'm leaving you under the care of those who found you. Which gives them a great deal of responsibility," Tsunade said, placing her arms upon the desk, "You will all attend training sessions, starting tomorrow. But first, you'll need to get some ... decent clothes"
"Yeah, I'll agree on that. School uniforms aren't good," muttered either Rachael or Chris, no one was really sure who'd said it.
"Shopping is my speciality," Ino said brightly, after a while of her not saying anything. "I'm sure I can help there."
And so, Tsunade had shooed all 14 people from her office, to go shopping, and go home, and have a tour of Konoha, whatever that they needed to be shown, they were being shown.
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Their second day in Konoha, hadn't started all that great. Rachael had lost her appetite, Hoi was in a bad mood, Josh had had his hair brushed and Jamie had sworn he saw his life flash before his eyes, after getting on the wrong side of Temari. Those four had all been dropped off earlier than 8am, for their training.
Jess had made her way, alone, towards where they were meeting that Tsunade woman, to find the four others sat, looking mostly grumpy, or still frightened. "What happened to you lot?" She asked, propping herself up on the wall.
"Hair brush,"
"Temari,"
"Too much food,"
"Neji,"
Jess looked at them. Was that really it? She'd endured a night, of being a room apart from a guy who looked awfully like a cat, but who snored louder than her best friends dad. "To much food? Wow, Rachael, I thought you would have been in your element, there," Jess said cheekily to the smaller girl.
"I would have been, if it weren't for the fact that that Chouji guy eats all day long" she responded emitting a sigh. She would have said sometihng else, had it not been for the two rather loud voices that could be heard, bickering, the voices belonging to Chris and Sian, whom had been walking together for the last five minutes, arguing about who was worse, Ino or Shikamaru.
"He's lazier than she is, I bet" Sian said, to Chris, as the slowed to a stop, in front of the other five.
"She flirts shamelessly!"Chris practically yelled, waving his arms in the air as he did so.
"He's way to intelligent, or so I hear, anyway," Sian announced to everyone, but mainly directing it at Chris
"That's not a bad thing," he said, furrowing his eyebrows
"OK then, his mother is scary" Sian said, as a replacement for the last bad thing she said about Shikamaru.
"She's to much like her father"
"He's to much like his father"
"Will you two quit bickering already. They can't be worse than you two" Hoi cut in, standing up from her seat on the ground. She received to stares from Chris and Sian, but shrugged it off. She'd just stayed with Neji, those glares wern't phasing her as much as they might have this time yesterday. But then again, this time the day before she wouldn't have been awake.
"We all look so different. I hope you don't wear things like that outside of school, Jamie" Rachael said, joining Hoi, and getting to her feet.
Jamie shook his head "The shorts, maybe, but the shirt? Never" He said, picking at the blue shirt that he was wearing.
They hadn't shopped for something they necessarily liked, but something that wouldn't stop them from moving around lots. Sian had made sure no one had gotten anything white for either herself or Jess. They'd been stopped from wearing it at home for a reason.
Not soon after they'd all ceased bickering, Tsunade had ushered all seven of them into the building, for the training, and Hoi couldn't help but think this would end rather badly.
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"Right, it is time to begin your training. I have decided to start you all indoors because today you'll be learning about chakra control. Does anyone have any clue to what that is?" Tsunade said, looking each of them.
Six blank faces stared up at her, puzzled and confused. Only one seemed to know anything and she had her hand in the air.
"I think chakra, from what I have heard, is kind of like Ki or Chi. It is the spiritual energy harnessed in the body then flows from eveything enableing us to perform feats that would be otherwise impossible," Rachael answered, pride in her voice from evidently managing to know something none of the others knew.
"What a boff," said Jamie, sighing and shaking his head.
"I am not."
"Are too."
"Am not."
"Are t-"
They were cut off from bickering any further by a small but definately not natural cough from Tsunade.
"She is absolutely correct. I am pleased to see that at least one of you is trying."
She looked pointedly around at the others and glared but it was a wasted effort seeing as her glares just fell on idiotic people.
'Sigh... it will be like having six Naruto's and another Shikamaru...," thought Tsunade edging closer to her alcohol desk.
"Everyone has chakra so I want to see how well you can control it. I want you to walk up the walls using only your feet," she told them, looking expectedly at them.
"What, that's impossible," complained Josh, looking at the impossibly smooth walls.
"Let's try anyways, or are you too stupid to manage that?" asked Sian, raising an eyebrow in challenge.
"Whatever," replied Josh, setting off towards the wall.
Three minutes later, Tsunade looked around her office and thought, I'm in charge of a zoo. She had Jess, Josh, Rachael, and Sian, on the ceiling, each with impeccable chakra control. Then she had Chris and Hoi on the walls, Chris slightly falling off. And then Jamie running repeatedly into the wall, not up it, a true idiot.
'God help me,' Tsuande prayed silently.
"Okay, let's stop there for now. Jamie, you need to work on that a bit but you will get the hang of it soon enough. Next we are going to learn the replication jutsu."
And so on the lesson went. It turns out that replication jutsu's are Jamie and Joshs specialty, and that the brainwork is better for Rachael than anyone else. And that Sian, Jess, and Hoi were the sarcastic trio who seemed really smart but lazy.
'Sigh... make that three more Shikamaru's,' Tsunade thought dejectedly.
"All right people, that's a wrap for today. I shall see you tomorrow for your next lesson. For homework I want you to practice chakra control."
"Okay Tsunade-sama," they all answered repectfully, ande walked out the door.
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The seven of them had just finished their first ninja training sessions, and they were just chatting about it amongst themselves when Josh sat up.
"Hey. Are any of you hungry?" he asked, looking at them.
"Yea, I am actually really hungry," Jess replied, "Guess I'll have to go back to Kankuro's."
"No, I'll just cook us something," Josh, said, standing up and gesturing them to follow him.
A few minutes later they were standing inside Sakura's front lobby and staring at Josh curiously.
"Dude, I didn't know you could cook and I'm supposed to be your best friend," commented Jamie.
"Yea, well, I can," he retorted and went to the kitchen. "Make yourselves comfy," came a muffled voice from the kitchen.
So the six of them sat down in the dining to wait for whatever poisons Josh was bound to have cooked up.
Chris and Hoi were the first to notice the weird smell.
"Er, Josh? Are you okay in there?" Chris called out nervously.
Nothing but silence met his enquiry when all of a sudden…. There was a bloodcurdling scream and Josh came tearing out of the kitchen screaming something about psycho baked beans. Hoi, being the bravest of the bunch went to see what was happening before she too came back bearing an odd look on her face.
"You tried to infuse your chakra into that didn't you Josh?" she asked Josh, her dark eyes piercing into his mind.
"Er… well… it was worth a try," he said.
"What's happened? What have you done now, Josh?" Sian asked, rolling her eyes.
"He's made the baked beans come alive and they are currently eating the furniture," Hoi answered for Josh.
"You what?" Jess practically yelled, "You freak Josh!"
Eventually they heard a loud clang and stomping footsteps and a very angry Sakura came into the dining room.
"You were home Sakura?" Josh muttered nervously.
"Yes I was. Everybody…. Get out now! I need to talk to Josh alone."
Silently, they all departed and about half way down the path they heard Josh scream. Shivering they headed back home to do their homework, hoping that Josh would be alive still tomorrow.
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A/N: It started out just Sunny doing this chapter but I ended up doing the last two bits… not bad eh… especially seeing as I have brain block as well! Together we are invincible… haha I wish… R & R please and remember FLAMES keep us warm… As ever, Sunny and Fallen xoxox