The Hokage paused, I doubt even he had seen the ever apathetic Yuuma-sensei care about anything before. His light green eyes
danced franctically looking for any shred of humor in the Hokage's eyes.
"Yuuma," the Hokage warned.
Frustrated Yuuma ran his hands through his short light blonde, "Hokage-sama...is there-" he stopped and let out a sigh of defeat, "Yes,
sir. I understand sir."
"Mutsuko,-" began the Hokage when the doors burst open, "ah, we will continue this meeting at a later date." Everyone's eyes stuck to
the guests waltzing into the office, a dark spiky haired male and two cloaked guards. "You may leave now".
"Come on Suko-chan~" suddenly once again chipper, the sensei led me out of the office, "We have training to attend to".
Wasting no time Yuuma-sensei dragged us out of the building and into a flying sprint back to the training grounds.
"Suko-chan! You're late!" teased Anju as we approached.
Anju was sitting atop a training log tying her long fiery orange hair out of her smiling face. Hadzuki was-
"Where's Hadzuki?" I ask looking about the opening.
Anju laughed, "You'll find out once you start today training session".
A sudden crash emenated from the trees. "Is that-" I questioned.
"COME ON HADZUKI! MY BREAKFAST RUNS FASTER THAN THAT!" Yuuma-sensei called to the treeline.
A wall of dust emerged from the trees and encroached upon the clearing.
"There he is!" Anju cheered as a silhouette appeared from the dust, "YOU'RE ALMOST DONE! KEEP GOING HADZUKI! YOU CAN DO IT!"
"What training are we doing today?" I questioned the manically grinning sensei.
Yuuma turned with an evil glint in his eyes, "Oh~ just a litte game of capture the flag~ Nothing too complicated".
Out of the dust cloud burst a dark brown haired boy running like he had the devil himself on his heels. And soon behind him -the devil in
question- Yuuma-sensei's clone.
"HE'S RIGHT BEHIND YOU HADZUKI!" Anju screamed in warning.
"YOU'RE NOT GOING TO MAKE IT HADZUKI~" taunted Yuuma-sensei.
Just as promised the terrified Hadzuki was immediately brought to the brought to the ground. Defeated Hadzuki trudged his way back to the
ground.
"Alright~ Suko-chan", Yuuma teased, "Its your turn now. All you have to do is pick up a flag from the neighboring training ground and bring
it back".
"Thats it?" I question glancing back and forth between the two cheshire cat grinning Yuumas.
"Without getting tagged by me~" jeered both senseis. "I'll give you a 30 second headstart."
Sensei probably wasn't going to run full speed… right? I readied myself to begin the 'game'.
"3"
Should I use shadow clones…
"2"
Not yet… I just need to get out quick..
"1"
Then-
"Go"
30 I pushed my chakra down to my feet and ran to the treeline as quick as possible.
25 Then I should make a clone and send it to the other training ground. Or just-
20. I performed a shadow clone jutsu and sent it off.
10. Leaping from tree to tree the clearing ahead grew wider. Almost there.
5. Breaking free of the trees I jumped into the training field. Where are the flags…
0. I spied the bright colored cloth sitting atop the logs. Dashing over I grabbed it. Now all I had to do was get back.
I guess the headstart really didn't mean much… now we'd meet in the middle or he could just sit and wait for me to get back. The smartest
choice would be to let him tire himself out by making him run all the way here.
My clone was wiped out.
Sensei's not playing around… Where is he.
I lied down and allowed my soul to leave my body. The first few time 'd be incredibly awkward and i'd almost been swept away in the wind…
but after years of practice I could go wherever I wanted. Flying back into the woods I scoured the area looking for the male.
As expected I spotted him lounging in a tree at the edge of the other clearing. He was going to use his clone to try and chase me into a trap.
The clone-
I hadn't seen it!
I raced back to my body.
Flying through the branches as quickly as ghostly possibly I got a glimpse of a blur also racing in the direction of the clearing. The clone. I
had to get back first…
Faster.
Faster.
Faster.
Almost there…
We broke through the tree line at the same time… thankfully being a ghost I didn't have any branches slowing me down but in the clearing I
lose that advantage.
The clone stopped upon noticing my soul-less body, "Suko-chan~ you know its dangerous to leave your body lying around. You will be given
extra memorization for this!" Yumma-sensei's clone called out.
I made it. Reattaching myself to my body I got back to my feet, "...that was-" I swayed a bit reeling from the exertion it took to get back in
time, "inhumane… I hope I-" oh, no… the world blurred and spun.
The ground greeted me as I collapsed.