Chapter 5
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Shizuko's POV
Dragging our feet Lie and I headed to the training grounds before the sun even rose. I gave Lie a disapproving look as she munched on an apple, she just shrugged, smirked, and continued. When we got to the grounds I saw Naruto sitting against the fence snoring, while Sasuke was leaning against it with his eyes shut.
"morning…" I yawned again though I was ignored by the duo and we mimicked Sasuke and Naruto's position. The dawn set and when the sun set high in the sky finally Kakashi-sensei finally appeared in a poof of smoke.
"Sorry, a black cat crossed my path so I had to take a long way."
"You're late Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto jumped up and began screaming at our Sensei. Kakashi ignored Naruto and laid down a clock.
"You'll have until noon to get these bells." He held up three bells.
"Those who don't get a bell will have to go back to the academy,"
"But Sensei there are only three bells!" Naruto interrupted again.
"I know that means at least one of you will be sent back to the academy. You can use any weapon, to get a bell you'll have to be prepared to kill me."
"This should be cake, you couldn't even dodge that eraser." Naruto laughed but was quickly cut off by Kakashi.
"Class clowns are usually the weakest, having the lowest scores, losers. When I say start you may begin."
"Naruto!" I stared wide-eyed in a defensive stance as Naruto armed with a shuriken attacked Kakashi. One moment Naruto was attacking, the next Kakashi had the shuriken to the back of Naruto's head.
"Don't be in such a hurry, I didn't say start yet." Kakashi pushed him away. "But you came at me with the intent to kill me. I think I'm beginning to like you guys."
He's so weird…. I sweatdropped.
"Get ready….and start!" The three of us; Sasuke, Lie and myself jumped out of the way. I hid underneath a dense bush. I could feel Lie's darkness in the tree next to me.
Well, you'll be able to have your fun now Lie. My lips lift into a smirk. Looking back at the field a sweat drop appears as I see Naruto standing in the same spot, grinning.
He's just like Takashi… I sigh.
Watching Naruto and Kakashi talk and fight I begin to formulate a plan. There's no way we genin can beat a Jonin, especially when Lie and I can't use our natural abilities. As I watch Naruto attack Kakashi from the water it hit me. If we all combine our abilities we may be able to get the bells then we will fight among ourselves to split up the bells. I have to get to Lie quickly.
Without causing much noise I jumped to the tree next to me.
"Lie, I have a plan, but you're not going to like it…"
"What?" she asked quirking her eyebrow with suspicion in her tone.
"There's no way we can beat the Jonin by ourselves, we need to work with Naruto and Sasuke…" I couldn't even see her eyes, but I can feel the glare boring into my face.
"There is no way in hell I'm working with that Uchiha-baka." Lie snarled.
"Look," I pointed to Naruto swinging from a tree by his ankle. "That literally took Kakashi one minutes to do, he will decimate us without our natural abilities. Least we will have a chance together."
She holds onto her kunai tighter before a frown settled on her lips, and she nodded.
"Good, I'll go get Naruto, you get Sasuke." I can't help the smug grin on my face from my small victory.
Landing in front of Naruto I threw a kunai at the rope, he dropped with a thud on his head.
"Hey Naruto, Lie and I have a great-"
"Thanks, Shizuko! Sorry, I gotta go find Sensei to get that bell!" Naruto screamed and ran off into the forest.
I hope Lie had more luck…. I sighed into my hands and ran into the forest to look for Lie.
Searching frantically, I jumped among the trees when I start to hear yells the further in I go.
"No! You won't take me back there! I will not be your pawn!" I came upon Lie swinging her kunai around as if she was fighting someone, she was even blocking and dodging.
Jumping down I landed behind Lie, but she didn't sense me at all.
"Lie!" I yelled, not sure what to do when she was like this. "No one is here!"
I stepped back as she swung her kunai around yelling at these imaginary people, barely missing a kunai to the face.
What did he do to you…? I couldn't help but think about how hard she was fighting, her darkness was starting to seep underneath her.
She's under genjutsu, I need to cause her outside pain to stop it, I calmed down and remembered what I read in my books. Twirling around one of my knives with the butt facing Lie.
Sorry! I think as I slam the butt of the knife into the back of her head when she is facing the other way again. She crumpled into a heap on the floor. Kneeling I began to use my water healing jutsu to heal her bump.
Come on, the timer is going to be up soon. After a few minutes, Lie jumped up in a defensive stance.
"Where are they?!" her dark sais clutched in her hands in a death grip as she looks wildly around the area.
"You were under a genjutsu, nobody is here, but me." I couldn't prevent the pity in my voice as I stared at her tense back.
Slowly when she saw nobody was around she started to relax but was still holding her sais. "That's right, I was talking to Sasuke," she looked at me with a frown on her lips, "that jerk said we'd slow him down! Let's go Shizuko we'll get the bells and show him who's weak." I can't do anything but follow her as she jumped into the trees.
"Lie, you need to work from the darkness while I keep him distracted. Use your sais if no one is around" At her nod, I continued my plan.
"I'm going to keep him focused on me, set traps, you do your best work in the darkness. Send out your dark pulse so I can tell where the traps are to get him there."
"Right" She diverged from me jumping out to the sides as I land in the clearing with only Kakashi there, reading his perverted book.
"Hmmm, by yourself I see, didn't expect that." He lazily looked at me, ultimately dismissing me. "Didn't expect that from someone from the Village of Angels, don't you work in groups?"
I pulled out my daggers getting into fighting stance. "Don't underestimate me"
Quickly making the hand signals for the light release jutsu making my body lighter by activating a light throughout my body, I ran toward Kakashi faster than normal genin. Spinning I aimed my daggers for his side, when he reached toward me I spun my leg around to hit him in the face.
We are a blur of movements, parrying and dodging each other, Kakashi even had to put his book away to keep up. Just as he caught my leg, Lie's sai chain came out from the shadow and wrapped around his arm that is holding my leg. Stringing him up by the tree with the sai dagger piercing his arm.
"You're right Sensei, Knights do work together." I grinned at him, holding up my hand for a high five to Lie.
"Really? Don't celebrate yet until we have those bells." Ignoring my hand, she walked up to him with her sais at the ready. Just as she was about to grab the bells fireballs came out from the trees, causing smoke to arise as they hit the ground.
I screamed and I felt my body being lifted and slammed against a tree from the fireball so close to us. Bashing my head against the hard surface, the clearing was spinning. Just as the area cleared the timer rang.
"Damn it!" Looking over I see Lie hitting a tree with her fist, leaving a dent.
I got up with a sigh. Lie and I headed to the four posts in the clearing to see Naruto struggling, tied up to one of the posts. I sat down next to him with Lie next to me, Sasuke on the other side with a scowl on his face.
"I've decided I won't send any of you back to the academy." Just as the other two start celebrating Lie and I sit there with a sigh waiting for the bad news to drop. "Yes, all four of you are being dropped from the program permanently."
No! I need the training to get stronger! Staring at him wide I saw the chaos of my past flash before my eyes, not being able to stop a certain someone. I didn't hear Naruto's screams. I was only awakened from my trance when I saw Sasuke jolt out and attack Sensei, however, he was soundly defeated, head pressed to the ground by Kakashi's foot.
"You guys don't understand what it means to be a ninja, you think it is all a game. Did you guys think about why you were put on squads? What this exercise was all about?! Team Work!"
"But there were only three bells how would that even work!" Naruto screamed and kicked his legs frantically.
"I know. I wanted to see if you guys could overcome it and work together putting the squad above all, if all four of you took me on at once I would have been defeated."
"Lie and Shizuko!" Looking over at Lie's bored face and my downcast one, "Yes, you guys originally tried going to the two boys, but gave up easily. This is about the team, not just you two."
"Naruto!" Looking at him next, as I purse my lips angry at the unfairness. I tried to ask!
"You only worked on your own." Digging his foot into Sasuke he looks down at him.
"Sasuke you thought the others were so far beneath you, that they were worthless. Even though Lie and Shizuko came the closest to getting the bells." I could hear Sasuke grunt and see him glare at Lie who just smirked at him and mouth "told ya".
"When individuals put themselves above the squad it leads to failure and death." On that note Kakashi disappeared and reappeared behind me, holding a kunai to my throat. My breath left me as terror flooded my senses, the cold metal of a kunai against my throat.
"For example, Lie kill Sasuke now or Shizuko is dead." Fear strikes my heart and wide light brown eyes as I stared at Lie's emotionless look and watched as her hand twitched towards a kunai. Turning her head to look at my trapped self and Sasuke on the ground who glared at her.
"That's what would have happened on a mission." He takes the kunai from my throat as I immediately sag down in relief. Walking over to the stone not too far away he begins to talk about the heroes who died as Naruto said he wanted to be one of the names on the stone.
"What an idiot…." Lie murmurs to me, I couldn't help but nod.
"I'm going to give you another chance. But, it's going to be harder. Eat lunch now, but don't give Naruto any. It's his punishment for trying to cheat. If anyone feeds him that person fails. I make the rules you have to follow them, got it?" He said darkly.
We all begin to eat, but Naruto's stomach kept growling. Looking down at my lunch I then looked at Lie, "Do you sense him nearby?"
At her head shake I offered up my lunch to Naruto, "here eat some of mine, I won't be able to concentrate later with your stomach growling like that!" I tease with a giggle.
"Yeah, we need to get those bells as a team, if Naruto isn't at full strength we will lose." To my surprise, Sasuke offered up his lunch as well.
Looking over I quirk my eyebrow at Lie, silently asking Well?
"Fine… I ate this morning anyway." she sighed and offered her bento as well.
Naruto started crying, "thanks, guys, but my hands are tied I can't eat!"
Laughing I begin to feed Naruto rice balls. Just as he started eating a cloud of smoke and thunder appears. I dropped the box and stood in front of Naruto arms out, while Lie gets in front of me with her weapon.
"The four of us are one, we are a team," Sasuke explained for us.
"So the four of you are one huh…. You pass." The sun comes out as he explains that we pass since we helped each other out.
"The exercise is over, squad 7 starts its first mission tomorrow, you are dismissed." As everyone else begins to walk away I stayed behind with Naruto. Lie stopped walking and turned around while still having her hands clasped behind her head.
"You comin?" Shaking my head, she turned back around with a shrug.
"'I'll see you at home!" I yelled to her retreating back.
Releasing Naruto from his binds he grinned and brought me into a bear hug. "We did it!" He yelled happily into my ear.
"Put me down!" I yelled with a blood red face, struggling against him. He just grinned harder and set me down.
We began walking together in the direction of my home. Thinking about what our adventure as a ninja would entail.