Two pairs of violet eyes stared at one another as Kotetsu waited a moment to begin the match. One set, a mixture calm and pain. The other, worried. Two sisters, teammates, now against one another.
"It's not fair Ruka-chan. I don't want to fight you."
"It's not our place to choose, if you don't want to fight then give up, like a weakling." Haruka's words echoed loudly in the room, making her sisters flinch. "You are the more skilled and less injured, Haruna, you have the advantage. If you don't take it you're a coward, and a fool who doesn't deserve the title Chunin. You'd just be too weak."
"...I know." Shame filled Haruna as she looked down.
"Even if I die, I will fight you." Haruna's face rocked back up in shock as horror filled eyes took in Haruka sliding into a stance. Slowly, hesitantly, Haruna took a matching one.
"BEGIN!"
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Fakers!
Chapter Twenty: Jan-Ken-Po
By
Hibiki
"Kishimoto owns Naruto. I own a Cat. He makes a fortune and I get hairballs. However we both deal with a bunch of shit." -Hibiki
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"…As you embark upon this path, as Ninja of the leaf." Iruka finished to a mostly bored class. On the third row on the right of the walkway, three identical girls sat listening. Well one was, the other was drawing something in a notebook, while the other… "FUTOWARI HARUMI!" Snapped to attention saluting Iruka as she looked about bewilderedly from her nap.
"Yes Iruka-sensei?"
"If you had been paying attention you'd know we are about to pick teams." Blushing at being the center of attention she laughed awkwardly, scratching the back of her head, as she sat down.
[bonk]
"Ow!" She winced looking at the fist that had rapped her cranium.
"Baka-neechan." Her always calm, studious, 'older', sister; Haruka remarked. The shaking, ebony, hair of her 'middle' sister caught her eyes as she looked to find Haruna laughing. The second oldest never seemed to be too far from a smile, no matter how serious the moment was.
"I wonder why Rumi-chan has to sleep so much here when she is always very energetic everywhere else?" Haruna giggled out while huffing a stray hair out of her face, Harumi propped her chin as she watched the Chunin below her begin to call out names.
"Iruka-sensei's rather boring. He brings out the need for sleep when he talks." Yawned the youngest of the triplets.
"… and Yamanaka Sanko." Iruka's eyes cut to them. "Team Seven will be Futowari's Haruka, Haruna, and Harumi. Your Jounin sensei is-!" The door slammed open and a figure stumbled through as if he had run from somewhere. In a flash of yellow and orange the man slammed head first into the ground. As laughter broke out, including from Iruka, the scarred man pointed to the figure groaning before his feet. "Him."
'We get some clumsy idiot?' Echoed through their minds as the blonde haired man sat up rubbing his nose.
"Ne, Iruka, am I late?" Iruka shook his head, sighing.
"Your early, Naruto." The man's eyes glanced over the room then onto them, and the triplets found themselves looking into the clearest blue eyes they had ever seen.
"Wow, their prettier than their photos." Laughter rang out again as Iruka pinched his nose and the girls blushed.
'A clumsy, perverted, idiot!'
"Team Seven with me!" He rose, showing off just how tall he was compared to them and made for the door. Uncertain how they felt about their sensei, the three girls slipped out, trying to ignore the laughter and yelling of Iruka behind them.
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"Sorry about that, I forgot I set my alarm early after I turned my clock back as well. I didn't want to be late like my sensei was." The man was rather handsome, with unique markings on the side of his face. The girls knew his face, but they couldn't place it. "Since we are all here and it's only proper to get to know one another, I'll introduce myself and tell you a little about me. My name is Uzumaki Naruto, Heir to Tsunade for the title of Hokage, Gama Sennin, and container of the Kyuubi no Kitsune." The girls faces dropped. The perverted clumsy idiot was THE Uzumaki Naruto who had saved them all during the Pein invasion! The Hero of Konoha and the 4th Shinobi war! "My likes are Ramen, my precious people, and toads. My dislikes are the three minutes it takes for Ramen to get ready, those who would do harm to my precious people, and Ma toad's cooking. My goals, are to become the Nanadaime Hokage… and something a little more… Personal." He blushed at that and the girls eye's narrowed.
'Probably something perverted.' Again the trio thought.
He pointed at Haruka.
"Your turn." and Haruka began.
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"You all ate, didn't you?" The girls nodded agitatedly as the man finally appeared. "When I did this my sensei told us not to, then didn't appear for another two hours." Dumbfounded, they were upset he had not appeared for almost ten minutes after they had arrived, and couldn't imagine waiting so long for him.
"Why did you not do what he did, Sensei?" Haruka finally asked as he set down his items.
"Well, he did it to try and weaken us, make us work the way he wanted us. So I thought that it would only be fair to let you try at full strength, the way you would like to work. After all, you wanted this, it's why you are here, you should have the best shot at it…" He laughed and smiled at them in a way that made their faces red. "… And besides I can't help but be nice to such pretty girls."
"Perverted idiot." They mumbled.
"So! Here's the test you have to pass…" He began.
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"Well done ladies." He remarked, the bruise on his cheek a sign that despite his experience the triplets had proven their mettle along with the bells in the panting girls hands. "You certainly have a good teamwork." He paused, as if considering something. "Like janken."
The trio looked at one another to see if the others had understood the meaning of his bizarre words. What did they do that reminded him of a child's game? Thankfully he saw it and explained.
"You each have your strengths and weaknesses. Everyone does, but you all compliment each other's strengths and make up for your weaknesses. Haruka, you are like paper. Smart, but not forceful. Haruna, your like scissors, you have the skills, but your not tough. Harumi…"
"I'm tough and forceful?" She asked eagerly.
" And she's dumb like a rock!" The two other girls remarked, giggling as their sister turned red with anger, then shrieked as she began chasing them angrily.
"A bit of both actually…" Naruto remarked to, thankfully, no one.
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"Jan here, target sighted."
Their first mission. The true bane of all Genin of the leaf, some said it was the reason for Konoha's abnormally strong ninjas. Legends spoke of it being immortal, a demon. From the earliest days of the Konoha ninja first crawled from the recesses of the forest, it preyed. Stronger than any Jounin, faster than any jutsu, able to out maneuver a squad of ANBU, these legends of this beast were told all throughout the elemental countries.
"This is Ken! I just missed the little bastar-!" Static erupted from the radio.
[wham.] A distant sound. Huh?
"OW… Stupid nee-chan."
"Poo here! I got him. What a sweety!" He sighed and activated his radio.
"Haruna, It's Po. Po. Not Poo."
"I like saying Poo!" He rubbed his forehead to keep away the coming headache.
"Nevermind. Did you get him for real?"
"Yup Me and Ruka-chan got him. He likes chicken!" This he had to see. Within minutes he came across the three girls cuddling with the most powerful animal since the Kyuubi. Despite the graying hair, the old red ribbon on his ear was a dead give away.
The Ichibi no Tora.
"We'll I'll be." He remarked as the cat purred in the lap of Haruna as it ate from Haruka and was petted by Harumi. Never had a team caught the furball from hell so quickly. As he leaned in, Tora apparently recognized him.
[SLASH SLASH SLASH!]
As blood began dripping out of the irritatingly deep claw marks on his face Naruto tried to remain impassive.
"Yup. Target confirmed. Jan, Ken.. Sigh.. Poo" Haruna gave him a pinball smile that had him grinning despite the pain. "Good work." The smirk fell into a proud smile when the girls cheered.
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"Okay girls gather round, we're going to read this section on the tree climbing exercise before we try it. It helped my old teammate Sakura before she tried." He sat against the tree, the girls on either side of him as he began reading it to them. As they asked questions he began pointing it out to them, and them leaning in see what he was looking at. As the lesson came to a close he found himself surrounded by girls on every direction. Blinking he looked down to Haruka, who was sitting against his chest. "Um."
"This was the most productive place to gather information." It didn't stop her from blushing though.
"Yup, your definitely Paper-chan. So let's begin the exercise, alright ladies."
"Hai Sensei!" They remarked and the three began as he watched them all, a small smile on his face.
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His girls rested up against him as he talked to them about the water walking exercise. Ever since the tree climbing lesson, when they had a discussion, this was the end result. Him reading to them lessons, them leaning against him as he talked, him even ruffling their hair when they answered a question right. They said they hated it but the smile they got when he did it always warmed his heart. They trusted him, respected him and wanted the same in return. Something he gladly gave, as in the weeks since they had started together as a team, they had grown into his darling students.
"And so you turn your chakra rotation in time with the cur… hey you all awake?" He wasn't that surprised. They had worked hard to complete their tree walking today they had pushed their limits. He smiled softly picking up Haruka as two clones picked up the other girls. "I know I pushed you girls, but I'm very proud how you all did."
"Mmm… thank you… sensei" Harumi mumbled then hugged her clone and drifted back asleep. The three men smiled at one another before they began their trip to drop off their students.
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The girls tensed as Kotetsu slashed his hand between them, yet neither moved. Haruna took a deep breath then smiled. Haruka smirked in reply.
"You thinking what I'm thinking Jan-chan?"
"Apparently so Po-chan." Haruna pouted at the missing 'o' but couldn't keep the smile off her face. "Ready?" She nodded.
Their right fist swung in time with each other as a might cry of "JAN KEN PO(O)!" broke forth ending in a massive pall of smoke. When the smoke cleared both girls were breathing heavy, their right hands extended while their lefts held different half hand signs.
Haruka looked stunned as she held out scissors, Haruka was breathing hard while she held out paper.
"Why… why am I still in this spot… why did you make yourself loose, Haruka-neechan… why… Why did you block the Kawarimi? I was going to let you win!" Haruna cried out.
"Because… I love my sister, and I want her to succeed. Because I know she isn't weak… or a coward." Haruka gave her a weak smile as she held her side. Haruna nodded sadly, accepting Haruka's wish.
"WINNER! Futowari Haruna!" Kotetsu called forth as Haruna ran over to hug her sister as Medic nins came for Haruka.
"Well done ladies." Naruto's soft voice broke over them as he landed beside his girls, ruffling their hair gently. Both girls made half hearted motions to stop him but both couldn't deny the happy smiles he received in return.
"Arigato Sensei." Haruka was guided away, as her sisters and Naruto watched on.
And thus ended the weirdest match since the Naruto Fart of '68.
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"Tsunade-sama." One of the medic nins who had examined Haruka approached. She leaned over and listened as he whispered into her ear. Tsunade's eyes narrowed and she looked to Ino for a moment then to Naruto. Ino sighed as she realized what that meant. Her healing had been noticed. She expected it though.
After all, only four people in the world healed wounds like that.
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I had a Kishimoto moment. Where he goes into tangent/flashbacks about sub characters, giving them back-story on how they fit into the main storyline. Haha! Careful what I wish for when I think about writing. Oh and it's The great Naruto Fart of the 168th year of Shinobi, if you count backward using my hundred and some odd since the start of the Shinobi age thing i use. not 1968. God that would be weird, 60's Naruto. Though his jumpsuit wouldn't change. Very psychedelic.
Next Chapter is undecided, either: "The Inoichi Chronicles: The Moron and the Nag" or "Daddy's girl"
Either one will probably be the last for a week. Man that's gonna drive me nuts, not being able to see how well the chapter did for an entire WEEK! It's you folks that keep me writing! Thanks to all my fans! Dattebate! ... meh still looking for the right ending for that. It'll be important for this fic later on.