Naruto: Children of the Ninja
By Hikari Dohjutsu
A/N: This took me forever to finish this chapter! I hope it turned out any good. I spent such a long time writing it!
Italics are thoughts
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. I do own the o.c's, Tenri of the sand and the plot of this story.
Ichie walks out of her house to go to her final exam, the screen door clattering shut behind her, her forehead protector tied loosely around her slim waist. She bites her nails, a troublesome habit she had acquired and couldn't seem to get rid of. She wonders what Lee sensei has planned for their exam. She feels the butterflies in her stomach that always seem to come when she's nervous.
Suddenly a boy with sandy blond hair and green eyes appears in front of her. He wears a green t-shirt with a silver circle on the front and two purple squares in the center of the circle, a purple dragon is embellished onto the back of his t-shirt. He wears black pants, has a Sungakure forehead protector around his neck, and a fan strapped to his back.
Ichie frowns in annoyance, "What are you doing here Tenri?"
Tenri smirks malevolently at the girl, "Just passing by brat."
Ichie glares at him trying her best not to burst out yelling. She hated that sand shinobi. "Look Tenri I don't have time for this today, I have to go take my final genin exam," she says in a voice of extremely forced calm.
He gazes at her incredulously. "They actually allowed a wimp like you to become a ninja?" he baits her, enjoying the fact that he's making her angry.
"Listen you jerk, Get lost!" Ichie yells finally losing her temper.
"Who's going to make me brat?" Tenri asks pulling out his fan.
Ichie gets into her fighting stance.
Tenri smirks. This should be interesting.
Ichie does some hand signals, replicating herself. Three Ichies run toward Tenri.
The smirk is still plastered onto Tenri's face. "Please brat, basic techniques like that won't work on me." He doesn't even open the fan and a rush of wind comes destroying the three replications. Tenri does a double take. The three replications were gone. Where did the brat go?
"Over here, genius!" Ichie appears behind him, using the mind body disturbance technique (A/N: Ichie learns it earlier than Ino because she is smart and a fast learner.)
Ichie senses something wrong. Her chakra just went through Tenri. "Shoot!" She looks up to see Tenri gliding on his fan. He laughs slightly and jumps in front of Ichie.
Before Ichie can react Tenri opens his fan fully and waves it. "Kamaitachi no Jutsu (Cutting Whirlwind technique)!" Ichie is thrown backward and lands hard on her back. She coughs up a little blood. She raises her upper body off the ground, wipes a spot of blood from her mouth and glares at Tenri, clearly wishing him a very slow and painful death.
Tenri oblivious to her death glare sneers. "Please, you a ninja, you want to be a world class spy," he laughs openly at Ichie's dream. "Yeah right, spies are people who can sneak around, they have no true abilities as a ninja."
Ichie wanted nothing more than to slap the laughing, arrogant jerk in front of her, which is just what she did.
Tenri is too shocked to do anything. Hey gapes at the girl, who had just slapped him.
Ichie doing her best to regain her composure walks away as normally as possible though her arm does linger to her side.
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Sakurako walks to her final genin exam, bracing herself. Knowing her father he would probably make them run 6000 laps around Konoha and if they couldn't do that he would make them do some other ridiculously tiring task.
"Hey!" comes a voice from behind her. Saki turns around to find a dark haired kunoichi.
Sakurako recognizes the dark-haired girl as Kurumi Aburame, Daichi Aburame's older sister. She used to be on her brother's genin team. Although Kurumi was only a little older than Saki, she was a chunin and a very skilled one at that. Many of Konoha consider her an excellent ninja.
"Yes," Saki says raising her delicate eyebrows (A/N: I repeat they are not bushy) inquisitively.
She blinks and Kurumi appears in front of her. "Your Rockie's little sister, right?"
Saki nods, confirming reluctantly.
"Your brother's an idiot," Kurumi informs her.
Saki nods again not sure what the older girl is getting at. "What is it with your family and the excessive use of green," she sneers at Sakurako's outfit.
Saki crosses her arms, an uncomfortable feeling growing in the pit of her stomach. She doesn't like it when people make fun of her family.
"Are you for all that youth junk to?" Kurumi asks the younger girl.
Saki shakes her head no, getting angry.
"Your brother is so creepy! What's with the eyebrows?"
"You know what your brother and dad are?" Kurumi asks smirking.
Saki doesn't answer, she shakes in anger.
"Hot-blooded drop-outs!" Kurumi spits out venomously.
That was it for Saki. She runs toward Kurumi yelling. Her dad and her brother may be freaks but they were her freaks and she wasn't going to let anyone make fun of them!
Kurumi smirks. She easily jumps up and lands behind Saki. Swiftly and adeptly her arms swings toward Saki's back.
The force of the impact is strong enough to send Saki crashing into a fence.
"Don't even try to fight back." Kurumi yells as the girl gets up again.
With Saki inner Saki was going absolutely wild with anger.
"Please, forehead girl stay down, this village has enough hot-headed dropouts specifically coming from the Lee household." Kurumi runs away, leaving Saki alone.
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Nobu walks toward his final exam, happily eating his chips. Behind him he hears running steps, and a dog barking. Suddenly Nobu is knocked down by a guy with wild dark hair.
The guy happens to be Hotaka Inuzuka's older brother, Kishin. He looks down at the Akimichi distastefully. "Watch where your going you fat pig."
That got to Nobu. "I am not fat! I'm just big-boned!"
Kishin looks at the younger boy for a second and than bursts out laughing. "Yeah big-boned," he gasps out in between bursts of laughter.
"Baika no Jutsu (Art of Expansion)," Nobu grows and begins to expand, when he is fully grown and round he performs his second jutsu, "Nikudan Sensha (Human Juggernaut),"
He starts to roll at an incredibly fast speed toward Kishin. Kishin's eyes widen, but he easily side steps the rolling ball of doom, which causes Nobu to crash into a fence.
Kishin laughs even harder. "So all you can do is make yourself fatter?" Tears stream down the dog boy's face, "That is too rich!"
"Fat people can't be ninja, I mean come on they're too slow, they're too busy eating to become successful ninja!"
Kishin then walks away his dog, Tiroku trotting next to him.
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Lee paces back and forth. His students were late. That was certainly not youthful.
Ichie limps up to her training ground and collapses on the ground.
Lee looks up from his paces and looks down at his student sternly. "Young lady, Why are you late?"
Ichie doesn't answer only looks down, ashamed. How could she have lost to that arrogant jerk? She was not going to lose to him again, not ever! She looks up and Lee is caught by surprise when he sees a determined glint in her eyes. "What's the test Lee-sensei?" she asks ignoring his former question.
Lee frowns in annoyance. "I will tell you when your two teammates arrive."
As if on cue Saki straggles in, her hand to her head, "Sakurako, I hope you have an explanation for your tardiness!"
Saki doesn't answer. She looks up at her father. How could she have been so weak? This would never happen to her again! She would become stronger, no one was going to make fun of her family ever again!
"What's the test, dad?" Sakurako asks fiercely, startling her father. Lee is taken aback, forgetting her tardiness, "We're waiting for Nobu," he said, Saki notices her teammate is missing and sits next to Ichie waiting.
Nobu comes five minutes later. Lee notes that Nobu is missing his customary bag of chips.
"And where have you been?" Lee asks his student. Nobu also glares in determination. He would show that dog boy, he would show everyone, he would become a great ninja.
Nobu doesn't answer his sensei; he has the same determination in his eyes. "What's the test Lee-sensei?"
Lee looks at each of his students. "The test is,"
The three kids wait with baited breath.
"To run 2000 laps around Konoha and if you can't do that you must do 1500 punches and if you can't do that…." And the list went on.
Sakurako sighs. She knew it. Ichie sets her jaw determinedly and Nobu's mouth drops open slightly.
"We start now!" Lee yells sprinting ahead of them. The three run after him.
No one is ever going to call me weak again
I will never let anyone make fun of my family again
I'm going to show them, I'll show them big-boned people can be strong ninja too
The three run around Konoha as though their life depended on it, Lee-sensei barely breaking a sweat.
995, 996, 997,998
Nobu is ready to collapse, Ichie has a terrible stitch in her side, and Saki is gasping for breath.
At 1872 Nobu collapses.
At 1991 Ichie collapses.
At 1993 Sakurako collapses.
Lee looks down at his students, "Very well 1500 punches, it is!"
They went back to their training ground, all three of them getting a pole.
They all punch the pole in sync.
WhenI get homeI'm gonna make dad teach me the Kagemane no Jutsu (Shadow Possession)
I'm gonna work on my taijutsu, I'm sure Rockie will help me
I'm gonna work on my speed
Saki is forced to stop at 1,450; her hands were shaking so hard.
Ichie is forced to stop at 1,485, her hands were bleeding and Lee was afraid she would sustain more injuries.
Kishin's words kept repeating in Nobu's head. "They're too busy eating to become successful ninja!"
Nobu lets out a battle cry. He punches the pole clear out of the ground at 1,496.
Lee looks at his student, startled. Nobu is gasping for breath he sinks to his knees.
"Umm, good job Nobu but technically you didn't finish 1500 punches, Next!"
So the day continues like that, for all three of them they always come just out of reach but the determination in their eyes never leaves them. Finally the test was over and they have failed to finish any of Lee-sensei's tasks.
"Well you have failed all of the tasks, what do you have to say about yourselves?" Lee asks his bruised students.
To his surprise all three of his students get up. They shouldn't be getting up in their condition.
He is shocked to see the determination in all of his student's eyes. They were not going to give up, the looks on their faces were clear. They were going to try again and again no matter what it took.
Lee then starts crying anime style obviously overjoyed.
"You pass!" he cries catching the newly promoted genin in a rib breaking hug.
"WHAT!" the three extremely confused genin yell in unison.
"But sensei, we weren't able to pass any of the challenges." Ichie says crestfallen.
Lee shakes his head no. "You were able to pass one challenge," he informs them.
"What was it?" Saki asks trying to think back on the day's challenges.
Lee just grins, he then turns to the surrounding forest and yells into the trees, "Alright you guys you can come out now!"
Kurumi, Kishin, and Tenri jump out of a nearby tree.
"What are you doing here?" Saki, Ichie, and Nobu yell to the three other ninja.
"They were hired by me." Lee informed the genin.
The three stare at their sensei dumb-founded. 'Hired to do what?" Saki asks completely lost.
"Let me explain to you my ingenious plan," Lee says giving them and ultra shiny smile, "You see I hired these three to degrade you to make fun of your hopes and dreams, and to shove you around a bit." "The logic behind this was to see if you would give up or if you would keep pursuing your dreams, a real ninja keeps fighting even if he fails once or twice or even many times, you must keep trying and you have all proven to me you have the determination to become ninja!"
Saki looks at her dad, "Dad that makes absolutely no sense." Lee starts crying anime style.
Ichie smiles, it did make sense if you thought about it.
A huge growl resounded around the forest. "Oh man, I am so hungry!" Nobu groans.
Kurumi approaches Saki. "Look, Sakurako, I didn't mean any of that stuff about your brother, he is annoying, but your brother's a really nice guy" Saki laughs, "Don't worry about it."
Kishin turns toward Kurumi, "What's that supposed to mean?" Kishin asks a hint of jealousy in his voice.
Kurumi giggles, "That he's a nice guy." Nobu turns toward Kishin "So that means you don't think I'm fat?" Kishin shakes his head "No I still think your fat," Nobu glares but is too tired to do anything.
"So you helped me to become a ninja?" Ichie turns to Tenri confused. "Don't take it the wrong way brat, I just liked the fact that I was getting paid to beat you up."
She glares at him. Saki jumps up behind her. "Oh stop frowning Ichie we're genin."
Nobu, punches his fist into the air, "Yahoo! We're genin!"
A/N: Well another chapter done! I hope it made any sense. I would like to thank all of my wonderful reviewers. You guys rock!
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