Naruto: Children of the Ninja
By Hikari Dohjutsu
A/N: We're back to Haku's team, they're going to learn the tree-climbing technique. I'm sorry if this chapter is boring but it was essential.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, but I do own the o.c's and the plot of this story
"Alright," Tenten paced in front of her subordinates, she halted and turned to face them. "This is a fairly simple and basic technique, it basically allows you to defy gravity and walk up trees and other things,"
Kei raised an eyebrow; Haku tilted his head, confused. Sasuke tried and failed to mirror the expression on his teammates' faces. Tenten took a mental note of his lack of confusion.
"First you gather chakra to your feet," she closed her eyes and directed the chakra to her feet, causing them to glow blue, she walked over to a large oak and walked up the tree as though she were taking a casual evening stroll.
Kei's eyes alighted in determination.
Haku's pale eyes grew as wide as saucers, "Aunt Ten, that's so cool, I'm going to be the first one to learn it!" he yelled.
Tenten jumped from the top of the tree and landed gracefully at the bottom, "It's Tenten-sensei, Haku,"
Sasuke remained silent; he did not appear too impressed. Tenten jotted down another mental note.
"Okay, get to work!"
Haku jumped up, and tried his best to gather chakra to his feet; he sprinted about 5 feet up the side of the tree and immediately slipped down.
Kei snorted, idiot.
She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and released the energy into her feet. She opened her eyes and gaped.
Sasuke was at the top.
"SASUKE HOW DID YOU GET UP THERE!" Haku yelled. Kei smacked him upside the head.
"Shut up, idiot," she muttered. She was grudgingly impressed, and more than a little sore that Sasuke had made it to the top before she did.
Tenten nodded, "Come down Sasuke, you're done, I need to talk to you,"
"Alright Tenten-sensei!" he called out. He jumped down from the mighty pine he had been climbing and landed gracefully on his sandaled feet.
Haku jumped up, even more determined, "Alright! I'm going to make it up there if it kills me!"
Kei had gathered the chakra to her feet and as soon as her foot touched the side of the tree, it broke in half. The tree groaned. The giant oak crashed down onto the nearby riverside with an echo. Haku and Sasuke stared at Kei wide-eyed.
Tenten looked down at the tree, "I think you directed a little too much chakra, just a little bit,"
Kei frown and turned to the tree next to the newly created stump. Haku moved to the tree across from Kei, "I'll use this one," he said a little nervously, glancing behind his back at his scary crush.
Sasuke sweat-dropped at his rather odd teammate, he loped casually over to his sensei "You wanted to speak to me Tenten-sensei?" he asked, his face the very epitome of innocence.
Tenten leaned back casually against a tree, playing with the kunai in her hand "Look kid, you've got to be honest with me, I mean honest about everything, when did you learn that tree-climbing technique, when you were five?"
Sasuke looked around nervously, as though he were worried someone would hear, "I-I h-have n-n-no i-idea w-w-what your t-talking a-about," he stuttered. Tenten noted that he had barely broken a sweat and it appeared as though he hadn't lost any chakra.
Tenten sighed and rubbed her temples, "Look, Sasuke, I'm not going to turn you in or let anybody know, but you've got to let me know what you're capable of, so that I can train you properly,"
Sasuke hesitated. The wind blew, whistling through the trees. It was as though they were urging Sasuke to spill.
"I promise I won't tell anyone, Haku and Kei won't even know," Tenten held up her hand as though to seal the promise.
Sasuke thought for a minute, "Okay," he said reluctantly, "I mastered that tree climbing technique over there when I was four, my Sharingan was revealed when I was 5, my dad taught me most of my fire jutsus when I was 7, and He taught me Chidori when I was 9," He sighed as though he were glad to have revealed, at least a little bit of his apparently large secret.
Tenten blinked, "And …how old are you now?"
"12," Sasuke replied.
Tenten blinked again, and let out a low whistle, "I've got to hand it to you Sasuke, you've impressed this former ANBU nin, what do you know of weapons? Any jutsu elements other that fire and lighting?"
"I don't know much about weapons," Sasuke admitted, "And I only know fire and lighting jutsus, and some summoning techniques,"
Tenten nodded slowly, "Alright I'll get you some new stuff to learn, once we get back to Konoha we'll have one on one training sessions,"
She winced as she heard the crack of another tree breaking.
Sasuke eyes gleamed happily, "That's great, no offence, Tenten-sensei, but the stuff we've been learning is really boring,"
Tenten twitched slightly, "I understand,"
They both winced as they heard Haku land with a thud against the dirt.
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Now after several more broken trees, and with a few new lumps on Haku's head, they were ready to catch that cat!
"Steady…" Kei ordered her two comrades; the target was in sight licking his accursed fur on the same cliff that had almost been her downfall. She directed the chakra to her feet in preparation. "Haku, Sasuke, now!"
Both boys ran down the cliff, one to the left one to the right. The cat swiveled up the cliff, and Kei ran down to meet it, scooping it up into her arms.
"HA!" Kei raised her fist in triumph. Haku and Sasuke stood next to her, both boys grinning victoriously. Kei raised the cat to her porcelain-like face.
"In your FACE stupid cat!" The fat orange cat scratched at her face almost lazily, leaving a cut on her cheek.
Tenten quickly grabbed the cat and locked it in a cage, "Nice work guys!" Kei was emanating red anger waves. Sasuke and Haku backed away. Kei took a deep breath and turned on her heel.
"Let's go," she muttered, "Before we fail the mission for bringing home a dead cat,"
Sasuke and Haku breathed a sigh of relief, the danger had passed.
Haku ran ahead of the others, bouncing up and down on his toes "We're going back to Konoha!"
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