Hey! I'm back and still with everything in tack!! Gaara has been comtempt with the million's of boxes I gave him and to tell you the truth,I have to wonder where he holds all of that. I mean he has no fat on him. (Sigh) I think I won't dwell on the idea...Well thank you all who have gave me great reviews and I promise to keep working on this story!! I love the support!!
Kiba: fanofonepiece does not own Naruto...and thank heaven's she doesn't
Me: No I just use you along with all the other's! (insert evil laugh)
Kiba: (steps away) Hey, what did we promise?
Me: (sighs and shuffles feet) Not to get within two feet of you...
Kiba: and how many are you away from me?
Me: (looks and sees that he's only two inches away) hehehe...um...I'm move now..
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Sierra balanced perfectly on her tippy toes as she walked on the edge of the riverbank. She's been doing this for the longest time to train throughout the years. It strecthes her balance to her limits and she likes it. A smile came to her face whan she thought about what Kakashi-sensai has told her. He always told her that balance was one of the key importances of being a ninja. Without balance, a ninja will surely fail the mission.
" I wonder what Iruka-sensai's doing." She wondered outloud to Hikaru, who was laying down on the side, out of her way, when she reached the end of the small river. Hikaru raised his head at the wonder and wagged his tail some in agreement. She smiled and hopped off the rocks. "Let's go see him. He should be out of classes for now." Hikaru yipped and got to his feet without any wince or whine from his side wound, making Sierra smile. He was finally healing nicely with the help of Hana nee-san's treatments. She had to admit that the veterinarian did nice work.
Looking down at herself, she winced. She wasn't healing all that well on the otherhand.Her shoulder was bleeding through the bandages and some of the wounds on her side were extremely itchy through the night, causing her to scratch it until they to began to bleed. Sierra was never a good relax and heal kinda individual. More like train till she drops kind.Well having a tough childhood, it made her become that way. If she wanted to prove herself useful, that is.
"Come one. If Kakashi-sensai saw me training today, I could be in some real trouble."
Sierra walked past Hikaru, making her way back into the middle of the village. She was going to drop in on Iruka-sensai before he had any chuunin missions today. She's been meaning to ask the older man if he knew when she was able to rejoin Team 7 again. Kakashi-sensai couldn't be found when she wanted to ask him and even the Hokage wasn't able to see her today. It's been a busy day.
The two nin's arrived at the ninja academy in a couple of minutes, Sierra finding that jumping from roof to roof would heighten her speed from all the relaxing she did for the past week and made a mental note to work more on it on her way back.
"Huh? Sierra-chan?"
Sierra let out a surprised yell, fallng off the roof that she was just scanning over and landed backfirst into the ground, right in front of the man she was just about to see. "Ah! Iruka-sensai!" She yelled, jumping to her feet and rubbed the back of her neck nervously. Being caught on doing what you're not supposed to do, especially by someone who knows you well, isn't a good thing. Sierra had to play out of it fast. "Er..I can explain--"
A sharp bark erupted from behind her and Hikaru latched onto the back of her shirt, growling playfully.
"Hikaru!! No stop playing!!!!"
Iruka watched as his old student began to wrestle with her nin-dog, and he questioned whether he was seeing things. "Ne, Sierra-chan..." Sierra stopped, pinning Hikaru to the floor with a big frustrated smile on her face. The golden pup wanted her to tell him the truth, but she didn't , so he took matters into his own hands, er..paws. "Hehe...something wrong Iruka-sensai?"
"I was about to ask you the samething." The teacher deadpanned and Sierra sweatdropped, glancing down at Hikaru who was struggling under her, even going as far as biting her hand that was placed on his shoulder. "Aren't you supposed to be resting?" Iruka crossed his arms over his chest, giving the young genin his famous teacher stare, that everyone had at least once when they were in his class in the academy.
"Uh..y-you see, I." Sierra snatched her hand out of Hikaru's mouth, stumbling to her feet. She had no idea what to tell him so that she would get out of trouble. Too bad she was already in it.
"Sierra-chan." Sierra could hear the impatience in Iruka's voice, signaling that he'd know if she tried to lie out of this one. She hated that he had that sense, but she guessed that is why he was a teacher.
"Okay fine," She dropped her shoulders and sighed loudly , "I was training and I know I shouldn't be, but come on, Iruka-sensai! I've already rested enough and I think that I should work on training again being because I haven't did it in a whole while..." Sierra let her shoulders drop even more and didn't notice that Iruka was smiling some, his hands dropped from their chest, putting one on the top of her head. "Huh?" She looked up under her hand to see him smiling. " That's just you Sierra-chan. Just take it easy alright. You have people worry about you." He rubbed the top of her head for a minute before letting her go and walking away.
Sierra turned some to watch him go, before glancing up at the top of her head. 'People acctually care?' Hikaru slowly got to his feet, nipping at her kneeas he did so, before watching the older man leave, too. "What do you think Hikaru? Should we go rest?" Sierra said outloud, not removing her eyes from the back of the teacher. Hikaru didn't even bark, the both of them stood where they were, letting a slight wind buffet them slightly.
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"Ne, Sierra-chan!!!"
Sierra graoned, rolling over in her bed. The door has been pounding for the last five minutes and she was purposely trying to ignore it. It it weren't for a very stubborn blonde continueing to knock on it.
Hikaru whined some and snuggled closer under her blankets to block out the noise also, but to no avail.
"Go away Naruto-kun!!! I'm trying to sleep!!!"
"But we need you today! You can rejoin Team 7!" Sakura added in, before Naruto yelled, "Ne, Come on!!"
Sierra blinked a couple of times before yelling, "WHAT!?" launching out of her bed and night clothes in one swift movement. She pulled her clothes on with just as much swiftness and called to Hikaru before making a dash for the door. It swung open and she yelled, " Why didn't you tell me! Come on!"
Sakura and Naruto were surprised by the swiftness of their friend, but they both recovered, yelling, "Wait for us!!" Taking after her and Hikaru, who were already halfway down the street.
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"Ne, Sasuke-kun!" The young kunoichi greeted upon arriving at where team seven was supposed to meet and the raven looked up at the new voice. He almost smirked on seeing Sierra, instead, crossing his arms over his chest. "Aren't you supposed to be resting, Sierra-chan?"
She smiled. She clearly saw the almost smirk and it made her feel good inside that the raven actually missed her. Hikaru yipped and wagged his tail at Sasuke, before launching towards Naruto, who was just catching up with her, Sakura behind him.
"I've done enough resting." Sierra informed and Sasuke gave a slight nod, before a loud pained yell erupted in the air.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!! IT'S EATING MY LEG!!!!!!"
Sierra didn't have to turn her head to see that Naruto was being attacked again by Hikaru, but she did anyway and sweatdropped at the desperate attempt the blonde was doing to get the small dog off him.
"Naruto! You'll hurt Hikaru!" Sakura yelled, slamming her fist into the back of Naruto's head and the blonde let out another yell, rhis time from slamming face first into the ground. 'At least it stopped him from screaming...' Sierra mused silently to herself, flicking her hand to the side to have Hikaru let go of the unconcious blonde's ankle. The pup did as he was told, jumping off of Naruto and landing right next to Sierra. She gave him a disapproving look and he answered with a wag of his tail, panting. Sierra sweatdropped again. What was she to do with this pup?
"It's good to see that you're all back to your oldselves again."
Sierra turned around to see Kakashi-sensai poof in front of the team and she smiled, flicking her brown hair behind her shoulder. "Nice to see you too Sensai!"
His visible eye curved up into a crescent shape and Hikaru yipped, wanting to get some attention too. Kakashi obliged, bending down to rub the pup's head for only a minute before standing up in his usual posture. Sierra took it as a cue to get down to business and glanced down at Hikaru, before scooping him up in her arms.
"I'm just as glad as all of you that Sierra is back, but I have four pieces of paper that you all might be interested in." He took out the papers he meantioned and Sierra found herself leaning forward to get a better look of them. She was curious on what they were. "Papers? For what?" Sakura voiced out Sierra's thoughts and Kakashi passed them out to each of them, handing Naruto's to Sasuke until the blonde woke up. Apparently, Sakura added a little to much force to the blonde's head.
"They're for the chuunin exam. Do whatever you want with them, I don't care, but I think that you're all ready to take it."
"The chuunin exam? You really think that were ready?" Sakura asked and Sierra looked up at her sensai, " I heard about these from Iruka-sensai. He said that only skilled genin could qualify for it."
"Chuunin exam!!??!!" The loud yell exploded around the team, signaling that Naruto was concious again and Sierra turned to him, filling him in on what he missed. "Kakashi-sensai thinks that we're ready to take it."
"Hn. Dobe, you wouldn't even make it. Give it up before you hurt yourself." Sasuke cold voice said.
"What was that Teme!?" Naruto whirled around at the blonde, suddenly angery, "I would make it! You should just give up before your hurt!!"
"Hn. Not likely-"
"Enough you two, fighting isn't going to get more information from Kakashi-sensai." Sierra interupted, glancing at each of the guys, before back down at the paper in front of her.
"The papers are only good until tommorrow so I suggest that you make your mind up quickly on what you want to do.I'll meet you all back here tommorrow at the usual time." And with that, Kakashi-sensai disappeared in a poof of chakra smoke leaving the four genin to look down at the paper they held in their hands.
"Sierra, do you think that we...can do this?"
The brunnette turned around at the uncertainty in Sakura's voice and saw that the pink head was looking down at the paper. She looked small so suddenly, just like the day Sierra met her. "That's only for you to decide. I think you can Sakura." Sakura didn't meet Sierra's eyes and the brunnette furrowed her eyes sympathetically.Truth was, she didn't think that even she was ready to take the exam. She still couldn't control her chakra and control Hikaru on basic commands.
"Well I'm going to take it and pass it!"
Sierra glanced at the blonde forcing on a smile. She was excited to finally be back with the team, but hearing about the chuunin exam, suddenly turned out to be a bad day. She looked over at Sasuke. He was ready to take it, being the toughest one in the team, but...She turned towards Naruto, the blonde did show that he wasn't a weakling and she believed that he wasn't even without having to see him fight. It was only her and Sakura that were lagging behind, being they the only girls there.
"Ne, Sakura, why don't we worry about this until tommorrow. I can go for some hard training." Sierra asked, pocketing the paper into her small hip bag, not caring if the dreaded paper wrinkled or ripped at the moment. Maybe if her and Sakura trained for a good two hours, they wouldn't feel so worthless compared to the two boys.
"Huh, but we should-"
"I don't think we should worry about it until tommorrow, " Sierra started to walk past the other kunoichi, towards the sparing trunks, pushing her free hand into her pocket. She did glance back at the girl behind her shoulder to see that she attracted Naruto and Sasuke's attention as well, "You all coming? It's an open invitation." Hikaru yipped in agreement and Naruto gave his trademark smile, yelling, "Last one to the sparing trunks buys me all the ramen I want!!" No one had time to respond back to the blonde, since he took off running without a warning, leaving Sakura, Sasuke, and Sierra behind, blinking confused for a minute before Sakura hollared, "NARUTO UZAMAKI!!! GET BACK HERE!!!" launching herself after him angrily. She wasn't going to be paying for Naruto. He'd eat her out of her allowance for a month!
Hikaru leapt out of Sierra's arms, not exactly knowing why his favorite blonde was running, but he was running all the same, and if he was running, then that meant time for play with Naruto's ankle again.
Sierra laughed as she saw Hikaru take off after the blonde and the florescent haired girl, before turning to Sasuke who looked like he was unsure if he wanted to run after Naruto, or pay for the blonde's ramen. The sight made her smirk and toss her hair behind her shoulder. "You know, Naruto eats alot of ramen." She made sure there were lots of emphasize on the word alot. "So if I were you, I'd, " She took a couple of steps towards the raven, grabbing his wrist, "Start running before I make you pay for all of it!" And with that, she dragged Sasuke along with her for a moment, laughing when he tried to pry his hand out of hers, growling, "Let me go, moron!"
"Not until you start running like you mean it!"
The raven growled, before starting to push his feet faster, pulling his hand out of hers. She gasped by how much speed he was going and noted the smug smirk on his face. The smirk only caused her competitive side to come out, making her smirk also as she pushed herself harder out of her casual running speed.
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At the end of the day, it was Sasuke who grugdingly bought Naruto his supply of ramen, but Sakura and Sierra bought him his bowl to make him feel better, in the words of Sierra.
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So I had to leave it off on that note so I could start the exam on a new chapter! Oh and I think Kiba is reducing the restaining order some because he trusts me a little bit better!! Yay me!! Well...that's all I can think of saying right now, so...byebye!!
fanofonepiece
(Some where in the background, Kiba shouts: I DO NOT TRUST YOU!!!! WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!!??))
he..he.. you all didn't hear that...