Meanwhile
Graduating the academy
Four years have passed since Shippuu stared training with Anko. During that time, she has taught him the flicker jutsu, the paralysis jutsu, and how to open the first chakra gate.
IN THE FOREST OF DEATH.
Shippuu was waiting. He didn't know how long it would take, but he knew it wouldn't be much longer. He heard a twig break behind him. A split second later, the whole ground was showered with exploding kunai. Shippuu barely had time to use the flicker jutsu before the kunai exploded. After the smoke cleared, Anko came out of the shadows to retrieve her kunai. As soon as she bent over to pick one up, some wires shot out of the bushes. Anko easily managed to avoid Shippuu's striking shadow wire attack, but she knew this was just one of Shippuu's favorite ways to make her lose her temper. Over the years he had caught her with this technique six times and she lost her temper every time.
Anko threw some shurikens in the direction the wires had come from. There was a poof of smoke after wards showing that he had used substitution jutsu to avoid the attack.
This was one of Shippuu and Anko's daily spars. Anko had started doing this with Shippuu so he would learn how to defend himself against other ninja. But as dangerous as the spar was at the moment, they were just warming up. The real fighting wouldn't start until they started using jutsu. Despite the fact that Shippuu was still an academy-nin, he could use high powered jutsu a lot. Early on in their ninjutsu training Shippuu and Anko had learned that Shippuu had unusually rapid chakra regeneration. He could regenerate all of his chakra in ten minutes when it took other ninja a full day to regenerate theirs. The Hokage had explained that this was part of his bloodline limit. Anko had named it the Hemigan (half eye) since it let him copy half a technique.
Out of the bushes charged Shippuu holding a kunai, ready to attack. This was a stupid move, but Anko figured that he had just gotten impatient.
She grabbed her own kunai and threw it at him. Instead of missing or striking Shippuu, it went straight through him. 'Oh crap! An illusion clone'.
As quick as she could she grabbed another kunai, but unfortunately she wasn't fast enough. The real Shippuu jumped out of the bushes behind her and punched her in the back of the head. Before his fist disconnected from her skull, there was a puff of smoke and a log was right where her body was a moment ago.
Shippuu suddenly had a very sharp kunai at his throat. "It looks like you've lost again Shippuu", Anko said with a mocking tone of voice. "Check again", he said. Anko looked down and saw his kunai an inch from her heart.
Anko became a sore loser and whacked him across the head, and then she went away while Shippuu went to school.
On the way to school he stopped to look at Hokage monument. It appeared that somebody had painted all the faces. Shippuu just ignored it. He knew that who ever had done it would be cleaning it later.
School was annoying that day. Iruka sensei was teaching something that Anko had already taught him and the girl who sits next to him was crying all day. Shippuu raised his hand and asked, "Iruka-sensei, can I move somewhere else? This girl is annoying me".
Every girl in class looked at him like he was an asshole and the girl next to him stopped crying. "Shippuu, that was very rude. Apologize", Iruka ordered.
"No. I'm trying to pay attention to this boring lesson and I can't hear because of this girl", Shippuu argued.
"This boring lesson could save your life one day. Chakra molding allows you to perform jutsu, walk on trees, or even the water. If you think that it's boring, then during tomorrow's class, I'll test your skills. If you can't walk up this wall and around the ceiling, then you have to apologize", Iruka said. He knew this challenge would be too hard for a genin to do by himself.
Shippuu sat down and started thinking of how to win Iruka's challenge. While thinking, he heard a sob come from the girl again. He looked over to her to tell her to shut up.
The girl was trying her best to hold in her tears. Instead of shouting, he decided to find out why she was crying. "What wrong with you?" he asked. She let out another sob and answered, "I asked out Sasuke Uchiha today and he turned me down. He said I was annoying".This was the dumbest thing Shippuu had ever heard. "You're trying to become a Kunoichi and you're reduced to tears because you couldn't get a date. Why? Whoever Sasuke is, he can't be that great", Shippuu thought out loud. She looked at him like he was retarded. "How can you not know who Sasuke is? He is the most famous, coolest, and most powerful ninja in Konoha", she stated.
"Whatever. He's probably gay", Shippuu said without thinking. "Sasuke is not gay", she said in a loud voice, "he has his own fan club full of girls." "If he can turn down a beautiful girl like you without thinking and insult you afterwards, he has to be gay", Shippuu told her. He was starting to get bored with this conversation. Talking about some gay guy was not fun.
Suddenly the girl was blushing. "what's wrong now" he asked. "You called me beautiful", she said.
"I wasn't hitting on you when I said that. I was just stating a fact", he told her. She was still blushing, but she looked very happy now. "Hey Shippuu, Do wanna go out sometime?" she asked.
'A minute ago she was bawling her eyes out and now she's happy and asking me out. Flattery can get you anywhere these days', he thought. "I would, seriously. But I don't think I could', he said in a depressed tone.
She asked, "Why not?"
"Because I don't think your parents would let you go out with me", he answered.
"I'm sure they would. They approved of Sasuke, so they should approve of you", she told him.
"No. With the exception of the Hokage and Anko, every adult in this village hates me and tells their kids to stay away from me", he explained.
She noticed Shippuu's depressed tone and decided to drop the subject. Shippuu spend the rest of the class thinking about how to win Iruka's challenge, but could figure out how. If he asked for help from Anko, she would ask why he wanted to learn it and after he told her, she would refuse just so he would be humiliated in class.
When Iruka finally released class, the girl next to Shippuu spoke to him again. "You know, I just realized something. We've been sitting next to each other for years and I don't know your last name. And I bet you don't even know my first name." Shippuu didn't deny it. "My last name is Arashi", he told her. She smiled and said, "My name is Kagome. I'll tell you my last name if you go out with me right now." Shippuu opened his mouth to tell her he couldn't again, but she covered his mouth and said, "Your reason only counts if I tell my parents. If I don't, then we could hang out without any complaints. Make sense?" Shippuu thought for a moment and realized she was right. She removed her hand from his mouth and saw that he was smiling. No one had ever seen Shippuu smile at school. (He never had a reason too). "My last name is Imishe", she said while walking out the door.
While Shippuu and Kagome were walking together, they talked about there lives. Shippuu told her about how all the adults of Konoha told their kids that he was a murderer and that it was the reason he had no friends. Kagome was shocked that the villagers would put a child through something like that.
After he finished, they stopped at Ichiraku ramen for something to eat. As soon as they got there they saw Iruka and a short kid dressed in orange leaving. They stepped into Ichiraku's and ordered. Kagome ordered a bowl of miso shrimp ramen and Shippuu ordered a bowl of teriyaki beef flavored ramen. While they ate, Shippuu noticed it getting dark. "I'll take you home before I meet with Anko", he told her and paid for their meal.
When they arrived at Kagome's house, she tried to give him a good bye kiss. Unfortunately, as soon as she tried, her dad came running out the door swinging a katana in Shippuu's direction. Shippuu barely was able to dodge it before he got cut in two.
"Daddy, what the hell is wrong with you", Kagome screamed. "What do you mean what's wrong with me? Why the hell are you with this kid", he asked/screamed?
"We were just hanging out. He's my friend."
"He's a murderer!"
"No he's not!"
"Yes he is. And he hangs out with that psycho snake bitch!"
"What did you call me", asked a voice from the shadows. Kagome's dad froze in place and looked very very very scared. Out of the shadows came Anko.
"What the hell are you doing here Anko", Shippuu asked. She grabbed the katana from Kagome's dad and said, "I was wondering why you were late for training. And when I found you, you were on a date with this little girl. So I decided to watch." Anko passed the sword to Shippuu and told Kagome's dad, "Since you don't seem to be able to wield this sword properly, I'm giving it to Shippuu. Got a problem with it?" The dad scowled at Anko and said, "Take it. I don't want it after you've touched it." Anko smiled and thought, 'I like how this guy thinks'. She walked past the dad and started touching his house. Kagome's dad lost his temper again. "Get Away From My House and Take Your Little Hell Spawn with You!" he screamed.
Shippuu started walking away and heard Kagome shout, "see you at graduation tomorrow Shippuu."
"So kid. How was your first date", Anko asked? "I'll tell you some other time. Right now I have to practice something", he told her. She grabbed onto his shoulder and said, "Sorry kid, but you have to train with me. Iruka's challenge can wait."
"No it can't. And how did you hear about that? I never told you", he asked?
"Iruka told me. He said that under no circumstances am I to help you", she told him.
"Then I have to do it on my own", he said and tried to walk away again. Anko whacked him across the head (again). "I just got you a nice sword. The least you can do is train with me ya little brat", she ordered. Then she grabbed him by his shirt and dragged him to the training ground.
By the time they made it there, Shippuu had stopped trying to resist. "Okay squirt, lets see how you fight against a summon." she had Shippuu's attention after the summon was mentioned.
After he defeated the snake, he became very interested in learning how to summon.
"Teach me how to summon", he demanded.
Anko was going to smack him again, but then she thought of a way to get a little amusement out of the situation.
"First you have to draw some of your blood", she explained, "next you make these four hand signs and you pump a lot of chakra into it." Anko had purposely left out the part about signing a contract. "Any competent ninja can summon an animal. I'll leave you alone to try it", she said and walked off. She knew that without signing a contract, he shouldn't be able to summon a thing. So he would end up getting pissed since he didn't know why nothing was happening.
After Anko left, Shippuu used his katana to cut his thumb. Then he performed the hand signs and slammed his hand on the ground. Suddenly there was a big poof and a golden cat was standing in front of him. It had a Konoha headband around its neck and a sheathed tanto dagger on its back.
"Hello. My name is Kinneko (gold cat)", it said in a surprisingly human voice. Shippuu was speechless for a moment. "How did I summon you", he asked? He thought that he was summoning a snake, like anko did. Kinneko misunderstood the question. He thought Shippuu was wondering about having no contract.
"You were able to summon me because your parents signed your name on the cat contract two months after you were born", Kinneko explained. 'Contract? What is he talking about?' Shippuu wondered. Then he figured it out. 'I am going to make Anko pay for trying to pull a stunt like that' "So what exactly do you do", he asked Kinneko. "I am an extraordinary strategist" , Kinneko bragged, "I can help you with any thing you need".
"Okay then, can you teach me how to walk on walls and ceilings", he asked. Kinneko smiled and agreed. And they trained the rest of the night.
NEXT MORNING AT SCHOOL.
The first thing Iruka did that morning was ask Shippuu if he was ready to apologize. Shippuu stood up and walked to the front of the class. Then he walked up the wall, then the ceiling, and down the opposite wall, and sat down at his desk next to Kagome.
Iruka was stunned. 'How did he learn that in one night without Anko's help', he wondered. "Who helped you learn how to do that, Shippuu", he asked? "My cat", was all that Shippuu said before he fell asleep.
After two hours of sleep, Kagome woke him up. "Shippuu wake up. You have to take your genin exam", she said. So he got up and went into the testing room. The teachers ordered him to make three normal clones. After he did, they gave him his own leaf headband and said he could go home. Instead, he just went to the roof and slept until nightfall.
When he woke up, he realized that if he missed practice with Anko, she would hunt him down again. After he ate a quick meal at Ichiraku's, he headed to the training ground.
Halfway into the forest, he saw the school teacher Mizuki attacking Iruka. Shippuu was about to run out and help Iruka until the orange dressed kid jumped out of the bushes holding an enormous scroll. The kid performed a jutsu that created hundreds of full body clones (multi shadow clone jutsu). He used his Hemigan on the jutsu and watched Mizuki get beat up. (He never liked Mizuki anyway). Then he went to training.
The next day, after he got his ninja from the Hokage, he received a kunai from Anko. She said it was a gift from his parents.
The rest of the time was spent making his own version of the shadow clone jutsu. At first he couldn't get them to solidify until Kinneko told him to try and make them from something besides thin air. After thinking about it for a while he tried to make clones from the static in the air and it worked. Later that night he used his new jutsu on Anko and discovered that if anyone came in contact with one of his clones, they received an electric shock strong enough to make their body go numb.
After a very good nights sleep, he was told to go to the academy. He put on his headband around his neck and summoned Kinneko to bring with him and strapped his sword across his back.
When he arrived at school he noticed a lot of people staring at his sword and cat. All the looks Kinneko was getting were making him nervous. His tail kept moving to his tanto's handle, just in case someone jumped up to grab him.
Shippuu calmed Kinneko down and sat next to Kagome. Unfortunately, Kagome told him that her parents had forbidden her from hanging out with him and she moved to a different spot. Shippuu was upset about it, but he had seen it coming.
After ten minutes had passed, Iruka finally showed up. "Class. All of you are now officially ninja now. But you are only genin, the lowest level of ninja. You will each be put into three man squads and be assigned a Jounin sensei. I will now assign your teams", Iruka announced.
Shippuu kept zoning out until Kinneko told him to pay attention. "Team five will be Shippuu Arashi, Kuyen Hina, and Shiden Raiza." Those names sounded disturbingly familiar to Shippuu. Then he remembered the incident that had happened four years ago. He slammed his head on the desk and uttered "damn it" a little louder then he meant too.