Chapter 5: Training
Sasuke, Sakura, and Naruto were, yet again at there meeting place in the alley of the leaf village. "Where is Kakashi-Sensei? He is late again!" Sakura said getting bored with saying that. "Forget about him, where is Inumaru?! Ya think he picked a lethal fight?" Naruto wondered with worry tainting his voice. Suddenly Kakashi and Inumaru jumped into the alleyway "Hi guys, ya miss me?" Inumaru asked as Naruto glomped him. Sakura made an odd sound and pouted and Sasuke shrugged. "Okay, now that you have seen each other and have made up for the past two days with, umm, unusual antics. Lets get to training." Kakashi stood up on the fence for about six minutes reading his book, which Inumaru noticed was by Jiraya.
Just as Inumaru got used to silence, Kakashi threw four perfectly hidden Kunai at the four students. Inumaru knew something like this would happen so he jumped in a perfect upward line, narrowly avoiding the piercing dagger as it hit the concrete behind him. Sakura slid out from the weapon aimed at her, as did Sasuke; Naruto blocked his with his left arm. Inumaru knew his test had begun when Kakashi said something that made his pill expire "STOP! Inumaru is an Akatsuki SPY! ATTACK!!" The team turned heels and ran at Inumaru. He kicked Naruto into Sasuke and flipped Sakura over his shoulder; Sasuke did a series of hand signals and yelled "FIREBALL JUTSU!" Inumaru blanked out and did a series of signals "Snowball Jutsu!" A huge blast of snow came out of Inumaru's mouth hitting Sasuke's Fire ball. All of the witnesses stopped and gasped at the snow now falling. Kids ran into the pile of melting snow, while their mothers tried furiously to pull their chilled kids out of a pile of wet snow, fathers gaped in awe at the tiny teenager that made a six foot pile of snow, in September. "Y-you did THAT?!" a surprised burly man said. Inumaru nodded and grabbed at and held his head, Team Seven ran up to look at him, except for Sasuke, who of course was under a pile of snow wiggling to get out.
"So, you didn't tell us that you were scared of fire because??" Kakashi questioned as Inumaru drank some hot water to get rid of the enormous brain freeze he had, of course drinking through his mask. You-ahh ahh achoo!! You gave me pneumonia! You must of course remembered- OHH HOT WATER YAY! NOW FOR THE NUMA NUMA!! Inumaru laughed, but then stopped because of two things. One, Team seven was looking at him. Two, it was the English version "Oh my god! Turn it off! THE ENGLISH VERSION SUCKS!!" He looked around and saw many people looking at him, especially that boy, Gaara. "Oh, umm yeah, I do have quite a few problems with fire. I just kinda forgot..." Inumaru said distractedly, keeping an eye on the threatening Gaara. "Inumaru, don't you even think about it!" Sakura hissed loudly.
It took about half an hour until Inumaru's head felt normal, so they walked out of the Ramen Shop and started down the road. At the four way stop they said their goodbyes and went different ways. Inumaru walked silently next to Kakashi for a minute, when they heard Sakura's scream, Inumaru turned and ran back and hit a couple of corners. He got to her location as soon as Sasuke did, he stopped to wait for Kakashi which didn't take too long. Kakashi sped past him with Naruto close to heel, and Inumaru caught up, "Who is that guy caring Sakura off, Sensei?" Inumaru asked desperately. "That. He is Itachi Uchiha" Kakashi said hesitantly. Kakashi and Naruto both heard a growling noise, "What was that?" Naruto asked. Inumaru looked up into Naruto's eyes, without his mask. "WHAT THE--" Naruto tripped and fell down when he saw his face. Kakashi looked right into Inumaru's eyes, "So you did start to look like your brother. So that's what you've been hiding huh?" He saw Inumaru nod and jumped up onto a tree branch, as did Inumaru.
Soon enough, Sakura's captor set her down on the ground next to the lake. He stood awaiting his pursuers, Sasuke landed, already in sharingan for he had seen his brother's face. INumaru and Kakashi both landed at the same second, but Kakashi stood there. Inumaru ran up to Sasuke "Lets try and kill him this time brother." Sasuke looked at Inumaru "WOAH!" Inumaru knew what had happened, it was the fact he was in sharingan, but it didn't faze Inumaru, that much. He nodded towards Itachi, signaling for Sasuke to pay attention. Suddenly the man looking into Inumaru's room, Kisame, was standing next to his partner. "Its time to go with us Inumaru." Itachi said finally.