Chapter 2
Arriving at Nyke's house Flael and Miko stopped walking. They waited for him to come out, Flael sitting on a banister while Miko checked the position of her forehead protector. He laughed out how cute she looked and stopped when she punched him on the shoulder.
After about five minutes Nyke finally emerged from the house, his short and spiky, pitch black hair cast a shadow on the door. He walked towards his two friends with one hand in his pocket and the other holding a book as he read. Not looking at them he said, "You two should really try to get here earlier".
"It wasn't like you were waiting on us!", Miko snapped with a look of annoyance.
With a simple smile Flael calmly turned and began walking. His two best friends followed, Nyke reading a book on his left, Miko still adjusting her forehead protector to his right. It was quiet as the three friends walked down the street. It was only yesterday that they all had officially graduated from the academy. Although Miko was the only one of them who looked anxious to start as a ninja the other two felt just as much excitement, only they didn't show it.
"You know after graduating, ninjas are placed in four-man cells. Did either of you wonder what the teams would be last night?", Nyke asked finally looking up.
"I thought about it last night. Gave up deciding they're gona do what they're gona do..." Flael actually had assumed they'd all be placed in the same team… hopefully.
Miko stayed silent. Nyke sighed and said, "I just hope we don't get hooked up with some lame jonin." In response Flael smirked and Miko frowned.
The trio continued until they arrived at the academy doors. Two Shinobi stood on either side. The shorter one on the left peered at Flael then made a peculiar look at the other guard. Flael ignored the gesture and pushed open the doors.
On the other side was a long hallway filled with other genin, around 25 by the looks. Flael knew a couple in the different masses. They stood still and looked around. Almost immediately a number of genin came towards them. The first was a boy a year older. His forehead protector was bound to the hat he wore.
"Sup guys! Lucky thing huh, we all made it together?" He smiled as he said the words.
"Yea Kousuke, I'm glad we could all be here too", Flael said with a smile. Kousuke Urameshi grinned in agreement.
A couple more friends appeared and congratulations were exchanged. Afterwards Nyke walked up beside Flael and whispered, "I wonder do they know there's one more test we have to past. It's gona be upsetting, for the ones who don't make it after getting this far." "Right", Flael whispered with a serious look on his face. He immediately looked at Miko, she was laughing with a bunch of other girls.
"Everyone head into the assigned exam room now". Flael heard a young Chunin announce down the hall. All the young genin eagerly filed into the big room and took seats. The three of them took seats with the few others they new. There was a large amount of conversations going on. Flael and Nyke kept quiet. After 10 minutes passed the young Chunin from before entered the room standing at the front. Flael remembered him when he was a genin. His name was Cogan Shiranui. His hair was brown and he had what seemed like a toothpick protruding from his mouth. He surveyed the room for a moment.
"Congratulations to all of you for becoming Shinobi. As you all know the life of a Shinobi is not easy, it calls for determination, hard work, and courage. It's a dangerous life to lead… not to mention most of you will likely die…" Flael noticed a girl in the front row flinch a little. She soon regained her composure and Flael reset his eyes on the Chunin. "But anyway let's get on with this. I'm going to call your names in three's. If you hear your name with two others then that is who your two other genin teammates will be." Now the entire room fell silently. "Alright, let's begin. First, Team 1 will consist of Sinra Tinika, Keiga Ujihan, Sango Raminta. Team 2,…" Flael drowned out the rest as he didn't hear any of their names called for a while.
As he listened he looked around the room at the eager faces. He tuned back in as Team 7 was being announced. "Heero Uzumaki, Duo Sarutobi, and Miko Uchiha." Shit…", Flael heard himself say. Both Flael and Nyke glanced at Miko but she kept her eyes forward, purposely. "And finally Team 8, Flael Renzagi, Nyke Yusuke, and Toshiro Hatake." Now the entire room went from silent back to loud. Even Flael was taken by surprise. He heard many responses.
"They have 3 boys? …What kinda team is that? …Yea it's weird alright…", Flael heard the others saying as he sat. Now Miko turned to look at them, only this time they kept there eyes forward.
"What are they thinking?", Flael thought to himself. "There's only been a few times when a genin squad has possessed all boys. Somethin's up…" His eyes stood transfixed on the Chunin below.
"Now you all are to immediately go to the room with your team number on it. Here you will meet your jonin sensei. Good luck…" The young Chunin immediately left the room, Flael noticed him twirl the toothpick like thing in his mouth.
The shock eventually wore off in the room. Everyone began to talk to their friends, about there teammates, who they wanted their jonin teacher to be. Flael only pondered on who Toshiro Hatake could be. He scanned the room. As he scanned he saw the others beginning to leave the room heading for where their team would meet.
"We'll probably meet this Toshiro guy in our team room", Nyke stated to Flael.
"Right", Flael replied. He looked over to Miko and she looked back. "We're gona head to the rooms now. …You want us to walk you to yours?", he asked her with a dry mouth.
"Sure", she confirmed quietly.
They'd been split. Best friends since they entered the academy they were finally apart. Flael had hoped this wouldn't happen but he kept his doubts on the possibility of them being placed together.
Quietly they got up and left the room. Apparently they had been the last ones to leave because the hallway was empty except for a few lost genin. They surveyed the rooms and saw the numbers above the doors. Flael knew Miko's room would be next to theirs so he turned right where he saw the number 4 above a door and led the way.
Finally he reached room 7. Eager to see her teammates he walked past the door then turned around so that he had a view inside.
"Well good luck…", Flael said with a smile.
"Just give Team 8 a ring if you need any tough opponents beaten", Nyke told her mockingly.
"Take care of yourselves you two". Miko's mouth showed a smile, her eyes gave away her concern. Taking a deep breath she walked past them into the room. Past her Flael saw two boys, one sitting atop a desk and the other standing leaned against another desk. The one standing, with the spiky blonde hair, he was sure was Heero Uzumaki. He'd seen Heero a couple times before and knew he was skilled, he had to be being a Kage's son. Duo Sarutobi sat on the desk. His hair was dark brown and weirdly his eyes were red. He wondered if they all would make a strong team.
"Hey there", a man said to Flael taking him by surprise. Flael must have been transfixed thinking of Miko's team because the man went completely unnoticed by him.
Nyke immediately recognized the Shinobi. "Hey Shikamaru Sensei. Are you the jonin assigned to Team 7?" Shikamaru responded with a nod and smile.
Shikamaru Nara, Flael noticed, wore his forehead protector rapped around his left arm. He had a ponytail tied up and a Twelve Guardian Ninja sash at his waist. Flael knew he was an accomplished Shinobi.
"You two should be getting to your teams by the way", Shikamaru said as he walked through the door and gave them a wave. He was right and so they left. With his back turned Flael heard the young Sarutobi say, "Hey Shikamaru!" Shikamaru dropped his head, "What a drag..., Duo I told you before, It's Shikamaru Sensei now."
