~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Five years later, exam day~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Its been five years since then, and Shizuko was adopted by the Yamanakas. She kept her last name, but lives with the family, and thinks of Ino as a sister. She still stutters, but she never holds anything back. After a year, Ino had started teasing her about her crush on Haru, and the second he was mentioned, her face lit up like a christmas tree, making Ino laugh. She had tried talking to him, but whenever she tried, she either blushed really hard, or fainted (the first time that happened, Ino freaked out, the rest, she either laughed or sighed). She got really good at genjutsu, and her chakra control is good. She tried ninjutsu, but she really dosen't like attacking people. She prefered to leave that to others, though if they are about to attack her she will defend. Her taijutsu was very good, it was a style that kept the opponent chasing after you, and running into things to wear them out.
"Shizuko! It's time to go to the acadamy!" Shizuko got up, and put on her black shirt, purple jacket, black skirt and navy skintight shorts.
She combed her ruby red hair, then went downstairs. "H-hello k-kaa-san. G-good morning, f-father." Shizuko greeted. "Good-morning, Shizuko-chan!" Inoichi greeted. "Off to the acadamy?" He asked. "Y-yes, i-its graduation day t-today." she said softly. "Ah, well then, I'll make sure to be there for you and Ino after its over, after all, I don't want to miss the day you two become the top two kunoichi of the generation now do I?" he said with a smirk, and Shizuko blushed. "No, you don't dad!" Ino shouted from behind Shizuko. "Ah, Ino-chan. I see you are finaly up, now you two eat, before you make yourselves late for the acadamy." they nodded, and ate their breakfast.
They started off, but suddenly they heard Inoichi shout out, "W-wait! Shizuko-chan, you forgot your pokky!" Shizuko's eyes went wide, before she ran back at full speed, tears flying through the air behind her, and she tackled Inoichi and tore the scroll of pokky from his hand. "My p-pokky!" she said while nuzzling the sealing scroll it was in. Ino fell to the ground laughing, and Inoichi sweatdroped. 'no matter how many times she does that, I will never get used to that.' he thought before laughing a little with his older daughter while the younger one blushed a cherry red, getting up and draging Ino to the acadamy.
When they got to the acadamy, Shizuko was still red, and Ino was still chuckling a bit. Most of the class was confused, but when they sat down, Shino, Shikamaru and Chouji just asked, "Pokky?" making Ino crack up again, and Shizuko burry her head in her arms on her desk, face cherry red. The group laughed, used to their bashful friends pokky obsession. Suddenly, they all heard laughter, cries of shock, and threatening shouts. They looked outside, and saw the hokage monument covered in paint. They all started laughing, when suddenly, Iruka burst into the room, dragging Haru. The group of friends started sniggering when Shizuko took one look at him and fainted. He didn't have a shirt on, and Iruka was draging him by his hair.
"Ok class, thanks to Haru here, we are going to be doing a suprise Henge test before we do the exam, so get in line. Oh, and someone wake up Shizuko, and get Haru a shirt before that." Iruka said with a sigh.
"Ok, first up is Shino." Iruka said. Shino walked up, and Henged into Iruka. Iruka inspected it, and nodded. "Ok, now Chouji." Chouji walked up, and henged into Shikamaru, complete with the slouch, and bored expression. The class laughed, exept for Shikamaru, who had been sleeping, and looked up, only to see himself, he blinked, then went back to sleep, muttering 'troublesome dream', which made the class laugh harder, and Iruka even let out a chuckle.
"Ok, now...Sakura." he said. Sakura walked up and henged into Sasuke. Iruka sighed, then he inspected it, and nodded. "Now, Haru." Iruka said.
Haru walked up, and then he henged into... a female version of himself. Naked. Iruka was blown backwards by a nosebleed, and Shizuko fainted, again. But this time she had a nosebleed too, which sent Ino into hysterical laughter. The entire male population of the room had a tissue in their nose, exept Sasuke. Iruka stood up with a tissue in his nose and shouted, "YOU IDIOT! DON'T DO THAT! NOW DO THE JUTSU RIGHT!" "Ok, ok Iruka sensei, jeesh." He then henged into the Sandaime hokage, complete with his ORANGE BOOK. Iruka sighed, but nodded. "Yes, that is extreamly accurate, but I wouldn't include that outside of konoha please." Iruka said, and Haru nodded.
"Ok, now its Kibas turn." Kiba walked up, and henged into his mother. Iruka nodded, and said, "Ok, now Shikamaru." Shikamaru sighed, and walked up. He henged into his father, and then back. "That was good Shikamaru, now, Sasuke." Iruka said.
Sasuke swaggared up, and henged into his father. "good Sasuke, now Shizuko, your turn." Iruka said.
Shizuko walked up nervously, and Henged into her mother, Kushina. Iruka looked suprised for a bit, then inspected her. "Hmm, for having never seen her before, you did a perfect henge of Kushina-sensei. Very good job, Shizuko-chan." Iruka smiled at her. "Ok, now up next is Ino."
Ino walked up, and henged into Minato. Again, Iruka was suprised, but smiled again, and said, "Ah, I see, you wanted to do Shizuko-chans birth parents, huh?" Ino nodded, and Shizuko blushed. "Well, you both did an exelent job. Now, its time to do the written portion of the genin exam. I will pass out the papers, and you have thirty minutes to finish it. Good luck."
thirty minutes later
"Ok, written portion is over. Time for the practical. First is Kunai and Shuriken throwing."
the scores were,
Shino- kunai 8 Shuriken 8
Chouji- Kunai 8 Shuriken 7
Sakura- Kunai 7 Shuriken 7
Haru- Kunai 9 Shuriken 9
Kiba- Kunai 8 Shuriken 7
Shikamaru- Kunai 7 Shuriken 6
Sasuke- Kunai 8 Shuriken 9
Shizuko- Kunai 10 Shuriken 10
Ino- Kunai 10 Shuriken 10
"Ok, now so far, Ino and Shizuko are tied for first, with Haru in second and Sasuke in third. Now, onto taijutsu."
"First fight, Ino vs Sakura." They got into the ring, and when the bell rang, Ino charged Sakura at full speed, so fast that Sakura couldn't respond in time, and knocked her out in one punch. "...Winner, Ino by knock-out. Next match, Shizuko vs Chouji."
They got into the ring, and this time, when the bell rang, Chouji charged. Right when he was about to impact, Shizuko jumped over him, and Chouji ran out of the ring, going to fast to stop. "Winner, Shizuko. Chouji went out of bounds." Iruka said.
"Hey! How is that a win? All that happend was-" "All that happened was that if this was real life, that could have been a cliff, and Chouji would have run right off." Iruka said calmly, making the students gulp. "Shizuko-chans fighting style is very good, and it conserves energy. It uses the surroundings to the users advantage, the only time the user would be at a disadvantage would be in an open space, and then the users high stamina could be used to wear down the opponent." Iruka explained, then looked to Shizuko for confermation, and she just nodded. "Good job, Shizuko-chan. Now, Shikamaru vs Sasuke." Iruka said.
Sasuke smirked "This will be easy." he announced. "Shikamaru, could you try, please? He needs to be taken down a peg or two." Ino said. Shikamaru gave a barely perceptible nod, and got into a loose fighting stance. The bell rang, and Sasuke charged, but suprising him and most of the croud, Shikamaru dodged, and grabed his arm. Shikamaru then proceeded to spin in a quick circle, still holding Sasukes arm, and threw him into a wall, knocking him out. "Winner by knock-out, Shikamaru." Iruka said. "Next match, Kiba vs Haru." While they were walking out, Kiba blew a kiss to Shizuko, who glared angrily down at her lap. Kiba had been pining after her since the first day, and he hadn't taken the hint that she wasn't interested. Meanwhile, when Haru saw this happen, he got very confused. He felt angry, and he didn't know why. 'It must be because she is obviously not interested. Yeah, thats it.' he thought.
They got out there, and Haru glared at Kiba. The bell rang, and Haru charged at Kiba, suprising him. He hit Kiba on one arm, rendering it useless, then hit the other one, then the leg and Kiba fell. "Winner by incapitation, Haru!" Iruka announced. "Now, Shino vs Shizuko." They walked up, and nodded to eachother. The bell rang, and they both shot back. Shizuko threw a strange tan kunai at shino, and he dodged, but she kept throwing them. Eventually, she stopped, and stayed still, panting slightly. Suddenly, she was covered in bugs, but before they did anything, Shino was covered in sand. "It's a tie!" Iruka shouted, as they both gave up. "G-good match, S-shino-kun." Shizuko said, and Shino nodded. "Yes, it was a good match, but you didn't have to throw it." he said dryly, making her blush.
"Before we continue, its time for lunch!" everyone rushed out. Shizuko and Ino headed to the tree that they all sat by for lunch. After they sat down, Shikamaru and Chouji came over, with Shino close behind. "So, how do you think that we will do for the jutsu portion?" Chouji asked, a little nervous. "I-I'm sure that y-you will do fine, C-chouji-kun." Shizuko assured him before taking out a stick of pokky and popping it in her mouth. Ino took one of the sticks that was lying in-between them and popped it in her mouth too. The others shook their heads, Ino was the only one that Shizuko ever shared pokky with, if anyone else tried to take one, they would get hit so hard that they would fly away. And the weirdest part is that she does it completly on instinct, she tries to appologize, but she just can't share pokky.
"Now it's time for the jutsu portion. First up is Shino..." This went on for fifteen minutes, and then, "Shizuko, you're up." Iruka called. "You can do this!" Ino encouraged. Shizuko nodded, and entered the room.
"Ok, Shizuko, we need you to do the three acadamy jutsu, and a jutsu of your choice." She nodded, and first she preformed the Kawarimi with a penicle on the proctors desk, then she preformed a kage-bunshin, and she and the bunshin henged into Minato and Kushina, then for the additional jutsu, she used rasengan to dispell the bunshin.
"Well, you pass. Good job!" Iruka said with a smile. Shizuko smiled, and grabed a red Hitai-ate, before leaving the room.
As she left, Shizuko saw that all of her friends had their Hitai-ate, and Ino was walking in to get hers. She also saw that Haru had his around his head, and she tied hers around her neck. She also saw that Sasuke and Sakura had theirs, though she had no idea how Sakura passed.
Ino and Iruka walked in, Ino proudly displaying her Hitai-ate around her waist. "Ok, to those of you who passed, good job! To those of you who didn't, well there is always next year. Now, if you passed, you need to come here next week to get your team assignments. Now, before I forget, the Kunoichi of the year was a tie between Shizuko and Ino, and the Rookie of the year was a tie between Shino and Haru. That is it, have a good day!" Iruka said, and walked out of the room.
Outside, Inoichi was waiting for them, talking to his old teammates, Chouza and Shikaku. "I know that it works, but I was thinking that mabey this time we could mix it up a bit." Inoichi said to the other two. "What were you thinking then?" Shikaku asked. "I don't know... mabey Ino with Shizuko and the Hyuuga? Then Shikamaru and Shino with Chouji?" Inoichi suggested. He thought for a bit, then he said, "Well, how about we keep the InoShikaCho and then put Shizuko with Shino and Haru?" The other two thought, but then Shikaku said, "Well, how about we discuss this later? They are coming right now."
"Dad! We passed!" Ino shouted, and Shizuko nodded. Inoichi smiled, "Good job you two! I am very proud of you." he said, making the two girls smile. They turned and saw Shikamaru walk up with a small smile on his face, but he still managed to let out a 'troublesome' when his father mentioned how his mother would react. Chouji and his parents were talking about the celebratory feast they were going to have tonight. Shino and his parents had already walked off, but Shizuko thought that she had heard a faint, happy buzzing coming from their direction. Haru's parents had come, and Hiashi had given a barely perceptible smile, and nod, before they left.
"Ok, how about we go home, and have some dinner? Then, we could go to the pokky place for deser..." Inoichi started, but Shizuko was gone as soon as he started saying pokky, and Ino was running behind her laughing. Inoichi sighed 'She really needs to tone down on the pokky... but it'll be a cold day in hell before I tell her that.'
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~1 Week later~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Shizuko was walking to the acadamy with Ino for team selections, and she had a stick of strawberry pokky in her mouth. "I hope that we get put on the same team!" Ino said exitedly. "I-I hope so t-too, Ino-chan." Shizuko said. "I mean, I wouldn't mind being with Chouji or Shikamaru, but I don't really trust anyone else with you..." Ino said, making Shizuko blush. "Well... mabey Shino, but thats about it. I would trust Shikamaru or Chouji, but if I'm not with you, I will be with them; the family jutsu wouldn't work well with anyone else." Ino kept rambeling, but Shizuko had stopped paying attention. What if she wasn't on a team with Ino? Who would she be with? Mabey she would be on a team with Sasuke!? That would be horrible! And even worse, his fangirl, Sakura! Oh, that would be so annoying! "Hey! Shizuko-chan! Don't even think about being on the same team as that emo-duck-butt!" Ino suddenly interupted her inner despairing. "S-sorry, I-ino-chan." Shizuko said sheepishly. Ino nodded, then turned to the acadamy and walked in, with Shizuko right behind her.
When the new genin were all there, Iruka started speaking, "Ok, now I know that we are all a little sad to be seeing eachother for the last time for a while, but lets get straight to the teams; Team 1 will be..." Shizuko spaced out for a while, but then she focused again, so that she wouldn't miss anything.
"...Team 7 will be, Shizuko Uzumaki, Haru Hyuuga," Shizuko blushed really hard here, and Ino nudged her with a smirk on her face, making Shizuko blush harder. "...And Sasuke Uchiha." Shizuko and Ino went really pale. "...Their Jounin sensei will be Anko Mirarashi." Shizuko lost a little of her pallour, and smirked, really smirked, at Sasuke, who got a confused look (read, lost his superior smirk for a couple seconds).
"Team 8 will be Shino Aburame, Kiba Inuzuka, and Sakura Haruno. Their Jounin sensei will be Kurenai Yuhi." Sakura started whining about being on a team with 'dog-boy' and 'the creepy bug-boy' and how she deserved to be on a team with her precious 'Sasuke-kun'. Iruka glared at her, and she shut up immediatly.
"Team 9 is still in circulation, and Team 10 will be Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara, and Chouji Akimichi. Their Jounin sensei will be Asuma Sarutobi." Ino smiled at her teammates, who nodded back.
"Ok, now over the next hour, your jounin senseis will come in and pick you up, so I would recomend sitting with your teammates while you wait. Good luck out there!" Iruka said, before walking out of the room. "Shizuko-chan, will you be ok with the emo-duck-butt on your team?" Shizuko nodded, "I-I think t-that I will b-be fine, I-Ino-chan." Ino nodded back, "Hmm, mabey you will, besides, you've got the Hyuuga boy on the team as well..." she hinted suggestively, wiggling her eyebrows to further the point, and making Shizuko blush really hard. "I-Ino-chan, s-stop t-teasing m-me!" Shizuko whisper-shouted. Ino grinned at her and said, "Hmm, well..." Ino said teasingly, and Shizuko looked at her pleadingly, "Oh... fine. But now you owe me!" Ino said, with a smirk. "W-what? W-what do I o-owe you f-for!" Shizuko said shocked. Ino just laughed, and walked over to her teammates.
Shizuko walked over to Haru, and said "W-w-well, we a-are on th-the same team, s-so, uh, I g-guess we sh-should sit t-together?" she asked, and Haru said "Uh, yeah, I guess. Should we go over to Sasuke too, then?" He asked, and Shizuko nodded shyly. They went over, and after talking for a bit, they sat, with Haru in the middle, and Sasuke on the wall side and Shizuko on the isle side. After two minutes, a man with a beard came in and said, "Team 10, come with me." and then Ino's team left.
Three minutes later, Kurenai came in, and smiled at Shizuko, "Team 8, come with me." Then she waved at Shizuko, before leading her team away.
It took five more minutes, but finaly, Anko came in, through her usual window. "Ok, brats and Shi-chan, follow me!" She yelled before jumping out another window, and Shizuko carefully followed, whilst the two boys were in shock. "D-did our sensei just do that?" Haru asked shakily. "I-I think so." Sasuke responded, to shocked to think about his image being ruined by this.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~At training ground 7~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Oh, good; you two are here. Now, before we do anything else, how about we introduce ourselves? I'll start. My name is Anko Mitarashi. My likes are snakes, foxes, dango, pokky, my friends, and torture~. My dislikes are perverts, and a certian snake sanin. My hobbies are talking with Shizuko-chan and Kurenai-chan, and torutureing people with T and I. My dream is to become the head of the T and I department of Konoha. Now, your turn, duck-ass." Anko said, getting a giggle from Shizuko, and a laugh from Haru.
Sasuke was going to glare, but thought better of it. "Hn, my name is Sasuke Uchiha. My likes are training and my father. My dislikes are annoying people and people who hold me back. My hobbies are training and learning new jutsu. My goal is to become a strong ninja." he said. "Ok, now you, white-eyes." Anko said, and Haru rolled said eyes.
"My name is Haru Hyuuga. My likes are my family, friends, and ramen. My dislikes are the way my family is divided, and bullies." he said, glareing at Sasuke a bit here, getting a shrug from him. " My hobbies are studdying, training and studying plants. My goal is to unite my clan into one family, and to have a family myself one day." he said, getting a nod from Anko. "Ok, now its your turn, Shi-chan!" Anko said, getting a nod from Shizuko.
"M-my name is Shizuko U-uzmaki. M-my likes are p-pokky, my n-nii-sans and n-nee-chans, a-along with A-anko-senpai r-rare plants and m-my friends. M-my dislikes, a-are p-people who j-judge before t-t-they get to k-know people, b-bullies, a-and a-arrogant p-people. My h-hobbies are g-gardening, t-training, and flower-pressing. M-my goal i-is to get s-strong enough to p-protect the people p-precious to m-me." Shizuko said, getting a smile from Anko and Haru, and a breif glance from Sasuke.
"Ok, now that we know eachother better, there is one more test before you become genin. All three of you have to survive one night in the forest of death. Now, since this is a TEAM-WORK exercise, Shizuko, I'm sorry, but you can't use your fathers tecniques, though there is nothing against your kekkai-genkai; so go ahead and use it!" Anko said, winking at her, and then she got serious again. "Now, I will take you to the forest, but that is all I can do. So, come here and I will teleport you there." Anko said.
When they got there, Anko left immideatly. "Why is this place called the 'forest of death'?" Haru wonderd aloud. "I don't know, but it is probably dangerous." Sasuke said, and Shizuko hesitantly nodded, "Y-yes, A-Anko-senpai l-likes t-to come here b-because of th-the challenge." Shizuko said quietly, making the other two shiver. "Hn, let go in." Sasuke said, and the other two nodded, and they walked in.
"So, what should we do first?" Haru asked. "I-I think that w-we should f-find shelter f-first, i-it looks like its g-going to rain, a-and we wouldn't w-want to be o-out here when it r-rains." Shizuko said, and the other two looked up to see dark clouds on the horizon. "Hn, shes right, we should find shelter, then scavange for supplies so that we dont have to sit through the night without food." Sasuke said, supprising Haru at his acceptance to Shizukos advice. "Now, how are we going to do this, split up?" Sasuke asked.
"I-I think that it w-would be to d-dangerous to s-split up, h-h-how about I s-send a s-shadow c-clone with e-each of y-y-you? I c-could make one and d-dispell it to relay i-information, and I-I could give both o-of you super-charged o-ones so that t-they could do t-the same?" Shizuko offered, yet again supprising the other two, and the boys nodded.
"Yes, that sounds good, but where did you learn that tecnique?" Haru asked. "H-hokage-sama t-told me that m-my clan came up w-with the tecnique, but t-that it was made a k-kinjutsu because of th-the chakra requirement, but b-because of my l-large chakra reserves t-that come f-from my clan, I c-could use it b-better than m-m-most jounin."
The other two boys looked at her in shock. "H-how do you have such large chakra reserves?" Haru asked. "My clan a-always had l-large chakra reserves." Shizuko said with a shrug. Sasuke remembered something then, "So, is that your kekkai-genkai?" he asked, but Shizuko shook her head. "N-no, it's not. M-my kekkai-genkai i-is s-sand manipulation." Shizuko said.
Shizuko formed a cross hand-sign, and three solid clones appeared, one leaving with Shizuko, and the other two pairing up with Sasuke and Haru, (they played rock-paper-siscors over who got to go with Haru, amusing him and annoying Sasuke when the one that lost sighed, and sulked over to Sasuke with a pout).
The first one to find shelter was, suprisingly, Haru. They met up with him near the east side of the forest, where he had found, and checked out a cave, and when the Shizuko clone confirmed that there were no signs of previous life having been there for at least two months, she made another shadow clone, and dispersed it. The other two were there in five minutes, and Shizuko dispersed the last two clones. "O-ok, so n-now w-what s-should we d-do?" Shizuko asked. "We should scavange for food. Haru, you stay here and guard the cave, Shizuko and I will look for edible berries and hunt for food." Sasuke said, and they left.
It had started raining hard by the time they got back, and Haru had started a fire. When they got back, Sasuke seemed fine, but Shizuko was shivering very hard. "Ok, what do we have?" Haru asked, as he guided Shizuko to the fire. "I got a bunch of berries, two rabbits and a deer." Sasuke said, silently taking off his cloak and covering Shizuko in it, suprising her greatly. "U-umm, I-I-I g-g-g-got-t s-some b-b-berries-s, a-a h-hare, a-an-ACHOO!" she sneezed, then continued, blushing. "a-and I-I got a-a d-d-deer too, b-but I f-f-fell i-into a r-river ch-chaceing it." She finished shyly, shivering because of how soaked she was.
After the two boys got her a blanket, Haru started the food, and Sasuke put more wood on the fire to try and help heat Shizuko up faster. After they ate, Sasuke decided to try and break the ice a little, so to speak. "So, Shizuko, how did you get training before the acadamy? Since your clan was gone." he asked, a little hesitantly. "Umm, w-well, a-after I w-was attacked w-when I w-was s-s-six and unlocked m-my k-kekkai-genkai, Hokage-sama f-found s-something t-that my d-d-dad h-had fixed i-into the s-seal on m-my b-body, and it h-had a bit of m-my parents s-souls inside of i-i-it, and when he t-told them w-w-what h-had happened, t-they p-p-practically o-ordered him t-to train me to d-defend myself, s-so he had K-Kakashi-nii, G-Gai-nii and Kurenai-nee train m-me for a year b-before the acadamy, t-then he gave me s-some scrolls o-on my clans ninjutsu and t-taijutsu. I s-studied w-with them f-for the year, t-then joined the acadamy."
The two boys were a little shocked at what she said, but both had a new respect for her, and they were both enraged that someone would attack a six-year-old little girl. "I see... would you mind teaching us the kage bunshin, when you think that we have enough chakra?" Haru asked, and Shizuko nodded slowly. "Y-yes I t-think that I c-could, but you w-wouldn't be able t-to teach a-anyone else; i-it's a c-clan tecnique." she explained, and the other two nodded.
The next day at six o'clock, Anko showed up to find Haru and Shizuko sleeping, and a slightly tired looking Sasuke sitting watch. "Well, looks like you pass, that is if you switched watch over night?" She said, and Sasuke nodded. "We did, however, Shizuko got soaked while gathering food, so she slept the whole night." he said, and Anko nodded. "That is fine, I know her, and if she were able, she would have insisted on taking watch too. So, good-job, you are now team 7. Meet me at the training grounds at noon for training." She said, and she left.
Sasuke shook Haru awake, and he took Shizuko in his arms, and together they walked over to the training ground to wait out the time.
When they got there, Haru sat Shizuko next to a tree, and sat next to her, elicting a raised eye-brow from Sasuke, but nothing more. "I'm going to go get us some breakfast, what would you like?" Sasuke said after an hour of just sitting there. Haru hesitated, "Um, could you get me some vegetable ramen?" he asked hesitantly. Sasuke nodded, then he got a thoughtful look on his face. "Hmm, what do you think that she would eat?" he asked. "Mabey... dango? She does apparently hang out with Anko-sensei, so, she probably likes dango well enough." Haru reasoned, and Sasuke nodded. "Okay, I'll go get that." Then he wandered off to get the food.
By the time Sasuke got back, he saw that Haru had fallen asleep again, but that Shizuko had woken up, and he almost laughed at the position she was in. He knew that Shizuko had a crush on Haru, heck, everyone but Haru seemed to know! So when he walked in to find her blushing cherry red, with his head on her lap; he snorted and almost laughed out-right.
But then she stared at him with such a pleading look , that he sighed, and then said "Hey, Haru, would you mind getting off of poor Shizuko's lap, you are going to make her faint again, and we don't have any smelling-salts here." Sasuke said casually, and Haru jerked up, his face tinged with red. "Uh, ah, right..." he said, his face now almost as red as Shizuko's when he noticed that she had woken up, and noticed his position.
"So, Shizuko, I hope you don't mind, I didn't know what you would like, so we agreed to just get you dango since, well, we knew that you hung out with Anko, so we figured that you would at least like dango." Sasuke said, and Shizuko gave him a small smile. "Y-yes, I d-do like dango q-quite alot, th-thank-you Sasuke-s-san." She said, and accepted the dango. Sasuke then gave the ramen to Haru, and started eating his own dango.
After they finished their breakfast, it was seven o'clock, and to spend their time, they decided to warm up. They all ran about sixty laps around the clearing, which was quite large, Shizuko finishing a little before the boys because of her high stamina and previous training. Afterwards, they all started working on their taijutsu.
After a few hours, Anko appeared. "Hey, Shi-chan! Brats!" She greeted. "Hey! How come we're brats but Shizuko gets a nick-name?" Haru asked, and Sasuke grunted in agreement, now back to 'bastard-mode' as Ino called it. "Because 1: I have known her since she was four, 2: She has always been to shy to have been considered a brat, and 3: because I feel like it!" Anko said, the last one making the two boys face-falt. "Now, lets get to training! I want all of you to do ten laps around Konoha, five-hundred push-ups and sit-ups, then stretch to cool down! NOW!" Anko said to get them moving.
When the boys finally finished the last sit-up, they looked around, and saw Shizuko calmly sitting on a stump near the edge of the clearing, meditating with Anko near-by. They stared at her in shock for a while, before sighing and starting to stretch. Once they were finished, they walked over to the other two, and looked at Anko for more instruction. "Well, now that you two are done, I want you to start meditating. It will help you center yourself, and posibely get a firmer grip on your chakra." Anko said calmly, suprising the two, but they nodded, and sat down to meditate.
An hour later, Anko brought them all out of the trance induced with meditation. "Ok now, lets head to the tower to get a mission. Now, I will warn you, we have to do at least thirty D-ranks to qualify for a C-rank, so don't get your hopes up, it is going to be boring and tedious for a while, but we will get some exiting missions in a few weeks, depending on how many missions we do per day, ok?" She warned, and the other three nodded. "Ok, here we go!"