Gakuen Alice: Naruto!
I do not own Gakuen Alice or Naruto. They belong to Tachibana Higuchi and Masashi Kishimoto respectively. Any Anime, Manga, or Game influences are also not mine. I only own this idea.
(123 years after Village Creation. Thursday, July 16 AKA, "VC")
"Alright! I have four words for everyone in this room! Sit down, shut up!"
Iruka was not having a good day. Not one bit. Anyone could tell that. No one knew why, but no one asked. That would be stupid. I mean, who induces a conversation with an extremely pissed-off teacher?
Especially one that could gut you twelve different ways in less than five seconds!
The man was a Chuunin for a very good reason, after all.
"Ok, this may seem sudden, and I was going to do this next Tuesday, but I'm irritated, and you need to learn this anyway." spoke Iruka as he stood behind his desk, his hands resting on it.
"Now, as you'd better already know, the ideology of this village is mostly based on teamwork, as well as individual skill. So we're going to do a little exorcise I like to call, 'Toxic Waste'."
Just the name made the tension in the room rise. No one knew what it was, but the way their teacher said it sent shivers up their spines. It was "Toxic Waste'. Well, that's what the words were, but the way it was said, it kinda sounded like "Get your asses ready for some major hard work" to the class.
"Alright! Everyone here has had a teamwork assignment before, so I won't have to talk much. For those who need help, I will explain when we get outside. Now, get your asses up and into the back training field!"
The entire class got up and started walking out idly chatting with each other as they leave. Some talking of the new exercise, some talking about recent happenings involving them or something they saw.
Naruto in particular was walking out with Hinata, as per the usual.
"Nee, Hinata-chan, this exercise sounds Zetta boring if you ask me," complained Naruto, his hands behind his head.
"Actually, it does sound somewhat un-interesting, but I'm sure Sensei knows what he's doing Naruto-kun. Do you remember three weeks ago? You were saying the same thing about his memory training, but he made that fun," giggled Hinata as she was walking next to Naruto, arms swinging, remembering the image of her best friend nearly tossing his tape player at the wall in frustration.
"Haha, yeah, that was fun. Good thing too! I would have n thought to make a noise at important stuff, then at less important stuff when you get it down. Oh well, I finally had a legitimate excuse to tap my desk in class!"
"Ahh, so you did Naruto-kun. Unfortunately, Kentaro-san finally passed after two weeks, so the mission briefing and geographical tapes were taken." sighed Hinata, who really liked that portion of the lessons.
"I know! It Zetta sucked," Naruto whined.
Just as they finished their little chat, they made it to the small training clearing in the back of the school.
It was about 150 square Meters.
It was a bit bigger than "training ground 14", the most common place for rookie Ninja to train.
Just as everyone got to the clearing, Iruka had everyone make teams of eight. Luckily two students were absent, so there were exactly six teams.
"Ok then, I will explain the exercise."
"Toxic Waste involves the coordination of all players involved. You need nine lengths of rope, a large bucket and a small bucket." Iruka explained bringing out nine ropes and two buckets for each team.
"Eight of the ropes are the same length, and must be tied to the smaller bucket. Take the ninth rope and shape it into a circle, and place the large bucket about 9 meters away from this circle."
"Place the small bucket in the middle of circle. This is toxic waste, and the circle surrounding it is the radiation zone. Each player must grab one of the ropes, until all are taken up."
"Move the toxic waste, the small bucket, and place it into the large bucket, which is referred to as the neutralization zone. You must each communicate with each other, figuring how to move it all the way to the neutralization zone.
While you do this, you must not step within the original radiation zone, and must maintain an equal length from the toxic waste. If any one of you do, that person is out of the game, and the group must operate without the lost player.
This can happen four times. If you lose four players, your entire team will lose."
One student in the fourth team rose her hand.
"Yes Sekai-kun? You have a question?" asked Iruka, looking towards her, as did the rest of the class.
"Yes, I see the use of teamwork, but what else does this improve? Teamwork is all well and good, but eight times nothing is still nothing," reasoned the petite girl.
"Ahh, good point, I'm glad you asked. This game increases many skills. Hand-eye coordination, balance, how to keep a steady hand, reflexes, and how to read body-language," Iruka explained, feeling as if his day was looking up.
"You see, you need to know how to start, and complete, your own movements without any trouble, so hand-eye coordination is very important in this."
"You need to walk with a subtle grace, so balance is also extremely necessary."
"If you can't keep your hands still, it will disrupt you and your team, so calm, relaxed hands are needed. Relaxed hands also mean better aim and better movement with kunai as well as all other weapons."
"As for reflexes, sudden movements made by others are bound to happen, so you need to compensate for them with the appropriate movement, but if you don't react quickly enough, it won't matter."
"But one of the most important, is to learn to read the movements of others, so you know what to expect. Reflexes come easier if you have a good idea of what comes next from a person. Not seeing subtle motions like eye shifts, hand twitches, or the way someone is standing has gotten many ninja killed."
"Jounin are only at that rank because they learn these lessons and survived long enough to know where to put them to good use."
After letting that sink in, he set them to their exercise, fully intent on relaxing.
He really did not start the day well.
First, his covers were on the ground when he woke up. While it is July, the occasional cold night is still present.
Then he remembered he ran out of orange juice, so he had to drink milk… He loved his orange juice after all.
Finally, his chair in the teachers lounge had broken as he sat as he sat.
Of course, as a ninja, he avoided falling, and by extension, pain, but it still pissed him off. He had that chair since he became a teacher six years ago, so it was kinda sentimental.
But his day seems to be taking a nice turn for the better.
Good thing too. He loved calm relaxing days.
The nice warm sun, the slight summer breeze, and the stronger smells of nature.
Iruka decided to look up and check on the student's progress and was amazed by the skill and teamwork showing from all the kids. Not all were doing super great, but they were passing all of his expectations! If this keeps up, Konoha will have the largest number of graduates since the days of Sandaime-sama's graduation!
Most might even pass the hidden Genin exam.. Of course, that's only if this keeps up. He hopes it does, but if Iruka was anything, it was a realist.
"Kentaro-kun! Relax your shoulders just a tad! Himura-kun, slow down a bit, you're adding too much speed and pressure. Your team can't keep up. Everyone else, keep it up!" Iruka shouted, smiling at it all. He just loved teaching.
'Huh? This is odd.. Is that what I think it is?.. Yes.. Someone is using Chakra!. Who is it? Whoever it is obviously has great control. I didn't sense it until just now.' Iruka thought as he discreetly looked around and sent out small bursts of Chakra.
Chakra, if focused and formed correctly, can be made into a small, horizontal blade-like form. Completely harmless, but when you send it out, you keep a small part of the original Chakra in you, under your naval. If the blade hits something with more focused Chakra than it, it reacts with the portion you kept in your body, and gives you a pulling sensation, thus giving the location of the Chakra user. It's easy to sense if someone is using this technique, but it's very useful.
'Oh, there we go.. Hinata-kun? She's using the Chakra? I know she was a Hyuuga, but to have Chakra control that can fly under a Chuunin's radar, even for a little while?.. This needs looking into,' came the thoughts of a bewildered Iruka. 'Well, all of the students did wonderfully today, I'll give them the rest of the day off.'
"Ok everybody! You can stop for the day. You all met, and passed all of my expectations I had! Great job, really," Iruka announced, really proud of his students.
"Now, this assignment will go on until Wednesday of next week. So you have five more days of this, have a nice day everyone," said Iruka as all the students stared cheering and drifting off home.
"Excuse me, Naruto-kun, Hinata-kun, You two stay for a bit will you?" Called Iruka before they could leave.
The two answered with an "Ok sensei."
Iruka decided to get right to it when they reached him.
"Alright, I apologize if you have things to do, but I noticed something during the exercise and wanted to bring it up with you two. Don't worry, neither of you are in any trouble."
"I realized something very interesting concerning you Hinata-kun," Iruka said, looking towards the mentioned girl.
"M-me? Did I do something?" asked Hinata, shrinking back somewhat.
Iruka smiled and patted her shoulder. "Yes, actually. You did something never before done in this academy. Whether you knew it or not, you were emitting chakra during the game."
Hinata looked shocked.
"Haha, I see you didn't know you were doing it. However that is not the accomplishment I was talking about. I had no idea you were using the chakra until just minutes before I ended the day."
"It is obvious you were using it for longer than that too, because after you stopped, I focused on the chakra trail, and it started half way from the starting point." Iruka stated, his smile getting bigger as he spoke.
Hinata and Naruto stood there, speechless, for a moment.. That is, before Naruto grabbed Hinata's hands and spun in circles, laughing and smiling big.
"Wow! You're so Zetta awesome Hinata-chan!" Naruto shouted as he stopped the spinning.
Hinata started blushing up a storm from all the praise.
Iruka was very proud of her. This would defiantly be put in her files.
"That is all I wanted to talk to you two about. I am very proud of you Hinata. I will see you tomorrow kids. Have a good day." Iruka said as he smiles and walked away.
"Yeah! This calls for a celebration! Where do you wanna go Hinata-chan? My treat!" Naruto shouted, obviously exited about Hinata's accomplishment.
"W-well, how about some cinnamon buns? Is that alright?" Asked Hinata, somewhat surprised that Naruto didn't rush to ramen.
"Of course! Lets go!" Naruto announced, grabbing Hinata's hand and running towards the closest store with those tasty cinnamon buns.
A/N: Wow, no Japanese today.
Anyway, first things first. Sorry for the late chapter. I had lots of ideas, but couldn't get them out right. Writers Block sucks.
Oh! And that game they played, really exists. I looked it up, and it's almost exactly the way I described it!
The glimpse into the life of Iruka was fun. Don't see many people do that.
I hope you guys like this chapter. R&R. Rest and Review! Haha!
Next time:
"Wow! It's raining logs! Who ever is doing this must be Zetta strong!
"Training Ground 14! Enter, The eccentric Blue Beast!"
RasenFox, over and out!