DISCLAIMER:I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE NARUTO CHARACTERS.

TEAM NINJA, TOTAL FIFTEEN

CH 6

BUDDY.

The fifteen teenagers waited patiently for the other BUDDYs to show up. They were standing in the courtyard with Kakashi and Iruka sensei. By passing the time Hinata and Neji taught some of them how to do the heel toe, in toe, and out toe. Gaara and Sasuke stood by the sidelines as the others crowded around. Shino could do the dance real good, but then again, he loved listening to hip-hop and R&B.

Gaara, not giving a damn, had his back up against a tree watching Rock Lee and Naruto struggle to do the steps. He laughed now and then when Naruto would trip over his own feet. Sakura and Ino were able to learn it fast; in fact, all the girls were able to learn it fast, except for Hinata who already knew how to do it. When they all got the hang of it Shino turned the volume of his iPod up. The song "Badd" by Mike Jones and the Ying-yang twins was playing. Naruto eventually came to the conclusion that he couldn't do the heel toe, or the in toe or the out toe, so he decided to dance. Dancing was one thing nobody knew the blonde could do, but he could. Sasuke and Gaara were amazed when they saw him dancing. After ten minutes into it Kakashi broke it up because the other students were arriving.

The fifteen ninjas were placed in a group with twenty other students. The group that they were apart of was the tiger group. A male teacher with brown spiked hair and freckles stepped in front of the tiger group, as they were now all in front of a tree.

"Hi, my name is Josh and well, I will be your adult visor who will give you all the instructions on what to do at this BUDDY retreat." He walked closer to them and gestured for them to do the same. "Earlier today you all went through a course to test your team work skills. I gotten the report back from each house. Let's just say some did better than others." When he said that his eyes met with the ninjas. "That course was suppose to help you in your ability to deal with kids, these kids are eight and nine years old. It will involve all of you to be able to control them and give them what they want, love and care. You will be their BUDDY.

They were given a BUDDY for a reason. The kids are all going through emotional problems. If you thought you had it rough when you were young, wow, wait till you meet the kids. Some of the kids might open up before others do, that's okay, it takes time. Afterwards, you will know what it is like to be a BUDDY. So when you start your up coming school year you can say, 'Hey, I know what to do.' Now the tiger group as been assigned to assist the kids at the repel tower. So lets go."

He turned around and began walking down a steppe hill. The teenagers within the group didn't hesitate when following him. To be a BUDDY one has to be able to care and love, kids need love and care, they need attention. Some kids go through horrible things so a BUDDY is given to help them out in school. A BUDDY does NOT give advice.

Sasuke walked with his head facing upward and his hands in his pockets. It amazed him that none of the girls from the other places talked crazily of him; in fact, they just look at him as if he's a normal guy. All the students there know who the fifteen ninjas are and what they do, and they even made friends with them already, but it still surprised Sasuke that none of the girls through themselves at him. However, he did see some of the guys look his way as if interested.

'This should be interesting and what's with the 'up coming school year'?' The Uuchia thought to himself.

Gaara and Rock Lee were walking with one another down the hill. The rumor had spread already that they were seeing each other, but Lee dismissed the idea and told them that it was just a rumor after all. The red head wasn't surprised to hear that, it was pretty obvious that he put fuzzy brows through hell in the last week. When his mind drifted from Lee it began thinking of what the teacher said, "...thought you had it rough...wait til you meet these kids...". Could them children go through more horrific things than Gaara did when he was a young? What can be worst than being alone and everyone hating you, claiming that you are a monster? Gaara was curious to know.

They soon were at the repel tower. Bleachers were set up so they could be able to sit whenever they wanted to. It was hot so it was blunt that they would be doing plenty of that.

Naruto watched as Kakashi stepped out of a truck and began hauling barrels of water towards the bleachers.

"Hmm, I'm thirsty already." What he didn't notice that there were little kids already there and whining on how they wanted to go up the repel tower already.

Josh stood on the very top step of the bleachers, "BUDDYs make sure they do not touch the wire fence it can hurt them, the fence is a electricity fence so be careful around it. No, make sure they stay away from it!"

He stepped off the bleachers and walked to where Kakashi was. He propped himself up against the truck, from a far it appeared as if he was flirting with Kakashi.

"If only Iruka was here to see that." Naruto mumbled. He suddenly felt a tug on his shirt. He looked down to see a blue headed little kid picking his nose. A blue streak came over Naruto's face. He jumped back a few feet. "EWWW Kid, what the hell are you doing!" He yelled. Everybody who was there was now looking at the two. Naruto felt embarrass especially when the kid began to cry.

"You're a meanie!"

Naruto walked up to him and patted his head still disgusted at the fact. The blonde glanced at his pant leg to make sure that they weren't any boogers on it. Sasuke strolled on by with two kids clinging to his legs, two kids hanging from his arms, and a kid around his neck.

"Loser."

It was hot and humid, Kakashi was steadily bringing water back and forth to them all. They were almost done though just a about twenty more kids had to go down the repel tower. Out of all of them Gaara was having the hardest time. He stood in guard of the electric fence.

"Don't go near the fence, punk." He scolded the little boy.

"But why?" The little boy asked innocently, though he knew damn well why.

"Because your ass will get electrocuted," Gaara replied, "and we don't want that now do we?"

"I'm gonna tell you cursed at me, you said ass."

"You do that." Gaara crossed his arms after looking at his watch. He glanced at the repel tower and saw that there were four more kids who needed to go down the tower. He sighed.

"Besides, my shoes are made of plastic, I can still touch the fence."

"Fine, go and touch it, I don't CARE."

The little boy's eyes got wide and he looked down to the ground. In a whisper, he said, "No one ever cares." Gaara's hairless eyebrows were lifted in a questionable way. "I'm sorry for bothering you."

The little boy walked away to the repel tower, a student was there to help him get his gear on and show him the way up the stairs. Gaara watched him climb the steps of the tower. He was the last boy to come down from the tower.

Ten-ten sat in the bleachers talking to this one girl name Cassy. She was French and had the accent too. She was petite and slim, but had a graceful walk, she wasn't that good at speaking English, now and then she would ask Ten-ten how to say and pronounce things, and Ten-ten would sometimes have to correct her. For instance:

"Tonight I go home and wash my hairs" Cassy said. Her accent strong and fluent.

"No," Ten-ten corrected her, "you don't go home and wash your hairs but you go home and wash hair. Hair is plural though it is pronounced singular in English. If you were to say 'go home and wash hairs, the students will think...'"

Ten-ten told Cassy what the students would think and Cassy began to blush a slight red.

Temari watched from the top of the bleachers with Shikamaru. She made sure that the little boy was secure to go down the tower. He was, though she almost made a mistake with the latch since she concentrated too much on Ten-ten. But Shikamaru corrected the problem.

That night Josh and Kakashi stood in the courtyard talking about the up coming All Boys' State and All Girls' State trials. Josh told Kakashi what the trials were about and what would be done the whole week the ninjas were there.

"You choose the smartest individuals, you can only take sixteen, no more than sixteen and no less than five. Those individuals will have a box set of cards. On the front of the cards are questions while on the back are the answers. They must study all one hundred and fifty of them cards and remember them. On the sixth day that they are there the test will be taken. There will be two hundred questions on the test. One hundred and fifty are the question from the cards and the other fifty are prior knowledge questions."

Kakashi listen intently on what Josh was telling him. He thought it was a brilliant idea and would surely enter all of his ninja students; well, he thought about that, all but Naruto that is.

Kakashi called for a meeting that night and had them all show up in the living room. He told the news, Sakura was most please with it; in fact, all the girls were. The boys really didn't see the problem except for Naruto. Kakashi told them that they all would be attending except for Naruto. Naruto quickly held his head up.

"The fourteen of you will leave out in two days. I will give you the cards tomorrow night so as you can have all tomorrow day to play and train or do whatever you like. But once I hand you them cards you will have to only focus on that."

They were determined, Gaara was even excited that he was picked, he could easily memorized the questions, that's one thing he could do, remember. Naruto raised his hand.

"Yes, Naruto?"

"Why am I not going?"

"Because this is..." He hesitated. He didn't know how to spill it out to Naruto that the boy was dumb.

"You're stupid, Naruto!" Sakura yelled. Kakashi shrugged it off, he didn't have to tell Naruto that he was dumb after all, Sakura did it for him.

"I am NOT Stupid!"

The other nin beg to differ.

"At least I'm powerful and I'll still be Hokage some day."

"Yeah, but you'll still be dumb." Shikamaru said. Akamaru barked showing his agreement as he sat in Kiba's lap. "And who wants a dumb Hokage?"

Kakashi felt tension building up so he dismissed them. Naruto remained sitting on the sofa. Kakashi walked up to him.

"Prove them wrong, just like you prove them wrong about being non-powerful." He began to walk to the front door. "In fact, prove me wrong."