Katsu's P.O.V.
The smoke finally clears, and my eyes instantly land on Kyo's bright green ones.
"Kyo!" I smile and glomp my favorite blue wolf.
He smiles his wolfy smile, and puts his huge paw on my back.
"Hey Katsu. Where ya been?"
I pull back, my grin as big as ever.
"Yeah! And where are we?" Momo-chan asks childishly.
I pat his head and look at everyone. It sure has been awhile.
"We're in Konoha. I got here about two days ago, and the Hokage's letting me stay! I missed you guys so much!" I glomp Koritetsu.
"You could have just summoned us, baka." Mintai mumbles.
I smile sadly. He's still so cold and emotionless. It's sad.
"Yeah, I guess so. But I kinda..." I stop, trying to find the right word.
"Forgot?" Mintai supplies with a smirk.
I'm about to protest, when Momo-chan whines.
"Ka-chan forgot about us!" He cries.
My eyes widen, and I start to panic. I hate it when he cries.
"N-no! I didn't forget about you guys!" I held my hands up in defense, "I was just, um, busy." I reassured him.
Momo-chan giggles and rubs his head against my stomach. That was a close one. When Momo-chan starts crying, it's almost impossible to get him to stop. 'You totally forgot about them.' My inner self sneers. Shut up! I did not forget... probably... maybe... Fine I forgot, jeez! Katsu! Stop talking to yourself! I snap out of my 'conversation', and return to the real world. I have to stop talking to myself. I tend to make faces when talking to myself, which is why most of the people I've met think I'm crazy. I gently push Momo-chan away from me. Gotta get back to business.
"Anyway, let's go train. I haven't trained in forever and I feel terrible." I stretch and start to walk towards the training grounds. At least the way I think the training grounds are. We walk... and walk... and walk. After about 30 minutes of that, I give up.
"Ugh! Where are the freaking training grounds?!" I plop down on the ground and pout.
"You don't know where they are?! I spent half an hour walking around for nothing!" Mintai growls and sits down as well.
"Yeah, I guess I should have found out where they were in the first place. Sorry guys."
"Uh, hey. Isn't this the training grounds?" Kyo asks.
"Huh?" I look around at the clearing we're in. All my wolves sweat drop.
"Oops! Hahaha. Yeah, I guess it is," I say rubbing my neck sheepishly.
"Well then! Let's train!" I jump up, my energy at an all-time high.
Without saying another word, I throw shuriken at them. They easily dodge, but the shuriken explode, causing a smoke to blind everyone. I take this opportunity to make a shadow clone, and hide under the earth. I mask my chakra, and send my clone after them. The smoke slowly clears, and my clone aims a punch for the nearest wolf, Raiku. He steps to the side and lunges at #2 (my clone) with a kunai in his mouth. #2 dodges and they start a taijutsu battle, one too fast for the eye to see. Finally, #2 lands a punch on Raiku, who is sent flying through four trees. #2 does a few hand signs, and roots shoot from the ground and tie Raiku to the ground, rendering him immobile. Momo-chan puts his paws together, and the two blue drops under his eye starts to glow. Shadow hands reach out and grab #2's legs. Two more shadow hands appear and grab #2's arms, so she can't perform any jutsus. #2 growls and tries to get free, with no luck.
"Now Koritetsu!" Momo-chan yells.
Plants shoot from behind Koritetsu, and attack #2. Right before they reach her, she transforms into a log.
"Dang! Forgot she could do that with only one hand. Not fair~" Momo-chan whines.
Kunai with explosive tags on them are thrown at Momo-chan, who is too distracted with complaining that he doesn't notice them coming at him.
"Watch out!" Kyo yells and grabs Momo-chan by the neck just in time to jump out of the way. #2 appears from behind a tree.
"Come at me, bro." She says. That's what I expect from a clone of mine.
Kyo puts his paws together and a giant water dragon forms in front of him. #2 does hand signs, and a half fire half water dragon comes to her side. It roars and the two dragons collide. There's a huge blue and red explosion. When it dies down, the fire and water dragon stretches before disappearing. Kyo's dragon is nowhere to be found. #2 does hand signs and makes shadows grab Kyo. 2 down, 4 to go. Water grabs an unsuspecting Momo-chan and holds him down.
"Hey~!" He complains.
Make that 3 to go. #2 side steps and quickly appears behind Mintai. She gets out her katana and swings it at his head. He barely misses it and jumps back. He leans back on his back paws, and jumps forward, going for #2's throat. She quickly does hand signs and disappears.
"Huh?" A confused Mintai looks around and narrows his eyes.
He takes a step forward and earth chains wrap around him. He growls defeated. Two more to go. #2 runs from her hiding spot towards Tori. Might as well leave the hardest for last. Right before she is about to kick him, a stone block comes up and blocks the kick. It shatters to pieces and falls to the ground. When it's gone, #2's not there anymore. She appears behind him and he quickly turns around ready to attack, but she disappears, and reappears behind him. This goes on for a while, me finding it quite amusing. Hehe, I'm so mean. Finally #2 gets a kick in and Tori loses his balance from spinning around so much. Who wouldn't though? I'm about to puke from just watching it. I close my eyes, and when I open them, I find Tori pinned to the ground with thick roots. One to go. #2 and Koritetsu fight for about an hour before #2 finally wins. (Me: Sorry, didn't want to write out the whole fight and you guys probably didn't want to read it. I sorry! ~) Once Koritetsu is tied upside down in a tree, #2 puffs away.
"What?! It was just a clone?" Mintai questions irritated.
I come out from under the ground and smile innocently.
"Well, wasn't that a wonderfully training session. I think we should do this tomorrow. See ya!" I walk off and laugh as I hear them shouting at me to come and get them out of the traps. This was a productive day. I had my first day at the academy, got to see my pack, got to train, and as a bonus I know where the training grounds are now! Yay! I feel so accomplished! I skip home, surprisingly not getting lost on the way, and quickly fall asleep in bed.
(Next day)
I wake up to a loud crashing noise outside of my room. I quickly jump up and grab the kunai on my night stand. I carefully and quietly make my way to the living room. Empty. They must be in the kitchen. I growl. I swear, whoever it is, if they've touched my food I'll kill them. I hide behind a slightly open door, and here more crashes.
"Shut up! She'll hear us!" Someone whisper yells.
"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to, it just slipped."
"Well, be more careful. We don't want to wake her up, she'd be really mad. You don't want to make her mad, she's really scary!" That's when I realize who it is. Those bakas. I quickly appear behind Raiku.
"Who's scary?" I ask with a murderous aura waving off of me. He turns around looking very nervous.
"Uhhh…Ummm… not you?" He states/ asks. I smile evilly.
"Yeah? What are you guys doing in my kitchen?" I glance around at all of them. They are all here except for Tori, Mintai, and Koritetsu. Figures, they're the smart ones.
"Nothing!" The three of them quickly reply.
"Hehe. Oh really now? You broke into my house so you could do 'nothing'?" I take a step forward, and they take a step back.
"Um, well. Oh hey! Look at the time. Shouldn't you be leaving for the academy now?" Kyo asks, still nervous.
"Huh?" I look at the time. Shoot! I've only got five minutes till class starts!
I turn to them. "You guys are lucky. But I won't let you off the hook next time." I say running to my room. I take a two minute shower, get dressed, and run out of the house. On my way to the academy I hear shouting.
"What are you doing here?! You're supposed to be in class!" It sounds like Iruka-sensei. He's probably yelling at Naruto. In the time I've been here, Naruto has gotten in trouble more times than I can count. I continue running to the academy. Since Iruka-sensei is yelling at Naruto, he should be late too, which will give me more time.
I make it to class and find an empty seat in the front. All of the other students are here and talking with each other. The fan girls, well, being all fangirly over me and Sasuke. I cleverly ignore them and watch the door, waiting for Naruto and Iruka-sensei. I wonder what he did. It must have been pretty bad, since Iruka-sensei got so pissed. After a few minutes Iruka (I got too lazy to call him Iruka-sensei) comes in dragging a tied up Naruto. Naruto sits defiantly on the ground while pouting and looking away.
"Tomorrow is the ninja school's graduation exam. You have failed the last 2 times! This is no time to be causing trouble!"
"Yeah, yeah." Naruto mumbles uninterested.
This causes Iruka to snap. "Time for a review test on Transformation Jutsu. Everyone line up!"
The class groans. I don't see why it's so bad; this is one of my favorite jutsus. You can transform into anyone. It comes in handy when stealing something. I'm not saying I ever steal anything, but still. We all line up, I stand in between Naruto, who is glaring at Iruka, and Duck-butt (still don't know his name), who is being an anti-social duck. I tune out until I hear an annoying voice.
"Yay! Did you see that Sasuke?!" How annoying. I really don't like fan girls.
"Next, Sasuke Uchiha." I look around and see Duck-butt step forward. Wait, what?! Duck-butt is the guy he wants? He barely seems strong at all. But he is an Uchiha. He performs the jutsu perfectly, and then transforms back into himself, looking as bored as usual. I can already tell I won't like him.
"Next, Katsu Tahashi." I step forward and do the required hand sign. I transform into a perfect replica of Iruka. He looks at me impressed.
"Very good." I don't know why he's so impressed. It's not like I'm a beginner. Although he probably wouldn't know that. I decide to wait and watch Naruto.
"Next, Naruto Uzumaki!" He says sharply.
Naruto does the hand sign, and transforms. What he transforms into makes me start laughing my butt off. He turns into a naked Naruto-girl. The smoke barely covering the 'important' parts. Who knew he was such a pervert! Iruka gets a nose bleed, and starts yelling at Naruto. Maybe I should ask Naruto how to do the Sexy Jutsu. That could come in handy. Hehe. I laugh and smile evilly, thinking of all the ways it could use that jutsu.
Class ends quickly, again, and I head home. While walking home, I see the Hokage's faces painted all over. I smile. So that's what he did. Yup, that'd make Iruka mad. I make it home and head to my room. While I trained yesterday, I had let Shouta go out in the woods to play around. He should be back by now. And I should train with my new partner. Like I thought, I see Shouta sleeping in a coil on my bed. I pick him up, which causes him to hiss in surprise.
"Jeez, Shouta. I didn't mean to scare you. I guess you can call it payback." I laugh and put him around my neck. He slithers around happily. I head off to the forest. I want to go to the forest instead of the training grounds cuz Shouta likes it better. Also because the training grounds feel so artificial, and there are more recourses to work with in the forest. Once we get there, we train until the sun goes down. We're getting good together. After we rinse off in a stream not too far away from the little house I found in the middle of the forest, we start to walk home. Tomorrow is the Genin exams, and I want to be ready, which means I need a lot of sleep. I hope they'll let Shouta stay with me. They let one of the dudes have a dog, so I'm pretty sure they'd let me have a snake. We'll just have to wait and see.
When we finally get home, I'm glad to see that there aren't wolves eating all of my food. After eating a quick dinner and letting Shouta out to play around, I crawl into bed and fall asleep.