"I cannot believe that crazy woman!" shouted Alex as they stepped into his teams new apartment.
"Hate to say it but your right." agreed Shiro with a frown.
Azusa said nothing as she slept on Alex's back while he carried her. Why Shiro wasn't doing it was because he won their little game of rock-paper-scissors. Which pissed Alex off to no end but accepted the loss all the same.
After their test with the snake mistress the three wandered around the village wondering where they were gonna live as they had no money of their own so they couldn't afford an apartment. That was until an ANBU showed up wondering why they were out so late. After explaining to him what had happened thus far he told them that they in fact had an apartment given to them by the Hokage that Anko was supposed to tell them about after their test! Needless to say no one was happy but now they had finally made it to their new home.
The apartment was fairly large with three bedrooms, two baths, a kitchen/dining area and a living room. Better than what most people could get anyways, plus it was already completely furnished!
"Lets just get to sleep guys. We have a big day tomorrow as we'll be meeting our new sensei and I want to be wide awake to see the faces of the rookies when we see them." said Alex with a smile that was returned by Shiro.
With that Alex dropped of Azusa in her room and went to his as did Shiro. Needless to say all of them passed out as soon as they hit the sheets. Well Shiro and Alex more so. But the grin's on their faces never dropped as they slept.
The Academy the next day
It was finally morning and the day of the team assignments and Shiro, Alex and Azusa were all excited to meet their new sensei. They hoped it was someone they were at least familiar with in the show and not just some random schmuck like Ebisu. So now here the three stood outside the door to the classroom that held the rookies. Though none of them showed it they were all extremely nervous as a multitude of things could happen once they entered through those doors.
After a quick look and nod at each-other Alex opened the door and walked inside quickly followed by his teammates. Unsurprisingly the whole room went as quiet as a graveyard as soon as the door opened with everyone watching with anticipation on who would come in. Most thought it would be Iruka with the team listing's so imagine their surprise when three new kids around their age came in instead.
Alex, Shiro and Azusa slowly took in the room and the faces of the occupants.
Shiro's gaze quickly locked with Hinata's and stayed there. Hinata for her part couldn't help but stare at the new boy in the room as if he was the most interesting thing at that moment. Yet once she realized she was staring and being stared at she quickly dropped her gaze to her desk with a large blush. Shiro quickly followed suit as he turned away with a blush starting to stain his cheeks after looking at, what he thought, a beautiful girl.
Azusa for her part was on the edge of falling asleep while standing up but was holding out until she at least got to a seat. But she did make eye contact with a just as tired looking Shikamaru who for once didn't say 'troublesome' when he saw her.
Alex was currently just staring at the class with a happy smile on his face waiting for someone to say something as they no doubt would. A few seconds later he was proven correct when a certain Inuzuka decided to ask the million dollar question.
"Who the hell are you guys!?" he demanded while Akamaru barked in agreement with murmers from others in the class wondering the same thing.
"Us? Well we're recently graduated genins just like you guys." said Alex casually as he refrained from calling Kiba a dumbass at the end.
"HOW DID YOU GRADUATE!? YOU HAVEN'T GONE TO A SINGLE CLASS!" yelled a certain pink haired nuisance whose voice was loud enough to even snap Azusa wide awake for a moment before going back to her usual sleepy self.
"Because we took a test and passed just like you. How else?" said Shiro with a mocking smile which made the pink haired banshee fume with rage.
Shiro's answer did more than anger Sakura though as the whole class erupted with yells of disbelief and everyone calling them fakers and Shiro a liar. The three let this continue for a good minute hoping the class would calm down on their own but when an end was not in sight Alex had decided to take matters into his own hands. Lifting his foot up he put a bit of his devil fruit powers into said limb and brought it down in a firm stomp that shook the entire academy down to the roots and tossing a few students from their seats.
"Now that I have your attention I want you all to shut the hell up or else the next time I bring my foot down I'll be taking the building down with it understand!?" yelled Alex daring someone to speak up against him.
Meanwhile Shiro was shaking his head at Alex's brash attitude while Azusa just quietly snored muttering how Alex still needs to work on controlling his powers before he cracks the world in half.
There were two people in the class though that had different thoughts on the three new comers besides Hinata and Shikamaru.
Sasuke was seething in jealousy at the display of power by some clan less nobody. Why didn't he have such power!? With that kind of strength he could kill Itachi easily! He needed that power for himself and he was going to get it whether the loser wanted to give it to him or not!
Naruto was simply in awe of Alex and what he was capable of. To shake an entire building to its foundatiosn with a single stomp was beyond amazing! He wondered if he could get some tips that could help him get stronger. With strength like that he would be Hokage in no time flat!
It was then that Iruka made his prescnence known as he walked into the room. He wasn't surprised to see the three new students in the room as he had been informed by the Hokage about them beforehand. So he kindly sent them off to take a seat, which they did in the back of the room, before going into his long winded speech that mostly went ignored.
Azusa had fallen asleep in her seat while Alex and Shiro just sat there with bored looks on their faces as they waited for the scarred chunin to get to the point of why they were really here. After a few more minutes Iruka had finally gotten to reading of the teams which made Shiro and Alex lean forward in anticipation of who would be training them.
All of the teams were the same as before until the chunin finally reached their team.
"Team 14 will consist of Alex Farren, Shiro Kirigaya and Azusa Takahashi. Your Jounin sensei will be... Yugao Uzuki."
Now this floored Shiro and Alex while Azusa continued to snore but a small smile was made more prominent on her face. Afterwards the genin began to leave with their sensei's while Shiro, Alex and now awake, if only slightly, Azusa conversed.
"Can you believe it!? We get one of the four Ice Queen's of Konoha as our sensei! Not only that but she's also ANBU and the villages best Kenjustsu master!" said Alex excitedly.
"Yeah that is pretty neat. Just try not to ogle her and get your balls chopped off." said Shiro with a smirk making Alex gain a tick mark and start reaching for Dragon Slayer until Azusa started to speak.
"It makes sense though. Both of you have swords and she is the best swordswomen in the village. Not only that but her being in ANBU means she will be able to teach us a lot about staying hidden which considering our abilities we are more of an assault team than anything and severely lacking in stealth." stated Azusa as Shiro and Alex's jaws dropped at the analytical reply.
"Well... I guess she's the brains of this operation." said Alex.
"I agree." said a voice at the door of the classroom drawing the three's attention.
In the doorway stood their new sensei Yugao Uzuki in standard Jounin gear only with a katana strapped to her back. She was looking over her new team and was trying to see if anything stood out about them aside from the obvious. She along with most of the other Jounin's had seen their test against Anko and were surprised at the potential the three showed not only in teamwork but also their unique individual powers. Of course she wouldn't be able to help them with everything but that's what the other jounin were for.
"Team 14 meet me at Training ground 14 in twenty minutes." she said simply before disappearing via shunshin leaving the three to make their way to said training ground all the way at the other end of the village.
Training Ground 14, 19 minutes later
The newly formed Team 14 had just barely made it in time thanks to the fact Azusa actually decided to run instead of either Shiro or Alex carrying her which the were both thankful for. They were slightly sweating but otherwise fine as they sat in front of an amused Yugao who was leaning against a nearby tree.
"You three actually made it in time. I'm impressed. Now before we get into training I want to know what exactly you all want to train in so I can make a proper training schedule for you three." said Yugao in a commanding tone of voice that she used in ANBU.
While it was unusual for the three as they expected the Kakashi patented introduction of explaining their likes, dislikes and such but figured that would come later. Maybe.
"Uh okay well I want to train in Kenjutsu, Taijutsu, my elemental affinity and my powers." said Alex unsure of himself besides his powers and Kenjutsu.
"Well basically the same as Alex." said Shiro simply as Alex pretty much said all that they both wanted. It was Azusa's choices though that threw the rest of them for a loop.
"I want to train in my powers, medical jutsu, fuinjutsu, and taijutsu as well as learn my elemental affinity." said Azusa in her usual tired/happy voice.
"Um, why those specific ones Azusa?" asked Yugao curiously as two of her training requests were very unusual for a genin.
"Simple. Having a medic on the team will significantly help in the long run cause while Shiro can regenerate even his healing abilities have limits and Alex as well as myself possess no such healing abilities. As for fuinjutsu it is cause I found the most difficult art of being a ninja fascinating and a worthy challenge." answered the sleepy beauty simply.
"Well... consider my mind officially fucked." said Alex as Shiro and Yugao couldn't help but agree with him in that regard.
2 weeks later
It had been two weeks since Team 14 had been formed and things had been going very well in regards to the teams training. Yugao had been a great teacher to the three as she had immediately started on their training jumping right into the thick of it without hesitation.
First she had taught the trio the tree and water walking techniques which also helped her gauge the threes chakra levels. Alex had the highest at about mid-jounin while Shiro's was just beneath him at low Jounin level. Azusa's was mid chunnin but she had perfect control while Shiro had moderate control over his chakra. Alex on the other hand had next to no control over his chakra and it was an uphill battle to get even a modicum of control but she had succeeded.
After that their sensei had tested them for their elemental affinities and was surprised that each one had two chakra affinities.
Shiro possessed lightning and fire nature affinities, Azusa had earth and water nature and finally Alex had wind and water nature. Needless to say that the trio was happy with their nature affinities and immediately wanted to start learning some elemental techniques but Yugao was keeping them restricted to at most C-rank jutsu's.
Azusa soon showed she had exceptional talent in both fuinjutsu and medical ninjustsu as her high intellect and analytical mind made her exceptionally skilled in deciphering seals and medical problems and coming up with solutions just as quickly. A prodigy in her chosen arts if she Yugao ever saw one.
Shiro and Alex however had taken to their arts exceptionally as well. The two were upcoming Kenjutsu prodigies with their own unique styles that Yugao was helping them to create. Alex's style was more on power and using his large swords momentum to react quicker than one would expect catching his opponent off guard. Shiro's style was more speed oriented and precise, getting in the enemies guard with quick yet precise cuts meant for quick takedowns.
She had the two spar in pure kenjutsu everyday for at least an hour and so far the two were evenly matched. Of course she had all of them spar in free-for-all's occasionally just to make sure all of them were getting a good amount of training in.
The trio's taijutsu was being handled by Might Guy of all people and needless to say it was complete hell for all three of them. Still the training did help advance their hand to hand combat skills exponentially.
As for the teams, 'special powers' they were on their own in trying to gain control of them. Shiro had gained a bit more experience with Ddraig's powers but Greed's were still mostly locked to him. But for now he could deal with it.
Azusa had gotten a better handle on her powers as well. Since she started training her stamina had increased so now she could fire off four X-Cannon attacks before starting to feel tired as well as unlocking a few more attacks increasing her arsenal substantially.
Alex had the slowest progress since his powers were so destructive he had trouble getting control over them and had to work constantly to try and get even a little bit of control like with his chakra only ten times more difficult since his sensei couldn't give him any pointers or exercises to help. While his control had indeed improved and he had even managed to create a few original attacks he was still a far cry from the type of control he wanted.
But each of them were happy to say that they were well on their way to becoming powerful ninja.
Alright next I'm doing the Wave arc but before that I want Azusa and Shiro's owners to send me some D and C rank jutsu you would like your character to have and I hope you are okay with the fields I chose for your characters to study in. Review and/or Pm me!