Chapter 3: The Training Begins!
After continuing further away from the previous village, Yuki stops in the middle of a forest. He was still wearing the Akatsuki cloak with the three Genin not too far behind him confused by his sudden stop. The area was a small clearing roughly the size of a house with a dense forest surrounding them.
"This cloak is really annoying and makes me stand out too much... why did my white one have to be shredded, damn it. I really need to get a new one in the next village before someone mistakes me for a current member of the Akatsuki." Yuki thought annoyed.
"What's the deal, I mean why are we stopping here?" Kazuki asked puzzled.
"You're training will begin here. From observation of your abilities in that other battle, I take it you are at least two years in as Genin. Mainly because you all know Ninjutsu... or at least two of you do, the other I am not so sure." Yuki said glancing over at Kazuki.
"Hey! What is that supposed to mean!?" Kazuki shouted angry about the accusation.
"Wasn't it obvious? You didn't exactly perform your Ninjutsu correctly. You even admittedly got a hand seal mixed up." Yuki explained while starting to notice something moving in.
"That was a simple accident, it won't happen again!" Kazuki stated pointing at Yuki.
"Something is coming close... no, there are more than one and at least two of them are of the S-class or at least close to it." Takeo thought shifting his eyes looking around at the trees.
"Quiet, Kazuki. We have company." Ayaka whispered to Kazuki pulling out a kunai.
"So, they caught on as well, hm? I never got my answer but I can already tell they are more advanced than normal Genin but that other guy... he seems hopeless." Yuki thought watching the trees while making it appear as if he was looking at the three Genin.
Four figures hid in the tree near by peering down at the four of them. They watched from the darkness deciding whether to make a move or not.
"He's not with them." One of the figures said sounding disappointed.
"He may not be but there is an Akatsuki member and I wonder what those Genin are up to. Why don't you send in one of your Shadow Clones while we continue and if anything seems strange, we will come back. I'll even send one in as well." Another figure said making some hand seals: Ram, Snake, and Tiger. A Shadow Clone of the figure appeared and moved off along with the first figure's Shadow Clone.
"Right." The first figure said moving away with the original group.
"Seems the main group is moving away but they left Shadow Clones in their wake." Yuki thought looking towards the direction of the Shadow Clones.
"What have we here?" A voice asked walking out from the dense forest and into view.
"What a turn of events. I didn't expect to run into you – Kakashi Hatake or should I say, the Copy Ninja." Yuki said looking towards Kakashi's Shadow Clone followed by another.
"Kakashi sensei, do you know this guy?" The second Shadow Clone asked coming into view.
"No. I haven't met this guy before." Kakashi responded watching Yuki closely.
"This must be the Nine-tailed kid – Naruto Uzumaki." Yuki said looking at Naruto's Shadow Clone walking out behind Kakashi's.
"Nine-tailed kid?" Ayaka asked puzzled by Yuki's words.
"Never mind that. What brings you two here?" Yuki asked forgetting he still had his old Akatsuki cloak on.
"If I remember correctly, these guys were sent out after the Akatsuki or was this the group after that missing-nin? ...no matter, with Yuki wearing that cloak they must think he is an Akatsuki member." Takeo thought assessing the situation.
"What business? I should be asking you that since you're the Akatsuki member." Kakashi said standing a few feet away from the group with Naruto at his side.
"Akatsuki member...? Oh, right. I forgot I still had that stupid cloak on. I'm no longer a member of the Akatsuki." Yuki said realizing he had forgotten he still had his cloak on.
"No longer a member? How can you say that when you have the cloak on right there!" Naruto shouted pointing at Yuki.
"Ayaka?" Kakashi asked noticing her out of the group.
"Uh... ha-ha, hello sensei." Ayaka responded hesitantly with a fake smile while sweating a bit.
"What are you doing with... Kazuki too? And... who exactly are you; I don't think I've ever met you." Kakashi said scratching his head pointing at Takeo.
"Takeo Furukawa of the Village Hidden in the Clouds." Takeo said introducing himself to Kakashi.
"Of course I'm here! This guy said he would train us!" Kazuki shouted happily.
"You know, I only put this on because my other cloak was torn in a battle..." Yuki said but everyone else ignored the response – well, all but one person.
"Really? Prove it!" Naruto shouted pointing at Yuki.
"Really now...?" Kakashi asked skeptical of what Kazuki had said. "What exactly are you three doing with this guy? Aren't you supposed to be entering the Chunin Exams?" He asked confused.
"See?" Yuki asked pulling out his white cloak that had been torn up during the battle with Hajime.
"Wow, that thing is really torn up... looks like you'll have to get a new one too." Naruto said surprised by how badly it was torn.
"We were given orders by the Hokage and these two got permission from their villages to pursue this man but there was a little altercation and we kind of made a deal with him so he could train us. That and he really isn't a member of the Akatsuki anymore." Ayaka said explaining the situation to Kakashi while pulling out the scroll with the orders and showed it to him.
"That is why I put this one on but as you can see I'm being confused as an Akatsuki member. Do you know of any good tailors around here to get it fixed or get a new one?" Yuki asked looking at Naruto.
"Hmm. You three seem to be failing at trailing him since he can see you and all..." Kakashi said after reading the orders. "Yuki Takash, so that is this guy's name." He thought glancing up at Yuki.
"Hmm, there's a village about thirty minutes in that direction that has a tailor but I don't know how good they are." Naruto responded pointing north after hearing Yuki was not a member of Akatsuki anymore while starting to get anxious.
"Well, uh... we're getting better information on him this way." Ayaka said making an excuse for them not following Yuki from the shadows.
"Sensei, let's get going, Sasuke won't be around forever!" Naruto shouted ignoring Yuki and turning to Kakashi.
"Fine. We better end this jutsu then." Kakashi said vanishing in a poof of smoke.
"Right." Naruto said also vanishing in a poof of smoke.
"This cloak just keeps getting me into more trouble – maybe I should just throw it away or burn it." Yuki thought looking down at his cloak. "At least I know there's a tailor in the next village."
"That was interesting..." Ayaka said still surprised to have had ran into them.
"Why does he even bother wearing that cloak, it'll just keep getting us into trouble... but what was that about before, when he called that Naruto guy 'that Nine-tailed kid'. What did he mean by that?" Takeo thought feeling he has only got questions since traveling with Yuki and has yet to get any answers yet. "You know, sensei, what did you mean before when you called that Naruto guy 'that Nine-tailed kid'?" He asked seeing if he could get an answer from him.
"Nothing, don't concern yourself with it. We have some training to do." Yuki said changing the subject.
"So that was that Naruto boy the village has been talking about... I never really seen or met him before. It's kind of odd seeing how I know his sensei..." Ayaka thought looking towards the area where Kakashi and Naruto vanished.
"So what will this training consist of!?" Kazuki shouted all fired up.
"Let's see... how exactly should I train them? I've never really trained anyone before..." Yuki thought until an idea suddenly hit him. "I got it, you three are to fight me one on three."
"Huh!?" The Genin shouted from shock.
"Don't worry, I won't use any killing blows and I'll even go easy. If any of you is even able to land a single blow on me, we'll move on to the next stage." Yuki said throwing off his cloak to reveal his black clothes.
"Leave this to me!" Kazuki stated confidently and took a step forward to charge at Yuki.
"Hold it right there idiot." Ayaka said grabbing Kazuki after his second step and nearly losing his glasses.
"What was that for!?" Kazuki shouted pushing his glasses back to their original position.
"You really are an idiot. Yuki would've taken you out in a second if you charged straight at him like that." Takeo said in a condescending way while slightly shaking his head. "Besides, if we're going to be a team during this 'training' we should be working together and not attack head on." He said glancing over at Yuki.
"Then it looks like we'll be on the same page for once." Ayaka said getting into a fighting stance.
"Fine. You two win." Kazuki said reluctantly putting his hands together.
"Oh no, he's going for a hand seal!" Ayaka thought stepping back from Kazuki.
"Why is she stepping back?" Takeo thought glancing over at Ayaka.
"Take all the time you need since you three will be making the first move." Yuki said standing confidently in front of the three Genin.
"Ice Style – Ice Projectile!" Kazuki thought making the hand seals: Snake, Horse, and Tiger but what he did not realize is that he had left out Bird making it another jutsu.
"He tried to do Ice Projectile again... and missed the Bird seal – idiot!" Ayaka thought turning towards a tree and used her chakra to run up it to a branch.
"What is she doing now? We're supposed to be fighting Yuki!" Takeo thought glancing over at Ayaka standing on a branch at least ten feet off the ground.
"Did I miss a hand seal again?" Kazuki thought and turned to where Ayaka was previously standing. "Did I miss a hand seal this... oh, you're not here." He said noticing she had left.
"What are those idiots doing?" Yuki thought watching them.
"Missed a hand seal?" Takeo asked feeling something cold on his feet.
"You two going to just stand there and wait for his jutsu?" Ayaka asked from the tree looking down at Takeo and Kazuki.
"Huh? What do you mean by...?" Takeo started to ask when his leg started to sink into the muddy ground. "Whoa! Just what did you do!?" He shouted moving towards the nearest tree while trying to keep his balance from falling a foot into the ground after each step.
"Sorry! I slipped on my seal!" Kazuki shouted heading to his closest tree falling face first into the mud. "This is just great... my glasses are all dirty now too." He uttered with his face in the mud.
"These Genin... are serious about training...?" Yuki asked standing in a tree near by with his clone still standing in place below.
"Kazuki, are you okay?!" Ayaka shouted jumping from one tree to another to get to the tree closest to Kazuki.
"Now my feet and sandals are all covered in mud. How did that idiot even make it out of his village's academy if he can't even perform the right jutsu's or hand seals!?" Takeo thought standing in the tree closest to him whipping off his feet on the branches.
"Hey, don't let your guard down now." Yuki said standing behind Takeo as he stood there with his eyes wide open from shock.
"This guy...! He's too fast!" Takeo thought trying to turn around but before he did, he was sent down towards the ground.
The ground in the area of the forest they were in was now completely saturated. The solid ground was now more like a swamp and the mud was more like murky water and Takeo was the second one to end up in it – Kazuki was the first after he had fallen face first back when it was mud.
"One down – no, two down, and one more to go." Yuki said looking towards Ayaka as she was heading down the tree nearest to Kazuki.
"The mud turned to water! I knew it; he did the Flood Jutsu instead." Ayaka said getting to the bottom of the tree when it started to topple because of the flooded ground.
"You know, this tree is going to fall over, right?" Yuki asked standing behind Ayaka with his hands in his pockets.
"He's so fast!" Ayaka thought in shock but shook it off and turned around kicking Yuki in the head. "I got him!" She continued to think when Yuki shattered to little fragments of ice and fell on top of her sending her into the murky water below.
"Do you three give up now?" Yuki asked standing on a branch above the three bodies in the murky water.
"Who would give up against such an easy opponent?!" Kazuki shouted diving at Yuki from behind while his body in the murky water dissolved as if it were ice. "My glasses took longer to clean than I expected." He thought pushing his glasses back with his left hand.
"An Ice Clone!?" Yuki thought shocked while quickly turning around and jumping to the side on the same branch.
"You let your guard down, Sensei!" Takeo shouted coming down fist first on the branch Yuki was standing on. "Thunder Style – Electric Eel Jutsu!" He thought making the hand seals: Dragon, Ram, and Rat as quick as possible.
Takeo's hand was pulsating with electricity as it hit the branch and cut through it. Yuki was left at the other end with no trees around to jump to and started falling to the ground when he used some hand seals: Tiger, Boar, Ox, and Snake – those seals happened to be for the Substitution Jutsu. Yuki's body quickly turned into a log and he appeared on a tree a little further back from the original area.
"They're better than I thought. I even had to use the Substitution Jutsu defensively instead of offensively. I might have to stop holding back soon." Yuki thought surprised by their level of skill.
"How was that, Sensei?" Ayaka asked stepping behind Yuki with a kunai to his neck.
"Very impressive but are you sure I'm the real Yuki?" Yuki asked standing there when another Yuki stood behind with an ice spike to her throat.
"Which is the Ice Clone?" Ayaka thought unsure looking back and forth between the two Yuki's.
"Why don't you lower your weapon?" Kazuki asked with his ice blade at the other Yuki's throat.
"This really is an interesting bunch here." The second Yuki said with a smirk on his face.
"But are you sure that is the real one as well?" A third Yuki asked stepping behind Kazuki with an ice spike a meter away from his throat.
"You know what; this is really getting repetitive and annoying!" Kazuki shouted frustrated.
"Don't worry; I've got it covered – as always." Takeo said standing back to back with the third Yuki but his left hand was holding a kunai to Yuki's neck. "Now, you're finished and if any more clones or the real one shows up I'll be ready for them." He said confidently when clapping was heard around the forest echoing throughout the trees.
"That was an impressive show. You three really are quite good but there is still much more to learn." Yuki's voice said echoing throughout the forest.
"What? The real him isn't even here?" Ayaka asked surprised looking around.
"That is correct. You have only been fighting my clones since I told you I would go easy on you three. But if you wish me to spar with you three at an equal level, I will show myself but be warned – these clones are nothing compared to the real thing." Yuki's voice echoed throughout the forest.
"Empty threats from clones won't make me change my mind so easily." Takeo said stabbing the Yuki behind him in the throat turning it to a pile of snow. "What? He wasn't a clone – then surely Kazuki's is...!" He thought when Kazuki stabbed the Yuki in front of him in the leg but it also turned to a pile of snow.
"Wha-!?" Kazuki shouted shocked.
"Another clone?" Takeo thought glancing back to see the second Yuki turn to snow.
"So the one I have is the real one? What's with the snow though? Aren't they supposed to be Ice Clones?" Ayaka thought stabbing the Yuki in front of her in the arm but it turned to snow like the others did.
"They were all clones?!" Takeo shouted quickly turned around.
"The snow! Everyone off the branch now!!" Kazuki shouted surprising Takeo and Ayaka while the three of them jumped off the branch and landed on a dry surface.
The snow piles quickly smashed together just missing the three Genin. Yuki had planned some kind of ice jutsu but Kazuki had somehow seen through it just in time to save the three of them from it.
"He was going to use his Ice Enclave on us." Kazuki said looking around the area with a more confident tone of voice.
"I can't believe I didn't notice that before. I knew that snow looked odd." Ayaka thought when Kazuki suddenly pushed her out of the way when an Ice Shard came flying directly at Kazuki, who was now standing in her place.
Kazuki sliced the ice shard in half with his ninjaken and put it back in its sheath on his back. He then put his hands together quickly getting ready for some kind of Ninjutsu.
"This idiot is planning to use another jutsu? He's going to screw us up again!" Takeo thought annoyed glancing at Kazuki while still on the look out for Yuki.
"Kazuki is acting different..." Ayaka thought looking at Kazuki as he was about to begin.
"Yuki, if you do not come out I will be forced to use that forbidden jutsu." Kazuki said with his hands locked in the Snake hand seal.
"A little Genin like you wouldn't know any threatening forbidden jutsu's. I won't fall for your idle threats. Besides, I haven't seen you perform your hand seals correctly." Yuki's voice echoed around the area. "He seems to be focusing a dangerous amount of chakra – possibly even more than his body can handle. This could become dangerous if I let him pull off whatever jutsu it is, even if it's a failure – no, even more so if it's a failure." He thought watching the three Genin from the shadows.
"Fine, whatever happens to this forest – it is on your head." Kazuki said with a grin on his face with his eyes semi-glowing a pale turquoise.
"Is this still Kazuki...?" Ayaka asked shocked by the way, he was speaking.
"What is this idiot talking about? He won't be able to bluff his way out with his inability to do the correct hand seals." Takeo thought watching Kazuki.
"His eyes, they're glowing...!" Yuki thought in confusion watching Kazuki.
"Forbidden Jutsu – Ice Wasteland!" Kazuki shouted shifting from Snake to continue the hand seals: Rabbit, Dog, Bird, Horse, Tiger, Dog, Ram, Rat, Boar, Snake, Bird, Monkey, Dragon...
"No way! The Ice Wasteland was supposed to have been a forgotten technique only known to my ancestors!" Yuki watched on shocked as Kazuki continued: Tiger, Dragon, Horse... "I have to stop this before this whole forest is destroyed!" He thought rushing out from his hidden spot.
"Yuki's on the move but this guy is acting odd. I have no choice." Takeo thought turning towards Kazuki as he made the sign for Bird and was about to hit him in the gut but he vanished in an instant.
The next thing Takeo realized was that Kazuki was behind him and kicked him towards a tree in a split second. Takeo recovered just in time and landed with his feet on the tree.
"Kazuki, what are you doing!?" Ayaka shouted putting her hand on his shoulder and turning around.
Kazuki was about to hit her when Yuki arrived and slapped his hand away just before the palm thrust had gotten within a meter of her.
"How did you learn that jutsu? It was a jutsu only known to my ancestors but it has been lost for a long time now." Yuki said standing between Kazuki and Ayaka wearing his Akatsuki cloak.
Kazuki just smirked and put his hands together to finish the hand seals but he only got in Ox before Yuki chopped him in the back of the neck knocking him unconscious.
"That was close; if he had finished it... this place would've been destroyed. What was that kid thinking?" Yuki said looking down at Kazuki.
"Sensei, is he going to be okay?" Ayaka asked slowly walking over to Yuki and Kazuki.
"Yes, I only knocked him out. Do you know where he learned those hand seals?" Yuki asked turning to Ayaka.
"He let his guard down!" Takeo thought coming from the bushes behind Yuki but before he got within five feet, an Ice Clone sideswiped him with a roundhouse kick.
"You should never let your guard down and this training session is over." Yuki said glancing back at Takeo, who was lying on the ground from that last attack. "Now, about those hand seals." He said turning his attention over to Ayaka.
"Next time, we'll see who wins." Takeo said spitting out some blood and getting up while dusting himself off.
"I don't know where he learned them; he didn't even seem like himself those last few minutes... and those eyes..." Ayaka said thinking back to the strange pigment of Kazuki's eyes.
"What a psychotic group of Genin I've gotten myself stuck with." Yuki thought before noticing Kazuki's ninjaken.
The grip of the ninjaken was electric blue but that was not the only thing odd about the ninjaken, it had a pommel below the grip it was pure silver with a large powder blue gemstone in the center of the pommel. What Yuki could not see was that inside the gemstone was a symbol that matched the symbol in Yuki's eyes.
"That ninjaken, I could have sworn I've seen it somewhere before... It's odd to see a pommel on a ninjaken and with some gemstone none the less." Yuki thought looking at the ninjaken.
"Sensei?" Ayaka asked looking at Yuki.
"Huh? Oh, it's nothing. Let's get this guy out of here, that Naruto kid told me there was one to the north." Yuki said picking Kazuki up and putting him on his back.
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Takeo asked looking at Yuki.
"Yeah, if he wakes up and is still in that state – I'll just have to knock him out again, won't I? Let's get moving." Yuki said jumping over on the fallen trees to get over the flooded area.
"Right." Ayaka and Takeo said following behind.
"When the kid wakes up I have to find out how he learned that jutsu and I have to find out about those eyes." Yuki thought glancing back at Kazuki while jumping from tree to tree.
"Kazuki, what happened to you...?" Ayaka asked looking at Kazuki.
"This so called team we have here seems to be getting even more interesting." Takeo thought while following Yuki and Ayaka.
After roughly a half hour, they had come upon a small village with farms on the outskirts. The three conscious members made their way into the town passing the farms down a little dirt road with some carriages passing by them while Kazuki was still unconscious and on Yuki's back. Some of the people passing by were giving them odd looks as they passed but for the most part, they were not looking at Takeo or Ayaka but mainly Yuki.
"What's with the stares?" Takeo whispered to Yuki and Ayaka.
"Doesn't that man have on a cloak with the design we were warned to keep an eye out for?" A female farmer asked looking at Yuki but keeping her voice down.
"You know, I think you're right. We should send word to the hidden village." A male farmer responded starting to slip away.
"I bet it has something to do with Yuki forgetting about his Akatsuki cloak again..." Ayaka responded pointing at Yuki.
"Looks like I really need to find a new cloak. Hopefully there'll be a tailor in town like that kid said." Yuki thought not hearing what Ayaka said.
"Sensei, are you listening to me?" Ayaka asked poking Yuki in the back.
"Huh?" Yuki asked turning his head to Ayaka. "What is it?"
"You do know the farmers are all looking at us because of your cloak, right?" Ayaka asked with her eyes partially open glaring at Yuki with a straight face.
"Right... I keep forgetting I have this thing on. I got used to wearing it during my days in the Akatsuki. Once we get to the Inn I'll take it off." Yuki said lying as they reached the buildings since he was thinking of getting a new cloak only a second ago.
"There's the Inn." Takeo said pointing at a building with the words 'Full Moon Inn'.
"Good, I'll be able to leave the three of you here and go find a tailor for my new cloak." Yuki said opening the door and walking in.
"Don't think I'll be sitting around waiting for that idiot to wake up. I have to restock my supplies at the general store." Takeo said stepping into the Inn behind Yuki.
"I guess I'll stay behind then." Ayaka said shrugging walking in.
While Yuki and his group of Genin were checking into the Full Moon Inn, three shadows were jumping through the forest. It was three ninjas; they all stopped when they came to a clearing with trees toppled over and a pool of murky water remaining.
"Man, what a pain. Those Genin are really a troublesome bunch." A male voice said from one of the figures while standing on a tree limb near by with two others standing next to him.
"Wow, looks like something big happened here." A female voice said standing to the right of the other two.
"Some kind of battle?" A male voice said standing to the left of the other two.
"No, this was more of a sparing match. There would be more damage if it were a battle." The first figure said still standing in the shadows with the other two. "Let's spread out and find which way they went and who is with them."
"'Who is with them'?" The second figure asked confused.
"Yes, look at the ground below us. There's three muddy tracks and a fourth one." The first figure explained.
"Right." The two other figures said dispersing.
Back at the Full Moon Inn, Ayaka was sitting on a chair by Kazuki's bed while he laid in it with all his equipment sitting on a corner table next to the bed. Suddenly Kazuki's eyes started to open.
"Kazuki?" Ayaka asked noticing his eyes opening.
"Huh? Where am I?" Kazuki asked in a groggy tone confused.
"Do you remember what happened earlier?" Ayaka asked trying to get an answer out of him of what happened earlier.
"The training?" Kazuki asked rubbing his eyes as if he had just gotten up from a long sleep.
"Yes." Ayaka responded.
"The last thing I remember is stabbing Yuki sensei's Ice Clone and after that everything is blank. Did I get knocked out or something?" Kazuki asked sitting up in the bed.
"No, you told us to move out of the way and saved us from Yuki sensei's Ice Enclave jutsu. That's not all; you suddenly pushed me out of the way of an ice shard and cut it in half with your ninjaken." Ayaka explained to him while he looked at her in disbelief.
"Wait, you're telling me I did all that while I blacked out?" Kazuki asked slightly glancing over at his ninjaken. "The omamori with the seal on it has nearly been worn away!" He thought in shock now facing the ninjaken and looking at a small card like paper woven beneath the grip of it.
"What is it?" Ayaka asked unsure about the reason he had turned.
"No, it's nothing. Was there anything strange about my eyes?" Kazuki asked now focusing back on Ayaka.
"Actually, they started to glow a light blue color." Ayaka responded starting to look at him suspiciously.
"So, that's what it was." Kazuki said quietly to himself reaching for his bag.
"If you know what it was – what was it?" Ayaka asked glaring at him as he pulled out a new omamori with mamori (守り written on it.
"My ninjaken is called the Koori no Tsurugi (Sword of Ice) and it is ruled by a demon called Yuki-onna." Kazuki explained reluctantly.
"What?" Ayaka asked confused.
"In order to keep this demon in check, I must keep an omamori on it at all times when I use it otherwise I could be possessed by the demon inside. My other omamori's text was worn away from all the uses so I must replace it." Kazuki said unraveling the grip a little and pulled out the previous omamori.
"Why do you even have something like that if it could take over your body so easily?" Ayaka asked raising an eyebrow.
"This ninjaken used to belong to a powerful clan that resided in the Village Hidden in the Snow long before our problems with the royal family. However, they have since left the village leaving some of their secret artifacts behind and I just happened to stumble upon one remaining member of that clan. The old man gave me the ninjaken and even instructed me on how to control it." Kazuki explained putting the new omamori under the grip and wrapped it back up.
"So that is why the blade looks like ice." Ayaka said looking at the unsheathed ninjaken.
"No, it is not just like ice – it is ice but it never melts or even chips." Kazuki said correcting her when the door opened.
"The tailor said it would take them three days to craft the new cloak so I'll be staying here until it's done and doing jobs here and there." Yuki said closing the door behind him while Kazuki put the ninjaken back into its sheath. "Oh, I see our little surprise is a wake finally." He said looking over at Kazuki.
"Are you going to tell Sensei about the ninjaken?" Ayaka whispered to Kazuki and he shook his head.
"What happened during the training, Sensei? Ayaka told me a little bit." Kazuki said acting ignorant to what he knew about the demon.
"Then it is as I feared – you don't remember what had happened, huh?" Yuki asked walking over to his Akatsuki cloak on his bed.
"No, the last thing I remember was being on the branch and stabbing your clone and just as it turned to snow I blacked out." Kazuki explained with a confused expression on his face.
"Hmm, looks like I won't find out how you knew that jutsu then." Yuki said starting to fold the Akatsuki cloak.
"Jutsu? Ayaka never told me I performed any jutsu's." Kazuki said genuinely confused.
"You didn't complete it but from what I heard you only required one more hand seal before I stopped you. It is called the Ice Wasteland jutsu and it's a forbidden jutsu at that. It is considered to be forbidden mainly because it destroys or turns everything into ice ranging from one yard to a couple miles. I can't say for sure that that's how it is but that is what I have read about it." Yuki said putting the Akatsuki cloak in his bag.
"I was sure Yuki sensei said something about it being an old jutsu his ancestors knew but it had been lost." Ayaka thought looking at Yuki.
Elsewhere, two shadows stand in a tree on the outskirts of the town overlooking the village as if they were looking for something. It was nothing like the three figures before but they were ninjas as well. It was Itachi Uchiha and Kisame Hoshigaki.
"Itachi, they say our traitor is in this village. Should we go say hello?" Kisame said standing beside Itachi.
"Kisame, let's go." Itachi said jumping down from the tree.
"Aw, we're not going to say hello?" Kisame asked sounding disappointed.
"We were instructed to kill him if he is found. We cannot miss this chance." Itachi said walking towards the village.