Get Serious
Sorry for taking so long to update, but school has been hectic. Please deep up the reviews and help me make this my best story ever. Some of this story may be slightly childish, but give me a chance I'm working on it.
Team Seven had been a team for three weeks. They've had a few training sessions, but they mostly worked on missions. It was after one frustrating mission that Kagome asked Sakura to meet her in the field that they had tested in to become true genin. That was why Sakura now stood there, she knew and could tell that Kagome was trying to get to know everyone. Everyone could tell that she was trying even if she seemed to stumble through polite conversation. However Kagome hadn't spent more time than needed with everyone, so Sakura was curious as to what was going on.
Sakura jumped slightly when she felt a hand touch her shoulder. She whirled around almost ready to scream, when she saw that it was Kagome. She sighed shakily and most likely would have laughed if she hadn't seen the serious expression on Kagome's face, more so than usually that is.
"Oh, hh-hi Kagome, um what was it that you wanted to talk about." She asked as she still waited for her fast beating heart to return to its natural rhythm. Kagome looked most displeased.
"Sakura, you should quit." She said simply.
"What do you mean? Quit what?" Sakura asked slightly confused.
"Quit pretending to be a ninja." Kagome stated without emotion.
Sakura chose to remain quiet, not understanding why Kagome would say something like that. Inside she was fuming yelling at Kagome in a truly rude and inappropriate way.
'Che, who does she think she is I'll show her pretending.' Inner Sakura yelled as she shook her fist.
"I'm not pretending to be anything." Sakura stated as she started to gather some confidence from her inner self.
"You lack skill in taijutsu and you don't do very well in close combat with weapons. You don't know any techniques not taught in the academy. You haven't even started trying to experiment with old ones to create something more comfortable for yourself. You haven't even done control building exercises to prefect your skill or worked on building up your chakra reserves. If our team was given a higher ranked mission then odds are everyone would have to spend some time protecting you. You can't deny that, but you can change it." Kagome said allowing a light to twinkle in her eye as she said the last sentence. Sakura caught her breath briefly as she focused on what Kagome had said. She had winced at every negative thing said, knowing all of it to be true.
"How would I change myself?" Sakura asked looking at Kagome with a questioning gaze. Almost challenging her with a hard gaze, Kagome just smiled.
"By training with me for an hour maybe two every morning and evening of course." Kagome said as she raised her index finger and acted as if she were teaching a lesson to a class of small children, her tone was soothing. Sakura was mainly surprised by Kagome's playful manner and the mischievous look in her eyes.
"So when do we start?" Sakura asked determined to prove to Kagome that everything she said was wrong.
"Are you sure you can handle it?" Kagome asked skeptically.
"Of course I am." Sakura said gathering up a sense of strength she didn't know she had. Normally she felt safe and comforted around Kagome. It was strange really, how just being around this girl who was a stranger could make her feel so comfortable. The comforting feeling was still there, but in front of it was this projected feeling of strength.
"Well then I guess we start," Kagome looked her in the eye and gave a smirk, "now." Kagome dashed toward her giving only a brief moment for her to dodge to the side. Sakura aimed a side kick only to have Kagome grab her ankle and use the momentum to flip her over a few feet, where she landed on her back. Kagome straightened and looked at her, as she then bit her thumb and did a few hand seals. When she was done doing hand seals she grabbed a scroll from her pelt and pressed her bleeding thumb on the scroll as it unwound. Twirling the scroll in the air she quickly wound and pressed it to the ground and in a puff of smoke a huge boomerang like weapon was there. Sakura looked on as Kagome effortlessly lifted it and with one hand put the scroll back in its spot in its holder and walked over to Sakura.
"This is the Morinkotus, (Sango gave Kagome her own boomerang upon completing her training, and Kagome has made her own set so each one can be used against different opponents or for training herself and others.) and I think it would be best if you carried this around all day, it should help you build up some muscle quickly. Well, when we train together in hand to hand you should take it off but other wise keep it on. I know a few techniques that I have developed that I can show you; otherwise I think you should try to create your own. Weapons will be used right after we work on taijutsu, any question?" She asked while she tilted her head to the right. Sakura didn't know what to say, she seemed to be completely in her element. As far as Sakura was aware Kagome is around three months younger than herself so she didn't understand where Kagome could have learned to teach others so well.
Kagome reached Sakura and handed her the massive weapon. When Sakura grabbed it she almost fell under the weight and could hardly support its weight as it was strapped on to her back. Kagome had left as soon as the weapon had switched hands, leaving Sakura alone to trek back towards the rest of the village. Barely able to move it took her around fifth teen extra minutes to reach home were she pulled the weapon off her back and promptly fell asleep.
'What did I get myself into?' Was Sakura's last thought as she ignored the ache in her back and enjoyed her blissful dreams.
The Next Day
Sakura opened her eyes and tried to hold back a groan when she felt the ache in her back and arms. Knowing that she had only had the giant boomerang on her for a short while, she frowned after thinking about how she would feel after carrying it around all day. She stood up starter when she remembered what Kagome had said the day before; no matter what it took she would prove Kagome wrong. She hurried as quickly as possible and went to the normal meeting place for team seven. When she arrived on the bridge, Kagome was reading and didn't even bother to look up upon Sakura's arrival. Naruto and Sasuke both looked up and seemed to focus on the boomerang with a curious look on ones face and the other looked just like he was trying to hold back a laugh.
"So Sakura, what exactly is that for?" Naruto asked as he snickered behind his left hand as he pointed to the boomerang with his right hand.
"It a giant boomerang, what else would it be, Naruto?" Kagome said as she was suddenly just a few inches behind him to his right. She had put her book away and seemed somewhat bored, until she gave Sakura a wink and a small smile.
"Would you like me to find one for you to train with as well?" Kagome said as Sasuke's attention shifted to Kagome instead, there was a questioning look on his face. He couldn't image that the weapon actually belonged to Kagome who throughout all seemed to favor speed and light weapons, that boomerang had to be anything other than light.
"That thing is yours?" Naruto asked when Kagome just nodded a smile popped on his face. "Where did you get? Did someone give it to you? Who trained you with it? What is it made of? Could you help me with my training, you seem really strong and talented." Naruto fired off questions that Kagome didn't plan on answering, but his asking for help caught her off guard and a surprised look crossed her face.
"Well first of all, yes this is mine, where I got it doesn't matter, yes someone gave it to me and they trained me as well, it is made from the bone of an ancient demon and did you really just ask me for help?" Kagome barely acknowledged his first questions, but well not even Kagome is immune to natural human curiosity.
"Yeah well I was planning on asking you for help ever since the test Kakashi sensei gave us, but this just seemed like an easy way to ask.
"Once Sakura is able to carry around and handle the Morinkotus without too much trouble I was planning on working on taijutsu with her. I probably shouldn't try you with a boomerang seeing as they are a weapon made for women, how are you with a sword?" She had a thoughtful expression on and her head was tilted slightly to the left indicating that she was trying to form an idea or plan.
"What do mean how am I with a sword, no one covered that at the academy!" Naruto exclaimed rather loudly.
"I'll just take that as an 'I'm sorry Kagome but I've never worked with one before.' okay now lets see what I have," She said as she started sorting through various scrolls in her belt pockets. She stopped looking at Sasuke and smiled slightly.
"Sasuke, would you be interested in learning?" She asked and when she just nodded she bit her thumb drawing blood and did near to the same thing as what Sakura have seen her do the day before. When the smoke faded Kagome was standing there holding two swords, there didn't appear to be anything special about them. She handed one that was around four feet in length to Naruto, the sheath was black and the blade was silver when she showed it the him and when she moved her hand it showed that the handle was just as dark as the sheath. The one she handed to Sasuke was slightly different, well actually it was completely different. The Sheath was a dull white as was the handle, while the blade was a raven black that glimmered in the light.
"I'll give these to you, but you are only to train with them until I say. These swords have their own special abilities, but we won't work on those for a while yet. I'll also wait for a while to give you their names." She said as Naruto and Sasuke drew the swords and looked at the swords as they tried to get used to the weight, they were heavier than they appeared.
"Well due to habit Kakashi sensei should be here in around two hours so should we start training with those?" Kagome asked as she drew her own sword from a scroll that no one had seen in her hand a moment before. The sheath was red and the handle was the deepest black that any one had seen there was just a red streak running up the handle. The blade was light silver and it seemed to hover in her hand like a trail of mist. Naruto and Sasuke just mimicked her action of hooking the sheath so that it was next to the hip pouch as they got into a stance that seemed like it would work.
"Those stances are horrible," She laughed slightly, "Sakura this is for you. From what I saw at school you naturally have decent control so medical techniques might work for you." Kagome then tossed Sakura a scroll that could rival the Forbidden Scroll in size; no one had even seen it leaning there against the bridge a moment before.
Training that day was slightly different than usual, and when Kakashi arrived he found the usual of Kagome reading separated from the other three. However, Sakura was standing near to where he had arrived from reading from a huge scroll and there was an enormous boomerang strapped to her back. Naruto and Sasuke were sitting on the ground panting for exhaustion and over each lap was a sword that appeared average.
The next three months for team seven went by quickly. Sakura adapted to the massive weight in three weeks and could carry it around easily; she had also gotten much better in weapons and taijutsu. Currently she was absorbing all the medical techniques as fast as she could, but Kagome kept on telling her that she was still the weakest and she needed to make that choice.
Sasuke after the first month of Sakura's and Naruto's cast improvement had asked Kagome for some private help, instead of just an hour or two with Naruto before Kakashi arrived. His sword skills were getting to where he could give a master some trouble and Kagome had taught him a few techniques that she had learned that revolved around fire and illusions. It was only after Naruto's constant bothering the Kagome confided that she had learned most of those techniques from watching the AnBu train together.
Naruto had also gotten skillful with his sword; however, just like Sasuke he was far from being a master. Kagome had sensed the nine-tailed fox demon inside him so she had started teaching him some techniques that worked with plants. She had done that in the memory of Shippo and was debating on whether or not to teach him some illusionary techniques as well.
Kagome seemed to be growing in strength and knowledge every day. She said it was just from having to review and prefect everything with their training, but in truth she was secretly working with a close friend of hers named Anko. Every other day she had with her a new book or scroll and they were all old and worn; no one was able to figure out what they were about or for.
Kakashi had taken to arriving extremely early and watching the training. He was passed curious and was now at suspicious of Kagome. He had even approached the Hokage and was watching for any sign that she was a spy or not what she claimed to be.
