Hah! I uploaded a chapter anyways- this one is almost twice as long as some as my others as well so, yay! Go me! Happy Christmas!
I really need a beta. If anyone of you have noticed my writing style is incredibly different, probably because I started out roleplaying, that's my excuse anyways. :)
Kaosu stands before a tree with her arms at her sides as she channels her chakra to her feet. She places her foot on the bark to see if she's got enough to stick to the tree yet.
"It works better if you've got a running start!"
She shakes her head, how are you supposed to know if you've got enough if you do that? With her first foot firmly planted she easily walks up the tree and sits on the second branch.
"Kaosu?" she glances at the speaker below her, a certain yellow haired genin. "How did you do that?"
She tilts her head to the side in a show of innocence, "I just focused my energy in my feet and walked up."
The blond smiles, "Got it!" and resumes his charge at the tree.
Sasuke glances up at the girl and growls, "Impossible." Sakura stares at her from her own tree branch thinking the same.
Kaosu suddenly becomes aware of the hostility and suspicion from two of the ninja. I need to do something stupid and childish. She tosses the unused kunai to the forest floor and stands up on her branch, wobbling with an exaggerated lack of balance.
"Careful!" the voices come from the ground and the tree next to her before she rights herself, "I'm fine!" she calls back. She turns around to face the trunk and walks backwards, carefully feeling for a place to put her foot before putting her weight on it.
She can sense 2 pairs of eyes watching and knew that the last two didn't care or were buried in their book. Someone will catch me.
She allows her foot to slip and her lips part in a scream as she falls. Halfway down she feels strong arms wrap around her and gently slow her fall.
Kakashi lands in a crouch and allows the six year old to stand before he does so as well. You did that on purpose.
Kaosu glances up and reads the statement in his eyes. What will you do about it?
The jonin blinks and turns from the girl as two of his students move towards her.
Naruto reaches her first, "What were you doing? You could have gotten really hurt!"
She stares at the ground and draws circles with her foot, "I'm sorry. I won't do it again."
Sakura stands beside Naruto, "You better not."
After a moment Naruto continues, "It's okay, good job on getting this down before us though, you're a really fast learner."
Kaosu keeps her eyes down until the two move back to their training and glances up at their sensei.
Kakashi glares at the girl, trying to figure out who she could be when she glances up. A mischievous look dances into her eyes and a small smile creeps onto her face. A moment later though all the emotion wipes from her face and she straightens, suddenly looking like a very young ANBU graduate.
Kakashi's eyes widen in response as understanding dawns on him, she was not civilian, she was a trained kunoichi. He shakes his head to rid himself of the thought, how could she? She was six, outside of war children don't start training until they're 8 or 9.
Kaosu smiles once satisfied her message had been received. A small part of her realizes that she had just blown her cover to the most powerful enemy force she could face on the mission. The rest of her however smiles mischievously.
Kaosu spent the rest of the morning on the ground, pretending that one fall was enough. After some time Sakura joined her when she got tired out. The two boys kept going at it, neither making a lot of progress, near lunchtime they didn't seem the least bit tired or willing to stop.
Upon hearing growling stomachs for the twentieth time Kaosu jumps up, "I'll go get you guys some lunch!"
She dashes off and once out of sight uses chakra to run faster. Reaching the house in about half the time it took to reach the training area.
Tsunami looks up as Kaosu walks in the kitchen, "Are the others coming?"
She shakes her head, "No they're still training. I told them I'd bring them some lunch."
Tsunami smiles, "Okay, just let me put something together."
A couple minutes later she was back out the door with a basket in her arms and a bite of sandwich in her mouth. The moment she nears the trees a figure steps out from behind one. Kaosu skids to a stop and hastily swallows her food as she recognizes him, "Haku! What're you doing?"
He smiles, "Oh, just checking up on you. Do you have a moment?"
Kaosu nods and sets down her basket, "Did you and Zabuza run into the leaf ninja?"
"Yeah, Zabuza was almost killed, I had to put him into a death-like state and pull him out."
"Really?"
"Yes, the boys are smarter than they look, they managed to outsmart Zabuza. Their sensei, Kakashi of the sharingan, took over from there."
"And the girl?" she asks curiously.
Surprisingly he laughs, "She useless, she just stood by Tazuna with a kunai."
"Okay, how long will it take for Zabuza to recover? The ninja are training right now."
"He'll be good in a week, they can't fit enough training in one week to beat Zabuza though.. Is there anything else you need me to take to Gato?"
She shakes her head, "Nah, everything's quiet."
He smiles and turns, "Okay, see you later." He melts into the trees and Kaosu waits a minute before continuing, at a normal running pace.
Finally she bursts into the clearing, "LUNCH!"
She passes out the food receiving smiles from Naruto and Sakura, a glare from Kakashi. Sasuke ignores her until Kakashi says, "Sasuke, you need to eat."
He scoffs but takes the food none-the-less, sitting down in the grass.
The five eat in silence, predictably the boys finish first and continue training.
The girls time their time and a few minutes later finish as well. They glance at each other and smile, "Who do you want Sakura?"
"I'll take Sasuke." she turns and runs to her crush and Kaosu mutters under her breath, "Good luck, you'll need it."
Kaosu makes her way over to Naruto who was sitting and rubbing his bumps and bruises. He smiles, "Hey Kaosu."
She smiles and crouches down, "Us girls are going to help you two so we can move on to something else."
"Really? I'd like the help."
She nods and stands helping him to his feet before starting. "Okay so- Wait! Get back here!" Naruto was backing way from the tree in order so get a good run at it.
He turns, "What? Kaka-sensei told us to get a good running start."
"Just, get back here." Seriously..
He walks back and stands beside him, "I'm here."
"Okay, put your foot on the tree." She demonstrates for him.
"You sure?"
"Do it."
She waits for him before saying, "Now channel chakra to your foot until you feel it sticking."
"Got it."
"Fix the amount in your mind and channel the same amount to your other foot."
Kakashi looks up from his book to watch the girls help the boys. Sakura seemed to be slowly convincing Sasuke that he needed help, Naruto on the other hand was walking up the tree and had already made it past his highest mark. However as he watched Naruto lost focus and fell from the tree landing on his back and rolling. He sits up and rubs his new bruise, "Wow, that really worked!" Kaosu shakes her head, "No duh it worked, you just lost focus, do it again."
How is that baka beating me at this? Sasuke ignores Sakura in favour of glaring at the blond.
"Sasuke?" She follows his gaze and sighs, why does he always ignore me and pay attention to Naruto, makes me wonder sometimes..
CHA! He's not gay! Don't you even think about it!
She sweat drops, you're the one who brought it up.
She glances up at the tree, noting all the places where the bark was broken, he's just using too much chakra.
Sakura nudges him and he turns his glare on her, "Sasuke try it again, but use less chakra."
He growls but gets up anyways and runs up again, carefully stepping around areas where the bark was broken and reaching the first branch. He quickly swings himself up onto it and looks around.
"Good job Sasuke!" His head swivels and glares at the blond who was grinning at him with his eyes closed.
"Good job boys, took you a while." The children turn to Kakashi, "Walk up and down the tree a few times so that you really have it down."
Kaosu heads over to Sakura and whispers, "Did you have fun?"
She blushes, "No- yes."
She smiles and pretends to ignore the red on Sakura's cheeks, "We should have helped them sooner. They wouldn't have figured it out for a while, not very smart.."
Sakura quickly turns on her, "No! Sasuke-kun's a genius!"
"Okay."
She blinks, obviously expecting an argument before walking away to gawk at Sasuke.
Kaosu grins and flops down where she stands, staring up at the sky.
About a half hour later the quintet leaves the clearing in search of a lake. Kaosu smiles, knowing the area and runs ahead, "Come on guys!"
She hears the others pick up the pace and enjoys the feeling of wind parting around her. Nearing the lake she turns and runs backwards beckoning to the ninja, "Hurry up guys!"
Naruto bursts from the brush first but skids to a stop, causing the others to bump into him and fall down, "What are you doing baka?"
His teammates stand and brush themselves off as Kakashi calmly emerges behind them. The others follow Naruto's gaze to Kaosu and their eyes widen in surprise as well.
She laughs nervously and takes another step back, "What's wrong guys?"
Kakashi is the first to recover and takes a few steps forwards to stand between her and his students, "Who are you?"
What are they talking about? She questions herself before realizing Kakashi stood on the edge of the lake, the water was lapping at his sandals. Her gaze flickers down and laughs nervously again taking a few more steps backwards. "Um, uh."
"Kaosu!" Naruto didn't care if she seemed to be leagues better than him, she was still a nice person. He starts to run to her but Kakashi holds him back, "No, we don't know the lints of her abilities."
"Uh- I can explain." Even as she speaks she continues backing up.
A figure within the cover of the treetops sighs, this is getting awkward, let's pull you out of here. He flicks his wrist and needles fly straight for Kaosu.
Kakashi starts forwards when Kaosu crumples and sinks below to surface of the water but Haku beats him to it, "So, sorry but I'll be taking her."
Naruto runs forwards, "Like hell!" Kakashi keeps moving but he was only half way.
Haku picks her up and turns, allowing them one last look at her face. It seemed that only her limbs were paralyzed, her eyes were wide with fear and she screams, "Help!"
Kakashi reaches them just after they disappear in a swirl of leaves. He turns to look at his students who were still standing on the shore with varying expressions of surprise on their faces and sighs, "Let's start training"
Anyways, Beta needed, or at the very least wanted. :)
