Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, or any respective clans. I only own myself, Haru, and the plotline, along with tenten's(supposed) last name. Tokka-sensei goes to...well..Tokka-sensei, Tenhime-chan to my nee-chan, and Kyru to my cousin Brandon.
Naruto - A New Path
Chapter 2 - With Squads and Senseis
It was the next morning at the academy. All the students were sitting in their chairs that had passed...exept one. Takami Haru was currently running through the halls of the academy, his classroom in sight as he rounded a corner. Putting on an extra burst of speed, he leaped through the open door, landing at iruka's feet just as the bell to begin the day rung.
A boy in the third row with spikey brown hair and red marks on his cheeks lept to his feet, swinging his arms outwards. "SAFE!" he barked, laughing as he sat back down, a few other kids in the class chuckling along. Tenhime, who was sitting in the fourth row near a window sighed, rubbing her forhead. "Baka..." she muttered, a small smile adorning her features. She had undergone a few changes overnight, hte main one being the fact that a single, yet large lock of hair, tucked behind her left ear, was a brilliant cherryblossom pink in color. She had also cared to put on more leg bindings, and less bindings under her fishnet top.
Kyru on the other hand, was looking down at him, a grin also showing on his face, watching haru stand as he brushed a few crimson hairs out of his face, his hitai-te glinting neatly on his forhead, as Tenhime's did on her waist, and he brushed a bit of dust from his jacket, the his families crest(a spiraled lion's tail) adorning the back where the usual jounin's spiral would be. his navy navy pants bound slightly at the ankle, leading down to his sandals as he crossed his arms.
Haru finnally brushed himself off, his hitai-te strapped proudly to his forhead, as was most of the kids in the rooms. He wore a strange shirt, it being a grey in color, the traditional jounin swirl on the chest, rather than the back. But it wasn't the swirl that made it unusal, but rather, the sleves. The one on his left was almost non-existant, cutting off at his mid-upper arm and clinging to it, the family crest(a circle with a wavy line through it, a crecent moon on either side pointed in oppocite directions) prominent on it. The other sleeve however, was rediculously long, hanging all the way down to his mid-thigh. While no crest adorned this sleeve, his lower left arm was covered in a fishnet glove, more fishnet visible under the wide collar of his shirt. His pants were similar to riku's, only, instaid of blue they were black, with another of his families seal on his left knee.
"It was good of you to join us Haru" Iruka chuckled, looking upon his student for what he believed to be the last time. "Take your seat and I'll read off the names of the squads and their jounin instructors." he motioned twords haru's seat, chuckling inwardly for the surprise that awaited the young genin. Prank a teacher will you...ESPECIALLY Naruto-kun's old teacher... He chuckeld outwardly this time, but Haru didn't take any notice, believing Iruka was still unaware of his prank.
Haru walked up to his seat, smiling at Tenhime and Kyru, slowly sitting down.
A loud, long, fart was heard by the class, coming from beneath Haru.
Reactions were mixed. Tenhime was bright red, her eye twitching madly in anger and embarrasment, while Kyru on the other hand was laughing his ass off. Several other kids in the class were laughing also, the young Inuzuka who had made the comment on his arrival was laughing the hardest, holding his side and pointing at the embarrased preteen. The lavender eyed blond was giggling quietly, her hand over her mouth. She may be boysterous at times, much like her father, but she knew it wasn't fun to make fun of others...even if it was hillarious.
Haru quickly stood up, looking down at his seat but seeing nothing, he blinked, lifting the stool to imspect it, and when he did so, everyone only laughed harder, the young Uzumaki girl finnally letting out a loud laugh. Haru looked puzzled, untill he looked at his pants.
The whoopie cussion from under Iruka-sensei's cusion was GLUED to his backside. Haru pulled it off quickly, luckily the glue was still wet enough so that it wouldn't rip his pants, but he shuddered. These pants were designed to not let moisture through, not even humidity. Well, not in atleast, that way sweat could get out and not cling to the material, but outside sources of water couldn't get in, that being the reason he didn't feel it stick. Groaning audibly he took out a small tissue from his sleeve(he suffered from chronic nosebleeds, it being a curse of his family) and wiped it off, finnaly sitting down, but not before chucking the paper wad at his teacher.
Iruka dodged the pall of dense tissue and glue, it sticking to the wall just beneath the blackboard. "Haru" he said between chuckles "I hope this teaches you not to prank your sensei from now on, understand?" he smiled, hoping that the message got through. Haru meerly nodded in acknowlagement, sighing and looking out the window.
Iruka smiled and took a clipboard from his desk, smiling up at the stuents. "I'm so proud of all of you, it seems like only yesterday you walked through those doors for the first time. "he smiled as he said this, tears pooling in his eyes as they always did when he had to watch his students leave. "I wish you all luck in the future and hope to see you again from time to time, so dont forget me!" he raised his voice slightly at this last part, as though it was their final assignment.
He raised the clipboard and smiled. "Since there are already active teams of genin, the teams will be as follows." he started, looking at the pairings on the list. "team ten - Hoshichiru Takeda" a boy with brown hair nodded, looking arond the room. "Teitoshima Hasame" a girl with aqua hair cracked her knuckles intimidatingly at the boy, apparently holding a grudge. "and Arusaya Tenso." a boy with navy blue hair grinned, looking down at Hasame with a blush on his cheeks. "Your jounin sensei is Aburame Shino" they nodded, acknolaging their bug-weilding sensei for when he entered the room.
Iruka looked down at the next names on the list "squad eleven, Akimichi Chotero" the large boy nodded, munching a box of donuts he seemed to have pulled from his shuriken holster, how this was possible noone knew. "Nara Shikaya" a girl with a bored expression on her face and a long black ponytail sighed, muttering about this being 'troublesome' Iruka spoke up again "and Yamanaka Inosai" A boy with long blond hair nodded, his hitai-te strapped around his neck like a choker as he sucked on a sucker, grinning. "your sensei is Hitsuruya Tenten" Iruka said, smiling. The three nodded
Iruka looked at his list again, memorising the next two teams. "Squad twelve, Inuzuka Kaido" he said, the boy from before grinning and whooping, his small brown dog yipping happily. "Mitarashi Anten" a boy with violet hair and blue eyes nodded, grinning sadisticly "and Uzumaki Hana" the young blond girl nodded respectfully, looking back at her teamates, wondering how her dad would react to the teams. "Your sensei is Hyuuga Hanabi" Hana gasped, she did not know her aunt was the sensei type, and hoped she wouldnt either embarras her, or give her special treatment. She didn't want special treatment, refusing a special teacher when offered one and skipping his sessions, to go to the academy.
Haru scanned the room...all the others had been chosen for teams, meaning...
Iruka smiled up at the three, setting down the clipboard and crossing his arms over his chest, leaning against his desk. "Squad Thirteen, Takanuchi Keru, Yukihana Tenhime, and Takami Haru, jounin sensei Hatake Tokka" The three looked around eachother, shock evident on their faces before jumping up and yelling in unison "YES!" while high-fiveing eachother.Iruka smiled up at them and sighed happily. "your jounin sensei should arive shortly, so dont worry." he looked around slowly, taking in all their faces again. the alarm on his watch went off and he looked down, realising what time it was. "oh, almost forgot, sorry everyone, I'd love to see you off, but I've gotta meet the hokage soon...well, sayonara minna"(goodbye everyone) He said before he poofed away in a cloud of smoke.
About ten minutes passed after Iruka left, and in that time Hanabi had arrived, smiling smugly. apparently, she had developed the Hyuuga's 'holier-than-thou' attitude, but thankfully not to her cousn Neji's degree before he had met Naruto. She rounded up her genin and they headed off to introduce themselves fully to their sensei, not that Hana needed any introduction to her aunt. Another five minuts and Shino walked through the doors, rounding up his squad and leaving quickly, not even having to say a word as they all seemed to know what he would say. Yet another five minutes and Tenten made her appearance, she smiled down at her squad, and noting that she had a child from all three of her friends...one of whom married that bitch from the sand,(coughshikamarucough) and rounded them all up with a hearty "alright squad! move out!"
The ten minutes after that were antagonising for squad thirteen, Haru had run out of edges of his desk to doodle on, while still leaving room for future troublemakers(the desk had already held doodles from a young naruto before he had come across it) but the remaining hour after that was simply unbearable. After about ten minutes afte that Haru had had enough. "thats it...I'm starving, who's in on going to Ichiraku's for some miso beef ramen? my treat!" he said, his stomach growled loudly to exaggerate his point. Keru sighed and nodded, while Tenhime downright refused. "No, we should wait here for our sensei, what if he shows up and thinks we bailed on him? he might not teach us!" she said, frowning and putting her hands on her hips, standing above her 'brother', this only being because she was on a higher level then him, she may have been older, but he was still taller, what with his unsatable appetite and monstrous metabalism.
Haru sighed. "fine, you stay, me and keru will go and get takeout and bring it back, allright?" he said, rubbing his head at his 'sister's' stubbornness. She refused again. "no, you should know better than anyone why you dont go off and leave when someone could show up at any moment? how many times have you missed something exiting at the academy because your stomach told you to eat?" she tapped his forhead, stll frowning. Keru chose this moment to step in. "an army marches on its stomach" he said, heading for the window, as it was the straightest rout to the famous(with Naruto's help) ramen stand. Tenhime was about to argue, when her stomach betrayed her, growling louder than anyone had thought possible. Her cheeks turned a bright red color, her eye twitching slightly as she staired down at her traterous stomach, which simply growled agian, more urgently than before. She sighed and resigned, nodding and heading for the window as Haru let out a cry of triumph.
As Keru put his foot up to jump out the window, the door of the room slid open, revealing a man with sandy blond hair, what appeared to be a blackish-blue turtleneck type neck coating on...well...his neck. he wore a simple fishnet top, with an open jounin vest over it...a very SMALL jounin vest, making a shiver slide up and down Haru's spine. his pants were short, and seemed to be made of a leathery substance, though leather itself only made for good neckbands. His black hitai-te held up his bangs out of his eyes, had anyone been able to see them behind the bright pink novel he held infront of it, titled(and rightly so) "Icha Icha Yaoi Paradise"(come come gu-on-guy paradise) Seeing this book made tenhime completely forget her hunger, as she had this book, and its sequel, safely tucked into an inside pocket of her jacket at this very moment...
"sorry i'm late...I got lost on the path of life" He said in a dream-like tone, lowering the book enough to see his new student's faces.
His dull grey eyes traveled over Keru's form, foot still resting on the window frame, then to Tenhime, who was staring at the book in her teacher's hand, that was, untill her stomach growled, allerting her to the need of food yet again.
His eyes then traveled to a shocked Haru, who immediately watched the grey irises move up and down, taking in his form. Haru sidestepped to his left, the eyes followed, he stepped twice to the right, they followed again, he ducked and jumped as high as he could and the eyes continued to follow him...a slight blush appearing on his sensei's cheeks, which were no longer hidden by his book, it having been closed gingerly and tucked inside his jacket.
Haru immediatly took note of this, his eye twitching dangerously.
"GYAAA!" he cried, jumping back and stumbling over a leg of one of the chairs, falling over as his eye continued to twitch. Keru and Tenhime looked between the two, tenhime recalling the book her sensei had been reading upon his arrival, the shocked/disgusted look on her 'brother's face, and the steadily increasing blush on her sensei's face, it didn't take a genious to put two and two together...
"hah! tokka sensei likes Haru" she thought triumphently, grinning inwardly as to not betray herself to her surrogate brother. "er...Tokka-sensei..." Kyru spoke up, arching his brow, still in the dark on the subject, having not read the title of the book. "we were about to go out for ramen...care to join us?" he asked, still poised to spring. The man shook from his daze, thinking privately "Damn...he...he...damn..." before looking to kyru again. "sure, we can introduce ourselves there." he nodded, still watching Haru from the corner of his eye.
When they arrived, tokka was surprised at just how MUCH ramen Haru ordered, that couldn't be healthy.
"I'll have seven bowls of miso beef ramen Ayame-chan!" he smiled, pulling out his large cat-shaped wallet, opening the mouth. Tokka had never seen anything so cute...well...ok, he had...and the cuter thing was holding it...so it was the second, being held by the first...wait, where were we again?
Kyru sighed, his hunger wasn't as greatas his friends, but all the same, he was hungry. "just one bowl of shrimp Ayame-san" he said, rubbing his head. Tenhime piped in "Same here, only diet, what would you like Tokka-sensei?" she asked as ayame nodded, getting the bowls ready. "oh...I know what I want...but unfortunately its not ramen..." he thought privately, still watching an enthusiastic Haru from the corner of his eye. "oh...just some pork ramen would be nice" he said, nodding. Ayame apparently heard this as she got another bowl ready, sitting down one for each of them, before another...and another for Haru. "Itadakimasu!" they chanted in unison
"where dose it all go?" Their new sensei wondered, blinking as the boy nearly inhaled the first bowl, sighing happily. "great as ever Ayame-chan!" he said, smiling. She mealy giggled at the praise. "well, I'm glad you like it, as our second best customer if you like it, almost everyone has to." she smiled, giggling slightly.
Everyone knew that Naruto was their best customer, as if not for him, ayame would not have gone to school, seeing as naruto's frequent ramen stops eventually paid for her schooling. Yeah, He ate that much ramen. And by the looks of it, if Haru continued down the hokage's path, she would have enough to go again if she desired to, or even for any kids she might have to go. She wished her father was still alive to see how well the store was doing now, he had passed away several years ago, and Haru barely remembered him. All he knew was that the man had decided not to charge him taxes, well, atleast when hokage-sama was there atleast, and even then, the tax was reduced to about half.
Haru inhaled another bowl, just as his fifth was sit down and he started on his fourth. Tokka thought this was a good enough time as ever to start introductions. "well, lets start off with you" he said, motioning to the one closest to him, Kyru. "name, likes, dislikes, goals, the usual." he said, listing off things his father had asked his students. Kyru nodded, finishing his mouthfull of noodles and swallowing. "Takanuchi Kyru, I like practicing with my katon styles and following that loser around to make sure he dosn't in trouble, I dont like it when he actually manages to get in trouble, because it usually means I'll get dragged into it one way or another." He took another mouthfull of noodles before finishing, as to not let the noodles get cold "my goals are to become a strong shinobi so I can watch his and Tenhime-chan's backs so nothing happens to 'em" he nodded going back to his ramen.
The jounin nodded, heading to Tenhime, letting her know she was next. She nodded and smiled "Yukihana Tenhime, Likes Writing and reading" 'mostly smut' she thought to herself as an afterthought "I dislike it when people make fun of me or Haru-chan" she giggled, ignoring the indignant look on the boy's face as she said this, him unable to talk due to the large ammounts of noodles in his mouth. "and my goals are pretty much the same as Kyru's, I mean, we've known eachother since we started at the academy-" "longer" Kyru cut in, before taking another moutfull of noodles. "right...before the academy really...so why wouldn't I want to protect them?" she smiled.
Their sensei nodded in approval, taking in a deep breath and holding back a blush as he turned to the ramen-intake-device sitting at the end of the bench. "and you?" he asked, finnally taking in a bit of his noodles, hoping the steam produced by the hot broth would act as a cover for his rapidly reddening face.
Haru grinned, finishing off his sixth bowl, about to start on his last. "Takami Haru, I like Ramen, messing around with these two, pulling pranks-" "or trying to atleast" Tenhime giggled at kyru's comment, recalling today's incident, which had by now reached the hokage's ears via Iruka-sensei, infact, if they had left an hour ago they would have found the hokage laughing here, holding his sides at the story Iruka told him, but, they wern't, so back to our story!
"anyways" he continued " I also like drawing and building stuff out of scrap I find around the village. I dont like most vegatables, or when people mess with me. and when Tenhime-nee-chan gets over-protective." he said, earning a scowl from his 'sister', and a chuckle from Kyru. "My goal is like the others, but I wanna be the best ninja I can be, but not hokage. waaaaaay too much paperwork for a guy like me." he said, chuckling and starting on his last bowl.
Tokka finnally though they should get to know him a bit. "well, I'm Hatake Tokka, son of Hatake Kakashi no Sharingan." he said, getting bland reactions from his students. Apparently his father didn't carry as much weight as he used to in his younger days...ah well. "I like reading my novels-" he was cut off by Tenhime "a fact I'm very proud of" she said, smiling, earning a confused look from her sensei. "and why would that be?" he asked, arching his brow. "well, sensei, why wouldn't I be? I wrote the damn thing!" she said, pulling out her own copy.
Tokka's jaw DROPPED. like a rock. straight to the ground. This girl, this fifteen year old girl(she failed the academy a few times) wrote the book he's been reading for a good year and a half? Incredible. "told you I liked reading...say...you know how the next book isnt supposed to release till next year?" she asked, teasing him and revealing a book bound in a luring red color inside her jacket, causing her sensei's eyes to bulge at this information. "puh-lease!" he whined, holding out his hands in mock prayrer, his head bowed low. Haru and Kyru had long since finished eating, and ayame had already taken their bowls to a sink in back, when she returned she saw Tenhime with an advanced, author's copy of her favourite book's next edition, Icha Icha Yaoi Nighttime...she was surprised to say the least.
"fine, fine. dont worry tokka-sensei...here..." she pulled out a pen, autographing the cover and smiling, handing it to him. the joy on his face was undescribable. in getting the book he had completely forgotten about bolth his ramen, and his introduction."If I play my cards right...I just might be able to get some reaserch done for my next book..." she said, looking between her 'brother' and her sensei, still fawning over the book. She saw the awstruck look on Ayame's face, accompanied by the blush tinting her face a bright pink, and smiled, whispering to her "dont worry ayame-san, i'll get you a copy tomorow" she finished her ramen, got up and walked away, skipping happily as Haru paid and walked with her. "you know...I really hate those books" He muttered. Sure, he had bought the magenta clad volume she had written, "Icha Icha Yuri Paradise"(come come girl-on-girl paradise) when it came out, but yaoi was another thing. a completly different thing. Kyru nodded, sighing as he put his hands behind his head. things seemed normal, although the feeling of having their hitai-te would take some getting used to.
This was going to take a long time.
Well, hope you like it! Took me a while to type this one up! 3775 words! and only in...1 hour and 25 minutes? ouch...ah well.
how'd ya like that twist about Tokka-sensei? The teams could have better sensei in my opinion, but I couldn't be arsed to write up new senseis and backgrounds for each. And the bit about Tenhime writing the icha icha yaoi books? yeah, nee-chan suggested that. Along with yuri. yeah, she's like that. dont dis, she's cool like that. you're just jealous because you'll never be cool like that.
And how about that twist about haru NOT wanting to be hokage? eh? only downside - no pointy hat. TT-TT
T'was a worthy sacrifice for all that paperwork...but still, ya gotta love the pointy kage hat.
well, thats all till next time, read and review! please! I beg you!
ja ne!
