"We train." She said, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world, which it was, but it didn't answer my question.
"No, I mean, what DO we train? Do we like just practice hand signs until we're tired or something?" Sakura giggle quietly.
"Ninjas don't just use techniques, we also have to train ourselves physically as well as mentally." She went on to explain to me chakra, jutsu, the use of shuriken and kunai, and pretty much all of that ninja stuff (this is where you Naruto fans gotta fill in the blanks, I don't feel like writing it all down).
"Okey dokey, then when do we start?" I asked, rather stupidly actually as Naruto and Sasuke were already practicing chakra control and such. "Never mind."
"I need to train as well, you might want to talk to Kakashi about what you're to do." I nodded as she walked over to join the guys.
"So, Gravity-head, what do I do? Aren't you like supposed to teach me?"
"Yes, I am." He replied simply.
"Are you going to?"
"Yes."
"When?"
"Soon."
"Well would ya hurry up? Cuz you're already boring me! Please!" I pleaded with him, then I wielded the most dangerous weapon; puppy eyes.
"Fine, fine." He gave in, "I assume Sakura told you the basics about being a shinobi? OK, well then we'll start off with learning the hand signs."
After thirty minutes I had started to understand like, what, TWO of them? But hey, can you blame me? I wasn't exactly paying attention, it wasn't the most interesting topic, TRUST ME.
"Hey Lynx, how're you coming along?" I heard Chirou's voice come from behind me.
"Uhh, OK I guess… Hehe," I laughed nervously.
Kakashi shook his head at me, I was probably THE most trying student possible!
"Do you want me to take over her training for the day, Kakashi? You could train your other students." Chirou offered, Kakashi thanked Chirou profusely and almost ran off to join his other students. "Wow, you did a good job!"
"Thanks, I try!" I replied, grinning back at him.
"OK, I saw you were learning hand signs, well, trying to learn, OK, you were SUPPOSED to be learning!" I glared playfully at him, "Oh, sorry! What you weren't paying attention, it was sorta obvious!"
"Fine, but c'mon! Are you going to make this more interesting or what?"
"Yeah, yeah, just hold on a second." Chirou brought out a scroll, it had diagrams of all the hand signs, and what they mean.
He suddenly bit his thumb and it started bleeding, I had to put my hand over my mouth to stifle the scream that threatened to come out. He just BIT his finger to draw blood! He drew some strange sign thingies in the middle of the scroll with the blood from his thumb, made a hand sign and suddenly miniature animals appeared on top the diagrams. A dog, dragon, goat, horse, monkey, ox, pig, rabbit, rat, rooster, snake and tiger. It only took Chirou ten minutes to explain to me the basic idea of hand signs, and another 20 to get me to memorize all 10 that I hadn't earlier. Wow, he was a good teacher.
"Well done, you've got them!" Chirou smiled proudly at me, I grabbed him around the waist and said thank you to his chest as he was a good head taller than me.
"Your welcome, but why are you suddenly being nice to me?" He asked, slightly confused, but at the same time pleased.
"Don't worry, it won't last long, but you did just spend the past half hour teaching me about hand signs! And I finally have them down! You rock Chirou!" I took a step back from him, giving him some room to breathe!
"Aww, didn't expect it to! But your welcome, and you're easy to teach, so it really wasn't any trouble." I beamed at him nevertheless, he already seemed more like a friend than the evil person who threw me into the tree!
"So, does this mean we're going now?" I asked, maybe slightly too anxiously.
"Oh, I dunno, Kakashi might want you to get a head start on chakra control today!" He grinned maliciously.
"YOU WOULDN'T LEAVE ME WITH GRAVITY-HEAD WOULD YOU? OH MY GOD YOU WOULD!" I screamed at him. "NO I WON'T STAY HERE! NO TOO MUCH LEARNING! GAH! I JUST WANNA SLEEP! PLEASE!"
"Fine, but you are SO not going to sleep at 3 in the afternoon! Anyways, we need to get you some clothes."
"Thanks! Oy! Gravity-head! We're leaving! Goodbye!" I shouted at Gravity-head, hoping he'd just let me leave, no such luck.
"Where do you think you're going?" Gravity-head asked me.
"Away from here, anyways Chirou says I can go! Hmpf!" I pouted and cross my arms.
"Leaving Chirou? She still needs to learn some basic jutsu?" Gravity-head looked at Chirou, but Chirou seemed not to mind this, and not even a hint of guilt so much as flitted across his face.
"Kakashi, she needs to get clothes now, and anyways she can learn them tomorrow! And I'm her guardian after all, not you. Don't worry, it's not like I'm about to steal her away from all of your classes! Just this once!" Chirou told Kakashi.
sigh "OK, fine, but remember, no excuses tomorrow, and here at 7 A.M. well I guess I can't keep the rest of the team here. Training is over for the day, you're all free to go!" Gravity-head told us.
Naruto and Sakura came to walk with us.
"Hey Sakura, d'you wanna go shopping with me and Chirou? You can come to Naruto, if you want that is! Not sure that you'd want to come since I have to buy my WHOLE wardrobe! But yeah, what do ya think?" I asked Sakura and Naruto.
"Ohh! That sounds AWESOME Lynx! I know like THE best store ever! You'll love it!" Sakura exclaimed happily.
"Sounds like fun!" Naruto shouted.
Chirou rolled his eyes, "What have I gotten myself into?"