First of all, before I start apologizing for the *eeeek* lateness of this chapter I would like to thanks sportielle who accepted to beta read my fanfic! ^^ Big BIG thanks. (and good luck with my crappy grammar. XD) Now that it's said… SORRY SORRY SORRY. I'm lazy, I admit it. But blame my teachers too. They decided to suddenly try to drown us in homework. (seriously…) So, with wonderful killing intents (directed at my teachers) I present you…
CHAPTER 1!!!!
Yes, it's finally written! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Humm, yeah.
"Talking"
'thinking'
'Inner/Demon'
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Naruto. But I DO own Sora, Makoto, Kioshi and Tadashi. And pretty much every character you don't recognize from the Naruto series! :)
The tales of the forgotten team
Chapter 1
Recap: They started out like everybody, but they did more than anyone. This, is their story. Let's remember these heroes.
End of recap.
"Hi, I'm Sora, Sora Niwa." A girl smiled and twirled her light blue hair. She added, her purple eyes shining with joy, "We're going to be teammates from now on. Pleased to meet you."
Two boys were standing in front of her. One had light, ruffled brown hair and incredibly deep brown eyes. His attire was pretty simple; he had a black T-shirt with a deep green jacket and kaki colored pants with… quite a lot of pockets. His kunai pocket was attached to his right leg, like the rest of his new team. His head band was tied to his left leg.
The other boy had short, fiery red hair and dazzling green eyes. He was wearing a green shirt and black baggy pants. His head band was tied to his right arm, and his smile was bringing life to the dark room they were waiting in.
"Hiya!" The red haired boy said, quite enthusiastically, "Name's Makoto, Makoto Honda. You're quite cute!" The girl blushed.
The other boy smiled calmly, "I'm Kioshi Kurosaki. Pleased to meet you too." He said quietly. With a small grin he added, "It's true, you are quite cute." Sora turned crimson. She took a look at herself…
She was wearing a black vest with a purple T-shirt under and some normal green baggy pants. Her head band was tied around her neck and her blue hair was in a low pony tail. She didn't look THAT pretty from her point of view. After her inspection of … herself, she looked at the room. It was a small room, with no light except the sun rays that were coming from the small window next to her. There was only a desk and her two teammates were standing next to it. Sora sensed the look of the two boys upon her and grinned. She smiled at them and it was their turn to turn red.
That's exactly how their new sensei found them. Staring at each other, grinning and blushing. Quite a view for ninjas.
///laughter comes from slaughter…:)///
"I'm Tadashi Kuchiki and I will be your sensei from now on. You may call me sensei, Tadashi-sensei or Kuchiki-sensei. Now follow me outside, 'cause we've got a lot to talk about."
The first thing that his team saw from him was his eyes; two endless pools of deep ceruleans blue. The next thing wasn't in his appearance. Oh, no… It was his voice. A beautifully deep voice, a little bit strict, a little bit warm and so… comforting. As if he had seen all the bad things in the world, the things you knew you were about to see, and was saying, "Don't worry, it's not that bad."
He kept his hair short, a little bit messy, and was wearing his head band on his left arm. He was wearing his Jounin vest open, and you could see a black shirt under with the Konoha symbol on it in bright green.
The team felt a cool breeze as they went outside. They walked in the woods for a while. Their sensei suddenly stopped in a small meadow.
"Sit down." They sat on the grass. "As you may know, you're the only three students that graduated this year. Do you know why?" Sora lifted her hand. "hmm?"
"My clan says that Konoha is almost in war with Suna… Could it be that they don't want to lose too much lives so they only passed the three with the best chances of survival?"
"Correct. Now that you understand that fact, I hope you do understand that you won't have it easy like most genins at the beginning of their training?"
"Hai."
"If you want to give up being a ninja, say it now."
The three kids stayed silent.
"Good." His stance relaxed a little. "Normally, I would have asked you to introduce yourselves and then we would all have gone home. But the situation is far from normal. The training starts now. You will start doing pushups and answer my questions, no complaining and no whining, is that clear?" The team started doing pushups.
"Crystal sensei!"
"Now…" He started walking in front of them. He pointed Sora.
"Name."
"Sora Niwa."
"Why do you want to be a ninja?"
"Because I want to protect all the things that I love, like my village."
He nodded. "Good, do you want to be one of the best?"
"Yes."
"Why?"
"Because I don't want to disappoint my clan."
"Not a good reason. I hope you'll find something more significant inside of you. Now," He pointed Kioshi… "Same questions."
"Kioshi Kurosaki. I want to be useful to the village and yes I want to be one of the best so I can do a difference."
Tadashi shook his head. "Every ninja can make a difference, not just the strong ones… Remember that. Now, last one, same questions."
"I'm Makoto Honda, and I want to be a ninja because that's my dream. I want to be a strong ninja so I can protect my friends and family!"
Tadashi smiled. "Well, that's a good reason! You three are officially Konoha ninjas! You now live to protect this village and I promise you that if you make some efforts you WILL grow strong. Stop your pushups." They fell on the ground, exhausted. "Do not relax! The training is far from over!"
"Hai!"
"Now, follow my lead. We will run around the village. You must NOT touch anything or anyone except the ground. Clear?"
Once again, they nodded. "Crystal!"
He smiled a little. "You're good kids. Now follow me and answer my questions!" He started running fast, his three students following behind him. "Even if this is the first time you met, would you sacrifice yourself in order to save your teammates?" They ran over a bridge.
Sora was the first one to reply. "I would. Even If I don't know them."
Kioshi was touched. "Only my teammates."
Makoto smiled. "Gladly."
Their sensei nodded. "Good. What is better, strength or speed?"
Kioshi answered first. "Speed"
Makoto frowned. "Strength."
A little bit out of breath Sora gave her answer. "I think the two are equal if they are used correctly."
Tadashi smiled. "Ding! The correct answer goes to miss Sora Niwa!" Seeing his students completely exhausted he slowed down a little. "The questions will stop here, just listen. The meadow we were in will be our meeting place and each morning you will do 50 push ups and run two laps around the village. Now just try to follow my pace."
So, the four ran around the village. The villagers turned their head as they passed. They started whispering.
"Hey, isn't that the three Genin who just passed?" said one villager.
"Yes. Are they already training? But… They just passed!"
"Poor kids. They'll probably die soon. I heard that Suna just declared…" The other villager suddenly put his hand on his mouth.
"Shut your trap. They might hear us!" he whispered.
Sora shuddered slightly. She was exhausted and those villagers saying such things… She didn't want to be a tool. She wanted to prove herself, sure, but… dying? She let of a sharp breath as she almost ran through a telephone post. Tadashi patted her shoulder and whispered in her ears…
"Don't worry. I won't let you die so easily, and Konoha's not at war… yet." She smiled a little, too exhausted to do anything else. Tadashi then turned and talked to all of his squad. "I think we've ran enough for now. Let's go eat something, shall we?" Makoto let out a small yelp of joy. "But, before we eat… I want you to go to 'our' meadow as fast as you can. Try putting Chakra in your feet. We'll meet back there." And as his students groaned, he poofed away. The three exhausted genins looked at each other. Makoto looked at his teammates very seriously and said…
"Last one there's a rotten Kunai!" And he started running.
Kioshi looked at Sora before saying, "He's crazy." But he started running anyway.
Sora sighed and smiled. "Boys. You're both crazy and immature but… You're my crazy and immature teammates!" With that said, she started running too.
In the distance, you could hear playful screams and laugh followed by a 'He better get some dangos!' from Makoto. Tadashi smiled. He kind of liked his team. As he said before, they were good kids. And he had the feeling that they were already starting to feel like teammates.
And he was right. They were going to become the most united team in the history of Konoha.
Too bad everyone forgot about them.
That is all for now folks. (Been watching Cartoons again…) Hope you liked it. And I HOPE you'll review. Ya know, Little blue button(I'll give ya cookies!)? Thanks again Sportielle! :)
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