Child of a Shinobi Chapter 3: Training Sucks, a naruto fanfic

1SC: Yeah! More reviewsies! I love you guys! Um yeah, now that I've got that out of my system...

Puck: (Coughs) Aren't you supposed to tell them something?

SC: Huh?... Oh, right! For all of the readers of Hokage: Fire Shadow, I'm re-posting it. I've decided to make it a lot better and I'm going to draw out some of the fight scenes, like the one where Kiken is fighting Warui, and when Seigi's fighting Kurama, and Genkai and Kuwabara are dealing with Yusuke and Hiei... uh... Yeah, I just named all the major fights.

And in other news, Sal's cookies are burning.

Nyaack, sorry I had to say that! My friend Josh says it all the time when we need an abrupt subject change and... never mind, let's just get Chapter 3 started.

Puck: Good idea.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything from Naruto or anything having to do with ninjitsu.

Before we start, I'm going to give you guys a quick run through of the squads we'll actually be paying attention to. Which means more OCs for everyone to keep track of. If I had just separated them into two teams and made it easy on myself, you all would have hated me. Don't lie, I know you would've. So, we've got another bunch of OCs. Got it? Good, here we go.

Squad Number: Jonin/Sensei; Genin.

Squad 5: Rock Lee; Hyuuga Hiun, Hyuuga Kiseichu, and Michiyo Hamano.

Squad 7: Hatake Kakashi; Hyuuga Hari, Ogawa Asuka, and Uchiha Shingetsu.

Squad 8: Inuzuka Kiba (and Akamaru); Akimichi Chiaki, Nakashima Takai and Uzumaki Menrui

Squad 10: Akimichi Chouji; Masahiro Leiko, Michiyo Kurokawa (Yes, he's related to Hamano (first line)), and Nara Roba.

So those are our teams. Yes, I have a lot of new names, but I need three man squads, and if any one of you complains that I'm only focusing on four cells, I'll remind you that more cells means more OCs, which I don't think any of us want to handle. And I realize the way I divided up the teams was stupid, but I needed to get my teams like that and I decided that they would be picked that way. Hey, it's like Roba said: It was rigged. By the way, you might want to read the author's note at the end.

Chapter 3

Training (Sucks)

Kiseichu and Hiun walked into the classroom slowly, not really wanting to face Lee. "Ah, there you two are!" They winced. Damn it.

"Morning Lee-sensei." They responded in monotone voices.

"Hope you two aren't to tired, because we're setting off on our mission immediately."

A voice behind Lee groaned. "But no one else is even here yet!"Hiun peered around her teacher.

"Oh, hi Hamano." He grunted in return. "Not a morning person I see." He smirked at her.

Lee rapped them both on the head. "I said immediately! Let's get going!" He ordered, striking a 'good guy' pose and smiling, his teeth pinging brightly. All three genin groaned and followed their far to perky sensei out the classroom door. This was going to be a long mission.

Shingetsu walked into the classroom where she was supposed to meet up with her cell almost fifteen minutes late. "Hey."

Hari frowned. "You're late."

"Yeah, but Kakashi-sensei's never on time is he? I figured that if he was gonna be late as he always is, I was going to get an extra fifteen minutes of sleep."

He couldn't really argue with her logic. And besides, he had been tempted to sleep in as well. That didn't happen, however, because he had two siblings that were on a team where the sensei wasn't always late. If anything, Lee would probably be early. By three hours. "Tch, you are sooo lazy, Shingetsu." A voice from behind Hari muttered. "Just because our sensei's late doesn't mean you can use it as a reason."

"Morning to you too, Asuka." She said dryly. "And actually, it does."

The red-head sneered. "Says who?"

"Says me." She retorted, her eyes narrowing into her father's signature glare.

Hari looked behind the two glaring girls. "Hello, Kakashi-sensei."

"Ohayo. Sorry I'm late." He apologized. "Ladies." Shingetsu smiled and Asuka nodded. "I hope you weren't to inconvenienced."

Asuka snorted. "Well she sure wasn't. She only got here two minutes ago."

Kakashi glanced at Shingetsu. "Really? And why is that Shingetsu?"

Shin shrugged. "I was using my head. If you were going to be late, as you always are, no offense, then I may as well get some sleep because from what I've heard from my parents, your training isn't exactly easy."

"Smart girl." He tugged her hair before addressing all of them. "As you well know, we will be going on a D-ranked mission in a few days."

Asuka raised her hand. "But Kakashi-sensei, all the other cells have already left!"

Hari and Shingetsu rolled their eyes. "Yes, but the other teams don't have me leading them. We'll stay in Konoha for a few days and train, then set out for our assigned mission. Tsunade-sama has already approved this plan. Yes Hari?"

"If you don't mind me asking, what areas are we going to be focusing on? Chakra manipulation, ninjutsu, genjutsu, taijutsu...?"

"All of the above." Kakashi grinned. All three looked slightly nervous. This was not going to be a walk in the park...

Kiba groaned. "Menrui, I wouldn't mess with his ears. He really doesn't like it."

"Oh." The girl in question dropped Akamaru's ear. The dog sighed in relief and thanked his master. "Aka-chan, do you want your belly rubbed?" Now this idea he liked. He barked happily and thumped his tail on the floor a few times to show his approval.

"You are so pathetic, Uzumaki. Playing with a dog."

Akamaru and Menrui growled. "Shut up, Takai! Just 'cause Akamaru accidentally mistook you for a tree..." Akamaru snickered in the way only Kiba could hear. Accident my furry behind! I just don't like him.

Kiba shook his head. He didn't know who was worse; his students or his dog. "Leave her be, Takai. Akamaru didn't do it on purpose. Besides, he's getting old. It was a simple mistake." The last Genin, Chiaki, scolded.

Menrui stuck her tongue out at both of them. "He's may be getting old, but he's not stupid! He just doesn't like Takai, not that I blame him." She muttered.

Kiba snickered as Takai turned bright red in fury. "That's enough you three. I've got the mission packet from Tsunade-sama. We'll be leaving as soon as I brief you about it. And Menrui, get Akamaru off your head, he's a dog, not a hat. Besides, I'm the only one who's allowed to do that."

"Hai, Kiba-sensei!" She mock saluted, setting down Akamaru. Kiba rolled his eyes. Definitely her father's daughter.

"Chouji, shouldn't we be doing something important? Like preparing for our mission?" Roba asked, completely bored.

"We are doing something important."

"I hardly think shopping for potato chips qualifies as important."

Chouji turned around. "Roba, who is the Jonin here?"

Roba groaned. "You are."

"And who is the Genin?"

"Me. But why couldn't I have gone to get the rest of our supplies with Leiko and Kurokawa?"

"Because I said so. Besides, you're my best friends' kid. You've known me since you were two."

"Why does that have anything to do with my question?"

"Because I say so. Now hold these." Chouji shoved another pack of barbeque flavored chips into Roba's arms. He sighed. How had his parents put up with this?

Hari, Asuka, and Shingetsu walked out of the school frowning. "I can't believe this. After all that work in school, we're getting more training!"

Shingetsu groaned. "Just drop it, Asuka. My parents went through the exact same thing and survived it. So did Naruto." She smirked. "If he survived it, there's a slight chance you will."

Asuka growled. "Watch it, Uchiha. I don't care who your parents are, I'll kick your butt from here to the Village of the Sand Ninja."

"Would both of you just shut up?" Hari muttered, trying to suppress his oncoming headache.

Shingetsu shrugged. "Whatever. I'm gonna go restock on weapons before tomorrow. And buy dinner since I know Kakushin definitely won't. Bye!" She ran off in the direction of the weapons shop.

Asuka glared at her back before turning to Hari. "Why don't we go to Ichiraku or something, huh Hari?"

He turned around. "I have to get home." And with that, he walked off towards the Hyuuga estate.

The next morning, Squad 7 stood in the middle of the woods, shivering from the early morning chill. "I can't believe he made us get up so early. It's so cold!" Asuka whined, rubbing her arms.

'Well maybe if you'd dressed more warmly...' Hari thought, looking over Asuka's outfit. She was wearing a pink tank top, black capris, and a pair of black sandals. He had decided to dress warmly, it was the middle of autumn, and it was getting cold. So, he was wearing a pair of black jeans, thin enough to let him move freely but thick enough to keep the chilled winds from freezing him, and a white t-shirt covered by a black jacket. Bandages covered his hands and wrists, as a just-in-case precaution. He still had on sandals, though.

Shingetsu, who had no care whatsoever about temperature, had worn a dark blue dress much like Sakura had worn when she was still a Genin, though in place of the black spandex shorts (sorry, there isn't a better way to describe them) were tight black capris. She also had on a top made of the same material that came down halfway between her elbows and wrists under the dress, as well as a pair of fighter's gloves. Again, a pair of black sandals finished off her outfit. Of course, all three had on their hitai-ate headbands.

Kakashi popped up in front of them, waving with one hand and holding a magazine in the other. "Hey."

Hari looked up at the still barely risen sun. "You're not as late as usual, Kakashi-sensei."

"Yes, well we've got quite a bit of training to do." He turned to Shingetsu. "I suppose that Sakura and Sasuke have taught you how to climb trees without your hands, Shingetsu?" She nodded warily, not liking where this was going. "Good. Would you mind giving us a demonstration?"

'I knew I didn't like where this was going.' She thought. "Sure. I'm not very good at it, though."

"Don't worry. It took your dad a few dozen tries to get it to where he wanted it too." Kakashi grinned.

Shingetsu took a deep breath and pulled out a kunai, focusing her chakra downwards, towards the soles of her feet. 'Let's get this over with.' She ran at the tree and front of her and made it up five-eighths of the way up before her focus slipped. She made a quick slash with the kunai before she started falling. "Shimatta!"

Kakashi caught her with ease. "Very good. That's about to where your mother made it on her first try, though she managed to pull herself onto a branch." Shingetsu grinned sheepishly as Kakashi put her down. "All right, Hari, Asuka, you two give it a try. Just focus your chakra to your feet and get a running start."

Twenty-three seconds later, both came crashing down. Asuka managed to make it three-eighths of the way, while Hari made it half. Kakashi grinned behind his mask as Shingetsu gave them advice from the sidelines. They had made it much higher than his last team had. He had high hopes for this bunch. He couldn't wait for their mission to start.

"Are you sure this is the right place, Sasuke?" Naruto asked, his voice muffled under the kitsune mask he was wearing.

The Uchiha growled behind his own dragon-faced mask. "For the fiftieth time, dobe, yes!"

"Stop calling me that!"

Sakura shoved between the two boys, pushing up her bunny mask. "Stop it, both of you. Geez, I think you've gotten worse since we were younger."

Shikamaru smirked under his deer mask. "Aren't shinobi supposed to be silent?"

Ino, wearing a boar mask, elbowed his side. "Be nice." She hissed.

Tenten, in a tiger mask, inched closer to Neji. "I've gotta agree with Naruto on this one. This place is getting creepier by the second."

Neji frowned slightly under his monkey mask. "This fog isn't exactly helping my vision, even with the Byakugan eye."

Hinata, wearing a mouse mask, nodded. "I can barely use the Byakugan with this mask on."

Sasuke frowned. "Hey, I'm just following the map."

Neji stopped and pointed to a nearby tree. "Well that map is leading us in circles. I marked this tree earlier with a kunai."

Hinata fidgeted nervously. "I don't understand. We've been walking in a straight path this whole time."

Tenten grimaced. "Or we thought we had, at least."

Naruto groaned behind his mask. "I can't believe this. We got lost on a scouting mission!"

"Scouting and search-and-rescue." Sakura reminded him. "We got an SOS from this island, remember?"

Sasuke made a sound of disgust. "That's also where we got this useless map."

Ino suddenly smacked the back of her neck. "Ow!"

Shikamaru pulled up his mask. "What is it?"

"A bug bit me."

Sakura suddenly hit her arm. "Ouch, it got me too."

Shikamaru examined his wife's wound, his eyes widening. "That was no bug." He held up a small dart. "It was an injector."

Tenten gasped. "Then that means..."

Shikamaru nodded. "This entire thing was a setup."

SC: Just to clear a few things up:

One: Hari, Hiun, and Kiseichu live at the Hyuuga estate because Neji still lives there. When Hinata married Naruto, she got permission from her father (because we all know Hinata's dad's scary as hell) to move out. So Naruto, Hinata, Menrui, and Otanashii (still a baby) do not live on the Hyuuga estate.

Two: Yes, I know Kakashi is supposed to do that stupid 'get these bells from me or you have no lunch' test, but I don't give a care. He decided not to this time. So there.

Three: In case you've forgotten, ANBU members wear animal masks whilst on a mission. Therefore, Naruto, Hinata, Sakura, Sasuke, Ino, Shikamaru, Neji, and Tenten are wearing animal masks.

Four: If you didn't notice, the masks are of the hand-signs used in jutsus. (Monkey, Dragon, Rat, Rooster, Snake, Ox, Dog, Horse, Tiger, Boar, Ram, and Hare) I switched some of them to match peoples personalities. The kitsune mask is based of the dog because they're both canines. The mouse is the rat(both rodents), the bunny is the hare(same frickin difference), and the deer is the horse. Oh come on, a deer is sort of like a horse! And I just gave Neji the monkey mask to piss him off.

Just wanted to clear that up before anyone asks.

Oh, and since I want to make sure you guys actually read these things, in your review put down this sentence: Sakura's hair is pink. Easy, no? And if you don't want to put that down, put down something like 'I would never write a ridiculous sentence like Sakura's hair is pink.' Read and Review!

Ja ne!

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