"Kurenai, how are you?" Kakashi asked as she walked in the door and fell to the lounge.
"A hand full," she sighed
"Why is that?"
"I have Katana on my squad and she is going to wear me out in one training lesson,"
"She can't be that bad, can she?"
"Yes she can, Asuma-sensei. If you put Naruto and Kaya together you have Katana and a very warn out squad leader."
"She will come around, just give her time,"
"And you know anything about time, Ebasu, you couldn't even handle her when she was an Academy student."
"I could,"
"Right-"
"Calm down, all she want's is to be noticed by the other students," Tsunade said walking in.
"What do you mean, Lady Tsunade?"
"Let's just put it this way," she paused looking out the window at Katana go running throw the village in her attempts to train. "She knows what Naruto, Sasuke and Garra and many other's are going through."
"Umm.... I don't get it," Kurenai said rubbing her head still wear out from getting back there and away from her squad.
"Didn't she tell you when she introduced herself?"
"That she want's to get stronger to avenge her clan-" Kurenai looked out the window at Katana running away from a very angry Shino with something in her hand. "She is just like Naruto isn't she?"
"Yes, she is and all she wants it to be noticed,"
"Did she ever try to make friends with anyone?"
"I don't think so but she has a far few now," Tsunade opened the window and could hear everything going on out there.
"Katana, get back here!"
"Not on your life, Iruka-sensei," she laughed jumping roof to roof.
"Katana,"
"What?"
"Get back here!"
"No!"
"You're right she is as bad as Naruto."
"Woo-Hoo!!!!" Katana called and jumped around in circles until she got to them. "Hello there, Lady Tsunade, Kakashi, Asuma and Kurenai-sensei how are you?"
"Tired,"
"Me?"
"Yes, you."
"I'll try to not annoy you but I can't girante anything."
"Didn't think you could,"
"Kakashi-sensei, where's Kaya, Sasuke, Naruto and Sakura?"
"On a mission, Katana,"
"Aww man... that means no-one to annoy the hell out of, oh well. Bye!"
"Before you go, Katana!"
"Yes, Kurenai-sensei?"
"What are you're hopes for the future again?"
"To avenge my clan and the village that took me in, why?"
"Would there be anything else to that?"
"Just like the knucklehead said. One day I'll be Hokage, and then the village will stop disrespecting me and treat me like somebody. You know, if anyone ever listened to him whenever he yells that out maybe they would understand how hard it is. If you listen to his voice but you know. I'm just like him with that." Katana said and ran off again.
"Did she just say,"
"Yeah, I think she did," Kakashi said and smiled, "Maybe she's right but still I can't help be see the resemblance in Naruto and Katana."
"What do you mean Kakashi?" Asuma asked sitting down.
"You're going to have to figure that out on your own." Kakashi said and left.
"Katana, what are you doing?" Kiba asked walking into the opening of the training field.
"Training my mind,"
"To do what?" Kiba asked the girl with her eye's closed
"To ignore, Ebasu,"
"Why?"
"Cause-"
"Katana, get back to your training," Ebasu said and turned to Kiba. "Hello, Kiba. Kurenai sent me to try and get her to start training early but she won't listen to me. Can you help?"
"Uh... I guess," Kiba shrugged and felt the death glare from Katana burning into the back of his head. "But I can't I need to go meet up with Shino, Hinata isn't up and I didn't think she would be awake at 6 in the morning anyway but no-one normally is." he said and looked at Katana, she gave him a thankful glance and stood up.
"I'll go get Hinata and I'll meet up with you and Shino later, okay?"
"Yeah, later Katana," Kiba said about to walk off, "But where do we meet?"
"Umm... how about we meet at my house, of Kaya's?"
"Okay, later." they went off there own ways and Ebasu fell over his own feet. 'what is with these kids from team seven and team eight they don't listen.' he thought sighing.
"Hinata, are you awake?" Katana called from Hinata's window. The curtain opened and Hinata looked right at Katana and opened her window.
"Good morning, Katana," Hinata said
"Good morning, Hinata, how are you feeling?" Katana chimed and sat on the window seal.
"I'm well, Katana and you?"
"Very well, just doing my job of annoying Ebasu-sensei early in the morning and waking him up." Katana smiled and Hinata laughed.
"Katana,"
"Yes?"
"You really are what they say."
"Yep, I sure am. And we are meeting up with the boys' sooner or later so we can go meet up with Kurenai-sensei; you think you can handle a bit of breakfast before that? Or are we skipping?"
"Uh... maybe we shouldn't just incase,"
"Sound's good to me, I didn't really want it anyway," Katana laughed and go inside before she fell off the window seal and fell down.
"Hay, Katana!"
"Huh?" Katana turned and saw the boys. "Hay, what took ya?"
"Shino was being annoying."
"Annoying."
"Kidding, chill Shino."
"Come on, let's go meet up with Kurenai-sensei," Katana suggested. Her and Hinata stood up and walked over to the boys and they all walked off, with katana hanging off Kiba again.
"You like doing that don't you Katana?" Kiba asked looking up at her.
"Yep."
"Haha... you look funny, Katana," Hinata said quietly and Katana smiled with a poke of her tongue at Hinata.
"Thank-you." Shino just walked along in silence as if he didn't know them.
"I'm so bored! What time is it anyway?" Katana complained lying on the ground looking up at the sky where the sun way up in the sky.
"Read the sky that you're looking at,"
"But I can't tell by the sky,"
"Hello, sorry I'm late, I got caught up in time."
"Cool, can we start training now or what?" Katana asked still staring at the sky.
"All right, Katana," she said and looked at her squad. "Lets make this simple, you have to get these bells off me."
"Bells?" Katana asked sitting up and eyed the three bells on Kurenai's side. "Aw man, not this exercise." Katana said and fell backwards in a angel star thing.
"You know what it is?"
"Yeah, because squad seven or Naruto's team had to do it and Naruto got tied to the wood things over there." she said pointing to the tree stumps or whatever they are.
"That's right, Katana, that is what we're doing today."
"Damn it!" Katana hissed under her breath.
"So, all we have to do is get the bells off you?" Kiba asked
"Yes but whoever doesn't get a bell, doesn't get to eat,"
"What!?" Katana snapped up, "Your kidding right!?"
"No," Kurenai said, "You have until the timer goes off to get one off me." Katana got up and Hinata, Kiba and Shino stood in a line with her. "Ready," they got in a position, "Set," they bent their knees ready to jump. "Go." they jumped and disappeared. Their good at hiding I'll give them that much, but where are they and what are they thinking? Kurenai thought looking around sharply.
What is she thinking? She's just standing out there like she's not even gonna try and get the bell. Kiba thought watching Katana just standing out in the open waiting for Kurenai to see her. Kurenai turned around and looked at Katana.
"Your not very good at this are you?"
"What makes you think that?"
"Your just standing out in the open, like waiting for an enemy to attack."
"I'm not, I'm good,"
"Really?"
"Yeah," Kurenai ran at Katana and Katana just stood there, Kurenai hit Katana and smoke appeared and when it cleared up all there was, was a stump of wood. Substitution Jutsu, not bad Katana, She thought looking around to see if she could find Katana. Kiba looked around but couldn't see her anywhere not that your supposed to but he seriously couldn't see her, he felt something pull on his jacket and looked to his said and Katana was just lying there with a huge smile on her face. Kiba nudged her and she turned her head and looked at him with a questioning look.
"Katana when did you get there?" he whispered
"Just now, I can hide you know." she said and looked back at Kurenai she was fighting off a Katana clown, Kiba rased a brow.
"What are you doing that for?"
"I'm stalling her, we are a squad, are we not?"
"Yeah, but what does that have to do with stalling Kurenai-sensei?"
"If I can keep her distracted and we all attack her together then there is a big chance the three of us will get a bell. But if we attack separately like Kaya, Sasuke, Naruto and Sakura did then that won't get us anywhere, just get killed or a team-mate killed." Katana said hitting the mark on what the exercise was about. "But we can't get to the others so we have to get their attention to try it out. What do you think?"
"Besides my head hurting, I think it could actually work. You know underneath your crazy, hyperactive, childish self your smart and act like a ninja,"
"Was that meant to be a complement?"
"Uhh... I think so,"
"Well it didn't but I get what you mean. So how do we get to the other two?"
"I don't know."
"Akamaru, could you go?"
"Bark." he said quietly
"Um?"
"He said yes." Kiba reminded her that she use to be able to understand Akamaru and Akamaru ran off.
"Can you help me out a bit here, Kiba?"
"With what?"
"I think she figured out what I was doing," Kiba looked over to their leader and she was standing there looking around again. Kiba made hand-signs and made a shadow clone and Katana did too and they attacked Kurenai together. Katana smiled and nodded to Kiba seeing Hinata and Shino had caught on to what they were doing as Akamaru came running back to Kiba quickly. "Thank-you Akamaru." Katana said and hugged Akamaru and Kiba frowned but she lost balance on her side and fell sideway, basically landing on him. Katana groaned and rubbed her head giving Kiba a little sorry nod. They looked out and saw Hinata and Shino trying to get the bells, Katana jumped and ran out as fast as she could and got behind Kurenai, Kiba followed and helped the other two. Kurenai was hiding out of site in the trees watching them and was impressed by the teamwork they were showing.
"Hold on, stop for a sec," Hinata said and they all backed off. "This isn't her." Katana punched it and it turned into a tree stump.
"Damn it," she growled and ran. The other three did as well and Kurenai had no idea what was going on, she came out and Katana jumped on her back holding her arms and hands so she couldn't try anything smart.
"How did you-" Kurenai started but Katana wasn't listening. Kurenai jumped and kicked Katana off her, Katana hit the ground and got back up. She went to punch Kurenai and she caught it, Katana kicked with one leg and she stopped it, kicked with the other also blocked, she used her other hand and grabbed one of the bells when Kurenai noticed this she made a quick escape and Katana lost a hold on the bell. So Close, I was so close and I lost it! Katana growled and get up. This went on for the rest of the day and then the timer went off and she was stuck in a trap hanging from a tree with her arms crossed and was glaring at Kurenai.
Kurenai was huffing and panting and puffed out, "You're smart but you still get stuck in a trap."
"It's not my fault there was a trap here and there was food over there, which I came upon when I was trying to work out how to try and get the stupid bells off you. And I wasn't even trying to take the stupid food!" Katana snapped more to herself then Kurenai but she was hungry so what could you expect.
"Calm down, Katana," Hinata said and Katana looked at her with a why should I look in a nice way. "You'll get to eat, I'm sure."
"Thanks Hinata, that makes me feel so much better. I'm hungry and will someone please get me down from this thing!" Katana growled swinging around on it.
"Sorry, Katana but you have to do that yourself," Kurenai said with a smile.
"FINE!" Katana snapped and climbed up the rope, reached for her Kunai and cut the rope grabbing it and put her Kunai away and climbed up the rope and sat in the tree glaring at her squad leader.
"I know your angry and grumpy but they haven't gotten a bell yet,"
"Uhh... you might want to look again, Kurenai-sensei," Katana pointed to her side and none of the bells were there.
"What did that happen?"
"About five minutes before the timer went off and that's why I stayed in the tree," Katana sighed and jumped down in front of Kurenai and she tied Katana up to the tree stump or training post. Katana was way to tire to fight back so she just sat there quietly and they ate until Kurenai decided to leave for a while. Katana's stomach growled but she had her eyes closed not caring at the moment.
"Katana, here." Hinata said and put her food in front of Katana. Katana opened one eye and saw it then opened the other.
"What are you doing, Hinata?"
"You need to eat so here,"
"But I can't do that, you heard what she had said and I'm not doing it." Katana turned her head away from the food stubbornly but her eyes went back to it and her stomach growled again. "I hate this. I don't want to jeopardise the chances of passing."
She isn't stupid but she isn't smart, it only seems she is when she wants to be or needs to be but she listening to me? Kurenai thought watching Katana decline the food in front of her but Hinata finally convinced her and she gave it to Katana and she thanked Hinata. Kurenai appeared in front of the four of them and scared them and started making it look creepy.
"What do you think you're doing, Hinata!?" she asked in a really scary and creepy voice.
"I... I... I..."
"You were what?"
"She was helping me," Katana said and looked at Kurenai-sensei right in the eyes and was a little scared.
"Really? Is that so?"
"Yes,"
"Well I have nothing to say but you have-"
"No matter what happens where still a team," Shino pipped up.
"That's right and we fight together," Kiba added with a growl, Hinata nodded her head and looked back at Katana.
"Anything you do will effect us all but we will stand together no matter what the price." Katana growled and Kurenai-sensei smiled but they couldn't see it. The sky started to clear.
"Well then, I'll have to say... you've passed,"
"What?" Kiba cocked an eyebrow.
"You've passed. You are a great team and you learn faster then most of how to attack, you don't single each other out and you don't attack alone. You figure it out before attacking an opponent and I nearly get tricked out by you Katana but if you ever leave yourself open an opponent will not hesitate to attack you. That was a good strategy you had there, Katana and Kiba. You all thought about it before going for it and found a way to communicate without me knowing."
"So what you're saying is what exactly?"
"I'm saying, in my years here I don't think I have meet anyone or any team as smart as you and Hinata you went against my orders. Any other team would have listen and let their team-mate starve but that just shows me you have a mind of your own," Kurenai paused, "In the ninja world, those who break the rules are skum, but those who abandon their friends are worse then skum... this shows me that you have a mind or your own and will do anything for your friends now if you had left Katana to starve then what kind of friend is that? But anyways contravallations and you'll be going on your first mission tomorrow," Kurenai said and walked off.
"We passed," Hinata said blankly
"Yeah, Hinata. We passed and thank-you," Katana said trying to get to rope un-done. "Can I have a bit of help here?" Shino turned and looked at her and noticed she was still tied up. He took out a Kunai and cut the rope and Katana hit the ground. "Thank-you Shino," she grumbled pulling the rest of the rope off her.
"You okay, Katana?" Kiba asked, Katana nodded and stood up with Hinata and they started jumping around. Kiba laughed and Shino grinned. This was going to be a long life with Katana on their team but they didn't care. Katana turned and looked at them with the biggest smile on her face ever, she knelt down and jumped and hugged Kiba and Shino at the same time. They hugged back then when she got up she helped them up too and ran off with Hinata back to the village and went to get food with Kiba and Shino trailing behind in silence.