The next day Kaida woke up to her mother's soft coo's "Honey deer, its 6:00 time to get ready for training."

Kaida pulled there one sheet over her small head. There family shared one mattress in the other room of there apartment, they had about 3 tattered old blankets, but it didn't really matter, the others body heat usually kept them warm during the winter. "I don't wanna tell sensei I'm sleeping."

Her mother wouldn't take that as an answer, stripping the blanket from her child her voice turned stern. "Now my little dragon!" Kaida reluctantly got up and started to get her tooth brush and such, they used there kitchen sink to brush there teeth in, there bathroom didn't have a sink, just a toilet and shower.

"When you get home from training you are taking a shower!" Her mother added.

"But, But, But Maa I don't wanna take one. Yo hates them and the shampoo gets in my eyes, and the water is always too cold and, and."

"And nothing if you want to be a shinobi you will have to learn proper Hygiene!" Her mother barked.

"Well snickerdoodles!" Kaida stomped, she never won an argument with her mother.

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Keiji woke up from his grandmother's smooth nocks coming from the door. "Its time to get up dear." She whispered.

He got up with no complaints going to the bathroom and putting on the cold shower, he needed a nice cold shower. He had another one of those dreams about Hinabi again. Keiji blushed at the remembrance of the dream. He was glad she wasn't from a mind reading clan, she would have killed him from some of the thoughts that had passed through his head. Just calm yourself Keiji,

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Maybe that was one thing he liked about Hinabi, if anything happened she would take care of herself. She was the most fearsome konoichi ever! She would always be able to protect herself against him, just in case.

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His shower ended and he got ready. Training today would be hard he hoped, he wanted to be ready for the chunnin exams in may, that was 5 months away. And he needed to prove himself to everybody. His Grandfather was downstairs in the kitchen all ready, Hash browns eggs and bacon all ready laid out in front of him. Keiji's plate was all ready full.

"First day of training today?" his grandfather asked him. His grandfather hid himself behind the morning paper. Keiji couldn't make out his expression. He knew Grand pa was angry for the visit yesterday. He really hates people, shinobi especially. Which is funny cause he used to be one.

"Yes grandfather,"

"Your sensei…"

"Yes grandfather?"

"He's a curious fellow."

"How so sir?" Keiji asked, curious could mean a lot of things. Good and bad. But his father just buried himself in the sports section.

"God dam it the Packers lost again! Urgh, I'm telling you marie I'm sick of getting this news in the Monday paper, we got to get our radio fixed."

His grandmother tottered in the kitchen, "Well I'm sorry dear, but I can't find any one in town that actually has the equipment to fix it. One gentleman tried to sell me something called a T.V."

"Every bodies a nut job now a days." His grandfather mumble slamming down the paper.

"Time for you to leave dear, if you want to be early." His grandmother said, handing him a packed lunch. "Now kiss granny good bye." She told him tilting her head sideways for a peck on the cheek.

Keiji thanked god none of his old classmates where here, He gave her a quick peck. Taking the lunch and leaving the door.

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Yamato woke up at 4:30 couldn't sleep so much anticipation building up in him. He hoped today would run smoothly. He wanted to do some one on one training with Zaki, well he needed to anyway. Want was a whole other thing. Keiji he would use the training technique his grandfather told him. Kaida needed to train for speed.

Getting up and getting ready, he was ready for this. He was? He was! He was. Yes he is. Just because these kids entire future depend on his training. Just because if they screw up on a mission because he taught them wrong then they die it would be his fault. That if anything happens he was supposed to take responsibility for everything. In the end the shinobi was only as good as his teacher. And Yamato might be a good shinobi, but being a teacher is a whole different thing. Some people just don't have it in them. And Kaida is only 8 what if she dies on a mission before she reaches double digits! That won't ride on his conscious the rest of his life. It's not like there was way to much pressure building on him for him to think doesn't mean he had to panic right?

God how does Kakashi deal with this shit?

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Max nudged Zaki out of his bed. It was 6:30…IN THE MORNING! He can't believe he was actually getting up before noon, but he didn't want Zaki to blow this. She hit him over the head with a pillow muttered something and rolled around. The grey haired girl didn't even open her eyes to do it. "Zaki you got to get up. You have to go to training. Its all ready 6:30 AM you are going to be late."

"AM means its time to sleep. PM means its time to party. P for party, that's how it goes." She groaned.

"No AM means its time to awake, A as in Awake." Max replied.

"No A as in, look A bed I have to sleep." She retorted. Now clinging to the bed.

"Come on you have gotten at least what 3-4 hours in. I've only got 2. So you know you can be a little more chipper!" Max told her tugging off blankets.

"Well I need my 12 hours." That's it the blond haired teen thought to him self. He hoisted Zaki up bridal stile. She didn't budge at all she had fallen soundly asleep again. Dropping her in his small shower he turned the cold water on. She awoke right away. "FUCK FUCK FUCK!" she screamed.

"Its not that bad," he teased. She had settled on leaning on the wall of the shower. Her body was shaking from the ice cold shock.

"Its been 4 day's since Sara disappeared. I went last night to the usual places and they haven't seen her." That's why she was so upset about being woken up. Zaki liked to sleep in when her mother way away. It was just a thing of her he guessed. "Or at least, that's what they TOLD me." Zaki hugged her knees to her chest. Max sat down right by her not caring about the cold water. He wrapped an arm around her shaking body. "Tank seemed stranger then usual; he didn't make any of his usual threats. And well Jr. Well Jr. didn't even smirk when I talked to them."

"Its ok Zaki, I'm sure she just went to another dealer, you know how she was talking about the stuff being of crappy quality."

"Hn" The couple sat there letting the ice water hit there shaking bodies. "The mornings are a bitch." Zaki finally breathed.

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I hope you like this chapter, I think I'm going to go back to shorter chapters and update more often.

So how did you like character development? Or at least personalities. There will be more action in the next one I promise! But I'm going to be trying different ways to do things experimenting a little, see which ones best for the…reader (I'm very angry I didn't have to make that a plural word!)

Oh and by the way, I live in the heart of packer land! If you have a problem with the Packers you have a problem with ME!