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-mayu
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Innocence
Chapter 12
-----Kakashi was having a tough time. A week had passed and he still did not have any idea how to teach his students. Okay, Sasuke was easy to teach, the boy could suck up jutsus like a sponge. But for Narue and Shikamaru, he had absolutely no clue. Currently he was keeping them, busy by issuing d-ranks left right and center. Maybe it would work to get outside help?
"Kaka-sensei, where are you taking us?" whined Narue, lagging behind tiredly, wiping sleep from her eyes. It was about 6:30 in the morning, and Kakashi had been there on time only to drag his students off somewhere else.
"Patience Narue-chan, were almost there." He said, eyebrow twitching. Eventually, he stopped in the middle of a different training ground, on the other side of Konoha, I might add.
Sasuke was glaring holes in his back, and Shikamaru seemed to be sleeping standing up. Kakashi Stood in front of them and began to talk, "Since I have no idea at all how to teach you Narue, and you Shikamaru, I have asked some friends of mine to come and help me." At this point, Sasuke looked over at them and smirked superiorly, "I will teach Sasuke myself, on my own, as will Narue and Shikamaru with their temporary teachers. On the weekends, we will meet and work on our teamwork. Since we will be training at all times, I'm not going to get missions until we are good enough to do c-ranks….is that understood?"
None of them spoke. Shikamaru had listened through the whole thing and actually became marginally interested in who his teacher was. (surprisingly)
A rustling came from over to the right, and the genins turned to look. Out came a woman and man. The woman was rather…imposing with her full body fishnets, mini skirt and shirt, with the overall trench-coat, and sadly, Narue immediately fell in love. (As a sister)
The man had dark hair and wore the standard jounin clothes…however, every 5 seconds he coughed into his hand. Dark circles under his eyes spoke of no sleep and sickness.
"My genin team, meet your new instructors…Mitarashi Anko," Anko waved emphatically, earning an emphatic wave in return from the blonde, "and Hayate Gekko." Hayate nodded at them, coughing.
"How troublesome."
Throughout the two months, the team trained. Avery day they met their respective instructor and every weekend worked on their relationships and teamwork. This schedule worked well for them, and it showed when they had a run in with team 8.
Flashback
Walking down the street, team seven reviewed their training of the week. Sasuke was conversing and rather thoroughly enjoying himself when a screech came from his right.
"SASUKE-KUN!" a familiar pink rhino tried to ambush the boy, throwing herself toward him. Sasuke step-sided and used a move Kakashi had taught him, snatching Saukra's wrist, he swing her using the momentum and flung her into an apple cart stand.
Hinata and Kiba came running up behind the pink-haired girl and stood before team seven.
"Well, well, well what do we have here?" Kiba grinned with Hinata softly smiled beside him. Narue laughed and launched her self between the two, grabbing them in a giant hug.
"It's so good to see you! It's been too long! Awe Hina-chan!" she giggled, blonde hair bouncing as she hugged them both hard. Shikamaru snickered at them, attracting the tiny bombshell's attention.
"Shika-chaaaan, Come hug!" she pulled him into the group hug, despite his protests. Sasuke stood by this display of affection, feeling slightly left out before a hand shot out and pulled him in. He struggled and yelled but he was hugged all the same.
They all had started laughing (Sasuke only slightly twitched his lips, but his eyes were laughing anyways.) and walked on, not noticing Sakura standing up behind them, looking slightly sad. Why didn't they take her? Wasn't she good enough?
Narue was talking excitedly to Hinata, illustrating the whole time since they last saw each other. Shikamaru was conversing with Kiba about the new teachers and Sasuke was walking between the four, for some reason content to simply listen to their chatter. It confounded the Uchiha greatly.
They five reached their unknown destination (the ramen stand) and sat down for a good old eating.
About a half hour into their fun, they heard a shout outside the door, "Team seven, Front and Center!" a woman's voice. Narue, Sasuke and Shikamaru immediately disappeared from their spots, causing Hinata to gasp and Kiba to fall out of his chair (he had been leaning on shikamaru laughing).
They quickly ran outside to greet the sight of stony faced team seven in a line facing Anko, Narue in the middle with the boys on her sides. They looked rather imposing and deadly.
"New training resume, instead of half the day off we're training the entire day, I have booked the forest of death." Team seven nodded as a unit an jumped off to the far roof, and then ran off with out a second glance to the other two still on the ground.
Anko grinned sinisterly at them, creeping them out, "Team seven has been training hard." The way she said it ran shivers down the two's spines.
Once Anko had disappeared, Kiba and Hinata looked at each other; maybe it was time to train.
Flashback end
The two months went fast, Shikamaru's parents were becoming slightly worried about the way their son was…moving around so much. Getting up early in the morning then leaving for training, and then coming home late in the evening completely worn out.
(I'm going to skip to the end of the month, cause I'm too lazy right now ;p)
The morning was crisp; the winter nights were coming fast. Sasuke leaned against a tree, alert but at ease. He had changed his clothing into a black shirt, much like his old one, over white shorts with many pockets for ninja things. He had arm guards strapped to his forearms, as well as his shins. His headband was still on his forehead, proudly displayed. A small red sash was wrapped over and around his left arm-guard.
Up along the road, Shikamaru stepped his way to training ground 7, he had also changed his clothing into something new. Baggy black shorts with pockets like Sasuke's, under his usual short sleeve fishnet shirt with a dark forest green vest hanging lightly on his shoulders. Pockets lined the inside of the vest, with two on the front. A red sash like the previously described boy was tied tightly around his upper right bicep, under his headban. Hanging on his hips were a pair of short swords (I have no idea what the japanese swords are...if some1 does, please help.)The two boys in the clearing nodded at each other, since the morning silence seemed too precious to break.
As the light increased across the eastern sky, we find our blonde heroine walking along the road, happily humming a random tune, and twiding with a kunai.
She had also changed her clothing; much the same as the two boys. A red halter top with a fishnet under it was half-hidden under an open black coat. The sleeves were tight, ending at mid-forearm, and it reached to her mid-thigh. Black shorts stretched across her thighs, ending at her knees, where fishnets took over down to her ankles. Black Hand gloves with metal plats and no fingers covered her hands, and her leaf-headband hung loosely around her neck, her kunai pouch wrapped around her right leg for easy access. Her hair had stayed the same, only one accessory wrapped itself around her slim waist. A red sash just like the boys, tied in a knot to the side fell across her leg, ending above her knee.
The boys gaped at the tiny girl (they had not yet seen each other's clothing), she managed to pull of the 'cute and innocent little ninja girl' and the 'I'll kill you if you even look at me funny kunoichi' looks all at once.
Narue appraised the boys as she waved. Their new clothes made them seem more like ninjas and she noticed the new muscles being shown.
"Hellooo boys! How have you been?" she smiled widely, missing the starting of the boys as her voice startled them out of their staring. The team sat down to wait for their sensei, feeling the usual time fly by as the hours passed.
The sun was high in the sky when the usual poof surrounded the middle training stump. Kakashi greeted them with an eye-smile and the words:
"Time to start missions Team!" Team seven smiled (even Sasuke) it was their time to shine!
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I thoroughly enjoyed writing that chapter….. And I don't know why. (sweatdrop)
HAYATE! teehee, did ya like my choice? Anko for Narue and Hayate for Shika?
If anyone has comments/questions/ANYTHING about the new clothes I'm going to ignore them, not because I hate you, but because I brought those out of the top of my head and reaaallly don't want to change them. Ok?
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-mayu ;p