Wehey it's raining it's poaring and my toes are snoring. Well my legs have gone to sleep I think all this kneeling in front of a computer cant be good for me.
Ah well I just went on a weekend of hiking over mountains in Scotland so I should be fine.
Apparently there were a few technical problems but I think that they are now sorted out. Tell me if anything else goes wrong.
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Kakashi stood in the centre of an empty clearing after his three students had disappeared. The air was silent while some birds chirped in the sunlit morning.
'A basic for a ninja is to conceal his presence and hide,' he looked around. Sasuke was hidden within bushes while Usagi was lying down under a different bush both were silent not daring to make a noise or move encase they were detected. 'Good, everyone is hidden nicely…'
Naruto however was standing in the centre of the clearing with his arms crossed. An arrogant and confident look on his face, his orange clothing starkly contrasting the dirt brown mud and green grass of the ground.
#Idiot, Naruto, you idiot, straight out force is not going to beat this guy,# Usagi unwittingly sent this thought to Hotaru who was standing a mile away in human form contacting the other Outers. Usagi could feel the presence of death that usually came with the powers of Saturn, across the forest Hotaru gave a small smile as she caught the stray thought before turning back to her task of contacting the outers which had scatterd across the multi-verse looking for their princess.
Kakashi raised a eyebrow at the boys overconfidence, "Aren't you a little weird compared to the rest?" he asked Naruto.
'You could say that,' Usagi thought amused as she cast her mind back to some of Naruo's more exuberant pranks.
Naruto frowned and glared at the silver haired teacher, "What's weird is your hair style," he they took off at a run towards the stoic man who merely gazed at the oncoming teen with a sleepy and board look on his face he looked much like a cow would look at an oncoming train, indifferent.
He then reached into his bag which caused Naruto to come to a sudden stop in front of him, in a guarded stance.
"Ninja tactic know-how number one, taijutsu, I'll teach you that first." He then began to draw his hand out of his bag while Naruto and Usagi gave a little start.
'isn't jaijutsu how a ninja fights hand-to-hand without weapons? But is he going to use a weapon?' was the common thought.
Kakashi then drew his hand right out of the bag and in it was a book. 'Flirting paradise' to be exact, he held it in one hand open while reading it, seemingly ignoring Naruto. Usagi and Naruto started and looks of bafflement crossed Naruto's face.
"What's the matter? Come and get me!" Kakashi taunted Naruto as they stood in the middle of the clearing.
"But, um, why'd you take out a book?" Naruto had a look of clear confusion on his face as he stared at the taller man.
'A flirting book at that, if Hotaru was hear she would attack him for being a pervert and being my teacher, of all the teachers I get I have to get a perv don't I?' Usagi shook her head as she lay under the bush, watching the scene in the clearing.
"Why? I got curious as to how the story would develop." Kakashi was reading the book as he answered his student's question, "Don't worry about it. It's the same weather I read this or not,"
Naruto was standing in complete amazement at Kakashi's antics, either the guy was underestimating or he was simply confident in his own abilities, Usagi was betting on the latter.
The statement, however, seemed to anger Naruto as his hands clenched into fists.
"I'm going to pound you!" he stated while rushing at Kakashi, his face completely wild with rage.
He aimed a punch at the man who simply blocked it without even looking.
"Dammit, roundhouse kick!" Naruto then swept a kick which the silver haired teacher simply jumped over, all without looking up from his book.
Naruto landed in a crouch, "Ahh, damn it!" he yelled in frustration before aiming a jump punch. Only to stop short as his target was no longer there he blinked before turning to face Kakashi who seemed to be behind him.
"Huh?" Naruto blinked again
"A Ninja should not let the enemy get behind him multiple times, idiot," Kakashi was crouching behind Naruto, still reading 'Flirting paradise'
From under the bush Usagi leaned forward slightly, 'his hand posture is a… seal of the tiger?' Usagi gave a little worried frown, 'Is he going to use a high ninjutsu on Naruto, I hope Naruto will be alright,'
Sasuke frowned and crinkled his forehead in concentration, 'that seal if for… fire elements. That teacher isn't just going to run around.'
Usagi shot up from her position, 'I'm probably being an idiot but I should warn Naruto,
"Naruto, get out the way you could get hit," Naruto looked up at the sound of Usagi's voice.
"Your too late," Naruto turned to look at Kakashi who he just noticed was behind him, to see his hands in the seal position. "Hidden village of Konoha's secret taijutsu master art…!" Naruto cringed and prepared himself for a lot of pain. Only to relax slightly as a sheepish and embarrassed look crossed his face before he was catapulted into the air by his but. "A thousand years of pain!"
"I guess it wasn't a Ninjutsu," Usagi said as she soundlessly moved to a slightly different bush to hide again.
Sasuke simply put his hand against a tree and closed his eyes, "Two idiots," he said in an exasperated voice.
Naruto landed in the stream with a splash while Kakashi once again took out his book, "Lets see…" He began reading again, only pausing to turn the page.
On his branch Sasuke crouched, like a coiled tiger waiting to spring, his hand crept slowly towards the weapon holder at his thigh.
Usagi scrunched up her face in thought, 'his strength and skill is quite good how are we meant to get the bells,' suddenly she got a memory of when she and the outers were attacking a Yoma that had amazing blocking skills: Haruka had gone round the back and distracted it with a 'world shaking' while she and Hotaru had taken it out with 'Moonlight scythes' and 'Death ribbons destruction' (an I am making up some of Hotaru's and Usagi's attacks, cos I want to so XP) 'I get it I think, I just need to test my theory now.'
Meanwhile Naruto was slowly floating to the bottom of the stream 'Damn it, I wasn't supposed to end like this' with that he began to swim up to the surface. Suddenly out of the water two flying stars sped towards Kakashi. Usagi and Sasuke gasped as the rocked towards him. Kakashi's hand flashed like lightning and then suddenly the two stars were twirling round two of his fingers, he still hadn't stopped reading his book. Sasuke's hand went down from his pouch.
Naruto was panting as he came out of the stream, no doubt because of holding his breath for so long.
"What's wrong? You won't get any lunch if you don't get a bell by noon." Kakashi was goading Naruto, trying to make him angrier so that he would do something stupid, Usagi realised.
Naruto coughed before lifting his head to face his tormentor, "I already know," he said.
"You said your going to exceed the Hokages but your actions say otherwise," Kakashe was looking for sensitive subjects that would enrage Naruto.
"Damn it! Damn it! I can still fight even if I'm hungry!" this seemed to spark something in the others that were hiding. Sasuke had a strange expression that could mean hunger, while Usagi seemed unaffected.
'as I am Cosmos I don't need food, but they don't need to know that' Usagi had a little smile as she thought this, a slight sadistic side of her taking pleasure at the obvious discomfort of the others. That means that I'll offer to skip lunch if I can get this plan up, the only problem will be getting Sasuke involved. He seems so stuck up and thinking that he only works alone that he will blind himself to what really needs to be seen, that he cant beat Kakashi-sensei on his own and needs to work as a team, team 7 to be precise.'
Naruto seemed to be having an internal dispute,
'I'm so hungry that my powers are… No I can't fail here no matter what I have to get a bell.'
"I can't… I can't fail at a place like here no matter what!" suddenly about seven Naruto's jumped out of the stream all aiming a punch at Kakashi's back.
'Shadow replication' Usagi thought 'He did it while in the stream'
"I'm going to become a Ninja no matter what!" Naruto was positively livid as he growled at the silver haired man in front of him, his eyes flashing and his face scrunched up in a feral growl much like the fox that was inside him. His replications rushing towards Kakashi with just as much intensity.
"Security is your greatest enemy!" they yelled as they moved as one towards the teacher.
Ok whats going to happen next I wonder, and what is Usagi's plan? Will Hotaru contact the outers successfully without noting the inners. And how will overprotective Haruka react to a perverted Kakashi?
I don't know, until I write that is.
Tell me what you think and who Hotaru should be with so far the winning votes are
Sasuke and Itachi. Competition between brothers eh? Remember Hotaru is about 12-13 in this unless I make her grow a bit; then again she is very wise for her age so Itachi could see past the age barrier.
See ya and read and review lots, they make me write faster, (I think)