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On the day of team assignment I decided to change my outfit from the plain black shirt, brown pants, and black sandals to a simple dark green sleeveless muscle shirt with a lighter green skirt that was designed so that it didn't hinder my mobility. The skirt only went the middle of my thighs and the rest was covered by black leggings and my feet were now covered by boots that went to the middle of my shin that were of course another dark shade of green. My arms were covered by arm warmers that only went to my wrist and began at my elbow. Toward the cuffs they opened up greatly and were so loose that they dangled a few inches below my hands and my headband was tied across my forehead but was partially covered by a few loose strands of hair.
So when I entered the classroom my new look garnered a few stares but they soon quickly turned back to their own activities.
After a few minutes or instructor came in and talked to us about how proud he was of us and the other standard sentimental stuff that I tuned out. Finally though he began listing teams.
"Team 12 will be Roshi, Sain, and Saya. Your Jonin instructor will be Ritsugu Tai"
Our's was the last team to be called but I am happy that I avoided being on the same team as the 3 future members of the Konoha 11. I looked around to try and find my teammates but as I had maintained such an isolated place in my class I could not find any of them.
It wasn't until a man wearing the standard konoha uniform came in and called out for our team did I finally see who i would be working with.
The first one that I could see had a shaved head and a thin body. I could not get any more on him as he was facing away from me but he wore a simple outfit of black shorts, with a red T-shirt and blue sandals.
The second one had a rather feminine appearance with his flowing black hair and what looked liked rather traditional clothes. He could have passed for an Uchiha really if it weren't for his blue eyes and serene smile.
Any more analysis would have to wait as our leader took us to a nearby park and sat us around a tree with him leaning back on it and us facing him. Now that we were still I noticed that he had a carefree grin on his face as well as a few scars around his lips. His face was somewhat rounded and his eyes had laugh lines. His hair was a mess that tumbled down to his neck. And his eyes were a relaxing shade of brown.
"So since we'll be working together from now on we should get to know each other first. Any volunteers." he asked us with a somewhat deep voice. At first there was silence before the feminine one decided to go first.
"Nice to meet you all my names Sain, and like poetry, singing, drawing, and music. I dislike thugs, unnecessary violence, and things that are filthy." his voice was quiet and smooth. It was almost like he was a girl except that he was a guy his body's structure told me so. His expression never changed while he introduced himself something that was actually intriguing.
Next to go was Roshi "Names Roshi. I like hospitals, and other things that have to do with healing whether they be physical or physcological. I don't like rain, people who don't take care of their health, and spiders." His face was openly expressive and he was rather animated while talking. He was also quite pale and had round brown eyes, with a childish face.
Seeing as how the rest then turned their heads toward me I decided to answer them. "My name is Saya. I like training, reading, and anything else that helps me master my body and mind. I dislike those who will not support themselves, blood, and unnecessary socializing." My introduction was given with minimal facial movements and in a monotone.
"Right well I am Ritsugu Tai but all of you can call me Tai-sensei. I like dango, taking long walks, and hotsprings. I don't like anything that wastes more energy than necessary, burned food, and boring people. On that note you two," He pointed at both me and Sain "get those boring looks of your faces and try to be like Roshi-kun here." I simply stared at him conveying a 'no' with just my stare alone. Sain's pokerface became a little strained but then smooth out.
"Ah but sensei such expressions of fire and ice do not suite a graceful being like myself." I then turned slowly towards Sain and raised a single eyebrow at him. A polite cough brought our attention back to Tai.
"Right well now that we all know a little about each other I have some great news. Tomorrow you have your only real test to see if you become genin. If you three fail you'll be sent back to the academy. So with that said any questions, comments, and concerns will be noted and dutifully ignored." His grin became sharper and sharper as he talked until it looked like he was a wolf and we were a bunch of defenseless sheep.
"uh sensei exactly what is uh our test going to be and where and when uh is it." Roshi bravely questioned.
"Ah well that I can't ignore. The test itself I haven't really decided but it will take place on in trading ground twenty. Be there at nine." With that he vanished in a swirl of leaves.
We each sat in silence for a moment until I decided to go home and get some rest.
"Ah Saya-san, I uh, um, was uh, wondering if you and Sain-san would uh like to have lunch together. You know to um bound." Once again it was Roshi that tried to initiate conversation between us.
" Ah a meal to link us together so that our single links of strength might come together so that our reach may extend to our dreams. What a wondrous idea Roshi-san it would seem that your flame is a gentle one." Sain spoke with his gentle tone and serene smile. They then both turned their expectant gazes towards me.
I mulled over the thought for a while. I didn't particularly like socializing but it may be necessary. We would be working together after all. Besides its been awhile since I last had company that wasn't completely annoying. With a nod I turned around and asked "Where to?"
"Somewhere that serves graceful meals that might improve our health. Grease and fat are demons that must never pollute our temples." Sain once again declared.
"Why must you insist on speaking like that?" I asked more out of curiosity than annoyance. I actually found it slightly amusing. Judging by Roshi's small smile so did he.
"Simple, an elegant being such as myself must remain graceful in all matters. Now enough about me let us find a proper meal." And with that he set off.
We ended up eating a small tea house. It was silent until I decided to initiate conversation for a change. "Roshi-san you said that you wanted to be a medic nin right."
"Well yes and no. Being a medic nin would allow me to help people physically but I also want people mentally." He said with a bright smile. It caused a shiver to travel up my spine. 'My god he wants to be a goddam therapist'. "Eh Saya-san are you ok you look a little pale."
"Yes I'm fine Roshi-san." I said through gritted teeth.
"Oh what's this has our ice princess been unable to rid herself of the bandits that began haunting her so long ago." Saint was greatly amused by my aversion to therapists.
"Shut up." Was my cold reply.
" Eh what are you two talking about? Saya-sab have you been to a therapist before?" Roshi asked.
"Yes and that will be all that will be discussed for now." I said when i finally managed to regain my composure.
" Ah okay that's fine. Hey Sain-san what do you want to eventually do with your life. As you can tell I just want to be able to heal as many people as I can."
"Ah you seek to discover the secrets of this elegant man do you. Well seeing as I am a kind and graceful person I wish to have my beautiful mind and body transcend this world and forever be marked in history." He kept that same smile on his face that I was beginning to wonder if he even knew how to stop smiling. "But what about your dream Saya-san? What wonderful dream do you spend your waking hours chasing?"
"Dream would be too much credit. I simply wish to live long a long life or die to a worthy opponent. That is why I seek to perfect my mind and body." And wow I think that is the most words have spoken in awhile. I think my dream or goal kind of through them for a loop as they both seemed to be staring at me. Until
"Well then here is to us relying on each other till we all ascend high enough to stand on the same plain as our dreams." As Sain was talking he put his hand in the middle of the table. Seeing his intent we each shared a glance and then both mine and Roshi's hand joined Sain's.
"To our dream's" was our unanimous cry. And on that day we each began a bond that we would forever work to maintain no matter the circumstances.
Afterwards we all went our separate ways after all we still had a test to do tomorrow.
On the next day once we had gathered we went in to see our sensei sitting on a boulder with one of his knees drawn up to his chest and an arm on it.
" Well kiddos you ready to get started." He questioned us with that same carefree grin from the other day.
"Hai" we all called out at once. Determination, while not openly expressed by me or Sain, seemed to fuel the air.
"Okay then here is your test then if at least two of you stay conscious until I call time then you pass. We start now." With that he jumped up into the air with the sun to his back we were unable to attack him or see what he was doing. It wasn't until we heard him call out "water style: water bullet jutsu" did we finally move. Just in time for so enough several large globs of water impacted the ground and a large crater was heard. We had no time to counter attack for as soon as he landed he had already slammed his hands into the ground and call out "Earth style: mud wall" and several mud walls sprouted up and cut us off from each other. I soon heard explosions occurring on the other side of the walls separating me from Roshi and Sain. "Fire style: fireball jutsu" was my only warning to move and good thing I did as soon enough a stream of flames impacted the area I was in. I managed to catch sight of him before he clasped his hands together in a seal and sent another stream of flames at me. This though I was prepared and launched towards him only using my human bodies speed. I slide under the flames and continued to charge at him with my hand poised to stab into him. He simply changed the direction. Of the flames forcing me back again. It continued like this for another two minutes. Once we had settled into the rhythm I finally got the gist of his test. While if I were to use my full power I could easily crush him, a normal genin would not last against him and judging by the sounds unless going on he is purposely drawing out this match. The only way to get an opening would be to team up with Roshi, or Sain. With at least two of us together we might be able to take him. First though I'm gonna have to get through him but, as if sensing my intention, he soon started increasing the number of fire jutsus my way. 'Fine if I can't go around him I'll go through him' with that planned out I tensed myself and launched at the wall to my left. As predicted he appeared in front of me and sent another large barrage of flames at me but this time I leapt over them and pulled my hand back in preparation. When he looked up and launched another stream of fire at me I thrust my hand forward with enough strength that a small gust was formed. With it I tried to punch through the flames and was somewhat successful.
My clothes were signed in several places but I landed safely in front of him and thrust my hand out again. He dodged to the side and was about to shoot another fireball but I didn't turn around simply charged forward and had my fist instead of my usual knife-hand strike ready to use. With one strike I crashed through the mud wall and moved to the side just as another blast of flames was let loose.
I turned to see Sain struggling against Tai-sensei but this time he was only using earth jutsus evidenced by the destroyed ground of the impromptu arena. Good. Earth would be much easier to combat than fire but this alone wouldn't let us pass as the other clone would still demolish us with its fire style jutsus. 'Shit' I barely managed to move out of the way as several darts if fire impacted the area where I was moments ago. I was sorely tempted to have the nanomachines augment body so that the heat from his fire jutsus would no longer hurt me.
I dashed towards the other Tai and sent a strike at him. He reacted by raising several spikes that I simply cut down. I didn't get very far before we had interference from my original opponent. This time though it was off, his fire darts were erratic and some veered off. I glanced out Sain to see him with his hands on a seal. "Go forth Saya-san be the shadow that my genjutsu casts and strike them down." With a nod I sped towards then again with the intent to strike at least one of them down. Each attempt was foiled. No matter how much we tried we couldn't get through the combination of earth and fire. Eventually I had enough and slammed my hand into the earth and using a great deal of chakra to reinforce my muscles I pulled a chunk out and used it as a shield against any more jutsus. " We are going to need Roshi-san as well." I stated to Sain.
He gave no verbal consent simply nodded his head. So we each tried to reach the wall either in an attempt to get through it (me) or over it (Sain). Progress was painstakingly slow though because once the clones realized our intention they tried to cut us off.
After the fifth time of getting forced back I grew frustrated and grabbed Sain by his shirt. Ignoring his questions of what I'm doing I proceeded to chuck him over the wall and then I dashed towards the wall. The Earth using clone tried to halt my progress but as before I simply tore through them with my bare hands. This time though the fire clone was a little distracted by Sain raining down shuriken on him before he passed safely over the wall. I thrusted my hand through the earth using clone and was not surprised when it dissolved into earth. I put on another burst of speed to avoid the blast of fire and I once again broke through the wall.
On this side I was met with mud and several puddles. It was safe to say that Roshi was fighting a clone that was only using water jutsus. From the looks of it though Sain and Roshi had it covered as soon Roshi threw large amount of senbon at the clone who was unable to dodge all of them. Soon all that was left was the fire clone. "I have to say I'm impressed" Tai's voice came from atop the wall. We each turned out gaze to him and tensed for the last battle. "Well with your individual abilities at least. Your team work is horrendous. But I think I've seen enough you all pass."
We relaxed our selves when he walked towards us. "Saya-chan you have impressive strength and skill in taijutsu, but you need to learn to coordinate with your team better instead of just charging in blindly. Roshi-kun you need to be more aggressive, sometimes the best defense is a good offense, however your ability to prepare tonics and accuracy are rather good for your age. Sain-kun you have the same issue as Roshi-kun you lack aggression. Even with your potent genjutsu you will have to get your hands dirty sometimes. Still your agility and creativity are excellent skills that you should cultivate even more."
"Well its official from now on we are team twelve and we start taking missions tomorrow. I'll have a proper schedule drawn up sometime this week. Until then good job you three let's take a breather and meet here tomorrow same time." With that he took us all out to eat. We came to the same teahouse as before. We each exchanged snippets of conversation before heading home.