Sorry it took so long but I have another story that takes priority over this one. I'll try to update every two weeks but no promises
Boar continued to stand there, unfazed by my comment. We stared at each other for a few moments.
"Um, can you turn around? I'm only wearing my underwear right now," I said.
"Then stand up and get dressed," Boar replied curtly.
"I would feel very uncomfortable with a grown woman who isn't my mother watching me closely as I get dressed, so can you please turn around?"
Boar didn't respond. I rolled my eyes.
"What? Are you afraid a four year old Hyuuga with no training is going to get the drop on you? I know shinobi are supposed to be paranoid but that's just a little bit insane," I said. Boar stared at me for a few moments, then turned around.
"You have forty five seconds," she said.
I quickly got out of bed and got dressed.
"Okay, done," I said, Boar turned around, "Now was it really so hard to trust me?" I asked.
If the question caught her off guard, she didn't show it much. The only reaction I saw was a slight twitch in her left hand.
"It is not your job to make conversation, it is your job to teach me your English," said Boar.
"I need to talk and write to teach you English," I said. Boar pulled a dictionary out of her weapons pouch and tossed it to me.
"Today you will tell me all the translations in that book. Tomorrow you'll teach me how to write and the next day you'll teach me sentence structure," said Boar. I stared at her for a few moments.
"You plan on learning an entire language in three days?" I asked.
"Yes."
I shook my head and sighed. This kunoichi was a bit nuts, then again she was part of Root so I guess it wasn't that surprising.
"Okay then," I opened the dictionary, "Arigato, thank you, aruku, to walk, ashita, tomorrow." This continued for a few minutes when all of a sudden Hikari opened the door.
"Hizashi? Are you-. Oh," she had caught sight of Boar.
"I'll be out as soon as I can Mom," I said hastily.
"Are you sure you don't need me here?" asked Hikari, glancing nervously between Boar and me.
"Your son is teaching me what is to be an A-ranked secret. Only shinobi with permission from Danzo or the Hokage will be allowed to know this language," said Boar.
"I could cover my ears and keep my back turned from Hizashi," suggested Hikari.
"Why would you want to do that?"
"To protect me from you," I said, "In case Danzo told you to kill me when we were finished."
"I have not received an order to do so. I suspect Danzo-sama is interested in your development," said Boar.
"But if he told you to you wouldn't have a problem with killing my son?" asked Hikari. Boar looked at Hikari, I'm fairly certain she had raised an eyebrow beneath her mask.
"Why would killing your son be difficult? He has no training and the only one here to protect him at the moment is you. A retired Jonin who hasn't been in the field in eight years," said Boar. Hikari and I stared at her incredulously. Un-freaking-believable. I shook myself.
"I'm only teaching her part of English today, so they need me alive right now," I told Hikari. She glared at Boar.
"Alright, but as soon as you're done come straight to me. We need to continue your training," she said.
"Got it, see you soon."
Hikari turned to me and gave me a quick hug.
"Be safe." She let go and excited the room quickly. Boar stared after her for a moment then turned to me.
"Why did she wrap her arms around you like that?"
"You seriously don't know what a hug is?!" I all but shouted. Boar seemed to stagger back for a moment but then she shook herself.
"Get back to translating," she snapped.
"Okay, okay," I reopened the dictionary, "Let's see where was I? Ah here we go. Eki, war,..."
One hour later
Despite the now tense atmosphere things were still fairly tranquil until:
"Ku, nine."
Then before I knew it Boar had slammed me against the wall and had a kunai against my throat.
"Oomf, what the hell?!"
"How do you know about the nine tails?" demanded Boar.
"What?
"Don't play dumb. Yesterday you said that you knew who the container of the nine tailed fox was. Now how do you know!?"
Shit, why the hell did I say that? Well I thought if Danzo managed to understand me he'd react. That won't exactly calm her down you know! Shut up I'm trying to make something up! Think, think, think.
...
Got it!
"Look, I really don't know," I said. Boar scratched the kunai against my cheek, drawing blood.
"Seriously I don't know! I just heard a few adults talking about how the nine tailed fox was sealed into someone and how it was a village secret. I only said I knew who it was to,"
"Provoke a reaction from Danzo-sama," finished Boar, "Since you don't know how he thinks you wanted to make sure if he somehow understood you he would react. So you said that you knew an S-rank secret. But why did you think Danzo-sama would pretend not to understand you?"
"I don't know, to lull me into a false sense of security or something. Like you said I don't know how that guy works and frankly I'm pretty sure I don't want to know," I said. Satisfied with my answer Boar let me down.
"I'll say this kid, you're either the stupidest human in existence, or a genius," said Boar. I brushed away the blood on my cheek.
"Wow, that was almost a compliment. Who knows? Maybe if you spend more time with me torturing children will actually become somewhat difficult," I spat. I could practically feel her eyebrow raising.
"I mean you'd have a little voice in your head saying: 'This is wrong'," I explained.
"You are incapable of producing a long term genjutsu," said Boar.
...
Wow, just, just wow.
"Never mind. Let's just get back to translating," I said.
"Yes let's."
One hour later
After that little exchange I had started translating much faster. Boar didn't complain about it, I think she wanted to leave just as much as I wanted her to go. Anyway when I finished translating the dictionary she reminded me that she'd be back tomorrow then exited through my window. I stared after her for a moment then went to the kitchen. I hadn't gotten anything to eat that morning so I was pretty hungry.
On the counter I saw that Hikari had left some food out with a note.
Heat it up if it's too cold then come out to the training ground. We're working on your physical ability today.
Love Mom
I smiled. I was never in fantastic shape in my previous life but I had enjoyed working out when I had the chance. Then again this was ninja training, don't think 'fun' was what they had in mind when they trained.
I let out a small sigh then tossed my breakfast of rice and soup in the oven for a few minutes. Then I pulled it out, ate quickly, and headed out to the training ground.
The Hyuuga training ground was pretty bare bones. All it was was a large rectangular space where grass didn't grow. There wasn't any training dummies or anything at all in there. Then again stuff like that wasn't really needed. From what I saw the Hyuuga training ground was mainly used for practicing katas and unofficial sparring matches. At least that's what the shinobi did, I hadn't seen any kids practice there before.
As I entered the training ground I saw Hikari going through some katas with a with other Branch members. As soon as she saw me however she hurried over.
"Are you okay?" she asked.
"I'm fine," I told her. She touched the cut on my cheek and looked at me skeptically.
"Boar and I had a little misunderstanding, that's all. It won't happen again," I said. Hikari scowled.
"I swear the next time I see her."
"Mom, she's ANBU, you're retired. Don't get yourself killed just because I got a little cut," I interrupted. She sighed.
"Alright, but I'm staying with you when she comes back tomorrow," said Hikari, "Anyway are you ready to start your training?"
"As ready as I'll ever be."
"Okay then, this morning you'll be training without stop, then this afternoon Neji has a sparring match with Hinata-sama. Now that you have begun training you can attend official sparring matches if a direct family member is participating. I expect you to be there," said Hikari.
I grimaced. Yippie, I get to watch Neji beat up Hinata. Hikari noticed my expression and sighed.
"I know you and Hinata-sama are close but you need to see actual combat if you want to learn Gentle Fist."
I nodded.
"Okay. So what do you want me to do first?"
"First we'll just be seeing what you can do. So start sprinting," said Hikari.
"Sprinting?"
"Run as fast as you can for as long as you can. Laps around the training ground. Go!"
The training ground's perimeter was about an eighth of a mile. I sighed as I took off. Was I ever going to have an easy day?
Two hours later
Ooww. Pain.
Every limb on my body was sore, and it felt like when I moved I was pushing through a thick syrup. But I guess that was to be expected. I mean I had sprinted for a good eight minutes, ran at a decent pace for half an hour, done fifty push-ups, fifteen pull-ups and that's not even going into the chakra exercises. When I was on 'break' I had to channel chakra to my hand and use it to pick up objects. Because I had never controlled my chakra before this was mentally exhausting because locating chakra took concentration, then moving it to my hand took more, then getting the right ratio to lift objects took even more focus.
Now all that isn't very much for a ninja but keep in mind I have the body of a four year old and this is my first serious training session. When Hikari said we were finished I collapsed onto the floor and panted heavily.
"How much time do you need?" asked Hikari, standing over me.
"Why? *pant**pant* Am I in someone's way?" I asked.
"Not at the moment but you are preventing sparring matches from taking place," said Hikari. I groaned.
"Gimme a moment." I stayed still for another few seconds then forced myself to stand.
"We're going to be doing something like this everyday right?" I asked.
"It'll get easier," reassured Hikari, "Do you want some lunch?"
"I feel like my body is made of lead and if I fell asleep I wouldn't be able to wake up for a month. So yeah, I could use the energy boost," I said. Hikari smiled.
"Well since it's your first training day do you have any requests?" she asked. We started walking back to our house.
"Do we have any chicken teriyaki or gyoza?" I asked, my mouth watering slightly.
"Indeed we do," said Hikari, we had reached our rooms and headed inside, "Take a seat and I'll have it out for you in a little bit."
I took a seat at the table while Hikari walked to the kitchen. It would take her about ten minutes to make the meal so I pulled out my journal and read over my notes. I flipped to the section I had on all the music I used to listen to and started reading the lyrics. Having mild Aspergers has a few advantages, since I was socially awkward in the beginning of my old life I was able to develop a pretty good memory. Not photographic but all I had to do was read the chorus of 'Till I Collapse by Eminem and I was bobbing my head to the remembered beat. The lyrics and background music playing in my head.
After a few moments Hikari came back in and placed the meal in front of me. I grabbed my chopsticks and tug in even faster than usual. Hikari watched me and shook her head.
"If it weren't for your eyes or the fact you're in good shape I'd swear you were an Akimichi," she said.
"If it weren't for your pale eyes I'd assume you were a civilian because you don't have a massive stick up your-"
"Hizashi," she threatened. We stared at each other for a few moments then started chuckling.
"Who taught you such language anyway?" she asked, still laughing. I shrugged.
"Well finish up. Neji's getting out from the academy early today for the sparring match."
I stopped chuckling and sighed.
"Don't be like that. I'm sure when Hinata-sama sees you she'll be encouraged," said Hikari.
"You want me to root for Hinata?"
Hikari sighed.
"I love your brother just as much as I love you but he needs to get knocked down a few pegs. I try to talk to him about how people can change and so called 'failures' can prove themselves but, well you know how he is," she said.
I nodded and went back to my lunch.
Nothing I could do but hope my presence would somehow help.
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