Next chapter now I hope I'm not droning on were getting there so be patient...

I Do Not Own Naruto therefore any terminology used in from Naruto is not mine .

The next day Bakuto towered over a snuggled up Yumi and bellowed,

"Wake up Midori Yumi!"

However Yumi barely yawned and turned around in her tousled blonde hair.

"Damn Earth spirit." he mumbled.

In that moment Bakuto came up with a devious plan. He gathered up Yumi's blonde locks and fastened it to a chair leg. He then aimed a kunai next to Yumi's head,

"This should do the trick..."

TING
CRACK
SMACK

Yumi was wide awake and had jumped a not amused Bakuto with the chair leg still attached to her hair but no longer attached to the chair.

'Her hair is as tough as her attitude great' he thought sarcastically.

"Well now you're awake, could you do me the kind favour to get off of me?"

Yumi casually crawled off the vexed Bakuto and removed the chair leg from the ends of her hair.

"It is your fault this had happened." She said coolly before giving him a smirk.

"Well pranks were never my forte." Bakuto replied while cleaning imaginary dirt of his Anbu uniform.

"I'm not dirty." She hissed at him.

Bakuto ignored the comment grabbed his katanas and lead the way to the field. Yumi obediently followed. Bakuto went to the edge of the field near some trees with targets painted on. He took out some kunais and tossed one to Yumi.

"Target practice."

Yumi stared at the weapon in her hands. The point and the gleam of the metal fascinated her. She swung the kunai on her finger but was abruptly stopped by an annoyed Bakuto.

"No playing. Training."

Yumi stared dumbly at him and then at the painted targets on the trees. Then back at Bakuto. Bakuto sighed.

"All you have to do is throw a kunai at the targets there, the more kunais you hit in the centre the more accurate you will get."

Before anymore confusion arose Bakuto demonstrated to Yumi. With no wasted moves Bakuto had hit all six targets perfectly without breaking a sweat.

"Now you try."

Yumi was in a state of shock. Bakuto was getting impatient.

"How dare you!" She cried.

"What did I do now oh Earth spirit?" He said between his teeth.

"What did these trees ever do to you? They are living creatures that deserve your respect!"

Bakuto smacked his forehead. He should have seen that coming. Now how was he to explain to this girl it was ok to...

However before he had a chance Yumi was already throwing kunais at the targets and quite accurately too. Bakuto sweat dropped.

"What happened to 'these trees deserve your respect' complaint huh?"

"They said it was fine, if I am to train sacrifices can be made." She said with an air of arrogance and continued on.

Bakuto disliked arrogance. In fact he quite detested it. But he held his tongue nonetheless and left Yumi to her own devices as he followed through with his morning routine training and patrol.

An hour later Yumi returned to Bakuto who was lazily lying on the grass.

"Masaki Bakuto, I request a bow." She demanded.

"Well I don't have one. What happened to target practice?"

"I am done, but if I am to live up to my name I must learn the ways of the bow." She replied with strong conviction.

Bakuto sighed once more.

"If you want a bow why don't you make one?"

Yumi considered this idea and before Bakuto could say another word she was gone.

It was nearing sun down and Bakuto had finished his evening patrol. A hint of worry crept over his face as he waited for Yumi to return. She took what he said so seriously at times he knew she was still a child. He even decided to teach her about chakra control and shinobi combat for the next day if she felt up to it.

"And here I was thinking about giving her some of my valuable time tomorrow." He said to himself. But in his heart he began to feel anxious.

No sooner was he going to search for her that Yumi appeared. She was carrying a wooden implement in her hands he could not make out in the poor light. With triumph Yumi held up her hand carved bow in the moonlight to show Bakuto the prize of her hard work.

"Look Bakuto, look! I have carved my own bow!" Her excited face set Bakuto's heart at ease.

"Well well you're not as useless as I thought." He said with a smirk and let the happy Yumi in.

Yumi was definitely no ordinary girl and Bakuto was slowly warming up to her. There was still three days of patrol to go, still three days to train Yumi.

Sunrise came and Bakuto was up as usual. However this time Yumi was already up practising with her newly carved bow and arrows. Bakuto was impressed, but something was brought to his attention. The arrows were lightly glowing green and with each shot she made the penetration of the arrows became deeper.

'She definitely has Earth natured chakra – again I should've seen that coming too' he thought to himself 'But not so soon...'

CRASH

A tree had fallen and it narrowly missed Yumi's head.

"Yumi are you alright?"

A calm Yumi stood still. Bakuto approached her and touched her shoulder.

"Yumi...?"

Yumi turned her eyes glowing, a smile upon her face.

"I'm ready to learn more Masaki Bakuto." A convicting tone in her voice.

Bakuto returned the smile and for the rest of the day he continued to teach Yumi the way of the shinobi. She grasped the concepts of chakra control and yin and yang quickly. She was taught the basics of ninjutsu and taijutsu and he explained the concept of genjutsu.

"I think that is enough for today."

Yumi was clearly not pleased but Bakuto was not one to be moved by female wiles. He made his way back to the wooden shack but Yumi remained in the fields. He made dinner and waited for Yumi to return but after a while he ate and slept knowing the stubborn Yumi would come back in her own time.

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