CH 21
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Sasuke had pride. He was proud of many things and even though he'd gone through that terrible moment in his life, he was now proud to feel the sense of belonging that he'd been missing. Team Seventeen was infinitely better than Team Seven had ever been. He was glad to have pushed most of the irritation that he had against Naruto, away.
There were still times that the blond bothered him, but it was never in the same sense that it had been in the past. That boy was a mystery to the Uchiha. He went from 'Dead-Last of the Class' to being his senior for time in, in the Genin Rank. Something that should have pissed him off and it did for a short time, but doesn't so much anymore because the blond didn't hide what he'd learnt.
There was still the condition that he'd have to ask for training and help from the blond, but that was understandable because Naruto still didn't think that his help would be accepted, if it was just being offered. The black haired boy thought, 'He was right about that, but I'm glad that he's willing to learn and show us stuff that he's figured out. I wonder how come it seems that he knows so much?'
There was a "Skreee" sound from his window and he sighed, but smiled at the creature perched there.
'A Hawk summon giving me a hawk familiar,' he thought and looked at the black-faced hawk (…i…) looking back at him.
It was half the normal size, but infinitely smarter than the average of the species. It had a main white core body and head with mix coloured black wings with some white interspersed. Black piercing eyes with black feathering around them, which made it look like a mask in a white face. It had orange legs that finished in sharp black claws and strange two-tone beak of orange that finished in a sharp down turned black tip.
"Hello, Kasumi," (…ii…) Sasuke said. "Have you finished your flight for the day?" The hawk answered in a series of chirps and skrees, which he understood from his time being tested by the Kin of the Five Stormhawks (…iii…). "Yes, I know I'm going to need new clothing to support your claws. Naruto said he'd be by and that our team was going to go to Akiko's after the second of our mock missions, which should be interesting. I only hope that Sakura is not at her cousin's."
The bird then made a sound that indicated that she wanted a treat, which the black haired boy permitted, since he was still getting used to responding to her wishes. She wasn't a demanding thing and when she spoke to him, she was expecting him to listen.
He'd learned that lesson very fast too. At least part of his time in the land of summons was to focus on the bond that he'd developed with Kasumi. It was relatively the same time frame he'd needed just like Risa did with her pup Akoba. Since the Chunin exams were only days away, they agreed not to take missions, but to train together to work as a cohesive team.
So far, Kasumi scouted for them, while Akoba and Risa were trackers and trap or bomb layers, while he and Naruto were the fighters, mid to close combat. They'd been given the rare permission to do two mock missions in the ANBU training grounds. They needed the room to use their elements and weapons that they'd grown fond of using.
Only their senseis, plus three of the Hokage's trusted ANBU observed their method of carrying out the mock missions. Anyone curious was blocked by the Fujin shields that Naruto had erected around the place and no one could get in or out. The three ANBU included the obvious Hawk, since he was the one that had at one time taken damage from the blond Jinchuriki. The other two were Sparrow and Bear, who had set up a special net trap that Tokuma-sensei had requested for one of the paths.
The first mock mission, involved the rescue of some dignitary's daughter that they were supposed to have been escorting, but she slipped her leash, so-to-speak. Changing their C-Class Chunin level escort mission to a B-Class rescue. This one was thought up, by Kakashi-sensei, because it sound like one of the plots in an Icha Icha book that he'd been reading as the scenario was being set up.
The second mock C to B-Class mission that was about the exploration of some ruined building or castle in order to seek out some imaginary treasure. Risa and Naruto thought this was a bad joke on the part of Tokuma-sensei, since he knew some of the things that had been encountered in the Buried Palace in Suna.
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Mission 1 – Spoilt BratThe mission was going fine until in typical spoiled child mode, the girl that the trio were watching or escorting had slipped passed in them the market and was browsing stalls until her capture by thugs.
Kasumi screetched and sounded the information to her black haired partner, who then related the information to his team. They immediately followed at a discreet distance and were not detected by the kidnappers. Risa and Akoba were tracking the girl's scent, since they'd already confirmed that hers was unique.
Instructions were relayed to them at different times from either their senseis or the ANBU that were observing them. The instructions came at intervals where they were to take action or mention an action they'd take based on the 'pretend' actions of the kidnappers and the 'kidnapped girl'.
The team waited for the conditions of the area to be described and they were to also ask specific questions such as building size, number of rooms and did they know the number rooms, were the streets familiar, was it day or night, etc…
They were using the throat communication devices, the military hand signs and even minimal sign language to convey their actions. Risa had used the distracting smoke bombs and the two boys were the ones to knock out the distracted guards when the smoke confused them.
They didn't rush, but they also didn't waste time and the ANBU were impressed that they'd managed to rescue the straw doll that played the part of spoiled princess. They did have a laugh when Team Seventeen had all agreed to leave the girl trussed up until she was safely delivered to her destination in one piece, although not in quite a dignified fashion.
The mission would have been a success, but the senseis and the ANBU stated that complaints would have been placed in their files because of their treatment of the girl after they rescued her.
Risa then looked at the boys and said, "Maybe we should learn patience for the snobs?"
"Let them add the complaints to the file," Naruto said. "Maybe next time we won't get someone that doesn't listen."
"You do know that they just might decide to keep giving us missions like that until we no longer get complaints," Sasuke said.
"I wouldn't be surprised, if that happened to some of the Jounin we know," Naruto said with a speculative and mischievous grin. He knew full well that there was something like that in Kakashi's file because he'd been the Hokage of Konoha and had been curious about his old teacher's past missions.
Hidden in the observation area of the training grounds, a grey haired, one-eyed Jounin flinched.
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Mission 2 – Treasure HuntKasumi had protested at the suggestion of being left behind. She'd argued her case and to the amusement of his teammates, as they watched the Uchiha argue with the bird. She landed on his shoulder and nipped his ear as punishment for not listening. In the end the bird won her case and they were grateful for it.
The bird had a difference sense of things and the information was relayed to his teammates. Sasuke had regretted his overprotective attitude and apologized to the bird by giving her treat. She brushed her wing against the ear she wounded in order to apologize in her own fashion for hurting him.
Risa and Naruto knew not to make any fuss about that. They continued to follow the map that they'd been given. Having gone through something similar in the Buried Palace they sort of followed the same pattern, only this time they had someone that could see illusion traps much better than the ninja goggles because the Sharingan saw much more.
They had quickly passed and disarmed a few traps until they reached the room with the wire netting that was set up by devious ANBU that didn't believe that any member of that team could bypass it. Akoba scented the first wire and growled a warning that all three had been trained to listen for. Even Kasumi skreed a comment to her bonded basically telling him that she wouldn't be flying in this room.
Sasuke gasped as he looked at the wire mess in front of them. "Oh, wow," he said. "Don't take another step. Flip through the lenses until you can see them too."
Risa and Naruto flipped their lens to the ones that would reveal all the ninja wires in front of them. "Oh Kami," Risa said. She looked at the smallest member of their team. "Do you think you can still do it?"
"That'll depend," Naruto said. "We need to be sure that this is the last room and that the trap can be disarmed at the other side."
"Confirmed," the ANBU that set the wires said to them. "The switch to retract the wires is on the other side of the room and you can see it."
Naruto sighed and muttered, "This has to have been Tokuma-sensei's idea."
"Well you are getting taller," Sasuke said. "You won't be able to pass through this kind of thing much longer."
"True, true," Naruto said. "Okay, let's set up a rest area twenty paces back, as that area had been deemed safe, unless that's suddenly changed?"
"No changes," a voice came through their communicators.
The team retreated in order to set up a camp situation. During that time Naruto shed his over suit and changing out his footwear for his special toed shoes with grips and them he put on his gloves with the same special grips. He packed all of his gear into his pack, including the weights he'd been wearing to make himself lighter and more agile.
They the watched him go through several extreme stretch routines to ensure that his limbs were loose and ready for the task in front of him. Naruto looked at them and said, "Pray!"
Risa wished him luck, which Akoba barked out too in his nin-dog language.
Sasuke only told him to watch the ceiling and the floor because he'd seen wires roll through in some kind of sequence.
Naruto put up his hood that completely covered his hair. He put on his goggles and left his usual pouch behind for his teammates to take care of. This was the first time he was doing this and his only thought in the matter was, 'This is going to be fun…Gyo.'
With his Nen Jutsu activated silently, he could detect one more trick that had been added to the wires. Some of the wires were charged with different elements. He grinned and then began to move.
Kakashi and the ANBU had been the only ones that had never seen the boy move through such a complicated mess of ninja wire. Sasuke had only seen a basic demonstration months ago so his mouth was hanging open as he watch the blond use every trick that he'd learn about chakra control to ease he way through that minefield of garrotting wire.
"Risa," Sasuke said to his other teammate. "Is it me or does it look like he's having fun?"
"Oh, he's having fun," she said looking at him with the typical Inuzuka toothy grin. Akoba barked his agreement. "I think this will be one of the few times that he's actually challenged with something like this. Besides, when he showed Team Eleven this, we did it outside. In here, he can use the ceiling and walls to manoeuvre through most of the problems because of the chakra control he'd learnt."
"In the woods what were the moves like," Sasuke asked and hitched his breath, as the blond jumped from the left wall to the ceiling and then to the floor through a set of wires that were contracting and opening with a speed that would have been difficult, if the blond hadn't removed his weights.
"It was more jumping, tiptoeing, and finger holding," she replied. "He can jump really high too, with and without chakra, but his body control is still very precise. Look…" She pointed to the blond that was now bent double over a wire on the tips of his fingers and toes.
Naruto leaned more weight onto his fingers and slowly lifted his legs up and then he split them before they touch a wire that was positioned higher up. He walked forward two paces and then curled his legs still split onto the ground. The next wire that he had to pass was low. He rolled his body into a stretch over one of his legs and from there he rolled so that his torso was level to his legs. He crawled forward slowly with his fingers and hands. Then he rolled his hips to point his toes down and on their tips again he inched forward to pass that low wire.
He paused for only half a breath to do a quick look around and then continued his slow, but steady passage through one of the most complicated wire configurations that he'd ever seen. 'It makes sense that this kind of thing might just be found in old ruins,' he thought. 'There's no way that this kind of set up could be used for quick ambushes or traps unless the enemy had the time to set it up.'
He was at the last wire wall and all the wires were chakra charged by all the base elements that they tested for. "Sneaky, tricky," he muttered. "There are elements to charge the wires."
"Can you disable the elements," Sasuke asked.
"No, but there's something…" Naruto said.
"Can you counter the elements," Risa asked.
"Guys," Naruto said. "Who knows about our elements?"
"Our senseis," Risa said.
"So why would they set up all elements against me in this, if they knew," Naruto said.
"Maybe they didn't set that up," Sasuke said. "Use your brain Dobe." A code for saying 'Be careful idiot.'
"Teme," Naruto said and waved at the dark haired boy with a very brief sign that said, 'no worries'. It was one of the signs that they'd made up as a team without telling their senseis. They felt that they'd needed some signs to convey that they were fine, healthy, not worried about the issue or a couple of other covert signs that indicated emotions or cautions.
The blond looked at the wires and this time he flipped his lenses again looking through all variations a couple of times and then he found the pattern. He then looked at the walls and ceiling to see if there was something different and that's when he noticed it.
He grinned toothily, pumped a fist in the air and yelled, "WAKATTA!" (I got it!)
Everyone watched to see just what it was that the blond had figured out.
Naruto jumped up to the ceiling sticking there with chakra and then he ran to the left wall and passed through a narrow hole in the ninja wire. Next he ran back to the ceiling and dropped to the floor and quickly crawled under the new hole that appeared in the wire net. He then ran up the right wall and jumped through the hole at angle aiming for the ceiling and then after a count of two, as the sequence nearly reset he dove through the last hole and rolled to a standing position fully through the entire mess.
"Yatta," he said. (I did it!) He quickly disarmed the full ninja wire mess with the right switch and his team watched as the wires retracted into the walls.
"Use caution coming across the floor," the blond youth told his teammates, who did and were lucky that they did because there had been hidden traps in there too. When they were finally by his side, he just looked at them with twinkling blue eyes still pumped from the excitement and said, "That was so fun!"
"Dobe," Sasuke said to him with sigh and a private sign that said, 'Glad you're safe'.
Risa nodded her head, but had no reservations in hugging him because of his success. "Now, enough of that," she said. "Put your suit back on and carry your own gear."
"Hai, hai," Naruto said, quickly put on his over suit and strapping his pouches and weights back on where they belong. He didn't bother with his regular sandals because the toed-socks were actually shoes too. "How much further do you think we have to go?"
They looked at the map and found that they didn't have far to go to finish up that mock mission and once they were through it completely, they'd all been congratulated by their senseis and the ANBU observers on their impressive teamwork for navigating the maze.
Comments were made about the fact that no one would believe that such a trap would exist during regular missions or when encountering and enemy. They then regretted that they hadn't thought to photograph it or record the boy's passage through the wires. "The Hokage would have wanted to see this," one ANBU said. "I know other ANBU that would have wanted to see it too."
"What makes you think that the old man didn't see this," Naruto asked. "Doesn't he 'see all' through that glass ball of his?"
"How do you know about that," another ANBU asked.
"I've been in that assembly room before," Naruto said with a shrug. "Had to answer a few questions before the Council and that wasn't a fun time either."
"Questions about what," Sasuke asked curious about why the blond would have to go before the Council with him or the team.
"Himitsu," Naruto said seriously and the black haired boy only huffed and looked away at that statement, like it was something that the blond was always saying. "Seriously, I can't tell you."
Sasuke looked back and nodded. "Understood," he said. "So we've done these two 'missions' and have found that we can still work together, now what?"
"You're free until July 1st," Kakashi-sensei told them. "Sign the forms and submit them to me before joining the others at the Ninja Academy by four o'clock in the afternoon, room 301." He then had to blink because the forms had already been signed and now they were being handed over to him. "Don't any of you want to think about this?"
"Why," Risa said. "We've already discussed this and we all feel that we're ready."
"That's right," Naruto said. "We signed and if you need the signed forms before we go, well then why not take them since they're signed."
"What's there to think about," Sasuke said in that tone that told everyone that he thought they were asking ridiculous questions. "You believe we're ready, we believe we're ready, so why not take the forms now, sensei?"
Tokuma-sensei gathered the signed forms and saw that they were all signed and dated on the same day. He smiled and asked, "Did you three sign them together?"
"Same day we resolved a few issues," Naruto told him. "Can we go now?"
"Yes," Kakashi-sensei told them. "Dismissed until the day of the Chunin exam," he said and watched as all three looked at one another and then the Genin all Shunsinned out of there with barely a whisper of movement.
The senseis thanked the ANBU for their assistance and then took the forms to get their students names added to the Chunin lists. They had the strongest feeling that their students would do just fine on that exam.
"I still wish we'd thought to record that last bit," Hawk said.
"I did," Sparrow said. "You never know when some young ninja will show you something surprising or even inspiring."
Bear perked up at that and said, "Let's go to ANBU HQ and watch it again. Did you get different angles?"
"Of course," Sparrow said with a full body expression that indicated getting less than two angles was foolish.
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Haruno Akiko may not have been eligible to be a full-time Kunoichi anymore, but she did keep her ear in with the local ninja gossip. Her favourite sources were the Genin teams from the same group that she'd graduated with and those that eventually moved up to Chunin ranks or those that became apprentices to the local town industry.
She was slowly gaining steady customers and soon she was going to have enough money to buy a building that could be used as a shop for the clothing she made. The building that she had in mind had an apartment over the shop, however she was still glad that her favourite customers, namely her original team members plus one Uchiha that had become known as her 'regulars'.
Naruto and Sasuke had booked her for two full days of work and they were due to come this afternoon to explain what they wanted her to make. She was looking forward to their company and to find out why her cousin hadn't come by since the last time she'd come seeking advice. They said that their teammate would be joining them this time, but didn't say anything in case she didn't know about the changes that had occurred to Team Seven.
"Oh well," Akiko muttered, as she made sure her tea things were ready. "Maybe Sakura will be with the rest of her team today." There was a knock at her door. She was excited and opened it to see a nervous looking black haired boy. "Sasuke," she said. "Come on in, you're the first to get here."
He hesitated and then said, "Can Kasumi come in too?"
"Who," she asked. Then she watched him hold out his arm and one of the most beautiful birds she'd ever seen landed. "Oh, she's a beauty," she breathed out. "Of course, you can bring her in. I'll set up a perch near the window for her to come and go, as she pleases."
"Thank you," the Uchiha said, coming into the house removing his shoes and putting on house slippers that were available for the guests. "The others should be coming soon. I think Naruto said something about needing more coloured pencils."
"That's fine," Akiko said. "Here we go," she pulled an old high backed chair near the window's frame. "How's that," she asked the bird. The black-faced hawk flew to the chair and chirruped her pleasure.
"Arigatou," Sasuke said. (Thank you)
"You have a seat, while I get the door," she said. "Help yourself, no formalities among friends." He sat down and waited for the others to be let in. He winced at the girl's Sakura like squeal of excitement and surprise at seeing Risa.
Naruto had quickly accepted his hug and escaped to go find Sasuke. He walked in rolling his eyes and saying, "They've always been like this. Hello Kasumi!"
The bird acknowledged the greeting and then turned her piercing gaze outside to a rodent that had caught her attention. It was fat and looked like it would be a good snack.
Sasuke watched as Naruto served himself some tea with ease. "How were the two of them as a team?"
"They were great," the blond replied. "Akiko worked just as hard as Risa. Tokuma-sensei was willing to test her camo-cloth with his Byakugan. He even got it tested by a Sharingan wielder, but at the time we didn't know who he was going to ask to do that."
"Kakashi-sensei," Risa asked coming into the room. "Sasuke's wasn't activated when we were a team, so it had to have been Kaka-sensei."
"Ne, Naruto," Akiko said. "When you and Sasuke booked me for the next two days, I thought you said that you'd be coming here as a team?"
Naruto and Sasuke looked at one another. Naruto then said, "I told you she doesn't seem to have told anyone."
"Fine," Sasuke said. He pulled out a rare Snow element scroll that he'd found in among the library effects that they'd found and gave it to the other boy. "But you have to admit that there was the she chance that she'd have said something to someone."
"Not if she was embarrassed because of it," Naruto said, tucking the scroll away. Then he turned to Akiko and clarified. "This is our team."
"WHAT?"
Risa grinned, Sasuke had to smirk at the girl's surprised looked and the blond was chuckling in his teacup.
"Aren't you boys on Team Seven with Sakura," Akiko asked.
"A-hem," Risa coughed. "They're on Team Seventeen...with me."
"But I thought that...," the other girl paused and then said. "Okay, explain it to me." So they did, complete with the fact that Sakura, herself, had requested that the team members be changed. At the end of it all, Akiko was laughing so hard at the results that it took a while for her to calm down.
"Returned to the Academy, no wonder she hasn't been back to see me," she chuckled on and off, but still went to gather the files she had for her regulars. "I'll have to measure you guys again before we begin anything new, meanwhile tell me what's going on in Konoha, I've been seeing a lot of foreign ninjas at the market recently."
"The Chunin exams are in Konoha," Risa told her. "We've been recommended."
"Lucky," Akiko said. "But as a team you needed at least eight missions together right?"
"We have twice that," Naruto told her. "It's not by team, but per Genin. So we all have over twice the amount, however Team Seventeen has a slightly better record because we've done...is it nine or ten C-Rank missions now?"
"Eleven," Sasuke said. "Risa got the Land of Wave mission with us and it was after that that we became Team Seventeen."
"Wow," Akiko finished measuring Risa and Naruto. She handed the tape to the blond boy to measure the Uchiha because the black haired boy wasn't comfortable with a girl measuring him. The girls thought it was cute, which caused Sasuke to blush lightly, but they did understand that he was shy.
"So what can I do for the three of you," Akiko said.
Risa began with a request for two hooded coats that were re-enforced for her pup, one light and one for cold weather. She then requested a sleeveless over suit like Naruto's with a pouch in the front for Akoba and more gloves only this time with metal plates on the back like some of the Jounin wear made in a non-slip matte black or dark grey and fingerless. Her under suit she said she would get them from the market, since she could get those quickly.
Naruto requested his usual under suit combination one in dull dark green and a second in dark grey or black, only this time with full leg and arm length. His over suit was the same as always in mottled colours of the village's environment, but he too requested that it have a hood. He then asked for a coat that had a removable thick liner, but that there was no rush on that since their exams were in Konoha. He asked for forearm and ankle to knee leg wraps as covers for the 'dark' bracers that can be charged with elemental chakra. The last thing he asked for was for a pair of gloves similar to Risa's request.
Sasuke requested a similar under suit combination, only one in dark blue and one in dark grey. He requested an over suit similarly mottled colours, with a slight embarrassed cheek scratch. However he did state that his had to be re-enforced at both shoulders so that his hawk could land on them. Then he asked for re-enforced forearm and leg wraps for the same reason as Naruto, but that some white should be part of it to match his bird's colours. The last thing he asked for was for a pair of gloves similar to Risa's request.
Akiko nodded and said, "I stocked up on the types of fabric for the over and under suits." The blond looked at her shocked. "It's from that textile merchant of ours, you remember."
"Oh him," Naruto said with a chuckle. "Is he still asking for D-Rank escorts?"
"From time to time," Akiko said. "He delivers to me directly before going to the other shops in town and since I know that what I make I sell, I usually buy up everything I need for you. So Sasuke and Risa, will this be part of your normal orders?"
"We decided to get them for the Chunin exams and perhaps after if we like the feel of them," Risa said. "Whether we pass or not, we're still going to be Team Seventeen for a while because of how well we work together."
"I think so too," Naruto said.
"Well you know the rules for this many outfits, you guys have to do some of the work," Akiko said. Then she looked at all three of them and said, "Earrings!"
"What," Risa asked. "We all have..."
"No we don't," Naruto said and looked at Sasuke. "Kakashi-sensei and Sasuke don't, but we're not going to force them into it either."
"I've always wondered why you have them," Sasuke told the blond.
"It was a team thing," Naruto said. "We had them done before we went to Suna for the Chunin exams. Even Tokuma-sensei had his done at the same time."
"Oh," Sasuke said and the looked out the window where his hawk had flown out during their conversation.
"Sasuke," Risa asked. "Did you want them too?"
"It was a team thing," Sasuke said. "I wouldn't want to butt into that history."
"Baka," Naruto said. "The colour is our history. If Risa goes to get the kit and after care stuff for you, we get her to buy a different team colour, that'd be all right wouldn't it?" He turned to the girls who nodded in agreement.
"Of course," Risa said. "But what about Kakashi-sensei?"
"It's his choice," Naruto said. "Plus we don't know if his ears are already pierced or not? We could get the kits for him and let him make his choice on his own."
"I never noticed," Sasuke said. "But then I wasn't looking for something like that on him either."
Akiko then said, "Get them in dark blue, it'll match everyone's eyes after a fashion and it'll match the over suits I'll be making." She pulled out a large bolt of cloth and showed them. "See, it has the standard greens and reds, but there is an undertone of blue in it, instead of the normal brown. There was just something about this one that I liked."
"It's perfect," Risa said. "Yes, I'll go get us some dark blue ones. It's a tradition for us now, for the Chunin exams." She looked at the Uchiha and said, "Take your time and tell me before the end of tomorrow."
"Why the end of tomorrow," the black haired boy asked.
"I know Healing Jutsu for minor cuts," Akiko said. "We used it, when we'd arrived in Suna, so that we wouldn't be distracted. It takes about a day for the redness and discomfort to disappear."
"It won't matter, since his hair is so long," Naruto commented. "Speaking of which I'm due for another trim, do you mind Akiko?"
"Not at all," she standing up and getting the items she needed. "Remember you promised to let it grow out," she said.
"Yes, but I do need to see," Naruto pointed out. "The head band or goggles can hold most of it away from my face, but I need to get it out of my eyes."
Sasuke agreed to the 'team tradition', saying, "My hair's long enough to hide them for a while."
"You'll need a trim too," Akiko said, as Risa left to get Team Seventeen's new colour of earrings. "It's better to get a little bit cut off in order to let the rest grow healthier. You do know that it looks like you've been using a kunai to cut your hair."
"I do use a kunai to cut my hair," Sasuke told her.
She blinked and said, "Oh."
He pet Kasumi's crest and then asked in an almost absentminded fashion, "Would you mind doing mine too?"
Akiko just smiled gently behind the blond head she was working on and said, "Not at all."
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TBC…
(...i...) www dot google dot ca/images?hl=en&q= black+faced+hawk+images &btn= &safe=images &oi=image_result_group&sa=X (remove the spaces and replace the word dot).
(…ii…) Kasumi means = Mist , see www dot babynames dot com/ name/ Kasumi (remove the space and replace the word dot)
(…iii…) Stormhawks = in no way resembles the cartoon "Storm Hawks", as seen on YTV or other cartoon networks. The name is given because all names reflect the storms that they cause or control, etc…, etc….
FYI: Hawk Summons in scroll names come from - www dot names-meanings dot net/ names/ weather (change the dot and remove the spaces)
Leader – Ukko (ex-large)
Advisor – Dumisa (large)
Neutral / Peacekeeper / Scroll Guardian - Vanada (large)
Guardians / Fighters – Barak (mid-size or human size) & Niyal (mid-size or human size)
Ukko
Finnish myth name of a sky and thunder god, meaning old man
Dumisa
African Zulu name meaning causes thunder
Barak
Hebrew biblical name of a military commander, meaning lightning
Niyol
Native American Navajo name meaning wind
Vanada
Hindi name meaning rain-giver