Chapter 5- Training

(Yugi's POV)

"However were going to start with something simple today; Weapon practice." Mahad said and I ginned. I was excited to do all of this; I wanted to be able to learn how to wield Kunai and Shuriken since I started watching Naruto. Kunai were one of the Ninja's most useful tools.

Mahad smiled to us before sighing and looking over his shoulder to the training grounds. "Yami! Atem! Joseph! Come here!"

In a second the three boys were by their sensei's side. I looked them over and noted what they were wearing. Atem was dressed in a pair of thigh length dark blue shorts, a black t-shirt that clung to his body, ninja gloves with metal on them and blue ninja shoes.

Yami was in a pair of black thigh length shorts, a dark blue t-shirt that clung to him, a black vest and a pair of blue ninja boots.

Joey was in a pair of light blue thigh length shorts, a green t-shirt and a black hoodie with fake fur around the hood, cuffs and hoodie hem. It reminded me of Kiba's hoodie, I actually wondered if it was one of his.

Atem and Yami looked to us in surprise, Yami's brows furrowing in confusion and Atem just glared at us. Hmm, he must still be upset about me not telling him the reason why Mahad won't enter him in the exams. "Atem, Yami, Joey we are going to see if we can teach these boys here how to wield Ninja tools such as Kunai and Shuriken."

"Are you sure there smart enough to wield such weapons without getting themselves killed?" Atem commented and I inwardly sighed. This man was really setting himself up to get taught a lesson. Heba was never one to take things lying down, give him a reason, and he would put you in your place.

As if sensing my thoughts Heba stiffened beside me and scowled at Atem. "Are you sure there smart enough to teach us?"

"Why you little-"

"ENOUGH!" I flinched as Mahad's yelled. I looked to him in shock as he glared at his Atem and Yami. "You both are going to teach them and you're going to do it right and without insults! Am I understood?"

Atem and Yami nodded. "Good now you need to oversee there training while I go and inform Hokage-Sama of everything. Now every, behave." Mahad vanished then with the simply Teleportation Jutsu.

Atem sighed before motioning for us to follow him. We headed over to the trees that had target signs on them. Atem handed us a pouch with Kunai in them and we strapped them to our thighs. Once we were done we looked back up to the boys and Atem pointed to the trees. "It's simple, you hold the kunai in your hand by the handle of it, and throw it at the target… like this."

Atem grabbed a Kunai and held it by the base on the white fabric that was wrapped around it. He brought it in to his chest before flinging his arm out and releasing the kunai. It flew through the air with a whoosh sound before embedding in the tree in the center of the target sign. "It's all about concentration and aim." He looked to us to make sure we understood. Heba and I nodded and Atem moved out of the way so that we could get to work.

I looked over to the target and took a kunai out of the pouch. It felt metal but extremely light still. I turned it over in my hand before pulling the kunai in to my chest. I took a deep breath and let it out slowly before flinging my arm out just like Atem did. When my arm was straight I let the Kunai go. It flew through the air and missed the tree… by a lot.

Yami fell over laughing and Atem simply smirked, as if he had just been proven right. I scowled at them and glared at the ground, no one could be perfect on their first try.

Whoosh!

I blinked and looked up to where the sound of a kunai embedding in a tree was heard. I looked over to it and realized it was Heba who had thrown it, and it had hit the mark straight on! Dead in the center! I snapped my head to my brother who was smirking at a scowling Atem. Yami was still laughing but this time at Atem.

"How the hell did you do that!? No person could be that good on their first try!" Atem shouted and Heba arched a brow at him, crossing his arms over his chest.

"Who said this was my first time with this sort of thing?"

I blinked in confusion before my eyes widened. Heba had taken archery, knife throwing and Karate when we were in middle school. I had also taken Karate with him but never got into the other things. I preferred to focus on my school and as a result where Heba is better at the physical things I am better at planning things.

Atem scowled and Heba smirked before grabbing another Kunai from the pouch. He closed his eyes and pulled his arm in to his chest before flinging it out and throwing the Kunai. It embedded in my target this time, right in the center. Heba opened his eyes and looked to Atem, smirking again.

"An unwritten law of a shinobi; don't underestimate your opponents or teammates. You underestimated me Atem and I just proved your wrong. Contrary to your belief my brother and I are good but at different things. This; is one of my strengths. Ask me to plan an attack or something and were screwed, ask Yugi and you would probably get a step by step plan." Heba lectured as he walked over to the kunai and pulled it from the tree. He placed it back in the pouch before turning to Atem.

Atem simply scowled and looked away. I wasn't sure what he was more irritated about, the fact that he was proven wrong or the fact that Heba was teaching him while he was supposed to be teaching us. I went to grab another Kunai and try again when I saw Heba stiffen out of the corner of my eye. I released the Kunai and looked over to him, tiling my head to the side. He seemed, unnerved almost afraid of something.

"Fine whatever if you're so g-" Atem started and Heba scowled at him.

"Shut up."

"What!? Don-"

"Atem! Just shut up!" Heba shouted and Atem narrowed his eyes at him. Heba simply ignored the look and Yugi walked over to me, lowering his voice once he was in ear shot. "Yugi, do you sense that?"

I blinked in confusion but closed my eyes and focused on my surroundings. That's when it hit me, it was a eerie feeling that caused the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. It was as if, someone was watching us, but not in a good way. My eyes snapped back open and connected with Heba's worried Amethyst. He appeared calm but his eyes showed a different emotion. He was scared. "Were being watched." I whispered and Heba nodded his head.

I turned back to Yami and Atem who had clearly heard what I said as they now looked worried as well. "Where is Joey?" I asked and the boys looked around, instantly alarmed. Right when they were about to respond a Kunai flew in-between us all with a piece of paper attached. I instantly recognized it.

"EXPLODING SCROLL!" I yelled and Heba grabbed my wrist, dragging me far away from the kunai.

Heba and I headed into a nearby bush, taking cover as the scroll let off. Once the dust cleared we peaked back into the area were there were now five ninja looking around for us. One of them had Joey and Dragon tied up, it also appeared that they were knocked out. My hands clenched into a fist as I tried to think of a way that we could get in there, knock them out and save Joey.

The only problem was Heba and I had little knowledge of how to work our chakra and Jutsu's. I had a better idea then Heba because of my knowledge of the show but, I didn't know if I could do anything. And running out there blindly would get me killed and everyone else.

"Yugi," Heba whispered and I looked over to him. "What are we going to do?"

I sighed and felt my heart clench. We have decided to become ninja to protect people and those we care about! And now, I felt so useless! The sound of fighting reached our ears and Heba and I looked back to the field to see Atem and Yami attempted to fight the ninja. Atem had made a water clone and Yami was using a fire release Jutsu, Flame Flower. I watched one of the enemy ninja throw a kunai and it embed in Yami's shoulder. He bit his lip in pain and gripped the weapon, yanking it out his shoulder and throwing it back at the ninja who threw it at him.

My eyes widened and I felt my heart pound so hard in my chest I thought it was going to break. Tears filled my eyes as I watched the people I had come to consider friends get hurt. It wasn't fair!

"Yugi we have to do something!" Heba whispered and I looked over to him. What could we do? It wasn't like we could stop time or run out there and kill them all. Heba must have noticed my look because he sighed and continued talking. "Look you watch this show a lot, there has to be some hand seals you have picked up, you must know how to do at least one Jutsu!"

I looked back to the battle before closing my eyes and running through my head all of the battle scenes in Naruto. One stood out the most, the day Naruto stole the forbidden scroll. The hand seals to the Jutsu they were on the scroll and Naruto had performed them many times. "I may know one; it's the forbidden Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu. One Naruto himself is known for."

"Can you do it?" Heba asked looking over to me and I sighed.

"I may be able to, but I don't know for sure."

"Just try! I am going to go find see if I can peg one of them down with some Kunai. Please just try Yugi, we have to save them!" Heba begged and I nodded my head. Even if I couldn't trying is better than doing nothing. Heba smiled before getting up and running off to get a better angle.

Once he was gone I closed my eyes and started to run the pictures in my head of the scroll and all the times Naruto performed the Shadow Clone. Tiger, Ram, Serpent, Tiger, Boar, Ox, Dog. I repeated that in my head as my hands slowly started to form the seals. It was good I mesmerized what each seal was, or else this would have been bad. Once I had the seals down I tried to focus my chakra into my hands like I did with the paper. The bubbling feeling returned and I pushed myself to my feet, a knowing feeling in my body that told me this time, it would work. I didn't know how I knew it, but I did. Tiger, Ram, Serpent, Tiger, Boar, Ox, Dog. Once my hands formed the final seal my eyes snapped open and my mouth seemed to speak on its own. "Forbidden Seal, Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu!"

There was a loud poof noise and all the fighting in the field stopped as we were suddenly surrounded by hundreds of me. My eyes widened and a large smile lit of my face at the fact that I was actually able to perform the multi shadow clone! I wanted to scream and dance but knew this was definitely not the time. One of my clones stepped forward and growled at the person holding Joey. "Release my friend!"

The enemy ninja scowled and rolled his eyes. "Or what?"

My clone growled and launched himself at the man as the others started to move as well, tackling the men and landing punches on them. Seeing this as my chance I ran over to Joey and pulled out a Kunai. I sliced through the ropes binding him and did the same to Dragon. Once they both were free I grabbed Joey's shoulders and started to shake him and call his name. "Joey! Wake up!"

Joey groaned and slowly started to open his eyes. I mentally cheered before hauling him to his feet and dragging him off to a bush. I sat him against a tree and looked back over to the field. My clones were standing over the ninja and Yami and Atem had their arms wrapped around themselves, panting but overall they seemed okay.

Heba ran over to us then and slapped me on the shoulder, smiling brightly. "You did it Yugi! I can't believe you actually performed the Jutsu."

"N-neither… can… I." I panted out as a wave of fatigue hit me at having to stabilize so many clones with so little control over my Chakra. I placed a hand to my head as the sound of the clones vanishing reached my ears and my sight started to blur. I groaned and felt my eyes roll into the back of my head as the darkness swallowed me up.

The last thing I remember is Heba screaming my name.

(Heba POV)

The second Yugi started to faint I rushed over and wrapped my arms around his shoulders, calling his name as I pulled him to me. I looked up as Atem and Yami rushed over to me, looking concerned. "He fainted." I stated and they nodded their heads.

"It must have taken him a lot to stabilize all those clones and he has no control over his chakra. I have never seen anyone but Naruto do that, it's amazing he can. And the amount of clones he produced, it was just unbelievable." Yami stated as he gazed down at my brother in awe. I nodded my head and Yami walked over, wrapping one arm under Yugi's knees and another around his waist. He lifted him into his arms and I pulled myself to my feet, helping Joey up once I was.

"What happened here?"

The four of us turned to look to Mahad who had finally came back but with the ANBU who were currently taking care of the ninja that attacked us. "We were attacked." I answered simply and looked over to Yugi. "My brother saved us."

Mahad sighed and ran a hand though his brown hair before motioning for us to come with him. "Yami take Yugi to the hospital, Heba, Atem, Joey, come with me we need to inform the Hokage about the attack." I was about to object, not wanting to leave my brother alone but at the look on Mahad's face, I didn't have an option.

I nodded and Yami walked off with Yugi as the rest of us fallowed Mahad back to the Hokage's tower. We entered into the room again where Sarutobi was once again with Iruka. I wondered if that man ever did anything beside the school, Mission desk and hang out in here. That is all I ever see him do even when I was watching the anime. Well, besides the time he helped in the Chūnin exams.

"Ah Heba, welcome back." My eye twitched at that. I can't seem to stay out of this place, but then again he is the Hokage and the man needs to be informed of everything. "Alright boys, tell me what happened."

I sighed and looked over to Joey to begin. "All I remember is being attacked from behind. I was knocked out for what happened after I was grabbed, you will have to ask Heba."

How was I going to explain this one? Yugi performed a hidden seal Jutsu. Hidden! You can't really explain how someone knows the hand seals to something that is forbidden! I swallowed thickly and tried to calm down the rapid beating of my heart as I recited everything that happened from when I got the feeling that we were being watched.

"Multi Shadow Clone? That is a Jutsu from the forbidden seals scroll. How could your brother do that?" Sarutobi asked and I sighed and ran a hand through my hair.

"Honestly? I have no idea how he knew it. For all I know he could have been playing with hand seals and performed it on accident." That wasn't a complete lie. I didn't know how Yugi knew the hand seals. All I knew was he had seen them before but that didn't mean that he could remember them. "Or maybe it was a stroke of luck." I mumbled more as a thought then an answer to Sarutobi's question.

The old man nodded his head as if accepting that as an answer. I felt my heart rate finally even out to a somewhat normal beat, glad I was no longer under the spot light.

"I heard your training went well and judging by what your brother did, it went even better than I expected. So I say we can assign you to a team. Usually I only have three to four people on a team but this time I am allowing you and your brother to join Mahad's team. It was his idea and honestly with Yami and Atem on the team, it's perfect. Also you all seemed to have bonded through all of this."

"That's great!" Joey shouted making us all flinch. He threw his arms around my neck and hugged me to him as he beamed at the excitement at having us on the same team.

I gently pried his arms off of me and bowed to Sarutobi before straightening up and offering the man a smile. "Thank you." Sarutobi nodded and motioned for me to come forward so I did. He handed me two Konoha hitai-ate. I took both of them in my hands and looked over to Atem and Joey seeing where they wore their own. Atem wore his on his upper arm like Shikamaru and Joey wore his on his forehead.

"I am going to go see Yugi; can one of you take me to him?"

Joey nodded before anyone else could and lead me out of the building. We wandered down the street a little bit before we eventually reached the hospital. We walked in and Joey asked someone for Yugi's room number. Once he had it he led me down the hall and into the room where Yugi was sitting up on the bed. I smiled to Yami before walking over to the bed and Yugi's side. I handed him the hitai-ate and smiled to him. "Welcome to team five, Yugi."