Chapter 15: home sweet home.
"Were home," I said out as we re-entered the gates of konoha, and as we got there I cant help but notice the two forever gate keepers looked at our teacher and nodded, and soon was doing something with there fingers.
"Yes we are, now I would like you to return home and come to training ground number 13 the next day," he said.
"Yes sir," we said.
"But sir why training ground 13? And aren't there only 12?" I asked since to my knowledge there were only 12 corresponding to the general number of genins that are typically churned out every year, there were some rare occasions of there being an extra number case and point me, and if that was the case they generally were added to an already formed team, so are there more than I had thought?
"Well to answer your question yes there are only 12 known training grounds to the public," he said
"Publicly?" We asked.
"Yes because generally there are 24 of them, it was a way to trick the people who wanted to cripple our forces by aiming for the next generation,"
"so only 12 were publicly announced?" And we all came to that conclusion.
"Yes because due to the war we needed to be tricky which led to us needing to divert there attention so they are spread a little wide but still monitorable, the one we are specifically talking about is the one on top of the hokage mountain, upon reaching the top you should be able to see a small hut, continue heading pass the hut and upon reaching a ravine you should find a small river there, jump down 30 feet you should see a small cave there," he said and we all nodded
After hearing what he said we agreed and soon separated Sai, Tsubaki, Hayate and me just went on our separate way, Sai went to the residential district making me wonder if Sai does have a home or its just one of Danzo's bases, Tsubaki went to the direction where the clans except the Uchiha and Hyuga, also funny enough both don't actually live there, one was given a task to man the most dangerous prison in konoha, while the other doesn't want to be with the other clan cause of pride, both away but hold the opposite reasons, and Hayate walked directly towards the hokage tower presumably to report about the mission, that makes me wonder if Hayate would report that to Hiruzen or Danzo, I mean it wouldn't be accepted since it kind of is in the public domain so i'm pretty sure Hiruzen knows about the squad and might have even stamped its acceptance.
Me on the other hand I did the usual, walked to the market to buy the materials gray sneakily added to the clone, it was nothing to bad, just some seasoning, pork, beef, and poultry and what you could think off for variety, add garlic, onion, mint leafs, among other things but it was nothing new, before I left I had meet sato jr, ans sato sinior, I didn't know sato was related to old man sato, but a little greeting and wave we were gone, walking home I breathed in deeply as I had missed this atmosphere, I mean its loud and crowded but it was the general thing I had gotten used to, I mean i've been out for a week but killing and saving people is surprisingly stressful, managing a team is simple since I have some experience with my little squad so yeah, but having lives suddenly on your shoulders would make anyone stressed.
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"I have return lord Danzo," a boy said in a dark room only lit with candles sparsely spread around the room.
"Well done, and may I ask how the mission went, and what you think of your teammates," Danzo said as he walked away from what he was doing and placed his lone eye on the kneeling boy.
"Lord Danzo, our team leader seems to be capable and dangerous he thought of things I had not thought of, he had lead us swiftly and calmly and most interesting of all he has some peculiar techniques, his chakra control seems to be his highest aptitude, one of his clear element seems to be lightning, but despite his deadly and cunning nature, he is soft and self sacrificing, upon facing a more skilled opponent we had covered each others back, but when she used a jutsu to drag him under and before I could be dragged with him he pushed me away, and then began to fry the enemy by discharging lightning element shocking and knocking her out, but despite the results he had temporarily paralyzed himself leaving me to finish the mission," Sai basically summarized the mission
"Hmmm," Danzo sounded out while Sai tensed up.
"Do you think you could have done better as a leader Sai?" Danzo asked as he faced away from his shinobi.
"From what I have witnessed and have gathered. . . .," sai paused while thinking of all the events, the miss information, the unknown shinobi, the people, and what the mission entailed, and after a few seconds have passed he had his answer.
"No lord Danzo, I wouldn't have done better as a leader, the information was mistaken, they had hostages, and if I were to lead the main plan of the mission would have been forgotten, since through my eyes there was only one way, with the amount of numbers they had and the time given I would have picked to slaughter them and those who they use, failing the mission and only finishing a side objective," Sai said.
"Well done Sai, you have seen that there will always be a better plan, missions tend to be like that since this world is never predictable, what a simple scouting mission could become an extermination, what a simple escort mission could turn into a life and death situation brought by bandit shinobi or the chakra beast that roam the area," Danzo said and soon after dismissed the boy.
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Walking home I was greeted to a fairly normal sight, red sleeping, brown also sleeping, blue meditating, and gray cooking. "I'm home," I said as I took off my sandals.
"Welcome home Nashi," gray greeted me while taking the groceries he placed on me off my hands.
"Yeah, thanks gray, also mind calling everyone for a meeting?" I said while I entered the bathroom to take a shower.
"Alright, also don't take to long, I know how long you shit original," gray said while he walked towards the refrigerator to store the produce I had bought.
"Yes mom," I said out.
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"Alright, so how has it been doing so far?" I asked them as when I finished my bath everyone was already at the table.
"Were good, though the bunker is taking longer to make, but with our genius brown here the first floor is about 80% complete, just need to add the breathing holes and flooring," blue said.
"Hmm, anything else?" I asked since that was one of the memories I got.
"Well the speed of chakra intake has gotten better," red said.
"Ok, what about purifying it?" I asked since that was the thing we needed the most.
"Well give or take we lose about 20% of the total amount of chakra, but it is far more compatible to us, and we instantly noticed an increase in its manipulation, and so me, gray and blue are currently working on using it for the blood clone," I just nodded to what he said.
"Oh and speaking about clones, we have earth down, but we are currently having a problem," gray said while flipping through a book, that is clearly empty since we all agreed to do no written things for security purposes, because could you imagine someone accidentally finding these, they might think i'm the second coming of snake pedo.
"Whats the problem?" I asked.
"Well its about the flexibility," he said after landing on a page and began to act like an old man along with adjusting invisible glasses.
"Come again?" I said bewildered.
"Yeah, there flexibility is a problem, because when they try to do an action we normally do, some of them tends to crack since unlike rocks, which may I ad was the original purpose for the jutsu, we are using blood, and may I inform you no matter how much iron is in your body we cant just force it, while earth style earth clone works for some reason, but there is one big problem and that is the fact that it is incompatible, working but incompatible, its like forcing a lower electric output wire as a charger for a laptop, it works but not good enough, but in this case its hardened blood because unlike using the element it actually hardens the outside, touching it feels like were holding glass, and when they reach a limit of there stretchability and durability which is way lesser than the normal clone might I add, they shatter like glass," he finished out.
"I know blood earth clones are an ass pull, but what i'm getting here is that we need water clones?" I asked.
"Precisely, though it wouldn't have the solidity of an earth clone, but me and blue have a plan, because you see we remembered something, and that was the fact that urochimaru had mud clones, so we were wondering if we could make mud clones which is a mixture of earth and water, we were hoping that it would be a combination and would reach what we want," gray said as that jogged my memory about the chunin exams.
"Oh speaking of orochimaru do any of you know when the next chunin exam is?" I asked.
"Hmmm, last one was I think in water country, and that was about a few months ago, and," and brown went on muttering until. "it should be in 3 months after this month,"
"Hmmm, so we have three months to train," I said while I placed my hand on my chin. "Alright," I said while clapping to catch there attention.
"Brown, I want you to work with blue or gray to get tsubami gaishi down, cause I want to look cool in the tournament if I ever get there, red work with blue and gray as you said before, gray either work with blue or get clones to look for it, i'm pretty sure water clones would be hard to find here since were in fire country and all that so you have my permission to leave, just make sure to leave a clone or make a clone do it, blue go with gray for obvious reasons, and as for me i'm going to train my ass off tomorrow," I said and everyone just agreed.
"Now, per usual clone up and lets go dig ourselves a dam hole!" I said while I walked outside and picked up a shovel.
"YEAH!!!" The clones sounded out as they followed me out, but we went different directions but same out come, this is so that no one could see us together, a gaggle of children with different hights and colors going somewhere together with shovels would look a little strange so we split up, to gather less attention.
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"That's all guys, see you tomorrow," Kakashi said while he just sat there continuing to read his porn.
"Ughhh, , ," one of them sounded out.
"Hey Sasuke wanna look for Nashi?" Naruto said while squatting with a stack of logs on his back.
"I don't know, pretty sure he is avoiding us now," Sasuke said while he blurred in an out of existence while what looks like to be chains on his ankles and wrists, adding a sense of danger as he dodged the insanely swinging chains making sure to not get hit while he moved, and while trying to dodge chains spinning at insane speeds he was stepping on circles on the floor while making sure to not step out of the circle.
"Hmmm, you think this is one of his, , , ughhh, little tests or something?" Naruto said.
"Possibly, or he could have it worse than us, because his squad is new and all so he could probably have missions for days, since his home is always empty at times, and the one time we saw him it was him running," Sasuke said while he began to slow down while walking towards the water.
"I don't know we could be lucky today," Naruto said while throwing the logs off his back and pulling out water and a towel.
"Lucky about what?" A familiar voice could be heard, and three people looked where the voice came from.
"Nashi!!" Naruto said as he jumped at him but was stopped by sandal hitting face.
"Don't you dare hug me with all that sweat" I said while I stomped him to the ground.
"Aw aw aw aw, Nashi stop, I, I get it, stop stepping on me," Naruto said out as he struggled to get off from the bottom of his foot.
"Wha? Who? Who is he?" Sakura asked worriedly as she was shocked at how easily the strongest member of there squad was taken down.
"That's Nashi, he is the person who tortured us to where we are today," Sasuke said while he started taking off his shackles.
"Hey its called training you asshole," I said while I took my foot off Naruto to which he stood up and walked towards the water to clean himself off. "Also its not torture its called training ya little tard," I said while I placed down the shovel head first and tilted it and leaned on it.
"Yeah and i'm guessing the pure mental torture upon failure, and the physical torture with training was considered ok," Sasuke said while quoting.
Sakura couldn't speak because she was shocked and angry at the boy leaning on the shovel, angered at the boy because it was him who was the reason for her current training regiment, also shocked because this was the first time Sasuke had complained towards someone.
"Of course, as a great man once said no pain no gain," I said while pulling up the shovel. "Also were you trying the rhythm echo?" I asked since he looked to be moving around in a circle.
"Oh you noticed," Sasuke said while he scratched the back of his head.
"Duh, have you forgotten who the fuck maid it, plus it made my eyes bleed on how you tried, I mean it was so desperate that all you did was pull up dust," I said while waggling my fingers at him.
"Then can you explain how to do it?" Sasuke asked while moving away from my finger to look at my face.
"I mean i'm still working on it so i'm not the best person for this, so you probably copied my sloppy nature thanks to those eyes of yours," I said while walking towards a clearing of circles.
"I mean if you just used hand signs it would be easier for me," Sasuke said jokingly.
"And where would the fun in that be," I said while my smirk slowly began to split.
And from me five me's were created with an equally irritating smirk, but looking deeper Nashi seems to be transparent and looking deeper he has not stopped moving.
"So, see how its supposed to be done?" I said while the whole area echo around them, and my phantoms moved in a circle around them.
"Dam that's so cool, but you didn't explain?" Naruto asked outside and Kakashi just sat up.
"Ok," I said as the echo's slowly disappeared as we merged back together.
"Now, let me explain, first of all rhythm echo is a movement technique, unlike what Sasuke did you don't actually move as fast as you can, but you need to move in a rhythmic manor, moving in a pattern that amplifies the sound of the previous step, I know its counter intuitive to our ninja training in being silent and all that, but that's what makes the movement technique unique, since its great for killing, so Sasuke wildly moving around despite his chains are useless, but its pretty good for dodge training since he needs to dodge an attack so close and from four different sides," I said.
"Got a simpler explanation for that?" Kakashi asked as he is now interested in what he had just saw, because unknown to them he actually activated his sharingan upon his demonstration.
"Hmm, I see," I said while I pushed my fanboy down and stared impassively at Kakashi.
"Well if it isn't Kakashi hatake, I have to say the reports make you seem more impressive," I said calmly.
"Oh, and what gives you that impression," Kakashi said with his generic eye smile.
"Well for starters, you were in the third great ninja war, after that you did so well that you managed a quick promotion to jonin despite still being a genin, and a little later you managed to get into the highest position of a ninja like us can generally have, I mean being in the anbu for 10 years isn't something anyone can just have while still being sane and alive without any disfigurations except for that mark on your left eye, so you cant blame me for expecting more from such a legendary shinobi, I understand Sakura but that doesn't mean," I paused
"You can just let my brother stagger just because of some sense of fairness," and I finished as I got behind him with a combination of my ninja skills, the first skill of my ability, and general ninja skills, and not having any killing intent.
"Wait what?" Naruto said while looking back and forth at the Nashi in front of them and the Nashi behind Kakashi.
"Jeez kid, you had me there for a second, if I didn't feel the shifting of air behind me I would have thought you were an enemy or something," Kakashi said calmly.
"True, I do need some practice, but you haven't answered my question yet," I said while I began to look at his singular eye.
"Hmm, aren't they already self sufficient? There strong enough to not need my input while Sakura is so far behind its not even funny," he said with his usual nonchalant attitude he usually carries around him.
"So your just waisting there time?" I said with a raised eyebrow.
After a little pause, "I wouldn't say that, i'm teaching them how to be a team?" He said and I just chuckled at him.
"I'm pretty sure you and I know those words are as empty as you try to be, because if you really are there teacher you would have seen there general information, and before you say something we all know that you spy on the students you want a few months before hand, so don't give me that bullshit about teamwork, Sakura may be new in the squad but i'm pretty sure she isn't stupid enough to think she could fight an opponent stronger than herself, so what you need to instill in her is not training, but experience," I said as small pebbles around them became human shaped and tossed kunai and shuriken at her at sonic speeds, she closed her eyes and covered her face while waiting the pain, but the stabbing pain never came, but what did come was a swift kick in her shin strong enough to throw her off balance and drop face first.
"You dumb fucking rat, when you are surrounded you don't block and wish for survival, you analyze and dodge, you're a shinobi for peat sake, now stand up and were doing it again, but this time with real ones," I said while throwing a kunai inches from her face.
"Ohhh, the training has began," Naruto said while looking at her with pity.
"If you survive his torture you will undoubtably increase in ability, trust me," Sasuke said out as he found a rock to land his butt on.
"What? B-but why, i-isn't Kakashi, supposed to teach us?" Sakura now shaking in fear as she is about to get his training first hand.
"Well if the lazy crow won't train you guys properly," and an evil smirk that could make the devil flinch spread on my face. "Someone has to," and Sakura could do nothing but follow with tears in her eyes.
Kakashi didn't even stop me, but there was a significant difference from his position from before I got here, because previously he had his back on the rock with the book on the sky, but now he is on his side facing us and if you looked closely he isn't all focused on his book because a few seconds or so he would look up and watch over his students, i'm glad to see that nothing has changed on Kakashi's personality, lazy and caring.
"Hmmmm," I said while staring at a still trembling Sakura.
"W-wha-what?" She said nervous at the reason why i'm intensely looking at her.
-alright, lets review on what we have on Sakura, she has great chakra control even in the beginning of the story, she is generally found useless because of irrational hate of her trash characterization due to her hating Naruto, and being an over all small minded person, I mean when her hair was grabbed, like seriously if she had enough time to cut her hair that means she could have stabbed that bitch and lessen there numbers, I mean I guess it was ultimately to stall time so I guess it worked? But in shippuden she did get better I mean how many characters have we seen with such efficiency in the medical field, I mean we only see like 3 competent healers, but aside from future shit, she has a very strong punch no doubt from her chakra control since even from here she is only a few steps below me in chakra control, but thanks to her small reserves from the clear lack of training from the sight of her thin and weak looking arms, though she seems to have been training for a while now, should I train her in something like an early version of Tsunade's punches? Nah lets just train her up so that she wouldn't be totally useless in a fight,- I thought this to myself as I tilted my head left and right, making her extremely nervous, as if a hawk as found its pray and is wondering how best to murder it.
"Oh boy, he is doing his thinking pose, you think she about to die Sasuke?" Naruto asked as he pulled a bag of popcorn somewhere.
"I don't know, I think he is contemplating on how to train her, I mean she is like him the biggest difference is actually skill and chakra, but there both focused on chakra control, the difference is he has like a whole pool compared to her own, its like comparing a stagnant river to a raging one," Sasuke said as he grabbed some popcorn off of Naruto's bag.
And this continued on for the whole day, and despite pushing Sakura to her upmost limits, he did not let the two idiots rest, because when Sakura was tired he taught them a few things, Sasuke the rhythm echo forcing Sasuke to break the habit of the silent body flicker, and for Naruto how to deliver a concentrated chakra burst, because of his chakra he still has shit control, while I just tort— I mean train Sakura.
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"Its good that original sent us the information, because we would have waited for hours for him to not come," gray said as he hammered a wooden plank into the floor.
"Yeah," brown said as he placed a wooden pillar to support the roof.
"Well I still think he just didn't want to help," blue said as he placed wooden frames for the roof.
"Don't be like that to boss, we both know he has a lot on his hands, I mean we can train and rest while boss goes out and could possibly die," red said while he placed the frame on the floor.
"Yeah, but can you blame us? Were hot blooded men after all," brown said.
"You have a point, plush our shildish dhrimsh came to riahlathy," blue said while biting down on some nails. (Translation: plus our childish dreams came to reality)
"Like what?" Red said.
"You know shit like… ahh… training like a dam anime man, I mean our childish minds lift rocks without getting weird looks, we can swing around a stick and not feel awkward, we can meditate and mold energy without that weird feeling of doing nothing, we can reach strength that goes beyond humanity, and to put the biggest cherry on top we don't have to go to school," gray said while he continued to smack away at the wood.
"He has a point," blue said as he hammered down a piece of wood to form the walls. "But I still think he just wanted to dip from making the second floor,"
"On speaking of floors, how are we going to reinforce the walls of the pit?" Brown said as he looked up at the pit they dug up and just covered with a larger plank of wood dug 5 inches deep covered with dirt and leaves.
"Wanna try cement?" Red said.
"We cant find limestone or clay here bro, i'm betting that's on stone country, if not then sand or mist, or lighting, you know mist probably has all the clay, stone has the lime, and lightning might have both but in lesser version," blue absentmindedly said.
"And that's why blue has the brains," brown said as he now helps with hammering the planks into the frames after finishing the pillars.
"Hey brown, paint the wood with varnish, so we can just do the floor after," gray said. "Also red stop fucking around and just work," and red froze and stopped fucking around with the planks and continued to hammer on the wooden planks.
"Alright mom," brown said sarcastically as he placed his hands on a scroll and seconds later a puff of smoke appeared and what was left behind was a bucket of varnish and brush.
"Well then after this we need to return for a charge," blue said finishing the frame.
"I nominate brown," red said.
"I second the nomination," blue said.
"I third the nomination," gray said.
"I decline the nomination," brown said.
"Its democratic, you cant reject," blue said and brown just groaned as he climbed up.
"Welp, lets hope he doesn't get angry for this," red said.
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"Hmm," I sounded out as I looked up and finally saw the sun falling as the sky was colored in orange. "Hey, When did I say you could rest!!" I said to the pink haired woman who was under me as I sat down on her. "If you can just do 1 more you can rest!!" And with those words Sakura screamed like a wild monster as she pushed up one last time, then she just collapse like a doll dropped by a child.
"Alright, Naruto," I said as I saw Naruto on another side of the clearing body sweating, hand bleeding, and rock sunken in.
"Urgh," was the only sound Naruto could do as his face was incredibly tired, while his excessive chakra helps him heal, his body still feels exhaustion seen through his sweat covered tank top shirt and panting face.
"I said pin point dumbass, not directional bursts," I said chastising him but despite him not reaching the point I want its still pretty impressive that he went from indiscriminate burst to a certain direction can to a focused direction, its not what I wanted and it's a little rough around the edges but its good for a starter. "You can stop now by the way," and after that Naruto just stopped and laid on his back to the ground.
"Sasuke, I seem to see you are having problems," I said while smirking as he has multiple red marks around his body shaped in a chain.
"C-could you not right now," he said trying to rest the pain away.
"I mean I quite literally told you how to do it, those chains are special, not as long and as thick as the industrial chains you were using, but there longer and lighter, so with the slightest failure they'll strike like a dam whip, you got the sound problem down but now you need to move in a manor of not jiggling the chains so it doesn't strike to much," I said while Sasuke stared at my head while trying to burn a hole through me with his sharingan, if he has the mangekyou he would have succeeded.
"I'm done here," I said as I picked up my shovel next to where Kakashi was sitting and left.
Kakashi looked at the boy who had a shovel over his shoulders, after watching him leave the training field 7, after he turned the corner he looked at His students, one covered in red chain marks from head to toe, one was exhausted to the point that despite still having chakra, he has some signs of chakra exhaustion and chakra burns looking at the small burns on his arms that he had used to perform, it was a technique he had called chakra burst, from my sharingan I noticed that as they had said, there brother does not use hand signs, his chakra control is advanced and by the looks of it he is taking full advantage of his unnatural healing factor, and the last one, he had forced her to run as fast as she could for over an hour straight, after that he only gave her a minute of rest then continued to "train" her by making her do calisthenics as if her life was on the line, I mean it was since he kind of threw blunted shurikens, despite being blunted they were thrown so hard that they would leave a significant mark.
Kakashi after analyzing his students just sighed and lifted them up to send them home out of pity, but he cant really complain as his little time with his students had made there weakest develop a lot faster.
Chapter end.
Sup guys it's a me fish, I know the story isn't going as fast as one would want to, but I don't want anyone or even me to just say that's some ass pull, so i'm developing them a bit.
Anyways i'm a dip now, thanks for reading, flame me if I did something wrong, and have a good life.
Question of the day:
What do you peeps think the best fight scene is?
My favorite was lee vs gaara, i'm kind of playing favorite cause i'm a lee fanboy. Close second is quetz vs Tiamat but lets be honest fate has one of the best animated fights out there.