Tuesday, August 1, 2006

Chapter 3
Else where in a forest far from Konoha a man that looked in his 20’s, with short black hair and a Konoha head band with a slash through it sat by a fire. He was approached by a 17 year old with brownish hair a sand village head band, with a slash through it as well around his neck and a gourd on his back, he said to the sitting man “Itachi sir our scout has yet to return. I have reason to believe he was captured and may have leaked information to the hokage.”
The man we now know is named Itachi responded with “I expected as much. I sent him to check on Sasuke. It appears you’ve grown stronger little brother. But our plans will continue as scheduled, as leader stated. This will be the point and time where you’ll prove your worth to the Akatsuki Varri” (A/N: Varri is an original character of a friend of mine and me. So don’t expect to see him in the show)
Varri nodded his head and said “I understand. Next time we meet you won’t fair so well cousin” whispering the last part to himself.

Back in Konoha the sun is rising and we see our favorite teams awaiting there trainers when Ino yawned and said in a tired tone “What’s taking them so long?”
Shikamaru laughed and said “what’s wrong Ino rough night?”
Ino jumped on Shikamaru from behind and had him in a head lock and shouted “you know good and well I like my beauty sleep.” She then loosened her grip and whispered “you would know how rough my night was wouldn’t you Shika-kun” (A/N: interpret however you wish)
Her last sentence turned his face red then he said “I was just joking, how troublesome. Plus we all know how much you need your beauty sleep.” That last part caused Ino to start strangling him again.
There were several puffs of smoke and came of voice that belonged to Kakashi which said “sorry were late. We would have been here earlier but we saw a lady whose children were lost so we decided to help out.”
This caused Sakura and Naruto to shout “liar you always make us wait! You even made the others take longer” in unison.
Tsunade stepped in and said “calm down and report to your respective trainers. Sakura you will be with Kurenai and Ino will be with Gai. You will switch everyday of training. What are you waiting for I said get to your trainers!” The last part scared a couple of the genins and chunin and they rushed to get over to there trainers.

Kakashi turned to Sasuke, Kiba and Shikamaru and said “I would like to test my new trainees and old on there skills. I’ll be using a training method of mine that highly resembles tag.” He pulled out two bells and alarm clock and said “You three will have 3 hours to take a bell from me. The ones that have a bell, besides Sasuke will get a special reward. You are allowed to use any and all ninja arts and ninja tools in your possession. The exercise begins in 3...2...1...Go!” As soon as Kakashi said go the genin and chunin took there position. “Very good you’ve hidden well. Hopefully there won’t be an idiot like-“Kakashi was about to finish when he was interrupted by Kiba.
“Okay this is going to be easy! I and Akamaru will take a bell from you in a matter of minutes.” Akamaru barked in agreement before barking again and turned into Kiba’s man-beast doppelganger form which Kiba took as well. “Let’s go Akamaru! Down on all fours technique!”
Kakashi sighed, took out his book and said “spoke to soon”

Ino asked Lee in a shaky voice “Lee is Gai’s training hard” after thinking about how strong Lee was in the chunin exams and now it was a while later and he had gotten even stronger.
Lee replied “not really unless you want to learn the moves of the lotus.”
Ino gave a sigh of relief and said “thank god I thought I was going to go home sweaty, battered and bruised all over.”
Gai stood in front of his star pupil Lee and the others and shouted in an upbeat tone “alright you youthful people were going to work up a little sweat1 I’m going to help you tap into that youth of yours by training and pushing you to your limits. First will start with 100 push-ups for the new student, while Lee will do his standard 500 push-ups with one arm, a couple of laps around the training area, and some sparing matches.
Lee saluted and shouted “yes Gai-sensei” and was about to begin on his push-ups when he was interrupted by Ino.
“Lee you lied to me you said his training was easy” she said almost as if she was about to cry.
Lee looked confused and said “no I didn’t. This is my usual training. Plus after training with Gai I do more of my own freewill.” And they began on his push-up and for every one Ino did he did five.
“What are you doing?!” a loud voice that seemed to come from Gai who was yelling at Chouji, who was eating chips.
Chouji just said “I really don’t feel like training so you guys can go on without me” and went back to eating his chips.
Gai sighed and said “this is going to hurt me more than it’s going to hurt you.” Gai snatched Chouji’s chips away from him. “You’ll get them back after you finish your push-ups. All 200 of them.” That caused Chouji to quickly began his push-up because he wanted to get his chips back.

Asuma took a drag from his cigarette and said “looks like I got the easy job of training one student. So you want to do this or what” he put out his cigarette and got into a fighting stance, but he got no reply. “Not much of a talker, huh? Good that way we can get straight to the point” shouting the last point and threw a point that was blocked by Shino.
Shino chuckled to himself then said “you’ll end up just like the guy from the exams.” His last sentence brought a puzzled look to Asuma’s face, until he heard a scratching noise behind him, which meant Shino’s bug army, was behind him. “As you can see my destruction beetles have surrounded you. You know your options so I suggest you choose wisely like it’ll matter.”
Asuma gave a smirk then said “I think I’ll give my self a different option.” He grabbed Shino’s arm, rolled backwards kicked Shino into the air, jumped after him the slammed him into his own bugs which let Asuma escape both options that Shino presented to him. “You gotta think a head. You may have had an ace in the hole but I had three and unless you play with a loaded deck there’s no way you can win. Plus stop letting the enemy have a chance to escape and just get the fight over with. You talk a little too much in battle but not enough when you not.”
“And you say I talk too much. Well here’s a move I’ve been working on.” Shino divided his bug army into two separate groups and charged at Asuma and swung with his right.
Asuma blocked it and said “Well at least you didn’t te-” he was cut off by something that came from Shino’s right. Asuma thought to himself it couldn’t be his fist and it couldn’t be his leg because they were to close for him to throw a kick. He looked up just in time to see that half of his bugs were returning to his side. “So you used your bugs as a secondary attack that your opponent wouldn’t expect because there so busy focusing on your fist or feet. Well let’s see what else you can do.”

Jiraiya shouted to Naruto and Neji “chakra control! Chakra control! Chakra control! Your control of chakra is the key to all jutsus. So new guy how your control?
“Its fine I guess” responded Neji.
“Well see about that. Would you gather some and force it to your feet. Now I want to” Jiraiya stopped mid-sentence and shoved Neji into the nearby lake and watched him make a splash and sink to the bottom.
Neji resurfaced to the sounds of laughter and asked “what was that for” in a highly agitated tone.
Jiraiya said clutching his sides “to see your chakra control. And may I say it’s not very impressive. Naruto show him what real control is.” Naruto took this chance to show up the supposed genius of Konoha and step out onto the lake.
Neji’s eyes widened at the site of Naruto standing on the water and not sinking. “How are you doing that?”
Naruto “Exactly how I was told to do it. I send chakra to my feet so that it will push me away from the lakes bottom. And you call yourself a genius. A now even more agitated Neji, at the fact that Naruto was better than him at something crawled out of the lake to begin his road to perfect the water striding technique.

Else where with Kurenai, Tenten and Sakura were giggling at the sight of Neji being pushed into a lake, reattempting and failing a technique Naruto mastered. “Alright girls that’s enough giggling. We have to get back to work. (A/N: I have no foundation on how you perform genjutsu so bare with me) Remember you must send your chakra into your opponent’s eyes to blind them from the real world and make them see an image you have in your head. So basically I want you girls to have a staring contest and attempt to create an illusion for your opponent.

“At this rate you’ll never get a bell. I really disappointed in you guys, especially you Sasuke considering this is your second time taking this test” said Kakashi, chuckling over his book to the genin and chunin. The fight had continued almost exactly the same as when Sasuke first took it except Kiba was playing the part of Naruto and Shikamaru was actually doing something, unlike Sakura. Shikamaru was busy talking to Sasuke about something possibly a plan, while Kiba and Akamaru in Kiba man-beast was rolling on the floor clutching there rears after being on the receiving end of Kakashi 1,000 years of death.
Shikamaru stood up and said “well we’re just going to have to change that” in a triumphant tone as if he had already had his bell. “Kiba, Akamaru use fang over fang!”
They had finally stopped rolling around on the ground and Kiba said “huh what? Oh right. Let’s go Akamaru fang over fang!” They shouted as they went into a wild spin headed straight for Kakashi.
“Sasuke you up” said Shikamaru signaling Sasuke that it was his turn to take part of the fight as he made the hand seals for his families special technique. Sasuke let fly multiple windmill shuriken. (A/N: the smaller ones he used against Orochimaru in the forest of death, not the one he used on Zabuza.)
Kakashi had just dodged Kiba and Akamaru’s fang over fang and was now fending off Sasuke’s shuriken with a kunai and said “well at least your acting like a te-” he was stopped mid sentence when his body was moving against his will. He then realized that he was now under the control of the Nara family’s technique the shadow possession jutsu. So you used Kiba, Akamaru and Sasuke’s attacks to mask the true attack which was your shadow possession jutsu. Very clever.”
Shikamaru smirked at the recently received praise and said “we’ll what do you expect from one of Konoha’s brightest minds? Sasuke would you like the pleasure of retrieving the bells.”
Sasuke sighed and said “whatever” as he went over to Kakashi, took the bells and tossed one to Kiba and Shikamaru.
Kakashi smiled behind his mask and said “you pass. We have a couple more minutes left on the clock so let’s take a break. We’ll be beginning our real training our next training session.”
“Real training!?” Shikamaru and Kiba shouted in unison because they thought what they just went through was the hardest training ever, with Akamaru barking in agreement.

“Com on! You youths should have more energy than that!” shouted Gai to a sparring Ino and Chouji while he sparred with his protégé Lee.
Ino aimed a kick for Chouji’s head which he ducked under. He aimed a punch straight for her mid-section but Ino used the momentum from her previous to dodge his punch while in a spin so she could sweep kick him. Chouji saw it at the last moment and jumped. Ino just smirked as she saw he was in no way able to defend him self and delivered a windmill kick (A/N: A kick that follows the path of a windmill with one leg targeting the head/neck area while the other targets the ankle/shin region) which sent him into a spin until he landed on his back. Ino asked panting “how much longer do we have to do this for?”
Chouji who was still dizzy from Ino’s kick said “we’ve been at it for nearly 30 minutes and before that you made us run several laps around the training area.” Then laid his head back down on the ground because he was still feeling dizzy.
“No you have the rest of your lives to be lazy. You must spend your youth working to your fullest potential! Plus you haven’t even started training with the waits yet.” Said Gai which everyone groaned about except Lee who was shouting how cool his idol was.
“I finally…got it.” Said Neji panting from the exhaustion of using so much chakra to use the water strider technique.
“Finally I took you long enough. Even Naruto here mastered that move quicker than you.” Said Jiraiya, as he put away his work in progress to a growingly agitated Neji. “Well anyway your next test is at the art of summoning.” Now saying this to a more excited Neji, as he took the giant scroll from his back and unrolled it. “Sign…in blood” Neji mad a small wound in his hand and signed the scroll. “Now focus your chakra, while focusing on summoning, slam your bleeding palm on the ground and hope for the best.
“Time to see if summoning is all what it cracked up to be.” Said Neji prior to him slamming his palm onto the ground causing a blast of smoke. When the smoke cleared there stood an average sized but red toad with a black jacket on its back.
The toad opened its mouth to speak and said “I am Gamakichi son of Gamabunta. I hereby dub the Neji Hyuga wor-” he was cut off when Neji spoke.
“This is a summon? How is this supposed to aid me in battle? I’ll fair better without him”
This angered the toad and he said “I was going to dub you worthy but now I see that you are nothing but an insolent brat.” With those last words he disappeared.
“Well at least be thankful you’ve learned such a high level jutsu in such a short amount of time. It took Naruto maybe 100 more tries before he finally got it right, but he still screws up from time to time.” Jiraiya said in a agitated tone because someone dared to call his frog summoning craft weak. Now he was glad he was never going to teach Neji “that” technique. But he wasn’t really allowed to teach it to him anyway because the move was only to be passed from master, which he no longer was to apprentice.

The sound of an alarm echoed across the field. Once it finished Tsunade shouted “today’s practice is over. Report to Hinata and me for medical treatment. Kiba was one of the first to apply the medicine to his aching muscles and his reply was “Yahoo! This medicine is great! I think I could go toe to toe with Kakashi for hours by myself!”
This caused Shikamaru to snidely say “You do that and even the best medicine in Konoha won’t be able to help you. An idiot boasting about something they may never be able t do, how troublesome.” (A/N: I think that’s the first time I’ve had him say that) This of course made Kiba very angry.
Tsunade was rubbing her temples and said “both of you are giving me a headache. All of you can report home or wherever else for that matter, just get away from me.” All of the genin and chunin began walking back to the village with the exception of Tenten who was going over to Kurenai and Hinata and Naruto who were talking about something.
Making sure Naruto and Hinata were out of earshot Tenten started to talk to Kurenai. “Um excuse me Kurenai-sensei there is something I want to ask you.” Which she said in a quivering tone similar to that of Hinata.
“Sure you can ask me anything. You don’t have to be scared” Kurenai said.
“Uh well you see there’s this guy that I like, but I’m not sure if he’ll like me back so I was wondering-” she said as she was prodding her fingers in a similar way to Hinata.
“Oh I get. You want a way so you can tell him but not be there just in case he reject you.” She said once she figured out why Tenten was acting as shy as Hinata. “Well I suggest you-” she whispered the last part to make sure the still remaining Naruto and Hinata didn’t here. “Understand” she said winking.
“Yeah” the now smiling Tenten said before she turned to catch up with her friends and Kurenai disappeared like jounin always do.
Naruto said “Finally there gone. Now for our own personal training Hinata.” Then he began to smirk.

Back with our favorite teams Ino had her arms wrapped around one of Shikamaru’s with her head resting on his shoulder then asked “Shikamaru you know what would be good” with a little seduction in her voice.
Shikamaru was a little embarrassed and happy that she was that close to him in front of everyone but was even more excited to find out what it was she wanted unless it was to make him go shopping with her. Then again he did like it when she tried on swim suites and other things and said “what?’
“Ice cream. I want you to take me out for ice cream. For some reason I really want some now.” She said in a happy tone while smiling.
Shikamaru knew he couldn’t say no to Ino especially when she was like this. Plus he got to spend time alone with Ino. He was about to agree when Chouji said “Oh can we Shikamaru.”
Both Ino and Shikamaru groaned, there date was practically ruined because they had to take Chouji along. “Fine, how troublesome” Shikamaru agreeing to take him.
Sakura who was watching her friend turned to Sasuke and asked “That sound good. Would you like to take me out for ice cream too? Usually you’d say we should be training instead but we just finished.”
Sasuke replied the same way he always did “No” in a cold tone, which made Sakura a little depressed.
“No need to worry Sakura I’ll take you” said an energetic Lee at the chance to get a date with Sakura.
“No way!” she replied while sort of feeling sorry for him because he was the only one who showed interest in her besides Naruto, who should be asking her for a date any minute now. But when he didn’t she looked around and said “Wait a minute where is Naruto? Hinata and Tenten are missing to.”
Kiba replied “Who cares? He probably went on ahead to the Icharuka Ramen stand. After me and Akamaru go there were going home to crash.”
Sakura looked back toward the training field only to see Tenten rushing to catch up with them. When the girl finally caught up she said “Neji there’s something I want to show you” before pulling him off toward the forest, which no one paid any attention to.

Finally snatching his arm from Tenten Neji said “I think you’ve taken me far enough. What is it you want to show me?”
Tenten was a little surprised by the outburst but soon got over it and said “there’s this move Kurenai told me about and I was wondering if I could test it out on you.” Neji thought long and hard about being the guinea pig. After a minute, which felt like an hour to Tenten Neji nodded his head in agreement. “Here goes nothing. Kurenai I hope this works.”
[Enter illusion]
Next thing Neji saw was that he in a forest of cherry blossom trees whose petals were slowly falling to the ground. Neji finally stopped staring at the site and said “if you plan is to distract your enemy with this site I’ll give you a B. But seriously did you have to tie me to a tree?!”
“Well of course sill. I didn’t want you to run away” was said by a giggling Tenten who just came from behind the tree Neji was tied to. She was wearing a dress similar to Sakura’s except it was pink instead of red, with a dragon which wrapped around her, she wasn’t wearing any shorts, and the dress was very figure fitting which Neji thought to be a little revealing for a konoichi, even if it was an illusion yet still couldn’t look away. “Neji you starring” said Tenten who was now staring at the ground swaying from side to side.
“It’s just that a konoichi shouldn’t be wearing something like that. It leaves little to the imagination.” Neji said then thought ‘what did I just say’ but it was too late.
A smile crept across Tenten's face and said “Neji you pervert. Have you been picturing me with out my clothes on?” She moved closer to him and whispered “well do you wanna see if you thought right?” then watched his face turn bright red. She giggled and said “I was joking. Come on lighten up Neji.” Then her voice took more of a seductive tone “but for helping me I guess I could give you this” she leaned closer to him, closed her eyes and pressed her lips to his. Neji's mind was in a whirl and closed his eyes too.
[Illusion shatters]
When Neji finally opened his eyes and he found himself in the same exact position. He was pinned to a tree by Tenten with her lips pressed to his. He pulled them apart and said, both of there faces were red and said “you tricked me. The point of the illusion was to get me to confess wasn’t it?”
Tenten just smirked and said “you got it. Worked like a charm too. Now the only thing left to do is go tell the others” and started to go toward the village. Neji was going to stop her because he didn’t want her to tell everything but she stopped turned to him and said “Neji stop being such a pervert.” Her sentence confused the boy a little. “It’s about what you said earlier about imagining me naked. I just remembered you can use your byakugan to see through walls and see the chakra lines inside some ones body. So then I thought what about clothing. You could be looking through mine whenever my back is turned.” Then she turned back toward the village.
“Huh? Tenten I haven’t used my byakugan to do that. But now that you mention it it’s a really good idea.” He shouted after Tenten, who was sticking her tongue out at him as he gave chase.

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