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The sound of the dispute inside the academy room was not quiet, by any means. In fact, it was loud enough to be heard from the street in front of the school. Just great, another fight to break up, Maika thought to himself as he jumped the fence and rushed to the classroom where the commotion was coming from.


He used the Flicker Technique to send himself through the window, landing on the sill. "Alright, that's enough!" he shouted from behind his grinning ANBU mask. "Word of this has reached the Hokage, and I'm surprised they have not dispatched security to arrest all of you, at this point." He looked around at the students and Jounin, swords dawn, water everywhere, obviously a jutsu. "This is a classroom, not a war zone. Any teacher that threatens their own students with violence should be prosecuted and punished. Your job is to teach them, not fight with them. They will have many more years of experience on the battlefield than the classroom, unless you decide to kill them all first."


These simple Jounin. They may have achieved the rank, but many of the village's Jounin seemed to get there more on politics than any actual ninja honour. Maika hated abused authority, especially in a setting like this, where the teachers should be more patient with their students.


"I have been ordered to take control of this classroom and secure peace here. Teachers, return to examining the graduation tests you are assigned to. We are a full two hours behind schedule because of this nonsense, and these students don't want to be here any longer than you do." He stepped down from the window sill into the classroom, making his way to the front of the room and standing directly before the Jounin, right behind Makoto, setting a hand calmly on her shoulder. "Take your seat, Ms. Iwasaki, and by that, I do not mean shatter it to pieces."


Maika really hated always being the emissary of dispute reconciliation, but his attitude was the most attuned to it. He was not as heart- or emotionless as the Foundation would like for him to be, but he found that they had their uses.
 
Satoru's heel hit a branch, bringing the boy to a halt, the momentum from jumping rocking him forward, but he was quick to regain his balance. The jounin before him had stopped, making his lip twinge into a frown. Maybe he wasn't concerned because this was probably just a clone, but he still found Ryuu's motives questionable at best. Then again, it was always like that with him, wasn't it? He would have liked for Masae to have been able to keep up so they could really put pressure on the jounin, but there wasn't time to dwell on that now. Maybe Ryuu was genuinely trying to get information out of him, but by what incentive would the genin ever consider doing that? Would something happen if he just outright attacked him, or was it something else? Or was he just trying to stall for time?


He was over thinking things again, the critical time in which he could have done so many things other than standing there and frowning at the jounin. The plan centered around Chirashi, and all he had to do was be a distraction. Maybe he could seem like they had some elaborate plan, but he might have just wasted that opportunity by mulling everything over as he had.


Without another moment of hesitation, Satoru lunged forward to the next branch. The boy's hands went behind him, either one gripping onto the hilt of his sword. With a grunt, he unsheathed Namiwakiru, bringing the sword down in a wide arc, that of which was aimed towards the base of the branch and well out of the way of the Ryuu. Pumping chakra through his sword just as the blade connected with the branch, a fiery explosion of chakra violently flaring out upon impact. A gust of heat billowed out, shards of bark bursting out in all directions. The branch split beneath the blade, dipping down with a groan before the end collided with the ground and brought the branch's descent to a halt. Satoru's hair had settled back and he landed where on the base of where the branch split off. He maintained his grip on the sword, holding it before him and allowing his arms to recover for a moment, the blade resting on the length of the branch. Satoru was silent, waiting for the debris to clear out of his vision to look down at what the jounin had tone, only sparing a moment to wipe a hand along his cheek to brush off pieces of bark that had clung to his skin.
 
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Chinatsu, wincing, slowly pushed herself up. "Ah..." she muttered, her face twisting in slight pain as some dirt rubbed against the wounds on her arms. Once upright, she slowly casted a weak healing jutsu to heal the scrapes.


Hikage looked at her worriedly. "Chi...?" he asked worriedly, gently nudging her with his nose.


Chinatsu took a deep breath and smiled softly at her summons. "I'm fine Hikage." she said before standing up. She cleared her throat before nodding at Renshii. "Alright I'm ready to start again." she said, her voice soft, but determined. Her arms were still a little sore, but she would be fine. She knew that if she wanted to get stronger then she would have to put up with more than some scrapes and a slight burn.


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Ren took a deep breath, spreading her senses as far as she could. Chirashi was flying ahead, hidden among the tree branches, waiting for her signal. She tensed slightly when she felt her sensei's presence behind her, stiffening even further at his words. She figured that there were clones chasing after them. What she wasn't sure of was if the body behind her was a clone.


Slowly and silently she opened one of her fans, keeping it out of sight of the one behind her. As he continued to speak she subtly fed her chakra into her weapon, before whirling sharply, and waving the jutsu at her teacher, sending a large gust of wind at his gut, sending him into the nearest tree. She quickly jumped up and back, landing on a low tree branch, a fan in each hand, wind swirling around her, ready for another attack.


"I figured there would be clones." she said, calling for Chirashi mentally, making sure the bird was prepared to signal the others and finish their plan.
 
Tetsune could never have enough eyes to glare at everyone he wanted to at that moment, instead having to keep his scowl locked on Midnight. It wasn't as though this had been the first fight to break out in the academy, but somehow the one that just so happened to be on the day they were supposed to be graduating to genin was the day it had been blown largely out of proportion. He couldn't help but feel like he played a part in this mess, and maybe egging Makoto had not been a good idea, considering it was beginning to look like she might have to go through a full day's cycle before she bothered to calm down at all. Girls were so weird that way, her in particularly. The jounin that had been barraging her with questions seemed to finally have cornered the girl, and though she was still shouting her mouth off, at least she was just displaying arrogance as opposed to continuing on with the crude comments from before.


It did not escape his notice when the jounin's twin had begun to console Midnight, not that the more brazen brother of the two seemed affected at all by his words, save for having shut his mouth. By the time the clones had been created from the water that had soaked them previously, the water had almost conformed to his body temperature, and upon it leaving him, there had been a fresh wave of chills that caused his limbs to shiver. Tetsune reinforced the arms that were folded across his chest, clapping his hands on either arms and squeezing until the moment subsided and he felt relief from being dry again.


Tetsune's head whipped around at the sight of yet another adult making his debut. At this rate, he was beginning to expect hoards of jounin crawling out of the air vents, but there was an obvious difference with this one. An ANBU? Seriously? and the Hokage hadd been contacted? Did they really have nothing better to do with their time? Forget about things having been blown out of proportion before. This was beyond ridiculous. Either way, if some ANBU had bothered to take the time out of what was apparently their very busy and oh so important occupation to visit the classroom, surely this would be the end-all be-all of the erupted conflict, though it had already begun to unwound, and said ANBU had no idea how much of a fool he was making of himself, at least in the boy's eyes.


Just a moment, their own teacher finally showed up, and frankly, Mrs. Hinari was looking quite frazzled. Entering with brisk steps, her kimono flourishing dramatically about her plump frame, she stopped just in the entrance and snapped, "What is going on here?" Nishi was glaring out in all directions, her gaze demanding an explanation that a few of the students shied away from, or held up their palms defensively. Just as the woman had pinched the frame of her spectacles to readjust them, her gaze finally landed on the ANBU that had appeared on the scene, making her face drain from the bright red that had come with her fury, her expression blanking.


It took the woman a moment to mull over what had happened and recollect herself, before her rage was rekindled. "I can't leave you kids alone for five minutes, can I?" Though the woman was not yelling, per se, her volume was clearly breaking the decibels of an inside voice. "I expected you would have been able to act maturely on the day you might graduate to being a genin, but apparently I was wrong. This is beyond embarrassing, and now I must go apologize to the Hokage for wasting his time with this." Nishi's lips had become a thin line, the corner of which was twitching in an effort of self control. "Needless to say, I'm very disappointed in all of you."


The woman allowed herself a moment, a collected breath leaving her with a sigh. It seemed to have virtually no effect on how livid she appeared, particularly when she shook her head next, lips still pursed. "That's it. Go home, all of you, and think about what you've done. I might be able to deal with you on Monday." There was a moment of hesitation in the students, most of which seemed itching to get as far away from all of the jounin as possible, but were also uncertain of whether or not she was being literal, as some students had problems with discerning her true intentions in the past. However, they were sent rushing off of the edge of their seats when Nishi finally screeched, "Go!" Tetsune, along with a great number of the other students, had been quick to file out of the room and leave the morning behind, the last glimpse he had gotten of the teacher was the woman shaking her head, irritation still plain on her face as she turned to look back at the jounin in company.


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Monday had proceeded with a hitch. Part of it could be credited to the events that had unfolded the previous school day, part of it could be the glares consistently directed to both of the parties that had been involved in beginning what had snowballed into one giant mess, part of it was the ANBU that had apparently been stationed to watch over the classroom for the remainder of the day, but in all honesty, things had probably only gone so well because of the inescapable fact that... well... it was a Monday, and no sane person wanted to be in the classroom at that point. Grumpy comments were exchanged, but no one had the energy to make anything of it.


It was quite apparent that word of the entire story had spread a little, at least to where Nishi was well informed now. That was Tetsune's guess, anyway, when the woman had afforded him with a cross stare upon him entering the exam room. It was very well possible that she had been giving everyone that had been in attendance the day the same look, but... no, he knew better. Tetsune had not bothered to return some false grin, instead opting to avoid all eye contact. Strangely enough, he was more relaxed than he had been on Friday, and he was easily able to produce the mandatory number of clones, which could have just as well been to the teacher's relief as her dismay. He hadn't bothered to check when he had stiffly gone through the rest of the formalities almost wordlessly.


The room had seemed to become overcome with euphoria, however, as the day proceeded, and those who passed the exam were announced. Some of the kids on the list had come off as a surprise to him, considering the test had not changed from the clones, and Makoto, whom he had ridiculed, was just as well a part of the list as he was. None of the genin, if they had taken a moment out of gathering with their friends to praise or console them to acknowledge his name on the list, were overly thrilled with the idea of him graduating to becoming a genin, probably in high hopes that they would be placed on another squad. However, the day had proceeded without squads being announced, which was information reserved to be released the following day.


It had quickly become apparent that, for whatever reason he could not quite fathom, the school didn't have any spare chairs at their disposal. Either that, or the staff were still bitter about the incident, because all he had left as a chair that day was a metal frame. However, since Tuesday was exclusively for those who had passed the graduation exam, he did not have to spend a day standing, sitting on the floor, or finding a desk to sit on, much to his relief, as that had been one of the worst parts of Monday, trivial as the matter sounded. Now he had been able to snatch the spot that would otherwise belong to the kid that usually spent his day flinging boogers at a variety of girls, the seat and desk area of which he had made sure to check was free of any such nose drippings before seating himself.


The jounin sensei were supposed to be in assembly for when teams were announced, but this wasn't the case with all of them, considering the vast majority of the class that had ended up passing. Nishi had seemingly been a lot less emotional today, perhaps over her grudge and now actually feeling sad to let them go. Some more than others, naturally. Regardless, the teacher proceeded as she had to, and called the teams out in order. Tetsune sat slumped in his desk, one arm raised in such a manner as to prop up his face, as was rather typical of him in the classroom, as he listened with vague interest.


As the announcements went on, he began to grow restless. Tetsune didn't have any particular hopes for who he would be put in a squad with, rather having all of his hopes lie with the great number of people he didn't want to be put on a squad which, but to be fair, that was easily half of the class, if not more. Tetsune's gaze had flickered over to Makoto then back to the teacher. He couldn't help but notice she had yet to be called either, and Nishi was beginning to list off Team Three... how many squads was there supposed to be, anyway? He began to sit up a little more, counting off the number of heads that were in the classroom...


"Team Four will be headed by Night and Midnight. Members are Jakunen, Makoto, and Tetsune."


Are you fucking kidding me?


Tetsune had to resist the very strong urge to slam his head against the desk, instead allowing his only reaction to be the tightening of his jaw and the widening of his eyes. Did he just hear that right? He only thought on the matter briefly, and he could tell that this was literally the worst case scenario for a team. Night and Midnight had both rubbed him the wrong way, even in different respects, but that wasn't even the worst part, considering what he had seen from the jounin thus far. To top it off, he would be with two girls - weird girl and dyke girl. How long did these teams last, anyway? He knew how missions went, and sometimes squad members had to stay with each other days at a time. By that point, he had completely tuned out Nishi's remorseful speech of how even though things ended on a bad note with them, she would miss them all dearly, and how they would all grow up to be splendid ninja... et cetera. The boy had resumed his slouched position, this time using both arms to prop himself up, cupping his hands and burying his face in it through the remainder of the teacher's tear jerking speech.


Thus began perhaps one of the single most awful chapters of the small boy's life.
 
As the horrible Friday went on, and yet another ninja showed up, this one an ANBU. Why? Jakunen slid further down against the wall, now in a more sort of half-laying half-sitting position, letting out a small, annoyed breath. The last thing they needed was another ninja to come and threaten people. That one black haired Jounin, Midnight, would probably get angry again...


But then the teacher came in, and as she started yelling, Jakunen tuned her out, hardly listenening. It would probably be along the lines of, "Don't fight, blah blah, this makes me upset/angry/disappointed, etc., following the pattern that most yellings followed. She stared up at the ceiling, wondering when it would be over. There was way too much shouting today.


Then there was a break in her shouting, and Jakunen noticed kids looking around at each other uncertainly, and she wondered what was going on, and then Nishi shouted "Go!" and students started leaving.


Surprised, Jakunen quickly got up, following the other students. She was sending them home? The whole day had been wasted. And, it was mostly the Jounin's fault. When she did arrive back at her small apartment, she flopped over on the bed, wondering what was going to happen with the exams now, and wishing that she could go home.


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Jakunen found out the tests were going to be taken Monday, and arrived there on time, hoping the Jonin and whoever else wouldn't be as late as last time. As the rest of the students came in, there was some unhappy grumbling but other than that, it was fairly quiet. The ANBU stationed around the room were a little intimidating, and no one wanted to do anything that could possibly get them in trouble after last Friday. The exams resumed, and still nothing exciting happened. Which was a good thing.


Jakunen went and took her test, and did fairly well. She created the right number of clones and since they had made the test so easy probably anyone that could use basic ninjutsu could pass, she wasn't surprised that when they were announcing who had passed, her name was on the list. Of course, there was never a doubt in her mind....


However, she did wonder how that girl- Makoto- passed, who just on Friday had been angrily shouting about it. Maybe she'd trained hard all weekend long, and somehow managed to barely get by. What use was a ninja if they couldn't even perform a simple ninjutsu?


Everyone went home since the squads would be announced the next day, and Jakunen felt that that day had gone much better than Friday. On Tuesday, they all returned, and Jakunen sat pretty much alone now as Tetsune had gone to sit somewhere else from the lack of chair, and friend groups were sitting close to each other. All the immediate chairs around Jakunen were empty but she didn't care, now no one would notice her eating class. Some people would tell on her, it had happened a few times, though most wouldn't she wouldn't want to risk getting in trouble and probably would have refrained from taking the cookie out of the bag in her pocket and eating it if there were students around to notice.


When the teacher gave her speech she concentrated more on her food, and didn't listen too well to the announcement of the squads.


"....Members are Jakunen, Makoto, and Tetsune." Hearing her name, Jakunen immediately started paying attention and then, hearing Makoto and Tetsune's name, almost choked on the her cookie.
 
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Teikomai watched the unfolding events with a feeling akin to horror. It was like everything had slowed down, from Makoto continuing to mouth off to the jounins, to the teacher stalking out of the exam room. Has she ever really been that angry at us before? Teikomai sunk further into her chair, wincing as the teacher yelled at all of the students. Shame washed over her, colouring her cheeks pink. Not just disappointed, very disappointed. She could only imagine the words her mother would have to say when she got home. It didn't matter that for the most part she had been uninvolved in the scuffle, she had been included in the group.


Then the teacher told them to leave. Teikomai shot upright in her seat, disbelief apparent on her face. Leave?! Teikomai choked back a gasp, jumping at the 'Go!' that seemed so much louder in her mind then everything else that had happened today. She was really kicking us all out- what if she decided we were too immature to graduate? It was with a heavy heart that Teikomai packed up her stuff, lingering behind as the rest of the students hurried out of the room. She paused at the door, giving the teacher and the jounin a small bow before scurrying away.


Now what was she going to tell her mother?


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When the exams finally commenced on Monday, a tight knot of worry finally loosened itself from the pit of her stomach. Thankfully, things went off without a hitch. Even Makoto passed, which despite everything she was pleased about. She grinned at the memory of herself panicking during the exam, accidentally using too much chakra and producing an extra clone. At last, she could finally say she was a Genin- a real ninja! She could hardly sit still in her seat, as excited as she was to hear the teams. Thankfully she didn't have to wait long.


"Team one, Under Maika. Teikomai, Hana, and Asuka."A grin tugged at the corners of her lips, lifting them into a rather silly smile. Three girls on one team, it would certainly be interesting that was for sure. She couldn't help but wonder about the masked jounin that was to be their sensei. Was he really an Anbu? Were there not enough jounins to fill the position of team leaders this year? No, that couldn't be the case, she thought as the teacher continued on. One of the teams had two jounin leaders.


Well, she was sure she would get to know her team-mates much better over the course of her career as a genin. She couldn't stop the warm feeling in her chest for finally accomplishing her first step.
 
Hana, Sora, Rin, and Shiro


After the events on Friday had happened Hana was quite cautious of what was to happen next. "Hey Hana" Shouted out Sora from the end of the hall way. "Hey" She replied. "I hope we end up on the same team, that would be fun" Sora said again. "Yeah, it would" Said Hana. They both walked into the class room. A bit of time passed as the teacher made her speech but everyone was really just waiting to get their teams called out. "Team one, Under Maika. Teikomai, Hana, and Asuka." Nishi said. Well there goes the idea of being on a team with Sora Hana thought to herself. "Team two, But before that I would like to introduce Rin Hirasaka and Shiro Hirasaka from the Hidden mist who are a part of the jonin exchange program. Rin will be the leader of team two along with Yuzuki seeing as Rin is new. Shiro, Masato, and Ikomo will be on this team" She said. "Team 3, Lead by Ryoichi will be Damen, Sora, and Kotone" She said. "Team 4...." and so on she went. Rin looked up when the teacher was finished speaking "I would like my team to meet me on training ground six when we are done, I want to see what you are all capable of" she said. Shiro had just sat there and waited in patience the whole time.
 
Maika had dreaded being the one sent to supervise the class, but orders from the Hokage were orders from the Hokage, and he had to go. "Whenever the ANBU show up, they always overreact. So it's a little disturbance in the class room, do you use a Fire style Jutsu to get rid of an ant?" He pondered this as he jumped through the window, taking in the hectic scene before him. "I guess it depends on the ant." He tried his best to stop the argument and mayhem, but the only way he knew how, straight forward and direct. Maika was not one to mince words. The scene continued to escalate until the actual teacher walked into the room and fell into a fit of hysterics. "The teacher wasn't even in the room? What's with all of these Jounin waging war on the students, then?" He sighed, not knowing what to think of the situation, until the teacher apparently snapped and screamed "Go!" to usher the children out of the classroom. Maika explained himself to the teacher, and discussed the situation with the other Jounin. When all had been settled, he had been left to watch over the now-empty classroom as a clean-up crew tidied up the mess left by the Jounin and students alike. "I can't wait for the weekend." Maika thought to himself.


Having returned to the Hokage to report the condition, he was surprised to find his ANBU squad leader also there. "We want sent you specifically to take care of the incident for a certain reason. We want you to take these three and become their Jounin sensei, provided they pass the test on Monday." Maika was struck, he had never expected this in his lifetime, he had always been an agent, not an instructor. He looked at the information given on his future students. "You want me to teach three young girls how to become ninja?" he questioned the Hokage. "That is exactly what I want you to do," came the reply. Maika had no choice. Orders from the Hokage were orders from the Hokage. "As you wish," Maika answered, kneeling and then dismissing himself with a Flicker Technique.


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Tuesday. He was surprised any of them ha made it through their Exams at all, considering the episode that had occurred in the classroom. But, surprisingly, it seemed they had all passed. "At least there won't be any last minute changes to my roster." He stood at the back of the stage with the other Jounin, not wearing his mask for this occasion, though he would have preferred it to be on. "Orders means order," he had to keep reminding himself. He waited for his name and his team to be called. "Team One: Maika," at hearing this, he took a step forward, "will be teaching Teikomai, Hana, and Asuka." He watched the crowd, looking for his three pupils, and upon spotting them, gave a slight nod of his head, then stepped back to return to his place."I'll have to see what they are capable of first," he thought, then began to think of a plan on just how to do it.
 
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Night & Midnight







Night smiled softly and looked to his new team as they were announced. This would be exciting to him and an amazing experience. Jakunen was the one that interested him the most, seeing she was the quiet one of the group which meant she would be harder to get to open up as well as train. Yet the other two were neck and neck at each other and so forth. Night sighed softly at his thoughts and awaited for the group to be finished with the teams. After this they would begin the first day of training as well as a get to know better thing. With this Night sighed softly and looked to everyone. "Ok, Team 4. Me and Midnight will meet you at the front gates in an hour. Be there so we can discuss a few things." With that Night himself headed for the door to prepare a few things.


Midnight had crossed his arms staring at the class scowling at them. This was the day he found out what little brats he was working with. When the teacher spoke the names he nearly burst out in laughter. Now this was an interesting team. A shy kid and the most troublesome kids. With that Midnight looked to Tetsune and Makato. "Bet you won't be talking so much crap now will you? Congratulations, you're in my world now." With this he looked to his twin who spoke about a meeting spot and shrugged. After that his body exploded in a puddle of water showing it had been a simple water clone. After this, Midnight had sat in the darkness of his own room only to open his eyes and smirk. With that he picked his twin swords up and headed for the gates to wait.


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Renshii Akahero







Renshii looked to his partner eyeing her softly staring as she said she was ready. "If you say so, I'll do something a bit easier so get ready. And ignore any distractions." With this, he looked to the one who interrupted them. "You can join as well just let me know, and get across the field. I'll shoot at her then you if you like." Renshii them adjusted himself into a battle stance and reached into his pouch pulling out a shuriken and threw it while making a hand seal, with that the shuriken poofed and multiplied into seven shurikens. After this, he inhaled deeply and breathed fired across the shurkens igniting them on fire.


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Ryuu&Kamei







Ryuu jumped back and made hand seals to counter the waves of wind a wall blocking his path from being struck. He smirked seeing the wall explode and laughed softly standing still when the dust cleared. "Well, you've become much quicker. It seems as if I have to step things up a bit don't I?" Ryuu quickly made hand seals before inhaling and breathing outwards "Fire Release:Dragon Stream." With this, a burning flame erupted from his throat as it took form of a dragon rushing directly towards the female.


The clone that sat with Satoru laughed and shook his head. "Well, that was a good job. You've done well. But just so you know, I'm not who you're looking for. Want to know why?" With this Ryuu's image poofed and turned into a replica of Satoru. "I'm really you! Hahaha didn't know that one did ya? Di-" His words were cut off to a kunai striking him in the back. The figure then exploded into a pile of mud.


Kamei grinned when the clone exploded into mud and smiled looking to Satoru. "They were clones. I don't think we've found the real one yet. But I'm sure we're pretty close to finding him. Surely he wouldn't waist this much time now would he?" Kamei asked and looked back to the grounds where they started. "We should be taking care of this mission pretty soon. So we need to wrap this up." With this he smiled and began heading back for the grounds hoping to find the teacher toying with them by not moving to begin with. "Come on lets get back to where we started tho."


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Zen Akero




Zen shook his head watching his partner throw the dice. "Maoh come on, we both know that your luck with those dice are terrible. Last time you had a bad hunch I got a pretty bag of Ryo. It was rough but I got it didn't I? This is a steal for an idea and a perfect. You should know it to." When the female mentioned him having blood on his face he blinked and wiped the blood up looking down at his blood smeared hand and shrugged softly. "Well, we should prepare. This mission will be fun, and the jinchuriki might be a little hard to fight, the tailed beast could be a good catch possibly claim it as our own?" Zen smiled at the thought of owning his own tailed beast, the power would be amazing and incredibly strong.
 
"God d-" Ikomo cut himself off. "There go my chances of never speaking again." He mumbled. Who in there right mind assigns two Sensei? Who? He sat back down in his desk. "Fox runs the long worn path, but is blocked by a fallen tree." He mumbled. The others around him looked a him with a rather annoyed manner. He looked up at the ceiling. Team three was called. Long worn path, and fallen tree are swept away by large flood. Large flood moves fox back. Fox runs the long worn path... Repeating this until the ceremony was over Ikomo managed to divert from brooding. He felt a sudden shake, the flood spilled to the left, the tree flew to another plane, and the fox flew higher than the birds. He looked around and saw a younger kid poking his elbow. Ikomo looked at him, and gave the kid his "Mushrooms found on a old log house, shriveled and warped from flame" look. "E-everyone's g-g-gone." The kid said as he ran out of the room with a look of sheer terror. He got up, and walked out of the room and to the training grounds. "A road taken no matter the destination is not a waste of time." He said under his breath. He walked slowly. Children running, no fear. Anbu walking, masked face, birds flying, small wings. Seeing as only one Sensei and one Genin was on six he climbed the nearest tree. People started to leave but six remained near empty. Small bird flies to low, snake bites to high. A time of thoughts later Ikomo jumped down and started to jog to six. He sat down upon the ground and threw his hair behind his head. The two other conversed while others dispersed, but Ikomo just sat patiently. Seeing a larger than the average Genins figure striding with purpose to his training ground Ikomo stood up, aligning his feet in the same direction without looking and put his held his wrists behind his back. If that was the other Sensei then thinking would lead to talking very soon.
 
Satoru gave a look of dismay, the jounin seemingly unfazed by the boy knocking the branch down. Then again, his plan had been to knock the man over, or at least force him to jump to another tree, but Ryuu didn't seem inclined to move. He didn't want to really charge him head on and end up hurting him, if this was the right one, but then again... he shouldn't be underestimating the jounin, should he? Satoru simply remained in that position, frowning at the man, even as he began to play around, imitating the way he looked. That might have confused an academy student, but Ryuu was just messing around... maybe that meant it was a clone that he had followed?


His question was answered soon enough, however. Satoru lifted his gaze to where the clone's words had been cut off, and the image of himself had reverted into it's state of mud, the sight of a smiling Kamei being revealed. He wondered vaguely if the boy had known for sure that it had been a clone before deciding to plunge a kunai knife in a Satoru-look-alike's back, but he decided not to dwell on it. The boy swung Namiwakiru over his back, effectively sheathing the weapon. "What happened to the clone you went after?" Satoru asked, leaping from the branch to follow after Kamei. "There were only two clones, right? Shouldn't we find Ren?" It wouldn't be too hard, after all. Not so far off, he faintly heard the crackling of a fire.
 
Asuka barked out a laugh as she heard her name. "A team of girls with a male sensei?!" she snorted. "This is gonna be good." she said as she headed towards Teikomai, smiling at her. She liked the girl. She was nice and didn't have any rude tendencies. Sure, Asuka had some rude tendencies but only when she was upset or dealing with an idiot, like Makoto. She thanked whatever God was out there that she wasn't stuck with that idiot. She pitied Tetsune and Jakunen.


Yuzuki smirked, her arms crossed. So far she liked this Rin. She couldn't wait to learn about her new team. Hopefully they wouldn't bea bunch of idiots, like that one girl from Friday. She smirked, wondering how the brat would do with Midnight. Barking out a harsh laugh, she glanced at the gathered students and grinned, her smile slightly feral. "Team Twowill arrive at training area six immediately once you are dismissed. Anyone late...Well. Let's just hope you aren't late." she said, before using a transportation jutsu.


Ryoichi sighed, a smile on his face as he listened to his sister. He turned towards the group of students, a large smile on his face. "Team Three, I would like for us to meet at training area five. Please arrive on time." he stated simply, turning and walking out the door, like a normal person.


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Chinatsu nodded to Renshii, gettingin her stance once more. She was ready. She knew she could do this. Taking a deep breath and she put her arms out and waited for Renshii's attack. Upon seeing the fire shuriken she sucked ina quick breath before quickly performing the hand seals to create a wall of earth. She used the jutsu once more as she soon saw the wall begin to weaken, creating a second kayer of defense.


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Ren smirked as Ryuu complimented her. "So," she started. "Are you a clone as well or real?" she asked, wanting to put her plan into action. She wanted to hurry home, tell her mother of her new mission, pack, and take a shower. She didn't want to be running around this forest, trying to steal a cloth from her teacher. Narrowing her eyes, she started studying the body in front of her. She would be ready.


Running quickly, a clone of Ren's ran towards Kamei and Satoru's chakra signature. As Ren had turned, hidden by the wind, she'd made a clone, sending it to find her teammates and alert them. She jumped down froma tree and skidded to a hault near the two males.
 
Makoto whipped around to see the ANBU standing in the window sill. She rolled her eyes as he scolded everyone and took control of the classroom, but then she flinched slightly when she felt something touch her shoulder. She didn't have to turn around to recognized it as the ANBU, and hearing his voice behind her proved her point. Makoto's eyes widened in shock when he mentioned to not break anymore chairs. How did he know about the chair? Had he been listening in the whole time? Or has the news just spread that fast? Either way, Makoto finally gave in to the ANBU's orders and walked back to the desks. Even she had the common sense not to challenge an ANBU, lest she has a death wish in mind. Pouting and muttering choice words under her breath, she sat back down in the farthest seat away from the masked man. She didn't want anything to do with him.


Then the actual teacher of the class finally came in, scolding and yelling at the students for all the trouble they've caused. Makoto paid hardly any attention to the frazzled woman, however, since she was still seething about the ANBU butting in and calling her out like that. But when Mrs. Hinari screeched "Go!", Makoto jumped as the other students began to quickly file out the classroom. She soon followed suit, not wanting to be caught up in the jounin's fit.


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Makoto spent all of her weekend studying and preparing for the exams. She cussed at herself a lot for not 'studying and practicing' like the teacher told her before, but she had way better things to do than practice some lame ninjutsu. Luckily, her last minute cramming paid off on Monday when she barely, but successfully, made two clones.


Makoto shouted with excitement and pumped her fists into the air when she saw her name on the list. "Suck it losers! I'm a full-fledge ninja now!!" She yelled, trying to point at everybody who doubted her abilities, which was almost everybody in the room. Some of the people that didn't pass shot some dirty looks at her, but she didn't care. They'll be seeing Mrs. Hinari tomorrow while she would be training as an full-fledged ninja.


The next day, the teams were announced to the new genin. Makoto sat at the edge of her seat, waiting anxiously for her name to be called out. After a while, the last team was finally called out. "Team Four will be headed by Night and Midnight. Members are Jakunen, Makoto, and Tetsune."


At that moment, Makoto jumped out of her seat, slamming the desk with her fists on the way up. A few cracks appeared in her desk. "What??!!! Are you people out of your minds?!! You can't put me on the same squad as that loser, Tetsune!! He's just some worthless little troll that'll get in my way!" Makoto growled while glaring at Tetsune. "And then I have to train under that sadist too?!!" She added, pointing to Midnight. She grimaced for a moment at his comment to Tetsune and her, but then she went back to her original composer, returning the scowl to the jounin. After his body bursted into a puddle of water, Makoto sighed as she got up and dragged herself out of the room.


Could this day get any worse?
 
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Itsuki nodded at Renshii and quickly ran towards a part of the training field that was within distance of both Chinatsu and Renshii. Itsuki still felt some guilt distracting Chinatsu and her getting hurt. Itsuki sighed as he watched Renshii throw a shuriken that burst into more, and was soon lit on fire. The skill and power of Renshii was quite impressive. Itsuki smiled and was glad that Chinatsu successfully blocked the fire attack and reinforced her barrier should it not hold. Itsuki took a stance as well, ready for an attack from Renshii as well.
 
As the crowds dispersed from the ceremony, Maika suddenly found the perfect idea for how he would train these girls. He left the ceremony quickly, and returned to his own house, quickly writing out three short messages on strips of paper, all of three of them saying, "All of Team 1. Training field 7. The swamped one. Find me. Winner takes my headband. -Maika." He rolled them up and set them into tiny metal tubes, then used a summoning jutsu to call forth a set of messenger pigeons. He whispered to one. "Asuka," the next "Hana," and the third "Teikomai" then looked at all three of them, "These messages are to arrive to my students at exactly 3PM this afternoon." He turned back to find a bite to eat in his pantry as the pigeons unsummoned themselves in small puffs of smoke, waiting to deliver his message at the right time.
 
(Kawashima Thunder just so happens to be moving so for now, he is "sick")


Hana, Sora, Rin, and Shiro


Rin and Shiro made their way to training ground 6. "Masato wasn't in school today from what I heard, I guess he won't be at training either then" Rin said. "Sis, I have something I need to talk to you about..." Shiro said in a serious tone. "Spit it out then" She replied. "I've been having these weird dreams lately, they are really scary too. It's like I'm in this big room all by my self. No I shouldn't say a room but a twilight zone with walls filled with water and has a island in the middle". "Go on" Rin said cutting off Shiro. "Any ways, On the island there is a huge cage and as I approach I can hear a voice and as I come up to cage... There's a huge monkey inside" Shiro said. Rin looked down to her brother for a second as serious as can be. Then all of a sudden she burst out laughing. "HAHA. That was a good one you really had me there Shiro, a huge MONKEY!?!? Come on you can't get any scarier than that" She laughed. "But sis, I'm quite serious, what did he call himself... Son Goku was it" Shiro said. Rin shut up. A giant monkey... Son Goku... Could it possibly be that Shiro has the 4 tails inside of him... She wondered to herself. "How many tails did this monkey have" Laughing a fake laugh of course just so Shiro would think she is still joking. "Four... Why?" Shrio questioned. Shit, so what the Fifth told me was true, that they put the four tails in a boy when he was a baby, but lost track of the baby, so to avoid causing panic they never told anyone, that baby was born in the same year as Shiro she said Rin thought, thinking back on the words of the fifth Mizukage. They made it to the training ground and no one was there. so they decided to spar to blow off a little steam.


Hana made her way to Training area 7. She walked into the forest that surrounded the swamp. She made her way cautiously through the tree's and seen a body. "Jikan" She said throwing a kunia. Hitting the target the kunia ripped through it. Then... seeds fell out. A dummy of course this is bound to be more tricky than I thought it would be she thought to herself.


Sora made his way to training area 5. Sighing he tightened his headband around his head. As he walked into the training area he saw his sensei waiting for him. "Yo, what's up sensei, what's this training you want us to do?" He said.
 
Jakunen jumped slightly, as her new teammate pounded her fist into her desk, shouting in dismay at finding out who she was going to be stuck with for the next few years. She hadn't been paying attention after almost choking, almost in a state of disbelief or horror (why couldn't she be with any other people? Makoto was an almost worthless ninja who couldn't control herself, Midnight couldn't control himself either but he was powerful enough to be a danger, and Tetsune seemed to have a habit of provoking people), but she was a little glad -though really it didn't improve her mood by much- Makoto had brought her back. She might've missed Night's instructions otherwise.


Figuring that she should try to pay attention to people more often, as recently not paying attention seemed to be becoming a bit of a problem, but at the same time dismissing Midnight's comment as something stupid and not needing much attention, she got up and left as the other students did too. She'd have a little time to go back to her apartment and make sure that she had anything she'd need in case they would be fighting or training or something, so she did, and with one or two more cookies in a bag in her pocket, headed back towards the gates. She didn't know the exact time, but arrived at what was probably within the on-time range.


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Kouun had grinned and said they'd take the bounty, but it seems Zen had seen her microsecond frown and her partner knew her too well. Choosing not to comment and remind him that the second to last time she had a bad hunch was that time she'd gone and lost money, which had led to her agreeing to this plan just now. She sighed and, still grinning, shook her head at the same time.


"Yeah, I know." Maoh listened to Zen talk some more and, thinking over what she'd need to prepare, responded, "I'm mostly ready already." Being a future international infamous nukenin (she wasn't too well known all over yet, but the closer she got to Suna and Ame the more shinobi happened to recognize her, and those two villages and their surrounding areas was a start), she always had to be prepared for fights after all. She always had weapons on her and was always wearing her battle gear. If it was a small fight like the one that had just occurred, she let Zen do all the fighting. He enjoyed it a fair amount, and Kouun didn't waste anything of hers on unimportant people. A win-win situation. It also made Maoh feel like more of the leader of the two but she didn't say that either.


"Claiming a tailed beast as our own... Does it work like that?" she shrugged, "No matter. Anyways, what about you, you need to do any preparing?"
 
Teikomai was distracted, so she could forgive herself for missing when Maika had slipped out of the room. Still, as the other jounin began to tell their charges where to meet she couldn't help but feel mildly confused. Did he simply want them to go home? Or were they supposed to wait for him to find out what he had prepared for them?


Teiko shifted in her seat, idly toying with one end of her braid. Remaining seated as the other genin and jounin slowly trickled out of the room. She waited for a while after the majority of people had left the room, standing to leave only after the room had emptied. That was when the bird flew through the window, dropping a small note on her head.


The swamped training grounds? Teikomai furrowed her brows, was he testing them? Why would he immediately pit them against each other in a competition like this their first day as a team? Shaking her head Teikomai tucked the message into the pouch on one leg. Well, she didn't have much faith she would win, but she could at least try.


It didn't take her long to reach the area, her sandals squelching in the damp earth. This was a good area for tracking at the very least, if Maika had stepped foot on the ground he would leave some kind of impression. Which would mean...


Her eyes lit on the trees littering the area. She would probably find him up there if she were to find him at all. Holding the hand seal against her chest, Teikomai channeled some chakra into the soles of her feet. Taking a running start at the tree, she climbed it effortlessly and dropped the seal as soon as she was perched among the branches. She closed her eyes, spreading out her senses and listening for any changes in the patterns of the wind in the leaves as she searched for any signs of another chakra signature-


There! She started off, keeping to the trees and jumping from branch to branch following the signature she had managed to sense. It probably wasn't him, he was Anbu. But if she managed to meet up with her team-mates perhaps they could come up with something together.
 

Night&Midnight







Night watched as his new students had their reaction to hearing who the teacher was. Makato seemed to be the most trouble with the idea and the shy female just sat quietly as she normally does. Night sighed softly and shook his head before turning to the door and exiting out of it. "Please get to the gates as soon as possible, I would like to get to know you all better and start teaching you a few new things. Maybe even help you in your weak points." With that he headed down the hall and went for the gates wanting to get there before anyone else. He was ready to get things started. On his way he stopped next to his brother who had grabbed a bite to eat. "So how do you like our team? I'm sure this year will be interesting don't you?" He said with a smile and started walking once more knowing his brother would follow.


Midnight continued eating his 'To go' cup of ramen when his brother walked up only to shoot him a glare. "A loud mouth, A brat, and a kid who doesn't even know how to say two words." He said that and took another bite of it and grumbled thinking about it before following his brother towards the gates. With his mouth full he stepped up so he was beside Night. "Interesting? More like annoying, I'm going to hate this year. Oh, and I dare one of them to show up late. They'll regret every second of it. Every minute they're late, the worse the punishment."


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Renshii




Renshii nodded at Chinatsu when she blocked and smiled. "Good job." After this, he looked to Itsuki only to pull four Kunai's out and throw all three at Itsuki, in mid throw, Renshii flung two shurikens out knocking two of the four kunai's so the path of them was altered. Now the other two had been rushing directly towards Chinatsu. He had hoped this would catch her off guard and give her little time to react, hopefully she would block if not then they would surely give her a few cuts. He smirked at this and watched for both of their reactions. While waiting, he reached into his pouch again cutting his finger on another shuriken and smirked pulling it out dragging the blood across it. He spun the shurken around his fingers weaving hand signs before grabbing it and throwing it. "Summoning Jutsu." He spoke aloud and the shuriken exploded into a snake rushing towards Itsuki rather quickly pushed faster by the momentum of the shuriken.


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Ryuu&Kamei




Ryuu shrugged at her question and grinned. "I'm both aren't I? I'm really me but I could also be a clone! Hahaha, you'll never know now will you?" He laughed and stared at Ren watched her jump past the fireball and dodge it, watching the flames ignite one of the distant trees. After that, he threw multiple shurikens and kunai's backing them up with his pheonix flower jutsu shooting four flames directly at her. "As for improving, you have quite well since we first started now if we can get those two knuckle heads to learn a few things too. Speaking of them, they figured out that they had both been chasing nothing but clones."


Kamei smiled at Satoru and headed for the newly made smoke from one of the trees lighting up on fire. He could just barely see it in the distance. "Looks like a battle! Lets get over there and quick, I bet it's sensei and Ren!" The boy grinned and headed off towards the two only to meet a clone of Ren. He stopped and blinked looking at her. "Wait, you're here so why is there fire over there?" He asked pointing in the distance slightly confused at the moment.


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Zen Akero





Zen shrugged softly and looked to Maoh. "Well, as for being ready, I'm pretty sure I am. I have blood covering my body, swords coated as well. Everythings good. Only thing I'm missing is money, and we're broke. With! Absolutely no thanks to you." He commented and frowned softly. "We need a little bit of food on the way, so I vote we find a store on the way and find a few people to slaughter and take money from. As well as some food for the road. Thoughts?" He asked and looked to his blade before sheathing it back in. He then shrugged and began walking towards Amegakure ready to get started on the adventure. "And as for the tailed beasts, I'm sure we can find someone to help us out with it."
 
Itsuki saw kunai fly through the air towards him. He was impressed with the skill Renshii used to hit them with shuriken to re-direct some of the knives direction at Chinatsu. Itsuki quickly formed a few set of hand signs and developed a layer of hard, earth around his chest and arms. The kunai knives sunk into the earth armor but didn't touch Itsuki's skin. Itsuki heard Renshii say "Summoning Jutsu" which instantly caught his attention. He saw a snake flying rather quickly through the air at him. Doubting he had any time for a lot of hand seals, Itsuki clapped his hand together and opened his mouth. The torso up of a rock golem emerged from his mouth and held out his hand to swat-away/ block the snake. Itsuki knew he would have to do Light-Weighted boulder justu soon, otherwise his earth armor's heaviness would slow him down.
 
Tetsune allowed his hands to slide down his face, pulling some of the skin with it. The only ones who seemed remotely amused by any of this were the jounin... rather, Midnight, who was enjoying the opportunity to make a jab like that. Surely that comment had been directed more to Makoto than himself, as Tetsune had been smart enough to shut his mouth since being soaked and threatened to be electrocuted. Either way, the girl was just as energetic as ever. If anything, she was being even later than she had been on Friday, so upset that the 'worthless little troll' will get in her way. As if.


There was plenty of time for a rebuttal later. It was too early in the morning now, and the news had put him in something beyond a foul mood. Getting in a fight wouldn't do anything to improve that, so the closest thing he decided to do to insult them was raise either middle finger ever so slightly, both cheeks still cupped in his palms. He glared from between the cracks of his splayed hands, seeing the image of Midnight revert into a puddle of water. A sneer curled his lip at the sight. So it had just been a clone? What a show off. What was he trying to prove? Tetsune was beyond irked.


This had to have been done on purpose. Maybe it was some elaborate joke or some feeble attempt to prove how teamwork conquers all, but the team was literally just so downright awful together, it couldn't be a coincidence. Why did they have two teachers, anyway? With the other squad, that was understandable. However, Night and Midnight had no excuse. That was something he decided to dwell on later.


For the moment, however, they were given a designated spot to meet at... in an hour. Though he was entirely ready at that moment, there was no way in hell he would be caught lounging around with the people of his squad for that long just to be there early. Tetsune had allowed the majority of the classroom to file out from the room before shifting out of his seat, heaving been glaring absently at the desk before him. Without a word, he slapped his palms back down onto the desk, one fist closing around his newly acquired headband, before slipping out of his chair and out the door.


Tetsune had immediately headed back to his home to kill time, though it was on the complete opposite side of the village from where the academy was, lying in the far eastern corner of Konoha. He had failed to take this distance into account when he left for the gates of the village, on the basis of what he had believed to be the bare minimum amount of time needed to reach it. Tetsune, however, had not been in any sort of a rush, and between having to weave through the bustling streets of Konoha, he emerged from the crowds just outside the margin of time for them to arrive.


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Satoru frowned a little, faintly annoyed that Kamei had chosen to ignore his questions and, instead, reiterated one that he had already stated, in his own way. Nevertheless, turning to follow after the younger boy, the sound of the battle had become distinctly clear, and an area of the forest was lit brighter than the rest, without a doubt from some sort of flame. They had barely closed any distance before an image of Ren appeared. The boy stopped on an adjacent branch, looking over her in silence, trying to find something remotely different about her. Now more than ever, Satoru wished they hadn't separated. He didn't trust either of these two, really. They could just as well be more clones of Ryuu masquerading as what should be his teammates, as the jounin had clearly demonstrated the ability to do.


His frown deepened. The inevitable truth was that there was no sure-fire way to tell that they were the real ones, which was enough reason for one of his hands to slip behind his back and into his pouch, his index and middle finger poking through the whole of two separate shuriken, just in case. It was very probable that they were clones designed to simply waste his time, but as long as he wasn't being lured into some obvious trap, he would just have to trust them.
 
Maika watched from his position. "There are two of them here, now I only need to wait for Asuka." He had picked this battlefield because it was difficult to move in without knowing how, the little islands of soggy mud inbetween large, sometimes deep puddles of murky water. "These girls had better not be afraid to get wet and dirty, if they are too dainty, none of them will understand what this test is about."


He watched Hana as she took down the one of the target dummies he had set up, noticing that her first reaction was to use her Jikan to gain an advantage. "She relies on out-maneuvering an enemy, she knows that she may not be as strong as I am, but if she can strike the first blow, she may be able to cripple me somehow." His attention turned to Teikomai, who he saw examining the soft ground, and then climbing a tree using her chakra. "She has great awareness of her surroundings, she was trying to find me by the merest traces. She also has good chakra control if she can climb a tree using only her feet at this level."


He saw Teikomai begin to run in Hana's direction, "She must have used some sort of chakra detection, she is going to check out what she found." Maika was somewhat impressed by what he had seen so far, these girls had some skill already, "Perhaps the Hokage really did see something special is these three, and Asuka is yet to arrive still." He smiled to himself, and then began to move to his next position, "Perhaps this will be interesting after all."
 
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Makoto decided to grab something to eat before she headed to the gates. Just standing there for an hour waiting for everybody would be really boring, and she had plently of time to get there in the time permitted. When she got her food in the restaurant, she viciously chomped it down since she was still ticked off about the squad choices. She even got into a fight with the owner for looking at her the wrong way. After the fight ended, with her being kicked out and banned from the restaurant, she went to the nearest shop to check the time. An hour had already passed since the teacher announced the time for the meeting spot. Makoto shouted a string of curse words as she sprinted toward the gates. Between the distance and the bustling street, it took her longer than expected to arrive. She slowed down to a halt when she finally made it to the gates, doubling over with her hands on her knees and trying to catch her breath. She looked up for a moment and noticed that everyone else had already arrived. She, on the other hand, was 5 minutes late.
 
Jay walked from the Academy, picking out dirt and mud from his hair as he held a tiny bag of yen, which unfortunately was his only reward from the hell he had endured today. "Man, I dunno how you can call that...that THING a dog, and it doesn't help that the reward barely gets me lunch..." he muttered as he stashed the yen in his pocket and complained more under his breath. He walked into the shop Makoto was in a while ago and noticed the complete and utter mayhem that she had left behind. "Oh...my God, who did this?!" he thought to himself as he immediately rushed inside and helped out with cleaning up the broken dishes and food scattered on the floor.
 
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Night smiled when he saw everyone arrive and nodded. "Now, everyone is here lets get st-" His words were cut off by his brother who stepped in front of him. Night frowned at this knowing what was about to happen. With this, Midnight smirked looking to Makato eyeing him softly. "First day, and you're late. Do you understand what this means? We gave you quite some time to meet us here and you couldn't even make it on time? What were you doing? Having a party because some little kid got his headband? Hmph, all that headband means is you were able to use some stupid and worthless form of jutsu. Makato correct? Since you were late, while the other two are working on a small training session with my brother, me and you are going off to training ground Zero. Other wise known as the forest of death." Midnight smirked and pointed off in the distance where a few large trees sat. "Start running, I'll meet you there. The longer you take the more time we will be in the forest. And remember. Those little nightmares you have at night? Well, this training ground is probably those nightmares and then some."


Night sighed after his brother had chosen to take Makato to a different training ground then them, he wanted to argue but knew as well as anyone. His brother was going to do it with or without permission. Night looked to the other two and smiled softly. "Ok, lets get to it. We'll be going to Trainig ground seventeen. It's an open field with a lake close by. Follow me and we'll get to working on a few training exercises." With that Night started walking off from the ground heading for the grounds he spoke of.
 

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