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Chapter Three
THE TEAM
I took out the scroll Kakashi gave me and studied it. The first jutsu in it was called the Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu. I went back downstairs and out the back door from the kitchen. I looked back at the scroll and found the necessary hand signs. Snake, Ram, Dog, Boar, Horse, Tiger. I looked at the explanation of the jutsu. Gather up the chakra at a point around your chest. Send it up through the throat and out of the mouth.
I made the signs and did just as the scroll said, gathering the chakra in my chest. "Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" I sent the chakra up through my throat and out of my mouth. A tiny fireball, no bigger than my head came out of my mouth. I wondered if that was really what it was supposed to look like and looked back down to the scroll. In the animation for the jutsu, the fireball was about an inch bigger than the little stick figure who was using it. I studied the animation and calculated that the fireball would be about three feet bigger than me in real life. I faced the trees behind the house and made the hand signs again.
"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" The fireball was hardly any bigger than the last one. "Argh! Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" This time, it was about three inches bigger. But it still wasn't good enough. "Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" It was about an inch bigger. "Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" This time, it decreased in size by about six inches. I realized that was because I was running low on chakra. I was completely exhausted, I couldn't go on. The sun had gone down. I dropped to the ground and passed out.
I woke up the next morning in the bedroom. The scroll was on the table next to the bed. I tried to get up, but could barely move. I grabbed the scroll and headed outside anyways. "Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" This fireball was the biggest I had made so far. It was only a little smaller than me. When the fireball had cleared, there was smoke trailing from my mouth. "Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" This fireball was about half a foot bigger than me. This is it! I thought, This time, I will get it! I made the hand signs and wielded all of the chakra I had in me. I could feel it looking for an outlet. "FIRE STYLE: FIREBALL JUTSU!" I let the chakra out through my mouth in one, giant wave. The grass rippled with flames, trees were scorched. A couple of windows on the house shattered.
My calculations were off. This fireball was twice as big as my entire body. I let go of the jutsu and the fireball disappeared, leaving the grass around where it had been in flames. A huge grin spread across my face. I had done it! I had finally mastered the jutsu! I was panting heavily. My chakra was almost completely drained. My vision glazed over. I dropped to my knees and fell unconscious before I could even hit the ground. I woke up and found myself still on the ground. I got up and realized it hurt to move. I struggled to grab the scroll off of the ground. I staggered back inside and crashed on the couch in the living room.
I could hardly move at all from the pain. That was when I heard a knock on the door. I got up and staggered to the front door. I opened it and saw Kakashi standing there. I looked at what he was wearing. He was wearing a dark-blue, long-sleeved shirt with a green flak jacket it. He was also wearing dark-blue sweats. His mask was still the same, but instead of a sweatband over his eye, it was a band with a metal plate on it. In the center of the plate was an engraved symbol that looked like a leaf, but only if you looked at it the right way.
"Hi, Kakashi, what are you doing here?" I asked.
"Well, with your training complete, I've come to announce the fact that you have officially become a ninja. And that means, you get a Leaf Headband. He held out his hand and I saw the same band with the plate that Kakashi was wearing over his eye.
"Um, thanks," I said tentatively. I took the headband and put it in my pocket.
"And, every ninja has missions that they must carry out. And you carry these missions out in squads of four. Three students and one sensei. The students, you, for example, are called genin, while the teacher, me, is called a jonin. The mission itself can be anything from babysitting to assassination. Although the latter probably won't happen until you're a jonin. Anyways, do you remember Lady Tsunade, the one we met when we arrived?"
"Yeah."
"Well, she's the leader of the Leaf Village called the Hokage. She is the one who calls the squads in for their missions, and she just called us in, so we need to go. Of course, she did make an exception for you if you don't want to come."
"No, I'll come," I said. The two of us went to the red mansion and into the Hokage's office.
"Oh, good, you're here, Kakashi," said Tsunade. Kakashi looked around and said, "Where are Naruto and Sakura?"
Now, I wasn't entirely positive what a 'Naruto' was, but I was pretty sure a Sakura was a cherry blossom. This made me a bit confused as to what he was talking about.
"They're at the Village Gate, waiting for you," Tsunade answered.
"So what's the mission," Kakashi asked.
"Well, normally I would assign this to someone else, what with you having a new, inexperienced member, but Naruto wouldn't let me, so I don't have much of a choice, but anyways, the mission. Sasuke Uchiha has been spotted near the Hidden Waterfall Village. The leader there has asked for us to subdue him in anyway possible. I would ask if you accept, but I'm pretty sure Naruto would go without you, so you will leave immediately. Is that understood?"
"Yes, m'lady," said Kakashi. The two of us walked out of the mansion and headed for the Leaf Village Gate. When we got there, two people were waiting. One of them was a guy with blond, spiky hair and was wearing an orange jacket with blue shoulders and white raised collar and entirely orange pants. He had a headband on his forehead. The other one was a girl who had pink hair with a headband keeping her bangs out of her eyes. She was wearing a red tank-top with a navy skirt.
"Matt, I'd like you to meet your new teammates: Naruto Uzumaki and Sakura Haruno."
"Hi," I said quietly.
"Hello," said Sakura.
"How's it going?" said Naruto. He held out his hand and I shook it.
"Alright," said Kakashi, "We head for the Hidden Waterfall Village now. It'll probably take a day to get there, and Sasuke's bound not to hang around, so let's get moving."
"Right," said Naruto Uzumaki. The four of us went out the gate and headed for…wherever the Hidden Waterfall Village was.
I walked up to Naruto and said, "Who's Sasuke?"
His expression turned to a sad grimace. "He was originally part of our squad, but he left the village and joined up with this freak named Orochimaru. Now, we've been doing everything in our power to get him back, but so far, nothing."
"Oh," I said, wondering what had happened to make this Sasuke do that. I decided to let it go and kept walking. The sun set in the horizon and Kakashi took off his back-pack.
"Alright, we'll rest here for the night and continue in the morning." He opened up the pack and took out a sleeping bag. He tossed it to me and then pulled out one for himself. I looked over and saw Naruto and Sakura were already setting up their sleeping bags. I opened it up and crawled inside. It took about two hours for me to get to sleep.
The next morning, I was the first to wake up. I rolled up my sleeping bag and went exploring. I found a small pond and made six hand signs. "Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" The fireball I blew out of my mouth was no smaller than the last one. When the flame cleared, steam was rising from the pond. It took about twenty seconds for the steam to evaporate. I was panting with exhaustion. I heard movement from behind me and turned around. Sakura was standing there, looking at me with her eyes wide.
"Sasuke knew that jutsu too," she told me.
"Seriously?" I asked, still panting.
"Yeah. He told us it was one of the first jutsu he learned.
"Yeah, same here," I said, finally getting my breath back.
"Do you know any others?" she asked.
"Yeah, Substitution and Clone. What about you?"
"Oh, I'm not really good at anything in particular. Just Clone Jutsu really, but I'm working on medical ninjutsu."
"Healing people and stuff?" I guessed.
"Uh-huh, but I'm not all that good at it. The Fifth Hokage, Lady Tsunade, she's much better at it than I am. She's teaching it to me, so I have high hopes of getting better."
"What's the Hokage like?" I asked.
"Well, if you're receiving training from her, you'll think she's a slave-driver first time around, but she's really not. She just really wants her students to succeed. You know, if you want, I bet I could teach you, or if you'd prefer, I might even be able to get Lady Tsunade herself to teach you. Would you like that?"
"I don't know, my head's still spinning from everything I've learned up to now. Maybe eventually I would, but for now, I'll stick with Fire Style," I said.
"Oh, okay, I understand," she said with a smile.
More movement echoed through the trees. We turned around and saw Kakashi and Naruto walking towards us.
"You two ready?" Kakashi asked.
"Yeah," I answered. After another hour of walking, we came up on a waterfall. A waterfall? Ha! It wouldn't have surprised me if New York City was hidden in there. It was about fifty feet wide, and I couldn't even see the top. It rose straight into the clouds. Water just pourin' from the heavens.
"That is a big waterfall," I deducted.
"Yeah, and in it lies the Hidden Waterfall Village," said Kakashi.
"So, what, we just waltz in and start looking?" I said.
"Pretty much, but first, we have to go meet with the leader of the village," said Kakashi.
The four of us proceeded into the waterfall. In it was a cave with a small pond near the back.
"Wow, this is a really impressive village," I said sarcastically.
"You have to access the village from the pond," said Kakashi.
"Oh. I knew that," I said, very embarrassed. The four of us walked up to the pond. "Sakura, since Matt can't swim as fast as us, you take him with you as fast as you can. Understood?"
"Right," said Sakura.
"Are you ready?" she asked me.
"Probably not, but I'll give it a shot," I said worriedly.
"Don't worry, you'll be fine with me," she assured me with a smile.
She grabbed my arm and the four of us jumped in. All three of them were extremely fast swimmers. There were several times where I was afraid Sakura was going to accidentally let go of me and I would be lost in the current. In about a minute, we came out and washed up on a beach. There was a small village situated on the shore. Every building was made of logs. At that moment, I decided living in a place like this wouldn't be that bad.
Well sadly folks this is the last but not least chapter as i will show the rest of the chapters in the rest contestant that will come up. Well see you until next time:doug:
Chapter Three
THE TEAM
I took out the scroll Kakashi gave me and studied it. The first jutsu in it was called the Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu. I went back downstairs and out the back door from the kitchen. I looked back at the scroll and found the necessary hand signs. Snake, Ram, Dog, Boar, Horse, Tiger. I looked at the explanation of the jutsu. Gather up the chakra at a point around your chest. Send it up through the throat and out of the mouth.
I made the signs and did just as the scroll said, gathering the chakra in my chest. "Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" I sent the chakra up through my throat and out of my mouth. A tiny fireball, no bigger than my head came out of my mouth. I wondered if that was really what it was supposed to look like and looked back down to the scroll. In the animation for the jutsu, the fireball was about an inch bigger than the little stick figure who was using it. I studied the animation and calculated that the fireball would be about three feet bigger than me in real life. I faced the trees behind the house and made the hand signs again.
"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" The fireball was hardly any bigger than the last one. "Argh! Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" This time, it was about three inches bigger. But it still wasn't good enough. "Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" It was about an inch bigger. "Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" This time, it decreased in size by about six inches. I realized that was because I was running low on chakra. I was completely exhausted, I couldn't go on. The sun had gone down. I dropped to the ground and passed out.
I woke up the next morning in the bedroom. The scroll was on the table next to the bed. I tried to get up, but could barely move. I grabbed the scroll and headed outside anyways. "Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" This fireball was the biggest I had made so far. It was only a little smaller than me. When the fireball had cleared, there was smoke trailing from my mouth. "Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" This fireball was about half a foot bigger than me. This is it! I thought, This time, I will get it! I made the hand signs and wielded all of the chakra I had in me. I could feel it looking for an outlet. "FIRE STYLE: FIREBALL JUTSU!" I let the chakra out through my mouth in one, giant wave. The grass rippled with flames, trees were scorched. A couple of windows on the house shattered.
My calculations were off. This fireball was twice as big as my entire body. I let go of the jutsu and the fireball disappeared, leaving the grass around where it had been in flames. A huge grin spread across my face. I had done it! I had finally mastered the jutsu! I was panting heavily. My chakra was almost completely drained. My vision glazed over. I dropped to my knees and fell unconscious before I could even hit the ground. I woke up and found myself still on the ground. I got up and realized it hurt to move. I struggled to grab the scroll off of the ground. I staggered back inside and crashed on the couch in the living room.
I could hardly move at all from the pain. That was when I heard a knock on the door. I got up and staggered to the front door. I opened it and saw Kakashi standing there. I looked at what he was wearing. He was wearing a dark-blue, long-sleeved shirt with a green flak jacket it. He was also wearing dark-blue sweats. His mask was still the same, but instead of a sweatband over his eye, it was a band with a metal plate on it. In the center of the plate was an engraved symbol that looked like a leaf, but only if you looked at it the right way.
"Hi, Kakashi, what are you doing here?" I asked.
"Well, with your training complete, I've come to announce the fact that you have officially become a ninja. And that means, you get a Leaf Headband. He held out his hand and I saw the same band with the plate that Kakashi was wearing over his eye.
"Um, thanks," I said tentatively. I took the headband and put it in my pocket.
"And, every ninja has missions that they must carry out. And you carry these missions out in squads of four. Three students and one sensei. The students, you, for example, are called genin, while the teacher, me, is called a jonin. The mission itself can be anything from babysitting to assassination. Although the latter probably won't happen until you're a jonin. Anyways, do you remember Lady Tsunade, the one we met when we arrived?"
"Yeah."
"Well, she's the leader of the Leaf Village called the Hokage. She is the one who calls the squads in for their missions, and she just called us in, so we need to go. Of course, she did make an exception for you if you don't want to come."
"No, I'll come," I said. The two of us went to the red mansion and into the Hokage's office.
"Oh, good, you're here, Kakashi," said Tsunade. Kakashi looked around and said, "Where are Naruto and Sakura?"
Now, I wasn't entirely positive what a 'Naruto' was, but I was pretty sure a Sakura was a cherry blossom. This made me a bit confused as to what he was talking about.
"They're at the Village Gate, waiting for you," Tsunade answered.
"So what's the mission," Kakashi asked.
"Well, normally I would assign this to someone else, what with you having a new, inexperienced member, but Naruto wouldn't let me, so I don't have much of a choice, but anyways, the mission. Sasuke Uchiha has been spotted near the Hidden Waterfall Village. The leader there has asked for us to subdue him in anyway possible. I would ask if you accept, but I'm pretty sure Naruto would go without you, so you will leave immediately. Is that understood?"
"Yes, m'lady," said Kakashi. The two of us walked out of the mansion and headed for the Leaf Village Gate. When we got there, two people were waiting. One of them was a guy with blond, spiky hair and was wearing an orange jacket with blue shoulders and white raised collar and entirely orange pants. He had a headband on his forehead. The other one was a girl who had pink hair with a headband keeping her bangs out of her eyes. She was wearing a red tank-top with a navy skirt.
"Matt, I'd like you to meet your new teammates: Naruto Uzumaki and Sakura Haruno."
"Hi," I said quietly.
"Hello," said Sakura.
"How's it going?" said Naruto. He held out his hand and I shook it.
"Alright," said Kakashi, "We head for the Hidden Waterfall Village now. It'll probably take a day to get there, and Sasuke's bound not to hang around, so let's get moving."
"Right," said Naruto Uzumaki. The four of us went out the gate and headed for…wherever the Hidden Waterfall Village was.
I walked up to Naruto and said, "Who's Sasuke?"
His expression turned to a sad grimace. "He was originally part of our squad, but he left the village and joined up with this freak named Orochimaru. Now, we've been doing everything in our power to get him back, but so far, nothing."
"Oh," I said, wondering what had happened to make this Sasuke do that. I decided to let it go and kept walking. The sun set in the horizon and Kakashi took off his back-pack.
"Alright, we'll rest here for the night and continue in the morning." He opened up the pack and took out a sleeping bag. He tossed it to me and then pulled out one for himself. I looked over and saw Naruto and Sakura were already setting up their sleeping bags. I opened it up and crawled inside. It took about two hours for me to get to sleep.
The next morning, I was the first to wake up. I rolled up my sleeping bag and went exploring. I found a small pond and made six hand signs. "Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" The fireball I blew out of my mouth was no smaller than the last one. When the flame cleared, steam was rising from the pond. It took about twenty seconds for the steam to evaporate. I was panting with exhaustion. I heard movement from behind me and turned around. Sakura was standing there, looking at me with her eyes wide.
"Sasuke knew that jutsu too," she told me.
"Seriously?" I asked, still panting.
"Yeah. He told us it was one of the first jutsu he learned.
"Yeah, same here," I said, finally getting my breath back.
"Do you know any others?" she asked.
"Yeah, Substitution and Clone. What about you?"
"Oh, I'm not really good at anything in particular. Just Clone Jutsu really, but I'm working on medical ninjutsu."
"Healing people and stuff?" I guessed.
"Uh-huh, but I'm not all that good at it. The Fifth Hokage, Lady Tsunade, she's much better at it than I am. She's teaching it to me, so I have high hopes of getting better."
"What's the Hokage like?" I asked.
"Well, if you're receiving training from her, you'll think she's a slave-driver first time around, but she's really not. She just really wants her students to succeed. You know, if you want, I bet I could teach you, or if you'd prefer, I might even be able to get Lady Tsunade herself to teach you. Would you like that?"
"I don't know, my head's still spinning from everything I've learned up to now. Maybe eventually I would, but for now, I'll stick with Fire Style," I said.
"Oh, okay, I understand," she said with a smile.
More movement echoed through the trees. We turned around and saw Kakashi and Naruto walking towards us.
"You two ready?" Kakashi asked.
"Yeah," I answered. After another hour of walking, we came up on a waterfall. A waterfall? Ha! It wouldn't have surprised me if New York City was hidden in there. It was about fifty feet wide, and I couldn't even see the top. It rose straight into the clouds. Water just pourin' from the heavens.
"That is a big waterfall," I deducted.
"Yeah, and in it lies the Hidden Waterfall Village," said Kakashi.
"So, what, we just waltz in and start looking?" I said.
"Pretty much, but first, we have to go meet with the leader of the village," said Kakashi.
The four of us proceeded into the waterfall. In it was a cave with a small pond near the back.
"Wow, this is a really impressive village," I said sarcastically.
"You have to access the village from the pond," said Kakashi.
"Oh. I knew that," I said, very embarrassed. The four of us walked up to the pond. "Sakura, since Matt can't swim as fast as us, you take him with you as fast as you can. Understood?"
"Right," said Sakura.
"Are you ready?" she asked me.
"Probably not, but I'll give it a shot," I said worriedly.
"Don't worry, you'll be fine with me," she assured me with a smile.
She grabbed my arm and the four of us jumped in. All three of them were extremely fast swimmers. There were several times where I was afraid Sakura was going to accidentally let go of me and I would be lost in the current. In about a minute, we came out and washed up on a beach. There was a small village situated on the shore. Every building was made of logs. At that moment, I decided living in a place like this wouldn't be that bad.
The End
Well sadly folks this is the last but not least chapter as i will show the rest of the chapters in the rest contestant that will come up. Well see you until next time:doug:
