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The two advisors finally rise from their seats opposite mine and leave the room. I close my eyes and fold my hands in front of me. This was the first time I’d been alone all day. I look at the sun outside my window, it’s about eleven now. With nothing else to focus on, I pick up the surges in my siblings chakra outside the building. I focus harder and also sense Hannah’s chakra; they must be training in the courtyard. I look up at the door and after several moments without a visitor, I deem it safe to leave.
Moving to the balcony overlooking the village and the training grounds I see them. There they are, all three of them. It looks like Temari and Kankuro are teamed up against Hannah who is purely on the defensive right now. She is moving well, dodging both of them perfectly and trying to work in attacks at the same time. But then Kankuro surprises her by having his puppet crow send a net out towards her. She doesn’t have time to dodge it so she turns her back on Temari and uses her fans to cut the net and avoid capture. Of course this is all Temari needs to take her out, she raises her enormous fan, all three moons showing, and sends a blast of wind that sends Hannah crashing into a wall.
One who didn’t know Temari would have expected her to run up and apologize to her student. No, Temari does the opposite, she yells “Too slow Hannah!! Get up!” moments before sending an equally powerful wind at her.
Hannah recovers swiftly from the crushing blow and dodges the second attack, retreating behind a large stone in the yard. I can feel the pulses in her chakra that mean she has almost reached her limit. And yet, she springs from behind the rock and runs horizontally along the wall. Temari takes the bait and sends another at her. Hannah jumps off the wall before the attack reaches her and dives right at my sister who is still on the back swing of her attack. Hannah would have gotten her if crow hadn’t stepped in between them at the last second.
I can see the disappointment and irritation on Hannah’s face from here. The expression makes me smile, my sand wraps around me spinning in a small vortex. The expressions I see next are those of surprise for my siblings, but Hannah smiles and gets that determined look as I appear in the small sand storm next to her she know the odds are now even, it’s two on two. Hannah instinctively moves to pursue Kankuro after I separate our opponents. I take on Temari redirecting her winds as she moves into the offensive. We spar like this for a couple of minutes until I hear Kankuro yell in frustration, perhaps he has taught Hannah too well. She is controlling the pace of the fight, making him move wherever she needed him with her wind. Finally Kankuro has enough and summon his other two puppets. Hannah jumps back and is even with my stride.
“Hannah,” I say simply and nod at her. She knows what the gesture means. I had spoken with her once about every jutsu having a weakness, and I had used Kankuro as an example. I had told her something that was never allowed to be said to a ninja other than in the Sand. And now that she was a Sand ninja I passed it on to her. The puppet jutsu requires strings of chakra that cannot be severed with any blade. But Hannah uses her fans as blades as well. And normally not even this would be able to cut the chakra, but Kankuro and Temari had constructed Hannah’s fans specifically for her. They had made them to withstand massive amounts of her chakra flowing through them allowing her to make an almost purely chakra blade. It was my theory that if Hannah could clash her chakra quickly enough along the edge of her fans it would be enough to break the strings.
Hannah jumps behind me and I bring up a dome around her to allow her time to charge up her chakra. Kankuro is confused and charges at my sand, I have my hands full with Temari, and just allow him to try and break through. I know he will have no success. Moments later I feel Hannah’s chakra stop rising and know she is ready. When Kankuro sends crow at the sand, I open up the back of my dome and Hannah jumps on top of it. She uses the sand to jump over the puppet; I turn in anticipation to see what will happen next. Temari notices my sudden indiffence in our fight and walks up next to me to watch. Hannah spins in the air sends a couple of waves of wind at Kankuro, this forces him to dodge and move crow. This gives Hannah the opportunity to see his chakra strings; she makes it to the ground and almost appears out of nowhere behind crow. She raises one of her fans that Temari and I can tell has her chakra built up in it and swings, not at the crow, but directly behind its back.
Much to Kankuro’s surprise, the crow falls to the ground with just its arms and legs hovering slightly above the ground. “Gaara did you?” Temari starts amazed by what she sees. Hannah doesn’t stop there she moves as quickly as she can and moves to the remaining two puppets. Using the moments of confusion and shock before Kankuro comes to his senses she severs the other two main puppet strings. Kankuro swears and tries to reconnect his strings but doesn’t have a chance to, Hannah has run behind him and is holding a kuni at his neck.
“What the, how, when did you learn to do that?!” Kankuro growls at Hannah. She is out of breath and has dispelled the chakra built up in her fan. She steps away from my brother and laughs.
“Gaara taught me the secret to your demise!” She laughed again at Kankuro’s rude counter as she moves over to where Temari and I stand. “How was that?” She asks Temari.
“Very good, you’re learning quickly.” My sister answers.
“Well, that last technique is pretty much worthless without Gaara. It still takes me too long to build up enough chakra to make it effective. I’m defenseless while I focus on the chakra.”
“The technique itself is only useful on puppet users, which only come from our village. It is the strategy you need to remember. Every ninja has a weakness, that’s what you need to learn from this.” I say simply. Hannah nods with enthusiasm.
“So do you think maybe my team can go on some more difficult missions? No rouge ninja we might run into is going to be half as strong as Kankuro or you Temari. And I won’t be alone!”
I mentally sigh, I knew it would happen sooner or later, I look to my sister. Temari has a very serious look on her face, conflicted. “Hannah, you have gotten stronger, but please understand it is risky to send you far from the village. You remember what happened before you took on both villages. It could be worse now, and there’s no reason for you to go on difficult missions, since the war there aren’t many missions anyway.”
“I understand, but my team is getting restless, I can’t stand to see them unhappy because of me. And besides, what is the point of me being a joint shinobi if no one sees me? I doubt anyone outside the land of winds even knows about me. If I am to be helpful I’ll have to take risks.” She moves her pleading gaze in my direction. “Please let me take the risk, I won’t be alone.” She finishes with a smile.
“Alright, I’ll see what I can find for you.” I say, giving into her request. Why is it so hard for me? To let her go, she is strong; I know this, I’ve seen it. Even more so recently, Hannah works hard every day to get stronger. Her team is capable and will be able to handle almost any assignment I could give them. So why do I hold her back?
“Thank you!” Hannah says with a growing smile. “Temari is there anything else for me to do today?” I almost smile, here Hannah is ready to drop, but if Temari said the word, she would go for hours more.
“No, you may go Hannah.”
“Hey!! No way, get back here! I want a rematch, and Gaara’s gonna stay out of it this time!” My brother yells at Hannah while sending a glare in my direction.
Hannah returns his frustrated yell with a laugh. “Sorry Kankuro I already have training plans with someone else, maybe next time.” She walks toward the courtyard wall and jumps over it with Kankuro following in tow.
“With who?!” Kankuro yells as he reaches the top of the wall.
I faintly hear Hannah call out the name Saidy as Kankuro turns with a look of utter confusion at us and then follows.
Temari laughs, “Who’s Saidy?” I ask.
“An orphan girl at the academy, it’s my understanding she adores Hannah.” I respond with a nod, and walk slowly back toward the mansion.
“Gaara,” Temari starts. I turn to face her, she has stopped walking. “You’re worried about Hannah.”
It wasn’t a question, my sister knows me very well. She can tell my mind is filled with thoughts about this mission I have promised Hannah. “Yes,” I reply honestly, Temari is Hannah’s sensei after all. “I don’t understand why things have been so quiet, why haven’t our enemies come after her yet? They have already proven to be quite capable at infiltration and have nothing to lose by sending in clones after her. But still nothing. They must be waiting for something, and if it’s the opportunity I fear I may have just given it to them. But Hannah is right; I cannot shelter her and her team forever. Nevertheless I’m hesitant.” I finish and Temari ponders everything I have said.
“Then send me with them,” She says. “She will be safe, you will have that assurance, and they can have a better mission.” Temari is right; Hannah loves Temari and won’t mind her presence. I suspect Hannah is still a bit worried herself, after what happened last time she met our foes.
“Alright, I will find a border mission for you.” We both walk back into the mansion now, my mind not completely at ease.
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Moving to the balcony overlooking the village and the training grounds I see them. There they are, all three of them. It looks like Temari and Kankuro are teamed up against Hannah who is purely on the defensive right now. She is moving well, dodging both of them perfectly and trying to work in attacks at the same time. But then Kankuro surprises her by having his puppet crow send a net out towards her. She doesn’t have time to dodge it so she turns her back on Temari and uses her fans to cut the net and avoid capture. Of course this is all Temari needs to take her out, she raises her enormous fan, all three moons showing, and sends a blast of wind that sends Hannah crashing into a wall.
One who didn’t know Temari would have expected her to run up and apologize to her student. No, Temari does the opposite, she yells “Too slow Hannah!! Get up!” moments before sending an equally powerful wind at her.
Hannah recovers swiftly from the crushing blow and dodges the second attack, retreating behind a large stone in the yard. I can feel the pulses in her chakra that mean she has almost reached her limit. And yet, she springs from behind the rock and runs horizontally along the wall. Temari takes the bait and sends another at her. Hannah jumps off the wall before the attack reaches her and dives right at my sister who is still on the back swing of her attack. Hannah would have gotten her if crow hadn’t stepped in between them at the last second.
I can see the disappointment and irritation on Hannah’s face from here. The expression makes me smile, my sand wraps around me spinning in a small vortex. The expressions I see next are those of surprise for my siblings, but Hannah smiles and gets that determined look as I appear in the small sand storm next to her she know the odds are now even, it’s two on two. Hannah instinctively moves to pursue Kankuro after I separate our opponents. I take on Temari redirecting her winds as she moves into the offensive. We spar like this for a couple of minutes until I hear Kankuro yell in frustration, perhaps he has taught Hannah too well. She is controlling the pace of the fight, making him move wherever she needed him with her wind. Finally Kankuro has enough and summon his other two puppets. Hannah jumps back and is even with my stride.
“Hannah,” I say simply and nod at her. She knows what the gesture means. I had spoken with her once about every jutsu having a weakness, and I had used Kankuro as an example. I had told her something that was never allowed to be said to a ninja other than in the Sand. And now that she was a Sand ninja I passed it on to her. The puppet jutsu requires strings of chakra that cannot be severed with any blade. But Hannah uses her fans as blades as well. And normally not even this would be able to cut the chakra, but Kankuro and Temari had constructed Hannah’s fans specifically for her. They had made them to withstand massive amounts of her chakra flowing through them allowing her to make an almost purely chakra blade. It was my theory that if Hannah could clash her chakra quickly enough along the edge of her fans it would be enough to break the strings.
Hannah jumps behind me and I bring up a dome around her to allow her time to charge up her chakra. Kankuro is confused and charges at my sand, I have my hands full with Temari, and just allow him to try and break through. I know he will have no success. Moments later I feel Hannah’s chakra stop rising and know she is ready. When Kankuro sends crow at the sand, I open up the back of my dome and Hannah jumps on top of it. She uses the sand to jump over the puppet; I turn in anticipation to see what will happen next. Temari notices my sudden indiffence in our fight and walks up next to me to watch. Hannah spins in the air sends a couple of waves of wind at Kankuro, this forces him to dodge and move crow. This gives Hannah the opportunity to see his chakra strings; she makes it to the ground and almost appears out of nowhere behind crow. She raises one of her fans that Temari and I can tell has her chakra built up in it and swings, not at the crow, but directly behind its back.
Much to Kankuro’s surprise, the crow falls to the ground with just its arms and legs hovering slightly above the ground. “Gaara did you?” Temari starts amazed by what she sees. Hannah doesn’t stop there she moves as quickly as she can and moves to the remaining two puppets. Using the moments of confusion and shock before Kankuro comes to his senses she severs the other two main puppet strings. Kankuro swears and tries to reconnect his strings but doesn’t have a chance to, Hannah has run behind him and is holding a kuni at his neck.
“What the, how, when did you learn to do that?!” Kankuro growls at Hannah. She is out of breath and has dispelled the chakra built up in her fan. She steps away from my brother and laughs.
“Gaara taught me the secret to your demise!” She laughed again at Kankuro’s rude counter as she moves over to where Temari and I stand. “How was that?” She asks Temari.
“Very good, you’re learning quickly.” My sister answers.
“Well, that last technique is pretty much worthless without Gaara. It still takes me too long to build up enough chakra to make it effective. I’m defenseless while I focus on the chakra.”
“The technique itself is only useful on puppet users, which only come from our village. It is the strategy you need to remember. Every ninja has a weakness, that’s what you need to learn from this.” I say simply. Hannah nods with enthusiasm.
“So do you think maybe my team can go on some more difficult missions? No rouge ninja we might run into is going to be half as strong as Kankuro or you Temari. And I won’t be alone!”
I mentally sigh, I knew it would happen sooner or later, I look to my sister. Temari has a very serious look on her face, conflicted. “Hannah, you have gotten stronger, but please understand it is risky to send you far from the village. You remember what happened before you took on both villages. It could be worse now, and there’s no reason for you to go on difficult missions, since the war there aren’t many missions anyway.”
“I understand, but my team is getting restless, I can’t stand to see them unhappy because of me. And besides, what is the point of me being a joint shinobi if no one sees me? I doubt anyone outside the land of winds even knows about me. If I am to be helpful I’ll have to take risks.” She moves her pleading gaze in my direction. “Please let me take the risk, I won’t be alone.” She finishes with a smile.
“Alright, I’ll see what I can find for you.” I say, giving into her request. Why is it so hard for me? To let her go, she is strong; I know this, I’ve seen it. Even more so recently, Hannah works hard every day to get stronger. Her team is capable and will be able to handle almost any assignment I could give them. So why do I hold her back?
“Thank you!” Hannah says with a growing smile. “Temari is there anything else for me to do today?” I almost smile, here Hannah is ready to drop, but if Temari said the word, she would go for hours more.
“No, you may go Hannah.”
“Hey!! No way, get back here! I want a rematch, and Gaara’s gonna stay out of it this time!” My brother yells at Hannah while sending a glare in my direction.
Hannah returns his frustrated yell with a laugh. “Sorry Kankuro I already have training plans with someone else, maybe next time.” She walks toward the courtyard wall and jumps over it with Kankuro following in tow.
“With who?!” Kankuro yells as he reaches the top of the wall.
I faintly hear Hannah call out the name Saidy as Kankuro turns with a look of utter confusion at us and then follows.
Temari laughs, “Who’s Saidy?” I ask.
“An orphan girl at the academy, it’s my understanding she adores Hannah.” I respond with a nod, and walk slowly back toward the mansion.
“Gaara,” Temari starts. I turn to face her, she has stopped walking. “You’re worried about Hannah.”
It wasn’t a question, my sister knows me very well. She can tell my mind is filled with thoughts about this mission I have promised Hannah. “Yes,” I reply honestly, Temari is Hannah’s sensei after all. “I don’t understand why things have been so quiet, why haven’t our enemies come after her yet? They have already proven to be quite capable at infiltration and have nothing to lose by sending in clones after her. But still nothing. They must be waiting for something, and if it’s the opportunity I fear I may have just given it to them. But Hannah is right; I cannot shelter her and her team forever. Nevertheless I’m hesitant.” I finish and Temari ponders everything I have said.
“Then send me with them,” She says. “She will be safe, you will have that assurance, and they can have a better mission.” Temari is right; Hannah loves Temari and won’t mind her presence. I suspect Hannah is still a bit worried herself, after what happened last time she met our foes.
“Alright, I will find a border mission for you.” We both walk back into the mansion now, my mind not completely at ease.
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