Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Just Simple Curiosity ❯ Survival Training ( Chapter 5 )

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After dinner Aya paid her share as promised and once the other’s had added

their money they stood up and left. As they walked back through the restaurant Aya

noticed she was still receiving cursory glances from the patrons that had been there

earlier. Maybe they just weren’t used to females defending themselves Aya thought

before she shook it away. No that couldn’t be it because there were plenty of female

ninja in this village. Maybe it was because she was an outsider and they didn’t think her

capable of defending herself. Well that was just ridiculous Aya shrugged to herself as

she raised both her arms and clasped her hands behind her head. After all what she’d

done was purely instinct, anyone would have been able to do the same. Of course

maybe her eyes had changed or something she continued to ponder. Since she wasn’t

exactly paying attention to where she was walking she bumped into Sasuke who

stopped suddenly in front of her.

“Hey watch where you’re going,” Aya muttered in annoyance as she stepped

back. But instead of an apology from Sasuke she heard Kakashi’s voice.

“What seems to be the problem,” their Sensei asked in a cool voice. Since Aya

was the shortest of the group and couldn’t see what was happening she moved to the

side. From where she was still half concealed by Sasuke’s body she saw the man that

she had humiliated earlier only this time he wasn’t alone.

“We ain’t lookin’ for you Kakashi,” the man said, “I’m looking for that little bitch

that squeezed my balls.”

“She happens to be one of my students,” Kakashi said mildly, “so it appears that

this is also my business.”

“It ain’t,” one of the other men said sneering at the Sensei. “Besides isn’t this a

bit beneath the Copy Ninja. We wouldn’t want you meddling in menial affairs.”

“Protecting my students isn’t menial,” Kakashi said smiling brightly.

“We only wanna talk to the kid,” said the third man with the group.

“Why not let them say what the hell they want so we can get out of here,” Aya

said moving from behind Sasuke. The men turned to look at Aya and the one that had

been humiliated took a step forward. Kakashi however put up an arm while still smiling

and pushed the man back to his beginning position.

“I think you can talk well enough from there,” Kakashi said, his one visible eye

crinkled up in a smile.

“So what did you want to say?” Aya asked stopping the man from giving Kakashi

a scathing remark. The man turned to look at her and he puffed himself up to his full

height looking down. Aya simply smirked and laughed shaking her head.

“What’s so funny?” Asked man number two. Aya stopped laughing immediately

her face becoming a hard mask as she turned her gaze on him.

“I’ve been the shortest kid in my class since God knows how long. If your trying

to intimidate me you’ll have to do a lot better than that.” The man that Aya had

embarrassed at the restaurant stared down at the her confused so Christie decided to

help him out.

“She means she’s short, she’s used to it, so taller people don’t scare her,”

Christie said shrugging. The man frowned down at Christie and then turned back to Aya

who was arching a brow at him as an amused smirk twisted her lips.

“Fine so height won’t scare you,” the third man said, “then a good beating sure

will won’t it.”

“I don’t know,” Aya remarked with a nonchalant shrug, “after all it didn’t seem to

work on your friend.” Though she seemed perfectly at ease her eyes never left the men

and her body never dropped its guard. While she talked she listened as footsteps

approached from behind them though still a good half mile off from the sound of them.

So they had reinforcements huh. Aya suddenly growled at the men baring her fangs

and snarling like a rabid dog. Christie frowned at her friend wondering what she was up

to. After all Aya wasn’t one to allow for public displays of anger. While Aya continued

her snarling performance and the men cowered back from her she hit Sasuke hard on

the arm and signaled backwards discreetly. Luckily Sasuke was quick and he got the

message tapping the others. Christie moved back near Aya and turned her back

trusting her team to protect her while she scented the night air. Keeping her eyes on the

route behind them Christie reached down and tapped Sasuke’s leg. When he glanced

down at the small touch she held up three fingers before she shook her hand and then

held up four. He nodded backing up into position looking off to the right. When Sakura

had taken up her position beside him he tapped her leg revealing four fingers when she

looked down while Christie effectively positioned herself toward the rear. Though their

attackers hadn’t shown themselves yet the team was slowly sliding into position, careful

not to alert the men Aya was scaring silly for the sake of a diversion. When Naruto

realized his teammates were getting into position he moved up on Christie’s other side

looking out to the right. The moment he was in position he felt a tap against his leg and

looked down to see the four fingers Christie was holding up. He nodded slightly and

looked up his eyes glued to the darkness for any sign of danger. While this happened

Aya continued snarling at the men but she slowly slid in beside Naruto and Kakashi-

Sensei, who was facing forward and taking point against the first three goons. Once

they were in position Aya heard a whizzing noise in the distance. For a moment she

simple listened to it as it got closer when she realized what it was.

“Everybody down,” she whispered forcing Naruto’s head to the ground as her

body made it’s decent. Looking around as she heard it get closer she saw Christie low

to the ground as well as Kakashi-Sensei with his hand on Sakura’s head. Sasuke

apparently had needed no help and had acted immediately lying low like Christie.

“What the hell is there problem?” The second man said laughing at the way the

students and their teacher were lying on the ground.

“Who the hell knows but let’s get that little bitch,” the man said taking a step

forward toward Aya. The moment he took his first step however he paused looking

down in confusion. Aya turned to look at him as she smelled fresh blood and she

watched in fascination as the top half of his body slowly slid off of the bottom half. As

his body fell in half, to the ground the man screamed for a second before it was all over.

While trying to stay alert and figure out what the hell was going on Aya stayed very still

straining her exceptional hearing. For a second all she could hear was the sound of

retching coming from Sakura and the low growl of hunger. That was clearly from

Christie, Aya figured watching as the other two men scrambled away from the scene

each with a severed limb. Ghastly Aya smirked to herself inching out of the circle on her

stomach and moving carefully around Kakashi to see what had caused the blood-shed.

“Keep Christie over there if you want to turn this in to the authorities,” Aya

muttered to him as she examined the body.

“A wire did it,” Kakashi said slowly staring at the carnage with dead eyes for a

few more moments before he lifted his head slightly and looked around in the darkness.

“Great a killer who uses wire,” Aya muttered to herself, “why not. Still happy we

missed work today?” She called back to Christie. Christie’s only answer was an

inelegant snort but it let Aya know she’d gotten herself under control enough that the

blood wasn’t bothering her. “Well that’s one good thing in our favor,” Aya continued

muttering to herself as she listened to the silence around them.

“What’s so good,” Sakura asked after she’d stopped gagging.

“You don’t wanna know,” Aya said continuing to listen to the darkness settling

around them.

“Yes I do,” Sakura said stubbornly.

“Suit yourself,” Aya said in a slightly singsong voice as she continued listening.

“She’s just happy I’m not going to start eating and lapping at the dead man,”

Christie said with another inelegant snort, though this one was aimed directly at Aya.

The girl only shrugged as she continued to listen.

“Hey you ate that one dead cat after it had been ran over,” Aya reminded her

friend as she smirk.

“I was like five,” Christie snapped going back to her sniffing to cover her bruised

pride. But it seemed Sakura wasn’t convinced.

“I know when you’re being sarcastic,” Sakura said stubbornly, “now what’s so

good.”

“You know nothing about the far reaches of my sarcasm both direct and subtle,”

Aya said loftily. “I’m dead serious in the matter that I was worried that Christie might just

eat the body.”

“But why would she do a thing like that?” Sakura persisted.

“Because she’s a Werewolf and it’s still warm,” Aya said chuckling softly.

“I don’t believe you,” Sakura said. “Christie would you really eat the body?”

“Sure if I was positive that I could without any repercussions.”

“But why?” Sakura demanded refusing to accept facts.

“Look you really don’t wanna know that?” Aya said creeping away from the body

to sniff out the wire though she wondered if she should have let Christie do that. Her

nose is better Aya mused, though her’s was also extremely sensitive just not as much.

“I do want to know,” Aya heard Sakura say before Christie answered her.

“I’d eat the body because it’s warm, and bloody, and because the intestines are

intact and moist and one of the best parts of the human body to eat.” That was it, Aya

thought in amusement as she heard Sakura retching again. She called back, though

only loud enough so that the small group could hear her.

“Told you, you didn’t want to know,” Aya said with a grin as she continued

moving further off the path and into the trees. After she’d slid across the ground for

more than a few yards she saw the thin slip of wire hanging just above her head. As

she slipped closer to it she realized that her group was no longer in sight and that they

were perfectly quiet. So was the entire strip of forest that she was crawling in now. She

strained her hearing for anything that might be coming. As she got closer and closer to

the wire she sniffed deeply, confident in her hearing because even if something was

trying to stand completely still she’d have still heard something. When she reached the

wire she reached up ripping it down and she winced lightly as it bit into her hand cutting

it slightly. With her task done she slowly made her way back to her comrades and

moved straight to Kakashi handing him the wire. Taking the small slip of metal from the

girl he noted her hand and started to say something. Noticing where his gaze was gong

however Aya shook her head and licked her own blood off her hand showing him it had

already healed. Kakashi stared at Aya for a few moments in surprise but she was

ignoring it and moving back into position silently. As she settled back in her spot she

watched as Kakashi stood up and motioned for them to do the same.

“That was amazing,” he said in surprise, “I’ve never had a group of students

finish that exercise in a faster time. As the students got to their feet Aya stared at

Kakashi incredulous as he pushed the other man’s body together and he stood up as if

nothing had happened.

“Well Kakashi-San it was a pleasure to help as always,” the man said turning to

wave when he saw his friends coming from both directions toward them. There were

four just as Christie had said she noted with a frown.

“See you Kakashi-San,” the men said as they began walking away, all except the

one Aya had humiliated. He walked up to her and held out his hand, a rueful grin

twisting his lips when she took it and shook it firmly before reclaiming her own.

“Sorry about the trouble I caused you,” he said smiling down a her, “I really didn’t

mean to grab your breast. I ask for your sincerest apologies,” the man said bowing to

Aya. The girl shrugged, blushing as she backed up hastily.

“No please don’t,” Aya said shaking her head quickly, “it’s no big deal and I

probably caused you a lot more pain than you did me. I didn’t break anything did I?”

Aya asked carefully. The man, Sasuke, Naruto, and Kakashi broke out into deep

masculine chuckles that had Aya scowling at all of them. “You know I think I could bite

you all and drain you by morning,” Aya said matter-of-factly but this only earned her a

hair ruffling by Kakashi.

“Relax Aya-Chan nothing was broken,” Kakashi said, “bruised maybe but not

broken.”

“Oh well then let’s let bygones be bygones,” Aya said shrugging as she fought off

a blush. Luckily the man decided it was time for him to go because he said good bye to

Kakashi again and walked off. The minute the man was out of earshot though Aya

rounded on Kakashi.

“You mean to tell me that was a test the entire time. From the minute we walked

into the. . .” Aya stopped pondering what was happening. She looked up at Kakashi

arching a brow with a smirk. “Oh I see. You were late because you were setting up this

test. When you got to the room you already knew there were stuff above the door

because how could you not when you’re an elite ninja.”

“You let the stuff hit you and you got mad,” Christie continued for Aya with a grin.

“Then while you tried to think of a good way to say let’s go and get lunch Aya-Chan did

it. Since she’d solved your problem for you, you went along with it and led us straight to

the restaurant.”

“When we entered the restaurant you made sure a female went in last, and it just

happened to be Aya,” Sakura said taking up the slack. “You weren’t even all that

surprised when the man came upon her. The only thing that really surprise you was that

Aya beat him alone. After that we order our food and you ordered light even though Aya

said get whatever we liked. After that we all exited the restaurant and you decided to

walk us home.”

“When the men came up on us you acted like the concerned Sensei but you

were a little too calm,” Sasuke said with narrowed eyes. “You let us handle the situation

and said nothing in the way of direction.”

“The only real help you gave was to make sure Sakura was down low enough

that she wouldn’t get hurt,” Naruto pointed out with an arched brow.

“And then you let me go into the woods alone and retrieve the wire even though

you knew where it was the whole time. You didn’t even tell me to do it but let me do it

on pure instinct,” Aya said still smirking. “Have we pretty much got this Kakashi-

Sensei?” Aya asked folding her arms under her ample chest.

“Yes that was perfect,” Kakashi said smiling, his one eye crinkling in amusement.

“You all pass,” he said patting each of them on the head in turn.

“Wait pass what?” Naruto said confused.

“This was my survival test,” Kakashi said shrugging lightly. “You all passed and

are now Genin. You showed superior teamwork, quick action, steady planning, and a

couple of you some impressive leadership and deductive skills. Congratulations you are

the first team to ever pass. The students looked at each other in surprise before they

grabbed Aya in a huge hug and began bouncing up and down. For a minute Aya

jumped with them but then she pushed them off gently and stepped back.

“Ok that’s enough of that mess,” Aya muttered though she was still grinning.

“So Kakashi-Sensei what does this mean now that we’re Genin?” Sakura asked

slowly.

“Well it means you are my team from now on,” he said with a shrug. “I’ll be

training you to get stronger after you take your Ninja ID pictures tomorrow. Meet me in

the wooded clearing after you’ve all had your pictures,” he said with a crinkled eye to

prove he was smiling. Well I’ll see you tomorrow team,” he said to the stunned faces as

he turned and walked off.

“He’s gonna be one hellava Sensei,” Aya said grinning. “Oh well crash at our

place tonight,” she said suddenly. “I’ll make breakfast in the morning. Everyone cheered

and they all raced toward the house. As Aya walked sedately behind them chuckling

softly she wondered what tomorrow would bring and if she was really cut out for being a

Ninja. She also wondered though she’d never admit it, if she was really starting to fit in

here.

A/N: Well I can’t wait for another review. And I hope you all like the story so far.