Seedlings

It was turning out to be a nice day. The sun was out and there was a light breeze. Ita could be seen standing near three wooden poles positioned in the middle of the training grounds. Nearby was a small body of water. Bigger than a pond, but not quite big enough to be considered a lake.

 

Ita was wearing his chuunin flask and black pants. Along his waist were two weapon pouches containing various tools and items. Ita’s black hair was beginning to grow longer and his hair was beginning to obtain a blue hue to it. Typical traits of a full blood Uchiha. Ita was also wearing black ninja shoes along with bandages around his wrists and ankles. The light breeze caught the young boy’s hair and the sunlight caught his black eyes.

Even though Ita was only 13, he was going to be manning his first mission as a squad leader. With the Jounin exams on hold, Ita had resorted to his usual busy work. Training and missions. Ita reminisced on his times as a genin and going on his first real mission which lead him to his Chuunin rank. Ita was wondering what the two genin he would he watching over would be made of and figured he would have to put them to a little test that way Ita could see what he had to work with.

Ita teamed with excitement as he waited. He was beginning to lose interest in the daily village activities and talent was short in Konoha lately. Ita was beginning to question his life within the village. He yearned to travel and see what other types of ninja there were outside of the Leafs great walls. Ita also was beginning to feel as though the leaf had little to offer him in his quest for learning. Ita hated the idea that the great nations were divided and not one. He hoped to unify one day them all, but that would take time, and the help of others, as well as resources.

Ita put aside his thoughts sand concentrated on the task at hand. Ita would await the arrival of his two new pupils and wouldn’t waste any time.

Once they both arrived Ita would examine each of them then quickly get straight to the point. The boy spoke,

 “My name is Ita. I am going to be accompanying you on your mission, but before then we have some things to accomplish.”

Ita would eye both of them over once more then speak again.

“First things first, you must both work together to try and secure this bell.”

Ita held up a small silver bell with a red piece of linen attached to it. Ita fastened the bell to his belt.

Without any further instruction, Ita would leap backwards, putting 15 meters of space between the two genin and himself. Ita smirked. “Whenever you are ready to begin.”
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Love was excited about today because she would officially become a member of a squad. It was a really nice day and she was eager to meet her new sensei, so Love skipped going to Oro's house to see if he was up. If he wasn't she & their leader would just go there to get him. Once Love reached the specified meeting location in the training grounds she over looked the, not much taller than her, boy standing near the three wooden poles placed in the middle of the area. Is he the third genin? She asked herself as she looked around for anyone else she might have missed. While doing so she noticed that Oro was there and on time! Noticing both of them the boy began to speak.


He's our sensei? Love's eyebrow rose but her surprise was short lived as a small bell caught her attention. "Just like that huh?" Love said under her breath as she folded her arms behind her head. There was no way she was just going to charge in; Besides those dark eyes gave Love a weird vibe.

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orokana was getting ready when he remembered he needed to meet his new team captain. which he didnt know anything about the guy other then it was a person. he took his time getting to the area as he walked to the training grounds. he saw the boy talking to love, and love looking half excited half bored already. he sighed as he came close to them. his messy uncombed hair moved with the wind as his brown leather jacket moved with the wind as well. he yawned as the boy named ita told them he was their new team captain. and listened as the man told him he needed to grab the bell. he didnt look too fast but oro asked a question before they started. "get the bell by any means?" he asked and looked at love, knowing he was faster then her. oro also noted itas black eyes. he sighed.

Ita continued to stand 15 meters apart from the two. Ita now eyed them both, the boy’s dark eyes casting first impressions on the two genin. Ita could tell that the boy seemed to be the most experience of the two, however Ita didn’t want to come to any real conclusions until after their training exercise was over. That’s when he would cast final judgement.

 

Ita was beginning to enjoy being a shinobi more so than before. At times, he was mostly quiet and emotionless, but with age and experience, Ita was beginning to find the humor in life. Being a shinobi called for such humor considering the grim reality of it all. Living to fight, fighting to live, living to die. It was all unavoidable, right?

 

Ita blinked slowly, his dark eyes continuing to look over the two genin in front of him. He had a few questions, but it would certainly have to wait till after. The only thing Ita was really pondering now was what type of ninja they were. Did they use ninjutsu? Taijutsu? Maybe even genjutsu? Although Ita wasn’t very skilled in genjutsu, he had been exposed to its complexity after his training with Yen. Lucky for Ita, when it came to genjutsu, his sharingan was his trump card, however he doubted he would need to use it right now, although he would without hesitation.

 

Traditionally, activating your sharingan on another shinobi from your village was considered a sign of battle. However, due to Ita’s lack of overall knowledge of his own clan it wouldn’t be peculiar for him to use it. Anyways, Ita was beginning to wonder what the holdup was. The task was simple, right? Just secure the bell. Maybe they were still in disbelief that their Chuunin leader was still only a boy.

 

This left Ita to act first. Ita loved the idea of playing, but if he were going to whip these genin into shape that way they could become Chuunin, then they would need to face the real thing, because once they are on their own and doing missions outside the safety of the Leaf’s gates, that is when real life happens. That is when all the training done until that very moment counted.

Oro spoke and asked Ita if getting the bell meant by any means? This perplexed Ita momentarily then he responded, “How else? Now begin.” Ita continued to stare at the two of them, with 15 meters in between waiting for them to make the first move, his eyes intently fixated.

As his gaze on the genin fixated, something popped into the boy’s head. “Shit.” In the midst of all of Ita’s training and probono work, he had somehow forgotten that the second part of his Jounin exams were going to be starting soon and that means he already missed the party. Ita would now need to leave as soon as possible to Suna, wherever that was. Ita sighed and felt sorry for wasting the two genins time.

Before they could make a move Ita would begin to speak once more, “Sorry something has come up and I have to go. When I get back we will work on getting you both ready for the mission. See you then. I would use my absence as an excuse to continue training since you both are already here.”

Ita would weave three hand signs: Dragon – Monkey – Ox. A small orb would materialize before. The awesome illumination from the orb would cause Ita’s face to glow and the boy would give the genin a smile before detonating the orb. The orb detonated and caused a crator to form with the diameter of 10m. The explosion would also produce a good deal of smoke. Before the detonation Ita would use the transformation technique to transform into a crow, flying into the sky and clearing the explosion. All that could be seen by the genin would be a black crow emerging from the smoke and flying off into the sky.

Ita felt a great deal of guilt as he fled the training grounds but he knew it was for an important reason. How could he train students if he himself could never make it to the next level? The next big challenge in Ita’s life awaited him in Suna.
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Love sighed, still retaining her pose. "How do you want to handle this?" Love asked Oro without taking her eyes off of Ita. If she had a sword she could attack head on and let Oro set up something in the distance. Using her tai right off the bat wasn't something Love liked to do without some knowledge of her opponent's abilities and or fighting style. Oro should remember that from their first encounter but Love wasn't all too sure what he selected to remember. But he too liked to keep his distance which sucks because they don't have a third member for their team. "Hmm..." Love began to think of their options. Maybe Oro would be nice enough and go first... Though, if we attack at the same time we might be able to access him better. Love then looked to the male standing at her side.

Too bad they didn't know each other better, they'd be able to send messages through their eyes. If they took any longer Ita would probably just attack but there wouldn't be much fun in that. Well for him anyway, Love liked to make good impressions on important people. She wanted to show that they had good coordination but then they hadn't spent much time training together. So that was kind of out of the window. I suppose not attacking together could be beneficial... Love said in her mind thinking that it might be a bit of a hassle to defend and access two people once. Though what they did would depend on Oro's response.

Just as Love was waiting for Oro to respond, the guy across from them began to speak again. "What!? Whaddya mean!?" Love shouted and then an orb appeared. When the orb exploded and created the smoke that would hide Ita, Love couldn't believe her eyes. "He's really leaving!?" Just as the words left her moth Love saw a black crow fly off. "Son of a..." Love sighed but there was nothing that could be done about it now. She looked at Oro once again and sighed before she would disappear, not in a cloud of smoke, that had already been done, but in a blur of speed. She had some training to get back to and there would be no point in doing it with Oro since the skill she was training was one she intended to beat him with. "See ya." Would be the only thing heard when she left.

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