"Our weakness becomes our strength. It's what makes us stronger, helps is grow, helps us to be able to protect the ones we love, it helps us to be able to bring people like you down. But it also gives us pain, and lets us suffer. It causes conflict...
I forced my way through the crowd that filled the main area of Konoha where all the stores were opened and ready to sell their products.
I was on my way to meet Kakashi and Sasuke to see how they were doing since it had been a while. They had been so busy as well as Naruto and everyone else.
Finally I made it to the place where I was to meet them. Ichiraku Ramen.
Since I had gotten here a bit earlier than I expected, I ordered a bowl of miso ramen to eat and sipped on a glass of water. I absolutely loved the ramen that Teuchi-San made, it was pure heaven and never seemed to bore me from the magnificent flavour it brought. I guess I had to blame Naruto for my love of ramen after constantly bringing me here in my first few days here in Konoha.
I sighed and payed for my food leaning into my seat as I closed my eyes and began to think.
'Naruto.'
'I haven't seen him in awhile but I guess it was because of the final exams coming up that we've been too busy to see each other. We still haven't had ramen together after he promised me on the mission with Tazuna-San.'
My thoughts were interrupted by some feet shuffling as they entered the mini food store. I opened my eyelids and looked to my side to see one of my teammates.
"It's been awhile Sasuke"
"Hn" He replied with a nod. Sasuke then began to look around until he gave up and sighed, sitting in the seat next to me.
Probably because Kakashi still had that stupid habit of being late. I shrugged and leaned forward so I could lean onto the counter in front of me. Sasuke just seemed to stay impassive and stared at nothing.
"You ready for you match Sasuke?" I asked trying to start a conversation out of boredom.
"Hn"
I glared at him with an annoyed expression. "You know saying 'Hn' is starting to tick me off Uchiha"
"Then stop talking to me" He rolled his eyes and kept staring at nothing as if I weren't in his presence at all causing a scoff to escape my lips.
"What? I was merely trying to be like any other normal person and start a conversation. Is that to hard to to ask?" I crossed my arms and awaited for his reply.
"Hn"
Third Person POV:
Kira seemed to be a bit annoyed. She hated how he always thought of himself as king or whatever he thought he was and she wanted to just beat him to a bloody pulp then and their, but Kira knew better and refrained herself from doing so.
Sasuke was annoyed that he had to be kept waiting for his sensei, and to make matters worse, it was with a girl who he didn't know if he actually liked or not. If he did, Sasuke would have no choice but to force himself to stop those weird feeling to awaken from within him. For he had a dream, no. An ambition to accomplish and that was to destroy his brother and restore the Uchiha clan. He couldn't let some girl get in the way. But then again, she had the same dream as him, they were alike and it wasn't everyday you'd stumble across someone who shared the same ambitions as you.
It was then that Kakashi arrived after about half an hour of his two student waiting for him at Ichiraku Ramen. He gave a them a closed eye smile and clasped his hands together.
"Ohayo, Mina." Both Kira and Sasuke glared at him for his usual lateness for about a few seconds before he sighed and stood up from his seat, putting his hands in his pockets of his white pants in the process and making his way to the masked sensei.
Without a word Kira followed after Sasuke, both of the kids stood side by side with similar expressions. Their expressions said nothing but the way they held themselves was how the Hajime and Uchiha would hold them self. With pride.
Nervously glancing from one student to the other Kakashi scratched the back of his head as he released a sheepish laugh.
"Sorry I'm late. You won't believe how crowded it is out there" Kira frowned when she took a peek outside the food store to see if it were true only to see that Kakashi once again came up with yet another lame excuse.
"Let's just get going." She muttered.
Sasuke answered with a 'Hn' and Kakashi a nod and began leading both Uchiha to the area where he had been training Sasuke.
***
"So you can do a max amount of 3 of the chidori. Not bad" Kira commented, her arms were crossed as she sat on a boulder.
She -and Kakashi- had been watching how far Sasuke had progressed. Kira admitted that he was strong and a quick learner. Even though she didn't know how long it takes to master the chidori, she wast old by kakashi that Sasuke had picked it up instantly.
"Hn" Sasuke replied, a smirk plastered on his pale Uchiha face.
Kira then furrowed her eyebrows and walked towards Sasuke who was panting and bent over trying to catch his breath, sweat dripping down his forehead.
"Is it possible to merge ones jutsu with another?"
This question caused caused a raised eyebrow and confusion from both males as they stared at Kira.
"Uhh, it is possible but extremely difficult to achieve but to a certain few shinobi, it is like second nature. Both casters must have an even amount of Chakra to make the jutsu work. If not then it could lead to serious injuries, major Chakra depletion or even death." Kakashi's answer seemed to make sense.
Kira knew he was curious as to why such random question was brought up but didn't ask her why. Sasuke had the same thought.
Unexpectedly, all three felt a mass amount of Chakra close by. Kira turned her head in the direction of where she could sense the Chakra with Kakashi and Sasuke following her action.
"You can come out now......Gaara." Her voice demanded as she released a suspicious look in her face. Out from behind a large boulder came Gaara with his arms crossed and gourd presented being his back as it hung from a strap that was hidden by his white sash.
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"What are you doing here?" Sasuke demanded, a harsh glare was set towards sand genin who reflected Sasuke's look.
A crazed look came onto Gaara's face when the question rang through his ears. "I just came to see how strong my opponent will be. I'm going to have fun watching your blood everywhere in the arena. I am looking forward to our match, Sasuke."
With that said, Gaara disappeared in a whirl of his sand that had manifested from his gourd.
