Shout

[4] Scum

"Excuse me?" Sakura announces clearly hearing the quiet voice of the Anbu.

"Are insults the only sentence you can string together out of your vocabulary?" She asks, pointing at the girl.

"She's not insulting you, she's telling you the clear truth." Kakashi says, gaining the attention of the Genin.

"The aim of this 'test' was to work as a team. Teamwork is all you needed to deadest me or at least get a bell."

He turns around and looks down at the K.I.A memorial stone solemnly.

"The names of hero's are engraved on this stone. Some of my friends and family as well." Kakashi says to the team.

"Wow! That's so cool!" Naruto yells.

"Naruto they're a special type of hero."

"Really! That's so cool!" Naruto repeats.

"Naruto the stone is K.I.A." Sakura says to him, expecting him to understand her,

"That sounds so cool! Believe it!

"It's decided! I'm going to get my name on that stone!" Naruto continues to yell.

"Uzumaki." Everyone's gazes focus on Kagami who is absentmindedly tracing her fingers over the few names her hand can reach.

Her gaze follows the clouds as she does this, completely aware of the amount of attention she is attracting.

"Do you know what K.I.A means?" She asks, looking him in the face this time.

"No! But it sounds really cool! Believe it!" Naruto repeats once again, by being able to think of another objective to describe what he thinks of it.

"Naruto, K.I.A stands for Killed In Action. So unless you are suicidal you do not want your name on this memorial stone. Neither do you want to ever recognise the names on the stone." She says, her gaze making its way back to the clouds.

"Oh." Is the only thing Naruto can muster up to say.

"There is one thing you all need to remember throughout your careers as Shinobi." Everyone turns towards their Sensei.

Apart from Kagami of course, who was leaning back to follow a particular looking cloud.

"This is that 'Those who abandon their missions are scum, but those who leave their comrades behind are worse than scum.'" The mood darkens even further. If possible.

But Kakashi seems to muster up a heart warming smile.

"But I'm going to give you all a second chance. Sakura, Sasuke here are your lunches." He says handing bentos to the both of them.

Kagami chucks the bell at Sakura gently, saying she is also giving her another chance.

"Naruto you don't get one because you broke to rules. Kagami and I are going to take a small break so you guys can have a small rest and replenish your strength. Oh, and remember don't feed Naruto." With this said and done, Kakashi places his hand on Kagami's shoulder and body flickers that both of them into the think foliage surrounding the training ground.

"Do you think they will succeed?" Kakashi whispers to his sister.

"No." Kagami says back bluntly.

Kakashi sweat drops at this statement and face palms into the air.

"Sasuke will succeed buy catching onto your rather obvious clue and help Naruto, and Sakura, being obsessed with him and all, will copy him and feed Naruto too." Kakashi nods along with his sister.

"I was thinking it would go along like that as well. But I guess all we can do is sit and wait for them. I need to charge up some electricity to scare them." Kagami let's out a little chuckle at the thought of the scared Genin.

"There should be lightning crashing down around me with grey clouds. Just to add effect." Kakashi gets ready to move in on them as Sakura shoves food into Naruto's mouth.

"I think I'll stay here so you can handle it." She tells her brother.

He simply nods and disappears into the training field.

Kagami watches the first 4 seconds of the interaction before concluding that it is safe to tune out and talk to Yua.

'Yua, do you have any information on the team I ran into on the way here?' Kagami questions and Guardian, as the question had been bugging her since the close-to interaction.

'Hm, a very comparable team. Ino-Shika-Cho generation something. Their sensei is Asuma Sarutobi, the Hokage's son. Oh and Shikamaru's father is Shikaku Nara.' Kagami's eyes widen a fraction.

'Shikaku Nara is his father? It seems we might not get along so well.' Yua sighs at her host.

'Kagami you never know. He might not even recognise you. I mean, you were a baby at the time.' Kagami shakes her head.

'Who else would have silver hair?'

'Many pe-'

'As a child?'

Yua doesn't reply to this and Kagami takes this as a victory. She stands up and head over to her brother, who at the moment is smiling at the hysterical team.

As she reaches him a hawk swoops over head. Kakashi looks at Kagami and nods. She nods back and disappears.

s.h.o.u.t

Sakura lays on her bed staring at the bell Kagami gave her. It glints lightly in the light as she lets it dangle from her hand above her. Suddenly it's no longer in her hand and light smoke appears where is once was.

Sakura's eyes go wide as she stares at her now empty hand. Kagami gave her a fake. Suddenly realisation washes over her.

"Kakashi-sensei said there was only two bells, but every one of us had a bell apart from Kagami. That's three. No one noticed either. She tricked us all. We all just skipped over the information." Sakura smiles lightly, knowing Kagami had made a risk for her.

She gets under the covers of her bed. She turns off her lamp and snuggles into bed. Then she suddenly sits up again, fear taking over her.

'Kagami gave me the fake. She was willing to fail me, to send me back to the academy. She had complete control over my fate.'

Sakura slowly falls asleep, a new fear of Kagami formed.

s.h.o.u.t.

~shadow