The new Setting

It has been a little under a 100 years since the fourth ninja war and in that time three wars have happened. Konoha has grown slightly larger taking up more and more of the land of fire. The last remaining living character Konohamaru died only 5 short years ago. The technology in the ninja world has undergone some drastic changes but not that drastic. They have black and white televisions and a few hundred automobiles as a whole. Traveling has gotten faster thanks to the invention of trains networking most of the ninja world. There is no form of aerial travel other than summoning jutsu. The invention of home telephones has also been implemented and better communication devices have been made.

The hidden Sound, Grass, Rain, and Hotspring villages have become recognized villages with their own Kages. The Grass initiated the fifth ninja war to claim their independence and they won it after a near miss victory over the allied ninja nations. The Rain, Hotspring, and Sound villages joined together causing the sixth and the sevent ninja wars. The sixth they lost and were placed under tighter restrictions, the seventh they defeated all of the villages except Kumo gaining them each their independence. Eight years ago the Grass, Rain, Hotsprings, and Sound formed their own Alliance to balance the world.

A small village in the center of it all like the rain village is at the center of the two alliances and may have formed a new Akatsuki. Their goal is to recapture all of the wild bijuu that were killed during the sixth ninja war.

The Story

"Today is the first day of your lives genin, you all have been appointed to your teams and the meeting places are on the board. Team four your team will meet here as you will have a teammate that is new to us all. His name is Data and he will be joining your team. The rest of you go off to your meeting places so that you can meet your Sensei for the first time." Gokimoto Sensei instructed to his large class of 56 students.

A mass of genin started to exit the building murmuring things left and right in suspicion. " I heard that team four is getting a root member. Do you think he'll kill them?" One murmurs to another. "Yeah I know, they say he's already killed people" another murmurs. "Wow we'll be lucky if we can take chuunin exams. I'm gonna ask that we not take it when he's taking it." some more kids murmur as the room was left.

The only two that were left in the Room were Inaka and Ryouske. After about ten minutes Data cracked the door looking at the two of them. His red eyes searched the room for other students but he didn't find any. Opening the sliding door he stepped into the room wearing a long black cloak that was unzipped. If they looked they could see a brown Jounin vest from the hidden rain backed by a short sleeved fish net shirt. His pants were brown and black camouflage and he wore wooden bamboo sandals. All of his lines and circuitry could be seen clearly on his face along with his piercing red eyes and jet black hair.

"Hello, I'm Data your new team member." He said in a puberty stricken voice. It wasn't overly screechy but it didn't sound very male at all.

Rip. Rip. Rip. The paper Ryou had been filling with his horrible doodles, was torn into tiny pieces of pathetic paper. If Ryou remembered correctly, that was a physical change. After all... with some help from tape, possibly some glue, and hours upon hours of patience... he could put the paper make together again. Data. Sounded like... a nickname or had this kid's parents been crazy enough to name him that? Not that Data's name was Ryou's problem... Buzzing flies. All of those gossiping kids were flies that needed a good squashing! Where was Ryou's flyswatter when he needed it?

Turning around, he stared at the conversing gossiper. "Shut up. Don't spread stupid rumors like that. You don't even know him. So, stop spreading such bullcrap." People like them... irritated the heck out of Ryou. They talked about others as if they had no lives themselves. Always blaming... always judging... Who the heck judges someone before meeting them?! After the room was emptied of gossipers, Ryou turned to Inaka and smiled brightly. "I'm glad we're on the same team." Of course, Ryou would have said this to anyone who had been his teammate, but... he really was glad to have Inaka has a teammate.

Whoosh. Ryou's gaze left Inaka and he looked Data up and down. Jounin vest. Bmaboo sandals? Wouldn't those make is feet bleed? Wearing those shoes might be a twisted form of self punishment, but... wooden sandals..? Ryou wanted to know why. "Don't those hurt?" He asked, pointing at the wooden sandals. His voice. This guy was obviously going through puberty, and although Ryou also was... his voice never did anything like that. "Nice to meet you, Data-kun." Ryou said, holding his hand out for Data to shake. "I'm Hōzuko Ryousuke, but everyone just calls be Ryou." Ryou glanced up... staring at the beautiful artist designs gracing Data's face. Along with that black hair and red eyes... Data was really handsome. Those gossipers flies had been wrong. No one with such a pretty face could have killed anyone!

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"Uwah-" Inaka shifted in her seat a bit. Her hands were on the desk and she was laying on them, sleeping right in the middle of the study. She was always sleeping though. Studying wasn't enough to keep her awake and her father always gave her extra lessons and her mother always wanted her to help her...Sleeping at the Academy was how she got the energy for the rest of the day.

Stretching her arms and letting out a long, loud yawn, Inaka slammed her hands on the desk. "Everyone left?" She looked around until she saw Ryousuke talking to someone? 'Data-kun'? "Oh!" Inaka exclaimed, not paying the two any mind right away. Inaka used her hands to "jump" herself over the desk the opposite side. It was like she used her arms and a quick hop of her feet to completely glide over the desk. Swinging over, she jumped on the next one high enough to make it to the front of the class. There were pieces of paper that had been carried by her second jump which were filling the room like small pieces of snow falling down slowly.

"Ah ha~" She looked at the board to see the team registration. How could she have forgotten that today was a day that she wasn't supposed to sleep? "Ryou and....-" Inaka was reading, concentrating pretty hard too, looking over her shoulder she gave Ryousuke "Blank?" She said, putting a finger on the board. There wasn't a name, due to the special circumstances. Inaka wasn't stupid though. She could put two and two together so very easily.

Inaka pointed to herself, "Yamanaka, Inaka," a lazy grin came on the girl's face as her short blond hair somewhat hid her bright, blazing blue eyes. Those bangs completely were in the way when not tied back by a hairpin. If they weren't such an intense blue, they would be hard to see altogether. Despite the short acrobatics to get over the desk, the girl had a very lazy appearance. That messy hair that mostly covered her eyes and a simple black sweater, without any shirt on under, with a pair of black short-shorts and long black stockings. Her headband was actually around her arm.

Inaka grabbed a piece of paper, which was a little bigger than most. She tilted her head slightly to see just what was drawn on it.

Data closed both of his eyes and gave the widest smile he could. He was told to do exactly that when he met his team for the first time. After that annoying gesture he looked down at his feet and wiggled his toes. Taking a moment to scratch his scalp he simply shrugged and jumped onto his left foot then onto his right foot. "Nope they don't hurt at all, there's a little piece of fabric in here that makes them really soft. How do you say it? Do you want to try them on...?" Data questioned thinking that he said it wrong. He was going to be so deeply embarrassed if someone corrected him. He was almost sliding out of the shoes before Ryou even said anything.

"DAAAAAYTA Kun" He repeated to himself to be sure that it sounded just like he heard it. "I've never been called -Kun before, is that an honorific or a special title?" He questioned momentarily so that he could think about Ryou's outstretched hand. Immediately to act as though he knew what it was Data grabbed both Ryou's hands and shook with incredible strength. It wouldn't hurt but it was clear to at least Ryou that Data was really strong. Data red eyes followed the bouncy girl around the room in amazement she was really doing all of that. "Aren't you going to get in trouble for jumping around like that?" Data asked thinking that he wanted to try freely.

Releasing Ryou's hand he looked over to the many desk and smiled like that of an innocent child. Data leaped about 30 ft to the nearest desk and turned around to look at them. "That was fun, I've always like jumping from tree to tree for some reason." Data said genuinely before jumping back to his previous spot. Mimicking Inaka Data pointed his thumb to himself. "Data-Kun...right Ryou? Wait it's just Data...." He said quickly wanting to do some more jumps. Data turned his attention to the board and read the name on it. "OH, he's our sensei he's one of the people that found me in the hidden rain village as a baby! They kept saying his name over and over, I'll be able to meet him. Cool" Data said in an excited manner that seemed to calm down as he talked. Taking a few steps back Data put his hands behind his back and looked at his two teammates. "It's nice to meet both of you" he said politely.

On a decent chunk of the paper... was a flower? Or... was it a mangled person with massive ears? Whatever it was, displayed Ryousuke's lack of artistic skill. Looking over Inaka's shoulder, Ryousuke stared at his own doodle. What the heck had he been doodling? Ryousuke usually zoned out and randomly made his hand scribble crap, so he appeared to be doing something productive; like taking notes. "A... pancake..? A gooey... pancake with arms and legs..?" Ryousuke pondered. Yeah... probably a pancake. A doodle displaying Ryousuke's desire for a pancake to intrude in the class and hop into Ryou's mouth. Well... maybe? He wasn't too sure himself. All he knew... was the thought of pancakes made him hungry. A nice warm pancake, drowned in maple syrup~ If only he had time for breakfast this morning...

Ryousuke's gaze left his questionable doodle and he stared down at Data's feet. "Actually... yeah..." How could a piece of material make wooden shoes comfortable? This kid either had to be a masochist or... just plan weird. Watching as he slide out of the shoes, Ryou took off his own. Slipping on the wooden shoes, Ryousuke began strutting around the classroom, as if he was some girl trying to look sexy with a new pair of high heels. That was what he was trying to do, but... he looked like some six-year-old that tried on Mommy's shoes and stumbled a handful of times with every step. "I have no idea how you find these comfortable. Inaka-chan, you should try them." Ryousuke said as he slipped the shoes on and put back on his knee-high, black ninja shoes. His comfortable ninja shoes.

How... strange. This boy didn't know the honorific '-kun'? "It's something kids call male kids. -Kun is suppose to show respect, I guess?" Ryousuke said with a shrug. In a blink of an eye, both of Ryousuke's hands were grabbed and shook rampantly. Letting out an awkward laugh, Ryousuke didn't stop Data. Was this guy trying to be funny or... was he really this clueless? Before Ryousuke knew what was happening, his hands were mercifully released and Data was jumping around like some monkey that found someone's stash. "Our sensei is..? That's pretty cool." Ryousuke commented, already picturing their sensei to be a massive macho guy.

"Yo, Data," Inaka said, watching him jump all over the place, "A lil' wild, ain't cha?" She asked, chuckling. "So dat Sensei is a friend? Dat's pretty sweet. Means ya won't have such a bad time in da village," Inaka said, showing just how she spoke too. Inaka raised her arms, stretching her back and abs as much as she could. That sleep really took a lot out of her. She needed to get her muscles active again. The jumping wasn't good enough of a warm up apparently.

"Pancake?" Inaka said, looking at the picture. It looked like a flower to her. Cute. "Pretty. Ya should let me have dis, Ryou." She would say softly before watching as Ryou put on the clakety sandals. "Hahahaha!" She laughed, clapping as Ryou 'strut his stuff'. "Hahaha!" She continued, getting a kick out of it. If there was anything about Inaka it was that she was considerably happy.

"No thanks," She waved her hand to dismiss the offer. "Say, Data-Ya should tell us a bit about deh Sensei. I never seen his name before," She said, pulling out a single kunai as she sat on one of the desks. Inaka started to file her nails using that kunai as she waited for Data to explain. "He great or somethin'?" Truly, Inaka didn't know. She didn't know that her Sensei was actually a pretty well known and powerful Jounin. Then again, as a Genin she didn't know many Jounin by name or what they did.

Before the assignment ceremony

Nori told Gokimoto to tell his team to meet at the training area so that he wouldn't have to bother coming to the academy. Naturally the only one that received the message Zwei met up with the sensei at the training area and engaged in a long stand still not saying anything at all. For Nori it was pretty customary to have the entire time introduce themselves infront of eachother so that they could get along better. After waiting for about 20 minutes....

Nori leaned forwards off of the log he was sitting on, finally seeing that the rest of the team weren't coming. Taking a long stride Nori looked around trying spot any of his teammates. Though he had never seen these children in his life he figured he'd know his new students if he saw them. Taking a sidewards glance at Zwei he shrugged his shoulders, "Welp I guess that idiot Gokimoto forgot to tell the rest to meet up here. Guess we have to go get then. Really Goki of all days you forget a simple task. Making me of all people walk I should fail them on principle...that would teach Goki a lesson." Nori grunted and grumbled in frustration. He wasn't happy about this lateness and the fact that he had to go to the academy and then head all the way back to the training grounds was just...stupid.

Despite his full head of gray/white hair Nori was more fit than any other Jounin in the village. His pace was stupidly fast like that of a monster on the prowl. "Keep up...kid. You better listen for my footprints too. You get loss you better go to the academy on Monday cause you failed." Nori said as his body began to break apart as he mixed the light with his molecules. In moments Zwei wouldn't be able to seem him at all but he could hear a very feint step. The steps got quieter and quieter as he started to sprint through the village. If anyone was going to look like a dumbass running through the village it would be Zwei and Zwei alone. This was how Nori traveled and he was incredibly fast. It wouldn't take them long if Zwei managed to keep up through all of the loudness of the village.

Team 4 Waiting

Data closed his eyes tightly and smiled as widely as he could once more. While he did so he began to think everything over. His posture changed slightly and his face was a little less enthusiastic. He was cooler and mellow all of a sudden as he got into character. He was quickly determining the best way to act around his new found teammates. They would find as they got to know him that he changed often to better suit them, kind of like a machine.

Data still somewhat enthusiastic about meeting Nori smiled and looked at the board. "I hear that he learned in this same room with the Hokage. The two of them were best friends they said, and they went on all types of missions together. Nori and the Hokage managed to thwart four remaining members of Akatsuki all by themselves, and that's only one of their stories. They've got tons of adventures and triumphs but I especially like the one about them finding me. They both of them knew instantly that I was a good baby and decided to take me up. The journey back to konoha was long and arduous as people thought they were kidnapping me or something. A truly fantastic tale, I'll have to tell it to you guys in depth one day." Data was openly enthusiastic and melodramatic despite briefing parts of several stories.

Data looked across the room wiping a tear that ran down his face. He made sure to keep it hidden. Data looked out the window towards the Hokage Mansion wondering what the Hokage was like too. "Have you guys met the Hokage?" He asked trying to think of the times he saw him down at the root base.

Pancake? Did... Inaka not see the pancake? "Maybe..?" He said, thinking that there was a slight possibility his hand decided to draw a flower. He wasn't too sure why he would absentmindedly doodle a flower, but... oh well..? "Yeah, you can keep it!" Ryou told her while failing around in a sad attempt at a strut. Once the shoes were off and Inaka was refusing the offer to try them on, Ryousuke hopped onto his desk. "Yeah, Data-kun, you should tell us about him~" Ryousuke agreed. Of course, Ryousuke's expectations wouldn't be ruined! There sensei had to be some badbutt, muscle-man. No doubt about it.

Ryousuke laid down across his desk as Data began story-time. So... there sensei was the Hokage's best friend? To Ryousuke's own surprise, he wasn't... squealing like some uncontrollable fangirl. After all, even hokages had friends. How would a hokage become a hokage, if nobody liked them? "Four Akatsuki members?" Ryousuke asked, a tiny squeal present in his voice. He had been right all along! There sensei was some macho badbutt that fought crime like some overpowered superhero. How... amazing~ "That's so cool. He has to be strong if the Hokage and him took down four Akatsuki members... And that means, by being taught by him, we'll become even stronger!" Ryousuke paused for a second as he allowed his imagination to exaggerate all the powerful moves Nori-sensei would teach all of them. "Can't wait to meet him."

War. War. War. That was all these people knew. At least that was what Zwei was told from his grandparents, and so far they hadn't been proved wrong. So many wars he had been told that these people had, His grandparents knew them all. At least they thought they did, and as long as they owned a belt he wouldn't tell them otherwise no matter how much he was told differently by his teachers. They were wrinkled old people who laughed, joked and tossed lightning from their hands. Breathed fire and could sprinkle water from the faucet.

Zwei didn't enjoy going to school. There were all these children he was supposed to speak to in order to get by. All these social classes. He was a loner. Well sort of. He fitted perfectly into the nerd social class, unless it went against what he was taught. Ninjutsu, Zwei learned it from his grandparents, having said it was vital for a boy his age in this society. Taijutsu, He had learned it from his grandparents. People say that Experience is the best teacher, Well who needs experience if you don't need it. Who needs to go to school if you only want to save people?

His brown eyes watched the clock, the big hand was on a six and the small hand on a twelve. Quickly he leaped up from the bed yelling and hollering, from which he had once been laying quietly "Do you know what time it is?" Grandmother Yu asked, her happy face had transformed into a stern one since he had last seen her before hes closed his eyes. "No." Zwei answer as he quickly began to get dressed, as he felt his bottom as he watched the leather in her hands as it went up into the sky and came down to lick his bum bum for lying.

He grabbed his equipment and flew out the door with his bag nowhere else but around his shoulder as he wiped the tears from his eyes. The sound of the wind whistling threw his gauntlet reminded him of a professional flute player. It made him smile and forget about the very weight of the gauntlet. His body shifted from one side to another as he walked, clearly from the weight of the arm. The big boy. That's what his grandfather called it, and whatever he called it, that was its name. It was about 15 pounds heavier than his last and although Zwei hated it, wearing it made his grandfather proud.

30 minutes later he found himself racing with, no trying to catch a man that was invisible or made himself appear. Zwei's head was filled with the awkward sounds his melody arm made as he held it out as he ran. If it he were standing still Zwei would easily be able to find the man using his eyes alone, but no this man had Zwei by the balls. Running threw a forest after him or else fail. He had mentally took note of all the possible ways this man could possibly take to lose him. That was the man's plan. Now Zwei's arm weighed at least 100 pounds and sweat was beginning to get in his eyes and the only thing that kept him going was the idea of having to waste several more years relearning everything he knew. To listen to this guy's footprints was almost impossible since Zwei was making his own at the same time. Perhaps this guy was pacing himself for this exact effect, or maybe Zwei was traveling too fast. Either way listening to this man's footsteps were as simple as listening for the sound of dripping blood within the rain.

Heavy steps, that was how Zwei could tell the man's footsteps apart from his own, Zwei had already diagnosed the man's possible weight during the start of the man's sprint. It was something Zwei had learned to do from his Grandfather, a man who had 20/20 vision and acute hearing. Still weight training wasn't one of the classes he had taken so the melody arm was killing him. Finally Zwei stopped to catch his breath as he tried to listen for the man's footsteps "Where are you?" Zwei asked as he looked around. If he had to go back to the Academy, Zwei would commit japanese suicide.

"Sounds kinda strong, ya?" Inaka said looking up from her little manicure and sat straight up to give Data her full attention. "Wit Akatsuki and all dat. Din think we'd have such a super-hero Sensei," She wasn't as ecstatic as Ryousuke was, but she was definitely impressed. "Look at you, Ryou. Like ya met an idol or somethin." Inaka chuckled a moment before flipping her kunai in the air only to catch it again.

"I ain't too sure 'bout em yet. Even if he's strong, it don mean that he's gonna be a good sensei. That's why I gotta meet em too," Inaka wasn't as easily drawn in as Rousuke was. Nope. She had very wide eyes. She never could see something from the narrow perspective of one opinion and one voice. Even if this guy practically raised up Data after rescuing him she would have to get her own impression directly off the ninja before deciding what he was like.

"Thanks for sharin, though. I think I know a little more 'bout this Sensei. I jus hope you weren't tryin to make em look good, cuz of how he helped ya," Inaka said, flipping her kunai again. Inaka chuckled once as she threw up the kunai high, the weapon flipping in the air multiple times. If she caught it wrong it could go right through her hand.

"I ain't," She said, catching the kunai, "Never met the Hokage in person or nothin. Seen em plenty of times though. Here and there."

Nori stopped and looked over his shoulder at the tired genin. They hadn't even ran for a couple of minutes and he was already tired? Nori started walking towards Zwei, he was looking down at the godforsaken tool on his arm. Nori placed his hand on it and lifted the thing up. "Geez this is heavy for a genin to carry around, you've got no physical strength and you aren't even using chakra to enhance that arms strength." Nori said dropping Zwei's arm, thereafter he created a clone of himself that started towards the academy on it's own. "Lets head back, i'll reverse summon the rest of the team along with my clone." Nori said, as he held out a bottle of water for Zwei to sip on.

Placing his on Zwei's back for brace Nori would walk slowly with him back towards the training area. "Alright look I know they taught you how to use chakra for ninjutsu, taijutsu, and genjutsu right. That arms pretty heavy so what you wanna do is gather chakra around that arm. You know when you use chakra to amplify the sound waves after you swing it. OH... I know where we can get a newer model. Though I like the heavier models because it packs a harder punch and it's more authentic, though you can duel wield the newer models. The sound is stingy with their technology so they'll be expensive. Jeez now I've gotta get the whole team presents. So anyways back to what I was saying about the chakra...." Nori went on to explain the to Zwei how he could use chakra to enhance his arms strength.

Elsewhere

Nori's clone reached the academy and headed straight for his teams room. The clone opened the door with a bit of force as he stared across the room at each of them. "Data, they told me they were putting a root member on my team so that I could teach him. Welp I'm your sensei Nori, and we'll be running a four man team until Data is transferred. Gokimoto was supposed to tell you guys to meet me at the training grounds but the idiot forgot. So lets get over there to meet your fourth teammate." Nori's said introducing himself.

"Alright Nori Sensei, thanks for having me on the team." Data practically yelled out as he rushed out of the room behind Nori. Noticing that no one else really had cloaks on Data took his off and stuffed it into a small bag that was attached to his old Jounin vest. At the top of the vest was his fathers name and underneath it Data's real name, Aurio Letzes and Ggio Letzes."Say Nori Sensei you look like you are pretty old...how old are you?" Data asked trying to learn some more about his idol. Turning around he faced Ryou and Inaka with a super wide smile. Eagerly he mouthed, "He's so Cool" before turning around.

"Like I meet my hero..? Nah, I don't have a hero."' Ryousuke admitted. Sure... Nori-sensei sounded like a kickbutt superohero, but...this man was far from Ryousuke's personal hero. No... Nori-sensei was Data's hero. "I just think he sounds pretty amazing... That's all." He said, a dreamy tone still lacing his voice. Laying on his stomach, and rested his head on his crossed arms. "Strong and heroitic. He has to be an amazing sensei~" returning back go reality, Ryousuke's let out a sigh. "I guess... I just have high expectations for a man as strong and heroic as Data-kun describes."

Ryousuke's glanced over at the door as it was slide open. The image set in Ryousuke's mind of Nori, shattered into miniscule pieces. White hair... Glasses... Ryousuke's took a deep breath. He wouldn't allow himself to be disappointed! Under Nori-sensei's clothes could be massive muscles. Maybe Nori-sensei only looked wimpy-wimpy? Maybe he was hefty-hefty? "Goodmorning, Nori-sensei~" Ryousuke's chimed, a bright smile on his face. Ryousuke's stood up on the desk and hopped off. "Come on, Inaka-chan." Ryousuke's said as he followed behind Data and Nori-sensei.

"Blank?" Inaka looked over her shoulder at the roster again. Four man squad huh? That sounded very interesting. "Eh, you apart-ta Root, Data?" Intrigued, Inaka slid off the deck she was on, sliding a hand across the smooth surface, and pocketed her weapon. Inaka had missed Data's introduction. Root though...That was hardcore.

"Ya gotta be tough to be in Root, I know. Ya must have some skillz den, Data?" Inaka would rather see them than expirence them. Fighting someone who she knew absolutely nothing about was always something she wanted to avoid. She never knew to fight upclose or from afar or to use her techniques or try to absolutely avoid her Clan Ninjutsu.

But, inturrpting Inaka with his shouts, he quickly ran out after Nori. "Ai'ght den. I guess I'll find out eventually," She shrugged. Inaka would take her time headed out after the otherse. Though she didn't run, she wasn't walking slow. If they were supposed to meet with the instructor then there wasn't any reason to be any later. "Eh?" Inaka noticed some writing on Nori's uniform. It just looked like gibberish to her. It definitely was not of her native language.

Now that she was either out of the class or over by the door, she decided to ask, "Do we gotta run dere?" She said, lazily moving her hands behind that long, wild hair of hers as she leaned back on the balls of her feet.

His arm was yearning for him to remove the equipment but he couldn't, the old one was completely outdated as well as in a useless state and this was the only one his grandfather had to spare. He could no longer hear Nori's footsteps due to the loudness of his beating heart. Then suddenly he heard it, the sound of a twig snapping. Instantly his ears homed in on the location of the twig, had he really been that far behind? "Unbelievable..." he muttered under his breath in disbelief as he watched the man approach. He had failed, miserably at that. His heart sank.

"Geez this is heavy for a genin to carry around, you've got no physical strength and you aren't even using chakra to enhance that arms strength."

No physical strength? Zwei could think of no other way to look at other than that being an insult. Still was true. A bit blunt but true. Using chakra to enhance one's arm strength? "I didn't think of that" Zwei said honestly, his head a bit jumbled too lie. His father's tanto was behind the dresser in his bedroom, in case he ever needed it. By the looks of it, he definitely needed it. Of course first he'd have to leave the rest of his ramen stash on his grandparent's bed before he did the ritual.

"Lets head back, I'll reverse summon the rest of the team along with my clone."

"You c-can do that?" Zwei asked at the mere thought of such an act, although it sounded simple Grandfather Ando had described it as teleportation. Although he would never drink anything from a stranger's hand, Zwei gulped down the bottle of water like a vampire drinking blood from their victim.

"Alright look I know they taught you how to use chakra for ninjutsu, taijutsu, and genjutsu right. That arms pretty heavy so what you wanna do is gather chakra around that arm. You know when you use chakra to amplify the sound waves after you swing it. OH... I know where we can get a newer model. Though I like the heavier models because it packs a harder punch and it's more authentic, though you can duel wield the newer models. The sound is stingy with their technology so they'll be expensive. Jeez now I've gotta get the whole team presents. So anyways back to what I was saying about the chakra...."

Like anything Zwei was told, he tried to memorize it as well as understand what the man was talking about. He wasn't a genius like he was apparently expected to be due to his family's history. Zwei hated it, but he only learned stories of everything other than actual information. But would this man really buy the entire team weaponry despite having just met them?

The clone simply lead them to door of the academy where the reverse summoning seal was. Nori had the clone to plan it out so that he could do it without the teams awareness. He kind of wanted to see their shocked faces when they got summoned to another part of the village. Even still Nori had something planned for their arrival. The clone wouldn't answer or adhere to any questions or concerns until everyone was transported.

Elsewhere, Nori had explained a simple version of enhancing ones strength using chakra as not to spoil Zwei too much. He still had the responsibility for teaching them all how to walk on trees and water. At this point Zwei had a bit of an advantage over ones that had never considered the tree walking concept. If Zwei practiced the wielding of his weapon with chakra enhancing strength then may be able to have the general concept of using your chakra precisely. Nori returned to his previous seating position with smug grin on his face.

"Alright Zwei stand right there the rest of the team is about to be summoned." Nori instructed right before he summoned. By applying the necessary chakra to his feet and then unto his shoes Nori was able to create a summoning seal without any effort what so ever. This too was a very unique skill he had come up with, who would expect someone using a summoning jutsu with their foot.

Back at the Academy once each of them stepped on part of the seal they would be instantly transported one by one, leaving a small cloud of smoke behind. To Inaka the last person to unfortunately step on the seal she could've possibly hesitated or not step on the seal at all. Regardless, Data and Ryou would've been transported right away. Upon arriving Zwei, Data, Ryou, and Inaka once she stepped on the scroll would be met with a blinding let coming from Nori's eyes. Nori was casting a simple genjutsu on all of them to see if any of them could break it. The moment they were captured they were placed on a steep hill with fire coming at them from behind. The source of the fire wasn't clear but instinct would warrant them to run for their lives. As they ran they would grow hungrier and hungrier by the second until eventually they collapsed.

Root? Apart of Root..? What's Root..? If Ryousuke asked, he might look stupid, but... he was curious. He didn't want to be left out of the loop! "What's Root?" Ryousuke asked both Data and Inaka. Surely, one or both of them would fill him in, right? Because, at the moment, he was imagining Data underground, attached to some tree's root, and working on academy homework. Wait... how did Data see underground..? Why didn't Ryousuke's own daydreams... make sense..? His mother's fault; had to be. "A tough root..?" Yeah... nothing Inaka was saving was helping Ryousuke's imagination.

What was that funky feeling..? His stomach felt like it had been sliced open, flipped inside out, and stitched back up. Worse pain then an upset stomach... "Inaka-chan? Data-kun..?" Ryousuke asked, half-hoping he wasn't the only one with a stomach that felt like it had the stomach flu the other day. Obviously, Ryousuke didn't have a strong enough stomach for a summoning. What... a beautiful bright light...

A smell wavered under his nose and Ryousuke looked in the direction. Smoke..? Flames..? Ryousuke stood his ground and faced the fire. As a member of the Hōzuko clan, Ryousuke shouldn't have much trouble with putting a fire out. Ryousuke's body... shifted... from a solid to a liquid. An uncommon chemical reaction in a human body; the Hōzuko clan's Kekkai Genkai. How... did he plan on putting the fire out..? Ryousuke unclipped his water bottle from his pants and opened it. A... jelly-like blob... stood in Ryousuke's place. Spreading out as the blob attempted to engulf the fire.

"Mama said dey like ANBU babies," Inaka answered Ryousuke, "Danzo, dat crazy villian, made dem as elites. Raised from the egg up," Inaka figured that Ryou would get everything. Even the "egg" part. Though, she meant like a chicken egg. "It still goes on with Root. Dey are going to be the elites."

Inaka wasn't afraid to be teleported. She was a ninja and teleporting was awesome. She would have waited her turn and stepped on it just as the others so that she was teleported. Inaka would have appeared after the others and would have been put into an illusion just as quick.

Inaka wasn't a chump when it came to illusions. She was what you'd call an "well rounded ninja", though her ninjutsu was probably extraordinarily rudimentary. Being Yamanaka had it's perks and of those perks was conscious awareness of the body and mind. She knew she was put in an illusion and would have went through measures to release herself form it. She could control her chakra pretty well, but if the illusion was too high of a level she wouldn't be able to free herself. If she couldn't release herself from it she would frown, cross her arms, and be a little irritated as the fire was coming at her and hunger was rising.

"Ain't right." She'd complain, only if she couldn't free herself. If she could, however, she would look at the others and contemplate on how to free them. She'd never done that before. She knew of the technique and the basics of it, but she didn't have any practical training in it. It's not everyday you meet a genjutsu in the academy...Or maybe it was? Inaka slept too much, really.

Suddenly a bright light covered the area almost instantly after Nori's foot touched the ground, his mind replayed that moment in slow motion. Observing where the light originated at, his eye, the man's eye, it was the cause of the flash. Zwei then found himself facing a great blaze. Genjutsu, he immediately diagnosed. "Pssh" Zwei let out as he focused on his chakra in order to make it flow threw his incredibly heavy hand. He needed it in order to dispel the genjutsu, as previous resident of the sound village it would be disgraceful for him to fail at such a task. 10? No, 20 chops? He'd probably receive double from his grandma if she ever heard of him failing at this task.

Quickly he brought both his hands together to form a single handseal "Release" he let out, having been quite acustom to letting his Grandparents know what he was doing. Nori, again the man was in front of him, and the chakra he flowed threw his arm was beginning to become a nuisance. If he had to do this all the time, it would be pretty difficult to perform any jutsu. Doki. Zwei's eyes turned to face three others, each appearing to be frozen in place. Zwei lowered his arm and took a breath of relief as he took a step near them, they didn't blink. A girl and two guys? A four man team? Was that allowed? No, this was a complete team.

Zwei's hand clinched into a fist, he wasn't going back to the academy. He would never go back, ever.

Nori's eyes moved left and right despite having placed them in a genjutsu. He was personally viewing each situation as they handled them. Nori suddenly bursted out in laughter in response to Ryou's method. He'd never had a student confront the flames, before. Cancelling the jutsu on Ryou himself Nori looked over at the others. One by one he pointed at each of them starting with Zwei. "Boring, Boring, Fantastic, and Talented." The last was in response to Data whom wasn't even caught in the technique. Removing two bells from his pocket Nori flashed them around, "Yes this is a bit archaic and well you know by now, but you two boring ones Zwei and Inaka need to show me something interesting. You all know how it works come at me with the intent to kill and try to capture the bells. All that don't manage to touch them at least will be sent back to the academy. I'm ready anytime..." Nori instructed waiting for them to attack.

"Cool we get to fight you too" Data exclaimed ready to fight already. The circuitry on his body began to glow blue as he rushed straight for Nori. Data balled his right hand into a fist and and swung right for Nori's face. "You are way too eager Data, you've gotta be calm and try to gain an advantage. Most take cover and try to take me by surprise." Nori attempted to explain it Data but he wasn't trying to here it. Nori stopped punch and lifted Data over his head with one hand. "Gotcha Sensei" Data laughed crazily as he tightened his left fist and swung right for Nori's face. Nori's hand that touched Data fell limp but he managed to dodge the punch by sliding to the right.

Nori looked down at his arm that was now paralyzed. Whoa he was planning on clobbering me, if wasn't prepared he would've got me with that punch. Nori contemplated in his head as he watched the four of them. Taking the bells off of his belt Nori created a clone and handed one of the bells to the clone. "That's a fully functional Clone, seeing as you guys are pretty tou--" Nori was saying until his bunshin was interrupted by Data. The bunshin fizzled out like light instead of a normal clone. All that was left was the clone he had just created, It seemed that Nori himself was no longer there.

Root members were ANBU babies..? "The police, right..?" Ryousuke, making sure. He was a pretty smart and clever kid, but names of important positions and things he never really cared for, always escaped his mind. As a child, Ryousuke even forgot his own imaginary friend's name. Mom had to remind him... She was always encouraging his imagination, to the point where Ryousuke was pleading for her to shut up. Along with gossipers and people who judged others before meeting them, his mother was the only one who could make her son snap and go on a yelling and tossing rampage. "Like a chicken~" Ryousuke chimed, as he pictured Data in an egged, covered in yellow feathers and a pointy beak. "Does that mean Data-kun is part bird?" He asked, his hand already moving around, as if he was doodling. Paper... pencil... Ryousuke wanted to let his mind wonder and decorate paper-after-paper with horrible doodles!

The flames... disappeared? Ryousuke would have thought he put out the fire, but... this environment was totally different. Ah! Nori-sensei was standing in front of him. "What a boring genjustu, Nori-sensei. Couldn't you have thought of something a little more fun?" Ryousuke asked, a bright smile still on his face. A hill on fire? Wouldn't a bouncy house be better for team bonding? "Genjustu or not. You destroyed plants. What if there was a genjustu-deer on there or a genjustu-squirrel? If you can bring yourself to hurt organisms in genjustu, what does that say about you... in person?" Ryousuke asked, although... he was probably joking. A bright smile on his face showed that Ryousuke probably wasn't serious and was only poking fun at his sensei.

"Boring, boring, fantastic, talented." Ryousuke was one of those borings, right? He wanted to be a boring. Cling~ Ryousuke's eyes locked onto the bells and thoughts of Christmas filled his mind. How many days were there until Christmas..? Ryousuke's family loved to celebrate that holday. They even had a contest of who would could find or create the most creative gift. His mother... always fun that contest... Bonding with loved ones and working together to create desserts and drowning the house in red and green... Ryousuke couldn't wait! How many days again..? "We should go caroling..!" Ryousuke decided after a few seconds of silence. A fist pounded into the palm of his hand, seconded that suggestion. Wait... did Nori-sensei just say Ryousuke wasn't one of the boring ones? He wasn't sure if he should feel relieved, or... as disappointed.

Blue lights... exploded from Data's face. Was... Data's head about to explode or -Ryousuke decided to stop exaggerating- was this Data's Kekkai Genkai? As Data was desperately trying to beat up on Nori-sensei, Ryousuke seemed to disappear. Letting Data continue being a distracted, a watery torso appeared from the ground, behind Nori, and went to grasp onto the bells.