The Sealing-Continuation [Naruto]

Meet the Team

There was a cool draft that blew through that place.

With the wooden post split, only silence could follow. Everyone, aside from Aiko, was shocked. The wood groaned slightly, and a few moments later the wood snapped. The gap grew at lightning speed up the post and practically severed the straw dummy in half. 

" Good jo-job, Megumi..." Iruka stuttered. " An early bloomer? -Just like her father." He then mused under his breath.

The silverette child closed her mouth finally before letting out a loud woop! She fist pumped excitedly and grinned almost cheekily at Aiko. " Did'ya see that, Mama!? It broke! I can't believe it! Woo, woo!"

Aiko laughed loudly and clapped her hands, saying, " Amazing! But don't lose focus!" Megumi nodded avidly, though the smile didn't leave her face. Resuming the stance she had before, though with a different dummy, Megumi took out another kunai.

Although she'd split the dummy, that wasn't part of the testing and so Megumi had lost a few marks for that. Nevertheless, she attempted it again. Turning her body to the side, she took a kunai by it's hilt and threw it like a dart. It hit the dummy a little way above the heart, and not nearly as deep as before. The second kunai she threw, was held by the handle and swung almost like a Frisbee from her chest and outwards. This one was no better. It managed to lodge itself not directly in the stomach, but around the area of the spleen. It wouldn't stop someone immediately, though they would eventually bleed out.

Luckily the final was far better. With her forefinger on the ridge of the kunai, she flung it swiftly like a baseball. This time Megumi bettered her stance, digging her heel into the ground and squaring her shoulders. Not only that, but even her aim was better. The kunai made a dull thud as it pierced the fabric of the dummy's forehead.

" Hmph, average aim." The President muttered, scrawling messy notes on his clip board. 

Iruka's lip curled slightly in annoyance. The President had been rather shrewd and arrogant for as long as he could remember. It wasn't in his nature to approve of students who were even slightly spirited. He seemed to prefer the old-school stoic, obedient and skilled shinobi, as opposed to one who was willing to have a slight knowledge of free will. With a cold smile, Iruka's notes were quite different.

' Better than average aim. Good stance. Notable strength. Quite a spirited girl.'

The next assessment was testing her flexibility, agility and speed. Simple enough. As expected, Megumi's flexibility was acceptable enough. Agility and speed higher than normal, however. Not a lot, though enough to be noticed.

After that, Iruka began to ask the standard questions such as: 'How many lethal pressure points are there on an average-skilled genin?' and 'Under what circumstances may a civilian be taken into custody?' Unfortunately, her mind didn't quite match the strength of her body.

" She's not that bright?" The Hokage murmured, leaning down to Aiko. She smiled back grimly and shook her head. That was Megumi's one big let down. Although she could be considered better than average skill-wise, she was below average when it came to intelligence.

" I honestly don't know where she got it from." Aiko sighed and continued. " It's a little sad sometimes, but she's still a good kid."

" Did you train her yourself?" Then asked Kakashi. His eye never left the little girl on the field who was desperately trying to answer the questions being asked of her. 

Aiko nodded. " Yeah. With everything that was going on in Suna, I really thought it was best to train her up fast." She wrapped her skinny arms around herself and shivered slightly, golden eyes fixed on nothing in particular. " I just hope I didn't take away her childhood too early."