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_____________________________________________________________________ | Shumatsu should have known this was coming. Years and years of having to babysit at the stupid academy should have been a sign, that inevitably he would be should into a sensei position for whatever team of twerps his younger brother was stuck with. The sound was not a large village, their resources were limited. As were actual qualified Jounin so it was no wonder why this had happened. Also probably he pissed off whomever was doing the assignments and wasn't that a freakin laugh. He would have to send a personal thank you in the form of a jar of angry bees...then he would have to catch bees, so maybe not. So for this reason Shumatsu found himself at the academy not to stare at a bunch of children in a classroom and laugh at their misery as he handed them failing grades for whatever test he had been asked to proctor, no he was here to pick up his brat of a brother and two teammates. THREE kids to be responsible for? Had no one noticed how much of a 'stellar' job he did at raising Shinda? Kid couldn't hold a conversation with a rock. Shumatsu opened the door to the classroom with what was probably an unnecessary amount of force judging at the cracking sound in the wall and the sensei looking startled who was handing out assignments. She stared at him warily as he stared back before turning to look at the students in the room. Graduation class looked small this year...actually no it was probably the same. It would be smaller in a year or so anyway, when kids moved up to chunin and then didn't come back from missions they couldn't handle... "YO! Shinda I'm here to pick you up from school!" He waved at his brother who blinked slowly and waved back trying to match the energy Shumatsu was giving off. What a little freak. "Yeah you and whatever little delinquents have also been foisted on me. What are there names?" The sensei scrambled to read something off the paper in hand before Shumatsu cut them off. "Who cares. Probably not going to pass the next step anyway. WELP! Let's get the frick out of this dump. Hurry your asses up." Then he turned on his heel and sauntered back out the way he came. If the little shits didn't come that meant he wouldn't have to worry about a team after all. A win for him. Unfortunately he could hear more then Shinda scrambling to follow so it seemed luck wasn't with him today. He walked till they were a decent enough distance from the school, in what could have counted as a training ground if you squinted hard enough and then rounded on the team. "I don't care much for introductions, honestly it's not my business if you want to get to know each other. I'm Shumatsu, Im your sensei till you fail this first test then you can fuck off and I don't want to hear from you again." Shumatsu pointed at the cliff face nearby. "See that thing. You all get to the top you pass. Easy peasy right? All of you to the top got it? One of you doesn't count, sometimes you gotta carry dead weight. So figure it out." With that Shumatsu leaped up to the top of the cliff before peering down to the edge and calling back. "YOU HAVE TILL SUNDOWN!" |
_____________________________________________________________________ | Academy was very routine. Shinda had gotten used to it in all things following a certain pattern. He got up in the morning, made breakfast for himself and Shumatsu, packed lunch and walked to the Academy where he and Rei awkwardly greeted each other. Had classes, ate lunch together, and then sat near enough that people at least said they were friends. Today decided to be different, and having even known that it likely would be Shinda still was oddly not prepared for the assigned teams decorating the board. Their class was small, not really anyone of note in his opinion, and the names sorted them into what he assumed was an attempt at making balanced teams. Or maybe not he wasn't sure. What he was sure of was that Rei and him were going to continue to be some semblance of friends? Before he could really think more on that the door slammed open. Shumatsu stood in the door way in his odd hunched over way that he associated with him stumbling into the house past midnight after spending the evening who knows where. He loudly declared that he was picking Shinda up and the younger brother slowly blinked in response before standing and startling slightly at the fact his brother was their apparent sensei. Shinda scrambled after his brother after he made no attempt to wait for him, he knew better then to wait to long otherwise Shumatsu would fuck off to drink or something. Shinda awkwardly grabbed Rei's hand when he worried they were falling behind and checked to make sure the other teammate, Kamui Kaguya, was keeping up. They made their way to a training field, and then Shumatsu was introducing himself, and telling them to climb a cliff that was not the mostly friendly looking in appearance before sundown. Shumatsu left before Shinda could force out a question of comment on the situation. Rei approached the wall with some sort of positive comment and began climbing. Shinda nervously watched him start and glanced at Kamui. "Boobytraps? You think...I don't know if Shumatsu would put in the effort..." Shinda shifted uncertain again looking around, he was hoping for some sort of dirrection but he didn't see any indication, Shumatsu wouldn't have bothered with that either. Rummaging around his bag, he pulled out a rope before tyeing it off on an arrow. Glancing at Kamui he shrugged before firing it up higher on the cliff. The rope dangled next to Rei, and didn't make it too far up but at least it would give them a stopping point. Tough he wondered how much weight it would even hold...maybe it would at least slow a fall. "We won't know much till we try? If we can get a good enough footing we can make stopping points as we go so we aren't rushing to the top, maybe figure out a way to catch on to something if we fall..." Shinda pulled himself up behind his team mate, he was going slow, partially because he was nervous about whatever Shumatsu was planning, if anything, and also partially because if he worse himself off halfways up a cliff it wouldn't be ideal. "We should pace ourselves as best we can, it's after midday but we have a few hours before it starts getting dark so we should have plenty of..." The small pebbles and rocks and dirt falling over head was all the warning they got before a much larger boulder came toppling over well above them. |