A Month or so Later - Tsubaki's POV

I sit at the meeting spot, reading on medical nin-jutsu.

"Good Morning Tsubaki!" The twins chorus, super excited.

I look up. "Good Morning to the both of you." I greet as I put the book away in my pouch.

We wait for Sensei and he doesn't take long to get here.

"Alright you three, time for some training." Sensei says to us with a smirk and we nod. "I'm gonna teach you how to walk on water." Sensei says as well walk into the training ground.

"Walking on water?" The twins ask confused.

"Oh, I get it, you have to use chakra control, like the trees." I say to Sensei and he nods.

"Ooohhhhh!" The twins say, finally getting it.

"Idiots." The oh so familiar voice of Sasuke says behind us.

"I should mention we're doing a joint session with Kakashi's team." Sensei says with a sweat drop.

I blink and sigh. "Really? Really? Sensei can't you mention this before we find out ourselves?" I ask him and he chuckles nervously.

"Sorry Tsubaki, but somebody else is using their training grounds today and they'll be doing their own thing." Sensei says to me.

"Do you have a problem with us or something?" Naruto asks me as he gets close to my face.

I stare at him as I subtly get into a position, and I hit him in the chest, sending him flying back on the ground. "Get out of my face." I say and Naruto groans as Kakashi's team stares at me shocked.

"She's so adorable." Hiroko says as he stands next to his twin and Hiroto nods.

My arms fall to my sides and I look at Naruto. "I didn't even use the Gentle Fist, get up." I say as I turn around.

"SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!"

Lots of Naruto's surround me and I look at them, not really fazed.

The Naruto's jump at me and I wait till the last second and I take three steps to the left and the Narutos crash and poof.

"Ok, so shall we get started, Sensei?" I ask and the twins grin as they hang off my shoulders.

"That's not fair!" Sakura protests. "Sensei! She didn't play fair!" Sakura pouts to the guy with less than three quarters of his face uncovered.

"This is what training does, Sakura, and I've been training every day, for the past month, you should try it sometime, you might learn a different Jutsu." I say and Sensei has to turn around with a hand over his mouth while the twins laugh and I just smirk.

Sakura and Naruto get mad, while Sasuke looks annoyed and their Sensei just smiles.

"Tsubaki, what are you good at?" Kakashi asks me.

"Eating." Hiroko replies with a smirk.

"Well no duh, everyone is good at that." Sakura retorts.

"Healing." Hiroto continues.

"I'm not that good yet, I'm only just starting with that, I haven't even gotten the first part mastered yet." I say to Hiroto.

"Your better than us." Hiroto says to me.

"That's because you haven't even tried." I reply back.

"She's also good at using her clan do-jutsu." Hiroko continues.

"Not as good as Hanabi." I say and Hiroko pushes my head down slightly. "What?" I ask him.

"Your coming up with your own style, she's blindly following your father." Hiroko says to me and I roll my eyes.

"She's also really good as staring down giant tigers and crash landing giant birds." Hiroto says to them and that entire team looks like they have questions.

"I was also kidnapped and was fighting with my cousin most of the time." I say and Hiroto pushes my head down a bit. "I'm not wrong!" I protest.

"Your good at a lot, was that training or bad luck?" Kakashi asks me.

I look up at him for a moment. "You want to see some real talent?" I ask Kakashi and he nods. "Naruto I challenge you to a ramen eating contest." I say and Naruto stares at me shocked before she grins.

"Who's paying?" Naruto asks me.

"The losing Sensei." I say with a smirk and Sensei smirks.

"ALRIGHT!" Naruto yells.

"Tsubaki, you glutton." Hiroko says to me and I just nod.

All eight of us head to Ichiraku's and me, Naruto and the Sensei's head inside.

"Ok, get the ramen prepared, we have a contest to win." Sensei says to Teuchi and Ayame.

"Sensei on Sensei or student on student?" Ayame asks.

"Students." Sensei says to her and she sees me and nods.

Me and Naruto sit down while the others watch as they stand on the sidelines.

"I have total faith in you Naruto." Kakashi says to him.

Nobody says anything to me and Sasuke notices that.

I pull my hair back into a low pony tail and I pull out a pair of chopsticks.

"Nobody is saying anything to her." Sasuke comments.

"We don't need to." Hiroko replies in amusement.

Ayame places the food in front of us and she gets the bowls lined up.

"Thanks for the food." I say to Ayame and I break my chopsticks and I start eating.

Naruto's team sees why my team is confident when they watch me.

Naruto struggles to keep up, but once I move onto my tenth bowl, Naruto gives up on his fourth, too full to continue and it hasn't even been twenty minutes.

I finish my bowl and Naruto's team just twitches in shock. "That was delicious." I say with a smile as I get up.

The twins grin as they hang off my shoulders.

"Good job Tsubaki, one of these days we'll have to see how much you can eat." Sensei says to me and I nod.

Kakashi just stares at me shocked.

"They weren't kidding when they said she was good at eating." Sakura twitches.

Me and my team head back to the training grounds and we get to training.

Me and the twins take our pouches and stuff off and we get to work, trying to walk on the water.

We fall through almost immediately.

After about three tries, I stand, very unsteady and very wet on top of the water, one touch could put me under.

"Your getting it, keep going!" Sensei encourages me.

I try to take a step forward, but I fall in again.

I swim up to the top and I spit out some water.

"Well nobody said it was easy." Hiroko mutters and I get to shore, looking like a drowned rat.

I attempt it again and again, and again, and again, and again, and again.

It doesn't work, but I continuously keep at it.

"Your gonna burn yourself out." Sensei warns me amused. "And get sick." He adds.

I breath heavily as I stand on solid ground. "I'm trying my best." I say and Sensei nods and I try again, and this time I'm more steady and I manage to take two steps and I fall through.

I get out and I sit on solid ground, staring at the water, thinking.

"GAH! I'M TOO WET FOR THIS!" Hiroto yells frustrated as he sits next to me.

Hiroko gets out of the water and he looks at us in amusement. "Come on you two, we're getting somewhere!" Hiroko encourages.

"I'm thinking." I reply and Hiroko takes my hands and pulls me up and drags me onto the water.

"What?" Sensei asks shocked.

I look down and then back up at Hiroko who is also in shock.

"Huh?" I manage to say and Hiroko takes a step backwards and he falls through, and almost pulls me down, but I keep a hold of standing as Hiroko gets to shore. "I'm scared now." I say and the twins hum in agreement.

"Good luck." Hiroko says to me.

I take a step forward, and I don't fall through, I take another and another, and then I fall through.

I swim to the top and I spit out the water in my mouth and I swim to shore. "Nope." I say and I sit in between the twins.

"I'm cold." Hiroto comments and Me and Hiroko nod in agreement.

Sensei leaves for a minute and comes back with three towels and puts them over us.

Sensei gets called to the Hokage office, so me and the twins end up going home to get changed.

"Why are you wet?" Father asks me.

"Training." I say and I head to my room.

I get changed into a white t-shirt and black leggings with my ninja headband around my neck.

I set my wet clothes out to dry and then I head to where me and the twins meet up when Sensei abandons us, the park.

I sit down on a bench and after a bit the twins join me.

"What should we do?" Hiroto asks us.

"We could always go back to the training grounds and train normally for a bit." Hiroko says to us.

Hiroto nods and the two look at me. "What do you think Tsubaki?" Hiroto asks me.

I shrug. "Training sounds fine." I say and the twins nod.

We go back to the training grounds to sed Kakashi's team training but no Kakashi.

I grab my medical book and I sit down and read as the twins spar against each other.

After a couple hours, we decide to stop for the day and go get dinner.

"I'm tired." Hiroto comments as we sit in barbeque.

Hiroko and I nod in agreement.

"Well you three should eat and go home then." Sensei says as he slides in next to me.

"SENSEI?" The twins yell shocked and I start flipping the meat.

"Well, I have some news." Sensei says as he helps me.

"And that would be?" I ask him.

"I've entered you three in the Chunin exams." Sensei says to us and the twins look confused.

"Its a three part test, a written exam and two interactive exams, its to prove we're good enough to be bumped up to Chunin." I say to the twins and they nod.

"How do you know this?" Hiroko asks me confused.

"Father mentioned it this morning, and explained it to Hanabi." I say and Hiroko nods.

We eat our meat while Sensei pulls out three papers. "You guys just have to fill this out and be at the academy by 4 tomorrow. But keep in mind, people have died in these exams, so its your choice if you want to risk it." Sensei says as he puts a paper next to each of us.

"I'll do it." I say and the twins nod in agreement. "After all, you recommended us, you'd have to think that we're ready to try at least." I say to Sensei and I put a piece of meat in my mouth.

Sensei ruffles my hair. "Well I wish you three luck, you won't see me until after the second Exam. I have a mission and I leave in the morning. But Guy will let you three know where to go for the second exam." Sensei says to us.

"What? Seriously?" Hiroko asks shocked.

"Yeah, but I can still pay for tonights meal." Sensei says to us with a smile.

We finish dinner and Sensei pays and then leaves.

"Alright you two, for good luck, sleepover?" Hiroko asks us.

I nod and Hiroto cheers.

"Our place." Hiroko says to us and I nod and we walk to their place.

We see Mrs. Amano with a guy and the three of us look at each other.

"You guys just want to camp out at our training grounds?" Hiroko asks us and we nod.

"Meet there with supplies." I say and we nod and scatter.

I head back home with blankets and pillows and I meet at the training ground where Hiroko has snacks, and Hiroto has a giant sheet.

"Ok, let's get to work." I say as I set the blankets and pillows under a tree.

"Yes ma'am." The two say and the three of us have to do the sheet, we drape it over a thick branch and the two of them pull it out a the ends and stick it to the ground, so it creates a giant triangle.

I get the blankets and pillows set up and then the boys bring in the snacks.

I happen to notice Sensei in a few trees away from us and he motions for me to be quiet about it.

"Alright! We are so ready for tonight." Hiroto says to us.

"Sure." I say and I sit down with a blanket over my shoulders as the twins talk.

I watch them and then they turn to me and we sit in a circle.

"Time for scary stories." Hiroko says to us.

"Ok, ok, uh, Tsubaki first." Hiroto says as he drapes a blanket over him and Hiroko.

"Stupid, but ok." I say and I stare at the ground thinking. I then look up at them and the two look interested. "Alright, it was a regular day for a certain female Jonin. She was sent on a mission one day, alone." I start and the twins get closer together. "The mission was a supposed to be a C Rank Mission, just to escort a famous wood worker to the land of Iron. Well, it wasn't that easy, in fact this wood worker had a bounty and these men wanted to kill him. Halfway to the land of Iron, the two were attacked by these high ranked criminals." I say to the twins and they gasp.

"Then what happened?" Hiroko asks me.

"Well, these high ranked criminals, killed them." I say and the twins look at me shocked. "But the Jonin wasn't satisfied and is now a ghost, she made the criminals go insane, just by haunting them, whispering things in their ear, like, where did you put my kunai, or your an idiot. One day she said something that sent them over the edge and they killed each other, but she still wasn't satisfied, so every person she comes across as she roams about the countries, she whispers things and makes them go insane. I hear that she's still doing it, to this very day." I say to the twins and they look terrified.

"Wow, you scary." Hiroko says and I smile amused. "I didn't know you were so good at telling stories." Hiroko continues.

"Hinata and Hanabi used to come to my room during thunderstorms when we were little and I'd make up stories to tell them." I say and the twins nod.

"Let's tell good stories now, I'm a little freaked." Hiroto says as he crawls over and hides under my blanket.

"No we should go to sleep now, we need to be up in time for the thing." Hiroko says, completely forgetting the name.

I nod. "The Chunin Exams?" I ask him.

"Yes! That thing!" Hiroko says to me, still forgetting the name.

I look at him amused and I stretch and the twins sleep at the front of our make shift tent and I sleep at the back.
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