Akari Uchiha

Ch. 21 Senbons are Cool! (Though Swords are Cooler!)

"I is dead. Dead is I," Akari groaned, laying on the grass.

"Oh shut up," Sara snapped. "Help us pull off these weeds before the sun sets!"

Akari glanced at the sun, before groaning again. "My body hurts, I can't move," she groaned.

"That bad?" Haru murmured, supporting her to sit. "Come on, we're almost done."

Akari dragged her feet closer to her.

"Did you sprain your leg or what?" Haru asked, tilting his head to get a look.

"No, sensei won't let me remove those weights," she whined, laying back on the grass. "Tomorrow is the last day of the stupid challenge and he's dead set on making me quit. This is just unfair," she groaned.

"What challenge?" Sara asked as Akari began pulling the weeds while she was laying down.

"She challenged her master," Haru explained. "If she puts up with his harsh training for a week then he will accept her as his apprentice."

"But isn't she already apprenticed to him?" Sara asked confused.

"I am! But he thinks I'm the worst apprentice ever and won't train me!" Akari exclaimed, violently pulling off and throwing a few weeds everywhere.

"He isn't wrong," Sara muttered under her breath.

"What!?" Akari exclaimed with an expression of mock hurt.

"I'd be annoyed too if I had to put up with you everyday," Sara shrugged.

Akari pouted, looking at Haru. "He doesn't mind my company!"

"Well, you're both idiots," Sara grumbled. "Anyways, just be happy with the less training then," she shrugged. "Asuma sensei is on a mission again. I swear it's such a relief. He makes me train hard," she groaned.

"But I will never become the best Jonin Commander ever if he doesn't train me!" Akari exclaimed with all the seriousness of the world being about to end.

"Jonin Commander?" Sara raised an eyebrow. "You?"

"Yes! Suits me, ne?"

Sara rolled her eyes. "Has no one ever told you no kunoichi has ever become a jonin commander?" she asked.

"....For real?" Akari asked.

"Yeah, the best kunoichi are always medics. Even Asuma sensei said that all the kunoichi in his previous students' batch have medical training. Or chakra control training," Sara said. "And it's better that way. We don't have to do the gross fighting," she shuddered. 

Akari frowned. "It's kind of cool..."

Haru sweat-dropped in the background somewhere at the two girls not even noticing them completing the task, him disappearing to report to the client, and coming back, while they talked.

"Fighting is cool!?" Sara raised her eyebrows.

"Well... not particularly fighting... but you know... those super cool ninjutsu are cool! And Taijutsu! Genjutsu is too! And swords! Oh my gosh I got to convince Scarecrow sensei to teach me swords! The last guy who almost chopped Akio's head off using it was so cool-"

Smack

"Ouch!"

"Don't talk about it!" Sara fumed. "I was about to lose the love of my life that day because of you!" she snapped.

"We're still blaming me?" Akari sweat-dropped. "My master almost killed me with a kunai for that, I think that should be enough punishment!"

"Your master did what?" Haru asked, slightly horrified.