Squad Delta [Delta Only]

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Inside Katou's room, there was no bed. It was bare, empty. It contained a wash basin and a mirror. Finite. That's it. But something odd was in there too, two hanging bars. Katou was swinging back and forth on the two bars sleeping. His body was drooping and sagged slightly. Snoring slightly, his straw hat was tipped forward and covering his eyes. WIth his chest heaving up and down slowly, his arms that were looped around the bars that secured him, were slowly unravelling and causing him to slide off. Falling off, Katou smacked his head on the ground, alerting him immediately. Moaning, he slid to a kneeling position. Grabbing his hair and head, "Owww..." Katou mumbled softly. His hat had drifted off to the other side of the room as he stretched his arms and yawned loudly. Reaching across the room, he grabbed his hat and shoved it on his head. Standing up, he walked to the door and slipped on his sandals and threw open his door.

The sun flooded the room and Katou covered his eyes as he stepped out into the light and shut the door behind him. Moving upwards slightly, Katou body flickered several times before landing in an open clearing. Today was an unfortunate day. He got a new team. He hated meeting new people at first, but he thought, he would enjoy this and push them to their limits. Reaching a clearing with a lake and a small woodland area surrounding them, Katou knelt down.

Smacking his hand on the ground, he smiled as his hand resounded. The pain awoke his senses as he sat down and crossed his legs meditating. Closing his eyes he honed his senses, his mind opened wide as he felt and heard everything around him. Waiting patiently, he awaited the arrival of his squad.

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Nat woke red-eyed and weary. It was one of those mornings, where you wake up, realize you have stuff to do, and are instantly pissed for the beginning of your day and most of the time through the rest of it. He sat up, his purple shirt hung loosely around him. He opened the fridge, it was filled with strange smelling foods and beverages. Half-spoiled or completely spoiled. He pulled out a dish of what appeared to be leftovers, he didn't know what it was. He didn't care, he shoveled it into his mouth, dropped the plate into the sink, which was filled with several other dishes, stretched, yawned and glanced around his small apartment. The place was obviously a boy's. Things were everywhere, somehow a sock had ended up at the top of his book-shelf, which held a variety of things besides books that is. He glanced around, it was that day which he had been dreading to have to go through for a while now. Team meetings. He looked at himself, he was in his pajama's.

He moved over to his dresser, tore off his clothes in a rushed and displeased fashion, pulled on his usual pair of grey jeans and purple and black striped shirt. The jeans were simple, tight, and had a design of an eastern dragon on the side in black on the left thigh. His shirt was striped in about .25 of an inch variants and was short sleeved. He pulled a couple socks on and grabbed his things, most of this stuff was personal items, his key's, tools, and other things like his kunai pouch. He pulled out a small tan belt which held most of these items around his waist; Adjusted it and clipped it on. He pulled a simple black coat over his shoulders, and left it open. He cracked his neck reached into his coat pocket and padded for a cigarette box. He pulled it out, reached inside and to his dismay; it was empty. He looked inside the box, there was a small amount of residue at the bottom, he opened his mouth, poured it in and tossed the box behind him.

He checked his pockets to make sure he had everything and set off, closing and locking his apartment door behind him. His eyes were still blood shot to all hell; he looked sick as a dog, and he didn't care; he rarely noticed these things anymore. He headed down to the ground floor, upon reaching it handed his keys to the doorman and stepped out into the morning sun. He squinted at the light and raised his hand to shield his eyes for a moment then headed for the expected meeting spot. He walked with his hands stuffed into his pockets and his shoulders haunched. People went out of their way to avoid him.

He looked at his idiot of a team-leader with disgust from a distance. He sighed and made his way over. La dee F*cking Dah. No cig's. No dope. No Chicks. Tell me again why I woke up? Oh yeah, cuz your apart of a stupid village, with stupid rules. Go kick their asses. He thought to himself as his faces expression failed to change from his monotonous stare towards nothing.

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Early morning, still an hour until the sun would begin to rise, a small window on the third story of a house, a single window was cracked open. And from it emerged the slightest wisp of white smoke emerged and faded in the night sky. Inside, Morel sat on his bed, leaning into the corner of the wall. Cigarette in mouth he slowly inhaled and blew out a cloud of smoke in a slow, rhythmical fashion. It was still a few hours until the meet began but he found himself unable to sleep. For the past three hours he had sat there, knowing that he would need as much rest as possible for this day, he slowed his breathing and closed his eyes. It would not be as effective as a full night's sleep but at least he would be able to get some rest. A few hours later, the sun had risen partially in the sky, a crisp breeze blowing through the window. Slowly he opened his eyes and squinted from the light reflecting off the glass. As he slid off his bed, he took out the butt that remained of his cigarette and stabbed it into an ashtray on his nightstand. Immediately he pulled out a fresh stick and with a quick flick of a match, lit it up. With the flick of his wrist he extinguished the match and threw it into the ashtray.

As he stepped outside, he took a moment to stretch out his back, a loud cracking was his reward. A sharp pain shot through him but a moment later, he felt a little more relaxed. And with that, he slowly began to make his way through the streets towards the training area. As he walked, he often found himself on the end of disapproving glares, mainly from adults, especially the women. Likely mothers, outside his clan quarters, he found that most people were not so keen on someone his age smoking. But he had been raised doing so and it was now second nature to him. So he simply tuned out their glares and continued trekking on.

After about an hour of walking, he emerged from a group of trees into the clearing. Nearby, a lake glistened in the noon sunlight. A single man was sitting in the grass, motionless. Out of the corner of his eye he saw a younger man standing several meters away. Seems like he was just on time. Exhaling a small cloud, he stepped out of the tree line and into the clearing.

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Katou was hours early for the meeting as the sun began to reach the high point in the sky, baking the ground and would surely burn most people. There was a slight breeze blowing across the clearing, blowing Katou's hair swept across his forehead. His straw hat protected his eyes as he cleared his mind. A hawk flew overhead and dropped a scroll that landed directly in his lap. Sighing he opened it and read swiftly. It was his Squad Assignment. Morel Hakedoro. Nat Cauthon. There was a third name on the list, but his name was had a note by it. "Bishamonten Hyuuga is currently out of commission, proceed with your squad as normal." Smirking slightly, he pocketed the scroll. He already knew his squad. Both odd characters to say the least.

Katou had been at the Genin watchings, they were both unique to say the least. Each with their disguinishing standpoints. Morel was smaller, but Katou knew better than to judge, he would watch the young shinobi. Nat was a different story. 'The Emo Punk Kid', was one way to put him. But Katou was going to attempt to shatter that spirit of his, and make him a stronger person without putting on a face.

The world was silent around him as he was alerted to footprints on the soft grass. "Ah my first student." It was barely audible, only heard by himself, Katou opened his eyes to meet with Nat Cauthon. Grinning Nat was pulling off the style and stereotype that was set for him. Nat was dressed in a striped shirt and grey pants, looked drugged up, and looked like he didn't care. 'Ah, typical kid.' But attempting to look past all of that, Katou looked for some excitement, something of a normal Genin. But then again, he would have to fight for that. He intended to break the kid's emo look and make him look forward to training.

Feeling another presence, Morel emerged from the forest. Smiling more, Morel was tiny, not even worth some Jounin's time to train. Katou was unique though, he knew what it was like to be an outcast, so he figured this was a good thing. Now Morel dressed like a shinobi who wanted to learn, but he knew it was too good to be true. AS Morel neared, he relaxed as he looked at the two young boys.

"Well this will be fun. Morel Hakedoro and Nat Cauthon. Welcome, you are Squad Delta. Here you will be equals, no teasing or any sort of your squadmates, because if so, you get to go to a Death spar with me. Now I wouldn't kill you, just beat you senselessly until you got your lesson." Katou spoke in a soft, clear tone all at the same time as smiling and gleaning at his students. "Now not to scare you, there is a third member, a Hyuuga, but he will not be joining us right now. He'll get his initiation when he joins us." Pausing, Katou took a slight breath and leaned forward on rested his chin on his hands. "First, why not tell me a little about yourselves and what you want in life and what you want to accomplish." 'Not that I can't figure it out by looking at you mostly.' Grinning, Katou leaned back and waited patiently for one to respond.

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Nat stared boredly at his 'team leader.' He was uninterested and overall bored; he didn't want to be here anymore. So he blinked slowly and unamused at this loser and waited for him to finish speaking. "Here's a little something." He said as he pulled his hand out of his pocket, flipped the bird and poofed into smoke. He was serious; and didn't care if they had to hunt him down and strap him to a table to make him listen to a thing he said. He was in one of those pissed off and didn't give a flying poop moods. He smiled, knowing that they would never think they knew why. He was one of the people who you would have to legitimately convince that what he was doing was for the better then he thought; which was hard to do since he rarely paid attention to anyone when they were speaking.

He appeared several streets away standing with his hands in his pockets. He adjusted his collar and shrugged his shoulders and began off down the street. He walked lazily looking for something to do; he determined where he was and took a left down a street. Heading towards his apartment. He walked at a slow pace, letting his feet drag a little on the dirt ground which caused his pants to become a bit dirt-stained as he walked. He was bored; and that lecture he was getting sounded boring and about as repetitive as any squad meeting he had ever been to. "Lets find out a little about you" and you would tell them and it would be pointless because it would have no value. Pointless things should be avoided; do it for money, for women, or for personal gain, or for whatever deity you worship, give it meaning. He may be a punk and a rebellious little freak but he knew what he was talking about. He cracked his neck and continued towards his apartment.

first test boys, your up. Catch me if you can. He thought to himself, knowing that within due time they could and most likely would catch him and probably beat him, little did they know he had a fair share of tricks up his sleeve. He held a single marble in his hand and rolled it around between his fingers, gently touching it on his index and thumb, his face showed a sly grin.

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Morel nodded in response to Katou's greeting. Standing quite still as his sensei continued to speak, making the point quite clear that he was to respect his squadmates, least he suffer a beating. As Katou spoke, Morel glanced over to his teammate, still standing in the shade of the trees. It didn't take an expert to know this guy was extremely irritated at something. The glare he shot at his teacher said it all. It was then that Katou brought up the news of the missing team member, a Hyuuga it seemed. And that he would be away for this meeting. As his teacher took a break to breathe, Morel took the moment to exhale a thick cloud of smoke out of the side of his mouth.

"First," Katou continued "Why not tell me a little about yourselves and what you want in life and what you want to accomplish." Morel then looked over to Nat, who already had his response ready to go "Here's a little something" he said as he quickly flicked up his hand, flipped Katou the bird and vanished in a cloud of smoke. It was definately... one of the more excentric means of an introduction he had seen. Turning back to Katou, he took a quick puff before speaking "So, would you likely me to answer now? Or are you going to retrieve him first?"

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Blinking slightly, he watched as the 'rebel' Shunshin'd out of the area. "Ah, so he is the emo rebel!" Laughing slightly to himself, he laid down in the lawn and looked into the sky. Katou knew that Nat was gonna be a hand full, but he didn't figure he'd be this difficult. Sighing, he looked up. "Morel, first mission, find and bring back Nat Cauthon. I want to beat some sense into this kid." Grinning slightly, he stood up and looked at Morel. "This is my test, what can you do?"

Looking towards Kumogakure, he began to walk slowly, taking his time with his hands in his pocket. Walking maybe ten meters, Katou was staring at his feet. Poor kid, he must be hating something big time. I guess its beating time... CLosing his eyes, he sighed as he Shunshin'd towards the city. Squatting on top of a building, he scanned the streets for Nat. He didn't know what to do with a trouble maker, but it made it interesting.

Scanning the streets, he looked for an unsual kid dressed in emo clothes. Sighing, he finally spotted the kid. Dropping down slightly, he landed on the ground softly. "Now Nat, let's be civil. Let's not have to deal with me fighting you and kicking your ass." Grinning slightly, Katou readied to strike hard.

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The light illuminated the room of Bishamonten, the sounds of chirping birds played a symphony on his ears that only added to his comfort. He smiled drifting between the real world and dream world, the warm of his bed mad him never want to leave its embrace. He rolled over ad allowed the warmth from the light, touch hi face like a gentle hand touching a fragile surface, being careful not to break the surface. A single eye opened as he greeted the world, the white eyes of the hyuuga child made attempt to focus, but the light made this difficult. Turning his head he now opened both eyes, and looked around his room. Bishamonten, Jecht as he preferred to be called, sat up and stretched as he let his mind think on what his agenda was for today. Like a lightning bolt striking a rod, he remembered what he was to do today. Almost instantly frustration replaced the comfort he once had, he had over slept. Today would be the day when he meet his sensei and new squad, "This is not good, a terrible first impression." He leapt from his bed and instantly started multi-tasking. He ran to his closet and grabbed his clothes he had set out for himself for this day. Then he ran to bathroom to freshen himself up, due to his rushing he managed to mix up the order of things, like washing his teeth and brushing his face *usually washing his face and brushing his teeth*.

After this he got dressed in a white shirt that he tucked into a black pair of pants, over the white shirt he put on a long vest that was blue and red with image of a small dragon on the back. This was his training outfit that was given to him by his mother, due to his constant training and rough housing he would always ruin his good clothes. He put on his socks and his black sandals and took off like a bat out of hell down the stairs. "Sorry mother, I am skipping breakfast," he said dashing out the door before his mother could respond to his statement.

Running at full speed to the location, he more than once stumbled and lost his footing. By the looks of him no one would believe this boy had passed the Academy at the age of 8. As he clumsily made his way to the meeting area, he noticed that the team had started without him. As there was only one person there "Oh man this is really gonna look bad on my resume," he said jokingly to himself as he got closer. He would have to show some type of skill to make up for his tardiness. There wa sonly one shinobi at the location he assumed that he may have missed the meeting entirely. He came to a screeching halt and landed with very little grace at all, as he slid a bit and fell backward on his behind. Taking many breaths in between he looked up at the shinobi that still remained with a very tired expression,"Bisha...Bis...Jecht Hyuuga, reporting. Did I miss the meeting"

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Nat said nothing to the petty Sensei, just turned and walked around him as if he didn't even exist. He dropped the marble as he passed and shook his head, blowing air out of his mouth and up at his hair to get it out of his eye. In his pockets, his hands fumbled around with several interesting devices, he couldn't decide which one he liked best so he just took a handful of everything that was in there and gripped them tightly, after a second or two, the single marble he had dropped exploded sending small little glass shards in a 5 foot diameter, close enough to hit his Sensei and a couple of bystanders, but not close enough to hit himself. He didn't stop walking instead he just cracked his neck; not even bothering to look over his shoulder to check the small victory he held against the Idiot. He yawned and continued walking along the path.

As he began down the street which had his apartment complex on it he looked up at the building. It was a tall 3 Story building, luckily he only had 1 floor to climb. He made his way to the door and pushed it open, it was a tall door which was completely see through. He walked over to the doorman and she handed him his key's. "If the idiot comes in, call the Police." He said pointing straight out the window to his Sensei. "I swear if he enters my room I will sue you and him both." Nat said snatching the keys and heading up the stairs. The Doorman walked over to the manager who quickly went out and summoned someone. Nat made it to his room within a few seconds, even if the baffoon managed to catch up, he wouldn't know which room was Nat's.

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He opened and locked the door as he entered, flopping down on the couch and preparing to go back to sleep.

Downstairs, a couple of what appeared to be bouncers stood at the door, watching for Nat's Sensei, Katou was his name he believed. The two heavy-set men stood at the door, outside, they were watching this sensei, if he went to the Balcony's, they would quickly follow him. Sure he could easily beat them up, but does that really look good on a Jounin's Application? "Jounin Beats up Innocent bouncers while attempting to Break into students Room." Hell it sounded like a Rape case. Nat folded his hands behind his head, Its the little Victories that count. He thought to himself as he fell asleep with a grin on his face.

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"Morel, first mission, find and bring back Nat Cauthon. I want to beat some sense into this kid." Katou said in response to Morel's question "This is my test, what can you do?". Taking a quick puff on his cigarette, he simply replied "I'll do what I can. Don't expect more than that" and with that, Katou vanished in a cloud of smoke after Nat. As Morel turned to the village however, a voice called out behind him. "Bisha...Bis...Jecht Hyuuga, reporting. Did I miss the meeting". Turning around, Morel saw a young Hyuuga, the kid was definitely a few years younger than himself. Seemed that his squad was more diverse than he first thought. "No, you didn't miss anything. Nat, the third teammate, just went a-wall. We got to get him back. Katou-sensei's already gone on ahead. So catch your breath quickly and catch up to me. I'll try to pick up the trail". With that, Morel quickly backflipped up atop a nearby tree branch and leaped off into the trees, back towards the village. He knew the Hyuuga kid would soon be following him but to make it easier on him, he did not move at top speed.

Emerging from the trees, he landed atop a low rooftop and waited for Jecht to catch up. Scanning the streets he could see, he tried to pick out Nat's unique style. However it was unneeded when several people screamed in pain and a small explosion could be heard. "This way, hurry kid" he said to Jecht and darted towards the origin of the sound. Whether it was Nat or not, it was his job to deal with it.

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Grinning as Nat turned around to ignore him, the small marble fell. Curious the small marble smacked the ground and exploded. With a fraction of the second reflexes, Katou shrank himself, compressing his body, and at the same time, expanded his hand outwards. Creating a small shield, his hand took the full impact of the exploding marble. The small shards were imbedded in his hand and he winced slightly. Expanding his body to normal size, he left his hand expanded.

Laughing softly, he took his free hand and pulled the skin of his hand back. Snapping it forward, the glass flew out and blood oozed out slowly. Shrinking his hand, back to normal, the bleeding slowed considerably. Tightening and loosening his hand, Katou looked up to see a brief moment of Nat walking into a complex building. Grinning, Katou jumped up onto a building and rounded about the back.

Sitting on the rooftop of a low building, he stared at the apartment building and sat there. Meditating, he waited for Morel to arrive, he would need both of them for this. Katou let out a heavy sigh as he withdrew a bandage and wrapped his hand. It didn't hurt, but he wanted to stop the bleeding. Tipping his straw hat forward, he leaned against the air duct, giving him a back rest as he waited for Morel.

As he observed the building, he noticed two bouncers watching himself. Katou found this slightly amusing as he thought that those two would keep him. But no, this is gonna be Morel and the rest of the squad's mission, retrieve Nat. So that was going to be what it is, it's for them to retrieve Nat. Katou already had a plan in mind. He would distract the bouncers so the Genin could get up.

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Jecht followed behind the genin pondering on what he had been told. A squad mate had left decided to leave, though Jecht wondered why the genin even came to the meeting if he was just gonna run away. Jecht thoughts were cut off however as he could hear a loud noise coming from the more rural area of the village. Using his Byakugan as a means to see who had caused it, though he couldn't see who had caused it he could see a man with a strange fleshy looking shield. As Jecht and the genin, he would later come to know as Morel, made their way he could see the building the shinobi had leaped to, he could also see several people inside. Being that he was late he never got a good look at his sensei nor the other squad member, he glanced over and remembered that Morel had been there and he would know exactly what they both looked like. Jecht described what he saw to Morel and hopes that he would be able to tell if the straw hat man was.

Taking the lead Jecht informed Morel that the Straw hat man had leaped to the top of the building.

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Morel merely nodded as Jecht described the situation ahead of them and at the mention of a strawhat man further ahead, he allowed himself to fall behind and follow the young genin as they leaped across the rooftops. However, as they approached the scene of the explosion, he called out to Jecht to hold for a moment and leaped down into the street below. He had to make sure everyone in the area was alright before meeting up again with their sensei. As he landed on the ground, he quickly noticed a loud cracking sound. Looking down he noticed he was standing in a pile of glass shards, specks of blood were focused in a thick pile of glass while other shards were embedded into the wall beside him. Around the area there were small groups of people clustered around, some huddled close together while most had a dumbfounded look showing that they merely wished to know what the commotion was about. "What happened here? Is anyone seriously hurt?" He called out, from one of the groups a voice shouted back to him "We're fine, just a few cuts and scrapes, that one ninja with a strawhat took the blunt of the attack".
Morel nodded towards the man and thanked him. With the situation appearantly under control, he motioned for Jecht to continue the lead and the two continued on towards the rooftop where Katou was sitting.

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Staring blankly into space, Katou felt the slight shift of wind as Morel and Jecht arrived. "Ah the 3rd member of Delta joins. What held you up may I ask?" Grinning slightly as he stared at the building, "besides the point, I have a plan to get our emo squad mate out." Pulling out a kunai, he placed the tip on the ground and drew a few points. "Here is his room, here is where the bouncers are. Now I'll take care of the bouncers, you two Shunshin up to the top of the building and talk to him. I can take care of a bunch of losers. Now do it without killing him please, and try to avoid fighting him, that will get dirty..." Pocketing the kunai, "go." Katou shunshin'd towards the bouncers and landed outside around the corner from the bouncers.

Leaning against the wall, Katou slowly flattened himself, making him paper thin, moving so slowly he peered around the corner and saw the two. Grinning, he reverted back to normal size and leaned agianst the wall. "Hello buddies! How are you! I just need to get by and talk to Emo Boy inside." Walking up to them, they pushed him back and grunted. "Ah really? Sorry for getting in your way. Let me try--" Katou was cut off as the bouncers pushed him again. Sighing, Katou slinkied around them before being grabbed.

"Really? Do we have to?" Grabbing the bouncers hand, he gripped it tightly and threw the bouncer forward and he slammed into the wall. Turning to the second bouncer, he cracked his neck. Spinning his hand rapidly. Shooting it forward, it drove it into his stomach and sent him spinning rapidly, slamming him into the wall again. "Now, let's talk to my emo kid."

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