naru pov

the village hidden in the leaves was lively today and now more than ever i was glad for rama sensei teaching me, otherwise more than likely I would have been beaten to death, times have changed but i have three people in action in my anbu squad now and two on leave.

as we came upon the gates i turned to my squabbling team and gave sora and zabuza a disapproving look the type that had them both frozen guiltily. within minutes haku and i were walking happily through the gates as zabuza and sora scowled at each other in grudging silence.

we first went to the hokage his raised eyebrow prompted me to explain that sora would be joining my anbu team and also that he had the nine tailed foxes chakra as well.

this again raised some eyebrows including zabuza's, i made no comment this was soras secret alone to tell and if he didn't want to he wouldn't have to for as long as i am his captain.

sora left with a white head band and a warning that if he negatively impacted the village he would be held responsible for his actions "holy monk" or not.

i decided that it was time i found our ragtag team a larger area for us like most anbu captains i also had 2 acres of land to my name.

I led my group to my dense brush area of acreage and created 60 shadow clones i stood back in line with my team and watched as they tore trees from the ground sawed logs in half and created a large training area and an empty small clan home with 6 rooms a kitchen and 6 bathrooms from nothing.

I promptly led every one inside and gestured to the three rooms with each persons name on the door.

sora dumped his bag in the room and i systematically popped the shadow clones having learned from the last time, one remained to go into the town district and buy everything our small home would need.

hell began today and it started with me summoning rama ...this of course created a range of outbursts, sora smiled lightly for the first time since he left the temple, zabuza growled at rama and haku jumped away wary of rama and her nine tails.

rama stood tall and imposing at my shoulder height for all but three seconds before collapsing on the floor in laughter unable to wrap her head around the reactions she got.

i looked at everyones faces and waited for comprehension to finally dawn over them and once it had i looked them each in the eye.

"i apologise everyone"..."this is going to suck"

and thats when rama stood upright and began ordering us around the first thing we did was chakra control excersises which i discovered unsurprised that sora and haku were the best, whilst me and zabuza were ordered to reach their level before dark, after a few "complementary" laps around the village.

by 9:30pm both me and zabuza were leaning against each other drinking out of our water canteens as everyone else slept inside we had both finally accomplished the task, after hundreds of fails our chakra was now far better than it was this morning. tomorrow sora promised to spread the spidery chakra silk that we had to go across to get to the temple for us to see the difference.

apparently the first job of a monk is to learn how to make the chakra web as it required perfect chakra control of medium amounts of chakra.

in a few minutes i fell asleep outside exhausted against zabuzas back if i was awake i would have seen zabuza carfully lift me up and place me in my captains quarters bed muttering about insane training and how he was wondering how long it would take me.

he left soon after and went to his own room also spent from the day training.

in the morning i woke early and decided that today was a day for pancakes.

so getting in a little stealth training i snuck past the highly trained ninjas rooms and went into the kitchen where i began creating pancakes as quietly as possible.

soon there was enough for everyone and rama sensei and I plated them up and went to wake up my exhausted team.

starting with sora i went into his room deciding to bond a little i woke him up gently "sora come with me be quiet" and i led him back to my room.

"sora... how do you reckon we should wake them all up?"

sora gained a grin on his face and i smiled slightly as i listened to the prank he decided upon.

grinning i sent a clone for what we needed and soon sora and i were setting up stink bomb paint and a large water bucket outside of haku and zabuzas doors.

sora and i went into the kitchen and sat at the table where i taught him a small wind jutsu to waft the smell into their rooms so they would suspect nothing.

sitting back both me and sora were laughing as zabuza walked in covered in disgusting smelling pink paint.

surprisingly haku came in through the back door with a small smirk on his face, clearly he had figured it out and went through his window.

i fist bumped sora and dumped the water and detergent bucket over zabuza to get rid of the paint and smell before he could begin attacking anybody.

using a wind jutsu he was soapy smelling dry and paint free, the water on the floor was gathered up with chakra and distributed out the window.

we all enjoyed pancakes for breakfast including rama who woke up on the wrong side of my head and dumped more weight on everyones gravity seals having us all groaning in pain and dreading the training day to come