"Naruto, do you remember what that two-faced guy hit you with?" asked Jiraiya.
"You mean the one that felt as if I had knives cutting into me EVERYWHERE? Gee, I wonder," grumbled Naruto.
"Have you ever seen that jutsu before?" asked Jiraiya.
"Uhm, no," admitted Naruto.
"Have you ever seen jutsu that required someone to name a technique while waving a stick before?" asked Jiraiya.
"Uhm, not so much," admitted Naruto.
"Have you ever seen a jutsu that caused wooden sticks to allow ninja to fly?" asked Jiraiya, sitting on the edge of the desk and looking out the window.
"Well, no, I can't say that I have," admitted Naruto before looking out the window. Once he did, he could indeed see a woman on what looked like an old broom flying above one of the fields outside the school.
"Now, I've seen some flight techniques - Iwa has them but they're not exactly common," said Jiraiya, his voice thoughtful. "Requires a lot of chakra, precise control, and you're basically repelling yourself from the ground as I understand it. That looks a lot easier."
"I SO want that," admitted Naruto. "Okay, I can see why you want to stick around this old place. But why do I have to be a student?"
"Because you're not old enough to be a teacher, you ARE my student, and you get to attend classes where they explain how to do things like that," said Jiraiya, jerking a thumb towards the window as he returned his attention to Naruto.
"But I suck at tests and studying and stuff," confessed Naruto.
"So you learn by doing," said Jiraiya.
"How are you going to fake being a teacher?" asked Naruto.
"Who's faking anything?" replied Jiraiya. "I DO have a few ideas on how to overcome the lack of knowledge of THEIR techniques though. So don't worry about it."
"Hey youngster, I saw you watching from the window."
The woman seemed old, but carried it well. Unlike Grandma Tsunade, who hid it.
"Uhm, yeah, it's kinda neat," admitted Naruto.
"Tell you what, you show me how you're doing that, and I'll show you how to use a broom," said the old woman.
"Eh?" asked Naruto.
"I saw you," said the woman. "You didn't use a wand, no incantation was uttered, but you climbed a wall and leapt from one staircase to another as they were shifting."
"Well, yeah, I got kinda lost trying to find a bathroom around here," admitted Naruto. "Cause these staircases and stuff keep moving around."
"You have NO idea how truly annoying they can be," said the woman. "I'm certain that they can determine when you're in a hurry and they deliberately switch around on such occasions."
"You're a teacher here?" asked Naruto.
"Madam Rolanda Hooch, flight instructor," said the old woman. "And you?"
"Oh, right. Naruto Uzumaki. Uhm, student sorta I guess."
"Very well, Mister Uzumaki. Do we have a deal?"
"Rolanda, what exactly were you doing with that young man?"
"Falling down for the most part, Minerva."
"Might one inquire exactly why one would do such a fool thing?"
"Have you ever needed to go rushing off to the bathroom only to find that none of the stairs are behaving? Have you ever had the cafeteria announce fresh salmon only to discover that you arrived two minutes too late?"
"Well, no, not really."
Madam Hooch sniffed, her falcon-like appearance momentarily strengthening as emotions intensified. "Well, I have. And as there are no spells to be cast or brooms ridden within the halls, I find myself quite interested in these 'jutsu' that allow a spell-effect without a spell being cast."
"A spell that isn't a spell? Preposterous."
"Our new Defense Against The Dark Arts instructor seems a specialist in such things," said Madam Hooch. "It may be quite an interesting year."
"Oh, I've no doubt about that," admitted Minerva McGonagall. "Just that Harry Potter will be attending this year would make it interesting."
Read the comments on this episode
(Posted Sat, 08 Jun 2013 01:02)
Questions? Problems? Suggestions?
Send a mail to addventure@bast-enterprises.de
or use the contact form.
らんま1/2 © Rumiko Takahashi
All other series and their characters are © by their respective creators or owners. No claims of ownership of these characters are implied by the authors of this Addventure, or should be inferred.
The Anime Addventure is a non-profit site.