Lesson 1: Hand Seals

[Iruka-Sensei]

Iruka, the teacher of the academy walked into the class room and stared down the long, empty seats, hoping soon for there to be students there.

He stepped up to his desk and shuffled through a stack of papers untill he found his notes on what to teach today--his first lesson: Hand Seals.

[Kaiyo Hatame]

Kaiyo enters the classroom, hair styled to hide the Doujin Eye on his forehead, flame headband around his arm under his shirt to avoid suspicion. He bows slightly to Iruka-sensei as he enters.

"Hello, Iruka-sensei. How are you today?"

[Iruka-Sensei]

Iruka looked up, hearing the Genin. "Hello--" He said and paused for a moment. "what might your name be?"

[Kaiyo Hatame]

It's at that point that he realizes that he never introduced himself.

"I'm sorry," he says, "I'm Kaiyo Hatame."

Inside his mind, he rolled his eyes at himself. This was not a good way to start things off here...

[Iruka-Sensei]

"Ah, Mr. Hatame." Iruka bowed his head slighty. "Nice to meet you."

"If you don't mind, would you take your seat, and let us begin?"

[Kaiyo Hatame]

Kaiyo walks over to his seat, bowing again before doing so.

I hope the rest of this goes better...

[Iruka-Sensei]

"Well I guess we should get started then." Iruka said and sat down.

He paused for a moment before beggining again. "Chakra is a substance that we all use to perform jutsus. In order to release them, however, we must use hand signs."

Iruka took a deep breath. "There are twelve hand signs, and they are based on the twelve animals of the chinese zodiac."

[Kakashi Hatake]

A young Kakashi was in the back of the room, leaning his elbows on the desk and thinking to himself.

'This is so old. Why don't we do something new in class. Hand seals are so basic stuff, couldn't we at least move on to some jutsus?'

Kakashi kept thinking to himself, compleely ignoring the lecture Iruka-sensei was giving.

[Iruka-Sensei]

Iruka glanced up to the young man leaning on the desk. "Sir, since this is so boring, would you mind showing me the 12 hand seals?'

[Kakashi Hatake]

Kakashi got up from his seat and walked to the middle of the walkway. He began showing every hand sign, saying its name out loud as he did.

"Nezumi, O-ushi, Tora, Usagi, Ryu, Hebi, Uma, O-hitsuji, Saru, Tori, Inu, Ousu-buta."

Kakashi looked up at his sensei expectantly, verifying with his left hand that his headband is still in place over his left eye.

[Kaiyo Hatame]

Kaiyo smirks nearly imperceptibly as Kakashi stops. He could think of a couple more to add to that, but now was not the time.

[Iruka-Sensei]

Iruka nodded. "Very good." He turned to Kaiyo. "Do you think that you have this down, or can we move on to the next lesson?"

[Kaiyo Hatame]

Kaiyo nods.

"I think I've got it, Iruka-sensei."

He makes a show of practicing the hand seals, struggling purposefully on a couple, but succeeds in making every one of them.

[Iruka-Sensei]

Iruka nodded. "Ok, class... or students... this concludes our lesson."