Chapter 11: Failure

                                    

                                          

      "Do you even want to get up there?"
      "No. I love falling down and dislocating my tail bone."
      "Then you just fail at being good at anything."
       I'm good at having a living family. Eat my entire ass, I thought, intrusive thoughts winning. I might have said it out loud, but even I had some notion of the 'line's also, Sasuke Uchiha was fully capable of setting me on fire.
      "I disagree, I can sew!" I spoke up in an excited tone, but shut up at his icy glare. Not only did I shut up, but I backed away and blew out an awkward whistle.
      "Try focusing your Chakra to your feet more slowly, make it split evenly throughout both feet," Uchiha-san instructed, I nodded and followed his example. I barely made it up 10 feet before one of my feet started to lose the Chakra I maneuvered into them so I was left with one foot still on the tree and my other one dangling from the bark along with the rest of my body. I flinched at the high pressure on my ankle that was barely holding my body up at the cost of great pain that I could feel throughout my muscles.
      I had two choices, let go of my Chakra and fall on my neck, or break my fucking ankle... I don't like either of those choices. I was barely able to hear Uchiha sigh. "Please don't tell me that you are thinking of your two choices, staying up their or falling and breaking something. How did you even get all A's in the academy if you can't land on your feet from a 10 foot fall," the way Uchiha-san said this made it sound like a statement, not a question. Either way I had no answer as heights scared me.
      Don't tell me he's still bitter about my comment on out scoring him? 
      "Uchiha-sama, my ankle hurts," I complained, making him get irked. I gulped quite fearfully and flinched as his eyes glared into my own. "I think being upside down is making me nauseous..." And dizzy enough to not care that Uchiha-san was leaving me here. Wait, no that's not right. I quickly opened my eyes to see the raven haired boy disappearing in the trees. I really should have seen that coming.
      I was barely able to lift my head, but when I did get to, I moved my other foot and supported the heel against the tree bark. Since I was too inexperienced to somehow keep walking on the tree I closed my eyes and pushed my foot against the bark and threw myself off. I lifted my body up more while still in the air, as soon as I did that my back hit the ground with a hard thud. I winced, but this was still better than breaking my ankle.
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      "Sana, what are you grinning about?" Kakashi-sensei asked, but I still smiled.
      "I can make it to the top of the tree now," I spoke up, and Naruto's own face lit up.
      "Really?" Kakashi didn't sound too certain.
      "Okay that's rude sensei," I told him.
      "Really, show me!" Naruto exclaimed, and Sasuke looked at me suspiciously. I turned towards the tree and slowly placed on my shoes, I walked calmly up the bark, the base of my shoes tugging on my feet, I gulped and kept walking, my shoes hurting my feet each step I took. After the longest span of minutes I had ever felt, I was at the top. I slowly turned around with a grin.
      "Good job Sana, I'm impressed, as soon as you get down you can protect the bridge builder," and with a quick closed eyed smile, Kakashi-sensei turned around and started to head back. Naruto gave me a thumbs up and a giant grin and followed the spiky haired Sensei. Sasuke however stayed. With a little difficulty I jumped down from the tree and landed roughly on my feet. I winced as the impact sent a vibration up my body.