Ok, this is my first fanfic! Please read and review!
I'm not sure where the story's going yet, but pairings: NaruHina, SasuTem (ever heard of it?), ShikaIno, LeeSaku, NejiTen, maybe KakaTsu (again, ever heard of it?)
Enjoy!
"Hmm," Kakashi thought, his nose buried in his beloved book. He was standing on the meeting place of team 7, wondering what would happen when his team heard his announcement. He smirked slightly when he thought of the surprise awaiting his only female student. Not looking up from his book, he said, "Sorry I'm late again, I got lost on—,"
"LIAR!" Sakura, the pink-haired kunoichi, and Naruto, the hyperactive blonde Kyubbi container, shouted at him, interrupting yet another wonderful excuse.
"Hmm…" Kakashi mused. "I should really write a book full of excuses…maybe I'll get tips from Jiraiya later."
"Kakashi," the cold voice of his Uchiha avenger interrupted his thoughts. "Why did you call us here? I could be training…" Kakashi finally looked up from his book. Sasuke's face was devoid of emotion as usual. Sakura squealed.
"Yeah, Kakashi-sensei, Sasuke kun's right!" she immediately agreed.
Inner Sakura: OMG SASUKE KUN IS SO COOL!
Sakura: You betcha! That's why I love him so much!
Kakashi sighed. He hated to be parted from his perverted book, especially at such a deliciously perverted part…but what had to be done, had to be done. He looked up.
Inner Sakura, Naruto, and Sasuke: Did Kakashi-sensei just…STOP READING HIS PERVERTED BOOK?!?!?!?!
"Ok, ok, a few more moments of ignorance won't hurt you…anyway, Tsunade wants all of the "rookie 9" plus Gai's team to switch teams. As in, you're getting mixed up again."
"What?!" Sakura and Naruto shouted.
"Hn," Sasuke grunted.
Inner Sakura: NOOO!!! I might be separated from Sasuke!!!!!!!
Inner Naruto: I have to be with Sakura…and not with the bushy eyebrow freak!
Inner Sasuke: …What's the big deal? At least I won't have to work with these idiots anymore…maybe I'll be able to team up with Neji…
"But…Kakashi-sensei!!!" Sakura started.
"There's no point in arguing, Tsunade's already decided. She wants you guys in her office pronto. Unfortunately, I have to go with you, and I can't be late…that monstrous strength of hers is scary…"
Team 7 stared at him. Did they just imagine it, or did a faint blush cross Kakashi's face when he spoke of Tsunade?
Inner Sakura: NO WAY! DOES KAKASHI-SENSEI LIKE THE GONDAIME??
Naruto, as untactful as ever, decided to ask the question.
"Hey, Kakashi-sensei, are you reading that book to try and impress Granny Tsuna—," Kakashi decided at that moment that it would be prudent to knock Naruto out.
Inner Sakura: gasp It's true!
Kakashi was once again cool, calm and collected. "Let's hurry to make up for lost time."
Sasuke and Sakura's eyes bugged out. Kakashi? HURRY?
"He must really like the Hokage," they thought, using chakra to get to the fifth's office faster. (Naruto was being carried by Kakashi, and not too gently either. He woke up as they got to the door of her office.)
When Team 7 walked in, they saw that everyone else was already there.
"Kakashi! My long time rival! I was just telling my students about that time I beat you in running 20 miles in our youth!" Kakashi didn't glance up from his book.
"Sorry, did you say something?" Gai sweatdropped.
"I have such a cool rival! Only Kakashi would be worthy of that! Come on Kakashi! What do you say, 200 times around Konoha on our fingertips and see who finishes first! The score is still 49-50!"
"Eh, you win," Kakashi said lazily.
"Yeah! The spring of youth prevails again!" Gai jumped over to Lee to discuss exactly how the spring of youth had helped him win, Lee eagerly joining the conversation. Tsunade was watching this with amusement, before finally deciding to tell everyone what they had been waiting for.
"Ok, Kurenai, your team will be…
Naruto, Hinata, and Neji!
Inner Hinata: I-I'm…with N-naruto!
Inner Neji: I-I'm with…Hinata-sama?
Naruto exploded.
"Yes! Ha, Sasuke-teme, who's with the prodigy?!"
"Shut up, dobe," Sasuke growled. Sakura punched Naruto, sending him flying.
"DON'T CALL SASUKE-KUN TEME!"
"Sasuke-kun?! Only I, Ino, can call Sasuke-kun that, billboard brow!"
Sakura was about to retort angrily when she remembered Ino and her old friendship.
Flashback:
"Hey, aren't you that girl that everyone teases because you have a big forehead? Is that why you grew your bangs to cover it?" Sakura nodded timidly. "Well, you shouldn't try to cover it, it looks like a sheepdog. The more you try to cover it, the more obvious it'll be! Here, tie it back with this ribbon." Ino handed Sakura a red ribbon.
"Hey, Ino? If you're a cosmos flower…then, what am I? Am I just a weed?"
Ino blinked and studied Sakura's sad posture. "No, I think that you're a bud, still waiting to bloom into a beautiful flower!" Sakura smiled timidly. "Thanks Ino!"
"Ino…is it true? Do you like Sasuke too?" Ino gasped. "It's true then? I guess we're rivals then!" Sakura turned her back on her first friend, secretly hiding tears at the loss of her friendship.
The Chunin exams resulted in Sakura fighting Ino. When they both gained conciousness, Ino handed Sakura her head protecter. "You finally got that bud to bloom into a beautiful flower!" Sakura smiled gratefully. "But I'm not going to lose to you again, forehead girl!" "Pig!"
End Flashback
"Why?" Sakura whispered quietly. She turned away from Ino, but not before Ino glimpsed her eyes full of pain. "Why was I stupid enough to break up my friendship with my best and only friend over a boy?"
Her expression turned grim. "Because I didn't always want to be the one who had to be protected! Ino was the best at everything…I wanted to have people admire me too! She was so cool, cute, and nice…I just…I just can't catch up! Ino-pig is even a great ninja now, and she's twice as thin as I am. I'll never catch up to her…NO! I won't let her get Sasuke-kun. I'll fight for him!"
"Shut up, Ino-pig," Sakura muttered, with less viciousness than she would've liked. Ino once again saw the look of pain cross her ex-best friend's face. She felt worried, but then Tsunade slammed her fist on the desk.
"Enough!" she barked, out of temper without her sake. "Now, the next team is Kakashi's team. Your team will be Sasuke, Sakura and Ino. There's not much of a change, but I think that you know Sasuke and Sakura better than if Asuma or Gai got them…ahem!"
Inner Sakura and Ino: HECK YES! SASUKE'S ON MY TEAM!
Inner Sakura: Great…Ino's on my team.
Sakura: Ino? Not Ino-pig?
Inner Sakura: Stop trying to fool around, you don't think she's a pig!
Sakura: Well…
Inner Ino: Sakura's on my team?
Sasuke: Great…fan girls…and not just fan girls, the captains of my fan club…why?!
Tsunade cleared her throat. "Ok, Asuma's team…"
Inner Asuma: So, am I getting the slacker or the glutton back on my team?
"Shikamaru, Tenten, and Shino!" Shikamaru muttered, "How troublesome…I could be watching the clouds right now, and instead I'm listening to the Hokage announce that I have Asuma-sensei, as usual…" He yawned pointedly. Shino looked as inscrutable as always, while Tenten just looked outraged. Tsunade quickly continued. "And obviously, Gai's team will be Rock Lee, Choji, and Kiba. You're dismissed!" The Gondaime shooed them out of her office. "Whew," she sighed. "Shizune! More sake!"
As the rookies and Gai's old team filed out of her office, their sensei's whisked their new teams off to meet and introduce themselves.
Kakashi yawned and looked at his team. Sasuke was staring off into space as usual, Sakura was looking uncharacteristically sad, and Ino was glaring daggers at Sakura (not that she seemed to notice). "What a happy team…," Kakashi mused quietly. Sasuke was surprised that Sakura and Ino weren't all over him already. Speaking of Sakura…he glanced over at her. She was looking at the ground with a downcast face. "I wonder what's up with her," he thought.
Asuma glared at Shikamaru. As usual, the lazy genius was in his favorite position (lying on his back) watching the clouds. Tenten was throwing shuriken furiously hitting the dead center every time. Shino was watching his bugs crawling all over himself. "This will be interesting…" Asuma thought gloomily. At least he had the weapons' mistress on his team.
Kurenai's sharp crimson-ish eyes took in her new team. "Hinata and Neji on a team?" she thought curiously. "I wonder what Tsunade-sama was thinking." Naruto was jumping around and Hinata was watching him, blushing slightly. Neji was as fate-driven as usual, and was testing his impenetrable defense.
Gai was already prepping his team with a talk about youthfulness. Only Lee was listening, the other two were eating chips and rolling their eyes at each other.