Alright first of all thank you to the reviewer who told me I might be in violation of the rules, and since I thought it would be better to be safe than sorry, this will be one whole story now. Although I really wish that I could make them separate episodes.
It was Monday morning and even though usually Sasame Uchiha took forever to wake up in time for school, this time she was up and ready before anybody else inside her family was. For today was her graduation test to see that if in fact she would become a real live ninja. Even though her brothers were excited about it as well, they weren't as full of energy as she was about it. "Come on guys," she began as she ran inside their bedroom and flipped on the light switch. "Up and at em!" she exclaimed as the boys simply just groaned and pulled their covers over the top of their heads. "You guys are hopeless." Sasame muttered to herself with a roll of her eyes before she ran inside her parents' bedroom and jumped up on top of their bed.
"Mom, Dad, wakeup, the boys are being stubborn about getting ready but I don't wanna miss the exam." She told them but her mother just continued to snore and her father continued to sleep. "Mother wake up!" she exclaimed inside a whiny voice before she grabbed ahold of her shoulder and started shaking her away. "Go back to sleep Sasame, it's six thirty in the morning." Her mother groaned still half asleep before rolling onto her side away from her daughter and started to snore again. Sasame heaved a sigh before she tried to work on her father. "Dad, please wake up." She said as Sasuke heaved a heavy sigh and opened his eyes to look at her. "What do you want?" he groaned.
"My final exam is today, and well, I just_ I just wanna make sure that I'm ready for it." She said as Sasuke yawned and gave a huge stretch and she slowly turned her head to look away from him. "So is this about not being late for an exam that is about three hours away, or making sure that you have enough time to build up your self-confidence?" he asked her. "Both I guess." She answered with a shrug. "I just don't think I can pass it when I can't even use my sharingan yet." She explained sadly. "Alright come on, I can't believe I'm doing this but I need to show you something." He told her as he climbed out of bed and got dressed before he took her outside.
"Where are we going?" she asked him as he led her down to the dock where he had always used to sit. "You'll see." He began. "Where are we?" she asked him again when they had gotten there. "This is the place where I always used to play when I was a kid." He answered. "But what are we doing here?" she questioned. "Watch this." He began as he made a few hand signs that she didn't understand before blowing fire out of his mouth and over the water. "Wow," she began with a breath of astonishment. "How did you do that?" she asked him widening her eyes with disbelief. "Practice." He answered.
"You see when I was a kid my father your grandfather always used to praise my older brother and your uncle Itachi and downgrade me." He told her. "But why?" she asked looking back up at him. "Well I always used to think it was because he was disappointed in me for not being able to do that jutsu that I just showed you, but the real reason he pushed me so hard was that he believed that I could do it. And once I started believing in myself, I did." He explained. "Do you understand?" he asked her as he picked her up and lifted her inside his arms.
"I think so, but what if I try my best and I'm still not good enough?" she asked him. "Then your mother and I will be proud of you for trying. Not finishing what you started and giving up simply isn't an option when you're a ninja. Nobody knows that better than your uncle Naruto." He said as they both gazed down at their reflections inside the pool of water. "Thanks Dad." She said as he kissed her cheek and set her back down. She still had butterflies inside her stomach, but she knew that her father was right. "Anytime Sasame." She said as he bent down and smiled warmly at her before affectionately poking her in the forehead.
"Alright that's it, I can't take it anymore. You have to tell me why you're always poking everyone in the forehead." She said as he gave a little chuckle. "I don't do that to everyone." He said moving his hand away and standing back up. "No but you're always doing it to me, my brothers, my mother and my uncle and you never did tell me why." She grouched. "I don't know, I guess that's just my own little way of showing affection. My brother used to do that all the time to me and I sort of inherited it." He explained. "I wish I would have been able to meet him." Sasame said with a sigh as he started to turn around and walk back towards the house.
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Later that morning Sasame arrived at the academy with the rest of her schoolmates. "Gee I sure hope that we all get on the same squad together." Sakori said. "Me too, it just wouldn't be the same without you." Mizu agreed. "Or Sasame." Sakori added as his brother simply just looked over at their sister. "Uh, yeah." He said a bit nervously. It was a known fact that even though Mizu loved his sister, they tended to get on each other's nerves quite a lot which reminded Sakura of the relationship that she and Naruto had only reversed.
"Alright class," their teacher Shikamaru began. "When I call your name I'll ask you to come up and do your best shadow clone jutsu." He explained as Sasame breathed a sigh of relief. "This'll be easy." She thought to herself as one by one Shikamaru congratulated her classmates for doing such a great job. Then all of a sudden it was Mizu's turn. Sasame watched as he stood out in front of the room and placed his fingertips together. "Shadow clone jutsu!" he exclaimed and rather quite quickly he formed a perfect clone of himself standing right next to him.
"Great job Mizu," Shikamaru began with a grin before the clone disappeared at just the same rate. Sasame had never been worried she knew that he could do it. "alright Sasame you're up." He told her when suddenly she gave a rather large gulp and started to tremble. Even though she was rather good with shadow clones, she was afraid that her nerves would end up getting the better of her. That's when she remembered what her father had told her, and that everyone in the hidden leaf village was counting on her and her brothers to one day fulfill the prophecy and defeat Akuma.
At that moment she stopped trembling and bravely stepped up to her brother's spot as he walked back over to Sakori and stood by him. "Alright this is it Sasame, come on you can do it. Giving up isn't an option, because you are the daughter of the great Sasuke Uchiha! You are a ninja!" she told herself inside her head suddenly feeling a burst of strength and determination. She took a deep breath and placed her fingertips together. "Shadow clone jutsu!" she cired.
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"Mom! Dad! I passed!" Sasame shouted with excitement later that afternoon while she quickly rushed back home. Both of her parents greeted her at the door. "So did Sakori and Mizu, we're all on a squad together!" she exclaimed stopping to catch her breath. "Gee that's great honey." Sakura said as she smiled lovingly at her daughter while she finished rubbing a bowel dry with a cloth. "What's your squad number?" her mother asked her. "Three, and our sensei is Konohamaru." She explained. "We get our headbands and pictures taken tomorrow." She finished. "Hm, I knew you could do it." Sasuke said grinning proudly at his daughter. "All I know is that Akuma better watch out because there are three new ninjas inside the village, and once I learn how to use my sharingan, he's dead meat!"
Next Time On Naruto The Next Generation; Squad Three Gets Their First Mission, will Sasame finally learn how to use her sharingan?
