SUMMARY: Matsuri, Ittetsu, and Sari are put in a team as freshly made Genin of the Sand, too bad they kinda hate each other– plot revolves mostly around Matsuri
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto; it wouldn't be as good if I did
Matsuri, Sari, & Ittetsu
Team 5
CHAPTER 1: Team Matsuri!
Matsuri stood in front of Mukade and Maki, trying to smile, though she was screaming on the inside. Everyone knew by then that she was Gaara's only student, and, ever since he'd become Kazekage a month ago, they'd all expected only the best from her.
She closed her eyes and summoned her chakra. "Kage no Bushin!" she murmured. Opening her eyes, she bit her lip nervously, but relaxed as she saw 4 perfect copies of her likeness. Fighting back a non-ninja-like squeal of happiness, she looked back to her homeroom teacher Mukade, and then to Maki, who smiled encouragingly.
"Very well executed." Mukade said, smiling happily. "I see working with Lord Gaara has been completely to your advantage."
Matsuri nodded. She couldn't help but frown whenever people called Gaara 'Lord Gaara'. Sure he was Kazekage, but it had been strange seeing them all warm up to him, and then gradually his time slip away from her training, then for the last bit of her training as an academy student, she had to be taught by a snobby chunin with a drinking problem. Anyway, she was glad when Maki handed her a gray Suna headband with the familiar Suna symbol on it. She dashed out of the room, hugging the thing to her chest.
Suddenly she crashed into a tall boy with tan skin and sandy brown hair. He looked about her age, and she thought she'd seen him at the academy when they were younger during free period. She remembered; he was the boy with the name that meant stubborn.
"Ittetsu! Watch where you are going!" she growled, crossing her arms over her chest. It was a habit she'd picked up from training with her sensei.
"You watch where you are going!" he shot back angrily.
Matsuri glared at him, and Ittetsu glared back until Maki poked her head through the exam room. "Ittetsu, get in here. Matsuri, aren't you supposed to be outside with your parents?"
Matsuri was about to open her mouth, but she chocked on her words. Ittetsu squinted at her, but shrugged and walked on, looking confident. Matsuri was sure he had a pair of parents waiting outside for him when he passed the genin test.
She didn't.
She still remembered how her parents were killed by countless weapons, but under Gaara's tutelage, she'd come to terms with her phobia of weapons. And she was a genin!
Pushing the sad fact of not having parents away, she ran through a back entrance in the academy and raced home to her small sandy apartment in the lesser parts of town. She always tried to get there early, because she knew of the people who walked those streets at night. No village, even the most honored, wasn't without the scourge, the black sheep, the one mothers steered their children from.
Matsuri had had to learn the lessons of her village without her mother and father. But what she learned and how she learned it convinced her to believe it all made her stronger.
In her small apartment, she kept the few things she had as neat as possible. Her little table sat next to the window, the chopsticks laid against an embroidered placemat that her mother had made. Her favorite cup with the suna symbol on it on the corner of the placemat as well. Her kitchen was sinkless, for if she wanted water, she'd have to go to her apartments storage. That was the bad part about living three days worth in the dessert- things were hard to get. Her bed was a fold out from the small bouncy sofa she owned. She often came home from training and forgot to set the bed back up again, so often times she woke up with colds: it always was surprising to her whenever it came to nightfall just how cold such a hot dessert could get.
She ate a quick meal of rice and sand dumplings, each of which was just a bit dry, and dressed for bed. The next day would be orientation. She couldn't wait.
Sari pulled her knees to her chest as she sat outside in the training field. She sat in a corner under the shade of the walls. She barely cared that she when she got up she' probably have to brush her but off to get the sand and dust off her skirt.
Sari, with her long dark brown hair, happy eyes, and new status of genin, felt great. Yet she sat in the corner.
It was an unusually hot day, and many of the others took refuge to the shade. A couple of hot shots tried to stand in the middle of the field in the hot sun. One even passed out for a minute or two. Well, that was what they got.
She sighed, brushing her bangs out of her eyes, only to feel the cold metal of her new headband. She smiled, and giggled to herself. She couldn't believe that she, Sari, was a genin.
Sari was more of a girly girl, not really cut out to be a ninja. Yet her parents were jonin, and expected her to succeed. The only good ninja points she had was she had a thing for chakra control, and she was good with a kunai.
She looked up at her fellow Suna Genin. She just hoped that whoever amongst them were her future teammates, would except her for her less than perfect kuniochi self.
"Is that seat taken?" Sari looked up to Abiru, a cute, curly haired genin.
Smiling she scooted over and let Abiru sit down beside her. The ninja leaned in and planted one innocent kiss on Sari's lips. They'd been going out for a few weeks, and for Sari everyday was better than before.
Abiru smirked, his eyes glancing to a boy who stood stubbornly in the sun, glaring at them. Sari turned to the boy. She didn't know his by heart. They must have been in separate homerooms.
"Who is that?" she asked. Her eyes met the strangers, and she looked away quickly, embarrassed and uncomfortable that the boy was staring at them.
"Nobody." Abiru sing songed, holding her hands. "Now, lets talk about us!"
Sari blushed and nodded. "Okay okay!" she said.
"What happens if we don't get into the same team?" he asked in vulnerable way that made Sari smile. "I don't want you running off with some jerk!"
Sari giggled. "Of course I wont." She kissed his cheek, leaning into him. "You've been way too good to me, Abiru!"
Abiru smiled, resting his chin on the top of her head. Looking at the boy who stood in the middle of the field in the hot sun, some how suppressing sweat, he smirked.
"You had you're chance, Ittetsu." He sneered.
Sari opened her eyes and tugged from her boyfriends embrace. "Oh, wasn't that boys name Ittetsu, or something like that?" she asked, glancing at the boy who had turned away.
"No!" Abiru lied, smiling coily. "He'd nobody. Nobody nobody nobody!"
"Okay okay!" Sari said, giggling.
Mukade smiled and walked out onto the training field. Matsuri clapped her hands under her legs so they'd stop shaking. This was it!
"Team 1: Korobi, Nae, and Sekka!" he announced happily. Matsuri watched as the three grouped up.
Lucky, Matsuri thought bitterly. At least they didn't have to wait long.
She waited as the people she'd known for years were grouped off.
"Team 4: Tomari, Yaoki, and Sajin." Mukade announced. Team four grouped up.
"Team 5: Ittetsu-"
What? How in the world did that stubborn cactus-up-the-butt become a genin? She thought.
"…Sari."
Sari? Her too. Man, Gaara-sensei is going to be upset to have so many bad ninja in his village! She sighed. She wanted to see him again, as a newly made genin of Sunakagure! Well, I'd hate to be on team 5.
" And Abiru." Mukade finished, smiling brightly.
Sari and Abiru smiled at each other in the corner of the training field. Ittetsu looked pale and unmoving.
"Ittetsu, Sari and lover-boy, eh?" Matsuri mumbled. "They won't last long." She sniffed and smiled.
"Oh, wait. Sorry, Abiru. I meant to say Matsuri." Mukade laughed loosely. "Team 6 is Abiru, sorry, again, Nejiri, and Isago."
Matsuri looked to Sari, who wasn't even paying attention to either her or Ittetsu. Instead the pretty kunoichi was pouting at Abiru. Ittetsu had regained some of his color, and turned to Matsuri, a tiny look of relief coloring his face.
She frowned. She still didn't like him. Ittetsu frowned back before turning away to talk to one of his friends who hadn't been assigned a team yet.
Matsuri sighed. "It looks like you aren't in Team 5. Perhaps Team Matsuri." She smiled softly, wondering who her Jonin leader would be.
Sorry about misspellings: if you have no clue who all of these characters are, go to Naruto wiki: half the names are picked randomly without me even looking at the character – and Matsuri is best seen in the last arc of Naruto episodes 216-220, and Ittetsu and Sari are seen in episodes in shippuden 32, though Sari and Matsuri are in stuck up fan girl mode, making a lot of people hate them, Ittetsu is the one Matsuri bitch-slaps (more or less) and punches and pushes in the face. Funny stuff. – Keomi~Sage
