Title: The New Team 8

Summary: Kurenai decided to re-sign herself from team 8 before the team was even made and was surprisingly replaced by Ibiki, the leader of Konoha's ANBU torture and Interrogation force. How will the members of team 8 reacted to this despite their background differences?

A.N: The timeline is 2 days before the graduation day. By the way, this is my first attempt so please read and review (I don't mind you telling me of my mistakes, instead I'm honored if you do so)please...(begging with puppy eyes)

Prologue: A closer step to a change

Light was not his friends. Being outside, breathing the scent of fresh air was not his daily life. He always spends his day inside a dark, blood scented room. The giggles of Konoha's new leaves felt odd, for he is accustomed with the screams of agony, pleading to be freed of his pain, forever…

For people to see him outside like this means two things, whether he has a day off which he rarely take or he is called by the Hokage. But now, he was going to the Hokage's office. Just then, he received a message from an ANBU, telling him that he was summoned by the hokage. However, he was not told the reason of it.

He had no idea what it would be. Would it be an important assignment, or a mission? It was unusual for the Hokage not to tell the reason behind his summons. When it happen, usually it was regarding about a great problem. What could it be?

He closed his eyes, avoid puzzling himself with his curiosity. No sooner, he had found himself in front of the Hokage's office. Without hesitation, he stepped in and went directly to Hokage's room.

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Inside, he found plenty jounin who were crowding the hokage. He didn't bother about that, and just took a step closer. Everyone's eyes were on him, eyeing him as if something was not right. There was queerness in here that everyone was whispering about as he took another step closer.

"What does an interrogator doing at the jounins' squad assignment time?"

"Ibiki, you come just in time." The hokage announced. They slowly stopped whispering to each other, but not reflecting their gaze away from him, although they avoided looking at him eye-to-eye. A second afterwards, he began to speak up. " Hokage-sama, May I asked-"

"It's to replace my position as the leader of squad 8." A woman interrupted. Her voice was smooth and calm, with no hint of frightens in it. "I have a mission to be done, so you will be the permanent leader of squad 8. The hokage-sama and Hiashi-sama of the Hyuuga clan have agreed to this displacement." She explained clearly.

Ibiki took some time to think of this upon himself. He, Morino Ibiki, is the interrogator specialist, not a squad leader. If he led those kids, he may inflict his interrogating habit toward those kids. At the same time, he might lose his job…

"Ibiki." The hokage called. "You will not give your job as the head of Konoha's ANBU torture and Interrogation force up," He stated, almost like he was reading Ibiki's mind. "You just have to teach those kids and look over their growth, physically and mentally." He explained.

"I apologized Hokage-sama", but I refused to take apprentices." Ibiki stated quickly. The situation became tense. "Having me as the leader of a 12 years old squad will affect their mentality. I don't think it's a good-"

"I have thought about that, Ibiki." The hokage interrupted. "I have asked each of their parents about this, and they all agreed." He took a deep breath. "Look, if you still concerned about those kids' mentality or anything else, you can go to the academy tomorrow. The team assignment day is the day after tomorrow, so you have a full day to observe them and take your decisions carefully. Give me your answer tomorrow at 8 pm. You are dismissed." The hokage clarified, handling pieces of paper at him. He accepted them and left the room immediately after he bowed down, leaving most of the jounins in confusion.

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Outside, he eyed those pieces of paper carefully. He memorized every single detail of those kids and the descriptions about them. The sun was shining brightly at the top of his head, spreading warmth to Konoha. He looked toward the sun, as if challenging it and smirked to himself. He folded those papers and put it inside one of his jacket pocket, mumbling something before he went to a place where those kids were at right now, the academy.

"Things will be interesting with these three kids all right…"

Next chapter: It will be about Ibiki's day spying those kids in the academy. Will it be amazing, or it'll be messed up? Find out in Chapter 1: A distanced encounter. Don't forget to review (or alert) if you want to see it! See you then.