Dear Nisan,
I have just been put on my first team and even went on a mission to the hidden mist village. My teammates are very interesting and I don't know what the deal is with my teacher, but I think I'm really going to love being a part of team seven. I'm finally going to get to show people what I can do. I miss you guys so much. How is everybody? I hope I can visit soon!
Love,
Sakura.
Sealing my scroll I sat back in my seat and looked at the clock.
'Shit I'm late' I thought to myself, quickly tucking the scroll into my pouch, grabbing my forehead protector, and running out of my apartment.
The streets of the leaf village were busy with many people looking through the market area outside of my apartment. The afternoon sun was shining down on all of the vendors as I quickly weaved my way through the crowd towards the bridge where I would begin my new journey with team seven.
As I got closer to the meeting place I could already hear the yelling from none other than Naruto Uzumaki, my overly excitable team mate.
"I could win a fight with you any day teme!" Yelled a beat red Naruto.
"In your dreams dope." Came a cool response from a raven haired boy who happened to be my other team mate Sasuke.
Naruto and Sasuke were an interesting pair and this banter was nothing unusual. It seems to have become a routine for both of them to bicker and push each other's limits in any way they could. Honestly I don't understand the satisfaction they get from arguing, but sometimes I have to admit that it puts a smile on my face.
"Sakura! Tell this jerk that I am way better than him!" Naruto ran up to me and wrapped his arms around my waist.
"Naruto for the millionth time, I am not getting involved in you and Sasuke's stupid competitions."
Naruto continued to whine saying how it wasn't stupid as I wiggled out of his grasp and straightened my shirt.
"Kakashi sensei is not here." I said leaning back on the railing of the bridge across from Sasuke.
"Does that surprise you?" Sasuke said with annoyed tone crossing his arms.
"Well no, but it doesn't hurt to hold onto hope right?"
"I guess." Came Sasuke's short reply.
"You were late too you know." Said Naruto taking a seat cross legged next to me, "what were you doing?"
"O nothing, just cleaning up a bit and I let the time slip my mind. Maybe Kakashi sensei is rubbing off on me."
"Ew Sakura if you let that happen you'll turn into a huge perv like him too!" Shouted Naruto.
"Is that anyway to talk about your teacher?"
Naruto jumped at the new voice that came with a puff of smoke.
When the smoke cleared there stood my grey haired, masked sensei Kakashi. Despite Kakashi's lateness and habit of reading porn whenever he got the chance, Kakashi was a very good teacher. He was very skilled, knowledgeable, and even though he doesn't try to show it I know he has a soft side to him.
"So I have decided to enter the three of you in the Chunin exams this year."
Hearing Kakashi say this Naruto jumped up quicker than lightning, "Really!?" He yelled in my ear.
Naruto's enthusiasm was something to behold, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't get on my last nerve sometimes. "Naruto I am sure he can hear you fine without yelling." I said smacking him on the back of the head.
Ignoring Naruto's whining about how I didn't have to hit him so hard Kakashi continued explaining that all three of us would have to be fully committed to the exams to be able to register.
The chunin exams were the next big step after becoming a genin. Becoming a chunin proved that a ninja was developing and becoming better every day. The higher rank, the tougher the exams would become and ninja from all different villages come to show their skills and hope to gain the title of a chunin.
"I will be entering the three of you tomorrow afternoon, so if any of you have second thoughts come and tell me straight away. That is all." With that last statement Kakashi disappeared with a puff.
Grinning with excitement Naruto jumped in the air shouting about becoming the next Hokage. Sasuke pushed himself from the railing of the bridge and began heading off.
"Hey Sasuke!" I called out to him, "Want to go get some food before heading home?"
Sasuke didn't even stop to look back and called out a no from over his shoulder.
"Your loss." I called back.
"I'll go with you Sakura!" Naruto said sheepishly.
Smirking I agreed and began to head towards the ramen shop, "Just no flirting ok."
"What me? Flirt? Nooooo." Naruto said rubbing the back of his head.
On the way to the food vender we ran into Naruto's little friend Konohamaru. He is the Third Hokage's grandson and in my opinion just like a more annoying, smaller version of Naruto. The two talked, well more like Konohamaru begged Naruto to play with him, and the next thing I know the little brat was looking at me with this weird face.
"What?" I asked him.
Suddenly his little eyes got real big like he had this big revelation and he turned to Naruto, "O I get it boss, this is your girlfriend right?"
It took me a second to comprehend what was just said and as it was sinking in Naruto's dumb ass was agreeing with the little shit.
"Naruto are you really stupid enough to agree with what he said in front of me?" I growled at him.
Realizing his stupid mistake Naruto put his hands up in a defensive pose stuttering out his apologies, but it was too late for apologies. I grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and pulled him into a punch that sent him flying threw the wooden fence that lined the pathway.
Konohamaru ran over to Naruto pulling him from the broken pieces of the fence and shattered pride. "It's ok boss she's ugly anyway, just look at her forehead."
This kid was just begging for me to put him in his place.
"What was that?" I asked with venom in my voice.
If the look on the pipsqueaks face was anything to go on, he was scared shitless.
"I'M SORRY!" He shouted taking off down the path making a sharp turn as I ran after him to ruff him up a bit.
When I came around the corner there was the brat on the ground with a boy in a loose black jumpsuit with a hood standing over him.
"Watch where you're going kid." The boy barked as he grabbed Konohamaru by the collar just as I had done with Naruto.
"Whoa, hey he didn't mean any harm, he was running from me and,"
"Kankuro, let the kid go." A girl dryly stated from behind the aggravated boy.
"O come on Temari I wanna have some fun after our long journey."
"Yeah ok, but you know better than that. Gaara will kill you if he finds out" The sandy blond girl said putting her hands on her hips.
This two where defiantly not from here. Looking them both over I noticed their forehead protectors had the symbol for the village hidden in the sand. They must have come here for the chunin exams. The boy, Kankuro, seemed a little bit odd with his attitude and purple face paint, whereas the girl, Temari, seemed very elegant yet strong.
"Don't worry he won't find out," Kankuro pulled a really large object off his back slamming it down to the ground on end. It almost looked like a cocoon with hair on top, but I highly doubt that is what it is.
As I took a breath in to reason with the hooded sand shinobi a rock went flying through the air hitting him in the head.
"Messing with a kid is pretty low down you know."
I looked up to see Sasuke sitting up in a tree, another rock in hand.
"Why you little," Kankuro started to say, but was stopped by a gruff voice from the same tree where Sasuke resided.
"Kankuro you are a decrease to our village."
There hanging upside down from a branch was a red headed boy with what looked like the kanji for love on his forehead. In a split second he disappeared and then reappeared down next you his two comrades with what looked like sand.
"Gaara, you see I was just," Stuttered a nervous Kankuro until he was stopped again by Gaara's merciless quite.
Looking to the ground Kankuro shoved Konohamaru towards Naruto who had recovered from my hit and stood watching the scene that played before us.
Sasuke quietly leaped from the tree landing right next to me, "What is your business here?"
"Yeah why are you jerks stocking around here?" Naruto yelled shielding an upset Konohamaru.
"Guys remember Kakashi said the chunin exams are coming up." I said staring at the trio.
Really I couldn't take my eyes off of the pale boy named Gaara. He was shorter and seemed younger than the other two, but just his presence held so much authority over Temari and Kankuro. His voice and aura around him held something that I couldn't put my finger on, but I felt like I was in a trance.
My thoughts were brought to a halt when Gaara's eyes caught mine. A second turned into an eternity that was only broken by Kankuro letting out a scoff.
"Good job pinky." He said with a smirk.
The nickname that was obviously inspired by my pink hair made me narrow my eyes at his mocking attitude.
"O is the kitten going to take her claws out?" He continued.
My fist balled up and I was about to take a step towards him to send him into next week if it wasn't for Sasuke grabbing my hand to stop me.
Shooting a glare at Sasuke I turned back to yell at the asshole that taunted me but stopped when I felt Gaara's eyes burrowing into me. Not really understanding what was going through the red head's mind I looked right back at him not breaking eye contact.
Noticing the weird interaction Sasuke took a step in front of me stating that we were done here, and grabbed my wrist to lead me back down the path we came from. As I was being pulled away I looked back over my shoulder to see that Gaara was still not taking his eyes off of me. Not thinking about it, I gave him a small curious smile before being pulled around the corner.
"Konohamaru are you ok? Did that jerk hurt you?" Naruto continued to ask the shaken up boy all kinds of questions as I couldn't get my mind off of what just happened.
Sasuke gave me weird glances from the corner of his eyes as he pretended to watch Naruto.
'Why was he looking at me like that?' I thought to myself, but decided that the whole situation was odd and let it go.
I turned to look at the sunset pushing everything to the back of my mind and remembered that I still had something to do.
"Hey guys I need to go, so I'll catch both of you later."
"Awe but Sakura we never got our food!" Complained a whining Naruto.
I grinned at him and promised that we would get food tomorrow and told him I would get food on the way back to my apartment. He reluctantly agreed and gave me a hug goodbye. As I waved I noted the curious look that Sasuke gave me as I headed across the village.
Reaching into my pouch I found the scroll that I had written before meeting up with everybody. It didn't take long to reach where I was headed. I headed out of the village gates and walked a little ways to this huge tree that no one could miss. Carefully I placed the scroll at the base of the tree and watched as the tree's bark reached out and grabbed it taking it away to the rightful recipient, and with a smile I headed back to the village to get some food and have some time to myself.