I have decided to rewrite this story from my old version: Team Saki-Shika-Cho. There are way too many holes, too confusing, too much puzzles, kind of messy, lacks details, and not properly organize it. Plus, I didn't have a lot of knowledge with Naruto and Naruto Shippuden at the time.
And now, in this new version of this story, I can promise that there will be clean, more details, properly organize, and more actions of this story. I have caught up Naruto, Naruto Shippuden, and even Baruto and movies. (which is so ridiculously a lot of movies... but they are awesome!) Now, I am confident enough to understand this anime. *relief* You can say, I was study and doing homework. For my sake and readers' too.
Both old and new versions of the stories are similar but the New Version will be a lot more details, more action, more information, and new add scenes. Some will be similar from the Old Version story.
Alrighty. Now to the warning: unbeta. English is my second language. ASL is my first. I'm Deaf. *peace*
I don't own NARUTO. None. Nope. Nada. *sulk*
Enjoy~! :)
In the Elemental Nation, there are the Five Great Shinobi Countries. The Land of Earth has Iwagakure, the Land of Lightning has Kumogakure, the Land of Water has Kirigakure, the Land of Wind has Sunagakure, and the Land of Fire has Konohagakure. These five villages are the only ones to have a Kage as the village head. Although the Five Great Shinobi Countries are equal enough in power and military strength to create a fairly stable balance of power, the Land of Fire is considered the most powerful and influential. Similarly, the Land of Fire's shinobi village, Konohagakure, is considered the most powerful of all shinobi villages and Konoha's Hokage has been considered to be the pinnacle of the shinobi world.
Inside of the amazing, large popular Konoha. There are thousands of civilians and ninjas in the village, women are gossiping and shopping, men are working and chattering, innocent children are playing and laughing, and strays' cats and dogs avoid and stealing scraps. Down the road, there's a humble yet modern two stories house where the Haruno resident lives. A father, a mother, and a daughter. The father is a merchant and is in currently outside of the village, doing his business. Meanwhile, a mother and a daughter are in the house.
A mother who goes by the name of Haruno, Mebuki. She is doing her own housework chores downstairs while one of the rooms, that belongs to a daughter. A young twelve years old girl with mid-back length unusual pink hair, unique lime-green eyes with black eyelashes, fair skin, and wears a red qipao dress with short sleeves, slits along the sides accompanied by a zipper and white circular designs, and tight dark green biker shorts. Plus, the shuriken/kunai holster around her right thigh and next to her barefoot is her blue open-toe sandals.
Her name is Haruno, Sakura and she adjusted her blue standard Konoha leaf hitai-ate around her head as a headband. After that, she beamed at the mirror and did a few playful yet flirting poses. She winked at her appearance from reflection with satisfaction. 'For sure, Sasuke-kun will look at me! I WILL get his attention, Ino-pig!' she mused with determined.
"Sakura! You're going to be late!" an annoyed vein popped out of a pink-haired girl after her mother repeatedly warned a few times.
Sakura turned her head to the closed door with irritated twitched. "I was about to leave!" she slightly huffed as she crossed her arms. 'When will she stop treating me like a kid?!' she blew her cheeks with frustrated. The Pink-haired girl shook her head, turned back to the mirror for the last time to overlook at her appearance. After that, she picked up her sandals and left her bedroom.
As she went downstairs, she glanced at her mother who is busy dusting in the living-room. "I'm leaving, okaa-san!"
Mebuki paused, she glanced over her shoulder and smiles at her. "Take care, blossom!" she farewells her sweet pink-haired daughter with a proud smile. Even though Sakura is usually annoyed by her mother however, in the end, she loves her mother and her never-ending supportive. The pink-haired girl smiles back at her mother and left the house before she slipped on her sandals and shut the door behind her.
Down the road, as she walks on while observing her surroundings. She dodged away from the running children with a small soft smile on her face. 'To see them all running and laughing… so little… where has all that time go?' she mused as she remembered herself at a young age. Before she has confidence before she meets people before she has friends… before… her.
And speak of a devil, a twelve years old girl with long platinum blonde waist-length hair that tied up in a high ponytail, with bang covered her right eye, baby blue eyes without pupils, fair skin, and she wears a purple outfit consisting of a high-collared blouse, matching apron skirt, white bandages on her abdomen and legs, small hoop-earrings, her leafe hitai-ate wrapped around her hip as a belt, and white arm warmers. Her name is Yamanaka, Ino. She was well known as Sakura's ex-best friend and rival.
Ino steps out of her house/flower shop. She smiles widely with excitement until her eyes spotted the pink-haired girl from the corner of her eyes. Ino's smiles changed to smirk of arrogant at Sakura. "Hello, Sakura."
The pink-haired girl smirked back with irritated. "Hello… Ino." Then she shifted her legs to pass the flower shop and Ino followed until she was walking beside her.
They were quiet for a few minutes until Ino opened her mouth. "Who knew that you can become kunoichi with no history backgrounds of shinobi." She was impressed that a pink-haired girl managed to graduate from Ninja Academy.
"History doesn't matter. From today on, we're officially kunoichi…" Sakura glared at Ino with determined. "…and I won't lose to you, Ino-pig!"
The blonde-haired girl glared back with equal determined. "Same here billboard brow!" she snapped.
Sakura scoffed displeased as she walked ahead. Ino narrowed her eyes with at her with a frowned. She walked up ahead of a pink-haired girl's speed. Which got Sakura irritated quickly, so she went ahead at a fast speed. And before they both knew, another spark of challenge between the rivalry once again.
They were head-to-head with glares of lightning sparks between them while walking in fast-pace straight to the Ninja Academy.
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"Goal!" two rivals arrived the classroom in the academy as they shouted in unison. They were panting, exhausted from used all the energy in a rivalry race. Almost immediately, they smirked at each other with smug.
Ino huffed. "I won again."
"Iie, I won!" Sakura snapped at her former best friend.
The blonde-haired kunoichi snorted as she placed her hands on her hips. "Yeah, right!" she doubted it.
"My toe got centimeter ahead of the door!" Sakura twitched with annoyed as she glared at Ino. "You must be blind!" Then she ignored her former best friend, scanned the classroom until her lime-green eyes landed on her target. She giggled when she saw her crush and Ino paused as she turned to her rival in confused. The blonde-haired girl watched Sakura ran off until she reached to the desk where is sat by two young boys.
A twelve years old boy with yellow-blonde spiky hair, sky blue eyes, sun-kissed tan, whiskers birthmark on his cheeks, he wears an orange and blue jacket with a white collar, a white swirl with a tassel on the left side, and a red Uzumaki crest on the back. Plus, orange pants with shuriken/kunai holster on his right thigh, blue sandals, and a blue leaf hitai-ate wrapped around his forehead. His name is Uzumaki, Naruto.
When Sakura went to the desk as Naruto stood up with shy red cheeks. "H-hey Sakura-"
"Outta the way Naruto!" the pink-haired girl pushed the blonde-haired boy away from her attractive sight. Then slowly, red blushes appeared on her cheeks when her eyes obsessively, observed her crush who is a genius and Rookie of the Year.
A twelve years old boy with spiky black hair with a blue tint, black eyes, pale skin, he wears a navy blue, short-sleeved shirt with a high collar, white shorts, white arm warmers and white leg warmers, shuriken/kunai holster on his right thigh, and blue leaf hitai-ate wrapped around his forehead. His name is Uchiha, Sasuke.
"U-umm, Sasuke-kun…" Sasuke has been sitting on the desk, ignored his surroundings with his eyes closed while his elbows are rested against the table. He opened his eyes, glanced at Sakura from the corner of his eyes. Sakura continued. "Can I sit next to you?" she asked, shyly.
Ino glared at Sakura with jealousy and anger as she stomped toward her rival. "What are you talking about? I'm sitting next to Sasuke-kun!" she refused to let her rival get close to her true love.
Sasuke glanced away emotionless and closed his eyes while Sakura glared at Ino. "No way! I was here first!" Then, one by one the girls gathered around Sakura and Ino as they are arguing about who's sitting next to Sasuke and when they got in the classroom first. The pink-haired girl glares at the girls who attempt to get close to her crush as she placed her hands on her hips. Before she could protect once again, she noticed Naruto is crouching his legs on top of the desk, facing Sasuke with an irritated glared. Sasuke glared back with equal infuriate at the blonde-haired boy.
"What are you doing Naruto?!" Sakura snapped. "Stay away from Sasuke-kun!" the girls turned their attention to when a pink-haired girl shouted at Naruto who dare get close to their first love.
"Stay away from him!"
"Yeah!"
"Beat him, Sasuke-kun!"
Naruto frowned at Sasuke as he doesn't understand what the girls see in him. What his crush actually sees in the Last Survivor Uchiha. Meanwhile, before Sakura try to grab Naruto, it was too late since a ninja accidentally bumped Naruto from behind. Naruto fell forward and smashed.
An eerily silence appeared in the room as all eyes are on them.
Naruto's lips.
Is on.
Sasuke's lips.
Sakura blinked owlishly as she is completely dumbfounded and shocked while Naruto and Sasuke immediately jerked away from each other while spitting out their germs and taste. 'N-no way…. I was supposed to be Sasuke-kun's first kiss!' slowly, the pink-haired girl finally snapped out of it and gave her deathly glared at her target who took her first love's kiss. The fangirls joined with Sakura and Naruto paled with dreaded.
"Sa-Sakura-chan…" Naruto gulped nervously as his eyes begging for mercy.
Sakura twitched with annoyed as she cracked her knuckles. "Naruto… you are annoying." She won't give him mercy.
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After Naruto was beaten up by Sakura and fangirls. The pink-haired girl claimed her seat in the middle, between Sasuke and Naruto. Sakura attempted to scoot closer to her crush with red cheeks as she ignored the jealousy and envy glares on her back.
Then, a shinobi walked in with a folder. He's average height and builds young man with brown hair in a ponytail, dark eyes, a scar that runs across the bridge of his nose, and he wears the standard Konoha shinobi outfit completed with leaf hitai-ate wrapped around his forehead, blue sandals, and green flak jacket. His name is Umino, Iruka.
"Alright, quiet down class." Iruka called out to his former students with a proud smile on his face. He made sure the newly graduate ninjas' attention. "From today on, you are all now full-fledged ninjas. However, you're still Genin. The tough part is still to come. From here on, you'll be in a squad of three and carry out your mission under your Jounin sensei." He explained.
Sakura paused herself and turned her full attention on Iruka with surprised and interested. 'Three-man squad?' she mused, unexpected. While Ino, who sits above Sakura enough to get close to Sasuke, leaned forward to her rival with whispered. "I wonder who's going to be in Sasuke-kun's team." She smirked.
"I don't know…" Sakura glanced at Ino as she was mumbled loud enough for a blonde-haired girl to hear. 'It will be me, cha!'
Iruka glanced at his folder and continued his speech. "The groups have been determined so that the strength of the groups will be balanced. Now for the assignments!" he listed off the names for the three-man squad for a while.
Until he reached for the next team. "…now then, next is Team Seven…" he smiles. "Uzumaki, Naruto." Naruto sits up, listing while hope. "Yamanaka, Ino." Ino sulked as Sakura snickered and Naruto frowned with disappointed. "….and Uchiha, Sasuke." Ino perked up happily and excited as Sakura gap and Naruto sulked.
'N-no way…' Sakura mused, in shocked while Ino leaned forward with a smug smirked on her face. "I win~" she sang and sticks her tongue out, cheeky. Sakura frowned angrily at her rival and jerked her head away with envy.
Iruka continued. "Team Eight… Hyuuga, Hinata." Hinata looked up with curious. "Inuzuka, Kiba." Kiba smirked as Akamaru barked. "And… Aburama, Shino." Shino sat in silent.
The pink-haired girl couldn't help this. 'No fair! I can't believe that Ino-pig is on Sasuke-kun's team!' then she frowned with determined. 'I won't lose to Ino-pig!'
"Now to Team Ten… Haruno, Sakura." Sakura glanced up with curious and interested. "Nara, Shikamaru." She dropped her shoulders in disbelieved as Shikamaru yawned. "And… Akimichi, Choji." Her head dropped in comedic depressed as Choji threw chips in his mouth.
Ino snickered at her miserable rival. "Looks like you got an awesome team there, forehead." She covered her mouth, attempt to control her laughter.
The pink-haired girl allowed her head to hit on the desk. 'Oh great….'
"And that's all the three-man squad." Iruka smiles at his former students. "In the afternoon, I'll introduce to your Jounin sensei. You're dismissed until then!" he said, grabbed his folder and nodded his head at them. Iruka left the classroom and new Genin scattered to their group and went out for lunch.
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Team Saku-Shika-Cho
Arc I: Bloom, Deer, & Butterfly
Chapter One
"New Team"
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Two new kunoichi meets in the area. Sakura crossed her arms while Ino placed her hands on her hips. They both stared at each other in the quiet atmosphere as the breezes blew gently. Then, the blonde-haired girl smirked with a self-satisfied attitude. "Since now I'm in Sasuke-kun's team. This will be too easy for me." She flipped her long ponytail from her shoulder in smooth elegant manner.
"I won't lose to you Ino-pig!" Sakura gritted her teeth in frustrated as her hands clenched tightly.
Ino shrugged her shoulders. "Whatever you say billboard brow. Now I need to get going, better to find my teammates so, bye!" she turned around, happily away from her rival and walked back inside of the Ninja Academy.
The pink-haired girl scowled, she turned around and stomped away in the opposite direction. 'Ugh! This is the worst day ever!'
"Haruno!" Sakura paused, she turned her head over her shoulder and saw her teammates. A boy who has a rotund build, orange form of swirls markings on his cheeks, spiky brown hair that sticks upward, tiny closed eyes, he wears a green, short-sleeved haori with a long white scarf over a white shirt with the kanji for shoku [food] on it, black shorts, hoop earrings, and bandages around his legs and forearms. Plus, blue leafe hitai-ate that was styled in a manner that allowed two tufts of hair to poke out at each side. His name is Akimichi, Choji.
Next is a boy who has narrow brown eyes, black hair tied in a spiky ponytail, he wears a short-sleeved grey jacket with green-edged sleeves and the rudimentary Nara clan symbol on the back, under which is a green-lined mesh armour shirt, brown pants, a pair of his clan's traditional silver hoop earrings, and wears blue leaf hitati-ate around his left arm. His name is Nara, Shikamaru.
The one who called out to her is Choji as they both walked toward her. "Let's eat together." Choji said after he swallowed his snack.
'You're eating right now.' Sakura sweatdropped as she watches one of her teammates eating chips from a bag of chips.
"Troublesome." Shikamaru sighed and shoved his hands in front of his pockets. "He thought we should hang out on the rooftop and eat lunch together. Since we're a team now." He explained, blankly as his shoulders slouched.
Sakura made a face. 'Lazy-ass and fatty… this is just… great.' She mused, sarcasm as she sulked while the gloomy grey cloud appeared above her head.
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When new Team Ten arrived at the rooftop, Sakura leans against the rail while eating her riceball. Shikamaru sits on the ground wit his leg pulled up as his right arm is resting on his knee, and his other leg is dangling while he's chewing his riceball. And lastly, Choji sat on the ground, leaning against the wall as he is munching on his fifth riceball while the rest of more riceballs are rested on the bento next to him.
It was an awkward yet quiet atmosphere for Team Ten until Choji decided to peak up as he got an idea. "Let's have -MUNCH- team -MUNCH- name." Choji said with a smile, munching on his sixth riceball.
'What?' Sakura twitched with confused and bewildered. She has no idea what Choji just say. Except, Shikamaru understood right away as he glanced up at the cloudless sky.
"Like what?" Shikamaru asked, lazily.
Choji shrugged his shoulders. "Like -MUNCH MUNCH- Saku-Shika-Cho?" he suggested it then finished his sixth riceball and grabbed the seventh riceball from his bento.
Sakura blinked with perplexed as Shikamaru yawned. "Sure." The lazy boy glanced at Sakura with boredom eyes. "What do you think?"
The pink-haired girl sweatdropped. She still doesn't know what just happened but decided to go along. "Okay?" Choji smiles happily as he continued eating his riceball. Shikamaru finished his lunch while Sakura paused her riceball in mid-air when she saw Naruto.
Her other teammates noticed it as well. They all watched Naruto sneakily tiptoe toward Sasuke on the rooftop across from them in different section of a building. Naruto bends down then quickly jumped on Sasuke as the shutter lid shut. Sakura leaned forward with concerned for Sasuke and angry at Naruto who dares attack on her precious Sasuke. 'Naruto-baka!' she mentally growled in furious as her inner was beating up an imaginary Naruto. While Shikamaru yawned once again, uninterested and Choji munches on his eighth riceball.
Finally, the shutter lifted up and Sasuke climbed out effortlessly with a triumphed smirk on his face and walked away with his hands in his pockets.
"So, that Naruto got beaten after all." Shikamaru mused out loud, unsurprised with the result.
Sakura giggled with lovestruck in her eyes. "Of course, there's no way anyone who can beat Sasuke-kun." She sighed heavenly.
"Great, I never understand women." Shikamaru sighed heavily.
The pink-haired girl turned to her lazy teammate with a defense frowned. "Excuse me?"
The cloud-lover glanced at Sakura from the corner of his eyes. "Uchiha this, Uchiha that… what's so great about him?" he asked with perplexed in lazily tone.
"Because he's number one genius and a Rookie of the Year!" Sakura scoffed as if she couldn't believe that her teammates didn't see what wonderful and amazing this Uchiha, Sasuke is. "And… he's so handsome!" she sighed dreamily as her eyes turned pink hearts. Shikamaru stared at her blankly then rolled his eyes and looked away uninterested.
Sakura twitched with irked by lack of manner from her teammate. She looked away in displeased, 'Whatever!'
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All Genins are now gathered back in the classroom, waiting for their sensei to come and pick them up. During the waiting time, Sakura has been glaring at Ino with envy, irritate, and upset as Ino is attempted flirting Sasuke. The pink-haired girl gritted her teeth. 'I can't believe that Ino-PIG is all over on MY Sasuke-kun!' she threw another death glared at Ino, attempt to set her rival on fire.
Iruka cleared his throat, loudly. "Alright, Team Ten!" Sakura snapped out of her anger and glanced up. She saw a tall man with brown eyes, short black spiky hair, beard, and olive skin. His clothing is standard Konoha ninja uniform with the sleeves rolled up half-way, green flak jacket, regular shinobi black sandals, black leaf hitai-ate wrapped around his forehead and wears a sash that had the kanji for "Fire" marked on it around his waist, a pair of black bangles, and bandages wrapped around the arms of his sleeves. A Jounin man also has a unlit cigarette in between his lips as he grinned widely.
Team Ten members stood up from their seats, walked toward their former sensei and Jounin man and Iruka nod. "Here's your sensei, Sarutobi, Asuma." Iruka explained and smiles at his former students. "Good luck."
Asuma jerked his head at the door. "Follow me." Three Genin glanced at each other with curious then followed their new sensei of Team Ten. A Jounin lead the Genins outside of the Ninja Academy, down to the road and arrived at the playground. He pointed at the bench close to a tree that provides the shade from the warm sun.
A Jounin leaned against the tree with his arms crossed while Sakura sits left side on the bench, Shikamaru in the middle and Choji on the right side. The three Genin observed their new sensei quietly while Asuma took out his lighter from the pocket, lit up his cigarette then placed his lighter back in. Almost immediately, the smokes from the cigarette swim toward three new ninjas.
Sakura jerked back with wrinkle nose in disgusted while Shikamaru coughed as he attempted to cover his nose and mouth in his inner elbow and Choji flapped his hand, tried to clear the smoke away from his snack. The smell from the cigarette was horrible foul to the point the young ninjas are nearly in tears.
"Whoa, whoa! There's no need to cry!" Asuma nearly panicked when he noticed the tears slipping from Genins' eyes.
Sakura snapped at Jounin. "We're not crying! It's your nasty cigarette that caused us in waterworks!"
"Troublesome." Shikamaru groaned while Choji hides his snack, not wanting any foul chemical smoke crawl into his bag of chips.
Asuma rubbed back of his head, sheepishly. "Sorry, sorry…" then he observed three Genin in front of them with sharp eyes. "Alright, you three should introduce yourselves."
"Like what?" Sakura asked with confused and curious.
Jounin hummed with thoughtful. "Like… your names, hobbies, likes, dislikes, dreams and why." He offered his suggestions. Then he sweatdropped when he saw three ninjas stared at him indifferent faces. He let out a dryly chuckled. "I'll go first, that way you'll follow my example." He cleared his throat. "My name is Saurtobi, Asuma. My hobbies are training, teaching, and smoking. My likes are cigarettes, kids, games, and hang out with my friends. My dislikes are liars, two-faced, betrayers, and enemies that harm his village and my friends. As for my dreams, well it's more of my lifetime goal. My goal is to keep this Konoha peace and well-protect for a very long time. Also, help you three to understand the meaning of Shinobi life." Asuma finished his introduction.
"You go first." Asuma nod his head at Choji who took out a bag of chip earlier and is munching on it.
Choji swallowed his food. "Akimichi, Choji. -MUNCH- My hobbies are eating, cooking, helping my family in the restaurant, and hanging out with Shikamaru. My likes are BBQ, BBQ chips, riceballs, dango, ramen, beef, chicken, shrimps, ribs, orange chicken, spicy chickens, hot wings, sushi, octopus, crabs, fish, tuna, curry, chicken curry, beef curry, pork, ham, pig feet-" as he continue listing all the foods while Asuma and Sakura stare at him in disbelief with sweatdropped while Shikamaru gaze up at the clouds.
"Okay." Asuma cut Choji off not unkindly. "I see that you like all kinds of food. Now, what about your dislikes?"
Choji shrugged his shoulders. "Anyone who called me names based off from my appearance, someone who eats the last piece of chip when only I'm the one eats the last piece. Insult my clan and my friends. My dream is to be acknowledged by everyone that I can be proud and strong Shinobi." Choji finished.
'So, in the end, he wants to be acknowledge as a proud and strong Leafe Shinobi.' Asuma grinned and turned to Shikamaru. "Alright, you next."
Shikamaru sighed loudly as he slouched his shoulders. "Troublesome… my name is Nara, Shikamaru. My hobbies are playing shogi, Go, sleep and watching clouds. My likes are sleeping, shogi, and clouds…oh, I like cherries. My dislikes are troublesome works, doing things are such a drag and stupid people who get on my nerves. And pineapples. I don't have a dream because it's too troublesome to think about it." He said with a bored face.
Sakura twitched with disbelieved as she stared at the lazy ninja. 'He's too simple and lazy!'
'This guy has beyond yet crazy over high IQ of 200 and he has no motivate to be a Leafe Shinobi… interesting.' Asuma raised his eyebrows at Shikamaru. 'I wonder why he attended to Ninja Academy? He could've quit but something tells me there's more to it.' He mentally filed it away later then glanced at Sakura. "You last."
Sakura smiles cheerfully. "I'm Haruno, Sakura! My hobbies are reading, learning things, making stuff, stargazing, and once in a while, I enjoy to watching rains. My likes…well… I like Sasuke-kun. -GIGGLES- and I like pineapples, cold nights, and helping people. My dislikes are bullies, terrible names, cherries, my rival -FROWN- and insult my appearance. And my dream is to… -BLUSHES-…maybe… -GIGGLES-…hmm and…well…" She shrugged her shoulders in the end with pink blushes.
'Well, girls at her age are more interested in love game than being a Shinobi… I wonder why she went to Ninja Academy?' Asuma mused as he rubbed the back of his neck with slightly confused. Then he observed his soon-to-be students once again. 'Two out of three of them are not a bit interest ninjas…' then he smiles at them. "Okay, since you all are new ninjas but not quite yet."
"What do you mean, Asuma-sensei?" the pink-haired girl furrowed her eyebrows with confused.
The Jounin crossed his arms as he leaned against the tree comfortably. "Out of the twenty-seven graduates, only nine will be recognized as Genin. The remaining eighteen will be sent back to the Academy. In other words, this exercise is an extremely difficult test with a failure rate of sixty-six percentage or higher." He explained calmly.
Choji frowned while chewing his snack as Sakura stared at him in shocked and Shikamaru sighed loudly. "Troublesome… I'm guessing the graduation test was just to select those who have the potential of becoming Genin." Shikamaru stated as a fact.
"Correct." Asuma nodded his head, not surprising that a Nara figured it out easily. "I'll be the one to determining whether you pass or fail with survival test." He smirked with slightly excitement.
"Whhhhaat?"
"What a drag."
-MUNCH MUNCH-
Asuma pushed himself away from the tree and stood in front of the possible Genins. "Tomorrow morning at five a.m., meet me at the traning field ten. And make sure you eat, you going to need energy!"
"Hai…"
"Troublesome… so early."
-MUNCH MUNCH-
