Chapter 2

I don't own Naruto. It is the property of Masashi Kishimoto.

I shuffled into the academy at noon and slowly dragged myself upstairs, trying to ignore the feeling of impending doom. I stuck my head in the classroom where Team Seven was supposed to be and found it empty.

Ah, Kakashi has already arrived. Thank Kami, I really didn't feel like waiting for him.

I walked on to the roof, right at the end of Sasuke's introduction.

"-plan to restore my clan. And there is someone I have sworn...to kill."

'Aren't you a cute little emo duck?' I smirked.

I noticed everyone had gone quiet and were staring at me confusedly. My cheeks gained a pink tinge before I cleared my throat.

"Hello."

Kakashi's eyes were filled with confusion but he hid it well.

"Maa, is little Koneko-chan lost?"

My glare instantly locked onto him.

"No, Kaka-Baka," I spat, "Hokage-sama doesn't believe in your ability to handle children and sent me as an assistant sensei. He still believes that we work well together."

You see, Kakashi and me, we had a hate-hate relationship. People always compared us and the Hokage assumed we hated each other because of it(when we did not even fucking meet each other!). So he sent us both on a B-rank mission, right after the Kyuubi attack to guard Fire country's border against other Villages who would take advantage of our Village's weakened state. Well, we miscalculated, the mission became A-ranked, and I found out that I and Kakashi worked very well together. That did not deter us from fighting against each other though. There was just something about him that rubbed me the wrong way(Oh, I don't know, probably because he wallowed so much in his grief for the death of his sensei that he fucking forgot about his sensei's son who was right in front of his eyes. Literally).

He ignored the rest of my sentence and latched on to one word.

"An assistant for me? How nice of him!" He beamed.

"Not an assistant, you-"

Someone cleared their throat and my glare snapped towards them. I relaxed when I saw that it was only an embarrassed Sakura. Naruto was staring at us curiously and Sasuke was glaring.

Whoops, forgot about them.

I quickly seated myself on the railing and gestured for Sakura to continue and drifted off into my thoughts, already knowing how the introduction would go.

I snapped to attention when it was my turn.

"My name is Ikeda Rei. I like oranges and the color purple. I hate scarecrows. I don't have a dream."

After that, Kakashi told them about the real graduation test before Body Flickering away.

Sakura fluttered her eyelashes at Sasuke."Since we're teammates now, would you like to go out for lunch Sasuke-kun?"

"Tch. No." With that, he started walking away.

I didn't remember what I had planned to do the day before, but my first thought was, screw it.

I grabbed him by the back of his collar and dragged him back to his teammates, with him trying to break away from my grip. I arrived just in time to see Sakura's fist coming down on Naruto's head and blocked it.

"Woah girlie, no hitting your teammates."

Sakura blushed and stammered out an apology but I waved her off. I planted my hands on my hips before looking down at the midgets. "You're going to have lunch as a team. My treat."

I was going to make sure this team stayed together.