Kakashi sighed as he walked down the street on his way to the Hokage tower. Things would never be the same again for him. No more high-ranked missions, no more leisurely reading IchaIcha, and no more being late for things. That was knocked into him by the dang Hyuuga girl that morning when he arrived at 11:00. Whatever the reports said, that girl was scary when mad. And the boy was rather odd as well. In fact, all three of them were being strange.
Perhaps he should have watched them after their meeting yesterday? Na, it would have a waste of time. The Hyuuga would have followed the boy around, who would have gone home to do something that would eventually get him kicked out of the ninja program, and maybe even Konoha altogether.
And Sasuke. Kakashi's eyes softened when he thought of the Uchiha survivor. He would go home to train so that he could get revenge on the killer Uchiha. He made a note to make a scroll of jutsu to give the boy so as to make it easier for him.
Kakashi was still smiling when he walked into the Hokage's office, which was already full of the other jounin instructors. The smile only fell when the Hokage cleared his throat to speak.
"Now that you've decided to join us Kakashi," the said man shrugged in indifference.
"We can start. Would each jounin please step up and let us know if your team passed." Each instructor stepped and reported failures until one of the last, a scruffy-looking man with an unlit cigarette hanging from his lips stepped up.
"Asuma Sarutobi for squad 10 consisting of Yamanaka Ino, Nara Shikamaru, and Akamichi Chouji reports a solid pass. They are almost exact copies of their fathers and they share their teamwork. All they need is to strengthen their skills and they'll be solid chuunin."
Next up was a young red-eyed, black-haired woman that wore a dress made of what looked like bandages.
"Yuuhi Kurenai for squad 8 made up of Haruno Sakura, Aburame Shino, and Inuzuka Kiba reports a pass, but it was close. They worked together in the end, but only then. While the Aburame and the Inuzuka are high-genin, low-chuunin level, the Haruno is barely scraping low-genin. While she has good chakra control and book smarts, that's all she's got. I've got my work cut out for me."
Now a feral looking woman with red marks on her cheeks stepped forward.
"Inuzuka Tsume for squad 13. Members Mitarashi Ami, Kurama Yakumo, and Hyuuga Hanabi all pass. Ami's just like her mom, Yakumo's bat-shit crazy, and the Hyuuga's got a foot-long pole stuck up her ass, but they all worked together."
Now it was Kakashi's turn. Now, everyone expected certain things from him, but not what he actually said.
"Hatake Kakashi, squad 7, members are Uchiha Sasuke, Hyuuga Hinata, and Uzumaki Naruto ('Him,' Kakashi thought venomly.) This squad passes. They showed abnormal teamwork, at least the Uchiha and Hyuuga did. I think Uzumaki just took advantage of the distraction that his two better teammates made as they were fighting me."
Sarutobi looked unsure of this.
"That doesn't sound like Naruto-kun. If anything, he'd be the first to figure it out. Anyway, dismissed."
After the ninja cleared out of his office, he sat back and smoked his pipe, thinking of what he had seen earlier that day at training ground 3. Things were not as Kakashi thought, and the truth made the Sandaime sad. So the child of the greatest heroes of Konoha wants to destroy it. But, until he had proof, he could do nothing. The child had done nothing to directly harm Konoha. He sat back and pondered.
the-team-has-secrets
Over the next few days, Kakashi gradually got more and more agitated. The boy was just too strong. And the Hyuuga was abnormally strong too. And Sasuke was even ignoring his attempts to get him stronger. Things were just not adding up. The D-ranked missions they were doing weren't irritating the genin either. All of them, that is, except for tracking down Tora. That is the only mission they had done to date that got any type of reaction from any of them, even if it was just of boredom.
"Can we please get a better mission jiji? We've already done the minimum number of D-ranks in order to do a C-rank and I'm sure we're strong enough," Naruto complained. And he was right, Hiruzen knew that. The Uchiha was seen practicing fire elemental training, Hinata was often meditating in the forest, and Naruto…well he didn't know what Naruto was doing, but he was always in the hospital for some reason.
"Alright, I suppose what you say is true. One of you send in the bridge builder," the second sentence he aimed at one of his many aides.
A few minutes later, in walked an old man swinging around a bottle of sake. "Squad 7, this is Tazuna the bridge builder. You are to escort him Nami no Kuni so that he can finish his bridge there."
Tazuna scoffed.
"These are my bodyguards? A boy that looks constipated, a blind girl, and a girly-boy midget? What can they do?"
Kakashi had to hold his team back, sans Naruto. He eye-smiled at Tazuna.
"Don't worry, they're good enough. And even if they aren't, I'm a jounin and can handle any bandit that comes our way. Anyway, why don't you kids leave and meet the two of us at the gate in an hour?" And they did.
the-team-has-secrets
"So we're all here, right," came the feminine voice of Namikaze Chi. Nods came from her companions. "We all know that there are problems going on in Nami and the bridge builder Tazuna is in the sights of Gatou. Well, Kouba, Kirai, and I got a mission to protect the old man and chances are, some missing-nin are going to be after him, and the three of us will try and recruit them. Anyway Yaiba, how are things going with you?"
"Not well Ketsueki-oyabun. My teammates can't listen to reason and I'm going out of my mind. When will you free us?" The voice was that of a girl.
"Soon my child, soon. First we must find those for our cause so we don't kill allies. Keep searching while team alpha is gone. Try for those we have codenamed Hebi, Hebiko, and Tansei, they have reasons that we believe can turn them away from Konoha. May your blood true." At this, all in the room left and Chi put the subtle genjutsu that hid her woman-parts back on. She then grabbed a scroll, clipped it onto her belt and left the room herself, the place glowing red when she made a hand-sign as she ran to the gates.
the-team-has-secrets
How will things fare for the new team 7 in wave? What will happen to Zabuza and Haku? I would say that all of these things are up to you, but they aren't, I've got it all planned out, but I will take suggestions.
I'll give who guesses what codename matches to whom a prize. Some say in what happens, like who'll join Chi in her quest to destroy Konoha, or maybe a character in the story. I'll even make you an omake. Just, whatever.
Sorry about the slow update, it snowed and the power went out, making me unable do any computer work. And sorry about the short chapter, I'm saving the entire Wave mission for next chapter, maybe the next two. Get ready for some surprises! I'll probably updating next in two weeks.
Thanks to all that reviewed and I hope to get many more.
Happy reading!