Naruto jumped when she grabbed the seat next to him and plopped down.
"Hey, the names Akira "
Naruto looked at her through squinted eyes for a second before smiling and saying "the names Naruto"
Much to Akira and Naruto's delight they had hit it off immediately.
There personalities bounced off each other's smoothly and Akira could tell she had made a new friend, the first friend she had ever made in this world. Not counting Dono
There happy chatter lit up the room for the hours it took kakashi to arrive , and it felt like no time passed at all.
So when Kakashi arrived the only one irritated was Sasuke.
When Kakashi slid open the door he was expecting a prank, maybe the typical chalk board eraser prank, or something of that nature but when he opened the door nothing happened.
There was Sasuke sitting and staring brutishly at a wall, and Naruto talking excitedly with his new teammate.
They all turned to him and had a moment of silence as they stared.
"My first impression of you 3.."
"Your boring."
Naruto's blank stare morphed in to one of anger as kakashi turned around and said "meet me on the roof"
"Alright, how about you introduce yourselves"
"Hold on Sensei! We know nothing about you, so how about you introduce your self first"
Kakashi sighed through his mask and said" very well"
"I'm Hatake Kakashi, my likes and dislikes..."
"I don't feel like telling you that"
"My dreams for the future..."
"Never really thought about it"
"And my hobbies... I have lots of hobbies"
"Hold on, all he did was tell us his name!"muttered a annoyed Naruto to a nostalgic Akira.
"You on the right, your turn" kakashi Sensei said in a lazy drawl.
Naruto pouted before saying "the names Uzumaki Naruto, I like ramen and especially eating ramen with Iruka sensei at Ichiraku's noodle shop! But I hate the 3 minutes I have to wait before my ramen is done. My hobbies are tasting different kinds of ramen and comparing them and my dream for the future is the be the greatest Hokage ever!"
"Next"
"My name is Sasuke Uchiha. I hate a lot of things and I don't particularly like anything. What I have is not a dream, because I will make it a reality. I'm going to restore my clan and destroy a certain somebody."
Before the tension in the situation could even settle Akira was tackling Sasuke to the ground and yelling in English " (Jesus Christ of overly edgy prick boo hoo my family's dead get over it!)" Of course no one knew she was saying this as none in her presence knew English, within seconds kakashi was grabbing both kids that had by now started having a full on brawl gender forgotten. "Calm down you two!" Kakashi dropped Sasuke in his previous spot and moved Akira to the other side of Naruto, who was by now looking between both kids in shock.
"And you" kakashi said now sitting closer in case the girl didn't take the silent warning, and leaped over Naruto to continue her brawl, at least he could cross out potential fangirl from his mental notes. But now he would have to add potential violent tendencies to her file.
"I'm Suzuki Akira, I like training and dogs, I dislike over serious (pricks) and fan girls" she said while sending a unimpressed look to Sasuke"
"what's a (prick)?" Naruto said in unintentional very accented English "oh it's just a term in my 1st language I would translate it but there's no good translation for it in Japanese sorry." Akira answered with a sweat drop as she fiddled with her bell choker, he now noticed he had not heard it jingle until she started fiddling with it. "anyway! My hobbies are reading history books and feeding stray dogs," "and my dream for the future is to get super strong and have really cool rock hard abs"
"Ok so now that's over, we have a survival exercise tomorrow" kakashi paused and looked at the potential Genin for dramatic effect "this exercise will decide wether you are fit to become ninja's or not"
"But sensei, I thought we were already ninja, we passed a test and everything!"Naruto said in confusion.
"Nope, that test was to weed out the weakest" he chuckled menacingly "out of the 27 graduates only 9 will pass this test, the other 18 will fail and go back to the academy"
"Meet me at good luck"and with that he Shunshined away.
"Hey Naruto"Akira said blank faced "wanna go get some ramen."
"Sure.."
By the time they were done with there ramen the sun had began to set and they walked in opposite directions to there homes.
When Akira got home she took off her Sandals and set them in there usual spot, then carefully counted the amount of shoes at the door.
One, her pair of sandals, like always.
"I'm home!"she waited a few second and a old saggy blood hound trotted over to her and licked her hand, like always, "hey Dono" she scratched behind the dogs brown ears and it wagged it's tail weakly, like always.
She unclamped her ankle and wrist weights and set them on the coffee table,like always
She turned on the lights to her empty home and closed the sliding door to the garden, left open just wide enough for dono to get into the garden, like always.
Akira lived in the Suzuki compound though she was not a Suzuki by blood, Suzuki Kenichi was the last remaining by blood.
Almost every Clan member had been killed in the Kyuubi attack, they were a clan known for excellent medics and had made up a good portion of the hospital staff, but with the clan obliterated the hospital was always short staffed and Kenichi was rarely home anymore.
She poured dono a bowl of dog food and grabbed left overs from this morning, dono ate while Akira ate, as always, dono climbed the stares while akira cleaned her dish as always, dono laid on her bed while Akira poured a bowl for the neighbor hood strays and waved to the neighbors, then Akira came inside and grab that weeks allowance like always.
But today was different from any normal day, today she would start her life mission today her new life as the Kunoichi medic of team 7 began.
Dono laid his head on her ever growing chest as she stared at the ceiling, if she could, she would be at her desk writing her plans on paper, but she couldn't do that it was to dangerous.
So she opted to recite them in her head until she had them memorized.
Step 1 attempt to team up with Sasuke and Naruto
Step 2 when Sasuke says no she'll just team up with Naruto
step 3 try to get the bells from kakashi and Badger Sasuke at the same time
Here's were things got a little more complicated.
Step 4 if Naruto got tied to the post she would feed him and try to get Sasuke to help
Step 4 alt ending if Sasuke got tied to the tree get Naruto to feed him with her
Step 4 alt ending 2 if Akira got tied to the tree try to get Naruto to feed her
But as they say "the plan never lives through first contact with the enemy" or something like that.
Akira sighed as she affectionally scratched dono's head which he returned with a lick to the chin, and she smiled, finally, she was making progress.
That night Akira went to bed early.
She woke up at 2 am and ate breakfast, poured some for when dono woke up then she changed into her black sleeveless turtleneck shirt, purple bell choker, and shorts that were a few inches above her knee, bandaged her calf's, put on her wrist and ankle weights, and laid with Dono until her 4:40 alarm went off.
She made it to the training ground before Naruto but after Sasuke.
"I don't think sensei is gonna show up" Naruto said staring at the sky, the sun had risen an hour ago with no sign of there severely late sensei.
"Maybe this is some type of training, in my mother country there is this interrogation were you leave your victim in a room with nothing to do for hours on end to see if they break" Akira replied while throwing a kunai into the middle training post.
"I didn't know you were from another country" kakashi said as he shunshined behind her.
Naruto and Akira let out girlish screams in unison while Sasuke jumped, but that was the only sign he was startled.
"kakashi-sensei, your late!" All 3 said in unison.
"Sorry a black cat crossed my path on my way here so I had to take another route." Kakashi coughed and said.
"Now that's enough of that."
Kakashi pulled a clock out of his bag and said " this here is set for noon, your assignment is very simple."
"Get these bells from me before noon and you pass. Failure to complete this mission will lead to you getting tied to one of these posts and no lunch." Oh right, she forgot they were not supposed to eat breakfast, she thought as Sasuke and Naruto's stomaches growled.
"But sensei there are only two bells." Akira said filling in for Sakura even if she already new what would happen.
"That way one of you will end up tied to a post and ultimately fail,that person will get sent back to the academy."
As soon as kakashi said go Akira grabbed the back of Naruto's collar and ran into the bushes after Sasuke.
"Hey, what are you doing!" Naruto yelled as he tried to get out of Akira's surprisingly strong grip.
"Stopping you from doing something stupid." She whispered as she went after Sasuke.
"Who're you calling stupid!" Akira slapped her hand over Naruto's mouth and said "listen there's no way we can defeat a Jounin, I think there's something more to this." She let out a harsh breath and ruffled her hair with her free hand "Shinobi are all about seeing underneath the under neath right, so I was thinking, there has to be something more to this exercise."
Naruto passed squinted his eyes at her and stared for a minute "fine we'll get Sasuke and listen to your plan." Akira let out a sigh of relief and peeked there the tree she dragged Naruto up "alright I think we have a few minutes before kakashi goes after us let's go."
They found Sasuke on a tree a bit away from there's.
As soon as he saw them he turned to leap away, Akira tackled him and they would have fell out the tree had Naruto not grabbed Akira's arm "Sasuke wait I have a proposition!" She yell whispered "no thanks you'll only way me down." Sasuke grunted out trying and failing to free himself from the girls surprisingly strong grip. Akira squeezed Sasuke's chest "do you really think you can beat a Jounin, you can't even get out of the grip of a girl shorter then you" Akira was actually a very strong girl she wore waited wrist and ankle bands, and Taijutsu was alway her strongest skill but Sasuke didn't need to know that right now.
Sasuke went still in her grip, and she took it as a invitation to continue "Shinobi are all about seeing underneath the underneath, and Konoha's Shinobi are known for being tree huggers that put a lot off stock in team work." At this point Akira let go as Naruto and Sasuke stared at her intensely "besides there's never been a 2 man Genin cell before." Sasuke's eyes narrowed as he said.
"what do you think the real test is."
Akira's heart jumped as she realized she had both boys undivided attention "I think he's testing our team work." The boys adopted incredulous expressions and Akira hurried to finish here proposal "think about it the graduation rate is nine, a number that can't be divided into 2 but can be divided into 3." Akira lend in and finished saying "there's also the famous Yamanaka,Nara,and Akimichi trio, that can't be separated and they were all put on the same team."
Naruto smiled big and said "alright, I'm on boarded!"
Sasuke Huffed and conceded "what's the plan."
Kakashi was beginning to get worried.
He had seen hide nor hair of the Genin hopefuls, and lunch was growing nearer every minute.
Suddenly Naruto launched himself head first at kakashi kunai's blazing just as kakashi was going to block his kunai, nose still in Icha Icha, he separated into a hoard of clans that climbed on to Kakashi like monkeys.
When he managed to dispel clone blocking his vision he saw Akira running at him.
He threw Naruto towards the river and grabbed the little girls incoming fist and pinned her face down on the ground.
Akira struggles fruitlessly under Kakashi's grasp, she only had one free foot.
Suddenly a terrible idea came to her.
She stilled and lined her foot up with Kakashi-sensei crotch, and smashed her foot as hard as she could.
She gave a thumbs up to near by Sasuke and Naruto shaped blur rushed forward, as their sensei let go and yanked himself away with hesitation they all leaped for the bells at the same time.
Akira's hands got there first, as she was the closest, she yanked the bell off her choker and put it in her hands with the rest and she scampered away Naruto and Sasuke huddled on each side of her "you can't fail one of us if you don't know who has the real bell!" Both Naruto and Sasuke grabbed a bell from Akira's hand.
Kakashi stared in shock he didn't think a kid muchless a little girl would have the guts to kick him in the groin.
"You... pass."
Akira's triumphant expression turned to a relieved expression as she fell to her knees.
Sasuke had the ghost of a smile cross his lips.
And Naruto smiled big and wide as he yelled "HOORAY WE DID IT WE PASSED!" With one fist in the air.
Akira smiles and raised a fist weakly.
Step 1 become a Shinobi was completed
