Kami, Sakura groaned, when I asked Anko about Hatake she didn't mention anything about him being late. She had known her, Uchiha and Uzumaki where in a group together. What she hadn't known was that her new teacher was going to be two and a half hours late to the introduction.
Uchiha had spent the last couple of hours stanchly ignoring his teammates, while she read her disguised scroll. Uzumaki had spent the past few hours writing graffiti on the board, attempting to flirt with her and now he had decided to put an eraser in the doorway.
"A jounin isn't going to fall for that," Uchiha sneered.
Uchiha was then promptly proven wrong as a silver haired, masked man opened the door and allowed the eraser to fall and coat his head with chalk dust. "My first impression… I hate you all."
Oh fantastic. Not only do I have a crackpot sensei, I have a crackpot sensei who hates me, Sakura thought as she followed her teammates to the roof for their first team meeting.
Sakura volunteered to go first in introductions so that after she could zone out the brain dead declarations of her teammates.
"My dream is to kill a certain man, and my goal is to resurrect the Uchiha clan."
Sakura perked up at Uchiha's declaration. Yea, that kinda sounds like a red flag. At least I'll have something to report though.
She resisted the urge to roll her eyes at her teacher. Don't eat breakfast. Did he think they were stupid? Of course every shinobi knew that you need to eat in case you're put in a situation where there is no food. She almost laughed when he tried to scare them saying they'd throw it up. If only he knew some of the training exercises that Anko had put her through.
She shook herself from her thoughts to find that her sensei had left. Really they had only just been made a team didn't he want to at least try to get to know them. He just did a half assed introduction then left. He probably isn't expecting us to pass given that no one's ever passed his stupid test before.
"Hey Sakura-chan," Uzumaki appeared in front of her, "Do you want to go get ramen together."
Internally she sighed but externally she smiled. "I'm sorry Naruto," she began as she picked herself off the floor, "but I have to go run some errands." God I hope he doesn't try to walk with me.
Luckily for her the kid ran off to go get his ramen and she made her way back down to the girls' bathroom and henged herself into that morning's appearance and changed clothing.
She was just making her way out of the academy gates when she was stopped by Uchiha of all people. "Hey, you! Who are you? You don't go to the academy."
This day just gets worse and worse and worse.
She ignored him and kept walking. He grabbed her arm painfully, "I am talking to you."
She did her best to look innocent, "Me?"
Uchiha glared, "You. What are you doing here?"
She searched her brain for an excuse, "I'm looking for my sister. She looks a lot like me. Have you seen her?" Okay so it wasn't her best excuse, but it would have to do.
He looked skeptical as he pointedly stared at her. She ignored him. "She's five years old and I need to find her before she gets scared."
He let her go, "Year one classes got out an hour ago," and walked off.
That was a close one. Seriously what is wrong with him?
Sakura's journey to the T&I building went fine until she stepped into the building and her way was blocked by none other than Genma Shiranui.
Can I get a break today? Just one single break?
"If it isn't Anko's apprentice. The crazy snake lady isn't here."
"How are you so sure I'm Anko's apprentice? You've only seen me today."
Genma crossed his arms and grinned at her, "Your fighting style and body type are the same as all those other girls that follow Anko around."
Sakura slid between his legs and continued down the hallway towards Ibiki's office, "Congratulations Shiranui! I knew you were a womanizer, but apparently you're a pedophile too since you've taken so much time to study my body."
Genma dropped his senbon, "What the hell is wrong with you."
Sakura grinned and flipped her brown hair, "I'm Anko's apprentice," and slipped into Ibiki's office.
She took her usual seat in front of Ibiki's desk and picked up a file from the pile he pushed towards her. Taking his que she started reading files and filing them away in the giant black cabinet next to his desk while they waited for Anko to show up. Ibiki had sadly taken Sakura up on her paperwork offer, so since she had been under Anko's tutelage she'd been helping Ibiki and Anko file their paper work. The only upside was that she probably knew more state secretes than most jonin.
After about an hour of her and Ibiki sifting through files in a comfortable silence, Anko burst through the door with all her usual energy and flamboyance. In one hand she held a bag of dango and the other held Genma by the collar. "Look who I found outside the office door," she sang.
Sakura didn't bother to look up, "Un, he found out who I am." At Ibiki's stiffening, she elaborated, "Well not who I am, but that all the girls following Anko around are the same."
Anko pushed him into the room and slammed the door shut. Genma cowered as she drew two cans from her bag and threw them. They flew over his head and into the waiting hands of the two people doing paperwork.
"This should be locked up. It's too classified to be put in the regular cabinet." Sakura slid a particularly thick file over the table to Ibiki with one hand and opened her drink with the other.
Anko plunked her bag onto a corner of the desk cleared of files and took her seat next to Sakura.
Genma watched uncertainly from his place by the door, confused by the trio's easygoing and practiced manner.
Finally Ibiki set his last file down, "Report."
"In front of him?" Sakura jerked her thumb at Genma.
Ibiki stared at Genma making him squirm, "Shiranui, how many other people have come to the same conclusion as you."
"Um, no one that I know of."
Ibiki continued his staring as Sakura put the last of the files in the black filing cabinet, "You could prove useful. Sit."
Sakura raised an eyebrow, but started her report anyway. "I would have liked some warning about Hatake's perpetual lateness," she looked at Anko who was looking overly innocent, "He obviously doesn't think that we will pass the test. The most interesting information came from Uchiha who revealed that his goal is to kill his brother and restart his clan. If you could I'd attempt to get him in for a psychological evaluation."
Genma stared at her, "Who are you."
She flipped her hair again, a gesture she'd stolen from Ino, "No one important."
Ibiki steepled his fingers, "Remove you're henge Haruno."
"Eh?" Both Sakura and Anko looked at him like he was crazy.
"I'm assuming that Shiranui can keep his mouth shut, but in case something happens to Anko or me you need someone else who can vouch for you. He's not really under my jurisdiction so no one would suspect."
Without further prompting Sakura removed her henge.
"Eh? You're the girl that follows around Sasuke Uchiha!" He gapped.
"And you're one of the Anbu that used to watch Uzumaki from the windows at the Academy."
"But those girls started coming around when you," he counted on his fingers, "Six! You learned the henge technique when you were six!"
Anko laughed, "Hey, hey the Brat has good chakra control."
"Excuse me, Bitch?"
"Oh excuse me, she has near perfect chakra control," Anko corrected.
Genma continued opening and closing his mouth.
Sakura looked at the clock and caught the time, "Well as much fun as this is, watching Genma speechless for once, I have to go home." She motioned to Ibiki and Anko, "I'll report tomorrow after the test," and transported herself out of the room.
Genma stared at the spot she had disappeared from for a while.
"How can she even do that!"
