Saya enjoyed watching the survival and was amazed how much Sasuke is advancing compared to the two genin. However, it turned out that they failed with Naruto tied up in a wood trunk, not allowed to eat. Saya smiled, "Arra, looks like they failed. Mattaku, he's just toying at them earlier." she stood up and approached Kakashi. "You should give them a chance, they'll be able to get it." she said smilingly. Both of them walked towards the three genin, they seemed so down at the result.
"Listen, I'm going to give you a chance until this evening. Hurry up and eat your lunch, Naruto will get nothing to eat. That's my rule." Kakashi said and walked away. Saya smiled at them, "Gambatte ne." she said and followed Kakashi to the woods. "What will it benefits you just by reading that perverted novel by the way?" she frowned, Kakashi only smiled, "I'm also training myself."
"What kind of training?"
"Image training."
"You're crazy."
She turned to look at the three genin only to smile sweetly, he came to notice her and also looked at them, something clicked on his mind when he was watching Sasuke and Sakura feeding Naruto with their lunches. He was happy inside and Saya knows it as she was now staring at him, "Your bell sucks, go and do what's right." she smiled pushing him a bit to go on. He ran faster towards the three genin as if like he was mad at them for feeding Naruto. "YOU GUYS!" he shouted in a mad voice, Sasuke, Naruto and Sakura frightened at his sudden burst out, he stood in front of them.
"Passed." he said smilingly. The three was confused not getting the idea why would he let them pass when they didn't able to take even one bell however, they're happy that they passed the survival.
"Why, Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura asked.
"Because saving a comrade is more important than following the rules. You've shown to me that you have this kind of feelings toward each other, congrats." he explained. Saya approached them happily, "Yogatta ne?" she asked, the three nodded grinning widely. "Yatta! I am really a ninja! I'm officially a ninja now!" Naruto cheered. Saya untied him from the ropes for him to move freely.
"Let's go home." Kakashi said. The three genin walked in front of the two jonin, leading the way. Saya and Kakashi looked at them as they got a bit distant from the both of them. "Care to share what took you so long earlier?"
She sighed, "Some outsiders pretended to be Konoha's villager and was planning to take Naruto away.." she said seriously. "I delivered them to Sandaime after putting them into sleep." she smiled. He sighed in relief, "We really need to keep our eyes on him." was all he said. "Ah.."
When the five of them returned to the village, they went to their separate way. Kakashi and Saya went to their apartment and relaxed, Saya easily got herself sleep on her bed when she reached her room. While Kakashi called Asuma, Jiraiya, Guy for a drink at their usual pub.
"What the sudden call, my eternal rival?!" Guy asked with his usual high leveled energy. "There's be a woman who will live with us from now on." Kakashi said taking the liquor in a small glass. Jiraiya suddenly grinned, "A woman..in our place..Onna.." he said while drooling his self imagining some perverted scene.
"You better stop imagining like that because she's not like any of these girls here." Kakashi warned the Ero-sennin. "Asuma, don't even try mentioning about this to Kurenai if you don't want to die in her genjutsu."
"We're nothing like that! W-we're just friend." Asuma defended himself while blushing intensely.
"Is she young?" Jiraiya asked.
"She's an ANBU officer but she's a jonin right now after returning from her mission for 9 years."
"So she's not young?"
"Same age as me."
"I bet she's hot." Genma teasingly said.
"I know how you feel, trust me." Jiraiya said.
"And has a red hair."
"Well, I like black hair." Asuma said.
"Kurenai has black hair."
Genma got him, Asuma blushed again, "I-its not what you think!"
The three jonin laughed, teasing Asuma was just a piece of cake. It's obvious that there is something going on between him and Kurenai but still denying there wasn't. Jiraiya held his chin remembering something, "You said she was put on a mission for 9 years..hmm, I think I knew her.."
"You're over thinking." Guy said drinking his shot.
Whenever they have time every night, their set up was always like this, getting drink, enjoying a woman's company each of them. Kakashi did meet a lot of girls from his age some of them are even younger than him, he's just go for a talk, a little drink and that's it, forget the girl the next morning and proceed on being a ninja, however, his friends are not like him, he maybe reading Jiraiya's novel but he's not like those pervert and lustful characters, his friends like Genma, the pervert author Jiraiya maybe like those characters except Asuma because he has Kurenai, and Guy since he's too positive in life almost forgetting about him being unmarried.
Just when he's about to drink his shot while the four was chatting, they heard a sudden female voice walking toward the counter. It's not just a female voice, he turned to look at the woman. No doubt, it was Saya. She seemed like having a bad mood that night, Kakashi thought she wasn't just able to sleep properly. But to think that she's got the courage to enter a place build for alcoholic and tough man, it was getting interesting for him. But he doesn't thought that approaching Saya was a good idea right now so he faced the four and told them to keep quiet and don't look at the woman on the counter.
"So she's the woman you're talking about?" Jiraiya said, he nodded.
"Red hair..she has my favorite hair color." Genma said, completely stunned.
They remained quiet when Saya sat on one of the stall chair at the counter. "One bottle and a glass, please." she ordered lazily. People inside probably don't recognised her as a ninja because she's not wearing a proper shinobi outfit with a vest, what she's wearing was just a tank top with a semi robe maroon blazer to cover her skin and short jeans, with her long hair put in a messy bun.
She silently drank her alcohol after it has been placed to her, not minding all the noise behind her.
"Oi Kakashi, are you sure she's a ninja?" Genma asked, raising an eyebrow. "I am."
They continued to observe her secretly without letting her noticed them. While observing her, a handsome man approached Saya with a glass of wine, he put something in a wine and intended to offer it to Saya. Kakashi panicked inside but some part of him was telling he should believe her.
"Do you mind a company?" the man asked.
"Iye." she said coldly, staring down her glass.
"You should try this wine, it suits fine woman such as yourself." he smiled offering her the poisoned wine. She did accept it much to Kakashi's surprised.