Satsuki uchiha would like to think she was a decent person, not too cruel an most definitely not friendly,her victims in past spares could attest to that with pained groans,but at the very least she was proper an tactful in most moment's in her young life as befitting for the heiress of her legendary clan, ...well once legendary.
she was basically that last one, or at least the last loyal one.
So after knowing all this she couldn't help but wonder what God she had to have royally piss off in a past life in order to be stuck on a team that consisted of a pranking idiot,a fan boy an now a Ridiculously late sensei!.
Seriously it was already freaking sunset an this person who was supposed to be here 6 hours ago! ... kakaisin?,kakarot-whatever her name was still hadn't shown while all the other teams sensei's had all been there at the same time to collect their assigned team's.
More than once had she seen looks of disappointment pass on many of the jonin's faces as some got paired up with bottom of the barrel genin hopeful's who looked like they didn't even know how to even throw a kunai right.
She also didn't miss the looks of desire some gazed at her with,as if they knew from the very start that she was probably the only diamond in this pile of lack luster rocks.
Or was that just her own ego talking again?.
Must of been, because those same looks of want were being projected at the only rose haired boy in her class who was snoring away at his desk, her number 1 annoyance outside of a certain blonde.
Sakurai haruno.
It wasn't as if she hated the boy, to be honest she only hated a limited amount of things an liked even less,especially other people but ever since they were in their second year in the academy the boy along with the legion of fanboys that had taken to following her like unwanted lap dogs,he as one of the biggest had been an constant irritation to the girl.
An now to have him along with the idiot dead last, who somehow past?, as her teammates for a unknown period of time before she eventually got promoted to chunin, was to put it simply, not a pleasant though.
She knew from the get-go of this teams formation that she would mostlikely be pulling most if not all the weight, both of them were vertically useless in combat as she knew from countless easy victory's against the blonde girl in past spares that her fighting style was just garbage an she would be Patheticly easy to take her out with minimal effort.
As for the pink one, just one hard look at the frale pink haired boy's direction could probably topple him over.
She really did get the short end of the stick.
Hopefully they could at least make good distractions with how loud they both were on average.
On the bright side, at least they were both quite for once, she hadn't heard a peep from either of them the entire time as they waited for their senses in total silence.
If it was any other two academy students that though wouldn't of made her blink twice in confusion.
Sakurai haruno an naruko uzumaki were both in the same room with her an were both being silent an patient..
Is this genjutsu?.
Feeling her curiosity being tipped, most likely due to her growing boredom, satsuki shifted her head slightly behind her as slowly as possible to not get them to notice her paying attention to them by making sudden movements.
She wasn't all that surprised to see the boy sleeping at his desk, he seemed to be picking up a bad habit of sleeping at one hours if what happened during their genin exams was anything to go by, the whole class had see him fall asleep on the field an during the written test that day.
if she didn't know any better she would think the boy was a long lost Nara.
The fact that the first thing the boy did when they all first came to the academy for team placement was to prop up a seat next to the sleep lazy genius herself an her fat akamichi friend and take a nap,even as iruki yelled for them to wake up for team placement, well more like she yelled at the Nara anyway, for some reason their academy sensei seemed to be going unusually easy on the boy an let him snooze trough everything.
She had never seen the Nara heiress next to him look so jealous.
With the boys position confirmed she turned her head in the opposite direction from the boy to the blonde across the room from her.
An raised an eyebrow.
The blonde was watching him.
Sakurai, naruko was watching him.
But not in the usual way of "goo goo puppy dog eyes" that just looked more an more pathetic everytime she got shot down.
Not this time, this time her usually care free blue eyes were sharp with focus as she watched the boys chest move up an down from inhaling an exhaling air like a hawk.
With every miniscule hitch in the boys breathing pattern the girl would stiffen an her expression would shift to worry only to calm down considerably once it turns out sakurai was just shifting his head in his sleep.
This continued on for several more minutes as sasuke observed with morbid curiosity as the girl seemed to refuse to take her eyes off the sleeping boy, not even blink.
This was definitely not normal.
She didn't know why she didn't just mind her own business an focus her attention back to mentally cursing whoever their jonin sensei was, but the thought of an apparently creepy stalker watching a unknowing sleeping boy right behind her kinda made that little tiny part of her that actually cared go into a fit with the remaining 99% of her that didn't give a shit.
"oy,dead last "
Without skipping a beat the blonde head snapped down the rows to meet her onix eyes.a painful sounding snapping was heard when she did that, only making her wonder just how long the girl had been staring in the boys direction.
"you know, most people would find watch them while they sleep as disturbing ",she said simply as she noticed the girls eyes sharpen slightly as she glared down at her with a unicorn characteristics frown on her normally cheery face.
"shut up"
Satsuki blinked.
That wasn't what she expected at all, she thought her response would either be an embarrassed blush from being caught staring at her crush followed by a false denial of ever doing something like that, hell, her just plan saying some nonsense about just day dreaming about ramen would of been far more expected.
Not a blunt 'shut up' filled with frustration as she turned back to the sleeping boy with a look of absolute focus, completely ignoring the last uchiha who actually struggled to think of a way to counter being completely passed off by the dead last of all people.
Pushing her usual scowl of irritation to the surface to cover her internal confusion, she retorted in the best way she knew how.
With anger
"what's your problem? ",she seethed, tho it wasn't quite a shout the heat in her tone carried the message clear. Satsuki uchiha did not like to be ignored.
She could of sworn the blondes pupils were dilated into slits for a moment when she snapped back to her again.
She barely realized the hairs on the back of her neck was standing up as the class clown looked down at her like she had just stolen her ramen.
"shut. Up"
satsuki would like to pat herself on the back for not showing her inward shock at how cold an borderline threatening the blonde's voice was at that moment, this was definitely NOT the same girl she saw fail miserably at the genin exam.
while on the inside she was very perplexed at the shift in personality,on outside she was glaring back hard at the girl who glared down at her.
"he's sleeping ",the blonde said suddenly breaking the tension first with a finger pointing across the room.
"huh? ",satsuki regretted letting it slip out, it made her sounding almost foolish as her eyes traveled over to the still sleeping boy who was now drooling on his desk with a piece of paper stuck to his face.
"he's still sleeping ",naruko said repeating, "he needs his rest",she finished eyeing the uchiha one more time before she turned back to the sleeping boy.
At this satsuki couldn't help but frown as more questions started to spring in her mind she choose to ask what she thought would be the easiest one to answer.
"needs his rest for what?, it's not like he does anything worth straining over, he's probably just been slacking since graduation -"
"Shut up!"
Satsuki actually felt a cold sweet on her back form as the girl everyone looked down on gazed at her with confirmed slit eyes in a gaze that disturbinglying reminded her of feeling of dread she felt only once before...
Her..
the tension had returned ten fold, an unlike last time the look of unease was slightly showing on the uchiha's face as she tried matching the blondes thousand yard stare with her own glare.
She subconsciously reached down under her table while keeping eye contact, just as her fingers touched the top of her weapons punch the door swung open.
stumbling in on unstable feet an a bottle of sake clutched in hand as they downed another swing was a grey haired woman who hanged onto the door frame to support her weight as she gazed tiredly up at the three genin an sighed as if she was resigning herself to her fate.
"OK first impression, I hate all of you " she croaked out taking another gulp from her bottle.
"uuugh",yawned out an awake sakurai who looked around the room while scratching his hair,gaining all eyes on him.
"what, I got something on my face? "
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Other yawned once more as he sat down on the bench on the academy roof, he still had much to learn about owning a body,turns out despite his constant need to train an experiment with sakurai's body he constantly forgets it's biggest weakness.
It needed sleep.
Sure he could spend a day or two practicing an reading nonstop but in the end it would give out on him an pass out somewhere,mostlikely during training, he was lucky he never passed out while water walking,it would be a damn shame to whined up one day in hell after drowning to death in his sleep.
So to help counter this problem he took to the habbit of sleeping as much as he needed to function during the days an the rest of the time training.
True only 8 hour's total of sleep every 2-3 days isn't what most would call practical,or even healthy, but hey this was upside-down topsy-turvy manga world logic's he was dealing with, if super powerful kage level ninja like gaara could function -sort of- efficiently without sleep he saw his way of doing things as passable.
He also found another draw back's to having a living breathing body were just as annoying ,for example he needed to eat.
A simple thing really, the very basic of human instinct that should be easy to satisfy especially with a fully stocked fridge filled with baked goods an frozen dinners,but to his displeasure he found the process of eating even the most simple of meals to be very... Disgusting.
It would be laughable if it wasn't so serious, he knew as a pasted living being of flesh an blood(or so he hoped) that he's probably eaten millions of times in his past life. But now he was spitting up the food like a new born very picky toddler.
He had liked the tastes an flavours of the things he tried to consume yes,but the moment it pasted his tongue an his jaws started chewing he immediately recognized the feeling of swallowing clumps of spit an food chunks down his throat was a very very unusual experience, he nearly choked several times just trying to get down some toasted bread an eggs!.
An what he could hold down felt like lead in his stomach, he figured that to most this feeling of uncomfort would have long dulled by infancy, but to Other a being who was as far as he knew was experiencing life for the first time,it was fresh an new every time.
He didn't even want to begin talking about getting rid of the waste. He simply refused to think about it more than he had to when he did that business in private.
He definitely didn't enjoy that daily activity.
He began to loath acting of eating but he knew it was absolutely essential to even live to the next week an his twig of a body was already skinny enough as it was, constantly skipping meals would do him no good.
Now that he was fully awake after taking a particularly long nap in class he was pleased to see he had at least ended up on the right team as in the manga, he didn't really expect that at this point an had come to the academy ready to bare with even canon foder background character's as potential teammates.
Not that they'd matter anyway, by the time he got to the level he aimed for by years end he knew he could probably qualify for lesser missions to do on his own without a group of nobody's following him.
Heck if he was honest with himself he more than once thought of just leaving whoever he get paired up with to die on skin off his teeth.
But now that he knew he had the 'plot armor duo' as teammates he was more than happy to except the idea of "working together ".
aka,minipulate an control the plot through its main characters.
Oh the possibilities.
He was so pleased with himself he didn't even notice the occasional tense glances Satsuki would send at Naruko who was sitting close to him,but for some reason was only taking up the very edge of the bench as if she deemed his comfort more important.
She even placed her orange jacket down on the hard bench before Other even got the chance to sit down an remained quiet the whole time as Other started stretching out his stiff muscles from sleeping on a desk for hours.
If he wasn't too occupied with thinking of different ways to topple countries he definitely would of found all this off.
Satsuki's glare sharpened the entire time this was going on,she quickly glanced away once naruko noticed her looking their way.
"well then,lets get this on the road shall we, I've got a bad headache an could really use a cold shower so introduction time",groaned out the half drunk jonin in front of them who burped then took another swing of her bottle.
'I don't remember her being a alcoholic?',Other thought mildly confused at the boozed up jonin who was barley cognitive enough to go trough the half assed prosses of introducing herself as kakishi hatake.
Apparently in this world her likes were.
"anything that makes me forget about my current troubles ",obviously eluding to her sake bottle.
Her dislikes were.
"when I run out of anything that makes me forget about my current troubles "
An her dream/goals.
"to finally finish counting the list of all the bad choices I've made in order to deserve my current troubles "
Needless to say this left them all confused , especially Other who didn't expect any of these responses.
Next was satsuki's turn an thankfully it was more or less the same as the manga, the whole "to kill a certain someone " an all that.
Next was Other's turn,he originally was just gonna go with the whole fanboy route an just smile an giggle like a retarded love sick puppy at satsuki like sakura did in the manga but tossed that idea in the garbage because he knew he would probably kick his own ass later if he ever degraded himself like that just to stay in character.
So instead he made his answers vague an simple enough to not arouse suspicion from the group.
"My name is sakurai haruno".
Sort of.
"my likes are, fun things an my dislikes are boring things "
Plotting world domination an possibly mass genocides if an that ramen shop woman, gonna put a ring on that hilarious old bitch if it's the last thing I do.
"Am my dream",oh how he tried so hard to hold down the smirk he had slowly forming as he spoke, "is to be..."
'God'
"useful"
"useful as a proud ninja of my beloved village",he said clarifing to the group with a fake cherry naive smile that only a dumb innocent 12 year old child could pull off.
Both kakaishi an satsuki seemed unbothered by his word's, Probably already expecting similar statements from other academy graduates tho he could of sworn a look of concern flashed on the blondes face even as everyone else just looked bored.
Holding down another burp kakaishi turned her attention to her last pupil who was left to speck.
All eyes were on the konaha's number 1 prankster.
She didn't seem to move with her usual bright spirited brovado as she answered plainly without smiling in her usual fox way.
"my name is naruko uzumaki",she said addressing the jonin as her new teammates already knew her name.
"I like...getting better, as in getting stronger than I was before"she said suddenly at the end which made Other raise a eyebrow. "ramen, I like that ramen too,but most of all I l-ike a certain person, that same person I wanna get stronger for",she said surprisingly without any stammers or blushes as she glanced to her left where the only pink haired boy in the group sat next to her.
Even if she hadn't let that reaction slip giving it away pretty much everyone in the academy knew who naruko had a crush on.
At this kakaishi sighed at this, great, just what he needed another love sick brat who couldn't control her hormones.
if thinking with her ovaries instead of brains get her killed on the field kakaishi wouldn't be surprised.
"my dislikes are... Rapists.. ",naruko eyes sharpened as she spoke again Making the jonins eyes snap out their haze an back at her blonde pupil.
"Rapists an people who bring harm to the person I like... ",she continued with her right arm clenched hard on the wooded bentch.
"my goal is... Complicated right now ",she admitted calming down slightly while putting on a look of deep thinking.
"it use to be just to become hokage, but now I think, maybe I need to be more focused on something else, something more important, something precious that I nearly lost due to carelessness ",
other couldn't believe what he was hearing, what could of happened to make the hokage obsessed bloned give up here dream, it was the core of her character's drive for ducks sake!
Even satsuki looked moderately surprised, true she never once gave any thought to the girls goal of becoming hokage before besides if she needed a good chuckle at the laughing idea of her ever achieving it.
But she had never thought the naruko would just give up like that, like all years of screaming an pledging to someday become hokage didn't mean anything now.
"my goal is.. " the uzumaki said coming out of her thinking look an suddenly gazed at the sky not wanting to meet the shocked eyes of the people around her.
"To protect sakurai haruno"
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"report"
"the boy's been placed on team 7 as predicted donza-sama,his fellow teammates are satsuki uchiha an the kyuubi jinchuriki naruko uzumaki and is lead by the last remaining member of the previous team 7 kakishi hatake" said a mask ninja who bowed to her mistress.
"the uchiha and jinchuriki on the same unit?, just what are you planning you old foolish monkey",the old woman mumbled from her seat as she looked at her subordinate with a look of intrigue only to hide it a moment later.
Even if the mask non did notice the brief flash of emotion she knew better than to comment.
"how is the boy's potential ",the warhawk tone was once again monotone.
"his progress is moving steadily from what we've managed to observe, he now spends on average 16 hours a day doing his unorthodox training methods, usually just sprints an chakra control excirsices, he seems to be putting more focus on his young bodies best abilities such as speed, aim an control over physical strength an power"
"his best skill set seems to be with weapons "
"a budding weapons master? " ,the majority of shinobi had recorded to weapons to back up their lacking in other skills, it wouldn't be any shock that the boy would take to fighting with weaponry as a main asset.
Still it would be a let down if a potential 3% was to waste their potential on simple toys.
"not confirmed",the root nin answered,"his aim so far has been flawless but his hand to hand has yet to be seen but after reports of him personally finishing the traitor mizuka up close with a kunai directly to the heart it's easy to assume he's at least very efficient with blades"
"an his chakra control, does he have potential for medical ninjutsu?",she had heard of the boys recently created jutsu,she had read the reports of it already being officially Ranked as a C-Rank scouting ninjutsu specialized for information gathering.
In her own view such a rank was foolish, a jutsu that could reportedly have similar qualities to the standard clone jutsu such as intangibility but have the consciousness of a shadow clone but at the cost of half the required amount of chakra needed for the standard cloning jutsu.
Extraordinary. Simple extraordinary,such a jutsu would be God sent in any spy network.
This had been the very start of donza's growing intereat in the boy, more an more she had became more interested with every new report, just last night the boy had reportedly started cutting down trees to walk on while they laid flat on the ground cutting down the time it takes to profit from tree walking by a fraction now that running against gravity wasn't a issue.
Why hasn't anyone else ever thought of that?.
"that is.. Also yet to be confirmed,no observation have shown the boy having any interest in healing, even in our last search of the haruno house hold have we found anything related to to medical ninjutsu, although it is highly likely that in time he could become quite an acceptable medical-nin if he were to pursue such a path"
"specking of the search of his residence, I would like a briefing of the findings "
"yes donza-sama, at 12:00 am yesterday a team of two were sent to search the residence till 12:15 when they were ordered to stop an retreat as the boy was finally coming back home from training "
"what did they find? "
"...no evidence of outside forces guiding the boy was found, all rooms checked out being free of any seals used for hiding or genjutsu,an from what our sensors can tell there is no seals placed on the boys body"
"what of his parents"
"they have been away on business for the week,they are a civilian family of vendors who make the most of their earnings at this time a year selling outside of the village, reports from our spy's in the land of wind confirms this as they just recently crossed the border an are making a profit in baked goods"
"how convenient, the moment their child shows new development they are miles away from the village ",Donza mused,she had lived a very long time, especially for a veteran kunoichi so even if they were just civilians she couldn't help but have her suspicions.
"anything else of relevant interest to report?"
"...yes,if would seem the boy has gained the loyalty of the kyuubi jinchuriki"
"...very convenient indeed "
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"so what do you think of your team? "
"am I still gonna have to work with gai?"
"yes"
*gulp*gulp*
"oh come now kakishi, we both know gai isn't that bad",the third said letting out a breath at the woman in front of her who was just overreacting at this point.
*gulp*
"an here I thought you two were friends?"
"best friends actually,would die for her" *gulp*
"then why all the drinking everytime I mention you working with her to grow bonds between your teams? "
"because 1 hour a day with gay is fine, two is ok, 3 is pushing it,but at lest 2 months everyday for kami knows how many hours is far far too much, if I was sober I'd probably ring her neck after her 20th speech about youth",she answered with another swing of her seemingly endless sake bottle .
"heh, be that as it may I need you to bare with it for the sake of the children "the said chuckling at the jonins reasons.
"speaking of which an I mean this seriously,... How are they",she said with her voice turning to tempered steel at the end showing she was now completely serious.
At this as sign of being plastered left kakaishi in a instant as if she had not taken a sip of alcohol all day when she responded in a grim tone.
"we have a problem "
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"so,how did it go? "
"were not having a second test"
"huh?, that not normal, did she tell you why?"
"No she just said we start our first mission next week an that she'd find us when it's time "
"huh, definitely strange, so what will you do now naruko",asked the scared chonin standing in front if her pupil in a training field with a kunai raised an ready.
"get stronger ",the blonde said pulling out her own kunai matching iruka's stance as practiced.
"that's my girl"
Then they clashed
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Author's note:,well the plot has started.
Seems other just existing is causing a huge ripple in the universe.
Even roots has taken a notice at the early stages.
What does kakishi mean?
Naruko is acting strange, even satsuki the resident emo notices something off about her.
What is the hokage planning?
Nothing makes a lick of sense!.
Well see you next time next year!
