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Naruto was literally dragging Sakura to the most possible place the silver haired jounin could be- training ground7, memorial stone. On the way, the villagers were giving them strange looks, most of the girls were blushing. Sakura didn't like this. Not one bit. After all, this was her teammate...
Or maybe she was just jealous, but she really didn't want to accept that fact.
Naruto on the other hand was absolutely oblivious to all of this.
"Sakura!"
It was Ino. She was dragging Shikamaru and Chouji in the same direction as they were.
"Shika, Chouji, Ino!, Nice to see you guys"
"Naruto?" dumbfounded, Ino ran up to him and circled him with a critical eye.
"Damn you look good!"
"Er...thanks i guess?"
Shikamaru just sighed. He could already see that his prediction was coming true. Naruto was in for a very rough ride, especilly when he didn't notice anything! An idiot is always an idiot...
Mendokuse.
"Ano sa, ano sa, what are you guys doing here?", he asked a bit confused. Sure training grounds were for everyone, but currently each team had his own number.
"We were told to meet Asuma sensei there" said Chouji, while opening a bag of chips. He offered it to the rest, smiling.
Hey Naruto, Shikamaru wasn't telling much, maybe you'll tell us of the mission?"
Naruto blinked and smiled widely.
Shikamaru sighed. What a drag...
Near the memorial stone two figures were talking. One had a sigarette in his mouth and his arms were folded. The other was giggling in a rather girlish way while reading an orange book. When they heard noises, very loud noises, both looked up.
"It seems they are here."
'I'm surprised they aren't late Kakashi, due to your habits..." Asuma trailed off.
Kakashi ignored him in the favor of his book.
"..and then we kicked their asses! It was totally awesome, except the part were Shika made me ditch my ornge, i had to go get a new set dattebayo!"
Both jounin looked up, they gaze lingering on their respective students. Asuma didn't see that much of a change in Shkamaru, except the more mature look in his eyes. Ino was beaming and Chouji was eating, well, as it was normal for team 10, he smiled.
Kakashi was smiling. So his student had found out, judging from the way he was looking at him, from his clothes(sure there were orange, but they looked good on him), and the seriousness that seemed to be in the air around the two young shinobi.
Shimakaru and Naruto...
You were right Asuma, indeed they changed.
"Kakashi sensei!" yelled Naruto and the silver haired jounin found himself in a bear hug.
"Ne, ne, arigatou for..for everything!"
He eye smiled at his student.
"You are welcome. I wanted to give you one of the best Icha Icha, but..-" an image of a big busted blonde woman with a demonic aura aound her appeared in his head "..um, but i thought you would appreciate that one better" he finished.
Naruto scratched his head.
"Ano, sensei, why are we here?"
"Ah, yes, yes" Asuma poofed some smoke in the air. "The chunnin exams are being held again."
Nauro's eyes widened in excitement. Shikamaru however frowned.
"Teams 7 and 10 will have addition to them. It will only be for the time being of the chuunin exams, so don't panic." Asuma finished fast, seeing the slowly boiling head of one Yamanaka female.
"The exams will be held in Iwagakure no Sato"
a sharp intake of breath escaped the blondes lips, but he composed himself fast. No one noticed, except the two jounin.
Kakashi obsereved the reactions. Shikamaru and Naruto had unreadable expressions. It was hard to tell what they were thinking. The rest however, were a bit shocked.
Kakashi beckoned his two remaining students to follow him. Silently they reached the three stamps, where they had once taken the bell test. The nostalgia made a few tears escape Sakura's eyes.
The sat on the ground, still silent.
"I always thought that we would take the chuunin exams with Sasuke..." whispered the blonde.
Sakura just sighed.
"Ne Sakura chan, i did make a promise, i intend to keep it, no matter what, its a promise of a lifetime, my nindo, i wont go back on my word"
Kakashi was proud of his student. Not only did he prove himself capable of handling an a difficult mission and planning it all, but he also had the strange knack no get into people, make them believe in him.
Sakura had smiled-a genuine smile, it reached her green eyes.
For once, Kakashi thought that maybe things will turn out better.
"The additional members of team 7 and 10 are already in Iwa. We will be moving out tomorrow, so go get ready"
Seeing them not even move a finger, he sighed.
"Like Asuma said, it's temporary, he will not be with us for long."
Kakashi knew. So did Asuma. But they couldn't tell, and frankly, there was no need. But they had to be careful, he will have to worn those two to watch out for the boys. They were both from Ne, so young, yet so emotionless. Kakshi had a hard time trying to erase the awfully fake smile of the pale boy from his memory.
Sakura stood up and dusted herself.
"Going already Sakura chan?"
"Hai Naruto, ja ne, sensei " with that she walked off, dusting herself.
Naruto and Kakashi sat in silence for a while. The latter had taken out his book, but attention was focused on his yellow haired student. His visible eye gave a small curve when he saw his student take out the book and start to read it.
"I see you like the book"
"It's totally awesome, and the character has my name too, isn't that cool?"
"Naruto, you were named after the character in the book" Kakashi deadpanned.
Naruto blinked and looked at the cover again.
"Ano, Kakashi sensei...can you tell me about them?"
Kakashi just smiled and ruffled his golden locks.
"Hmm, lets see, Uzumaki Kushina, also known as the Red Hadanero here...-"
They sat there for a long time, with Kakashi telling him about his parents, giving him hints now an then ("-..it will be your death if you fall in love with a hotheaded someone, better like the shy type...and don't ever like a redhead...i will mourn you Naruto-kun..-"), Naruto telling his of the adventures he and Shika had, of the whole catastrophe of his orange clothing, of his training..Kakshi was impressed to say the least, but he knew the boy still had a long way to go. He had a few years to grow till he could beat him with the Sharingan...
Later that evening two figures were seen walking along the street, both had their noses buried in books.
The most distinctive features were the strange silver hair of the taller figure and the blonde short mob walking beside him.
Next morning.
In the chuunin exams that were to be held in Iwa, only 4 teams from Konoha were selected to go. And all of them had some problems. Hyuuga Hiashi may have been a cruel, cold hearted look, but he loved his daughter, even if he never showed it. After the kidnapping attempt on her when she was three, he had become a bit paranoid. He didn't want the secrets of the byakugan stolen, or Hinata dead, that was the only reason why team 8 almost never had dangerous missions or missions to far from Kohoha.
But now, with the exams held in Iwa, he knew for sure that there will be some Kumo ninja participating. He was anxious. He tried to ban her from entering, but with the help of Kurenai and Tsunade, he was persuaded.
No one knew he had taken Neji to a corner the very same day and asked/ordered him to keep an eye on her.
Neji had changed from the day Naruto had literally beaten some sense into him. Hinata was weak, but at least now he understood that she tried with all her might, and the only reason for her weakness was Hiashi himself and the fact that she didn't want to hurt people.
She was so much like her mother.
Neji had agreed. After all, it was his duty as her protector. But Hinata was a friend too, in the 6 month from the first exams, he had become a bit more closer to her. She was a friend, and he was not going to let his friends be in danger, especially his family.
He frowned as he was walking.
Did i just sound like Uzumaki?
Gay and Lee were having a debate of who was more youthful, Tenten was rolling her eyes.
He sighed.
They were on the way to Iwa. He looked back. Kurenai was talking to Hinata who twiddled her fingers. As usual. Shino was silent, Kiba however was yelling something about 'how cool it will be when they kick some butt in the exams'
The teams were supposed to leave at different times, but due to Hiashi's interference, team Guy had to travel with team 8.
Teams 7 and 10 were there to see them off. He still remembered the looks Naruto got from the female population.
He smirked. Oh well, time for him to know the horrors of having fangirls.
Hinata had fainted. Sakura was blushing and Ino, Ino was fawning over him.
Naruto was oblivious.
"Ne Neji, you ok? You are spacing out.."
As he focused his eyes, he found himself looking into warm brown eyes of his teammate.
"Yes Tenten, i am fine, thank you"
She smiled.
He felt relief when Tenten hadn't blushed or reacted in any way to the appearance of the Nara and Uzumaki. He was still trying to understand why though.
But Guy and Kurenai had noticed.
It was funny to see the geiuses be so dumb when it came to feelings and love.
Kurenai giggled.
Everyone looked at her weirdly.
She just dismissed them with a wave of her hand.
Team 10 left the next day, followed by team 7. Tsunade with her delegation was going to arrive the last. But she wanted to be there before the third stage, she and Jiraya needed to be there, in case Iwa started something.
Iwagakure no Sato had feared Konoha Kiiroi no Senkou, that was true, the yellow flash had a "flee on sight" under his picture in the bingo book. But that didn't mean that Sharingan no Kakashi wasn't known there, in fact he was feared greatly too. That was probalbly the only thing that kept the blonde hokage from going there now.
Sakura was waiting at the gates, silently fuming. She knew it was normal for Kakashi-sensei to be late, but Naruto too? The again, maybe the baka fell asleep of something.
That was when the boy appeared. Apparently he had decided to show off a bit and scared the girl with the mass of snow.
"Huh?" asked the stupefied girl.
"My Yuuki shiunshin, like it?" he said grinning like an idiot.
He got a bonked on the head.
"Maaa, you sure know how to make an entrance Naruto"
"Kakshi sensei, you are late, and you too Naruto baka!"
Naruto shrugged and looked at his sensei.
"Uh, i got lost on the road of life?" he tried.
And got another bonk on the head. Kakashi was chuckling.
"Team 7, lets move out!"
"Hai!" they both yelled and followed their sensei.
It happened when they were n the way, the teens were bickering back and forth while Kakashi was reading his book. A team consisting of 4 people crossed their paths.
Kakashi narrowed his eyes.
It was a team, a gening team with a jounin sensei. And theyw ere headed the same way they were- Iwa.
"Are they going for the chuunin exams too?" whispered Sakura.
Naruto shrugged. Kakashi just gave a tiny nod.
"Konoha ninja, are you headed to Iwagakure no Sato?"
The speaker was a man. He was dressed in grey pants and a white shirt. Most of his outfit consisted of armour. His spiky short brown hair framed his round face a bit weirdly. Sakura thought he was a bit ugly. H=But he had surprisingly warm brown eyes.
"Yes, we are. May i know who i have the honor of speaking with?"
"Ah, yes my name is Takimura Shinji, and this is my team, Kanazawa Kaito, Ganbate Hashin and Yukinami Sayuri, we are from the hidden village of waterfall"
While introducing, he pointed out every member of the team accordingly to the name. Kanazawa Kaito was a tall blue haired boy, with matching blue eyes. He was dressed in a black jumpsuit and had arm and leg warmers. He had a very bored expression on his face and barely paid any attention to the Konoha ninja.
Ganbate Hashin was shorter then Kaito, and he looked a lot like Shinji. It made team 7 wonder if they were related. He even had the same armour albiet smaller on him.
The girl, Sayuri was shorter then the rest of them. She was small and had a petite figure. She had a light blue kimono type battle shirt which reached her hips and black shorts underneath. Her long silver hair fell in waves on her back. It reached her ankles. Some of it was braided and taken back with a small clip. Two long strands were left at either side of her hear shaped face. But the most beautiful part of her, at least Naruto thought so, were her eyes, the color of soft lavender. Light amethyst. It was so breathtaking.
Naruto woke from his stupor when said girl growled at him.
"Oy Blondie, what the hell do you think you are staring at?"
"..."
She gave him a warning glare and marched off. The team was leaving.
Later that day Naruto will find out that while he was staring(" I want staring,! I was looking, its the most effective way to know the strength and weakness of your opponent 'ttebayo!"), Kakshi had introduced the team to them and they even had the chance to talk a bit. Them waterfall, as Naruto started to call them, was indeed going to participate in the upcoming chuunin exams.
And Kakashi never told him why exactly was Sakura red with anger, or why had he paled when he noticed his student literally eating the girl with his eyes.
Naruto denied it all.
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