Happy Valentines day all! There is absolutely no love in this chapter...in fact there is a lack of love. Oh well. Enjoy!

Another New Team(mate)

"What's going on here?" I questioned staring at the very pale male in a belly shirt that was just attacking Naruto.

"Just testing his strength." the male gave me an obviously fake smile before escaping, I mean leaving. He left very quickly; like a ninja.

"Well, that was odd." I remarked turning from where I was staring at the place Mr. Shirt-too-small vacated. "Am I that scary?" I wondered since the random ninja ran away when I came.

"He came out of nowhere and attacked me." Naruto whined.

"Like a good ninja." I remarked before noticing that Kiba and Akamaru were there, "Akamaru!"

"You haven't changed." Kiba remarked dryly. Then he looked over to Akamaru who was currently licking my face in greeting and said, "Traitor."

"Just because he likes me and is no longer paying attention to you and a whole bunch of other traitorous things; doesn't mean you should call him that. Poor Akamaru, why don't you come live with me?" I asked hugging Akamaru's large furry neck.

"Ignore her Akamaru." Kiba suggested.

"I have bacon at my house." I tempted Akamaru causing his tail to wag at the thought of bacon.

"Stop trying to turn my dog against me." Kiba growled out.

"I'm not. I just want to steal him." I answered with a small pout.

"Have you both forgotten the fact that a random guy in a shirt that is seriously too small just tried to randomly kill me?" Naruto questioned.

"Maybe." I admitted.

"No man." Kiba said quickly. Too quickly for it to be the truth.

"Guys..." Naruto whined.

"How about this, next time I see him I will glare at him while hoping he will spontaneously combust." I offered nicely.


"You called us?" Naruto questioned stepping into Tusnade's office.

"Yes. While Kakashi is recovering I want to assign you three with both a mission and new team members." Tsunade explained.

"But Baa-chan, we already have three members with Nami-chan." Naruto whined.

"Don't call me that brat, and I know. I can count." Tsunade shot back.

"Then why do we need him?" Naruto questioned still not liking this whole, replacement Sasuke, idea.

"Because I said so!" Tsunade shouted at Naruto finally loosing what little patience she had. "You can come in now Sai, Yamato."

"Hokage-sama." they both greeted her politely.

"You!" Naruto shouted pointing at Sai.

"You've met?" Sakura questioned.

"He's the guy that randomly attacked me." Naruto shouted.

"I was testing the power of my new teammate." Sai explained with his fake smile.

"Then why did you run away when I came?" I questioned.

"Now I am wondering how you became a jounin." Sai said ignoring me and instead making fun of Naruto.

"Anyway back to your mission. The five of you will meet with Sasori's informant and then hopefully search for Sasuke." Tsunade explained.

"Okay." Sakura answered dragging a still angry Naruto out of the office.

"Nami wait a few moments." Tsunade informed me.

"Yes?" I questioned once everyone else was out of the room.

"Keep an eye on Sai. The council would also like to inform you that your mission is still underway."

"Then why am I going on this retrieval mission?"

"They think it would be good if you meet up with him face to face once more."

"Why?"

"How should I know?"

"I don't know, you're the Hokage?" I questioned.

"That doesn't mean I understand why the council does things."

"Darn, I was going to ask you why they are so rude."

"It's more fun that way." Tsunade said before she decided to ignore me.

"I suppose I deserved that one." I muttered realizing that I reminded her of the joys of being rude to people.


We walked, I do mean walked. We didn't fly through the trees like a normal ninja would, no we were walking. Sai was insulting Naruto's private parts and calling Sakura a hag. Yamato kept trying to keep the peace and Sai ignored me every time I tried to talk to him. In fact he ignored my presence completely.

"This Sasuke person seems stupid." Sai said with his usual fake smile.

"Don't talk bad about Sasuke!" Naruto yelled at him as Sakura nodded her agreement.

"Only a stupid person would say something so insensitive around people who will try to beat him up over it." I remarked allowing Dice to hiss at Sai from around my neck.

"Why do you defend him, does it make you feel better about your small penis?" Sai questioned completely ignoring me. He never looks at me, he never talks to me, nothing.

"Dice attack him." I said unwrapping the snake from my neck and tossing him at Sai, who dodged. Stupid ninjas with their dodging. Luckily, for dice, Naruto was behind Sai and caught him.

"Now, now don't fight." Yamato ordered.

"Easy for you to say, he's not insulting your manliness." Naruto whined.

"You know what manliness is?" Sai questioned causing me to have to hold Naruto back from attacking him again.

"If he calls me a hag one more time." Sakura said showing Sai her fist.

"At least he's not ignoring you completely." I wined pouting. Maybe he took lessons from the council like Tsunade did. Hmm, the council. Maybe they had something to do with this strange small shirted male.

"You will get along." Yamato said causing his eerie face to appear and Dice to slither back into my shirt.


"We are going to stop here for the night." Yamato announced after finding a nice clearing in the middle of the forest.

"Okay." I answered since Naruto and Sakura were too busy glaring at Sai because he said something bad about Sasuke.

"We will sleep here tonight." Yamato said after using his jutsu to make a house out of wood that appeared out of nowhere.

"Did I ever mention that you are the best replacement Kakashi ever?" I asked looking in awe at the cabin that Yamato can conveniently make.

"No."

"Well consider that the first time."

"I have decided that as a team we need to work on being a team." Yamato said. Yes because one can work on being a team by ones self.

"How are we going to do that?" Sakura questioned.

"I don't want to work with that, that little shirted thing!" Naruto shouted. Yamato ignored Naruto just like Sai ignores me.

"Why would I want to be on a team with a weakling with such a small penis?" Sai questioned.

"Because I said so." Yamato answered showing all the protesters his scary face.

"Good reason." I said sarcastically but kept my tone sounding like I was being honest. Yamato's scary face is seriously scary.

"I have decided that tomorrow we are going to travel to some hotsprings for team bonding." Yamato announced.

"You just lost five replacement Kakashi points." I remarked unhappily.

"What do you mean?"

"You had gained ten for this convenient place to sleep. List two for the face you pulled on me earlier. Then you made the face again so there goes another two points. Then you lost another two because you allowed Sai to ignore me. That means that now you have negative one replacement Kakashi points." I explained.

"And I care about having these points why?"

"Because as long as you have less than one replacement Kakashi point it means that you are worse than Kakashi."


Preview from next chapter: Team bonding?

"I really don't see how hotsprings are a good place to go to bond as a team." I whined to Sakura as I stared at the water.

"You are just upset because you don't like them."

"With good reason. Think about it though, we are over here they are over there. We can't talk to or see them they can't talk to or see us. Not very conducive to bonding."

"Where'd you learn the word conducive?" Sakura questioned.

"Have you ever read the back of health food packages?"