Naruto Primer: Teachers
More Competition?
Kurenai wasn't the ONLY one at the second Jounin and Teachers Party. In fact, there were many jounins there who were also teachers, including Asuma, Gai and Kakashi. All the other ones were irrelevant and left early. Except for Iruka but he was kicked out a minute later because he's actually just a chuunin. He was in for the teachers portion of it.
"So, what have you guys been doing all day?" said Kurenai in a cocky voice. "Training your…AHEM…loser teams?"
"Yeah." Said Kakashi.
"Um…me too!" said Asuma quickly.
"We went through some intense training!" Gai announced, and in his book, it probably was intense training. "I even joined in!"
There was a slight pause.
"Hey, my team aren't losers." Said Asuma.
"If I had just switched my team around then we surely would have won!" Gai announced.
"Switched the team around?" said Kakashi. "That wouldn't exactly make it your own team, now would it?"
"No, I mean…" started Gai.
"Wouldn't that be funny if we had switched the teams around and then forced them to compete like that?" laughed Asuma. "Or, even better, if we put all the most powerful students on one team and then all the least powerful on another! I would love to see that!"
Merely seconds later, the four of them were huddled around a drawing board, trying to decide which students were the best.
"Well, obviously my three students would be on the best team." Said Gai, writing all the names of his students in the 'Number 1' category.
"Uh…no." said Kurenai, crossing all the names out. "Keep in mind that it was MY team that won the last one. That means that my team all belongs in the most powerful group."
"I nominate Sasuke and Naruto for the most powerful group." Said Kakashi.
"Naruto?" said all three teachers because, even though he proves them wrong every time, they always doubt him.
"What about Shikamaru?" said Asuma. "He's a chuunin."
They looked at all the cross outs and names that were written in the 'Best' category.
"How about we just start out with the worst ones and work our way up from there?" suggested Kurenai. "We can each name our least contributor and put them in that group."
"If you word it 'least contributor' then I think Sakura takes the cake." Kakashi said with a sigh. "Talk about someone who just got lucky in her group assignment."
After much, much deliberation and negotiation, the teams were set. There were only three teams of four this time around instead of being four teams of three. Now it was time to go and tell the students about the new plan. Of course, they wouldn't be telling the students just HOW they had come with the groupings.