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Chapter 4 - Teammates
Outside the Academy the newly formed Team Seven met up with two of the other teams. Seeing the instructors Kakashi grinned. One of them,the female, seemedto have decided that bandages were the new fassion in Kohana, sinceshe was wearing them wrapped above a fishnet shirt and a pair of shorts. The brown hair fell to her sholders. Themale was wearing the standard wear of most joinins, same as Kakashi. Dark blue sandles, pants, and shirt, with the forest green vest on top. His brown hair was cropped and the ever-present cigarret was hanging from their mouth.
The mummy wrapped woman instructor, Kurenai, was walking behind two of the boys and one of the two girls. One of the boys had short spiky brown hair and was wearing sunglasses. You couldn't tell the hair color of the other boy since he had on what looked like a parka, with a little brown dog's head sticking out the front. The red triangles stretching down from below his eyes to end in points a little above his jaw reminded Kakashi of Naruto's whisker marks. While her two teammates seem full of confidence the young girl in the group seemed very, VERY shy. Her white, pupulis eyes downcast, and her black hair hanging about her face. She raised a tentative hand in greeting to cell seven.
The male instructor, Asuma, seemed to be in charge of two boys and a girl as well. One of the boys was munching out of a paper bag, the swirls on his chubby cheeks reminding Kakashi even more of Naruto's whiskers. The second boy was walking slightly behind the rest, as if he was in no rush. He seemed full of a content lazyness, though he wouldn't hesitate to fight if needed. The girl had long white-blond hair pulled back in a ponytail, and her blue eyes were, like the shyer girl, were pupiless.
"Ino!" Sakura ran up to the girl in Asuma's cell, and pulled her aside. They began conversing. Almost immeadiatly Ino stalked over to the girl in Kurenai's cell and dragged her over to the side where Sakura was waiting. Ino seemed to be muttering something along the lines of "stupid Sakura … can't believe she didn't drag Hinata over to hear this as well … got to pound it in … COME ON, Hinata!"
Giving a short guffaw Asuma called out to Kakashi "Your kids seem happy. Did Hatake Kakashi fail another group this year?"
"No."
"What! You actually took a team?" Asuma raised a hand to stop Kakashi from answering, and yelled over at the pudgy boy on his cell "Choji, that's you fifth bag of cookies today!" Waving to the lazy boy that was now watching the clouds drift across the twilight sky Asuma said, "Share some with Shikamaru why don't you!"
Turning to Kakashi as if nothing had happened he pressed for an answer.
"So?"
"Yes. The two of you?"
"Surprisingly, yes. For both of us." Kurenai grinned at Kakashi then yelled over to her cell, "Come on boys! I don't have all night! Shino, get over here! Collect your bugs and get you ass in gear!"
"This will come as a surprise to the people we report to. I like it."
"You're a sadistic bastard, aren't you, sir?" The parka boy was smirking at Kakashi.
"I try."
Kureinai spoke up, "Don't listen to him Kiba, he doesn't even need to try anymore. By now it's natural."
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"Cells seven, eight, and ten reporting in." One of the Academy instructors on duty announced. The rest of the teachers scattered about the classroom looked up. Upon seeing who the instructors of the cells were they gave the nine kids small smiles meant to comfort. All did this except two, Kakashi noted.
One of them was the Hokage. He had on his I'm-not-going-to-even-try-and-guess-what-happened look on his face.
The other was a chunnin who seemed to have been talking with the Hokage before the cells arrived. Ordinary enough. The only thing that would set him apart was the scar running across the bridge of his nose and the hair pulled up into a bushy ponytail. He was smiling widely at the nine kids. Or smiling as wide as the bandages on his face would let him.
Giving a sigh of what sounded like disappointment, the woman who had announced them stated, "Instructors tell us you name, the name of your students, and who, if any, passed."
Kurenai went first. "Yuhi Kurenai, instructor for cell number eight consisting of Inuzuka Kiba, Aburame Shino, and Hyuga Hinata. All three of my students passed."
The woman smiled at Kurenai's students "Congradulations, genins of Team Eight. Next."
Asuma stepped up. "Sarutobi Asuma, instructor for cell number ten consisting of Nara Shikamaru, Akimichi Choji, and Yamanaka Ino. All three of my students also passed."
Surprise was evident around the room. Kakshi heard whispers travel around the room.
"Wow. Both Kurenai and Asuma passed their teams."
"They were more likely to pass
"Yeah, but there's no way Kakashi will pass his team. I mean he's got the fox."
"Maybe the Uchiha and Haruno can get them through. Those two were top of their class."
"Not with Hatake Kakashi. He doesn't pass anyone."
"Iruka seems pretty confident though."
Kakshi inwardly smiled. 'What a surprise your in for.'
The woman announcing seemed to have gotten over her momentary shock, and smiled at the three new genins in Asuma's team. "Congradulations, genins of Team Ten. Last."
Kakashi stepped up. "Hatake Kakashi, instructor for cell number seven consisting of Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura, and Uzumaki Naruto." He paused as the teachers mumbled about how it was such a shame that the talents of Sasuke and Sakura wouldn't be put to use as a genin team. "All three of my students passed."
Dead silence. No one moved or spoke. Kakashi looked up at the Hokage and the man next to him, who he guessed to be the Iruka the other teachers had mentioned before. Both were grinning, the Hokage around his pipe, and Iruka broadly.
Miss Announcer fumbled for words. "Well … umm … Congradulations, genins of Team Seven. Umm … wow."
Silence again. A few seconds passed before Iruka broke the growing silence. "Great job. You nine are the only ones to pass on to genin level."
All nine looked over to him as he came down to the front. All of them were grinning, ranging from the small smile from Hyuga Hinata to Naruto's grin that took up half his face. As soon as Iruka stopped moving, Naruto glomped him around the waist, though he let go rather quickly as the teacher flinched and let out a grunt of pain. Naruto settled for bouncing up and down. "Iruka-sensei, I did it! I did it!"
The rest of the new genin boys simled or grinned while thegirlsand Irukalaughed. Looking around at the new genins Iruka's face crinkled in a smile. "Anyone up for ramen?"
A loud chorus of "YES!" followed the question.
"Then we had better get going. Oh, and Naruto, Choji … try not to go to overboard. There are eight other people, and I don't want to end up broke."
Two mock sighs followed this statement and a lot of laughs followed the sighs as the group made it's way out the door and down the street.
Kakashi, Asuma, and Kurenai turned back to the room of teachers who still had yet to say a word.
Sandaime walked up to the three new genin instructors. "Seems those kids have gotten you three off your lazy asses, huh?"
Asuma just snorted and lit a cigarette. Kurenai giggled, "Hokage-sama, Asuma and I've had teams before. Kakashi's the one who's taken a team for the first time."
Folding his arms like a child, Kakashi pouted (though no one saw it through the mask)in Kurenai's direction "Neither you or Asuma have taken a team in a couple of years. Besides, it's not my fault that no one up till now has been any good at teamwork."
Asuma rolled his eyes, "Kakashi, it's not that the teams haven't been good at teamwork, it's the fact that you're too lazy to even want to take a team, so you made your standards near impossible to achieve. I have other business, so if you don't mind, I'll take my leave. Hokage-sama." He bowed and left.
"He's right. I think I'll take his example and leave as well. These teachers are giving me the creeps." Kurenai glanced around the still dead silent room before also bowing and leaving.
"Hokage-sama?"
"Yes, Kakashi?"
"Can I talk to you alone, please?"
To be continued...
yeah I'm alive. Sorry I haven't posted this sooner ... it's just that life has kinda sucked for the past ... what? ... weeks? I just haven't had time to get on a computer for more then a few minutes at a time. But I have a couple of days free now so I'm hoping to post a couple of chapters, including this one.
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