Sasuke got into his stance as Gohan went into hers which made it look like she was leaving some openings but she could switch into offense or defensive quickly to make up for it. She didn't use it too much since the enemy always seem to want to attack first but she knew Sasuke could play the waiting game just as well as she could and the stance was just what she needed. It was also her first stance that she learned and it saved her butt a few times Piccolo commended her for it since it suited her speed and it actually didn't leave any openings as it appears. Sasuke sighed he had talked to Goku once about Gohan and remembered that Goku had told him if he ever saw that stance he better be weary since it was her I'll wait until you get annoyed and attack me.
As the two stood there Naruto had already started his spar with Sai and was surprised that the other two hadn't started. He went over to Sai who was also looking and smirked as he pushed Sai who was trying to keep from falling but knocked into Gohan who had enough time to push him back into Naruto but gave Sasuke the opening that he needed. Just to say the one on one match turned into a four man free for all. The four teammates had totally forgotten all about the other girl who had just finished her laps as she watched trying to catch her breath.
Kakashi was also watching and wondered how he could make them work with Karin it was pretty easy to tell that they didn't tell her to start running as they had just took off and then to start a spar before she even arrived. He knew that it could have just been that they were preoccupied and just did what they always did. As it became routine throughout the years or they saw Karin as the weak link and didn't see why they should have to lower themselves to her level. He doubted the second option since Gohan was considered the weak link even though she only thought of Sasuke as a teammate or brother, but you could tell that she wasn't overly concern about her fighting ability. Karin was only on the team because of Sasuke. He couldn't figure out how to get her to be part of the team; though when he thought of it he wondered why Tsunade would keep her on this team when they were so far ahead of the red headed girl.
When training was over which was mostly when all four of Kakashi's students were pretty much laying on the ground huffing and puffing but smiling all the same did Kakashi know that he needed to talk to the original group.
He said, "Karin, you can leave I need to talk to these four alone."
Gohan looked over at Kakashi and thought what the hell we did our usual training but he looks like he's disappointed in us. The three boys thought the same as Gohan but couldn't figure out why, they had been on the team long enough to know that when Kakashi was disappointed or not.
When they were alone again meaning that they had tracked Karin's charka until it was in the village and nowhere near them, did Kakashi say anything.
Kakashi said, "As you four probably have figured out I am highly disappointed it you. Karin is part of the team and not only did you start the laps without her but it seem like she didn't know that was suspected then instead of waiting for her to finish you start a spar without her being around."
Gohan frowned and said, "Kaka-sensei don't you think that we could have thought that she would have known ahead of time what the routine was. I mean if we were to go to another team than we are to know what the routine was ahead of time. We are not Genii anymore we are Jounin it is up to us to know what the routine is; why should we have to change that for her. It's not our job to babysit her and then dummy ourselves just because she is a Sasuke fan girl, you didn't allow me to not do anything why are you allowing her to."
Sasuke replied, "Gohan has made a valid reason she doesn't try to train outside of our training sessions at least we knew that Gohan attempted to do so. Plus she only here because I am on the team normally they don't allow boyfriends and girlfriends on the same team. She doesn't have what it takes to be a ninja."
Kakashi replied, "Look she is on this team and it might be permanent just try to let it work. I remembered how you three almost failed the Genii test because you lacked teamwork and remember you have each other's back."
Naruto asked, "Why can't we just go back to us five? Why is it only our team that has to have a six man cell if you included yourself Kaka-sensei? All the other teams are only four man cell but why can't we go back to just us five?"
Kakashi replied, "I don't have the answers for that Sai had joined us when we went after Sasuke and we just over looked it and Tsunade, had Karin join us thinking that Gohan wasn't going to return and having a girl in the group keeps us level headed. Which still makes me wonder what the third hokage was thinking by putting you three together. The thing is that you guys haven't been welcoming Karin into the group."
Sai said, "Well I know Gohan and Naruto didn't welcome me into the team very nicely either Gohan had attacked me at the beginning or at least attempted to until Naruto stopped her."
Kakashi sighed with knowing how Gohan and Naruto were towards Sai at the beginning and then how the original three were to start out with Karin was far from being accepted. It took Sai about a day or two to be somewhat accepted by Gohan and Naruto and when Sasuke came back there wasn't much for Sasuke to argue and the four got along fine. The main concern was Gohan being able to put the past problems between Karin and her to work as a team and not as a potential enemy. Kakashi allowed his four students leave as Gohan had wanted to go back home and make sure that Piccolo was fine and to just relax for awhile. Naruto had dragged Sai and Sasuke to the ramen shop to get ramen before he had to meet up with Hinata.
Gohan made it back to her apartment and smirked as she saw Piccolo meditating but then she felt a strange presence nearby. Just as soon as it came it was gone and Gohan wasn't able to locate it fast enough looking at Piccolo told her he didn't catch it either.
Piccolo just said, "Gohan keep a watch if you feel it again try to find it I don't think it's too much of a threat but they could be powerful and know how to hide their charka or ki."
Gohan nodded knowing that the Akatsuki were one group that were talented at hiding their charka but she knew that it wasn't them since the pattern was wrong they wouldn't let their charka spike then drop they kept it low and would sneak attack. She was worried and wondered if they should get the other Z-Warriors involved before anything went wrong.
Piccolo noticed his mate desperate thinking and said, "It'll probably be a good idea to let the others in would your team be willing to train them if Tsunade allowed it."
Gohan replied, "She would probably have all of Konoha 13 work with them I mean we each are very unique in our attacks. Each of our groups fight differently and when we work with our own teams we fight as a group but when we spar different members then you see how unique each team is and how unique we each are. Take me for example I was always in the back ground ready to heal at a moment notice but at the same time I could throw a punch and could hold my own in a fight. While Naruto was always the first to attack and make a diversion for us, Sasuke was always the one to help Naruto in the fight but being a little further way from the enemy. While Sai was like me and would stay out of site and send in his drawings while Kakashi would do about anything he could to help along the way. All the teams were built to help with teamwork so you normally had a close range, mid range, and a far range fighter. Most of us have experience with all three talents or at least two of the talents. My team is probably one of the most skills as each of the original team 7, were able to use all three ranges to some degree until Sai joined."
Piccolo nodded he knew that Gohan wasn't bragging since he had seen the team spar from time to time. It was refreshing to see how well those four worked together. He noticed that Gohan was lucky since she had disappeared and became a ninja she became unique in her own way and showed him a difference that even he didn't notice about the Z-Warriors. The Z-Warriors were mostly trained by Roshi so they all knew most of the attacks and how to use them. Yea some had their own attacks like Krillian had the destructo disk or Tein with his tri beam attack. It just seem that everyone used the same attack it always seemed that Vegeta and he were the only two who used their own attacks Gohan also did from time to time or until she got really desperate but then again she only had one attack that she could say was her own and that was the Masenko attack. He may have taught her it but she was the one who truly mastered that attack and realized it was really only good to get people to drop the defensive posture and to attack right at that moment. She rarely used it because of that flaw but it did help from time to time.
Gohan sat next to Piccolo going into the meditative pose and started to meditate to see if she missed anything and maybe see a new direction on bring her family and friends here. She did worry a little about having Vegeta here and meeting some of her other friends he was okay with team 7 but then again Naruto and Sasuke were battle addicts like Vegeta and Goku are so there was little to worry about. She knew that the main probable would be Vegeta taking them seriously since it was hard for anyone to take Gai or Lee seriously since they were always shouting about youth and wore green jumpsuits that somewhat reminded Gohan of the saiyan uniform except for the coloring. With that thought in her mind she shuddered and sent the thought over to Piccolo and got the same result. The two knew that they would not look at Vegeta in the same way if he wore his uniform around them again.