It was the next day. The day of the bell test. Team 7 wore their new headbands with pride. Although there were great levels of discomfort.
Naruto kept fiddling with his in discomfort. It had been a while since he wore a headband instead of the hokage hat. He forgot about the period he had to go through to actually break in a new headband. The more he twisted it the comfier the fabric was going to feel on his forehead. At least he hoped it would. Maybe he would ask sasuke to do that creative headband shrinky thing.
Sasuke's finger kept ghosting over the symbol of the leaf. He was used to feeling a line scratched across it. Sasuke though he was happy he was officially a ninja again was a bit saddened. He sort of missed his old headband. The one Naruto had carried around for 3 years straight. The headband Naruto all but forced him to wear because the dobe wouldn't let him get a new one. The one that he was wearing the day he had left the village. However Sasuke also just wasn't used to wearing the leaf headband on his head. Back in the future he had shrunk two of his headbands down and worn them on his wrists. It was one of his little creative tweaks. Sakura wore her headband the same way she usually wore it. On her head nestled in her strawberry hair.
"Are we in agreement?" Naruto asked a twinkle in his blue eyes.
Sakura smiled a cat like grin. A glint of mischief was in her eyes.
"Oh yes lord hokage" Sakura giggled as she put on her brand new fingerless gloves that her parents had gotten her yesterday. They were black with small pink Uzumaki swirls on the knuckles. Sakura wore a dark pink long sleeve shirt with ripped sleeves. She wore black shorts and shoes that were easy to run and move around in.
"Ke?" Naruto asked as he put on his own fingerless black gloves with orange Uzumaki swirls on the knuckles courtesy of Sasuke. It had been the Uchiha's idea to wear gloves. He had said something about staining their hands with paint. It had been Sakura's idea to get them to match. Naruto just rolled with it. Naruto wore an orange hoodie with black shorts and orange ninja shoes.
"Let's give him hell" Sasuke smirked as he put on his own fingerless black gloves with midnight blue Uzumaki swirls on the knuckles. Sasuke wore a deep midnight blue short sleeve shirt, with black cardigan shorts and midnight blue ninja shoes.
They all sat and waited for Kakashi to arrive. While they were waiting naruto and Sasuke got bored as did Sakura. They had already set up the various traps and pranks for Kakashi about an hour before they were supposed to arrive. Of course Itachi had supervised but hey as long as he didn't interfer it was fine for the elder Uchiha sibling to watch over them. Sakura dubbed itachi' s code name as the 'Guardian Angel'. Sasuke laughed but nodded none the less. It was a perfect fit for his brother.
Naruto was starting to complain about not having a necklace anymore and that his neck felt all weird now. Sakura was chattering about missing her bracelet causing Sasuke's eye to twitch.
He couldn't take it anymore. Sasuke picked up a nearby stone and held it in his cupped hands. He superheated his chakra in his palms causing the stone to melt into a sort of liquid like state. He took a deep breath as he forced his chakra to rotate as if he was doing a raesengan. To a certain extent he was. He felt his chakra strike the liquid and round it out.
"To think you can cool this a bit?"Sasuke questioned as the red hot stone started to melt and lose it's shape a bit. Sasuke growled slightly at the stone's action and forced his chakra to keep rotating.
Naruto merely held out a hand and allowed his own cooling wind chakra to flow at the lava like stone. The stone held it's shape as Sasuke focused more intently on it totally tuning out his teammates. The stone morphed into a spherical shape glowing brightly and Sasuke dropped it to the ground. They let the rock sit steaming for a second before Sasuke smirked and picked the small trinket up and put it around his best friends neck after sliding it on a piece of extremely unusable ninja wire. Naruto gasped as he finally got a look at what his friend had made him.
It was a raesengan.
The stone had turned an electric blue in response to Sasuke's chakra being infused within it. "Naruto grinned at Sasuke. "I't's perfect i love it teme" naruto said turning to Sasuke. However the Uchiha was no longer sitting next to him. Naruto's eyebrow's furrowed in confusion and he started looking for sasuke. They weren't at the team 7 training ground because that was still crater. Instead they were at some training ground that the three didn't even remember. It had cherry blossom trees all around instead of regular oak ones. The stream on the opposite side sparkled as the sun started to rise. It was gorgeous. Because Team 7 saw this training ground as perfect they agreed to beat Kakashi without using any chakra. All they had to do was outthink their sensei. The only problem was none of them ever had before.
Naruto finally spotted sasuke in a sakura tree picking petals off of the tree. A few moments later sasuke walked back over petals in hand and started the same process just with small pebbles. Sasuke also mixed the flower petals with the stones to dye them pink. Sasuke was alao careful to only have his chakra flow around the stone and not seep through it like he had done with Naruto's. After he was done with all of the pebbles Sasuke whipped out a kunai and picked up a wood chip carving a flower with his kunai. Then Sasuke took out a pretty messed up no longer usable shuriken and forced it to shatter into tiny square shards. Just to give it a final touch he tied the spherical stones, square shards, and wooden flower chip to two extremely flexible pieces of wood. Sasuke knotted the wood and pulled it tight so none of the things would fall off. He inspected his work for a moment before nodding and gesturing for Sakura to hold out her wrist. Sakura beamed as Sasuke slid the bracelet on her left wrist. It was gorgeous, elegent, simplistic, and it would match basically all of her clothes.
"Sasuke this is amazing! I love it thank you!" Sakura squealed throwing herself at Sasuke who merely blinked. Naruto snickered behind Sakura and made a hugging motion. Sasuke scowled at him as he made a heart symbol with his hands. Slowly Sasuke put his arms around her awkwardly patting her back.
Little did team 7 know but they were being watched from the third hokage's office. "Well if the ninja thing doesn't work out you son could always make jewelry" Kakashi said shrugging turning to the once again lost form of Fugaku.
"I don't even know how he did any of that" the Uchiha admitted sighingly with a shake of his head. Kami Sasuke was confusing. Itachi was never this confusing. Wasn't the second child supposed to be easier than the first? Why were they so different!? Fugaku just didn't understand anything anymore.
"It seems he has chakra manipulation down to a science" Hiruzen chuckled.
"Yesterday the kid created a f*cking meteor what do you expect?" Anko said with a shrug.
Ibiki chuckled crossing his arms. "I
wish i could have seen it" he said with a feral grin.
"It made Jiro shit his pants" shisui grinned.
Anko snickered.
"Thank you for that assesment" Hiruzen said as the mental image came to mind.
"They all sure have gotten cozy" kurenai pointed out as sasuke was yanked into a hug from the pinkette.
"Oh god she's fangirl.." Kakashi whimpered clutching his head as anime tears fell from his eyes.
"Cheer up rival she isn't after your affections! Shisui is the one that has caught her eye!" Gai smiled his teeth pinging. This did nothing to comfort Kakashi.
Thousands pounds of despair crashed down onto shisui who layed his head despairingly on itachi's shoulder. "There there" Itachi said patting his best friends head no sympathy in his tone whatsoever. He had his own fangirl to shake. Good god Hana was was a stubborn Inuzuka.
"I think they've waited for you long enough kakashi" Hiruzen commented gesturing for Kakashi to get a move on.
'Minato sensei please be with me right now' Kakashi prayed as he disappeared in a swirl of leaves appearing in front of his four year old genin.
"Okay kids listen up!" Kakashi commanded.
Team 7 turned their attention to their sensei with a grin. Finally it begins.
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