I Do Not Own Naruto
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Passings
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The years slipped by, the village was rebuilt and life continued. Sakura had long since noticed that life, despite it's horrors, continued onwards and she was not going to be held down by it. Kakashi enrolled her in the Acedemy with Naruto and Sasuke, along with Ino and Hinata, there were also many other kids but Sakura mainly hung around Ino in the Academy; the boys were too busy fighting all the time. Naruto, the class clown with the worse marks ever, and Sasuke the class genius with the best marks ever. If she didn't happen to know they were best friends she'd have thought them to be worse enemies.
She didn't mind though, at least until she was tossed between them and told to fix it. Then Sakura minded and heads were broken, and the boys were in trouble with her. They usually dove out of her way when that was the case. However, the school years passed, she and Sasuke both struggled to keep Naruto afloat; grade wise at least. They also kept in touch with Gaara and his siblings, which was a lot of fun in a way; they had pen pals, but it was also dangerous for Suna wasn't exactly their friend either.
Which brought her to today; the final day of their Academy, they would be getting their teams today for they were graduating to genin and getting their jonin teacher.
"Sakura! Sakura!" the blonde dobe was shouting as he leapt over the crowd then.
"Huh?" she was slammed into then.
"Sakura?" Sasuke looked at her as the dobe tackle hugged her to the floor.
"Get off of me Naruto!" Sakura screeched. They were no longer six! They were twelve and it was not appropriate to tackle hug people.
"But we graduate today!" Naruto declared as he squeezed the breath out of her.
"Help!" she pleaded of Sasuke who pried her and Naruto apart, she dove behind Sasuke before she could get tackle hugged again.
"I'm so excited!" Naruto informed them with a goofy smile and she sighed.
"We know Naruto," she assured him as she stood beside Sasuke.
"And we're going to be on a team together! Go on missions! Be shinobi! Be awesome! Get famous! And I'm going to be Hokage!" Naruto explained. Sakura felt herself softening towards his excitement as she stood beside Sasuke. Sasuke on the other hand looked bored and indifferent to this entire matter, she knew he had plans of his own; he had never been the same since the attack of Orochimaru and the Cloud. He was still their friend, but she knew Sasuke was more distant, more watchful, and more… well, protective of them. Naruto was his brother, just like Itacihi was, and she was one of his best friends, but he was over protective of her to an extreme.
"We might not be a team together," Sasuke pointed out.
"Sasuke!' Ino squealed; Sakura frowned and Sasuke shoved Naruto at Ino as he shoved her into the seat beside him and grabbed his paper to look innocent of any trouble or interest in things around him. Sakura sniggered as Ino scowled but stomped to a seat behind Sasuke, Naruot flopped into a seat beside her as he grinned.
"What team do you want to be on?" Naruto asked her.
"I don't know, but I doubt they' be dumb enough to put the three of us together," Sakura pointed out. She would prefer to be on a team with Sasuke and Naruto; but then again their tendency to have trouble when together was more likely than not and something of a concern to the village. After all… just look at what they had done to the Hokage monument last summer; all three of them were to blame and all three of them hid in the Uchiha basement for three days before Itachi found them. The Fourth was not amused, it was the most expensive and recent example of damage they had done together as a trio.
Putting them on a team could be either wonderful! Like she thought.
Or it could be disastrous… Like the entire village knew.
"Why do you say that!?" Naruto gaped at her.
"DOBE! Hokage mountain!" Sasuke snapped indignantly.
"But!"
"Sasuke has a point, besides I still can hear the lecture from Itachi about us being destructive forces of nature," Sakura mused. That lecture had been the worst on the long list lectures Itachi had been giving them since they eight years old.
"Ah, but you have to admit… it was fun," Naruto sniggered.
"Dobe," Sasuke grumbled, she was giggling hysterically.
"You know, it'd be really, really, really fun to be on the same team, and maybe we could have Kakashi as our sensei!" Naruto declared.
"The village would be doomed," she and Sasuke's heads hit the desk with that declaration behind them from Kiba; because, he was right. She and Sasuke on a team was alright, Sasuke and Naruto… not so much, she and Naruto was fine too, but add Kakashi into the mix… well, and people wondered why the village hated the trio of them in trouble. Kakashi usually handed them the supplies for the trouble and said 'Don't get hurt, have fun!' and walked off.
"What it's true!?" Kiba defended when she and Sasuke lifted their heads to scowl at him.
"Good morning class, today we will be announcing the teams for your genin career and the jonin who you will be studying under," Iruka announced as he walked in. "Remember these teams are built on strength and weaknesses. We want each team to be balance. And we'll get started…"
Sakura was absently listening as Teams 1-6 were announced.
"Team 7, Uzumaki Naruto," Naruto's sleeping head snapped up.
"huh?"
"Hatake Sakura."
"Yes!" Naruto shouted, Sasuke scowled, she smiled slightly; she was doomed.
"Uchiha Sasuke."
"YES!" Naruto shouted again, the entire class though looked as if they had been force fed poison as she laughed nervously and Sasuke looked… shocked.
"You jonin is Hatake Kakashi," Iruka looked like he had swallowed a bug then.
"The village is doomed," Ino announced to the class. Sasuke and she paled as Naruto celebrated.
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Sasuke looked to his new/old/regular team of trouble, Naruto was laughing happily, and Sakura looked startled and he felt… shocked. They were actually going to be on a team together! What the hell was the village thinking!? Well, he didn't know, but truthfully he didn't want to be partnered with anyone but those two. However, the village had entrusted their training to Hatake Kakashi; they were just through fuel on a fire and he knew it!
No matter, the other teams were announced; and none were as… volatile as their team. The other teams were announced, and collected by the prospective teachers while Team 7 sat in the classroom waiting for Kakashi.
"You know what this means!" Naruto announced.
"You're still a dobe," Sasuke said flatly.
"NO! But we're on a team together and we'll be having all sorts of fun together!" Naruto was bouncing.
"Can we drop him off a cliff?" Sasuke asked Sakura.
"He'll just bounce back," Sakura informed him as they watched the bouncing dobe who was beginning to set up a prank for Kakashi. Honestly, Sasuke didn't know what the village was thinking by putting the three of them on a team together, if anything he'd have been certain they'd have been pulled apart and put on other squads just to separate them. Now they were on a Team together...
Itachi might have a heart attack over this, he knew he was shocked. And Kakashi as their mentor…
Kami, were they trying to start wars? Sasuke didn't know as he looked to Sakura who was watching Naruto and then he looked to Naruto.
On the bright side, teamwork wasn't really something they'd need to work on; they were the trio of trouble after all. But they were also the three most destructive kids in the village, and he'd have sworn the village would've pull them apart. If only for the sake of the village.
The door slid open, Kakashi was hit by the eraser and sighed as Naruto fell over laughing like a loon. Sasuke looked to Sakura, she looked exasperated and Kakashi looked… indifferent to this because this, was probably, considered his normal by now. After all, Kakashi had been their primary caretaker since they had been toddlers.
"Wow, they actually put you three on a team together," Kakashi sounded miffed then.
"Uh… yeah," Sakura smiled.
"They actually listened to me then…" Kakahsi chuckled.
"Listened to you!?" Sasuke shouted with Sakura as they sat there gaping at Kakashi. He looked to Sakura, she stared at him, and then they stared at Kakashi and Naruto; Naruto was laughing in delight and bouncing. Sasuke sighed, they were actually meant to be a team together? And this was apparently Kakashi's plan.
"Yes, I actually pointed out that you two lessen Naruto's destructive tendancies and that he makes you two work as a team with him. It was a good thing you three are on the same team in the long run, we'll just have to curb Naruto's destructive tendancies.
"Uh… Kakashi, I don't think this is a good idea," Sakura admitted as she stared at them. Sasuke agreed with Sakura, this was probably going to be a very bad idea or a really good idea; no matter what they had to deal with the hyperactive dobe.
"It'll be fine," Kakashi waved her off.
"Alright then," she shrugged.
"Starting tomorrow though we are going to channel all of this energy into training, so no breakfast for you tomorrow, there's a test. If you pass then you'll be a team, if you fail, you all are out of the Academy, perminantly. I'll meet you all at training field seventeen," Kakashi said as he disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"You get the feeling he set us up?" Sakura whispered to him.
"Hn," he nodded.
"Yes! We're a team! We're a team!" Naruto was dancing in delight as they all left the classroom. He said nothing as he watched the dobe celebrate what their being made a team. Sasuke walked with Sakura, they noted all the other teams met up and started their trainings. Kakashi had left them to their own devices, he didn't like this and he didn't like the idea of tomorrow's test as he shoved his hands in his pockets and walked in step with Sakura.
"How about we get ramen!" Naruto declared. They shrugged as they went with him. It wasn't like there was really anything better for him to do, aside from return home to where Itachi and Izumi were planning their wedding and resume his training. He was happy for his brother but at the same time he didn't like being near Itachi and Izumi; they were very lovey-dovey as Naruto called it; it was irritating.
"How are the wedding plans going?" Sakura asked as she walked with him and a bouncing Naruto.
He shrugged. It was a wedding, nothing special.
"Well, I'm happy for Itachi and Izumi," she smiled at him as they walked.
"It's just a wedding," he grumbled.
"Sasuke! You're as bad as Naruto!" she sighed in exasperation as they walked. He scowled at her as they caught up to Naruto.
"Do you know what test Kakashi is giving us tomorrow?" Sasuke asked when they took a seat at Ichiraku's.
"Not a clue, I'll look though, see what I can find," she said as they were given their regular orders.
"Hn," he nodded as they sat there getting ready to eat.
"Naruto, slow down you're going to choke!" Sakura chided as Naruto started slurping up his noodles. Sasuke said nothing as he scowled at having Sakura's attention diverted to the dobe again. It couldn't be helped though, Kami knew someone needed to keep the dobe from choking on his ramen. Then again… there was a test tomorrow…
Perhaps the dobe should choke on the noodles…
That's all for now folks!
Enjoy Blooming in Darkness! =)
