**Disclaimer** I do not own any and/or did not help in creating Naruto or Soul Eater, any of their characters, places, or content (Except those not in the anime/manga). This is only created for my own entertainment and those who may want to read it. Sorry for typos or if anyone seems OOC, but other than that, enjoy the story. UNEDITED.
Team Kakashi
Satomi was reading a book as she walked to orientation when she heard a loud, "SATOMI-CHAN!"
She stopped and turned to see Naruto waving and running towards her, a Leaf Village headband on his forehead, "Hello, Naruto."
"Check it out," He pointed to the headband.
"Congratulations. Though, I thought you did not pass. You must have done something extremely impressive to change their minds. Perhaps you can come over for dinner tonight to celebrate. Daddy's cooking is extraordinary and he would not mind the company."
"I'll be there," he grinned and nodded, telling her the story of how he got the headband. She was proud of her cousin and was looking forward to the day he became Hokage. He was a bit of a goof, but he had the determination and heart to get the job done. They walked the rest of the way together and sat next to one another, him ending up between her and the dark haired boy with onyx eyes named Sasuke.
Shikamaru walked by and caught sight of Naruto, "Huh? What are you doing here, Naruto? This isn't for drop outs. You can't be here unless you graduated."
Naruto grinned, "Oh yeah? Do you see this? Do you see this?" He pointed to his headband, "Open your eyes Shikamaru. It's a regulation headband. We're gonna be training together. How do you like that?" Shikamaru scoffed, "Let me put it this way. I look great in headgear, like it was made for me. Believe it," he laughed and Shikamaru went to his seat.
Satomi was reading her book when she heard what sounded like a stampede running in their direction. She spared Sakura and Ino a glance before they started to argue and figured she'd just ignore them and go back to her book on the physics of ninja fighting, "I won again, Sakura," Ino said.
"Give it up. I had to look back to see you. My toe was at least a tenth of an inch ahead," Sakura scanned the room, her gaze going in Naruto's direction. She smiled and Naruto blushed when she hurried over.
Naruto stood with his hand up in greeting, "Hey, Sakura, what's up?"
"Move it," she pushed Naruto out of the way and he fell to the ground, "Good morning, Sasuke," she mumbled shyly, her hands clasped together in front of her chest and he looked at her, looking uninterested, "Mind if I sit next to you?"
Ino walked over and took Sakura by the arm, "Back off, Forehead. I'm sitting next to Sasuke!"
"I was here first," Sakura retorted.
"I walked into the classroom before you did. Everybody saw it."
"Dream on," More girls walked up and tried to claim the seat Naruto was just in and Sasuke looked away not caring at all.
In the Hokage's office jounin watched the graduates through a crystal ball as it trained on Sasuke, "Most promising new student, Sasuke Uchiha," the Hokage said.
"The only survivor left from the Uchiha clan," Kurenei said.
"That's right."
"And the girl...the one reading is she really Mother Satomi of the Soul village?"
The Hokage nodded. Her identity was secret, true, but he thought it best if a few trusted ninja knew and were sworn to secrecy unless necessary to reveal the truth.
Hm, Kakashi thought as the ball zoomed out, Naruto Uzumaki, huh?
Back in the classroom, Satomi looked up when she was aware that Naruto hopped onto the desk in front of Sasuke. He was scowling as the two glared at one another and the other girls were yelling at him. Satomi looked from the girls to the glaring boys with her usual serious expression, wondering what she had missed when a boy in front of Naruto laughed, "Whoa! Ha ha, this is great," he moved his arm back, bumping Naruto.
"What the..." Sakura trailed off.
"I, uh..." Ino attempted to speak. The boy had bumped Naruto forward and his lips met Sasuke's in a kiss.
Satomi tilted her head and blinked, "Well that was certainly unexpected," she said and the boys looked sideways at her before breaking apart and gagging.
Naruto suddenly stopped and turned to see the girls glaring at him, "Danger."
"Naruto, you are so dead," Sakura growled.
"Hey, whoa it was an accident," he put his hands up.
"You're finished," she cracked her knuckles and moved to punch Naruto, but a hand caught it by the wrist when it was but a centimeter away, "Huh?" she turned to look at the owner of the hand and seen Satomi.
"I advise you not to hurt Naru-chan," she stood and got close to her face, Sasuke's brow raising in intrigue of her fast reflexes and protectiveness of Naruto of all people, "Understood?" She asked with her normal expression, only now there was almost a deadly look in her eye that sent chills down Sakura's spine so she nodded. Satomi gently nudged Naruto to share her seat and Sakura sat in between Sasuke and Naruto when Iruka walked in.
"As of today you are ninjas, to get here you have faced difficult trials and hardships but that's nothing, what comes next will be far more difficult. Now you are only Genin, first level ninjas, all the Genin will be grouped into three or four man squads. Each squad will be lead by a Jounin, an elite ninja."
"Well someone has to be in Sasuke's squad. I wonder who," Ino sneered.
"I don't know, " was Sakura's oh so clever reply.
"We want each squad to have a balance of strengths and abilities, so that's how we set them up. I will now announce the squads," Iruka began doing just that, "Squad 7: Naruto Uzumaki...Sakura Haruno," Naruto cheered while Sakura sulked, "Sasuke Uchiha," Now Sakura cheered and Naruto sulked, "And Satomi Hayashi."
A few boys groaned as Naruto cheered, "Did ya hear that, Satomi? We're going to be on the same squad isn't that great?"
She looked at him and smiled her rare close eyed smile reserved just for him and Ryuu, tilting her head in a cute way, causing some of the onlooking boys to cover their nosebleeds with their hands,
"Sounds magnificent, Naru-Chan."
"Believe it! To bad we have to be with Sasuke," He shot up and pointed in Sasuke's direction, "Iruka-sensei! Why does a great ninja like me have to be in the same squad as a slug like Sasuke?"
"Sasuke has the best scores out of all the graduating students. Naruto! You had the worst scores!" Everyone started laughing, but immediately stopped when Satomi turned and gave the class behind her the same blank stare she gave Sakura, "To create balanced groups we put the best students with those with the worst. After lunch, you'll meet your new Jounin teachers, until then, class dismissed," Iruka said after excusing everyone.
Satomi sighed as everyone left and took out an onigiri from her small bag she brought that day, eating peacefully in the class while reading her book. She stayed that way even when the others came back, each team going with their sensei while her squad was still waiting.
"He's late," Naruto groaned, peeking his head out to see if their sensei was coming. Sakura was leaning against a desk, Sasuke was sitting behind the next desk over, Satomi sat on the floor against the wall with her legs criss crossed, still reading.
"Naruto! Just sit down!" Sakura chided.
"I don't want to, how come our teachers the only one that's late, I'm ready to roll, believe it. The other groups already met their new teachers and took off on some adventure or something and Iruka-sensei is gone too!"
"We know ok."
"Hey, what are you doing?" Sakura asked,walking over to Naruto, "Naruto!" Sakura called out his name as he grinned. Satomi looked sideways to see Naruto was now standing on a stool, trying to get the eraser on top of the door before going back to her previous activity.
"That's what he gets for being late. Surprise!" Naruto hopped off the stool.
"You're asking for trouble. You know you shouldn't do that."
"Our teacher is a Jounin, an elite ninja. Do you really think he'd fall for that?" Sasuke scoffed.
"Yeah! Sasuke's right! You're so clueless, Naruto!"
"It will work," Satomi sighed deeply as she closed her now finished book.
"How do you know?" Sakura asked, her inner Sakura rasing a fist and thinking Who does she think she is, trying to prove us wrong? If she thinks she can make me look dumb in front of Sasuke and take him for herself she's got another thing coming.
"Our sensei will not expect a trick like this, it is too simple," She stood and tucked her big book under her arm.
Suddenly, the door opened and the eraser plopped on Kakashi's silver hair. Naruto burst out laughing while Sakura sucked up to him, Sasuke looking extremely dissapointed, Satomi's lips turned up the slightest, but she hid it before anyone could see. Kakashi picked up the eraser and put his hand on his chin, "Hmm...how can I put this...My first impression of this group...You're a bunch of idiots," He said, sounding a lot like Ryuu did when he was talking to anyone other than Satomi. His eyes landed on her and they widened a little, "I would have expected better from you, Satomi."
She pushed stray strands of hair behind her ear, saying in a similar tone, "We all need amusement every so often. Luckily I wasn't feeling too mischevous today and didn't let it slip that adding color would have made it more entertaining," the others looked at her in surprise while Kakashi covered his smile with a sigh, leading them to the roof.
Kakashi sat on the railing with his arms crossed, looking over the four, clearly unamused. Sakura sat on the very left hugging her knees, next was Sasuke with his legs spread out and his elbows resting on his knees, his head resting on his interlaced fingers once again, then came Satomi who sat with her legs neatly folded under her, her hands placed on her lap, Naruto sat on the very right with his legs open and knees propped up with his hand in between them, laying flat on the ground, "Why don't you introduce yourselves one at a time."
"Introduce ourselves, well...What are we supposed to say?" asked Sakura. Satomi raised her brow as if asking if she really needed an explanation, though continued to look forward.
"Things you like, things you hate, dreams for the future, hobbies, things like that," he clarified.
"Why don't you tell us stuff first. I mean before we talk tell us about you so we can see how it is supposed to work," questioned Naruto.
"Me?" Kakashi asked, pointing to himself, "I'm Kakashi Hatake...Things I like and things I hate...I don't feel like telling you that...My dreams for the future, never really thought about it. As for my hobbies, I have lots of hobbies."
"That was totally useless all he really told us was his name, "Sakura said while Naruto nodded.
"Okay, your turn. You on the right, you first."
"Believe it, I'm Naruto Uzumaki. I like instant ramen in a cup and I really like the ramen Iruka-sensei got me at the Ichiraku noodle shop, but I hate the three minutes you have to wait after you poor hot water in the ramen cup. My hobby is eating different kinds of ramen and comparing them and my future dream is...To be the greatest Hokage! Then the whole village will stop disrespecting me and start treating me like I'm somebody, somebody important," Satomi inwardly frowned at the last comment, however she had faith Naruto could one day become Hokage.
"Alright next," Kakashi looked to Sakura.
"I'm Sakura Haruno. What I like, uh...I mean the person I like is," she looked to Sasuke and blushed, "Uh, my hobby is...uh," she did the same action, "My dream for the future is," she started squealing loudly and Satomi blinked in confusion, wondering what nonsense she was going on about.
"And what do you hate?" Asked Kakashi, though sounding like he didn't really care.
"Naruto and Satomi!" She said furiously.
Naruto looked horrified while Satomi blinked, her expression blank, muttering a small, "Interesting."
"Next," Kakashi rested his head on one hand.
"My name...Is Sasuke Uchiha. I hate a lot of things and I don't particularly like anything," Sakura looked heartbroken, "What I have is not a dream because I will make it a reality, I'm going to restore my clan and destroy a certain someone," he said in a rather dead voice and everyone stared at him in a long silence.
"Last one," Kakashi looked to Satomi.
She nodded, clearing her throat, her voice came out calm and strong, "My name is Satomi Hayashi. I like puzzles or even just finding solutions to tough situations, sweets, coffee, and animals. I dislike betrayal, losing control, vegetables and anyone hurting people unnecessarily . My hobbies are reading and training. My goal is to become a strong ninja so that I may accomplish my dream..." she paused for a second and looked at Kakashi in the eye, "Which is to properly keep my people safe."
"Good, you're each unique and you have your own ideas. We'll have our first mission tomorrow."
"What kind of mission are we going to have?" Naruto asked excitedly.
"It's a task the five of us will do together."
"What? What? What? What?"
"A survival exercise."
"Huh, a survival exercise?"
"I thought we were supposed to have a real mission not more practice," Sakura stated, "We already did this at the academy, that's how we got here."
"This is not anything like your previous training."
"So, uh, what kind of training is it then?"
Kakashi chuckled creepily, "Hey, hold on, that's a normal question, what's so funny?" asked Sakura.
"Well if I tell you the answer, you're not going to like it," he said while chuckling, causing Satomi to raise a brow, "Of the 28 graduates who just came here only 10 will actually be accepted as Genin, the other 18 will be weeded out and sent back to the academy. In other words, this is a make it or break it, pass fail test and the chance that you'll fail is at least 66%. See, didn't I tell you, you wouldn't like it?"
"That's crazy! We worked hard to get here! Believe it! What was the graduation test for anyway?" Naruto asked.
"Oh, that? That was just to select candidates who might become Genin...Or not."
"What?!"
"That's how it is. I decide whether you pass or fail. Be at the designated training spot at 5 A.M. and bring your ninja gear. That's it, you're dismissed," he turned and waved before looking over his shoulder and adding, "Oh, tomorrow, you'd better skip breakfast or else you'll puke."