Chapter 13, thanks for the reviews people, I've decided who I'm pairing Sakura with (there aren't any hints in this chappy, though) but I'm not gonna tell you! Hehe! Ok fine, but soon you all should figure it out:)
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Unwanted
Chapter 13 – Training Begins
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"Now what kind of sensei would you like?" Tsunade asked Naruto as they stood in her office.
"Uh," Naruto said after a while then thought, "What kind of sensei do I want?" he mused over the question for a while as Tsunade waited patiently in front of him. "The kind of sensei I want is…"
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Sasuke looked into the eyes of his new sensei, he couldn't remember what her name was though he heard it almost 50 times. Sasuke sighed. "Alright," he said finally as he looked into the patient, lazy eyes of the light blue haired jounin. She wasn't from Konoha, she was from the mist village but was trusted greatly by Tsunade, so he had to trust her as a sensei. "Let's start. What can you teach me?"
"Well," she brushed her short hair out of her eyes, "what do you want to learn?"
Sasuke shrugged, "I guess anything as long as it ups my skill."
"That really narrows it down." She stood up from her seat on the grass. "I guess I'll pick then." She walked over to Sasuke and felt his arms, making him blush.
"What are you doing?" he pulled away from her.
"You are fairly strong for your age." She sat back down. "First, before we can start, I want you to tell me what pushes you forwards, in other words, why do you want to be taught."
"So I can win in the chuunin exams."
"Not what I meant." She sighed. "Alright then, let me word it differently still, why do you want to win in the chuunin exams? What are your goals?"
"Well," he sat down too, "mainly I need to kill someone; revenge is my goal."
"And how will winning the third round of the chuunin exams help you with that?"
"…" he thought for a moment. "It will make me stronger, if I cannot defeat Naruto then I will never be able to defeat him."
"And who is 'him'?" she asked.
"My brother."
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Naruto's mind swirled as he thought of who he wanted as his sensei. Many images of Iruka appeared in his mind, but the one that he saw most was the one of when he saw him laying on the grass, imbrued in his own blood. His head started to spin and in less than a second he fell unconscious to the ground.
"Naruto!" Tsunade gasped.
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"Really." Sasuke's new sensei said as he finished revealing his awful past to her.
"Yeah," he replied, "it happened exactly like that."
"…" she stood up. "Alright then, now that I know what's pushing you forward I can train you."
"Good," he replied, "what are you going to teach me?"
"First," she said after a moment, "what's my name?"
Sasuke was shocked, he had no idea she would ask him that. "W-What do you mean?"
"I mean what's my name."
"Why do you ask?"
"Because the whole time we've been here you haven't addressed me by my name, so I thought you might have forgotten." Sasuke sweat-dropped.
"Uh…"
"Alright," she said sort of disappointed, "Call me sensei for now, but I want you to
remember my name, I'm not going to tell you it."
"Why do I have to?" Sasuke inquired.
"Well," she said, "Like you and everyone else I have a past, it's not tragic like yours but when I first became a teacher I taught differently from everyone else, in other
words, this is a test of memory."
"What a weird way of training your mind…" he thought then nodded. "Fine, I'll try to remember."
"Good then!" she brushed her blue hair behind her ear. "Let's get started!"
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"Naruto are you ok?" he opened his eyes and saw two large green spears looking back at him. "S-Sakura?" his eyes focused on the pink-haired genin.
"Lady Tsunade said that you fainted in her office." Sakura sat down on his bed. "She called me and told me to take you to your house; that's where we are now." He sat up and instantly recognized his apartment.
His eyes wandered to the pictures beside his bed. "Iruka-sensei…"
"That's what happened…" he said almost in tears.
"Naruto?"
"I-I know I should be strong but," tears started to run down his face, "but I just can't be. Iruka-sensei meant everything to me, Sakura, and now he's dead. I don't know if my dream is enough to make me forget…"
"Naruto we talked about this." She wrapped her arms around him to comfort him. "You shouldn't forget Iruka-sensei, I've never lost anyone so I don't know how you feel and therefore don't know how to help but I'll do what I can, Naruto, just name it."
"Sakura?"
"Hnm?"
"You can't bring Iruka-sensei back, can you?" his voice was shaking.
"No, I'm sorry Naruto, I can't."
"…"
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"Let's go again!" the blue haired jounin who was now teaching Sasuke yelled. "Don't give up, I thought you wanted to kill your brother! He's the top nin, with that work you couldn't even kill my grandma! Probably 'cause she's dead, but that's not the point!"
"How exactly is this training?" he asked.
"Simple," she started to explain for the fifth time, "you hold the basket above your head and don't let it fall into the water, and you can't let the birds get any worms from it."
"But why do I have to balance at the same time?"
"How many times to I have to tell you?"
"I'm only asking because it's nuts!" he felt the two sticks that held him up start to wobble, and he put more chakra into his feet and it went though the sticks and into the ground, keeping them steady. A bird stole a worm. "Damn!" he pulled the basket away.
"What stupid training, how is this going to help me anyway?"
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"Not bad." She said after he succeeded in keeping at least half the basket of worms in the basket for 3 hours.
"Can I ask you one question?" Sasuke asked.
"Shoot."
"How will this help?" she sat down but he kept standing, she scratched her cheek then lay back on the soft grass. It didn't look like she was going to answer so he asked again. "How is this going to help?"
"Sasuke." she said fairly quietly. "Do you remember my name?"
"Why is she asking me again?" he thought. "No I don't."
"Why not?"
"I dunno. You told me at least 5 times."
"Right, so why not?" she asked again.
"I said I don't know."
"I asked why, 'I don't know' isn't an answer, and if you answer with that again, or anything like it tomorrow you'll have to do an extra half-hour of holding the basket.
Now," she sat back up, "why don't you remember my name?"
His eyes traveled to her chest and then his eyes opened with shock. "Are you-what?" he asked surprised.
"Finally." She sighed. "I didn't know it would take you the whole day to notice that I'm wearing a name tag.
"When did you put that on?" asked Sasuke.
"This morning, before we started training." She smiled. "So can I ask you again, what is my name?"
"Why did you do that?" Sasuke ignored the question. "I mean, if you were wearing a name tag this whole time then why did you keep asking if I knew your name? To see if I noticed it?" his voice changed more to anger. "Well that's a stupid training exercise! When you said you trained differently I thought it might be a good different but now I see I was wrong!"
"What are you saying, Sasuke?" she asked. "Are you saying that I can't train you?"
"No I'm not, I'm saying you can't train anybody!"
"So you judge people that way, eh?" she stood up. "Would you like me to judge your personality from all that I've seen of you?" she continued before he could answer. "I think that you are a great kid and would go far if your temper and anger didn't burst out at any time."
The comment surprised him; she smiled. "Now can you tell me what my name is, Sasuke?"
"No," he said sarcastically, "I can't, sorry for letting you down."
She looked at him funny. "What's with this boy? I've never met anybody so stubborn."
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Wahoo! Long chappy! As I said, there were no hints regarding Sakura and who she's going with, but I should hopefully update soon, but I've been slacking off on my other fic, so I have to type more on that so the update might not be so fast, I should get back to that…anyway please R&R!!!