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Forsaken- Connecting
Time Change: Kagome: 10; Hinata: 12; Naruto: 12; Sasuke: 12; Neji: 13; Sakura: 12; etc.
The recently formed Team seven looked on with mixed feelings as the last team, other than themselves, leave with their jonin teacher.
Sasuke examined his team mates. Great, a weak hyuuga and two dead lasts. At least the Hyuuga heiress is the number one kunoichi of the year, but the other two will be a hindrance to me. The Dobe and that odd hyuuga girl that follows the heiress around is pathetic, they are only going to become a burden to me…
The Hyuuga heiress fiddled with her fingers, a soft blush spreading across her face as she looked at the pacing Naruto that was screaming with frustration at their no-show sensei. It's great that Naruto passed…
I don't even understand what Hinata sees in that trouble maker. Sure, he has an amazing amount of charka and spirit energy… but, still… he's an idiot…
ARGGGGG!! Where is sensei! He made us wait for three hours already! Every other team has left a long time ago! He deserves something bad to happen to him or her!
Nodding his head decisively, the blond haired boy tip toed to the door that led to the outside, opening it and peeking out to see if anyone was coming.
Grinning, Naruto turned around to grab the chalk eraser from the instructor's table, laughing deviously as he created a clone.
The members of the new team seven looked on curiously as the Naruto clone deadpanned, "you actually think that a jonin will fall for this?"
"Shut up! He deserves this!" Exclaimed one irate blond as he climbed onto the shoulders of his clone, all while mumbling something that suspiciously sounded like 'stupid clone have personalities'.
With a wicked glint in his eyes, the mischievous boy wedged the chalk eraser in between the edge of the sliding door and the frame of the door.
When the deed was finished, the clone rolled his eyes and dissipated, complaining about how stupid this was as Naruto jumped down and landed next to Kagome.
Sasuke, annoyed and frustrated, began to reprimand Naruto, "Dobe, no jonin would be that stupid to allow—"
The door slid open as the eraser simultaneous slammed into their new teacher's head that popped into the room.
Sasuke stared at the lame jonin who fell for the most classical trick in history and moaned internally with miserly. This can't be happening to me!
Eyebrow's twitching slightly, not that they could be seen, the new jonin sensei of Team seven grimaced. "My first impression of you guys are—", pausing a moment to gather the correct words to express his feelings in a way that it would not be that offensive to the recipients, he continued. "—you all are a bunch of idiots."
Naruto launched himself at the Jonin with an angry cry as the rest of the team sighed.
There goes that plan for trying not to be offensive.The silver-haired Jonin sweat dropped at the killer intent lurking in the air that resulted from his one sentence.
"Meet me on the roof, now." Disappearing in a swirl of leaves, the jonin left the building before the overeager boy could reach him and reappeared on the roof.
"Let's start with introducing yourselves."
"May-Maybe you should st-start first, sen-sensei? To-to show us ho-how it goes?"
"Fine, my name is Hatake Kakashi, I have no desire to tell you about my likes and dislikes. My dreams and hopes fall into the same category as my likes and dislikes, and my hobbies include many things." The silver haired jonin drawled his words out lazily as he leaned on the railings of the roof. "Your turn. Who wants to go first?"
"My name is Uzumaki Naruto, I like ramen a lot, and I hate people who lie constantly. My dream is to surpass all the other Hokage so everyone will have to acknowledge me and stop ignoring me! My hobbies is training and playing pranks!" The loud bright boy screamed with a confident grin written upon his face.
"My name is Hyuuga Hin-Hinata. I li-like… many th-things and I dislike dis-disappointing my fam-family. My dreams is to… to become strong… and my hob-hobbies are training and spen-spending time wi-with my friends." Hinata blushed as she looked at Naruto out of the corner of her eyes.
"My name is Uchiha Sasuke. I don't like anything and I hate everything… I don't have any dreams because I know I will achieve it, my goal is to kill a certain someone…" the raven haired avenger stared off into the distance, his eyes dark with spiteful intent.
Kakashi stared at him. I knew this was going to happen. So… he grew up as an avenger, huh? "So, what about you?" he motioned at the only person that was left with a vague sweep of his hand.
"…." Kagome stared at their new sensei blankly.
"Well…. introduce yourself." Kakashi wondered what was wrong with the girl that was found and adopted into the Hyuuga clan four years ago.
"Nothing about me concerns you." Kagome stated coldly, a weird emotion lurking in her eyes as she stared at the jonin.
"Her na-name is Ka-Kagome." Hinata stuttered out her words nervously, fidgeting uncomfortablely as everyone turned to look at her.
The pale eyed girl hated being in the center of attention due to her experiences of the past with the clan council and her father.
Kakashi sighed silently as he finally realized what the Hokage meant when the man said that this team would be slightly difficult to work with.
Slightly difficult! This is abysmal! I was probably the last resort for such a mismatched team… especially since this team will be trained as an all-round team. The chances that they would work together would be slim at best… and the third Hokage forbidden me to fail them too because the council was pressuring him.
A avenger, a shy heiress with no to little self-confidence, a loud brat that holds the Kyuubi inside him and the adopted daughter of the Hyuuga clan… who is too secretive.
All of them also have trust issues, especially the lone Uchiha boy and the adopted Hyuuga girl. Naruto and Hinata seems to want to make friends so they should trust people easier, therefore, they will be less of an issue.
I bet Kami is punishing me for letting Obito and sensei die.
"Okay then… well, meet me tomorrow at training ground one at five o'clock sharp, we are going to have a 'selection' test; it will determine whether or not you can become genins."
Team seven glanced sharply at the resigned looking sensei.
"What… what do you m-mean? I th-thought that we we-were already genins." Hinata stumble her words out cautiously. What if she does not pass? What would her father think of her then?
"No, the academy test exam was only to test who would be worthy to actually go to this stage. Every team has a 'selection' test to see if they are of genin material and to see if the team would actually work. Out of the nine teams that graduated from the academy, about only three will actually become genins, the rest will be sent back to the academy." Kakashi sighed again, it seemed to him as if he was doing a lot of that recently, in fact, he started doing a lot of things he usually did not do every since he received this team… like getting headaches.
This team would probably never work out and just get killed off early… too bad he really couldn't fail them, but then, the council wanted the Uchiha to gain power, and for the other three to just die.
They were useless according to the council, especially Naruto, who they viewed as the person keeping the demon, Kyuubi, alive.
Kakashi felt sorry for the four members of his team.
Theoretically, they were all orphans with no one to care about them. Take for example, the only person on the team with biological relatives is the Hyuuga Heiress, however, no one cares about her.
Other Hyuuga Kagome who follows her like a puppy, the heiress is alone; not even her own father cared whether she lived or died.
Flashback
"Are you sure you want Hinata and Kagome to be in team seven? They will be in the most dangerous team."
"Take them, they are useless to me. If they die, they die. Those two are weak; Hanabi is better suited to take on the title 'Heiress'." Hiashi stated slowly in a matter of fact voice as he turned to walk back to the Main house mansion.
Kakashi stood for a moment, brain uncomprehending of what just happen. So stunned by the clan leader's outright statement of his own daughter and adopted daughter, he could no nothing just stand there, gawking like a fish out of water.
Not to mention, Hiashi's implied meaning that those two should die so that Hanabi could take over the position as 'Heiress' was ghastly.
Kakashi's eyes narrowed with barely concealed hatred for the ignorant clan leader's attitude towards the perfectly capable heiress as he teleported away from the roof with a 'poof' of smoke. Sure, she was a little shy, but still, she has power and potential.
Sasuke snorted with distain as he walked away, towards his apartment. He had to train some more in order to pass so he will be one step closer to defeating his brother.
Naruto's stomach grumbled. Hungry, he went to find Iruku-sensei to con him into buying him some ramen since his house had close to nothing.
Kagome and Hinata exchanged glances as they silently communicated by their body motions before going to the training grounds to practice for tomorrow's test. They only spend time with each other after all and they had to find some way of communicating without letting others know what they were saying, especially 'Father'.
Besides, they had to pass... or else the Hyuuga patriarch will punish them.
"So… he made us get up here by five in the morning and sensei is not even here, huh?" Kagome fumed silently. I hate getting up before at least six o'clock.
Sasuke and Naruto twisted their bodies around to examine the usually silent girl, astonished that she would even talk, willingly. At the academy, the girl only did the minimum to pass and barely ever talked.
"Kagome, may-maybe he was called away by the Ho-Hokage?" Hinata tried to play the peace keeper but even she was feeling the effects of waking up so early in the morning only to have her efforts fall in vain.
"I know…" The blond boy slouched over, annoyed by their once again, no-show teacher. "I mean, WHAT THE HECK! He is supposed to be on time!" Flames seemed to burn behind the irate boy.
Silence ensued after that brief loud outburst.
Slowly, a malicious smile twisted across the blue-eyed girl's face, morphing Kagome's normally neutral round look into something demonic.
It sent shivers of fear down the spines of her new companions. She is scary when she smiles like that.
"I propose a way for revenge." Team Seven's youngest member chucked evilly at the thought of teaching her new sensei to not be late, ever, even while her team mates lean in eagerly to hear her plan.
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