The second part of my story! Yay!

Chapter II: The Sensei

After lunch, Yumi, Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke joined their classmates to meet their new sensei. After about three hours of waiting, Iruka-sensei and all of the students had all left except for Team Seven.

Naruto opened the screen doors, peeked outside, and looked left to right, trying to find their sensei.

"Cut it out, Naruto!" Sakura scolded.

"Why are we the only cell whose teacher hasn't shown up yet?!" Naruto complained. "All the other teams have already gone off with their teachers. Even Iruka-sensei left!"

Yumi was irritated. Their sensei was really late, and her patience was long gone. She heard Naruto laughing with excitement, and she watched as he climbed on stool and shoved a chalk eraser in between the screen doors.

"It's what he gets for making us wait!" Naruto said defensively at Sakura's glare, before he jumped off the stool that he was standing on.

"Grow up!" Sakura told him harshly. "I want no part of it."

Yumi almost snorted. She could tell at inside, Sakura was bursting with excitement at this prank.

"Hmmf," Sasuke smirked, "no way could a superior shinobi could be caught by such a simple booby trap!"

"Somehow…" Yumi muttered, so softly that no one heard but herself, "I don't think so,"

A hand slid between the doors and opened it. The eraser promptly fell onto their sensei's head.

"HA HA HA HA! Gotcha! Good one!" Naruto yelled, pointing at their new sensei and laughing at his successful prank.

"I'm sorry, sensei." Sakura said, her voice dripping with honey, "I tried to stop him, but Naruto..." Sakura trailed off.

Suck up. Yumi thought viciously.

"Hmm..." Their sensei mused, "How shall I put this? Based on my first impression, I'd have to say...I hate all of you!"

They all stared at him.

After they had followed their sensei outside, he turned around and instructed, "Now, I'd like you all to tell us a little about yourselves,"

"Like what?" Sakura asked.

"You know. The usual. Your favorite thing...what you hate the most, dreams, ambitions, hobbies. Things like that," Kakashi answered, shrugging.

"Help us out here, coach!" Naruto whined. "You go first. Show us how it's done."

"That's right!" Sakura agreed. "After all, you're a complete stranger to us...a mystery,"

"Oh...me?" Their sensei replied thoughtfully, "My name is Hatake Kakashi. I'm the kind of person who doesn't feel like talking about his likes and dislikes! My dreams for the future are none of your business...but anyway, I have lots of hobbies..." Kakashi trailed off, looking up at the sky in thought.

Yumi silently laughed at him, thinking, Of course he wouldn't tell any of us anything. He doesn't even know us!

"Hey...he said a lot...but all we really learned was his name," Sakura whispered.

"Now, it's your turn. Starting with you on the right," Kakashi said, pointing at Naruto.

"Me, right?" he started cheerfully, "My name is Uzumaki Naruto! What I like is instant cup ramen! What I like even better is when Master Iruka treats me to ramen at the Ichiraku Noodle Bar! What I hate is the three minute wait after I pour in the boiling water." Naruto continued naming more things about himself, all of which pertained to ramen. Then he said something unexpected, "My dream is to one day... be a better shinobi than Lord Hokage! And then all the villagers will have to acknowledge my existence at last!" He said proudly. Yumi smiled at him. His eyes had always shone with a big dream, and this must have been it. "My hobbies are pranks and practical jokes, I guess."

"Next!" Kakashi called out.

"My name is Uchiha Sasuke." Sasuke said in his cold, uncaring voice, "There are plenty of things I hate, but I don't see how it matters, considering there is almost nothing I do like. It seems pointless to talk about 'dreams'...that's just a word...but what I do have is ambition. I plan to restore my clan, and there's someone I have sworn...to kill."

Interesting Character, Yumi thought, I wonder what happened to make him like that? Such pain in his eyes…he must have had a terrible past…

"Next!"

"My name is Uindo Yumi." Yumi said in a bored tone, "I like a lot of things, most of all dango, and I also hate a lot of things, including the cold and the heat. Gee, I have lots of hobbies too; mostly training and eating dango, but since you don't care about those, I won't elaborate. I don't really have any dreams, and if I did, they definitely don't concern you. That's all you need to know, and it would be wasting all of our times if I said any more." She shrugged and resumed staring off into space. The others stared at her indifferent being.

"And finally... the other young lady…" Kakashi said after a long pause.

"I am Haruno Sakura.!" She squealed. Yumi winced noticeably. "My favorite thing is...well, it's not a thing, it's a person. A boy...and that boy is...uh... let's move on to my dream." Sakura blushed furiously. "I hate...Naruto! My hobbies are—"

"Enough." Kakashi interrupted, cutting off Sakura, much to Yumi's relief. "I believe we all understand one another. Formal training begins tomorrow."

"Yes sir! What will our duties be? Our first real shinobi mission!" Naruto said excitedly, bouncing with energy.

"Our first project involves only the members of this cell."

"What is it? What?" Naruto asked eagerly.

"Survival exercises." Kakashi said simply.

"Survival exercises?" Naruto asked again, looking puzzled.

"But why would that be a mission?" Sakura's know-it-all attitude cut in, "Our school days were full of survival training!"

"But you'll have to survive against me. It won't be your typical practice." Kakashi explained.

"Well, then, what kind of practice will it be?" Naruto questioned further.

Kakashi snickered at the four of them. Yumi just rolled her eyes. Get on with it already! She silently yelled at him.

"The survival training is to determine whether we will continue being ninja or not," Kakashi answered smugly, still chuckling.

"What are you laughing about, Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura asked him with a hint of annoyance in her voice.

"Oh, nothing," he snickered, "it's just that...if I told you, you'd chicken out!"

"Chicken out...? Why!" Naruto said in disbelief.

"Of the twenty-eight members of your graduating class, only nine or ten will actually be accepted as junior-level shinobi. The other eighteen or seventeen must go back for more training. The test we are about to perform has a 66 rate of failure."

Sasuke, Sakura and Naruto looked disbelievingly at Kakashi, their mouths agape. Yumi ignored them, and listened intently to their sensei.

"Ha Ha Ha! See? You're chickening out already!"

"That sucks!" Naruto yelled furiously at Kakashi. "We've been through hell! What about our graduation test!"

"Oh! We wanted to eliminate all the hopeless cases from your ranks. The ones who are left are the only students who show true potential." He said carelessly.

"SAY WHAT!" Naruto screamed. Yumi winced at his deafening voice.

"In any event," Kakashi continued, ignoring Naruto. "We'll meet tomorrow morning on the practice field so that I can evaluate each of your skills and weaknesses. Bring all of your ninja tools and weapons. And don't have breakfast before-hand...unless you enjoy throwing up."

Yumi saw right through Kakashi's lie. Looks like I'll be having breakfast then–and a big one at that, she thought. He's trying to deceive us. First, he scares us with the 66 rate of failure. Then he makes the comment about throwing up. He obviously wants us to be hungry so he could split the team up. He wants us to fight over lunch. Interesting, Kakashi, but you can't fool me with those lies. Yumi smirked as Kakashi glanced over to her.

Just as Hokage-sama said, he thought defeatedly, I can't lie to her.

"Your assignments are in this handout. Memorize it, and don't be late!" he ordered, before disappearing in a puff of smoke.

"Throw up? How hard is this exercise going to be?!" Sakura asked in a panicky voice after he left.

"Don't listen to him," Yumi said coolly to Sakura.

"Huh?"

"He was lying. He wants us to go hungry so he can make us fight over lunch." She explained calmly.

"W–wait! How do you know that!" she demanded shrilly.

"Now if I told you, Sakura, that would suck the fun out of everything," she teased. Sasuke, who was listening to the whole thing, smirked at Yumi's answer. "The fact remains firm. He's lying. Eat breakfast, and eat plenty of it. I don't care whether you believe me or not, but I for one am going to eat a lot. See ya, I'm off to train." She calmly strode away from the other three, ignoring the astonished looks they gave her.

Well, once again, please review! This is a boring chapter; I know TT. And, also as always, GO WITH CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM! I REALLY want to know the bad points in my story, so I need lots and lots of criticism!