All Over Again
-By Bananamilkshake101
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Naruto Shippuden
No manga spoilers
Currently, the newly formed Team 7 were sitting outside with Kakashi in front of them.
"So, tell me about yourselves." Kakashi said plainly. All three Genin gave him questioning looks. "Like, tell me your name, likes, dislike, hobbies, dreams for the future?"
"Why don't you show us first?" Sakura asked, trying to make the event seem more similar to the one she once lived.
"My name is Hatake Kakashi. I have no intention of telling you my likes and dislikes ...my hobbies are none of your business. Dreams for the future? Hmm." He finished with a thoughtful expression.
"So basically, all we found out about you was your name?" Naruto said, annoyed. Kakashi grinned back at him through his mask.
"Now you go, Sakura," kakashi instructed.
"Urrm, my name is Haruno Sakura. I like my friends to spend time with them. I don't like people who think too much of themselves." Sasuke raised his head slightly at this. "My dreams for the future? I want to be a skilful kunoichi," the pink haired girl smiled. 'Simple enough,' she thought to herself.
The sensei then swiveled his head to face Naruto. "I am Uzumaki Naruto, dattebyo!" Naruto said loudly with a goofy grin on his face. "My hobby is to compare different kind of cup ramens. I like the ramen that Iruka-sensei got me, and I hate waiting the three minutes after pouring the boiling water into ramen. My dream is to become the greatest Hokage that his ever lived!"
Everyone looked to Sasuke. "Hn, my name is Uchiha Sasuke. There are few things I like and a lot of things I dislike. I train to work up to my dream- no, not dream. I will not let it be just a dream- it is my ambition, to kill a... certain man." By now, a dark and deathly aura was enveloping the Uchiha boy.
'Gulp, I hope he doesn't mean me,' Naruto thought nervously to himself.
'Just as I suspected...' Kakashi thought.
"Yosh!" Kakashi said as he stood up. "Tomorrow, Team 7 will meet at the Training Grounds at 5.00am sharp." He then began to walk away.
"Chotto matte! (Hey wait!)" Naruto called. Kakashi stopped his tracks and turned to the boy. "We just graduated from the academy, why do we need to do more training?!"
"This isn't just training Naruto. It's a survival test. Oh and remember, you won't want to eat any breakfast..." With the tension hanging in the air, Kakashi disappeared in a puff of dark grey smoke.
Naruto had a confused expression dancing across his tanned face while sakura feigned the same. Sasuke wore a thoughtful look.
"Ne, Sakura-chan, let's go to Ichiraku ramen to have some ramen! My treat!" Naruto offered.
"If it's your treat then that means it'd be a date Naruto," Sakura told him.
"Even better!" He grinned, waiting for the rejection.
"Sure," Sakura smiled.
A bright red blush and a huge, teethy smile were both present on the boys face. "Come on!" He shouted excitedly, grabbing the girls hand and dragging her of.
"Losers," Sasuke growled to himself and kicked a lone rock before heading to his empty home.
"And that's how I got my Genin rank," Naruto said as he slurped up the remains of his ramen from the white bowl. "Another one please, Old Man Ichiraku!" Naruto ordered.
"Coming right up!"
Naruto had just finished telling Sakura how he got his Ninja Headband. 'Oh, so that's how it happened,' the girl thought. She never really found out how that happened...
After quickly finishing his fresh bowl, Naruto laid more-than-enough money on the table (probably just to show off) and then offered to walk Sakura home.
"Okay, since it is kind of late now," Sakura agreed.
The two walked in a comfortable silence, Naruto folded his hand at the back of his head.
"Thanks for the ramen Naruto, I had a great time," Sakura thanked.
"N-No problem Sakura-chan!" Naruto laughed.
"Bye!" Sakura called and Naruto waved back.
'Everything's finally going perfect for me!' Naruto thought to himself as he made his way home through the greenery of the village. 'The only bad thing is that the teme is part of the team. But at least Sakura-chan is finally warming up to me!'
The boy heard quiet footsteps but chose to ignore them.
'She might even come to like-like me later!'
He then noticed that the footsteps still hadn't stopped, and oddly were following him. He pretended to not notice and continued walking, and then suddenly jerked back.
"Who's there?" He called. He then made out the side of a purply-bluish head. "Hinata?" He said, confused.
The girl jumped in shock and then blushed. "N-Naruto-kun..." she half whispered.
"Ne, Hinata, have you been following me?" Naruto asked, confused.
"NANI?!" she then shook her head from side to side ferociously whilst turning a deep shade of red.
"Oh, okay. I thought someone was. Oh well!" Naruto dismissed the thought. "So where are you going?"
"Oh me? I'm g-going home." She answered shyly.
"Urrrm okay. It's getting late now so I'll walk you," he offered with a smile. Hinata nearly fainted on the spot. She gave a quick nod and walked besides him, twiddling her fingers and facing downwards.
"Sakura-chan? You're late! And so is our sensei!" Naruto shouted. "You know, I've been here with this bastard for hours Sakura-chan, hours!" He cried.
"Tch, standing by you wasn't what I'd call entertainment either," Sasuke told him.
"Shut up you teme. Anyway Sakura-chan, what took you so long?" Naruto asked her. Sasuke also raised his head to listen to her reply.
"Well, I figured that since Kakashi-sensei was late on our first meeting, he'd most likely be late again," Sakura lied smoothly.
"Wow I never thought of it like that. You're so smart Sakura-chan!" Naruto praised. Sakura just thanked him.
The three waited another hour before Naruto was on the verge of a break down and Kakashi just came in time.
"Yo." He greeted. The three just looked at him. "So today is your survival test. This is what you have to do," he pulled two silver bells out of his pocket and in front of the Genin. "Your task is to try and get these bells from me."
"That's going to be easy!" Naruto exclaimed.
"You're allowed to use your kunai and shuriken." Kakashi informed.
"But sensei, wouldn't that hurt you?" Sakura asked innocently.
"Trust me Sakura; you'll need them..." Kakashi finished mysteriously before disappearing.
The remaining three dashed to their own separate paths immediately.
"Now that they're gone, I can finally beat you!" Naruto said loudly with a goofy grin on his face. Kakashi turned to face the boy.
'First I'll hide and watch Naruto like I did before. And when I go see Sasuke again, I am not going to faint' Sakura told herself.
Time had quikly passed and Sakura was now stood infront of a familiar head, and just couldn't help but laugh at him. "Hahahaha Sasuke's just a head! Where's your body?" she giggled.
"Shut up and get me out of here, idiot." Sasuke growled at her.
"Well if you're going to be like that, I might just leave you so me and Naruto can get the bells," Sakura teased. But he took it seriously- of course.
"What! No way in hell am I going to let you two take the bells!" The boy then began to struggle in the ground as hard as he could.
"Calm down Sasuke, I was only joking," Sakura told him before sitting in front of him with her legs crossed. "Now I want to tell you what I think this test is really about..."
After Sakura had finished explaining the motive behind the training, Sasuke stared at her as if she was the stupidest person alive.
"Okay, now we need to go find Naruto." As soon as the words fell from Sakura's mouth, Naruto was seen hanging upside down from a tree.
"Naruto!" she shouted as she ran towards him, leaving a blank-faced Uchiha behind her.
'Why is she acting so different all of a sudden...?' he thought to himself.
"So you think teamwork is the answer, Sakura-chan?" Naruto half shouted.
"Hai, Naruto," she confirmed.
"To be honest, I'm surprised the teme's here too..."
"Yeah, it took a lot of convincing to get him here," Sakura smiled.
"Hn."
"So here's what we do..." Sakura told them her plan.
"Hey sensei," Sakura casually walked up to the grey haired man holding an orange book. "What's that you're reading? Icha Icha Paradise? Oh, I've read that; it's great! Have you gotten to the part where-"
"Shhhh! I haven't read it all yet! No spoilers!" Kakashi shouted.
"Oh sorry, I just wanted to know if you've read the bit when-" Kakashi pushed the palm of his hand onto her mouth to shush her, when a swarm of shuriken came toward him, which he swiftly dodged.
Naruto and Sasuke stood together side-by-side, with weapons ready at hand.
"Okay, we'll do an all out attack together!" Naruto shouted as each Genin charged at him...
"Ow!" Naruto pouted as he dabbed a towel at his wound." I can't believe we lost!"
"Yeah..." Sakura sighed, holding a wet cloth to her arm.
"Hn." Sasuke spoke whilst wrapping his legs in bandages.
Kakashi walked up to the members of Team 7, finally putting his book down. The three immediately looked up at him. "I see you are all eager to hear the results," Kakashi said. "You all... pass."
"What?!" Passed through the mouths of Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura.
"You all pass. You figured out the motive behind the test: teamwork. Why else do you think that shinobi are always split into platoons when going on mission?" The three looked at each wide-eyes (Sakura faking of course).
"I'll see you tomorrow for your first mission together as Team 7," with that said, Kakashi left.
"We passed!" Naruto sung aloud whilst jumping as high as he could. Sakura laughed at his behaviour and Sasuke looked away from him in annoyance to his childish actions.
"Ne, Sakura-chan, let's go celebrate with some ramen!" Naruto said whilst pulling the laughing girl away.
An unknown emotion stabbed through the Uchiha boy's chest. 'Why am I feeling like this? I don't care about Sakura- she's a nuisance. If she wants to learn how to be as stupid as the dobe, she can spend as much time with as she wants!'
Sasuke walked back to his empty home...
A/N Finished the chapter ;) I hope you liked it! I'm soryy it was short, I just wanted the bell test in this one. Since it's the Christmas holidays fro me now in school, I'm going to have more time to update my story xD Those who read my story 'Uchiha Sakura' will be happy to know that I've started the next chapter (at long last) :p. Please read my other stories :D And if I don't update again by Christmas, Merry Christmas!
Anime Spoiler- Don't read if you haven't seen the latest shippuden episode (343: Who Are You?)
OMG Obito! :o :o :o Just kdding, I knew! Stupid facebook! Why did I have to like the show? All the spoilers came up in my news feeds a while ago and I couldn't help but reading them :'( Please don't message me anymore spoilers :)
Please review, thanks :D
-Mary x