Rogue of Konoha
A/N: in this chapter, I'm going to call Naru, Rogue, so yeah. Just warn you and clear any future confusion.
Naru
Behind her bored and seemingly always irritated face, Rogue was secretly smiling at all the stares she was getting.
They all seemed to have different reactions to her, but that was okay. It was fun to see someone underestimate her for her age and then wake up the next morning in the hospital was with a huge headache and brief memories of a fast-paced incoming orange glove.
She could tell from the brief glances she got from a blue-tinted arrogant boy, that he was arrogant and was sitting on his high horse comfortably. Some of the other Genin Hopefuls gave her looks of fear, not something that was out of the ordinary.
She had given one of her more heated stares when she given her name, still feeling embarrassed at not paying attention back when the door had first opened.
Some of them didn't really care, none so more than the now sleeping pine-apple head that had given her a brief calculating look before seeming to dismiss her.
After her introduction the teacher had quickly found her a seat by a seemingly shy girl that she had tried to make small talk with.
However, Rogue quickly grew irritated at the girl and her constant stuttering, and had backed out of the conversation as politely as her personality would allow her, really not wanting to say something that might hurt the girl.
After a few calls of names that Rogue didn't care to listen to, the teacher finally started the rundown for the Genin Test.
Rogue's official name was pretty far along the way, so she just leaned back and let out a frustrated breath of air.
A Few Hours Later...
Rogue almost bashed the pink-headed banshee's face in! Rogue, along with her new teammates Sasuke and Sakura, had been waiting for their sensei for the past three hours, and not once did Sakura seem to stop to take a breath.
She had met some annoying people in her life, mostly foster parents that tried to cozy up to her, but the little pink mop's voice hurt her ears!
Her teammate was going to either shape up soon, or become roadkill on the ground. She was prevented from finally yelling at the girl to shut up when the door to the room finally opened to reveal a gray-haired, one-eyed, Jonin, who was obviously their sensei, who she didn't recognize.
She had seen some of the Chunin and a few Jonin around the village or while training with the Hokage on Chakra Control, but this man was someone she was unfamiliar with.
He had a lazy feel about him, but Rogue could see the tenseness that all ninjas gained after a while.
Well, at least the ones who live.
Rogue was torn from her thoughts when the Jonin went to say something that would be apologetic or even neutral like she had seen the other sensei act when they got their teams.
"My first impression is...I hate you."
Okay, so not exactly apologetic, but he did get the neutral thing down, sort of.
"WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THE PAST THREE HOURS SENSEI!" Rogue cringed as her ear's archenemy berated their sensei. Rogue was irritated at their sensei too, but she didn't really care to show it, however Sakura's voice finally broke the dam that had built since she had entered the door that morning.
Rogue looked over in Sakura's direction and said "Sakura," getting the girl's attention, "Stop being so loud." Sakura cringed in slight fear as I gave her one of my stares of intimidation along with my quiet, but noticeable warning voice.
She gulped and sat back down, calmed down by the sudden surge of danger to herself.
Sasuke
Naru Uzumaki, or Rogue as she liked to be called, was certainly an enigma from Sasuke's point of view. Her clothes were definitely not built for hiding, but she had a certain feel about her that said 'don't underestimate me!'.
From the few glances that he had given her, he could already tell that she was strong and that she participated in the Genin Exam without any prior known training only left private training on her plate.
However, her name wasn't exactly unknown to him or really anyone in the village. Most people just knew her by name due to her reportedly distrusting nature, but there was a lot of talk about people constantly asking for guardianship for her.
He didn't know all the details about why, but it seemed that it had to do with something about a bloodline that she had somehow gained.
Sasuke wondered if the conservative cloths she wore had something to do with the bloodline, while the fact that she has a problem with people touching her also was due to her bloodline.
Throughout the entire time his new team was waiting he had sent glances at her and he would always find her in the same position of boredom and constant irritation, which wasn't veiled by the perpetual frown that was on her face.
However, he could believe she did have a good reason to be annoyed, which was that Sakura was either complaining about their sensei or trying to cozy up to himself.
Sasuke, himself, was annoyed by the fan-girl, but he had dealt with girls like her from day one and had grown as accustomed to the constant howling in ear as much as one could.
He was ripped from his thoughts when the door was opened to reveal what he could only guess was their sensei.
He glanced over to Rogue to check out her reaction, and getting a slight blow of surprise when she had a slight interested gleam in her eyes.
He hadn't known her for very long, but it was weird to see anything, but boredom in the girl's eyes.
He ignored Sakura's explosion of fury on their sensei, feeling a minor sense of agreement when it came to their thoughts on the their sensei, but was even more in agreement when Rogue finally had enough and snapped at Sakura.
Sasuke closed his eyes and quietly let out a breath of air, feeling very worried over his future with this team.
Sakura
Sakura was content, well almost content, their sensei hadn't shown up yet, but nonetheless, she was on Sasuke's team!
This was great, and was totally something she was going to brag about next time she saw Ino.
Sakura glanced at the clock, revealing that they had waited for a really long time, and made loud complaints for her teammates to here.
Yet, with a speed that would give anyone else whiplash, Sakura returned to her 'conversation' with Sasuke in hopes of finally getting him to talk to her.
She hadn't given much thought to her other teammate, but there was one thing that she could say right off the bat-she probably liked the color orange.
Either that or she had gotten mugged by oranges on the way here and was suffering the aftereffects of an overdose on citrus.
Sakura almost cringes at how conservative she was. Sure they weren't very old, but not even six-year-old children wore that much cloths.
The only skin she could see was her neck and her face, her face being something that was particularly hard to look at.
She wasn't ugly, oh no, but the girl seemed to have an aura of 'don't mess with me if you like you fingers where they are'. The permanent frown didn't help either, along with the fact she seemed irritated at something, and was close to snapping.
Where was their sensei!? Sakura internally fumed for a second before shouting out another complaint, still wondering on why Rogue looked like she was going to hit somebody. Another thing she didn't get about Rogue was how she didn't like 'touching', something she didn't really mind, but was still confused about.
I mean, why would somebody not like to be hugged? It just didn't really make sense to Sakura. Well, at least she didn't seem to be interested in Sasuke, though, she didn't seem to be interested in anything at all right now.
Sakura laid her head on the table, feeling very exhausted over her avid fuming, and was about to take a small nap finally when the sound of the door opening rang through the room.
Sakura looked up to see a man gray-haired man with his headband wrapped around one of his eyes.
It only took a few seconds before Sakura snapped, her rage getting the best of her instinct on good impressions due to their sensei's flippant statement that he hated them.
How rude! He was the one who had made them wait! Consequences be shunned, Sakura was going to speak her mind
"WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THE PAST THREE HOURS SENSEI!" She screamed with all her combined rage. What Sakura hadn't expected was the irritated command given by a deadly looking Rogue.
Few Minutes Later...Kakashi
Kakashi looked over his assigned team of this year, wondering how they would do in this years test. Over the years he had gotten quite a reputation for sending teams back to the academy and the title didn't hold any lies.
Kakashi didn't dislike any of the Genin on a personal level, but the way they didn't hold teamwork in high regards or even use it for that matter made Kakashi not hold back.
This year was different however. Where in other cases he would have random Genin that had gotten unlucky with him, this team was especially put together for many reasons by the Hokage.
For this reason, he couldn't exactly fail them as casually as he would any other team, but he wouldn't shy away from it either.
The fact that the Hokage put these three together really only made it more important for him to try harder in testing this team and trying to see if it had enough potential to flow with him as its guide.
The pink headed girl that had screamed at him when he had first walked in, Sakura was her name, seemed to be the most outspoken person in the group by a large margin.
She definitely was quite open about her thoughts, annoyingly so, but she had her upside to. From what the records held, she seemed to have amazing Chakra Control, something only limited by her rather small reserve.
The small reserve, however, could be mended relatively easy and nurtured to be more adequately sized in the future.
No, what the biggest problem about the girl was her crush on her teammate, Sasuke Uchiha. There was always a few bad eggs like her in the bunch, but it was really sad that such a young girl with hidden potential could be so obsessed over something that would never be truly in her grasp.
Thankfully, she didn't seem to be all bad and seemed to have the promise for greatness if she was worked with enough.
The target of her obsession, however, was a different case altogether. The boy had once been like any other child, albeit an arrogant one, which isn't surprising from the Uchiha, but that was before the massacre of his clan, his brother no less, and he now seemed to be a dark hearted avenger that was quite possibly a hazard at the moment.
However, with his extensive years of experience, Kakashi could see the specks of loneliness that sprinkled in his eye every once in a while.
It was like Sasuke wanted to go out, but his own revenge and promise to his dead relatives kept him from doing anything that might extinguish any amount of his hatred towards his brother.
Kakashi could empathize with the boy, having death with the heart wrenching sadness once he had realized he was the only person from his original team left.
Yes, Kakashi knew well enough how damaging certain things like that could be, and even now he had his moments of depression, something he remedied by going to the memorial stone almost every day. Yes, Sasuke was gong to be the one that would be the hardest to crack.
Yet, the one that he couldn't get out of his head was the last one.
Now, she probably had dealt with weird looks or continuous glances all through her life, especially the one she lived through, but that wasn't what he was talking about. It wasn't the color or design of the cloths she had on and neither was it the rather sour attitude that had taken permanent residence on her face. No, it was the fact that she looked like his old sensei, the Fourth Hokage.
They had the same blonde hair and the same cerulean blue eyes, the only difference being that Rogue, as she liked to be called instead of her real name, didn't have that happy twinkle in her eyes like Minato did. From what her files had told him, she had every right to not have that twinkle.
Being the Jinchuriki for the Kyuubi for the first few years of her life coupled along with the abuse that accompanied with the title, along with the fact that afterwords she had to deal with her previous haters kissing the ground she walked on due to her bloodline was a really good way to make someone distrusting for the most part and generally unhappy and irritated most of the time.
From his perspective, this team was probably the riskiest team ever. They all had personalities that would generally come into conflict at times,and he was the one that had to deal with it.
Yet, as he looked at this screwed up team, the thoughts of how messed up his Genin team was. It gave him hopeful thoughts on the future, lets just hope they play out well.
A/N: This is going to be a slow-growing story that I hope readers will be patient enough to read. The idea was good in my mind, and I still find it quite appealing, but I have lost my motivation on writing it. I won't abandon it, but it won't be one of my immediate concerns story-wise. On the other hand, thank you for reading!
Please give any suggestions that you may like, may be a pairing that you may find interesting. A pairing that I found kinda interesting was a Naru/Haku, you know to mirror the relation Rogue had with Iceman. Yeah. Also, should Sakura get an X-Men inspired power, maybe something 'kitty' like?