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Ch. 8
Sasuke carefully placed the scroll on his bed before dropping to the ground and prying open the wooden floor board. After stealthily looking around to make sure no one was looking he cautiously stored the scroll inside the hidden compartment. It was Sasuke's most prized possession and he wanted to make sure no one stole it.
It had mysteriously appeared approximately four years before with no name and no proof of ownership. Yet the kanji inside had been written with such grace and precision that Sasuke was sure that it had been meant as a gift, unless the mysterious benefactor had accidentally dropped it at the wrong apartment. That thought brought a smile to Sasuke's face as he imagined a strange figure bumbling around carrying the large scroll.
Sometimes Sasuke would wonder who had given him the scroll. He would day dream about secret relatives or friends of his parents who he had never met. Some of his theories were extremely farfetched. He once even thought it might have been Naruto's mom, before he dismissed such a ridiculous thought.
After closing the floor board Sasuke got up, brushed the dust off his clothes and went to prepare breakfast. Today was an important day in his career as a ninja. Today, Sasuke would be assigned a team and a sensei. He had passed the genin test two days ago with no problems, but the real test was still to come. Nerves had kept him up all night to the point where he had taken out the scroll and begun practicing.
Sasuke logically knew that there would be no problems today either. Two years ago a new program of accepting ninja into the elites had begun. The top nine students were taken in with no questions asked while any clan members or students with connections who weren't in the top nine were taken in as well.
Sasuke, Naruto, and even Ami had managed to make the top nine which was a cause for celebration. Naruto had confided that they were definitely going to be a genin team together under Hatake Kakashi. Sasuke wanted to trust in that, too, yet he couldn't quite get rid of the feeling of impending doom that had kept him up all night.
With a shrug, Sasuke grabbed a large tomato and began the long walk to the academy as he attempted to rationalize away his fears.
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As Sasuke walked towards the academy he nodded nonchalantly at a younger student named Hosei. Hosei saw Sasuke and waved before dashing over.
"You have no idea how nervous I am!" Hosei told Sasuke. Sasuke merely raised an eyebrow before shrugging.
Hosei scowled slightly before saying, "You have no sympathy for my plight! The program gets more and more popular each year. There's like ninety people to deal with this year! I have no idea how I'm going to take charge of all of them."
"Relax. Take it easy. Divide them into skill level and assign a deputy to each group while you watch over the whole thing. Just do what Naruto and I did last year. It's no biggie. Anyways don't you have genin ninja helping you most days?" Sasuke questioned.
"Yeah, yeah. I just don't get why you put me in charge of it. I bet there are tons of people who could do it better than me. Agh! It's so stressful" Hosei complained. Sasuke laughed at Hosei's plight before assuring him that he was definitely the best qualified to take over the summer program Sasuke and Naruto had started approximately four years ago.
He was just about to leave when a blond blur descended on them by exclaiming, "Are you doubting our judgment, Hosei? How dare you insult your elders in such a way!"
Naruto's voice held an air of authority that made Hosei crack up. He performed a mocking bow before proclaiming, "Of course not Namikaze-sama. I would never doubt you. I'm sure you have never made one wrong decision in your life."
Naruto grinned before giving a thumbs up and loudly declaring, "You got that right! Believe it!" Sasuke just groaned.
Ignoring Sasuke, Naruto focused his attention on Hosei as he poutingly asked, "You're not even going to wish us good luck on our team tests today? What kind of friend are you?"
Hosei looked surprised before he said, "I completely forgot! Good luck you guys! I'm sure you'll be fine, though, because, well, it's you guys. You're practically legends already. I'll be amazed if you aren't on the same team. I guess I'll see you after you're officially elites!"
"Yah yah! Believe it!" Naruto told him before he grabbed Sasuke by the arm and began dragging him towards the academy full speed. Sasuke didn't even bother complaining as he was used to it by now. How could he not be?
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"You're late," Ami told them angrily. She looked pissed as she told them, "I even went to all the trouble to save you guys seats and everything."
She pointed to the seats to the left and to the right of her both of which were empty. Sasuke casually looked around before asking, "How exactly are we late? No one else is even here yet. All the seats are empty."
"We agreed to meet at the school fifteen minutes ago to discuss our strategy! Jeez Sasuke. I don't care if no one else is here. You're still late," Ami complained.
"Discuss our strategy? Our strategy for what?" Sasuke questioned before continuing, "Anyways it's not like we meant to be late. We ran into Hosei on the way here. I couldn't just ignore him, you know. "
Ami huffed and turned slightly red before saying, "Excuses excuses. And it's our strategy for the genin test, duh. I mean I'm pretty sure we'll pass but I'm not taking any chances."
Naruto nodded seriously before sitting down in one of the chairs and saying, "I'm pretty sure we'll have Kakashi. He's late for everything. We're doomed, doomed, I tell you. Every day we'll spend hours upon hours waiting for him. I can see his face taunting me, taunting me! I wanna see his face!"
Naruto then diverged into mutterings about Kakashi's face and how he would one day see under that evil mask. Ami rolled her eyes at Naruto's dramatics before turning to Sasuke for his opinion. Sasuke shrugged before finally asking what had been bugging him all day, "Uh… What if we aren't together?"
Naruto looked up from his mutterings to laugh at that. "Don't be ridiculous. Of course we'll be together. It's pretty much assured. I know how these things work. There is no way we won't be together! Ask anyone. The moment the three of us became friends we were destined to be a genin team together," Naruto assured Sasuke with a sagely nod. Sasuke nodded slightly, but he still felt uneasy.
Slowly other students began to file in until everyone had arrived. Since it was their last day together as a class there was a lot of goofing off. Shikamaru was unsurprisingly sleeping while Ino drew on his face with ink. Sakura watched while Kiba laughed his ass off. Chouji watched the proceedings with a frown, but didn't do anything about it. Ino was scary, after all. Naruto tried to tempt Shino into an arm wrestling contest to no avail while Hibachi pestered Kota into lending him some ninja wire. Sasuke and Ami sat at their desks watching it all with faint amusement.
"I can't believe we're actually graduating. I feel like we just arrived, you know," Ami said nostalgically.
Sasuke glanced around before responding, "Yeah. And think of all we've done in just a short time. We already managed to change the system… if only a little."
Ami and Sasuke shared a faint smile and Sasuke noted absentmindedly that Ami's grey eyes were fairly glowing. For a while they sat in a comfortable silence.
"I wonder where we'll be four years from now," Ami finally said. Sasuke was about to answer, but Yakumi- sensei chose that moment to enter the class room.
Yakumi walked into the class room with an air of purpose. The classroom fell dead silent. His eyes rested on Ino before he sighed and did a face palm. He finally asked, "How old are you guys again?"
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After listening to a long winded explanation of how as ninja more was expected of them now, sensei finally got to the good part, the teams. Before listing each team Yakumi listed who would be in charge of the team. Sasuke had done a lot of preparation for this. He had memorized all the big shot jounin that Konoha had to offer. That way he would immediately know if a team was an elite team or a corps team based on the sensei.
"Team 1," Yakumi sensei began, "Under Hamaki Mimura…"
"Trash," Sasuke muttered. He didn't even bother to listen to the names. He already knew they were doomed to the corps anyways.
Nothing interesting happened until, "Team seven under Hatake Kakashi," Yakumi sensei called out. Sasuke sat up forward in his chair to listen. His eyes were wide as he stared up at Yakumi sensei. Naruto, who had been day dreaming, straightened up to listen as well. He turned to look at Sasuke and gave a small thumbs up. Ami, who had been paying rapt attention the whole time, leaned forward even more to hear sensei in preparation of their names being called.
"Namikaze Naruto, Kato Ami" Yakumi announced. Naruto and Ami shared gleeful looks before Ami grabbed Sasuke's hand tight and squeezed. Sasuke leaned forward waiting to hear his name complete the team.
"And Watanabe Habichi," Yakumi finished. Sasuke could feel his stomach dropping right out of his body.
"What!" Naruto yelled. Ami's mouth had dropped open in a horrified expression and she was practically squeezing the life out of Sasuke's hand. Sasuke was stuck in a daze. There was no way this had happened. It was all a dream. It had to be. If he closed his eyes shut and counted to three then when he reopened them it would all go away and he would be the one on team seven with Naruto and Ami.
Naruto was still shouting and the whole room had dissolved into uproar. Even Shikamaru looked surprised. Yakumi- sensei gave Naruto a quelling look before continuing on the list.
"Team Eight under Kurenai Yuhi, Inuzuka Kiba…" Yukumi sensei droned. But Sasuke could hardly hear him. He was still in a state of shock. Ami and Naruto were also no longer listening to the team assignments. They were instead staring at Sasuke with a look close to pity. Sasuke couldn't look at them. There was no way this could happen, no way.
He didn't snap back into reality until Yakumi sensei announced, "Sasuke, Hamada Fuki, and Oshiro Kota."
For a moment he sat there without saying anything. Neither Fuki nor Kota had been in the top nine. They had no connections either. As they were dismissed for lunch Ami said quietly, "You can still sit with us, you know, even though you're not on our team."
But Sasuke just jerkily shook his head before walking off by himself. The lunch was meant to be a time to be with your new teammates. He couldn't sit with Ami and Naruto. But he had no desire to go find his new teammates. Instead he went outside and leaned up against a tree. He closed his eyes and willed it all away. He was unsuccessful.
A voice interrupted, "Ah… Ss..Sasuke, uh, you wanna sit with us?" Kota's voice was shaking as he asked. Sasuke glanced up at him and stared for a moment. He looked nervous as hell. A part of Sasuke took pleasure in making Kota feel uncomfortable and he prolonged the moment for as long as possible before he shrugged and nodded.
The meal, which Fuki also attended, was conducted in tense silence. Kota kept giving Sasuke nervous glances before quickly looking away in fear and Fuki spent the whole time staring at her food refusing to make eye contact with either of them.
Sasuke spent the time watching the both of them his eyes narrowed before finally interrupting the silence. He calmly asked, "Who's our sensei again?"
For a while there was no answer, but eventually Fuki noticed that Kota would not answer and said, "Tekuno Kanden."
She spoke softly and did not even look up from her food. Sasuke nodded his head, but inside his hopes had plummeted. Their jounin was a nobody. He was destined for the corps. They ate the rest of their meal in a terse silence.
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"Yo kids. Welcome to team twelve! I'll be your sensei Tekuno Kanden," their sensei announced after they reached training ground five. Sasuke glanced at him. He was a little on the chubby side for a ninja, but besides that he looked completely nondescript. He had brown hair and brown eyes. In essence he was one of those faces you immediately forgot right after seeing. Sasuke thought rather vindictively that he looked just like Kota all grown up.
As their sensei played with his fingerless gloves, he smiled before announcing cheerily, "Why don't we do introductions? We'll start with you."
He pointed at Fuki who nodded slightly. Sasuke groaned. What was the point of doing introductions? Did they really think that after spending years together they had no idea who each other were?
"My name is Fuki. I enjoy tea ceremonies, flower arranging..." Fuki said in a calm voice as she clenched her hands together anxiously in her lap. However, instead of listening to the rest Sasuke began tuning her out and then Kota, as he aimlessly picked the grass. It's not like he needed to know these things, after all. They weren't really going to be a team after today, after they failed their genin test that is. Sasuke was already one hundred percent sure that they were going to fail. It was decided who was going to fail before hand and never had one of those teams passed, not even on some fluke. Sasuke was pretty sure they were given impossible tests that looked like they could be done, but really couldn't. He was also equally positive that his team was one of the teams selected before hand to fail.
"I like learning new things and asking questions, and solving puzzles, and my doggy Mike, umm and my family, oh I like soba noodles, too," Kota nervously rambled on and on. Sasuke idly wondered if Fuki had to use gel in her auburn hair to make it defy gravity the way it did.
He was startled out of his musing by Tekuno sensei's announcement that it was his turn. The way sensei was looking at him and Fuki's bored expression revealed that they'd been trying to get his attention for close to a minute. Sasuke snapped back to attention before announcing, "My name is Sasuke."
He didn't include anything else not because he was being snobby, but because he couldn't remember what they were supposed to say. He hadn't, after all, really been listening. Sensei was giving him a weird look clearly indicating that he should continue and Sasuke felt himself beginning to panic. What should he say?
"Uhhhh. I like tomatoes?" Sasuke questioned.
Sensei nodded slightly before prodding, "Dislikes?" he asked.
Sasuke didn't have to even think before he claimed, "I dislike annoying people, being woken in the morning for no reason, and people always intruding in my house because they can."
Sensei nodded wisely as if Sasuke had just told him the meaning of life and Sasuke decided that he had said enough. Fuki, though, was still staring at him.
"You missed one. Dream for the future," she said finally. Sasuke glanced at her for a moment in annoyance.
"Fine. I want to be a great ninja," Sasuke said in an exasperated tone.
"Now that we've been introduced we might as well start the test," Tekuno sensei said, "I have a plank of wood right here."
He showed it to the three of them. Sasuke glanced at it. It was small, fancy looking, and had kanji engraved in it.
After they'd gotten a good look sensei continued, "In the next, say, five hours you will have the mission of tracking me down, beating me, and taking this from me. If you can complete this mission successfully you will officially become elite genin of Konoha. If you fail, though, you will be sent to the ninja corps. Understood?"
They nodded and with that he disappeared. Both Fuki and Kota immediately turned to Sasuke for a battle plan. After all, they were used to him taking charge during the summer program. But, Sasuke just stood there with a bored expression and his hands shoved in his pockets before plopping down in the grass. Kota frowned before asking excitedly, "So, what are we going to do, Sasuke?"
"Isn't it obvious?" Sasuke asked, "We're going to do nothing."
Kota stared at him in shock and Fuki's eyes narrowed at him before she said carefully, "If we do nothing then we'll fail."
"I know. But if we do something we'll fail as well. Not to sound Shikamaru like, but we're better off just doing nothing," Sasuke said.
Kota stared at him before angrily asking, "What do you mean? Shouldn't we at least try? How do you know we're going to fail?"
Sasuke glanced at him with a bored expression before inquiring, "Kota you're really good at sensing people's chakra, right? At last summer's program couldn't you find people when they hid, even in the market district? Did you get a read on sensei's chakra?"
Kota simply nodded before saying, "Of course I did. Do you think I'm an idiot?"
Sasuke merely yawned as Fuki watched the exchange with interest. "Ok. Find Tekuno sensei right now. It shouldn't be that hard," Sasuke requested.
Kota sat calmly for a couple minutes as he traced sensei's chakra. After searching fruitlessly he eventually gave up before announcing, "I can't find it."
Fuki's eyes widened and Sasuke nodded unsurprised. "No genin could find it. Don't you understand? They're failing us on purpose. Sensei is aware that we're genin. He's aware of our limitations, yet he's purposely acting at a level that we can't compete with. Even if by some chance we could find him he'd just demolish us in the fight. Either way you look at it we're screwed. We might as well give up while we're ahead," Sasuke told them. They sat in silence for a moment. Sasuke sat picking the grass staring up into the sky.
"If you're given an S-class mission can you just give up while you're ahead?" a soft voice interrupted, "Isn't it the job of the ninja to complete the mission no matter the consequences even if it is death?" Fuki asked.
Sasuke glanced up at her in surprise and then annoyance, "Don't you get it?" he angrily asked, "It's not a matter of completing a mission. This is impossible, impossible either way you look at it! They've set us up to fail!"
"Aren't you the one who said, "We're ninja, ninja cheat. Get used to it," when you and Naruto were competing last year? So what if the uppers set us up? So what? Aren't we ninja? We'll just cheat." Fuki said determinedly. Sasuke stared at her for a moment before blinking and shaking his head in dismay.
Kota sat for a moment deep in thought before he timidly asked, "Hey Sasuke? Our jounin sensei, he's not the best jounin out there, is he?"
Sasuke snorted before saying, "Far from it. Why?"
"Well… we're not on the level to track or even beat Tekuno sensei, are we? But there are plenty of people who are, right? So… so… why not have one of them do it for us? As long as we get the board does it really matter how we do it?"
Sasuke stared at him for a second before muttering, "Have someone do it for us?"
Fuki grinned slightly before saying, "I think that could be counted as cheating. Good thing we're ninja, right Sasuke?"
"Yah… that would… that would actually work. You're a genius Kota! But first we'd have to find someone who has that skill level and at the same time could be fooled by us. There's no one that stupid, is there?" Sasuke questioned.
"Well… there's that one creepy fishnet lady who's pretty easy to rile up. Of course we'd have to rile her up at Tekuni-sensei and not us… which might be difficult," Fuki mentioned.
Kota looked alarmed, "The snake lady? No way! She's scary! She'd skewer us. That sounds like an awful idea."
Sasuke meanwhile was smirking evilly. He glanced up at the two of them before saying, "Don't worry Kota. We're not going to bother the scary snake lady. I have a much, much better idea."
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"Sasuke! It's such a surprise to see you without Naruto! What are you doing here? Wasn't your genin test today?" Kushina questioned.
Sasuke put on his best innocent face before saying, "Yes, it was Namikaze-san. My team and I were lucky to pass with flying colors. I came here to see if Naruto was done so we could go celebrate."
"Oh how many times do I have to tell you, Sasuke? There's no need to be so formal! Just call me Kushina! And sorry Naruto's not back yet. You know I kind of thought you'd be on the same team," Kushina told him easily.
Sasuke nodded before looking extremely disappointed, "Yah me, too. But it's not that big of a deal. I like my teammates. It's just my sensei…" Sasuke trailed off.
Kushina glanced at him with a slight motherly frown, "Your sensei?" she questioned.
"Well… I don't know if I should be telling you this… but he's a bit of a pervert," Sasuke said calmly. Kushina looked surprised before she sighed.
"Aren't they all?" she questioned. Sasuke nodded at her slightly.
He then continued in his most nonchalant voice, "Yah… but sensei almost takes it too far. He's really my only role model besides you, you know? Cuz I'm an orphan and all. But I don't want to turn out like that, too. And it wouldn't be a problem, not really, but sensei wants me to become like him. It's really scary," here he gave Kushina his best puppy dog eye look before continuing, "Like today he showed me pictures."
"Pictures," Kushina muttered as her eyes narrowed slightly. Sasuke nodded all innocent like.
"Yeah pictures. And they… they were of, of female ninja," Sasuke said in an embarrassed tone.
Kushina stared at him before mumbling, "Pictures of kunoichi?"
"Uh huh. And they were they, they weren't wearing anything…It was really really scary!" Sasuke claimed.
"Sasuke this is important. Did you recognize any of those kunoichi from the pictures?" Kushina asked seriously. Sasuke blushed profusely before nodding in an embarrassed fashion.
"There was even one of you," he said finally as he looked at the ground with a blush covering his cheeks. For a moment Sasuke though Kushina hadn't heard. She was staring at the ground, but when she looked up her eyes were practically on fire.
"Who's your sensei, Sasuke?" Kushina asked in a creepily calm monotone. Barely containing his evil grin, Sasuke told her and Kushina nodded before saying in the same creepy monotone, "I'll be back later Sasuke. Don't worry about your sensei."
Sasuke smirked after the retreating kunoichi. Kushina was moving with fire in her eyes as she angrily muttered about different ways of torturing perverted senseis.
"She's scary," Fuki muttered, "I almost feel bad for sensei."
She shivered slightly and Kota looked at her and nodded before muttering, "I suppose there was a reason she was known as the red hot-blooded habanero."
"Do you have a track on her Kota? We'll follow her stealthily from behind. Once she's beaten sensei up really badly we'll go in and take the board of wood. Hopefully without her noticing," Sasuke said with an air of authority completely ignoring what Fuki and Kota had been mumbling about.
Kota nodded before saying, "Yeah. It's actually pretty easy to follow because her chakra is so distinctive. It's weird. I wonder if it's because she's from whirlpool?"
Both Sasuke and Fuki shrugged. Did it really matter? Meanwhile Kushina in front of them was swearing quite heavily. Once she got her hands on that pervert she'd send him straight to hell. One thing that was bothering her though, was that he was hiding himself. It didn't make sense. Did he know she was coming?
"Whatever bastard! I'll find you either way! Prepare to die," she angrily yelled.
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Kanden was actually having a pretty nice day. Even though he had to fail those brats his test let him pretty much do whatever he wanted all day. It was a nice feeling. He sat calmly sipping his tea at his favorite restaurant. What a nice relaxing day it was. In the distance he idly noticed a red streak coming closer and closer.
"Weird. What is that?" was poor Tekumi sensei's last thought before he was assaulted by an angry Kushina-san. By this point she had picked up more reinforcements among the kunoichi of Konoha. Poor Tekumi was swiftly knocked out, horribly beaten, and left for dead.
After Kushina and the others left him to lie broken on the floor forever dubbed a pervert Sasuke followed by Fuki and Kota came forth. Approaching slowly and cautiously Sasuke kicked their sensei in the side to see if he would move. He did not. With a nod Fuki came forward and took the wooden board from Tekumi's flak jacket. Kota put his hand on Tekumi's neck to assure himself that the man had a pulse.
"Maybe we should take him to the hospital?" Kota nervously mentioned. Sasuke and Fuki merely stared at him with raised eyebrows and Kota shrugged before muttering, "Or maybe not."
"The test is over," Sasuke muttered, "We won." Fuki nodded.
She looked at the two of them questioningly before asking, "Should we wake him?"
Sasuke shrugged in a why not expression and Kota nodded hesitantly. Fuki took out a water pouch from her pocket and proceeded to open it over Takumi's face. Both Sasuke and Kota stared at her in surprise.
"Um… you know you could have woken him up another way," Sasuke questioned. Fuki looked at him before smiling slightly and nodding.
"I know," she said.
"Oh…" was Sasuke's only response. Kota was staring at Fuki with fear and dawning respect as Takumi sensei sputtered to life.
Sasuke looked down at sensei before swinging the wooden board in his face and saying, "Hey sensei, I think we won."
It took Tekumi sensei a moment to process what was going on in front of him, but when he did his eyes widened.
"What? How… How did you?" he questioned before it dawned on him, "You sicked Namikaze-san on me!"
Sasuke grinned slightly before looking at both Fuki and Kota and saying in an innocent tone, "Now sensei, we would never do something like that. I'm hurt and astonished you would think something like that. We just happened to come upon you in this state and took the opportunity to borrow this little wooden board."
He maliciously waved it back and forth in front of Yakumi's face who sighed and then sagged with defeat.
"You're right. You win. Ugh… I have no idea how I'm going to explain this to the Hokage," he complained.
Fuki's eyes narrowed and she stepped closer to sensei in an almost threatening manner before asking angrily, "So you admit that you were supposed to fail us? That you weren't even going to give us a chance at the elites?"
Yakumi shrugged before saying, "What does it matter? You won anyways. Ugh. Let's go out for dinner to celebrate. My treat! At least then I can put off explaining this to the Hokage. I'm never going to live this down, you do realize that right?"
At that statement Kota smiled, Sasuke laughed, and Fuki merely looked pleased. They'd succeeded. They were officially going to be elites.
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Tekuno slouched slightly as his fellow jounins snickered as he told his story. He'd expected to just come in and say his team failed, but they'd managed to surprise him and were now making him look bad and in front of all his colleagues, too. He'd kill them one day. He really would.
The Hokage nodded sagely at what he said. Before saying, "Well this presents us with a slight problem. No offense to you, Tekuno, but you are not equipped to teach three fresh genin and mold them into the elite of the elite."
Tekuno nodded easily well aware of his shortcomings. It had never been a serious expectation that he would be a jounin sensei.
"We will have to find a suitable sensei for them, then," the Hokage continued.
Hamaki, a fellow jounin, questioned urgently, "Hokage-sama you can't be seriously considering letting those three become elites, can you?"
"How can I not after their display today? Can you say anyone is more suited for the elites? They beat up a jounin sensei without even touching him once. Can you claim the same?" the Hokage asked calmly. The jounin began muttering among themselves at that. It was an impressive feat especially for kids fresh out of the academy.
After they settled down Sarutobi continued, "I will admit this is completely unprecedented. I suppose it just goes to show their talent. They will need a suitable teacher. However, I cannot just force a jounin to suddenly become a teacher. I will need at least two weeks before one will be available. In the interim, the question arises of what to do with them?"
Kurenai Yuhi spoke up then and suggested, "We could put one of them with each of our teams."
Both Kakashi and Asuma groaned at that suggestion. It would mean more work for them.
"While it's a nice idea in theory having an extra member would throw off your group dynamics and not allow the three of them to grow as a group either," Sarutobi said tiredly.
Another jounin volunteered his idea by saying, "You could send them to the ninja corps until their jounin sensei becomes available."
The Hokage nodded at that suggestion before saying, "While a nice suggestion I think their time would be better spent elsewhere. Tekuno, at least until we find their permanent sensei, would you mind training them? It would only be for a couple weeks."
The Hokage's tone brooked for no argument and reluctantly Tekuna agreed. He was really going to kill those kids one day. He really was.