A.N: Ahhh, this chapter was pretty fun to write. I was actually smiling when I wrote it. I hope you guys enjoy it! The only other thing I can think about is: I hope you review!
Discliamer: I do not own Naruto
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Chapter Eight
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"Where is he?" Naruto grumbles, crossing his arms over his chest and closing his eyes, laying down ontop of the desk, "Shikamaru's team left, Kiba's team left, matter of fact, Ami's team left!" Naruto puffs his cheeks out in annoyance, "Iruka-sensei even ditched us!"
"Oh, be quiet, Naruto." Sakura mumbles, resting her head on Sasuke's shoulder, "We are just as annoyed as you are, we are waiting here too, silly." Sakura then, stretches her legs out underneith the desk and blows some of her bangs out of her face.
"What else am I suppose to do then? I believe I have the right to complain. He has already made us wait for a couple of hours. If he isn't here in the next five minutes I am leaving. I'm dragging you guys too, rather you like it or not." Naruto informs, sticking his tongue out at them childishly.
"If you leave Naruto, you will never be able to become a ninja. How do you know our sensei is a 'he' anyways?" Sakura replies, rolling her eyes, "Are you trying to tell me girls can't be great ninjas?" Sasuke glances over at Sakura and shakes his head. Why that little brat. She's trying to make Naruto guilty. He turns his gaze to Naruto, who 's looking at her with fear in his eyes, and it's working. Sadly, I'd probably fall for it too. Sasuke thinks, resting his chin on his folded hands.
"I-I'm sorry Sakura-chan! You know you and Hinata are awesome at fighting! Please, oh please don't give me that look anymore! You can beat me and Sasuke at times, so you are obvious good!" Naruto tries, not noticing the sensei entering.
"Oh? The female ninja can defeat both of you guys?" A male says, raising his eyebrow in amusement. He has long, spikey white hair, and dark eyes. His head band is tilted to the left, covering his eye. He also has a mask that covers his lower-half face. He's also wearing the standard jonin outfit.
"Oh, so the sensei finally decided to show up?" Sakura grumbles, sending her new sensei an evil glare, "It took you long enough." She huffs, lifting her head up from Sasuke's shoulder.
"Hmm..." The male mumbles, raising his eyebrow higher, "My first impression of you, girl, is that I hate you." He smiles lightly under his mask, even though they can't see it. "Meet me up on the roof." He forms a hand sign and teleports away, leaving them alone.
"The sensei hates you, Sakura-chan!" Naruto shouts, laughing and holding onto his sides, "You did insult him though, so you did deserve it. Why are you so cranky now, anyways?"
"Naruto..." Sakura whispers angrily, "Shut up." She stands up and quickly runs out of the room, leaving the boys in her dust. Naruto turns to Sasuke, waits for him to stand up, before racing him to the top.
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"I want you all to introduce yourself, and before you even ask, girl, I will tell you what I want you to say." The sensei informs, watching Sakura close her mouth and cross her arms over her chest, "Tell me what your name is, likes, hates, dreams, and hobbies."
"How about you go first?" Naruto asks, noticing Sakura glaring daggers at the other male.
"My name is Kakashi Hatake, I like many things, and dislike a few. I haven't thought of my dream really; as for hobby, I have a lot of them." The male, Kakashi, says smiling.
"My name is Naruto Uzumaki! I like eating ramen, but I hate waiting for the three minutes for it to cook! My hobby is training with teme and Sakura-chan, and pranking! My dream is to become the best Hokage in the village, ever! I want to be respected by everyone, and show them they have no right to treat me like trash!" Naruto introduces himself, adjusting his headband happily. Kakashi nods, signaling for the next one to go.
"My name is Sasuke Uchiha. I like tomatoes, training, competing with Itachi and Naruto, and winning against Sakura. I hate losing to Sakura, and the color orange." He narrows his eyes at Naruto's outfit, "It's a very distracting color, and it can lure anyone to pay attention to you - not good for a mission, dope. - My hobby is training with Sakura, Naruto, and sometimes Itachi. My dream is to become the best ninja in the world, and to be able to protect those who I love." Sasuke mumbles the last bit to himself with a small smile on his lips. He may be cold to everyone outside his group, but everyone who is inside his group knows better. He is a very caring guy who is very protective over those who he loves.
"And last?" Kakashi asks, looking over at the female of the group, who is still glaring at him.
"Sakura Haruno." Sakura introduces herself, not answering anymore of his questions. Kakashi stares into her green eyes curiously, waiting for her to continue. She only shakes her head at him, sending him a smirk that he sees only Uchiha's using, "I guess you should of thought about what you said first, you aren't getting any information out of me, jerk." She informs him.
"Well, I guess that doesn't really matter anyways, Sakura." Kakashi chuckles, sending her a grin, "After all, you guys will most likely fail."
"What?" Naruto demands, pointing at him accusingly, "What do you mean we most likely won't be able to pass?"
"Oh?" Kakashi asks, tilting his head to the side, "Out of all of you who graduate, only nine of you will pass. You have a sixty-six percent chance of failing. We will be able to find out if you pass tomorrow, with a survival test. I suggest you guys don't eat breakfast. I want you to meet me tomorrow in training ground seven, at five in the morning."
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"Well, your adopted daughter is certainly interesting, Kenji." Kakashi mumbles, flipping a page in his book and glances over at his partner, who is Sakura's guardian.
"Aa, you insulted her, didn't you?" Kenji asks, sending him a smirk, "She's a feisty girl, and she has her protective boys around her most of the time." He watches as Kakashi stare at him blankly, "I'm not just talking about the Uchiha and Uzumaki. She has the other male members of team eight and ten wrapped around her finger, I'm pretty sure Itachi and Shisui are protective over her too."
"So, she's a heart-breaker?"
"Not really. She doesn't seem too interested in finding a boyfriend." Kenji mumbles, running his hand through his head sighing, "I really hope she doesn't get interested in any of them. I have a feeling some of them have a crush on her, but it's hard to tell. So I'm going to need you to keep tabs on her when she passes your test. Understand?"
"When she passes?" Kakashi asks, chuckling, "I doubt they will be able to pass, Kenji."
"Uh huh, I'm pretty sure they will. They have a natural act of teamwork." Kenji replies happily, "Sakura has an act of leading, and she's pretty smart, she can usually plan for missions quickly. Not to mention - when they train with me and Sakura - they work together. If you are planning to do the bell test like you usually do, they will pass. As long as they keep their heads clear; I highly doubt that they want to go ahead of each other."
"We'll just have to see, won't we, Kenji?" Kakashi hums, standing up. He waves his hand lazily before disappearing in a cloud of smoke.
"Sakura, if you lose, I promise you that your training will be twenty times worse. No, make that one hundred times worse!" Kenji mumbles, crossing his arms over his chest and glancing over at another ninja.
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"Good luck, Saku-chan, and remember what I've told you throughout the whole time you've trained with me. I can't tell you what, but that doesn't mean I can't give you a hint." Kenji explains, sending her a small smile, "I also wanted to tell you, that you've met Kakashi before. He actually watched you for a couple of days when I was sent on a mission."
"You mean he was the pervert with the orange book?" Sakura gasps, her small hand covering her mouth, "I knew he looked familiar! And that jerk was so rude to me!" She growls out, her left eye twitching, "He's going through hell." She turns on her heel and storms away, leaving her guardian chuckling.
"Oh, Kakashi, you are screwed. An angry Sakura is not one to deal with - just wait until she starts her..." He stops and shivers, "Those weeks are going to be like going through hell."
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Sakura hums softly to herself while walking through the streets, heading towards the Uchiha compound. She knew Sasuke's probably having a hard time getting Naruto up. He never was a morning person, after all. Sakura thinks, smiling lightly. Sakura stops in front of the gates and nods at the guards. They immediately let her in, and she continues to walk towards the main household.
"Sakura-hime! It's so good to see you again!" An Uchiha yells, landing right in front of her. He wraps his arms around her waist and picks her up, spinning her around. "I missed you so very much! I was so disappointed when I was sent out on a mission - the night you decided to spend the night, too! What rotten luck do I have, eh?" The Uchiha continues walking towards the main household, "Picking up the brats again? You graduated, didn't you? So you're probably taking a test today. It's kind of early for that though... It's only four in the morning, princess." He grins at her.
"You are giving me such a bad headache, Shisui-chan. I don't see how you are a Uchiha. Most of you are emotionless walking ice cubes. Sasuke isn't though, and neither is Itachi-chan..." She taps her chin lightly, "Mikoto-chan is definietly not Uchiha-like. Fugaku-sama smiles at me occasionally." She gasps, "I make you Uchiha's un-Uchiha like!" She concludes, giggling. He rolls his eyes and walks into the house.
"Mikoto-chan! I brought someone here; I'm sure you'll be thrilled to have her here!" Shisui announces, setting Sakura down on the ground. He bends over and places his forehead on hers, "Of course you make us 'un-Uchiha like!'. You just break our hearts, princess. We'll all do anything to protect you. Not to mention if something does happen to you, Mikoto-chan will murder us all." Shisui places a small kiss on her cheek, smirking the famous Uchiha smirk when he saw her cheeks tinting pink.
"What did you do to Sakura, Shisui?" Itachi asks, walking downstairs, staring at her blushing cheeks. "Why are you blushing?" He asks, raising his eyebrow curiously.
"Oh, Itachi," Shisui greets, smiling brightly, "I didn't do anything to the poor girl. I think she's just now realizing how hot us Uchiha's tend to be. After all," He glances into Sakura's eyes, smirking, "She makes us 'un-Uchiha like'." Sakura growls lowly under her breath.
"Shut up, Shisui!" Sakura grumbles, storming pass Itachi, heading towards Naruto's room, "Don't you dare speak a word, either of you!"
"So, what did you do?" Itachi questions, standing right next to Shisui.
"Kissed her forehead, flirted a little I suppose." Shisui answers, shrugging, "What can I say? She's a cute girl. And she looks ten times better blushing."
"Sasuke is going to murder you, when he finds out." Itachi walks into the kitchen and greets his mother with Shisui sliding in next to him.
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"Your mom made a great breakfast, Sasuke." Sakura says happily, sitting ontop of the tree stomp, "I'm glad they talked us into eating." Naruto nods in agreement while laying on his back.
"Aa, why did you blush every time Shisui talked to you?" Sasuke questions, his left eye twitching.
"I-I wasn't, idiot." Sakura mumbles, looking away from him.
"You were too, Sakura-chan. We both saw you." Naruto says, raising his eyebrow, "Do you finally have a crush on someone? You do hang out with a lot of guys after all. It's no surprise that you start to develop a crush for someone..."
"I-I don't have a crush on him, Naruto! I don't have a crush on any of you yet, so s-shut up!" Sakura yells, jumping off of the stomp and pinning Naruto to the ground with his arms over his head, "N-Now shut u-up and don't speak of this again!" Sakura orders while Sasuke picks her up.
"You're such pain in the ass, Sakura. Sometimes I wonder why we even became friends." Sasuke mumbles.
"Naruto wouldn't leave me alone, and if I remember correctly you too worked very hard to earn my friendship." Sakura answers sweetly. "I'm going to take a nap now, since Kakashi-sensei won't show up anytime soon, but when he does, I'm making him go through hell..." She mumbles closing her eyes. Sasuke sighs and sits down on the ground, leaning against the stomp with her curled up in a ball on his lap, sleeping. Naruto takes off his jacket and places it over her body.
"Just imagine the trouble we are going to have when she does start liking someone, Sasuke." Naruto softly says, "I really am wondering if she likes someone, and is just too scared to say anything." Sasuke shrugs, unsure of how to answer.
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Well, there you go! I know, I know, I still need to get the test over with, but I thought this would be a great place to end it! There was a little harmless flirting, but nothing too big. I am really curious with who you want her to end up with? - If she ends up with anyone - Who knows, maybe she'll just have a few romantic scenes? Without her becoming a whore, of course. Hinata wasn't able to get in this chapter, but I'm pretty sure next chapter I will be able to put her in! Along with Kiba's team and Shikamaru's team. I can also tell you that Ami will be in the next chapter, so I hope you get excited over that!
Aa, yes, Kakashi knows Kenji, and he used to watch Sakura over when she was little, of course, she doesn't remember him since she was almost always training, reading, or hanging out with her friends. I am looking forward to this story. I know how 'Inner' hasn't been in it much, but she'll be in it more within time. Matter of fact, next chapter she will appear. I doubt many of you read these, so if you did, congratulations to you! You were able to find a few hints over the next chapter. I'm happy to say my story is almost completed. Well, I suppose it's like 1/3rd of the way through. I'm not sure how many chapters you should be expecting, but I am pretty sure it will be finished within the next few months.
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