((Chapter 2! Enjoy! J ))
The smoke that engulfed the area began to disperse and the two small young academy students pushed themselves up, the blast having knocked Sayuri's concentration so her technique had been stopped.
Sukotto just started ahead "I got him" he said triumphantly as Sayuri smiled at him sweetly.
"Well done Sukotto, you got them" she said with a gentle smile to her friend.
"Not so fast!" spoke a voice as one of the four ninja stood up, weakened from the traps their team had fallen into.
"You don't think I'd be defeated that easily do you?" he said with a smirk as he removed a kunai from his leg pouch.
The two young ninja stood back as the enemy bandit stepped towards them, but he suddenly stopped and couldn't move "WHAT IS THIS?" he growled as he tried to move.
A shadow stretched across the floor into a point and had surrounded the attacking final ninja "sorry about the interruption, but all this noise was troublesome" spoke a dark haired Chuunin.
Sayuri looked across at this man "It's Shikamaru-Sempai!" she said happily "Sukotto! It's a chuunin!" she said delightfully.
Sukotto just watched this Chuunin with wary eyes "….yeah I know" he said with a slight tone of boredom in his voice.
Shikamaru just smiled slightly at the kids as he kept his jutsu on the enemy "the two of you did good, now get yourself checked out at the hospital, I can handle him" spoke the Chuunin to the kids.
**The next day at the academy **
Iruka was teaching the class of academy students, with Sayuri and Sukotto sitting at the back "that's the end of our lesson" he said with a smile as all the students rushed out of the classroom.
Just as Sukotto and Sayuri were about to leave, Iruka stopped them "Sukotto? Sayuri? I've got something for you" he said with a smile.
Sayuri and Sukotto looked at each other and their eyes widened as Iruka held out two Konoha ninja forehead protectors "you two passed the academy training" he said with a smile.
Sayuri and Sukotto looked at the forehead protectors and then back at each other, then to Iruka.
"But Iruka-Sensei…" spoke Sayuri "we haven't had the final academy test yet" she said with a puzzled expression.
Iruka just smiled "you don't need it, you two are already good at your techniques and I heard about your performance yesterday" he said proudly.
"Ha! That was nothing" said Sukotto boasting a little "I gave them a good smacking! They deserved it, picking on us! The little fucks" he said mockingly.
Sayuri winced as her friend swore at the teacher "Sukotto-chan! Not in front of Iruka-Sensei!" she said pleadingly.
Sukotto just smirked "tch, I don't care" he said stubbornly.
Iruka just smiled "The Hokage heard what the two of you did, you led some rogue ninja who tried to infiltrate our village into our traps, and we decided that you are to be promoted to Genin's" he said proudly.
Sayuri took the forehead protector and tied it to her head "This is so amazing! Thank you Iruka-sensei!" she said hugging her teacher.
Sukotto just took his forehead protector and tied it around his neck.
"Hey Sukotto, its called a forehead protector for a reason" he said to his student.
Sukotto just smirked "I'll wear it how I want" he said stubbornly.
Sayuri just chuckled at the stubbornness of her friend "but sensei! Don't we need a third member to our team? That's what my father told me" she said to him.
Iruka-sensei smiled "of course! Luckily, there was one other who took the exam early and passed, you will be teamed up with him, he's pretty energetic, so don't mind him" he said with a smile.
Iruka walked over to his desk "now, I have here, the name of the other genin you'll be paired with, and the Jounin who will be your teacher" he said smiling.
Sayuri was already in thought about who their third team member would be 'maybe he's wild and lively like that Naruto person!' she thought 'or maybe, he's all dark and secretive…' she thought imagining many different genin's.
She shuddered at the thought of having some weird looking, overly secretive ninja on their team.
Iruka walked back over to them "your fellow team mate goes by the name of Yoshirou Yamagata, and your sensei will be…." He smiled and looked at his students reactions.
Sukotto and Sayuri stared eargerly, waiting to hear the name of their new sensei.
"Hyuuga Neji." He said with a smile.