Teamwork?
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Sasuke didn't even bother on trying to sleep last night; as much as he would want to he wouldn't be able
to, the horrible nightmares of his dark bloody past hunted him, and with Hinata in the hospital and the
matches/battles were in four Days. He had to train at least try to, but the fact that hi was going to be in
the battles, not he didn't want to he knew it would help him get stronger, something he needed to do in
order to kill the man responsible to the Uchiha massacre, the man who killed his beloved ones; Uchiha Itachi.
Sasuke knew Hinata wanted to prove to Hiashi; her father, the man that dishonored her from the Hyuuga
name that she was strong and with out knowing, tears of frustration formed and fell down from Sasuke'
eyes he let this thoughts and tears run down, like the cool water ran down his body. He turned the water
off and got off the shower, got ready and headed towards the hospital. Entering the hospital he saw
"Kakashi-sensei? What are you doing here?"
"Hmm oh good morning sasuke, I just came here to check up on things" he told him calmly, not
bothering to ask what brought him here she said "She's doing better" he looked at him, he looked tired
"Has he been sleeping?" he thought "But right now I bet Naruto is waiting un-passionately in the training
grounds" he told him, as a cue that it was time to go sasuke nodded and left the hospital with Kakashi.
"Oh man he's late again!" Naruto yelled.
"And Sasuke isn't here, it's not like him to be late" Sakura said worriedly.
"Who cares, I need to train to kick some but in a week!"
Sakura sighed "Naruto the battles are in four days"
"Huh? What FOUR days?" he yelled "On man, even more reason for him to be early"
"Good morning" they both suddenly the calm, cool voice of their sensei.
"YOU'RE LATE" both Naruto and Sakura yelled, Sasuke appeared right beside him "Good morning Sasuke-
kunnn" Sakura said changing her annoyed, Kakashi –is-late-voice, to her cute oh-Sasuke-is-so-hot voice.
Sasuke said nothing; and Naruto quickly said "Well let's train already!"
"No yet, we're still waiting a couple to arrive" Kakashi told the hyperactive ninja.
"Huh?" he said questionably as he counted them and himself "One, Two, Three,
four, but we're all here who the heck are we waiting for?" he asked.
"Be patient Naruto, I bet they're on their way" he said taking out his orange book.
…
"Can't believe we're stuck with them," Kiba complained, "I thought we were going to train by ourselves to
improve our Justus," Akamaru, who was on top of his head yelped/barked in agreement.
"Maybe so, but I wasn't going to argue with Asuma-sensei, and upset him more that he already was"
Shino told him. Kiba agreed "Right," he said in a mere whisper, it felt really different without Hinata and
with out Kurenai-sensei it didn't feel like team 8, it felt with two boys and a pup.
Reaching the training grounds they saw Kakashi.
"Glad you two made it" Kakashi said still reading his book and making his team turn around, Naruto face
dropped in surprise, Hey what is bug boy, Kiba and the mutt doing here?" Naruto yelled, while pointing at them.
"Watch who you call a mutt, you idiot" Kiba growled "Akamaru isn't a mutt" Akamaru barked in agreement.
"They will be in our team for now" Kakashi told them, he looked at Sasuke and said "And I expect good
teamwork" Sasuke looked at him and he knew Kakashi was referring/saying that he particularly didn't
work well with others; but Naruto was to loud to even do a surprise attack, he would always just burst
out in front of the enemy and change. Sakura she's smart and all but her emotions get to her easily.
"Teamwork, with-?" Naruto began but then stopped and looked around "Hey where's Hinata?" he asked.
Kiba and Shino didn't say anything, although their eyes did.
Kakashi put the book back in his pouch and said "She's in the hospital" Kakashi told them making sakura
gasp, Naruto look at him and burst "What! Why?" Sasuke could eyen look at her teammates, sure he
didn't practically like them or knew them, but they are both hurt/sad because of Hinata' condition.
Kakashi didn't tell them about her being in a coma, he knew it would interfere with their training,
Naruto knew Hinata well; he'd even taken her to eat ramen once or twice, so Kakashi knew he was going
to take it hard; just like Sasuke is.
"Kurenai didn't take it well-."
"I bet she didn't, Hinata was like a daughter to her" Sakura said with a small sob.
"Precisely why she is upset, the Hokage gave her some time off, while Hinata' recovering"
"Kakashi-sensei is she going to be okay?" Sakura asked him, she had been getting to know Hinata lately
and was crushed when she heard like; well everyone here.
"Yes" he said, he saw Naruto' crushed/sad expression, "she will be okay". They all stood silent until
Sasuke broke the silence "Well are we going to train or what?" he said walking towards the fields.
"Sasuke, I know you are trying really hard to get through this", Kakashi watched he walk towards the
field soon followed by Kiba, and the rest "we are doing the best we can to find her, she is our only hope
now" he thought following them.
…
"I know teams have split up to improve their Justus" he said
"Yeah? Hey I never thought of that," Naruto yelled.
"You never think!" Sakura yelled back.
"Well, I thought about it, and yeah we should split apart"
"Then why did Asuma-sensei-" Kiba said "But then we'd never learn anything?" Kakashi interrupted him.
"Huh?" Naruto asked dumbly while scratching his head.
"Oh I get it" Sakura said, looking at Naruto shook her head "See if we work as a team we improve our
speed and agilities; working alone only improves your physical strength," Naruto nodded "U-huh," he
said. "Once we calculate and round up our speeds to the nearest hundreds or so we can
approximately estimate the normal speed of the opponent" Naruto kept on nodding "Hmm oh" he said.
"And improving our jutsu alone, we can calculate the speed of the opponent to the speed of our
Jutsu" she smiled "and therefore winning the battle" she finished.
"Oh I see," Naruto said "I have no idea what she said" he thought still nodding, "I'll just nod and pretend"
"He still has no clue, does he?" Kakashi asked himself.
"Oh its useless explain to you Naruto," she said knowing that he had no clue what so ever about what
she had just said. She shook her head back and forth "I don't know how you call yourself a ninja" she said.
…
They trained and trained, Naruto' face had a grin "What wrong with you Sasuke? Too much for you?"
Sasuke slowly getting up from the ground didn't say anything.
"His emotions got to him," Kakashi thought.
Kiba had used Fang over Fang, but Sasuke was to slow to dodge it, "Oi Akamaru we are getting stronger"
Kiba barked happily, seeing he got Sasuke. Shino simply had nothing against him and decided to collect
and study his bug collection.
"Shut up dobe!" he yelled, getting up from the ground, he'd been bleeding from the lips and his breath
has slowed down, "Sasuke are you oaky?" Sakura rushed to his side, but was stopped "Leave me alone,"
Sasuke said coldly, "But Sasuke-" he stood up; he looked at her "Leave me alone" Sakura just looked at
him. She held the tears in and with a mere whisper she said "Sasuke, you're hurt"
"Am I getting stronger or are you getting weaker?" Naruto teased "Augh, Naruto!" Sasuke yelled.
Naruto looked at Sasuke, he'd been acting different he'd been so quiet and so not like him in the training,
his grin had disappeared "Maybe Uchihas aren't as strong as everyone brags,"
"Shut up dobe!" Sasuke' mixed sadness and annoyance had finally come out he ran towards him,
reaching him he punched him, Naruto couldn't dodge it "Weak, am I?" he asked sending him into a tree
"Is weakness caring for someone-!" he collapsed in his knees and his breathing had increased, "Enough!"
he heard Kakashi said not letting him use the last of his chakra.
Naruto stood in front of him "Is it Hinata?"
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