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Inner Talking
Sakura talking to inner/Thoughts
Meeting Team 7
Sakura yawned as she reached over to turn off the alarm clock ringing in her ear and sleepily wondered where she was. And why there was an alarm clock going. She almost never put her alarm clock on - mostly because she barely ever bothered to take it out of her travelling bag.
Oh, that's right she was in Konaha, and she had put the alarm on to wake her up so she could get to the academy in time to find out who she would be put with for her genin team.
HER GENIN TEAM!
Sakura sat up instantly, trying to get up in the same moment - resulting in her tumbling to the floor.
She internally sighed. I really need to stop doing that...Okay, now what should I wear?
Walking over to the suitcase which held all of her clothes she went through it trying to fin a good outfit, she didn't know if she'd be doing anything physical today, so she should choose a training outfit, but she also wanted to make a good impression, so...
Eventually she decided on a short-sleeved, dark blue chinese style dress that went to mid-thigh, with a slit on both sides that went all the way up to her hip and was patterned with small silver stars, along with the silver wrist-bands that doubled as her weights. Underneath she wore black biker shorts and completed the look with her favourite black boots. The boots covered her legs up to her thigh, leaving only an inch of skin showing between them and the end of her dress, and had tiny heals, not only that but they had alot of secret compartments in them which allowed her to store several kunai, shuriken and senbon all the while appearing un-armed. She also grabbed her weapons and medical pouches and tied her hair up into two low pony-tails, much like the way her mother always wore her hair.
After eating breakfast and saying goodbye to her mother and Shizune, who were both going to be starting at the hospital later she was on her way to the academy. Determined not to get lost (again) she had made sure to memorise the route and arrived at only afew minutes later.
Walking in the door she paused and looked around, eyes immediately focussing on the commotion that seemed to be occuring in the middle of the room. Two boys were glaring at each other, one of whom was crouching on the table in front of the other, while just about every female in the room was crowded around them and shooting daggers at the boy on the desk.
The first boy, who was the one sitting, Sakura assumed to be the cousin that Shisui had told her about, Sasuke she thought it was. He looked quite similar to the Uchiha's, sharing their dark hair and eyes, although his hair was styled differently...Actually it looked rather like a ducks backside, but she thought it would be better not to tell him that. He wore a blue shirt and baggy white shorts.
Okay...one word HOT! No wonder he has a fan club with looks like that. Not quite as nice as his relatives but who knows, maybe with time.
Inner, please no comments on how 'hot' boys are. I do not want to know your perverted thoughts.
How can you not know what a fan club is yet know the meaning of the word pervert? Actually never mind, I blame okaa-san and her weird ideas as to what a girl our age should know.
Mentally rolling her eyes Sakura turned her attention to the other boy. He had short blond hair aswell as bright blue eyes and had three whisker-like lines on each cheek. His fashion sense however was attrocious. Sakura wasn't particularly fashion obsessed like she knew some girls were, but she could most definately appreciate good style and this boy had none. He was wearing a bright orange jumpsuit that had some dark blue on it - she absently noted it was almost the exact same shade as the blue of the other boys shirt.
"Eh, Sakura!"
The voice distracted her from the two boys and Sakura turned to face a little towards the back of the classroom.
"Kiba, hello. Oh and you too Akamaru."
The boy in question blushed slightly from the angelic smile she directed at him before jumping across the desk and landing beside her.
"Why didn't you tell me you were going to be here?"
"I didn't know at the time, otherwise I would have."
"Oh well. Maybe we'll be put in a team together."
"Maybe, it would be nice to be in a team with someone I alrea- Huh?"
Across the classroom the group of girls suddenly erupted into howls of anger and the two of them turned to face the sound. Kiba immediately tried (and failed miserably) to hide his laughter and Sakura just stared in surprise at the scene. From the looks of it the boy on the desk had been pushed forwards accidentaly by the boy infront of him - right into Sasuke - causing them to kiss.
After staying there for afew moments - probably due to their shock - the boys immediately broke apart spluttering and coughing, and the girls advanced on the boy in orange.
"Uh...is it okay to leave them alone?" Sakura asked the still laughing Kiba.
"It will be fine - Iruka-sensei will be here soon and he'll stop it anyway. Come on I'll introduce you to afew people."
In a different room some people including the Hokage watched the scene play out through a crystal ball.
"So that's this years top rookie? Uchiha Sasuke, Itachi-san's otouto."
"That's right"
"And the other one's Uzumaki Naruto...Your in for an interesting team Kakashi."
The man adressed as Kakashi mearly shrugged slightly.
The lone female in the room however focussed on a different person.
"Hokage-sama, is it a good idea to let that girl graduate early, she hasn't even been through the academy, and considering who she's going to be placed with..."
The Hokage chuckled slightly. "I'm sure she'll be fine Kurenai, from what her mother's told me she's more than ready for this. And as for her teammates...it is the best combination. If nothing else at least she can help the boys in line."
"If your certain." the female replied. "But if I may ask who exactly is her mother, you never told us."
"Senju Tsunade"
"Wait, what!" yelled one of the males while the majority of the room was staring disbelievingly at either the Hokage or the girl in the globe. "That old drunk has a daughter!"
"That would be correct Asuma."
"Huh...As I said earlier Kakashi, you have an interesting team."
Back in the classroom Sakura was sitting inbetween Kiba and a girl she had been introduced to as Hyuuga Hinata.
Hinata had short blue-black hair with the characteristic pupil-less eyes of a Hyuuga. She was very shy, but she also seemed to be nice and Sakura had decided instantly upon being introduced that they were going to be friends and had spent most of the time before the sensei had walked in talking with her (and Kiba) and trying to get her to be comfortable with her.
She had also been introduced to a lazy boy with pineapple styled hair called Nara Shikamaru, a large boy who seemed to be constantly eating named Akimichi Chouji and Aburame Shino who was rather mysterious and had said only one word for the duration of the time since she had met him, that being hello. Sadly all the females except for Hinata had been busy attacking the boy in orange, who she had learnt was called Uzumaki Naruto so she hadn't been introduced to any of them.
The sensei, Iruka, had come in afew minutes ago and had just concluded his congratulatory speech on becoming genin, personally she had found it rather boring, a sentiment that seemed to be shared with the rest of the class based on their glazed over expressions. Now he was starting to read out the genin teams, so far no-one she knew had been called.
"Team seven. Haruno Senju Sakura," Upon hearing her name the girl perked up slightly while the people around her turned towards her.
'Senju' Kiba mouthed, seeming rather shocked at hearing her full name.
"It's my mothers surname" she murmered back as she listened to the sensei.
"Uzumaki Naruto," the boy in orange jumped up and started yelling something.
"and Uchiha Sasuke." Naruto looked absolutely horrified and slumped down in his chair. Sasuke also looked annoyed by the identity of his teammates, although he hid it a bit better. The females in the room, with the exception of Sakura and Hinata, were yelling at the sensei as to why they weren't in 'Sasuke-kun's' team, something that made Sakura shudder inwardly and silently swear never to adress him as such. She didn't know why all those girls were so fixated on Sasuke, but god that must get annoying.
After Naruto yelling at Iruka about having to be on the same team as Sasuke, and him replying that they had to balance the teams, aswell as something about him having the lowest scores and Sasuke the highest, the rest of the teams were read out. Sakura didn't pay much attention to this however as she was busy examining her new teammates aswell as recalling everything she had heard or seen about them so far.
Sasuke seemed to be a bit of an unsocial loner, he probably wouldn't be very approving of females based on how most of them seemed to act around him, and she could tell he was very self-assured and cocky.
Naruto on the other had was very hyperactive, a bit slow perhaps, but he also seemed to be arrogant and cocky - as far as she could tell the only thing the two had in common. She also recognised that he was a jinchuuriki. She hadn't met many jinchuuriki before, but based on what she did know about them it was likely that Naruto was a social outcast because of it, meaning he was most likely quite lonely. It did however explain why she was being put on this particular genin team - she did afterall inherit her great-grandfathers affinity for dealing with bijuu.
Inner. This team is going to be hectic isn't it?
Very. But in that case we'll just have to kick the boys into behaving won't we Kura?
Most certainly Inner - assuming our sensei doesn't do it for us that is.
Sakura smiled, not noticing that Kiba and Hinata slowly slidding away from her a bit. One way or another she was going to make this work. And if the boys didn't agree with her on that point, well, she wasn't Tsunades only daughter for nothing.
Four hours later Sakura sat in the classroom. After the announcement of the teams there had been an hour for lunch during which she spent talking to Kiba, Hinata and a loud blond girl called Ino, before they came inside to wait for their jounin sensei's. Everyone apart from Sakuras' team had already left - even Iruka had left already. Throughout this time Sakura had mostly been talking to Naruto, she had introduced herself to Sasuke, but pretty much ignored her so she decided not to bother him for the moment.
"Why is our team sensei so. Damn. Late?!"
"Naruto, I'm sure he'll be here soon, why don't you just sit down or some - Naruto what are you doing?"
Naruto put an eraser on top of the door. "That's what he gets for being late."
"Like a jounin would fall for such a silly booby trap."
Sakura blinked. "You know I think that's more words in one go than you've spoken combined all day Sasuke-san."
"Hn."
She rolled her eyes before pausing, feeling a chakra signature coming closer. The sensei opened the door...and let the eraser fall on her head.
Ne, Kura, is he really a jounin?
Of course he is inner, you can tell by his chakra.
Yeah I know but, seriously, why would he do that?
To cause us to underestimate him? Or maybe just in return for us having to wait this long? Who knows.
"Ha, ha, ha. You fell for it."
Naruto.. did he really think that he didn't do that on purpose.
Sadly that would seem to be a yes, but then again Sasuke seems to be thinking the same thing, so maybe we're just extra brilliant and observant compared to those two.
"My first impression is..hm, how can I say this...I don't like you guys. Meet me on the roof." He then poofed away.
A few seconds later the boys were pushing each other in an attempt to get up the stairs faster. Sakura sweatdropped before making the necessary handsigns and teleporting to the roof in a cloud of cherry blossoms where she found their sensei sitting on the rail and reading a book.
"Hello sensei, what are you reading?"
The silver haired jounin jumped and hurridly stuffed the little orange book into his weapons pouch.
"Ahh..." At that moment he was saved from answering by the boys banging through the door - and in the process falling flat on their faces.
When they were all sitting down the silver-haired jounin began to speak. "Well, lets start by introducing ourselves"
"What would you like to know sensei?" Sakura asked from her place inbetween the boys.
"How about your likes, dislikes, dreams for the future and things like that."
"Hey why don't you introduce yourself first - you look kinda suspicious." Naruto said (or more like yelled, Sakura was starting to understand that was his normal volume).
"Oh...me. Well, my name is Hatake Kakashi...I have no desire to tell you my likes and dislikes...dreams for the future...hmm. And I have lots of hobbies."
All three genin sweatdropped. All he told us was his name.
"Now it's your turn, lets start on the right."
"Yosh! My name is Uzumaki Naruto. What I like is cup ramen, what I like even more is when Iruka-sensei pays for my ramen. What I dislike is waiting 3 minutes for my ramen to cook, and my dream, is to surpass the Hokage and then have the people of this village to acknowledge my existance!"
Sakura smiled slightly. He's alot different than the other jinchuuriki we've met isn't he Kura?
Yeah he is inner, his spirit's impressive.
True. But we need to do something about that ramen obsession. We have to be in a team with this idiot and I do not want to have to deal with a steady flow of ramen talk *shudder*
While I don't agree with you calling him an idiot...agreed.
"Hobbies?"
"Uh...Pranks I guess."
"Next."
"Hello. I'm Haruno Sakura. I like kittens, other cute animals, the colour blue...dislikes, probably snakes, liers and being underestimated because of my gender, hair colour, age, height...well in general I don't like being underestimated." During this Sakura shot a low-level glare at each of her teammates and Kakashi to emphasise her point. Each one of them flinched slightly when it was their turn. "My hobbies are training with okaa-san or Shizune-nee-san and learning any kind of jutsu and my dream is to become as good a kunoichi and medical ninja as my okaa-san!"
"And the last person."
"My name is Uchiha Sasuke. There's alot of things I dislike and I don't really like anything. My...I can't really call it a dream, my ambition is to surpass a certain man, no matter what."
Pleasent.
*Sigh* He's going to be problematic isn't he.
Almost certainly.
"So that's the introductions. Tomorrow we'll start our duties as shinobi."
"YEAH! What kind of duties."
"N-naruto, volume, please."
"Eh, what about it Sakura-chan?"
Kakashi ignored that. "First we are going to do something with just the four of us."
"What is it what is it?"
"Survival training."
"Survival training! We've had enough training at the academy!"
"This isn't a normal training, this time I'm going to be your opponent." Suddenly he started to chuckle.
Kura, is our sensei insane?
Either that or he's trying to freak us out.
Well if he is I think it's working - on the boys at least...and on me a bit.
"What's so funny?!" Naruto yelled.
"Um...well...It's just that when I tell you guys this you guys are totally going to freak out."
Sakura sighed realising what this was about, her mother had told her about the secondary genin test years ago. She decided to let Kakashi have his fun though, afterall it wouldn't hurt her to humor him.
"Why would we freak out Kakashi-sensei?"
"Out of the 27 graduates only 9 will be chosen to become genin, the rest will be sent back to the academy - this training is a very difficult exam with a fail rate of over 66%...Ha ha, I told you that you would freak out."
He added the last sentance based on Naruto's expression of shock, Sasuke's glare and Sakura's confusion.
Inner, if only a third of people pass, wouldn't it be 66%, not over?
I don't know, but then I guess that it technically is about a 0.667% higher, but that's hardly a big deal.
Oh...I'm kinda feeling sorry for the boys since they didn't know about this.
Suddenly Naruto exploded. "WHAT! NO WAY! But we worked so hard! Then what was the point of graduating?!"
"Oh that?" The jounin replied seemingly bored. "That was just to select those who have the chance to become genin."
"Uhhh...WHAT?!"
"Anyway, tomorrow you have to show off your real skills on the training ground. Bring all the shinobi tools you have...Oh and by the way, don't eat anything for breakfast. You'll throw up."
Sakura glanced over at the boys and winced at their reactions. Sasuke was shooting daggers at Kakashi, but if you looked closely you could see the slight tinge of fear and worry in his face, while Naruto...was wide-eyed with his head in his hands and his expression screamed that he was freaking out majorly.
"The details are on this piece of paper, and don't be late tomorrow."
Taking her piece Sakura smiled. Tomorrow was going to be fun.