Chapter Six- Team Seven
"You must be hungry," Kakashi said looking at Sakura. He was going to tie up either Sasuke or Natsumi, but Naruto and Kushina seemed to have read his contentions and pulled the two away from him. So he tied up Sakura, wondering what had changed her pink hair, along with everything else, to a bright neon blue. "All of you should just quit being shinobi."
"Hate saying this, but Naruto and I are already shinobi, you're not going to change that," Kushina said waving her hand at him. She was in front of Natsumi, while Naruto was in front of Sasuke, just in case he got any bright ideas. "And the giant talking carrot isn't going to change that."
"Giant talking carrot?"
"Yes, you're a giant talking carrot. This is what happens if come late," Naruto said nodding at his sister, who had took down her genjutsu. "The Akumu were better then the Uchiha when it came to genjutsu. "Remember anything can happen in a second, everything can happen in three hours."
"Don't talk back to sensei," Sakura said from her post. She wasn't hungry, she was used to not eating for two days.
"Shut up, blue bell," Natsumi growled pointing at her, before getting tipped on the back of the head. Kushina was starting to teach her some manners, in case she had to go undercover. Such as 'no pointing'. "But Kushina she was being -"
"I know, but lower yourself to her level," Kushina told her. She didn't care if they pink haired girl called her a slut, she will not lower herself to that girl's level. She might go lower on a battlefield, but honour and manners meant nothing, if it meant coming back alive. "Hatake , where you going to say something? Or do we have to guess?"
"Right," Kakashi said looking at his arm. He wondered when that happened, but he could ask them later. He had already passed Kushina, Naruto and Natsumi, only needing three for a team, but he had to give Sasuke another chance. Sakura he could sent back to the academy. "You never got the real meaning of this test."
"Real meaning?" Sakura asked looking at him with wide eyes. She might have thought she was cute, but while her face was neon blue. She just looked like a blue pole.
"The meaning behind this test."
"Meaning behind this test?"
"Dead weight the meanings team work," Kushina said rolling her eyes, as she took a scroll out of her bag.
"Isn't team work, what the Leaf Village is known for?" Naruto asked. He didn't know if the village was known for team work, he just knew Hashirama would've wanted that to be what the village was known for. "Isn't that the reason the first made this village, so the clans could work together."
"That's right. The five of you working together," Kakashi told me while showing them the four bells, reminding them of the items they failed to get. "You would've gotten them."
"What do you mean team work? There were only four bells!" Sakura yelled. How could they work together? She didn't know three of them, they were useless. "Even if had worked together in the end, one of us would've been send back."
"You still don't get it?" Kushina asked wondering how the heck, decided this girl was the smartest out of the year. "The bells weren't the point. I'm guessing in missions, team work, those you consider precious is more important then the mission?"
"The point was to work as a team," Naruto said. He would've tried, but he and Kushina were unknown elements. Sasuke might have turned on him if he had learned, that he was the clan head and not him. Which means that he would have to move in with them, and that he'd have to hire someone to clean the compound.
Hell, he knew that Natsumi might as well have been an unknown element. It wasn't the like the three talked to each other in class. Putting the highest two and the lowest in class only worked on paper, sure, it could work. Depending on who was on the team, but not this one.
"Then why didn't you?" Sakura asked. She was pissed, they knew the whole time and they didn't tell them? They sat back and watched them fail?"
"I'll give you one more chance, but after lunch I won't hold back. As much," Kakashi told them, causing Natsumi to mutter under her breath. "If anyone gives Sakura food, you'll fail. I make the rules around here."
When Kakashi disappeared Kushina stood up, walking over to the pole that Sakura was tied to. Sasuke glared at the raven in front of him, who didn't seem affected.
"Are you going to attack me?" Naruto asked if they were going to work together, then they didn't need to be fighting amongst themselves. That and he wasn't going to touch either of the bentos that Kakashi had left. His sister's cooking was better.
"No. Can't attack my clan's head," Sasuke muttered looking down at his white shorts and white shirt. He didn't know about Naruto, but his father and mother really didn't tell me much. "Not without getting into trouble."
"Don't think of it as a bad thing," Kushina said untying the knot, she could've just cut it, but she didn't want to waste kunai and this was more uncomfortable for Sakura. "It means no paperwork, along with no boring meetings. Also, Sasuke both Naruto and I are your half siblings. So..."
"What?" Sasuke asked looking at them two of them. He couldn't see his mother in either of them, but he could see some of his father. "Did father? He..."
"Yes, he had two more children. Sorry to break the news," Kushina told him, before looking at Sakura, she was at the last part of the rope. "Are you going to attack us, because if you are. I can tied this back up in five seconds."
"No, we're a team and if we want to pass," Sakura said. She hated the fact she was being pushed to work with someone she didn't like. All the other teams before them, were friends. So why didn't stay with hers and Sasuke? "We have to act like one."
"Here then," Natsumi said pushing her one of the bento's that Kushina had made. "We've had breakfast, Kushina made sure of that, she also made lunch. She really likes cooking."
"What's this?" Kakashi asked as appeared in a ginat cloud of smoke, his was glaring at all five of them, but only three looked at him with wide eyes. "You guys..."
Natsumi and Sakura sat down, bowing their heads. While Sasuke just looked at him, tenshing up like he was ready to defend himself. Naruto put his hand on his brother's knee, while Kushina put hers on both Sakura's and Natsumi's head.
"Pass."
"Did you have to give them heart attacks, or you just that twisted in the head?" Kushina asked looking at the two in front of her. Both hadn't opened their lunch. "Sakura, Natsumi eat... Now."
"I did."
"Pass?" Sakura asked while opening her lunch. Kushina had the same tone her mother did, when she had to do something, like clean her room as a child. "But how? We didn't do anything."
"Everyone else did what I told them," Kakashi said looking at the sky, remembering when he had to take this test with his team mates. "They were morons. A shinobi must see underneath the underneath."
"Here," Kushina said pushing on of the boxes he brought, in fact she pushed both of them to him. "Eat, and don't worry about lunch from now on. If you're like Iruke, then you won't have lunch, or you'll just eat what you've brought."
"Thanks," Kakashi told her, before going back to what he wanted to tell them. "Anyone who breaks the rules, are trash. But those who leave behind or betrays their comrades are lower then trash."
"So we pass?" Sakura repeated to herself. A smile on her face, Kakashi wasn't going to tell her that only she and Sasuke passed the second test, while the others passed the first.
"Great," Kushina said rolling her eyes. She looked at Sasuke, then Kakashi. "Hatake you're coming over for dinner. Sasuke, you're moving in."
"Why?" he asked her. For dinner he usually went to a bar, but he used that wasn't the only thing that was going to change. Like having a Genin team wasn't a big one.
"Neither you and Iruka can cook. Someone has to make sure you don't get yourselves killed," Kushina told him, as if daring him to question her. "And honestly I'm used to cooking for more then three, mostly. If you feel guilty then just leave money for food."
Sasuke just looked at her. Why was he moving in? He liked being at the compound, Naruto just shook his head. He didn't need his sister fighting with someone, before he could say anything, Naruto put his hand up.
"Sasuke you're part of the Uchiha clan," he told them shaking his head, yet again, and sighed. "So you'll leave with Kushina and myself. We talked to Natsumi about it, and she doesn't mind. Too much. Also your our otouto, so we're not going to leave you alone."
"Okay," Kakashi said nodding his head, before eating his rich. He was sure that she didn't want to waste food. All well, he'll try her cooking later. "Uzumaki compound?"
"Uzumaki compound," Natsumi agreed going back to her own lunch. Everyone just looked at her and finished their lunch. Kushina going with Sasuke, while Naruto went with Natsumi. While Sakura went to her parents she passed, since she was the only one of the team who wasn't an orphan.