Genin Life
"I can't believe you knocked me out." I grumbled at Sasuke as I ate his apology dango and waited for Iruka to announce the teams while ignoring the longing looks from Naruto. I liked the guy but right now I didn't want to be near any reminders of my donors which unfortunately included him, although I wouldn't mind slitting Menma's throat. After their return was announced I had to deal with a clingy 'apologetic' group of villagers.
"We both know you were about to tear them apart verbally and I doubt that would have ended without people going to the Hospital. As good as we are we couldn't take on two S-Rank Ninja and two brats." Sasuke said with his feet on the table as he read a scroll on Chakra Elements. "I'm just glad their return glossed over our little 'enthusiastic' walk."
"I just hope your actions don't get me lumbered with a bad team." Yakumo Kurama said from my other side. After getting Sasuke close to her he took care of her alter ego allowing her full control over her mind and body, the latter had been stunted by the alter ego.
"You're practically guaranteed to be with Sasuke at the very least." I said with a snort and hoped Hiruzen was able to pull one over on the idiots. I was not spending until I was chunin or left service on a team with any of my so-called family. All conversation was cut off when the thundering of Sasuke's two biggest fangirls was heard. I sighed as they got stuck in the doorframe shouting at each other all the while. "Don't those two learn that they're not getting a seat next to you?"
"What have you two gotten me into?" Yakumo asked in horror making me laugh while Sasuke sighed. They were about to scream at Yakumo to move before I glared at them making them finally shut up.
"Now if you two are finished acting like complete disgraces to kunoichi everywhere then you can find an empty seat for yourselves." I said coldly making the two slowly back away. The two had learnt early on that I hated their fangirl ways and that I would make them regret doing it around me. I could only hope that their Sensei pulled their heads out of their arses before getting themselves or their team killed. The drama was broken up when Iruka walked in looking annoyed with Minato following behind him.
"QUIET DOWN! Now why don't we get to why you're here, Team Assignments?" Iruka said before sighing as Sakura, who was sitting next to Menma, put her hand up. "Yes, Sakura-chan?"
"Where is Mizuki-sensei and why are there extras here?" Sakura asked sending looks at Yakumo, Naruto and Menma.
"Mizuki is on a leave of absence and the extras as you call them are here for the same reason you are." Iruka said before listing the Teams. "Team 7 led by Kakashi Hatake is Sasuke Uchiha, Yakumo Kurama and Nagisa Uzumaki." I smiled at being put on a team with my best friend and at the look on Minato's face. I guess he wasn't expecting that. "Team 11 led by Kushina Namikaze is Naruto Namikaze, Menma Namikaze and Sakura Haruno."
"Your Sensei will be here to pick you up after lunch. I suggest you use this time to get to know your team. I wish you all luck." Minato said before disappearing in a flash.
"Dango?" Sasuke asked opening the window while everyone else was distracted by the casual use of a legendary jutsu.
"Dango" I said grabbing Yakumo around the waist and following him.
RWYS
"I know Anko said he was late but this is ridiculous." I said while chewing on a dango stick. After having lunch we ran into Kurenai who wasn't sure if she should scold us or thank us. A minor shouting match with Yakumo had the two in tears and apologising to each other until Anko stepped in.
"You're the one that refuses to be dealt in." Sasuke said while staring into Yakumo's eyes over his cards. I rolled my eyes as I knew both of them were using their bloodlines to cheat. The trick was to cheat in a way that you didn't have the same cards as your opponent and not completely bankrupt your opponent.
"I like having some Pride and you two would steamroll me and we all know it." I said as the door opened to reveal someone that matched Anko's description of Kakashi. I threw the dango stick so it would skim near his eye to show my annoyance. "I don't like my time being wasted."
"My opinion of you is…you suck. Meet me on the roof in five minutes." Kakashi said as if I hadn't thrown anything at him. Once he disappeared in a puff of smoke I turned to my team.
"He moved just enough to avoid it." Yakumo said getting on my back with a sigh. "I can't wait until I'm up to par. This is embarrassing."
"It's only temporary and if we get injured you can return the favour." Sasuke said leading the way to the roof at a leisurely, for Ninja, pace. If Kakashi took his sweet time then so could we. I deadpanned when we appeared on the roof to find him reading an orange book. There was only one type of book that was orange and those that read it were complete perverts.
"Now that you're here we can get started." Kakashi said snapping the book shut and looking at us with his lone visible eye. "How about we get to know each other a little?"
"Why don't you go first since we know the least about you?" Yakumo asked as I put her down making him eye smile.
"I guess I could do that. My name is Kakashi Hatake, my likes are many, my dislikes are few, my hobbies are not for your young ears and my dreams…*giggle*" We deadpanned at his introduction before sighing as he looked at us expectantly.
"My name is Nagisa Uzumaki, my likes are training and dango, I dislike ramen, my hobby is practicing my jutsu and my dream is to retire and lead a simple life when I can." I said not giving too much away getting a nod in response.
"My name is Sasuke Uchiha, my likes are pushing my limits, I dislike fangirls, my hobby is to train and my dream is to bring Itachi to justice." Sasuke said getting a mild look of surprise which had him roll his eyes in annoyance.
"My name is Yakumo Kurama, I like genjutsu and my friends, I dislike my Uncle, I like to paint and my dream is to be a powerful kunoichi." Yakumo said giving a little more than we did.
"Now would be the time I would freak you out by tell you that you aren't Genin yet but Anko let me know that she let you know. Meet me at Training Ground 3 at eight o'clock, and don't eat breakfast." Kakashi said before leaving making my eye twitch.
"We had to wait three hours on his tardy arse for a small intro that told us nothing and bad advice. I'm going to kill him." I growled out making Sasuke sigh as he dragged me away.
"Dinner and a Team Planning Session." He said while Yakumo giggled at our interaction.
RWYS
"What do you want?" I said trying not to bang my head off of the wall as I looked at a sad Kushina Namikaze. I sighed as she entered without permission. "Come on in."
"I wanted to explain things from our point of view so you could get the whole picture." She said pacing in my small sitting area making me roll my eyes.
"Hiruzen-sama already did that for you when he realised I was avoiding you all. I'm not impressed with your excuses. The Villagers wouldn't like feeling Kyubi's chakra so soon, why didn't you stay but arrange trips when it was time for them to learn it? I would be protected in the village but not wherever the hell you were, then why were you there in the first place?" Kushina winced with every question making me sigh.
"We really messed up didn't we?" She said making me just stare at her as I held the door open. She sighed and unsealed a scroll and placed it on my table. "That is a copy of everything we planned to teach you as a Namikaze and an Uzumaki. I hope that you don't ignore it out of spite for us." With that said she left. I sighed and opened the scroll.
"Shadow Clones…I am so abusing the hell out of this."
RWYS
"After this I'm not going to bother turning up on time. We could be doing something productive but no~ he has to be late." I moaned as we waited on Kakashi yet again. "What the hell is his problem?"
"I don't know but I get the feeling that things are going to be even more annoying from now on." Sasuke said with a sigh before turning to Yakumo. "Do you have any paintings ready or can you use more combat ready genjutsu?"
"I don't have paintings but I do have battle ready ones even if I don't think they'll do much against him." Yakumo said with a shrug. "Is she always in such a foul mood?"
"She's been like this since the return of the Fourth. She'll get over it at some point." Sasuke said just as Kakashi appeared looking very annoyed.
"Sorry for being so late. I planned to be here an hour and a half ago but ran into my Sensei. The conversation didn't go the way either of us hoped." Kakashi said making me fume silently at the fact he was planning on being late. "Normally I would give you the Bell Test but since that was given to me by Sensei I would rather hear your training schedules as they are now."
"You would be better asking Anko for now as she's been in charge of it for a while now." I said with a sigh. "We were hoping to expand our Jutsu and learn our Affinities as well as working on a specialisation. I want to learn seals and swordsmanship, Sasuke wants to learn swordsmanship and poisons, Yakumo wants to learn healing and poisons."
"I'll ask Anko for a complete report next I see her. I know a little of seals but I can help with the swords. Poisons and Healing I know next to nothing but I could see if Anko was willing to help you both with the poisons. At the very least I can get scrolls on Healing for Yakumo." He said rubbing his chin in thought. "I'll see about getting you chakra paper too in order to find your Affinities. Now, who's up for lunch?"
"You're paying!" I snapped out before anyone could say anything else. Kakashi wisely didn't argue.
RWYS
"While I don't mind some grunt work this really wasn't what I thought I would be doing as a Genin." I said as we left a Client's house after looking after her three wild children. I ignored the amused looks sent my way since it was clear that I enjoyed some of the missions like the babysitting, although I would never admit it.
"Did you expect to be rescuing Princes and defeating Dragons?" Kakashi asked in amusement making me roll my eyes.
"I thought we would be doing gofer work between training. You know, ferrying messages between departments, bringing refreshments and supplies to the border control areas. Basically, a bunch of little non-classified stuff to help the Village and our senior Shinobi. I didn't expect chores for civilians and such." It wasn't like we had too much training to do since the man was late every time. I could blow it off as Minato delaying him in an attempt to reconnect with his student but he made it clear he was going to be late anyways.
"This is important for the Village too, you know." He said clearly amused while I glared at him.
"So is training and you have yet to start doing that." Sasuke said sounding as annoyed as I felt. So far the only one getting training was Yakumo and that was so she could keep up with me and Sasuke. Even then it wouldn't be long before she was in the same boat as we were. My mood got even worse when I saw who exited the Hokage Tower as we reached it. Team 11 saw us at the same time we saw them.
"Hello Kakashi, how are you doing?" Kushina asked with a weak smile while Naruto beamed at me. Out of the whole family he was the only one that even attempted to truly see my side of things, the annoying part was the fact he expected me to eventually forgive them. Menma was much straight forward even if his attitude angered me. He reminded me too much of the Uchiha before they were wiped out.
"Well enough Namikaze." Kakashi said not changing out of his lazy demeanour but it was clear he didn't want to talk with her. "If you don't mind we need to talk with the Hokage about our mission." For now Hiruzen was leading the village until Minato was ready to do so given the changes over the years. I was not looking forward to reporting to the man.
"Oh…well, if you need anything just let me or Minato know." She said with false cheer merely getting a hum from the lazy man. We watched them leave before letting out a relieved sigh. It was the first time the teams had been near each other without an argument happening.
"Tomorrow, be ready for training all day. I think it is time I started acting like one." Kakashi said making us blink in surprise before we smiled at the thought of finally getting training.