Hearing his classmates speak, Shikamaru sighed inwardly. It looked like the Ino-Shika-Cho trio wasn't going to be split up.♛🍮 ☟🐯
"How can this be!" Just as Shikamaru was thinking, Ino finally came to her senses. She looked at her two teammates, then at Sakura's teammates, and seemed deeply dissatisfied.
"I want to be on a team with Sasuke, too!" Ino cried helplessly inside, gazing enviously at Sakura, who was basking in her own happiness.
"All right, your jōnin instructors will come get you soon. Until then, good luck!"
Taking in everyone's expressions, Iruka gave the class one last look, then slowly left. After tomorrow, a large number of them would be back at the Ninja Academy. What a shame! Still, letting them put off entering the dangerous profession of being a ninja was a kind of good fortune, too.
With that thought, Iruka left the classroom and returned to his office to wait.
Before long, one jōnin after another came in to collect their students and take them for further tests.
After quite some time, only nine students remained in the classroom—the nine who had graduated in the original story.
Soon, the door opened, and two jōnin appeared at the same time.
Their arrival meant that one team would be the last left behind. Everyone felt uneasy.
When Sasuke saw the two newcomers, he clicked his tongue in resignation. As expected, it wasn't Kakashi, but the couple: Sarutobi Asuma and Kurenai Yuhi.
"Team 8, come with me!" Kurenai stood at the front of the classroom and looked over the nine remaining students. She nodded to Asuma, announced that their date was over, then led the three who stood up—Hinata Hyuga, Inuzuka Kiba, and Shino Aburame—out of the room.
After watching Kurenai leave, Asuma lit a "Loneliness" cigarette and put it in his mouth. Then he looked at the three students in the front row.
"Team 10, come with me!"
Asuma blew a puff of smoke at Shikamaru, then headed straight out of the classroom.
"Cough, cough... We'll be going, then!"
Choking, Shikamaru turned to glance at the listless Team 7, then slowly left the classroom.
Just as in the original story, soon only Sasuke, Naruto, and Sakura remained—the so-called Team 7.
"When's he coming?" Naruto complained, slumped over his desk and staring at the empty classroom.
"Just be patient." Sakura glanced at the unconcerned Sasuke and comforted Naruto, while trying to comfort herself, too. Being the only three left was definitely awkward.
Time passed slowly. Soon two hours had gone by, and the notoriously late Kakashi still hadn't arrived. Sakura was slumped over her desk, completely exhausted. She no longer cared how she looked in front of Sasuke.🎈🐠 ☯🍫
Naruto, meanwhile, had started bouncing around. He was just too bored.
"I'll teach him a lesson!" Naruto said. He walked out of the classroom and looked around. When he saw that no one had arrived, he picked up the eraser and wedged it over the door, then returned to his seat and waited for that awful instructor to show up.
"Isn't that a little mean?" Sakura said, watching Naruto's actions. She seemed worried, but inside she was delighted. She was also annoyed at the jōnin who had left them waiting there.
"It should be fine, right?" Naruto replied after a moment's thought, sounding a little unsure at his goddess's words.
"What a troublemaker," Kakashi thought from outside the classroom as he listened to Naruto and Sakura talk. He clicked his tongue helplessly.
Then, the next second, Kakashi pushed open the door, and the eraser fell right onto his head...
"That's a jōnin? He's so clumsy?" Sakura wondered.
"Ha ha ha..." Naruto burst out laughing when he saw his prank had worked.
"Mangekyō Sharingan... I really want to gouge Kakashi's eye out right now!" While the other two wondered whether this was their instructor, Sasuke stared at Kakashi's mask and silently plotted.
"You brats sure gave me quite a present!" Kakashi took the eraser off his head and glared at the three of them, beginning their first test.
That was Kakashi's purpose. Ever since the incident with Obito, he had believed that anyone who didn't understand what it meant to have comrades couldn't graduate. That was why Kakashi had never let any team become Genin.
Hearing Kakashi's tone, Naruto broke into a cold sweat, already regretting his actions. It's over. Is my ninja career really going to end like this?
"Sensei, I tried to stop him. I'm sorry!" Unlike Naruto, who was terrified, Sakura immediately started shifting the blame. Sasuke, meanwhile, acted as if none of it had anything to do with him.
Looking at their reactions, Kakashi sighed inwardly. It seemed the three of them still had no idea what teamwork meant.
"Come on."
Kakashi placed the eraser on the lectern, spoke to the three of them, then headed out of the classroom.
Kakashi's words snapped Sasuke out of his thoughts. He pushed the idea of gouging out Kakashi's eye from his mind, then followed him.
Naruto and Sakura quickly followed, too.
Some time later, Kakashi led the three of them to a set of steps.
"All right, introduce yourselves," Kakashi said casually, looking at the trio seated across from him.
"Shouldn't you introduce yourself first, sensei?" Sakura asked, a little exasperated by Kakashi's words.
"I'm Kakashi. I don't want to tell you what I like, and I don't want to tell you what I dislike. Now it's your turn." Kakashi casually introduced himself in response to Sakura's question.
"What's that supposed to be? After all that, he told us nothing but his name?" Sakura grumbled inwardly.
"I'm Uzumaki Naruto. My dream is to become Hokage!" Seeing that Kakashi wasn't going to pursue what had just happened, Naruto introduced himself right away.
Hearing Naruto's dream, Kakashi was taken aback. His expression turned complicated, since his teacher was the boy's father.
"I'm Haruno Sakura. The thing I like..." Sakura said, looking at Sasuke as she spoke. Sasuke was taken aback. What am I supposed to do with all this charm?
Kakashi's expression stiffened as he listened to Sakura's introduction. Are girls really so mature these days?
The instructor was always late—the Copy Ninja Kakashi!
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