"Heyahey! Cheer up! Or are you always this broody?"
Sasuke glared at the blonde.
Hey! Howcome I'm with Team 7 still?
Because some old fuzzheads want to create the Nara-Akimichi-Yamanaka trio, making that team stable. Hinata has met Kurenai before, and Kurenai wants to mentor Hinata and develop a reconnaisance team. Therefore that team tends to come together. Nobody expects the new 'dead last' to make it. There's also the hidden meaning - which is that Kakashi's sensei's child is currently Naruko and he also wants the Uchiha if he wants anyone on his team.
You'd think he'd have trained us better if he really cared.
If you want someone who completely understands human emotions and rationalization, you've got the wrong Elder God, kid.
Uhm. Right. Let me fast forward past the boring stuff. No point in repeating the stuff that's the same.
Naruko strummed an instrument. Not unusual. Sakura had eyed the girl as she briefly brought one instrument after another out of storage scrolls then resealed them. Guitar, flute, bass guitar, xylophone, saxophone, and finally this.
Sakura abandoned her "I'm not paying attention to this cheap tramp out to snare my Sasuke" pretense in order to peer more closely at the whatever-it-was.
"It's called a 'duar,'" said Naruko as she began picking out a tune on the instrument.
"That's - how many strings are on that?" asked Sakura.
"Six strings, plus another six shadow strings, and the sound box," said Naruko, tapping on the wooden chamber backing the strings, "extends into sealed space."
Sasuke snorted.
"It's a pain in the butt to play," admitted Naruko. "I've only got the most basic chords and styles down. However, because it is neither completely of one world or another - it can be used to do things that transcend normal music."
"Useless," pronounced the brooding Uchiha.
"To you, perhaps," said Naruko, twitching just a little. "Let's just let it go at that, okay?"
Sasuke made a little noise that somehow sounded derogatory.
Naruko sealed the 'duar' back and brought out a pair of tonfa. "You want to fight then?"
"Not like you'd be a challenge," began Sasuke. "You're just a play-pretend ninja after all."
Okay. This is different.
Their philosophies of life are pretty much incompatible. Sasuke lives for vengeance. Naruko lives for her art and making friends.
No, I meant Naruko bashing Sasuke over the head with a desk. Got any popcorn? Cause THIS part I'm liking.
Here you go. Extra butter.
Sasuke was openly contemptuous of the blonde idol singer. She hadn't suffered, she hadn't struggled, she was the sort of happy little twit he most abhorred. Ninjas were about being dark and vengeful and deadly.
Of course, the fact that she'd flickered across the room then bashed him four times across the head with her tonfa before he'd realized that the girl really was unhappy with him.
He was so used to fawning fangirls that he realized, about the time he'd dodged her and found a thrown desk had predicted his trajectory and impacted his head - that maybe this girl wasn't quite as pathetic as most of his fanclub.
"Hey, stop it, stop it, STOP IT!" said Sakura, rising to defense of her crush - lifting her own desk and throwing it at Naruko.
Naruko grabbed the incoming desk, did a half-spin to increase momentum, and then launched it at Sasuke.
Sasuke knew it was coming and tried to do the same thing. Except he'd gotten a little dazed with all the head-blows.
Sakura saw the incoming desk and had that momentary freeze as she realized what had just happened. This was immediately followed by being knocked head over tail into some other desks and a lot of hurt.
"Oh dear," said Naruko, pausing as she noticed the broken desk and passed out girl. Then another desk smashed into her and such considerations were discarded.
"Wind Release: Air Hammer Jutsu!"
"Fire Release: Fireball Jutsu!"
Kakashi Hatake slowly made his way to the Academy classroom. Time to fail another group. It wasn't as if any of them were ready for ninja life. No, it would be better if they retained some of their childhood while they had it.
BOOM!
"Eh?" asked Kakashi as he noticed smoke coming from the Ninja Academy. "What's..."
BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BA-KOOM!
Kakashi blinked. Were those explosive tags going off?
crackle THOOM!
Lightning jutsu?
KA-KA-BLAM!
Had they been invaded by another ninja village?
BA-BOOM!
Was that a desk that was arcing out over the village?
smash tinkle
And did it just get thrown all the way to the Hokage tower where it crashed into a fourth story window?
Kakashi debated just going back now. No. He couldn't do that. But he had a REALLY bad feeling about what he was going to find there.
"Well, how do I put this?" asked Kakashi, almost an hour later. His eyes went from the blonde with a couple of bandages, to the brooding Uchiha with one arm in a cast and MORE bandages, and finally to the pink-haired girl who had LOTS of bandages and her leg in a cast.
He didn't miss the glares two of the genin directed to the third, or the way that third met those glares and raised them a very unhappy snarl.
"A tsundere," said Kakashi, bringing a squawk and denial from the blonde. Which was probably accurate as the dislike there seemed pretty sincere. "A pathetic fangirl." Another squawk and stuttered denials. "And a brooding avenger who picks fights to further hone his combat skills."
"Oh, so THAT was what that was," said Naruko, not sounding mollified in the slightest.
Sasuke grunted and used his tongue to check his teeth for looseness. Damn that girl could hit. He didn't like the girl in the slightest, but he could see a useful sparring partner there at least.
"I don't like you guys," summed up Kakashi. "I've seen better team dynamics in Ninja Preschool."
I still don't like the idea of being a girl, but she totally kicked his butt! Ugh. She doesn't end up with Sasuke does she, because that would be totally creepy.
No. If she survives, there would be a fair chance of Naruko ending up with Choji, Haku, or someone like that. There is a slight chance of Naruko's strength fascinating Sasuke, but almost no chance of the reverse occurring.
Oh, it's not like Kakashi said - that Tsundere thing where she acts like she can't stand him because she likes him?
No, this is more she acts like she can't stand him because he literally pisses her off.
Oh. Well that's okay then.
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