Chap. 7 The New Teams

"Hinami, I have another assignment for you." Minato said looking towards the girl, who'd joined the Anbu briefly, but was looking to leave such, she'd been the only genin approved for entering the AnBu directly under Minato. She'd already made a name for herself within the Anbu, as The Reaper, a few of the villages even had a flee on sight order from the girl. She stood in front of Minato, her eyes looking forwards, they were incredibly dull, but that was all they were these days. After loosing her entire team, it was to be expected. She wore her black hair in a plait braid with one lilac strand and one yellow strand intertwined with her own. wearing an AnBu uniform as she kneeled before the desk 

"Right, I'm assigning you to a new team. Team 7, with Naruto and Sasuke." Minato said and Hinami hummed in response, 

"Sounds good. I'll head to the academy then." Hinami said and Minato nodded, looking towards her, 

"Alright." He said in return, wearing his headband around his forehead with his blonde hair spiking over it, his sideburns reaching his chin, wearing a dark blue ninja outfit with a jonin flak jacket overtop with his hokage cloak overtop that. Sitting behind a brown desk in his large office, the windows behind him were floor to ceiling and gave a better view of the village. 'Hopefully, this will help you get out of the darkness.' he thought, looking towards the girl as she left. 

"Alright. Sasuke Uchiha, Hinami Senju, and Naruto Namikaze, you'll be team seven. Sakura Haruno, Miho Uzumaki and Kyoto Uchiha. Your team 6. Kiba Inuzuka, Hinata Hyuga, and Shino Abarame, team 8." Iruka continued to list out teams. Hinami back in the classroom for this announcement, her headband around her forehead as she sat next to Sasuke with Naruto on the otherside of her looking towards Iruka a moment, as whispers about her already being graduated before the rest of the genin at the academy, a few years before.

"Oh man, Miho is bottom of the class… I'd hate to be stuck on his team." whispers broke out among the genin. Naruto looked over towards the genin whispering around the room. He had his fathers hair and his mothers eyes, a perfect mix of the two, he wasn't at the bottom of the class, but he was near it. Miho didn't study as much as he probably should, and was on the bottom of the class in studies, but his fighting skills were midway up the class. That being said, Naruto was 7th in the class. Behind Sasuke who sat comfortably in the number 1 slot as far as taijutsu, cooperation, class attitude, and ninjutsu, genjutsu. Sakura taking 6th place. Hinata sat at number 4, right behind of Naruto. 

"Yeah, but did you hear the rumors, Hinami's old team died because of her. That's why she had to be put on a new one." another whispered, 

"Really? That's crazy." his friend replied, 

"Whatd you say! You wanna fight?!" Miho said raising his fist towards Kiba who looked back towards him as Akamaru yipped

"As if loser" Kiba said, sticking out his tongue, 

"Real mature boys." Sakura commented. One by one sensei came for their genin teams, Shisui being assigned to Kyoto's team. The man coming in second to pick them up. His black hair fell over his headband revealing the leaf's symbol as he wore a black top with an open collar, a sword strapped to his back, with black pants. Wearing wrappings around his shins and black sandals on his feet. Hinami, Naruto, and Sasuke sat on the bench, Naruto getting more and more antsy at how late Kakashi was, Naruto finally having enough setting up a prank for the man, an erasure in the doorway. 

"Hey, Hinami, help out, would ya." Naruto said and the girl hummed, her black hair in a plait braid with one lilac strand and one yellow strand intertwined with her own. wearing a lilac purple sleeveless top with a black skirt, paired with a tan cropped jacket overtop, with the hyuga symbol on the arms, with the Senju symbol on the back in black. Wearing a shuriken holster on her right thigh with a kunai pouch on her back, wearing sleeveless black gloves on her hands with arm guards underneath her jacket. Her scar which sat on the left side of her face, just outside of her eye, she came close to loosing the appendage, but was lucky

"Fine." She said in return, moving her hand and growing vines on the wall that lifted Naruto up to the top of the door, before moving him back down, the vines going underneath the ground the girl remained seated. Hinami sitting next to her, her head on the desk, before she hummed glancing towards Naruto and then the door, before looking out the window, as she thought of Geikan and Anita, something that took up all of her freetime since their deaths. 

"He's coming, sit back down." Hinami said and Naruto laughed as he jumped around the room, before sitting down in between the two, Hinami putting her head on the desk as Sasuke just looked towards the blackboard.

"Sasuke Uchiha, Hinami Senju, and Naruto Namikaze?" Kakashi said as he walked up, noting the eraser in the door, allowing it to hit him in the head as Naruto burst out laughing pointing towards the man, before highfiving Hinami as the prank worked. The girl just humming, looking over at the man. 

"A jonin wouldn't get caught by a juvenile prank so easily. You allowed the erasure to hit you. I heard you hesitate." Hinami pointed out from the seat, and Kakashi hummed, 'an interesting group indeed.' he thought before asking them up to the roof of the academy. 

"Introductions and dreams, things like that, I want to get to know my new team." Kakashi said as they stood on the roof, wearing his white hair up above his head, wearing his headband diagonally over his face, hiding his scar and his left eye, wearing a blue mask on his face hiding his mouth and nose. Wearing a blue ninja outfit with blue sandals and gloves on his hands. Looking towards the three genin. Before humming, giving an honestly terrible example. The genin sat on the steps in front of him, Sasuke in the center his chin resting on his hands as he glared forwards with his pupiless black eyes. His black hair spiked behind his head as he wore a blue short-sleeve shirt with tan shorts, his shuriken holster on his right thigh, with his blue headband tied around his forehead. Wearing tan arm warmers on his forearms, and blue sandals on his feet. 

"Guess I'll go next. My name is Sasuke Uchiha, and my dream is to be better than my brother. I don't have likes or dislikes. Well… I hate sweets." Sasuke said not moving his head from his hands. Naruto bouncing on the right side, his blonde hair sitting around his head falling around the metal of his headband. Wearing a blue-orange ninja outfit with his shuriken holster on his right thigh, raising his hand as his violet eyes looked forwards.

"Me next me next! Okay! So I'm Naruto Namikaze. I'm gonna be hokage, and not just any hokage, I'll be better than any of em! Ill protect the leaf just like my great grandfather did! Believe it! I really like eating ramen or training with mom and uncle. But I don't like all the 'lord hokage this and lord hokage that' I mean, I'm my own person ya know!" Naruto said waving his hands around, looking towards Kakashi. Hinami sat on the other side of Sasuke, her black hair in a braid behind her head, a yellow strand on the right side with a lilac strand on the left side, a representation of her teammates who'd passed away, wearing a seafoam green sleeveless top with a black skirt, paired with a tan cropped jacket overtop, with the hyuga symbol on the arms, with the Senju symbol on the back in black. Wearing a shuriken holster on her right thigh with a kunai pouch on her back, her pupiless pale pink eyes looking towards the hokage monument a moment. Before sighing, looking towards Kakashi before looking towards her new teammates, Well… Naruto was her cousin so she at least had an idea on what she was going to expect from him, Sasuke was an unknown variable.

"My name is Hinami Senju. I was on Team4 previously. My only goal at the moment is gathering as much information as I can about the masked man, enough information to take him down. So Airu sensei, Anita, and Geikan can be at peace. If that means joining this team and working with you three, then so be it, it doesn't matter to me either way." Hinami said from the side, her black hair in a plait braid with one lilac strand and one yellow strand intertwined with her own. wearing a lilac purple sleeveless top with a black skirt, paired with a tan cropped jacket overtop, with the hyuga symbol on the arms, with the Senju symbol on the back in black. Wearing a shuriken holster on her right thigh with a kunai pouch on her back, wearing sleeveless black gloves on her hands with arm guards underneath her jacket. Her scar which sat on the left side of her face, just outside of her eye, she came close to loosing the appendage, but was lucky. 'hmm… Minato sensei was right, she is mostly just out for revenge…' Kakashi thought looking at the three.

"Your goal is to get these two bells." Kakashi said standing in front of Naruto, Sasuke, and Hinami, who looked at him in confusion a moment, noting that there wasn't enough bells for everyone. Kakashi nodded in agreement, noting that the person unable to get the bells would fail and be sent back to the academy. Hinami and Sasuke hiding, after he spoke, with Naruto going in for a direct frontal assault on the jonin. 'He has to know that wouldn't work.' Hinami thought watching the boy get thrown like a ragdoll. Tricked by Kakashi with the replacement jutsu. Hinami remained where she was, moving branches and trees towards Kakashi, vines coming down around the man, she thought she had him on the ropes before he tapped her shoulder, 

"Interesting, how are you doing that." Kakashi said and Hinami activated her byakugan, as she twisted, sending her palm out which Kakashi dodged, after placing her in a genjutsu, he moved on to Sasuke. Planting him in the ground, the genin weren't working together, which was evident in their fighting, which trampled over eachother just barely. Naruto trying to eat before everyone and ending tied to a stump. The two feeding Naruto parts of their bento

"How's the team 7 doing?" Rin asked as she looked in on the field, 

"Terrible. They aren't working together, at all. Though… it's not surprising as…" Kakashi said in response, and Rin hummed, pointing to the field, 

"I wouldn't be so sure about that Kakashi." she said and Kakashi's black eye followed her brown eyes to where the kids were actually working together, sharing the bento and talking. Like an actual team, his first team that had done that. 

"They passed…" He said before he left the hiding space he'd found, to inform the genin who looked at him in confusion, Hinami slicing through the ropes around Naruto, 

"I see… It's that hidden meanings. Airu sensei was more straightforward with her lessons but I respect your style of teaching as well." Hinami said and Kakashi nodded in turn, agreeing to take them on as a team, officially. 

"In the ninja world, those who abandon the rules are scum. But those whod sacrifice A comrade, are worse than scum." He stated calmly and the genins eyes widened before they narrowed in agreement, when they thought about it, he was right. 'So I'm worse than scum…' She thought in return, Kakashi internally swearing at himself for his choice of words.

 "So dogwalking. Easy." Naruto said, looking at the four dogs, a mastiff, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, and a bulldog picking the largest dog to walk, before being promptly walked by the dog. Being dragged through the mud and grass. Hinami picking the bulldog with Sasuke picking the chihuahua, doing these easy missions mostly for Naruto and Sasuke to gain the expirence they need for larger missions. 

"Dogwalking! Not easy! Help!!!" Naruto said Hinami looking over before humming scoffing as she watched the dog pulling him behind him with ease, not a care in the world. Rolling her eyes, she'd chosen to walk the spaniel, Sasuke the bulldog, with Naruto choosing the mastiff. Sasuke just shook his head waving his arm not holding onto the leash,

"You idiot! That's why you shouldn't pick the biggest dog!" Sasuke said in return, before he also laughed at the image of Naruto's clothes becoming grass and dirt stained from the dog dragging the boy behind him.

"Aww. He likes you." Hinami said, Naruto shouting back his disagreements, after that job, they had a simple weed pulling mission for a single house. 

"Naruto, Sasuke, allow us to handle this job." Hinami said, she moved her hands over, plucking all of the weeds from the customers garden at once,

"Incredible. How did you do that?" the customer asked, as Hinami gathered the weeds

"Its a part of our Kekkei touta. We just asked the weeds to move, They shouldn't be back. If you pull weeds from the stem then theres a risk theyll come back, but if you get the entire root, and send them elsewhere, then no worries." Hinami said calmly, holding the weeds in her hands, as Hinami did the same, their kekkei tota was Forest release, she literally speak to nature and grow plants wherever she wanted. In return, Nature also responded to her strong Emotions. She could also use the wood release kekkei genkai, when they were together it was a lot stronger too. While Kiyoka had mastery over her kekkei genkai was able to activate the 100 healings marking at 16, having the Uzmakis chakra chains kekkei genkai, as well as a plethora of water based attacks. Ikumi, Hinami's younger brother was in the same class as Konohamaru, the third hokage's grandson, and the two seemed to love getting into trouble as a group of six. (Konohamaru, Moegi, Udon, Ikumi, Meiko, and Asahi)