InuYasha Fan Fiction / Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Sensei Exchange ❯ New Squads ( Chapter 2 )

Chapter Two:

New Squads

 

Some of them turned their heads as Naruto rushed forward, smiling brighter than normal, as he stood in front of the girl who stood in front of the Kazekage. “That dragon was awesome!” Naruto almost shouted, “How did you do that?!?”

 

Kagome blinked, turning her head toward him. However, she suddenly smiled, almost as if she hadn't just gotten into a serious battle with the male that had once been on her three-man squad. “I did the hand seals while inside the third twister, and then I used the scrolls I unraveled in order to create the shape of the dragon, as well as turning it black. It's not hard once you do it correctly the first time,” she replied, tilting her head to one side.

 

“Could you teach me that?” Naruto asked; feeling more excited by the moment. “And—and what was that thing that happened to your eyes? Is that a really hard jutsu? Can you teach me that, too?”

 

Kagome giggled, “I guess you weren't paying that much attention, were you?” Seeing him give her a dumbfounded look, she choked down her laughter, but continued to smile. “If you had been paying attention you would have heard the idiot over there,” she motioned toward Inuyasha, “say Kekkei Genkai; the change my eyes went through was the doujutsu of my clan. We call it the ketatamashiigan; the piercing eye. It allows me to… see things before they happen, in a sense, and it also allows me to see through most Genjutsu that are used upon me. There are a few secrets behind it, as well; things that have been kept hidden, but I do not know them. Unfortunately I can't teach it to you.”

 

Many of them turned to Sasuke, who looked quite stunned as she explained what her doujutsu did. They all knew the sharingan quite well, knew that it could see through Genjutsu and, in a sense, see things before they happened—the only thing her ketatamashiigan didn't do was copy other jutsu. Even then, though, she'd said that there were things about it that she did not know of; that had been kept secret—perhaps her doujutsu was a different form of the almost nonexistent sharingan? It almost seemed like it, though her eyes had seemed more half-sharingan and half-byakugan from the coloration and markings.

 

“But,” Naruto pouted, “you can teach me that cool dragon jutsu, right?”

 

“If you're on my squad,” Kagome stated with as much authority in her voice as she could muster. For some reason she didn't want to disappoint him, he seemed so much like her younger brother, always bright and wanting to learn. It was hard to tell him `no'.

 

“Oh, come on!” Naruto whined. “Please, please, please—pleeeaassseeee! I'll learn quickly because I'm the best shinobi in Konohagakure! Believe it!” He stopped when a hand was laid on his head, and turned to see that Kakashi-sensei was staring down at him. Then, turning back to the girl in front of him, he noticed that she seemed to be quite overwhelmed, almost like she hadn't expected someone to be so eager to learn from her. However, he continued to smile, wondering for a moment if he used his sexy jutsu if Kakashi-sensei would agree to put him on her squad so he could learn the dragon technique.

 

“Naruto, the squads have already been decided,” Kakashi said. “You're going to have to be happy with what you get.”

 

“But, but, I want to be on her squad, Kakashi-sensei!” Naruto whined. Then, hearing a sound behind him, he turned to glare at Sasuke. “And I don't want to have Sasuke-teme on my squad anymore! He'll steal all my training time!” He squinted at his sensei, and nearly whispered, “Especially with such a pretty girl.”

 

Though the others didn't hear what he said, they saw Kagome turn bright red. She laughed nervously, and brought her hand up, waving it around in embarrassment. “That's really very kind of you, but I-I'm nothing special. J-just you're average, ordinary girl!” She continued to laugh nervously, turning her eyes so that she wasn't looking at anyone as she scurried over to Sango.

 

Sango smiled kindly at her friend, “One of these days you're going to have to come to realize just how much of a piece of eye candy you are to guys, Kagome-chan.”

 

Kagome turned a deeper shade of red and crossed her arms over her chest, not realizing that it brought most of the attention to her, though not all of it was noticeable. “I have no idea what you're talking about, Sango-chan!” she cried out, wishing that there were a nice, large hole that she could go and hide in. “I don't have anything more than any other girl!”

 

“Feh, stupid wench,” Inuyasha hissed lowly. His face turned a light shade of red, his eyes lightly tracing over the curve of Kagome's waist, before resting on the arms that she'd crossed over her nice set of breasts. His eye twitched slightly, and he told himself to think of Kikyo, but Sango had a point. The black and silver outfit that the Higurashi wore showed her figure more than she realized, along with the feminine parts of her body that she seemed to believe were simply average.

 

“You're so in denial,” Sango sighed. She glared at the hormonal boys, noticing that they were either turning light, very light shades of pink, bright red, or drooling openly at her friend. The pink haired and blonde haired girls were glaring at her at first for some reason, while Hinata turned a soft shade of red, and the brown haired girl blinked rapidly.

 

Kagome gave a small cry and raced back to the three silent siblings. She hid behind Temari, but when she felt the slightly chuckles that the Kazekage's elder sister was allowing to escape quietly, she almost went to hide behind Kankurou, until she noticed how he was staring openly at her chest. Her next cry was a little louder, and she quickly crouched down behind the Kazekage as closely as she could, crossed her arms over her chest, and buried her head into her knees. She began to mutter to herself, though the others only caught slightly things like `idiots' and `stupid hormones'.

 

“Whoa,” Kiba whistled. Akamaru gave a small bark of agreement from on top of his head, and he quickly closed his mouth when he realized he might start drooling at any moment. If he hadn't already, that was.

 

Hinata turned a little redder, turning to her teammate. “K-Kiba-kun, you shouldn't b-be staring at her like that!”

 

Kiba turned his eyes rather quickly, his face turning a bit red. “You're right, Hinata-chan,” he quickly agreed, trying to calm himself down. He doubted he would have even noticed with the dark clothing that she wore if she hadn't pointed it out so dramatically. Then again, he might have after some time if he got put on the same squad as her; in fact, he kind of hoped he would be.

 

Shino also quickly turned his head when he realized that his sensei was staring deeply into his sunglasses. He was glad for the high collar of his jacket, when he realized that his cheeks were turning a soft shade of red.

 

Sakura twitched, looking down at her own chest, feeling embarrassed that she was comparing them. However, when she looked at Sasuke, now having turned his head just a bit to the side, she thought that he was looking at the crouched girl behind the Kazekage. Almost instantly rage bubbled up inside of her when she thought she saw a bit of pink powdering his cheeks, but beat it down, telling herself that it was probably just the cool air of the morning.

 

Sasuke grunted, telling himself that he shouldn't be looking at any girl that way—not until his brother was dead. He hated himself for a moment, since he'd never noticed any of the fan girls that followed him endlessly, yet he'd noticed a girl from Suna that had only been there for about an hour, maybe longer. Maybe it was her mood swings, or her skill, or her enormous amount of chakra, or maybe her brea—either way, he needed to find the reason and get over it, he didn't need this type of distraction. However, the pink tint to his cheeks darkened just a tiny bit when he noticed the way she was shaking her head back and forth, showing off her slender, pale, neck at random moments.

 

Ino bristled, glaring at her teammates. Chouji had stopped chewing midway to stare openly at the girl, while Shikamaru made it seem like he didn't care—she could tell otherwise from the way his ears, cheeks, and some of his neck darkened in color, though. She wasn't that angry with the new girl, it wasn't her fault that she had a generous amount of flesh, but her teammates shouldn't be staring at her that way because she did. Especially, she stiffened, and turned to look toward her Sasuke, wondering if he was staring at the whimpering girl, too. However, she was pleased when she noticed that his face was turned to the side.

 

Lee blinked, stars forming in his eyes. “So youthful!” he yelled.

 

TenTen was slightly glad that her bushy-browed teammate was slightly naïve. However, she turned her eyes to her other teammate and sighed. She wondered how he made it look like he wasn't interested when he was clearly staring intently at the girl, his eyes hooded just a bit as if it were natural. She shook her head, knowing that drawing attention to the pink shade of his cheeks would get her nowhere, since he would merely tell her that he did not stoop to such things as staring at women he did not know. Then he would go back to staring at her as if he didn't care, thus making her comment pointless in the first place.

 

Kakashi coughed, telling himself he should not be staring at her the way he was, turning his attention back to his student. “Naruto,” he continued, “you won't have to worry about Sasuke for the next two weeks.”

 

Naruto blinked, the slight trail of drool on his chin going unnoticed as he turned his now starry eyes to his sensei. “Really, Kakashi-sensei?” he asked, a smile twitching at the side of his lips.

 

“Yup,” Kakashi smiled back. “We randomly chose which three students—still two boys and one girl—would be with which Sunagakure jounin. We made sure that everyone was with someone new; both of your new teammates will be with someone you've never trained with before as a team.”

 

“Really?” Naruto yelled. “Who am I with, Kakashi-sensei? Who?” However, his eyes quickly narrowed as he thought about something, and he asked, “Wait. Kakashi-sensei, how exactly did you decide who would be with who?”

 

The jounin sweat dropped, remembering the two hats, one with the girls names, one with the boys names, and placing names back into hats as they tried to randomly place each person with two other people who had not been on their team before. However, Kakashi squinted his eye, patted Naruto on the head, and said, “That's not important right now. What's important is getting you all set up to begin your training.”

 

“Kagome-chan.”

 

“Ah,” Kagome turned her head to Temari. “Yes, Temari?”

 

“You look pathetic,” Temari muttered.

 

Kankurou snorted, continuing to stare at her chest, “Shows what you know, Temari.”

 

“Shut up, Kankurou,” Temari snapped.

 

Kagome laughed again, finally standing and brushing herself off a few times, making sure to pull lightly at her top in order to loosen it more. However, she stepped around the Kazekage and finally began to walk back to Sango. Halfway there, though, she was intercepted and narrowed her eyes at the shinobi who stood before her. Being on his team had made her cautious of him being too close to her, even on missions. “Miroku,” she muttered.

 

Miroku stepped closer to her, the move causing the other shinobi to turn toward them. “Ah, Kagome-sama,” he began, “you shouldn't be so embarrassed about your stunning beauty. I, having survived cold winter nights, harsh summer days, hauntingly disgusting sights, and many, many missions by your side, am quite glad that I had such a beautiful teammate standing beside me. Why,” his hand twitched as he stepped a little closer, “I wouldn't have wished for any other female, expect perhaps my darling Sango, to be on my genin squad, even if we were so young then.”

 

“Miroku,” Kagome stiffened, “remove the hand.”

 

“It was your beauty, Kagome-sama, that made such horrific sights at the age of ten and higher much, much more appealing,” Miroku continued.

 

Kagome growled, and glared, murder in her eyes, at him, her Kekkei Genkai beginning to show. Finally, unable to take it anymore, she snapped, “Miroku, you PERVERT!” Her hand reared back and though he took a stumbling step away from her, the back of her hand connected nicely with his right cheek. A loud crack was heard, and he was lifted off his feet, beginning to turn in the air as he sailed away from her. Angry, she stomped over to Sango, not paying attention to Miroku even as he roughly hit the ground, sliding into the grass.

 

The males cringed at the kunoichi's strength, while the girls blinked in wonder, hoping they could learn to be that strong someday. And, they shifted their eyes to the other female standing next to her, still wearing that large boomerang like it weighed nothing, and wondered how strong she was in comparison.

 

Miroku, after a few moments, stood, lifted his hand into the air, and said, “I'm okay.” A goofy grin was on his face before he stumbled back toward them, his hand twitching all the way. When he neared them the girls all took several back, and he grinned a little more.

 

Inuyasha shook his head, “When are you gonna learn, Miroku?”

 

“It was worth it,” Miroku chuckled. Then, without a word, he fell forward into the dirt. His hand continued to twitch, and even as he groaned, no one came to help him.

 

“Stupid pervert,” Kagome muttered. “Why did I ever get stuck on his team?”

 

Sango patted Kagome's shoulder, “I feel for you, Kagome-chan. Nice hit, by the way.”

 

Kagome smiled brightly, “Thank you, Sango-chan.” However, an evil glint formed in her eyes and she said, “He's lucky he's not Inuyasha, though, otherwise I'd kick him while he's down.”

 

Inuyasha growled in response.

 

Kakashi coughed, while the other jounin shook their heads, beginning to wonder if this was the best idea. These Sunagakure jounin were violent, and the Higurashi seemed to have constant mood swings. But they guessed if the newly appointed Kazekage chose them that they had to be some of the best—at least in strength and jutsu. However, Kakashi paid the other jounin no mind, and asked, “Would it be too much trouble if we moved on?”

 

Kagome smiled again, “Not at all, Hatake-san. You may proceed as you wish.”

 

Kakashi blinked, but nodded. “Very well,” he said, “Kurenai?”

 

“Right,” the female jounin stepped forward, holding a scroll in her hand. She unraveled it, and began, “For the next two weeks the four squads will be as followed: Uzumaki Naruto, Inuzuka Kiba, and TenTen will be squad one.”

 

Inuyasha grunted, “That means you're with Miroku.” He lightly kicked his fellow jounin in the side, wondering how he ever got stuck on the pervert's squad so long ago. The Higurashi he could understand, she was all right when it came to fighting, but the stupid pervert couldn't keep his mind out of the gutter no matter how hard he tried. If it wasn't for them knocking him unconscious fifty percent of the time Kagome would have probably screamed and one of their missions' would have ended in failure, each of them dying painful deaths. Then again, he was pretty good once he got serious.

 

Naruto's eyes bugged out of his head, “WHAT!?!” He began to panic, his mouth dropping in horror. He suddenly latched himself onto Kakashi-sensei, nearly screaming, “No! No! Kakashi-sensei, tell me it's not true! I can't be stuck with that pervert! I already have to deal with you and Ero-Sannin!”

 

Kakashi barely managed to pull himself free of the hysterical genin.

 

Kurenai smirked at Kakashi's expense as Gai tried to help him keep Naruto from latching onto him again. However, she managed to continue without beginning to laugh, “Hyuuga Neji, Hyuuga Hinata, and Uchiha Sasuke will be squad two.”

 

Sasuke and Neji turned to glare at each other suddenly, while Hinata merely nodded in acceptance. However, the glaring contest was interrupted when they heard, “That means you're with me” and turned to see Kagome smiling at them.

 

Naruto began to cry, grabbing onto Kakashi-sensei's arm for dear life. “No!” he cried out, his watery eyes turning toward the sensei he'd wanted. “No! I get the pervert, and Sasuke-teme gets the pretty girl as his sensei! I told you he takes everything, Kakashi-sensei! I told you!”

 

Kakashi tried to pull away again, watching as Gai began to pull at Naruto's shirt in order to get the genin to release him. “Naruto,” he tried to reason with him. “It will only be for two weeks.”

 

“I don't care, Kakashi-sensei!” Naruto shouted. “I don't wanna be with another pervert! I wanna be with Kagome-sensei! Please, please don't let this happen to me!”

 

Kurenai closed her eyes, and said, “Nara Shikamaru, Rock Lee, and Haruno Sakura will be squad three.”

 

Inuyasha smirked, “That means you're mine.”

 

Sakura cringed, noticing that Lee was jumping up into the air like crazy. She turned her head a little and watched as Shikamaru sighed, bowed his head, and repeated his famous line of “how troublesome”. Tears nearly formed in her eyes. She knew that Kakashi-sensei had said her two new teammates would be new, but she still liked being on Sasuke's team, and she wasn't sure how much of Lee's devotion she could handle. However, her face scrunched up a bit as she thought about who had been placed onto each squad and gasp at the moment Kurenai began to speak again.

 

“Which leaves squad four as Akimichi Chouji, Aburame Shino, and—” she was cut off, and turned her attention to the last student whose name she was about to call.

 

“Wait,” Ino said, confused. “You said that we'd all be with people we'd never trained with before. Chouji and I are on the same squad with Asuma-sensei.”

 

Asuma allowed his cigarette to slip a little from his lips for missing that when they were making the new squads. Frowning, he scratched the back of his head, “Seems that you're correct, Ino. However, that's a small miscalculation on our part, and since the other squads have already been decided there's no reason to change it now. I'm afraid you're going to have to deal with it for the next two weeks.” It seems that they were more set on their vacation time, though they weren't going to tell the students that's what they were going to do, that they'd missed that tiny detail.

 

“R'okay,” Chouji said continuing to munch on his chips.

 

“But, Asuma-sensei!” Ino whined. “You could change Chouji out for Sasuke-kun and that would make it so that we're all on different teams!”

 

Sakura stiffened, “No way! If Sasuke-kun's going to change teams then I want him on my team instead of Shikamaru or Lee!”

 

Naruto sniffled, continuing to hold tight to Kakashi-sensei. “Please, please, Kakashi-sensei! Change places between me and Sasuke-teme! Please!”

 

Kurenai twitched, “—and Yamanaka Ino.” She moved the scroll so that she was no longer directly staring at it, continuing to watch as Ino, Naruto, and Sakura whined. “The squads have already been decided, and though we're sorry that Ino and Chouji were placed back onto the same team, we aren't going to change it now. We believe that the squads are fine as they are, so there will be no more whining.” She glared at them, watching as all of them but Naruto, continuing to whine about being on the pervert's squad, shut their mouths.

 

Ino couldn't believe this. They'd promised that they'd all have new teammates and she still gets stuck with Chouji. Then again, at least she wasn't alone with two new strangers—not that they were really strange, since she did know them all—since she knew how Chouji was. She guessed, in a way, she should be thankful; since the others all had to train with two people they'd never trained with before—not to mention a new sensei they had never trained with either. Still, it wouldn't have been that hard to change Chouji for Sasuke; their senseis' were just being mean and unfair! Didn't they know that she was supposed to win his heart and this was the perfect way for her to get close to him? And, she was a little suspicious about Kagome now, with the way Neji and Sasuke stopped glaring at one another to stare at her when she said, in that pretty tone of hers, that they were her squad.

 

“Squad four is with me,” Sango said, allowing a small smile to form on her lips. “Though, that was a little obvious.”

 

Naruto's had tears welling in his eyes, as he continued to cling to Kakashi-sensei. “Please don't do this to me, Kakashi-sensei! Have a heart! Please, please don't do this to me! I don't wanna be on the pervert's team! Please!”

 

“Naruto!” Kakashi yelped in surprise as Naruto slid to the ground, his hand holding onto the sleeve that had torn from his clothing.

 

“Please,” Naruto whimpered. He clutched the torn sleeve tightly, feeling Gai's hands release him. “Please.”

 

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Dictionary

Chakra - life energy

Genin - low ninja; junior ninja

Genjutsu - illusion technique

Jounin - high ninja; elite ninja

Jutsu - technique

Kazekage - wind shadow

Kekkei genkai - bloodline limit

Ketatamashiigan - piercing eye

Konohagakure (no Sato) -Village Hidden Among Leaves

-sama - suffix used in very high respect

-san - a polite and formal suffix meaning “Mr.” “Mrs.” “Ms.” or “Miss”

Shinobi - ninja

Sunagakure (no Sato) - Village Hidden Among Sand