5 First Impressions (2/2)
”What I have is not a dream, but an ambition. One that I will fulfill. I will restore my clan and I will destroy…a certain someone,” Sasuke said his eyes the picture-perfect face of hatred making Kakashi narrow his eyes. Naruto knew who Sasuke was talking about of course. 'Uchiha Itachi, the infamous prodigy of Konoha that managed to kill off his entire clan in a single night. I can see why Sasuke would want him dead. But seriously I wonder why no one would just tell him the truth, I'm sure Sarutobi knew what happened and why. But I guess I could tell him' Naruto thought to himself.
”Alright blondie, your turn,” Kakashi called. The air was silent. The only thing that could be heard was the breeze of the wind. Sasuke and Sakura turned to see Naruto with his arms folded and his arms closed. Kakashi gave a small smile. ”So are you mute too?” Kakashi asked. Naruto didn't rise to the obvious taunt tactic.
”Naruto would you stop being complicated and just tell him your name!” Sakura hissed underneath her breath though it didn't seem to do much good since everyone heard it. ”….,” Naruto continued to remain quiet as he kept his arms folded. Sasuke snorted before going back to whatever he was thinking about while Sakura tried to glare daggers into Naruto's skull.
”…Uzumaki Naruto,” Naruto said and then finished. Kakashi waited for something else, but he didn't get anything else. ”Anything else you want to tell us?” Kakashi asked the smile came up even tighter. Now Naruto opened his eyes and turned to his sensei. ”I gave you all that you needed to know. You don't need to know anything else.” Naruto remarked a glare of his own to match the small one on Kakashi's face. ”He's acting in a way different way than how I thought he would,” Kakashi thought to himself before sighing as he figured he wouldn't get anything else out of Naruto.
”Well alright my cute little students, it's time for your test to prove you're genin!” Kakashi said. He didn't get much further before Sakura interrupted him. ”Prove we're genin? But we're already genin. We took the test at the academy! Why do we need another test?” Sakura asked. Kakashi grinned. Oh man, he always loved this part of dropping the bomb on students.
”Well Sakura, that test was just a test for seeing who had the potential to become genin. This test is going to truly weed out the rest of you. This test has a 66 percent failure as an average. Out of all of you students, only nine will actually pass this course. Let's hope you three are in that number,” Kakashi said with an eye smile. Sasuke glared hard at the jonin while Sakura shuddered. ”We will begin tomorrow. Meet me at training ground 7 at 8 a.m. on the dot,” He said before he hopped onto the railing. He glanced back at them.
”Oh, and word of advice. Don't eat, you'll surely puke,” Kakashi said before he vanished away leaving the three alone. ”What a weird guy, right Sasuke-kun?” Sakura asked. Sasuke just stuffed his hands into his pockets and got to his feet. Sakura sighed. How did Sasuke make even walking look cool?
”You heard him Naruto. You'd better not be late this time.” She said.
Naruto didn't respond to that as he looked to the other two as he said: ”We need to talk, I think he's trying to trick us.” Sasuke raised an eyebrow and was clearly interested, Sakura, on the other hand, was annoyed ”Why should we listen to you Naru-baka, come on Sasuke, let's go get some food somewhere.” She started walking off but stopped as she heard Sasuke say ”Go get food yourself, I want to know what the 'dead last' has figured out, he said sarcastically. Naruto ignored the sarcasm and waited till Sakura was standing next to Sasuke to start talking.
”I don't believe what he said about not eating, if we would just throw it up as he said, that would mean we're going to be doing strenuous physical activities, but if he's late like he was today for 2-3 hours, and we don't eat breakfast. Then we will be without food for more than 10 hours assuming you all eat dinner at 7 pm. I think he wants us to be at our lowest to test our teamwork when we are irritable. Also if I'm right about this he will probably try to trick us again tomorrow during the test.”
Sasuke was surprised at Naruto's analysis, while Sakura was shocked as they both thought at the same time 'Is this the same Naruto?' they both thought. Sasuke was the first to respond as he said, ”Alright Naruto, I'll trust you since it does make sense, but if you're wrong, don't ever expect me to trust you again.” He said as he turned to walk off. Sakura echoed him as she ran after him. With this, they all went their separate ways to prepare for tomorrow.