In The Leaves | A 'Naruto' fan story | SasuNaru

Team 7

The three new members of Team 7 sat on the steps in front of Kakashi-sensei, who is well-known around the world as The Copy Ninja. He obtains the Sharingan, which Sasuke wanted answers on. How did Kakashi get his hands on one of the most valuable eyes? Did he kill one of his clan members as well? Was he secretly an Uchiha? Who was he really?

"Alright, let's introduce ourselves to get to know one another. How about you start?" Kakashi points to Sakura, who had her eyes locked on Sasuke the whole time.

"My name is Sakura Haruno, my goal is to-" she looks at Sasuke and back to Kakashi. "Um, my dream is to-" she looks back at Sasuke and back to Kakashi. "And I would like to be-" she looks at Sasuke again and squeals.

Kakashi sighed in disbelief, he wondered mentally how will she make it as a ninja. "How about you?"

Naruto hummed as he thought for a moment. "My name is Naruto Uzumaki, I love ramen, and I want to be Hokage one day!"

Kakashi raised an eyebrow in curiousity. "Hokage?"

"Yep! Believe it!"

Sasuke scuffs. "As if you could even accomplish that."

Naruto glared at Sasuke. "What did you say? I will become Hokage! Watch me!"

"Naruto." Kakashi said. "Tell me one reason why you want to become Hokage."

"I want the village to acknowledge me as Naruto Uzumaki and put respect on my name." Naruto replied while nodding in satisfaction of his answer.

"Naruto, Hokage has other responsibilities than worrying about if everyone likes them or not."

"I know that." Naruto groaned. "I'm just saying."

Kakashi sighed. "And you?"

Sasuke didn't look up at Kakashi. "My name...is Sasuke Uchiha and my only goal is to kill a certain person I have hatred towards."

"Talk about edgy." Naruto mumbles.

"Oh right...his whole clan got slaughtered by his own brother..." Sakura thought.

"That's fine! I'll just kick his ass for Sasuke! No problem!" Sakura's inner persona thought while she kept her innocent, feminine mask on.

"Okay so now that we know each other, let's start our first lesson." Kakashi took out two small silver bells that were attached to a red string. "If you can get these bells, you can eat for the day."

Naruto smiled. "I can do that! Easy!"

Naruto hopped onto his feet.

Sasuke mentally shook his head in disbelief. "Idiot."

In the end, Naruto couldn't get the bells and pouted as he sat there.

The lesson took up almost a full day, and they passed the lesson when Kakashi revealed the real test was whether they help each other as a team.

Sasuke, on the other hand, was bewildered at the fact he actually helped Naruto willingly. He was irritated at him, of course, but why did someone like him help someone like Naruto?

Sasuke laid on his bed and stared up at his ceiling. "Ugh, whatever, it doesn't matter. At least I passed the test."