interspecies • interconnect (Naruto/Tokyo Ghoul Crossover)

Chapter 4 - Team Seven

It was a mistake asking Ibiki to wake me up. What he did was he had entered my room, grabbed my feet and swung me over his shoulders by holding my ankles. I was awake by then, screeching as all the blood ran to my head as I hung upside down. He didn't stop there. He casually walked into the bathroom, me trying to do sit-ups upside down so that I can reach his face with my hands.

He finally let me go once he threw me into the shower and turned the cold water on high. I immediately screeched at the icy hell which licked at my entire being.

"Get to it. We have to go," and with that he made his grand exit, leaving me freezing to death under the water. Damn him.

I quickly finished up wore my usual black shinobi outfit, my fans strapped to my sides and my headband on my forehead. How early was it? I was tired. Exiting the house, I realized why. The sun was barely up yet. Internally, I cursed Ibiki.

"Do you always get up this early?" I asked, agape in surprise. He smirked.

"Yeah. You just never notice, I try to be as silent as possible," that made me smile. As we headed through the village I noticed how early the rest of the village already began working, making shop outside. Busy, busy village.

There were very minimal already so early at the division, making the silence almost enchanting. Ibiki headed off to check on a prisoner of his whilst I headed to his office, taking the seat behind his desk as my own. I wasn't going to sit on the couch. It was full of blood.

"Great. I didn't have to wait for long," I swivelled in the office chair to see Centipede perched on the windowsill, wearing civilian clothing.

"Did you lose your mask?" I decided to retort. He gave me a huff.

"I'm no longer an ANBU," he answered, causing me to frown.

"Did you quit?"

"It was by request," I waited for him to explain himself, and after seeing my plain stare, he did. "The Hokage decided it would be best if you had a sensei who knew your secret. That meant either me, or we told someone else since Ibiki isn't an option. But we decided it best that we continued to keep this between us three, so that left me. I became your jounin sensei," I frowned deeply.

"You got demoted... because of me? Way to make a girl feel bad," he rolled his eyes.

"I don't think I was cut out for ANBU anyway. I'm a weapon specialist, my chakra being limited. Besides, after six years, you've kinda grown on me. Anyway, the problem of your teammates still stood when the Hokage noticed the Shujo's names on the list. They had been sent back to the academy after sacrificing their teammate for each other and ran from the battle. Lord Hokage didn't want people like that as shinobi and put them on your team for me to re-evaluate. Of course, you were tested to. You tried protecting them, although they were hellish to you. Good job," I felt embarrassed as he complemented me. I had only acted on impulse. "They won't be returning to the shinobi duty any time soon. They're dropped from the program. However, now that leaves you,"

I understood where he was getting at. I was missing two teammates and shinobi squad consist of three members. What would be made of me?

"Am I going to be sent back?" he shook his head in dismissive.

"You will be rotated to the other teams, whom all have their final tests today so we have yet to know who those teams will be, and perform D, C and B ranked missions with them. The rest of the time, you will be training with me or the other teams until a decision is made," I nodded in understanding before peering up at him.

"Decision about what?"

"Either you will permanently be placed on another team, forming a five-man team. Or you will be requested to wait until new teams are formed from the academy. There is another option, as well, but unlikely. In our training and you working with the other teams, should you advance past expectations then you and I will permanently form a two-man team," this was something I had not heard of before.