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Chapter 12 - Team 7

Third POV

Shisui made his way out of the house earlier than usual. He wasn't very pleased with the early hour, but it was the Third's order for the meeting to be held before the Village activity would officially start, and if he were honest to himself a part of it reminded him of his Anbu days.

The road to the Hokage Office was faster than usual, Shisui finally enjoying a walk in the Village without any of his fangirls swarming around him. He was always popular among the girls and losing his eyes didn't suppress that but on the contrary, it made him even more desirable to the young women who were now smothering him to accept their help in finding his way around Konoha. The Uchiha found this both annoying and endearing.

His summoning crow was flying a few feet away from him, guiding the blind man. Even though he wasn't exactly happy that he lost both of his eyes, well lost one and gave the other one to the one person he trusted the most in this world.

He opened the door of the office and gave a quick greeting to the other three that were already there.

"I guess Kakashi is late as ever," he said jokingly and took his place next to Asuma. The Hokage sighed before simply gesturing his hand in the air at the two Anbu in the corner.

"Go see where Kakashi is, we are already a day behind."

Shisui turned his head to the Third sensing how tired he was, he probably stood up all night remaking the genin teams, but even through his tiredness, Shisui felt the eagerness of Sarutobi as he was looking over the final team arrangements with a small smirk, that didn't go unnoticed by Kurenai and Asuma.

"This year's genin teams might be one of the most promising ones Konoha has ever seen. I have a feeling that these kids will accomplish great things," he said as he looked at Naruto's file, a warm smile finding its way on his face.

A few moments later Kakashi entered the room debonairly as if he wasn't half an hour late.

"I apologize for being late Hokage-sama, you see there was a black cat..." he started but was cut off by Sarutobi's harsh gaze. He was always though around the young jonin, but that was because he could see his potential, and maybe, just maybe when the silver-haired man would become ready give him the title of Hokage.

"Now that you all are here we can finally start. I must say it wasn't easy making these teams and all four of you would have a lot to deal with, but I trust you that you are well prepared." They nodded in agreement. It was true for the most part, Asuma and Kurenai had experience with genin teams as well as Shisui, even though the one that he was going to receive now was his second one, but he did raise Chise, Sasuke, and Naruto mostly on his own ever since the massacre. If someone asked the Uchiha, he wanted those three in his team. He was already used to them and knew what they could do pretty well.

On the other hand, Kakashi was silently praying to his Gods that the Hokage didn't give him the three daredevils: the son of his sensei, the cousin of his best friend, and the little brother of his ex-comrade. His reason wasn't that he couldn't train them, he could very well do that, but more an internal fear of his, as people that he got close to had a tendency to die, and he didn't want to lose the last three people that reminded him of his life before all the terrible things that went down.

Well, if someone also asked Asuma and Kurenai they would say as well that they didn't prefer those three. Naruto, Sasuke, and Chise were a bit too much for them to handle at once. Their only hope was that the Hokage separated those three, but as they looked more at their leader they saw the opposite.

"Well, with no further due, I shall now tell you your teams, starting with Team 8: Hyuga Hinata, Kiba Inuzaka, and Shino Aburame. Kurenai you will be their leader. All three of them show a sensory affiliation so I want this team to be a tracking one," he said and handed the woman the three files.