"I'm still surprised that you actually passed your team." Kutenai said with a smile as she took a sip from her saucer while grinning at her masked friend.
"Who knew that all that was needed was to assign you a team with people you like. The wonders of nepotism." She chuckled.
"Maa, nepotism is such an ugly word. I just asked for a team that I believed that would have a high chance of passing my exam and allow me to guide them towards the future where they can be the best versions of themselves." Kakashi said with an eye smile, oozing off an aura of smug.
"That's a funny way to say that you went to the Hokage and begged to get the team with your cute little siblings and the Uchiha princess." Asuma said teasingly, cutting off Kakashi's aura of smug and getting a glare from the Copy Ninja.
"But to be honest, I think that there is a team that is even more surprising." The son of the third Hokage said as he sent a look at the last member of their little get together, who already had finished her first bottle and was reaching for a second one.
"Why are you guys looking at me like that?" Who also had not been paying much attention to their conversation.
"It's just quite surprising, you have a team now."
"Are you saying that I'm not the kind of person who would pass a team?"
"I'm saying that you are the kind of person who would laugh at Hokage's face and refuse to even test a team." The former guardian ninja said with a smirk, only half joking.
"Whelp, what can I say, the team they gave me managed to impress me. I would not be even surprised if they made Chūnin in the next exam." Anko said with a smile, her eyes glinting while the others looked at her skeptically.
"Oh my, never thought that I would see the day. Anko has the teacher high, and she has it bad." Kakashi said mournfully as he gazed down at his drink before gulping it down in one go, without removing or dirtying his mask.
"The fuck is that supposed to mean?" Anko asked with a glare, her hand slowly itching towards the empty bottle of sake.
"You got your first students and are now convinced that they are little geniuses. It happens sometimes, just hadn't expected it to happen to you." The Copy Ninja said with an eye smile and Anko's hand itched even closer to the empty bottle.
"Speaking of Anko's team." Kurenai interjected. "She actually does seem to have some talented students. Haruno girl had quite high marks in theoretical classes along with Genjutsu class, not to mention some of the best grades in the medical course." She said with a smile, always happy about the thought of a new promising kunoichi.
"Then there is the girl from Utahime family."
"Who can do jutsu with fucking chanting instead of hand signs." Anko huffed, looking somewhat jealous; not that any of them were suicidal enough to voice such a thing to an Anko who was trying to get drunk.
"I heard about those, they call it Kidō if I'm not mistaken." Asuma said as he gripped his chin.
"They do. A member I used to know described them as jutsu made entirely out of yin based chakra, which can somehow mimic other elements and even certain elemental bloodline limits. Which is why they were getting targeted so much during the war." Kakashi continued, making the air sombre as they thought of the family that once had been nearly big enough to be a clan that was now reduced to merely one member.
"And lastly we have..." Kurenai tried to bring up the mood but trailed off as she realized what she was about to say.
"The Jinchūriki." Asuma finished with a grim look. It wasn't like he had anything against the kid, but he had lost his mother during the Kyuubi attack and remembering it was not his favorite thing.
"Who is the strongest of the three." Anko said before taking another sip from her sake, uncaring of the curious looks coming in her way.
"Really? His grades in the academy showed a rather average student." Kurenai said with a frown, which then became deeper as Anko snorted at her.
"Then the academy is fucking worthless, though what else is new. That brat Shido fucking moves and hits like a goddamn chūnin. He almost ended the exam the moment it began because I underestimated him." The snake mistress begrudgingly admitted, Shido had almost made a mockery of her exam in less than five seconds. Though one could argue he did that anyway when he 'helped' Haruno pass the exam.
"Hell, you guys should see how that Utahime girl is around him. It's like one of those samurai weirdos with their lords, not sure why though." She said as she finished another bottle.
"The only one who actually needs some work is the pinky. And even that is being taken care of right now." She said smugly, making the others look at her with confusion.
"What... exactly do you mean by 'right now'? Kurenai asked, not liking the grin on her friend's face. It reminded her of that time in the capital, lots of snakes, lots of oils and a long period of going around without a shirt.
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"Can... can we take a break now?" Sakura gasped out as she tried to get up from her current position of all fours. As one could easily imagine, she failed.
"Very well." But at least it seemed like Shido was finally beginning to let her have some...
"You have one minute." Demon!
"Don't look at me like that. You are currently the weakest link in the team and I'm not stopping until that fact isn't just pathetic but something that will make people fear this team." He said with a bored look in his eyes.
"Now then, for our next training, you'll be learning how to fall."
"And how am I supposed to, KYAH!" Her words were cut short and replaced by a shriek as she suddenly felt the ground beneath her vanish and wind found herself in the air.
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