"Damm it why is it so shit ! How Sakura is good at it?!" Naruto yelled out load out of frustration, seeing his speed of counting sand grain has not change much after a month.
"Because your concentration is still shit and Sakura is considered best in chakra control, remember idiot?" Sasuke smirked, feeling less bad with his current progress.
Sakura, who was sparring with Kakashi, eye twictched:"Hey, at least you guys are not shit at fightning!"
"Calm down you three, their is no point fightning." Kakashi said calmly, who was used to their casual shit talking during training.
He prefer it over gloomy face they had when they kill someone for first time 3 weeks ago.
'Good thing Hokage believe my lies or else he would promote them to chūnin if he sees them.' Kakashi thought, feeling proud of their progress.
They after all, have completed 31 C-rank mission all by themselves just by relying on teamwork, and Taijutsu(Naruto and Sakura) and Kenjutsu(Sasuke) he taught them during the whole month.
Of course, he makes sure to teach them some ninjutsu after they done their last C-rank mission, since they already completed mountain walking training 3 weeks ago during when came for a certain C-rank mission and has train in Sand grain counting for a month straight for two hours.
'Sunagakure truly values chakra control since Sand grain counting is unlike other is a true equivalent of a litmus paper for chakra control.' Kakashi concluded, after seeing Sasuke and Naruto unable to replicate level Sakura level of chakra control for a whole month unlike other training.
Though this does not change the fact that Sakura was currently least capable fighter, especially after Kakashi fixed Naruto's non-existent Taijutsu.
'Oh almost forget, I should suggest them to learn how to use Earth chakra.' Kakashi thought, considering their chakra control is high enough where they would learn it pretty quick and Earth style jutsu is second most learned in Konoha after Fire style jutsu in Anbu, primarily for self defence.
Kakashi was planning teach them all three of them Earth Release: Earth-Style Wall and Earth Release: Multiple Earth-Style Wall, a mid B rank jutsu and. high end B rank jutsu , where it was less chakra consuming than most C rank jutsu since they just need to manipulate pre existing earth directly by injecting chakra through their hands.
'Good thing sensation they do when they manipulate sand grains to count them was similar to performing this jutsu in regards to its sensation, so it won't take much time to teach them.'
"Hey what are you thinking?" Sakura asked, who was unable to take advantage of his absent-mindedness.
"Thinking of training you guys on how to use chakra nature after this mission." Kakadhi said casually while Naruto and Sakura was pleased since they already tired of seeing Sasuke being the only one to use them in combat against Kakashi when Kakashi ocassionally check Sasuke's Ninjutsu progress.
Sasuke on ther other hand, felt nothing and just waiting for the time Kakashi trust him enough to teach him Chidori or at least used in front of him, so that at least it will be less suspicious to learn it this way then asking Kakashi directly, where it be harder Sasuke to excuse himself from knowing this as jutsu used by Kakashi was cocealed in record book ain general and he didn't find any mention of Chidori from jutsu scroll and record made by Uchiha clan to back up his excuse.
"And yeah, forget to mention that Lord 3rd told us to come in a person this time at Hokage residence, so dont be late." Kakashi said before body flickered away.
'It looks like Tazuna 'C'-rank is issued today.' Sasuke assumed, after remembering fan theory of the timeline, which sometimes felt convoluted especially the part where Orochimaru defection and Orochimaru first observatoin of Itachi seemed to be in different time.
While think, he noticed both Naruto and Sakura, whom with Sasuke learned Body flicker from Kakashi a week ago, were now missing, Sasuke sighed and now use it to catch up with them.
***
After coming to Hokage residence waiting room, all four of them were waiting, while Sasuke hoped timeline did not change much, at least until they meet Zabuza.
"So it seemed this are the three Genin Hokage-sama assigned." said by a grey-haired, bespectacled man with a large beard and dark eyes who lwore a sleeveless V-neck shirt with an obi, pants, and a pair of sandals and carried a towel around his neck and wore a pointed hat on his head.
Seeing him, Sasuke recognised him to be Tazuna.
'Phew, timeline has not messed up.'
Though unlike the original, Tazuna did not said much, knowing the team completed 31 C-rank mission in a row from 3rd Hokage, so they were best Genin team for C-rank mission in the current moment.
'I wish Hokage-sama gave a fresh team who doesn't know anything but what can I do...' Tazuna sighed, wished to had a noob Genin team, since now 'C'-rank mission will be soon be discovered as B rank mission by experience shinobi like them.
Now Tazuna just silently prayed and hoped they let him go if they found out the real ranking of mission, which he can't afford to assign.
Unknown to Tazuna and even Sasuke however, Tazuna was under 3rd Hokage hands all along, who knew the situation and wanted his trusted man Kakashi to deal with it before blood thirsty the mad 4th Mizukage take advantage of Land of Waves which was near to Land of Fire and even lied to Tazuna to make sure Kakashi go there through his Genin team, though he without knowing told the truth about Kakashi team, courtesy of Kakashi deception.
Unlike original, 3rd Hokage had more faith on Kakashi who seem lively and somewhat punctual nowadays ever since he got his Genin team, so he didn't bother to came this time, trusting Kakashi to understand what to do, surpringing Sasuke, making him reconsider his previous thought.
After Kakashi have a talk with Tazuna, they agreed to leave after 1 hour.
Unlike other C-rank mission they did, it was the first time they are going for another nation for a while, so each of them went to their place and packing their stuff in the meantime.
***
'Let's see, where are that stuff.'
Sasuke was searching the whole underground floor of Naka shrine after packing his stuff.
He believed that having 'it' will be useful.
'Let's see whether or not I will be successful enough to save someone.' Sasuke thought, still remembering the events he seen in anime.