As Shota agreed to take and teach a genin team Rasa said nodding, "Good. I will leave the last member of the genin team to be of your choice."
The decision gave Shota at least some freedomnwith his genin team. He could look through every available file and pick the third student who would complete the group.
Rasa pushed the large stack of academy records across the desk and waited in silence.
Rasa let him look through all the files and Shota was not interested in any of the other kids. He turned page after page and saw solid grades and average talent but nothing that stood out for the special team he now had to build.
He wanted someone who would be able to team up with two Kekkei Genkai users. He did not want a "Sakura" to his Naruto and Sasuke.
The two children already chosen carried rare bloodline abilities. One held Scorch Release and the other held Magnet Release. A third member who only offered normal skills would fall behind and become a weak link.
Shota needed balance and someone who could stand beside those powerful gifts without being left behind.
Shota finally said, "I want a kid who is not in the academy." The request made Rasa pause.
The Kazekage raised an eyebrow and answered, "You want someone who is already a genin? Considering the other two kids that is a fair choice. It can be arranged." The idea of an experienced genin seemed practical for a team that already held two rare bloodlines.
Shota shook his head and corrected him at once. "Nope, the one I want is not a shinobi. But he is trying to be one."
The words brought a clear look of irritation to Rasa's face. The Kazekage asked, "What? Who do you mean?" He did not want some talentless child joining the legendary team that he hoped to create. The plan for three future S rank shinobi could not accept weakness.
Shota stayed calm and asked for a short delay. "Give me a few minutes to get his details." He formed a shadow clone who went to the home affairs department of the village to get the file on the kid he wanted in his team.
The clone disappeared in a body flicker and moved quickly through the village offices. The real Shota waited in silence while Rasa watched him with growing impatience.
The clone returned after a few minutes with a thin file which he promptly gave to Rasa.
Rasa opened the file and read the first pages with a frown. "This boy? He has been rejected from the academy for his lack of control with chakra. By lacking chakra control, I mean something that could not be improved by training. He is born with chakra channels that could never let him control chakra for ninjutsu or genjutsu."
The boy's body simply could not shape chakra into the forms needed for such jutsus.
Shira was the name of the kid that Shota wanted in his genin team. From what Shota knew from the anime he was born in a small town near to the northern border of the Land of Wind where his parents stayed while he moved to Sunagakure at a young age.
Because of his lack of ability for genjutsu and ninjutsu Shira was forbidden from entering the Academy due to a rule established by the Fourth Kazekage, the same guy sitting in front of him.
Yet Shota knew that the same boy would one day become as much of a Taijutsu monster as Lee and Guy in the future. He would be ven teaching the future Kazekage Taijutsu.
Hard work and pure physical power would turn the rejected child into a fighter who needed no ninjutsu at all. 'This guy is going to help me with my own Taijutsu weakness.' Shota thought.
His own close combat skills still lagged behind his other abilities. Training beside a natural Taijutsu genius would force him to improve and close that gap.
Shota spoke with firm confidence. "This is the kid I want in my team Kazekage sama. And he is not even related to me."
Rasa still looked doubtful and asked, "You are trying to put a kid who cannot use ninjutsu and genjutsu with two kids with Kekkei Genkai of Scorch Release and Magnet Release respectively? Do you think this kid would even be able to keep up with them?"
The difference in natural gifts seemed too large. A pure Taijutsu fighter might slow the whole team down.
Shota answered with a small smirk. "Oh he will. He might even surpass them." The calm certainty in his voice surprised the Kazekage.
Rasa tried one more time to change the decision. "I would ask you to reconsider."
Shota refused to bend. "I want this kid or you can find another sensei for this genin team respectfully Kazekage sama."
Rasa sighed and accepted the choice. "Very well. But you would be answering to the council if your genin team does not perform to our expectations."
The warning placed full responsibility on Shota's shoulders. Any failure would return to him alone. Shota nodded and accepted the terms without complaint.
Rasa then shared one more piece of news. "And you do not have to worry about your sister Shizu. She had impressed someone with her skill in chakra strings and someone has decided to apprentice her."
The words should have brought relief yet the tone made Shota uneasy. Rasa continued, "I do not think there is anyone better than that person no matter how much I dislike him to teach her. It is even a miracle he accepted to take a student." Only one name fit that description.
Shota asked the question with quiet dread. "You do not mean Sasori nii san, do you?" He prayed the answer would be different. Rasa just nodded.
That single movement confirmed the worst possibility. Shota just slumped down on the floor. He was not worried about Sasori harming Shizu.
No what he was more worried about was Sasori corrupting his sister and he was more worried about both of them sharing his secrets to each other.
Sasori would teach her every strange idea about art and human improvement. Shizu would listen with wide eyes and then come home with new questions that Shota did not want to answer.
The two of them together might even decide to improve Shota himself while he slept. The thought of waking up with extra puppet parts or strange seals made him want to dig a hole in the desert and hide.
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