"Why do you think Kakashi-sensei wanted to meet today?" Naruko asked looking to Satsuki, who shrugged in response
"Who knows, maybe he finally found us a third teammate." Said Satsuki as both their minds wondered to the day of Team Assignments four weeks ago
After they had gotten to the roof they had all introduced themselves to each other, then Kakashi had revealed that they weren't really Genin and they had to pass the true Genin Exam. The next day they had to get up early in the morning and then wait three hours for Kakashi to arrive, thankfully Naruko's mothers had her eat breakfast and prepared Bento's for her teammates, saying that they shouldn't do any test on an empty stomach. Plus Kushina had told Naruko of Kakashi mimicking his deceased teammate's chronic lateness.
When she arrived at Training Ground Seven Naruko gave both Satsuki and Sakura their Bento's, the former gladly accepting and the latter doing so reluctantly her hunger outweighing her desire to obey their sensei. Though Naruko may or may not have put in some extra effort in making Satsuki's Bento.
After Kakashi arrived all three were ready for the test after eating, though while they were ready that didn't mean they were all prepared. The objective of the test had been to take two bells from Kakashi, meaning whoever didn't get a bell would be sent back to the Academy, and they had go at him with the intent to kill.
Once the test started Kushina told Naruko the objective was to work as a team, given Minato had given the same test to his own students, Kakashi being one of them, and the Jonin had become big on working as a team after what happened to his own. With this in mind Naruko gone to find Satsuki and explain the true purpose of the test. They then went to find Sakura, only when they did find her they found her unconscious and placed under a Genjutsu, annoying the duo that she'd been taken out by a low level technique. Satsuki was more annoyed that Genjutsu in question was Sakura seeing her die, it was no secret that most of their female classmates had an idol worship of Satsuki both for being the top Kunoichi and Rookie of the Year in their class, along with her beauty and her skill.
With their teammate out of commission Naruko and Satsuki worked together to get the bells, with Satsuki attacking head on with several of Naruko's Shadow Clones to keep Kakashi distracted while the real Naruko worked to steal the bells. In the end they had managed to grab the bells, passing Kakashi's test. But while Naruko and Satsuki they can already work as a team, they didn't have Sakura's help, so while they did pass the test they weren't a complete team since Sakura failed.
So that left Team Seven in the reserves until they could get a third member.
This, however, didn't cut into Naruko and Satsuki's training, which they had improved in greatly. With Naruko having help from her mothers, Tamamo teaching her how to better use her Kitsune powers and Kushina showing her how to use the powers she got from her Uzumaki side. They had also told her several things to help Satsuki with her training, whether it was Jutsu or training methods, all of which Naruko could easily pass off as explaining when she stole the Forbidden Scroll, that of course lead to her telling Satsuki just WHY she stole the Forbidden Scroll.
Thankfully Satsuki didn't ask to many questions and was simply thankful for the new Jutsu to practice and increasing her training regimen.
Kakashi would also show up from time-to-time, usually only telling them to perform certain Chakra Control Exercises and the rare occasion he'd give them a Jutsu Scroll to practice on their own.
The girls had also begun sparring against each other, both wanting to have some type of fighting experience for when they become a real team and start taking missions.
Suddenly the girls were pulled from their thoughts when Kakashi appeared in a swirl of leaves accompanied by a girl their age.
The girl had long brown hair and light brown eyes. Her hair is straight on one side, but on the other side it is in a braid. In addition, she sports a clip with two circular designs. For her outfit she wore a pink kimono held closed by a pink sash, the sash also having a headband plate attached to it, with two pockets on the front. She also wore violet baggy pants and red mesh armour underneath her kimono and legs along with sandals that were orange in color.
"Yo!" Kakashi greeted with a two finger salute
"Who's this?" Satsuki asked, as she looked at the girl with a good guess as to why she's here.
"This is Yakumo Kurama your new teammate. Now under normal circumstances she couldn't become a ninja but after some help she's recently gotten the Hokage has declared her ready for active duty." Kakashi said not mentioning Yakumo's issue with her split personality knowing it was her secret to tell
"Hello, it's nice to meet you both and I hope we can work together in the future." Yakumo greeted timidly not used to interacting with people and wanted to make a good impression on her new team
"Hi Yakumo. I'm Naruko Uzumaki and this Satsuki Uchiha, it's nice to meet you to." Naruko introduced, Satsuki giving a simple nod
"Now then as of this moment we are officially Team Seven." Said Kakashi with his patented eye smile.
Three weeks have passed since Yakumo joined Team Seven and they were officially taken out of the reserves and put on active duty. In that time they have all begun working together building up their teamwork and working to incorporate Yakumo into their strategies, with Naruko and Satsuki being on the frontlines and Yakumo hanging back to capture enemies in her Genjutsu. It helped as they spent more time together the three girls developed both better teamwork and stronger bonds of friendship. Yakumo was particularly for this, having never had friends before, and appreciated Naruko and Satsuki all the more for it.
Kakashi also now took a more active role in training them, thankfully he finally moved on from teamwork exercises after seeing they could now work well together and began teaching them basic Chakra Control exercises starting with Tree Walking and Water Walking. Given they already had good Chakra Control to begin with it didn't take them long to get the exercises down, though they still had trouble with Satsuki originally putting to much Chakra into the exercise, Naruko putting to little, and Yakumo having to take things slow due to her weak body.
After that he had them refine the skills they already had and learning to cover each other's weaknesses with the other's strengths. They had all come along nicely in their training.
But that is where the good parts end as the rest of their time as Genin was less than pleasing given they were forced to do the bane of all new Genin Teams.
D-Rank Missions.
Or as the three have taken to calling them, glorified chores that people are to lazy to do themselves.
Currently Team Seven was in the Hokage's Office to get another mission, however to the relief of the three Genin they were finally getting a C-Rank mission.
"Team Seven here for a mission Hokage-sama." Kakashi said with his orange book out before he immediately put it away when he saw the seriousness on the Hokage's face
"Good, we have just received a mission report to make a delivery to the Fire Temple and I cannot stress this enough, this mission is one of the utmost importance. Bring it in!" Hiruzen called out to his Anbu guards
Immediately two Anbu appeared carrying a long ornate carved wooden box and setting it on the ground. One of the Anbu opened the box revealing a long katana sword with a red sheathe with black caps on the ends, a red wrapped hilt and guard.
Naruko shivered in fear when she saw the sword, she didn't know what it was but she could feel the demonic energy contained within. But at the same time she felt the urge to take it for herself.
"The Demon Sword Murasame?!" Tamamo exclaimed in shock
"Hokages-sama just where did you find this?" Kakashi asked looking at the sword warily knowing just what the sword was
"It doesn't matter how or why. What matters is that you four see it safely delivered to the Fire Temple for safe keeping, where no one with malicious intent nor any weak-willed individuals can get their hands on this blade." The Hokage said, Kakashi nodding and closing the container.
"Understood, we'll set out within the hour Hokage-sama." Kakashi said before turning to his students
"Go home and pack any supplies you may need for the journey. Meet at the main gates in an hour." Ordered Kakashi
"Hai!" The girls said before leaving to go pack.