Chapter 20: Team Formation
"Aburame Shino, Inuzuka Kiba, Hyuga Hinata." Iruka announced. His words disappointed Hinata since she was not on the same team as Ryoha.
"Nara Shikamaru, Akimichi Chouji, Yamanaka Ino." Ino was devastated. "Why do I have to be with this lazy guy and the fat guy who only knows how to eat?
"Uzumaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura, Uchiha Sasuke, and Ryoha." Sakura was excited, Ino was angry, Hinata was envious, and Naruto was furious.
"Iruka-sensei, why do you want me to be in the same group with this smelly fart?" Naruto felt very good about himself, completely ignoring that he was the worst in class.
"Shut up. Sasuke is the second-best in class. I arranged for you and him to be together so he could take care of you."
Iruka did not hesitate to reject Naruto, making Naruto look at Sasuke angrily. Sasuke looked at Naruto with a sinister smile. Obviously, the two of them were still on bad terms like the original story.
Seeing Naruto, Sasuke, who was full of rage, couldn't help but laugh. The two continued to argue until the legendary kissing accident happened. Sasuke didn't even realize that he had developed such a relationship with Naruto.
"So it turned out this way. I thought I would be in a different group. But it seems like they decided to make a special group of four. It doesn't matter, though. It's better this way. What I want most now is to fight against some cold-blooded murderers. That cold killing intent can definitely integrate me into battles. It's time for the Sharingan to evolve."
Ryoha thought in his heart. He didn't care about the team he was assigned to. But he didn't expect Kakashi would be his teacher. This lazy guy didn't even teach the son of his master, the Fourth Hokage. How could he care about him?
"Damn it. He let Sakura steal my place."
Ino thought indignantly. She didn't seem to care about the kissing accident between Sasuke and Naruto. Soon, their respective Jonin teachers came to take them away. But before leaving, these Jonin teachers secretly looked at Ryoha.
"Why isn't our teacher coming? He's late. Hey guys, why don't we teach him a lesson?" Naruto had already bored from waiting. He immediately set up a trap. Sakura and Sasuke were also annoyed with their Jonin leader, so they did not stop him.
Half an hour later, Kakashi finally arrived. As soon as he opened the door, the chalkboard brush fell on his head. Sakura pretended that he had already stopped Naruto, but her inner Sakura shouted that Naruto had done well.
It seemed that Kakashi could not escape from them, but Ryoha clearly noticed that Kakashi glanced at the brush's position when he came in. Obviously, he had noticed it before and could completely avoid it, but he did not.
"My first impression of you, how should I say it? Annoying." Kakashi said as if nothing had happened. This made Naruto the others speechless. After being tricked, here were still so casual. However, they were unable to change teachers. They could only follow Kakashi to the rooftop.
"Introduce yourselves. Name, favorite things to do, dreams, and so on." Kakashi looked at the four brats in front of him. Finally, his gaze turned to Ryoha, who had been lying on the rooftop without saying anything since they came up.
He was left speechless after being ignored by Ryoha. He could not help but think about whether Naruto or Sasuke was the actual problematic children compared to Ryoha. He did not know that Ryoha had already known everything about him.
Of course, Ryoha did not have any expectations for him. He had already learned all the ninjutsu that Kakashi could teach him. He had never graduated in advance because he wanted those Jonins to take him to fight against some other villages or traitors. For example, he was looking forward to the battle with Zabuza.
For Ryoha, who knew Kakashi wouldn't help him in every other aspect other than saving him at the critical moment. It was better for him to close his eyes and extract his chakra.
"Wait, before we introduce ourselves, you better introduce yourself first, Sensei." Naruto really couldn't calm down.
"Well, my name is Hatake Kakashi. The things I like and the things I don't like... I don't want to tell you. About my future dreams... I have various interests. It's your turn. You can go first."
"You're not telling us anything, duh," Sakura couldn't help but whisper after hearing Kakashi's introduction.
"My name is Uzumaki Naruto. I like..." Naruto said a lot of things similar to the original story.
"My name is Haruno Sakura. The person I like the most is..." Sakura said that as she glanced at Ryoha, who was sleeping. The rest was the same as the original story.
"My name is Uchiha Sasuke. There are too many things I don't like. I don't have anything I like. I have an ambition, unlike others. My dream is to revive the Uchiha family. And I have someone to kill no matter what it takes." Sasuke said coldly.
"Eh! Naruto's growth should be exciting. As for Sakura, forget it. A girl at her age is like this. She doesn't even know what true love is. It is even more important than ninjutsu. As for Sasuke, he is indeed a problematic child. Eh? Why does it seem like I was missing one?"
When Kakashi noticed that one of them was missing, he immediately turned his gaze over and realized that Ryoha had turned from a half-asleep state into real sleep. He had actually fallen asleep.
"How did he train? Did he just sleep every day? However, he has always been far ahead of me." Sasuke looked at Ryoha jealously.
"Hey!" Just as Kakashi was about to wake Ryoha up, he found a line of words on the ground beside Ryoha - "You already know my name. I will only tell my relatives what I like and what I don't like. My dreams are the same."
"What is this?" Naruto looked down at the words and slowly read them out. Kakashi was speechless. Ryoha was the biggest problem child. However, he was curious about this kid. He was smart.
Wait, Kakashi seemed to have found something. He looked at Ryoha's index finger on the ground and compared it with the words on the floor. He was surprised. At the same time, he understood that Kurenai's comments were absolutely true.