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Teamwork 2.5!! >O First scene.

Haruno Sakura was absolutely, definitively not feeling cranky. Cranky implied that you were crabby at innocent people and for no good reason. She had a perfectly good reason. Only two weeks left before the Chuunin exam, two weeks before she absolutely had to have some way to fight her way through the test, two weeks of the invaluable tutoring of the Godaime Hokage herself -- and they sent her team on a trip to Sand Village of all places!

"Oi, come on, Shika, just a peek. We won't tell, promise!"

And the people she was targeting were all but innocent.

Naruto was walking with an arm slung around Shikamaru's neck; he all but brought the Chuunin down with him when Sakura's foot connected.

"OW!" Naruto clamped a hand on his calf and looked at her like she was committing a grievous injustice. "Sakura-chan, that hurt!"

"I'll make it hurt more if you don't quit asking that!" she yelled back, shaking her fist. They had been escorting Shikamaru to Wind Country for three days -- quite a leisurely pace, but then no one was really in any hurry -- and in this time, Naruto had teasingly asked Shikamaru to share inside info on the next Chuunin exam no less than fourteen times.

"Agreed," Sasuke said from his position a few feet ahead of the group. "That joke's getting old."

Sakura cracked her knuckles. Naruto hid behind Shikamaru, who sighed and lifted his hands to signal his neutrality in the conflict.

"But, Sakura-chan--"

Sakura cocked her fist threateningly. At her side, Kakashi finished reading his page, and tucked Come, Come, Paradise in his pocket. "Naruto, stop trying to corrupt the nice examiner, will you? Unless you want to have your team disqualified right from the start."

"You have no sense of humor."

"Neither will the ANBU," Sasuke snapped back, "if they get wind of your interest."

Naruto let go of Shikamaru's neck and crossed his arms behind his head. "Oh, come on, I know Shika won't tell me jack shit."

"So why are you even asking?" Sakura was ready to tear out her hair in frustration.

Naruto grinned, all teeth and closed eyes and that wannabe-sneaky 'Oh, I rule' smugness. "You never know, he might let something slip by accident."

Sakura groaned and kicked him a second time. Naruto yelped and complained loudly; she growled at him. Shikamaru was scratching his ear with the expression of a guy who was pretending very hard to be somewhere else.

She'd been prepared to snap and snarl at the blond for a little longer -- she had no other outlets for her generalized annoyance, and he really was asking for it. But then Sasuke fell back from his front guard position and tersely demanded Kakashi fork over the inn money so Sasuke could go ahead -- and away from them. Not that he said the last part out loud, but then he didn't need to. She watched him go, feeling mildly guilty.

It really brought home that the only one of the trio who was happy right now was Naruto.

After their latest antics, they'd been fully prepared to be kept at heel at least until the Chuunin exam, and possibly afterwards. The conduit to Kyuubi's chakra was strictly restricted, and to many officials, Sakura's training under Tsunade was made to look like punishment; not that hard to believe since she was often seen wobbling home, complete with bloodless lips, torn clothes and shaking hands. Sakura loved being the Hokage's apprentice, and she was often too tired to really feel the need to go running through the forest and face off with outrageously powerful missing-nins; she would have been fine staying in Konoha until the exam. Sasuke and Naruto chafed, deprived of any outside outlet.

'Pleasing the Kazekage' trumped 'keeping Team Seven on a short leash' for the Hokage's councilors, though, and Gaara had made his desire to see Naruto clear. So Naruto was delighted; he was outside the village, got to socialize with Shikamaru, and he was going to see Gaara for the first time in years.

She knew Sasuke well enough to know what his problem was: the mission was at the very most a B-rank, even though they were getting paid for A; Shikamaru's info, while important enough, wasn't that sensitive. So far, even she could agree that this was nothing but a glorified camping trip, and he was visibly starting to spoil for a fight.

He wasn't going to find a fight in River Country. All she'd been able to glean from the political volumes Tsunade forced her to absorb was that the country was tiny, its feudal lord only concerned with his own people, and its strategic value nonexistent -- unless there was a war between Wind and Fire, but that wasn't going to happen in the foreseeable future. The only danger came from bears and other animals roaming the woods and mountains, and the most risky thing Sasuke had done so far was to climb on top of a carriage to take control of a horse before it could wander off after a dandelion.

Sakura didn't mind the lack of action too much. Naruto could be distracted via catching up with Shikamaru. But the longer nothing happened and the more closed off Sasuke got.

"Are you off the warpath now?"

Sakura blinked and looked up at Kakashi, who'd slowed down to walk with her. His voice was quiet; he was smiling in the way he sometimes did when his students were done being more stupid than usual. She blushed a little.

"Yes, sensei." She couldn't help but sigh. "But god help me if Naruto asks that scroll question again."

Kakashi chuckled almost silently. "Between you and me, there's nothing in there that would help the three of you very much."

"Oh, so you've looked?" Sakura gave a teasing smirk. Kakashi countered with a bland, vacuous smile.

"Of course not."

"Uh huh."

In front of them, Shikamaru and Naruto were joking about something absolutely hilarious -- or, translated from boy language, mildly disgusting -- Kiba had done the other day. Sakura sighed and watched them. Shikamaru was relaxed, enough that she could appreciate the subtle difference with his usual reserved watchfulness. She was so used to Sasuke's insane level of wary and guarded that it was a little hard remembering that Shikamaru, too, tended to watch a lot more than he participated. Naruto...

The way he acted that story, all expansive gestures and emphasizing stomps and expressive series of impressions, all bright, intense eyes, and strong jaw she had never noticed emerging under melting baby cheeks, and emotions that came and went like summer storms, quick and without leaving traces...

... She was glad to see him happy. She honestly was. She was aware that he really enjoyed goofing off with his little posse, and that he deeply valued his bond with Gaara (even though last she'd seen that particular redhead, he' just nailed her to a tree in between two attempts to gruesomely murder Sasuke.) She just wished Naruto could have been a little less loud about it.

No, what she really wished was for Naruto and Sasuke to have offered her more than a token, "Yeah, that sucks," when she held the mission orders in her hand and said, "But, my training?" Oh, and while she was at it, she also wished that Sasuke could be happy for Naruto, and that Naruto could be considerate of Sasuke's feelings, and it would be nice if the moon was made of white chocolate.

"You're going to get wrinkles at an early age, you know," Kakashi said.

Sakura frowned a little deeper, before taking in a deep breath and releasing it slowly. "Do you think we'll have access to a training field?"

"Oh, more than likely. I can't see this whole trip happening without Naruto challenging Gaara to a match. Or the other way around. And if the Kazekage trusts him enough to spar with him, it would be hard to argue that we should be encouraged not to wander away from the guest quarters."

"Hm. Sasuke won't want to practice his secret jutsus in an enemy village," she replied, chewing on the side of her nail. And if he couldn't practice, he would get even more cranky.

Kakashi chuckled. "It's alright. I have an old trick to show them that will keep them busy."

It was funny how Naruto's hearing worked. When it was about politics -- or fashion, or house cleaning, or whose turn it was to cook -- he honestly didn't even notice anything that wasn't said straight at him. Talk about new jutsus, on the other hand, and there he was, hanging onto Kakashi's neck and looking hopeful. "New trick?" He turned suspicious then. "It's not something stupid again, is it? Like how to henge yourself into a realistic cow or anything?"

"There are times in the life of a ninja it's very useful to be able to pass for a cow."

Sakura and Naruto gave him matching looks of scorn and disgust. Kakashi pretended to feel wounded.

"You really aren't cute at all." He sighed. "I suppose you're right, creating your own signature jutsu doesn't seem very appealing..."

Shikamaru arched an eyebrow. "Oh, so they've reached that level, huh? Not bad."

Naruto immediately perked up again. "What level?"

"The level where you can recompose your chakra on two plans and combine those in the same jutsu," Kakashi explained. "There's spatial recomposition -- modifying your chakra's shape. That's what you do with your Rasengan. And then there's physical recomposition, which is adding one of the five elements to your chakra -- thunder, earth, water, fire, wind."

"There's also the yin and yang kinds of chakra," Shikamaru added. "Kagemane is yin-element chakra."

Naruto scratched his head. "Uh, so like, add water or fire or darkness to the Rasengan? That ... Huh. It does sound kind of cool, but is it really going to be that strong?"

Shikamaru arched an eyebrow. "If by strong you mean potentially devastating..."

"Cool. How? Show me!"

"We'll talk about details later, when Sasuke is around and we're not amongst civilians." Kakashi looked up at the road in front of them. "And we're almost there. Go find which inn Sasuke chose, Naruto."

Naruto huffed, but went, jogging up the road toward the first houses. Shikamaru snorted and gave Kakashi a mildly cynical look.

"... Um?" Sakura looked Kakashi askance. "I thought there was only one inn at this village?"

Kakashi's eye curved up. "Oh, right, so there is."

"You're cruel, Kakashi-sensei." Sakura's smile didn't last. "Should they really create brand-new, powerful jutsu in another village? I know the Hidden Sand is our ally, but..."

Kakashi chuckled. "Don't worry about that. It will take them considerably longer than two weeks to get a full jutsu out of it. And the training that leads up to it isn't all that secret."

"Oh." Sakura frowned at the ground, a few questions nagging at her. She only asked the first, most acceptable one, the selfless one. "Shouldn't you have taught them earlier, then? So they would have something for the exam?"

Kakashi's answer was quiet, sober. "They only lifted the ban on Sasuke learning that class of jutsu last week. I couldn't teach just Naruto."

Sakura winced, and even Shikamaru -- who had been pretending not to pay attention -- made a little grimace. The results of that would have been nothing short of disastrous.

Kakashi's tone changed suddenly. "But now, they get to compete so hard they fall dead asleep every night. Isn't that nice?"

Shikamaru chuckled. Sakura smiled, though she didn't feel like it. Kakashi-sensei wasn't even suggesting she might be ready, too. She was still lagging behind.

She knew enough medical jutsu for first aid -- she could close open wounds and speed up bone healing, but she still hadn't started on poisons or organ failure or burns or anything like that. Tsunade-sama hadn't even cleared her to stimulate blood cell production on anything bigger than a rabbit. She understood the trick to Tsunade-sama's punches, and had even replicated it successfully on a half-dozen occasions, just on a smaller scale -- but not reliably at all.

And now, well, she couldn't do anything like the Rasengan, but she wasn't bad at manipulating her chakra, and she already knew her favored element was Water and wasn't half-bad with common water jutsu -- but that still wasn't good enough for Kakashi to even suggest teaching her.

It was depressing to measure up the kind of progress she'd have to make to catch up -- and no doubt that Sasuke and Naruto wouldn't have the decency to wait for her. But -- at least... Yes, at least they hadn't left Konoha a week earlier. Having someone to spot for her and tell her when she went wrong before it backfired would have been great, but all she really needed was practice.

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XD Yay for rasen-shuriken and The Many Variations of Chidori! Poor Sakura, though. She shouldn't worry about her progress. She won't be lagging behind for much longer. ^_^

The scene turned out really well, Asuka!

Adi

XD I'll try to do the rasengan and chidori things a little different from canon, I think, but not sure how and how much. Will have to think about it more. But it's weird for such a diverging universe to have everything end up identical, even if I do add some canon "this was like that all along we just didn't tell you before" facts.

I started to give Sakura water jutsus before she got the smashy smashyness and healiness, and now it's turning out to be kinda a lot with the kyuubi chakra. XD Thank god the active use of kyuubi chakra is severely restricted. And I think she'll never get that good with water jutsu. >__>

... and then I go and wonder if I would worry half as much about making her too powerful and versatile if she were a guy. *stares at sasuke and naruto* >__>;;

bwahahahaha your icon. ♥

Unfortunately the cold I have right now is blurring my mind enough that I can't think of anything intelligent to say, except that I absolutely LOVE your Kakashi. I've rarely seen Kakashi characterized so well. Nice start to Teamwork 2.5. <3

d'aww! Thank you for stopping by and commenting anyway. Get better soon!

(-- he's IC? really? XDDDDDDDDDD;;;;;;;;;; If he is that was totally accidental. i'm flying totally blind with that guy, I swear. Thank you thank you.)

Kakashi chuckled almost silently. "Between you and me, there's nothing in there that would help the three of you very much."

I love that you had Kakashi actually hint at something anyway, or twist the rules a bit. It's so fitting!

The rest is fun to read as well. Naruto's tendency to go for big techniques that go 'boom' is amusing, and the dialogue shows this very well.

9___9 Oh Kakashi.

Thank you. ^__________^

(I review as I read.)
So you decided to call it 2.5? I like it! =D
Yeesh, she is cranky. (*runs and hides*) . . . . Man, I love your characterization! It’s totally like they jumped right out of the manga! >D . . . . Yeah, I was wondering if they’d get busted for that in Teamwork 2. . . . “Translated from boy language,” LOL. ^^ . . . . I love how you go into depth about the characters’ thoughts. And none of them are farfetched or yanked out of proportion by musing too much. It’s cool! =) . . . . What I think is kind of interesting in the TW universe is how slow the characters are going. They’re what, 17? 18 years old? And in the real manga they’re doing all kinds of awesome stuff at 15! I can’t imagine what they’d say in this universe if they knew how slow they were going. ^^ . . . . Overall, not bad. I thought the ending seemed a little incomplete, but that’s about it. I’m really glad you added this. I could’ve missed a lot between TW2 and TW3. Like what the consequences were for that incident in TW2 and when the boys started learning new stuff.

♥ So imaginative, isn't it. The worst is that I wouldn't even have thought about that .5 bit if someone hadn't suggested it in the comments yesterday. XDDD;;; I would have called it "suna interlide" or something like that, probably. Eh, this one's just as imaginative, but shorter! I'm keeping it. XD

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Bwahaha. It's weird isn't it, to think that Sasuke leaving was actually a good thing in terms of their kickass ability. They all had nonstop training with a Sannin each with crazily strong reasons to concentrate on getting stronger; now that they're all together already, the stakes are a lot lower. Also Sasuke was on house arrest and restricted jutsu access for ages, and Kakashi isn't as great a teacher for all three of them as the sannin are for each separately by far, and Sakura was all mopey because Sasuke was back but hated their guts, and blahblahblah... XD They really slowed down. Twice as much time and they didn't get half as far.

Hm, what seemed to miss? Do you know or is it just an impression? I'll ask my beta too. I can't tell right now, still too immersed in it. ^^;

What seemed to miss? Um, well, Naruto and Sasuke are being watched very carefully and Kakashi can only let so much "slip" and hope they can work things out on their own, so they're not having much guidance from a sensei. Also, in the manga, when Sasuke leaves, it gives the other two motivation to get a lot stronger; Naruto was obsessed with bringing Sasuke back and Sakura wants to be of use. Sasuke himself already has motivation from his brother's prodding. So that could explain why the boys advanced so fast in the manga and why they're going slow here. But I'm not sure about Sakura. Maybe her time being trained under Tsunade is split by still having a team to train/work with.
That's my guess when it comes to their progress speeds. :) Does that sound about right?

XD;;; Sorry, I meant in the ending, you said it was kinda incomplete. Thanks for the explanations, though, I like having other people's view on it ♥

This Sakura only had a few weeks of training right now, and her time will be divided between training and missions with her team, so I suspect she'll be slower than canon Sakura too.

Oh, my bad. XD; . . . Actually, never mind. I just remembered the title said "First Scene," so that means this story is going to continue. No wonder I felt like it just faded in the middle of something! XD

"The level where you can recompose your chakra on two plans and combine those in the same jutsu," Kakashi explained.

I don't know if that's a typo or you accidentally slipping into french. XD Should be 'planes' or 'levels' or similar.

I <3 Teamwork. This was fun because I like your geeky ramblings. I need to make the time to start that newtypes fic, too, I'm intrigued by that....

-- oops. *goes to edit* Thanks, love.

... I keep geeking out all over the place recently. Srsly what. *stares at fics that read more like lessons than stories* D:

Hm, the GW fic is kinda slow-going for now, it's all setup and geeking out so far. It can probably wait a bit. >_>;;; (but if you want to read it anyway, who am i to stop you u.u)

Okay, firstly, some serious love for Teamwork and filling in a few of the gaps. Sakura makes me happy because I know exactly how she feels, Naruto makes me happy because he's being wonderfully Naruto-esque, Sasuke makes me happy because he's being an antisocial 'tard, Shika makes me happy because he's Shika-ing, and Kakashi just plain makes me happy. ^_^

Oh, and something that tripped me up, the yin and yang thing. I'm pretty sure yin is light/male/positive, whereas yang is dark/female/negative.

Bwehehehe. Thank you ^_____^

Nah! I re-checked when you pointed it out because I wasn't 100% sure, and wiki sez yang is the male/light/positive energy. (I remember because it sounds like wang. Phear my mnemotechnics.)

♥ And now, onwards to jealous!Sasuke. bwarharharharhar.

*ish teh confuzzled* Okay... someone's lying to me...

Huzzah for emotions and their victims! XD

I think it's because somebody knew the combined form was "yin-yang" and assumed the male one was first.

But the Chinese character that was used for that "yin" (before China simplified their characters like whoa) is used to write "kage." (I can't remember offhand whether "Hokage" is written with that one, the one with the grass radical on top, or the most common one with the three strokes on the right; originally the "yin" one meant "shade from a nonliving thing, like a mountain" and also "reverse side, behind the scenes," the yin-with-grass-on-top meant "shade from a living thing, like a tree" and also "favor/grace" and "reverse side," and the commonly used one means "shade in the sense of something cast by something," so that the pools of light a candle casts on the floor/wall/etc would be "hokage.") The lower half of the character for "cloud" is the right lower half of the character for "yin/kage". (The simplified Chinese form has "moon" for the right half.)

The yang character, on the other hand, has the sun character as part of itself. (In simplified Chinese, it's the entire right-hand-side, and in Japanese, it's the upper right-hand corner.)

I like! And yeah, Naruto is totally oblivious to so many things... and then you mention a new jutsu and BAM! he's right there hanging off your every word.

Oh, that Naruto. u.u Thanks! Glad you liked ^^

um.... Hi. I've been lurking on your journal for aaaaages now (like a year... *sweatdrop*), and I finally got around to actually making my own LJ account (like... an hour ago, seriously XD). And now I've friended you. Just letting you know.

And this is unrelated, but: I love the whole Teamwork universe, the Crossed Wires universe (even if it's dead now, thanks for making it), and your ofic, Mermaids In SPACE. I swear the title cracks me up.... ^^ I think that's why I clicked on it in the first place....

Loving the updates. I will lurk here forever more!!

-- AHA! I SEE YOU.

>_> which might be because you showed yourself. Durr.

Thank you very much. I hope you keep enjoying it ^^ Aw, Crossed Wires isn't dead! It's just, um, resting. Yes. (okay so it might be hibernating. It does that. No worries.) (and if the title makes you click and LOL it's doing its job. I hope the serious title will work half as well... ~_~)

Other than "plans" vs. "planes", I didn't see any glaring typos.
I know that someone already said it, but this reads like canon. Naruto has selective hearing capabilities, Kakashi playing with his students like that, Sasuke is as open and freindly as ever.... Most authors tend to leave their fingerprints on a character, but you seem to be stealing Kishomoto's notes or something.
Anyhow, I think that relations between Suna and Konoha will go quite swimmingly, although to be honest it'd take the Kazekage finding Shikamaru in a closet with his sister for it to go any other way.
Right, I'm babbling.
-SLAMU, who is going to bed now.

-- forgot to correct it. Where's my brain today. Thanks for the reminder. XD;;

#.___________________.# ♥♥♥ *squeaks* Oh man, I do so leave fingerprints. Don't know what I did this scene to make them not show so much, but I'm not sure it will last. XD;;;

Hm! Now you make me think about it. I'm not sure Gaara would really be protective like that -- he MIGHT quietly remind Shikamaru that he's got no problem as long as his sister is happy hint hint, though. XD

Does not making Sasuke a Mary Sue count as fingerprints? 'Cause if so, I think I prefer you to canon.
I can see Gaara going either way, honestly. But what about Kankuro? He gets so little love. :'(
*goes off to visualize ShikaTem + closet*

Ooh, are you going to get all scientific with the jutsu? *happybounce*

I might. *such a geek* ._____.; 'course it depends how the inspiration hits and if it won't make it too tedious to read... ~___~;

Hee hee. New TW makes me happy, but I'm not going to be one of those bitchy readers who goes "But I deserve new fic!" I'll just be waiting here quietly (and enthusiastically) until you get it done and work out your issues with the fic.

*squee*

XD; d'awwwww. ♥ *love*

LOVE!!!! This is wunderbar to the max! I'm so excited you decided to go this route, sweetie. I can't wait to read more.

Poor Sakura, she needs a hug. Still, she's advancing quickly, she should be proud of herself. I think she's her worse critic and, yeah, lack of vocal praise from her important people gets to her. Lol. Nothing the Mountain Breaking Punch of DOOM! wont fix! hee hee XD

And Sasuke needs a good fight to get all that antsiness out of his system. This will be good for them. Lol. I wonder if you're going to introduce the mass clone training and what Sasuke's reaction to that will be. Although, I guess his genius sort of makes up for Naruto's massive chakra reserves. But still. I see a hissy fit coming. Lol. Something along the lines of 'you cheated with your shadow clones' and then lots of dark, uchiha death glares. *snickers*

Lol, and Naruto will go on being slightly clueless but oddly intutive and piss him off enough that they'll beat each other senselss and Sakura will step in and somehow they'll all end up okay. For a moment anyway.

Gods i love these three together.

Awesome chapter love!

*^_______^* Thank you, lovely!

Alas! She's not up to the mountain level yet. Maybe people-sized rocks, and even then she might just crack them... Ahh, courage, Sakura. Fight, fight! XD

Ooh, thanks for the questions/comments, they're giving me bunnies. (and of course there will be Sasuke bitchiness. Where's the fun otherwise. XD)

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Yay. This makes me very happy XDD I'm glad you decides to go back and write this portion of the story-- it explains a lot, like why Sasuke was practicing his chidori so much on the way to the exams, Naruto's unseemingly endless bounds of HAPPY, Shikamaru being around, Gaara, all that good stuff.

Plus, I always love the more emotional "I'm lagging and can't keep up, but i really want to, I feel inferior" side to Sakura-- makes her more human. You delve into it well. <3

Yay happy Renee ^^ (see, I managed to find my TeamLove again~ hohoho it was just hiding, the tricky thing.)

Will you be hiatusing from NF too? ;.;

... T___T Probably. I'm tryign to check enough to make sure I add new members but my homework is like... death.

Watch me come around in like a week though when tests are done. I'm stupid like that XDD <3 I'm going to try to make time but I have no idea. I'll definitely be getting on when I'm taking breaks (like now). I can't just study and study and study XD

I knew you could find your TeamLove again!! I wish I could have pushed out that big love-love-love Team7LUB ness I wanted to though. Homework called.

*kicks college*

*scritch* I can keep track again if you want me to. And you don't really need to do a total hiatus and WORK WORK WORK from now on, you'd die or something, but you do have to keep track of your study time more strictly. ;p Make yourself a schedule?

Will make you push it anyway later. It's a whorish button. It likes it. u.u-b

... It does like it. >__> It has to wait to be pushed though. *hands it to you, since you'll get more use out of it* Have fun with my button XD

Don't worry. I'm getting off now to study. *has been trying and failing miserably* I will have time this weekend to play XDDD <3

You can feel free to keep track of it if you'd like, but I'm sure I'll be able to still check in on it and stuff.

I found one of your stories on AFF and it instantly got me hooked. I really like your Sakura, she's quite interesting.

Thank you! I'm glad you like the story. :D

I love it!! ^_____^ I love all the introspection and the whole Sakura worrying over being left behind. I think that's one of the most interesting character developments on Sakura's part. She's the most real character, full of all this inner strength that she has to develop as outward strength. Things don't come as easily to her as they do to Sasuke and Naruto and I think that makes her more likable (personally). I love how you are developing her progression towards her kickass image. ^____^ I cannot wait to see more on this in the upcoming chapters.

The team 7 interactions are <333! That Naruto description.. *drools* That was the coolest description of him I have ever read! And Sasuke's crankiness. LOLOL I enjoyed that a lot! I love NaruSasu rivalry. <33 I wanna see how this is going to play out, especially what sort of techniques they're going to develop. ^^ I really wanna see if Sakura develops some kickass water jutsu! *squeals, would adore!*

I love your ficage and I cannot wait to see more of this story. ^____^ Thank you for posting this awesome teaser!

The poor women in this series always get the short end of the stick =P I'm guessing practice is what she's going to get and, thus, improvement! As much as we want her to be all powerful and amazing and kickass like the boys... I think we're also wary of canon where... that would never happen xD *shakes fist at Kishimoto*

In any case, I'm SO ANXIOUS for them to meet Gaara again and how awkward THAT's going to be, for Sakura and Sasuke. *snickers*

I am loving this. I will always read anything TW or Naruto oriented that you write. I love how you write. I may just have to go back and read your other fics too. Well in between homework.

(I'm thinking of changing my user name to that subject line; whattya think?)
Oh how I love love LOVE the Teamwork universe. (I note that it seems to attract a lot of Sakura fans, too. Interesting.) I have to say, I find it funny that you always seem to feel pretty random about how you write Kakashi, because in my opinion (I'm right) you do it better than almost anyone else. (Well, OK, Gelfling's got him down too...) That lovely sideways, quirky, scarily-efficient, lazy-smart world outlook of his seems to flow right off your pages. Big fat gold star.
By the way, since no-one else commented on it yet: Striped Petunia, your icon is stunning. :D

Mmm, more Teamwork n.n

I enjoyed Sakura's thoughts while watching Naruto, it was sweet... And the end of the chapter with her introspection over her own progress is very well done and appropriate for this point in the story I think. I'm interested to see what happens jutsu-wise with them. Also, Kakashi in this made me smile. You did a good job with him.

~Sara

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